In Moscow's Shadows 126: Truth and Tedium in Putin's Marathon Town Hall and the Russian Press
I felt I ought to cover Putin's combined press conference and online town hall, but it was just so, so boring. And maybe that's the point: tedium weaponised as the new electoral strategy. But what else can we read into the Kremlin's public messaging? To explore that, after some brief thoughts on that 4 hour 4 minute banquet of banality, I delve into the world of Russian tabloids this weekend...
Details of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime event on Monday that I mention (and a link to download the full report) are here.
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