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 Pillars of State How do monolithic state structures such as the Russian military, the FSB and the Kremlin sit alongside monolithic economic giants such as Gazprom and Lukoil?
To what extent is the Russian Government manipulating the increasingly influential Russian Orthodox Church to bolster its power base and ensure loyalty?  Listen to part one of After the KGB
Download part one of After the KGB and read more about the programme After years of Communist suppression, religion is flourishing in Russia once again, and the biggest beneficiary of the change is the Russian Orthodox Church. Reporting Religion examines the symbiotic relationship between President Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church. How are other religions in Russia - Judaism and Islam - faring in Putin's Russia? Listen to this special edition of Reporting Religion
In the last few months Russian strategic nuclear bombers have been repeatedly intercepted off the coast of Scotland. Nothing has been seen like this since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Moscow correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes gains access inside Russia's main strategic bomber base at Engels on the Volga river. Listen to Rupert Wingfield-Hayes on the Russian military
When Russia's KGB was reorganised and rebranded as the FSB in the early 1990s. Many hoped the country's secret police would undergo real reform. Martin Sixsmith examines the fastest growing and arguably most politically influential secret service in the world. Listen to Martin Sixsmith's report on the FSB
If you if you look around Moscow there are glorious churches, proclaiming the Orthodox faith and they are nearly all either restored or in the process of being so... Listen to a report on the state of the Russian Orthodox church
For those who lived during the Cold War there is one voice, one presence on TV, one spokesman for the Kremlin across the decades who sought to explain the Soviet system to the world. Vladimir Posner is now a modern-day broadcaster, but back then... Listen to Vladimir Posner
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