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Patriots review — Russian oligarchs can turn on a rouble

★★★★☆“What is a man without loyalty?” asks Vladimir Putin as his political

★★★★☆"What is a man without loyalty?" asks Vladimir Putin as his political career hits the skids in the Nineties. "Rich, usually," replies Boris Berezovsky, the freedom-loving, rule-tweaking oligarch who will give the former KGB man his crucial leg-up towards big power before spending his final years in exile and regretting it.

These are the kinds of snappy exchanges that stud Patriots, the play in which Peter Morgan traces the rise and fall of a maths prodigy turned impassioned, arrogant billionaire. And in so doing, he depicts the origins of Putin's Russia with the same sort of fact-filleting efficiency — and a fair chunk more liberty-taking aplomb — than he brings to his depiction of the royal family in The Crown.

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