Putin. Prorab na galerakh - Kolesnikov Andrei Ivanovich

Andrey Kolesnikov, special correspondent of Kommersant Publishing House, has been watching Vladimir Putin for 17 years. Looks, asks, thinks, looks again, writes, writes, dictates, transmits... Only Andrei Kolesnikov managed to get so close to Putin and stay close for so long. Perhaps because he was just honestly doing his job - and so well that journalism in his performance has become literature. It allows him to show the real Vladimir Putin, who has not had time to hide from millions of interested observers by the frequency of various rituals, which consists of his position. A journalist is always separated from such a hero by a wall - a wall of status, protocol, regulations, and just a Kremlin wall, or a "wall" as those who work behind it call it"