Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

'Putin is completely mad' | Anna Zafesova

Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

Show Notes

“Putin's pursuing his own delirious ideas... first he invented history, now he’s inventing biology,”

A total consensus is forming across Russia that Putin has gone completely mad, as an exploding economy pushes the country to the edge with zero political mechanisms to remove him, says journalist Anna Zafesova.

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