What If Putin Never Came to Power?

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As the world watches the war Russia brutally started in Ukraine, you wonder how these countries would be different if Vladimir Putin never took office. Who would take control of Russia? How would Russia's people's lives be different? And would the oligarchs get kicked to the curb?

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00:00 What If Putin Never Came to Power?
00:44 Collapse of the Soviet Union
02:41 Mikhail Khodorkovsky
04:10 Economic sanctions
06:44 Poverty

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