How Putin meddles in Western democracies
And why the West’s response is inadequate
IN THE late 1980s, as Mikhail Gorbachev launched perestroika, Russia made peace with the West. It was possible to believe that each would give up trying to subvert the other with lies and cold-war conspiracy theories. With the indictment of 13 Russians on February 16th by the American special counsel, Robert Mueller, it is clear just how fragile that belief was.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “The meddler”
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