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The Invention Of Russia: the Journey From Gorbachev's Freedom To Putin'S War
[Paperback - 2016]
arkady ostrovsky
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Publisher: Atlantic Books Uk | ISBN: 9780857891600 | Pages: 378
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Revised and updated: the timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, with a new preface examining Putin's influence on the US election and exploring how his methods - weaponizing the media and serving up fake news - came to enter Western politics.

About the Author

Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born, British journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as a bureau chief for The Economist. Prior to this role, he was Moscow correspondent based in Moscow. He joined the paper in March 2007 after 10 years with the Financial Times where he had spells as a Moscow Correspondent, International Capital Markets reporter and features writer for the Arts and Books section of the paper and its weekend magazine. As the FT‘s Moscow correspondent he covered Russian politics and business, including the Yukos Affair, the resurgence of Russia’s Security Services, Gazprom, Media and Culture. At The Economist, Arkady also writes about Ukraine, Georgia and other former Soviet republics. Arkady holds a doctorate degree in English Literature (University of Cambridge, 1998). He has particular interest in the history of Russian and English theatre and Russia’s perception of England. He has contributed to the first Cambridge History of Russian Theatre as well as to collections of essays on theatre history published in the America, UK, France, Russia and Brazil. He has recently completed a book about Stanislavsky and Shakespeare. Arkady’s translation of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy, “The Coast of Utopia”, has been published in Russia and will be premiered in Moscow in October 2007. He is the author of a BBC Radio program about Siberia and is a regular contributor to radio and television programs around the world. He is married with one son and lives in Moscow with his family.

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