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The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia Kindle Edition
With hindsight, those who weren’t watching when Vladimir Putin was small insist he was bigger than he was, but good at keeping secrets. Big or small physically or politically, they have still been unable to fathom Putin’s character, or explain why, after so many years in power, Putin remains as characterless as when he started. I was watching from the beginning; the KGB elixir allowed me to see through the secrets to the truth of the matter.
This was that Putin has remained the nondescript I had first met, but that the potency attributed to him now was picked up from a group of men on whom he depended for his rise, and on whom he still depends for his power. These were, these are the Russian oligarchs whose stories I have been investigating and reporting every day. By penetrating their secrets, I measure how Putin rules Russia; better to say, how Russia is ruled, and with what effect.
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LanguageEnglish
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Publication dateDecember 18, 2018
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File size5938 KB
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- ASIN : B07LH4DH3N
- Publication date : December 18, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 5938 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 209 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1731543409
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,559,177 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #513 in Biographies of Espionage
- #1,387 in Espionage True Accounts
- #1,723 in History of Russia eBooks
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About the author
John Helmer is the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties. He first set up his bureau in 1989, making him today the doyen of the foreign press corps in Russia.
His family has many links to Russia. The founding father was a soldier from Denmark in Napoleon's Grande Armee, who decided his chances of survival were greater if he stopped in Poland and didn't try to keep Napoleon company on the march into Russia. Other family members were killed by the Germans during the invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941.
Born and educated in Australia, then at Harvard University, Helmer has also been a professor of political science, of sociology, and of journalism, and an advisor to government heads in Greece, the United States, and Asia. He is the first and only member of a US presidential administration (Jimmy Carter) to establish himself in Russia.
He is a regular presenter on Russian topics in China, Western Europe, and the United States, and at conferences organized by CRU, Center for Management Technologies, the Vicenza (Italy) Fair, and other industry conventions.
Before Russia, Helmer published several books in the US on military and political topics. Essays on the American presidency and on urban policy in the US followed in book compilations in 1981 and 1982; essays on Greek and Middle Eastern politics between 1986 and 1989. Since 1989 he has published almost exclusively on Russian topics.
Today Helmer is one of the most widely read Russian specialists in the business world for his news-breaking stories on Russian base and precious metals, diamonds, mining, shipping, insurance, food trade, and business policy.
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There is a follow up on the way. I can't wait.
Read the book. Hope for the movie.
The financial and political leadership he depicts form a rogues gallery of unscrupulous robber barons. The various court proceedings carefully reviewed by Mr Helmer show clearly how Russia remains prey to looters.
The book shows Russia in a much more revealing light than the usual academic or media coverage provides. It does not draw a larger canvas, rather concentrates on the experiences of one man, but the narrow focus makes the overall environment much clearer.