Although "Homeland" has mostly featured fictitious story lines, the premium cable network Showtime series will now start taking on real-life events that take place on the global stage.

According to Deadline, the current events, which will be featured in the show, are Russia's Vladimir Putin, ISIS, Charlie Hebdo and other extremist activities on the cyber and religious front.

Showtime president David Nevins spoke to the press at a TCA event about this show and others on the premium cable network. According to him, the first episode of "Homeland" Season 5, currently in production in Germany, will open up on the topic of Putin.

"The first episode's going to deal with Russia -- what's Putin up to? What's going on with this tricky relationship there?" Nevins said. "It deals with ISIS. Charlie Hebdo. (Edward) Snowden, cyber terrorism, surveillance. These are interesting elements to the season, which brings a lot of things together."

The Putin story line will be about the events that have unfolded over the past year in Ukraine, which includes the annexation of Crimea and the crisis at the Ukrainian border. These have increased tensions between Russia and the West.

They take on the issues in the show, but those issues also play second to the story line that unfolds, which includes the character of Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) in her self-imposed exile in Germany.

Season 5 features Mathison working in private security, two years after the events of Season 4. She has become completely estranged from the U.S. government and any of their intelligence agencies, which includes her own CIA.

Nevins was quick to note her presence in Berlin speaks to the history of the region, and it "is a crossroads between the old eastern block and the western block, a crossroads between Western Europe and the Muslim world. It's also a place with the strictest privacy laws in the world."