Putin's Russia

Copyright

Copyright © 2004 by Anna Politkovskaya

Translation copyright © 2004 by Arch Tait

Foreword © 2007 by Anne Applebaum

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Politkovskaya, Anna

[Putinskaia Rossiia. English]

Putin’s Russia : life in a failing democracy / Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait.—1st American ed.

p. cm.

Originally published: London : Harvill Press, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8250-0

ISBN-10: 0-8050-8250-6

1. Russia (Federation)—Politics and government—1991—2. Russia (Federation)—Social conditions—1991— 3. Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952—4. Russia (Federation)—Moral conditions. 1. Title.

DK510.763.P65213 2005

947.086—dc22

2005043756

First Holt Paperbacks Edition 2007