Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine

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On New Year's Eve 1999, a young Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian TV screens - awkward, self-conscious. . .and the new President. Two decades later, Putin is still in power, standing self-assured and at ease on the world stage. How did a once little known KGB bureaucrat become one of the most dominant figures of 21st-century politics?

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I think he's a bit of a hero because of that, and I know writing the book was difficult for him," Mr Sweeney said. This Audible production has me wondering how my life could have been quite different if I'd followed that path instead of the translation path. A fruitless wondering of course, but I can't help myself.

He was beaten, stabbed, tortured and forced to record propaganda videos. He was then sentenced to death by a sham court in Donetsk. This audiobook can be described as an introduction to the topic , the history and what makes Putin so formidable. The narration and the effects are really nice and creates the sense of anticipation and intrigue about the outcomes. In that way the performance is really nice. Then later we heard the medic give the time of death. Just hearing it and then knowing that person is now dead. He'd only been in the custody of that prison for 20 minutes."

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I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close...' Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March 2021 After the fall of the erstwhile Soviet Union, Russia went into a spiral of violence and dire financial straits under the bumbling leadership of Boris Yeltsin. Russia transformed itself into an era of the free market economy after decades of tight governmental control on the economy, entrepreneurship and finance in the country. But this transformation was far from smooth, and during the reign of Yeltsin, crony capitalism held sway over the country. Rampant crime and corruption were commonplace. Yeltsin’s hold on the country was dithering all the more because of the scourge of addiction to alcohol that he was suffering from. It was at this juncture that the ruling elite decided that a newcomer who would firmly remain in their control should be brought to the helm of affairs in the country. I have never quite read about Russian history. It was always a bit of a mystery to me why Russia and US, after fighting on the same side in WW2 proceeded to have this nuclear arms race and cold war with USA. And why is Russia not as developed as US is, and was considered among the developing BRICS economies in 90s and early 2000's. Since then, China has zoomed ahead of course, and while Russia is still considered hugely influential in global politics, they don't have the economic might you might imagine.The 29-year-old was one of the last defenders of the besieged city of Mariupol. In April last year, his unit surrendered when they ran out of food and ammunition, after mounting a two-month resistance inside the Ilyich Steelworks. We heard the guard beating him with the truncheon. But the difference this time was when he was doing it, there were no screams or anything," he told 7.30 in Kyiv. But for someone like me who is not aware about the Russian history, this book provided interesting tidbits about how the USSR came to be the Russia as it is now.