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Since Vareen Badernoff
stepped down as advisor

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to Vladimir Vladimir
Richard Putin, the Tsar.

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The legends about him haven't waned.

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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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Badernoff 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 the Donbas.

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But even Badernoff 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

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decisively to the growth
of the Tsar's power.

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He was known as the Wizard of the Kremlin,
the new restaurant.

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He would show up unannounced
at the President's office

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in the middle of the 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

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minister or the CEO of some
state-owned conglomerate.

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But in these witnesses
never shed any light on

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the Tsar and his
advisor's nightly activities.

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When I returned to
Moscow a few years after his

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disappearance, Badernoff's
memories still loomed large.

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The press persisted
in attributing to him the

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most baffling measures
taken by the Kremlin.

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As for me, I had just
published an essay in

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foreign affairs that
created something of a stir.

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It was called Vareem Badernoff in the
invention of fake democracy.

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If you need anything, just dial night.

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Thank you.

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Have a good day, Mr. Roland.

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You, too.

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

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zamyat, one of Russia's
great writers and an

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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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Zamyatun became my obsession.

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He was a visionary.

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And not just when it came to Stalin.

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All subsequent dictators as well.

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From Silicon Valley oligarchs to China's
one-party state.

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From Mark Zuckerberg 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 on the way to Siberia.

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I felt a mix of curiosity and
apprehension.

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In Russia, things generally go pretty
well.

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But when they go bad, they go really bad.

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Good morning.

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Please, put on 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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But I'm collecting my read them.

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There's a major difference.

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So you're a reader of Zamyatun.

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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 Zamyatun wrote to Stalin.

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Asking permission to leave the USSR.

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Do your surface, Rionovich.

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Just as the Christians created the devil as
a convenient personification of all evil.

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So the critics have transformed me into
the devil of Soviet literature.

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Zamyatun understood too much, too quickly.

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Made the rash decision to write about it.

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Please, never see.

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You read it?

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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,

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but something.

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Thank you.

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You said you consider yourself an artist.

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It's just that I've played a supporting
role.

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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, thieves,
murderers, traitors, but not as ertas.

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What?

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

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And the czar.

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The czar is a different story.

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My father feared this library.

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It belonged to my grandfather,
Kustin, Kratzia, Machiavelli, the

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skeptics, the disillusioned, hardly the
Soviet doxer.

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

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Your father?

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He ended up director of the Academy of
Social Sciences for the Communist Party.

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His one goal in life was
to avoid being awakened

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at dawn by the KGB
banging on his front door.

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In his position, he shouldn't have had to
worry about that.

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No one was safe in the Soviet Union.

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No one was 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

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privilege in Moscow
was the Kremlin off-car.

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A food basket reserved for the Communist
Party senior officials.

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What were you eating today?

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Salt and bittersky.

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Alarm cufflets.

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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

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they gained access to
villos on the cote as your...

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And they still haven't gotten over it.

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Even the czar, me, the kid who grew up in
a shoddy common alka at the back of a

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gloomy courtyard in St. Petersburg,
now I'm invited to Buckingham Palace.

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Things have changed.

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Not that much.

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For you, Westerners, money is essential.

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What matters in Russia is your proximity
to power.

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The Soviet system was based on privilege,
not cash.

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Yesterday, there wasn't any.

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Tomorrow, who knows?

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So, you might as well just blow it all.

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Do you know what a vtushko is?

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It was a telephone
without a dial that allowed

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party leaders to
communicate directly with you.

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Having one man shoot made it.

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Look, this is a vtushko.

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Gray, like everything Soviet.

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If you think Moscow is gray, you should
try Washington.

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Oh, god, they're not gray, they're dead.

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

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Is your father still alive?

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No.

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He might have subsisted in his world for a
long time.

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But then along came Gorbachev and his
glass of milk.

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Glass of milk?

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Oh, he didn't have to
listen to Gorbachev to know

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that he was about to
destroy the Soviet Union.

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It was enough to look at him.

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He took to the rostrum, they handed him a
glass of milk.

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And he proceeded to double the price of
vodka and tried to get everyone on him.

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In Russia, can you imagine?

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No wonder everything spun out of control.

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What?

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Was it for communism and for my father?

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He lost everything.

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His job, privileges, reputation.

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What about you?

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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 no-nothing kid.

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That's why I was better suited to the new
world.

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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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Band books were coming out every week.

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Solzhenitsyn, Bastolak, Bulgakov.

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Art magazines and literature reviews were
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 Theodorats

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in Moscow and began living
a messy life of a Thespian.

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We were barely 20 in a whole
new world that opened up to

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us just as we were finally
strong enough to conquer it.

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We

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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 foundations.

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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

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and you will leave in a
world of culture and poetry?

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Our generation rejected the system.

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Our parents, they kept their heads down.

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Not us.

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You will not like what I am about to say.

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How can you say such things?

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And their communism being a loser was the
only way to be a decent human being.

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You were not complicit, at least.

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How's the camera?

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Chaos is their threat.

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That's you in my head.

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Chaos is their threat.

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That's you in my head.

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Unshoo, unburnt in the snow.

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No, they will never know.

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Hustle will come round.

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You're a train wreck.

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Seriously shot to tell you, Tom,
around your neck.

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Unshoo, unburnt in the snow.

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No, they will never know.

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You can't know what I mean.

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When I say agi, nah, dee nah, dee nah,
dee nah.

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You really impressed me?

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No, nah.

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I had to tell you because it doesn't have
an outfit.

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Okay, well...

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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 favour.

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For who?

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The KGB agents watching us.

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

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That's a shame you have talent.

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Because I do what New Yorkers did 15 years
ago.

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Aw, you're a real self yet.

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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.

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They were hippies.

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They cotted me around from commune to
commune.

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Now they're old and sick
and they don't believe in

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the old values any longer
and I'll tell you one thing.

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I am not going to end up like them.

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I'd like to talk to you about a role which
you've made.

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You mean like the kind of actresses?

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Yes, like the kind of actresses.

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Well, unfortunately, I'm not an actress,
but I have no desire to be one.

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I might even say I've done everything in
my power, not to be one.

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Do you know you have Genes in Manhattan?

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An icon, the most conventional
avant-gardeist.

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I'm not into that stuff.

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All due respect, you're missing out.

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I put him on a version of his novel Wii at
the Institute of Theatre Arts.

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You take risks.

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I might be warming too 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 down on this party.

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You're in a hurry.

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What?

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Too fast for me?

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I don't know how I managed to make contact
with Planck Senior, but I knew immediately

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that even if I were to live a thousand
years, I'd never meet anyone else like her.

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Alright, everyone, I'm going to take it
again from the top.

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Places, pleases, D-503, places.

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Let's go.

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Which scene should we start with?

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The scene we've been doing all night,
Yuri, the mirror seat.

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And should I sit down or lie down?

253
00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:10,960
I should be lying, and then when you feel
the lights are near, you may sit up.

254
00:18:11,580 --> 00:18:13,780
Alright, it's all in the repetition.

255
00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:15,660
This was excellent.

256
00:18:16,020 --> 00:18:16,560
Thank you, ladies.

257
00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,840
The dinner scene was far too casual,
and I need something more mechanical.

258
00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:21,440
Is the integral ready?

259
00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,089
Alright, keep your
actions going until you feel

260
00:18:25,090 --> 00:18:28,501
the lights from the
integral at which point?

261
00:18:41,150 --> 00:18:42,530
This is a bad case.

262
00:18:43,570 --> 00:18:45,230
It appears you have developed a soul.

263
00:18:45,690 --> 00:18:47,230
Is it very serious, Doctor?

264
00:18:48,150 --> 00:18:49,150
I'm treatable.

265
00:18:49,590 --> 00:18:50,830
But what exactly is it?

266
00:18:51,390 --> 00:18:52,390
I don't understand.

267
00:18:52,950 --> 00:18:53,950
How can I explain?

268
00:19:01,370 --> 00:19:01,690
Take a moment.

269
00:19:01,691 --> 00:19:05,530
This one observes it and retains a trace
of everything.

270
00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,794
My brothers, as you all
know, down below in the

271
00:19:16,795 --> 00:19:20,501
city, they're building
the integral spaceship.

272
00:19:26,190 --> 00:19:28,990
Down with the integral, down with it.

273
00:19:30,150 --> 00:19:35,450
My brothers, the integral must be ours.

274
00:19:37,170 --> 00:19:39,070
And you will be ours.

275
00:19:40,610 --> 00:19:46,750
When she rides the skyward for the first
time, we will be the ones aboard.

276
00:19:49,070 --> 00:19:52,710
But we have with us the builder of the
integral.

277
00:19:54,030 --> 00:19:59,390
He left the city and came here with me to
be with you.

278
00:19:59,990 --> 00:20:04,330
Your ambitions may

279
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,460
have been vague, but in
any case, Muscovide Arvin

280
00:20:25,461 --> 00:20:27,980
got theatre at little
chance of satisfying them.

281
00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,360
I know I lived in Moscow doing those
years.

282
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,000
There were no limits.

283
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,400
Everything was collapsing and being
rebuilt at once.

284
00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:39,700
It was fascinating and terrifying time.

285
00:20:40,140 --> 00:20:41,952
Stania and I lived
in our artistic bubble

286
00:20:41,953 --> 00:20:44,581
while life outside was
rife with possibilities.

287
00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:47,200
Nearly every day, some
former classmate would

288
00:20:47,201 --> 00:20:50,081
come to me with an idea
of business proposition.

289
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,005
First on this grandfather's
bicycle, then in

290
00:20:53,006 --> 00:20:56,061
an armoured Bentley
surrounded by bodyguards.

291
00:20:57,220 --> 00:20:59,560
That's pretty much how it happened for the
Metri.

292
00:20:59,860 --> 00:21:00,360
Siderov.

293
00:21:00,580 --> 00:21:01,580
Siderov, yes.

294
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,000
To Metri, Siderov.

295
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,380
I known him in high school.

296
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,080
Now he was head of the Uncommunist League
at the University.

297
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:15,160
Don't think he was a incubator for Russian
capitalism.

298
00:21:16,780 --> 00:21:18,300
I liked hearing about his adventures.

299
00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:22,020
I wanted to write a play about
entrepreneurs like him.

300
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:23,640
You see, Dimitri?

301
00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:24,700
It's not in finance.

302
00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:30,060
They were a new social class emerging out
of nowhere, a matter of months.

303
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:31,680
It's pretty remarkable.

304
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:36,320
Good to see you.

305
00:21:37,060 --> 00:21:43,860
Listen, this cafe was my first business,
but obviously I use it as a party.

306
00:21:43,980 --> 00:21:45,500
There is no more legality that's over.

307
00:21:45,860 --> 00:21:46,020
Forget it.

308
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:46,720
Let me tell you a story.

309
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:47,300
No more writing.

310
00:21:47,460 --> 00:21:47,800
Close your eyes.

311
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,040
Pretend I'm your mama.

312
00:21:49,420 --> 00:21:52,700
Once upon a time, I come across the supply
of Konya.

313
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:53,440
Give me fake Konya.

314
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,460
Fake real who cares.

315
00:21:54,580 --> 00:21:54,980
That's not the point.

316
00:21:55,220 --> 00:21:56,980
I put it on the market for $50 a bottle.

317
00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000
You hear that?

318
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:01,920
Nothing.

319
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:03,320
No one wants it.

320
00:22:03,460 --> 00:22:04,520
I market up to $500.

321
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,360
They're fucking fighting for it.

322
00:22:07,060 --> 00:22:08,540
I'm sure you don't stop at Konya.

323
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,320
Computers, as it was Jean's tourist drink,
it's software.

324
00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:13,116
All the thanks to the student cooperative.

325
00:22:13,140 --> 00:22:14,200
A few minor cons.

326
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,540
I struggle to believe you.

327
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:17,840
Get for you.

328
00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:20,136
These are some stories to make you laugh,
to make your audience laugh.

329
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,160
It's a play.

330
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:22,200
It's a play.

331
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,704
In actual fact, I came up
with a scheme to facilitate

332
00:22:24,705 --> 00:22:27,040
the flow of payments
between state-run businesses.

333
00:22:27,420 --> 00:22:29,236
In a nutshell, I borrow
money and lend it to others

334
00:22:29,237 --> 00:22:31,421
for a fee, basically
what is known as a bank.

335
00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:35,100
But... Oh, in this country, knows what a
bank is.

336
00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:49,440
You could say that, in essence,
I created Russia's first commercial bank,

337
00:22:49,620 --> 00:22:50,520
and I'll tell you how I did it.

338
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,000
I found a book, Commercial Banks of
Capitalist Countries.

339
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:56,080
Remarkable work.

340
00:22:56,860 --> 00:23:00,660
I explained simply in great detail how the
banking system works, and I said,

341
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:02,020
hey, I like this.

342
00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:06,380
Would you describe yourself as greedy?

343
00:23:07,180 --> 00:23:08,200
Absolutely, yes.

344
00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:09,100
Absolutely.

345
00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:11,480
I didn't used to be, but I go greedy now
by the day.

346
00:23:11,660 --> 00:23:13,020
It's an asset in my line of work.

347
00:23:13,220 --> 00:23:14,420
I have a banker's personality.

348
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:15,840
I love money.

349
00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:19,300
Nice, suit.

350
00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:20,500
Nice shot.

351
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:23,560
Good read?

352
00:23:24,140 --> 00:23:25,240
They're behind the times.

353
00:23:25,820 --> 00:23:27,060
You used to let your moustache.

354
00:23:27,220 --> 00:23:28,476
They're not only so always behind the
times.

355
00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:30,340
I don't need to tell you about your...

356
00:23:30,860 --> 00:23:31,860
Bloody heck, moustache.

357
00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:33,300
He didn't well to shave it off.

358
00:23:33,301 --> 00:23:34,740
How's the play coming along?

359
00:23:35,660 --> 00:23:36,800
I play about you.

360
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,280
Yes.

361
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:39,320
I won't write it.

362
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:39,780
Why?

363
00:23:40,220 --> 00:23:41,220
Because it's over now.

364
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,040
You can't tell me the truth anymore.

365
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:45,760
You're right.

366
00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:49,296
But you know, we never could tell you the
whole truth.

367
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,900
No, but you used to tell me a bit more.

368
00:24:07,490 --> 00:24:09,750
So, this is the famous Dimitri?

369
00:24:10,510 --> 00:24:11,510
I see no other.

370
00:24:12,530 --> 00:24:15,030
Vadim says he was 18 million rubles a
year.

371
00:24:15,470 --> 00:24:15,870
Is that true?

372
00:24:15,871 --> 00:24:17,310
It could be, I don't know.

373
00:24:17,570 --> 00:24:18,650
He also says he worked out.

374
00:24:20,310 --> 00:24:21,310
Is that so?

375
00:24:21,390 --> 00:24:22,670
There's nothing wrong with that.

376
00:24:27,730 --> 00:24:28,810
Lily, it's Nodden.

377
00:24:30,110 --> 00:24:32,310
A bit too flashy to be elegant.

378
00:24:33,250 --> 00:24:34,250
That's cheap.

379
00:24:34,530 --> 00:24:36,530
It's just the girl with a fucking bear on
her head.

380
00:24:36,950 --> 00:24:40,270
In the world I move and it's better to be
flashy than elegant, you get more respect.

381
00:24:42,110 --> 00:24:43,510
That explains your dreadful tie.

382
00:24:43,990 --> 00:24:48,570
I never heard of it.

383
00:24:49,150 --> 00:24:49,770
Never heard of it.

384
00:24:50,090 --> 00:24:51,090
Of course you happen.

385
00:24:51,130 --> 00:24:52,130
Just one tiny boutique.

386
00:24:52,650 --> 00:24:54,410
It travels the world to make ties to
measure.

387
00:24:54,670 --> 00:24:56,070
They make ties to measure.

388
00:24:56,550 --> 00:24:57,870
In the world I move and I count.

389
00:24:59,090 --> 00:25:00,090
You like champagne?

390
00:25:00,330 --> 00:25:01,330
It's too flashy for you.

391
00:25:03,150 --> 00:25:06,790
I should have known from that very first
encounter that my fate was sealed.

392
00:25:07,570 --> 00:25:11,330
Exania could choose Dimitri, his
vulgarity, his energy.

393
00:25:11,331 --> 00:25:13,190
He felt it immediately.

394
00:25:14,030 --> 00:25:15,050
And so did I.

395
00:25:15,610 --> 00:25:18,110
But for a long time I refused to believe
it.

396
00:25:22,530 --> 00:25:23,530
Yes?

397
00:25:24,430 --> 00:25:26,990
Coming, coming, coming.

398
00:25:27,510 --> 00:25:30,330
By the time Dimitri, I wanted to surprise
you.

399
00:25:30,430 --> 00:25:31,590
Come, come, come, come, come.

400
00:25:31,690 --> 00:25:32,690
Let's go, let's go.

401
00:25:32,990 --> 00:25:33,990
Are you hungry?

402
00:25:34,050 --> 00:25:35,090
I have some flashy things.

403
00:25:36,270 --> 00:25:36,490
Come here!

404
00:25:37,030 --> 00:25:38,030
Come here!

405
00:25:38,630 --> 00:25:40,410
Maybe you put me in a play, I'll show you.

406
00:25:40,411 --> 00:25:45,050
From that moment on, Dimitri became a
frequent visitor to our house.

407
00:25:45,650 --> 00:25:49,030
And there I was, thinking he came out of
some deep-rooted respect for the Ark.

408
00:25:49,250 --> 00:25:51,530
Exania and I had chosen to dedicate our
lives to.

409
00:25:52,370 --> 00:25:56,090
As if culture still had the power to exert
any influence over the real world.

410
00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:05,680
The sleek, shiny world of money was
Dimitri's natural habitat.

411
00:26:06,580 --> 00:26:08,060
Nothing could turn him away from it.

412
00:26:09,620 --> 00:26:12,639
What he wanted, Exania,
so he was willing to spend a

413
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,380
little time with us on the
ruins of the city of the dead.

414
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,180
As the months passed, Exania became
increasingly receptive to his largest.

415
00:26:25,060 --> 00:26:29,040
Everything that initially defined our
friendship, books we shared, concerts,

416
00:26:29,740 --> 00:26:31,844
the all-night discussions
had fallen by the

417
00:26:31,845 --> 00:26:34,600
wayside in favour of more
money-centric activities.

