Killer in the Kremlin, page 26
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/11/10/deripaska-fake-news-chance-sot.cnn
Chapter Eleven: ‘So, sir, do you regret the killings in Ukraine, sir?’
BBC Panorama, ‘Putin’s Gamble’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk1OGbECyo
Chapter Twelve: The Leader of the Opposition Has Been Shot
Nemtsov
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n06/keith-gessen/remembering-boris-nemtsov https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/winter-olympics-2014-welcome-to-sochi-a-city-where-there-are-no-gay-people-9086424.html
Dugin
BBC Panorama, ‘The Kremlin’s Candidate?’: It is no longer up on the BBC website, but you can find it here: https://eastbook.eu/2017/ 02/06/aleksander-dugin-eurazjatycki-glos-w-twoim-domu
Chapter Thirteen: Taking On Putin
BBC Panorama, ‘Taking On Putin’
https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/84jpqq/bbc_panorama_taking_on_putin_what_life_is_like
Chapter Fourteen: The View from the Spire
Poisoners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8OQNyI2i0
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7268509/salisbury-russia-poisoning-drugs-sex-prostitutes-london
https://www.rferl.org/a/novichok-suspects-gay-or-not-russian-state-media-bashirov/29490426.html
Putin’s reaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvbc4vG7Ppw
Russian disinformation
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/weaponising-news.pdf
Bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/podcasts/2020/06/16/bellingchat-episode-3-hunting-the-the-salisbury-poisonings-suspects
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/09/04/gebrev-survives-poisonings-post-mortem
Chapter Fifteen: A War We Don’t Know We Are Fighting
Chris Donnelly
‘Taking On Putin’ podcast
Chapter Sixteen: The Kremlin Candidate?
Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3B-tw2sB0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23152829
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/trump-russia-felix-sater-michael-cohen.html
Russian embassy statement on ‘Trump: The Kremlin Candidate?’
https://rusemb.org.uk/fnapr/5941
Mifsud
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43488581
Chapter Seventeen: Useful Idiots
Vanessa Redgrave
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/09/johnsweeney.theobserver
Seumas Milne
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2016/04/the-thin-controller
Evgeny and Alexander Lebedev
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20030346
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/08/20/sweeney-investigates-what-changed-to-make-evgeny-lebedev-no-longer-a-security-risk
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/15/lebedev-the-kgb-spy-who-helped-put-putin-in-the-kremlin
Boris Johnson
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/revealed-boris-russian-oligarch-and-page-3-model
Nigel Farage
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/19/bbcs-slur-has-caused-family-misery/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8CSVCAIayc
Arron Banks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6374471/Arron-Banks-Russian-wife-entranced-husband-getting-rub-BUTTER-her.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41740237
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46460194
Chapter Eighteen: The Underpants Poisoner
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016txs
Chapter Nineteen: The Kremlin Patient
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/is-putin-sick-or-are-we-meant-to-think-he-is
Chapter Twenty: This Ends in Blood
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/inside-putins-propaganda-machine
https://www.proekt.media/en/investigation-en/putin-health
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Table of Contents
Title Page
About the Author
By the Same Author
Dedication
CHAPTER ONE: The Killing Machine
CHAPTER TWO: Rat Boy
CHAPTER THREE: Once and Future Spy
CHAPTER FOUR: A Bomb Made of Sugar
CHAPTER FIVE: War Without Pity
CHAPTER SIX: The Poisonings Begin
CHAPTER SEVEN: A Death of No Significance
CHAPTER EIGHT: One Lump or Two?
CHAPTER NINE: Russia’s Greatest Love Machine
CHAPTER TEN: Mr Pleonexia
CHAPTER ELEVEN: ‘So, sir, do you regret the killings in Ukraine, sir?’
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Leader of the Opposition Has Been Shot
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Taking On Putin
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The View from the Spire
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A War We Don’t Know We Are Fighting
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Kremlin Candidate?
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Useful Idiots
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Underpants Poisoner
CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Kremlin Patient
CHAPTER TWENTY: This Ends in Blood
Acknowledgements
Notes on Sources
Copyright
John Sweeney, Killer in the Kremlin
