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

Interviews for Putin and the Presidents were conducted by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Lauren Prestileo. The Transparency Project is produced by Lauren Prestileo.

Design and build for Putin and the Presidents by Dan Nolan and Anthony DeLorenzo with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Video editing by Alex LaGore. Copy editing by Julie Wolf. Additional assistance from Denise Emerson, Priyanka Boghani, Chantelle Lee, Tessa Maguire, Miles Alvord, and Megan McGough.

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