'The Compatriots' Suggests The Days Of Domestic-Only Politics Are Behind Us
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, revered experts on the Russian secret service, give the book a credibility most others on Russian clandestine operations lack — and they also change the optics.
The Kremlin's reckless foray into U.S. domestic politics, coupled with a whole list of dangerous adventures elsewhere around the world, has triggered an avalanche of conspiracy theories and nutty commentary that make Moscow's foreign correspondent corps cringe and despair.
A new book, The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad, is different though, even if it covers a century of clandestine operations, "active measures" and political assassinations conducted both by and against Russians — who either found themselves in the West as refugees or were sent there as Kremlin's agents.
The author duo, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, are
