### Clue: Putin regime's inner circle time and time again taking drug – it's a dangerous game (7,8)
### Answer: RUSSIAN ROULETTE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: a dangerous game
 RUSSIAN RULE(as Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia might be called) **containing**(…'s inner;contraction of "… has inner") O(the letter signifying a circle) + **2x**(… and … again) T(abbrev. for "time") **plus**(taking) E(abbrev. for the drug, Ecstasy).