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Soldatov, Andrei; Borogan, Irina

 
9781586488024: The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
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ISBN 10 : 1586488023 ISBN 13 : 9781586488024
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2010

Synopsis

In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service.

While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse.

The security services have played a central— and often mysterious—role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan are co-founders of the Agentura.Ru website. Soldatov worked for Novaya Gazeta from 2006 to 2008. Agentura.Ru and its reporting have been featured in the New York Times, the Moscow Times, the Washington Post, Online Journalism Review, Le Monde, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Federation of American Scientists, and the BBC. The New York Times called it “A Web Site That Came in From the Cold to Unveil Russian Secrets.”

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Éditeur
PublicAffairs
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1586488023
ISBN 13 
9781586488024
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
320
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Personne responsable
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