Shaun Walker
Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent at The Guardian
Central & Eastern Europe Correspondent, The Guardian. The Illegals - a History of Russia's Most Audacious Spies (out April 2025) [email protected]
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lithub.com | Shaun Walker
It was a muggy, overcast afternoon in June 2010 when Ann Foley’s life unraveled. The day had got off to a pleasant enough start; Ann and her husband, Don, took their two sons, Tim and Alex, for a celebratory lunch at an Indian restaurant not far from the family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was Tim’s twentieth birthday, and he was back from D.C. for the summer after finishing his sophomore year at George Washington University.
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thecipherbrief.com | Shaun Walker
April 15th, 2025 BOOK REVIEW: The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the WestBy Shaun Walker / KnopfReviewed by: Kenneth Dekleva The Reviewer — Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist with the U.S. Dept.
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waterstones.com | Shaun Walker |Gordon Corera
Join us for an evening with international correspondent for the Guardian and author Shaun Walker, introducing his newest book The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West. In 2010, two decades after the Cold War had ended, ten Russian spies were arrested in America, having hidden their true identities from their friends, neighbours and even their children.
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theguardian.com | Shaun Walker
Rudi Herrmann took a deep breath and asked his son Peter to sit down. “I have a story to tell you,” he said. Rudi had been preparing for this conversation for several years, running over the words in his mind. He was about to tell his 16-year-old son that everything Peter thought he knew about their family was a lie. The pair sat on a bench, and Peter waited quietly for whatever it was his father wanted to say.
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theguardian.com | Shaun Walker
A Russian political leader sings about war with Ukrainians and the need for a “durable peace”. The fractured political elite argues over whether they should pursue closer ties with Europe or embrace Russian traditions. The plot of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina was written in the 1870s and is set in the 1680s. But, as the characters lament the fact that their homeland is mired in an endless cycle of violence and unhappiness, the dark and brooding work can feel alarmingly contemporary.
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Ahead of my book on the history of Russia's Illegals programme coming out next week, here's a taste in Guardian Longread form. ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son https://t.co/LX9c1k3UhM
On May 22, I'll be talking about modern Russian espionage in London with Christo Grozev and Daniela Richterova. Very excited for this event! Tickets available here: https://t.co/nXkC0PpDLC @dRichterova @christogrozev
RT @Andrew__Roth: Thoroughly unserious review of Russia’s war in Ukraine from the chief US negotiator. Doesn’t know the regions or the batt…
