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Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin

Kate Laycock
February 10, 2022

With over a 100,000 troops massed at the Ukrainian border, so much depends upon the psychology and motivations of one man: Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin. But who is Putin really, and how far might he be willing to go? In order to try to answer those questions, Inside Europe turned to Catherine Belton, author of Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Took on the West.

https://p.dw.com/p/46pU8

Catherine Belton is an investigative journalist with Reuters and former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times. The German version of  ''Putin's People'' is out this week from Harper Collins.