Vladimir Puchin - Is He an Ultra Nationalist?

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Vladimir putton has not made new friends over the last 22 years. The same people who surrounded him when he was a k g b agent surround him as president of a world power. And so we can look now at the war in ukraine and say, isn't it marvellous? For puchin, that is heresy. That is blasphemy. He will continue to fight to achieve the realization of what to him is perfectly normal.

The Russian president has come to rely on a skewed version of history and an increasingly small circle of advisers. Journalist Marvin Kalb explains what that means for the war in Ukraine.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.

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