Yuri Felshtinsky is a historian of the Russian secret service with close ties to leading defectors. He co-authored bestseller Blowing Up Russia (Gibson Square) with poisoned KGB Lt-Colonel Alexander Litvinenko, and his books have been published in twenty-two languages. He was a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and was the first US citizen to receive a doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of History. He has appeared as news commentator on MSNBC, NPR, PBS, BBC and Sky TV, and in British and European media such as the Telegraph, Spectator, New European, Brussels Times, Daily Mail, el Mundo, el Pais, Die Zeit, L’Express, Svenska Dagbladet, Washington Post.