He had a special relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He mainstreamed the far right. He accused journalists and prosecutors who exposed his corruption of organizing “witch hunts” against him. He blamed migrants for crime and placed them in detention centers. And he so dominated his country’s media that a woman interviewed by psychologists studying dementia could no longer recognize her family’s faces but knew his — along with those of Jesus Christ and the Pope.
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