Mafia State (book)
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| Author | Luke Harding |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Espionage, politics of Russia |
| Published | London |
| Publisher | Guardian Books |
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| Pages | 310 |
| ISBN | 9780852652497 |
| 327.120947 | |
Mafia State: how one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia is a 2011 book by British journalist Luke Harding.
Synopsis
Mafia State recounts Harding's time as Russia correspondent for the liberal British daily newspaper The Guardian and the surveillance and espionage he was subject to, allegedly by the Federal Security Service.
Reception
In The Guardian AD Miller wrote 'the importance of Luke Harding's book lies in its first-hand account of a relatively mild but telling bout of state-sponsored harassment'[1] whilst in The New Statesman David Clark of the Russian Foundation described the book as 'absorbing' and wrote 'the author's descriptive powers and his insights into the mentality and techniques of Putinism are enough to make Mafia State an essential read, but events have conspired to make it a timely one as well'.[2] A lengthy review was also published in the London Review of Books.[3]