A Poisonous History: The Kremlin's Fear of an Imported Revolution
For years journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov have reported on Russia’s security services. This time, they decided to look at the agencies’ history and wrote The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad. With the poisoning of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and its aftermath, the book is suddenly more topical than one is comfortable to admit.
Borogan and Soldatov joined the Russia File's Maxim Trudolyubov to discuss the KGB of old and Russia’s existing security organizations.
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