The book dispels a widely held misperception in the West that Putin is an omnipotent puppet-master, pulling all the strings in Russian disinformation operations. The reality is not so exotic.
Even as Georgia’s Armenians and Azerbaijanis have strong feelings about the war next door, they are trying to maintain peaceful ties in the country they share.
Fear of the Chinese authorities had kept Zhengis Zarhan silent about the abuses his wife was suffering in Xinjiang, until they did something to her that made him “crazy”.