BBC Extreme Russia 2
Russia is the largest country on earth and home to nearly 150 million people. Vladimir Putin is well into his third term as president and with the West imposing tough sanctions, relations are now the frostiest since the Cold War. Reggie Yates gets up close and personal with three very different communities in contemporary Russia. By living with them for a week, he explores what it s like for young people living here, 24 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the first of three programmes revealing the extreme side of Russia, Reggie travels to Moscow to meet some of the country s most dangerous people the nationalists. With Putin flexing his muscles and squaring up to the West, Reggie arrives in the Russian capital only days before a march in which thousands of ultranationalists take to the streets in a show of strength and unity. Reggie immerses himself into a world where patriotism and loving your country is becoming the norm, one with very dangerous consequences. He trains with knifewielding fa
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