Andrei Soldatov

Russia Cleanses Its Spy Agencies Putin’s intelligence services are being cleansed of non-Russians. Something odd and largely unnoticed is happening to Russia’s spies.

Russia Cleanses Its Spy Agencies | "Something odd and largely unnoticed is happening to Russia’s spies." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan

A fascinating conversation on 🇷🇺 #Russia's authoritarian spiralling, the risks of being a Russian journalist in exile and opposing #Putin's regime and the invasion of 🇺🇦 #Ukraine, by my friends @andreisoldatov.bsky.social , Irina Borogan and Andrea Pipino, at @internazionale.it in Ferrara.

Russia Cleanses Its Spy Agencies Putin’s intelligence services are being cleansed of non-Russians. Something odd and largely unnoticed is happening to Russia’s spies.

#Russia Cleanses Its Spy Agencies: Something odd and largely unnoticed is happening to Russia’s spies, @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & Irina Borogan write.
cepa.org/article/russ... via @cepa.org

The price of opposition Shortly after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the émigré Russian journalist Andrei Soldatov, who was fiercely opposed to the Kremlin’s actions, found himself in tears at an...

I reviewed @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan's compelling and insightful new book 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation' for the @thetls.bsky.social:
www.the-tls.com/politics-by-...

803. Why Did Journalists Align with Russia's Regime and War of Aggression? Podcast Episode · Silicon Curtain · 09/03/2025 · 56m

From a few weeks ago, great interview on Silicon Curtain with Andrei Soldatov regarding the Russian journalists who chose to align with or accommodate the regime, and the personalities and grievances associated with that.

Very relevant here and now.

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Arsonist, Killer, Saboteur, Spy While Trump courts him, Putin is escalating Russia’s hybrid war against the West.

“To Moscow’s spies, Trump’s courting of Putin has provided an opportunity to expand and strengthen their subversion campaign in Europe,” write @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan.

Always good talking with @jjgreenjr.bsky.social, this time about our book Our Dear Friends in Moscow'. The conversation is available on JJ's Substack jjgreenjr.substack.com/p/interview-wi…

Agentura.ru is back online — huge thanks to the fantastic team at Deflect!
And yes, we have a backup domain, agentura.co.uk. We’re fully aware that Russian authorities could take the .ru domain away — but we’re not giving up without a fight.

YouTube video by GLOBAL with JJ Green Russian exile says Jimmy Kimmel "silencing" is Kremlin tactic.

IMPORTANT: Russian exile @andreisoldatov.bsky.social says Jimmy Kimmel "silencing" is Kremlin tactic.
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Our Dear Friends in Moscow: A Story of Russia And A Warning to the West This post reviews Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan (Public Affairs, 2025) RIGHT FROM THE DAWN OF THIS CENTURY, in the early d…

New on my website, 'the story of a dying dream by those who witnessed its death.'
My review of 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation' by @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan. Highly recommended.
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For Russians Like Me, Silencing Jimmy Kimmel Looks Dangerously Familiar - The Moscow Times Opinion | The removal from the air of a second American comedian since President Donald Trump was elected in the United States should send chills down the spine of every journalist who worked in Mosco...

For Russians Like Me, Silencing Jimmy Kimmel Looks Dangerously Familiar - by @andreisoldatov.bsky.social
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/19/f... #jimmykimmell

For Russians Like Me, Silencing Jimmy Kimmel Looks Dangerously Familiar - The Moscow Times Opinion | The removal from the air of a second American comedian since President Donald Trump was elected in the United States should send chills down the spine of every journalist who worked in Mosco...

📌 @andreisoldatov.bsky.social Expert de premier plan sur les services de sécurité de #ruSSiaTerroristState voit quelques échos du début de #putinTheKiller
dans la retraite des sociétés de médias 🇺🇸

#GOPMAGAFarRightExtremism
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Russians Walled-In by Both East and West Russian opposition figures expected the Kremlin to engage in repression, but they didn’t expect the West to help.

