A meeting with Peter Pomerantsev - author of the book " Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia". was held in Cracow, 28 September 2015.

Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell’s Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorship—far subtler than twentieth-century strains—that is rapidly rising to challenge the West.

Photos by Andrzej Janikowski

 Peter Pomerantsev is a TV producer based in London. Author of a study on Russia's weaponization of information, culture, and money, and a book, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, about working inside Vladimir Putin’s postmodern dictatorship. Born in the UK to Russian émigré parents, spent almost a decade in Moscow working as a TV producer, making documentaries and reality shows for Russian audiences. He arrived in the early 2000s, in the midst of an oil boom that brought a measure of prosperity to many and huge wealth to a select few, creating a tidal wave of glitz and extravagance, especially in the capital.