Extra: Putin and the Media

This Planet Mundus Extra gives you two in depth interviews with a Western and a Russian journalist who you may have met already in Episode 6. They are explaining how the Russian media may be part of the reason for President Putin's popularity. In the first part you will meet Matilde Kimer, who works for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation as a foreign correspondent in Russia and Ukraine. The second part features Yura Zhalin. An online journalist for one of Russia’s oldest publishing houses Kommersant, based in Moscow.