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NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
By: Peter Pomerantsev
The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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November 2014
On Sale: November 11, 2014
256 pages
ISBN: 1610394550
EAN: 9781610394550
Kindle: B00L4FSVZ6
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In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hellβs Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorshipβfar subtler than twentieth-century strainsβthat is rapidly rising to challenge the West. When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. He is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system. Dazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness.
 Media BuzzPBS News Hour - December 4, 2014
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