Playing cat and mouse games with the world and using so-called little green men for masked warfare – what Russia's annexation of part of Ukraine in 2014 tells us about Vladimir Putin.
“Like tsars through the centuries, Putin sees himself as the rightful heir and the guardian of one true Christian faith,” says Lucy Ash, who has seen first-hand how the Russian leader has used religion to justify war and bolster his image.
To make sense of the man everyone is trying to figure out, Jonny Dymond is joined by:
Lucy Ash, BBC reporter and author of the upcoming book “The Baton and the Cross” about the Russian Orthodox Church under Putin Steven Lee Myers, New York Times correspondent and former Moscow bureau chief Dr Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, professor of Russian politics at Kings College London and author of “Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity
Production coordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed
Sound engineer: Rod Farquhar Producers: Caroline Bayley, Sandra Kanthal, Joe Kent Series Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight
15. Tanks Riding Towards Moscow
14. 12 Months On: President Putin’s Next Steps?
13. No Way Out?
12. The Lightning Strike
11. To the Brink
10. Preying on Hopes and Fears
9. The Emperor's Palace
8. The Splinter
7. The Ultimate Insult
5. An Indispensable Tsar
4. The Shallow Roots of Democracy
3. Unleashing power
2. Out of the shadows
1. The Moth
Introducing Putin
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