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Since Vadim Baranov stepped down as
advisor to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,

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Tsar, the legends about him haven't
waned. They've multiplied.

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Most men of power get their aura from
the position they hold.

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When they lose it, it's like a plug has
been pulled.

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Baranov was a different breed.

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Some say he retreated to a monastery in
Mount Athos.

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Others swore they saw him in Ibiza.

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surrounded by coked -up models.

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Still others insist they spotted him on
the front line in Donbass.

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Vadim Baranov went through life in a
swirl of enigmas.

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The sole certainty was his influence on
the Tsar.

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In his 15 years of service, he
contributed decisively to the growth of

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Tsar's power.

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He was known as the Wizard of the
Kremlin.

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The new Rasputin.

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He would show up unannounced at the
president's office in the middle of the

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night to handle urgent matters.

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Perhaps the Tsar himself would call him
in on his personal line.

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Occasionally, the two of them were
joined by a prominent minister or the

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some state -owned conglomerate.

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but in these witnesses never shed any
light on the Tsar and his advisors'

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nightly activities.

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When I returned to Moscow a few years
after his disappearance, Baranov's

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still loomed large.

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The press persisted in attributing to
him the most baffling measures taken by

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the Kremlin.

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As for me, I had just published an essay
in Foreign Affairs that created

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something of a stir.

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It was called Vadim Baranov and the
Invention of Fake Democracy.

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Lawrence Rowland.

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If you need anything, just dial 9.

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Thank you.

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Have a good day, Mr. Rowland. You too.

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I took a year's sabbatical from Yale to
write the first biography of Yevgeny

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Zamyat, one of Russia's great writers.

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and an early antagonist of Stalin's
communist regime.

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I walked in the pale winter light,
leafed through old books.

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Zamyatin became my obsession.

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He was a visionary, and not just when it
came to Stalin, all subsequent

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dictators as well.

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From Silicon Valley oligarchs to China's
one -party state, from Mark Zuckerberg

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to Xi Jinping.

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His dystopian novel, We, inspired George
Orwell's 1984.

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Just outside the city, gloomy, never
-ending woods stretched all the way to

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Siberia.

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I felt a mix of curiosity and
apprehension.

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In Russia, things generally go pretty
well, but when they go bad, they go

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bad.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Please, follow me, Mr. Roland.

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May I take your coat?

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I will bring you something.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I didn't know you collected old books.

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I don't collect them, I read them.

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There's a major difference.

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So you're a reader of Semyatin.

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Then I have something to show you that
you will truly appreciate.

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Do you know what this is?

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The letter Semyatin wrote to Stalin.

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Asking permission to leave the USSR.

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Dear Joseph Vissarionovich, just as the
Christians created the devil as a

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convenient personification of all evil,
so the critics have transformed me into

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the devil of Soviet literature.

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I mean, I've understood too much too
quickly. I made the rash decision to

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about it.

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Please, have a seat.

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You read it? Of course.

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You even took the time to make notes.

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I'm honored.

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Let's not get carried away.

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However, compared to the others, you did
understand something. Not much, but

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something.

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Thank you.

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You said you consider yourself an
artist?

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Let's just say I play a supporting role.
I'm retired now.

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You don't miss the adrenaline?

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Trust me, there is no greater joy than
waking up every morning, having coffee,

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and taking your daughter to school.

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How did the others take it?

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My leaving.

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Badly, of course.

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Courtiers forgive everyone.

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Thieves, murderers, traitors, but not
deserters.

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What? You don't want what we're willing
to kill for?

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And the Tsar?

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The Tsar is a different story.

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My father feared this library.

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It belonged to my grandfather, Christine
Grazia Machiavelli, with skeptics that

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disillusioned hardly the Soviet doxa.

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But to his credit, he never tried to
deny me any of them.

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Your father? He ended up director of the
Academy of Social Sciences for the

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Communist Party.

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His one goal in life was to avoid being
awakened at dawn by the KGB banging on

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his front door.

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In his position, he shouldn't have had
to worry about that. No one was safe in

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the Soviet Union.

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No one is safe in Russia, period.

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Not me.

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Not even you.

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When I was growing up, the most sought
-after privilege in Moscow was the

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Kremlin Ovka, a food basket reserved for
the Communist Party's senior officials.

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What we are eating today?

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Salom pireshki.

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Lamb cutlets.

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Ultimately, my problem is that I had a
happy childhood.

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And in Russia, that's not normal.

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All the Russian elite experienced Soviet
poverty before they gained access to

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villas on the Côte d 'Azur.

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And they still haven't gotten over it.

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Even the Tsar.

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Me, the kid who grew up in a shoddy
common alca at the back of a gloomy

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courtyard in St. Petersburg.

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Now I'm invited to Buckingham Palace.

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Things have changed.

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Not that much. For you Westerners, money
is essential.

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What matters in Russia is your proximity
to power. The Soviet system was based

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on privilege, not cash.

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Yesterday there wasn't any. Tomorrow,
who knows? So you might as well just

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it all.

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Do you know what a Votushka is?

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It was a telephone without a dial that
allowed party leaders to communicate

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directly with you. Having one meant
you'd made it.

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This is a Votushka.

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Gray, like everything Soviet.

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If you think Moscow's gray, you should
try Washington. Oh, God, they're not

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there. They're dead.

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Anyway, I'm banned from entering the USA
and Europe.

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Is your father still alive?

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No. He might have subsisted in this
world for a long time, but then along

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Gorbachev and his glass of milk. Glass
of milk.

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Oh, he didn't have to listen to
Gorbachev to know that he was about to

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the Soviet Union. It was enough to look
at him.

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He took to the rostrum, they handed him
a glass of milk, and he proceeded to

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double the price of vodka and try to get
everyone on milk.

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In Russia, can you imagine?

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I wonder everything spun out of control.

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That was it for communism and for my
father. He lost everything.

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His job, privileges, reputation.

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What about you? What did you do in those
times?

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My father wanted me to be a diplomat,
but I was never keen on studying.

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I did odd jobs, found television sets,
cassette decks, and resold them.

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Business was good.

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I started to make more money than my
father, a lot more than my father.

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I was just a know -nothing kid. That's
why I was better suited to the new

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In the early 90s, Moscow was a dynamic
city.

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The place was filled with hope for a few
years, just a few.

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Banned books were coming out every week.

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Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, Bulgakov, art
magazines and literary reviews were

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selling in the millions.

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The Russian appetite for freedom was
insatiable.

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So I enrolled in the Russian Institute
of Theatre Arts in Moscow and began

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living the messy life of a thespian.

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We were barely 20 and a whole new world
had opened up to us just as we were

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finally strong enough to conquer it.

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We were so excited we never slept more
than three or four hours a night.

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We were convinced it was finally our
turn to rebuild society on new

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Thank you.

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We could see plays from Europe.

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We'd meet the actors and directors and
talk with them all night long.

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You really think that freedom will
change everything and you will live in a

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world of culture and poetry?

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Our generation rejected the system. Our
parents, they kept their heads down. Not

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us. You will not like what I'm about to
say, Ben.

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Communism was the reign of culture and
poetry.

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How can you say such things? And
communism, being a loser, was the only

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be a decent human being.

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You will not accomplish it, at least.

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Hush, comrade.

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Chaos, despair, threat.

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That's you in my head. Chaos, despair,
threat.

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That's you in my head. Unshook, unbound,
in the... No,

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no! They will never know.

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Husband or comrade, you're a brain
wreck.

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There is a shot to tie your tongue
around your neck.

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I'm serious.

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I'm serious.

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No.

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No. They will never know. You can't know
what I mean

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when I say naughty, naughty, naughty.

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Thank you.

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because it doesn't have Dalton.

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Okay, well, that's interesting.

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This must be pretty important.

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What exactly impressed you?

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You?

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Your performance.

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What performance?

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Well, wasn't that you singing?

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You called that singing?

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Well, what do you call it?

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Trendy bullshit.

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Well, I did that as a favor.

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For who?

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The KGB agents watching out.

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I'm happy to give them something to
spice up the reports.

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It's a shame you have talent.

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Because I do what New Yorkers did 15
years ago.

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Oh, you're a real Soviet.

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You think the world's just waiting for
you.

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And you're not a real Soviet.

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Well, my parents were poor and crazy.
They were hippies. They

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carted me around from commune to
commune.

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Now they're old and thick, and they
don't believe in the role, have you, any

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longer? And I'll tell you one thing. I'm
not going to end up like them.

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I'd like to talk to you about a role
which you deign to take me seriously for

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second. A role?

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What?

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You mean like the kind offered to
actresses? Yes, like the kind offered to

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actresses. Well, unfortunately, I'm not
an actress.

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And I have no desire to be one. I might
even say I've done everything in my

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power not to be one.

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Do you know you have guineas in the
absence?

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An icon.

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The most conventional avant -gardist.

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I'm not into that stuff.

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All due respect, you're missing out. I'm
putting on a version of his novel, We,

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at the Institute of Theatre Arts.

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You take breaks?

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I might be warming to you a bit.

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Do you have a car?

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Yes.

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Take me home.

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I'm done with this party.

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In a hurry.

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I don't know how I managed to make

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contact with planet Xenia, but I knew
immediately that even if I were to live

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thousand years, I'd never meet anyone
else like her.

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All right, everyone, we're going to take
it again from the top.

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Places, please.

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This is D -503 places. Let's go.

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Which scene should we start with? The
scene we've been doing all night, Yuri,

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the mirror scene.

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And should I sit down or lie down?

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You should be lying, and then when you
feel the lights are in the integral, you

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may sit up.

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All right, it's all in the repetition.

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This was excellent. Thank you, ladies.
The dinner scene was far too casual. I

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need something more mechanical.

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Is the integral ready?

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All right. Keep your actions going until
you feel the light from the integral,

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at which point you all stand up and walk
towards the windows.

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Milana, ready!

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Yes!

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This is a bad case.

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It appears he'll have developed a soul.

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Is it very serious, Doctor?

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Untreatable. But what exactly is it? I
don't understand.

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How can I explain?

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Take a surface.

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Here, this mirror.

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You know, a regular mirror reflects
reality.

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This one observes it and retains the
trace of everything.

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My brother, as you all know, down below
in the system... They're building the

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integral spaceship.

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Down with the integral, down with air!

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My brother, the integral must be ours.

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And she will be ours.

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When she rides the Skyward for the first
time, we will be the one aboard.

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For we have with us the builder of the
integral.

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He left the city and came here with me
to be with you.

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Long live the builder!

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Her ambitions may have been vague, but
in any case, Muscovite avant -garde

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theater had little chance of satisfying
them.

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I know. I lived in Moscow during those
years.

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There were no limits.

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Everything was collapsing and being
rebuilt at once. It was a fascinating

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terrifying time.

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Xenia and I lived in our artistic bubble
while life outside was rife with

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possibilities.

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Nearly every day, some former classmate
would come to me with an idea, a

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business proposition.

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First on his grandfather's bicycle, then
in an armored Bentley surrounded by

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bodyguards.

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That's pretty much how it happened for
Dmitri.

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Sidorov. Sidorov, yes.

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Dmitri Sidorov.

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I'd known him in high school.

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Now he was head of the Uncommunist
League at the university.

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Don't think he was a party apparatchik.

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In the late 80s, the student cooperative
was the incubator for Russian

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capitalism.

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I liked hearing about his adventures.

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I wanted to write a play about
entrepreneurs like him.

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You seen Dimitri?

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Stolen five minutes ago. Check the box.

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They were a new social class emerging
out of nowhere in a matter of months. It

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was pretty remarkable.

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Did you see him?

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Listen, this cafe was my first business,
but obviously I used it as a launching

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pad for more lucrative endeavors.

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Not all of which were legal.

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But yeah, there is no more legality.
That's over. Forget it. Let me tell you

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story. No more writing. Close your eyes.
Pretend I'm your mama.

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Once upon a time, I come across a supply
of cognac. You mean fake cognac. Fake

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real. Who cares? That's not the point. I
put it on the market for $50 a bottle.

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You hear that?

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No one wants it. I mark it up to $500.
They're fucking fighting for it.

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I'm sure you didn't stop at con yet.

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Computers, acid wash jeans, tourist
trinkets, software, all of it thanks to

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student cooperative.

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A few minor cons.

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I struggle to believe you. Can't fool
you.

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These are some stories to make your
audience laugh. It's a play.

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It's a play.

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In actual fact, I came up with this
scheme to facilitate the flow of

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between state -run businesses. In a
nutshell, I borrow money and lend it to

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others for a fee, basically what is
known as a bank, but...

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No one in this country knows what a bank
is.

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Tough questions.

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Yeah, you could say that. In essence, I
created Russia's first commercial bank,

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and I'll tell you how I did it. I found
a book, Commercial Banks of Capitalist

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Countries.

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Remarkable work.

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It explained simply and in great detail
how the banking system works, and I

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said, hey, I like this.

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Would you describe yourself as greedy?

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Absolutely, yes.

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Absolutely. I didn't used to be, but I
grow greedier now by the day. It's an

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asset in my line of work. I have a
banker's personality. I love money.

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Nice suit.

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Nice shirt.

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Good read?

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Uh, we're behind the times.

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You still have your mustache.

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00:23:27,180 --> 00:23:29,300
Journalists are always behind the times.
I don't need to tell you about you.

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Bloody hick mustache.

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He did well to save it all.

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How's the play coming along?

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My play about you?

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Yes. I won't write it.

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Why? Because it's over now.

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00:23:41,350 --> 00:23:42,750
You can't tell me the truth anymore.

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You're right.

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00:23:47,210 --> 00:23:48,910
But you know I never could tell you the
whole truth.

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No, but you used to tell me a bit more.

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00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:09,880
So, this is the famous Dimitri.

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00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,440
I see no other.

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00:24:12,380 --> 00:24:15,840
But Dean says you're worth 80 million
rubles a year. Is that true?

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00:24:16,220 --> 00:24:17,220
Could be, I don't know.

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00:24:17,460 --> 00:24:18,560
He also says you're a star.

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00:24:20,180 --> 00:24:21,180
Is that so?

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00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,320
There's nothing wrong with that.

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Elise Norton.

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A bit too flashy to be elegant.

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00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:36,200
Flashy? She says to go with the fucking
bear on her head.

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00:24:36,730 --> 00:24:39,910
In the world I'm moving, it's better to
be flashy than elegant. You get more

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respect.

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00:24:41,970 --> 00:24:43,490
That explains your dreadful tie.

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00:24:44,290 --> 00:24:46,610
Eugenia Maranero of Naples. Va bene.

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00:24:47,370 --> 00:24:49,730
Bellissima cravata. Never heard of it.

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00:24:49,970 --> 00:24:52,070
Of course you haven't. Just one tiny
boutique.

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00:24:52,310 --> 00:24:54,290
But it travels the world to make ties to
measure.

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00:24:54,590 --> 00:24:56,070
They make ties to measure.

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In the world I'm moving, they can.

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You like champagne?

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00:25:00,090 --> 00:25:01,110
It's too flashy for you.

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00:25:03,180 --> 00:25:06,780
I should have known from that very first
encounter that my fate was sealed.

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00:25:07,380 --> 00:25:11,320
Xenia would choose Dimitri, his
vulgarity, his energy.

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He felt it immediately, and so did I.

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00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,120
But for a long time, I refused to
believe it.

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00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:23,920
Yes?

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00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:25,560
Coming, coming, coming.

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00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,440
Bad time?

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00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,360
Dimitri, I wanted to surprise you. Come,
come, come, come, come, come, come,

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00:25:31,460 --> 00:25:33,340
come. Let's go, let's go. Are you
hungry?

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00:25:33,660 --> 00:25:35,140
I have those flashy things.

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00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:36,840
Come here.

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00:25:37,220 --> 00:25:40,360
Maybe you put me in the play, I'll show
you.

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00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,040
From that moment on, Dimitri became a
frequent visitor to our house.

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And there I was, thinking he came out of
some deep -rooted respect for the art

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Xenia and I had chosen to dedicate our
lives to.

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As if culture still had the power to
exert any influence over the real world.

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00:26:02,380 --> 00:26:05,760
The sleek, shiny world of money was
Dimitri's natural habitat.

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00:26:06,140 --> 00:26:08,080
Nothing could turn him away from it.

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00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,980
But he wanted Xenia, so he was willing
to spend a little time with us in the

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ruins of the City of the Dead.

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00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:23,400
As the months passed, Xenia became
increasingly receptive to his lodges.

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Everything that initially defined our
friendship.

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00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,040
Books we shared, concerts.

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00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,460
The all -night discussions had fallen by
the wayside in favor of more money

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00:26:33,460 --> 00:26:34,460
-centric activities.

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00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:39,740
Gallery and discotheque openings,
dinners at White Sun or Hermitage.

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00:26:40,420 --> 00:26:43,620
Xenia was getting higher by the minute
on Dimitri's lifestyle.

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00:26:59,850 --> 00:27:00,850
Hold on.

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00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,520
I remember waking up one night and
gazing at her for a long time.

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00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,540
I felt so tired, even though I hadn't
accomplished anything yet.

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00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:56,800
I nurtured the illusion that Xenia would
perceive my greatness.

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00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,640
But as the days passed, I noticed that
the way she saw me was changing.

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00:28:02,260 --> 00:28:05,720
What began as a vague look of irony was
morphing into contempt.

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00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,980
You're stronger than I am because you
don't love me, I wanted to tell her.

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00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,940
My pain only augmented her boredom.

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00:28:38,990 --> 00:28:39,990
Do you want some water?

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00:28:56,790 --> 00:28:59,510
Dimitri, I've told you ten times you
drive too rough.

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00:28:59,730 --> 00:29:00,810
I know no other way.

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00:29:01,150 --> 00:29:02,830
Let Vadim take the wheel or I'll
hitchhike home.

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00:29:04,650 --> 00:29:06,950
Do you want to go in the back?

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00:29:07,310 --> 00:29:10,440
That's sweet of you. but I get even
sicker in the back.

401
00:29:57,550 --> 00:29:59,330
Is there something I forgot to tell you?

402
00:30:00,050 --> 00:30:01,050
I'm listening.

403
00:30:02,590 --> 00:30:03,590
I'm leaving.

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00:30:08,750 --> 00:30:13,230
Is that all you can muster? You saw me
in the car with Dimitri. Do you think I

405
00:30:13,230 --> 00:30:14,230
missed that?

