Putin's Brain

Former NIO Russia expert Angela Stent says the Kremlin strongman is hard to figure

“Wily, masked, determined and manipulative.”

That’s how Angela Stent, a former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia, and author of Putin's World:  Russia Against the West and with the Rest, sums up Vladimir Putin.

He could hold his own at the World Series of Poker.

“You look at his face and he rarely betrays any emotion,” Stent tells Jean…