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- ♪ I found my thrill ♪

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- This clip
from 2010 has gone viral.

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- Oh, my God, his face.

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- ♪ On Blueberry Hill ♪

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narrator: As Putin woos
a star-studded crowd

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in St. Petersburg,
the West seems oblivious

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to the true nature
of this soulless dictator

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who will go on to sacrifice

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hundreds of thousands
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What were we thinking?

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What was he thinking?

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- It was all about
how your ego is feeling.

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And that just gets in the way.
It blinds everything.

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- As a psychopath, Putin's
illness leads him

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to lack any normal
human emotion.

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- He was always rejected.
Okay.

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If they don't want me,
then I will do it my own way.

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narrator: To understand what
drives the most dangerous man

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on the planet, we're looking
into Putin's mindset

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with a different lens.

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- He was always a shadow.
He is a shadow man.

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And suddenly, you became
a leader of this country.

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narrator: We will hear
from the women

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closest to the fabulously
wealthy men

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who were in Putin's
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the oligarchs.

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- They were all obsessed with
the yachts, with private jets.

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- It was not about quality.

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It was all about price.

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- And they'd go,
oh, you're from Russia.

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Putin. Yay!

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And you'd go, what
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narrator: It's a story
about the men

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who put Putin in power,
the ones who stood up to him

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and paid the ultimate price.

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These are women
who dare to speak out.

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- I know I will not be going
back home anytime soon.

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narrator: They saw through
it all from the inside.

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- That type of character,

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they can absolutely lash out
when they feel cornered.

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- I think he became
really crazy.

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It did not happen just now.

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He just destroyed Russia.

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- He has a mission.
This is clear.

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- A person who is
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care about what happens next.

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narrator:
London, England--

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home to more oligarchs
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than anywhere
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- So we're in
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which is sometimes wittily
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And Londongrad
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because this is where
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flocking to
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narrator: English-born
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descended from Russia's most
famous writer Leo Tolstoy,

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has lived
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as the partner of one
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- We're now
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which is the most beautiful
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Regent's Park.

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Andrey Goncharenko
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the most expensive property,
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It's funny, Russians--
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very specific areas
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Regent's Park, Highgate.

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that they
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You know, it's very much
about prestige.

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narrator: Alexandra first
met Russian oligarch

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Sergei Pugachev in 2006.

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"Forbes" magazine
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to be over $2 billion.

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- The oligarch lifestyle,
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you probably expect it to be.

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It's private jets.

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It's Rolls Royces,
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which is this very sort
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by this amazing decorator,
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jet skis and stuff like that.

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it's the South of France,
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it's St. Barts.

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They're obsessed
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We stayed
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which is
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So Sergei always traveled
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behind us following us.

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narrator: A hotel room
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The couple went shopping
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in a realtor's office.

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he'd chosen the biggest house
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I think it was 35 million euros
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narrator: Alexandra quickly
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had the ear of the
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Vladimir Putin.

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- They spent hours talking
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as a particular confidant.

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narrator: Her relationship
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has given her
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into the ultra-elite world of
the oligarchs who made Putin.

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- Sergei was like
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I mean, he had had far too
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not of a country,
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because it was a
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to control other people.

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narrator:
Today, Alexandra is bravely

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speaking out about Putin
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But she is not alone.

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Another woman well connected
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of billionaires who have
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and made London home
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One of them is her partner,
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once worth over $1.5 billion.

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most exclusive wine shop
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from the world-famous
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that had nothing.
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And you want everything.

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in London had to flee here

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to save their lives
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he remains
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even serving as his
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with the Ukrainian government.

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a beautiful Chateau
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[seagulls cawing]

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So now we're drawing up
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which was bought in 2003

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into the heart
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by acquiring one of
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prestigious football clubs.

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particularly, as he
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He bought these
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and sit in the box
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and likes to be
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- He had these famous
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I once went out with Demi Moore
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They were coming into a party.

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And the Black Eyed Peas
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and the select group
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who were responsible
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make their fortunes
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The oligarchs, like everyone
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struggled to get by.

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Tatiana Fokina remembers.

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- I was born
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So the union collapsed
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virtually having no food,

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and queues for food
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and, you know,
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for weeks and weeks and weeks
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at the expense
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President Mikhail Gorbachev
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that an arms race
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was not winnable.

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- Mr. Gorbachev,
open this gate.

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[cheers and applause]

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Mr. Gorbachev,
tear down this wall.

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[cheers and applause]

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narrator:
Suddenly, in November 1989,

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the Berlin Wall fell.

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And from Moscow
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a new era would begin.

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Vladimir Putin
was a 37-year-old officer

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in the Soviet spy agency
the KGB,

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based in Dresden,
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when the Soviet Union
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A phone call from
an old friend brought him back

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to his hometown of Leningrad,
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St. Petersburg,
was then restored.

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For him,
free market capitalism

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had meant a loss of status.

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But his fortunes were about
to change dramatically.

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Ksenia Sobchak
was just a child

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when her father,
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became the first elected mayor
of St. Petersburg in 1991.

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- He was one of the main
democrats of a new Russia.

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He worked shoulder to shoulder
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So in the years when my father
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I was around 11 years old.

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narrator: Ksenia observed
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from an early age.

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She recalls how he threw
an old friend a lifeline.

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- Putin was a guy
whom he met in university.

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And he did some work for him,

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and he liked the way
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He always said
about Putin as being

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very efficient
and very responsible

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for what he was doing.

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narrator: As deputy mayor,

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Putin quickly impressed
his mentor,

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easing a citywide food crisis

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by trading Russian minerals
overseas to countries

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that sent back potatoes.

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- I understand why my father
respected him so much.

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Being in the limelight,
doing political,

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you know, work, being a mayor,
which is a quite public thing.

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You always have this guy who
doesn't want any light on him,

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but he was ready to work hard.

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I would never
believe if someone

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would say this guy
would be ruling Russia

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for more than 20 years.

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I would never ever believe.

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narrator: Some city officials
suspected Putin

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was also selling food
on the black market

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and pocketing the money,

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exploiting a new era
of entrepreneurship.

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- The '90s years in Russia

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were the only years
when there was real freedom

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and a lot of possibilities.

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- There was a time
of unique opportunities

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that presented themselves
when the Union collapsed.

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And, you know,
things were for grabs.

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And did everyone
have the courage, the skill,

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the intelligence,
you know, the social skills

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to make profit of it?

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No, because in Soviet times,

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you know,
there was no business.

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You didn't have
that business initiative.

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partner, Evgeny Chichvarkin,

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was a natural entrepreneur.

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- First steps in business,

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I just rent one square meter,
put newspaper,

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and bring everything
what I have at home--

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my old clothes and some food,
chocolate, cognac.

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I sell more than half of that.

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I asked my father
to give me $5,000--

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that probably
everything that he had.

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And he trust me,
and he gave me,

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and I return it
in 23 days back.

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There was great time.

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narrator: Alexandra's partner,
Sergei Pugachev,

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also seized every opportunity
he could find.

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- I think in the '90s,

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it was a bit like
sort of cowboy world.

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They were just taking
insane, very dangerous risks.

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But obviously,
they did pay off.

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And it was all about
bluffing, really,

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and you had to convince people.

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And people wanted to be--

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feel they were
with the powerful--

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but, you know, it's a bit
like in the jungle where

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you want to be with the lion.

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You don't want
to be with the lizard.

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Which was almost
a badge of honor

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because it was--
you were enterprising.

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He said he had
a jeans line where

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he was making fake Levis,

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and then he had
one of these car factories.

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He went and bought
slightly damaged parts

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and then would
assemble them on a line

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and sell the cars for cheaper.

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He then set up a bank.

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And his was the biggest
private bank,

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I think, at the time.

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[people shouting]

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narrator:
Without the iron fist

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of the Soviet police state,

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the early 1990s were a time
of lawlessness and anarchy.

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Boris Yeltsin grappled
with widespread unemployment,

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faltering state industries,
and food shortages.

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As his popularity waned,

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Yeltsin's solution
was to transfer

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massive state-owned industries
like banking and gas

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into the hands
of select businessmen,

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who would then
loan the government

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the funds it needed
to keep running.

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At that time, American-born
financier Bill Browder

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was investing heavily
in Russia.

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- I started investing in 1993

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at the beginning of the
Russian privatization program.

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At the time,
during the Yeltsin era,

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the oligarchs
were people who were

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not just immensely wealthy
but immensely powerful.

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In order to get
reelected in 1996,

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he allowed 22 oligarchs
to steal 40% of the country.

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The government borrowed money
from the oligarchs,

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and the oligarchs
asked for collateral.

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And so the government
then handed over

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all the crown jewels,

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and then the government
conveniently defaulted

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at the end of the loans.

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And these oligarchs then
became immensely wealthier

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through owning the most prized
crown jewels of the country.

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[suspenseful music]

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narrator: Overnight,
millionaires

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became billionaires, and a new
political class was born--

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the oligarchs.

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- And in return,
they used their resources,

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their media,
and everything else

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to make sure that
he was president.

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But in doing so,
he also gave up

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a huge amount of power
and sovereignty

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to these 22 oligarchs.

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- The oligarchs
in the original

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and the true sense of words,
they were not just

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super rich, you know.

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They were not businessmen
who made

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good business decision
or, like, a dodgy deal

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here and there.

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They had political power.

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And this is a crucial key
element to being an oligarch.

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narrator: Yeltsin put
his political prospects

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in the hands
of Sergei Pugachev,

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Alexandra's future partner.

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- In 1996, he ran
Yeltsin's election campaign.

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And he brought in these
American campaign managers,

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which was quite controversial.

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And it was the first time
where they sort of worked

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on someone's public image.

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And it did work.

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[upbeat folk music playing]

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♪ ♪

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[cheers and applause]

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narrator: After their
man won, many oligarchs

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took office as senators.

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- The money that
they continued to steal

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led to a terrible
social crisis in Russia

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where they were rich,

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and everybody else
was destitute.

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Nurses became prostitutes.

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Professors became taxi drivers.

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And art museums sold
the paintings off the walls

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in order to survive.

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It was a terrible time.

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[apprehensive music]

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narrator: The all-powerful
oligarchs were now

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like mafia bosses
working with criminals,

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ignoring a legal system
that had evolved little

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since Soviet times,

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and turning Russia
into fiefdoms

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of organized crime.

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Whilst Yeltsin
turned a blind eye,

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Russia's security service,
the FSB,

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take matters
into their own hands.

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One up-and-coming intelligence
officer at the FSB,

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formerly the KGB,
targeting criminal gangs,

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is Alexander Litvinenko.

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His family and friends
called him Sasha.

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He's tasked with leading
a secret intelligence unit,

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one of whose missions
is to keep oligarchs in line

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who'd become too independent,
too powerful.

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- These people who had money
became politician.

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And they tried
to get this at top level

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and be elected
to Russian parliament.

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narrator: Sasha soon discovers
the FSB itself

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is involved in this
web of crime.

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- He realized
organized crime now

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very linked
to security service,

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to politician,
and to big money.

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And this is--his was
the first concerning

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something is going wrong.

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They received more and more
order what doesn't look legal.

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What does it mean?
They need to kidnap people.

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They need to even maybe kill.

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narrator: The man at the
top of Sasha's hit list

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is Boris Berezovsky,
a media baron

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and owner of Russia's
biggest TV channel.

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As Russia's
most influential oligarch,

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Berezovsky
is an obvious target.

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He's already
survived one attempt

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on his life two years earlier.

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narrator: Berezovsky's driver
had been decapitated.

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♪ ♪

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narrator: Instead of
carrying out the order

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to assassinate Berezovsky,

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Sasha decides
to warn the oligarch.

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- Sasha came
to Boris Berezovsky to say,

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"I was asked to kill you."

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♪ ♪

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narrator:
Boris Berezovsky assumes

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the order came from Yeltsin.

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He tells Sasha to inform
the newly-appointed

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head of the FSB,
Vladimir Putin,

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a man Berezovsky trusts
and recommended for the job,

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that his agents are being used
for political assassinations.

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- Boris Berezovsky
believed

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they have a good friendship
with Putin.

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But that was not true.

444
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And when my husband Sasha
met Vladimir Putin,

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Putin didn't say nothing.

446
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I think Sasha
was not really impressed

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of Vladimir Putin as a person.

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narrator: Sasha's next step
is extraordinary.

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With other FSB whistleblowers,
he holds a press conference.

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It's broadcast by
Berezovsky's own network.

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Sasha reveals not only
the plot to assassinate

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Boris Berezovsky
but also shocking corruption

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inside the FSB.

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- I was really nervous

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when Sasha said
they're going publicly

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for this press conference.

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I said, why you need to be
so public in saying this?

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But he said, don't worry.

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He felt Boris Berezovsky
has a lot of power.

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And he felt his support
and a lot of support

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from other business in Russia.

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Other guys were
wearing glasses,

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and one was in a balaclava.

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narrator: Sasha chooses
not to cover his face.

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- [speaking Russian]

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- I was really shocked.

