Andrei Soldatov
@andreisoldatov.bsky.social
Author of The Compatriots, The Red Web, The New Nobility, Senior Fellow at CEPA, King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, editor of http://Agentura.ru telegram: http://t.me/agenturaru
Moscow’s Offshore Menace
Irina Borogan and I on how the shadow fleet enables Russia’s hybrid warfare in Europe — and the growing role of the sea in its sabotage operations, for @foreignaffairs.com
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Irina Borogan and I on how the shadow fleet enables Russia’s hybrid warfare in Europe — and the growing role of the sea in its sabotage operations, for @foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Moscow’s Offshore Menace
How the shadow fleet enables Russia’s hybrid warfare in Europe.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Moscow’s Offshore Menace
Irina Borogan and I on how the shadow fleet enables Russia’s hybrid warfare in Europe — and the growing role of the sea in its sabotage operations, for @foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Irina Borogan and I on how the shadow fleet enables Russia’s hybrid warfare in Europe — and the growing role of the sea in its sabotage operations, for @foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Putin to End Hostilities? Think Again | "Ukraine may be Russia’s primary military target but the regime has a much broader range of enemies." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
Putin to End Hostilities? Think Again
Ukraine may be Russia’s primary military target, but the regime has a much broader range of enemies, such as NATO.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Putin to End Hostilities? Think Again | "Ukraine may be Russia’s primary military target but the regime has a much broader range of enemies." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
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Soldatov and Borogan's "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" is well worth reading as a memoir of dictatorial consolidation...and the crucial importance of history and political culture in allowing it to happen. www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/puti...
Putins All the Way Down
How Russia was remade.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Soldatov and Borogan's "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" is well worth reading as a memoir of dictatorial consolidation...and the crucial importance of history and political culture in allowing it to happen. www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/puti...
Our report on Russian sabotage warfare mindset is out.
The Kremlin’s primary goal is the regime’s survival, not Russian national security. To secure its grip on power, Russia has adopted Shadow Warfare, using sabotage, covert influence, and violence to achieve its political and military goals.
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War Without End: Russia’s Shadow Warfare
To secure its grip on power, Russia adopts Soviet practices coupled with modern tactics of covert influence, violence, and manipulation.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Our report on Russian sabotage warfare mindset is out.
Thankful to the New Books Network for the chance to discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow in depth.
The full conversation is here:
newbooksnetwork.com/our-dear-fri...
The full conversation is here:
newbooksnetwork.com/our-dear-fri...
Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov, "Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation" (PublicAffairs, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thankful to the New Books Network for the chance to discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow in depth.
The full conversation is here:
newbooksnetwork.com/our-dear-fri...
The full conversation is here:
newbooksnetwork.com/our-dear-fri...
Grateful for recent attention to Our Dear Friends in Moscow — from Joshua Yaffa’s review in Foreign Affairs, Fareed Zakaria’s newsletter, Ben Smith’s recommendation in Semafor, and a thoughtful piece by Mark Dubbs on his Substack.
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Grateful for recent attention to Our Dear Friends in Moscow — from Joshua Yaffa’s review in Foreign Affairs, Fareed Zakaria’s newsletter, Ben Smith’s recommendation in Semafor, and a thoughtful piece by Mark Dubbs on his Substack.
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Truth and Consequences: Russia’s Exiles Shudder at Spy Claims | "Russia’s intensive intelligence operations against the exile community are having some success, with profound implications." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
Truth and Consequences: Russia’s Exiles Shudder at Spy Claims
Russia’s intensive intelligence operations against the exile community are having some success, with profound implications.
cepa.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Truth and Consequences: Russia’s Exiles Shudder at Spy Claims | "Russia’s intensive intelligence operations against the exile community are having some success, with profound implications." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
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Well worth the read: bsky.app/profile/andr...
Honoured that "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" was recommended this week by @semafor.com Editor-in-Chief @semaforben.bsky.social — thank you!
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Well worth the read: bsky.app/profile/andr...
Honoured that "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" was recommended this week by @semafor.com Editor-in-Chief @semaforben.bsky.social — thank you!
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Honoured that "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" was recommended this week by @semafor.com Editor-in-Chief @semaforben.bsky.social — thank you!
