In this revised and updated paperback edition, award-winning journalist John Sweeney goes behind the headlines to investigate what really happened to Alexei Navalny in the freezing Polar Wolf penal colony in a remote part of Siberia in February 2024. This is a warts-and-all portrayal of the highly charismatic but controversial Russian opposition leader who at one time flirted with the far right. Murder in the Gulag lifts the lid on the reality of life in Russia today and asks what Navalny's death means for the future of Putin, Russia and the West.
John Sweeney is the Reform UK correspondent of The Nerve. As a reporter, first for the Observer and then for the BBC, he covered war and chaos in a hundred countries and went undercover in Chechnya, North Korea and Zimbabwe. The author of seventeen books, including the Sunday Times bestseller Killer in the Kremlin, he has challenged Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Nigel Farage face-to-face.