Bernie's Time Machine: Putin's Critics
A reminder that Russia is a dangerous place for Putin critics to live.
“This is a festival of corruption…”
Years before Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, and subsequent efforts by Tucker Carlson to cast the country as a paradise of fresh bread and coin-operated shopping carts, I went to Russia to report a story for the HBO program, Real Sports.
It was the fall of 2013, and the topic was the Sochi Olympics.
After visiting Sochi, I went to Moscow where I interviewed a critic of the Sochi games — a man named Boris Nemtsov who was also an outspoken critic of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.
