Menacing West News Today

hello and welcome. days before the anniversary of russias invasion of ukraine, presidents putin and biden have both given defiant speeches. vladimir putin, in his state of the nation address, defended his full—scale invasion, blaming the west for provoking the war. he also announced hes suspending russian participation in the major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. heres our russia editor, steve rosenberg. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe...

thanks for watching. good night. [dramatic music playing] [raymond asquith] the listeners, as they were, the kgb, who had all the surveillance equipment, lived on the floor above us in moscow. and you knew they were there. on the whole, one just endured it. i mean, i remember my wife and i had some kind of argument about where were gonna take the children for a weekend picnic. in a rather unmanly way, i sort of addressed the ceiling and said, "well, you up there, which did we agree?" a...

thanks for watching. good night. [dramatic music playing] [raymond asquith] the listeners, as they were, the kgb, who had all the surveillance equipment, lived on the floor above us in moscow. and you knew they were there. on the whole, one just endured it. i mean, i remember my wife and i had some kind of argument about where were gonna take the children for a weekend picnic. in a rather unmanly way, i sort of addressed the ceiling and said, "well, you up there, which did we agree?" a...

[dramatic music playing] [raymond asquith] the listeners, as they were, the kgb, who had all the surveillance equipment, lived on the floor above us in moscow. and you knew they were there. on the whole, one just endured it. i mean, i remember my wife and i had some kind of argument about where were gonna take the children for a weekend picnic. in a rather unmanly way, i sort of addressed the ceiling and said, "well, you up there, which did we agree?" and to my amazement, within about ...

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Secret intelligence. yuri andropov is the head of the soviet intelligence service, the kgb. the kgb have been running the russian life for years. andropov was getting more and more convinced of the menacing west. he was a full-blown kgb person who thought that its either us or them. and basically, it better be them. [tim naftali] yuri andropov concludes that the superpowers are on the verge of a nuclear war. and so he begins a process of collecting information that would be indicators of the app...

Secret intelligence. yuri andropov is the head of the soviet intelligence service, the kgb. the kgb have been running the russian life for years. andropov was getting more and more convinced of the menacing west. he was a full-blown kgb person who thought that its either us or them. and basically, it better be them. [tim naftali] yuri andropov concludes that the superpowers are on the verge of a nuclear war. and so he begins a process of collecting information that would be indicators of the app...

Putin spoke was not a particularly enthusiastic audience. i mean, they were people in military uniforms and they were kind ofjumping up and down every time he would say something important, especially about the menacing west. but i was closely looking at sergei lavrov, the foreign minister, and it seemed like he was in horrible pain most of the time. and every time, he would just do this — kind of hiding his eyes. so i didnt really see the conviction at all, but basically the necessity because...