Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How can we trust him if we don't know him?
"First Person" is an intimate, candid portrait of the ma[...]

Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year[...]

WITH SUBSTANTIAL MATERIAL NOT INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTARY Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled fro[...]

A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespearian fashion why he acts the way he does. Robert D. Kaplan
"The New Tsar" is the book to read if you want to understand how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why he has become one of the gravest thre[...]

The mass media in the West do not hold fire in criticizing him. Russian opposition denounces him hysterically. But the Russian people give Vladimir Putin his mandate over and over again. What are the expectations of Russia of Putin? Where will he take the country?This book deals with these issue[...]

The ascension of Vladimir Putin a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him Putin has g[...]

A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics.
In 1999, the "Family" surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience-[...]

Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia's future has been rampant in the West. A portrait of Putin has emerged in the West that is one-dimensional, ill informed, and diametrically opposed to the image of Putin t[...]

The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship--and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.
The ascension of Vladimir Putin--a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB--to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away fro[...]

Drawing on dozens of exclusive interviews in Russia, where he worked for a time as a Kremlin insider advising Putin on press relations, as well as in the US and Europe, the author also argues that the West threw away chances to bring Russia in from the cold, by failing to understand its fears and as[...]

What can the rise and reign of this century's most feared politician teach us about life, work and love? Rob Sears shows how the machinations that enabled Putin to dominate the Kremlin and undermine the United States of America could also help you take control of your mundane life. How would you lik[...]