In Nothing is True and Everything is Possible British TV producer Peter Pomerantsev explores a Russia which has seen so many worlds flick through in such blistering progression—from Communism to Oligarchy to Penury to Mafia State—its heroes are left with the sense where life is one swirling masquerade, where identities can be switched and all values are changeable, and where the notion of a fact-based reality has been discarded. Returning to Britain and America, he finds the menace of unreality taking over here too. Is Putin's Russia a blind alley or the avant garde of a malevolent globalization? Nothing is True was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, Samuel Johnson, Gordon Burn and Pushkin House Prizes. It has been translated into over ten languages, and serialized as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. Peter Pomerantsev is a lapsed TV producer who runs a project on 21st century propaganda at the Legatum Institute, London. He has testified to the US Senate and Congress on how to deal with Kremlin propaganda, and given evidence to the UK Parliament. His policy suggestions are being acted upon by EU governments including the UK. He regularly gives policy seminars to NATO and Foreign, Defence and International Development Ministries in the US and EU. He has been a subject of a NY Times profile and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

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