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Center for European Policy Analysis Issues Commentary: Putin's Contradictions Have a Poetic Precedent
May 16, 2026
WASHINGTON, May 16 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on May 15, 2026, by Walter Clemens, associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University:

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Putin's Contradictions Have a Poetic Precedent

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