406
00:30:16,210 --> 00:30:18,970
Huh? Yeah, it's been over between us for
a long time.

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00:30:30,830 --> 00:30:31,830
Come in.

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00:30:32,190 --> 00:30:33,630
You're not disturbing me.

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00:30:33,970 --> 00:30:35,470
I was afraid to wake you.

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00:30:35,710 --> 00:30:36,710
Have a seat.

411
00:30:40,210 --> 00:30:45,550
Finally, I have an excuse to stay in bed
all day, reading the classics and

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00:30:45,550 --> 00:30:47,170
dozing. That suits me.

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00:30:47,470 --> 00:30:48,470
There's the illness.

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00:30:48,830 --> 00:30:50,330
This may surprise you.

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00:30:50,550 --> 00:30:53,030
But illness is not necessarily a serious
thing.

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00:30:54,050 --> 00:30:59,750
Serious things, like effort and work,
are the burden of people in good health.

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00:31:00,330 --> 00:31:04,250
Those who are dying have nothing more to
do. They can just enjoy their days.

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00:31:19,290 --> 00:31:21,250
I left Xenia.

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00:31:22,790 --> 00:31:23,790
I know.

420
00:31:25,270 --> 00:31:27,750
You'll have a dozen opportunities to
start over.

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00:31:29,230 --> 00:31:35,430
I expected to suffer terribly, but I
feel lighter and strong.

422
00:31:35,670 --> 00:31:39,490
You see, the theater is no longer enough
for me.

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00:31:40,950 --> 00:31:43,030
Losing Xenia has made me ambitious.

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00:31:43,910 --> 00:31:44,910
Ambitious now?

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00:31:46,490 --> 00:31:47,490
That's unexpected.

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00:31:48,630 --> 00:31:52,550
But all the better. I'll take it as good
news. I cannot bear the writer's

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00:31:52,550 --> 00:31:53,970
failure to affect reality.

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00:31:54,350 --> 00:31:56,550
I want to be part of my times.

429
00:31:57,420 --> 00:31:58,420
Not just a witness.

430
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,160
You know what?

431
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,440
I leave your times to you.

432
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:05,320
With no regrets.

433
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,220
Oh, this is Sputnik. The only one
allowed inside.

434
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,440
Come here, Sputnik. Say hi.

435
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:17,460
My daughter loves him.

436
00:32:18,740 --> 00:32:21,860
In the end, my father had an attack and
died very suddenly.

437
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,120
The ceremony wasn't exactly...

438
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:26,880
Headline news.

439
00:32:28,060 --> 00:32:32,860
Four poor souls followed the hearse in a
beat -up car while the shiny SUVs of

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00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:35,900
the nouveau riche sped past them. He
died too late.

441
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,720
He probably would have wanted a nicer
funeral.

442
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,200
But in the end, he didn't give a damn.

443
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,860
At least, I hope he didn't.

444
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,560
I needed to get my mind off things.

445
00:32:54,090 --> 00:32:57,010
And Moscow in the mid -90s was the
perfect place to do that.

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00:32:58,110 --> 00:33:02,370
Imagine all those young men and women
suddenly seeing a new world of

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00:33:02,370 --> 00:33:03,830
opening up before them.

448
00:33:04,090 --> 00:33:08,270
They could become whatever they wanted,
amass fortunes, travel the world.

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00:33:08,630 --> 00:33:10,450
It was enough to make your head spin.

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00:33:11,310 --> 00:33:13,510
It was a time of incredible violence.

451
00:33:13,830 --> 00:33:17,970
There was gunfire everywhere, and for
the most frivolous reasons, men of no

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00:33:17,970 --> 00:33:22,010
importance were escorted by private
militia until the day they were blown

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00:33:22,010 --> 00:33:23,010
high.

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00:33:27,210 --> 00:33:31,510
Turning my theater experience into a
career as a TV producer was like going

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00:33:31,510 --> 00:33:33,270
a horse and cart to a Lamborghini.

456
00:33:34,130 --> 00:33:38,050
One day I was sitting at a kitchen table
rhapsodizing about Mayakovsky and

457
00:33:38,050 --> 00:33:39,050
drinking hot tea.

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00:33:39,190 --> 00:33:43,690
The next, I was nursing a latte in an
open space designed by Dutch architects.

459
00:33:44,830 --> 00:33:45,970
Forget Channel One.

460
00:33:46,350 --> 00:33:50,970
Forget state TV. We're a private
company. Times have changed. We're going

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00:33:50,970 --> 00:33:53,250
game shows and politics, but different.

462
00:33:53,650 --> 00:33:54,950
The Soviets...

463
00:33:55,290 --> 00:33:58,690
trying to smother this country under a
lid of boredom. The first rule?

464
00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:00,350
Don't be boring.

465
00:34:02,090 --> 00:34:05,170
There's one project that stands out from
the others. This one.

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00:34:05,930 --> 00:34:06,950
Do you know why?

467
00:34:07,290 --> 00:34:08,290
No.

468
00:34:09,110 --> 00:34:14,230
Because it has all the Russian
stereotypes, not a single one left out.

469
00:34:14,530 --> 00:34:20,210
The provincial babushka, the nihilistic
student, the ambitious slut. I read it.

470
00:34:20,250 --> 00:34:21,500
It... Stinks.

471
00:34:22,940 --> 00:34:24,739
I read them all and they all stink.

472
00:34:25,020 --> 00:34:28,239
Especially that one. Except that it'll
work.

473
00:34:28,659 --> 00:34:32,679
Remember, we're not just producing
shows. All the other institutions have

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00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:33,679
collapsed.

475
00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:35,719
It's now up to TV to show the way.

476
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,420
Maybe a reality show about finishing
schools that teach young girls to

477
00:34:40,420 --> 00:34:41,820
freshly minted millionaires?

478
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,440
Well, that's not bad. Does that
genuinely exist?

479
00:34:44,820 --> 00:34:47,560
It totally exists. It's big and it's
getting bigger.

480
00:34:57,390 --> 00:35:00,650
to buy my mom the most beautiful house
in Krasnoyarsk.

481
00:35:03,910 --> 00:35:10,750
My dream is to be the trophy wife of the
richest old dog in Russia and live

482
00:35:10,750 --> 00:35:12,370
my life in Monte Carlo.

483
00:35:13,030 --> 00:35:16,870
She's the one. No, seriously, she's the
one.

484
00:35:17,350 --> 00:35:22,150
Oh, it's an excellent project, and this
girl rightfully belongs in it.

485
00:35:25,610 --> 00:35:29,450
At that time, the owner of RTP Channel
was a mathematician who'd become a

486
00:35:29,450 --> 00:35:31,190
billionaire, Boris Berezovsky.

487
00:35:31,670 --> 00:35:34,690
He bought an old palace on
Novokuznetskaya Street.

488
00:35:35,710 --> 00:35:39,270
It was meant to be the headquarters of
his business, but Berezovsky did

489
00:35:39,270 --> 00:35:41,990
something else with it entirely,
something far more special.

490
00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:45,390
Made it a club of sorts, the Logovaz
Club.

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00:35:49,420 --> 00:35:50,760
It was very exclusive.

492
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,840
The creme de la creme of politics, big
business, showbiz and crime.

493
00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:00,040
It's a bit of a scene. We're in the
Caucasus, we're in Chechnya, and I'm

494
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,680
standing in front of a warlord who has
taken Russian officers hostage. There's

495
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,680
no joke.

496
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:08,300
He's already beheaded one of them.

497
00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:13,160
But it wasn't politics, it was business.
He wanted money, only cash. Right now,

498
00:36:13,220 --> 00:36:15,640
I don't have any cash on me. I don't
walk around with...

499
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,920
wads of cash, but I notice him buying my
watch at the Patek Philippe Nautilus,

500
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:21,920
like the one I'm wearing tonight.

501
00:36:22,620 --> 00:36:24,980
So I say to him, you don't have a watch.

502
00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:29,540
Do you know how much it's worth? It's
worth more than your hostages. And he

503
00:36:29,540 --> 00:36:33,700
says, I know exactly what it's worth.
It's worth $800 ,000 used. And that

504
00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:37,180
floored me. He knew the exact price.
Rustam was no fool.

505
00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,560
He said, if you take the hostages
home...

506
00:36:41,980 --> 00:36:45,660
The publicity you'll get on TV is worth
more than $800 ,000, and he gave me this

507
00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:48,420
vacuous soldier's stag zero bullshit.

508
00:36:49,860 --> 00:36:51,960
So you come out ahead. Is it a deal?

509
00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:57,780
So I gave him my watch. I took the
hostages home. It was the opening story

510
00:36:57,780 --> 00:36:58,780
the evening news.

511
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,960
In those days, my modest achievements as
a TV producer got me the occasional

512
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,720
invitation to Logovaska.

513
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:12,620
Usually, Perzovsky would summon me for
an update on some project or to suggest

514
00:37:12,620 --> 00:37:16,100
hire some random relative or equally
random mistress.

515
00:37:17,980 --> 00:37:18,980
Come in.

516
00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:23,020
Vadya. All right.

517
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,160
Our friend Vadya is a wizard.

518
00:37:28,780 --> 00:37:32,500
With his help, we pulverize our
opponents.

519
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:35,640
So you're happy where you are?

520
00:37:36,970 --> 00:37:38,330
Well, I'm not sure I understand.

521
00:37:38,790 --> 00:37:42,730
In this country, you run the same risk
whether you have a dog in the fight or

522
00:37:42,730 --> 00:37:43,589
no.

523
00:37:43,590 --> 00:37:44,770
I'll tell you my story.

524
00:37:45,030 --> 00:37:46,030
You'll see what I mean.

525
00:37:47,070 --> 00:37:52,370
So I was perfectly content doing my own
thing. I'd built a smart, modern, clean

526
00:37:52,370 --> 00:37:55,590
business. From what I hear, your
business was more of a scam.

527
00:37:56,190 --> 00:37:58,690
You resold stolen cars right off the
assembly line.

528
00:38:01,430 --> 00:38:04,810
I was only doing what everyone was doing
at the time. Only worse.

529
00:38:05,290 --> 00:38:08,470
You weren't very choosy about your
partners and their methods, no offence.

530
00:38:08,710 --> 00:38:14,630
Anyway, one day this bastard shows up,
tries to steal my business out from

531
00:38:14,630 --> 00:38:17,990
underneath me, and what do you think he
does? Does he open a competing

532
00:38:17,990 --> 00:38:21,070
dealership, try to beat me fair and
square like they do in the US or in

533
00:38:21,230 --> 00:38:22,830
No, Boris, that's not what he did.

534
00:38:23,030 --> 00:38:29,430
That son of a bitch filled an old Opel
with TNT, parked it on my route home,

535
00:38:29,430 --> 00:38:31,330
as I passed, he pushed a remote, and
boom.

536
00:38:33,130 --> 00:38:34,210
No more Berezovsky.

537
00:38:35,710 --> 00:38:36,870
At least that was the plan.

538
00:38:37,670 --> 00:38:39,850
Unfortunately, it didn't work out for
him.

539
00:38:41,090 --> 00:38:44,110
And I ended up with my chauffeur's head
in my arms.

540
00:38:45,610 --> 00:38:46,610
I survived.

541
00:38:47,970 --> 00:38:52,330
But that day I realized that if you
don't grab power, power grabs you.

542
00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:55,370
So I went to Switzerland for two weeks
to recover.

543
00:38:55,810 --> 00:38:58,510
And do you know what I did when I got
back to Moscow?

544
00:38:59,170 --> 00:39:00,530
You learned to play tennis.

545
00:39:00,930 --> 00:39:01,930
It wasn't easy.

546
00:39:02,170 --> 00:39:03,310
I hate the sport.

547
00:39:04,140 --> 00:39:05,480
You hate all sports.

548
00:39:08,020 --> 00:39:10,960
The old president, Boris Yeltsin, was in
decline.

549
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,220
He overdid it on the vodka, they say.

550
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,660
He had a sports club built on Sparrow
Hills that looked out over Moscow.

551
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,540
He spent all his spare time playing
tennis there.

552
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,040
It was the only way to get near him.

553
00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:31,540
Let's face it, Boris was finished. The
elections were coming. His numbers were

554
00:39:31,540 --> 00:39:32,479
in the dumps.

555
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,540
His whole retinue of petty schemers were
at rock bottom, and they quickly

556
00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:37,840
understood that I was their only hope.

557
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,000
We hadn't lost yet.

558
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,920
You listen to me, Boris Mikhailovich.

559
00:39:53,820 --> 00:39:58,400
Russia still needs you, your courage and
your integrity.

560
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:00,820
No one loves them anymore.

561
00:40:01,870 --> 00:40:07,550
I save democracy, but democracy here
means that everyone has become poor,

562
00:40:07,770 --> 00:40:12,990
except for a few smart devils like you
who've gone and filled the rich.

563
00:40:15,570 --> 00:40:22,410
Well, if you give me control of state
TV, then I will give you an

564
00:40:22,410 --> 00:40:26,170
election campaign like you've never seen
before. You're in dire straits now, but

565
00:40:26,170 --> 00:40:27,370
in two months you'll be on top.

566
00:40:30,690 --> 00:40:35,410
This is how I took control of Channel
One, ATP, as it's now called. And for

567
00:40:35,410 --> 00:40:39,050
record, I kept my word. I revived him in
the polls.

568
00:40:39,330 --> 00:40:40,930
What you did was sink his rivals.

569
00:40:41,290 --> 00:40:44,450
A bunch of communist nostalgics taking
them out as a cinch. You were defending

570
00:40:44,450 --> 00:40:46,890
your interests and those of the other
oligarchs.

571
00:40:47,470 --> 00:40:48,470
Well, yeah.

572
00:40:48,950 --> 00:40:49,950
It's true.

573
00:40:50,250 --> 00:40:51,250
So what?

574
00:40:51,350 --> 00:40:52,890
It's all part of the democratic process.

575
00:40:53,090 --> 00:40:56,310
Right. When you have a very loose notion
of democracy.

576
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,060
So over the course of the rallies, the
old man began to enjoy himself.

577
00:41:08,980 --> 00:41:12,620
The problem was that two weeks before
the election, he went and had a heart

578
00:41:12,620 --> 00:41:14,480
attack on us. That was a close call.

579
00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:19,120
The very day that he was supposed to
record his final speech to the nation.

580
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:20,680
Obviously, we cancelled everything.

581
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,580
But a few days later, the rumours began
to spread.

582
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:28,240
He had to show up. Except his doctor
wouldn't let him leave his residence. It

583
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:29,058
was too risky.

584
00:41:29,060 --> 00:41:31,460
So we figured, keep up appearances.

585
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:34,710
We bring the Kremlin furniture to him.

586
00:41:37,070 --> 00:41:39,090
Put the flags in the stands.

587
00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:46,410
Federation flag on the left. Check the
distance.

588
00:41:47,250 --> 00:41:49,010
The president is on his way down.

589
00:41:50,350 --> 00:41:51,350
No, no.

590
00:42:04,350 --> 00:42:06,010
Good morning, Boris Nikolaevich.

591
00:42:06,770 --> 00:42:07,930
Come and have a see what we've done.

592
00:42:08,730 --> 00:42:12,030
It's the perfect copy of your office in
the Kremlin. No one's going to notice

593
00:42:12,030 --> 00:42:13,030
the difference.

594
00:42:14,110 --> 00:42:15,110
Help him with the chair.

595
00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:56,760
Russian citizens, it's why the

596
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:01,080
motherland... Let's try again.

597
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,680
...will take place. Misha, can you slow
down the prompter? ...for the future.

598
00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:11,080
Russian citizens... Once again, please.

599
00:43:12,140 --> 00:43:16,720
Russian citizens, the 3rd of July.

600
00:43:36,570 --> 00:43:41,570
Yeltsin was re -elected by a landslide,
and then he fell back into lethargy. He

601
00:43:41,570 --> 00:43:42,830
had two more heart attacks.

602
00:43:43,390 --> 00:43:47,790
For four years of his second term,
Berezovsky was the real leader of

603
00:43:48,380 --> 00:43:50,840
The oligarchs raked in everything they
could.

604
00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:56,440
That's how my old pal, Dmitry Sidorov,
bought himself a fossil fuel giant for a

605
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,200
mere 168 million.

606
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,620
It would go on to make him 3 billion a
year.

607
00:44:02,180 --> 00:44:03,180
Oh, yeah?

608
00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:07,180
Berzovsky sensed the winds were turning.

609
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,160
Russians were tired and needed order.

610
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,640
They'd grown up in a motherland, and now
all they had left was a supermarket.

611
00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:19,240
The challenge was to come up with a
solution before someone else did. So,

612
00:44:21,220 --> 00:44:22,700
I have friends in the Kremlin.

613
00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:25,400
And I lend a hand from time to time.

614
00:44:26,140 --> 00:44:28,460
But the scenario has completely changed.

615
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,100
It's no longer a matter of supporting
the current regime. We need to invent

616
00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:35,580
something new. Something and someone.

617
00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:39,940
President won't make it to the end of
his term. Someone to embody it, of

618
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,200
That's the easy part.

619
00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:43,320
But what we need...

620
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,560
First is a party for everyone to rally
around.

621
00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:48,440
The Unity Party.

622
00:44:51,580 --> 00:44:53,240
What do you think about you?

623
00:44:54,620 --> 00:44:55,840
I already have an emblem.

624
00:44:57,540 --> 00:44:58,540
The bear.

625
00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:00,560
Emblem of the Raccoon Soul.

626
00:45:04,220 --> 00:45:05,380
So, will you join us?

627
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:07,220
I don't know, Boris.

628
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:08,560
I like my job.

629
00:45:08,820 --> 00:45:09,820
It's the same job.

630
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:17,040
I'm merely suggesting that you graduate
to the next level. Stop making up

631
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,060
stories. Start inventing reality with
me.

632
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,180
He's shown his matter at decisive
moments.

633
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:42,720
He's a modest guy.

634
00:45:43,220 --> 00:45:44,220
You'll like him.

635
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:55,260
Director, Putin will see you now.

636
00:46:12,459 --> 00:46:15,720
I know why you're here. Of course you
do. You're the best informant in Russia.

637
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,960
I've been thinking it over, Boris
Abramovich.

