Seven years ago, I spent New Year with my friend Artemy Troitsky and family in their dacha near Moscow. At that time, Artemy was one of Russia’s most well-known political commentators, an arch-critic of Putin and other oligarchs and a lifelong campaigner for social and political justice. He was also a rock music academic and impresario who brought the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Lou Reed (amongst many others) to perform live in the USSR in the seventies, for which he was put under house arrest.
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