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- FSB agents raided journalists Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin on 29 June 2021.
- Their 800-page biography *The Tsar in Person* portrayed Putin as a modern tsar and won the Grand Prix Strasbourg.
- The Kremlin later labeled the journalists’ outlet Proekt an “undesirable” media organization.
- Badanin, holidaying in Morocco, said the Kremlin banned the book and warned of death squads.
- FBI agents warned Badanin at his California home of a possible foreign-service attack.