418
00:26:35,180 --> 00:26:39,780
Gallery and disco tech openings,
dinners at White Sun or Amitage.

419
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,440
Exania was getting hired by the Minutans
on Dimitri's lifestyle.

420
00:27:03,930 --> 00:27:04,930
Hylie!

421
00:27:04,970 --> 00:27:07,950
Hylie is the Minutans and is the only
wealthy to invent.

422
00:27:08,270 --> 00:27:09,550
You're going to be a part of it!

423
00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:13,850
He doesn't

424
00:27:21,170 --> 00:27:22,170
like to go around.

425
00:27:22,650 --> 00:27:23,650
Or Hylie!

426
00:27:24,050 --> 00:27:25,050
It's going home.

427
00:27:44,780 --> 00:27:48,580
I remember waking up one night and gazing
at her for a long time.

428
00:27:49,620 --> 00:27:52,560
I felt so tired, even though I hadn't
accomplished anything yet.

429
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,740
I nurtured the illusion that Exania would
perceive my greatness.

430
00:27:57,820 --> 00:28:01,600
But as the days passed, I noticed that the
way she saw me was changing.

431
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,640
What began as a vague look of irony was
morphing into contempt.

432
00:28:06,860 --> 00:28:09,540
You're stronger than I am, because you
don't love me.

433
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:11,120
I wanted to tell her.

434
00:28:12,540 --> 00:28:14,920
My pain only augmented her boredom.

435
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,320
Yeah, you want some water?

436
00:28:56,650 --> 00:28:59,550
Dimitri, I've told you ten times you drive
too rough.

437
00:28:59,790 --> 00:29:00,910
I don't know either way.

438
00:29:01,150 --> 00:29:03,030
They'd let him take the wheel or hitchhike
home.

439
00:29:04,630 --> 00:29:06,970
Do you want to go in the back?

440
00:29:07,410 --> 00:29:10,450
That's sweet of you, honey, but I could
even stick her in the back.

441
00:29:57,700 --> 00:29:59,340
There's something I forgot to tell you.

442
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,120
I'm listening.

443
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:03,640
I'm leaving.

444
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,300
Is that all you can muster?

445
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,500
You saw me in the car with Dimitri?

446
00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:13,980
Do you think I missed that?

447
00:30:16,540 --> 00:30:19,060
Yeah, it's been over for a long time.

448
00:30:30,380 --> 00:30:31,500
Come in.

449
00:30:32,260 --> 00:30:33,660
You're not disturbing me.

450
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:35,480
I was afraid to wake you.

451
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,200
I have a seat.

452
00:30:40,180 --> 00:30:45,980
Finally, I have an excuse to stand bed all
day, reading the classics and dozing.

453
00:30:46,620 --> 00:30:47,620
Let's use me.

454
00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:48,220
There's the illness.

455
00:30:48,221 --> 00:30:53,020
This may surprise you, but illness is not
necessarily a serious thing.

456
00:30:53,980 --> 00:30:59,780
Serious things like effort and work are
the burden of people in good health.

457
00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:02,300
Those who are dying have nothing more to
do.

458
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,300
They can just enjoy their days.

459
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:06,900
You

460
00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:21,320
have to stay here.

461
00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:23,660
I know.

462
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,840
You'll have a dozen opportunities to start
over.

463
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:35,500
I expected to suffer terribly,
but I feel lighter and strong.

464
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:36,540
You see?

465
00:31:37,140 --> 00:31:39,500
But theatre is no longer enough for me.

466
00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:43,080
Loosing tenure has made me ambitious.

467
00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:45,100
Ambitious now?

468
00:31:46,580 --> 00:31:47,580
That's unexpected.

469
00:31:48,660 --> 00:31:50,960
But all the better I'll take it as good
news.

470
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,860
I cannot bear the right as failure to
affect reality.

471
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,560
I want to be part of my times.

472
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,520
I'll just don't witness.

473
00:31:59,460 --> 00:32:00,460
You know what?

474
00:32:02,140 --> 00:32:03,500
I'll leave your times to you.

475
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:05,440
With no regrets.

476
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:13,380
Oh, this is Sputnik, the only one allowed
inside.

477
00:32:14,380 --> 00:32:15,520
Let me, a sputie, say hi.

478
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:17,500
My daughter loves him.

479
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,960
In the end, my father had an attack and
died very suddenly.

480
00:32:21,961 --> 00:32:26,740
The ceremony wasn't exactly headline news.

481
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,375
Four poor souls followed
the horse in a beat-up car,

482
00:32:31,376 --> 00:32:34,820
while the shiny SUVs of the
Nouveau Reach spent past them.

483
00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:36,100
He died too late.

484
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,640
He probably would have wanted a nicer
funeral.

485
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,320
But in the end, he didn't give a time.

486
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:42,720
At least.

487
00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:44,100
I hope he didn't.

488
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,364
I needed to get my mind
off things, and Moscow

489
00:32:54,365 --> 00:32:57,141
in the mid-90s was the
perfect place to do that.

490
00:32:58,020 --> 00:33:00,919
Imagine all those young men
and women suddenly seeing

491
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,860
a new world of possibility
opening up before them.

492
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,240
They could become whatever they wanted,
a mass fortunes, travel the world.

493
00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:10,540
It was enough to make your head spin.

494
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,500
It was a time of incredible violence.

495
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,060
It was gunfire everywhere, and for the
most frivolous reasons, men of no

496
00:33:18,061 --> 00:33:22,761
importance were escorted by private militia
until the day they were blown sky-high.

497
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,509
Turning my theater experience
into a career as a TV producer

498
00:33:30,510 --> 00:33:33,340
was like going from a horse
and car to a Lamborghini.

499
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,160
One day, I was sitting
in a kitchen table,

500
00:33:36,161 --> 00:33:38,840
rhapsodizing about
Mayakovsky and drinking hot tea.

501
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,700
The next, I was nursing a latte in an open
space designed by Dutch architects.

502
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,040
Forget Channel One.

503
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,180
Forget State TV were a private company
times have changed.

504
00:33:50,540 --> 00:33:53,200
We're going to do game shows and politics,
but different.

505
00:33:53,201 --> 00:33:57,460
The Soviets tried to smother this country
under a little boredom.

506
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,340
The first rule, don't be boring.

507
00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:05,260
There's one project that stands out from
the others, this one.

508
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:07,280
Do you know why?

509
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,480
No.

510
00:34:09,220 --> 00:34:14,180
Because it has all the Russian
stereotypes, not a single one left out.

511
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:19,320
Provincial Babushka, the nihilistic
student, the ambitious slut.

512
00:34:19,321 --> 00:34:21,540
I read it, it stinks.

513
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:28,921
I read them all, they all stink,
especially that one except that it'll work.

514
00:34:29,020 --> 00:34:33,020
Remember, we're not just producing shows,
all the other institutions have collapsed.

515
00:34:33,820 --> 00:34:35,760
It's now up to TV to show the way.

516
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,362
Maybe a reality show about
finishing schools that teach

517
00:34:39,363 --> 00:34:41,561
young girls to attract
freshly minted millionaires?

518
00:34:42,220 --> 00:34:44,480
That's not bad, does that genuinely exist?

519
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:45,880
It totally exists.

520
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,540
It's big and it's getting bigger.

521
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,510
It's very initial superstar.

522
00:34:56,450 --> 00:35:00,490
My dream is to buy my mom the most
beautiful house in Krasnaya.

523
00:35:01,970 --> 00:35:07,805
My dream is to be the
trophy vibe of the richest

524
00:35:07,806 --> 00:35:12,250
oligarch in Russia, and
with my life in Monte Carlo.

525
00:35:13,130 --> 00:35:14,210
She's the one.

526
00:35:14,770 --> 00:35:16,990
No, seriously, she's the one.

527
00:35:16,991 --> 00:35:19,850
Oh, it's an excellent project,
Emma.

528
00:35:19,851 --> 00:35:22,170
Let's go, rightfully belongs in it.

529
00:35:25,370 --> 00:35:28,652
At that time, the owner of RTP
Channel was a mathematician

530
00:35:28,653 --> 00:35:31,010
who'd become a billionaire,
Boris Barrozovsky.

531
00:35:32,010 --> 00:35:34,770
He bought an old palace on Nova Krasnaya
Street.

532
00:35:36,210 --> 00:35:38,307
He was meant to be the
headquarters of his business,

533
00:35:38,308 --> 00:35:40,531
but Barrozovsky did
something else with it entirely.

534
00:35:40,910 --> 00:35:45,390
Something far more special, made it a club
of sorts, the Logovars Club.

535
00:35:49,210 --> 00:35:50,790
It was very exclusive.

536
00:35:51,270 --> 00:35:54,870
The creme de la creme of politics,
big business, showbiz and crime.

537
00:35:55,830 --> 00:35:58,770
So, Pigeon Si, we're in the Caucasus,
we're in Chechnya.

538
00:35:59,070 --> 00:36:04,210
And I'm standing in front of a warlord who
has taken Russian officers hostage,

539
00:36:04,590 --> 00:36:05,590
and there's no joke.

540
00:36:06,570 --> 00:36:08,310
He's already been haddied one of them.

541
00:36:09,250 --> 00:36:11,030
But it wasn't politics, it was business.

542
00:36:11,230 --> 00:36:12,450
He wanted money, only cash.

543
00:36:12,950 --> 00:36:14,250
Right now, I don't have any cash on me.

544
00:36:14,251 --> 00:36:16,710
I don't walk around with wads of cash.

545
00:36:17,110 --> 00:36:19,644
But I know it is implying
my watch that it's

546
00:36:19,645 --> 00:36:22,331
fairly nautilus, like when
I'm wearing it tonight.

547
00:36:22,690 --> 00:36:24,930
So I say to him, well, you don't know
watch.

548
00:36:25,930 --> 00:36:27,126
Do you know how much it's worth?

549
00:36:27,150 --> 00:36:28,810
It's worth melting in your hostages.

550
00:36:29,410 --> 00:36:31,170
And he says, I know exactly what it's
worth.

551
00:36:31,370 --> 00:36:33,250
It's worth $800,000 used.

552
00:36:33,690 --> 00:36:34,350
And that floored me.

553
00:36:34,610 --> 00:36:36,090
We knew the exact price.

554
00:36:36,390 --> 00:36:37,390
Restam was no fool.

555
00:36:37,950 --> 00:36:43,170
He said, if you take the hostages home,
the publicity will get on TV.

556
00:36:43,171 --> 00:36:45,496
He's worth more than
$800,000, and he gave me

557
00:36:45,497 --> 00:36:48,450
this vacuous soldier's
stand, zero bullshit.

558
00:36:49,910 --> 00:36:51,930
So you come out ahead, is it a deal?

559
00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:56,350
So I gave it my watch, I took the hostages
home.

560
00:36:56,570 --> 00:36:58,410
It was the opening story on the evening
news.

561
00:37:00,450 --> 00:37:03,722
In those days, my modest
achievements as a TV producer

562
00:37:03,723 --> 00:37:06,870
got me the occasional
invitation to look of us club.

563
00:37:07,770 --> 00:37:12,630
Usually, Perzoski would summon me for an
update on some project, or to suggest I

564
00:37:12,631 --> 00:37:16,130
hire some random relative, or equally
random mistress.

565
00:37:18,070 --> 00:37:19,070
Coming.

566
00:37:25,420 --> 00:37:28,120
Our friend, Vadja, is a wizard.

567
00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:32,460
With his help, we pulverize our opponents.

568
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:35,840
So you're happy where you are?

569
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,340
Well, I'm not sure I understand.

570
00:37:38,341 --> 00:37:43,641
In this country, you run the same risk
whether you have a dog in the fight, or no.

571
00:37:43,740 --> 00:37:45,980
I'll tell you my story, and you'll see
what I mean.

572
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,880
So I was perfectly content doing my own
thing.

573
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,180
I built a smart, modern, clean business.

574
00:37:53,420 --> 00:37:55,540
From what I hear, your business was more
of a scam.

575
00:37:56,620 --> 00:37:58,740
Your results sold in cars right off the
assembly line.

576
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:08,320
I was only doing what everyone was doing
at the time.

577
00:38:08,321 --> 00:38:09,321
Anyway.

578
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:15,460
One day, this bastard shows up, tries to
steal my business out from underneath me.

579
00:38:15,580 --> 00:38:19,060
What do you think he does to see you open
a competing dealership, trying to beat me

580
00:38:19,061 --> 00:38:21,141
fair and square, let me do it in the US or
in Europe?

581
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,860
No, Boris, that's not what he did.

582
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:28,620
Son of a bitch, filled an old opal with
TNT, parked it on my route home,

583
00:38:29,460 --> 00:38:31,340
and as I passed, he pushed her remote and
boom.

584
00:38:33,220 --> 00:38:34,260
No more Perzoski.

585
00:38:35,860 --> 00:38:36,940
At least that was the plan.

586
00:38:37,740 --> 00:38:39,880
And unfortunately, it didn't work out for
him.

587
00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:44,120
And I ended up with my chauffeur's head in
my arms.

588
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:46,640
I survived.

589
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,400
But that day I realized that if you don't
grab power, power grabs you.

590
00:38:53,380 --> 00:38:55,420
I'm selling to Switzerland for two weeks
to recover.

591
00:38:56,180 --> 00:38:58,500
And do you know what I did when I got back
to Moscow?

592
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,440
You learned to play tennis?

593
00:39:01,060 --> 00:39:02,060
It wasn't easy.

594
00:39:02,420 --> 00:39:03,420
I hate the sport.

595
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:05,440
You hate all sports.

596
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,980
The old President Boris Yeltsin was in
decline.

597
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:14,260
He overdid it on the vodka, they say.

598
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,560
He had a sports club built on Spero Hills
that looked out over Moscow.

599
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,620
He spent all his spare time playing tennis
there.

600
00:39:23,340 --> 00:39:25,080
It was the only way to get near him.

601
00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:29,560
That's why he said Boris was finished.

602
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:30,880
The elections were coming.

603
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:31,960
His numbers were in the dumps.

604
00:39:31,961 --> 00:39:35,220
His whole retinue of petty schemas were at
rock bottom.

605
00:39:35,980 --> 00:39:38,100
And they quickly understood that I was
there any hope.

606
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,040
We hadn't lost yet.

607
00:39:50,050 --> 00:39:51,230
You listen to me.

608
00:39:51,890 --> 00:39:53,210
Boris Yeltsin could have it here.

609
00:39:53,890 --> 00:39:58,570
Russia still need you, your courage and
your integrity.

610
00:39:59,570 --> 00:40:00,990
No one loves me anymore.

611
00:40:00,991 --> 00:40:07,610
I say democracy, but democracy here means
that everyone has become poor.

612
00:40:08,510 --> 00:40:12,990
Except for a few smart devils like you who
have gone and filled the rich.

613
00:40:14,610 --> 00:40:20,797
Well, if you give me a
control of state TV, then I will

614
00:40:20,798 --> 00:40:24,670
give you an election campaign
that you never seen before.

615
00:40:24,970 --> 00:40:27,450
You're in dire straits now, but in two
months you'll be on top.

616
00:40:30,990 --> 00:40:34,690
This is how I took control of Channel 1,
how to see people as it's now called.

617
00:40:35,210 --> 00:40:37,710
For the record, I get my word.

618
00:40:38,250 --> 00:40:39,330
I revived him in the polls.

619
00:40:39,490 --> 00:40:40,810
What you did was sink his rivals.

620
00:40:41,430 --> 00:40:43,910
A bunch of communist nostalgic taking them
out was a cinch.

621
00:40:44,110 --> 00:40:46,750
You were defending your interests and
those of the other oligarchs.

622
00:40:47,650 --> 00:40:48,650
Well, yeah.

623
00:40:49,150 --> 00:40:50,150
It's true.

624
00:40:50,450 --> 00:40:51,450
So what?

625
00:40:51,670 --> 00:40:53,270
It's all part of the democratic process.

626
00:40:53,310 --> 00:40:54,310
Right.

627
00:40:54,430 --> 00:40:56,490
When you were a very loose notion of
democracy.

628
00:41:06,630 --> 00:41:08,170
Your mum began to enjoy himself.

629
00:41:09,330 --> 00:41:11,052
The problem was that
two weeks before the

630
00:41:11,053 --> 00:41:13,270
election, you went and
had a heart attack on us.

631
00:41:13,450 --> 00:41:14,470
That was a close call.

632
00:41:15,150 --> 00:41:19,050
The very day that he was supposed to
record his final speech to the nation.

633
00:41:19,390 --> 00:41:20,790
Obviously, we counseled everything.

634
00:41:21,230 --> 00:41:23,610
But a few days later, the rumours began to
spread.

635
00:41:24,670 --> 00:41:25,290
He had to show up.

636
00:41:25,650 --> 00:41:27,910
Except his doctor wouldn't let him leave
his residence.

637
00:41:28,230 --> 00:41:29,230
No, it's too risky.

638
00:41:29,370 --> 00:41:31,490
So we figured keep up appearances.

639
00:41:32,370 --> 00:41:34,710
We bring the Kremlin furniture to him.

640
00:41:37,150 --> 00:41:37,890
Change flags.

641
00:41:38,150 --> 00:41:39,270
Put the flags in the stands.

642
00:41:43,910 --> 00:41:45,210
Federation flag on the left.

643
00:41:45,690 --> 00:41:46,690
Check the distance.

644
00:41:47,570 --> 00:41:49,050
The president is... Oh, he's redone.

645
00:41:50,390 --> 00:41:51,390
No, no, no, no.

646
00:42:04,220 --> 00:42:05,840
Good morning, Boris, and a collage.

647
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,040
Don't ever see what we've done.

648
00:42:08,820 --> 00:42:11,020
It's the perfect copy of your office in
the Kremlin.

649
00:42:11,460 --> 00:42:12,420
No one's going to notice the difference.

650
00:42:12,421 --> 00:42:15,120
Help him with the chair.

651
00:42:51,010 --> 00:42:52,210
Russian citizens...

652
00:42:55,190 --> 00:42:56,190
Sly...

653
00:42:57,970 --> 00:42:59,170
The motherland...

654
00:43:00,070 --> 00:43:01,150
Let's try again.

655
00:43:01,470 --> 00:43:02,470
I'll take place.

656
00:43:02,650 --> 00:43:04,930
Misha, can you slow down the prompter?

657
00:43:05,230 --> 00:43:06,230
For the future.

658
00:43:09,190 --> 00:43:11,391
Russian citizens...
Once again, please.

