From Stalin’s main enemy Lev Trotsky to Vladimir Kara-Murza the Younger, a critic of Vladimir Putin—political émigrés have always been under the watch of Russian and Soviet special services.
No matter who sat in the Kremlin, the dissidents, oligarchs, and journalists who left their homeland were provoked, tried to be intimidated, bribed, or eliminated.
In the focus of journalists Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan is the bloody history of Russian espionage—a story written following secret operations abroad.