638
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:26,680
You see, the Secret Service has all the
advantages of politics

639
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,620
without any of the drawbacks.

640
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,060
I'm at the centre of the system here.

641
00:46:34,380 --> 00:46:36,360
I'm well positioned. I hear, I see
everything.

642
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,900
I can effectively intervene to protect
the president with the president's

643
00:46:40,900 --> 00:46:42,720
family. I've done it before. I'll do it
again.

644
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,120
Well, you take me out of here, you put
me in government, they chew me up, they

645
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,100
spit me out like every other prime
minister these past years, these past

646
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:54,240
right?

647
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,120
And you lose the most loyal guardian of
the state.

648
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,200
If we don't act quickly, within a year
there will be no more president, no more

649
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:02,200
family to protect.

650
00:47:03,530 --> 00:47:07,890
The first thing that the new head of the
Kremlin will do is replace you.

651
00:47:09,250 --> 00:47:10,250
Mind me.

652
00:47:12,050 --> 00:47:13,190
I'm a civil servant.

653
00:47:14,770 --> 00:47:21,490
Sure, I've given a couple of speeches in
public, but they were never

654
00:47:21,490 --> 00:47:26,990
earth -shattering. The president steps
into a room and sniffs the air. Everyone

655
00:47:26,990 --> 00:47:28,490
is on his side in two minutes.

656
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,260
laughing and they're crying like they're
having a chat in his kitchen. I'm not

657
00:47:32,260 --> 00:47:33,158
that man.

658
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:38,360
I'm not cut from that cloth. If I may,
Vladimir Vladimirovich, that's exactly

659
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:39,360
what this is about.

660
00:47:39,820 --> 00:47:42,780
A president has a one -of -a -kind
personality.

661
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,220
His human qualities were essential for
moving our country from the old Soviet

662
00:47:47,220 --> 00:47:49,120
Union to today's Russia.

663
00:47:50,020 --> 00:47:51,460
But he's all used up.

664
00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:53,680
We need someone different.

665
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,140
A clean break.

666
00:47:55,770 --> 00:47:59,570
If the president names you Prime
Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich, you

667
00:47:59,570 --> 00:48:00,830
represent legitimate authority.

668
00:48:02,090 --> 00:48:04,510
Russians need stability and security.

669
00:48:05,250 --> 00:48:11,050
Your young, athletic, energetic
something about you says, I can handle

670
00:48:11,050 --> 00:48:12,430
responsibility of command.

671
00:48:13,590 --> 00:48:16,810
Your career in the Secret Services
guarantees you're trustworthy.

672
00:48:17,810 --> 00:48:23,110
And being a man of few words will work
in your favor, not against you. Russians

673
00:48:23,110 --> 00:48:25,050
are tired of carnival barkers.

674
00:48:25,530 --> 00:48:32,070
and the campaign that we have in mind
won't be the usual rallies and empty

675
00:48:32,070 --> 00:48:37,750
promises. We want to take the risk of
portraying you as a different brand of

676
00:48:37,750 --> 00:48:42,690
politician. Vladimir Vladimirovich, I
don't know much about politics, but I do

677
00:48:42,690 --> 00:48:44,270
know a few things about communication.

678
00:48:44,910 --> 00:48:50,610
There are two dimensions in a society,
the horizontal axis that is daily life

679
00:48:50,610 --> 00:48:53,010
and the vertical axis, which is
authority.

680
00:48:54,190 --> 00:48:58,090
The Soviet system was vertical. Then all
of a sudden, since the end of the

681
00:48:58,090 --> 00:49:00,170
Soviet period, it has become horizontal.

682
00:49:00,590 --> 00:49:04,270
Too much horizontality is synonymous
with chaos.

683
00:49:04,990 --> 00:49:10,470
Russians dream of verticality. A
psychoanalyst would say they are waiting

684
00:49:10,470 --> 00:49:14,290
leader to obliterate the language of the
mother and impose the word of the

685
00:49:14,290 --> 00:49:15,370
father once again.

686
00:49:15,690 --> 00:49:21,130
Public opinion coalesces fast, but we
only have a few months to convince the

687
00:49:21,130 --> 00:49:22,130
Russian people.

688
00:49:22,700 --> 00:49:25,380
that you are the man of the hour.

689
00:49:28,340 --> 00:49:31,600
And remember, you won't be on your own.

690
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:37,060
I'll be there by your side to help you
and to advise you whenever you need me.

691
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,120
It's a bag.

692
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,700
There's no rocket scientist, but now
he'll do just fine.

693
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,740
I nodded along and laughed with him.

694
00:49:53,180 --> 00:49:57,000
But things were a bit more complicated
than what Berezovsky seemed to grasp.

695
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:05,480
When he addressed him with his own brand
of chummy joviality, I sensed

696
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,380
a hint of annoyance in Putin's gaze.

697
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:12,180
And then there was that flash of irony
when Boris promised to guide him every

698
00:50:12,180 --> 00:50:13,180
step of the way.

699
00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:18,120
It seems that the very idea of being
guided by this man was...

700
00:50:18,540 --> 00:50:20,600
Wildly funny to the FSB chief.

701
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,500
Hurry up, Vladimir Alekseevich.

702
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:28,580
Vladimir Vladimirovich is waiting.

703
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:42,760
Good afternoon, sir.

704
00:50:44,340 --> 00:50:47,560
Recommendations? Today we have excellent
tea scallops.

705
00:50:48,090 --> 00:50:50,430
A bowl of kasha.

706
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:57,350
I have a lot of respect for

707
00:50:57,350 --> 00:51:04,150
Berezovsky. I'm grateful for his offer,
but if I

708
00:51:04,150 --> 00:51:09,070
embark on this journey,

709
00:51:09,910 --> 00:51:14,730
I'll be relying on my own strengths, not
someone else's.

710
00:51:15,510 --> 00:51:16,950
The Russian president.

711
00:51:17,470 --> 00:51:22,490
cannot and must not be subservient to
anyone.

712
00:51:24,170 --> 00:51:25,910
It's unthinkable to me.

713
00:51:27,370 --> 00:51:33,030
Your analysis the other day was very
interesting, but first we should clarify

714
00:51:33,030 --> 00:51:34,030
something.

715
00:51:34,830 --> 00:51:39,630
If you accept my offer, you'll be
working exclusively for me,

716
00:51:40,650 --> 00:51:42,410
Paddy Maleksevich.

717
00:51:51,790 --> 00:51:53,570
Thinking about your concept of
verticality.

718
00:51:54,730 --> 00:51:58,250
It's potent, but it cannot remain
abstract.

719
00:52:00,850 --> 00:52:04,950
We need a well -defined arena where we
can restore the verticality of power.

720
00:52:05,250 --> 00:52:08,250
Otherwise we appear helpless like all
the other politicians in this country.

721
00:52:08,870 --> 00:52:12,150
Indeed, Vladimir Vladimirovich, but we
can't just snap our fingers.

722
00:52:13,510 --> 00:52:15,090
There is always the unexpected.

723
00:52:15,430 --> 00:52:18,970
The unexpected is always a result of
incompetence. Or at the mercy of

724
00:52:18,970 --> 00:52:19,970
circumstance.

725
00:52:20,290 --> 00:52:22,090
Circumstance? Staring us in the face.

726
00:52:24,270 --> 00:52:25,270
Don't you see it?

727
00:52:28,110 --> 00:52:29,850
The Islamic fundamentalists.

728
00:52:31,430 --> 00:52:33,370
No longer content with just Chechnya.

729
00:52:35,870 --> 00:52:39,630
They want Dagestan, Ingushetia,
Bashkortostan.

730
00:52:42,070 --> 00:52:43,150
We let them have them.

731
00:52:44,930 --> 00:52:47,530
In a few years, there'll be nothing left
of the Russian Federation.

732
00:52:48,300 --> 00:52:51,260
I'm sorry, but I would think twice
before getting involved in that mess.

733
00:52:52,100 --> 00:52:56,560
These past few years, Chechnya has
killed more political careers here in

734
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,080
than enemies on the battlefield.

735
00:52:58,500 --> 00:53:04,640
None of them have put enough energy into
the issue. Those politicians want a war

736
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,140
that dare not speak its name.

737
00:53:07,940 --> 00:53:11,500
A humane war, like the Americans do.

738
00:53:12,860 --> 00:53:14,180
I'm talking about something else.

739
00:53:15,660 --> 00:53:20,540
I'm not interested in winning the Nobel
Peace Prize. What interests me is

740
00:53:20,540 --> 00:53:24,080
restoring integrity to the Russian
Federation.

741
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,760
I won't comment on geopolitics. It's not
my field of expertise.

742
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:33,520
What I will say, however, is that it's
political suicide.

743
00:53:34,580 --> 00:53:35,660
I think you're mistaken.

744
00:53:37,740 --> 00:53:41,380
I think you've let Westerners persuade
you that an electoral campaign has to be

745
00:53:41,380 --> 00:53:44,860
two teams of economists discussing
PowerPoint presentations.

746
00:53:48,540 --> 00:53:54,640
In Russia, power is something else
entirely.

747
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:04,020
That day, I didn't understand precisely
what Putin meant, but I left the lunch

748
00:54:04,020 --> 00:54:05,020
with one certainty.

749
00:54:05,910 --> 00:54:08,650
Berezovsky had just made the biggest
mistake of his life.

750
00:54:10,650 --> 00:54:15,470
In the early days of August, Boris
Yeltsin chose a new prime minister,

751
00:54:15,470 --> 00:54:16,470
to most.

752
00:54:16,510 --> 00:54:20,330
The choice of Vladimir Putin was greeted
with general skepticism.

753
00:54:20,870 --> 00:54:24,610
He was the fifth head of government
Yeltsin had enthroned in less than a

754
00:54:27,130 --> 00:54:30,830
Our officers were located in the former
house of Soviets, dubbed the Russian

755
00:54:30,830 --> 00:54:31,830
White House.

756
00:54:32,090 --> 00:54:35,210
A giant block of naphthalene on the
banks of the Moscow River.

757
00:54:36,130 --> 00:54:38,610
The whole floor had been freed up for
new hires.

758
00:54:39,170 --> 00:54:42,350
Putin knew there were only a few weeks
left to harness public opinion.

759
00:54:42,610 --> 00:54:44,130
He had no time to lose.

760
00:54:46,710 --> 00:54:50,210
So that son of a bitch, the prime
minister, wants results on the ground.

761
00:54:50,670 --> 00:54:51,670
Doesn't matter how.

762
00:54:52,530 --> 00:54:57,070
Sorry, but the media doesn't set our
agenda. Politics does. We're here to

763
00:54:57,070 --> 00:54:59,950
produce results, not limp excuses.

764
00:55:00,970 --> 00:55:02,230
I have the polls you requested.

765
00:55:02,550 --> 00:55:05,470
I need you to crunch the numbers. Okay,
I'll meet you in your office. I have to

766
00:55:05,470 --> 00:55:06,470
see Krasinski first.

767
00:55:06,670 --> 00:55:09,650
We're on the right track. Dimitri
Anatolevich, we shouldn't be on the

768
00:55:09,650 --> 00:55:11,430
track. We should already be there.

769
00:55:17,710 --> 00:55:18,710
Where's Krasinski?

770
00:55:19,230 --> 00:55:20,930
Unfortunately, he couldn't make it.

771
00:55:22,330 --> 00:55:24,870
What, are we not important enough for
him? He's abroad.

772
00:55:25,250 --> 00:55:27,030
So who are you, his messengers?

773
00:55:27,570 --> 00:55:28,830
We run the MTV network.

774
00:55:30,970 --> 00:55:33,410
Please give Mr. Kuczynski the following
message.

775
00:55:34,170 --> 00:55:39,650
The policies of the Russian Federation
are not to be decided in the offices of

776
00:55:39,650 --> 00:55:42,410
NTV. That never crossed Mr.

777
00:55:42,690 --> 00:55:47,210
Kuczynski's mind. I watch, Kukly, your
political puppet show. Sometimes I find

778
00:55:47,210 --> 00:55:48,990
it funny. I laugh. I do.

779
00:55:50,470 --> 00:55:53,950
Unfortunately, the Prime Minister
doesn't share your sense of humor.

780
00:55:54,720 --> 00:55:58,920
He suspects Mr. Kaczynski may have a
bone to pick with him. No way. Never in

781
00:55:58,920 --> 00:55:59,859
million years.

782
00:55:59,860 --> 00:56:01,640
It's a shame he's not here to explain
that himself.

783
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:06,360
You represent the Prime Minister
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as a

784
00:56:06,380 --> 00:56:10,660
That's not right. A deformed dwarf
manipulated by oligarchs. I think in the

785
00:56:10,660 --> 00:56:14,180
minds of a gagman, he's more of a child.
Yes, exactly.

786
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:18,960
And you see that as grounds for
laughter, an infantile gnome. It's a

787
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,760
show. It's up to the Prime Minister to
determine the line between satire and

788
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:26,440
insult, especially during election
season. The Prime Minister has to

789
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:27,680
line that must not be crossed.

790
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:32,200
I believe Mr. Kaczynski can guess where
that line is. If not, he'll find out at

791
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:33,440
his own expense. Good day.

792
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,140
Of course, I was working 18 -hour days,
back -to -back meetings with the Prime

793
00:56:40,140 --> 00:56:43,500
Minister, every single one of them
involving decisions of major historical

794
00:56:43,500 --> 00:56:48,280
importance. But the deeper I sank into
the routine of governing men, the more

795
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,560
the world seemed to be rife with
misunderstanding and missed

796
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:54,940
And that's when the unexpected happened.

797
00:56:57,290 --> 00:57:01,550
One autumn night, just after midnight, a
terrific rumbling tore through the

798
00:57:01,550 --> 00:57:02,570
darkness of the capital.

799
00:57:02,870 --> 00:57:07,510
On Guayanova Street, on the outskirts of
Moscow, hundreds of kilos of explosives

800
00:57:07,510 --> 00:57:10,170
literally cut a nine -story apartment
complex in two.

801
00:57:12,270 --> 00:57:15,470
Dozens of sleeping families were
swallowed up alive by the explosion.

802
00:57:16,050 --> 00:57:21,910
Four days later, a second explosion
rocked the city at five o 'clock in the

803
00:57:21,910 --> 00:57:23,970
morning, destroying another building in
the suburbs.

804
00:57:24,310 --> 00:57:25,670
Over a hundred victims.

805
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,140
It was on September 11th.

806
00:57:28,580 --> 00:57:32,700
Before that, the Chechen war had felt
remote. But when buildings started

807
00:57:32,700 --> 00:57:36,440
up in the Moscow suburbs, Russians found
themselves with a war at their front

808
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:37,440
door.

809
00:57:38,500 --> 00:57:42,780
Of course, you know what people say.

810
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,220
They say we were behind it.

811
00:57:48,220 --> 00:57:50,280
By we, I mean the FSB.

812
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:51,880
It isn't just a rumor.

813
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,160
There's serious evidence to back it up.

814
00:57:55,580 --> 00:57:56,640
Frankly, I don't know.

815
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:03,160
If this is a bona fide secret, thank God
nobody shared it with me, but why would

816
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,580
we have done that? We were certain to
win.

817
00:58:05,820 --> 00:58:10,340
To instill fear, so that the Russian
people would feel threatened by the

818
00:58:10,340 --> 00:58:11,340
Chechens.

819
00:58:12,260 --> 00:58:17,800
And to justify the Second Chechen War,
perfectly timed a warm public opinion

820
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:19,060
to...

821
00:58:25,740 --> 00:58:27,300
You know I don't like public speaking.

822
00:58:27,540 --> 00:58:29,440
Right now, the people need to hear your
voice.

823
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,740
Here, on a state visit, not from the
Kremlin Palace.

824
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:35,560
You have to give them a sense of
urgency.

825
00:58:35,780 --> 00:58:36,860
I'm not an actor.

826
00:58:38,700 --> 00:58:40,260
I'll give them a simple statement.

827
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:50,460
Word has it you've ordered the bombing
of Grozny Airport in retaliation of the

828
00:58:50,460 --> 00:58:53,760
attacks. Don't you think such actions
could aggravate the situation?

829
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:56,380
I'm tired of answering this kind of
question.

830
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,520
We'll get the terrorists wherever
they're hiding.

831
00:58:59,820 --> 00:59:03,120
If they're in an airport, we'll strike
the airport. If they're in the shitter,

832
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,700
excuse my language, but we'll get them
in the shitter.

833
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:11,340
You have no idea the impact that one
sentence had on the Russian people.

834
00:59:12,100 --> 00:59:15,680
Finally, we were hearing the voice of
command and control, and Russians hadn't

835
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:16,680
heard that in the longest time.

836
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:18,499
Stalin's voice.

837
00:59:18,500 --> 00:59:21,680
Well, not Yeltsin's, in any case, or
Gorbachev's.

838
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:23,760
That day...

839
00:59:23,950 --> 00:59:25,410
Putin became the Tsar.

840
00:59:53,950 --> 00:59:56,870
We got scared. We won't conquer it. It's
too dangerous.

841
01:00:04,130 --> 01:00:06,650
We have troops stationed in Pakistan.

842
01:00:08,330 --> 01:00:11,130
They're ready for inspection. It's good
service and I'll do it with them.

843
01:00:18,070 --> 01:00:21,830
If the Tsar wanted to bring in the new
year in Chechnya, well, then that's

844
01:00:21,830 --> 01:00:22,830
we'd go.

845
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:27,000
At 1 a .m., we got into some Jeeps and
headed for the mountain passes.

846
01:00:57,930 --> 01:01:00,050
3rd Division Lieutenant Colonel Fedorov.

847
01:01:00,290 --> 01:01:01,870
Welcome to the base, Mr. Putin.

848
01:01:03,130 --> 01:01:05,370
Men, what you're doing is so important.

849
01:01:06,670 --> 01:01:08,930
People believe in you. I'm here to tell
you that.

850
01:01:09,430 --> 01:01:11,550
We're proud of you. We're working hard.

851
01:01:13,030 --> 01:01:15,910
I know what you and your men have done.
You've been very courageous.

852
01:01:16,690 --> 01:01:22,650
I want you to know the Russian people
think of you and are proud of you.

853
01:01:23,510 --> 01:01:24,570
Happy New Year.

854
01:02:06,250 --> 01:02:10,790
We'll be right

855
01:02:10,790 --> 01:02:15,410
back.