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And I asked him,
what is next after this?

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He said,
"Mm, I might be arrested,

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or I might be killed."

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[gunshots]

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narrator: Immediately fired
from the FSB by Putin himself,

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Sasha is arrested
on trumped-up charges

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of beating up a suspect.

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He spends
nine months in prison.

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[sirens blaring]

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[upbeat marching band music
playing]

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By 1999,
Yeltsin is deeply unpopular,

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and his behavior
becoming erratic.

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In ill health and fearful
of being prosecuted

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for corruption,
his days in the presidency

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are numbered.

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Sergei Pugachev is one
one of the oligarchs

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plotting to find
Yeltsin's replacement.

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He has someone
in mind that he thinks

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would be perfect
for the job,

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someone who would be
deferential.

487
00:24:57,060 --> 00:25:00,107
- Sergei definitely always got
to be number one in the room.

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So he would never ever
have chosen

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someone who he thought could
ever vaguely compete with him.

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They thought they had
this very malleable pawn

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who would fulfill
all these instructions.

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narrator:
Boris Berezovsky recalls

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how he supported Putin when
he first became president.

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- Definitely I support Putin.
I support Putin.

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And I trust that Putin
took this position

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as a successor of Yeltsin.

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Yes, as a successor.

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What it means, that he's
supposed to continue reform.

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- I would in this respect
agree with Berezovsky

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that in this way,
he has honesty

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and decency to has his clear
way of how things should be.

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And no one can take him out
of this road he chooses.

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narrator: At first,
Putin acts just like

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00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:57,860
the drab bureaucrat
the oligarchs expected.

505
00:25:57,947 --> 00:25:59,949
[apprehensive music]

506
00:26:00,036 --> 00:26:02,865
- After the Yeltsin era,
I and everybody else

507
00:26:02,952 --> 00:26:05,999
was just desperate
for somebody normal.

508
00:26:06,086 --> 00:26:07,740
And here comes along this guy.

509
00:26:07,827 --> 00:26:12,701
He's got this blank face,
not charismatic at all.

510
00:26:12,788 --> 00:26:15,922
But he spoke English,
didn't drink.

511
00:26:16,009 --> 00:26:20,361
And so I sort of placed him
in the category

512
00:26:20,448 --> 00:26:24,887
of boring functionary,
but it's what Russia needed.

513
00:26:24,974 --> 00:26:30,676
And I had no idea the evil
that lurked just underneath.

514
00:26:30,763 --> 00:26:32,547
narrator:
Sergei told Alexandra

515
00:26:32,634 --> 00:26:37,508
how Putin reacted to the
opulent halls of the Kremlin.

516
00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:39,162
- Putin grew up
in a communal flat,

517
00:26:39,249 --> 00:26:41,730
which is really
the most humble way

518
00:26:41,817 --> 00:26:43,776
you could possibly grow up.
It's a shared kitchen.

519
00:26:43,863 --> 00:26:45,429
It's a shared bathroom
with other families.

520
00:26:45,516 --> 00:26:51,044
To have then gone to be living
in this sort of semi-palace,

521
00:26:51,131 --> 00:26:53,350
apparently he was just like
a child in a sweet shop.

522
00:26:53,437 --> 00:26:57,485
He was just so excited and
couldn't even really hide it.

523
00:26:59,835 --> 00:27:02,229
narrator: The oligarchs were
confident they'd found the man

524
00:27:02,316 --> 00:27:05,362
to do their bidding
and sold their pick

525
00:27:05,449 --> 00:27:08,627
to the ailing
alcoholic president.

526
00:27:08,714 --> 00:27:12,935
On December 31, 1999,
Yeltsin resigns.

527
00:27:13,022 --> 00:27:14,850
- [speaking Russian]

528
00:27:14,937 --> 00:27:16,765
- In a nationwide
television address,

529
00:27:16,852 --> 00:27:19,159
the ailing 68-year-old
Yeltsin said

530
00:27:19,246 --> 00:27:21,378
his life's work is finished.

531
00:27:21,465 --> 00:27:25,382
"Russia will never return to
its Communist past," he said.

532
00:27:25,469 --> 00:27:28,734
Yeltsin then handed power
and Russia's nuclear suitcase

533
00:27:28,821 --> 00:27:32,215
to his prime minister,
Vladimir Putin.

534
00:27:32,302 --> 00:27:35,697
Putin, a 47-year-old
former KGB spy,

535
00:27:35,784 --> 00:27:38,395
will be Russia's acting
president until elections

536
00:27:38,482 --> 00:27:40,833
are held in three months.

537
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,098
[lively fanfare]

538
00:27:45,185 --> 00:27:47,970
narrator: President Putin's
first official move

539
00:27:48,057 --> 00:27:51,104
is to grant Yeltsin immunity
from prosecution

540
00:27:51,191 --> 00:27:54,324
on corruption charges.

541
00:27:54,411 --> 00:27:56,936
- In 2000, when Putin
became president,

542
00:27:57,023 --> 00:28:02,289
he looked young, promising,
healthy, and so on.

543
00:28:02,376 --> 00:28:05,248
[tense music]

544
00:28:05,335 --> 00:28:06,946
♪ ♪

545
00:28:07,033 --> 00:28:09,949
- Here is a young,
effective president

546
00:28:10,036 --> 00:28:14,040
with good health,
very open to the world,

547
00:28:14,127 --> 00:28:16,782
very open
to America and Europe.

548
00:28:16,869 --> 00:28:18,348
- The vast majority of people--

549
00:28:18,435 --> 00:28:20,176
and this is--
this completely makes sense.

550
00:28:20,263 --> 00:28:22,004
He was a breath
of fresh air because

551
00:28:22,091 --> 00:28:23,745
he spoke foreign languages,
he was young,

552
00:28:23,832 --> 00:28:25,616
energetic, sporty.

553
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:29,185
As much as we hate him now,
you have to give it to him.

554
00:28:29,272 --> 00:28:32,711
He is very charismatic.

555
00:28:32,798 --> 00:28:36,149
Really, he can be
very charming still even.

556
00:28:36,236 --> 00:28:42,633
♪ ♪

557
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:45,506
narrator: Just four months
into his presidency,

558
00:28:45,593 --> 00:28:48,639
Putin invites Russia's
most powerful oligarchs

559
00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:52,339
to a meeting behind
closed doors at the Kremlin

560
00:28:52,426 --> 00:28:54,080
and offers them a deal.

561
00:28:56,256 --> 00:28:59,041
Do what I say, and you
can keep your wealth.

562
00:28:59,128 --> 00:29:02,958
Stand against me,
and I will take everything.

563
00:29:06,048 --> 00:29:08,485
Tatiana's future partner,
at the time

564
00:29:08,572 --> 00:29:10,705
the youngest
multi-millionaire in Russia,

565
00:29:10,792 --> 00:29:13,664
had been paying
close attention.

566
00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:15,579
- Putin said, that's the rules.

567
00:29:15,666 --> 00:29:18,408
You can do everything, make
as much money as you want.

568
00:29:18,495 --> 00:29:21,542
But don't go to politics.

569
00:29:21,629 --> 00:29:23,413
And everybody said yes.

570
00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:25,024
Yes, sir.

571
00:29:25,111 --> 00:29:28,244
At that time, I thought,

572
00:29:28,331 --> 00:29:31,334
"If I will be
just trading phones,

573
00:29:31,421 --> 00:29:34,424
"and I've been not
involved in politics,

574
00:29:34,511 --> 00:29:36,165
nothing will happen with me."

575
00:29:36,252 --> 00:29:38,254
That was my thought.

576
00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:42,868
narrator: The oligarchs
still believe Putin

577
00:29:42,955 --> 00:29:45,696
is their puppet president.

578
00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:48,830
Yet in public statements,
Putin denounces the oligarchs

579
00:29:48,917 --> 00:29:50,484
for their greed.

580
00:29:52,921 --> 00:29:55,794
- [speaking Russian]

581
00:30:06,935 --> 00:30:10,330
- In Russia,
people hate rich people.

582
00:30:10,417 --> 00:30:15,552
Most of the people
hate oligarchs.

583
00:30:15,639 --> 00:30:18,904
They think all the money
that have oligarchs,

584
00:30:18,991 --> 00:30:24,692
they only come from,
you know, stealing.

585
00:30:24,779 --> 00:30:26,868
narrator:
One oligarch in particular

586
00:30:26,955 --> 00:30:29,262
believes Putin means
what he says about

587
00:30:29,349 --> 00:30:31,177
reducing the oligarchs' power.

588
00:30:48,847 --> 00:30:51,066
narrator: Other oligarchs
believe the president

589
00:30:51,153 --> 00:30:53,764
can be managed,
even though some suspect

590
00:30:53,852 --> 00:30:57,681
he is jealous
of their lifestyle.

591
00:30:57,768 --> 00:31:00,728
- Sergei told me funny stories
like even about--

592
00:31:00,815 --> 00:31:02,991
because he's
quite small, Putin.

593
00:31:03,078 --> 00:31:04,558
He told me once
he was swimming.

594
00:31:04,645 --> 00:31:06,168
Sergei was swimming
in a swimming pool.

595
00:31:06,255 --> 00:31:08,127
And Putin was
standing at the end.

596
00:31:08,214 --> 00:31:11,391
And he said, "Look at you
with your long arms."

597
00:31:11,478 --> 00:31:13,610
I think he probably
felt very frustrated

598
00:31:13,697 --> 00:31:17,484
that the oligarchs were living
these crazy, glamorous lives.

599
00:31:17,571 --> 00:31:19,355
Putin would much prefer
to have been an oligarch

600
00:31:19,442 --> 00:31:22,750
than to have been
the president.

601
00:31:22,837 --> 00:31:25,971
narrator: Another person who
has no illusions about Putin

602
00:31:26,058 --> 00:31:29,626
is FSB whistleblower
Sasha Litvinenko,

603
00:31:29,713 --> 00:31:32,499
released from jail
after nine months.

604
00:31:32,586 --> 00:31:35,850
- He really worried
about us, his family,

605
00:31:35,937 --> 00:31:39,071
when he decide
to escape from Russia.

606
00:31:39,158 --> 00:31:41,595
This was not only because
he would be arrested

607
00:31:41,682 --> 00:31:44,119
again and put to jail.

608
00:31:44,206 --> 00:31:47,340
He knew they might do
something against us.

609
00:31:47,427 --> 00:31:50,952
narrator: Sasha sends Marina
and their young son Anatoly

610
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:53,259
on holiday to Spain.

611
00:31:53,346 --> 00:31:55,609
She doesn't yet realize
her husband

612
00:31:55,696 --> 00:31:59,308
is plotting their escape
from Putin's Russia.

613
00:31:59,395 --> 00:32:02,224
- When I was in Spain
with Anatoly,

614
00:32:02,311 --> 00:32:06,663
Sasha first time started
to talk about

615
00:32:06,750 --> 00:32:10,058
maybe we're not going back
to Russia.

616
00:32:10,145 --> 00:32:14,367
And when he started this,
I was immediately disagree.

617
00:32:14,454 --> 00:32:17,848
I said, no way.
No way I leave my parents.

618
00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:20,068
I leave everything.

619
00:32:20,155 --> 00:32:23,028
narrator:
Reluctantly, Sasha gives in,

620
00:32:23,115 --> 00:32:25,421
saying they will return
to Moscow after the holiday.

621
00:32:25,508 --> 00:32:29,338
But then he gets
a call from Berezovsky.

622
00:32:29,425 --> 00:32:32,820
- Boris Berezovsky
called him and just said,

623
00:32:32,907 --> 00:32:34,909
"Sasha, don't do this.

624
00:32:34,996 --> 00:32:36,693
Your life will be in danger."

625
00:32:39,783 --> 00:32:42,090
narrator:
Instead of flying home,

626
00:32:42,177 --> 00:32:46,094
the Litvinenkos
board a flight to London.

627
00:32:46,181 --> 00:32:48,270
- First of all, I had
not only a suitcase.

628
00:32:48,357 --> 00:32:51,012
I had my husband
and my son with me--

629
00:32:51,099 --> 00:32:54,755
Anatoly, who was
just six years old.

630
00:32:54,842 --> 00:32:56,148
We left everything behind--

631
00:32:56,235 --> 00:33:01,066
our friends,
our families, our job, all.

632
00:33:01,153 --> 00:33:04,808
But we had to do this
for him, for our son,

633
00:33:04,895 --> 00:33:07,594
because he will be
a freedom person.

634
00:33:07,681 --> 00:33:09,552
He will live
in a freedom country.

635
00:33:09,639 --> 00:33:14,035
♪ ♪

636
00:33:14,122 --> 00:33:16,037
narrator: At the start
of his presidency,

637
00:33:16,124 --> 00:33:19,127
the world
had high hopes for Putin

638
00:33:19,214 --> 00:33:22,000
that he might lean in
to democratic rule,

639
00:33:22,087 --> 00:33:25,742
a 21st century man
ready to reform

640
00:33:25,829 --> 00:33:28,136
a corrupt
and inefficient system.

