In the book by The Wall Street Journal American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a family acquaintance of the Putins called Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin «a heavy drinker». In January 2024, Vladimir Putin said that he had never seen his father drunk.

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The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich writes in the book «This Damned Beautiful Land» that Vadim Krasikov, whom Germany handed over to Russia during the prisoner exchange in August 2024, was captured a year later on cameras at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow and behind the wheel of a BMW X6 in Moscow. Gershkovich suggests that this may indicate Krasikov’s return to work for the intelligence services.

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On Monday, the book by American journalist Evan Gershkovich, This Cursed Beautiful Land, appeared in U.S. bookstores. In it, the former Moscow correspondent for The Wall Street Journal рассказывает how, as a result of a provocation, he ended up as a hostage of the FSB, was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges, and was released only thanks to an international prisoner exchange. The circumstances of this story are strikingly reminiscent of a Russian-American spy scandal from 40 years ago, which was resolved thanks to the intervention of Gorbachev and Reagan.

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В книге «Эта проклятая прекрасная земля» (This Cursed Beautiful Land), которая поступила в продажу 29 сентября, корреспондент The Wall Street Journal Эван Гершкович рассказал о разговоре со следователем ФСБ Дмитрием Сапунковым. По его словам, следователь сказал, что если бы у следствия не было достаточных доказательств, его бы «просто отравили».

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