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Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist, co-founder, and editor of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He has been covering security services and terrorism issues since 1999. He is coauthor with Irina Borogan of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (PublicAffairs, 2015) and The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (PublicAffairs, 2019).
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Inside Vladimir Putin’s Shadowy Army of Global Spies
CLOAK & DAGGERThe untold story of how Vladimir Putin created his own foreign intelligence service to shore up his standing in post-Soviet Russia.
How a ‘Middle Eastern Mafia’ Invented Modern Russian Spying
THE DARK ARTSA cabal of KGB operatives stationed in Arab countries and Israel took over Russian foreign intelligence at the end of the Cold War. Their impact is still felt.
The Russians Who Went West: A Lost Generation of Emigres
EXCERPTTraded to the West, Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky launched Resistance International—the most spectacular attempt to target the Soviet regime from abroad.
Soviet Spy Who Asked for a U.S. Pension
ChutzpahGeorge Koval infiltrated the Manhattan Project and helped Stalin build the bomb. Then he asked Uncle Sam for his Social Security check.
The Dark Past of Putin’s Media Chief
Bad IdeasMikhail Lesin, the Putin aide just found dead in a hotel in Washington, D.C., was the first to propose Russian state control of the Internet.
Putin’s Plan to Gut the Press
SilencedForget investigative reporting, even critical commentary is now out of bounds as the Kremlin clamps down on Web news sites.