Empire - Putin’s Russia

Follow on Twitter: Follow on Facebook: Can Russia be a superpower once again? Russia is the largest country on the planet. It straddles nine time zones, is the largest energy producer and possesses half the world’s nuclear warheads. But Russia is not the former Soviet Union. Since the Cold War ended two decades ago, the new emerging Russia has been largely defined by two men, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin presided ove