Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: Exiled voices on Russia

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  In the hopeful chaos after the fall of the Soviet Union,

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  a new generation of Russian journalists emerged, curious,

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  principled and determined to hold power to account.

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  Among them were two young reporters who began digging into the dark,

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  secretive world of the Kremlin's security services.

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  Their investigations grew into Agentura.ru,

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  a pioneering independent website exposing the FSB and the rise of surveillance in modern Russia.

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  Together, they've written a string of acclaimed books,

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  including The New Nobility, The Red Web and The Compatriots,

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  astonishingly all published in Russia at the time,

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  even as they pulled back the curtain on Putin's consolidation of power.

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  That window has since slammed shut.

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  Now, living in exile in London,

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  their latest book is their most personal yet, Our Dear Friends in Moscow,

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  tells the story of a generation divided by politics,

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  of trust broken, truth manipulated and friendships lost.

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  Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogin, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you.

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  Hi, hello, thank you very much for having us here.

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