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Cinema Libre Studio
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[2017]
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English
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It reveals the historical premises of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, its current political backstage and its dangerous potential for the world. The speakers of the highest rank, president of Russia Vladimir Putin and ex-president of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych, interviewed by the filmmaker Oliver Stone, share their thoughts about the reasons of the conflict and ways to solve it.
3) A short history of Russia: how the world's largest country invented itself, from the pagans to Putin
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Explores the epic and dramatic history of Russia through two intertwined issues – the way successive influences from beyond its borders have shaped the country and the way Russians came to terms with this influence.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In Putin's People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted...
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English
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The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant Putin's Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.
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English
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"In 1999, the "Family" surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience--he'd been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the secret police--nevertheless seemed the perfect choice: a "faceless" creature whom Yeltsin and his cronies could mold in their own image. Russia and an infatuated West were determined...
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Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Draws on hundreds of interviews with those within President Donald Trump's inner circle to examine the Kremlin's covert attempt to help Trump win the presidency, Trump's allegiance to Vladimir Putin, and Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating...
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I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democratic ally many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed. Abroad, Putin has used Russia's energy strength as a foreign policy weapon, while at home he has cracked down on opponents, adamant that only he has the right vision for his country's future.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Two senior reporters on Russia and the former Soviet Union, including Nikita Khrushchev's great-granddaughter, combine travelogue, current affairs, and history in a chronicle demonstrating how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture.
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took so long." Satter is known in Russia for having written that the apartment bombings in 1999, which were blamed on Chechens and brought Putin to power, were actually carried out by the Russian FSB security police. In this book, Satter tells the story...
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English
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Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal who decided to abandon the struggling news business and use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firmsand opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015, they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. What began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits,...
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