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The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia Kindle Edition

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My corpse managed to keep talking for twenty years. That’s the time it took between the Soviet KGB dosing my champagne with a near-fatal volume of a drug called SP-117, in order to get the truth out of me; and a Russian oligarch sending two gunmen to fire their pistols into me, to stop the truth getting out.

With hindsight, those who weren’t watching when Vladimir Putin was small insist he was bigger than he was, but good at keeping secrets. Big or small physically or politically, they have still been unable to fathom Putin’s character, or explain why, after so many years in power, Putin remains as characterless as when he started. I was watching from the beginning; the KGB elixir allowed me to see through the secrets to the truth of the matter.

This was that Putin has remained the nondescript I had first met, but that the potency attributed to him now was picked up from a group of men on whom he depended for his rise, and on whom he still depends for his power. These were, these are the Russian oligarchs whose stories I have been investigating and reporting every day. By penetrating their secrets, I measure how Putin rules Russia; better to say, how Russia is ruled, and with what effect.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07LH4DH3N
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 18, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5938 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 209 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1731543409

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John Helmer is the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties. He first set up his bureau in 1989, making him today the doyen of the foreign press corps in Russia.

His family has many links to Russia. The founding father was a soldier from Denmark in Napoleon's Grande Armee, who decided his chances of survival were greater if he stopped in Poland and didn't try to keep Napoleon company on the march into Russia. Other family members were killed by the Germans during the invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941.

Born and educated in Australia, then at Harvard University, Helmer has also been a professor of political science, of sociology, and of journalism, and an advisor to government heads in Greece, the United States, and Asia. He is the first and only member of a US presidential administration (Jimmy Carter) to establish himself in Russia.

He is a regular presenter on Russian topics in China, Western Europe, and the United States, and at conferences organized by CRU, Center for Management Technologies, the Vicenza (Italy) Fair, and other industry conventions.

Before Russia, Helmer published several books in the US on military and political topics. Essays on the American presidency and on urban policy in the US followed in book compilations in 1981 and 1982; essays on Greek and Middle Eastern politics between 1986 and 1989. Since 1989 he has published almost exclusively on Russian topics.

Today Helmer is one of the most widely read Russian specialists in the business world for his news-breaking stories on Russian base and precious metals, diamonds, mining, shipping, insurance, food trade, and business policy.

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William Jackson Jr.

Setting The Record Straight

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2023

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Helmer leaves us a compelling account of how servants of power masquerading as journalists conspired to ruin the reputations of both himself and his late wife (Australian born journalists Claudia Wright) for their critical but accurate reporting from Russia and elsewhere during the Cold War.

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Dane

An interesting view, but without his famous art.

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2019

Well written as I knew it would be from Mr. Helmer. I do have to inform you it does not contain his much loved digital art work that often adorns his website. That was nearly the only disappointment. After the despicable events of the late 80s through 90s he makes clear that the looters and atlanticists wasted no time in squandering wealth and partnering with everyday oligarch profiteers in order to extract anything they could from everyone they could, poor and rich alike. I can not agree with all his conclusions but an extra viewpoint is never harmful to have. His book makes you appreciate how much and quickly things have changed. Carpetbaggers mainly gone, Putin and Russian smarts and strengths preventing WW3. Robber barons still present but that's true in every country, 5th columns exist everywhere too Putin has it under control. I would be worried to drink kvass with you or share a taxi cab with you Mr. Helmer, but I wouldn't poison your drink or explode your car ride either.

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Richard Harding

Helmer knows too much about more than just Russia.

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2019

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John Helmer will give you your money's worth and more. This book has it all. Intelligence agencies, foreign relations, shady deals, deranged Russian oligarchs, clownish_ but still dangerous_ private security hitmen, corrupt officials, media smear campaigns, threats, intimidation and, most importantly, true love and commitment. Be warned, this is no work of fiction. If you are comfortable with "the system", it's institutions and "checks and balances" , you are in for a serious bout of disillusionment.

There is a follow up on the way. I can't wait.

Read the book. Hope for the movie.

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etudiant

Informative perspective on the financial management and the news reporting in Russia

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2019

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This book recounts the experiences of John Helmer during his years as a news correspondent in Russia.
The financial and political leadership he depicts form a rogues gallery of unscrupulous robber barons. The various court proceedings carefully reviewed by Mr Helmer show clearly how Russia remains prey to looters.
The book shows Russia in a much more revealing light than the usual academic or media coverage provides. It does not draw a larger canvas, rather concentrates on the experiences of one man, but the narrow focus makes the overall environment much clearer.

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Gary Busch

Definitely a book to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2019

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This book explains exactly how the new Russia functions and took form as the transition from the USSR took place. A must read for serious students of the transition of political power.

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