Political Pulse Of Russia’s Heartland

About a thousand miles east of Moscow in a land far far away, is Russia’s industrial heartland, a traditonal support base for Vladimir Putin. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg just returned from a visit there and he talks to Marco Werman about the view from the heartland.

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