659
00:43:13,090 --> 00:43:14,410
Russian citizens...

660
00:43:15,150 --> 00:43:17,010
The Thor of your eye.

661
00:43:18,650 --> 00:43:19,930
Elections died.

662
00:43:21,870 --> 00:43:24,970
You will not only vote for Yeltsin.

663
00:43:24,971 --> 00:43:29,470
This is not going to work for the future.

664
00:43:30,410 --> 00:43:32,150
Just making movies, nips.

665
00:43:32,810 --> 00:43:35,170
And we'll dub in bits from his old
speeches.

666
00:43:36,570 --> 00:43:38,590
Yeltsin was re-elected by a landslide.

667
00:43:38,591 --> 00:43:41,070
And then he fell back into lethargy.

668
00:43:41,490 --> 00:43:42,870
He had two more heart attacks.

669
00:43:43,750 --> 00:43:47,750
Before years of his second term,
Berzofsky was the real leader of Russia.

670
00:43:48,590 --> 00:43:50,850
The oligarchs raked in everything they
could.

671
00:43:51,390 --> 00:43:54,135
That's how my old pal,
Demetri Sodorov, bought

672
00:43:54,136 --> 00:43:58,190
himself a fossil fuel giant
for a mere 168 million.

673
00:43:58,790 --> 00:44:01,650
He would go on to make him three billion a
year.

674
00:44:02,390 --> 00:44:03,390
Oh, yeah?

675
00:44:05,270 --> 00:44:07,190
Berzofsky sensed the winds were turning.

676
00:44:08,010 --> 00:44:10,190
Russians were tired and needed order.

677
00:44:11,030 --> 00:44:15,231
They'd grown up in a motherland, and
now all they had left was a supermarket.

678
00:44:15,490 --> 00:44:18,510
The challenge was to come up with a
solution before someone else did.

679
00:44:18,750 --> 00:44:19,750
So, yes.

680
00:44:21,310 --> 00:44:25,430
I have friends in the Kremlin,
and I lend a hand from time to time.

681
00:44:26,150 --> 00:44:28,450
But the scenario has completely changed.

682
00:44:29,130 --> 00:44:31,850
It's no longer a matter of supporting the
current regime.

683
00:44:32,250 --> 00:44:34,330
We need to invent something new.

684
00:44:34,331 --> 00:44:35,630
Something and someone.

685
00:44:36,350 --> 00:44:38,450
President won't make it to the end of his
turn.

686
00:44:38,710 --> 00:44:39,990
Someone to embody it, of course.

687
00:44:40,370 --> 00:44:41,370
That's the easy part.

688
00:44:42,450 --> 00:44:46,610
But what we need, first, is a party
forever going to rally around.

689
00:44:47,450 --> 00:44:48,450
The unity party.

690
00:44:52,330 --> 00:44:53,450
What do you think about you?

691
00:44:54,730 --> 00:44:55,870
I already have an emblem.

692
00:44:58,070 --> 00:44:59,070
The bear.

693
00:44:59,410 --> 00:45:00,570
A symbol of the Russian soul.

694
00:45:04,330 --> 00:45:05,430
So will you join us?

695
00:45:06,250 --> 00:45:07,430
Let it go for us.

696
00:45:07,930 --> 00:45:08,550
I lack my job.

697
00:45:08,830 --> 00:45:09,830
It's the same job.

698
00:45:12,250 --> 00:45:15,870
I'm merely suggesting that you graduate to
the next level.

699
00:45:16,290 --> 00:45:17,390
Stop making out stories.

700
00:45:18,530 --> 00:45:21,130
Start inventing reality with me.

701
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,700
And then the FSB, they can go to Canada.

702
00:45:37,300 --> 00:45:38,420
The old Giza trusts him.

703
00:45:39,100 --> 00:45:41,200
He's shown his mantle at decisive moments.

704
00:45:41,201 --> 00:45:42,760
And there's a modest guy.

705
00:45:43,620 --> 00:45:44,620
You're liking.

706
00:45:53,620 --> 00:45:55,300
Director Putin, we'll see you now.

707
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:07,040
Come sit.

708
00:46:09,740 --> 00:46:10,740
Sit.

709
00:46:12,340 --> 00:46:13,620
I know where you're here.

710
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:14,640
Of course you do.

711
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,240
You're the best informman in Russia.

712
00:46:16,820 --> 00:46:18,980
I've been thinking it over Boris
Abramovich.

713
00:46:21,700 --> 00:46:26,353
You see, the Secret Service
has all the advantages

714
00:46:26,354 --> 00:46:30,181
of politics without
any of the drawbacks.

715
00:46:32,460 --> 00:46:34,080
I'm at the center of the system here.

716
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:35,220
I'm well positioned.

717
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:35,700
I hear.

718
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:36,880
I see everything.

719
00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:41,120
I can effectively intervene to protect the
President of the President's family.

720
00:46:41,540 --> 00:46:42,040
I've done it before.

721
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:43,240
I'll do it again.

722
00:46:45,740 --> 00:46:46,940
Well, you take me out of here.

723
00:46:46,980 --> 00:46:47,980
You put me in government.

724
00:46:48,020 --> 00:46:49,020
They chew me up.

725
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,286
They spit me out like
every other prime minister

726
00:46:51,287 --> 00:46:53,721
these past years,
these past months, right?

727
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,120
And you lose the most loyal guardian of
the state.

728
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,740
If we don't act quickly, with any year,
there will be no more President,

729
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,040
no more family to protect.

730
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:07,860
And the first thing that the new head of
the Kremlin will do is replace you.

731
00:47:09,980 --> 00:47:10,980
Mind me?

732
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:13,160
I'm a civil servant.

733
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,081
Sure, I've given a
couple of speeches in

734
00:47:19,082 --> 00:47:23,200
public, but they were
never earth-shattering.

735
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,360
The President steps into a room and sniffs
the air.

736
00:47:26,940 --> 00:47:29,567
Everyone is on his side in
two minutes laughing and

737
00:47:29,568 --> 00:47:32,021
they're crying like they're
having a chat in his kitchen.

738
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:33,080
I'm not that mad.

739
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,400
I'm not cut from that cloth.

740
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:39,380
If I may, Vladimir of Vladimirovich,
that's exactly what this is about.

741
00:47:40,140 --> 00:47:42,800
President, that's one of a kind
personality.

742
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,615
His human qualities were
essential from moving our

743
00:47:45,616 --> 00:47:49,180
country from the old Soviet
Union to today's Russia.

744
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:51,460
But he's all you stop.

745
00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:53,580
We need someone different.

746
00:47:54,540 --> 00:47:55,540
A clean break.

747
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,500
If the President names you
Prime Minister of Vladimir of

748
00:47:58,501 --> 00:48:00,940
Vladimirovich, you will
represent legitimate authority.

749
00:48:02,220 --> 00:48:04,580
Russians need stability and security.

750
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,500
You're young, athletic and energetic.

751
00:48:08,940 --> 00:48:12,380
Something about you says I can handle the
full responsibility of command.

752
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,840
Your career in the secret service is
guaranteed.

753
00:48:16,300 --> 00:48:17,300
You're trustworthy.

754
00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:22,580
And being a man of few words will work in
your favor, not against you.

755
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:27,400
Russians are tired of carnival barkers and
the campaign that we have in mind.

756
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,540
Won't be the usual rallies and empty
promises.

757
00:48:33,220 --> 00:48:38,300
We want to take the risk of portraying you
as a different brand of politician.

758
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,180
Vladimir of Vladimirovich.

759
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,861
I don't know much about politics, but I do
know a few things about communication.

760
00:48:45,380 --> 00:48:47,680
There are two dimensions in a society.

761
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:53,020
The horizontal axis that is daily life and
the vertical axis, which is authority.

762
00:48:53,021 --> 00:48:55,880
The Soviet system was vertical.

763
00:48:56,540 --> 00:49:00,040
Then all of a sudden, since the end of the
Soviet period, it has become horizontal.

764
00:49:01,260 --> 00:49:04,220
Too much horizontality is synonymous with
chaos.

765
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,020
Russians dream of verticality.

766
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,180
A psychoanalyst would say they are waiting
for a leader to obliterate the language of

767
00:49:12,181 --> 00:49:15,420
the mother and oppose the word of the
father once again.

768
00:49:15,421 --> 00:49:20,920
Public opinion coalesces fast,
but we only have a few months to convince

769
00:49:20,921 --> 00:49:25,340
the Russian people that you are the man of
the hour.

770
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,600
And remember, you will be on your own.

771
00:49:32,340 --> 00:49:37,080
I'll be there by your side to help you and
to advise you whenever you need me.

772
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,120
It's in the back.

773
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,720
He's no rocket scientist, but I know he'll
do just fine.

774
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,072
I'm not at a long and laughed
with him, but things were a

775
00:49:54,073 --> 00:49:57,000
bit more complicated than
what Barzovsky seemed to grasp.

776
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,203
When he addressed him
with his own brand of chummy

777
00:50:04,204 --> 00:50:07,240
joviality, I sensed a hint of
annoyance and Putin's gaze.

778
00:50:07,241 --> 00:50:10,355
And then there was that
flash of irony when Barz

779
00:50:10,356 --> 00:50:13,581
promised to guide him
every step of the way.

780
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,447
It seems that the very
idea of being guided

781
00:50:17,448 --> 00:50:20,861
by this man was wildly
funny to the FSB chief.

782
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,000
Hurry up, Vladimir.

783
00:50:27,180 --> 00:50:28,540
Vladimir is waiting.

784
00:50:41,510 --> 00:50:42,810
Good afternoon, sir.

785
00:50:44,570 --> 00:50:45,090
Recommendations.

786
00:50:45,510 --> 00:50:49,510
Today we have excellence, sea scallops,
or cauliflower, muscle in.

787
00:50:49,730 --> 00:50:50,730
A bowl of kasha.

788
00:50:50,810 --> 00:50:51,030
Two.

789
00:50:51,630 --> 00:50:52,630
Certainly, sir.

790
00:50:55,190 --> 00:50:57,970
I have a lot of respect for Barzovsky.

791
00:50:58,930 --> 00:51:07,343
I'm grateful for his
offer, but if I embark on

792
00:51:07,344 --> 00:51:12,650
this journey, I'll be
relying on my own strength.

793
00:51:12,810 --> 00:51:12,970
Thanks.

794
00:51:13,330 --> 00:51:14,670
Not someone else's.

795
00:51:15,570 --> 00:51:22,730
The Russian president cannot and must not
be subservient to anyone.

796
00:51:24,050 --> 00:51:25,950
It's unthinkable to me.

797
00:51:27,790 --> 00:51:31,163
Your analysis the other
day was very interesting,

798
00:51:31,164 --> 00:51:33,790
but first we should
clarify something.

799
00:51:33,791 --> 00:51:39,630
If you accept my offer, you'll be working
exclusively for me.

800
00:51:41,030 --> 00:51:44,730
I'll give you

801
00:51:52,340 --> 00:51:53,620
your concept of verticality.

802
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:58,280
It's potent, but it cannot remain
abstract.

803
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:05,020
We need a well-defined arena where we can
restore the verticality of power,

804
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,440
otherwise we appear helpless like all the
other politicians in this country.

805
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,251
Indeed, for that I may
have put out a mirror

806
00:52:10,252 --> 00:52:12,821
bitch, but we can't
just snap our fingers.

807
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,420
There is always the unexpected.

808
00:52:15,700 --> 00:52:17,660
The unexpected is always a result of
incompetence.

809
00:52:18,180 --> 00:52:19,580
We're at the mercy of circumstance.

810
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:21,240
Circumstance.

811
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:22,400
Staring is in the face.

812
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:25,480
Don't you see it?

813
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:29,820
The Islamic fundamentalists.

814
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,460
No longer content with just Chechnya.

815
00:52:35,940 --> 00:52:39,480
They want Dagostan, Ingushetia,
Bashkoutistan.

816
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:43,180
We let him have them.

817
00:52:45,020 --> 00:52:47,740
In a few years, there will be nothing left
of the Russian Federation.

818
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:51,340
I'm sorry, but I would think twice before
getting involved in that mess.

819
00:52:52,580 --> 00:52:55,619
In his past few years,
Chechnya has killed more political

820
00:52:55,620 --> 00:52:58,041
careers here in Moscow
than enemies on the battlefield.

821
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,760
None of them have put enough energy into
the issue, those politicians.

822
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:07,200
All the war that dare not speak its name.

823
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,560
A humane war, like the Americans do.

824
00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:14,180
I'm talking about something else.

825
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,420
I'm not interested in winning the Nobel
Peace Prize.

826
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:24,020
What interests me is restoring integrity
to the Russian Federation.

827
00:53:24,940 --> 00:53:26,260
I want to comment on geopolitics.

828
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,160
It's not my field of expertise.

829
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:33,400
What I will say, however, is that it's
political suicide.

830
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:35,920
I think you're mistaken.

831
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:42,060
I think you've let Westerners persuade you
that an electoral campaign has to be two

832
00:53:42,061 --> 00:53:44,940
teams of economists discussing PowerPoint
presentations.

833
00:53:48,540 --> 00:53:54,700
In Russia, power is something else
entirely.

834
00:53:58,410 --> 00:54:02,152
That day, I didn't understand
precisely what Putin

835
00:54:02,153 --> 00:54:05,050
meant, but I left the
lunch with one certainty.

836
00:54:05,810 --> 00:54:08,610
There Zovsky had just made the biggest
mistake of his life.

837
00:54:10,770 --> 00:54:13,167
In the early days of
August, Boris Yeltsin

838
00:54:13,168 --> 00:54:16,871
chose a new prime
minister, unknown to most.

839
00:54:16,910 --> 00:54:20,250
The choice of Vladimir Putin was greeted
with general skepticism.

840
00:54:21,110 --> 00:54:24,590
He was the fifth head of government
Yeltsin and thrown in less than a year.

841
00:54:27,250 --> 00:54:31,150
Our officers were located in the former
House of Soviets dubbed the Russian White

842
00:54:31,151 --> 00:54:35,250
House, a giant block of naphthalene on the
banks of the Moscow River.

843
00:54:36,250 --> 00:54:38,490
The whole floor had been freed up for new
hires.

844
00:54:39,690 --> 00:54:42,451
Putin knew there were only a few weeks
left to harness public opinion.

845
00:54:43,070 --> 00:54:44,110
He had no time to lose.

846
00:54:46,810 --> 00:54:50,230
So that son of a bitch, the prime minister
wants results on the grounds.

847
00:54:50,810 --> 00:54:51,810
Doesn't matter how.

848
00:54:52,610 --> 00:54:54,570
Sorry, but the media doesn't set our
agenda.

849
00:54:55,090 --> 00:54:55,530
Politics does.

850
00:54:55,930 --> 00:55:00,010
We're here to produce results,
not limp excuses.

851
00:55:01,010 --> 00:55:02,250
I have the polls you requested.

852
00:55:02,870 --> 00:55:04,190
I need you to crunch the numbers.

853
00:55:04,370 --> 00:55:05,170
Okay, I'll meet you in your office.

854
00:55:05,370 --> 00:55:06,530
I have to see Gusinsky first.

855
00:55:06,770 --> 00:55:07,430
We're on the right track.

856
00:55:07,630 --> 00:55:10,126
To meet you in its language, we shouldn't
be on the right track.

857
00:55:10,150 --> 00:55:11,490
We should already be there.

858
00:55:17,770 --> 00:55:18,770
Where's Gusinsky?

859
00:55:19,190 --> 00:55:20,910
Unfortunately, he couldn't make it.

860
00:55:22,130 --> 00:55:24,370
What are we not important for him?

861
00:55:24,610 --> 00:55:24,930
He's abroad.

862
00:55:25,530 --> 00:55:27,050
So who are you, his messengers?

863
00:55:27,750 --> 00:55:28,890
We're on the NTV network.

864
00:55:30,390 --> 00:55:33,390
Please give Mr. Gusinsky the following
message.

865
00:55:34,210 --> 00:55:40,290
The policies of the Russian Federation are
not to be decided in the offices of NTV.

866
00:55:40,950 --> 00:55:43,550
That never crossed Mr. Gusinsky's mind.

867
00:55:43,730 --> 00:55:46,090
I watch Kukli, your political puppet show.

868
00:55:46,390 --> 00:55:47,550
Sometimes I find it funny.

869
00:55:47,910 --> 00:55:48,130
I laugh.

870
00:55:48,790 --> 00:55:49,790
I do.

871
00:55:50,610 --> 00:55:53,970
Unfortunately, the Prime Minister doesn't
share your sense of humor.

872
00:55:54,790 --> 00:55:57,650
He suspects Mr. Gusinsky may have a bone
to pick with him.

873
00:55:57,770 --> 00:55:58,250
No way.

874
00:55:58,670 --> 00:55:59,670
Never in a million years.

875
00:55:59,910 --> 00:56:01,910
It's a shame he's not here to explain that
himself.

876
00:56:02,750 --> 00:56:06,330
You represent the Prime Minister of
Vladimir of Vladimir Vich Putin as a midget.

877
00:56:06,610 --> 00:56:08,030
That's not a different word.

878
00:56:08,031 --> 00:56:09,910
A different word manipulated by oligarch.

879
00:56:10,070 --> 00:56:13,210
I think in the minds of a Gagman,
he's more of a child.

880
00:56:13,550 --> 00:56:14,170
Yes, exactly.

881
00:56:14,510 --> 00:56:18,090
And you see that as grounds for laughter
and infantile gnome.

882
00:56:18,091 --> 00:56:19,310
It's a satirical show.

883
00:56:19,570 --> 00:56:23,070
It's up to the Prime Minister to determine
the line between satire and insult,

884
00:56:23,210 --> 00:56:24,710
especially during election season.

885
00:56:25,230 --> 00:56:27,830
The Prime Minister has determined a line
that must not be crossed.

886
00:56:28,450 --> 00:56:30,850
I believe Mr. Gusinsky can guess where
that line is.

887
00:56:30,990 --> 00:56:32,930
If not, he'll find out at his own expense.

888
00:56:33,230 --> 00:56:34,230
Good day.

889
00:56:36,250 --> 00:56:40,510
Of course, I was working 18-hour days
back-to-back meetings with the Prime Minister.

890
00:56:41,010 --> 00:56:44,010
Every single one of them involving
decisions of major historical importance.

