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He was similarly dismissive of the people who think that he or anyone else is fighting a well-oiled, repressive machine. “I disagree, because the people who work in business at a high enough level can tell you that there’s no machine at all,” he says. “It’s all a fiction. That is, they can destroy a single person, like Magnitsky or me or Khodorkovsky. But, if they try to do anything systematically against a huge number of people, there’s no machine. It’s a ragtag group of crooks unified under the portrait of Putin.

- from Julia Ioffe’s “NET IMPACT: One man’s cyber-crusade against Russian corruption” in the current New Yorker

I’m sorry to say that the link above is useless unless you’re a New Yorker subscriber or would like to become one. Ioffe’s piece is behind the paywall. There are, of course, many ways to subscribe: print, iPad, digital edition. I get the magazine on my Kindle. It’s $2.99 per month. Not per issue. Per month. I hate to sound like an ad, but that’s a deal.

Wait! There’s more! No, actually, there’s less. As I wrote back in November, Kindle subscribers do miss out on some superb photography.

Also, Ioffe is on Twitter, and you should follow her unless you need to believe that New Yorker contributors don’t swear or hunt for avocados during Moscow snowstorms or tweet “Why was I the one to suggest the dentist shouldn’t file my grandmother’s teeth in our kitchen, with no gloves on?”

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