Dateline: Mar 20

On Tuesday Dateline explores Russia’s ‘Fake’ Election and the former TV star challenging Putin for president.

Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse travels to Russia for Dateline to unravel a tale of family loyalties, a death in suspicious circumstances, and double dealings in the quest for power.

Ksenia Sobchak is young, wealthy and famous. Her father helped bring down the Soviet Union. Now she’s challenging ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency. A perfect pedigree? Perhaps. But some say she’s a fake candidate, running a no-hope race to boost the Kremlin’s democratic credentials.

9:30pm Tuesday on SBS.