Tales of a Kremlin Digger
16 hrs. 31 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Elena Tregubova
Author
Elena Tregubova
Narrator
Tatyana Telegina
Narrator
Tatyana Telegina
Description
I worked as a Kremlin correspondent for four years and virtually every day had close contact with the people making the country's key decisions. I am personally acquainted with all the leading Russian politicians — at least those among them who seem (or seemed) to me at least slightly interesting.
The well-known figures whom Putin severed from the umbilical cord of power after coming to power admit, in rare moments of candour, that they are suffering from the most severe withdrawal — an extreme form of narcotic craving. But there are other stages of this withdrawal too: passionate reformers who, in the Yeltsin era, gave the impression of being strong, independent personalities, now renounce their personal principles for the sake of a new dose of the narcotic — to attach themselves at any cost to the drip of the latest power vertical.
The well-known figures whom Putin severed from the umbilical cord of power after coming to power admit, in rare moments of candour, that they are suffering from the most severe withdrawal — an extreme form of narcotic craving. But there are other stages of this withdrawal too: passionate reformers who, in the Yeltsin era, gave the impression of being strong, independent personalities, now renounce their personal principles for the sake of a new dose of the narcotic — to attach themselves at any cost to the drip of the latest power vertical.
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