Make Russia Great Again: A Novel

Among its other products, GluboNasti had won the government contract to produce the nerve agent Novichok.

idea of having Lenin’s mausoleum, where Mr. Lenin’s embalmed body is on display, in the hotel’s lobby.

megayacht, this one to be named Katerina Tikhonova, in honor of Mr. Putin’s daughter, an accomplished acrobatic dancer

another “media reform” law, this one prohibiting plokhoye otnospheniye (“bad attitude”).

Novy Smir ran a snarky article dubbing Oleg “korlo’ pochka” (“King Kidney”),

GluboNasti Industries into the world’s leading producer of molybdenum

an old hag.” He said this in front of fifty or so TV cameras, and his subsequent claim that he’d said “old bag”

Katie took the art of going low to new heights