Pootie, a refresher

[Duppers]

How he went from spy to president.
Vox News.

Recommended reading:

Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha.

Published by Simon & Schuster, it chronicles the rise of Vladimir Putin during his time in Saint Petersburg in the 1990s. Dawisha exposes how Putin's friends and coworkers from his formative years have accumulated mass amounts of wealth and power.

[dalton99a]

1. Great piece

Another must-see is the 2015 PBS expose:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/putins-way/
FRONTLINE investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin’s reign in Russia. The film is a FRONTLINE production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

[Duppers]

2. Excellent.

Thank you for linking that. I missed it at the time it was broadcast on Frontline. Since it's almost 56min long, I've yet to listen to the second half but I will later this a.m. (I'm a night owl.)