I would recommend the books "Putin's Russia" and "A Russian Diary" by the late Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya [1, 2, 3]. In 200

I would recommend the books "Putin's Russia" and "A Russian Diary" by the late Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya [1, 2, 3]. In 2006, she was shot dead at her apartment building in central Moscow. The murder still remains unresolved. Politkovskaya was a contributor to the Kremlin-critical Novaya Gazeta. According to Wikipedia, seven of its journalists have been murdered since 2000 [4]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Russia 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Russian_Diary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Russian_Diary 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya_Gazeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya_Gazeta