Super interesting look into Russian politics, and very funny at the same time. I think the ending is particularly well done in it's clear commentary on how, seemingly no matter what we uncover about our corrupt political systems, nothing ever really seems to substantially change. Hopefully more satires about Russian politics are in my future!

"The newspaper came out on Monday and, though they screamed about it on the Echo of Moscow radio station--they know how to turn any minutia from the newspapers into an event of global proportions--the sky didn't fall to the earth, nor did any high-profile resignations occur, nothing really changed, in fact, and Becky, stirring her tea with a spoon, thought about what would have happened if, say, she had been able to prove, for example, that the FSB had blown up that building in Moscow in '99. She looked at the brown surface of the tea as it settled down after being stirred and understood that no, no, nothing would have happened, nothing at all."