Guest: Tony Wood lives in New York and writes on Russia and Latin America. A member of the editorial board of New Left Review, he is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence, and his writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, n+1 and the Nation, among other publications. His new book is Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso. Partial Transcript Music: Muddy Waters, “Mannish Boy.”