Check out Maragret Warner's reports from Russia at PBS Newshour.  We watched some of these in class.

Check out Fareed's Take at GPS:  How Oil is Propping Up Putin

If you missed the video in class, watch Fareed's Take on "The People vs. Putin" at his Dec. 18th, 2011, blog at CNN's GPS:  Global Public Square. 

  

Then read THE PEOPLE VS. PUTIN in TIME.