‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin

<p>Forensically detailed biography by Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, depicts president as a modern-day tsar</p><p>At 6am on 29 June 2021, the Russian journalist Roman Badanin was woken by a knock on the door of his family’s Moscow apartment