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World Service,04 Mar 2014,55 mins

What is driving Putin in the Ukraine crisis?

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The Russian president has hosted a press conference in which he said there was not yet a need to send Russian troops to Ukraine, but that he reserved the right to use "all means" to protect citizens in the east of the country. But what is governing what he is doing? How much support does he have from Russians? What is his mentality? Does his KGB past influence him?

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