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What's Russia up to?

What do we really know about Russian 'meddling' in Western democracy? David Aaronovitch asks what the Kremlin is trying to achieve by hacking emails and spreading fake news.

What do we really know about Russian 'meddling' in Western democracy?

David Aaronovitch asks experts on Russia what the Kremlin is trying to achieve by hacking emails and spreading fake news.

Guests include the Gordon Corera, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Security Correspondent, Kimberly Marten, Director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at Columbia University, Andrei Soldatov, a Russian investigative journalist and Anna Nemtsova, Moscow correspondent for The Daily Beast.

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Thu 14 Dec 2017 20:00
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