Hey Everyone,

Yes: I have plenty to say about the latest Epstein files dump from the House Oversight Committee.

Standby for that.

But yesterday was book launch day for Mikhail Zygar. His highly readable book: The Dark Side Of The Earth: Russia’s Short-lived victory over Totalitarianism is available here.

This is not some heavy, didactic tome. It’s the interwoven personal stories of many of some of the biggest names to have emerged in the last fifty years of Russian history. Through the messiness of humanity, we see how it was that when communism ended, democracy failed to take its place.

Mikhail tells me that he has got a plan to get the book inside Russia - where he has been sentenced in absentia to imprisonment for eight-and-a-half years.

One day, I hope he will write his memoir, because that is an almost unbelievable story.

Meanwhile, watch our interview above.

Thank you An Mcgreevy, Melinda Cole, Nanalin, J’Lynn Davis, Jay Lapidus, and many others for tuning into my live video with Mikhail Zygar! Join me for my next live video in the app.

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