856
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:49,580
I would love to drink a toast to the
health of the wounded and to wish

857
01:02:49,580 --> 01:02:51,340
present here a happy new year.

858
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:57,560
But we have serious tasks ahead, as you
all know.

859
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:03,600
We're not only fighting for the honor
and dignity of our country, we're

860
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,680
to prevent Russia from disintegrating.

861
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:12,500
Can't afford one second of weakness, not
one second.

862
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:15,620
We let our guard down.

863
01:03:16,740 --> 01:03:19,900
All those who died, died in vain.

864
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:23,820
So I suggest we put our glasses down.

865
01:03:27,580 --> 01:03:30,120
We will toast, but later.

866
01:03:42,380 --> 01:03:48,920
Leaving before the end of my term, I
understand that it is necessary.

867
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:55,480
Russia must enter a new millennium with
new political leaders.

868
01:03:56,440 --> 01:04:03,280
And I leave you all in the trusted hands
of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

869
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:14,480
The Yeltsin era is over. Your friend
Berezovsky has to know I'm fed up with

870
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:16,300
these bullshit memos.

871
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:18,780
I thought he was our friend.

872
01:04:19,100 --> 01:04:23,080
Boris is a very smart man, but his
intelligence is no safeguard for his

873
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:24,080
stupidity.

874
01:04:26,460 --> 01:04:27,560
Better bring him in.

875
01:04:33,940 --> 01:04:36,480
Boris Abramovich, come.

876
01:04:42,190 --> 01:04:46,150
Sit. I've read your messages, some of
your memos.

877
01:04:47,310 --> 01:04:49,630
You've always offered good advice and
more years.

878
01:04:50,230 --> 01:04:53,570
Volodya, you made me wait an hour. Look,
you asked for this meeting.

879
01:04:54,690 --> 01:04:55,690
Here we are.

880
01:04:58,250 --> 01:04:59,250
Go ahead.

881
01:05:01,970 --> 01:05:03,070
Look, I'll be brief.

882
01:05:05,170 --> 01:05:06,370
We're becoming too negative.

883
01:05:06,940 --> 01:05:11,360
Volodya, it's too dark. We're at war.
Fine, we get it. You're a great general.

884
01:05:11,500 --> 01:05:14,400
You're going to lead us all to victory,
but let's make an effort.

885
01:05:15,420 --> 01:05:18,660
Give these poor Russians a little bit of
hope, too.

886
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:21,420
Otherwise, rather than voting for you,
they're going to jump out the window.

887
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:26,720
Rallies and concerts and TV commercials,
posters.

888
01:05:27,500 --> 01:05:28,540
We need to make a splash.

889
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:29,880
I'll pay for that.

890
01:05:30,020 --> 01:05:31,020
I will, of course.

891
01:05:31,690 --> 01:05:35,690
I heard you passed up free public TV
airtime. That's correct.

892
01:05:35,970 --> 01:05:37,570
It's our choice, our strategy.

893
01:05:38,090 --> 01:05:42,690
We'll see if the facts prove us right or
wrong. If you keep this up, people are

894
01:05:42,690 --> 01:05:43,790
going to forget you're a candidate.

895
01:05:44,090 --> 01:05:45,310
Don't be ridiculous, Boris.

896
01:05:46,050 --> 01:05:48,670
I've been interim president for three
months with the government.

897
01:05:50,750 --> 01:05:56,230
Our campaign is the news, what we're
doing, the history we're making.

898
01:05:58,270 --> 01:06:00,150
Nobody believes advertising anymore.

899
01:06:01,050 --> 01:06:03,990
Facts are the only advertising we're
interested in.

900
01:06:07,670 --> 01:06:12,370
The Tsar had reinstated the power
vertical, and voters were grateful to

901
01:06:12,370 --> 01:06:16,370
it. He was elected president of the
Russian Federation with no runoff.

902
01:06:18,490 --> 01:06:21,590
Herzogsky stopped bombarding the Kremlin
with unanswered phone calls.

903
01:06:22,130 --> 01:06:25,470
Naturally, his media mocked the pompous
inauguration ceremony.

904
01:06:25,830 --> 01:06:28,130
But Boris was waiting for something
else.

905
01:06:28,390 --> 01:06:30,130
The chance to show the Tsar.

906
01:06:30,540 --> 01:06:31,700
who is really in charge.

907
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:20,140
I remember you like your medium rare.

908
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:22,900
Thank you for remembering.

909
01:07:26,980 --> 01:07:27,980
Sir?

910
01:07:57,990 --> 01:08:03,270
On August 12, 2000, the Kursk, one of
the world's largest nuclear submarines,

911
01:08:03,570 --> 01:08:06,410
sank during a training exercise in the
Barents Sea.

912
01:08:07,550 --> 01:08:09,230
There were 100 crewmen aboard.

913
01:08:10,140 --> 01:08:11,740
Some of them died instantly.

914
01:08:12,540 --> 01:08:14,660
Others were trapped at the bottom of the
sea.

915
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:19,560
This was the opportunity Barasovsky had
been waiting for.

916
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:31,300
We rented the helicopter to keep a
constant eye on the area where the sub

917
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:32,479
Has it been identified?

918
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:36,279
Yes, the information is just dropped,
but no rescue team is on site. That's

919
01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:38,279
revolting. That is what we have to
expose.

920
01:08:38,660 --> 01:08:40,340
Russian experts won't go on the record.

921
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:45,899
Then find them abroad. We have a crew in
Germany. They say NATO forces often

922
01:08:45,899 --> 01:08:48,180
they help, but Russian Navy turn it
down.

923
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:49,439
They are spy ships.

924
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:53,660
Russia can't humiliate herself in front
of them. Can't humiliate herself in

925
01:08:53,660 --> 01:08:54,660
front of them?

926
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,880
Go find the families, ask them what they
think. That's what we're doing.

927
01:08:59,260 --> 01:09:02,439
TV's all about emotion. The emotions
with the families of the sailors. Can

928
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:06,420
imagine their anguish? Their loved ones
may still be alive, but they're trapped

929
01:09:06,420 --> 01:09:09,680
inside a watertight container waiting
for a rescue that may never come.

930
01:09:39,119 --> 01:09:41,359
The situation was out of control.

931
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:46,080
I rushed to Sochi. I couldn't understand
why Putin wasn't on the ground.

932
01:09:48,580 --> 01:09:50,200
What would you have me do?

933
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:54,200
They're all dead, it's obvious.

934
01:09:54,700 --> 01:09:57,100
Can't say it because we haven't been
able to reach them yet.

935
01:09:57,400 --> 01:10:00,760
According to all the experts, there are
still survivors on board. That's a fact.

936
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:03,200
We have to save them. No one cares if
their dead or alive.

937
01:10:03,420 --> 01:10:05,140
Berezovsky Circus is about hurting me.

938
01:10:05,380 --> 01:10:10,060
Everyone is waiting for you to act. I
act when I decide the time is right.

939
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:15,200
Your composure has enhanced your
popularity thus far, but now it's

940
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:19,080
liability. The Russian people are
suffering, and you're not with them.

941
01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:20,920
This is a serious matter.

942
01:10:22,830 --> 01:10:27,710
Since the authorities are still refusing
to budge, RTP has created a fund for

943
01:10:27,710 --> 01:10:28,790
the families of the sailors.

944
01:10:29,070 --> 01:10:32,550
Call this number if you want to support
the relatives of the sailors. Realize

945
01:10:32,550 --> 01:10:39,270
they destroyed the state, pillaged it
for 10 years, bankrupted our

946
01:10:39,270 --> 01:10:40,550
army. Now they're raising money.

947
01:10:41,050 --> 01:10:45,270
Fucking bastards. Why don't they sell
their fucking chalets in San Moritz?

948
01:10:48,170 --> 01:10:50,330
Get that son of a bitch on the phone.
Yes.

949
01:11:00,170 --> 01:11:01,290
You realize what you're doing?

950
01:11:02,370 --> 01:11:07,450
Your network is giving round -the -clock
airtime to whores pretending to be

951
01:11:07,450 --> 01:11:08,329
sailors' wives.

952
01:11:08,330 --> 01:11:09,770
What are you talking about? You're out
of your mind.

953
01:11:10,150 --> 01:11:11,790
They're not whores, they're the real
wives.

954
01:11:12,210 --> 01:11:17,230
Estate television, Boris, and you're
conspiring against the presidency.

955
01:11:17,470 --> 01:11:18,469
What does that mean?

956
01:11:18,470 --> 01:11:22,310
Hmm? What does this mean, exactly? I'm
asking you a question.

957
01:11:22,550 --> 01:11:25,830
I have a question for you, Vladimir
Vladimirovich. What the hell are you

958
01:11:25,830 --> 01:11:27,750
vacationing on the Black Sea?

959
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:30,360
Shouldn't you be in Murmansk running
operations?

960
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:31,600
Where are you?

961
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:33,700
Laughing. Where are you? Huh?

962
01:11:33,980 --> 01:11:36,040
Côte d 'Azur, right? What are you doing
in the Côte d 'Azur?

963
01:11:36,300 --> 01:11:40,280
Oh, come on. I'm not the president.
Nobody gives a damn where I am. Plus, it

964
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:41,760
happens I am in Moscow.

965
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:44,180
Just think about it, Bellagio.

966
01:11:44,440 --> 01:11:48,920
If you go and console the sailors'
wives, your ratings will go through the

967
01:11:49,140 --> 01:11:53,000
And our network will put its full
firepower behind you.

968
01:12:02,429 --> 01:12:06,290
Well? We're going back to Moscow, set up
that fucking meeting. We have no

969
01:12:06,290 --> 01:12:07,290
choice.

970
01:12:15,350 --> 01:12:20,090
And once this mess is behind us, we'll
take care of your friend Boris.

971
01:12:23,850 --> 01:12:28,130
How could Boris have deluded himself
into thinking that he'd tolerate a

972
01:12:28,130 --> 01:12:30,550
relationship of equals with one of his
subjects?

973
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:32,840
All the oligarchs got it wrong.

974
01:12:33,300 --> 01:12:39,920
When they decided to bet on Putin, they
thought they were changing straw men and

975
01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:40,940
not the whole system, yeah?

976
01:12:41,420 --> 01:12:44,840
Taking off of Bazovsky's network was a
piece of cake.

977
01:12:45,480 --> 01:12:51,000
He wasn't the majority shareholder. He
only had 49%. All it took was a call to

978
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:55,400
the CEO of RTP, and he was now to take
his orders from the Kremlin.

979
01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:08,460
He doesn't mean you any harm. He
respects you.

980
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:12,260
You stay safely in Moscow, do whatever
business you like.

981
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,480
But you must stay out of politics once
and for all.

982
01:13:16,180 --> 01:13:17,760
Politics is his business.

983
01:13:19,100 --> 01:13:21,960
Putin is the pure product of the KGB.

984
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:25,560
His fiercest species.

985
01:13:26,500 --> 01:13:32,910
He will put Russia in shock. and all
that we've done over the last 10 years

986
01:13:32,910 --> 01:13:35,750
turn it into a normal country will be
swept away.

987
01:13:36,250 --> 01:13:37,490
Even you, Vanya.

988
01:13:37,890 --> 01:13:41,890
You're creating a regime that's worse
than the Soviet Union, at least back

989
01:13:42,350 --> 01:13:48,190
The party could muzzle the KGB guard
dogs, but now the party no longer

990
01:13:48,530 --> 01:13:52,730
The FSB is worse than the KGB. Who's
going to stop them? You?

991
01:13:53,350 --> 01:13:54,350
Certainly not.

992
01:13:54,450 --> 01:13:55,810
You've become one of them.

993
01:13:56,490 --> 01:13:58,410
They're vicious animals.

994
01:13:59,150 --> 01:14:00,430
They come from the void.

995
01:14:01,190 --> 01:14:03,710
They've cleared their path with a
sledgehammer.

996
01:14:03,930 --> 01:14:07,250
No rules, no limits, and they're hungry.

997
01:14:07,470 --> 01:14:09,290
It's brutish hunger.

998
01:14:10,410 --> 01:14:15,150
Well, they were humiliated. They're
descended from centuries of humiliation.

999
01:14:16,810 --> 01:14:23,210
They have to grab everything right away
because they know the tables will turn.

1000
01:14:23,630 --> 01:14:24,650
Maybe, Boris.

1001
01:14:25,370 --> 01:14:26,430
I don't know.

1002
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:31,560
What I do know is that Russia has always
been forged this way.

1003
01:14:32,660 --> 01:14:33,680
With an axe.

1004
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:41,280
Cautiously, Berezovsky chose exile in
London.

1005
01:14:41,660 --> 01:14:44,020
Meanwhile, we were taking off for New
York.

1006
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:48,440
When you reach the top, politics propels
you onto the world stage with no

1007
01:14:48,440 --> 01:14:49,440
preparation.

1008
01:14:49,940 --> 01:14:52,340
The world's greats become your peers.

1009
01:14:52,580 --> 01:14:54,040
But they're a closed circle.

1010
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:57,160
They've had time to get acquainted,
learn the ground rules.

1011
01:14:57,980 --> 01:15:02,240
However much you may be feared and
respected in your own country, here,

1012
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:03,660
just a new kid on the block.

1013
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:08,700
The Waldorf Astoria is the best hotel,
and Portugal has booked us a whole

1014
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:10,080
20 rooms.

1015
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:13,280
Penthouse.

1016
01:15:13,980 --> 01:15:14,980
No.

1017
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:16,720
Why not?

1018
01:15:16,860 --> 01:15:19,840
The top three floors are booked by the
year for the Saudis.

1019
01:15:22,030 --> 01:15:25,850
Just want to take more than an hour. 15
minutes at the TV studio, half hour

1020
01:15:25,850 --> 01:15:27,270
interview, 15 minutes back.

1021
01:15:29,350 --> 01:15:30,510
It's a good hit for us.

1022
01:15:42,170 --> 01:15:49,030
The U .S. President's motorcade

1023
01:15:49,030 --> 01:15:50,029
is on the move.

1024
01:15:50,030 --> 01:15:51,210
No one else can part.

1025
01:15:55,310 --> 01:15:56,310
How long does it last?

1026
01:15:58,430 --> 01:15:59,430
Depends.

1027
01:16:04,510 --> 01:16:06,810
So what's it like being a spy?

1028
01:16:07,270 --> 01:16:09,150
Not very different from being a
journalist.

1029
01:16:10,490 --> 01:16:14,230
Your job is to gather information, to
synthesize it.

1030
01:16:15,110 --> 01:16:18,350
You show it to the decision makers who
can use that information.

1031
01:16:18,910 --> 01:16:23,630
Did you enjoy it? Working in
intelligence allowed me to broaden my

1032
01:16:24,390 --> 01:16:26,530
To acquire certain skills.

1033
01:16:27,770 --> 01:16:30,730
Skills of management, focusing on
priorities.

1034
01:16:32,210 --> 01:16:33,690
A learning experience.

1035
01:16:34,710 --> 01:16:38,210
The Kursk tragedy shook everyone.

1036
01:16:38,470 --> 01:16:41,230
Can you tell me what happened?

1037
01:16:41,430 --> 01:16:44,030
What happened to the submarine?

1038
01:16:45,510 --> 01:16:46,550
It sank.

1039
01:16:57,130 --> 01:17:01,450
fucking martians would have seized power
in moscow the united states would

1040
01:17:01,450 --> 01:17:05,210
immediately see them as a legitimate
government just as long as they didn't

1041
01:17:05,210 --> 01:17:11,550
near their interests and defer to them
as the big boss see the trouble is they

1042
01:17:11,550 --> 01:17:18,450
think they won the cold war but the
soviet union didn't lose it cold war

1043
01:17:18,450 --> 01:17:23,070
because we freed ourselves from a
dictatorship which is not the same thing

1044
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:27,580
We dismantled the Warsaw Pact. We
offered them an olive branch.

1045
01:17:28,060 --> 01:17:29,060
Not surrender.

1046
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:32,160
They should bear that in mind.

1047
01:17:33,220 --> 01:17:34,400
Just once in a while.

1048
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:56,320
The monarch respects you. I thought he
despised me.

1049
01:17:56,740 --> 01:17:57,740
He's a visionary.

1050
01:17:58,740 --> 01:18:00,860
Everyone has a place in his party.

1051
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:06,200
So, what do you think of my
revolutionary avant -garde?

1052
01:18:06,700 --> 01:18:09,060
Kremlin isn't exactly quaking its spoon.

1053
01:18:09,420 --> 01:18:11,720
The Kremlin is very wrong. Sit down.

1054
01:18:13,780 --> 01:18:15,980
So, how was the trip?

1055
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:18,700
Well, you know what it's like over
there.

1056
01:18:19,230 --> 01:18:20,930
Always fairly amusing, I guess.

1057
01:18:21,190 --> 01:18:22,610
Yes, New York can be fun.

1058
01:18:22,850 --> 01:18:24,730
As long as you avoid the Americans.

1059
01:18:26,590 --> 01:18:27,790
Which one do you prefer, Edward?

1060
01:18:30,110 --> 01:18:31,110
This one.

1061
01:18:31,250 --> 01:18:32,250
Okay.

1062
01:18:32,670 --> 01:18:37,210
Have you ever been to one of their posh
dinners? All the men have been to

1063
01:18:37,210 --> 01:18:41,370
Princeton or Yale. They all have
children who go to the same schools. At

1064
01:18:41,370 --> 01:18:43,590
when I was younger, I could screw one of
their...

1065
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:45,580
Sparks from blonde wives in the
bathroom.

1066
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:49,800
The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
It's the same everywhere.

1067
01:18:50,100 --> 01:18:51,340
Oh, well, yeah.

1068
01:18:52,060 --> 01:18:55,480
America has destroyed the bourgeoisie.
The bourgeoisie had values.

1069
01:18:55,820 --> 01:18:58,580
These people only believe in numbers.

1070
01:18:58,900 --> 01:19:00,120
They're boring as hell.

1071
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:05,820
Imperialism isn't the problem. American
culture is.

1072
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:09,700
You used to be attracted to it before it
swallowed you up and spat you out.

1073
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:15,100
Watching Yeltsin turn Russia into a
cheap version of the American nursing

1074
01:19:15,100 --> 01:19:19,900
prompted me to form the National
Bolshevik Party. And you know why I

1075
01:19:19,900 --> 01:19:23,100
that? To infuriate you. Nice ball.

