Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union. David Satter

Who Blow Themselves Up

       A Hollow Achievement in Prague

       Symposium: When Does a Religion Become an Ideology?

       That Russian Spy Ring: The Broader Meaning

       Never Forget: New Fanatical Ideology, Same Prescription: Defeat

       Khodorkovsky’s Fate

       Putin’s Facade Begins to Crumble

       Why Putin Is Tottering

       The Character of Russia

       Obama’s Open Microphone

       Russia’s Chance for Redemption

       Russia and the Communist Past

       Awaiting the Next Revolution

       Clinton in the WSJ Strays on Russia Relations

       Punk-Rock Authoritarianism

       The Long Shadow of “Nord Ost”

       Russia’s Orphans

       David Satter on Life in the Soviet Police State

       Russians Arrest CIA Agent

       The NSA and the Soviet Union

       Obama Defends Putin

       Russia’s False Concern for Children

       Putin and Obama in St. Petersburg

       The Curse of Russian “Exceptionalism”

       Snowden’s New Identity

       Did Putin Insult the Pope?

       Why Journalists Frighten Putin

       Open Letter to Margarita Simonyan, Chief Editor of Russia Today

       My Expulsion from Russia

       Putin’s Shaky Hold on Power

       The Russian State of Murder Under Putin

       Putin Is No Partner on Terrorism

       Russia Questions for Rex Tillerson

       The ‘Trump Report’ Is a Russian Provocation

       Trump Gives a Boost to Putin’s Propaganda

       From Russia With Chaos

       Trump Must Stand Strong Against Putin

       How America Helped Make Vladimir Putin Dictator for Life

       Who Killed Boris Nemtsov?

       100 Years of Communism —and 100 Million Dead

       A Christmas Encounter With the ‘Russian Soul’

       How to Answer Russia’s Escalation

       Putin’s Aggression Is the Issue in Helsinki

       The Satirist Who Mocked the Kremlin —and Russian Character

       When Russian Democracy Died

       Contribution to “We Need Sakharov”

       Collusion or Russian Disinformation?

       A Pioneer Who Witnessed Revolutions

       Hold Russia Accountable for MH17

       Afterword to English Language Edition of Judgment in Moscow

       Acknowledgements

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Abbreviations and

      Administrative Delineations

      FSB — Federal Security Service

      FSO — Federal Guard Service

      IMF — International Monetary Fund

      KGB — Committee for State Security

      RUBOP (formerly RUOP) — Regional Directorate for the Struggle with Organized Crime

      SVR — Foreign Intelligence Service

      Krai — Province or territory

      Oblast — Region

      Raion — District

      Okrug — Administrative subdivision, for example, of Moscow or military district

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Introduction

      The Marquis de Coustine, writing in the early 19th century, said that it was possible for a foreigner to travel from one end of Russia to the other and see nothing but false facades. In June, 1976, when I arrived in Moscow as the accredited correspondent of the Financial Times of London, I was confronted by a country