About the Author
Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist in exile, 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 co-author with Irina Borogan of The New Nobility (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Red Web (PublicAffairs, 2015), and The Compatriots (PublicAffairs, 2019).
Now Soldatov lives in exile in London (he has been on Russia’s most wanted list since 2022).