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English
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"CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's family business in Mexico--a CIA front since the 1960s--is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple to target Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife, Anna, who--unbeknownst to CIA--is a Russian intelligence officer under deep cover at the bank....
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English
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"This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly...
6) Putin
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years. Vladimir Putin is wreaking havoc in Europe, threatening global peace and stability and exposing his fellow citizens to devastating economic countermeasures. Yet puzzlingly many Russians continue to support him. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the many facets of the man behind the...
7) Patriot
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Series
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English
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In corrupt Russia, an erratic Vladimir Putin is determined to forge his country into a formidable superpower once again. He intends to redraw the map of Europe, and will go to impossible extremes to realize his fantasies -- including shooting down a civilian airliner packed with tourists bound for China. Kremlin scientists have developed a radical new weapon that could forever alter modern warfare. NATO, locked in a tense standoff over Ukraine, Poland,...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
A vodka-soaked tragicomedy of bribes, backhanders and a certain ex-president of Russia going catastrophically awry. Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir's round-the-clock care, is unaware that...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
vii, 278 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In his first book, the Guardian's Moscow correspondent explores the way Vladimir Putin exploits a sanitized version of Russia's history, especially its role in WWII, to unite its populace behind the goal of returning to major-power status. The book mixes historical analysis with original reporting, using the modern-day Russia-Ukraine conflict as its central example. Walker proves an able historian and clearly guides the reader through the context...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
ix, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. 'Fragile Empire' is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin's rise to power and what it has meant for Russia...
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frontline investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. Tracing his career back over two decades, Putin's Way reveals how the accumulation of wealth and power has led to autocratic rule and the specter of a new Cold War.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant work provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In an account based on first-hand interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, the author asserts that Putin is actually a weary leader controlled by the many men who advise and deceive him and that many of the Kremlin's decisions have been nothing more than tactical responses to external events, devoid of logic or objective.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The counterterrorism analyst and whistleblower presents a searing investigation into the American officials who he believes have been complicit in the Trump-Russia conspiracy.
19) Vladimir Putin
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Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the former spy who would rise from mid-level bureaucracy to become president of Russia.
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