Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
It is no surprise that his account of his time there shows how the boundaries between truth and reality were constantly blurred.
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However, Pomerantsev quickly discovered that the media remained heavily state-influenced and he was not always free to produce the content he had planned. Raised in London, he moved to Russia as an adult and his work as a reality television producer allowed him access to all sorts of people and places at the peak of the television industry boom years in the 2000s.
“Fake news” had yet to become a common term when ‘Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia’ was published in the UK in 2015, but the concept is very much present in Peter Pomerantsev’s anecdotal depiction of post-Soviet Russia.