641
00:33:28,223 --> 00:33:30,138
- And I looked
the man in the eye.

642
00:33:30,225 --> 00:33:32,445
I found him to be
very straightforward

643
00:33:32,532 --> 00:33:33,663
and trustworthy.

644
00:33:35,448 --> 00:33:37,450
narrator: But as the
first year of Putin's rule

645
00:33:37,537 --> 00:33:40,322
comes to a close,
Russian journalists

646
00:33:40,409 --> 00:33:43,673
are rocked by a string
of unexplained murders.

647
00:33:46,850 --> 00:33:50,332
Investigative reporters
brutally eliminated,

648
00:33:50,419 --> 00:33:52,639
the suspected killers
with ties

649
00:33:52,726 --> 00:33:55,946
to the security services.

650
00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:59,298
The message was received
loud and clear.

651
00:33:59,385 --> 00:34:02,866
[tense music]

652
00:34:02,953 --> 00:34:05,521
There were limits
to press freedom.

653
00:34:05,608 --> 00:34:08,697
Putin's Russia
was not the West.

654
00:34:10,918 --> 00:34:13,746
In August,
Putin travels to Murmansk

655
00:34:13,833 --> 00:34:15,705
to meet the
grief-stricken families

656
00:34:15,792 --> 00:34:17,620
of sailors who had drowned

657
00:34:17,706 --> 00:34:19,708
when the
submarine "Kursk" sank.

658
00:34:21,797 --> 00:34:25,976
In a six hour conference,
they unleash their anger

659
00:34:26,063 --> 00:34:28,978
on Putin's officials.

660
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,938
- [speaking Russian]

661
00:34:40,774 --> 00:34:44,429
narrator: For weeks,
Boris Berezovsky's ORT network

662
00:34:44,516 --> 00:34:46,518
broadcasts
wall-to-wall coverage

663
00:34:46,606 --> 00:34:49,391
of Putin's public humiliation,

664
00:34:49,478 --> 00:34:51,828
sharply criticizing
the president's handling

665
00:34:51,915 --> 00:34:54,657
of the crisis.

666
00:34:54,744 --> 00:34:58,270
A few months later,
Putin gets his revenge.

667
00:35:00,924 --> 00:35:03,840
Facing charges
of fraud and embezzlement,

668
00:35:03,927 --> 00:35:06,669
Berezovsky is forced
to sell his media empire

669
00:35:06,756 --> 00:35:08,497
and flee to London,

670
00:35:08,584 --> 00:35:11,370
realizing he has no future
in Russia.

671
00:35:12,936 --> 00:35:16,505
[suspenseful music]

672
00:35:16,592 --> 00:35:19,552
At first, the other
oligarchs believed

673
00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:22,250
that if they stay out
of the public eye

674
00:35:22,337 --> 00:35:25,079
and build their fortunes
in dull industries

675
00:35:25,166 --> 00:35:28,430
like banking and oil,
Putin will leave them alone.

676
00:35:32,217 --> 00:35:35,394
But in 2003,
they learn a lesson

677
00:35:35,481 --> 00:35:37,961
that no one would ever forget

678
00:35:38,048 --> 00:35:39,963
when the richest man
in Russia,

679
00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:42,227
Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
challenges Putin

680
00:35:42,314 --> 00:35:44,185
at a Kremlin summit.

681
00:35:46,970 --> 00:35:49,843
- [speaking Russian]

682
00:36:06,599 --> 00:36:09,428
- [speaking Russian]

683
00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:20,003
- I remember the meeting

684
00:36:20,090 --> 00:36:23,746
when Khodorkovsky expressed
his concerns over corruption.

685
00:36:23,833 --> 00:36:27,359
And it sort of
made your blood go cold

686
00:36:27,446 --> 00:36:30,971
just because you knew
it was not going to end well.

687
00:36:31,058 --> 00:36:33,495
There was that famous footage
and how Putin looks.

688
00:36:33,582 --> 00:36:37,151
And then, you know,
shortly after, he got arrested.

689
00:36:37,238 --> 00:36:40,676
And he was an absolute hero

690
00:36:40,763 --> 00:36:43,592
because it took
so much courage

691
00:36:43,679 --> 00:36:45,072
just to say those words.

692
00:36:45,159 --> 00:36:48,162
And, you know,
and he had things to lose.

693
00:36:48,249 --> 00:36:50,773
narrator: Khodorkovsky
breaks the oligarch code

694
00:36:50,860 --> 00:36:53,298
by involving himself
in politics,

695
00:36:53,385 --> 00:36:56,083
for which he is destroyed.

696
00:36:56,170 --> 00:37:01,001
The state seizes much of his
estimated $15 billion fortune

697
00:37:01,088 --> 00:37:05,397
and sentences him to nine
years in prison for fraud.

698
00:37:05,484 --> 00:37:09,314
- Khodorkovsky started
being politically active,

699
00:37:09,401 --> 00:37:12,404
and that was why
he went to prison,

700
00:37:12,491 --> 00:37:17,147
and that when Russia started
to change dramatically.

701
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:18,671
- And at that point,
the other oligarchs

702
00:37:18,758 --> 00:37:20,063
came to Putin and said,
"What do we have to do

703
00:37:20,150 --> 00:37:21,848
so we don't go to jail?"

704
00:37:21,935 --> 00:37:24,198
And Putin said, 50%.

705
00:37:24,285 --> 00:37:25,808
And at that moment,
Putin became

706
00:37:25,895 --> 00:37:29,029
the richest man in the world.

707
00:37:29,116 --> 00:37:30,987
narrator:
While Putin privately demands

708
00:37:31,074 --> 00:37:32,902
half their wealth,

709
00:37:32,989 --> 00:37:36,079
publicly, he continues
to threaten the oligarchs,

710
00:37:36,166 --> 00:37:41,084
knowing ordinary Russians
feel little sympathy for them.

711
00:37:41,171 --> 00:37:44,044
- [speaking Russian]

712
00:38:12,768 --> 00:38:14,248
- Ordinary Russians,
they live

713
00:38:14,335 --> 00:38:16,816
a completely different life,
and we can't imagine.

714
00:38:16,903 --> 00:38:19,079
You know, they have
the toilet outside.

715
00:38:19,166 --> 00:38:23,170
They literally think about
getting food on the table.

716
00:38:23,257 --> 00:38:25,651
This is the level
of their concerns.

717
00:38:25,738 --> 00:38:30,525
So people saw that as, yeah,
they stole all our money.

718
00:38:30,612 --> 00:38:33,049
They got punished,
and that serves them right,

719
00:38:33,136 --> 00:38:35,138
and I'm poor, and they're rich.

720
00:38:35,225 --> 00:38:37,880
I think they saw this as

721
00:38:37,967 --> 00:38:39,926
a demonstration of strength
from Putin.

722
00:38:43,669 --> 00:38:46,106
narrator: Oleg Deripaska
was one oligarch

723
00:38:46,193 --> 00:38:49,675
who prospered in the
first years of Putin's regime,

724
00:38:49,762 --> 00:38:52,634
becoming Russia's richest man.

725
00:39:02,905 --> 00:39:04,864
narrator: Deripaska owns
several sectors

726
00:39:04,951 --> 00:39:09,434
of Russian industry,
employing thousands.

727
00:39:09,521 --> 00:39:12,132
When he tries to close
a cement factory

728
00:39:12,219 --> 00:39:14,308
and fire its workers,
it is an opportunity

729
00:39:14,395 --> 00:39:16,223
for Putin to step in

730
00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:18,878
and posture as a man
of the people.

731
00:39:20,445 --> 00:39:23,273
- [speaking Russian]

732
00:39:38,550 --> 00:39:40,595
narrator:
Deripaska abandons his plans

733
00:39:40,682 --> 00:39:42,467
and keeps the plant running.

734
00:39:59,701 --> 00:40:02,269
[tense music]

735
00:40:02,356 --> 00:40:05,925
♪ ♪

736
00:40:10,712 --> 00:40:13,019
narrator: The oligarchs
now understand

737
00:40:13,106 --> 00:40:16,414
they have underestimated Putin
all along.

738
00:40:16,501 --> 00:40:19,112
Unlike Berezovsky
and Khodorkovsky,

739
00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:23,856
Deripaska had done nothing
to embarrass or upstage Putin.

740
00:40:23,943 --> 00:40:29,252
It is now clear to everyone
money does not equal power.

741
00:40:33,822 --> 00:40:36,782
With his friend and ally
oligarch Boris Berezovsky

742
00:40:36,869 --> 00:40:38,827
already ensconced in London,

743
00:40:38,914 --> 00:40:41,308
the Litvinenko family
now arrives.

744
00:40:43,310 --> 00:40:45,486
They hope Berezovsky
will help them

745
00:40:45,573 --> 00:40:48,141
as they build new lives
in a foreign country.

746
00:40:50,404 --> 00:40:52,841
- Sasha and Boris
Berezovsky been

747
00:40:52,928 --> 00:40:55,583
the most different people
you can imagine.

748
00:40:55,670 --> 00:41:00,109
And many people been surprised
what might be between of them.

749
00:41:00,196 --> 00:41:02,895
But it was really
a friendship.

750
00:41:04,940 --> 00:41:07,377
narrator: But Sasha
cannot stay quiet

751
00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:09,075
when another good friend
of his,

752
00:41:09,162 --> 00:41:11,947
journalist Anna Politkovskaya,

753
00:41:12,034 --> 00:41:16,125
is murdered after criticizing
Putin's war in Chechnya.

754
00:41:16,212 --> 00:41:21,609
♪ ♪

755
00:41:21,696 --> 00:41:25,134
- When Anna was killed
7th of October,

756
00:41:25,221 --> 00:41:29,443
Sasha was devastated
because he felt

757
00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:32,228
it something he didn't prevent.

758
00:41:34,796 --> 00:41:36,494
narrator:
After Anna's murder,

759
00:41:36,581 --> 00:41:39,235
Sasha is invited
to speak to journalists

760
00:41:39,322 --> 00:41:40,715
at a gathering in London.

761
00:41:42,543 --> 00:41:45,503
- [speaking Russian]

762
00:41:51,987 --> 00:41:54,294
narrator: Just days after
he accuses Putin

763
00:41:54,381 --> 00:41:58,385
of Anna's murder,
Sasha falls gravely ill.

764
00:41:58,472 --> 00:42:00,430
- I thought it might be
just some kind

765
00:42:00,518 --> 00:42:03,129
of digestion problem
or anything.

766
00:42:03,216 --> 00:42:07,307
But sickness was so powerful
and so unusual.

767
00:42:07,394 --> 00:42:12,181
And Sasha immediately
suspected something wrong.

768
00:42:12,268 --> 00:42:16,055
His immune system
dropped almost to zero.

769
00:42:16,142 --> 00:42:20,538
And doctors and hospital
didn't know why.

770
00:42:20,625 --> 00:42:22,104
narrator: Sasha told
hospital doctors

771
00:42:22,191 --> 00:42:25,194
he suspected foul play.

772
00:42:25,281 --> 00:42:28,197
- I'm a Russian,
I'm former security service,

773
00:42:28,284 --> 00:42:30,765
and I have
a very powerful enemy.

774
00:42:30,852 --> 00:42:32,332
narrator:
For nearly two weeks,

775
00:42:32,419 --> 00:42:35,422
they try to diagnose
the cause of Sasha's sickness

776
00:42:35,509 --> 00:42:39,295
until finally, a blood test
revealed he'd been poisoned.

777
00:42:39,382 --> 00:42:40,949
- And his blood was checked

778
00:42:41,036 --> 00:42:43,169
for poisoning first time.

779
00:42:43,256 --> 00:42:47,739
And it was a trace of thallium.

780
00:42:47,826 --> 00:42:50,132
narrator: The Litvinenko case
would be a warning

781
00:42:50,219 --> 00:42:52,091
to all Putin's enemies

782
00:42:52,178 --> 00:42:55,007
who thought
they'd be safe in England.

783
00:42:55,094 --> 00:42:58,837
Paying close attention is
the oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

784
00:43:01,317 --> 00:43:05,321
- He asked Boris
to come to see him.

785
00:43:05,408 --> 00:43:11,632
Berezovsky, I saw he was
really, really nervous about.

786
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,896
And Sasha say,
"Boris, you promise

787
00:43:14,983 --> 00:43:17,638
"if something happen to me,

788
00:43:17,725 --> 00:43:20,946
"you will never leave Marina
and my family

789
00:43:21,033 --> 00:43:23,426
without attention."

790
00:43:23,513 --> 00:43:25,080
And, of course,
for Boris, it wasn't

791
00:43:25,167 --> 00:43:27,996
even a question to discuss.

792
00:43:30,259 --> 00:43:34,263
But he had two days
to talk to police.

793
00:43:34,350 --> 00:43:37,615
He gave a lot of evidence,

794
00:43:37,702 --> 00:43:40,574
even if it was very difficult
to talk.

