In an on-camera interview, the Russian president, who reappeared in public Monday following a still unexplained 10-day disappearance, accused the Americans of being the “real puppet masters” behind nationalist forces that overthrew Ukraine’s former president and ushered in that country’s current pro-Western government.
The only victims of alleged mistreatment or brutality granted airtime were pro-Moscow inhabitants of the peninsula or members of Ukraine’s Berkut riot police who escaped to Crimea after the collapse of Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency.
If the recent history of the Black Sea peninsula was the documentary’s nominal topic, its real star was the Russian leader, interviewed on an undisclosed …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
