“Vladimir Putin will emerge from this war more loser than winner”
“Any dictatorship ends at some point”, recalls the Russian economist Sergei Gouriev. In the book on “spin dictators”, which he co-wrote with American political scientist Daniel Treisman, he shows how “dictators of fear” have lost ground to “dictators of manipulation”, those autocrats who use tools of democracy to better undermine it, as Vladimir Putin did for a long time.