John Sweeney

In 1996 Yeltsin’s poll numbers tanked and the Russian oligarchs feared that he would be unseated from the Kremlin by the Communists. So they pitched in and bought the election for him

The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin

could not.

Bombing a white-flag convoy is a war crime. So is using vacuum bombs against civilians. So is torture on an industrial scale. I saw damning evidence of all three in Putin’s war on Chechnya

Toxic Politics: The Secret History of the Kremlin’s Poison Laboratory from the Special Cabinet to the Death of Litvinenko