Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West (Bog, Paperback, Engelsk) af Catherine Belton

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West (Bog, Paperback, Engelsk)

Af: Catherine Belton


Forlag: William Collins

  • Type: Bog
  • Format: Paperback
  • Sprog: Engelsk Sprog: Engelsk
  • ISBN-13: 9780007583034
  • Udgave: 1. (16-04-2020)
  • Oplagsdato: 16-04-2020
  • Sideantal: 640
  • Indbinding: Paperback
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A president that wont step down. Interference in US elections. Sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. This rigorous and revelatory book explains how this happened, Putin's rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world. In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton tells the untold story of the rise of Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the free-wheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted their country's economy and legal system and expanded its influence in the West. The result is a chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB's renaissance - a story that began long ago in the murk of the Soviet collapse when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of Russia and into the West. After Putin's takeover of the economy, some of these networks acquired new flows of cash to realise their goals. Based on many years of research, Belton charts the relentless seizure of private companies and the installation of those closest to Putin into the richest, highest seats of power. Ranging from Moscow to London, Switzerland and Trump's America, and introducing a colourful cast of characters, Putin's People is a gripping and terrifying account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.

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Bertel Kaare Schmidt
01-06-2022

Fantastisk bog

Fantastisk afdækning af Putin's vej til magten fra hans KGB-samarbejde med Baader-Meinhoff terroristerne i 1970erne og den russiske mafia til enevældig diktator med sindssyge imperie-drømme. Vi har hørt om regimet som kleptokratisk, men omfanget af svindel og korruption er ubegribeligt. De billion-beløb, magthaverne tilegner sig og smugler ud af landet til undergravelse af vestlig økonomi (gammel KGB taktik) og i sikkerhed fra den hjemlige lovløshed, er ufattelige. Russiske energi-mastodonter og oligarker forsøgte at stoppe bogen ved retten i England, men måtte give op. Beltons dokumentation holder i detaljer, som kan gøre læsningen lidt tung (alle de ukendte navne) uden at bogen dog bliver mindre neglebidende som autentisk thriller.