In this extract from the BBC Select documentary ‘A Russian Spy Story’, we look into Vladimir Putin’s childhood and teenage years. From a ‘schoolyard thug’, to joining the KGB and meeting his wife Lyudmila.
BBC: How Putin became a spy and married Lyudmila
An activist from the pro-Kremlin movement with a placard with a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin reading "We are with him for Russian sovereignty. And you?" distributes leaflets in front of the Leningrad train station in Moscow on March 6, 2020.
