num_pages: 274
description: A searing portrait of a country in disarray, &amp; of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of journalists"--NY Times Hailed as "a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness" (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her fearless reporting on the war in Chechnya. Now she turns her steely gaze on the multiple threats to Russian stability, among them President Putin himself. Putin's Russia depicts a far-reaching state of decay. Politkovskaya describes an army in which soldiers die from malnutrition, parents must pay bribes to recover their dead sons' bodies &amp; conscripts are even hired out as slaves. She exposes rampant corruption in business, government &amp; the judiciary, where everything from store permits to bus routes to court appointments is for sale. She offers a scathing condemnation of the ongoing war in Chechnya, where kidnappings, extrajudicial killings, rape &amp; torture are begetting terrorism rather than fighting it. Sounding an urgent alarm, Putin's Russia is both a gripping portrayal of a country in crisis &amp; the testament of a great intrepid reporter.
language: English
title: Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
titlecomplete: Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
characters: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
genres: Russian Literature, Essays, History, Politics, Crime, War, Russia, Nonfiction, Journalism, Russian History
ratings_count: 2960
places: Russian Federation
publisher: Metropolitan Books (NYC)