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The Red Web
A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 A NPR Great Read of 2015 The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a box the size of a VHS player marked SORM. The Russian government's front line in the battle for the future of the Internet, SORM is the world's most intrusive listening device, monitoring e-mails, Internet usage, Skype, and all social networks. But for every hacker subcontracted by the FSB to interfere with Russia's antag...
Il killer del Cremlino
«Un attacco senza precedenti al presidente russo.» The Times «Le parole hanno potere, e Putin ha paura della verità.» Aleksej Navalny Un’inchiesta esplosiva con documenti inediti e testimonianze di prima mano Nella Russia di Vladimir Putin, la verità si paga con la vita. Ma per il giornalista John Sweeney raccontarla è una missione. Questo libro inchiesta porta alla luce tutti i terribili retroscena passati e presenti della spia che divenne zar, l’uomo che da più di vent’anni controlla il Cremlino. Inseguendo la scia di feroci vendette e morti misteriose dei suoi nemici, le atrocità della guerra in Cecenia e la brutale invasione dell’Ucraina, si arriva infine al cuore più p...
Watching the Jackals
The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold War In the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists and revolutionaries. They arrived here to seek refuge, enjoy recreation, or hold secret meetings aimed at securing training, arms, and other forms of support. While some were welcome with open arms, others were closely watched and were eventually ousted. Watching the Jackals is the untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold War. Based on recent...
The Compatriots
The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country--be it antagonistic or far too chummy. The history of Russian espionage is soaked in blood, from a spontaneous pistol shot that killed a secret policeman in Romania in 1924 to the attempt to poison an exiled KGB colonel in Salisbury, England, in 2017. Russian émigrés have found themselves continually at the center of the mayhem. Russians began leaving the country in big numbers in the late nineteenth century, fleeing pogroms, tsarist secret police persecution, and the Revolution, then Stalin and the KGB--and creating the thi...
Speaking like a Spanish Cow: Cultural Errors in Translation
What is a cultural error? What causes it? What are the consequences of such an error? This volume enables the reader to identify cultural errors and to understand how they are produced. Sometimes they come about because of the gap between the source culture and the target culture, on other occasions they are the result of the cultural inadequacies of the translator, or perhaps the ambiguity arises because of errors in the reception of the translated text. The meta-translational problem of the cultural error is explored in great detail in this book. The authors address the fundamental theoretical issues that underpin the term. The essays examine a variety of topics ranging from the deliberate political manipulation of cultural sources in Russia to the colonial translations at the heart of Edward FitzGerald’s famous translation The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Adopting a resolutely transdisciplinary approach, the seventeen contributors to this volume come from a variety of academic backgrounds in music, art, literature, and linguistics. They provide an innovative reading of a key term in translation studies today.
The New Nobility
In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse. The security services have played a central -- and often mysterious -- role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.
Krigsherren i Kreml
Hvordan kunne lederen av vårt store naboland bli så mektig og farlig? Aage Storm Borchgrevink har fulgt Russland og president Putin tett de seneste tjue årene. Nå bruker han sin kunnskap om mannen og landet til å skrive om Putin som politisk leder. Mange har fryktet Vladimir Putin, men få hadde forventet den brutale invasjonen av Ukraina. Aage Storm Borchgrevink, har skrevet en kortfattet og levende biografi om Russlands president. Det er en fortelling om det moderne Russland, fra familien Putins tragedier under annen verdenskrig, gjennom oppveksten i Leningrad og frem til Sovjetunionens fall, som også ble alvorlig for KGB-agenten Putin. Etter et blaff av frihet på 1990-tallet, strammet Putin grepet og byggetet Russland med velstand for de få og ambisjoner om å gjenoppstå som stormakt.
Fostering freedom online: the role of Internet intermediaries
Internet intermediaries play a unique role in linking authors of content and audiences. They may either protect or jeopardize end user rights to free expression, given their role in capturing, storing, searching, sharing, transferring and processing large amount of information, data and user-generated content. This research aims to identify principles for good practices and processes that are consistent with international standards for free expression that Internet intermediaries may follow in order to protect the human rights of end users online.
Extending Russia
As the U.S. National Defense Strategy recognizes, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage. It examines Russian vulnerabilities and anxieties; analyzes potential policy options to exploit them; and assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the likelihood of successful implementation.
