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In The Wizard of the Kremlin (2022), Giuliano da Empoli imagines a former political advisor to Vladimir Putin recounting the rise of his new tsar from spook to dictator. (Before becoming a writer, da Empoli was himself a political advisor—to Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.) His principal character, Vadim Baranov, contrasts the West, where “your society is based on the principle that nothing is greater than money”, with Russia, where the people sought “someone at the top who could guarantee order”.