891
00:56:45,070 --> 00:56:47,410
But the deeper I sank into the routine of
governing men.

892
00:56:47,411 --> 00:56:51,530
The more the world seemed to be rife with
misunderstanding and missed opportunities.

893
00:56:52,890 --> 00:56:54,890
And that's when the unexpected happened.

894
00:56:57,210 --> 00:57:00,190
One autumn night, just
after midnight, a terrific

895
00:57:00,191 --> 00:57:02,571
rumbling tore through
the darkness of the Capitol.

896
00:57:03,390 --> 00:57:07,590
On Goyanova Street, on the outskirts of
Moscow, hundreds of kilos of explosives

897
00:57:07,591 --> 00:57:10,210
literally cut a nine-story apartment
complex in two.

898
00:57:12,210 --> 00:57:15,370
Dozens of sleeping families were swallowed
up a lie by the explosion.

899
00:57:16,170 --> 00:57:17,170
Four days later.

900
00:57:19,170 --> 00:57:21,529
A second explosion rocked
the city at five o'clock in

901
00:57:21,530 --> 00:57:23,891
the morning, destroying
another building in the suburbs.

902
00:57:24,990 --> 00:57:25,990
Over a hundred victims.

903
00:57:26,550 --> 00:57:28,210
It was our September 11th.

904
00:57:28,850 --> 00:57:30,770
Before that, the Chechenmoor had felt
remote.

905
00:57:31,470 --> 00:57:34,385
But when buildings started
blowing up in the Moscow suburbs,

906
00:57:34,386 --> 00:57:36,750
Russians found themselves
with a war at their front door.

907
00:57:38,650 --> 00:57:42,890
Of course, you know what people say.

908
00:57:45,490 --> 00:57:47,510
They say we were behind it.

909
00:57:48,570 --> 00:57:51,870
Like we, I mean the FSB, isn't just a
rumor.

910
00:57:53,210 --> 00:57:55,150
There's serious evidence to back it up.

911
00:57:55,730 --> 00:57:56,730
Frankly, I don't know.

912
00:57:58,010 --> 00:58:00,852
And if this is a bona fide
secret, thank God nobody

913
00:58:00,932 --> 00:58:03,990
shared it with me, but why
would we have done that?

914
00:58:04,510 --> 00:58:08,139
We were certain to win,
to instill fear, so that the

915
00:58:08,140 --> 00:58:10,731
Russian people would feel
threatened by the Chechens.

916
00:58:12,270 --> 00:58:17,607
And to justify the second
Chechenmoor, perfectly timed,

917
00:58:17,608 --> 00:58:22,230
warm public opinion to a
coming authoritarian regime.

918
00:58:25,450 --> 00:58:30,071
You know, like public speaking, right
now the people need to hear your voice.

919
00:58:30,630 --> 00:58:32,690
Here on a state visit, not from the
Kremlin palace.

920
00:58:34,170 --> 00:58:35,550
You have to get them a sense of urgency.

921
00:58:35,551 --> 00:58:36,870
I'm not an actor.

922
00:58:38,690 --> 00:58:40,250
I'll give them a simple statement.

923
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,755
What has it ordered the
bombing of Grossman

924
00:58:48,756 --> 00:58:51,401
Airport in the retaliation
of their attacks?

925
00:58:51,460 --> 00:58:53,780
Don't you think such actions could
aggravate the situation?

926
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:56,640
Part of answering this kind of question.

927
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,580
We'll get the terrorists wherever they're
hiding.

928
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,200
If they're in an airport, we'll strike the
airport.

929
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:06,441
If they're in the shitter, excuse my
language, but we'll get them in the shitter.

930
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:11,440
You have no idea the impact that one
sentence had on the Russian people.

931
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,840
Finally, we were hearing a voice of
command and control.

932
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:16,960
Russians hadn't heard that in the longest
time.

933
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:18,640
Stalin's voice.

934
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,280
Or not Yeltsin's, in any case.

935
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:21,800
Or Gorbachev's.

936
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,500
That day, Putin became the Tsar.

937
01:00:18,170 --> 01:00:22,290
The Tsar wanted to bring in the new year in
Chechnya, more than that's where we'd go.

938
01:00:22,790 --> 01:00:27,030
At 1am, we got into some chiefs and headed
for the mountain passes.

939
01:00:57,280 --> 01:01:00,040
Thirty-third division of Lieutenant
Colonel Petarov.

940
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:01,880
Welcome to the base of Mr. Putin.

941
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,400
Men, what you're doing is so important.

942
01:01:06,660 --> 01:01:07,860
People believe in you.

943
01:01:08,220 --> 01:01:09,260
I'm here to tell you that.

944
01:01:09,900 --> 01:01:10,900
We're proud of you.

945
01:01:11,020 --> 01:01:12,020
We're working hard.

946
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:15,700
I know what work you and your men have
done even very courageous.

947
01:01:15,701 --> 01:01:20,880
I want you to know the Russian people
think of you.

948
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:22,840
I'm proud of you.

949
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:24,620
A Happy New Year.

950
01:02:43,900 --> 01:02:47,624
I would love to drink a
toast to the health of the

951
01:02:47,625 --> 01:02:51,480
wounded and to wish everyone
present here Happy New Year.

952
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:57,640
But we have serious tasks ahead,
as you all know.

953
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:03,020
We're not only fighting for the honour and
dignity of our country.

954
01:03:03,140 --> 01:03:06,620
We're fighting to prevent Russia from
disintegrating.

955
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,560
We can't afford one second of weakness,
not one second.

956
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:15,620
We let our guard down.

957
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:19,940
All those who died died in vain.

958
01:03:21,580 --> 01:03:23,880
So I suggest we put our glasses down.

959
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:30,220
We will toast, but later.

960
01:03:38,100 --> 01:03:39,300
I am leaving.

961
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,820
Leaving before the end of my term.

962
01:03:46,140 --> 01:03:49,040
I understand that it is necessary.

963
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:55,680
Russia must enter a new millennium with
new political leaders.

964
01:03:56,940 --> 01:04:03,300
And I'll leave you all in the trusted
hands of Vladimir Vich Putin.

965
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:10,840
The Yeltsin era is over.

966
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:16,040
Your friend Berizovsky has to know and fed
up with these bullshit memos.

967
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:18,740
I thought he was our friend.

968
01:04:19,380 --> 01:04:24,121
Boris is a very smart man, but his
intelligence is no safeguard for his stupidity.

969
01:04:26,460 --> 01:04:27,580
Better bring him in.

970
01:04:34,140 --> 01:04:38,780
Boris Abramovich, company, sit.

971
01:04:42,710 --> 01:04:45,970
I've read your messages, some of your
memos.

972
01:04:47,350 --> 01:04:49,650
You've always offered good advice on more
years.

973
01:04:50,230 --> 01:04:52,110
Voulogia, you made me wait your time.

974
01:04:52,630 --> 01:04:53,950
Look, you asked for this meeting.

975
01:04:54,730 --> 01:04:55,730
Here we are.

976
01:04:58,250 --> 01:04:59,250
Go ahead.

977
01:05:01,630 --> 01:05:03,090
Well, I'll be brief.

978
01:05:05,270 --> 01:05:07,370
We're becoming too negative, Voulogia.

979
01:05:07,590 --> 01:05:08,050
It's too dark.

980
01:05:08,390 --> 01:05:09,390
We're at war, fine.

981
01:05:09,570 --> 01:05:09,910
We get it.

982
01:05:10,250 --> 01:05:11,310
You're a great general.

983
01:05:11,650 --> 01:05:14,370
You're going to lead us all to victory,
but let's make an effort.

984
01:05:15,590 --> 01:05:18,670
Give these poor Russians a little bit of
hope, too.

985
01:05:19,250 --> 01:05:22,250
Otherwise, rather than voting for you,
they're going to jump out the window.

986
01:05:23,950 --> 01:05:26,690
Rally's and concerts and TV commercials,
posters.

987
01:05:27,670 --> 01:05:28,670
We need to make a splash.

988
01:05:28,930 --> 01:05:29,930
We'll pay for that.

989
01:05:30,110 --> 01:05:31,110
I will, of course.

990
01:05:31,730 --> 01:05:35,210
I heard you passed up free public TV
airtime.

991
01:05:35,310 --> 01:05:35,650
That's correct.

992
01:05:36,270 --> 01:05:37,530
It's our choice, our strategy.

993
01:05:38,470 --> 01:05:40,310
We'll see if the facts prove us right or
wrong.

994
01:05:40,690 --> 01:05:43,790
If you keep this up, people are going to
forget you're a candidate.

995
01:05:44,130 --> 01:05:45,270
Don't be ridiculous, Boris.

996
01:05:46,210 --> 01:05:48,770
I've been interim president for three
months with the government.

997
01:05:50,270 --> 01:05:53,510
Our campaign is the news, what we're
doing.

998
01:05:54,850 --> 01:05:56,270
The history we're making.

999
01:05:58,130 --> 01:06:00,150
Nobody believes advertising anymore.

1000
01:06:01,010 --> 01:06:04,070
Facts are the only advertising we're
interested in.

1001
01:06:07,830 --> 01:06:12,610
The Tsar had reinstated the power vertical
and voters were grateful to him for it.

1002
01:06:12,990 --> 01:06:16,210
He was elected president of the Russian
Federation with no runoff.

1003
01:06:16,910 --> 01:06:21,650
There are some who stopped bombarding the
Kremlin with unanswered phone calls.

1004
01:06:22,110 --> 01:06:25,450
Naturally, his media mocked the pompous
inauguration ceremony.

1005
01:06:26,150 --> 01:06:28,070
But Boris was waiting for something else.

1006
01:06:28,690 --> 01:06:31,710
A chance to show the Tsar, who is really
in charge.

1007
01:07:15,100 --> 01:07:20,140
I remember you like your medium rare.

1008
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:22,900
Thank you for remembering.

1009
01:07:35,620 --> 01:07:36,580
Sir?

1010
01:07:36,581 --> 01:07:49,950
Mm-hmm.

1011
01:07:58,040 --> 01:08:02,740
On August 12, 2000, the Kursk,
one of the world's largest nuclear

1012
01:08:02,741 --> 01:08:06,400
submarines, sank during a training
exercise in the Bar and Sea.

1013
01:08:07,780 --> 01:08:09,260
There were 100 crewmen aboard.

1014
01:08:10,220 --> 01:08:11,640
Some of them died instantly.

1015
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:15,000
Others were trapped at the bottom of the
sea.

1016
01:08:16,500 --> 01:08:19,640
This was the opportunity Bursovsk had been
waiting for.

1017
01:08:27,630 --> 01:08:31,310
We're into the helicopter to keep a
constant eye on the area where the subsink.

1018
01:08:31,590 --> 01:08:32,590
Has it been identified?

1019
01:08:32,770 --> 01:08:35,890
Yes, the information's just dropped,
but no rescue team is on site.

1020
01:08:36,170 --> 01:08:36,810
That's revolting.

1021
01:08:36,910 --> 01:08:38,390
That is what we have to expose.

1022
01:08:38,391 --> 01:08:40,430
Russian experts won't go into records.

1023
01:08:40,790 --> 01:08:41,790
Then find them abroad.

1024
01:08:41,850 --> 01:08:42,891
We have a crew in Germany.

1025
01:08:43,410 --> 01:08:48,210
They say NATO forces often be helped,
but Russian Navy toning down.

1026
01:08:48,490 --> 01:08:49,490
There are spy ships.

1027
01:08:49,890 --> 01:08:52,030
Russia can't humiliate herself in front of
them.

1028
01:08:52,250 --> 01:08:54,230
Can't humiliate herself in front of them.

1029
01:08:54,770 --> 01:08:58,010
Go find the families, ask them what they
think.

1030
01:08:58,190 --> 01:08:59,190
That's what we're doing.

1031
01:08:59,350 --> 01:09:00,350
TV's all about emotion.

1032
01:09:00,570 --> 01:09:02,366
The emotion's with the families of the
sailors.

1033
01:09:02,390 --> 01:09:05,810
Can you imagine their anguish,
their loved ones, may still be alive,

1034
01:09:05,811 --> 01:09:07,767
they're trapped inside
a watertight container,

1035
01:09:07,768 --> 01:09:10,271
waiting for a rescue
that may never come.

1036
01:09:38,990 --> 01:09:41,370
The situation was out of control.

1037
01:09:42,250 --> 01:09:43,070
I rushed to Sochi.

1038
01:09:43,071 --> 01:09:46,070
I couldn't understand why Putin wasn't on
the ground.

1039
01:09:48,750 --> 01:09:50,210
What would you have me do?

1040
01:09:52,890 --> 01:09:53,670
They're all dead.

1041
01:09:53,890 --> 01:09:54,890
It's obvious.

1042
01:09:55,110 --> 01:09:57,326
Can't say it, because we haven't been able
to reach them yet.

1043
01:09:57,350 --> 01:10:00,030
According to all the experts, there are
still survivors on board.

1044
01:10:00,250 --> 01:10:01,830
That's a fact we have to save them.

1045
01:10:02,050 --> 01:10:03,486
No one cares if they're dead or alive.

1046
01:10:03,510 --> 01:10:05,190
Berizoski's circus is about hurting me.

1047
01:10:05,710 --> 01:10:07,170
Everyone is waiting for you to act.

1048
01:10:07,650 --> 01:10:10,070
I act when I decide the time is right.

1049
01:10:11,070 --> 01:10:13,259
Your composure has
enhanced your popularity

1050
01:10:13,260 --> 01:10:16,051
thus far, but now it's
becoming a liability.

1051
01:10:16,470 --> 01:10:19,110
The Russian people are suffering and
you're not with them.

1052
01:10:19,710 --> 01:10:21,050
This is a serious matter.

1053
01:10:22,710 --> 01:10:26,286
Since the authorities are
still refusing to budge, RTP

1054
01:10:26,287 --> 01:10:28,831
has created a fund for
the families of the sailors.

1055
01:10:29,450 --> 01:10:32,090
Call this number if you want to support
the relatives of the Earth.

1056
01:10:34,210 --> 01:10:37,290
They destroyed the state, pillaged it for
ten years.

1057
01:10:38,230 --> 01:10:39,610
Bank corrupted our army.

1058
01:10:39,770 --> 01:10:40,810
Now they're raising money.

1059
01:10:41,290 --> 01:10:42,290
Fucking bastards.

1060
01:10:42,390 --> 01:10:45,250
Why don't they sell their fucking shallows
in son Marits?

1061
01:10:48,190 --> 01:10:49,930
Look at that son of a bitch on the phone.

1062
01:10:50,250 --> 01:10:51,250
Yes.

1063
01:10:53,830 --> 01:10:54,830
Do you

1064
01:10:58,860 --> 01:11:01,300
realize what you're doing?

1065
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:05,744
Your network is giving
round-the-clock airtime

1066
01:11:05,745 --> 01:11:08,080
to whores pretending
to be sailors' wives.

1067
01:11:08,440 --> 01:11:09,060
What are you talking about?

1068
01:11:09,140 --> 01:11:10,140
You're out of your mind.

1069
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:11,080
They're not whores.

1070
01:11:11,081 --> 01:11:12,081
They're the real wives.

1071
01:11:12,860 --> 01:11:17,160
Estate, television, Boris, and you're
conspiring against the presidency.

1072
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:18,320
What does that mean?

1073
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:20,640
What does this mean?

1074
01:11:21,100 --> 01:11:21,320
Exactly.

1075
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:22,600
I'm asking you a question.

1076
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:24,740
I have a question for you, Vladimir,
Vladimir of it.

1077
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:25,960
What the hell are you doing?

1078
01:11:26,580 --> 01:11:27,760
Vacationing on the Black Sea.

1079
01:11:28,380 --> 01:11:30,460
Shouldn't you be in more demands,
running operations?

1080
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:31,680
Where are you?

1081
01:11:32,580 --> 01:11:32,940
Laughing.

1082
01:11:33,060 --> 01:11:34,060
Where are you?

1083
01:11:34,100 --> 01:11:35,120
Coat to zero, right?

1084
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:36,376
What are you doing in the coat to zero?

1085
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:36,860
Oh, come on.

1086
01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:37,740
I'm not the president.

1087
01:11:38,060 --> 01:11:39,420
Nobody gives a damn where I am.

1088
01:11:39,421 --> 01:11:41,660
Plus, it so happens I am in Moscow.

1089
01:11:42,380 --> 01:11:43,980
Just think about it, Vladimir.

1090
01:11:44,780 --> 01:11:48,940
If you go and console the sailors' wives,
your ratings will go through the roof.

1091
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:53,120
And our network will put its full
firepower behind you.

1092
01:11:53,620 --> 01:11:54,740
You know that's substantial.

1093
01:12:02,570 --> 01:12:05,690
Well, we're going back to Moscow,
set up that fucking meeting.

1094
01:12:06,030 --> 01:12:07,030
We have no choice.

1095
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:20,960
And once there's messes behind
us, we'll take care of your friend, Boris.

1096
01:12:24,110 --> 01:12:27,387
How could Boris have deluded
himself in thinking that he'd

1097
01:12:27,388 --> 01:12:30,570
tolerate a relationship of
equals with one of his subjects?

1098
01:12:31,270 --> 01:12:32,770
Well, we all got scotter wrong.

1099
01:12:33,630 --> 01:12:35,970
And he decided to bet on Putin.

1100
01:12:36,510 --> 01:12:40,990
He thought they were changing strum in it,
not the whole system, yeah?

1101
01:12:41,830 --> 01:12:43,310
Taking off a pass-offskis network.

1102
01:12:44,090 --> 01:12:45,090
It's a piece of cake.

1103
01:12:45,810 --> 01:12:47,210
He wasn't the majority shareholder.

1104
01:12:47,810 --> 01:12:48,830
He only had 49%.

1105
01:12:49,670 --> 01:12:52,466
Well, it took us a call
to the CEO of RTP, and

1106
01:12:52,467 --> 01:12:56,111
he was now to take his
orders from the Kremlin.

1107
01:13:05,780 --> 01:13:07,240
He doesn't mean you any harm.

1108
01:13:07,740 --> 01:13:08,740
He respects you.

1109
01:13:09,340 --> 01:13:12,240
He stays safely in Moscow to whatever
business you like.

1110
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:15,500
But you must stay out of politics once and
for all.

1111
01:13:16,780 --> 01:13:17,780
Politics is his business.

1112
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:21,880
Putin is the pure product of the KGB.

