Oliver Bullough
Journalist and author
Oliver Bullough is a Welsh journalist and author who writes about financial crime, kleptocracy and the former Soviet Union. His 2018 book Moneyland is part of that work.
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British Born 1977 in the United Kingdom
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About Oliver Bullough
Oliver Bullough grew up in mid-Wales and studied at Oxford University. He moved to Russia in 1999, later joined Reuters, and was sent to Moscow. The first major story he reported there was the Moscow theater siege of 2002. His first book, Let Our Fame Be Great, was published in 2010 and won the Oxfam Emerging Writer Prize. The Last Man in Russia followed. Moneyland came out in 2018, and a follow-up, Butler to the World, was released in 2022. He has written five books in all.