795
00:43:40,661 --> 00:43:43,098
And they told me, we definitely
will do everything

796
00:43:43,185 --> 00:43:45,187
to investigate this case.

797
00:43:47,363 --> 00:43:50,410
- We're sorry to announce that
Alexander Litvinenko died

798
00:43:50,497 --> 00:43:52,542
at University College Hospital

799
00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:55,415
at 9:21 on the 23rd
of November 2006.

800
00:43:55,502 --> 00:43:58,200
And the matter is now
an ongoing investigation

801
00:43:58,287 --> 00:44:00,942
being dealt with by detectives
from New Scotland Yard.

802
00:44:27,055 --> 00:44:30,232
narrator: From his deathbed,
Sasha had helped police solve

803
00:44:30,319 --> 00:44:32,931
his own murder,
pointing the finger

804
00:44:33,018 --> 00:44:36,630
at two Russian associates,
both ex-KGB,

805
00:44:36,717 --> 00:44:39,328
who he said had spiked his
green tea

806
00:44:39,415 --> 00:44:42,592
with radioactive polonium-210,

807
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,900
a claim the
Russian government denies.

808
00:44:45,987 --> 00:44:48,903
- For me, it looks
they didn't expect

809
00:44:48,990 --> 00:44:51,558
polonium would be discovered

810
00:44:51,645 --> 00:44:54,430
because it's
radioactive material.

811
00:44:54,517 --> 00:44:55,867
You can't buy.

812
00:44:55,954 --> 00:44:58,783
You can't just select it.

813
00:44:58,870 --> 00:45:03,004
You can't take it from nowhere,
just from nuclear reactor.

814
00:45:06,486 --> 00:45:11,099
narrator: In 2006, at the time
of Litvinenko's death,

815
00:45:11,186 --> 00:45:14,320
Alexandra Tolstoy
was traveling in Russia

816
00:45:14,407 --> 00:45:16,757
with little knowledge
of Putin's world.

817
00:45:16,844 --> 00:45:20,718
She was a young woman having
an adventure living abroad.

818
00:45:20,805 --> 00:45:22,720
- I was doing
these different jobs,

819
00:45:22,807 --> 00:45:24,504
and I taught English
just occasionally,

820
00:45:24,591 --> 00:45:26,288
and a friend of mine
said to me,

821
00:45:26,375 --> 00:45:29,161
"Oh, my boss wants to have
English conversation lessons."

822
00:45:29,248 --> 00:45:31,119
And I said, yeah, sure.
I'll do that.

823
00:45:31,206 --> 00:45:33,121
But he was so reserved
and silent

824
00:45:33,208 --> 00:45:34,949
and sort of seemed
to be watching me.

825
00:45:35,036 --> 00:45:37,169
I was flailing around like,
what should I--and I said,

826
00:45:37,256 --> 00:45:39,258
should we talk about Putin?

827
00:45:39,345 --> 00:45:41,651
And he said, no politics.
No politics.

828
00:45:41,739 --> 00:45:43,915
And then I went home,
and I Googled him.

829
00:45:44,002 --> 00:45:45,612
And I went--I remember
going bright red.

830
00:45:45,699 --> 00:45:47,309
You know, I thought,
this is awful.

831
00:45:47,396 --> 00:45:50,182
I had no idea,
and he was a senator.

832
00:45:50,269 --> 00:45:54,229
And he was already
nicknamed Putin's banker.

833
00:45:54,316 --> 00:45:56,275
narrator: The next time
Alexandra crossed paths

834
00:45:56,362 --> 00:45:59,452
with Putin's banker
would be two years later

835
00:45:59,539 --> 00:46:02,281
and in very different
circumstances.

836
00:46:02,368 --> 00:46:03,848
- I was working
for something called

837
00:46:03,935 --> 00:46:06,676
the Laureus Sports Awards
in St. Petersburg.

838
00:46:06,764 --> 00:46:09,375
And I was asked to invite
people who would spend

839
00:46:09,462 --> 00:46:12,291
10,000 euros on a ticket.

840
00:46:12,378 --> 00:46:13,814
I suddenly remembered him,

841
00:46:13,901 --> 00:46:16,208
and then when I met him
at the sports awards,

842
00:46:16,295 --> 00:46:18,079
I walked up to him, and I said,
do you remember me?

843
00:46:18,166 --> 00:46:19,820
Hello.

844
00:46:19,907 --> 00:46:22,257
And he looked at me and went,
oh, my goodness.

845
00:46:22,344 --> 00:46:23,258
You've made my evening.

846
00:46:23,345 --> 00:46:25,391
I'm so happy you're here.

847
00:46:25,478 --> 00:46:27,872
I've thought about you
every day since those lessons,

848
00:46:27,959 --> 00:46:29,569
and I was completely staggered
because at the lessons,

849
00:46:29,656 --> 00:46:32,354
he'd looked so serious.

850
00:46:32,441 --> 00:46:34,487
So I sat next to him
at dinner,

851
00:46:34,574 --> 00:46:36,010
and Sergei just clung
to me, I remember,

852
00:46:36,097 --> 00:46:38,230
and I felt--it was
very exciting to feel

853
00:46:38,317 --> 00:46:40,014
that looked after.

854
00:46:40,101 --> 00:46:42,364
And in my life, I'd never
felt like that and protected.

855
00:46:42,451 --> 00:46:45,454
And then Sergei really
pursued me, I suppose.

856
00:46:47,630 --> 00:46:49,850
The event went over two days.
There was a dinner.

857
00:46:49,937 --> 00:46:51,809
And then the next day,
there was this big ceremony

858
00:46:51,896 --> 00:46:53,506
and then the sort of
after party,

859
00:46:53,593 --> 00:46:55,987
and he just was
with me all the time.

860
00:46:58,293 --> 00:47:00,948
narrator: Sergei's friend,
the president of Russia,

861
00:47:01,035 --> 00:47:03,037
is guest of honor.

862
00:47:03,124 --> 00:47:05,083
- Putin gave a little talk
at the ceremony.

863
00:47:05,170 --> 00:47:06,388
I just remember
his body language.

864
00:47:06,475 --> 00:47:08,129
He's quite small.

865
00:47:08,216 --> 00:47:09,696
There's a lot of
sort of strutting,

866
00:47:09,783 --> 00:47:12,438
you know, really trying
to pick himself up.

867
00:47:12,525 --> 00:47:15,310
At the end of the dinner,
suddenly, we all stood up,

868
00:47:15,397 --> 00:47:18,748
and then Putin marched out
with this great phalanx

869
00:47:18,836 --> 00:47:20,838
of bodyguards around him.

870
00:47:20,925 --> 00:47:22,448
And as he did,
I was standing at Sergei,

871
00:47:22,535 --> 00:47:24,406
and I saw Sergei go like that,

872
00:47:24,493 --> 00:47:26,321
and he, like,
caught their eyes,

873
00:47:26,408 --> 00:47:28,149
and he sort of bowed.

874
00:47:28,236 --> 00:47:30,760
It was quite a kind of almost
feudal thing, you know.

875
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:33,720
He sort of bowed
slightly to him.

876
00:47:33,807 --> 00:47:36,288
narrator: Alexandra says
Sergei felt like

877
00:47:36,375 --> 00:47:38,899
his relationship with Putin
was special,

878
00:47:38,986 --> 00:47:41,249
and he was stunned
when the president demanded

879
00:47:41,336 --> 00:47:43,425
a cut of his business.

880
00:47:43,512 --> 00:47:45,036
- He owned a huge property
on Red Square,

881
00:47:45,123 --> 00:47:47,299
which was half the length
of Red Square.

882
00:47:47,386 --> 00:47:49,954
And he was meant to make it
into a very luxurious hotel.

883
00:47:50,041 --> 00:47:52,086
And it was worth--
I don't know--3 billion.

884
00:47:52,173 --> 00:47:54,132
He got some very famous
Belgian architects

885
00:47:54,219 --> 00:47:57,309
who came and made a whole plan
of how to develop it

886
00:47:57,396 --> 00:47:59,746
into a luxury hotel.

887
00:47:59,833 --> 00:48:02,357
And it would've been
the most amazing location.

888
00:48:02,444 --> 00:48:04,751
narrator: But Alexandra
says Putin made Sergei

889
00:48:04,838 --> 00:48:07,319
an offer he couldn't refuse.

890
00:48:07,406 --> 00:48:09,364
- Putin said, look,
it's opposite the Kremlin,

891
00:48:09,451 --> 00:48:11,671
so I have to see what
the plan is for this hotel.

892
00:48:11,758 --> 00:48:14,021
And so Putin came.
He showed him the plan.

893
00:48:14,108 --> 00:48:17,459
And he says that during the
meeting, Putin's face changed,

894
00:48:17,546 --> 00:48:18,504
and suddenly, he realized,
oh, my gosh.

895
00:48:18,591 --> 00:48:20,636
He's so jealous.

896
00:48:20,723 --> 00:48:22,682
Weeks later, these guards
were moved in,

897
00:48:22,769 --> 00:48:24,902
and the property was seized.

898
00:48:24,989 --> 00:48:26,555
And that was the
first time that

899
00:48:26,642 --> 00:48:28,296
he'd had to hand
something over.

900
00:48:28,383 --> 00:48:30,429
And he told Sergei,
you're gonna be compensated,

901
00:48:30,516 --> 00:48:33,040
and he never was compensated.

902
00:48:33,127 --> 00:48:36,130
Sergei told me, "Because
I don't give him money,

903
00:48:36,217 --> 00:48:37,958
I'm being punished."

904
00:48:38,045 --> 00:48:41,657
By this point, Putin had gone
power hungry and crazy, really.

905
00:48:41,744 --> 00:48:43,746
- There's no difference
between Russian organized crime

906
00:48:43,833 --> 00:48:45,487
and the Russian government.

907
00:48:45,574 --> 00:48:47,011
The Russian government
is effectively

908
00:48:47,098 --> 00:48:48,577
an organized crime
organization,

909
00:48:48,664 --> 00:48:51,493
and Vladimir Putin
is the mafia boss.

910
00:48:51,580 --> 00:48:54,627
narrator: In 2009,
Bill Browder discovers

911
00:48:54,714 --> 00:48:57,760
what the oligarchs had
already learned the hard way--

912
00:48:57,847 --> 00:49:00,981
that no matter how sizable
your financial resources,

913
00:49:01,068 --> 00:49:03,549
you can never win
against someone

914
00:49:03,636 --> 00:49:07,248
who has a government agencies
under his control.

915
00:49:07,335 --> 00:49:09,990
- Sergei Magnitsky,
my lawyer, my Russian lawyer,

916
00:49:10,077 --> 00:49:14,038
uncovered a $230 million
government corruption scheme.

917
00:49:14,125 --> 00:49:16,823
And he believed that there
was a rule of law in Russia.

918
00:49:16,910 --> 00:49:18,259
And he believed that
even though there

919
00:49:18,346 --> 00:49:19,826
was corruption in the system
that the law

920
00:49:19,913 --> 00:49:21,567
would eventually prevail.

921
00:49:21,654 --> 00:49:27,181
And he thought that Putin was
a patriot and a nationalist.

922
00:49:27,268 --> 00:49:30,184
And I never believed
any of those things,

923
00:49:30,271 --> 00:49:33,231
and I asked Sergei to leave
after he uncovered

924
00:49:33,318 --> 00:49:37,322
this $230 million scheme,
to come to London at my expense

925
00:49:37,409 --> 00:49:39,454
and stay here
under my protection.

926
00:49:39,541 --> 00:49:42,414
But Sergei was a patriot
and an idealist,

927
00:49:42,501 --> 00:49:44,546
and he stayed in Russia.

928
00:49:44,633 --> 00:49:46,635
And he was
subsequently arrested,

929
00:49:46,722 --> 00:49:47,767
tortured, and killed.

930
00:49:50,639 --> 00:49:52,424
That weighs very heavily
on me,

931
00:49:52,511 --> 00:49:54,992
and I do regret that I didn't
try harder to get him out.

932
00:49:58,343 --> 00:50:00,606
narrator: After refusing
to cut Putin in

933
00:50:00,693 --> 00:50:02,651
on his hotel project,

934
00:50:02,738 --> 00:50:06,307
Alexandra says Sergei Pugachev
falls out of favor.

935
00:50:06,394 --> 00:50:07,917
- At the end of 2010,

936
00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:11,573
we'd gone together
to St. Barts over New Year.

937
00:50:11,660 --> 00:50:15,273
And then I stayed on
with the children.

938
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,101
narrator:
It is when she is online

939
00:50:17,188 --> 00:50:19,016
looking for mentions
about Sergei

940
00:50:19,103 --> 00:50:21,801
that Alexandra
learned some bad news.

941
00:50:21,888 --> 00:50:23,585
- Every day,
I would type in Sergei's name

942
00:50:23,672 --> 00:50:25,457
to see what was going--
you know, what he was doing

943
00:50:25,544 --> 00:50:27,546
or whatever.

944
00:50:27,633 --> 00:50:31,724
And it came up saying
he'd been demoted as a senator.

