You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you.
Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the
West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been
waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts
abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners,
interfering in elections, spying, hacking and murdering, have long
seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why
does Russia consistently behave like this? And what does it achieve?
In this book, Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more
power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine - and what
it means not just for governments, but for ordinary people. Bringing
together stories from the military, politics, diplomacy, espionage,
cyber power, organised crime and more, Giles describes how Moscow
conducts its campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too
unimportant to be caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily
struggle going on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses,
societies and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On
Everybody shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the
world are far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to
achieve them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.
