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	Podcast:		Midday on WNYC
	Episode:		A Memoir of Misadventures in Russia
	Category:		Society & Culture
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	Publish Date:		2018-02-26 09:29:30
	Description:		Journalist and novelist Michael Idov talks about his new memoir Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow. He recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family moved to Moscow. He became a tabloid celebrity, acted in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriended the members of Pussy Riot, punched an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sold an autobiographical sitcom pilot and even wrote Russia's top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. This segment is guest hosted by Mary Harris.
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