Expelled : a journalist's descent into the Russian mafia state / Luke Harding.
Harding, Luke, 1968-
2012
UB271.R9 H37 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Expelled : a journalist's descent into the Russian mafia state / Luke Harding.
Author Harding, Luke, 1968-
Uniform Title Mafia state
Edition 1st Palgrave Macmillan ed.
ISBN 9780230341746 hardcover
0230341748 hardcover
Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Language English
Description vii, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Call Number UB271.R9 H37 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.120947
Summary "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 apartment. He found himself tailed by men in leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to the KGB's notorious prison, Lefortovo. The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Windows left open in his children's bedroom, secret police agents tailing Harding on the street, and customs agents harassing the family as they left and entered the country became the norm. The campaign of persecution 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 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 illuminating diplomatic cables which describe Russia as a "virtual mafia state". Harding gives a personal and compelling portrait of Russia that--in its bid to remain a superpower--is descending into a corrupt police state"--Provided by publisher.
Note Originally published as: Mafia state. London : Guardian, 2011.
Includes index.
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Prologue : The break-in
Sword and shield
The money trail
Death of a spy
Winners and losers
Five days in August
Death in the snow
KGB! Give me your papers!
Political football
The new bourgeoisie
The once and future war
Rise of the far right
The neighbors
Batman and Robin
WikiLeaks
"Thanks to Dima and Vlad"
Enemy of the state
The file
Epilogue : An English Spring.

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