The Big Steal returns with a new series exploring Russia's continuing journey towards an autocratic kleptocracy.
Whilst the world has been gripped by a global pandemic, President Putin has maintained his grip on power at home by clamping down on anyone who disagrees with him.
The leader of his main opposition, Alexei Navalny, has been poisoned and remains in prison. This is what becomes of someone who attempts stands up to the Kremlin in 2021.
And with a leader who's main concern is to line his own pockets, in this series we ask what's next for those 140 million Russians who are living under Putin's power.
Hosted by Gavin Esler, featuring Mark Galeotti, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Kara Murza, Evgeny Feldman, Oliver Carroll & Anne Applebaum
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Russia Invades Ukraine
Russia On the Brink?
A New Breed Of Autocracy
Protests and Police Raids
SERIES 2 NEWS + 'Taking Apart Terror' Taster
The Big Steal – Epilogue
What comes after Putin?
Russia's War Against Truth
Follow the Money
The American who made Putin Furious
The Man in the Cage
The Man Who Challenged Putin
From Communism to Kleptocracy
The Rivals
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