945
00:50:31,811 --> 00:50:32,942
narrator:
The meaning of his demotion

946
00:50:33,030 --> 00:50:34,988
is immediately clear to her:

947
00:50:35,075 --> 00:50:38,644
Sergei has been expelled
from the inner circle.

948
00:50:38,731 --> 00:50:41,168
- I was terrified
because I knew

949
00:50:41,255 --> 00:50:44,041
that it meant he'd no longer
have diplomatic immunity.

950
00:50:44,128 --> 00:50:45,520
I knew that, you know,

951
00:50:45,607 --> 00:50:47,044
he'd been losing
all these assets.

952
00:50:47,131 --> 00:50:48,480
I didn't care about the money,

953
00:50:48,567 --> 00:50:50,525
but I was so frightened for him

954
00:50:50,612 --> 00:50:53,180
because there have been
so many stories.

955
00:50:53,267 --> 00:50:56,531
I just--he could be arrested.

956
00:50:56,618 --> 00:50:59,360
narrator: Alexandra now fears
for Sergei's life

957
00:50:59,447 --> 00:51:02,624
and what it would mean for her
and their three children.

958
00:51:02,711 --> 00:51:04,583
- I remember calling him.
He didn't answer the phone,

959
00:51:04,670 --> 00:51:05,845
and I was calling and calling.

960
00:51:05,932 --> 00:51:08,500
And then about
a few hours later,

961
00:51:08,587 --> 00:51:10,763
Sergei called me and said,
"Hello, I'm in France."

962
00:51:10,850 --> 00:51:14,114
And I was so relieved because,
you know, he was alive,

963
00:51:14,201 --> 00:51:16,421
and he was--and then he
never went back to Russia.

964
00:51:16,508 --> 00:51:20,338
♪ ♪

965
00:51:20,425 --> 00:51:22,949
narrator: In building
his cell phone empire,

966
00:51:23,036 --> 00:51:25,647
tycoon Evgeny Chichvarkin

967
00:51:25,734 --> 00:51:28,302
was never part
of the inner circle.

968
00:51:28,389 --> 00:51:30,130
In fact, he did
everything he could

969
00:51:30,217 --> 00:51:32,306
to fly under Putin's radar.

970
00:51:32,393 --> 00:51:34,308
But that was impossible.

971
00:51:34,395 --> 00:51:39,966
- One of Putin's general
of FSB came into warehouse

972
00:51:40,053 --> 00:51:43,317
and just took the assets

973
00:51:43,404 --> 00:51:47,321
for 36 million of mobile phones

974
00:51:47,408 --> 00:51:49,671
and said,
"We have to have a share."

975
00:51:49,758 --> 00:51:51,847
We said no.

976
00:51:51,934 --> 00:51:53,545
They said, yes, you will.

977
00:51:53,632 --> 00:51:54,894
We said no.

978
00:51:54,981 --> 00:51:57,462
And then Putin said, go ahead.

979
00:51:57,549 --> 00:52:00,160
Bam.

980
00:52:00,247 --> 00:52:02,815
narrator: In 2008,
Evgeny is charged

981
00:52:02,902 --> 00:52:05,774
with a slew
of financial crimes.

982
00:52:05,861 --> 00:52:08,951
The Putin regime would get
its share of his assets,

983
00:52:09,038 --> 00:52:10,953
or he would go to prison.

984
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,956
- In a few days,
five people was in the prison.

985
00:52:14,043 --> 00:52:17,046
There was open criminal case
against me.

986
00:52:17,134 --> 00:52:21,094
- I think that was
an incredibly stressful time.

987
00:52:21,181 --> 00:52:24,706
His children never went
to school without a bodyguard.

988
00:52:24,793 --> 00:52:30,321
- My head of security
came to me

989
00:52:30,408 --> 00:52:35,282
and said, "I know
from the head of the prison

990
00:52:35,369 --> 00:52:38,764
"there's the special
luxury room is waiting

991
00:52:38,851 --> 00:52:42,637
for you from the next Tuesday."

992
00:52:42,724 --> 00:52:44,639
Said, thank you so much.

993
00:52:44,726 --> 00:52:46,424
I'm going to airport.

994
00:52:46,511 --> 00:52:48,339
Enough is enough.

995
00:52:48,426 --> 00:52:50,906
- Fortunately,
he had a UK visa.

996
00:52:50,993 --> 00:52:53,953
So he just, you know,
boarded the next plane

997
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,955
and came to London.

998
00:52:56,042 --> 00:52:59,045
He managed to take most
of his family with him

999
00:52:59,132 --> 00:53:02,614
and at least a part
of what he's earned.

1000
00:53:05,094 --> 00:53:07,532
narrator: One family member
Evgeny had to leave

1001
00:53:07,619 --> 00:53:11,231
was his 59-year-old mother.

1002
00:53:11,318 --> 00:53:14,060
Four months later, he makes
the tough decision

1003
00:53:14,147 --> 00:53:17,194
not to return to Russia
for her 60th birthday,

1004
00:53:17,281 --> 00:53:20,327
convinced Putin's agents
have laid a trap for him.

1005
00:53:22,242 --> 00:53:27,421
- My mother was found dead next
day after her 60th birthday,

1006
00:53:27,508 --> 00:53:32,557
and the police said
it's accident.

1007
00:53:32,644 --> 00:53:37,692
- The theory is that she was
killed to make him come back

1008
00:53:37,779 --> 00:53:39,607
so they could capture him.

1009
00:53:39,694 --> 00:53:44,525
He hasn't been
to Russia ever since.

1010
00:53:44,612 --> 00:53:47,615
narrator: Evgeny embarks
on a new life,

1011
00:53:47,702 --> 00:53:50,879
building a business
in fine wines.

1012
00:53:50,966 --> 00:53:52,794
- And that's how we met--
at a job interview,

1013
00:53:52,881 --> 00:53:56,102
and he asked,
do you drink wine?

1014
00:53:56,189 --> 00:53:59,236
I was like, look,
you know, I enjoy good food.

1015
00:53:59,323 --> 00:54:01,020
I'm sure I will
enjoy good wine,

1016
00:54:01,107 --> 00:54:03,631
and this all sounds
very interesting.

1017
00:54:03,718 --> 00:54:09,724
- When we start to work,
I believe that with this lady,

1018
00:54:09,811 --> 00:54:11,900
we can do everything now.

1019
00:54:11,987 --> 00:54:14,860
- It's natural when you work
very closely with someone,

1020
00:54:14,947 --> 00:54:16,340
you get to know them.

1021
00:54:16,427 --> 00:54:20,474
Then you fall in love and--

1022
00:54:20,561 --> 00:54:22,171
yeah.

1023
00:54:22,259 --> 00:54:25,436
It's the law of attraction,
something like that.

1024
00:54:25,523 --> 00:54:31,137
♪ ♪

1025
00:54:31,224 --> 00:54:33,966
narrator: By 2010,
Tatiana and Alexandra

1026
00:54:34,053 --> 00:54:39,188
are both living in London
just a few miles apart.

1027
00:54:39,276 --> 00:54:43,889
Yet they've never met
until now.

1028
00:54:43,976 --> 00:54:46,718
- Yeah, so for my experience,
from what I saw of Sergei,

1029
00:54:46,805 --> 00:54:49,982
there were two types of
successful people in Russia.

1030
00:54:50,069 --> 00:54:52,114
There were the oligarchs,
who Sergei--

1031
00:54:52,201 --> 00:54:53,812
he was like a deal breaker.

1032
00:54:53,899 --> 00:54:56,728
- Yeah,
I think it's, you know--

1033
00:54:56,815 --> 00:54:59,861
there are businessmen
like Evgeny.

1034
00:54:59,948 --> 00:55:04,605
But that's very different
to wanting to be in power.

1035
00:55:04,692 --> 00:55:08,087
Whenever you make a contract
with the devil,

1036
00:55:08,174 --> 00:55:10,437
there will be consequences.

1037
00:55:10,524 --> 00:55:14,311
You know, if you deal
with the dark side,

1038
00:55:14,398 --> 00:55:16,661
it will come
to haunt you later.

1039
00:55:16,748 --> 00:55:19,794
narrator: Alexandra and Sergei
are no longer a couple,

1040
00:55:19,881 --> 00:55:22,449
but during the ten years
she spent with him,

1041
00:55:22,536 --> 00:55:25,583
he painted a vivid portrait
of his onetime friend

1042
00:55:25,670 --> 00:55:27,498
Vladimir Putin.

1043
00:55:27,585 --> 00:55:29,717
- He was the first person
who took Putin

1044
00:55:29,804 --> 00:55:31,676
to see where he would live.

1045
00:55:31,763 --> 00:55:34,461
And he said Putin was literally
like a child in a sweet shop,

1046
00:55:34,548 --> 00:55:39,771
just amazed by the sort
of lavishness of it.

1047
00:55:39,858 --> 00:55:42,774
- He never gets to actually
live in those villas,

1048
00:55:42,861 --> 00:55:44,341
use those yachts.

1049
00:55:44,428 --> 00:55:46,343
You know,
he is stuck in Russia.

1050
00:55:46,430 --> 00:55:48,170
- Sergei was a bit like
a microcosm of this.

1051
00:55:48,257 --> 00:55:50,564
He had an amazing yacht.

1052
00:55:50,651 --> 00:55:52,784
We had the best house
on St. Barts.

1053
00:55:52,871 --> 00:55:56,744
We had, you know,
planes and whatever we wanted.

1054
00:55:56,831 --> 00:55:58,485
He never used them.

1055
00:55:58,572 --> 00:56:00,879
All he wanted to do
was lie in bed

1056
00:56:00,966 --> 00:56:02,663
and watch the Weather Channel.

1057
00:56:02,750 --> 00:56:05,884
- Putin--because he came
from a very--

1058
00:56:05,971 --> 00:56:08,539
- Humble.
- Very humble family.

1059
00:56:08,626 --> 00:56:12,934
And I think that's a big part
in understanding who he is

1060
00:56:13,021 --> 00:56:14,545
and what he's doing.

1061
00:56:14,632 --> 00:56:16,851
- For me, Sergei,
his behavior, everything

1062
00:56:16,938 --> 00:56:18,287
just seems to mirror Putin.

1063
00:56:18,375 --> 00:56:22,901
And from my experience,
he trusts nobody.

1064
00:56:22,988 --> 00:56:27,558
- I actually don't think
there was a safe way of,

1065
00:56:27,645 --> 00:56:30,387
you know, staying
really wealthy in Russia

1066
00:56:30,474 --> 00:56:32,911
because inevitably,
someone will be

1067
00:56:32,998 --> 00:56:34,652
coming knocking on your door.

1068
00:56:38,482 --> 00:56:40,919
narrator: And that was
certainly what Russian banker

1069
00:56:41,006 --> 00:56:44,357
German Gorbuntsov
believed when he fled Russia

1070
00:56:44,444 --> 00:56:46,011
after discovering
his business partners

1071
00:56:46,098 --> 00:56:47,578
were allegedly defrauding him.

1072
00:56:52,321 --> 00:56:54,106
Gorbuntsov was due
to give evidence

1073
00:56:54,193 --> 00:56:56,674
against two other
former partners

1074
00:56:56,761 --> 00:56:59,633
in a meeting
with Russian investigators.

1075
00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:01,722
But it never took place.

1076
00:57:01,809 --> 00:57:04,508
A security camera
outside his home

1077
00:57:04,595 --> 00:57:06,988
captured what happened next.

1078
00:57:07,075 --> 00:57:12,211
♪ ♪

1079
00:57:12,298 --> 00:57:14,213
[gunshots]

1080
00:57:14,300 --> 00:57:17,129
- [speaking Russian]

1081
00:57:37,149 --> 00:57:39,020
narrator: Gorbuntsov
had built up a fortune

1082
00:57:39,107 --> 00:57:42,110
worth over $1 billion,

1083
00:57:42,197 --> 00:57:44,591
and at one time owned
Russia's Spartak hockey team

1084
00:57:44,678 --> 00:57:46,985
and a Le Mans race car.

1085
00:57:47,072 --> 00:57:48,682
He believes the hit
was ordered

1086
00:57:48,769 --> 00:57:50,684
by his business partners

1087
00:57:50,771 --> 00:57:53,165
who had boasted of their
ties to the FSB,

1088
00:57:53,252 --> 00:57:57,299
the chain of command going
right up to the Kremlin.

1089
00:57:57,386 --> 00:57:58,823
- It's kind of like
"The Sopranos."

1090
00:57:58,910 --> 00:58:00,520
You have
the Philadelphia mafia,

1091
00:58:00,607 --> 00:58:04,045
the New Jersey mafia,
the Brooklyn mafia.

1092
00:58:04,132 --> 00:58:06,961
Each of them
have their own areas

1093
00:58:07,048 --> 00:58:10,138
for committing extortion,
prostitution,

1094
00:58:10,225 --> 00:58:11,879
drug dealing, et cetera.

