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DEAD SOUL | Vanity Fair | October 2008 | About Putin…
By Masha Gessen & Stéphane Lavoué, October 2008 Nearly every weekday morning one of Moscow’s central arteries, the Kutuzovsky Prospect, empties out suddenly, and an eerie, otherworldly silence takes hold. This means that police have sealed all the on-ramps to Kutuzovsky, an eight-lane avenue that cuts through the city from the west straight through to…