1076
01:19:23,700 --> 01:19:29,800
We bring together former Stalinists,
homosexuals, and punks,

1077
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:35,020
anarchists. skinheads, religious
fanatics from Buddhist to Orthodox.

1078
01:19:35,300 --> 01:19:39,640
The hardest part is keeping them from
smashing each other's heads in. You can

1079
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:41,120
sure they will sooner or later.

1080
01:19:41,340 --> 01:19:42,500
No, you don't understand.

1081
01:19:42,780 --> 01:19:46,440
These young people want to escape the
boredom of ordinary life.

1082
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:48,520
They crave heroics.

1083
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:51,300
And it would be a shame to waste that.

1084
01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:56,820
May I bum a cigarette, Sergei? Yes, sir.
I need a walk.

1085
01:20:01,450 --> 01:20:06,250
I'd always seen Edward Limonov as a
brilliant sociopath with no political

1086
01:20:06,250 --> 01:20:07,250
whatsoever.

1087
01:20:07,390 --> 01:20:10,230
So I wasn't yet ready to recognize that
he was right.

1088
01:20:11,490 --> 01:20:14,490
For the first time, I saw his reasoning
for what it was.

1089
01:20:15,770 --> 01:20:17,730
Not the result of rigorous analysis.

1090
01:20:18,450 --> 01:20:20,190
Far more than casual intuition.

1091
01:20:29,490 --> 01:20:30,490
Come in.

1092
01:20:32,030 --> 01:20:34,810
Vladimir Vladimirovich, Vadim
Alexeyevich is here to see you.

1093
01:20:35,710 --> 01:20:36,710
You may come in.

1094
01:20:41,830 --> 01:20:42,830
How are my ratings?

1095
01:20:44,110 --> 01:20:45,230
Elections are coming, Vadim.

1096
01:20:45,450 --> 01:20:49,210
You don't really need to worry. Around
60%, the closest candidate gets no more

1097
01:20:49,210 --> 01:20:49,949
than 12.

1098
01:20:49,950 --> 01:20:51,230
I'm not interested in them. They're
insignificant.

1099
01:20:51,750 --> 01:20:53,590
One Russian is more popular than I am.

1100
01:20:55,010 --> 01:20:56,010
Stalin.

1101
01:20:56,870 --> 01:20:58,770
I believe he's been dead for some time.

1102
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,560
Well, you intellectuals, you insist on
denouncing the horrors of the gulag. You

1103
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:05,880
think Stalin was popular in spite of the
killings. You're wrong.

1104
01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:10,020
Stalin was popular because of the
killings, because he knew how to handle

1105
01:21:10,020 --> 01:21:11,800
thief, a traitor.

1106
01:21:13,460 --> 01:21:17,700
You know what Stalin did when the Soviet
-run trains started to derail?

1107
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:21,080
No, I don't. He had the head of the
railway shot for sabotage.

1108
01:21:21,980 --> 01:21:28,060
Didn't solve the problem, possibly
aggravated it, but it allowed an outlet

1109
01:21:28,060 --> 01:21:29,060
fury.

1110
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:33,020
Fury is a structural given. There's no
point fighting it. It must be managed.

1111
01:21:34,580 --> 01:21:36,140
You want to feed the fury.

1112
01:21:36,460 --> 01:21:38,260
Yes. People want a head to roll.

1113
01:21:39,580 --> 01:21:42,600
Who? The most arrogant oligarch.

1114
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:44,760
Dmitry Sidorov.

1115
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:47,500
Your former friend.

1116
01:21:48,540 --> 01:21:50,180
I'm told he ran off with your woman.

1117
01:21:51,380 --> 01:21:52,580
This must make you happy.

1118
01:21:52,820 --> 01:21:53,820
It didn't last long.

1119
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:58,160
Let bygones be bygones. You know he's
planning to sell a majority share of his

1120
01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:00,200
fossil fuel empire to ExxonMobil.

1121
01:22:00,420 --> 01:22:01,820
He's been working on that merger long
enough.

1122
01:22:02,020 --> 01:22:06,800
He'll make himself $20 billion richer by
putting our fossil fuel giant in the

1123
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:08,160
hands of American investors.

1124
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,680
You could say that our Russian company
will acquire international status. I

1125
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:15,200
won't say that because it isn't true.
He's gathered a huge war chest to run

1126
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:16,820
against me in the 2007 election.

1127
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:18,119
How do you know?

1128
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:19,200
How do you think? We tapped his foot.

1129
01:22:25,129 --> 01:22:26,170
Non -entity.

1130
01:22:27,670 --> 01:22:32,170
That's what he calls me when he speaks
to his friends in Washington, D .C. A

1131
01:22:32,170 --> 01:22:37,590
-entity. When he explains that when
elected, he will change the Constitution

1132
01:22:37,590 --> 01:22:39,770
dismantle the nuclear arsenal.

1133
01:22:40,270 --> 01:22:41,470
A non -entity.

1134
01:22:42,910 --> 01:22:43,910
Non -entity.

1135
01:22:45,930 --> 01:22:50,350
This man has fed me more mud than I can
swallow.

1136
01:22:55,430 --> 01:23:00,590
So I've ordered Dmitry Sidorov be
arrested tomorrow at dawn.

1137
01:23:00,810 --> 01:23:04,570
He's heading to Siberia. He has to stop
to refuel. That's where we'll take him.

1138
01:23:05,250 --> 01:23:10,030
Cameramen, photographers, they'll all be
on site. Your job is to orchestrate it

1139
01:23:10,030 --> 01:23:11,030
for the media.

1140
01:23:29,230 --> 01:23:30,230
This is it.

1141
01:23:31,570 --> 01:23:32,610
Here we are.

1142
01:23:32,870 --> 01:23:36,930
The news went all around the world. The
immediate effect was to remind people

1143
01:23:36,930 --> 01:23:38,770
that money can't protect you from
everything.

1144
01:23:39,510 --> 01:23:44,490
Of course, for you Westerners, this is
totally taboo. A politician arrested,

1145
01:23:44,490 --> 01:23:45,490
not?

1146
01:23:45,590 --> 01:23:46,650
But a billionaire?

1147
01:23:47,190 --> 01:23:51,590
Unthinkable. Because your society was
founded on the principle that there is

1148
01:23:51,590 --> 01:23:52,890
power greater than money.

1149
01:23:54,470 --> 01:23:58,870
My job was to fit Dmitry's fall from
grace into a successful TV format.

1150
01:23:59,170 --> 01:24:00,550
This wasn't difficult.

1151
01:24:01,110 --> 01:24:04,510
The masses have always loved to watch a
powerful man's head roll.

1152
01:24:04,730 --> 01:24:07,090
There's no bloodier dictator than the
people.

1153
01:24:09,050 --> 01:24:13,210
Once Sidorov was arrested, Putin's re
-election was a mere formality.

1154
01:24:13,570 --> 01:24:17,870
From that point forward, the Russian
government began undergoing a profound

1155
01:24:17,870 --> 01:24:22,690
change. The power struggle shifted from
the public stage to the Tsar's inner

1156
01:24:22,690 --> 01:24:26,820
circle. The state once again depended on
court intrigue.

1157
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:30,860
There are those with an office close to
the Tsar's and those with a direct line

1158
01:24:30,860 --> 01:24:35,040
to him. There are those who accompany
him on overseas missions and those who

1159
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:36,400
vacation with him in Sochi.

1160
01:24:37,060 --> 01:24:40,320
No detail can be overlooked, no matter
how trivial.

1161
01:24:40,620 --> 01:24:44,640
From seating plans at gala dinners to
waiting times in the president's

1162
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:47,820
antechamber, nothing escapes the
courtier's attention.

1163
01:24:50,860 --> 01:24:53,720
I adapted to the new regimes. I adapted
to everything.

1164
01:24:54,140 --> 01:24:56,080
Some were far better at it than I was.

1165
01:24:56,460 --> 01:24:57,780
Like Igor Sechin.

1166
01:24:59,420 --> 01:25:00,960
Especially Igor Sechin.

1167
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:06,100
Like many men of his kind, he drew his
strength from being underestimated.

1168
01:25:06,820 --> 01:25:10,040
When the period of the courtiers came
around, he was in this element.

1169
01:25:11,020 --> 01:25:13,300
Indeed, he was head courtier.

1170
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:19,380
With Dmitry Sidorov in prison, the
problem was what to do with his company.

1171
01:25:20,019 --> 01:25:22,100
Sechin gobbled it up in a single bite.

1172
01:25:22,500 --> 01:25:26,920
Judicial receivership, a public auction
with just one participant, and it ends

1173
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:30,900
up in the hands of a financial group so
opaque it doesn't even have a phone

1174
01:25:30,900 --> 01:25:33,220
number. Well, did you get what you want?

1175
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:37,080
God, what this tower wanted. You mean he
wanted Dimitri's business for himself?

1176
01:25:37,500 --> 01:25:41,340
What he wants is to destroy the
oligarchs. And replace them with

1177
01:25:41,340 --> 01:25:42,340
yourself.

1178
01:25:42,540 --> 01:25:44,740
Russia has always needed strongmen.

1179
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:47,760
Soldiers, spies, police.

1180
01:25:48,890 --> 01:25:52,210
That's how I got where I am. And why you
take what you want. Well done.

1181
01:25:52,490 --> 01:25:54,450
And that's how you wish to put it, Vadim
Alexeevich.

1182
01:25:55,990 --> 01:25:57,810
Oh, and watch out.

1183
01:25:58,330 --> 01:25:59,950
He's back from the G20 in Berlin.

1184
01:26:01,330 --> 01:26:02,330
I'm bad -tempered.

1185
01:26:05,330 --> 01:26:09,030
It's always the same. They treat me like
I'm the president of Finland.

1186
01:26:10,310 --> 01:26:11,310
They'd better watch out.

1187
01:26:11,830 --> 01:26:13,230
They need to be very careful.

1188
01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:18,960
The ability to inspire fear is a poor
man's sole weapon when he's defending

1189
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:20,380
dignity. I learned that on the street.

1190
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:24,840
The trouble is, Mr. President, by
spooking our enemies, we're in danger of

1191
01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:29,040
spooking the markets, too, and we can't
afford that. The markets never ruled

1192
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:30,100
Russia, Vardia.

1193
01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:31,520
Maybe once.

1194
01:26:32,280 --> 01:26:36,840
Maybe once under Yeltsin. What was the
result then? The law of the jungle.

1195
01:26:39,060 --> 01:26:42,080
We need to take control.

1196
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:45,020
We need to take control of all the
wealth of the country.

1197
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,940
Forests, and the mines, and the gas, the
petrol.

1198
01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:55,980
We'll see to it that it serves the
interests and the glory of the Russian

1199
01:26:55,980 --> 01:26:56,980
people.

1200
01:26:58,820 --> 01:26:59,920
Like with Dmitry.

1201
01:27:00,180 --> 01:27:01,220
What about Dmitry?

1202
01:27:02,420 --> 01:27:07,400
Well, the oil monopolies went directly
from Sidorov's pocket to Sechen's.

1203
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:11,920
What's that got to do with the interest
and glory of the Russian people?

1204
01:27:41,580 --> 01:27:44,480
For the lovely weather, you should have
a dip before you leave.

1205
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:46,360
Thanks. Another time.

1206
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:47,920
You prefer sochi?

1207
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:50,260
You know I am here.

1208
01:27:52,420 --> 01:27:53,780
I'd like to hear you say it.

1209
01:27:54,580 --> 01:27:55,580
There's a rumor.

1210
01:27:55,660 --> 01:27:56,720
You wouldn't come here without a rumor.

1211
01:28:03,860 --> 01:28:07,900
We have very reliable intel that you are
one of the Ukrainian protesters' main

1212
01:28:07,900 --> 01:28:11,330
supporters. Well, since you know...
Putin is spitting mad.

1213
01:28:11,610 --> 01:28:14,470
I was worried that, in fact, you come
bearing good news.

1214
01:28:14,810 --> 01:28:18,970
Ukraine has been an integral part of
Russian territory for centuries. Do you

1215
01:28:18,970 --> 01:28:20,910
genuinely believe... I'm just the
messenger.

1216
01:28:22,170 --> 01:28:23,170
Know what he said.

1217
01:28:24,470 --> 01:28:26,010
Go and see that fucker.

1218
01:28:26,490 --> 01:28:29,370
Tell him he's gone too far and try to
reason with him.

1219
01:28:31,450 --> 01:28:34,830
You know what his problem is? I know
what you think it is. That he's not your

1220
01:28:34,830 --> 01:28:36,550
regular politician. That he's...

1221
01:28:36,910 --> 01:28:42,170
KGB is a spy. No, he's not a spy. A
spy's job is to gather accurate

1222
01:28:42,170 --> 01:28:46,850
intelligence, but he's a counter -spy. A
counter -spy's job is to be paranoid,

1223
01:28:47,090 --> 01:28:51,210
to see conspiracies everywhere, and to
invent them if necessary.

1224
01:28:51,510 --> 01:28:52,890
You've been in exile too long.

1225
01:28:53,570 --> 01:28:54,650
You've lost touch.

1226
01:28:54,990 --> 01:28:58,630
As if the poor Ukrainians don't have
every reason to revolt against a pro

1227
01:28:58,630 --> 01:29:01,550
-Russian government. Do you know who the
main supporters of the Ukrainian

1228
01:29:01,550 --> 01:29:02,890
protesters are?

1229
01:29:03,550 --> 01:29:09,550
The CIA, the US State Department, major
American foundations, George Soros, and

1230
01:29:09,550 --> 01:29:15,130
you, to the tune of $30 million, or so
I've heard. Well, that's politics,

1231
01:29:15,810 --> 01:29:16,970
Do you know what else it is?

1232
01:29:17,510 --> 01:29:18,510
It's democracy.

1233
01:29:19,490 --> 01:29:21,730
You forgot the meaning of that word long
ago.

1234
01:29:27,810 --> 01:29:29,190
Remember, I'm not here by choice.

1235
01:29:29,970 --> 01:29:32,230
I'm living in exile here, Vadya.

1236
01:29:33,260 --> 01:29:36,820
If I even set foot in Russia, I'll end
up in Siberia, like Sidorov.

1237
01:29:38,660 --> 01:29:42,240
Boris, despite our differences, the Tsar
is still your friend.

1238
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:47,140
That's why you were permitted to sell
your Russian assets, 1 .3 billion,

1239
01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:49,180
correct? Far less than they were worth.

1240
01:29:57,600 --> 01:29:59,300
What if I keep on at it, huh?

1241
01:30:01,930 --> 01:30:03,410
You're going to send hitmen for me?

1242
01:30:07,070 --> 01:30:09,390
Look, I've got some of my own.

1243
01:30:11,450 --> 01:30:12,670
And they're better than yours.

1244
01:30:13,850 --> 01:30:15,510
Because I paid them ten times more.

1245
01:30:17,870 --> 01:30:19,870
I didn't come here to threaten you.

1246
01:30:21,330 --> 01:30:23,050
I understand your resentment.

1247
01:30:24,330 --> 01:30:26,430
But you can't turn against your country.

1248
01:30:26,790 --> 01:30:28,110
Putin's Russia isn't my country.

1249
01:30:29,710 --> 01:30:34,590
In spite of all our flaws, we managed to
build a free country where you could do

1250
01:30:34,590 --> 01:30:37,450
what you want, you could say what you
want for the first time in Russian

1251
01:30:37,450 --> 01:30:40,410
history, and you have wrecked all that
in just a few years.

1252
01:30:42,210 --> 01:30:44,750
You turn Russia back into what it always
was.

1253
01:30:46,690 --> 01:30:48,670
A prison the size of a country.

1254
01:30:49,750 --> 01:30:51,410
Just like in the Soviet times.

1255
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:39,640
It's your boat.

1256
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:41,420
Nothing is ever mine.

1257
01:31:42,460 --> 01:31:44,180
If it's not in the way you mean.

1258
01:31:45,740 --> 01:31:46,740
Oligarch money.

1259
01:31:47,740 --> 01:31:48,740
You afraid?

1260
01:31:50,360 --> 01:31:52,180
Afraid your masters will find out.

1261
01:31:52,480 --> 01:31:56,360
Masters? From what I hear, you're in the
service to power now.

1262
01:31:57,020 --> 01:31:58,220
I suppose so.

1263
01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:02,480
You don't like Vladimir Vladimirovich
very much.

1264
01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:05,240
No, you're right. I don't like power.

1265
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:09,800
I like it even less when you kid
yourself and pretend it's modern art.

1266
01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:11,140
about that, but I find you despicable.

1267
01:32:11,780 --> 01:32:12,780
Despicable?

1268
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:15,040
It's a bit harsh.

1269
01:32:15,380 --> 01:32:16,380
You learned it.

1270
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:21,940
You touched my question. Are we being
bankrolled by oligarchs as we speak?

1271
01:32:23,340 --> 01:32:26,640
This boat belongs to a businessman from
Portland.

1272
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:32,100
He embedded some software when he was
24, was a multi -millionaire by 26, and

1273
01:32:32,100 --> 01:32:33,980
sold his company to Microsoft by 28.

1274
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:41,950
Spinboard. I'd like to have another idea
in a lifetime, but slow in the coming.

1275
01:32:42,790 --> 01:32:44,090
Are you sleeping with him?

1276
01:32:45,430 --> 01:32:50,710
That's not... When I have an idea of a
line of jewellery, he funds it.

1277
01:32:51,590 --> 01:32:52,970
Sometimes he makes a bit of money.

1278
01:32:53,430 --> 01:32:55,870
I've been clearly chump change to him.

1279
01:32:56,110 --> 01:32:58,710
And he lends you his boat when it
strikes your fancy.

1280
01:32:59,050 --> 01:33:00,050
Yes.

1281
01:33:00,330 --> 01:33:04,910
When I'm bored of this world, which is
often, I...

1282
01:33:05,340 --> 01:33:06,340
Take refuge here.

1283
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:09,440
A gilded cage of comfort zone.

1284
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:13,200
I love Dimitri.

1285
01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:17,360
I mean, we had fun for a few months.

1286
01:33:17,860 --> 01:33:20,240
I love the crazy wind that was blowing.

