The FRONTLINE Interviews:
Putin and the Presidents
Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.
To produce Putin and the Presidents, the FRONTLINE team interviewed current and former U.S. government officials and policy experts, as well as American and Russian journalists who have covered U.S.-Russia relations for decades. These interviews can be explored below in video and text. The collection is part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, which makes our source material available to the public.
Interviews
Yevgenia Albats
Russian Journalist
Video
Yamiche Alcindor
PBS NewsHour
Text
John Beyrle
U.S. ambassador to Russia, 2008-12
Video
Antony Blinken
U.S. Secretary of State
Video
John Bolton
Fmr. National Security Adviser
Video
John Brennan
CIA Director, 2013-17
Video
William Burns
U.S. ambassador to Russia, 2005-08
Video
James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence, 2010-17
Video
Daniel Fried
National Security Council, 2001-05
Video
Masha Gessen
Author, "The Man Without a Face"
Video
Thomas Graham
National Security Council, 2002-07
Text
Gennady Gudkov
Opposition politician
Text
Stephen Hadley
National Security Adviser, 2005-09
Text
Julia Ioffe
Washington Correspondent, Puck
Video
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Opposition politician
Video
Steven Pifer
U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, 1998-2000
Text
Eugene Robinson
Columnist, The Washington Post
Video
Timothy Snyder
Author, The Road to Unfreedom
Video
Jake Sullivan
Chief policy adviser, Clinton campaign
Video
Strobe Talbott
Deputy Secretary of State, 1994-2001
Video
William Taylor
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Video
Marie Yovanovitch
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Video
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