1095
00:58:11,966 --> 00:58:13,490
They get their money,
and then they've got to

1096
00:58:13,577 --> 00:58:17,537
divert a bunch of that money
right up to the mafia boss.

1097
00:58:17,624 --> 00:58:19,365
And if anyone
stands in their way,

1098
00:58:19,452 --> 00:58:22,150
then they can use the FSB,

1099
00:58:22,237 --> 00:58:24,109
which is the Russian
security services,

1100
00:58:24,196 --> 00:58:25,502
to have people arrested,

1101
00:58:25,589 --> 00:58:27,634
to have people killed,
et cetera.

1102
00:58:30,637 --> 00:58:33,422
narrator: Exiled oligarch
Boris Berezovsky

1103
00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:37,426
knew he was never truly safe
from Putin's long reach.

1104
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:40,081
Here's how he put it to
British journalists in 2012.

1105
00:58:52,180 --> 00:58:54,487
narrator: His remarks
were eerily prophetic.

1106
00:58:56,663 --> 00:58:58,491
The following year,

1107
00:58:58,578 --> 00:59:02,016
seven years after his friend
Sasha Litvinenko's poisoning,

1108
00:59:02,103 --> 00:59:05,237
Berezovsky is found dead
from apparent suicide

1109
00:59:05,324 --> 00:59:07,718
at his mansion
just outside of London.

1110
00:59:09,807 --> 00:59:12,984
Official report stated he had
hung himself in his bathroom.

1111
00:59:16,596 --> 00:59:20,774
- When I received this news,
I was really shocked.

1112
00:59:20,861 --> 00:59:23,603
Very, very devastating.

1113
00:59:23,690 --> 00:59:25,910
And I never believed
he committed suicide.

1114
00:59:25,997 --> 00:59:27,520
Never.

1115
00:59:27,607 --> 00:59:29,130
- I do remember very clearly
when Berezovsky died.

1116
00:59:29,217 --> 00:59:30,610
I was sitting
on the sofa with Sergei,

1117
00:59:30,697 --> 00:59:33,178
and we were watching the news,
and it came up,

1118
00:59:33,265 --> 00:59:37,269
and Sergei immediately said
that was not suicide.

1119
00:59:37,356 --> 00:59:38,966
- The circumstances
of his death

1120
00:59:39,053 --> 00:59:41,621
are still mysterious
and would lead me

1121
00:59:41,708 --> 00:59:44,929
to believe based on what
I've read, he was murdered.

1122
00:59:49,107 --> 00:59:51,675
narrator: Sergei Pugachev
always suspected

1123
00:59:51,762 --> 00:59:54,416
that Putin was not
finished with him either.

1124
00:59:54,503 --> 00:59:56,375
His partner Alexandra
is the first

1125
00:59:56,462 --> 00:59:58,464
to bring him some bad news.

1126
00:59:58,551 --> 01:00:00,466
- A friend of mine works
in political intelligence,

1127
01:00:00,553 --> 01:00:01,685
and she had come
to me and said, look,

1128
01:00:01,772 --> 01:00:04,078
I've got to warn you,
there's a search

1129
01:00:04,165 --> 01:00:06,603
going out on Sergei's assets.

1130
01:00:06,690 --> 01:00:08,692
True enough, there was
a worldwide freezing order,

1131
01:00:08,779 --> 01:00:11,564
and they froze all his assets.

1132
01:00:11,651 --> 01:00:14,088
narrator: Putin's
regime charges Sergei

1133
01:00:14,175 --> 01:00:16,482
with embezzling hundreds
of millions of dollars

1134
01:00:16,569 --> 01:00:18,571
from his Russian bank.

1135
01:00:18,658 --> 01:00:21,095
Alexandra tries to help,
making an introduction

1136
01:00:21,182 --> 01:00:23,837
to a top British lawyer.

1137
01:00:23,924 --> 01:00:26,231
- They said, "You're about
to get a freezing order,

1138
01:00:26,318 --> 01:00:28,102
and we can help you."

1139
01:00:28,189 --> 01:00:31,105
We can make your assets less
visible, and blah blah blah.

1140
01:00:31,192 --> 01:00:33,978
And I realized
Sergei is so chaotic,

1141
01:00:34,065 --> 01:00:36,720
his personality makes it
absolutely impossible.

1142
01:00:36,807 --> 01:00:37,895
He can't listen to anyone.

1143
01:00:37,982 --> 01:00:40,071
So for him, he would
say to me often,

1144
01:00:40,158 --> 01:00:41,768
who the hell is a lawyer?

1145
01:00:41,855 --> 01:00:43,683
They haven't made
as much money as I have.

1146
01:00:43,770 --> 01:00:45,293
They're nobody.

1147
01:00:45,380 --> 01:00:46,817
It was just appalling.

1148
01:00:46,904 --> 01:00:49,080
He thought he could
just bulldoze his way

1149
01:00:49,167 --> 01:00:51,952
and bully his way
through everything.

1150
01:00:52,039 --> 01:00:53,737
narrator: Instead of
taking legal advice,

1151
01:00:53,824 --> 01:00:57,262
Sergei decided
to escape to France.

1152
01:00:57,349 --> 01:00:58,655
- You know, you can't do that.

1153
01:00:58,742 --> 01:01:00,569
You've been told
not to leave the country.

1154
01:01:00,657 --> 01:01:02,223
And I said, well,
I just tell you one thing.

1155
01:01:02,310 --> 01:01:04,182
If he does that,
I am not following.

1156
01:01:04,269 --> 01:01:06,097
I never ever will follow him.

1157
01:01:06,184 --> 01:01:08,534
He just had a tantrum
and said, that's it.

1158
01:01:08,621 --> 01:01:10,928
And he ran away to France.

1159
01:01:11,015 --> 01:01:12,364
About two weeks later,

1160
01:01:12,451 --> 01:01:15,410
the bodyguard
knocked on the door.

1161
01:01:15,497 --> 01:01:16,629
I said, Denise,
what are you doing here?

1162
01:01:16,716 --> 01:01:17,761
Where is Sergei?
What's going on?

1163
01:01:17,848 --> 01:01:19,632
And he wouldn't look at me.

1164
01:01:19,719 --> 01:01:22,287
He walked around the house
like this robot picking up

1165
01:01:22,374 --> 01:01:25,682
every single personal belonging
of Sergei's--all his papers,

1166
01:01:25,769 --> 01:01:28,423
absolutely every sock,
every--absolutely everything,

1167
01:01:28,510 --> 01:01:30,164
cleaning the house of it.

1168
01:01:30,251 --> 01:01:32,471
Put it all in a van
and drove off without literally

1169
01:01:32,558 --> 01:01:34,125
addressing one word to me.

1170
01:01:34,212 --> 01:01:35,779
narrator:
Next come British officials

1171
01:01:35,866 --> 01:01:37,911
from the Crown Prosecution
Service.

1172
01:01:37,998 --> 01:01:39,217
- Yeah, that is horrific.

1173
01:01:39,304 --> 01:01:41,698
I was going to church
with my children.

1174
01:01:41,785 --> 01:01:44,526
And there was
banging on the door,

1175
01:01:44,613 --> 01:01:47,268
and it was a lawyer
with a search warrant.

1176
01:01:47,355 --> 01:01:50,402
So they went round,
got my iPad,

1177
01:01:50,489 --> 01:01:52,578
got my laptop, my phone,

1178
01:01:52,665 --> 01:01:54,841
downloaded literally
every message

1179
01:01:54,928 --> 01:01:57,322
I'd ever written to anybody.

1180
01:01:57,409 --> 01:01:59,106
narrator: Sergei is
found in contempt

1181
01:01:59,193 --> 01:02:02,370
when he fails to appear
in the British court.

1182
01:02:02,457 --> 01:02:07,245
In absentia, he is sentenced
to two years in prison.

1183
01:02:07,332 --> 01:02:10,639
Alexandra cuts
ties with Sergei.

1184
01:02:10,727 --> 01:02:13,251
Their three children
now live with her permanently

1185
01:02:13,338 --> 01:02:14,382
in London.

1186
01:02:14,469 --> 01:02:20,127
♪ ♪

1187
01:02:20,214 --> 01:02:24,088
Are there other sides to the
iron willed ruler of Russia?

1188
01:02:24,175 --> 01:02:28,092
Vladimir Putin the man,
the human being?

1189
01:02:28,179 --> 01:02:30,747
Family friend Ksenia Sobchak

1190
01:02:30,834 --> 01:02:34,707
has had a glimpse
of the human side of Putin.

1191
01:02:34,794 --> 01:02:38,624
- He always calls on the day--
when my father passed away,

1192
01:02:38,711 --> 01:02:43,281
he calls to my mother
and says his condolences.

1193
01:02:43,368 --> 01:02:47,241
So he never forgets to do that.

1194
01:02:47,328 --> 01:02:51,376
And I know that he loved
my father sincerely very much.

1195
01:02:51,463 --> 01:02:54,771
These are things
that are very hard to fake.

1196
01:02:57,164 --> 01:02:59,601
narrator: In 2013,
during an intermission

1197
01:02:59,688 --> 01:03:01,516
at the Moscow Ballet,

1198
01:03:01,603 --> 01:03:04,258
Putin broke some news
to the public,

1199
01:03:04,345 --> 01:03:07,871
giving the world a rare look
into his private life.

1200
01:03:07,958 --> 01:03:09,655
- [speaking Russian]

1201
01:03:09,742 --> 01:03:12,614
- [speaking Russian]

1202
01:03:34,114 --> 01:03:36,943
- [speaking Russian]

1203
01:03:39,772 --> 01:03:41,208
- He just--
very off the cuff

1204
01:03:41,295 --> 01:03:42,514
and apparently spontaneous,

1205
01:03:42,601 --> 01:03:44,646
but nothing is spontaneous
in the KGB

1206
01:03:44,733 --> 01:03:47,388
or let alone
in Russian television.

1207
01:03:47,475 --> 01:03:48,694
So I don't think it really was.

1208
01:03:48,781 --> 01:03:52,132
But he said,
"We're getting divorced,"

1209
01:03:52,219 --> 01:03:55,135
and we've just never really
heard about her since.

1210
01:03:55,222 --> 01:03:56,702
- [speaking Russian]

1211
01:03:56,789 --> 01:03:58,486
- Sergei used to tell me

1212
01:03:58,573 --> 01:04:00,314
that actually she was
more intelligent than him

1213
01:04:00,401 --> 01:04:01,925
and more charismatic,

1214
01:04:02,012 --> 01:04:04,057
and in private,
she would really

1215
01:04:04,144 --> 01:04:06,451
humiliate him and sort of
laugh at him.

1216
01:04:06,538 --> 01:04:08,279
And she was from a more
sophisticated family.

1217
01:04:08,366 --> 01:04:10,803
He was from a very, very poor,
very humble family.

1218
01:04:10,890 --> 01:04:12,587
And I think she came from a,

1219
01:04:12,674 --> 01:04:14,241
you know,
more well-off family.

1220
01:04:14,328 --> 01:04:17,897
And so then the boot
was on the other foot.

1221
01:04:17,984 --> 01:04:21,814
So I think maybe there was
an element of revenge.

1222
01:04:21,901 --> 01:04:24,121
narrator: The presidential
divorce isn't a huge surprise

1223
01:04:24,208 --> 01:04:25,862
to the Russian public,

1224
01:04:25,949 --> 01:04:27,602
for whom it was
common knowledge

1225
01:04:27,689 --> 01:04:30,083
that Putin had a mistress.

1226
01:04:30,170 --> 01:04:33,826
Alexandra remembers
when she first saw her.

1227
01:04:33,913 --> 01:04:36,263
- It was a very big event.
All the oligarchs were there.

1228
01:04:36,350 --> 01:04:38,004
And then we were just
sort of standing around,

1229
01:04:38,091 --> 01:04:40,050
and I saw a little gathering,

1230
01:04:40,137 --> 01:04:41,790
and I looked over,

1231
01:04:41,878 --> 01:04:44,184
and there was a girl in a kind
of Grecian white dress--

1232
01:04:44,271 --> 01:04:46,665
yeah, that dress a bit like
Marilyn Monroe famously wore--

1233
01:04:46,752 --> 01:04:48,928
sort of twirling around.

1234
01:04:49,015 --> 01:04:51,365
And it was eye catching 'cause
it was quite extraordinary

1235
01:04:51,452 --> 01:04:53,063
that--obviously the attention
that she wanted

1236
01:04:53,150 --> 01:04:56,283
and that she had this group
of people watching her.

1237
01:04:56,370 --> 01:04:57,371
And I turned to Sergei,
and it was just--

1238
01:04:57,458 --> 01:04:58,720
I said, oh, my gosh.

1239
01:04:58,807 --> 01:05:01,027
I taught that girl English.
It's Alina.

1240
01:05:01,114 --> 01:05:03,421
And I hadn't seen her since,

1241
01:05:03,508 --> 01:05:06,337
and it was just--seemed
such a funny coincidence.