1113
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:25,260
His fierce species.

1114
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:30,040
He will put Russia in shackles.

1115
01:13:30,420 --> 01:13:32,740
And all that we've done
over the last 10 years to

1116
01:13:32,741 --> 01:13:35,820
turn it into a normal
country will be swept away.

1117
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:37,800
Even you, but yeah.

1118
01:13:38,220 --> 01:13:40,920
You're creating a regime that's worse than
the Soviet Union.

1119
01:13:40,921 --> 01:13:46,220
At least back then, the party could muzzle
the KGB guard dogs.

1120
01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:48,120
But now the party no longer exists.

1121
01:13:48,940 --> 01:13:50,740
The FSB is worse than the KGB.

1122
01:13:51,340 --> 01:13:52,340
Who's going to stop them?

1123
01:13:52,540 --> 01:13:52,820
You?

1124
01:13:53,260 --> 01:13:54,260
Certainly not.

1125
01:13:54,780 --> 01:13:55,840
You've become one of them.

1126
01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:58,320
They're vicious animals.

1127
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:00,300
They come from the void.

1128
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:03,680
They've cleared their path with a
sledgehammer.

1129
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:05,040
No rules.

1130
01:14:05,380 --> 01:14:06,380
No limits.

1131
01:14:06,580 --> 01:14:07,000
They're hungry.

1132
01:14:07,001 --> 01:14:08,700
It's brutish.

1133
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:10,160
Hunger.

1134
01:14:10,440 --> 01:14:11,640
Well, they were humiliated.

1135
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:14,760
They descended from centuries of
humiliation.

1136
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,640
They have to grab everything right away.

1137
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:23,180
Because they know the tables will turn.

1138
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:24,840
Maybe Boris.

1139
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:26,560
I don't know.

1140
01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:33,620
What I do know is that Russia has always
been forged this way with an axe.

1141
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:41,300
Cautiously, Berzovsky chose exile in
London.

1142
01:14:41,860 --> 01:14:44,060
Meanwhile, we were taking off for New
York.

1143
01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:47,013
When you reach the
top, politics propels you

1144
01:14:47,014 --> 01:14:49,501
onto the world stage
with no preparation.

1145
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:52,120
The world's greats become your peers.

1146
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:54,160
But they're a close circle.

1147
01:14:54,820 --> 01:14:57,180
They've had time to get acquainted,
learn the ground rules.

1148
01:14:58,380 --> 01:15:00,940
However much you may be feared and
respected in your own country.

1149
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:03,620
Here, you're just the new kid on the
block.

1150
01:15:04,860 --> 01:15:08,780
The world of a story is the best hotel and
protocol has booked as a whole floor.

1151
01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:10,400
Twenty rooms.

1152
01:15:10,660 --> 01:15:12,740
And house?

1153
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:15,000
No.

1154
01:15:15,740 --> 01:15:16,740
Why not?

1155
01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:19,640
The top three floors are booked by the
year for the Saudis.

1156
01:15:22,020 --> 01:15:23,460
So I'll take more than an hour.

1157
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:27,280
Fifteen minutes, the TV studio,
half hour interview, fifteen minutes back.

1158
01:15:29,380 --> 01:15:30,520
It's a good hit for us.

1159
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:31,800
Mm-hmm.

1160
01:15:42,370 --> 01:15:43,370
What's this?

1161
01:15:44,250 --> 01:15:45,250
It's the Fries.

1162
01:15:47,050 --> 01:15:49,750
Yeah, US presidents motivate us on the
move.

1163
01:15:50,270 --> 01:15:51,270
No one else can part.

1164
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:56,140
How long is it last?

1165
01:15:58,460 --> 01:15:59,460
Depends.

1166
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:06,780
So what's it like being a spy?

1167
01:16:07,580 --> 01:16:09,260
Not very different from being a
journalist.

1168
01:16:10,440 --> 01:16:14,240
Your job is to gather information,
to synthesise it.

1169
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:18,340
You show it to the decision-makers who can
use that information.

1170
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:20,680
Did you enjoy it?

1171
01:16:21,060 --> 01:16:26,780
Working in intelligence allowed me to
broaden my vision, to acquire certain skills.

1172
01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:30,600
Mm, skills of management, focusing on
priorities.

1173
01:16:33,020 --> 01:16:34,020
A learning experience.

1174
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:36,180
The Kursk tragedy.

1175
01:16:37,260 --> 01:16:38,260
Shook, everyone.

1176
01:16:38,940 --> 01:16:41,280
Can you tell me what happened?

1177
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:44,040
What happened to the submarine?

1178
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:46,960
It sank.

1179
01:16:56,580 --> 01:17:01,480
If fucking Martians were to seize power in
Moscow, the United States would

1180
01:17:01,481 --> 01:17:03,540
immediately see them as a legitimate
government.

1181
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:05,920
Just as long as they
didn't go near their

1182
01:17:05,921 --> 01:17:09,581
interests and deferred
to them as the big boss.

1183
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:13,350
See, the trouble is
they think they won the

1184
01:17:13,351 --> 01:17:17,441
Cold War, but the
Soviet Union didn't lose it.

1185
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,223
Cold War ended because
we freed ourselves from

1186
01:17:20,224 --> 01:17:23,801
a dictatorship, which
is not the same thing.

1187
01:17:24,100 --> 01:17:26,120
We dismantled the Warsaw Pact.

1188
01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,800
We offered them a knowledge branch,
not surrender.

1189
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:34,440
They should bear that in mind,
just once in a while.

1190
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:38,680
I thought

1191
01:17:53,490 --> 01:17:56,370
he despised me.

1192
01:17:56,870 --> 01:17:57,870
He's a visionary.

1193
01:17:58,570 --> 01:18:00,810
Everyone has a place in his party.

1194
01:18:02,570 --> 01:18:06,570
So, what do you think of my revolutionary
avant-garde?

1195
01:18:06,950 --> 01:18:09,070
Kremlin isn't exactly quaking in its
boots.

1196
01:18:09,730 --> 01:18:11,050
The Kremlin is very wrong.

1197
01:18:11,430 --> 01:18:12,430
Sit down.

1198
01:18:13,610 --> 01:18:15,950
So, how was the trip?

1199
01:18:17,190 --> 01:18:18,830
Well, you know what it's like over there?

1200
01:18:19,290 --> 01:18:20,950
Always fairly amusing, I guess.

1201
01:18:21,230 --> 01:18:24,730
Yes, New York can be fun, as long as you
avoid the Americans.

1202
01:18:26,570 --> 01:18:27,810
What one do you prefer, Edward?

1203
01:18:30,290 --> 01:18:31,290
This one.

1204
01:18:32,870 --> 01:18:35,330
Have you ever been to one of their posh
dinners?

1205
01:18:35,990 --> 01:18:38,150
All the men have been to Princeton or
Yale.

1206
01:18:38,490 --> 01:18:40,650
They all have children who go to the same
schools.

1207
01:18:40,651 --> 01:18:43,070
At least when I was
younger, I could screw one

1208
01:18:43,071 --> 01:18:46,291
of their box and blonde
wives in the bathroom.

1209
01:18:46,370 --> 01:18:48,150
The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.

1210
01:18:48,890 --> 01:18:49,890
It's the same everywhere.

1211
01:18:50,370 --> 01:18:51,410
Oh, but yeah.

1212
01:18:52,170 --> 01:18:53,870
America has destroyed the bourgeoisie.

1213
01:18:54,330 --> 01:18:55,490
The bourgeoisie had values.

1214
01:18:56,210 --> 01:18:58,630
These people only believe in numbers.

1215
01:18:59,190 --> 01:19:00,190
They're boring as hell.

1216
01:19:02,890 --> 01:19:04,170
Imperialism isn't the problem.

1217
01:19:04,570 --> 01:19:05,950
American culture is.

1218
01:19:06,270 --> 01:19:09,710
You used to be attracted to it before it
swallowed you up and spat you out.

1219
01:19:09,711 --> 01:19:15,150
Watching Yeltsin turn Russia into a cheap
version of the American nursing home

1220
01:19:15,151 --> 01:19:18,530
prompted me to form the National Bolsharik
Party.

1221
01:19:18,790 --> 01:19:22,070
And you know why I called it that,
to infuriate you.

1222
01:19:22,710 --> 01:19:23,710
Nazbo.

1223
01:19:23,770 --> 01:19:30,410
We bring together former Stalinists,
homosexuals, and punks, anarchists,

1224
01:19:31,330 --> 01:19:34,950
skinheads, religious fanatics from British
to Orthodox.

1225
01:19:35,770 --> 01:19:39,330
The hardest part is keeping them from
smashing each other's heads here.

1226
01:19:39,331 --> 01:19:41,170
You can be sure they will sooner or later.

1227
01:19:41,510 --> 01:19:42,690
Oh, you don't understand.

1228
01:19:43,150 --> 01:19:46,490
These young people want to escape the
boredom of ordinary life.

1229
01:19:47,130 --> 01:19:48,590
They crave heroics.

1230
01:19:49,510 --> 01:19:51,310
And it would be a shame to waste that.

1231
01:19:53,230 --> 01:19:54,810
They're above a cigarette, Sergei.

1232
01:19:55,250 --> 01:19:56,250
Yes, sir.

1233
01:19:56,370 --> 01:19:57,370
They need a walk.

1234
01:20:01,460 --> 01:20:04,104
I'd always seen Edward
Lee Monov as a brilliant

1235
01:20:04,105 --> 01:20:06,740
sociopath with no political
acumen whatsoever.

1236
01:20:07,820 --> 01:20:10,260
So I wasn't yet ready to recognize that he
was right.

1237
01:20:11,700 --> 01:20:14,460
For the first time, I saw his reasoning
for what it was.

1238
01:20:15,980 --> 01:20:20,160
I'll throw a result of rigorous analysis,
far more than casual intuition.

1239
01:20:29,690 --> 01:20:30,690
Come in.

1240
01:20:31,590 --> 01:20:32,830
Light at me, validity, medical.

1241
01:20:33,150 --> 01:20:34,750
But the email is safe, it's easy to see.

1242
01:20:35,810 --> 01:20:36,810
I'll make him in.

1243
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:42,920
How are my ratings?

1244
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:45,280
Elections are coming about you.

1245
01:20:45,281 --> 01:20:46,560
You don't really need to worry.

1246
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:47,760
Around 60%.

1247
01:20:47,761 --> 01:20:49,700
The closest candidate gets no more than
12.

1248
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:50,800
I'm not interested in them.

1249
01:20:50,980 --> 01:20:51,120
They're insignificant.

1250
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:53,580
One Russian is more popular than I am.

1251
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:55,960
Stalin.

1252
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:58,820
I believe he's been dead for some time.

1253
01:20:59,340 --> 01:21:00,396
Well, you're intellectuals.

1254
01:21:00,420 --> 01:21:02,440
You insist on denouncing the horrors of
the Gulag.

1255
01:21:02,580 --> 01:21:05,400
You think Stalin was popular in spite of
the killings.

1256
01:21:05,660 --> 01:21:05,860
You're wrong.

1257
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:08,311
Stalin was popular
because of the killings,

1258
01:21:08,312 --> 01:21:11,700
because he knew how
to handle a thief, a traitor.

1259
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:17,580
You know what Stalin did when the
Soviet-run trains started to derail?

1260
01:21:18,100 --> 01:21:19,100
No, I don't.

1261
01:21:19,140 --> 01:21:21,060
He had the head of the railway shop for
sabotage.

1262
01:21:22,040 --> 01:21:28,420
Didn't solve the problem, possibly aggravated
it, but it allowed an outlet for fury.

1263
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:31,060
Fury is a structural given.

1264
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:33,160
No point fighting, it must be managed.

1265
01:21:34,700 --> 01:21:36,120
You want to feed the fury?

1266
01:21:36,660 --> 01:21:38,320
Yes, people want a head-to-roll.

1267
01:21:38,321 --> 01:21:39,321
Who?

1268
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:42,580
The most arrogant oligarch?

1269
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:44,600
The mittry sit-off.

1270
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:47,520
Your former friend.

1271
01:21:48,740 --> 01:21:50,240
I'm told he ran off with your woman.

1272
01:21:51,420 --> 01:21:52,520
Which must make you happy.

1273
01:21:53,020 --> 01:21:54,020
Didn't last long.

1274
01:21:54,380 --> 01:21:55,540
They're bygones, be bygones.

1275
01:21:55,980 --> 01:21:57,895
You know, he's
planning to sell a majority

1276
01:21:57,896 --> 01:22:00,160
share of his fossil fuel
empire to ExxonMobil.

1277
01:22:00,480 --> 01:22:02,096
You're working on that merger long enough.

1278
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:05,325
He'll make himself $20
billion richer by putting our

1279
01:22:05,326 --> 01:22:08,041
fossil fuel giant in the
hands of American investors.

1280
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:11,380
Could say that our Russian company will
acquire international status.

1281
01:22:11,440 --> 01:22:13,000
I won't say that because it isn't true.

1282
01:22:13,180 --> 01:22:16,840
He's gathered a huge war chest to run
against me in the 2007 election.

1283
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:17,860
How do you know?

1284
01:22:18,200 --> 01:22:19,640
How do you think we tapped this far?

1285
01:22:25,070 --> 01:22:26,070
Non-entity.

1286
01:22:27,710 --> 01:22:31,550
That's what he calls me when he speaks to
his friends in Washington, D.C.

1287
01:22:31,810 --> 01:22:32,810
and non-entity.

1288
01:22:33,790 --> 01:22:36,403
When he explains that,
when elected, he will change

1289
01:22:36,404 --> 01:22:39,770
the constitution and
dismantle the nuclear arsenal.

1290
01:22:39,771 --> 01:22:41,450
And non-entity.

1291
01:22:42,830 --> 01:22:43,930
Non-entity.

1292
01:22:46,010 --> 01:22:50,330
This man has fed me more mud than I can
swallow.

1293
01:22:55,290 --> 01:23:00,650
So, I've ordered the meatry sit-off be
arrested tomorrow at dawn.

1294
01:23:01,210 --> 01:23:02,330
He's heading to Siberia.

1295
01:23:02,850 --> 01:23:03,530
He has to stop to refuel.

1296
01:23:03,870 --> 01:23:04,990
That's where we'll take him.

1297
01:23:05,150 --> 01:23:06,150
Cameraman.

1298
01:23:06,590 --> 01:23:08,110
Photographers, they'll all be on site.

1299
01:23:08,390 --> 01:23:10,610
Your job is to orchestrate it for the
media.

1300
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:30,100
This is it.

1301
01:23:32,380 --> 01:23:34,780
The news went all around the world.

1302
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:36,848
The immediate effect
was to remind people

1303
01:23:36,849 --> 01:23:39,441
that money can't protect
you from everything.

1304
01:23:39,580 --> 01:23:42,420
Of course, for you Westerners,
this is totally taboo.

1305
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:44,820
A politician arrested, why not?

1306
01:23:44,821 --> 01:23:47,560
But a billionaire, unthinkable.

1307
01:23:48,580 --> 01:23:50,727
Because your society was
founded on the principle

1308
01:23:50,728 --> 01:23:53,301
that there is no power
greater than money.

1309
01:23:54,340 --> 01:23:58,900
My job was to fit Demetri's fall from
grace into a successful TV format.

1310
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:00,600
This wasn't difficult.

1311
01:24:01,620 --> 01:24:04,560
The masses have always loved to watch a
powerful man's head roll.

1312
01:24:05,220 --> 01:24:07,060
There's no bloodier dictator than the
people.

1313
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:13,280
Once Todorov was arrested, Putin's
reelection was a mere formality.

1314
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:18,801
From that point forward, the Russian
government began undergoing a profound change.

1315
01:24:19,100 --> 01:24:23,020
The power struggle shifted from the public
stage to the Tsars in a circle.

1316
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:26,360
The state once again depended on court
intrigue.

1317
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:31,300
There are those with an office close to the
Tsars and those with a direct line to him.

1318
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:33,964
There are those who
accompany him on overseas

1319
01:24:33,965 --> 01:24:36,441
missions and those who
vacation with him and Sochi.

1320
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:40,380
No detail can be overlooked, no matter how
trivial.

1321
01:24:41,120 --> 01:24:45,721
From seating plans at Gallaudinars to waiting
times in the President's anti-chamber.

1322
01:24:45,780 --> 01:24:47,900
Nothing escapes a courtier's attention.

1323
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:52,240
I adapted to the new regimes.

1324
01:24:52,820 --> 01:24:53,820
I adapted to everything.

1325
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:56,140
Some were far better at it than I was.

1326
01:24:56,740 --> 01:24:57,740
Like Kegor said.

1327
01:24:59,420 --> 01:25:00,860
Especially, Kegor said.

1328
01:25:02,440 --> 01:25:05,580
Like many men of his kind, he drew his
strength from being underestimated.

1329
01:25:07,380 --> 01:25:09,060
In the period of the courtiers came
around.

1330
01:25:09,300 --> 01:25:10,300
He was in this element.

1331
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:13,300
Indeed, he was head courtier.

1332
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:17,240
Demetri Sodorov in prison.

1333
01:25:17,780 --> 01:25:19,500
The problem was what to do with his
company.

1334
01:25:20,300 --> 01:25:22,120
Sechin gobbled it up in a single bite.

1335
01:25:22,740 --> 01:25:23,760
Judicial receivership.

1336
01:25:24,060 --> 01:25:25,840
A public auction with just one
participant.

1337
01:25:25,841 --> 01:25:28,560
And it ends up in the hands of a financial
group.

1338
01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:31,140
So, oh, hey, he doesn't even have a phone
number.

1339
01:25:31,700 --> 01:25:33,200
Well, did you get what you want?

1340
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:34,720
God, well, the Tsar wanted.

1341
01:25:34,900 --> 01:25:36,980
You mean he wanted Demetri's business for
himself?

1342
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:39,580
What he wants is to destroy the other
guards.

1343
01:25:39,900 --> 01:25:41,740
And replace them with silly viki like
yourself.

1344
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:44,780
Russia has always needed strongmen.

1345
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:47,800
Soldiers, spies, police.

1346
01:25:49,220 --> 01:25:50,336
That's how I got where I am.

1347
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:51,600
And why you take what you want?

1348
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:52,220
Well done.

1349
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:54,520
That's how you wish to put it in the next
stage.

1350
01:25:55,860 --> 01:25:57,820
Oh, and, uh, watch out.

