Vladimir V. Putin is great for television. And that’s not just because the Russian president is a former K.G.B. officer with a flair for grandiosity. Mr. Putin isn’t just a scuba-diving, Siberian-bear-hunting, bare-chested equestrian. He also acts like a Soviet-era potentate, repressing dissidents, jailing rivals and casting the United States as a contemptible enemy.
New York Times: The Cold War brews anew in prime time
Darius Petkevicius in the ABC mini-series \"The Assets,\" about selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