1242
01:05:06,424 --> 01:05:08,121
But what struck me most
was that

1243
01:05:08,208 --> 01:05:09,644
she had put on so much weight,

1244
01:05:09,731 --> 01:05:11,124
and she's obviously
a very, very famous--

1245
01:05:11,211 --> 01:05:12,996
well, very famous
in Russia--sportswoman.

1246
01:05:13,083 --> 01:05:14,519
So I said to Sergei,
oh, my goodness.

1247
01:05:14,606 --> 01:05:16,521
But she's--
poor thing, she's so fat

1248
01:05:16,608 --> 01:05:17,870
compared to what she was.

1249
01:05:17,957 --> 01:05:21,395
And he said,
oh, well, she's pregnant.

1250
01:05:21,482 --> 01:05:24,007
And she is Putin's girlfriend.

1251
01:05:24,094 --> 01:05:25,530
narrator:
Even after his divorce,

1252
01:05:25,617 --> 01:05:27,836
Putin keeps his life
with Alina Kabaeva

1253
01:05:27,924 --> 01:05:29,838
out of the public eye.

1254
01:05:29,926 --> 01:05:31,405
- The weird thing is,
you think,

1255
01:05:31,492 --> 01:05:33,320
why don't you now live
with Alina Kabaeva officially?

1256
01:05:33,407 --> 01:05:34,669
She was a gymnast.

1257
01:05:34,756 --> 01:05:36,802
She's like
a real Soviet heroine,

1258
01:05:36,889 --> 01:05:38,673
which really fits with the
whole propaganda

1259
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:40,980
Soviet angle now.

1260
01:05:41,067 --> 01:05:42,286
And that's quite a mystery,

1261
01:05:42,373 --> 01:05:43,896
but I can only guess
that he's just such

1262
01:05:43,983 --> 01:05:45,767
an egomaniac that he
doesn't literally want

1263
01:05:45,854 --> 01:05:47,856
anyone distracting from him.

1264
01:05:47,944 --> 01:05:49,858
I don't know.

1265
01:05:49,946 --> 01:05:52,252
narrator: To observers,
Putin appears

1266
01:05:52,339 --> 01:05:55,038
more isolated than ever.

1267
01:05:55,125 --> 01:05:59,085
- This is--you know, this is
a very lonely existence.

1268
01:05:59,172 --> 01:06:00,782
And, you know,
you should be surrounded

1269
01:06:00,869 --> 01:06:04,612
by your grandchildren
and love and family.

1270
01:06:04,699 --> 01:06:08,921
He completely alienated
everyone because he is--

1271
01:06:09,008 --> 01:06:10,749
you know, he was
always paranoid.

1272
01:06:10,836 --> 01:06:13,317
But now I think there are so--

1273
01:06:13,404 --> 01:06:17,103
there are millions of people
across the globe who wish him--

1274
01:06:17,190 --> 01:06:18,278
- Dead.
- Dead.

1275
01:06:21,499 --> 01:06:23,327
- I know this, his nickname

1276
01:06:23,414 --> 01:06:25,982
the other KGB officers
gave him--

1277
01:06:26,069 --> 01:06:27,853
the moth.

1278
01:06:27,940 --> 01:06:29,986
That's important.

1279
01:06:30,073 --> 01:06:36,253
At night, in silent, in dark,
nicknames in Russia so strong.

1280
01:06:36,340 --> 01:06:38,168
It's like a bullet.

1281
01:06:41,780 --> 01:06:43,608
narrator: Until his war on
Ukraine,

1282
01:06:43,695 --> 01:06:45,958
most countries understood
Putin not just

1283
01:06:46,045 --> 01:06:49,440
as a ruthless dictator
but also as a leader

1284
01:06:49,527 --> 01:06:53,096
in control of vast
energy resources,

1285
01:06:53,183 --> 01:06:55,620
someone you had
to do business with.

1286
01:06:55,707 --> 01:06:59,058
Here he is in 2018
at an opening ceremony

1287
01:06:59,145 --> 01:07:02,409
for the World Cup
being hosted by Russia.

1288
01:07:02,496 --> 01:07:05,064
- This is the face of Russia.

1289
01:07:05,151 --> 01:07:08,589
This is the face
of the Russia that we love.

1290
01:07:08,676 --> 01:07:12,245
And thank you most importantly
as well, President Putin.

1291
01:07:12,332 --> 01:07:14,291
[speaks Russian]
For your commitment,

1292
01:07:14,378 --> 01:07:16,945
for your dedication,
for your passion.

1293
01:07:17,033 --> 01:07:19,731
Without you, all this
would not have been possible.

1294
01:07:19,818 --> 01:07:21,907
I'm sure about that.

1295
01:07:21,994 --> 01:07:24,214
So thank you. Congratulations.

1296
01:07:24,301 --> 01:07:27,521
We did a good job
together as well.

1297
01:07:27,608 --> 01:07:31,047
[applause]

1298
01:07:31,134 --> 01:07:32,396
- Putin has done
a very good job

1299
01:07:32,483 --> 01:07:34,659
over the last 22 years

1300
01:07:34,746 --> 01:07:38,228
of only committing crimes
that were plausibly deniable.

1301
01:07:38,315 --> 01:07:41,709
Creating this ambiguity,
he was able to feed

1302
01:07:41,796 --> 01:07:46,062
into the apologists and the
appeasers around the world

1303
01:07:46,149 --> 01:07:48,542
and give them enough
ammunition to say

1304
01:07:48,629 --> 01:07:49,891
we don't know for sure
whether--

1305
01:07:49,978 --> 01:07:52,285
who shot down MH17.

1306
01:07:52,372 --> 01:07:54,766
We don't know
for sure who killed

1307
01:07:54,853 --> 01:07:57,508
Alexander Litvinenko,
even though everybody

1308
01:07:57,595 --> 01:07:59,205
knew for sure.

1309
01:07:59,292 --> 01:08:03,601
But in doing so, it allowed
business to carry on.

1310
01:08:03,688 --> 01:08:06,343
narrator: And Bill Browder
has had a personal reminder

1311
01:08:06,430 --> 01:08:09,302
from Vladimir Putin himself
that the Russian ruler

1312
01:08:09,389 --> 01:08:11,783
never forgives or forgets.

1313
01:08:11,870 --> 01:08:14,394
- In early July 2018,

1314
01:08:14,481 --> 01:08:16,917
Donald Trump
and Vladimir Putin met

1315
01:08:17,005 --> 01:08:20,183
in the first organized summit
in Helsinki.

1316
01:08:20,270 --> 01:08:23,663
And it was just after the
Robert Mueller investigation

1317
01:08:23,751 --> 01:08:27,625
had indicted
12 Russian GRU officers

1318
01:08:27,712 --> 01:08:29,582
for interfering
in the U.S. elections,

1319
01:08:29,670 --> 01:08:32,804
and at the press conference,
one of the journalists

1320
01:08:32,890 --> 01:08:34,675
raised his hand
and asked Putin--

1321
01:08:34,761 --> 01:08:36,328
- And will you consider
extraditing

1322
01:08:36,416 --> 01:08:38,636
the 12 Russian officials
that were indicted

1323
01:08:38,723 --> 01:08:40,725
last week by a U.S. grand jury?

1324
01:08:40,812 --> 01:08:43,684
- And Putin said yes.

1325
01:08:43,770 --> 01:08:45,295
- [speaking Russian]
- Then we would expect

1326
01:08:45,381 --> 01:08:49,821
that the Americans would
reciprocate Mr. Browder

1327
01:08:49,908 --> 01:08:52,519
in this particular case.

1328
01:08:52,606 --> 01:08:55,348
Business associates
of Mr. Browder

1329
01:08:55,435 --> 01:09:00,439
have earned over
$1.5 billion in Russia.

1330
01:09:00,527 --> 01:09:02,703
They never paid
any taxes neither in Russia

1331
01:09:02,790 --> 01:09:04,270
nor in the United States.

1332
01:09:04,357 --> 01:09:07,621
- And then the question
was asked

1333
01:09:07,707 --> 01:09:10,493
of Trump, what do you think?

1334
01:09:10,581 --> 01:09:11,886
- I think that's
an incredible offer, okay?

1335
01:09:11,973 --> 01:09:12,886
- Thank you.

1336
01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:18,109
- Now, it's one thing
for Putin to go after me.

1337
01:09:18,197 --> 01:09:19,676
He has been publicly naming me.

1338
01:09:19,764 --> 01:09:21,853
He's been chasing me
with death threats,

1339
01:09:21,939 --> 01:09:24,986
kidnapping threats,
arrest warrants.

1340
01:09:25,073 --> 01:09:27,250
And I'd grown used to that.

1341
01:09:27,337 --> 01:09:30,731
But to have the president
of the United States,

1342
01:09:30,818 --> 01:09:33,343
the most powerful man
in the free world,

1343
01:09:33,430 --> 01:09:35,345
ready to hand me over to Putin

1344
01:09:35,432 --> 01:09:40,567
to effectively be killed,
that was a shock.

1345
01:09:40,654 --> 01:09:42,874
narrator: German Gorbuntsov,
who survived

1346
01:09:42,961 --> 01:09:46,269
being gunned down, is another
victim of the regime

1347
01:09:46,356 --> 01:09:48,836
still looking
over his shoulder.

1348
01:09:48,923 --> 01:09:51,752
- [speaking Russian]

1349
01:10:03,155 --> 01:10:04,243
narrator:
But Evgeny Chichvarkin

1350
01:10:04,330 --> 01:10:06,593
is decidedly not afraid.

1351
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:09,335
In fact, he has spoken out
in support

1352
01:10:09,422 --> 01:10:13,818
of Russia's jailed opposition
leader Alexei Navalny.

1353
01:10:16,821 --> 01:10:18,779
- What's happened
to him few times

1354
01:10:18,866 --> 01:10:20,868
is absolutely unacceptable.

1355
01:10:20,955 --> 01:10:25,873
It's a crime.

1356
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:30,574
I think he have to be
on election list,

1357
01:10:30,661 --> 01:10:32,402
and Putin
have to be in the prison.

1358
01:10:34,578 --> 01:10:37,450
- Alexei Navalny is a friend.

1359
01:10:37,537 --> 01:10:39,713
And when he got poisoned,
you know,

1360
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:41,149
everyone was in shock.

1361
01:10:41,237 --> 01:10:43,717
But, you know,
when someone you've--

1362
01:10:43,804 --> 01:10:45,980
I don't know--
went for dinner with

1363
01:10:46,067 --> 01:10:51,899
is there unconscious, in coma,
his wife absolutely distraught.

1364
01:10:51,986 --> 01:10:54,902
narrator: Tatiana knows the
couple's support for Navalny

1365
01:10:54,989 --> 01:10:58,341
comes at a steep
personal cost.

1366
01:10:58,428 --> 01:11:00,647
- I kept going back to Russia

1367
01:11:00,734 --> 01:11:03,346
up until autumn 2021.

1368
01:11:03,433 --> 01:11:04,869
People kept telling me,
you're crazy.

1369
01:11:04,956 --> 01:11:06,566
This is crazy.
Stop doing this.

1370
01:11:06,653 --> 01:11:08,960
And Evgeny was really worried.

1371
01:11:09,047 --> 01:11:11,049
And I used to take
our daughter with me

1372
01:11:11,136 --> 01:11:12,790
because for me, it was very
important for her

1373
01:11:12,877 --> 01:11:16,794
to see St. Petersburg
to know what our heritage is.

1374
01:11:16,881 --> 01:11:18,578
These are normal things.

1375
01:11:18,665 --> 01:11:21,973
I should be able
to do this with my daughter.

1376
01:11:22,060 --> 01:11:24,932
Going to Russia now
would be suicide for me

1377
01:11:25,019 --> 01:11:27,935
because I will--
the plane will land,

1378
01:11:28,022 --> 01:11:30,721
and then they will just show me
all the various things

1379
01:11:30,808 --> 01:11:32,462
I've said and say,

1380
01:11:32,549 --> 01:11:34,420
"According to the new law
of Russian Federation,

1381
01:11:34,507 --> 01:11:36,161
"blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

1382
01:11:36,248 --> 01:11:40,557
you are going
to prison for 20 years."

1383
01:11:42,472 --> 01:11:44,778
narrator: Another brave voice,
but this one still based

1384
01:11:44,865 --> 01:11:47,520
in Russia, is Ksenia Sobchak,

1385
01:11:47,607 --> 01:11:50,697
daughter of Putin's
political mentor,

1386
01:11:50,784 --> 01:11:53,700
who today is carefully
critical of the regime.

1387
01:11:56,007 --> 01:11:58,966
- Maybe I'm not
in prison because, you know,

1388
01:11:59,053 --> 01:12:03,928
everyone knows that he had
some links with my father.

1389
01:12:04,015 --> 01:12:07,279
I'm just trying
to be not too much aggressive

1390
01:12:07,366 --> 01:12:08,976
because, of course, I'm afraid.

1391
01:12:09,063 --> 01:12:10,064
I have a son.

