Russia
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Crying Wolf | Russia troops enter Chechnya at the start of the war
What the Russian tank-drivers saw as they headed across the Chechen plains was a primitive part of the former Soviet Union…
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The Taste of Dreams | Critical acclaim
“A darkly seductive tour through new Russia” and assorted praise for this book!
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The Taste of Dreams | Caspian Sea
Part of The Taste of Dreams is set in or around the Caspian Sea, where most of the world’s caviar comes from.
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The Taste of Dreams | Caviar salesmen in Moscow street markets
Everything was dangerous in exciting, cruel new Russia. Buying caviar was an exercise in fast talking, glib or nervous…
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SASHENKA, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Times, 2008 It’s harder than you’d think for a Westerner to write a good novel set in twentieth-century Russia.
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CHILDREN’S WORLD, by Catriona Kelly: The kindly side of Uncle Joe
The Independent, February, 2008 Stalin was no slouch at PR. But his greatest success in this department was probably the
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Chechyna’s Theatre of War
Akhmed Zakayev – actor, politician and former resistance fighter – talks to Vanora Bennett LONDON, Jan 2007 – IT might
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An inconvenient truth
Harper’s Bazaar – April Edition, 2007 Anna Politkovskaya, murdered by a hitman outside her Moscow flat last October, was someone
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The new Moscow molls
Evening Standard – March 14, 2007 As Roman Abramovich’s wife gets her marching orders and girlfriend Daria steps into her
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Roll over for the junior geniuses from the ex-Communist world
Evening Standard – January 7, 2007 Another teenage genius from eastern Europe turned up on my doorstep this week, so
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A modern-day spy story
Death by radiation of ex-Russian agent draws parallels to the country’s legendary, shadowy KGB By Vanora Bennett, Special to Newsday
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Is there truth in Litvinenko’s accusation that KGB poisoned him?
The Guardian, November 21 2006 Imagine you were a foreign power that wanted to get rid of a dissident who
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The probable poisoning of a Russian ex-spy
Evening Standard – November 20, 2006 The apparent poisoning of exiled Russian ex-secret service man Alexander Litvinenko inLondon has plunged this
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Tragedy of truth-telling Russian reporter’s death
Evening Standard – October 10, 2006 I didn’t want to believe she’d be murdered. Anna Politkovskaya’s tall thin vehemence, her
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I WANT TO LIVE, by Nina Lugovskaya
Times Literary Supplement – August, 2006 One of the most harrowing stories of Soviet hardship is that of the nine-year-old
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From Russia with secrets
Until recently, Mr Litvinenko was a lieutenant-colonel in the Russian secret police. He claims to know some of the darkest
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The oligarch’s revenge
Guardian Weekend Magazine – February 19, 2005 (published under the nom de plume Veronica Martin) Vladimir Putin is master of
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STALIN’S BRITISH VICTIMS, by Francis Beckett
Times Literary Supplement – October 1, 2004 Andree Aelion Brooks: Russian Dance: A true story of intrigue and passion in
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The Barbarians are coming – but where from?
The Times – April 24, 2004 The Barbarians are coming. It’s a nightmare come true for anyone who dislikes the
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Two cheers for the appearance on the British stage of Russia’s financial stars
The Times – April 8, 2004 You may feel a twinge of envy if someone you know makes millions. But,
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The yachtsmen of millionaire Moscow
Times Saturday Magazine – Spring, 2004 Someone is playing the James Bond theme tune on this chilly Moscow afternoon. A
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The secret food of the very rich
Observer Food Monthly – February 15, 2004 Shhh. We are about to be let into the secrets of the very
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Caviar love
Erotic Review – February, 2004 Talking about caviar makes most people smile – the pink-cheeked, eyes-down, embarrassed but suggestive smile
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Whispers in the woods of eastern Europe provoke nuclear panic
The Times – November 24, 2003 One of the oddest cases to cross David Blunkett’s desk began as a whispering
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A plague on all our houses
Prospect Magazine – 20 October, 2003 There is a rat for every person in the British Isles. Our way of
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THE WINTER QUEEN, By Boris Akunin
Times Literary Supplement – May 16, 2003 Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Weidenfeld & Nicholson £9.99 “What
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Why cast me as a criminal?
The Times – January 31, 2003 Chechen freedom fighter Akhmed Zakayev was once the only separatist Moscow would negotiate with.
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Spies who loved too well
Times Literary Supplement – June 8, 2001 Igor Damaskin and Geoffrey Elliot: Kitty Harris: The Spy with Seventeen Names W G
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Power food – crime and luxury at the end of the earth
Prospect Magazine – February, 2001 On the shore of the Caspian Sea you can, if you know the right people,
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Chechens in Russia “moving between circles of Hell”
The Times – January 27, 2000 Zarema and her family had three choices. Live illegally on the streets in Moscow