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

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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.

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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. Film-maker Angus Macqueen has helped create a platform of award-winning documentaries, Russia On Film I have never previously read about Putin. Altough I knew some things because of my hightened interest in the western reporting of Putin's involvement in Hungarian politics. If you want an in-depth reporting into Putin's life this is most certainly not it. But I am not sure whether there is any which can be acurate regarding the level of secrecy around him.

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And the history of where he started is as dramatic as his exploits have been so far. This audible series is not all that detailed, but it gives you a very good introduction of how someone installed as a puppet, can refuse to be one and end up taking the power that was not meant to be his. Some of the anecdotes just show how Putin does indeed live up to the Bond villain persona attributed to him. 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. There is a recording, still accessible on YouTube, of Mr Aslin handcuffed and being interviewed by a British-born pro-Russian blogger Graham Phillips.

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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. 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. 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. 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." 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.A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. He was beaten, stabbed, tortured and forced to record propaganda videos. He was then sentenced to death by a sham court in Donetsk. analysis A landmark case opens the door for thousands of sexual abuse survivors — and lawyers are already firing off letters 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? Mr Aslin said he made himself a promise at the time that if he made it out alive he would tell that soldier's story. It features in his new book, Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine.

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He said that after he was captured by Russian forces, he was singled out because he held a British passport. I saw the elephant gas mask in Kherson police station. And I know that the elephant gas mask torture was used in Izyum. So, what you have is for 23 years a system of torture on a massive scale."

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." Good overview of Putin's rise to power and the years following his election, but most of this is common information - nothing groundbreaking. You'd go out and they would mention something about the death sentence that's coming, your court case or saying that you're going to be shot." 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.

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What Mr Aslin has been through in the past year and a half has been incredibly traumatising. In writing his book, he has had to relive that trauma within months of being released. 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. Critics point to Putin’s work for the KGB as revealing the core of the man, as so often investing its members with inhuman powers of control, deception, amorality and evil. Short, instead, places the real shaping of the man both before and after his KGB years. Born in the harsh courtyards of postwar Leningrad, he emerged a cautious operator, shy and unreadable, but with a startling streak of brutality. Working for the city’s famously liberal mayor through the whirlwind of chaos and violence that swept his city and Russia in the early 1990s, he forged lasting bonds with everyone from the new business elite to leading mafia bosses and senior players in the Kremlin. He labelled himself a bureaucrat, not a politician. Avoiding conspicuous consumption and not known for swimming in the oceans of corruption around him, he was at the same time not above buying himself a dissertation towards a Candidate of Sciences degree, whose subject was “Strategic Planning for the Rehabilitation of the Mineral Resources Base in the Leningrad Oblast”. Its true author, according to Short, would later receive “several hundred million dollars’ worth of shares”. Loyalty is a trademark and his friends have done very, very well over the years, as the puritan has spectacularly lost his inhibitions. His subsequent rise was public yet shadowy, a sequence of well-chosen battles engaged when he knew he could win. Who remembers that Putin asked the BBC’s Bridget Kendall to moderate the first of his annual phone-ins to speak to the nation and the world?Putin: The Prisoner of Power is nothing more than an introduction to one of the most long-lasting of heads of nations in the modern era- Vladimir Putin of Russia. This work is a concise seven-part audible series produced in the form of a radio documentary. Misha Glenny is considered to be an authority on Russian politics and government. He puts across a concise account of the rise to power of an unknown KGB bureaucrat to the helm of affairs in Russia in 1999. 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.