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The Documentary: Subversion, Russia and the West

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06/05/2017 GMT

Subversion, Russia and the West

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Subversion, Russia and the West

How the murky world of subversion still dominates East-West relations

Gordon Corera explores the world of subversion, and the story behind a struggle which still dominates East-West relations.

Complaints that Russia interfered in America’s presidential election are only the latest chapter in a much longer story. Both Moscow and the West have engaged in political subversion over the last 100 years, in an attempt to undermine the other. This dangerous game has largely been played out in the clandestine world of spies but has burst out into the open at regular intervals. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the stories behind a struggle which still dominates – and often poisons – relations between the East and the West.

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