Putin: man of the millennium?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In 2000 a relatively unknown man called Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia. While his European and American counterparts have come and gone, Putin has stayed in the Kremlin for the past 20 years. In this episode we speak to Vitaly Shevchenko from the BBC Russian Monitoring Service to find out how Putin came to power and how he has kept it. We also talk to Maria Korienko and Katherine Zeveleva from the BBC’s bureau in Moscow to find out what life is like for young Russians who have grown up knowing only Putin as the person in charge. Presenter: Tina Daheley Producers: Duncan Barber and Alicia Burrell Mixed by Weidong Lin Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:08.0	Welcome to be on today from BBC Radio 4, where we ask one big question about one big story.
0:13.0	Today, is he the man of the millennium?
0:27.0	Shall we have a look at Putin's 2020 calendar.
0:33.0	Here we go, oh it's available in eight languages.
0:36.0	Very good.
0:37.0	Okay, let's have a little look through it.
0:39.0	Here he is looking through some binoculars and very serious.
0:41.0	Classic.
0:42.0	Military. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. binoculars is very serious. Classic military.
0:44.0	Politics has been pretty hectic over the past 20 years.
0:49.6	With all the referendums, reality TV-star politicians and recessions, one man has stood through it all,
0:57.0	Vladimir Putin.
1:00.0	He's been in charge of Russia in one way or another since 2000 and by the way Britain has had five
1:05.9	prime ministers in that time and it's quite likely Putin will be in power until 2024 and beyond.
1:15.2	There's a generation in Russia who've grown up only knowing Putin.
1:19.5	We'll talk to some of them later, but first, the man himself who is he
1:25.5	Vittalys chevchenko is in charge of the Russian monitoring team here at the BBC
1:31.2	he talked me through the famous Putin calendar.
1:34.4	Okay we're three months in no topless pictures yet I'm surprised.
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