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Orders to kill : the Putin regime and political murder

Book  - 2017
303.6094 Kni
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  • ISBN: 9781250119346
  • Physical Description print
    viii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition First edition.
  • Publisher New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Covert violence as a Kremlin tradition -- How the system works : Putin and his security services -- Galina Starovoitova : Putin's first victim? -- Terror in Russia : September 1999 -- Silencing critics -- Mafia-style killings in Moscow : Kozlov and Politkovskaya -- The Litvinenko story -- The poisoning -- Continued onslaught against Kremlin challengers -- Boris Berezovsky : suicide or murder? -- The Boston Marathon bombings : Russia's footprint -- Another democrat falls victim : the Nemtsov murder and its aftermath -- Kadyrov, Putin, and power in the Kremlin.