Title: an inner joke, and not a very good one
Product review: This book may only be interesting for someone who may recognize the names of the characters (the authors didn't bother to change them). For the rest of us, especially a student of Russia, this book is useless, as the inner jokes and insults are lost on us. The writing is pretty bad, and the political analysis is helplessly shallow. If you are looking for a real journalistic account of contemporary Russian life, read Remnick.
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