About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin

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The West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor. Read more

Society & Culture History

Episodes

Chapter 5: All the World’s a Dvor

10/25/2023 00:45:22Chapter 4: The Big Brother

10/18/2023 00:36:02Chapter 3: The Punk

10/11/2023 00:33:46Chapter 2: The Rat

10/04/2023 00:26:37Chapter 1: The Ghosts

10/04/2023 00:30:41 Show all episodes

Our take on About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin podcast

Hosted by Julia Ioffe, a Russia-born U.S. journalist with bylines in top publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker, About a Boy decodes Vladimir Putin. Forget the stereotypes of Putin as just a KGB guy or judo champ. Ioffe takes you to the 'dvor,' a communal yard where Putin learned life's hard rules. Each episode is a revealing half-hour that could even reshape how you see the Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin is a history podcast by Audacy | Puck.