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  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
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    Writer Vladimir Sorokin: ‘I underestimated the power of Putin’s madness’

    The Russian exile on seeing his fiction become fact, the ‘zombie’ of empire — and how culture will pay a price for the war on Ukraine

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    The FTX founder on hype, the problem with bitcoin and how crypto can build a fairer financial system

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    The former head of the UK’s armed forces on how the west can reach out to Russians — and counter Vladimir Putin

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