In 1969, a plan to show support for an anti-racism protest turned the lives of 14 promising black student athletes upside down.

Amazing sport stories from the BBC World Service tells their story.

Search for Amazing Sport Stories, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

This episode of the documentary was recorded before the announcement of Alexei Navalny's death.

In four weeks time, people in Russia will vote for their president.

No surprises are expected.

Vladimir Putin, the man who's been in power for 25 years, will win.

He is definitely a true star of this election.

It feels like people have nothing else to talk about.

This is not about President Putin, rather about a dead cat called Twix.

Very bad, an evil train conductor threw him out of the train and there was a huge outcry.

The Twix saga captured the limelight and stirred emotions, stealing attention

away from the election.

If this election could be summed up in one word it would be formality in what felt like a

staged conversation with a group of admirers putting somewhat reluctantly agreed to run

for a fifth term in office.

This isn't an election in the traditional sense.

It's all happening for one reason and one reason alone, which is to give Lanymer Poutian's rule legitimacy

and to create the illusion of democracy. Welcome to this bonus documentary podcast from the BBC World Service with me Crassitwig.

I present the Global Jigsaw podcast from BBC Monitoring where we look at the world

through the lens of its media to understand the competing narratives. In this

episode we focus on the engineering behind the Russian presidential election.

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