While Julia Ioffe, a writer for The New Republic and a Russia expert, is no friend of the Putin regime, she knows her stuff – enough to know that Putin doesn’t control everything in Russia. But what does she know about Russia? After all, she was only born there – Lawrence O’Donnell, on the other hand, who’s never reported from Russia, knows everything about everything – and all you have to do is ask him, as the following story and clip make all too clear.
Dear Lawrence O’Donnell,
Don’t Mansplain to Me About Russia
by Julia Ioffe