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To go into exile or to stay—in one of this week's most popular videos on our channel, Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social speak about their new book 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow,' a story of a generation of Russian journalists shaped by the rise of Putin.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-60r...
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-60r...
ANDREI SOLDATOV, IRINA BOROGAN: Our Dear Friends in Moscow
YouTube video by IWMVienna
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November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
To go into exile or to stay—in one of this week's most popular videos on our channel, Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social speak about their new book 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow,' a story of a generation of Russian journalists shaped by the rise of Putin.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-60r...
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-60r...
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Dear Friends of the BKF, don't miss next week's talk:
TUE, 11.11.: @ckahlweit.bsky.social and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social on "RUSSIA'S LOST GENERATION"
More Info & Registration:
www.kreisky-forum.org/category/eve...
TUE, 11.11.: @ckahlweit.bsky.social and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social on "RUSSIA'S LOST GENERATION"
More Info & Registration:
www.kreisky-forum.org/category/eve...
Bruno Kreisky Forum für internationalen Dialog
Das Bruno Kreisky Forum für internationalen Dialog wurde im Jahr 1991, ein Jahr nach Kreiskys Tod gegründet, um jene Anliegen weiterzuführen, die ihm Zeit seines politischen Lebens besonders am Herzen...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Dear Friends of the BKF, don't miss next week's talk:
TUE, 11.11.: @ckahlweit.bsky.social and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social on "RUSSIA'S LOST GENERATION"
More Info & Registration:
www.kreisky-forum.org/category/eve...
TUE, 11.11.: @ckahlweit.bsky.social and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social on "RUSSIA'S LOST GENERATION"
More Info & Registration:
www.kreisky-forum.org/category/eve...
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Russia’s Spies Fear the Children | "The FSB’s ever-expanding target list now includes a new category of Russians — teenagers." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
Russia’s Spies Fear the Children
The FSB’s new prison-and-detention empire and its ever-expanding target list now includes a new category of Russians — teenagers.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Russia’s Spies Fear the Children | "The FSB’s ever-expanding target list now includes a new category of Russians — teenagers." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
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Thank you Grok for killing me off in 2021. This is a very specific hallucination (July 29???) but the rest of there report on OCCRP is equally bad. Garbage.
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thank you Grok for killing me off in 2021. This is a very specific hallucination (July 29???) but the rest of there report on OCCRP is equally bad. Garbage.
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What was inside a top secret regional #KGB spy museum in 1960? @socintelhist.bsky.social
Find out in my new article based on the ongoing archival research of #KGB documents at @hooverinstitution.bsky.social. #spies #intelhistory #coldwar
The link: tinyurl.com/y6v3by35
Find out in my new article based on the ongoing archival research of #KGB documents at @hooverinstitution.bsky.social. #spies #intelhistory #coldwar
The link: tinyurl.com/y6v3by35
An Inside Look at Top Secret Regional KGB Spy Museum in 1960
Based on archival Lithuanian KGB documents
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October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What was inside a top secret regional #KGB spy museum in 1960? @socintelhist.bsky.social
Find out in my new article based on the ongoing archival research of #KGB documents at @hooverinstitution.bsky.social. #spies #intelhistory #coldwar
The link: tinyurl.com/y6v3by35
Find out in my new article based on the ongoing archival research of #KGB documents at @hooverinstitution.bsky.social. #spies #intelhistory #coldwar
The link: tinyurl.com/y6v3by35
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ICYMI – Russian investigative journalists Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social speak with @k2news.bsky.social about their lives as Russian exiles, sharing the sacrifices and obstacles they have faced in resisting an authoritarian regime.
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cepa.org/podcast/andr...
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan on Russia’s Past, Present, and Future
Tune in to hear veteran journalists discuss their personal experiences reporting on Kremlin repression and the heavy price paid for dissent.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
ICYMI – Russian investigative journalists Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social speak with @k2news.bsky.social about their lives as Russian exiles, sharing the sacrifices and obstacles they have faced in resisting an authoritarian regime.
cepa.org/podcast/andr...
cepa.org/podcast/andr...
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LISTEN NOW – Russian investigative journalists Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social speak with @k2news.bsky.social about their lives as Russian exiles, sharing the sacrifices and obstacles they have faced in resisting an authoritarian regime.
cepa.org/podcast/andr...
cepa.org/podcast/andr...
