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Oil prices are plummeting, the Russian currency's nosediving, there's a recession coming... and yet Putin remains defiant. He's got good reason. The Russian president's riding the wave of record popularity. He's even nurtured a strong following among nationalists of various stripes in the west of Europe, including here in France. Given given the region's current fraught geopolitical context, can he afford such strident rhetoric?
Oil prices are plummeting, the Russian currency's nosediving, there's a recession coming... and yet Putin remains defiant. He's got good reason. The Russian president's riding the wave of record popularity. He's even nurtured a strong following among nationalists of various stripes in the west of Europe, including here in France. Given given the region's current fraught geopolitical context, can he afford such strident rhetoric?
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