About this episode
When The Times foreign correspondent Marc Bennetts moved to Russia in 1997, there was hope for a new future for the country. But over the next 25 years, he witnessed the rise of Vladimir Putin and the erosion of civil liberties. In his new book, The Descent: Witnessing Russia’s Spiral into Madness Under Putin, Marc charts how one man remade Russia in his own paranoid image.
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Guest: Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Micaela Arneson.
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Read more: Lies and fear: my life under the Kremlin’s propaganda machine
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