A quarter century on: Russians enjoy 'stability', unfazed by sanctions, support for Putin 'tacit'
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As the Kremlin hails President Vladimir Putin's election win as "exceptional" following the former KGB agent's mindbending win of over 87 percent of the vote in a three-day ballot blasted as illegitimate by Western powers, FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih is joined by Dr Alexander Titov, Lecturer in Modern European History in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast. From there, our international anchor's fellow news reporter Julia Sieger offers us in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the "sovereign Russian Internet" as the Kremlin seeks to "disconnect" Russia completely from the World Wide Web.