Professor Andrei Zorin on whether Catherine the Great’s imperial mind set lives on under the Russia of President Putin. Photo: President Vladimir Putin (AFP/Getty Images)
The $3.7bn (£2.7bn) bridge links southern Russia with the territory it annexed in 2014.
Russia's Vladimir Putin walks down long Kremlin corridors to get to his swearing-in ceremony.
Police seize the opposition leader at a rally against the Russian president's inauguration.
Gabriel Gatehouse takes a look into Russia's power structure and how much control President Putin really has over the factions that surround him. (Image: President Putin, credit: EPA)
Putin confidant and former president of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin says the world is standing "on the border of a real hot war".