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Author | : Reggie Nadelson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802777910 |
By far Reggie Nadelson's best story takes Artie Cohen--Russan-born New York police detective with a complex past--from New York to London to Moscow in pursuit of the killers of the daughter of his close friend, Tolya. At a time when London is inflamed with the death of Alexander Litvinenko, Artie faces imminent dangers as well as unexpected ones from his deep past.
Author | : Mark Hollingsworth |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-07-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0007287143 |
The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich – told for the first time ever. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world’s best footballers – and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows.
Author | : Mark Hollingsworth |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0007356374 |
The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world's best footballers - and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows. A group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism - and many of them came to London to enjoy their new-found wealth. Londongrad tells for the first time the true story of their journeys from Moscow and St Petersburg to mansions in Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Surrey - and takes you into a shimmering world of audacious multi-billion pound deals, outrageous spending and rancorous feuds. But while London's flashiest restaurants echoed to Russian laughter and Bond Street shop-owners totted up their profits, darker events also played themselves out. The killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London to the death - in a helicopter crash he all but predicted - of Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain's richest Russians, chilled London's Russians and many of those who know them. This is the story of how Russia's wealth was harvested and brought to London - some of it spent by Roman Abramovich on his beloved Chelsea Football Club, some of it spent by Boris Berezovsky in his battles with Russia's all-powerful Vladimir Putin. Londongrad is a must-read for anyone interested in how vast wealth is created, the luxury it can buy and the power and intrigue it produces.
Author | : Robert Barrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Corruption |
ISBN | : 9781788214438 |
Using case studies to understand the different forms of corruption (bribery, political corruption, kleptocracy and corrupt capital) the book builds a picture of the global threat that corruption poses and the responses that have been most effective.
Author | : Jim Bettinger |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 1589793390 |
Concise, inexpensive, and accessible, CLASSIC READINGS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Third Edition, provides an excellent introduction to the field of anthropology and the contributions it makes to understanding the world around us.
Author | : Andrei Soldatov |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1586489232 |
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.
Author | : Stephen Hutchings |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2022-01-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000538214 |
This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or ‘recursion’, showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events, and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare.
Author | : Reggie Nadelson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998-02-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312291969 |
"First published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited under the title Red Mercury blues"--T.p. verso.
Author | : David E Hoffman |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 161039111X |
In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men— Alexander Smolensky, Yuri Luzhkov, Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky, and Vladimir Gusinsky—Hoffman shows how a rapacious, unruly capitalism was born out of the ashes of Soviet communism.
Author | : James Rodgers |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-06-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0755601173 |
The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off. From the revolutionary period of the First World War onwards, correspondents in Russia have striven to tell the story of a country known to few outsiders. Their stories have not always been well received by political elites, audiences, and even editors in their own countries-but their accounts have been a huge influence on how the West understands Russia. Not always perfect, at times downright misleading, they have, overall, been immensely valuable. In Assignment Moscow, former foreign correspondent James Rodgers analyses the news coverage of Russia throughout history, from the coverage of the siege of the Winter Palace and a plot to kill Stalin, to the Chernobyl explosion and the Salisbury poison scandal.