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The nightmarish ordeal of a businesswoman falsely imprisoned for drug trafficking.

Documentary maker Peter Pomerantsev on Russia's journey to a new form of dictatorship: false accusation ordeals. From 2015.

In the early 2000s, Peter Pomerantsev (the son of Russian political exiles) came to Moscow to work in the fast-growing television industry. He was perfectly placed to witness the transformation of the New Russia on its journey from communist collapse to a new form of dictatorship.
 
"Black is white and white is black." Like the subject of an absurdist short story by Gogol, businesswoman Yana Yakovleva finds herself accused of drug trafficking and is falsely imprisoned: an innocent victim of political wrangling near the top of the Kremlin.
 
 
Written by Peter Pomerantsev
 
Read by Justin Salinger
 
Abridged by Robin Brooks
 
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015.

Book of the Week: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

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Peter Pomerantsev's memoir of his decade working for a Moscow TV company.

Peter Pomerantsev's memoir of his decade working for a Moscow TV company. Read by Justin Salinger. Abridged by Robin Brooks.

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