Inside the Putin Mafia with Catherine Belton

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has shone a spotlight onto Russia’s oligarchs. How does the Kremlin exert influence over them? And with sanctions beginning to bite, what does the future hold? Catherine Belton, Russia reporter for the Washington Post, talks to Nick Cohen about the Kremlin’s iron grip on Russia’s elite, and her own run in with oligarchs over her book Putin’s People. “The state propaganda machine can’t cover up the level of casualties forever.” “Putin has an inferiority complex. He needs the external trappings of wealth to believe he is Number One.” “UK newspapers shy away from reporting on these individuals because they know the legal costs are high.” “These oligarchs are hostages to Putin because he has a monopoly over court decisions.” “The Yeltsin tycoons have seen 30 years of empire-building undone in one fell swoop.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Nick Cohen. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Elina Ganatra. Lead producer: Jacob Jarvis. Audio production by Alex Rees. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
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1:13.0	Putin's invasion of Ukraine has thrown up three questions.
1:17.0	How did Russia become a militarist gangster state that commits crimes against humanity without any qualms of conscience.
1:28.5	What influence has the flood of money out of Russia into Britain and the west of Europe had and finally
1:36.1	where does the Russian leadership go now you can imagine those questions as
1:41.9	circles in a Venn diagram. At the center of them all is my
1:46.2	guest today, Catherine Belton, whose book Putin's people has provoked the most
1:51.8	extraordinary response. I'm delighted to be joined by
1:54.8	Catherine. Hello Catherine.
1:56.1	Hi, thank you so much for holding me on. What you wrote and what then happened to you
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