Luke Harding

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I Sammansvärjningen berättar Luke Harding historien om Donald Trumps band till Ryssland. Han tar läsarna bakom kulisserna i Trump Tower och in i Kremls maktcirklar. Den otroliga historien om ett samröre med ryska intressen som går flera decennier tillbaka i tiden avslöjas för första gången. Internationellt spionage, tveksamma företagsaffärer, Miss Universum-tävlingar, sexfilmer, gangsters, förgiftade dissidenter och penningtvätt är några av ingredienserna. Resultatet är en spännande thriller om hur den storpolitiska verkligheten kan få ohyggliga konsekvenser för den demokratiska världen.

Venäjän entinen KGB:n agentti ja FSB:n eversti Alexander Litvinenko myrkytettiin kuoliaaksi Lontoossa 2006. Litvinenkon oli määrä kuolla heti, mutta kuoleman pitkittyessä hän onnistui jäljittämään murhaajansa. Murhan lopulliseen selvittämiseen kului kymmenen vuotta ja lopputulema oli karu: Litvinenkon kuolema oli Venäjän valtionjohdon organisoima murha mutta tuomitut pakenivat Venäjälle ja ovat nykyään duuman jäseniä. Vaiennettu on The Guardian -lehden palkitun toimittajan Luke Hardingin uusin kirja Venäjästä. Se on tosielämän trilleri uskomattomine käänteineen myrkytyksen valmisteluista, peittelystä ja juonista, joilla syylliset saatiin kiinni. Kirja tuo ilmi Venäjän ja lännen ongelmallisen suhteen sekä Venäjän salaisia toimenpiteitä toisinajattelijoitaan kohtaan. Murhan jälkeen alkoi geopoliittisen häirinnän vuosikymmenen. Venäjän peitelty sota Ukrainassa ja Krimin pakkoliitos ovat tuoneet uudenlaisen kylmän sodan Euroopan, Yhdysvaltojen ja Venäjän välille. Kirjan merkittävyydestä ja ajankohtaisuudesta Suomelle kertoo Hardingin uusi esipuhe. Luke Harding on arvostettu toimittaja The Guardianissa. Hän on raportoinut Delhistä, Berliinistä ja Moskovasta ja tehnyt juttuja Afganistanin, Irakin ja Libyan sodista. Hardingilta on julkaistu aiemmin suomeksi kirjat Snowden, Assange ja Mafiavaltio.

A true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardian's former Moscow bureau chief and author of The Snowden Files and Collusion On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium--a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story--complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenko's murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow, and how these are tied to Russia's current misadventures in Ukraine and Syria. In doing so, he becomes a target himself and unearths a chain of corruption and death leading straight to Vladimir Putin. F rom his investigations of the downing of flight MH17 to the Panama Papers, Harding sheds a terrifying light on Russia's fracturing relationship with the West.

Salassa valmisteltu paljastuskirja Trumpista ja Venäjästä - suurempi skandaali kuin WatergateSalajuoni on ensimmäinen tietokirja aikamme järisyttävimmästä poliittisesta vehkeilystä. Toimittaja Luke Hardingin tutkimukset osoittavat Donald Trumpin pitkäaikaiset yhteydet Venäjään. Paljastuu likaista rahaa, kiinteistökauppoja, offshore-pankkeja, hakkerointia, salaisia kokouksia,kuolleita vakoojia. Raskauttava todistusaineisto näyttää Venäjän puuttumisen koko maailmaajärkyttäneisiin Yhdysvaltain presidentinvaaleihin. Hardingilla on ollut käytössään ainutlaatuinen pääsy avainlähteisiin ja julkaisemattomaan, räjähdysherkkään aineistoon. Luke Harding on The Guardianin kiitelty ja palkittu toimittaja. Into on suomentanut häneltä muunmuassa kirjat Assange, Snowden ja Vaiennettu, joka kertoo venäläisen agentti Litvinenkon murhastaLontoossa.

1st November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty-two days later he dies, killed from the inside by Polonium - a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. This is the inside story of the life and death of Litvinenko and of Russia's new cold war with the west. Harding traces the journey of the nuclear poison across London, from hotel room to nightclub, assassin to victim. It's a deadly trail that leads back to Vladimir Putin, and to a regime exposed by the Panama Papers. Luke Harding's investigation into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, A Very Expensive Poison, may also help us shed light on the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury. From the author of the No.1 New York Times bestseller Collusion.

It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community". What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one man, Edward Snowden. This is the inside story of Snowden's deeds and the journalists who faced down pressure from the US and UK governments to break a remarkable scoop.

The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man

*New and Updated edition*It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in North Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Internet messiah or cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? In this newly updated edition, award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding follow the story as it takes on ever-weirder twists and turns. In London, Assange went to ground in the back bedroom of the Ecuadorian embassy. Meanwhile, in a courtroom near Washington, the fate of the US army whistleblower Bradley Manning hung in the balance. And in Hawaii, a young man named Edward Snowden, working as a contractor for the National Security Agency, was about to take WikiLeaks into even darker territory.'A rip-roaring narrative of secrets, tantrums, technological wizardry, personal betrayal and vengeance.' Irish Independent'Excellent.' Sunday Times'Enjoyable... The WikiLeaks founder comes across as a shadowy, manipulative character with the habits of a tramp and the brain of a chess grandmaster.' Spectator'Superbly narrated...unputdownable.' Observer

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, the KGB's notorious prison. The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Vladimir Putin's spies used tactics developed by the KGB and perfected in the 1970s by the Stasi, East Germany's sinister secret police. This clandestine campaign burst into the open in 2011 when the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow - the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War. Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia is a brilliant and haunting account of the insidious methods used by a resurgent Kremlin against its so-called "enemies" - human rights workers, western diplomats, journalists and opposition activists. It includes unpublished material from confidential US diplomatic cables, released last year by WikiLeaks, which describe Russia as a "virtual mafia state". Harding gives a unique, personal and compelling portrait of today's Russia, two decades after the end of communism, that reads like a spy thriller.

Given the linguistically diverse nature of academic institutions in English-speaking contexts, a strong rationale exists for the incorporation of L2 accents of English in academic listening assessment on the grounds of authenticity and construct representation. However large-scale tests have tended to feature only native-speaker varieties in listening test input owing to concerns about the intelligibility of L2 accents, construct validity and acceptability. This book presents a mixed-methods study designed to address these concerns. Versions of the University Test of English as a Second Language (UTESL) featuring Australian English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese accented speakers were used to explore the potential for a shared-L1 or familiarity advantage, and to investigate test-takers’ attitudes towards L2 accents on a listening test. Implications are drawn for test development and for future research.

A team of journalists with unparalleled inside access provides the first full, in-depth account of WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange, and the ethical, legal, and political controversies it has both uncovered and provoked.

It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity.