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Like during the trump administration. >> reporter: when the soviet union collapsed, the world thought russia would be a different place, and for a decade under president yeltsin it was. >> they had free press, they had democracy and they had a civil society. the problem is they didn't have any laws and they didn't have any rules. >> reporter: bill browna, an investment banker was there in russia making millions amidst the chaos but then putin came to power. a few years later he clashed with browna. >> i pointed out that putin and the people around him have stolen an enormous amount of money fr...

From russia for the past decade. >> at this point many people consider me to be putin's number one foreign enemy and as such my life is at risk. >> reporter: he has right to be worried. putin's critics get silenced. >> they're either directly ordered or indirectly encouraged. >> reporter: sir andrew wood was the ambassador to russia at the same time browna was there. >> when putin came to power his main theme was russia should be a great power. he chose not economic reform and political progress but a relapse into what amounts to sort of a form of a narcissistic area. >> reporter: in foreign p...