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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 & DAGGER

The untold story of how Vladimir Putin created his own foreign intelligence service to shore up his standing in post-Soviet Russia.

Andrei Soldatov | Published Aug 29, 2021

How a ‘Middle Eastern Mafia’ Invented Modern Russian Spying

THE DARK ARTS

A 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.

Andrei Soldatov | Published Jun 13, 2021

The Russians Who Went West: A Lost Generation of Emigres

EXCERPT

Traded to the West, Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky launched Resistance International—the most spectacular attempt to target the Soviet regime from abroad.

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan | Published Nov 10, 2019

Soviet Spy Who Asked for a U.S. Pension

Chutzpah

George Koval infiltrated the Manhattan Project and helped Stalin build the bomb. Then he asked Uncle Sam for his Social Security check.

Andrei Soldatov | Published May 28, 2016

The Dark Past of Putin’s Media Chief

Bad Ideas

Mikhail 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.

Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan | Published Nov 08, 2015

Putin’s Plan to Gut the Press

Silenced

Forget investigative reporting, even critical commentary is now out of bounds as the Kremlin clamps down on Web news sites.

Andrei Soldatov | Published Mar 14, 2014