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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.

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

‘People and Power in Russia’ Chiswick Book Festival,12 September.

Posted On August 28, 2026

Cover of 'The Return of Russia' by James Rodgers

PEOPLE AND POWER IN RUSSIA at the Chiswick Book Festival is the next live event where I will be talking about The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin.

The event is on Saturday 12 September at 3.30pm. I will be appearing with Miranda Seymour, author of I, Vera: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess. The session will be chaired by Michael Pugh.

More details, and tickets, here Vera, Rasputin and Putin: People and Power in Russia at St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall event tickets from TicketSource .

I will be signing books afterwards. If you want to understand more about how we went from post-Cold War cooperation with Russia, to renewed confrontation, please come along.

You can read my latest journalism on Russia, including the Kremlin’s warnings to the UK over its support for Ukraine, here James Rodgers, Author at The i Paper .

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