1287
01:33:20,680 --> 01:33:22,140
And then you got rid of him, too.

1288
01:33:22,800 --> 01:33:23,800
Oh, that's been cool.

1289
01:33:24,140 --> 01:33:25,140
Not that time.

1290
01:33:27,420 --> 01:33:28,420
We grew apart.

1291
01:33:29,140 --> 01:33:32,660
Dimitri got interested in oil. I mean,
that didn't bring much luck.

1292
01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:39,600
For a few years, I preferred Los Angeles
to anywhere else.

1293
01:33:39,940 --> 01:33:41,840
Was Hollywood up to your standards?

1294
01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:43,240
Hollywood.

1295
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:47,620
I stayed away. I stayed away from
Hollywood. It's like Moscow.

1296
01:33:48,420 --> 01:33:52,760
Only private relationships count. The
rest is insignificant.

1297
01:33:52,980 --> 01:33:56,820
I like the desert. I like the ocean
waves.

1298
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:00,520
Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway.

1299
01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:04,740
When I felt like going to Japan, I went
to Japan.

1300
01:34:18,830 --> 01:34:20,390
This is the prettiest cove.

1301
01:34:22,270 --> 01:34:23,670
The plane away.

1302
01:34:28,570 --> 01:34:30,290
Tonight I'll be in Moscow.

1303
01:34:31,930 --> 01:34:32,970
How miserable.

1304
01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:55,120
During autumn, as expected, the
situation in Ukraine worsened. The

1305
01:34:55,120 --> 01:34:57,020
refused to accept the election results.

1306
01:34:58,080 --> 01:35:02,600
Hundreds of thousands of them occupied
the Maidan, Kiev's central square, with

1307
01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:07,340
songs, orange ribbons, multicolored
tents, and pro -Western slogans.

1308
01:35:19,080 --> 01:35:23,140
Suddenly, commissions of international
observers came out of the woodwork to

1309
01:35:23,140 --> 01:35:27,320
dispute the results of the election,
which were won by pro -Russian candidate

1310
01:35:27,320 --> 01:35:32,820
Yanukovych. Those elections were
notoriously rigged. I happened to be

1311
01:35:33,180 --> 01:35:34,180
Really?

1312
01:35:34,800 --> 01:35:38,580
Well, there had just been a vote in Iraq
with American soldiers controlling the

1313
01:35:38,580 --> 01:35:41,000
polling stations, and everyone thought
that was fine.

1314
01:35:41,420 --> 01:35:42,640
But not in Ukraine?

1315
01:35:43,180 --> 01:35:47,360
No, in Ukraine there had to be another
vote because the result wasn't right.

1316
01:35:48,140 --> 01:35:50,620
They called that farce the Orange
Revolution.

1317
01:35:50,860 --> 01:35:53,880
And the previous year in Georgia, it was
the Rose Revolution.

1318
01:35:54,360 --> 01:36:00,280
Another poetic revolution, all pretty
girls and lofty ideals, yet another

1319
01:36:00,280 --> 01:36:06,720
of the Americans is catapulted to power.
Do you seriously believe it takes a CIA

1320
01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:10,900
conspiracy to make Ukrainians want to
flee Russia's orbit in favor of the

1321
01:36:10,900 --> 01:36:13,060
European Union? What people do you mean?

1322
01:36:14,120 --> 01:36:17,680
Do you really think everyone finds your
Europe so attractive?

1323
01:36:18,040 --> 01:36:22,040
We don't need a crystal ball to see the
Russia's turn is coming. The next lovely

1324
01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:26,340
color -coded revolution will be in
Moscow. The future president of the

1325
01:36:26,340 --> 01:36:28,240
Federation will have a degree from Yale.

1326
01:36:29,420 --> 01:36:31,320
That process seemed inevitable.

1327
01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:36,400
The young people were fed up with us,
and the Americans were making the most

1328
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:37,400
that rebellion.

1329
01:36:37,840 --> 01:36:39,900
We'd have to be stronger than them to
survive.

1330
01:36:41,320 --> 01:36:45,700
The old methods outlived their
usefulness. Locking up agitators,

1331
01:36:45,700 --> 01:36:49,460
diplomats. If we were in a bad mood that
day, eliminating opponents.

1332
01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:51,500
I don't believe in any of that.

1333
01:36:53,260 --> 01:36:56,220
So I took a chance and tried a different
tack.

1334
01:37:10,090 --> 01:37:13,250
The president has been informed of your
arrival. He sends his greetings.

1335
01:37:19,750 --> 01:37:24,470
Alexander Sergeyevich, I've been
following you and your night wolves for

1336
01:37:24,470 --> 01:37:25,470
years now.

1337
01:37:25,510 --> 01:37:26,510
I'm impressed.

1338
01:37:27,170 --> 01:37:33,910
You take those lost souls and give them
a home, a sense of

1339
01:37:33,910 --> 01:37:37,370
discipline. Our group gives them two
things they lack.

1340
01:37:38,390 --> 01:37:39,390
Fraternity.

1341
01:38:00,509 --> 01:38:03,050
Did you see what happened in Ukraine?

1342
01:38:03,350 --> 01:38:04,730
Yes. A revolution.

1343
01:38:05,130 --> 01:38:06,130
A coup.

1344
01:38:07,920 --> 01:38:09,420
And you know who took power?

1345
01:38:09,680 --> 01:38:10,680
The Americans.

1346
01:38:10,740 --> 01:38:11,740
Spot on.

1347
01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:16,600
They set up a youth organization, paid
for free concerts in Maidan Square.

1348
01:38:17,320 --> 01:38:21,200
And that's even the orange ribbon was
thought up by an ad man.

1349
01:38:21,440 --> 01:38:25,560
Everything is geared to the young
because their energy is the most

1350
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:26,780
commodity out there.

1351
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:30,800
Their frustration, their desire to
change the world.

1352
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:32,640
Young people need a cause.

1353
01:38:32,900 --> 01:38:33,900
And an enemy.

1354
01:38:35,180 --> 01:38:38,960
We need to find them a cause and an
enemy before they choose those things

1355
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:39,960
themselves.

1356
01:38:40,100 --> 01:38:43,020
Or worse, the Americans choose for them.

1357
01:38:43,580 --> 01:38:48,640
Because if we can't do that, look around
you, Alexander. All we have here are

1358
01:38:48,640 --> 01:38:51,360
bureaucrats. We're the adults.

1359
01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:53,940
We're in power. We're their true enemy.

1360
01:38:54,660 --> 01:38:56,860
You're younger than me, I believe.

1361
01:38:57,180 --> 01:38:58,660
You've taken a different path.

1362
01:38:59,390 --> 01:39:03,910
You embody freedom and adventure. Your
vitality is undimmed. Young people can

1363
01:39:03,910 --> 01:39:04,910
feel that.

1364
01:39:05,010 --> 01:39:07,410
The Tsar is with you. He's your brother.

1365
01:39:07,810 --> 01:39:13,830
He's no bureaucrat. He likes speed. He
does judo. He hunts. He is of the race

1366
01:39:13,830 --> 01:39:17,870
conquerors. Do you think he'd join one
of our rallies?

1367
01:39:18,370 --> 01:39:19,370
Of course.

1368
01:39:19,410 --> 01:39:21,110
The night wolves would be honored.

1369
01:39:21,390 --> 01:39:24,010
We'll hold a rally for all the young
patriots.

1370
01:39:24,650 --> 01:39:29,270
will kick off the struggle against our
true foe, the decadent West and its

1371
01:39:29,270 --> 01:39:32,770
values. Maidan, but in reverse.

1372
01:39:33,170 --> 01:39:39,610
Exactly. Russia must become a place
where people can vent their rage against

1373
01:39:39,610 --> 01:39:43,050
world while remaining faithful servants
to the Tsar.

1374
01:39:43,350 --> 01:39:46,570
Basically, you want to make revolution
impossible.

1375
01:39:47,470 --> 01:39:50,230
Let's just say we want to remove the
need for one.

1376
01:39:53,550 --> 01:39:57,950
Without a drop of vodka, Zaldostanov
left the Kremlin intoxicated.

1377
01:39:58,410 --> 01:40:02,590
Little did he know that my next meeting
was with the intriguing spokesperson of

1378
01:40:02,590 --> 01:40:09,290
an orthodox renaissance movement,
followed by the head of a group of

1379
01:40:09,290 --> 01:40:15,210
crusty young communists, and the leader
of the Spartak supporters.

1380
01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:21,940
I recruited them all, bikers and
hooligans, anarchists and skinheads,

1381
01:40:21,940 --> 01:40:25,740
and religious fanatics from the far
right to the far left and beyond.

1382
01:40:26,260 --> 01:40:30,440
After what happened in Ukraine, we could
no longer leave the forces of fury

1383
01:40:30,440 --> 01:40:31,440
unchecked.

1384
01:40:31,940 --> 01:40:36,420
Monopolizing power was no longer enough.
We needed to monopolize subversion.

1385
01:40:42,660 --> 01:40:44,660
Who didn't I bring on board?

1386
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:50,760
The technocrats responsible for the
disasters of the 90s. The remaining

1387
01:40:50,760 --> 01:40:56,220
oligarchs. The politically correct
banner wavers. Thank you, the vegans.

1388
01:40:56,440 --> 01:41:00,960
Actually, I needed those characters in
The Opposition.

1389
01:41:01,600 --> 01:41:03,260
They were my best players.

1390
01:41:29,100 --> 01:41:32,640
When pussy riots marched into the
Cathedral of Christ the Savior yelling

1391
01:41:32,640 --> 01:41:37,380
obscenities against Putin and Patriarch
Kirill, we went up five points in the

1392
01:41:37,380 --> 01:41:38,380
opinion polls.

1393
01:41:38,480 --> 01:41:40,540
I thought they were heroic, personally.

1394
01:41:40,960 --> 01:41:44,560
They go about it in the wrong way. They
score against their own team. In

1395
01:41:44,560 --> 01:41:46,080
politics, the sanction is swift.

1396
01:41:46,360 --> 01:41:47,880
The sanction cuts both ways.

1397
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:50,080
Gave them worldwide recognition.

1398
01:41:51,620 --> 01:41:53,860
Without that conversation, she's not
coming.

1399
01:41:54,200 --> 01:41:55,580
Wait, I will be back.

1400
01:41:57,420 --> 01:41:58,420
Vadim!

1401
01:41:59,100 --> 01:42:00,100
Mr. Coburn.

1402
01:42:00,480 --> 01:42:03,440
I'm so flattered that you blessed us
with your presence.

1403
01:42:03,660 --> 01:42:06,320
Don't mock me. You know how influential
your salon is.

1404
01:42:06,860 --> 01:42:07,860
Love.

1405
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:11,160
Society gossip has never had much
influence on power.

1406
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:14,760
Thanks to you, I can rub shoulders with
my opponents.

1407
01:42:15,840 --> 01:42:16,840
Indeed.

1408
01:42:18,040 --> 01:42:20,520
Gary Kasparov is here.

1409
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:26,400
Trust champions have never gone far in
politics.

1410
01:42:27,440 --> 01:42:31,200
Vadim Baranov, the wizard of the
Kremlin.

1411
01:42:31,420 --> 01:42:32,099
That's me.

1412
01:42:32,100 --> 01:42:35,960
I hear you've given your doctrine a
name. Indeed, sovereign democracy.

1413
01:42:36,680 --> 01:42:40,860
Russia needs to be a democracy in order
to benefit from globalization. I see no

1414
01:42:40,860 --> 01:42:45,700
traces of democracy in our society, but
do carry on. And sovereignty is

1415
01:42:45,700 --> 01:42:50,140
politically synonymous with stability.
The more stable the regime, the more

1416
01:42:50,140 --> 01:42:53,660
competitive it is. You know what people
say of your sovereign democracy?

1417
01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:55,300
That it takes to democracy.

1418
01:42:56,300 --> 01:42:59,000
What an electric chair is to a chair.

1419
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:04,720
That's just a bit of clever wit, at
least it's funny.

1420
01:43:13,220 --> 01:43:14,820
You left the Cortesio?

1421
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:16,780
I never stay anywhere for long.

1422
01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:19,960
You know me, it's not one of my
attributes.

1423
01:43:20,460 --> 01:43:21,480
Are you living in Moscow?

1424
01:43:22,560 --> 01:43:25,320
When I'm here, I stay at the Hotel
Metropole.

1425
01:43:25,770 --> 01:43:28,210
I'm rather sweet year -round. Are you
inviting me?

1426
01:43:32,850 --> 01:43:35,290
Do you remember my dear friend the Dog
Man?

1427
01:43:35,930 --> 01:43:36,930
Of course.

1428
01:43:37,590 --> 01:43:42,830
Athene. He's an acclaimed director now.
He's putting on Montevideo's Orfeo.

1429
01:43:43,650 --> 01:43:47,830
He's turning the whole theater into a
pagan basilica.

1430
01:43:48,830 --> 01:43:50,590
He calls it a space liturgy.

1431
01:43:51,750 --> 01:43:53,650
How was his high priestess in Paris?

1432
01:43:55,310 --> 01:43:56,310
You want to come?

1433
01:43:56,410 --> 01:43:59,510
Maybe that kind of provocation no longer
interests you.

1434
01:44:07,410 --> 01:44:09,230
I'm not sure I remember who you are.

1435
01:44:09,610 --> 01:44:11,270
I get lost in all your mazes.

1436
01:44:11,690 --> 01:44:12,690
It's a game.

1437
01:44:14,090 --> 01:44:16,330
Politics is really the only game worth
playing.

1438
01:44:16,710 --> 01:44:17,710
You've become cynical.

1439
01:44:18,910 --> 01:44:21,350
You've reached the limit of your
intelligence.

1440
01:44:22,070 --> 01:44:23,070
Cynical.

1441
01:44:26,360 --> 01:44:27,339
Not only.

1442
01:44:27,340 --> 01:44:28,340
I don't know.

1443
01:44:30,300 --> 01:44:31,880
I have to get back to you on it.

1444
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:38,140
As for now, I'm not sure.

1445
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:40,360
Come with me to the opera.

1446
01:44:43,060 --> 01:44:44,360
Or dine at the Metropole.

1447
01:45:17,410 --> 01:45:19,550
I'm tired, Katrina.

1448
01:45:20,070 --> 01:45:21,070
What of?

1449
01:45:23,690 --> 01:45:26,210
Using your black magic in the service of
power?

1450
01:45:26,950 --> 01:45:31,090
The other day I caught a glimpse of
myself in a mirror. Only it wasn't me.

1451
01:45:31,850 --> 01:45:33,150
It was my father.

1452
01:45:33,830 --> 01:45:37,710
My father's face imprinted on mine,
despite my best efforts.

1453
01:45:40,070 --> 01:45:41,070
Let's go in.

1454
01:45:42,410 --> 01:45:43,410
I'm cold.

1455
01:45:47,650 --> 01:45:49,630
Last time you asked me a question.

1456
01:45:50,710 --> 01:45:51,710
You remember?

1457
01:45:51,830 --> 01:45:54,210
Yes. You told me you needed some time.

1458
01:45:54,450 --> 01:45:55,450
Now I can answer.

1459
01:45:56,130 --> 01:45:58,010
You aren't just cynical.

1460
01:45:58,850 --> 01:46:02,130
You have chosen to espouse your times.

1461
01:46:02,530 --> 01:46:06,110
You could have just as easily have grown
away from them. Do you like these

1462
01:46:06,110 --> 01:46:07,430
times? They're ours.

1463
01:46:10,130 --> 01:46:12,450
We're not better or worse than they are.

1464
01:46:12,730 --> 01:46:14,370
I don't think I'm kidding myself.

1465
01:46:14,610 --> 01:46:16,450
I embody the worst of them.

1466
01:46:16,830 --> 01:46:19,450
And you think you're going to have to
answer for them one day.

1467
01:46:20,030 --> 01:46:21,270
Do you believe in the future?

1468
01:46:22,860 --> 01:46:23,860
I don't.

1469
01:46:23,940 --> 01:46:26,320
The future doesn't give a shit about us.

1470
01:46:27,380 --> 01:46:31,220
Our wound is raw beneath the yoke of
these times.

1471
01:46:33,460 --> 01:46:34,460
See?

1472
01:46:35,560 --> 01:46:39,020
Behind the forest we walk, trembling.

1473
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:44,280
Our castle already lit, and the evening
awaits.

1474
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:45,960
Rilke.

1475
01:46:46,840 --> 01:46:47,840
I'd forgotten.

1476
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:12,380
I've never been fascinated by St.
Petersburg.

1477
01:47:12,820 --> 01:47:15,200
It's a museum city stuck in the past.

1478
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:20,420
The Tsar, on the other hand, can only
fully relax there with his oldest,

1479
01:47:20,420 --> 01:47:26,620
friends, a motley crew of former FSB
agents, black belt judokas, and real

1480
01:47:26,620 --> 01:47:28,100
thugs who have hit the big time.

1481
01:47:28,360 --> 01:47:31,360
They, it must be said, were straight out
of Richard III.

1482
01:47:32,260 --> 01:47:37,420
In just a few years, the shady
provincial dealers had amassed wealth

1483
01:47:37,420 --> 01:47:38,420
Gulf emirs.

1484
01:47:55,570 --> 01:47:58,370
Okay, nice.

1485
01:48:16,040 --> 01:48:19,300
Our new chef's specialty is truffle
risotto.

1486
01:48:21,540 --> 01:48:26,140
Let me know if I should keep him or send
him back to Italy.

1487
01:48:27,800 --> 01:48:28,800
Bon appetit.

1488
01:48:30,420 --> 01:48:32,860
Zhenya, you let us down.

1489
01:48:33,060 --> 01:48:36,880
You serve us truffle risotto, but where
is the arugula?

1490
01:48:37,660 --> 01:48:42,400
Shall I remind you that our ice hockey
team finished the last championship in

1491
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:43,400
sixth place?

1492
01:48:45,660 --> 01:48:50,700
We moved up seven spots in the ranking
and overtook Dynamo Moscow.

1493
01:48:50,980 --> 01:48:56,200
Wait till next year. You will see. Well,
then you'll have your arugula next

1494
01:48:56,200 --> 01:48:57,200
year.

1495
01:48:58,100 --> 01:49:03,020
I found five decent arugula in Russia.
But I've just bought an estate by the

1496
01:49:03,020 --> 01:49:05,980
Black Sea in order to grow it. It will
be magnificent.

