The former spymaster may well have overplayed his hand in trying to tilt the 2016 U.S. election | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Close It was a few days after the start of the new millennium, and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was holding a reception at Spaso House, for decades the elegant residence of the American ambassador. Russia’s tumultuous Boris Yeltsin era had come to an abrupt, shocking end on New Year’s Day, when the Russian president who…