MIkhail Zygar on Putin as the Accidental King
When\xa0the\xa0Department of Justice required RT,\xa0the Russian-funded news outlet,\xa0to register as a foreign agent last month, the Russian government\xa0responded\xa0in kind. Yet the Kremlin's\xa0recent crackdown on Western media is part of a longer history\xa0of stifling independent media in Russia.\xa0For this episode of the\xa0Lawfare Podcast's\xa0special Russia series, Alina Polyakova\xa0talked to Mikhail Zygar, a Russian independent journalist, filmmaker, and author of two books on the Kremlin\u2019s elite circle. They discussed\xa0Zygar's\xa0latest book\xa0"All the Kremlin's Men,"\xa0what it\u2019s like to be an independent journalist in Russia today, why Vladimir Putin may be far from a strategic mastermind, and much more.\xa0
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