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GQ’s Article on Russia Will Be Hard to Find in Russia - NYTimes.com

GQ’s Article on Russia Will Be Hard to Find in Russia - NYTimes.com: "Vladimir V. Putin consolidated his power in Russia a decade ago, in part by taking a hard line against Chechen separatists, whom the government had blamed for a series of bombings. In a long investigative article in the current issue of GQ, the writer Scott Anderson explores the possibility that the bombers actually had been working for the Russian government."

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