"Karen Dawisha, a professor at Miami
University and the author of "Putin's
Kleptocracy" about corruption among Putin's
allies, said that Mr. Lesin's close ties to the
Kremlin and its formal and informal controls
over the media made him an improbable exile
in the United States. "He knew more than most
about the system's dark center," she said.
..."
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