I have started to look at documentaries about Putin after the issues started with Ukraine. They are being shown now but were first broadcast a while ago.
BBC4 is half way through a repeat of four on Putin and the West. From 2012 with only a note at the end to update. All four are on iPlayer. PBS has put even the recent one on YouTube - Putin Road to War . Some of this is in the earlier ones - Putin's Revenge parts 1 and 2. these have more length and explain how Putin came to see USA as interfering in elections in Georgia and Ukraine. The "revenge" was the interference against Hilary Clinton in 2016. There is not much about Brexit but there is some time for interference in EU area.
BBC has also done two parts on Thatcher and Reagan with Charles Moore. This has almost nothing on EU though thatcher was very involved in EU meetings. The 2012 docs have several clips from other EU leaders and was made with some EU support. My guess is that the BBC would find it hard to do an update to the same standard now.
So far proper TV has not explored Russia and Brexit. There is content on YouTube that raises the issues. Eventually there may be an edit of what is available into an hour or several. BBC is on iPlayer in UK. YouTube allows a wider range of media based outside the UK.
( This is not drama or fiction but I seem to alternate with reality helped by ways to think about television )
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