Today’s guest is Anna Arutunyan, a Russian-American analyst and writer and the author of “The Putin Mystique: Inside Russia’s Power Cult” (2014) and “The Media in Russia” (2009) and the co-author of “Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia” (2013). Her work has been published all over the place, and one of her most recent articles was released on August 5 in the magazine Foreign Affairs, titled “There Is No Russian Plot Against America.” 

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Music and audio for "The Russia Guy":

• Ну погоди, episode 14
• Олег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки”
• Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod / Link / License
• The Bandit by Kevin MacLeod / Link / License