In a speech made to a enterprise discussion board in St Petersburg, President Vladimir Putin denied Russia is remoted from the remainder of the world.

But as overseas corporations withdraw and lots of Russian journalists flee the nation, it is getting tougher to seek out out what is going on on inside one of many world's strongest nations.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky's Moscow correspondent, Diana Magnay, to debate how Russia has modified within the decade since she first started reporting there, and what it is wish to work as a journalist inside an more and more remoted authoritarian state.

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Podcast producer: Rosie GillottEditor: Paul Stanworth