"The Closing of the Russian Mind: How Putin's Ideology Took the Nation Hostage," by Andrey Kolesnikov

Our Dear Friends in Moscow follows a group of young Russians, part of an idealisticgeneration who came of age in Moscow at the end of the 20th century – the communist era had just imploded and an exciting and uncertain future lay ahead of them. Initially, the group enjoyed the freedoms of the new era, but the notion that Russia was destined to join the West, and Europe, in a new partnership began to fade.