1497
01:49:06,320 --> 01:49:07,420
But there's a way.

1498
01:49:07,780 --> 01:49:08,780
Keep the chef.

1499
01:49:09,380 --> 01:49:10,700
He knows what he's doing.

1500
01:49:11,820 --> 01:49:14,600
His flight home to Pisa was already
booked.

1501
01:49:15,530 --> 01:49:16,530
On the Ryanair.

1502
01:49:21,570 --> 01:49:28,210
Ed Denny clearly has high standards, but
his talent goes beyond food. It touches

1503
01:49:28,210 --> 01:49:29,290
on geopolitics.

1504
01:49:30,310 --> 01:49:34,310
Even some of the subjects we've been
discussing lately, it would be good if

1505
01:49:34,310 --> 01:49:35,630
two had a word project.

1506
01:49:37,130 --> 01:49:42,830
I didn't know Gagosian well, except as a
restaurateur.

1507
01:49:43,210 --> 01:49:46,410
But I did know Putin had been
shepherding his ascent with unwavering

1508
01:49:46,410 --> 01:49:47,410
benevolence.

1509
01:49:48,170 --> 01:49:49,450
A five -minute flight.

1510
01:49:50,130 --> 01:49:55,170
Shortly after taking off, we began
maneuvers to land on Kameni Island,

1511
01:49:55,170 --> 01:49:59,370
Tsar's close friends lived in the
grandest palaces of the imperial

1512
01:50:03,690 --> 01:50:07,610
I'm not an intellectual like you, but
life has taught me a few lessons.

1513
01:50:07,850 --> 01:50:09,130
I'm not on a jail.

1514
01:50:10,250 --> 01:50:11,710
I don't doubt that.

1515
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:13,940
Do you know how I started out?

1516
01:50:14,260 --> 01:50:16,500
My partners and I obtained St.

1517
01:50:17,200 --> 01:50:19,100
Petersburg's first ever casino license.

1518
01:50:19,400 --> 01:50:23,020
You obtained it? Well, the clerk gave it
to you when he was deputy mayor there.

1519
01:50:23,240 --> 01:50:24,340
You know what a casino is?

1520
01:50:24,640 --> 01:50:27,680
A monument to human irrationality.

1521
01:50:27,920 --> 01:50:32,920
Why the hell throw away your money when
all the odds are against you? When you

1522
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:35,460
bet on human irrationality, you always
win.

1523
01:50:35,780 --> 01:50:36,780
Sure.

1524
01:50:37,200 --> 01:50:38,660
Sure, take an average guy.

1525
01:50:39,240 --> 01:50:40,920
As long as he's comfortable.

1526
01:50:41,640 --> 01:50:46,820
has a safe job, can take family holidays
at the seaside, has a retirement plan.

1527
01:50:47,100 --> 01:50:48,520
He stays put.

1528
01:50:48,780 --> 01:50:54,780
But if things don't look so good, if he
loses his job, his house, if the future

1529
01:50:54,780 --> 01:50:57,780
is less certain, will he play it safe?

1530
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:03,940
Hardly. He'll prefer risk to a hopeless
status quo.

1531
01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:06,960
Chaos becomes more attractive than
order.

1532
01:51:07,639 --> 01:51:13,460
Westerners see China, India, thank God,
Russia making great strides while they

1533
01:51:13,460 --> 01:51:16,640
are stalling. And they're willing to
make the most unreasonable bets.

1534
01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:18,840
Our job is to encourage them.

1535
01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:23,200
The Internet is the battleground of
modern warfare.

1536
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:24,860
I built the tool.

1537
01:51:26,100 --> 01:51:28,300
Now the Tsar wants you to take over.

1538
01:51:32,360 --> 01:51:36,240
Internet Research Agency.

1539
01:51:36,750 --> 01:51:39,430
I thought of the name. Sounds good,
right? What do you think?

1540
01:51:40,910 --> 01:51:41,910
Anton.

1541
01:51:42,650 --> 01:51:43,970
Our managing editor.

1542
01:51:44,550 --> 01:51:50,190
He has a PhD in international relations
and speaks every language you can think

1543
01:51:50,190 --> 01:51:51,550
of. Pleased to meet you, Anton.

1544
01:51:52,150 --> 01:51:53,890
Tell him what you guys are doing here.

1545
01:51:54,410 --> 01:51:58,870
Influence, information, the Russian
point of view on the West for

1546
01:51:59,530 --> 01:52:02,890
They're convinced that their media and
elites lie about everything, so they'll

1547
01:52:02,890 --> 01:52:04,110
buy alternative versions.

1548
01:52:04,830 --> 01:52:07,570
The message we're sending is that we
tell the truth.

1549
01:52:08,430 --> 01:52:11,430
Russia tells the truth. Like Russia
today.

1550
01:52:11,830 --> 01:52:14,430
Except that we work in social media, not
TV.

1551
01:52:15,030 --> 01:52:16,130
Shall we get some coffee?

1552
01:52:17,030 --> 01:52:20,290
We have a nice little break area with
sofas, houseplants.

1553
01:52:20,570 --> 01:52:21,570
And ping -pong tables.

1554
01:52:21,950 --> 01:52:23,790
You go on. We'll catch up with you.

1555
01:52:28,510 --> 01:52:32,490
Evgeny, you'll have to explain because I
don't quite get it.

1556
01:52:33,010 --> 01:52:34,010
Something wrong?

1557
01:52:35,050 --> 01:52:36,050
Can we talk?

1558
01:52:36,330 --> 01:52:37,330
Sure.

1559
01:52:42,370 --> 01:52:46,910
I thought our goal was to affect
mindsets in Europe and the States, get

1560
01:52:46,910 --> 01:52:47,889
people's heads.

1561
01:52:47,890 --> 01:52:49,590
Sure. And now you bring me Anton.

1562
01:52:50,190 --> 01:52:51,190
He's the best.

1563
01:52:51,310 --> 01:52:52,650
That's exactly the problem.

1564
01:52:53,570 --> 01:52:56,950
Don't you realize that Westerners aren't
interested in politics anymore?

1565
01:52:57,430 --> 01:53:00,750
If we want to screw them over, we should
talk about anything but...

1566
01:53:00,960 --> 01:53:07,160
politics we don't need anton who do we
need idiots highly addictive ones

1567
01:53:07,160 --> 01:53:13,420
cyber dependent otakus beauty advice
bimbos youtube conspiracy theories

1568
01:53:13,420 --> 01:53:18,300
that generates clicks but we are going
to have to get our message through at

1569
01:53:18,300 --> 01:53:24,540
some point aren't we who do you think we
are the common turn i regret to inform

1570
01:53:24,540 --> 01:53:29,700
you that the soviet union is gone No
more party line, no message to get

1571
01:53:29,700 --> 01:53:30,780
either, Yevgeny.

1572
01:53:31,040 --> 01:53:32,040
Just wire.

1573
01:53:33,120 --> 01:53:35,480
Come on, let's go. We're wasting our
time here.

1574
01:53:39,180 --> 01:53:40,500
What wire do you mean?

1575
01:53:41,460 --> 01:53:42,800
How do you break a wire?

1576
01:53:43,600 --> 01:53:45,980
You twist it one way and then the other.

1577
01:53:46,440 --> 01:53:48,180
That's what we're going to do, Yevgeny.

1578
01:53:48,480 --> 01:53:49,740
And how do you do that?

1579
01:53:50,960 --> 01:53:53,760
Build your network and see who takes the
bait.

1580
01:53:54,480 --> 01:53:58,120
They'll all have an obsession. We won't
know which. The cliques will show us.

1581
01:53:58,240 --> 01:54:03,200
One will be an anti -vaxxer, another
will be pro -life, pro -choice. It

1582
01:54:03,200 --> 01:54:07,520
matter. We're not going to convert
anyone, Yevgeny. We just need them all

1583
01:54:07,520 --> 01:54:11,300
have something that drives them nuts and
someone who enrages them.

1584
01:54:11,980 --> 01:54:16,200
It's infallible. No preferences,
Yevgeny. No arguments.

1585
01:54:16,440 --> 01:54:17,440
Just wire.

1586
01:54:17,560 --> 01:54:21,020
We twist it one way and then the other
until it breaks.

1587
01:54:21,280 --> 01:54:22,920
Okay, I got it. Wire.

1588
01:54:24,460 --> 01:54:29,020
But everything is traceable on the
Internet, and sooner or later we'll get

1589
01:54:29,020 --> 01:54:32,340
caught. Yes, we will, and that's what
we're after.

1590
01:54:33,020 --> 01:54:36,480
Serving our allies is predictable, but
how will they react when they realize

1591
01:54:36,480 --> 01:54:38,400
we're also supporting our own opponents?

1592
01:54:39,160 --> 01:54:43,980
They'll think we're fools. No, they'll
go insane, lose their bearings.

1593
01:54:44,280 --> 01:54:47,840
All they'll know is that we've gotten
into their heads and are playing with

1594
01:54:47,840 --> 01:54:49,480
their neural circuits as we please.

1595
01:54:50,520 --> 01:54:52,600
The Americans wrote the algorithm.

1596
01:54:53,310 --> 01:54:55,590
We'll use it too, only better than them.

1597
01:54:55,910 --> 01:54:59,530
Anyone accusing us of plotting against
democracy will be an ally.

1598
01:54:59,770 --> 01:55:04,050
They'll build the myth that we're all
powerful. It'll be the greatest of all

1599
01:55:04,050 --> 01:55:09,010
secrets because everyone will know it.
The Russians are controlling the modern

1600
01:55:09,010 --> 01:55:11,190
world. They are its masters.

1601
01:55:12,470 --> 01:55:17,430
That's the interesting thing about
politics, Yevgeny. Anything that makes

1602
01:55:17,430 --> 01:55:20,490
seem strong actually increases that
strength.

1603
01:55:38,370 --> 01:55:39,370
Borea.

1604
01:55:39,670 --> 01:55:40,670
Borea.

1605
01:55:43,290 --> 01:55:45,010
You come bearing a message?

1606
01:55:45,650 --> 01:55:47,470
Sorry, Borea. No message.

1607
01:55:47,970 --> 01:55:49,370
So to what do I owe this?

1608
01:55:49,830 --> 01:55:50,830
Purely pleasure.

1609
01:55:53,330 --> 01:55:55,930
You're in London to see the British
Olympic Association.

1610
01:55:57,550 --> 01:56:01,570
You're well informed as ever. The Sochi
Olympics seem to be the only thing

1611
01:56:01,570 --> 01:56:02,770
Israel cares about these days.

1612
01:56:02,990 --> 01:56:03,990
The president was.

1613
01:56:04,280 --> 01:56:06,840
Kind enough to let me supervise the
opening ceremony.

1614
01:56:07,240 --> 01:56:10,440
Well, I hope you'll be giving out medals
to the best political assassination.

1615
01:56:11,080 --> 01:56:12,080
I don't know, Boris.

1616
01:56:12,580 --> 01:56:15,360
The main thing is for Russia to come out
on top.

1617
01:56:17,020 --> 01:56:18,140
I'm not worried.

1618
01:56:19,460 --> 01:56:22,780
You'll find the worst possible solution.

1619
01:56:23,700 --> 01:56:24,700
You always do.

1620
01:56:37,200 --> 01:56:43,940
Well, you may not have a message for me,
but I have one for him.

1621
01:56:47,760 --> 01:56:49,640
Oh, come on, there's no polonium in it.

1622
01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:51,620
It's a letter to the Tsar.

1623
01:56:51,900 --> 01:56:55,020
I wrote it from the heart, and you can
read it if you want to.

1624
01:57:00,760 --> 01:57:04,500
I beg you to grant me your forgiveness
as a Christian. Are you serious?

1625
01:57:04,920 --> 01:57:05,960
I'm appealing to his faith.

1626
01:57:06,760 --> 01:57:10,980
And I'm offering my services based on
the experience I've gained.

1627
01:57:16,240 --> 01:57:18,820
Listen, honestly, no way.

1628
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:24,500
But... Times have changed. You're not in
the running anymore. Sorry if I'm being

1629
01:57:24,500 --> 01:57:26,400
cruel. I'm appealing to his humanity.

1630
01:57:26,880 --> 01:57:28,860
Boris, who are you kidding?

1631
01:57:29,300 --> 01:57:31,020
The hardship of exile?

1632
01:57:31,580 --> 01:57:35,920
The passage of time? Death drawing near?
I get it.

1633
01:57:37,070 --> 01:57:38,690
But I don't think it'll make him blink.

1634
01:57:38,970 --> 01:57:44,270
For the comfort of spending my final
days in our motherland, you don't think

1635
01:57:44,270 --> 01:57:45,270
you'll understand that?

1636
01:57:51,690 --> 01:57:52,710
I have to go now.

1637
01:58:01,010 --> 01:58:02,810
Just give him the letter, anyway.

1638
01:58:04,790 --> 01:58:06,010
I think it might cut it.

1639
01:58:07,340 --> 01:58:08,340
I genuinely do.

1640
01:58:11,380 --> 01:58:13,660
I wish I could have told him it would
work.

1641
01:58:14,020 --> 01:58:17,760
That the Tsar would be moved and we'd
all sit together at the Olympics in the

1642
01:58:17,760 --> 01:58:18,800
VIP box seats.

1643
01:58:20,340 --> 01:58:21,560
I was fond of him.

1644
01:58:21,880 --> 01:58:25,300
He wasn't a saint, but there was a
childlike joy about him.

1645
01:58:25,800 --> 01:58:29,420
Ever since the Tsar had banished him and
his kind, all that was left in Moscow

1646
01:58:29,420 --> 01:58:31,080
was strong men and their grim
determination.

1647
01:58:32,840 --> 01:58:36,200
Worst of all, I'd played a part in
making it happen.

1648
01:58:39,230 --> 01:58:40,930
So, did it go well?

1649
01:58:41,490 --> 01:58:42,810
How could it possibly?

1650
01:58:43,450 --> 01:58:44,610
He helped you.

1651
01:58:44,950 --> 01:58:46,310
You could give him a hand.

1652
01:58:46,790 --> 01:58:49,270
Boris sees the Sochi Olympics
approaching.

1653
01:58:49,710 --> 01:58:53,810
There's still plenty of money to be
made, even if everyone's already lined

1654
01:58:53,810 --> 01:58:54,810
pockets.

1655
01:58:55,310 --> 01:58:56,770
Press and company included.

1656
01:58:58,630 --> 01:58:59,690
Do you like those?

1657
01:59:00,310 --> 01:59:02,450
They're the main costumes for the
opening ceremony.

1658
01:59:02,810 --> 01:59:06,290
Most importantly, did the British
Olympic Association like them?

1659
01:59:06,610 --> 01:59:07,610
Who cares?

1660
01:59:08,400 --> 01:59:12,780
I've already had to swallow a Winter
Olympics at a balmy seaside resort,

1661
01:59:12,780 --> 01:59:14,460
devoid of athletic infrastructure.

1662
01:59:16,040 --> 01:59:17,280
Have you seen the others?

1663
01:59:19,280 --> 01:59:21,180
No, not really now.

1664
01:59:27,900 --> 01:59:34,220
Look, each island represents a period in
our history, an animatronic float in

1665
01:59:34,220 --> 01:59:35,199
mid -air.

1666
01:59:35,200 --> 01:59:40,700
Our entire literary history will go
marching by. All the domes of St.

1667
01:59:40,700 --> 01:59:43,540
will fly away. And then Swan Lake.

1668
01:59:46,800 --> 01:59:47,800
Like it?

1669
01:59:51,640 --> 01:59:52,640
Or the other.

1670
01:59:52,780 --> 01:59:53,980
Russia doesn't exist.

1671
01:59:56,680 --> 01:59:58,020
At least not anymore.

1672
01:59:59,260 --> 02:00:02,080
But they're the ones who inspired us
back then.

1673
02:00:03,040 --> 02:00:04,260
It's too late now.

1674
02:00:12,750 --> 02:00:14,030
You won't say you're a soul.

1675
02:00:16,910 --> 02:00:22,390
The ceremony is just a mask for the
dictatorship, and the rest is just empty

1676
02:00:22,390 --> 02:00:23,390
pretext.

1677
02:00:26,130 --> 02:00:27,470
I see through you.

1678
02:00:31,250 --> 02:00:37,010
It doesn't mean I don't love you, but
I'm not going to be your partner in

1679
02:00:44,620 --> 02:00:45,620
May I have a drink?

1680
02:00:45,960 --> 02:00:47,240
Champagne. Ma 'am?

1681
02:00:47,560 --> 02:00:48,560
Same.

1682
02:00:56,360 --> 02:01:01,360
That Tsar is... going to free our old
friend Dimitri.

1683
02:01:04,680 --> 02:01:05,680
Are you sure?

1684
02:01:06,640 --> 02:01:08,640
It isn't the first time you told me
that.

1685
02:01:08,860 --> 02:01:10,740
He'll do it two weeks before the start
of the Games.

1686
02:01:12,240 --> 02:01:13,980
Western media will have a field day.

1687
02:01:15,020 --> 02:01:16,020
That's the idea.

1688
02:01:22,280 --> 02:01:26,880
You never

1689
02:01:26,880 --> 02:01:31,640
asked me what I did with my day.

1690
02:01:32,560 --> 02:01:33,560
Not shopping.

1691
02:01:35,480 --> 02:01:36,640
That's not like you.

1692
02:01:38,020 --> 02:01:39,020
Something...

1693
02:01:39,260 --> 02:01:43,480
Edgier. Drop the sarcasm for five
minutes, will you? I wasn't being

1694
02:01:43,480 --> 02:01:45,060
was trying to get... I went to the
gynecologist.

1695
02:01:51,140 --> 02:01:52,140
I'm pregnant.

1696
02:02:03,800 --> 02:02:06,160
You look... I'm a little shocked, yes.

1697
02:02:29,290 --> 02:02:33,630
According to early police reports, Boris
Berezovsky's death is consistent with

1698
02:02:33,630 --> 02:02:37,130
hanging. Berezovsky was found dead last
night at his Ascot residence.

1699
02:02:37,990 --> 02:02:40,150
Pathologists have found no signs of a
struggle.

