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How does the Russian public view the invasion of Ukraine?

It’s not just Putin’s war, says Jade McGlynn. The mass of Telegram data shows how much the nation as a whole supports the offensive

24 June 2023

9:00 AM

24 June 2023

9:00 AM

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My Russia: War or Peace? Mikhail Shishkin

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‘It’s too soon,’ said an anti-war Russian friend about the crop of books which have been emerging since late last year on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Perhaps he is right. Yet, mindful of Lenin’s maxim that ‘there are weeks when decades happen’, many may feel the period since February last year to have been one of the longest of their lives.

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