The Age of Assassins

Crooks and killers.' Vladimir Bukovsky, Observer The Age of Assassins describes in gripping detail how Vladimir Putin destroyed democracy in Russia after his rise to President from an unpromising start as a Berlin KGB officer exporting East-German lingerie to supplement his income. Under the guise of manipulated elections, he and a few hundred secret service agents looted Russia's wealth through fake news and sophisticated cheating, co-operation with the Russian mafia and oligarchs, right up to murder with state-of-the-art poisons that leave no trace. Yuri Felshtinsky previously wrote Blowing up Russia with Alexander Litvinenko, whose 2006 assassination Vladimir Putin 'probably approved' according to the Litvinenko Public Inquiry of 20 January 2016. Vladimir Pribylovsky was found dead a week before the Litvinenko Inquiry Report came out.

Yuri Felshtinsky is an expert on the history of the Russian secret services, studied at Brandeis University, received doctorates from Rutgers and Moscow universities, and was a Hoover Institute Fellow at the University of Stanford. He was instrumental in organising Litvinenko's escape from Russia.Vladimir Pribylovsky was a Byzantine scholar and human-rights activist as well as leader of the practical-joke Beer Lover's Party, which promised to lower the temperature of boiling water and became an informal network of resistance.