He's led the Russian Federation for most of the last two decades.

How does Vladimir Putin get such strong support from Russian voters?

Putin gave people back the idea that it is a great country,

but it also a country that is part of the world

which the Soviet Union never was.

Nina Khrushchev is the granddaughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

She lives in the US now,

but recently traveled the vast Russian outback

to figure out why so many support a strong man president.

She tells us what she found in just a bit.

It's costing billions, but they can't afford to argue over climate change in the Netherlands.

Instead, they're preparing for rising sea levels with some impressive engineering projects.

If we don't have dikes, and the sea and the labor level are the highest points, we lose half the country.

It's a lot of taxes, but it's worth it because you want to keep your feet dry.

We look at Dutch strategies for combating climate change and Putin's rush in the hour ahead.

It's Travel with Rick Steves.

What makes so many Russians in its far-flung territories continue to support President Vladimir Putin in his policies?

Nina Kristheva reveals what she found that unites people all across Russia's 11 time zones. It's coming up a little later in the hour

on today's travel with Rick Steeves. The Netherlands, it's a country that's essentially below

sea level, and it's lived with the threat of the sea since its very start.

As the effects of climate change began showing themselves the rise of the sea is a real

threat to low-lying countries, we're joined today by two Dutch guides, Yody Van

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