Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, uno de los hombres más ricos de Rusia, empezó a cumplir una sentencia de 10 años de prisión por evasión de impuestos. Para muchos, su caída se había producido tras cuestionar el poder un recién elegido Vladimir Putin y nunca más podría recuperarse de ella. Sin embargo, durante su estancia en su prisión siberiana, Khodorkovsky se convirtió en un disidente mundialmente conocido. Hoy, exiliado en Londres, sigue luchando contra Putin como el primer día tras 19 años en el poder.
A documentary about Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was murdered in Moscow in February of 2015.
Partiendo de la muerte por envenenamiento de Alexander Litvinenko, ex agente de los servicios de espionaje rusos, el director del documental aborda el caso sin escatimar en acusaciones directas hacia los presuntos responsables de este asesinato.
A three-part documentary film (Russian Roulette, Lords of the Kremlin, and The Last Battle) directed by Alexander Gentelev based on the events that took place in Russia in 1991-2000.
This is a story about the battle for a hospital building in Grozny (Chechnya) in January 1995 between Russian Army forces and Chechen rebels supported by Arabian mujahideen and international mercenaries. Although the story is fictional, most of the characters are based on real-life prototypes and events are the compilation of true events during the Grozny Siege in the First Chechen War.
