Putinology

Putin’s recent ubiquity has brought great prominence to the practice of Putinology. This enterprise – the production of commentary and analysis about Putin and his motivations, based on necessarily partial, incomplete and sometimes entirely false information – has existed as a distinct intellectual industry for over a decade.

2017 February 22, Keith Gessen, “Killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy: the many myths of Vladimir Putin”, in The Guardian