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Nina Khrushcheva: Putin is a brilliant tactician, but a losing strategist
Fallout with Turkey shows that Russia can lose friends as quickly as it makes them
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Each Russian leader picks a subject he is an expert in and Vladimir Putin's subject is history. "That is why in order to understand Russia, we must understand Russian history," says Professor Nina Khrushcheva of the New School University in New York.