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Putin's Russia is a non-fiction book by Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. It tells about people's lives in Russia under President Vladimir Putin.

Contents

In the book Politkovskaya tells about transformation of Russia to police state under leadership of Vladimir Putin and suffering of ordinary people. She describes an army in which conscripts are tortured and hired out as slaves. She describes rampant corruption in the government and judiciary. She condemns routine kidnappings, murders, rape, and torture of people in Chechnya by Russian military, exemplified by Yuri Budanov. She describes hardship of people from the Provinces of Russua, such as Ural region and Kamchatka Peninsula and accounts of hostages from the Dubrovka theater. She accuses Vladimir Putin of stifling all civil liberties to establish Soviet-style dictatorship, but tells that "it is we who are responsible for Putin's policies" in the conclusion:

Society has shown limitless apathy... As the Chekists have become entrenched in power, we have let them see our fear, and thereby have only intensified their urge to treat us like cattle. The KGB respects only the strong. The weak it devours. We of all people ought to know that.

External links

• Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya on English PEN web site

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