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Heidi Blake is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist. She was assistant editor at The Sunday Times, attached to the Insight team, until spring 2015, when she he came BuzzFeed's UK investigations editor. She lives in South East London. Jonathan Calvery has worked for various newspapers in a toon meer long and distinguished career as an investigative journalist. He is the longest serving editor of the Insight team at The Sunday Times, having held the role for more than ten years. He lives in West London. toon minder
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From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless… door Heidi Blake
This is more than an expose of Putin’s global assassination enterprise. It is a primer on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the oligarchy and mafia, and the complicity of Western governments willing to turn a blind eye to attract money and influence.
Really? Putin a murderer? I don’t believe it.
Sure he is a KGB man from the beginning.
Believes anything is ok if it benefits mother Russia
Had major ties to Russian mafia while serving the mayor in St Petersburg.
But sanction the murder of his enemies in Europe, America or constantly in Britain? Yes you bet your ass he would!
And these governments allowed it to happen.
Putin laughed and continues to laugh at the west and their ignorance and naïveté!
Set over the media, and Putin dictates what Russians are told worldwide.
This is why China and Russia see eye to eye on some things because neither country has any problems with mass killing their own citizens. Of course since they are both psychotic murdering leaders, they also know that ultimately neither one can trust the other.
Excellent book.… (meer)
Sure he is a KGB man from the beginning.
Believes anything is ok if it benefits mother Russia
Had major ties to Russian mafia while serving the mayor in St Petersburg.
But sanction the murder of his enemies in Europe, America or constantly in Britain? Yes you bet your ass he would!
And these governments allowed it to happen.
Putin laughed and continues to laugh at the west and their ignorance and naïveté!
Set over the media, and Putin dictates what Russians are told worldwide.
This is why China and Russia see eye to eye on some things because neither country has any problems with mass killing their own citizens. Of course since they are both psychotic murdering leaders, they also know that ultimately neither one can trust the other.
Excellent book.… (meer)
Heidi Blake is a global investigator from BuzzFeed, not someone I trust with heavy news reporting. I just want to be clear: there are no (or very few that mean much) notations/footnotes of sources, the bibliography is only 1/2 page long. So, can I say with all honesty that I believe every bit of this story? Nope. But was it an interesting read? You betcha!
We Americans have sorta figured out that Vladimir Putin is not such a nice guy. This is the story of the double digit "alleged" assassinations of the, also not so nice robber-barons (oh, I mean oligarchs), who escaped to the United Kingdom when Putin tried to put their riches in his own pockets. The allegations are, that the FSB (which of course really means Putin) was behind all of these deaths. Can I believe that? Yep. Did Great Britain really try to cover them up, to some extent? I don't know that for sure. It seems possible. Politics is dirty business, we all learned that the last 4 years.
The book kept me captive-if you love espionage and spy craft and dirty little secrets, go for it.… (meer)
We Americans have sorta figured out that Vladimir Putin is not such a nice guy. This is the story of the double digit "alleged" assassinations of the, also not so nice robber-barons (oh, I mean oligarchs), who escaped to the United Kingdom when Putin tried to put their riches in his own pockets. The allegations are, that the FSB (which of course really means Putin) was behind all of these deaths. Can I believe that? Yep. Did Great Britain really try to cover them up, to some extent? I don't know that for sure. It seems possible. Politics is dirty business, we all learned that the last 4 years.
The book kept me captive-if you love espionage and spy craft and dirty little secrets, go for it.… (meer)
Well written and very unnerving. Fightening how easy it was to have so many people eliminated. It was an interesting read but one I could only read in short bursts as I had some very bad dreams! I saw the author interviewed on Amanpour and was intrigued.
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