Putin's Evolution: From Shadow Operative to Performative Strongman

Pussy Riot activist Nadya Tolokonnikova was jailed and declared a foreign agent for protesting Putin; broader suppression of dissent has criminalized public opposition.

Over twenty-five years, Vladimir Putin transformed himself from a deliberately invisible operative into one of the most choreographed political figures of the modern era — and then, by the logic of his own consolidation, into something more isolated and rigid than any image could flatter. The story of his rule is inseparable from the story of his self-presentation: each tightening of power required a new persona, until the performance and the prison became the same thing. Now, at 73, the man who once staged bare-chested tableaus of vitality appears remote and immobilized, trapped inside a war

Putin's Evolution: From Shadow Operative to Performative Strongman

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