Fragile Empire

“A beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order created by Vladimir Putin is stagnating” ( Financial Times ).   From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has traveled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin’s friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the