"a total ban on short-term visas would mean that Russian dissidents and activists fighting against Putin’s regime in Russia would lose any hope of fleeing the country or even coming to Europe"

@andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan are right about a blanket EU visa policy for all Russians

Russians Walled-In by Both East and West Russian opposition figures expected the Kremlin to engage in repression, but they didn’t expect the West to help.

Russians Walled-In by Both East and West | "Russian opposition figures expected the Kremlin to engage in repression, but they didn’t expect the West to help." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan

agentura.ru Посмотрите запись, чтобы узнать подробности.

Of course, we’ll keep our website running at agentura.co.uk, if we must.
But I still hope that Hostinger reconsiders. 7/7

Why should we give away our country — and everything in it, including our language, our books, our internet — to Putin so easily? 6/7

For all those years, we stayed in the .ru domain because leaving it would mean surrendering that space — full of hope, potential, and yes, freedom — to Putin’s cronies.
I believed we shouldn’t give up the Runet to pro-Kremlin forces. Not without a fight. I still believe that. 5/7

Irina Borogan and I started our project in September 2000, when Putin had just come to power — on a .ru domain, deliberately chosen because it was part of the Russian internet, built, among others, by my father. 4/7

People have always asked me:
"Why stay in the .ru domain? Why not move to international domains like the rest of the independent Russian media in exile?"
My answer was always the same. 3/7

agentura.ru Посмотрите запись, чтобы узнать подробности.

Of course, we have a backup domain — agentura.co.uk — because we always anticipated that Russian authorities might go after agentura.ru.
Ironically, the blow came from outside Russia. 2/7

Today, after 25 years and 5 days of existence, the domain agentura.ru— where we’ve investigated Russian secret services all this time—has been taken down.
Not by the FSB, as we expected, but by Hostinger, a Lithuanian hosting company that cited sanctions. THREAD 1/7

How Putin crushed all resistance in Russia and secured total power 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow' gives an insider account of how a hopeful period in Russian history gave way to totalitarianism and war

How Putin crushed all resistance in Russia and secured total power -- our book 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow" reviewed in The Ipaper.

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Just got upgraded to Russia’s international wanted list (previously I was on the inter-state one—i.e. Kremlin-friendly countries).
Apparently, our new book really pissed some people off in Moscow: this is what Russian literary criticism looks like now.
tass.ru/proisshestvi...

Andreï Soldatov : "Il est fou de penser que Poutine pourrait accorder un rendez-vous à Zelensky"
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YouTube video by Silicon Curtain Why Did Journalists Align with Russia's Regime and War of Aggression?

Why did journalists align with Russia’s regime and its war of aggression? Jonathan Fink and I spoke about Our Dear Friends in Moscow — exploring the transformation of Russian society and its elites, the pull of ideology and ambition.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrPS...

Too Much US Reverence for the Kremlin’s Smiling Hardmen Western negotiators need to remember who they’re dealing with when they talk to the Kremlin’s representatives.

Too Much US Reverence for the Kremlin’s Smiling Hardmen | "Western negotiators need to remember who they’re dealing with when they talk to the Kremlin’s representatives." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan

It was a real pleasure talking with @georginagodwin.bsky.social about 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow'.
What made it special was that it was a conversation between three people exiled from their home countries — us two from Russia, Georgina from Zimbabwe — to London. with Irina Borogan.

Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: Exiled voices on Russia - Monocle Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, exiled in London, discuss ‘Our Dear Friends in Moscow’. The conversation ranges from...

#meetthewriters This week’s guests are @AndreiSoldatov.bsky.social & Irina Borogan. We explore Our Dear Friends in Moscow – censorship, exile and reporting on Russia’s shadow world. Hear it here: monocle.com/radio/shows/... #Books #Podcasts #monocleradio

Putin’s New Cyber Empire How the Kremlin Is Embedding Russian Technology Around the World

Read @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan on how the Kremlin is using Russia’s commercial cybertechnologies to further its interests around the world:

Putin’s Long Game As war in Ukraine continues, Putin cherry-picks concessions from the West, & imposes Soviet-style barriers between Russians and outsiders.

Putin’s Long Game | "Russia’s leader aims to cherry-pick concessions from the West, while imposing Soviet-style barriers between his people and outsiders." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan