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‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin

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‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin
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Russian journalists Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin were targeted by FSB raids and threats in June 2021 following their investigative work on Vladimir Putin. The journalists subsequently chose exile over imprisonment, publishing "The Tsar in Person," a detailed biography portraying Putin as a cruel dictator responsible for repression and the deaths of opponents.
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Forensically detailed biography by Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, depicts president as a modern-day tsarAt 6am on 29 June 2021, the Russian journalist Roman Badanin was woken by a knock on the door of his family’s Moscow apartment. “Come quickly, someone has scratched your car in the courtyard,” shouted a voice outside.

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