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The West thinks that Russians, suffering from sanctions, will end up abandoning Putin – but history indicates they won't

  • Written by Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
imageThe McDonald's flagship restaurant at Pushkinskaya Square – the first one of the chain, opened in the USSR on Jan. 31, 1990 – in central Moscow on March 13, 2022, McDonald's last day in Russia. AFP via Getty Images

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