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He was called the "Kremlin mage". The enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a director and then a producer of reality TV shows before becoming Putin's eminence grise, known as the Tsar. After his resignation from his position as political advisor, legends about him multiplied, without anyone being able to sort out the false from the true. Until, one night, he confided his story to the narrator of this book... This story plunges us into the heart of Russian power, where courtiers and oligarchs engage in a constant war. And where Vadim, having become the regime's main spin doctor, transforms an entire country into a political theater, where there is no other reality than the fulfillment of the Tsar's wishes. But Vadim is not an ambitious man like the others: drawn into the increasingly dark arcana of the system he helped build, this poet lost among the wolves will do anything to get out of it. From the war in Chechnya to the Ukrainian crisis, including the Sochi Olympics, The Kremlin Wizard is the great novel of contemporary Russia. Revealing the underbelly of the Putin era, it offers a sublime meditation on power.