Russia Bans Bill Browder’s New Book “Red Notice”, a Searing Exposé Featuring Putin’s Involvement in the Cover up of Sergei Magnitsky’s Murder

January 29, 2015

Rus­sia Bans Bill Brow­der’s New Book “Red Notice”, a Sear­ing Exposé Fea­tur­ing Putin’s Involve­ment in the Cov­er up of Sergei Magnitsky’s Murder

29 Jan­u­ary 2015 — On Feb­ru­ary 3^rd 2015, Bill Brow­der, CEO and founder of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, launch­es an explo­sive book about Rus­sia enti­tled “Red Notice: A true sto­ry of High Finance, Mur­der, and One Man’s Fight for Jus­tice” (UK edi­tion: “Red Notice, How I Became Putin’s Num­ber One Ene­my” pub­lished on 5^th February.)

“Red Notice” describes Brow­der’s fight against cor­rup­tion and impuni­ty in Rus­sia and is a dev­as­tat­ing exposé of how Putin and his regime will do any­thing to ille­gal­ly acquire wealth, includ­ing tor­ture and cov­er-up of murder.

“Any­body who pre­vi­ous­ly thought that Putin is a nor­mal leader or that Rus­sia is a nor­mal coun­try will think oth­er­wise after read­ing this book,” says Bill Browder.

“Red Notice” will be pub­lished in 14 coun­tries, but has so far been blocked by all major Russ­ian publishers.

Numer­ous Russ­ian pub­lish­ing hous­es, rang­ing from Eksmo to Alpina, have avoid­ed involve­ment in this book, for appar­ent fear of reprisal from the Putin regime.

Mem­bers of Pussy Riot, a Russ­ian punk group who have been jailed for an anti-Putin protest, described the Krem­lin posi­tion on Brow­der in their endorse­ment of “Red Notice” by saying:

“Bill Brow­der has become one of the most sin­cere­ly hat­ed men in the Krem­lin over the years — and that is some­thing to be incred­i­bly proud of… This book shows the dif­fer­ence that one per­son can make when they refuse to back down, as told by a fel­low sol­dier in the bat­tle to hold Putin to account.”

A Russ­ian ver­sion of “Red Notice” will be avail­able in the Russ­ian lan­guage and pub­lished out­side of Russia.

“This marks the return of the days of Sovi­et “samiz­dat” when books crit­i­cal of the Sovi­et gov­ern­ment were banned.  Many were pub­lished abroad, and then had to be secret­ly copied, cir­cu­lat­ed by hand and passed from read­er to read­er,” says Browder.

Some of the Sovi­et Union’s most acclaimed ‘samiz­dat’ authors were Var­lam Sha­la­m­ov and Alek­san­dr Solzhen­it­syn, both for­mer inmates of Stal­in’s gulag, who drew glob­al atten­tion to Joseph Stal­in’s forced labor camps, where mil­lions of Sovi­et cit­i­zens were sum­mar­i­ly interned and many ulti­mate­ly died.

To learn more, vis­it the ‘Red Notice’ book web­site: http://billbrowder.com

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact:

Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Campaign

+44 2074401777

e‑mail: info@lawandorderinrussia.org

web­site: www.lawandorderinrussia.org

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