29 October 2020 By Monique van Ravenstein Monique van Ravenstein reviews Putin's People. How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton, William Collins,…
22 October 2020 By Sarah Hurst Sarah Hurst reviews: Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia by Dan Kaszeta, Hurst Publishers, London, 2020, 404pp, ISBN…
18 October 2020 By Bill Bowring, Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he teaches public international law and human rights, and a practising barrister. Bill is a…
9 October 2020 By Josephine von Zitzewitz, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, and a trustee of Rights in Russia Josephine von Zitzewitz reviews: Masha Gessen, The Future is…
4 October 2020 By Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews: Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World. William Collins, London, 2020. xviii + 446 pp. £20. Trying to…
4 September 2020 By Sarah Hurst Sarah Hurst reviews: Putin’s Killers by Amy Knight, Biteback Publishing, Hull, UK, 2019. ISBN: 9781785905155 Sadly a book on Kremlin assassinations can never be…
28 August 2020 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Joshua Yaffa, Between Two Fires, ISBN 9781524760595 (New York, Penguin Random House, 2020) Joshua Yaffa’s Between Two Fires takes its name…
10 August 2020 By John Anderson John Anderson reviews David G. Lewis, Russia’s New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) Earlier this summer, the…
7 July 2020 by Sarah Hurst Sarah Hurst reviews Life Went On Anyway, by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker, Deep Vellum, 2019. ISBN 9781941920879 This slim collection of autobiographical…
19 June 2020 By Nadezhda Azhgikhina Nadezhda Azhgikhina reviews the Russian-language publication: Boris Altshuler, Leonoid Litinsky (eds.), Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, and friends: Life was typical, tragic, and beautiful, AST,…