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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia Classics_Gift_Guide The bear is waiting forWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE Unforgettable . . . a book about Putins Russia that is unlike any other.Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain From a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putins rule ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARNPR, Kirkus Reviews In this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua