Have Russians lost their appetite for the truth?: five writers shine a light on Putin’s mafia state

From television censorship to KGB agent shenanigans, Jack Coleman looks at the best new books on contemporary Russia In September 2018, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan…

From television censorship to KGB agent shenanigans, Jack Coleman looks at the best new books on contemporary Russia

In September 2018, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov gave a television interview to RT (formerly Russia Today), the English-language television channel that brings the Kremlin’s voice to a global audience. The purpose of the interview was to refute claims made by the British police that they had attempted to murder Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, in Salisbury with Novichok, a deadly nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union.

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