Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Authors' basic assertion has been shown to be absurd

Given the information now pouring out of Russia, including Vladimir Putin's attempts to handle kleptocrats in his country, and the existence of deep and broad interconnections and money transfers with their U.S. counterparts (think e.g. global prostitution), the assertions made in this work seem surreal. The dense and pedantic narrative seems almost to be designed to hide the fact that the content offers no insight into the topic.Read Red Mafiya. It is more anecdotal, but the brave (late) Robert Friedman clearly got up from his desk to do some fact-finding.