Mikhail Zygar

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About The Author

Mikhail Zygar is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Russian news channel Dozhd, which provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by giving a platform to opposition voices. The recipient of a CPJ International Press Freedom Award, Zygar writes a weekly column on Russia and the war for DerSpiegel and also writes for The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, and Foreign Affairs. He is also the author of All the Kremlin’s Men, The Empire Must Die, and War and Punishment. Currently a guest lecturer at Columbia University, he lives in New York with his husband.

Books by Mikhail Zygar

The Dark Side of the Earth

Russia's Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism

By Mikhail Zygar
Named a Best History Book of the Year by The Times (London)

From “one of the most thoughtful Russian writers of our time” (Yulia Navalnaya) comes “an extraordinarily revealing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incompl...
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    War and Punishment

    Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

    By Mikhail Zygar
    A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

    From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters—the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppressing Ukraine, providing an unprecedented overview of the war for Ukrainian in...
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