nothing is true and everything is possible by peter pomerantsev

As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system.ĭazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness. He is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. Peter Pomerantsev, ethnically Russian but raised in England. When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart.

It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorship-far subtler than twentieth-century strains-that is rapidly rising to challenge the West. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia. Peter Pomerantsev: Putins Russia needs a new genre for each chapter In Nothing is True, Everything is Possible, Pomerantsev navigated the strange reality of Putin’s new Russia, where. In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show.

Nothing is true and everything is possible by peter pomerantsev