Shaun Walker
Shaun Walker is The Guardian's central and eastern Europe correspondent. Previously, he spent more than a decade in Moscow and is the author of The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past (Oxford University Press). Follow him on Twitter at @shaunwalker7.
Articles From This Author
The Humiliation that Pushed Putin to Try and Recapture Russian Glory
Dominant at home and feared abroad, Vladimir Putin has come a long way since 2000, when he took over an ailing Russia still traumatized from the collapse of the Soviet Union a decade previously. Then, Putin was seen as a gray nobody, another technocrat that Boris Yeltsin had made ...read more