Russia expert and editor Anna Libak takes a close look at Vladimir Putin and the threat he poses from Moscow. The talk asks how big a threat Russia really is to Europe, how Putin's view of the world has been shaped, and what his plan might be.
Libak explains the background to Russia's annexation of Crimea and the so-called people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, and sets out how the Kremlin sees NATO and EU expansion. The evening also looks at the battle of values between West and East, and asks whether Putin's narrative has become Trump's, and how much pressure liberal democracy is under if the world divides into authoritarian great powers.
Libak is foreign affairs editor at the Danish weekly Weekendavisen, an author, and one of the three hosts of the P1 podcast Damerne først. She has covered Russia for three newspapers and was Berlingske Tidende's correspondent there from 1999 to 2003.
