Andrei Soldatov,

Andrei Soldatov is a Non-resident senior fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis. Andrei is a Russian investigative journalist who has been covering security services and terrorism issues since 1999. He has reported on events such as the siege in Beslan, the Lebanon War, and tensions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In addition to his work as a journalist, Soldatov is co-author of several books including 'The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB' (PublicAffairs, 2010), 'The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries' (PublicAffairs, 2015), and 'The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad' (PublicAffairs, 2019).

Biography:  https://cepa.org/author/andrei-soldatov/

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This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

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  • Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist, co-founder, and editor of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services' activities.

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Contradictions

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  • The arrests are seen as the most serious attack on the Russian military in nearly 25 years of Putin's rule.

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