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The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev Owen Hatherley These letters tell the storyWinner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2020 Russias relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putins leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK and created an army of Internet trolls to meddle in the US presidential elections. How should we understand this apparent relapse into aggressive imperialism and