But ‘mainstream’ politicians should also be pressured to explain why they supported Putin’s regime for so long.
Andrea Mammone
Andrea Mammone is a historian at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He has widely published on nationalism, the far right, and European politics, his... tory and society.He writes quite regularly for Al Jazeera, and has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs and New Statesman, among others.
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