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Despots

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Suing the Kremlin

Martin Sixsmith was for many years BBC correspondent in Moscow. He wrote the book relating to the film Philomena. He has written a number of books on Russia and also broadcast his own 12 part series on the History of Russia for BBC Radio 4.

Martin Sixsmith

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Martin Sixsmith (born 1954) is a British author, journalist and radio/television presenter.Sixsmith was born in Cheshire and educated at the Manchester Grammar School, then at Oxford, Harvard, the Sorbonne University in Paris, and in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), in Russia. He was a Slavics Tutor at Harvard and wrote his postgraduate thesis about Russian poetry.Sixsmith joined the BBC in 1980 where he worked as a foreign correspondent, most notably reporting from Moscow during the end of the Cold War. He also reported from Poland during the Solidarity uprising and was the BBC's Washington correspondent during the election and first presidency of Bill Clinton. He left the BBC in 1997 to work for the newly elected government of Tony Blair. He became Director of Communications (a civil service post), working first with Harriet Harman, and Frank Field, then with Alistair Darling. His next position was as a Director of GEC plc, where he oversaw the rebranding of the company as Marconi plc.

1. Martin Sixsmith
2. Daniel Sixsmith

Despots

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A Spirit of Love

Martin Sixsmith was educated at Oxford, Harvard and the Sorbonne. From 1980 to 1997 he worked for the BBC as the Corporation's correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw.  From 1997 to 2002 he worked for the government as  Director of Communications and Press Secretary.  Martin is now a writer, presenter and journalist, living in London. He is the author of two novels, Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh, and several works of non-fiction, including Philomena, first published in 2009 as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee.

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Putin and the Return of History

An original and informative look at Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics.