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Mark Galeotti

Professor of Global Affairs at NYU's School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs, former special adviser to the British Foreign Office, and all-round Russia wonk, Mark first visited Moscow back in Soviet times and has been drawn back to it time and time again since. He's stood in bread lines, drunk with gangsters, watched the riot police move in on protests, and partied with the "new Russians." Most recently, he spent the first seven months of this year there, and saw Sochi, Crimea and the eastern Ukrainian crises from the inside. It wasn't always a pretty sight.

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