PositiveThe Financial TimesThis approach sheds more light on the inner workings of the Kremlin than many other Putin books ... Zygar is at his best where he describes courtiers’ infighting ... Yet All the Kremlin’s Men fails to crack the question of what — or who — shapes the big direction of Mr Putin’s policies ... his analysis of how the president grew disillusioned with western counterparts such as US president George W Bush lacks a link to the deeply reported main story. Still, the book is a milestone. No other Russian journalist has written a Putin book based on independent reporting and published in Russia.
