Fragile EmpireA lively, inside account of Putins years of rule and the impending crisis that threatens his tsar like regime A beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order created by Vladimir Putin is stagnatingundermined by corruption and a failure to modernise economically.Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Ben Judah, a young freelance writer, paints a more journalisticand more passionatepicture in Fragile Empire. He