About the book: 2020 / From Stalin’s main enemy Leon Trotsky to critic Vladimir Putin Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. – political emigrants were always under the radar of Russian and Soviet intelligence services. No matter who sat in the Kremlin, dissidents, oligarchs and journalists who left their homeland were provoked, tried to intimidate, bribe or liquidate. The focus of a new book by journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan is the bloody history of Russian espionage , written on the trail of covert operations abroad.