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Killer in the Kremlin

John Sweeney

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the k...

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The author was inside the Kremlin walls for a meeting with Putin's PR man about the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and noted how it felt like the centre of Russian power, and one might not be able to leave again.

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You know I've been inside the Kremlin, I've been inside those great big red walls to actually have a one-to-one with Putin's PR man about the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.

— Episode: The Kremlin

Episode: The Kremlin

The author was inside the Kremlin walls for a meeting with Putin's PR man about the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and noted how it felt like the centre of Russian power, and one might not be able to leave again.

"

You know I've been inside the Kremlin, I've been inside those great big red walls to actually have a one-to-one with Putin's PR man about the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.

And when you walk through the doors, the great gates of the Kremlin, you get inside, you feel like you're in the centre of Russian power.

And the Kremlin is massive in terms of it's an enormous space. You know literally it takes you quite a while to drive round and you can't forget the fact that when you walk into those, through those gates, you can't be certain that you can leave them. You can't be certain that you'll be let out again alive.

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