La nueva Rusia / Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

from judysh

Other reviewers have used words like terrifying, frightening, fascinating, electrifying to describe this new Russia - all true. From the most unreal reality TV shows to Siberian gangsters, to murderous religious fanatics, corrupt officials, call girls and the men who pay them, to the young women ...

from Kunikov

"Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible" reads very close to the title. In many ways the author's accounts are interesting and thought provoking but they are, in the end, part of his limited, narrow views of what he himself witnessed and experienced, rather than a detailed monograph/study of ...

from Stbalbach

Surreal, entertaining, cynical and insightful look at the world's first post-modern nation. Russia went through a jarring reset in 1990, creative destruction on a nation-scale. It was able to remake itself using the latest political technologies. They are one step ahead of everyone else having ar...

from Lady_Lazarus

Like it was written on the inner sleeve, this book can be read also as a grotesque comedy - the only terrifying thing is that it is real. Sometimes I doubted its reliability and truthfulness though and I think this was due to the lack of description. The description of events and circumstances wa...

from atticusfinch1048

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible - Well Informed Account of Modern Russia Peter Pomerantsev is one of the most assiduous observers of modern Russia that there is at the moment, who always gets to the heart of the matter with his observations and comment. Nothing is True and Everything i...