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This is a site about the books and other writing by James Rodgers, author of Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia From Lenin to Putin (new edition 2023; first published July 2020); Headlines from the Holy Land (2015 and 2017); No Road Home: Fighting for Land and Faith in Gaza (2013); Reporting Conflict (2012). My work looks at how stories of international affairs, especially armed conflict, are told to the world.

BIOGRAPHY

I am an author and journalist. During two decades of covering international news, I reported on the end of the Soviet Union; the wars in Chechnya; the coming to power of Vladimir Putin; 9/11; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the 2003 war in Iraq; Russia’s war with Georgia in 2008. I completed correspondent postings for the BBC in Moscow, Brussels, and Gaza. I now teach in the Journalism Department at City St George’s, University of London.

At The Frontline Club in London: 25 Years of Putin

Posted On March 15, 2025

Russian soldiers in Grozny. Chechnya, March 2000. © James Rodgers

Are you in London on March 26? If so, please join us at the Frontline Club for a discussion marking 25 years since Vladimir Putin was first elected president of Russia.
On 26 March 2000, I was reporting for the BBC from Grozny in Chechnya on the voting taking place in a war zone. I will be joined by an expert panel–Ksenia Maximova, Vitaly Shevchenko, and Wendy Sloane–to discuss what has happened in the quarter of a century since.
Still some tickets left, available from the link below.

Panel discussion: After 25 years of rule has Putin won? Tickets, Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite

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