If only the Urals ran from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

Note: I read this book in 2016, the year after it was published. Given current events, I decided to reread Chapter 1: Russia. Russia is vast, writes Marshall. It is the vastest. Immense. It is six-million-square-miles vast, eleven time zones vast; it is the largest country in the world... To the west of the Ural…

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