1351
01:25:58,420 --> 01:25:59,920
He's back from the G20 in Berlin.

1352
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:01,720
Tired.

1353
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:02,840
Bad tempers.

1354
01:26:05,220 --> 01:26:06,240
It's always the same.

1355
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:09,000
They treat me like I'm the president of
Finland.

1356
01:26:10,180 --> 01:26:11,240
They better watch out.

1357
01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:13,320
They need to be very careful.

1358
01:26:14,500 --> 01:26:17,095
The ability to inspire
fear is a poor man's

1359
01:26:17,096 --> 01:26:19,160
sole weapon when he's
defending his dignity.

1360
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:20,360
I learnt that on the street.

1361
01:26:20,361 --> 01:26:23,800
Trouble is, Mr. President, by spooking our
enemies.

1362
01:26:24,260 --> 01:26:26,120
We're in danger of spooking the markets,
too.

1363
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:27,880
We can't afford that.

1364
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:30,200
Markets never rule Russia, Vardia.

1365
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:31,960
Maybe once.

1366
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:34,960
Maybe once under Yeltsin.

1367
01:26:35,100 --> 01:26:36,100
What was the result then?

1368
01:26:36,260 --> 01:26:37,260
The lore of the jungle.

1369
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:42,120
We need to take control.

1370
01:26:42,820 --> 01:26:45,060
We need to take control of all the wealth
of the country.

1371
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,920
Forests and the mines and the gas,
the petrol.

1372
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:57,041
We'll see to it that it serves the interests
and the glory of the Russian people.

1373
01:26:58,820 --> 01:26:59,900
Like with Dimitri.

1374
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:01,400
What about Dimitri?

1375
01:27:02,340 --> 01:27:07,580
Oh, the oilmen are blues, and directly
from Zadora's pocket to sedgiums.

1376
01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:12,000
What's that got to do with the interest
and glory of the Russian people?

1377
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:42,560
A lovely weather.

1378
01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:44,500
You should have a dip for your life.

1379
01:27:44,940 --> 01:27:45,380
Thanks.

1380
01:27:45,740 --> 01:27:46,740
Another time.

1381
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:47,960
You prefer such?

1382
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:50,300
You know I am here.

1383
01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:53,820
I'd like to hear you say it.

1384
01:27:54,620 --> 01:27:55,620
There's a rumor.

1385
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:57,200
You wouldn't come here about a rumor.

1386
01:28:03,980 --> 01:28:07,440
We are very reliable, Intel, that you're
one of the Ukrainian protesters,

1387
01:28:07,820 --> 01:28:08,820
main supporters.

1388
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:11,320
Well, since you know who to this spitting
man.

1389
01:28:11,660 --> 01:28:14,240
I was worried that, in fact, you come
bearing goodness.

1390
01:28:14,241 --> 01:28:18,320
Your brain has been an integral part of
Russian territory for centuries.

1391
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:19,920
Do you genuinely believe it?

1392
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:21,080
I'm just a messenger.

1393
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:23,260
Know what he said.

1394
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:26,080
Go and see that fucker.

1395
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,380
Tell him he's gone too far and tried to
reason with him.

1396
01:28:31,520 --> 01:28:32,780
You know what his problem is?

1397
01:28:32,900 --> 01:28:34,080
I know what you think it is.

1398
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:35,880
That he's not your regular politician.

1399
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:37,240
That he's KGB.

1400
01:28:37,820 --> 01:28:38,180
He's a spy.

1401
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:38,740
No.

1402
01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:39,660
He's not a spy.

1403
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,660
A spy's job is to gather accurate
intelligence.

1404
01:28:42,661 --> 01:28:43,960
But he's a counter spy.

1405
01:28:44,220 --> 01:28:49,220
A counter spy's job is to be paranoid,
to see conspiracies everywhere,

1406
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:51,120
and to invent them, if necessary.

1407
01:28:51,500 --> 01:28:52,860
You've been an exile too long.

1408
01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:54,640
You've lost touch.

1409
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:57,482
As if the poor Ukrainians
don't have every reason

1410
01:28:57,483 --> 01:28:59,520
to revolt against a
pro-Russian government.

1411
01:28:59,660 --> 01:29:02,940
You know who the main supporters of the
Ukrainian protesters are.

1412
01:29:03,500 --> 01:29:05,080
The CIA, the U.S.

1413
01:29:05,500 --> 01:29:10,000
State Department, major American
foundations, George Soros, and you,

1414
01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:12,560
to the tune of 30 million dollars.

1415
01:29:12,561 --> 01:29:13,820
What so I've heard?

1416
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:15,280
Well, that's politics bad, yeah.

1417
01:29:16,100 --> 01:29:17,220
Do you know what else it is?

1418
01:29:17,740 --> 01:29:18,740
It's democracy.

1419
01:29:19,580 --> 01:29:21,840
You forgot the meaning of that word long
ago.

1420
01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:29,200
Remember, I'm not here by choice.

1421
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:32,240
I'm leaving an exile here, bad,
yeah.

1422
01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:36,820
If I even set foot in Russia, I'll end up
in Siberia, like Ciderov.

1423
01:29:38,660 --> 01:29:42,260
Boris, despite our differences,
the Tsarist is still your friend.

1424
01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:47,780
That's why you were permitted to sell your
Russian assets 1.3 billion correct.

1425
01:29:48,060 --> 01:29:49,260
Far less than they were worth.

1426
01:29:57,750 --> 01:29:59,410
What if I keep on with it, huh?

1427
01:30:02,070 --> 01:30:03,590
You're gonna send a hate line from me?

1428
01:30:08,050 --> 01:30:09,390
Look, I've got some of my own.

1429
01:30:11,630 --> 01:30:12,830
And they're better than yours.

1430
01:30:13,990 --> 01:30:15,510
Do I pay them ten times more?

1431
01:30:17,890 --> 01:30:19,930
I didn't come here to threaten you.

1432
01:30:21,450 --> 01:30:26,470
I understand your resentment, which you
can't turn against your country.

1433
01:30:26,890 --> 01:30:28,170
Putin's Russia isn't my country.

1434
01:30:29,690 --> 01:30:32,704
In spite of all our flaws,
we managed to build

1435
01:30:32,705 --> 01:30:35,130
a free country where you
could do what you want.

1436
01:30:35,290 --> 01:30:37,930
You could say what you want for the first
time in Russian history.

1437
01:30:38,430 --> 01:30:40,390
And you have wrecked all that in just a
few years.

1438
01:30:42,270 --> 01:30:44,790
You turn Russia back into what it always
was.

1439
01:30:46,770 --> 01:30:48,690
A prison the size of a country.

1440
01:30:49,850 --> 01:30:51,450
Just like in the Soviet times.

1441
01:31:38,460 --> 01:31:39,560
Since your boat.

1442
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:41,420
Nothing is ever mine.

1443
01:31:42,900 --> 01:31:44,220
At least not in the way you mean.

1444
01:31:45,580 --> 01:31:46,680
All the gark money.

1445
01:31:48,140 --> 01:31:49,140
You're afraid?

1446
01:31:50,480 --> 01:31:52,120
Afraid your masters will point out.

1447
01:31:52,620 --> 01:31:53,620
Masters?

1448
01:31:54,040 --> 01:31:56,400
From what I hear you're in the service to
power now.

1449
01:31:57,300 --> 01:31:58,300
I suppose so.

1450
01:31:59,880 --> 01:32:02,440
You don't like Vladimir Vladimir,
it's very much.

1451
01:32:02,940 --> 01:32:03,180
No.

1452
01:32:03,860 --> 01:32:04,100
You're right.

1453
01:32:04,460 --> 01:32:05,460
I don't like power.

1454
01:32:06,060 --> 01:32:09,480
I like it even less when you kid yourself
and pretend it's modern art.

1455
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:11,440
Sorry about that, but I want you
despicable.

1456
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:12,840
Despicable.

1457
01:32:13,940 --> 01:32:14,940
It's a bit harsh.

1458
01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:16,400
You found it.

1459
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:22,000
You dodged my question of me being
bankrolled by oligarchs as we speak.

1460
01:32:23,460 --> 01:32:26,580
This boat belongs to a businessman from
Portland.

1461
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:30,311
He embedded some software
when he was 24, was a

1462
01:32:30,312 --> 01:32:34,020
multimillionaire by 26, and sold
his company to Microsoft by 28.

1463
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:36,800
Been bored stiff ever since.

1464
01:32:38,460 --> 01:32:42,801
He'd like to have another idea in his
lifetime, but it's slow and they're coming.

1465
01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:44,100
He's sleeping, I think.

1466
01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:46,600
Absolutely not.

1467
01:32:47,780 --> 01:32:50,760
When I have an idea of a line of jewelry,
he funds it.

1468
01:32:51,900 --> 01:32:53,260
Sometimes he makes a bit of money.

1469
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:55,860
I've been clearly chum changed to him.

1470
01:32:55,861 --> 01:32:58,600
And he lends you his boat when it strikes
your fancy?

1471
01:32:59,140 --> 01:33:00,140
Yes.

1472
01:33:00,380 --> 01:33:06,140
When I'm bored of this world, which is
often, I take for a future.

1473
01:33:06,660 --> 01:33:09,440
A gilded cage of comfort zone.

1474
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:13,280
I loved a meat tree.

1475
01:33:15,460 --> 01:33:17,360
I mean, we had fun for a few months.

1476
01:33:17,980 --> 01:33:20,220
I loved the crazy wind that was blowing.

1477
01:33:20,860 --> 01:33:22,140
And then you got rid of him too.

1478
01:33:22,141 --> 01:33:23,580
That wasn't cool.

1479
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:25,360
Not that time.

1480
01:33:27,360 --> 01:33:30,540
We grew apart to meet you got interested
in oil.

1481
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:32,740
That didn't bring much luck.

1482
01:33:35,220 --> 01:33:39,700
A few years, I preferred Los Angeles to
anywhere else.

1483
01:33:40,220 --> 01:33:41,760
It was Hollywood up to your standards.

1484
01:33:42,340 --> 01:33:43,340
It was Hollywood.

1485
01:33:44,060 --> 01:33:45,260
I stayed away.

1486
01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:46,800
I stayed away from Hollywood.

1487
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:48,040
It's like Moscow.

1488
01:33:48,520 --> 01:33:50,580
Only powder relationships count.

1489
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:52,580
The rest is insignificant.

1490
01:33:53,380 --> 01:33:54,380
I like the desert.

1491
01:33:54,700 --> 01:33:57,020
I like the ocean waves.

1492
01:33:58,120 --> 01:34:00,560
Driving along the Pacific Coast highway.

1493
01:34:01,020 --> 01:34:04,760
And when I felt like going to Japan,
I went to Japan.

1494
01:34:18,730 --> 01:34:20,170
This is the prettiest cold.

1495
01:34:22,550 --> 01:34:23,710
The plain awaits.

1496
01:34:28,900 --> 01:34:30,200
Tonight I'll be in Moscow.

1497
01:34:32,460 --> 01:34:33,460
I'm miserable.

1498
01:34:49,630 --> 01:34:54,030
The following autumn, as expected,
the situation in Ukraine wasn't.

1499
01:34:54,530 --> 01:34:57,150
The protesters refused to accept the
election results.

1500
01:34:58,790 --> 01:35:02,870
Hundreds of thousands of them occupied the
Maidan Kiav Central Square with songs,

1501
01:35:03,550 --> 01:35:06,970
orange ribbons, multicolored tents,
and pro-western slogans.

1502
01:35:07,830 --> 01:35:08,830
Yes.

1503
01:35:19,630 --> 01:35:23,150
Suddenly, commissions of international
observers came out of the woodwork to

1504
01:35:23,151 --> 01:35:27,510
dispute the results of the election,
which were won by pro-Russian candidate,

1505
01:35:27,770 --> 01:35:28,770
Janik Kovach.

1506
01:35:29,410 --> 01:35:31,470
Those elections were notoriously rigged.

1507
01:35:32,090 --> 01:35:32,850
I happen to be there.

1508
01:35:32,851 --> 01:35:33,851
Really?

1509
01:35:34,830 --> 01:35:38,590
Well, there had just been a vote in Iraq
with American soldiers controlling the

1510
01:35:38,591 --> 01:35:41,070
polling stations, and everyone thought
that was fine.

1511
01:35:41,670 --> 01:35:42,670
But not in Ukraine?

1512
01:35:43,330 --> 01:35:43,810
No.

1513
01:35:44,090 --> 01:35:47,390
In Ukraine, there had to be another vote,
because the result wasn't right.

1514
01:35:48,150 --> 01:35:50,570
They called that fast the Orange
Revolution.

1515
01:35:50,650 --> 01:35:54,210
And the previous year in Georgia,
it was the Rose Revolution.

1516
01:35:54,570 --> 01:35:58,959
Another poetic revolution,
all pretty girls and lofty ideals,

1517
01:35:58,960 --> 01:36:03,190
yet another stooge of the
Americans has catapulted to power.

1518
01:36:03,470 --> 01:36:09,510
Do you seriously believe it takes a CIA
conspiracy to make Ukrainians want to flee

1519
01:36:09,511 --> 01:36:11,670
Russia's orbit in favor of the European
Union?

1520
01:36:11,890 --> 01:36:13,090
What people do you mean?

1521
01:36:14,030 --> 01:36:17,670
Do you really think everyone finds your
Europe so attractive?

1522
01:36:18,250 --> 01:36:20,930
No, we don't need a crystal ball to see
the Russia's turn is coming.

1523
01:36:21,410 --> 01:36:24,150
The next lovely color-coded revolution
will be in Moscow.

1524
01:36:24,910 --> 01:36:28,190
The future president of the Russian
Federation will have a degree from Yale.

1525
01:36:29,530 --> 01:36:31,370
That process seemed inevitable.

1526
01:36:32,410 --> 01:36:34,250
The young people were fed up with us.

1527
01:36:34,510 --> 01:36:37,111
And the Americans, for
making the most of that

1528
01:36:37,112 --> 01:36:39,991
rebellion, we'd have to be
stronger than them to survive.

1529
01:36:41,290 --> 01:36:45,150
Now, the old methods outlived the
usefulness, locking up agitators,

1530
01:36:45,410 --> 01:36:46,410
expelling diplomats.

1531
01:36:46,950 --> 01:36:49,377
If we were in a bad
boot that day, eliminating

1532
01:36:49,378 --> 01:36:52,091
opponents, I don't
believe in any of that.

1533
01:36:53,390 --> 01:36:56,230
So I took a chance and tried a different
tack.

1534
01:37:09,670 --> 01:37:14,350
The president has been informed of your
arrival, since its greetings.

1535
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:25,110
Alexander Sigevich, I've been following you
and your nightwalls for a few years now.

1536
01:37:25,610 --> 01:37:26,610
I'm impressed.

1537
01:37:27,870 --> 01:37:34,410
You take those lost souls and give them a
home, a sense of discipline.

1538
01:37:35,170 --> 01:37:36,790
Our group gives them two things.

1539
01:37:36,791 --> 01:37:40,230
They lack fraternity and strength.

1540
01:37:40,670 --> 01:37:42,170
You aren't just a biker gang.

1541
01:37:42,850 --> 01:37:44,590
You're true Russian patriots.

1542
01:37:44,790 --> 01:37:45,790
They have values.

1543
01:37:46,270 --> 01:37:47,270
Russian values.

1544
01:37:47,610 --> 01:37:50,610
Those of our holy mother, the Orthodox
Church.

1545
01:37:51,150 --> 01:37:52,150
I understand that.

1546
01:37:52,270 --> 01:37:54,410
Alexander Sigevich and so does the
president.

1547
01:37:55,390 --> 01:37:56,690
Wolves are not merely predators.

1548
01:37:57,950 --> 01:37:59,710
They're also the guardians of the forest.

1549
01:38:01,090 --> 01:38:02,990
Did you see what happened in Ukraine?

1550
01:38:02,991 --> 01:38:03,991
Yes.

1551
01:38:04,170 --> 01:38:05,170
A revolution.

1552
01:38:05,210 --> 01:38:06,210
A coup.

1553
01:38:07,750 --> 01:38:09,390
And you know who took power?

1554
01:38:09,770 --> 01:38:10,770
The Americans.

1555
01:38:11,150 --> 01:38:12,150
Spot on.

1556
01:38:12,450 --> 01:38:16,590
They set up a youth organization,
paid for free concerts in Maidan Square.

1557
01:38:17,670 --> 01:38:21,230
And that even the Orange Ribbon was
thought up by an ad-man.

1558
01:38:22,070 --> 01:38:24,248
Everything is geared to
the young because their

1559
01:38:24,249 --> 01:38:26,790
energy is the most precious
commodity out there.

1560
01:38:27,410 --> 01:38:28,410
Their frustration.

1561
01:38:29,190 --> 01:38:30,750
Their desire to change the world.

1562
01:38:30,751 --> 01:38:32,650
Young people need a cause.

1563
01:38:33,070 --> 01:38:34,070
And an enemy.

1564
01:38:35,070 --> 01:38:37,000
We need to find them
a cause in an enemy

1565
01:38:37,001 --> 01:38:39,991
before they choose those
things for themselves.

1566
01:38:40,150 --> 01:38:43,050
What was the Americans' choose for them?

1567
01:38:43,770 --> 01:38:45,310
Except we can't do that.

1568
01:38:45,810 --> 01:38:47,350
Look around you, Alexander.

1569
01:38:47,990 --> 01:38:51,015
All we have here are
bureaucrats and suits where

1570
01:38:51,016 --> 01:38:54,391
the adults were in power
with their true enemy.

1571
01:38:54,990 --> 01:38:56,890
You're younger than me, I believe.

1572
01:38:56,891 --> 01:38:58,710
You've taken a different path.

1573
01:38:59,690 --> 01:39:01,310
You embody freedom and adventure.

1574
01:39:01,550 --> 01:39:03,250
Your vitality is undimmed.

1575
01:39:03,330 --> 01:39:04,550
Young people can feel that.

1576
01:39:05,490 --> 01:39:06,610
That Tsar is with you.

1577
01:39:06,810 --> 01:39:07,810
He's your brother.

1578
01:39:08,090 --> 01:39:09,170
He's not bureaucrat.

1579
01:39:09,430 --> 01:39:10,430
He likes speed.

1580
01:39:10,530 --> 01:39:11,290
He does judo.

1581
01:39:11,510 --> 01:39:11,830
He hunts.

