Putin's Russia (TRIH ep 162)
2000 · Resource
This is the fourth and final episode of a four-episode Rest Is History series on recent Russian history. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Vladimir Putin's rise to the presidency after the 2000 election, the political effects of the Second Chechen War and the 2004 Beslan school siege, and the installation of Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya. They examine Putin's dealings with the oligarchs (Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Roman Abramovich) and the ascendancy of security-service elites.
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