Tuesday, August 29, 2017

WP -- Putin saw the Panama Papers as a personal attack and may have wanted revenge, Russian authors say


Little by little, the intrigue of Russiagate gets more and more interesting. Here’s the latest from the Washington Post:

Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan first published The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries in 2015. In that book, the pair used investigative reporting and sharp analysis to show how the Kremlin was using the Internet to its advantage.

Two years later, Russia's alleged use of covert online operations became a topic of discussion all around the world. And so Soldatov and Borogan began investigating again.

Now they have released a new version of their book that includes an additional chapter on the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The new chapter provides important context about Russian President's Vladimir Putin's possible motivations — as well as evidence of apparent links between WikiLeaks and the Kremlin, and details of the ongoing fallout in Russia.

WorldViews conducted an interview about this new chapter with Soldatov and Borogan over email. The new edition of the book came out last week in the United States.

Read more from the Washington Post’s interview: