As I'm travelling this weekend, this episode is a compilation of two sets of comparative book reviews already provided to my Patrons.
First up, three recent books on Russia that, together, would make up one pretty fine, balanced and comprehensive one...
In the second half, three more books, this time all about Ukraine:
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