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Sep 2019
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Coming soon: Putin's Russia

Financial Times
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In this new podcast exclusively for FT subscribers, Gideon Rachman takes you with him on his travels, as he meets the decision-makers and thinkers who are shaping world affairs. Here's a taste of what to expect in our first episode, in which Gideon goes to Moscow to interview Fyodor Lukyanov, a journalist considered close to the Kremlin, about Putin's Russia.

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