> Surkov is one of President Putin’s advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way. He came originally from

> Surkov is one of President Putin’s advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way. He came originally from the avant-garde art world, and those who have studied his career, say that what Surkov has done, is to import ideas from conceptual art into the very heart of politics. This guy, Vladislav Surkov, is fascinating. He writes fiction under the pen name Nathan Dubovitsky: http://grandmotherafrica.com/cloudless-sky-short-story-nathan-dubovitsky/ http://grandmotherafrica.com/cloudless-sky-short-story-natha...