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Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia

by Luke Harding
$15.90
Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia
Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia

Unsettling glimpse into Russia's repressive journalism climate.

If you're interested in current affairs and the complexities of press freedom, "Mafia State" is a compelling read. Luke Harding's personal account of being targeted by the Russian government offers an authentic and harrowing insight into what it means to seek the truth in a country where transparency is often met with hostility. It's a story that's sure to resonate with anyone concerned about civil liberties and the role of an unfettered press in society.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia

by Luke Harding
$15.90
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ISBN: 9780852652473
Authors: Luke Harding
Publisher: Guardian Books
Date of Publication: 2011-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Politics, History, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography, History, Journalism, Politics, Biography, Politics
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 668 readers)

Description

In 2007, Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, the KGB's notorious prison. The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Vladimir Putin's spies used tactics developed by the KGB and perfected in the 1970s by the Stasi, East Germany's sinister secret police. This clandestine campaign burst into the open in 2011 when the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow - the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War. Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia is a brilliant and haunting account of the insidious methods used by a resurgent Kremlin against its so-called "enemies" - human rights workers, western diplomats, journalists, and opposition activists. It includes unpublished material from confidential US diplomatic cables, released last year by WikiLeaks, which describe Russia as a "virtual mafia state." Harding gives a unique, personal, and compelling portrait of today's Russia, two decades after the end of communism, that reads like a spy thriller
 

Unsettling glimpse into Russia's repressive journalism climate.

If you're interested in current affairs and the complexities of press freedom, "Mafia State" is a compelling read. Luke Harding's personal account of being targeted by the Russian government offers an authentic and harrowing insight into what it means to seek the truth in a country where transparency is often met with hostility. It's a story that's sure to resonate with anyone concerned about civil liberties and the role of an unfettered press in society.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.