Andrei Soldatov

Browser History: The Kremlin’s Newest Weapon Russia’s rulers are taking more and more extreme measures to block access to independently produced information. But there’s resistance.

"Russia’s rulers are taking more and more extreme measures to block access to independently produced information. But there’s resistance." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan

Killing the Press: Russia's Early Red Flags YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

Killing the Press: Russia's Early Red Flags.
We discussed Our Dear Friends in Moscow—our book about journalists who aligned with a dictator—with @therickwilson.bsky.social on @lincolnproject.us, and whether it could serve as a cautionary tale for other countries today.
m.youtube.com/watch?si=J_v...

Browser History: The Kremlin’s Newest Weapon Russia’s rulers are taking more and more extreme measures to block access to independently produced information. But there’s resistance.

Browser History: The Kremlin’s Newest Weapon | "Russia’s rulers are taking more and more extreme measures to block access to independently produced information. But there’s resistance." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Killing the Press: Russia's Early Red Flags

Russian anti-authoritarian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan join the LP Podcast to tell all on Putin, Russian conflict, and their incredible journey to escape Russia and give us the truth. Watch it here:

Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation [Borogan, Irina, Soldatov, Andrei] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation

OUR DEAR FRIENDS IN MOSCOW is a gripping first-hand account of Russia's descent into dictatorship under Putin. @andreisoldatov.bsky.social

Next time I teach a course on Russian Politics at the University of San Francisco, I'll make it a required reading.

www.amazon.com/Our-Dear-Fri...

Without federal funding, public media — and the truth-telling, community-connecting role it plays — is at risk.

Local stations may vanish. Millions could lose trusted news and vital information. If you are ready to join the fight for journalism, donate now: n.pr/458sOhq

My dad brought the internet to Russia. Now Putin’s jailed him Alexey Soldatov, a nuclear physicist, forged connections beyond the Iron Curtain. Despite being terminally ill, now he faces two years in a labour colony

This week marks exactly one year since my father, Alexey Soldatov — a nuclear physicist and pioneer of the Russian Internet — was imprisoned.
He remains in a penal colony in the Ryazan region.
Here’s my article from last year about his case.

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Lecturer in Foreign Policy at King's College London Discover Lecturer in Foreign Policy jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Excellent job alert: KCL War Studies is hiring a lecturer in Foreign Policy on a full-time, indefinite contract. We already have lots of Middle East and East Asia expertise, but any other regional (and cross-regional) specialisms are of interest. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA302/l...

YouTube video by The Telegraph Ukrainian hackers 'wipe databases' in major cyberattack | Ukraine: The Latest

Really privileged to have the great Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social on Ukraine the latest today, talking about Our Dear Friends in Moscow www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWk...

Charlotte Hobson reviews 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation' by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - Rights in Russia 'A profound cynicism that reasserted itself, as powerful as ever, once Putin’s direction was clear.'

Charlotte Hobson reviews 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation' by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - #RightsinRussia www.rightsinrussia.org/charlotte-ho...

🚨 What happens to a generation of journalists raised under Putin?

🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇

🎙️New Podcast!

@andreisoldatov.bsky.social & Irina Borogan join @drichterova.bsky.social to discuss their book Our Dear Friends in Moscow. They explore how fear, betrayal & moral choices shaped a generation of Russians.

🎧Listen now:
☁️ bit.ly/3GibvBf
🟢 bit.ly/4lNgNnf
🍎 bit.ly/4kt6Av2

Putin’s Real Life Crime Drama The death of 53-year-old Roman Starovoit, Putin’s minister of transport, is a plot twist that Russia hasn’t seen for decades.

Putin’s Real Life Crime Drama | "The latest dramatic episode has a plot twist that Russia hasn’t seen for decades." Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social

Russia Plans USAID-Inspired Development Model in Bid to Extend Global Influence - The Moscow Times Russia is advancing plans to revamp its international development efforts, with U.S. foreign aid models serving as inspiration, the head of the state cultural diplomacy agency said Tuesday.

Primakov (Rossotrudnichestvo) announces plans to transform the agency into a larger, USAID-inspired body.

www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/08/r...

In their analysis, experts on the security services @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & Irina Borogan argue that this legislation paves the way for the return of large-scale repressions in Russian. cepa.org/article/gula...

Captive audience: How Putin shapes Russian opinions Exiled Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan tell Newsweek about Vladimir Putin's crackdown and their book "Our Dear Friends In Moscow."

Newsweek on our book:
'Our Dear Friends In Moscow outlines a trajectory from a freer Russia at the start of Putin's rule to a country in which the president holds captive the opinion of the majority and how some former colleagues ended up toeing the Kremlin line.'
www.newsweek.com/russia-putin...

Our Dear Friends in Moscow Two of Russia's best investigative journalists tell the story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s faded to be replaced b...

📖 New Book Release!

📘 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow' by Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social tells the powerful story of a hopeful generation in 1990s Russia—and how their dreams of democracy gave way to autocracy, fear and betrayal.

Read their book here:
bit.ly/4lyMaSe

On Let's Talk with Anna Glowinski from 10.00CET, @andreisoldatov.bsky.social with 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation', and Monica Feria-Tinta on 'A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future'

If you lived in Moscow in those years, this book will be painfully close to home. If not, it will explain a lot about what the hell happened. It's genuinely great and you should read it. amzn.eu/d/dOeuRxc

Russia launched (yet another) massive wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight: more than 500 in total, per Ukrainian military (including dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles)

Investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan about how their former colleagues in #Russia have become cheerleaders, propagandists, for #Putin:

«Do they know they are lying?»
«They believe that they are

YouTube video by Times Radio Inside Putin's propaganda machine

It was great speaking with Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio about Our Dear Friends in Moscow, with Irina Borogan.

youtu.be/Z4wo1MmUsRg

Precisely

Gulag 2:0 — Russia Reopens the Camps New legislation working its way through Russia’s rubber-stamp parliament foreshadows a harsh crackdown across Putin’s despotic state.

The FSB is working to build a new gulag. The agency wants to reclaim the FSB, but also to set up new prisons across the country, along with a new, in-house logistical system for moving inmates between these facilities.
Irina Borogan and me for @cepa.org

cepa.org/article/gula...

Gulag 2:0 — Russia Reopens the Camps New legislation working its way through Russia’s rubber-stamp parliament foreshadows a harsh crackdown across Putin’s despotic state.

Gulag 2:0 — Russia Reopens the Camps | "New legislation working its way through Russia’s rubber-stamp parliament foreshadows a harsh crackdown across Putin’s despotic state." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan

Thank you

‘Our Dear Friends in Moscow’ tells the story of a generation split by the rise of Putin, and his war in Ukraine 📕

Q&A with Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov are two of Russia’s foremost investigative journalists, who have dedicated their careers to researching the Russian security and intelligence services . Their latest ...

Pushkin House's Q&A with us about Our Dear Friends in Moscow, Pushkin House's June Book of the Month.

shop.pushkinhouse.org/blogs/booksh...

Yes he is. Thank you.

Today, on Father's Day, I’m thinking of my father — as I have every day since he was jailed last July. He’s now in a penal colony in the Ryazan region. I deeply hope he will be released soon.
(In the photo: my dad, Alexey Soldatov, in the 1980s — a promising nuclear physicist.)