John Sweeney

The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin

could not.

Bombing a white-flag convoy is a war crime. So is using vacuum bombs against civilians. So is torture on an industrial scale. I saw damning evidence of all three in Putin’s war on Chechnya

Toxic Politics: The Secret History of the Kremlin’s Poison Laboratory from the Special Cabinet to the Death of Litvinenko