Russia’s intelligence services have long fixated on the activities of Russian émigrés and exiles abroad, resulting in them being co-opted by the regime, or assassinated in cold blood. Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, the leading chroniclers of Russia’s intelligence services, have written a new book that examines the fascinating history of Russian intelligence activities abroad.

The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.