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Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia

Someone has broken into my flat.

Three months after arriving in Russia as the Guardian's new Moscow bureau chief, I return home from a dinner party. At first, everything appears normal.

And then I see it. It is a strange detail. The window of my son's bedroom is wide open. The dark symbolism of the open window is not hard to decipher: take care, or your kids might just fall out.

I find myself in a new world. It is a place of unknown rules, of thuggish adversaries. But who are these ghosts? And who sent them?

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 310
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780852652480
  • Genres
  • russia, politics, history, journalism, dystopia, espionage
  • Release date
  • 2011