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Language English Pages 310 Originally published 2011 Page count 310 Publisher The Guardian | 3.9/5 Goodreads Media type Print Dewey Decimal 327.120947 ISBN 9780852652497 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Espionage, politics of Russia Similar The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan, WikiLeaks: Inside Julian As, The Snowden Files, Putin's Russia, Accent and Listening Assessm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mafia State: how one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia is a 2011 book by British journalist Luke Harding.
Contents
Synopsis
Mafia State recounts Harding's time as Russia correspondent for the liberal British daily newspaper The Guardian and the surveillance and espionage he was subject to, allegedly by the Federal Security Service.
Reception
In The Guardian AD Miller wrote 'the importance of Luke Harding's book lies in its first-hand account of a relatively mild but telling bout of state-sponsored harassment' whilst in the New Statesman David Clark of the Russian Foundation described the book as 'absorbing' and wrote 'the author's descriptive powers and his insights into the mentality and techniques of Putinism are enough to make Mafia State an essential read, but events have conspired to make it a timely one as well'. A lengthy review was also published in the London Review of Books.