Putin World News Today

measure. >> thank you, my friend. enjoy your home. >> thanks to you at home for being with us. before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine in the world david remnick was moscow correspondent for "the washington post" and in fact won the pulitzer prize for his landmark 1993 book about the last time russia fell apart at the end of the soviet union. david remnick will be joining us live in a few minutes as we try to make sense of the latest news that burst ...

to make sense of the latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering at long last after 23 years of n increasingly consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. david remnick will be joining us live on that story in a moment. we are also keeping eyes tonight on our own supreme court where in the midst of their own serious and expanding ethics scandals among ...

christian dog ran, nbc news. >> teamwork making the dream work. and on that note, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> its really good to have you here. before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine and the world, david remnick was a moscow correspondent for the washington post. he in fact won the pulitzer prize for his landm...

Putin as your patron it turns out is a very lucky thing. you become extremely wealthy. you become extremely powerful. you enter what is called putin world, this personalist regime that all depends on the great dictator. the problem is one of his enterprises, the wagner group, went to his head because he had some successes or so he thought in ukraine and he felt betrayed by the regular army and started speaking out like crazy on telegram and other means and people started hearing about this in ru...

To have a customer named vladimir putin who became his patron and to have vladimir putin as your patron it turns out is a very lucky thing. you become extremely wealthy. you become extremely powerful. you enter what is called putin world, this personalist regime that all depends on the great dictator. the problem is one of his enterprises, the wagner group, went to his head because he had some successes or so he thought in ukraine and he felt betrayed by the regular army and started speaking out...

Park locals call putin world. its not yet finished. $8.7 billion with at "b" for a rail link project awarded to the state rail company run by putin pal. its a curious mix of grandiosity and bungling. the first time the olympics are being held on the edge of a war zone. pair of creepy toilets thrown in for good measure. in the meantime, preparations continue. >> there was word that russian authorities have hired a pest control firm to exterminate thousands of stray dogs around sochi. >> as local ...

Original estimate. $371 million for an amusement park locals call putin world. its not yet finished. $8.7 billion with at "b" for a rail link project awarded to the state rail company run by a ppu pal. its a curious mix of grandiosity and bungling. the first time the olympics are being held on the edge of a war zone. pair of creepy toilets thrown in for good measure. in the meantime, preparations continue. >> there was word that russian authorities have hired a pest control firm to exterminate t...

Let me declare that 126 session of the international olympic committee open. thank you. >> these are the putin olympics. the games in sochi, russia, designed to showcase a leader in command of his people. putin spent years lobbying to win the games for russia and now the country has spent a record $51 billion making it the most expensive olympics ever. thats 2.5% of russian gdp. in the u.s., that would mean spending $400 billion on the olympics. or as one dutch newspaper illustrates with this gr...

Russia is just getting warmed up. >> translator: i would like to assure you, dear friends, that russia is always open for new sporting ideas, projects and events. and its ready to support and realize all these initiatives for our common olympic family. >> news sporting events? hold up. i know russia is hosting the world cup in 2018 but maybe we should see how this olympics goes first before booking any future events. while most of the ievent venues are ready, many hotel accommodations are still ...

Putin world. is it meant to be sochis version of disney world? we have our own chris jansing explaining. that is up next. and youre talking to your rheumatologist about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira, adalimumab. this is humira working to help relieve my pain. this is humira helping me through the twists and turns. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have been prescribing humira for over ten years. humira works by targeting and helping to block a...