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Dmitri Trenin: the pro-West Russian radicalised by Putin’s war in Ukraine

6 February 2024

6:00 PM

6 February 2024

6:00 PM

The circus of American and European diplomats in Moscow loved Dmitri Trenin while he was on their side. Trenin was a former colonel in a Soviet intelligence agency. He became known in the early 2000s for writing books that argued Russia, diminished after the Cold War, should get friendly with the West by joining Nato and the European Union.

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