Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny

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Yuri Shchekochikhin was a Russian MP and journalist investigating these mass killings. He had courage, tremendous energy, a nose for a story and, I’ve been told, a fondness for Armenian brandy. In January 2003, he told a friend, “For the first time in my life I feel frightened.” In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. I usually steer clear of biographies of politicians who are still in power. But in discussions about the Russian invasion of Ukraine some commentators readily blame the West, NATO and specifically the US for starting the war. Far too many do not take into account the evilness of Putin and the deaths that he has not only caused but actually directed. I believe that what is happening in eastern Europe is a consequence of Carlyle’s Great Man theory of history. As with other autocrats and dictators I believe he sparked this war for his own personal gain to rebuild the Russia of his dreams.

Image: A protester holds a placard with an image of the Russian president Vladimir Putin during a demonstration against Russia's military invasion on Ukraine.Bem, este livro foi bastante interessante e mostra o nível de crimes que o Vladimir Putin praticou ao longo da sua carreira no KGB e no Kremlin. Foi um “zé ninguém”, que em curto prazo de tempo tornou-se o homem mais poderoso da Rússia e das figuras mais temíveis do Mundo.

a Royal Television Society prize (2004) for "Angela's Hope," a BBC One documentary about a woman wrongly convicted of murdering her three babies.The final straw, he says, was the corporation deciding not to air his investigation into Tommy Robinson – although admittedly, he had been secretly filmed buying a woman champagne, gin and flaming sambuca while trying to convince her to give him information about the far-right activist and criminal. Sweeney, a much travelled, prolific and award winning journalist, lays out, in entertaining and informative detail, just what’s going on in the Kremlin, and it isn’t pretty. This is as much a personal account by Sweeney of his coverage of Putin's Russia over the years as well as his work as a freelance war correspondent in Ukraine. He makes a compelling case about the nature of Putin and his history. Some of it is speculative but hard to avoid than given how closed a society Russia is and Sweeney makes his case well.