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan on Russia’s Past, Present, and Future
Tune in to hear veteran journalists discuss their personal experiences reporting on Kremlin repression and the heavy price paid for dissent.
cepa.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
LISTEN NOW – Russian investigative journalists Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social speak with @k2news.bsky.social about their lives as Russian exiles, sharing the sacrifices and obstacles they have faced in resisting an authoritarian regime.
cepa.org/podcast/andr...
cepa.org/podcast/andr...
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Joshua Yaffa reviews two new books on Russia’s transformation under Putin, “Our Dear Friends in Moscow” by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov and “Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime” by Marlene Laruelle.
Putins All the Way Down
How Russia was remade.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Joshua Yaffa reviews two new books on Russia’s transformation under Putin, “Our Dear Friends in Moscow” by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov and “Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime” by Marlene Laruelle.
Thrilled that "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" was reviewed by the one‑and‑only Joshua Yaffa — author of Between Two Fires — alongside the excellent “Ideology and Meaning‑Making Under the Putin Regime” by Marlene Laruelle in the Nov/Dec issue of Foreign Affairs.
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/puti...
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/puti...
Putins All the Way Down
How Russia was remade.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thrilled that "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" was reviewed by the one‑and‑only Joshua Yaffa — author of Between Two Fires — alongside the excellent “Ideology and Meaning‑Making Under the Putin Regime” by Marlene Laruelle in the Nov/Dec issue of Foreign Affairs.
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/puti...
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/puti...
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Lisez @andreisoldatov.bsky.social et @Irinaborogan sur les menaces posées par les opérations de #sabotage du #kremlinNAZIregim à l’étranger - et pourquoi les dirigeants occidentaux n’ont pas réussi à contenir la stratégie de guerre hybride de plus en plus mortelle de #moscou
October 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Lisez @andreisoldatov.bsky.social et @Irinaborogan sur les menaces posées par les opérations de #sabotage du #kremlinNAZIregim à l’étranger - et pourquoi les dirigeants occidentaux n’ont pas réussi à contenir la stratégie de guerre hybride de plus en plus mortelle de #moscou
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Putin — Disagreement Is Terrorism | "The Kremlin’s neurosis about exiled dissident thinkers is extreme and has extremely serious consequences." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
Putin — Disagreement Is Terrorism
The Kremlin’s neurosis about exiled dissident thinkers is extreme and has extremely serious consequences for activists.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Putin — Disagreement Is Terrorism | "The Kremlin’s neurosis about exiled dissident thinkers is extreme and has extremely serious consequences." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
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Masks optional... but all welcome at the Week 2 #RESCMondaySeminar! Irina Borogan & @andreisoldatov.bsky.social will discuss their book 'Our dear friends in Moscow'. Convened by Zbig Wojnowski & Michael Rochlitz for RESC, St Antony's College, Oxford. In-person only.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Masks optional... but all welcome at the Week 2 #RESCMondaySeminar! Irina Borogan & @andreisoldatov.bsky.social will discuss their book 'Our dear friends in Moscow'. Convened by Zbig Wojnowski & Michael Rochlitz for RESC, St Antony's College, Oxford. In-person only.
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6c8...
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6c8...
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Tomorrow evening: Giants of journalism @andreisoldatov.bsky.social, Irina Borogan and Catherine Belton on what Putin did to Russia. No one can tell the story better, so come along: www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
Inside Russia - The Conduit
Tue 14 Oct, 6pm - 7:30pm How do you understand a country where the truth itself is under siege?
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October 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Tomorrow evening: Giants of journalism @andreisoldatov.bsky.social, Irina Borogan and Catherine Belton on what Putin did to Russia. No one can tell the story better, so come along: www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
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Russia Cleanses Its Spy Agencies | "Something odd and largely unnoticed is happening to Russia’s spies." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
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.
cepa.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Russia Cleanses Its Spy Agencies | "Something odd and largely unnoticed is happening to Russia’s spies." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
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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.
October 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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.
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#Russia Cleanses Its Spy Agencies: Something odd and largely unnoticed is happening to Russia’s spies, @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & Irina Borogan write.
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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.
cepa.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
#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
cepa.org/article/russ... via @cepa.org