What's Russia up to?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What do we really know about Russian 'meddling' in Western democracy?
David Aaronovitch asks experts on Russia what the Kremlin is trying to achieve by hacking emails and spreading fake news.
Guests include the Gordon Corera, the BBC's Security Correspondent, Kimberly Marten, Director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at Columbia University, Andrei Soldatov, a Russian investigative journalist and Anna Nemtsova, Moscow correspondent for The Daily Beast.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. We're in a room and we get briefed. |
| 0:09.0 | So if you really want to know what's going on in the world, then do listen and subscribe to this podcast. |
| 0:14.6 | And please let us know what you think by writing a review or rating us on iTunes or your podcast provider. |
| 0:20.2 | If you're minded to do so, please recommend us to your friends or your enemies, your family, anyone |
| 0:24.9 | really. |
| 0:26.0 | This week, I'm trying to understand what we now know about Russian intervention in other countries. |
| 0:31.7 | If you enjoy this podcast, you might also like other BBC podcasts such as The Inquiry. |
| 0:38.2 | I have a very simple message for Russia. |
| 0:41.3 | We know what you are doing and you will not succeed. |
| 0:47.4 | You know, all of this has been invented. |
| 0:51.0 | Theresa May last month, Vladimir Putin this morning. |
| 0:57.0 | What's so extraordinary about all this, and why does it have to be turned into a spy fever? |
| 1:03.0 | Did you see what came out of the social media investigation? |
| 1:06.0 | The ads put up by our companies account for much less than 1%, whereas American companies' ads account for |
| 1:12.5 | 100 or 2 or 300% percent. |
| 1:15.3 | Still they think our ads are excessive. |
| 1:17.5 | This is delirious. |
| 1:19.3 | And the same applies to our media. |
| 1:21.6 | What about freedom of the press? |
| 1:23.4 | The very cornerstone, or one of the cornerstones of American democracy. |
| 1:27.2 | We have to learn from this and move on, instead of jumping at each other like some small animals do. |
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