Продолжение "самой громкой книги прошлого сезона" - "Баек кремлевского диггера". В "Прощании…", своего рода "Байках-2", автор, журналистка Елена Трегубова рассказывает о том, что с ней случилось до и после выхода первой книги: мытарства с изданием, скандал с НТВ, покушение, взрыв у квартиры в Гнездниковском переулке, а также реакция и героев и читателей "Баек-1" от Б.Немцова до А.Волошина, бесчисленные интервью и грозные политические перемены в настроении страны - все это не более чем фон для совсем другой полудетективной истории - истории одинокой молодой журналистки в большом городе.
Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism. Journalistic career began in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, then worked for the Deutsche Welle radio, newspaper "Today", "Russian Telegraph, after closing (1998) moved to Izvestia, out six months later - in "Kommersant" from which she was fired in 2003. From 1997 to 2001 was part of a so-called "Kremlin pool" - a circle of journalists accredited to the President of Russia. Now she is published in western media.
In 2001 she was denied accreditation to the new administration of President Vladimir Putin (in the opinion of Tregubova herself, because of sharply critical tone of the articles). After that, she started writing and in 2003 published a book "Tales of a Kremlin Digger" Bayki Kremlevskogo Diggera(Wiley, Ad Marginem), which detailed the behind the scenes life of the Russian political elite, background events such as the case of Svyazinvest, the dispersal of young reformers in 1997 city, fighting the "Family" against Luzhkov-Primakov, Putin's appointment and, according to Tregubova, with his arrival the start of media censorship and the destruction of independent political journalism in Russia. " The book portraits in a negative light many prominent political figures, as well as the tycoon Boris A. Berezovsky, Tregubova compares them with "mutants" of the science fiction film - there is another, non-human nature, and themselves - from diggers in a cave among the mutants. The central theme of the book - an informal conversation of Tregubova with the then FSB director Vladimir Putin, whom Tregubova assesses as a person "completely average, with ordinary Soviet education and intelligence, but flexible." The book became a bestseller (it was only sold 300,000 copies of publications) in this case, even before the publication was widely distributed in photocopy. The book is allegedly the media, has caused "an extremely negative reaction" among Kremlin officials, in particular among its immediate "heroes" - people from the "inner circle", Vladimir Putin. Soon after the book Tregubova was fired from the Kommersant with the wording "for absence from work (non-attendance)" and since then had no permanent job in the Russian media.
Three months after the publication of the book, 2 February 2004 an explosion occurred at the door of Tregubova's house on the Big Gnezdnikovsky Lane. Experts have determined that it was an improvised explosive device capacity 60-80g of TNT. Investigators of Tverskaya inter-district prosecutor's office declined to prosecute for this incident, describing it as "hooliganism." History of the release of "Baek Kremlin Digger," government attempts to prevent its publication, and advertising and explosions in her apartment has been the subject of a new book - "Farewell to a Kremlin Digger" (2004) Proshanie kremlevskogo diggera.
At the end of 2006, Tregubova went to London, and on April 23, 2007 asked for political asylum in England.
Nuo knygos išleidimo praėjo 19 metų. Tregubova pabaigoj rašė, kad bus blogai, bet turbūt pati nesitikėjo, ant kiek blogai. Beskaitydama vis pagalvodavau, kur tas ar anas knygos veikėjas yra šiandien: Borisas Nemcovas nušautas. Borisas Berezovskis rastas pasikoręs. Michailas Chodorkovskis atsėdėjo 10 metų, gyvena UK. Vladimiras Gusinskis, buvęs TV magnatas, Rusijoj nebegyvena nuo 2000-ųjų, jei gerai atsimenu datą. Anatolijus Čiubaisas, jei tikėt nuotraukom, pastebėtas Turkijoj besigrynantis babkes iš bankomato Vladimiras Potaninas pagal Forbes turi 30 bilijonų $. Romanas Ambramovičius kažkam kepė šašlus, šiandien sėdi po sankcijom. Rusai – jeigu 2003 knygos pasirodymas ir 2004 bandymas susprodinti autorės butą, sukėlė reakciją visuomenėj, tai šiandien karas Ukrainoj, nesukelia ženklios reakcijos. 1999 m Putiną palankiai vertino 2 proc rusų. 2022 m gegužę pagal Levadą Putino reitingas yra 83 proc. Stabilūs išliko Vakarai - kaip nusileido dėl Čečėnijos 1999, taip ir toliau sėkmingai mykia 2022 dėl Ukrainos. Nežinau, iš kur tas posakis atsiradęs, kad gėris nugali blogį.
Tregubova's Kremlin-critical tell-all that got a bomb planted in her apartment building after its publication. So much for investigative journalism in Putin's Russia. Part regime critique, part smut. You know you're in trouble when a whole chapter of your bachelor's thesis is focused on trash like this.
Elena Tregubova now lives in exile in England and Putin is coming back to be President. Still, after reading this I've full respect for Ms. Tregubova's integrity and bravery and a journalist. Fascinating account of the oligarchs and the screwed-up political situation in Russia. Unfortunately, this book has never been translated into English.
В своё время книга стала довольно скандальной, а автору пришлось попросить политического убежища в Великобритании.
Даже и не знаю что сказать… Во первых, история Трегубовой, не смотря не множество сомнений, вполне тянет на то чтобы быть недавней реальностью. Да и сегодняшние факты более благосклонны и подтверждают многие факты и вещи описанные автором о режимах власти в РФ.
Но впечатления от книги остались двоякие. С одной стороны мне нравился сам стиль написания автора её своеобразным юмором и иронией, но Елена всё-таки немного перестаралась и получилось как-то многовато всех этих её специй для книги.