Lionel Barber is former editor of the Financial Times. He is author of "The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times."
Shortly before midnight in the Kremlin, in the summer of 2019, I asked Vladimir Putin whether his risk appetite had increased with every passing year in power.
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