ABOUT

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.

The author in Berlin, February 2023. Photo © Kevin Cummins

New Book ‘The Return of Russia’: Podcasts and Live Events

Posted On January 26, 2026

MY NEW BOOK, The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin is published in the US and the UK on January 27 as a hardback and eBook.

I will be doing live events in the UK in the coming weeks, including at the Frontline Club in London on February 18 (more details, and tickets, here), and also at the East Centre at the University of East Anglia on February 3.

I am also in discussions about possible events in Bristol, Birmingham, Derby as well as others in London. More details to follow once they are confirmed.

In the meantime, you can listen to the episode of the Silicon Curtain podcast

I recorded on Thursday 15th January, or to this episode of The Bunker, published on 20 January.

I am happy to be contacted for media interviews, speaking engagements, and book events–either on Bluesky or via the publicist for The Return of Russia, Chloe Foster at Yale University Press chloe.foster@yaleup.co.uk .

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