Shortly after becoming President of Russia and faced with the loss of the Kursk submarine, Vladimir Putin learned how the media had the power to hurt him and vowed it wouldn’t happen again.
A Russian flagship sinks and Vladimir Putin stays silent. Evidence of atrocities in Ukraine mount while Putin sets his sights on the east and south. In Moscow, fears that the war will leave Russia's "economy crippled, its security compromised, and its global influence gutted" grow, a report says.