She chronicled the Kremlin’s campaign to take control of civil society and strengthen the government’s police force under the guise of fighting extremism. She is co-author of Andrey Soldatov’s books The New Nobility: The Restoration of the Security State in Russia and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (2015), he Compatriots: the cruel and chaotic story of Russian exiles, emigrants and agents abroad (2019).
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Irina Borogan
Investigative journalist, co-founder and deputy editor-in-chief of Agentura.ru, a website that monitors the activities of Russian intelligence services.
