BBC criticised over ‘pro-Putin’ documentary

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BBC criticised over ‘pro-Putin’ documentary

Russian dissidents and exiles claim BBC2 series, Putin, Russia and the West, is ‘utter apology for Putin and his regime’A landmark BBC documentary chronicling the difficult and often stormy relationship since 2000 between Vladimir Putin’s resurgent Russia and the west has provoked a furious backlash from Russian exiles in Britain, who have accused the programme-makers of bias towards the Russian leader. The four-part BBC2 series, Putin, Russia and the West, which concludes next week, has already attracted condemnation from dissidents who say it displays an unacceptable “pro-Putin bias”, as well as a “lack of understanding of Russia’s recent history”.