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Global Power Shifts

Decoding the Kremlin: Putin, Power, and the Battle for Global Influence

Journalists Suzanne Kianpour and Jim Stenman sit down with Christopher Steele, the former head of MI6’s Russia desk.

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Aug 12, 2025
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What does Vladimir Putin really want — for Russia, for himself, and for the post-Soviet world?

In this episode of Global Power Shifts, Suzanne Kianpour and Jim Stenman sit down with Christopher Steele, the former head of MI6’s Russia desk and the man behind the now-infamous Steele Dossier, to decode the Russian president’s strategy — from U…

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