This is an audio cast of the Frontline Program Putin's Way, broadcast January 13th on PBS.

Tonight on Frontline, with Russian economic crisis and tension simmering over Ukraine,

the world is watching Vladimir Putin.

He's in the corner. That's when he's dangerous.

Tonight, the inside story of the Russian president's rise to power.

He has got so many guilty secrets, so much money's been stoned,

that he doesn't really trust him, want to keep him safe if he steps down from power.

Correspondent Gillian Findley investigates the allegations that have haunted Putin.

There have been a number of credible investigations.

All this propaganda quasi-investigation...

Don't be a victim of propaganda.

If you put these people in the United States and check what they've done, they're criminals.

Tonight on Frontline...

Instead of seeing Russia as a democracy in the process of failing,

we need to see it as an authoritarian system in the process of succeeding.

Putin's way.

Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.

Thank you. And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Major support for Frontline is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,

committed to building a more just, firtant, and peaceful world.

More information is available at Macfound.org.

Additional support is provided by the Park Foundation,

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