His newest graphic novel sketches out the trajectory of a pacesetter who has solid a shadow over geopolitics for twenty years. Vladimir Putin’s inscrutable options hang-out the pages of Darryl Cunningham’s e-book “Putin: The Rise of a Dictator”.The writer and illustrator tells us extra about capturing Putin’s inscrutable expression, and we focus on how press crackdowns have affected Russian public opinion. We additionally hear from Natalia Kaliada of the Belarus Free Theatre, whose latest manufacturing “Canine of Europe” is a warning shot in response to Russian authoritarianism, revealing the excessive worth that Putin’s critics have paid.