1582
01:39:12,370 --> 01:39:14,750
He is of the race of conquerors.

1583
01:39:15,250 --> 01:39:17,950
Do you think he joined one of our rallies?

1584
01:39:18,430 --> 01:39:19,430
Of course.

1585
01:39:19,550 --> 01:39:21,090
The nightvuls would be honored.

1586
01:39:21,710 --> 01:39:23,930
We'll hold a rally for all the young
patriots.

1587
01:39:23,931 --> 01:39:27,070
We'll kick off the struggle against our
true foe.

1588
01:39:27,670 --> 01:39:29,850
The decadent West and its false values.

1589
01:39:30,510 --> 01:39:32,730
Maidan, about the universe.

1590
01:39:33,270 --> 01:39:34,270
Exactly.

1591
01:39:34,530 --> 01:39:39,910
Russia must become a place where people
can vent their rage against the world

1592
01:39:39,911 --> 01:39:43,110
while remaining faithful servants to the
Tsar.

1593
01:39:43,310 --> 01:39:46,770
Basically, you want to make revolution
impossible.

1594
01:39:47,710 --> 01:39:50,250
Let's just say we want to remove the need
for one.

1595
01:39:53,470 --> 01:39:57,550
Without a drop of vodka, Zaldostinov left
the Kremlin intoxicated.

1596
01:39:58,470 --> 01:40:01,174
A little did he know that my
next meeting was with the

1597
01:40:01,175 --> 01:40:04,410
intriguing spokesperson of an
Orthodox Renaissance movement.

1598
01:40:07,210 --> 01:40:10,470
Followed by the head of a group of
strikingly crusts of young communists.

1599
01:40:12,950 --> 01:40:15,070
And the leader of the Spartok supporters.

1600
01:40:16,070 --> 01:40:21,230
I recruited them all, bikers and
hooligans, anarchists and skinheads,

1601
01:40:21,470 --> 01:40:25,750
communists and religious fanatics from the
far right to the far left and beyond.

1602
01:40:26,510 --> 01:40:28,779
After what happened
in Ukraine, we could no

1603
01:40:28,780 --> 01:40:31,251
longer leave the forces
of fury unchecked.

1604
01:40:32,030 --> 01:40:34,110
Monopolizing power was no longer enough.

1605
01:40:34,830 --> 01:40:36,430
We needed to monopolize the subversion.

1606
01:40:42,790 --> 01:40:44,630
Who didn't I bring on board?

1607
01:40:44,631 --> 01:40:49,570
The technocrats responsible for the
disasters of the 90s.

1608
01:40:50,050 --> 01:40:51,650
They're remaining oligarchs.

1609
01:40:52,150 --> 01:40:54,650
The politically correct banner waivers.

1610
01:40:55,050 --> 01:40:56,070
Thank you, the vegans.

1611
01:40:56,830 --> 01:41:00,970
Actually, I needed those characters in the
opposition.

1612
01:41:01,530 --> 01:41:03,190
They were my best players.

1613
01:41:16,210 --> 01:41:17,210
Of

1614
01:41:29,100 --> 01:41:32,800
course he writes, marched into the
Cathedral of Christ to save your yelling

1615
01:41:32,801 --> 01:41:35,360
obscenities against Putin and Patriarch
Kirill.

1616
01:41:35,700 --> 01:41:38,060
We went up five points in the opinion
polls.

1617
01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:40,600
I thought they were heroic, personally.

1618
01:41:41,260 --> 01:41:42,620
They go about it in the wrong way.

1619
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:44,900
They score against their own team in
politics.

1620
01:41:44,901 --> 01:41:46,060
The sanctionists swift.

1621
01:41:46,560 --> 01:41:48,060
The sanction cuts both ways.

1622
01:41:48,720 --> 01:41:50,100
Gave them worldwide recognition.

1623
01:41:51,640 --> 01:41:53,800
Without that, she's not coming.

1624
01:41:54,380 --> 01:41:55,600
Wait, I will be back.

1625
01:41:57,540 --> 01:41:58,540
Vaidim!

1626
01:41:59,320 --> 01:42:00,320
Miss Jacob?

1627
01:42:00,480 --> 01:42:03,440
I'm so flattered that you blessed us with
your presence.

1628
01:42:03,860 --> 01:42:06,360
Mark me, you know how influential your
salon is.

1629
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:08,200
Love.

1630
01:42:08,320 --> 01:42:11,120
Society gossip has never had much
influence on power.

1631
01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:14,880
Thanks to you, I can rock shoulders with
my opponents.

1632
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:16,800
Indeed.

1633
01:42:18,140 --> 01:42:20,520
Gary Kasparov is here.

1634
01:42:23,820 --> 01:42:26,380
Just champions have never gone far in
politics.

1635
01:42:27,420 --> 01:42:28,420
Vaidim Barana?

1636
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:31,060
The wizard of the Kremlin.

1637
01:42:31,520 --> 01:42:31,860
That's me.

1638
01:42:32,500 --> 01:42:34,340
I hear you've given your doctrine a name.

1639
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:35,560
Indeed.

1640
01:42:35,600 --> 01:42:36,600
Sovereign democracy.

1641
01:42:37,180 --> 01:42:39,820
Her Russia needs to be a democracy in
order to benefit from globalization.

1642
01:42:39,821 --> 01:42:44,400
I've seen all traces of democracy in our
society, but do carry on.

1643
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:47,761
And sovereignty is politically
synonymous with stability,

1644
01:42:47,762 --> 01:42:51,060
the more stable the regime,
the more competitive it is.

1645
01:42:51,340 --> 01:42:55,380
You know what people say of your sovereign
democracy, that it is to democracy.

1646
01:42:56,400 --> 01:42:58,960
What an electric chair is to a chair.

1647
01:43:02,340 --> 01:43:04,720
It's just a bit of clever wit,
at least it's funny.

1648
01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:14,880
You left the courtesia?

1649
01:43:15,380 --> 01:43:16,820
I never stay anywhere for long.

1650
01:43:17,900 --> 01:43:19,900
You know me, it's not one of my
attributes.

1651
01:43:20,660 --> 01:43:21,660
Are you living in Moscow?

1652
01:43:22,620 --> 01:43:25,340
When I'm here, I stay at the hotel
metropol.

1653
01:43:25,840 --> 01:43:26,880
I read a sweet year round.

1654
01:43:27,300 --> 01:43:28,300
Are you inviting me?

1655
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:35,360
Do you remember my dear friend,
the Dogman?

1656
01:43:36,140 --> 01:43:38,100
Of course, a saint.

1657
01:43:38,101 --> 01:43:40,400
He's in a claim director now.

1658
01:43:40,740 --> 01:43:42,840
He's putting a Monteverdi sort of fail.

1659
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:47,900
He's turning the whole theatre into a
pagan basilica.

1660
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:50,580
He calls it a space liturgy.

1661
01:43:51,840 --> 01:43:53,660
How was his high priestess in Paris?

1662
01:43:54,320 --> 01:43:55,980
You want to come?

1663
01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:59,540
Maybe that kind of provocation no longer
interests you.

1664
01:44:07,380 --> 01:44:09,220
I'm not sure I remember who you are.

1665
01:44:09,840 --> 01:44:11,240
I get lost in all your mazes.

1666
01:44:11,241 --> 01:44:12,600
It's a game.

1667
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:16,320
Politics is really the only game was
played.

1668
01:44:16,840 --> 01:44:17,840
You become cynical.

1669
01:44:18,860 --> 01:44:21,460
You've reached the limit of your
intelligence.

1670
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:23,000
Cynical.

1671
01:44:23,940 --> 01:44:24,940
Possibly.

1672
01:44:26,240 --> 01:44:27,240
But not only.

1673
01:44:27,720 --> 01:44:28,720
I don't know.

1674
01:44:30,320 --> 01:44:31,880
I have to give back to you on it.

1675
01:44:35,650 --> 01:44:38,190
As for now, I'm not sure.

1676
01:44:39,370 --> 01:44:40,410
Come with me to the opera.

1677
01:44:43,130 --> 01:44:44,330
We'll die at the Metropolitan.

1678
01:44:54,470 --> 01:44:55,470
What of?

1679
01:45:23,740 --> 01:45:26,140
Using your black magic in the service of
power?

1680
01:45:27,100 --> 01:45:30,440
The other day I caught a glimpse of myself
in a mirror only.

1681
01:45:30,441 --> 01:45:31,441
It wasn't me.

1682
01:45:32,080 --> 01:45:33,220
It was my father.

1683
01:45:33,840 --> 01:45:37,640
My father's face imprinted on my despite
my best efforts.

1684
01:45:39,980 --> 01:45:41,020
Let's go in.

1685
01:45:42,300 --> 01:45:43,300
I'm cold.

1686
01:45:47,540 --> 01:45:49,640
Last time you asked me a question.

1687
01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:51,680
You remember?

1688
01:45:52,040 --> 01:45:52,340
Yes.

1689
01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:54,240
You told me you needed some time.

1690
01:45:54,640 --> 01:45:55,640
Now I can answer.

1691
01:45:56,040 --> 01:45:57,980
You aren't just cynical.

1692
01:45:58,860 --> 01:46:02,140
You have chosen to espouse your times.

1693
01:46:02,900 --> 01:46:05,100
You could have just as easily have grown
away from them.

1694
01:46:05,340 --> 01:46:06,440
Do you like these times?

1695
01:46:06,980 --> 01:46:07,980
They're ours.

1696
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:12,480
We're not better or worse than they are.

1697
01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:14,340
I don't think I'm kidding myself.

1698
01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:16,500
I embody the worst of them.

1699
01:46:17,060 --> 01:46:19,460
And you think you're gonna have to answer
for them one day?

1700
01:46:20,200 --> 01:46:21,360
Do you believe in the future?

1701
01:46:22,060 --> 01:46:23,580
I don't.

1702
01:46:24,500 --> 01:46:26,280
The future doesn't give a shit about us.

1703
01:46:27,360 --> 01:46:31,180
I wound its roar beneath the yoke of these
times.

1704
01:46:33,540 --> 01:46:34,540
See?

1705
01:46:35,520 --> 01:46:39,000
Behind the forest we walk, trembling.

1706
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:44,300
Have a castle already lit in the evening
awaits.

1707
01:46:45,020 --> 01:46:46,020
Really?

1708
01:47:09,760 --> 01:47:12,560
I've never been fascinated by St.
Petersburg.

1709
01:47:13,300 --> 01:47:15,100
It's a museum city stuck in the past.

1710
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:18,114
The Tsar, on the other
hand, can only fully

1711
01:47:18,115 --> 01:47:20,840
relax there, with his
oldest, truest friends.

1712
01:47:21,520 --> 01:47:25,062
A motley crew of former
FSB agents, black belt

1713
01:47:25,063 --> 01:47:28,120
judokas, and real-life thugs
who have hit the big time.

1714
01:47:28,940 --> 01:47:31,420
They, it must be said, were straight out
of Richard III.

1715
01:47:32,400 --> 01:47:35,466
In just a few years, the
shady provincial dealers

1716
01:47:35,467 --> 01:47:38,661
had amassed wealth
worthy of golf and mirrors.

1717
01:47:53,820 --> 01:47:54,640
Thank you.

1718
01:47:54,641 --> 01:47:55,641
Thank you.

1719
01:47:57,900 --> 01:47:58,900
Okay, guys.

1720
01:48:15,750 --> 01:48:19,350
A new chef's specialty is Truffle Risotto.

1721
01:48:22,670 --> 01:48:26,070
Let me know if I should keep him or send
him back to Italy.

1722
01:48:28,070 --> 01:48:29,070
Bon appetit.

1723
01:48:30,770 --> 01:48:32,870
Zeya, you let us down.

1724
01:48:33,290 --> 01:48:36,930
You serve us Truffle Risotto, but where is
the arugula?

1725
01:48:37,770 --> 01:48:40,315
Shall I remind you
that our ice hockey team

1726
01:48:40,316 --> 01:48:43,431
finished the last
championship in sixth place?

1727
01:48:45,770 --> 01:48:50,690
We've moved up seven spots in the ranking
and over to the enamel Moscow.

1728
01:48:51,370 --> 01:48:52,430
Wait till next year.

1729
01:48:52,770 --> 01:48:53,810
You will see.

1730
01:48:54,090 --> 01:48:56,670
Well, then you'll have your arugula next
year.

1731
01:48:58,050 --> 01:49:01,561
I can't find this in arugula
in Russia, but I'm just

1732
01:49:01,562 --> 01:49:04,630
bought in a state by the
Black Sea in order to grow it.

1733
01:49:04,631 --> 01:49:07,450
It will be Magnaiperson, but there's a
wait.

1734
01:49:07,850 --> 01:49:08,850
Keep the chef.

1735
01:49:09,450 --> 01:49:10,730
He knows what he's doing.

1736
01:49:11,730 --> 01:49:13,370
He was quiet, long-term.

1737
01:49:13,590 --> 01:49:14,590
Pisa was already booked.

1738
01:49:14,990 --> 01:49:16,370
Oh, on the Ryan Earth.

1739
01:49:19,450 --> 01:49:20,450
Clearly

1740
01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:27,800
has high standards, but his talent goes
beyond food.

1741
01:49:28,080 --> 01:49:29,120
It touches on geopolitics.

1742
01:49:30,320 --> 01:49:32,667
Even some of the subjects
we've been discussing

1743
01:49:32,668 --> 01:49:35,341
lately, it would be good
if you two had a word.

1744
01:49:39,480 --> 01:49:42,900
I didn't know Progosion well, except as a
restaurateur.

1745
01:49:43,360 --> 01:49:47,100
But I did know Putin had been shepherding
his ascent with unwavering benevolence.

1746
01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:49,420
A five-minute flight.

1747
01:49:50,300 --> 01:49:53,980
Shortly after taking off, we began
maneuvering to land on Kamani Island,

1748
01:49:54,860 --> 01:49:56,817
with the Tsar's close
friends lived in the

1749
01:49:56,818 --> 01:49:59,561
grandest palaces of
the Imperial aristocracy.

1750
01:50:03,730 --> 01:50:07,670
I'm not an intellectual like you,
but life has taught me a few lessons.

1751
01:50:08,270 --> 01:50:09,270
I'm not on an angel.

1752
01:50:10,330 --> 01:50:11,870
I don't doubt that.

1753
01:50:12,630 --> 01:50:13,950
You know how I started out?

1754
01:50:14,810 --> 01:50:19,130
My partners and I obtained St.
Petersburg's first ever casino license.

1755
01:50:19,490 --> 01:50:20,170
You obtained it?

1756
01:50:20,470 --> 01:50:23,090
What the Tsar gave it to you when he was
deputy mayor there?

1757
01:50:23,330 --> 01:50:24,450
You know what the casino is?

1758
01:50:25,190 --> 01:50:26,870
A monument to human irrationality.

1759
01:50:28,010 --> 01:50:32,350
Why the hell throw away your money when
all the odds are against you?

1760
01:50:32,590 --> 01:50:35,490
When you bet on human irrationality,
you always win.

1761
01:50:35,910 --> 01:50:36,910
Sure.

1762
01:50:37,210 --> 01:50:37,730
Sure.

1763
01:50:37,930 --> 01:50:38,930
Take an average guy.

1764
01:50:39,330 --> 01:50:44,550
As long as he's comfortable, has a safe
job, can take family holidays at the

1765
01:50:44,551 --> 01:50:48,590
seaside, has their retirement,
plan, he stays put.

1766
01:50:49,170 --> 01:50:50,610
But if things don't look so good.

1767
01:50:51,490 --> 01:50:57,870
If he loses his job, his house, if the
future is less certain, will he play it safe?

1768
01:50:59,030 --> 01:51:00,030
Hardly.

1769
01:51:00,390 --> 01:51:03,950
He'll prepare a risk to a hopeless state
of school.

1770
01:51:04,470 --> 01:51:06,930
Chaos becomes more attractive than order.

1771
01:51:07,590 --> 01:51:10,110
Westerners see China, India.

1772
01:51:10,710 --> 01:51:11,090
Thank God.

1773
01:51:11,250 --> 01:51:13,930
The Russia making great strides while they
are stalling.

1774
01:51:14,250 --> 01:51:16,610
And they're willing to make the most
unreasonable bets?

1775
01:51:17,390 --> 01:51:18,870
Oh, a job is to encourage them.

1776
01:51:19,530 --> 01:51:20,530
The internet?

1777
01:51:21,790 --> 01:51:23,390
It's the battleground of modern warfare.

1778
01:51:23,810 --> 01:51:24,870
I build the tool.

1779
01:51:26,250 --> 01:51:28,330
Now that I want you to take over.

1780
01:51:34,220 --> 01:51:36,520
The internet research agency.

1781
01:51:36,800 --> 01:51:37,800
I thought of the name.

1782
01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:39,000
Sounds good, right?

1783
01:51:39,080 --> 01:51:39,420
What do you think?

1784
01:51:39,860 --> 01:51:40,860
Oh.

1785
01:51:41,200 --> 01:51:42,200
Anton.

1786
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:44,000
Our managing editor.

1787
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:50,460
He has a PhD in international relations
and speaks every language you can think of.

1788
01:51:50,740 --> 01:51:51,820
Please, to meet you, Anton.

1789
01:51:52,160 --> 01:51:53,920
Tell me what you guys are doing here.

1790
01:51:53,921 --> 01:51:58,880
Influence, information, Russian point of
view on the West, for Westerners.

1791
01:51:59,660 --> 01:52:01,906
There convinced their
media and elites lie about

1792
01:52:01,907 --> 01:52:04,141
everything, so they'll
buy alternative versions.

1793
01:52:05,020 --> 01:52:07,580
The message we're sending is that we tell
the truth.

1794
01:52:08,600 --> 01:52:10,280
Russia tells the truth.

1795
01:52:10,600 --> 01:52:11,600
Like Russia today.

1796
01:52:11,960 --> 01:52:14,400
Except that we work on social media,
not TV.

1797
01:52:15,280 --> 01:52:16,280
Shall we get some coffee?

1798
01:52:17,080 --> 01:52:20,200
We have a nice little break area with
sofas and house plans.

1799
01:52:20,201 --> 01:52:21,680
And being born very well.

1800
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:23,820
You go on, we'll catch up with you.

1801
01:52:28,070 --> 01:52:32,510
You have given your... I have to
explain because I don't quite get it.

1802
01:52:33,190 --> 01:52:34,190
Something wrong?

