Fragments of a Defunct State
Stephen Holmes: Putin’s Russia, 5 January 2012
Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia
by Luke Harding.
Guardian, 310 pp., £20, September 2011,978 0 85265 247 3 Show More
by Luke Harding.
Guardian, 310 pp., £20, September 2011,
“... about the inability of commentators to loosen the Cold War’s lingering hold on their thinking. Luke Harding was the Guardian correspondent in Russia between 2007 and 2011 who last February was turned back at Domodedovo Airport and told that his presence in the country was no longer welcome. An editorial in the Guardian described it as ‘the first ... ”