Putin. The logic of power

"Hubert Zaypel has the best access to Putin than any other Western journalist". This is one of the fundamentally important advantages of the book - it is written on the basis of numerous personal meetings, conversations, joint trips of Vladimir Putin and a German television journalist. Zaypel did not see his main task not to create another "author"s portrait of the Russian president, but to make the true views of Vladimir Putin and the motives of his decisions as accurately and fully as possible to the German reader. The Russian reader will undoubtedly evaluate the author’s desire for objectivity and agree with his main conclusion: a strong world in Europe and mutual understanding between the East and West can not be built on the escalation of fears and threats, but only on the mutual recognition of various interests and sovereignty.
About the author
Hubert Zaypel was born in 1950 in Altsenau-Vasserlos. He worked as a foreign correspondent for the magazines "Stern" and "Spiegel", in the early 90s he went on television and began to specialize in economic and political topics. In 2012, for the ARD channel, he shot the documentary "I, Putin. Portrait ", where he “abandoned the demonization of the" Putin system "and demonstrated both politically and psychologically convincing portrait" ("Frankfurter AllGemeine Zeitung") At the beginning of 2014, Hyupel was the first of the journalists to conduct a television interview with Edward Snowden. In November 2014, he took an interview with Putin about his position in the conflict in Ukraine for the ARD channel. Hubert Zaypel"s films are awarded with many journalistic awards, including two German television awards, Helmut Schmidt Award and Adolf Grimme