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With this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside - and tightly observing - the mass media and cultural top notch of Putin's Russia. After agreeing to a wonder offer to be the editor in main of GQ Russia, Idov and his family get to a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the politics turmoil however finds himself taken in unlikely guidelines. He becomes a tabloid superstar, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the people of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic mag editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, offers an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later became an anti-American farce, and creates Russia's top-grossing home movie of 2015. On the other hand, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to Putin and it is briefly drawn to a kind of jaded Putinism lite - until Russia's invasion of Ukraine completely changes his mind.

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