‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin
Forensically detailed biography by Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, depicts president as a modern-day tsar At 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.
As he opened the door, masked men pushed their way in.
Across the city, a similar raid was happening at the home of Badanin’s colleague Mikhail Rubin.
The masked men were officers of the FSB , the Russian intelligence service, instruments of the “climate of fear and violence” that the journalists say Vladimir Putin has imposed on Russia in a new forensically detailed biography of the Russian president.
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