How Vladimir Putin Thinks

Episode 190 of the The Political Orphanage podcast, hosted by Andrew Heaton, titled "How Vladimir Putin Thinks" was published on April 29, 2020 and runs 67 minutes.

April 29, 2020 ·67m · The Political Orphanage

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How does Russian propaganda work now, compared to the Soviet era? What power structures have kept Putin in place for decades? And what does Putin think about democracy, subverting American media, and Trump? Michael Weiss is Director of Special Investigations at the Free Russia Foundation, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and editor-at-large at The Daily Beast. He joins Heaton to peer into the mind of the Russian state.

Season 2, Ep 48

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