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Starred Review on September 15, 2015 | Social Sciences
Coauthors Soldatov and Borogan, who previously collaborated on The New Nobility, are veterans of the struggle to free Russian media and the Internet from state control, a vocation enabling their access to poorly known information and policies. The book details the imposition of Soviet-era-level surveillance and censorship, mostly under Vladimir Putin. In addition, the authors provide accounts of Russia's development of vocal and facial recognition technologies; perhaps most engaging is the narrative o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More