"Putin’s Long Shadow", a new Canadian documentary by CBC. An analysis of Putin's rule: corruption while working as assistant to St. Petersburg mayor, bombings of apartment blocks and the war in Chechnya, Khodorkovsky's arrest, further enrichment, changing places with Medvedev, the war in Ukraine. Interviews by politician Marina Saliye, investigator ( Read more... )

Russian-American historian Yuri Felshtinsky tells the story of making the film "Blowing up Russia" (aka "Assassination of Russia"). The film casts light on FSB involvement in bombings of apartment houses in Russian cities in 1999.Вы знаете, фильм сделан по книге «ФСБ взрывает Россию». В двух словах, история книги. Она писалась в 2000-2001-м году. В ( Read more... )

A multi-episode exposé of the corrupt Russian officials who stole $230 million from their own government and who continue to act with impunity in Russia. The “Untouchables,” who have falsely arrested, tortured, and killed 37-year old Sergei Magnitsky, the witness who uncovered their crimes and testified against them. Despite the mountain of ( Read more... )

Now you can download the DVD "Lies of Putin's regime", which includes 12 short documentary films created by Leonid Martinyk. During the past 8.5 months they have been seen on YouTube over a million of times. The language is Russian, no subtitles. The total duration is 49 minutes.

На торренте rutracker.org создана раздача DVD, включающего в себя ( Read more... )

This is my supplement to the Wikipeida article, which I have previously created, about the documentary film "Assassination of Russia". Here I have written mainly about how the film was delivered and distributed in Russia (from 2002 on). Showing this film in Russia has not been an easy task, because there it is practically banned. Customs officials ( Read more... )

Assassination of Russia. Transparences Productions (France), 2000. Director: Jean-Charles Deniau. Producer: Charles Gazelle. Abridged version (20 minutes instead of 52). Subtitles: Yuri Belov

In September 1999 a series of bombings of apartment houses took place Russia, which killed nearly 300 people and led the country into the Second Chechen War ( Read more... )

In this interview the documentary film maker Andrei Nekrasov speaks about the conditions for his work in Russia. He says that he cannot freely shoot films in Russia, so he does it secretly. Distribution and showing of his films in Russia is not possible. In Moscow there is only one place, the small Sakharov Centre, where such films can be shown. In ( Read more... )

A new book about Alexander Litvinenko, written by Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko, comes out in Russian (but not yet in Russia) on 30 April. Выходит в свет книга на русском языке об Александре Литвиненко - "САША, ВОЛОДЯ, БОРИС... История убийства". Книга написана другом Литвиненко, Алексом Гольдфарбом, и его вдовой, Мариной ( Read more... )

At the links below you can see or download the film "Rebellion. The Litvinenko case""Бунт" страшно захватывает. Неистовый фильм Андрея Некрасова и Ольги Конской определенно встряхнет тех, кто полагает, что в XXI веке Россия не играет первостепенной роли. Тема фильма - исключительно актуальная, вызывающий живой отклик в душе. (с) Press-обозрение ( Read more... )

Aleksander Litvinenko speaks about bombing of apartment houses, "Ryazan sugar", FSB morals and reasons for his rebellion. This is an extract from the film "In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko" directed by Jose De Putter (VPRO Backlight, 2007)

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Отрывок из фильма " Пямяти Александра Литвиненко".

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