1389: Jamison Firestone | A Wild Ride Through Putin's Corrupt Russia

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Jameson, thanks for joining me. If there's a lot of stories in this book that I want to crack open Because Russia is crazy and I think people know Russia's crazy, but ninety's Russia And early arts Russia is Extra crazy. Yeah, it was really something else, and something I wasn't quite expecting either.

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