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Book about Putin’s private life which ‘reads like a spy novel’ wins French literary prize

A taboo-breaking book about Vladimir Putin’s rise to power and private life, written by two exiled Russian journalists, won a newly established French literary prize on Tuesday. The book, The Tsar in Propria Persona: How Vladimir Putin Deceived Us All, draws on more than two decades of investigative reporting by journalists Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin. The work won a newly established…

Book about Putin’s private life which ‘reads like a spy novel’ wins French literary prize

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