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

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I share many of the author’s views on the current Kremlin regime, especially that the invasion of Ukraine was not only morally indefensible but was also a serious military mistake. 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.

It will give you chills and leave you mortified at the world's response to this dishonourable fascist who rules with a poisonous, iron fist.He has helped free seven people falsely convicted of killing babies, starting with Sally Clark and Angela Cannings. The take away message is simply that Putin cannot be allowed to win in Ukraine under any circumstances and the west (who have been duped by him and pandered to him for decades) must now stand firm against him. As a reporter, first for the Observer and then for the BBC, Sweeney has covered wars and chaos in more than eighty countries and been undercover to a number of tyrannies, including Chechnya, North Korea and Zimbabwe. Through these periods, especially the friends and associates made in the Cold War KGB and after, we see, all interspersed with insight from Sweeney's interviews, writings and physical interactions with "authorities", many well known Russian politicians, military, intelligence and 0ligarchs, along with journalists and ordinary citizens of Russia, we get to see how Putin's government works. The author suggests that Putin’s wish not to reveal his intentions too early and risk their being leaked to the Americans ‘was so great that he kept back his true invasion plans for and from the army until the day before the invasion’ (p.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes listeners from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.Sweeney may be correct in suggesting that Putin has been an expert conman and that his victims included former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, UK prime minister Tony Blair and the billionaire oligarch Boris Berezovsky. John Sweeney is an award-winning journalist and author, currently working as an investigative journalist for the BBC's Panorama series. The overall view of the malignant narcissist is he is delusional, isolated and possibly unstable due to medication. Without any in-text citations and a sparse bibliography, I only had confidence in claims Rennie or I had read elsewhere. Author and BBC journalist John Sweeny includes his personal experiences reporting on Russia and with the ongoing war in Ukraine.

He's obviously been reading Masha Gessen, heavily - no bad thing because her books are great - but if you want a book examining Putin and taking guesses as to what's wrong with him then read The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, which is truly excellent.

THE TIMES A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. He has reported from all over the world, including countries such as Zimbabwe, Ukraine, Chechnya and North Korea. I have heard is quoted that authors might do well to read their own books instead of having a narrator do it for them. Sweeney’s polemic largely consists of digging up everything possible that shows Putin in a bad light, which admittedly is not a difficult task, but suggestions that he was simultaneously a paedophile and a womaniser, a supplier of arms to the Baader-Meinhoff gang, a hypochondriac and the richest man in the word are all open to question. Given his weird conception of Russian history, he naturally didn’t want to go down as a loser, the ruler guilty of losing the last chance for his country to remain at the centre of an Empire.