World‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin
Russian journalists Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin describe the threats, raids and repression that forced them into exile in 2021. Their nearly 800-page biography portrays Vladimir Putin as a modern tsar and dictator capable of “limitless cruelty”, drawing on decades of investigative reporting and hundreds of interviews.
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‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin
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