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Start the Week: Putin's Russia

Putin's Russia

10/06/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Putin's Russia

Anne McElvoy discusses Russia with Fiona Hill, Vladislav Zubok and Oliver Bullough.

Anne McElvoy discusses Russia with Fiona Hill, Vladislav Zubok, Oliver Bullough and Rachel Polonsky.

On Start the Week Anne McElvoy talks to the Russian expert Fiona Hill about the many faces of Vladimir Putin, while Vladislav Zubok considers the impact of the past on the Russia of today. Oliver Bullough turns to drink to understand the soul of the nation and the historian Rachel Polonsky considers the cultural landscape of the post-Soviet era.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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