Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XKHJ6YK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 206 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her articles have also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wilson Quarterly. She lives in New Jersey. . About the Author Amy Knight is the author of How the Cold War Began and Orders to Kill, and has written more than thirty scholarly articles and contributed numerous pieces on Russian politics and history to the New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement
According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. But Amy Knight offers mountains of circumstantial evidence that point to Kremlin involvement.Called “the West’s foremost scholar” of the KGB by The New York Times, Knight traces Putin’s journey from the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the late 1990s to his subsequent rise to absolute power as the Kremlin’s leader today, detailing the many bodies that paved the way. And she explores what these murders mean for Putin’s future, for Russia and for the West, where in America Donald Trump has claimed, “Nobody has proven that he's killed anyone.He's always denied it.…It has not been proven that he's killed reporters."Orders to Kill is a story long hidden in plain sight with huge ramifications.. Russia is no stranger to political murder, from the tsars to the Soviets to the Putin regime, during which many journalists, activists and political opponents have been killed. She shows that terrorist attacks in Russia, as well as the Boston Marathon bombing in the U.S., are part of the same campaign. Ever since Vladamir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. She offers new information about the most famous victims, such as Alexander Litvinenko, the former FSB officer who was poisoned while liv
She lives in New Jersey. Amy Knight is the author of How the Cold War Began and Orders to Kill, and has written more than thirty scholarly articles and contributed numerous pieces on Russian politics and history to the New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Her articles have also been pub