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Podcast: Between the Lines
Episode: Shinzo Abe resignation and Catherine Belton on the Navalny poisoning, Belarus and Putin’s people
Description: Shinzo Abe resignationShinzo Abe is Japan’s most successful post-war political leader. Recently, he resigned for health reasons. So what is his legacy for Japan and the wider region? Plus, Putin’s People: how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West.Journalist Catherine Belton explains how tensions in Belarus and the poisoning of anticorruption campaigner Alexei Navalny fit into Russa’s post-Communist power politics. Â