Hunted, Channel 4 10pm.

Putin’s Russia welcomes athletes and spectators to the Sochi Winter Olympics. According to news reports they haven’t enough snow and have to use machines to create the necessary runways and conditions for it to go ahead, making it the most expensive Olympics ever. There will be no protests in Putin’s Russia, as there are in Brazil for that great media bauble called the World Cup.  The notion of perestroika and glasnost are from a different century and belong with Aleksandr Solshenitsyn  and One Day in the Life of Ivan Densovitch. One day in the life of a gay man or woman in Russia is no less harrowing. This is state-sanctioned witch burning with cameras. This is bear-baiting. This is Kristallnacht. Putin’s Russia and Uganda are the hearts of darkness.