From Russia with Blood. Heidi Blake

      

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

      Copyright © Heidi Blake 2019

      Cover image © Getty Images

      Heidi Blake asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      All photographs courtesy BuzzFeed News unless otherwise stated

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      Source ISBN: 9780008300050

      Ebook Edition © November 2019 ISBN: 9780008300074

      Version: 2019-11-05

      This book is dedicated to Mark Schoofs, always a

       guiding light; to my investigative comrades

       Tom Warren, Richard Holmes, Jane Bradley,

       Jason Leopold, and Alex Campbell, without whom this

       story would have stayed buried; and to those brave

       members of the independent Russian media who risk

       their lives every day in the pursuit of truth.

      Contents

      1  Title Page

      2 Copyright

      3  Dedication

      4  Contents

      5  Foreword

      6  Introduction

      7  Part One: Two Worlds Collide i ii iii iv

      8  Part Two: The Oligarchs in Exile v vi vii

      9  Part Three: Occupational Hazards viii ix

      10  Part Four: The Price x xi xii

      11  Part Five: Impunity xiii xiv xv

      12  Part Six: Peregruzka xvi xvii xviii

      13  Part Seven: The Fall xix xx xxi

      14  Photos

      15  Bibliography

      16  Acknowledgments

      17  About the Author

      18  Also by Heidi Blake

      19  About the Publisher

      Navigation

      1  Table of Contents

       Foreword

      A note on the original BuzzFeed News investigation

      In December 2014, I flew to New York to meet Mark Schoofs, the legendary editor who then headed investigations at BuzzFeed News, to discuss setting up a new investigative unit at the company’s office in the United Kingdom. I came carrying a newspaper clipping containing the first clues to a mystery I hoped the new team might solve. It described how a multimillionaire property tycoon had plunged to his death from the fourth-floor window of a London town house a few days earlier—becoming the latest in a group of men, including the exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who had all died under bizarre circumstances. I was fascinated by what lay behind this expanding web of death at the heart of London—and Mark was equally intrigued.

      Soon