1392
01:12:10,151 --> 01:12:13,067
I don't want to go to prison.

1393
01:12:13,154 --> 01:12:14,852
narrator:
Putin's war on Ukraine

1394
01:12:14,939 --> 01:12:18,377
has triggered punishing
American and British sanctions

1395
01:12:18,464 --> 01:12:20,466
against his inner circle,

1396
01:12:20,553 --> 01:12:23,251
forcing some oligarchs
to return home

1397
01:12:23,339 --> 01:12:26,254
or relocate to countries
ready to welcome them--

1398
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:27,821
or at least their money.

1399
01:12:30,824 --> 01:12:33,087
- Yeah, okay, so we've just
driven past, actually,

1400
01:12:33,174 --> 01:12:37,396
two houses that belonged
to Abramovich's ex-wife,

1401
01:12:37,483 --> 01:12:40,268
and just by chance, I once went
to look at them to rent them.

1402
01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:42,270
And actually,
where we lived in Chelsea,

1403
01:12:42,358 --> 01:12:45,448
he and his third wife Dasha
had bought another

1404
01:12:45,535 --> 01:12:47,493
massive property on the river.

1405
01:12:47,580 --> 01:12:49,277
And now we are approaching.

1406
01:12:49,365 --> 01:12:51,279
But I suppose
this one was, like,

1407
01:12:51,367 --> 01:12:56,154
his gem in the crown
in Kensington Palace Gardens,

1408
01:12:56,241 --> 01:12:58,330
which will be very near
Kensington Palace.

1409
01:12:58,417 --> 01:13:00,593
I think it's worth 200 million.

1410
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:01,986
But I suppose
for the last few years,

1411
01:13:02,073 --> 01:13:03,422
he has not been able
to spend any time here anyway

1412
01:13:03,509 --> 01:13:05,076
because he couldn't get a visa.

1413
01:13:05,163 --> 01:13:06,947
And now it's been sanctioned,

1414
01:13:07,034 --> 01:13:09,297
and he can't--cleaners
can't even go in.

1415
01:13:09,385 --> 01:13:10,734
It can't be maintained.

1416
01:13:10,821 --> 01:13:12,257
It must be just standing
completely empty.

1417
01:13:12,344 --> 01:13:19,264
♪ ♪

1418
01:13:20,744 --> 01:13:22,136
narrator:
The sanctions have made

1419
01:13:22,223 --> 01:13:24,312
for a tricky moment
of reckoning

1420
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:28,142
for Russia's business
and oligarch elite.

1421
01:13:28,229 --> 01:13:30,754
They must ask
if their loyalty to Putin

1422
01:13:30,841 --> 01:13:34,105
is worth losing part
or all of their fortunes.

1423
01:13:37,587 --> 01:13:39,676
And the stakes
could not be higher.

1424
01:13:42,156 --> 01:13:45,812
Reports say that
since January 2022,

1425
01:13:45,899 --> 01:13:49,294
as many as six prominent
Russian businessmen

1426
01:13:49,381 --> 01:13:53,951
mysteriously decided
to commit suicide,

1427
01:13:54,038 --> 01:13:57,171
even killing
their families first.

1428
01:14:01,785 --> 01:14:03,482
- It looks to me like

1429
01:14:03,569 --> 01:14:06,920
since the sanctions
were imposed on Russia,

1430
01:14:07,007 --> 01:14:09,096
the pie has shrunk.

1431
01:14:09,183 --> 01:14:11,098
And so now you have a bunch
of people fighting over

1432
01:14:11,185 --> 01:14:13,013
a smaller amount of money.

1433
01:14:13,100 --> 01:14:16,321
And whenever
there is limited resources

1434
01:14:16,408 --> 01:14:21,500
and very powerful people,

1435
01:14:21,587 --> 01:14:23,850
people start getting killed.

1436
01:14:23,937 --> 01:14:26,766
- [speaking Russian]

1437
01:14:57,188 --> 01:15:00,931
narrator: Tatiana believes
what motivates Putin

1438
01:15:01,018 --> 01:15:04,543
is his almost mystical
attachment to the notion

1439
01:15:04,630 --> 01:15:07,328
of eternal mother Russia.

1440
01:15:09,330 --> 01:15:12,377
- In Russia,
there are so few things

1441
01:15:12,464 --> 01:15:15,075
that are left to be proud of,
to be honest,

1442
01:15:15,162 --> 01:15:17,121
for everyday Russians.

1443
01:15:17,208 --> 01:15:22,343
And the sheer size
of the country is one of them.

1444
01:15:22,430 --> 01:15:25,259
We live in the biggest
country in the world.

1445
01:15:25,346 --> 01:15:27,435
The sheer size really,
really matters,

1446
01:15:27,523 --> 01:15:29,350
and for Putin as well.

1447
01:15:29,437 --> 01:15:35,400
And I think at one point,
he got himself convinced

1448
01:15:35,487 --> 01:15:37,445
that it is his mission.

1449
01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:42,059
He wants to go down
in history as Vladimir,

1450
01:15:42,146 --> 01:15:48,282
the person who brought
the Russian soils,

1451
01:15:48,369 --> 01:15:50,415
territories all together.

1452
01:15:50,502 --> 01:15:53,200
This is what
he wants kids to learn

1453
01:15:53,287 --> 01:15:55,072
at school when he's gone.

1454
01:15:55,159 --> 01:15:58,118
- He has a mission.
This is clear.

1455
01:15:58,205 --> 01:16:01,513
He is not about
buying a golden palace.

1456
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:05,648
He's about a mission
of another world order.

1457
01:16:07,737 --> 01:16:11,305
narrator: For Alexandra,
the Russia Putin craves

1458
01:16:11,392 --> 01:16:14,221
is a dark reminder
of the world witnessed

1459
01:16:14,308 --> 01:16:17,529
by her ancestor, Leo Tolstoy.

1460
01:16:17,616 --> 01:16:19,313
- So I love
this quote by Tolstoy,

1461
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,708
but it's haunting, really.

1462
01:16:22,795 --> 01:16:25,798
Navalny quoted it recently
I think from prison.

1463
01:16:28,279 --> 01:16:30,803
He wrote, "The villains
who robbed the people

1464
01:16:30,890 --> 01:16:33,850
"gathered together,
recruited soldiers and judges

1465
01:16:33,937 --> 01:16:36,896
to guard their orgy,
and are feasting."

1466
01:16:36,983 --> 01:16:40,378
- People are very quick
to judge the Russians

1467
01:16:40,465 --> 01:16:44,643
who still live in Russia
and are not doing anything now.

1468
01:16:44,730 --> 01:16:51,084
I don't think any of us
sitting here warm and fed

1469
01:16:51,171 --> 01:16:55,523
have the moral right to say,
"You need to speak up,"

1470
01:16:55,611 --> 01:16:57,613
because the minute
they speak up,

1471
01:16:57,700 --> 01:16:59,310
they get put
into Russian prison.

1472
01:17:01,442 --> 01:17:03,444
- In Putin's mentality,

1473
01:17:03,531 --> 01:17:07,318
that all people
around him enemies,

1474
01:17:07,405 --> 01:17:11,191
all countries
around Russia enemies.

1475
01:17:11,278 --> 01:17:17,284
And he's poor little guy
in the circle

1476
01:17:17,371 --> 01:17:20,157
of many circles of enemies.

1477
01:17:20,244 --> 01:17:22,681
It's a big psychiatry problem.

1478
01:17:22,768 --> 01:17:24,727
- I think Putin is ill,

1479
01:17:24,814 --> 01:17:27,120
but not in the way that
most people think Putin is ill.

1480
01:17:27,207 --> 01:17:29,122
Putin is mentally ill.

1481
01:17:29,209 --> 01:17:32,386
But he's been mentally ill
as a psychopath since,

1482
01:17:32,473 --> 01:17:35,041
you know, childhood.

1483
01:17:35,128 --> 01:17:38,784
Putin's illness leads him
to lack any empathy,

1484
01:17:38,871 --> 01:17:40,699
lack any--a conscience,

1485
01:17:40,786 --> 01:17:44,703
lack any normal human emotion
when it comes

1486
01:17:44,790 --> 01:17:46,705
to the fate of other people.

1487
01:17:46,792 --> 01:17:50,361
And that will lead him to
all sorts of terrible crimes.

1488
01:17:52,755 --> 01:17:54,670
- There are rumors
that he is ill.

1489
01:17:54,757 --> 01:17:57,020
And if those rumors--

1490
01:17:57,107 --> 01:17:59,239
and I think
they're likely to be true.

1491
01:17:59,326 --> 01:18:02,242
And if they are true, that is--

1492
01:18:02,329 --> 01:18:04,375
for me, that makes me
really frightened

1493
01:18:04,462 --> 01:18:08,379
because a person
who is really ill

1494
01:18:08,466 --> 01:18:11,556
doesn't really care
about what happens next.

1495
01:18:11,643 --> 01:18:14,559
[somber music]

1496
01:18:14,646 --> 01:18:21,871
♪ ♪

1497
01:18:21,958 --> 01:18:25,788
When he got away with starting
the conflict in the Ukraine,

1498
01:18:25,875 --> 01:18:27,006
that set a precedent.

1499
01:18:28,704 --> 01:18:32,446
And unfortunately,
we're living the consequences.

1500
01:18:32,533 --> 01:18:35,536
[rumbling]

1501
01:18:35,623 --> 01:18:41,717
♪ ♪

1502
01:18:41,804 --> 01:18:46,809
Having the Ukraine
that was really desperate

1503
01:18:46,896 --> 01:18:50,508
to be part of Europe,
go its own way,

1504
01:18:50,595 --> 01:18:52,989
be more democratic,
be more prosperous,

1505
01:18:53,076 --> 01:18:55,034
not depend on Russia--

1506
01:18:55,121 --> 01:18:57,733
he just could not
let it happen.

1507
01:18:57,820 --> 01:19:00,648
The propaganda is still
telling people in Russia

1508
01:19:00,736 --> 01:19:06,654
that Ukraine wants
to be a part of Russia.

1509
01:19:06,742 --> 01:19:09,483
- He looks much,
much more angry, I would say.

1510
01:19:09,570 --> 01:19:11,529
He looks really
unpredictable now.

1511
01:19:11,616 --> 01:19:13,836
And he's been in power
far too long.

1512
01:19:13,923 --> 01:19:16,708
He's gone--it's just
completely gone to his head.

1513
01:19:16,795 --> 01:19:20,843
- Like a cancer,
it's getting worse and worse.

1514
01:19:20,930 --> 01:19:24,629
Less and less freedom,
more and more paranoia.

1515
01:19:24,716 --> 01:19:28,241
We are halfway to North Korea.

1516
01:19:28,328 --> 01:19:30,591
- I don't think that Putin
is ever gonna back down

1517
01:19:30,678 --> 01:19:32,506
because he can't.

1518
01:19:32,593 --> 01:19:34,508
And I don't think
the Ukrainians are gonna

1519
01:19:34,595 --> 01:19:36,336
allow Russia
to take their territory

1520
01:19:36,423 --> 01:19:38,077
because how can they
justify that

1521
01:19:38,164 --> 01:19:41,080
after the atrocities
committed?

1522
01:19:41,167 --> 01:19:43,648
And so I imagine that this is
going to be an ongoing war.

1523
01:19:45,911 --> 01:19:48,000
- Every day,
I'm thinking about this.

1524
01:19:48,087 --> 01:19:49,523
It goes circles and circles.

1525
01:19:49,610 --> 01:19:53,005
I see no positive ending.

1526
01:19:53,092 --> 01:19:56,008
Families are ruined.
People are killed.

1527
01:19:56,095 --> 01:19:59,055
There will be no forgiveness
in any way.

1528
01:19:59,142 --> 01:20:04,843
It will be a point of hatred
for years and years.

1529
01:20:04,930 --> 01:20:11,719
♪ ♪

1530
01:20:11,807 --> 01:20:17,334
- What we all feel is shame.

1531
01:20:17,421 --> 01:20:20,598
He is a tyrant.

1532
01:20:20,685 --> 01:20:23,862
But still, we are human.

1533
01:20:23,949 --> 01:20:30,390
And this is why
we feel profound guilt

1534
01:20:30,477 --> 01:20:33,524
for something
we did not commit

1535
01:20:33,611 --> 01:20:36,048
and we were not a part of.

1536
01:20:36,135 --> 01:20:43,186
♪ ♪

1537
01:20:44,143 --> 01:20:47,451
I want to still be
proud to be Russian.

1538
01:20:47,538 --> 01:20:52,108
But at this moment in time,
it's impossible.

1539
01:20:54,850 --> 01:20:59,811
When we wake up, and we look
at the news on our phones,

1540
01:20:59,898 --> 01:21:03,032
we just want to see one news--

1541
01:21:03,119 --> 01:21:05,948
that he's not--no longer

1542
01:21:06,035 --> 01:21:08,211
at least the president
of Russia.

1543
01:21:08,298 --> 01:21:15,131
♪ ♪