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Felshtinsky investigates how Russia under Putin became the first country in history to be ruled by its secret service. Using first-hand information from former oligarchs and KGB spies, he describes how the power has shifted away from the oligarchs to a small network of spies. Together they have created a power that was unimaginable even under Russian Communism.

Previously published as The age of assassins.

Felshtinsky investigates how Russia under Putin became the first country in history to be ruled by its secret service. Using first-hand information from former oligarchs and KGB spies, he describes how the power has shifted away from the oligarchs to a small network of spies. Together they have created a power that was unimaginable even under Russian Communism.

This is a guidebook to the top 120 political parties and movements in Russia. The dictionary covers the complete political spectrum from the democracy movements to the various Marxist, Bolshevik, socialist, labour, ecological, feminist, anarchist, nationalist, extreme-right, and monarchist movements that have emerged since 1987.

The hand-book contains the biographies of the 59 heads of the federal services and agencies of the Russian Federation who had been appointed by 7th May 2004.