1700
02:02:40,530 --> 02:02:44,010
Access has been closed until the results
for the tests for chemical, biological

1701
02:02:44,010 --> 02:02:46,030
and nuclear agents have been returned.

1702
02:02:51,590 --> 02:02:53,050
It had to end this way.

1703
02:02:54,490 --> 02:02:56,230
Exile was too painful for him.

1704
02:02:57,930 --> 02:02:58,930
I'll miss him.

1705
02:02:59,370 --> 02:03:03,570
He painted an appalling image of the
opposition, and it was priceless for us.

1706
02:03:04,790 --> 02:03:07,210
This is the program for the opening
ceremony.

1707
02:03:08,850 --> 02:03:10,630
Update it according to your notes.

1708
02:03:17,830 --> 02:03:19,650
What is dark punk?

1709
02:03:20,050 --> 02:03:21,590
Um, electronic music.

1710
02:03:22,150 --> 02:03:23,410
Number one worldwide.

1711
02:03:25,230 --> 02:03:27,690
Two Frenchmen who never remove their
robot helmets.

1712
02:03:28,030 --> 02:03:29,890
This setup wasn't in the previous round.

1713
02:03:30,130 --> 02:03:33,730
They won five Grammy Awards last week.
We have to get up to date.

1714
02:03:33,970 --> 02:03:36,450
You've asked the police choir to sing
their song.

1715
02:03:37,330 --> 02:03:40,170
Where did Malik say she's turned the
whole ceremony into a farce?

1716
02:03:41,310 --> 02:03:42,310
Okay.

1717
02:03:43,270 --> 02:03:44,850
Explain your rationale to Eagle.

1718
02:03:46,090 --> 02:03:47,970
Today it's what people want to dance to.

1719
02:03:48,490 --> 02:03:49,490
It's that simple.

1720
02:03:49,710 --> 02:03:50,669
It'll be ridiculous.

1721
02:03:50,670 --> 02:03:51,930
No, it'll be kitsch.

1722
02:03:52,560 --> 02:03:57,100
The entire world, three billion
spectators, are waiting for the greatest

1723
02:03:57,100 --> 02:04:00,400
they've ever seen. It can only be the
apotheosis of kitsch.

1724
02:04:02,260 --> 02:04:06,980
Kitsch is the only language available to
us if we are to communicate with the

1725
02:04:06,980 --> 02:04:10,880
masses. We want to show them our Russia.
They don't want to see your Russia.

1726
02:04:11,500 --> 02:04:14,560
Besides, you have nothing to show and
everything to hide.

1727
02:04:15,500 --> 02:04:20,900
We want to paint the picture of an open
Russia, sure -footed, but also capable

1728
02:04:20,900 --> 02:04:21,900
of smiling.

1729
02:04:22,440 --> 02:04:28,140
Today's world requires self
-deprecation, not your balalaika speak.

1730
02:04:28,140 --> 02:04:30,820
understand what I'm saying, or is it
gibberish to you?

1731
02:04:31,840 --> 02:04:33,860
What can you do, hmm?

1732
02:04:35,200 --> 02:04:41,940
Adya is an acrobat, an artist for
politicians, a politician for artists.

1733
02:04:42,340 --> 02:04:43,520
Be careful, Adya.

1734
02:04:43,980 --> 02:04:48,520
Sooner or later you might miss the
trapeze and fall flat on your face.

1735
02:04:54,400 --> 02:04:59,320
the 22nd Winter Olympic Games of Sochi
open.

1736
02:05:02,320 --> 02:05:04,420
That was probably the night I should
have left.

1737
02:05:04,640 --> 02:05:07,900
I should have closed the book at that
page. It was a good ending for me.

1738
02:05:23,210 --> 02:05:26,770
independence movement seized on the
Olympic ceasefire to occupy Maidan

1739
02:05:26,770 --> 02:05:27,770
again.

1740
02:05:29,150 --> 02:05:33,270
Two days before the end of the Games,
they ousted pro -Russian President

1741
02:05:33,270 --> 02:05:35,430
Yanukovych, who fled the same day.

1742
02:05:36,510 --> 02:05:41,070
The chaos that ensued gave the Tsar a
golden opportunity to invade Ukraine.

1743
02:05:44,710 --> 02:05:47,190
Russian snipers killed over 100
protesters.

1744
02:05:48,230 --> 02:05:49,850
They say you were in charge.

1745
02:05:52,110 --> 02:05:53,110
Who says?

1746
02:05:53,730 --> 02:05:54,730
Ukrainians.

1747
02:05:55,410 --> 02:05:56,770
From your own emails.

1748
02:05:58,290 --> 02:06:00,730
They say you have Ukrainian blood on
your hands.

1749
02:06:09,630 --> 02:06:15,670
The night before the closing ceremony,
following his grand plan, the Tsar

1750
02:06:15,670 --> 02:06:17,110
decided to annex Crimea.

1751
02:06:19,590 --> 02:06:20,870
Crimea was...

1752
02:06:21,150 --> 02:06:22,150
Part of Ukraine.

1753
02:06:23,290 --> 02:06:26,930
We weren't about to send regular troops
to invade a sovereign country.

1754
02:06:27,270 --> 02:06:28,270
No.

1755
02:06:28,830 --> 02:06:33,970
You sent in Russian soldiers who weren't
wearing any national insignia. Little

1756
02:06:33,970 --> 02:06:39,150
green men, as your fellow journalists
used to say. When Zaldastanov and his

1757
02:06:39,150 --> 02:06:42,790
night wolves brought the circus to
Crimea, you were the one pulling the

1758
02:06:43,190 --> 02:06:45,930
True. I gave them a supporting part.

1759
02:06:47,570 --> 02:06:48,790
Supporting actors are important.

1760
02:06:50,890 --> 02:06:52,430
As long as they don't get too carried
away.

1761
02:07:16,510 --> 02:07:18,550
Have you seen all the flags?

1762
02:07:19,530 --> 02:07:21,850
We're not using the Federation once
anymore.

1763
02:07:22,670 --> 02:07:24,430
We have something else in mind.

1764
02:07:24,930 --> 02:07:27,170
We are no longer a Federation, Vaja.

1765
02:07:27,730 --> 02:07:29,390
We are conquering new lands.

1766
02:07:30,890 --> 02:07:33,810
We have taken back Crimea from the
Ukrainian.

1767
02:07:34,710 --> 02:07:36,830
Soon the whole of Donbass will be
Russian.

1768
02:07:37,070 --> 02:07:38,830
It is high time to take stock.

1769
02:07:39,350 --> 02:07:40,350
Take stock.

1770
02:07:40,730 --> 02:07:42,930
Truly. I'm a man of action.

1771
02:07:43,410 --> 02:07:45,510
We are here to support the Russian army.

1772
02:07:46,030 --> 02:07:47,510
Help them bring you victory.

1773
02:07:48,030 --> 02:07:49,370
Well, who said anything about victory?

1774
02:07:51,510 --> 02:07:53,750
What we want in Ukraine isn't conquest.

1775
02:07:54,750 --> 02:07:55,750
It's chaos.

1776
02:07:57,390 --> 02:08:00,930
The Ukrainians have fooled themselves
into thinking that their orange

1777
02:08:00,930 --> 02:08:04,590
would get them into Europe, but it's
going to take them back to the Middle

1778
02:08:05,330 --> 02:08:09,850
If you listen to Westerners' promises,
it always ends like that. They drop you

1779
02:08:09,850 --> 02:08:13,050
at the first hurdle, and you're left
alone, your country in ruins.

1780
02:08:13,290 --> 02:08:14,710
That's the moral of the story.

1781
02:08:15,690 --> 02:08:19,870
You see, Alexander, this war isn't
fought in real life, but in the people's

1782
02:08:19,870 --> 02:08:24,930
minds. On the TV news, in Moscow, Kiev,
Berlin.

1783
02:08:25,390 --> 02:08:31,450
You are actors in a play that goes over
your heads and resonates far beyond

1784
02:08:31,450 --> 02:08:32,450
these borders.

1785
02:08:37,750 --> 02:08:42,370
Either you agree to be a part of my game
with the attendant advantages, or you

1786
02:08:42,370 --> 02:08:45,780
don't. But just remember, I can pull the
plug on you whenever I like.

1787
02:08:46,040 --> 02:08:51,360
And then things will get a great deal
more complicated for you, your walls,

1788
02:08:51,360 --> 02:08:52,740
little business ventures.

1789
02:08:53,860 --> 02:08:55,960
It's flourishing for once I gather.

1790
02:09:15,050 --> 02:09:16,050
I'm going to bother you for a moment.

1791
02:09:16,630 --> 02:09:18,070
All right, Ed.

1792
02:09:20,350 --> 02:09:21,830
How did your trip to Lugansk go?

1793
02:09:22,490 --> 02:09:25,090
Well, I'm sure you've read your services
reports.

1794
02:09:27,690 --> 02:09:29,670
We have news from the Americans.

1795
02:09:30,550 --> 02:09:31,550
What news?

1796
02:09:31,750 --> 02:09:35,190
It seems they have thrown up a blacklist
of people forbidden on their soil.

1797
02:09:36,170 --> 02:09:37,170
Your name is on it.

1798
02:09:38,870 --> 02:09:41,210
I've got a feeling you'll have to forget
about going to New York for a while.

1799
02:09:41,710 --> 02:09:45,690
Oh. There's sanctions for the takeover
of Crimea. When do they start?

1800
02:09:46,010 --> 02:09:47,010
This Monday.

1801
02:09:48,370 --> 02:09:51,290
It's a good thing I stopped liking New
York a long time ago.

1802
02:09:52,170 --> 02:09:54,030
I've heard something else, too.

1803
02:09:56,870 --> 02:09:57,870
Go on.

1804
02:09:58,530 --> 02:10:00,090
It'll be official tomorrow.

1805
02:10:00,410 --> 02:10:04,490
Your name is also on the Europeans'
shortlist.

1806
02:10:05,530 --> 02:10:09,090
Paris, London, no more.

1807
02:10:10,470 --> 02:10:11,830
I'm told you'll miss Naples.

1808
02:10:15,950 --> 02:10:17,770
I won't bother you any longer, Vladimir
Alekseevich.

1809
02:10:19,270 --> 02:10:20,650
I'm sure you have arrangements to make.

1810
02:10:21,670 --> 02:10:22,670
And pass.

1811
02:11:06,220 --> 02:11:07,220
Leonia, have you heard?

1812
02:11:07,440 --> 02:11:10,280
Yes, tonight or tomorrow at the latest?

1813
02:11:11,340 --> 02:11:15,140
No, no interviews, just a press release.
Can you take this down?

1814
02:11:15,660 --> 02:11:16,660
Yes.

1815
02:11:17,700 --> 02:11:22,180
I see this sanction as an Oscar awarded
for my entire political career.

1816
02:11:23,200 --> 02:11:26,340
It means I have served my country
honorably, full stop.

1817
02:11:27,500 --> 02:11:29,400
No. No, that's all.

1818
02:11:29,600 --> 02:11:30,600
Thank you.

1819
02:12:06,820 --> 02:12:10,020
Ksenia, pack your bags. I'll be over in
15 minutes.

1820
02:12:12,480 --> 02:12:17,520
A few hours later, we landed in
Stockholm for our last European weekend.

1821
02:13:01,480 --> 02:13:02,480
It's bound to happen.

1822
02:13:04,220 --> 02:13:05,660
Only you could avoid it.

1823
02:13:06,160 --> 02:13:07,160
By resigning.

1824
02:13:07,540 --> 02:13:08,540
For instance?

1825
02:13:11,360 --> 02:13:12,380
Power is addictive.

1826
02:13:13,460 --> 02:13:14,980
It's a tough habit to kick.

1827
02:13:15,540 --> 02:13:18,920
Before, when you spouted that kind of
truism, I could hear the irony.

1828
02:13:20,280 --> 02:13:21,280
Not anymore.

1829
02:13:21,540 --> 02:13:22,540
There was none.

1830
02:13:23,260 --> 02:13:25,020
There were in Ukraine, it's like the
rest.

1831
02:13:26,180 --> 02:13:27,400
I never wanted it.

1832
02:13:27,740 --> 02:13:29,980
I even opposed it. If you say so.

1833
02:13:30,560 --> 02:13:33,240
Indeed, I do say so.

1834
02:13:34,160 --> 02:13:39,400
And I also say that once the Tsar had
made up his mind, I did everything I

1835
02:13:39,400 --> 02:13:40,400
to see it succeed.

1836
02:13:41,060 --> 02:13:42,060
Out of habit.

1837
02:13:43,800 --> 02:13:44,800
Out of pride.

1838
02:13:46,200 --> 02:13:47,320
And because I could.

1839
02:13:47,520 --> 02:13:48,520
With no compunction.

1840
02:13:48,900 --> 02:13:49,900
That's true.

1841
02:13:50,360 --> 02:13:51,500
That's how it's always been.

1842
02:13:52,840 --> 02:13:56,200
With the Moscow bombings and the war in
Chechnya.

1843
02:13:57,200 --> 02:14:02,840
With Dmitri's arrest and Borislavsky's
fall and now the murders on the Maidan.

1844
02:14:03,920 --> 02:14:09,240
I never wanted any of those things yet.
Each depended on my tireless labor.

1845
02:14:09,780 --> 02:14:11,060
And now you're tired.

1846
02:14:12,020 --> 02:14:13,900
Russia devoured my grandfather.

1847
02:14:15,700 --> 02:14:18,320
You met my father, it devoured him too.

1848
02:14:19,380 --> 02:14:23,360
I don't know about me. I don't know if
I'll be saved. Probably not.

1849
02:14:25,290 --> 02:14:27,030
In any case, it's too late.

1850
02:14:30,530 --> 02:14:32,390
But our child will be saved.

1851
02:14:59,010 --> 02:15:01,810
Xenia? Xenia?

1852
02:15:07,210 --> 02:15:08,610
XENIA!

1853
02:15:45,960 --> 02:15:48,540
Going to Novo Ogarevo was never much of
a thrill.

1854
02:15:48,960 --> 02:15:51,000
The bleak, sporty mood pained me.

1855
02:15:51,480 --> 02:15:55,080
After I got back from Stockholm, I
almost never set foot there again.

1856
02:15:55,620 --> 02:15:58,760
A prince's trust is not a privilege, but
a conviction.

1857
02:15:59,620 --> 02:16:00,940
I had played my part.

1858
02:16:01,400 --> 02:16:03,000
I was no longer of any use.

1859
02:16:03,800 --> 02:16:06,680
At some point, I let him get out of the
habit of seeing me.

1860
02:16:06,960 --> 02:16:07,960
That's all.

1861
02:16:09,380 --> 02:16:13,400
He gets up early and breakfasts on fresh
eggs sent by Patriarch Kirill from his

1862
02:16:13,400 --> 02:16:14,400
farm.

1863
02:16:14,490 --> 02:16:17,910
If there's an emergency, that's when he
reads his confidential notes and makes

1864
02:16:17,910 --> 02:16:18,910
his wishes known.

1865
02:16:19,990 --> 02:16:21,770
Next, he swims a kilometer.

1866
02:16:22,570 --> 02:16:24,830
His first visitors wait by the pool.

1867
02:16:25,430 --> 02:16:27,450
Ministers, advisors, CEOs.

1868
02:16:28,510 --> 02:16:32,450
The presidential motorcade only leaves
for the Kremlin in the early afternoon.

1869
02:16:33,250 --> 02:16:35,389
The streets are closed half an hour
prior.

1870
02:16:35,770 --> 02:16:39,830
Putin drives from Novo Goryevo to the
Kremlin through his frozen capital.

1871
02:16:40,889 --> 02:16:42,469
And his real day begins.

1872
02:16:44,330 --> 02:16:46,350
Sometimes only ending at dawn.

1873
02:16:49,450 --> 02:16:56,190
One man stays awake while everyone else
who matters in Moscow shares his vigil.

1874
02:16:57,170 --> 02:16:58,809
Like in Stalin's day.

1875
02:17:01,290 --> 02:17:02,290
Who's that?

1876
02:17:02,670 --> 02:17:03,830
Who's this?

1877
02:17:04,330 --> 02:17:06,870
Oh, hi, my sweet one.

1878
02:17:08,070 --> 02:17:12,209
Can I play with Muchka? Of course you
can. You're not bothering us.

1879
02:17:14,190 --> 02:17:15,190
Where is she?

1880
02:17:15,270 --> 02:17:16,510
Where is that magical?

1881
02:17:16,969 --> 02:17:18,410
Is she under the table? No.

1882
02:17:18,650 --> 02:17:19,950
She's not under the table? No.

1883
02:17:20,170 --> 02:17:21,170
Is she under the cushion?

1884
02:17:21,410 --> 02:17:22,450
No. Are you sure?

1885
02:17:22,709 --> 02:17:24,150
No. Is she under the piano?

1886
02:17:24,469 --> 02:17:25,469
No. No?

1887
02:17:25,770 --> 02:17:28,450
No. There she is.

1888
02:17:29,110 --> 02:17:30,129
There she is.

1889
02:17:34,770 --> 02:17:41,510
All the happiness I've known in the
world is concentrated

1890
02:17:41,510 --> 02:17:42,510
in her.

1891
02:17:43,760 --> 02:17:47,080
Daddy, what do you think Machka would
say if she could talk?

1892
02:17:47,480 --> 02:17:51,639
Hmm, I think she'd say, I'd have more
fun with a real rabbit.

1893
02:17:51,860 --> 02:17:58,760
Daddy? No, no, no. She'd say, I like you
best of all, Anya. I only want to play

1894
02:17:58,760 --> 02:17:59,760
with you.

1895
02:18:01,540 --> 02:18:05,240
Cats aren't my favorite thing, but how
much longer will I be able to make her

1896
02:18:05,240 --> 02:18:06,240
happy?

1897
02:18:06,940 --> 02:18:09,340
I never felt fear before, Anya.

1898
02:18:09,870 --> 02:18:12,990
From the moment I first laid eyes on
her, I've been living in terror.

1899
02:18:13,290 --> 02:18:16,350
I realize my life is in her hands, not
the other way around.

1900
02:18:17,410 --> 02:18:19,709
My daughter doesn't count the hours or
the days.

1901
02:18:21,209 --> 02:18:22,730
I've always lived in the future.

1902
02:18:25,330 --> 02:18:26,990
And she's given me the present.