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

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He says he has seen evidence that Russian soldiers have used what are known as "elephant gas masks" to torture civilians across the decades in Chechyna and Ukraine. 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.

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There is a recording, still accessible on YouTube, of Mr Aslin handcuffed and being interviewed by a British-born pro-Russian blogger Graham Phillips. 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."Good production from Audible. So, Putin may in fact be a prisoner of his own power? I stopped reading after "Putin" in the title and got the audiobook and started on it. The chapters are mixed with some really good narration and enactment, and music, that it felt really lively and in the moment. Like was I was listening to a radio. Yes, that one of times old. Marvelous production. Even though I did gain some information on Putin, for someone who has already followed Putin for some while now, this maybe just a causal, dramatic and shallow take on the personality. Mr Aslin wrote Putin's Prisoner with John Sweeney, the legendary British war reporter who for over 20 years has documented how the Kremlin's troops have tortured both civilians and POWs. 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. Now freed, working as a pro-democracy campaigner in enforced exile, Khodorkovsky brings us the insider's battle to save his country's soul. Offering an urgent analysis of what has gone wrong with Putin, The Russia Conundrum maps the country's rise and fall against Khodorkovsky's own journey, from Soviet youth to international oil executive, powerful insider to political dissident, and now a high-profile voice seeking to reconcile East and West. Loved the narrative - brilliant short episodes and a novice level treatment for world politics. The Ukraine Maidan episode (Green men) and the school shootout episodes were brilliant and you were cheering for him. The use of disinformation to tilt scales and vest power - scary, but true! (You only need to look at Fox news).

Aiden was beaten and tortured by his Russian captors. Then

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. Another low point during the Putin years was the crisis in Ukraine where the ruling dispensation was trying to gain admission into the European Union. Putin convinced the Ukrainian Government to remain within the Russian sphere of influence and the uprisings that happened in Kiev were ruthlessly put down. Eventually, Russia invaded Crimea (a part of Ukraine) which was of strategic importance to Russia. This invited the wrath of the western nations in the form of sanctions. From Putin's point of view, he was probably right in his approach to the crisis because the western powers were trying to undermine the strategic interests of the country.

Mr Aslin's captors had a good reason to keep the marine alive. They were about to start using him in propaganda videos.

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For people who have read about Putin, this audiobook won't provide much. It gives a bird's eyes view about the rise of Putin, 3-4 important events happened during his 2-decade long reign as a president.Misha Gelly makes an interesting observation that Putin has found himself trapped inside the Kremlin- ironically almost like a prisoner of power. Handling unbridled power is something that Putin is adept at doing. His training as a KGB agent has stood him in good stead all through the two decades that he has held the office of the President. Another interesting fact is that Putin has been in power far longer than any other contemporary world leader who have all tried their best to dislodge him from his powerful perch. 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? 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. He was beaten, stabbed, tortured and forced to record propaganda videos. He was then sentenced to death by a sham court in Donetsk.

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Putin is dangerous it's not that he has greatest military or the vast financial resources, he doesn't have neither of them. He's good at making even the most disadvantageous situation to his advantage. It'll be self evident to anyone who'll read this. These people need to be found and sentenced and I think the only way for that to happen is to have something similar to The Hague or some huge war crimes tribunal." Mikhail Khodorkovsky has seen behind the mask of Vladimir Putin. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky spoke out against the corruption of Putin's regime - and was punished by the Kremlin, stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for over ten years.I did not know snipers shot more than 100 student protestors in the Ukraine in 2014. Little green men, the locals called the soldiers that suddenly appeared in the city.