Our Dear Friends in Moscow by Irina Borogan

Our Dear Friends in Moscow by Irina Borogan

Two of Russia's most prominent investigative journalists tell the "gripping" (Foreign Policy) story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s faded to be replaced by autocracy, fear, and betrayal

Our Dear Friends in Moscow tells the story of a group of young Russians, part of an idealistic generation who came of age in Moscow at the end of the twentieth century, just as the communist era imploded and a future full of potential, and uncertainty, stood in front of them. Initially, the group seized and enjoyed the freedoms of the new era, but quickly the notion that Russia was destined to join the West, and Europe, in a new partnership began to fade. At home the economy imploded, civil war stalked the Russian border in Chechnya, and terrorism came to Moscow. More discreetly, the new Russian government began to pull back from reconciliation with the United States and the West; by the time of Vladimir Putin's second and apparently endless term as president, the country had embraced a kind of ethno-nationalism and as heading for war at home and abroad.

The group is torn apart by the shift in Russia. Some flee; others become sinister agents of the ever more aggressive state. The center cannot hold.

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan are investigative journalists and partners, now in exile, with more than two decades' experience of reporting on Russia. They are cofounders of Agentura.ru, an online watchdog of Russia's security and intelligence services. Together they are the authors of multiple books, most recently The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad. They live in London.

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ISBN 13	9781541704459
ISBN 10	1541704452
Title	Our Dear Friends in Moscow
Author	Irina Borogan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	PublicAffairs,U.S.
Year published	2025-06-26
Number of pages	320
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