Tony Wood lives in New York and writes on Russia and Latin America. A member of the editorial board of New Left Review, he is previously the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence, and his writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, n+1, and the Nation, among other places.
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