Operation successor: the story behind the Russian president's mysterious rise to power. From bag carrier to the most powerful man in Russia. In just a few years Vladimir Putin went from working for the mayor of St Petersburg to being prime minister, then president.
To make sense of how he did it, Jonny Dymond is joined by:
Misha Glenny, former BBC correspondent and author of ‘McMafia’ Natalia Gevorkyan, co-writer of the first authorised biography of Vladimir Putin published in 2000, and of “The Prisoner of Putin” with Mikhail Khodorkovsky Oliver Bullough, writer, journalist. former Moscow correspondent for Reuters and author of “Butler to the world”
Production coordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed
Sound engineer: James Beard 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
6. The Believer
5. An Indispensable Tsar
4. The Shallow Roots of Democracy
3. Unleashing power
1. The Moth
Introducing Putin
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