The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize, The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of Russia's stealthy and largely unchronicled counter revolution.
Misha Vainberg longs to return to New York City, but since his grandfather killed a prominent Oklahoma businessman, Misha knows he is stuck in Russia, where he becomes the hapless Minister of Multicultural Affairs and finds himself fighting for his life, falling in love, and trying to lead a normal life.
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
The tsar of Russia sets up a duel between the country's only two enchanters where the winner becomes the tsar's most respected adviser and the loser is executed.
"A timely, topical book grounding Russia's recent turn towards conservativism in pre-1917 culture and explaining what this shift could mean for the rest of the world"--.
the true story of an American civilian turned double agent
Jamali, Naveed
The story of a young American with a dream who taught himself to be a secret double agent and helped the FBI bust a Russian spy in early-2000's New York.
