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About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin
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Chapter 5: All the World’s a Dvor
October 25, 2023 · 43 minTo predict what Vladimir Putin might do next in Ukraine, it’s helpful to remember his first and foremost education — in the dvor.
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Chapter 4: The Big Brother
October 18, 2023 · 33 minOrganized crime and violence reign supreme in post-Soviet Russia. In this world, the rules of the dvor prove invaluable — for the men fighting over the jewels of the Soviet industrial empire, and for Vladimir Putin.
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Chapter 3: The Punk
October 11, 2023 · 31 minPutin grows up as a small, scrawny kid in a poor neighborhood with few ways up. Enter judo and the KGB.
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Chapter 2: The Rat
October 4, 2023 · 24 minSoviet baby boomers are born into a country ravaged by war. Given that parents are largely absent — either dead, traumatized, or working to make ends meet – children spend most of their time in the dvor, the urban courtyard. The dvor is…
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Chapter 1: The Ghosts
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About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin
October 2, 2023 · 3 minIn the West, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is always seen as one of two things: KGB spy or judo master. But to anyone who’s ever lived in the Soviet Union, Putin is something else entirely: a street kid. Join journalist Julia Ioffe as…
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The West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor. The word means courtyard in Russian, but to a Russian speaker, it is evocative of a whole universe. It was the space where Putin, like so many Soviet kids of his generation, grew up and learned an unforgiving, often brutal social code. Puck journalist Julia Ioffe introduces Westerners to that universe and explains why it’s critical to understanding the Russian president and what he might do next in the war against Ukraine.