Definition
Professor of International Affairs, Nina L. Khrushcheva, defines Putin-land as, a Gogol-like, "country of illusions and imagination, in which perceptions are more important than facts, where officials are corrupt and people are oppressed because they all live in a dream of empire," while, in fact, "individual needs are neglected, the state's needs are overstated, and everyone is condemned to a life of cheating and stealing, consoling themselves that, while there is no justice, they are at least part of a great country."Usage of the term
The term was used by Anna Politkovskaya in an interview held 18 months before her death, she said in relation to the murders of 15 investigative journalists: "It's the same old story, nobody who tells the truth in Putinland is safe." A five-part French Documentary film, documentary called ''Murder by Numbers in Putinland'' has been made probing the suppression of dissent in Russia and the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London, along with interviews of the prime suspect in the Litvinenko murder, Andrey Lugovoy, Andre Lugovoi, who is considered a hero in Russia. Edward Lucas (journalist), Edward Lucas refers to Russia as "Putinland" when he claims that Russian publishers refused to publish the bestselling book ''Gulag'' by the Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum. According to Lucas, the Kremlin moves against texts that cast the Soviet Union in an unfavourable light He also noted that a possible reason the book was not published in Russia is due to low demand, in what he describes as Compassion fatigue, fatigue amongst Russians in hearing about the history of the gulags, and noted that if it were published in Russian, it is likely it would sell worse than an Cuisine of Iceland, Icelandic cookbook. Nina L. Khrushcheva, a Russian American professor of media and culture, wrote in the ''International Herald Tribune'': "Uniforms are in and patriotic youth organizations such as Nashi (youth movement), Nashi (Ours), successor to the Young Pioneers (Soviet Union), Soviet-era Pioneers, are on the march. The economy is great, Gazprom is great, the military is great, Putin is great: The empire remains ours. The Russians are eager to believe that they no longer live in a country defeated by the West. Instead they live in an oil and gas powered Putin-land." British journalist and author Roger Boyes, who is the Berlin correspondent for British newspaper ''The Times'' covering Germany, noted that "even the Germans have come to realise that Holy Russia has become PutinLand, ready to swat away criticism at home, squash troublesome neighbours and sacrifice personal freedoms in the name of a strong centralised state", a view published in his column in German newspaper ''Der Tagesspiegel''.Books
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