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Catherine Belton's book "Putin's Network" is also highly recommended reading
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Perestroika exposed stagnation, with GNP dropping 20% from 1989-1991 amid oil price crashes and reform bottlenecks like self-financing enterprises without full market liberalization.This was the environment Putin was working in KGB..
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