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Mr. Putin
- Operative in the Kremlin
- By: Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West. Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go? The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger...
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Fiona hill is always with a listen
- By phoeb23 on 29-05-23
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Mr. Putin
- Operative in the Kremlin
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-02-20
- Language: English
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Young Stalin
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Overall170
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Performance133
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Winner of the Costa Biography Award, 2007
Young Stalin is a remarkable adventure story about an exceptional, turbulent young man, born in exoticism, raised in the church, fancying himself a poet, then embracing revolutionary idealism and thereby finding his romantic Messianic mission in life.-
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Why the abridgement?
- By Mister Peridot on 11-08-16
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Young Stalin
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-05-07
- Language: English
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The Baton and the Cross
- Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin
- By: Lucy Ash
- Narrated by: Lucy Ash
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills—from the Mongol yoke, to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, Soviet atheism, the chaotic 1990s and now two decades of Vladimir Putin. In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population in a way never seen before. Orthodox clerics and their acolytes are trying to drag Russia backwards into a new Middle Ages.
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Harnessing the church
- By Mrs C. M. Lewis on 14-11-25
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The Baton and the Cross
- Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin
- Narrated by: Lucy Ash
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Downfall
- Putin, Prigozhin, and the fight for the future of Russia
- By: Anna Arutunyan, Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance44
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Brought to you by Penguin. In the early years of Vladmir Putin’s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President’s most trusted assets. By 2023, he had become a dangerous warlord – and also one of Putin’s chief rivals in Russia’s tumultuous political climate, exiled after...
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Excellent listen.
- By MJSsge on 08-06-25
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Downfall
- Putin, Prigozhin, and the fight for the future of Russia
- Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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The Oak and The Larch
- A Forest History of Russia and its Empires
- By: Sophie Pinkham
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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‘A towering achievement’ MERVE EMRE NYT Best New Books of 2026 A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made – and resisted – Russia’s many empires. From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests...
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The Oak and The Larch
- A Forest History of Russia and its Empires
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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On Tyranny and On Ukraine
- Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall194
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Performance171
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Story169
In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Timothy Snyder combines the original On Tyranny (2017)—20 lessons on how history can instruct our response to the rise of tyranny around the world today—with 20 new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about Russia's war on Ukraine. With forays into history, he clarifies the causes of the Russian invasion and the meaning of Ukrainian resistance, and explains the war's connections to threats to democracy around the world.
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On the wrongs of Russia. The rights of Ukraine.
- By RC on 26-07-22
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On Tyranny and On Ukraine
- Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- By: David Hoffman
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance122
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A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy. David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for
The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals.
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A great narrative ruined by appalling narration
- By Simon on 10-11-16
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 17-02-14
- Language: English
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The Plot to Destroy Democracy
- How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
- By: Malcolm Nance, Rob Reiner - introduction
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance43
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A provocative, comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Putin and Russia's master plan to destroy democracy in the age of Donald Trump. In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For...
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Malcolm Nance explains the facts! A must read!
- By Greta Evans on 12-04-19
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The Plot to Destroy Democracy
- How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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The Descent
- Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin
- By: Marc Bennetts, Allie Collins
- Narrated by: Marc Bennetts
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times, moved to Russia in the chaotic yet free final years of President Yeltsin's rule. Twenty-five years later, The Times pulled him out of Russia over concerns for his security following his arrest in Moscow at a protest against the war in Ukraine. From the "wild" 1990s in Moscow to narrowly escaping death under fire in Ukraine, The Descent is a unique and personal diary of how Russia spiraled into violent insanity.
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The Descent
- Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin
- Narrated by: Marc Bennetts
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 26-03-26
- Language: English
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Vodka Politics
- Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
- By: Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself.
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Surprising how such a major topic has received little attention
- By William on 24-05-25
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Vodka Politics
- Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 15-04-14
- Language: English
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Putin’s People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
- By: Catherine Belton
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,179
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russia’ THE TIMES A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB’s renaissance, Putin’s rise to power, and how Russian black...
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Chilling expose of Putin’s People and there control and abuse of Russia
- By Mr M J Wheatland on 16-06-20
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Putin’s People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-04-20
- Language: English
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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- By: Elena Kostyuchenko, Ilona Chavasse - translator, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. At once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.
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disgruntled
- By Kindle Customer on 17-01-26
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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 30-11-23
- Language: English
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A History of Russia
- 9th Edition
- By: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history—political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural—with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation.
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Excellent History
- By Paul Hennigan on 16-12-25
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A History of Russia
- 9th Edition
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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Russia's War on Everybody
- And What It Means for You
- By: Keir Giles
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance28
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Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking, and murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this? Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine.
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Listen
- By ndv on 06-09-23
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Russia's War on Everybody
- And What It Means for You
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 21-02-23
- Language: English
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History of the Russian Revolution
- By: Leon Trotsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed. It created long-lasting aftershocks which travelled far beyond its geographical borders. How did it happen? What were the sequence of events that led, following the shocking upheaval of the old Romanov order, to a fierce and violent rivalry between a variety of revolutionary factions and the ultimate victory of the Bolsheviks?
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Great Book, Well read
- By Anonymous on 17-06-23
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History of the Russian Revolution
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-04-22
- Language: English
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Murder in the Gulag
- The explosive account of how Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny
- By: John Sweeney
- Narrated by: John Sweeney
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance80
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'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, Telegraph The gripping sequel to the bestselling Killer in the Kremlin, revised and updated for paperback...
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what a man Alexei Navalny was.
- By Frank McNamara on 24-11-25
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Murder in the Gulag
- The explosive account of how Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny
- Narrated by: John Sweeney
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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The Fourth Man
- The Hunt for the KGB’s CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin
- By: Robert Baer
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, Robert Baer
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance16
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For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling author and former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the explosive story of how insiders believe a KGB mole rose to the highest ranks of the CIA. In the aftermath of the Cold War, US intelligence caught three high-profile Russian spies. However...
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The Fourth Man
- The Hunt for the KGB’s CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, Robert Baer
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 19-05-22
- Language: English
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Putin's World
- Russia Against the West and with the Rest
- By: Angela Stent
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance12
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From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a dissection of how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage. "Putin's World is the definitive guide to understanding the tangled history of post-Cold War Russia and its place in the...
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Putin's World
- Russia Against the West and with the Rest
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- By: Alexei Yurchak
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive.
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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Punishing Putin
- Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
- By: Stephanie Baker
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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‘A brilliant book’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West’s cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade. Magisterial and gripping’ Catherine Belton ‘A brilliant, engagingly written...
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This is complicated…
- By Gillibrand65 on 14-06-25
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Punishing Putin
- Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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