1803
01:52:35,010 --> 01:52:36,010
Can we talk?

1804
01:52:36,570 --> 01:52:37,570
Sure.

1805
01:52:42,500 --> 01:52:45,055
I thought our goal was
to affect mindsets in

1806
01:52:45,056 --> 01:52:47,921
Europe and the States,
get into people's heads.

1807
01:52:48,300 --> 01:52:48,360
Sure.

1808
01:52:48,680 --> 01:52:49,760
And now you bring me Anton.

1809
01:52:50,380 --> 01:52:51,380
He's the best.

1810
01:52:51,540 --> 01:52:52,620
That's exactly the problem.

1811
01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:57,020
Don't you realize that Westerners aren't
interested in politics anymore?

1812
01:52:57,840 --> 01:53:01,300
If we want to screw them over, we
should talk about anything but politics.

1813
01:53:01,620 --> 01:53:02,620
We don't need Anton.

1814
01:53:03,220 --> 01:53:03,980
Who do we mean?

1815
01:53:03,981 --> 01:53:04,981
We need idiots.

1816
01:53:05,780 --> 01:53:07,180
Highly addictive ones.

1817
01:53:08,720 --> 01:53:09,980
Cyber dependant otaku's.

1818
01:53:10,300 --> 01:53:12,880
Beauty advice, bimbo's YouTube conspiracy
theories.

1819
01:53:13,300 --> 01:53:14,720
Anything that generates clicks.

1820
01:53:15,340 --> 01:53:19,420
What we are going to have to get our
message through it somewhere, don't we?

1821
01:53:19,860 --> 01:53:21,080
Who do you think we are?

1822
01:53:21,620 --> 01:53:22,680
The common turn.

1823
01:53:23,640 --> 01:53:26,400
I regret to inform you that the Soviet
Union is gone.

1824
01:53:27,180 --> 01:53:30,760
No more party line, no message to get
across, either you have guinea,

1825
01:53:31,600 --> 01:53:32,600
just why are...

1826
01:53:33,220 --> 01:53:35,520
Come on, let's go, we're wasting our time
here.

1827
01:53:39,300 --> 01:53:40,500
What do I do, you mean?

1828
01:53:41,540 --> 01:53:42,800
How do you break a wire?

1829
01:53:43,980 --> 01:53:46,000
You twist it one way and then the other.

1830
01:53:46,800 --> 01:53:48,636
That's what we're going to do,
you have guinea.

1831
01:53:48,660 --> 01:53:49,760
And how do you do that?

1832
01:53:50,960 --> 01:53:53,740
Build your network and see who takes the
bait.

1833
01:53:54,580 --> 01:53:58,140
They'll all have an obsession,
we won't know if the clicks will show us.

1834
01:53:58,560 --> 01:54:02,600
One will be an anti-vaxxer, another will
be pro-life, pro-choice.

1835
01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:05,860
It doesn't matter, we're not going to
convert anyone, you have guinea.

1836
01:54:06,260 --> 01:54:08,572
We just need them all
to have something that

1837
01:54:08,573 --> 01:54:11,481
drives them nuts, and
someone who enrages them.

1838
01:54:12,060 --> 01:54:13,100
It's infallible.

1839
01:54:13,540 --> 01:54:15,160
No preferences, you have guinea.

1840
01:54:15,660 --> 01:54:17,360
No arguments, just wire.

1841
01:54:17,361 --> 01:54:20,920
We twist it one way and then the other
until it breaks.

1842
01:54:21,440 --> 01:54:22,960
Okay, I got it, wire.

1843
01:54:24,340 --> 01:54:29,420
But everything is traceable on the internet,
and sooner or later we'll get caught.

1844
01:54:29,760 --> 01:54:32,380
Yes, we will, and that's what we're after.

1845
01:54:33,080 --> 01:54:35,679
Serving our allies is
predictable, but how will they react

1846
01:54:35,680 --> 01:54:38,200
when they realize we're also
supporting our own opponents?

1847
01:54:39,060 --> 01:54:40,540
They think we're fools.

1848
01:54:40,740 --> 01:54:43,980
No, they'll go insane, lose their
bearings.

1849
01:54:43,981 --> 01:54:46,744
All they'll know is that
we've gotten into their heads

1850
01:54:46,745 --> 01:54:49,360
and are playing with their
neural circuits as we please.

1851
01:54:50,580 --> 01:54:52,540
The Americans wrote the algorithm.

1852
01:54:53,340 --> 01:54:55,560
We'll use it too, only better than them.

1853
01:54:56,340 --> 01:54:59,520
Anyone accusing us of plotting against
democracy will be an ally.

1854
01:55:00,080 --> 01:55:02,320
They'll build the myth that we're all
powerful.

1855
01:55:02,860 --> 01:55:06,140
It'll be the greatest of all secrets
because everyone will know it.

1856
01:55:06,680 --> 01:55:09,400
The Russians are controlling the modern
world.

1857
01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:11,000
They are its masters.

1858
01:55:12,420 --> 01:55:15,471
That's the interesting
thing about politics, you

1859
01:55:15,472 --> 01:55:18,100
have getting anything that
makes you seem strong.

1860
01:55:18,680 --> 01:55:20,500
Actually increases that strength.

1861
01:55:39,460 --> 01:55:40,460
Adya.

1862
01:55:41,220 --> 01:55:45,000
I'm bearing a message.

1863
01:55:46,160 --> 01:55:46,460
Sorry, Maria.

1864
01:55:47,180 --> 01:55:48,180
No message.

1865
01:55:48,560 --> 01:55:49,560
So what do I do this?

1866
01:55:49,920 --> 01:55:50,920
Purely pleasure.

1867
01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:56,080
You're in London to see the British
Olympics association.

1868
01:55:57,620 --> 01:55:59,280
Your well informed is there, Paul?

1869
01:55:59,420 --> 01:56:02,760
The sort your Olympics seems to be the
only thing that occurs about these days.

1870
01:56:03,080 --> 01:56:06,820
The president was kind enough to let me
supervise the opening ceremony.

1871
01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:10,440
Well, I hope you'll be giving out medals
to the best political assassination.

1872
01:56:11,360 --> 01:56:12,360
I don't know, Boris.

1873
01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:15,320
The main thing is for Russia to come out
on top.

1874
01:56:17,160 --> 01:56:18,160
I'm not worried.

1875
01:56:19,520 --> 01:56:20,520
You're fine.

1876
01:56:21,100 --> 01:56:22,820
The worst possible solution.

1877
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:25,000
You always do.

1878
01:56:26,740 --> 01:56:27,740
You may

1879
01:56:35,340 --> 01:56:43,960
not have a message for me, but I have one
for him.

1880
01:56:47,720 --> 01:56:49,640
No, come on, there's no polonium in it.

1881
01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:51,700
It's a letter to the Tsar.

1882
01:56:52,340 --> 01:56:55,100
I wrote it from the heart, and you can
read it if you want to.

1883
01:57:00,470 --> 01:57:03,470
I beg you to grant me your forgiveness as
a Christian.

1884
01:57:03,670 --> 01:57:04,670
Are you serious?

1885
01:57:05,070 --> 01:57:08,230
I'm appealing to his faith, and I'm
offering my services.

1886
01:57:08,750 --> 01:57:10,950
Based on the experience I've gained.

1887
01:57:16,560 --> 01:57:18,880
Listen, honestly, no way.

1888
01:57:20,580 --> 01:57:22,000
But times have changed.

1889
01:57:22,580 --> 01:57:23,816
You're not in the running anymore.

1890
01:57:23,840 --> 01:57:24,840
Sorry if I'm being cruel.

1891
01:57:25,500 --> 01:57:26,420
I'm appealing to his humanity.

1892
01:57:26,421 --> 01:57:28,940
Boris, who are you kidding?

1893
01:57:29,800 --> 01:57:30,880
The hardship of exile?

1894
01:57:32,220 --> 01:57:35,940
The passage of time, death, drawing near,
I get it.

1895
01:57:36,860 --> 01:57:38,700
But I don't think it'll make him blink.

1896
01:57:39,200 --> 01:57:43,140
For the comfort of spending my final days
in my motherland.

1897
01:57:43,380 --> 01:57:45,100
You don't understand that.

1898
01:57:51,160 --> 01:57:52,780
I have to go now.

1899
01:58:00,980 --> 01:58:02,840
Just give him the letter anyway.

1900
01:58:02,841 --> 01:58:06,040
I think it might got it.

1901
01:58:07,420 --> 01:58:08,420
I genuinely do.

1902
01:58:11,540 --> 01:58:13,520
I wish I could have told him it would
work.

1903
01:58:14,560 --> 01:58:16,259
That the Tsar would be
moved, and we'd all sit

1904
01:58:16,260 --> 01:58:18,981
together at the Olympics
and the VIP box seats.

1905
01:58:20,500 --> 01:58:21,600
I was fond of him.

1906
01:58:22,180 --> 01:58:25,340
He wasn't a saint, but there was a
childlike joy about him.

1907
01:58:26,120 --> 01:58:28,715
Ever since the Tsar had
banished him in his kind, all that

1908
01:58:28,716 --> 01:58:31,241
was left on Moscow was strong
men in their grim determination.

1909
01:58:32,620 --> 01:58:36,240
First of all, I'd played a part in making
it happen.

1910
01:58:39,420 --> 01:58:41,000
So, did it go well?

1911
01:58:41,660 --> 01:58:43,620
How could it possibly be?

1912
01:58:43,880 --> 01:58:44,880
He helped you.

1913
01:58:45,400 --> 01:58:46,400
You could get him a hand.

1914
01:58:46,960 --> 01:58:49,300
Boris sees the search olympics
approaching.

1915
01:58:49,860 --> 01:58:51,859
There's still plenty of
money to be made, even

1916
01:58:51,860 --> 01:58:54,841
if everyone's already
lying in their pockets.

1917
01:58:55,400 --> 01:58:56,760
Present company included.

1918
01:58:56,761 --> 01:58:59,760
Do you like those?

1919
01:59:00,240 --> 01:59:02,420
The main costumes for the opening
ceremony.

1920
01:59:02,900 --> 01:59:06,300
Most importantly, does the British Olympic
Association like them?

1921
01:59:06,640 --> 01:59:07,640
Who cares?

1922
01:59:08,500 --> 01:59:11,677
They've already had a swallow
of winter olympics at a balmy

1923
01:59:11,678 --> 01:59:14,300
seaside resort of totally
devoid of athletic infrastructure.

1924
01:59:16,040 --> 01:59:17,240
Have you seen the others?

1925
01:59:19,160 --> 01:59:21,760
No, not really now.

1926
01:59:22,340 --> 01:59:23,340
Look,

1927
01:59:29,690 --> 01:59:31,590
each island represents a period of
history.

1928
01:59:32,750 --> 01:59:38,650
Animatronic floats amid an entire literary
history will go marching by.

1929
01:59:39,330 --> 01:59:41,430
All the domes of St. Basil's will fly
away.

1930
01:59:42,130 --> 01:59:43,530
And then, Swan Lake.

1931
01:59:46,750 --> 01:59:47,750
Like it.

1932
01:59:51,610 --> 01:59:54,030
How do other Russia doesn't exist?

1933
01:59:56,710 --> 01:59:58,050
At least not anymore.

1934
01:59:59,310 --> 02:00:02,150
But they're the ones who inspired us back
then.

1935
02:00:03,110 --> 02:00:04,310
It's too late now.

1936
02:00:06,670 --> 02:00:07,670
You know that?

1937
02:00:12,620 --> 02:00:14,080
You won't say yours all.

1938
02:00:16,860 --> 02:00:19,360
The ceremony is
just a mosque with a

1939
02:00:19,361 --> 02:00:23,481
dictatorship, and the
rest is just empty pretext.

1940
02:00:26,140 --> 02:00:27,520
I see through you.

1941
02:00:31,300 --> 02:00:32,980
It doesn't mean I don't love you.

1942
02:00:34,640 --> 02:00:37,040
But I'm not going to be your potter in
crime.

1943
02:00:43,890 --> 02:00:45,310
May I throw a drink?

1944
02:00:45,890 --> 02:00:46,410
Champagne.

1945
02:00:46,710 --> 02:00:47,330
Ma'am?

1946
02:00:47,710 --> 02:00:48,710
Same.

1947
02:00:56,290 --> 02:01:01,270
And Tsar is going for your old friend
Dimitri.

1948
02:01:04,730 --> 02:01:05,730
Are you sure?

1949
02:01:06,590 --> 02:01:08,670
It isn't the first time you told me that.

1950
02:01:08,671 --> 02:01:10,730
You'll do it two weeks before the start of
the game.

1951
02:01:12,230 --> 02:01:14,030
Western media will have a field day.

1952
02:01:15,050 --> 02:01:16,050
It's the idea.

1953
02:01:16,610 --> 02:01:18,490
You never asked me

1954
02:01:29,170 --> 02:01:31,670
what I did with my day.

1955
02:01:32,750 --> 02:01:33,750
I'm not shopping.

1956
02:01:35,550 --> 02:01:36,670
That's not like you.

1957
02:01:38,990 --> 02:01:39,990
Something edgier.

1958
02:01:40,130 --> 02:01:42,026
You're up to Tsar castle for five minutes,
will you?

1959
02:01:42,050 --> 02:01:43,050
I wasn't being sarcastic.

1960
02:01:43,530 --> 02:01:45,331
I was trying to get... I
went to the gynecologist.

1961
02:01:51,180 --> 02:01:52,180
I'm pregnant.

1962
02:02:03,810 --> 02:02:04,830
You look good.

1963
02:02:04,910 --> 02:02:06,230
I'm a little shocked, yes.

1964
02:02:11,780 --> 02:02:13,160
Actually, I'm blown away.

1965
02:02:15,740 --> 02:02:16,840
I have no words.

1966
02:02:29,360 --> 02:02:31,721
According to early
police reports, Boris

1967
02:02:31,722 --> 02:02:33,920
Berizoski's death is
consistent with hanging.

1968
02:02:34,640 --> 02:02:37,000
Berizoski was found dead last night at his
ascot residence.

1969
02:02:38,220 --> 02:02:40,160
Pathologists have found no signs of a
struggle.

1970
02:02:40,880 --> 02:02:43,400
Access has been closed
until the results for the test for

1971
02:02:43,401 --> 02:02:45,980
chemical, biological and nuclear
agents have been returned.

1972
02:02:52,180 --> 02:02:56,300
At the end of this way, exile was too
painful for him.

1973
02:02:57,840 --> 02:02:58,840
Oh, miss him.

1974
02:02:59,800 --> 02:03:01,700
He painted an appalling image of the
opposition.

1975
02:03:02,580 --> 02:03:03,640
That was priceless for us.

1976
02:03:04,820 --> 02:03:07,420
This is the program for the opening
ceremony.

1977
02:03:08,940 --> 02:03:10,640
Updated according to your notes.

1978
02:03:17,970 --> 02:03:19,690
What is Darth Punk?

1979
02:03:20,650 --> 02:03:21,770
Electronic music.

1980
02:03:22,270 --> 02:03:23,610
Number one worldwide.

1981
02:03:25,090 --> 02:03:27,590
Two Frenchmen who never removed their
robot helmets.

1982
02:03:28,210 --> 02:03:29,870
This set-up wasn't in the previous room.

1983
02:03:30,310 --> 02:03:32,690
They won five Grammy Awards last week.

1984
02:03:32,870 --> 02:03:33,910
We have to get up to date.

1985
02:03:34,230 --> 02:03:36,510
You've asked the police choir to sing
their song.

1986
02:03:37,410 --> 02:03:39,970
Wait a minute, she's throwing the whole
ceremony so far.

1987
02:03:41,370 --> 02:03:42,370
Okay.

1988
02:03:43,370 --> 02:03:44,870
Explain your rationale to Eagle.

1989
02:03:46,150 --> 02:03:48,010
Today it's what people want to dance to.

1990
02:03:48,870 --> 02:03:49,490
It's that simple.

1991
02:03:49,890 --> 02:03:50,270
It will be ridiculous.

1992
02:03:50,271 --> 02:03:51,810
No, it will be Kitch.

1993
02:03:52,510 --> 02:03:54,910
The entire world, three billion
spectators.

1994
02:03:55,590 --> 02:03:57,950
A way thing for the greatest show they've
ever seen.

1995
02:03:58,110 --> 02:04:00,430
It can only be the apotheosis of Kitch.

1996
02:04:02,690 --> 02:04:07,310
Kitch is the only language available to us
if we are to communicate with the masses.

1997
02:04:07,850 --> 02:04:09,210
We want to show them our Russia.

1998
02:04:09,550 --> 02:04:10,950
They don't want to see your Russia.

1999
02:04:11,930 --> 02:04:14,610
Besides, you have nothing to show and
everything to hide.

2000
02:04:15,610 --> 02:04:18,630
We want to paint the picture of an open
Russia.

2001
02:04:18,631 --> 02:04:21,550
Sure-footed, but also capable of smiling.

2002
02:04:22,270 --> 02:04:25,550
Today's world requires self-deprecation,
not sure.

2003
02:04:25,930 --> 02:04:26,950
Baller-like is equal.

2004
02:04:27,890 --> 02:04:30,850
Do you understand what I'm saying,
or is it cheaper to you?

2005
02:04:31,910 --> 02:04:33,030
What can you do?

2006
02:04:34,690 --> 02:04:38,030
The idea is an acrobat.

2007
02:04:39,210 --> 02:04:41,910
An artist for politicians, a politician
for artists.

2008
02:04:42,810 --> 02:04:43,810
Be careful, either.

2009
02:04:43,910 --> 02:04:46,390
Soon or later you might miss the trapeze.

2010
02:04:47,030 --> 02:04:48,530
And fall flat on your face.

2011
02:04:51,630 --> 02:04:59,340
The twenty-second winter Olympic Games of
Sochi open.

2012
02:05:02,240 --> 02:05:04,360
That was probably the night I should have
left.

2013
02:05:05,100 --> 02:05:06,780
I should have closed the book at that
page.

2014
02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:08,040
It was a good ending for me.

2015
02:05:16,870 --> 02:05:17,870
The

2016
02:05:22,440 --> 02:05:24,633
cranium independence
movement seized on the

2017
02:05:24,634 --> 02:05:27,561
Olympic ceasefire to
occupy Maidan Square again.

2018
02:05:29,220 --> 02:05:32,199
Two days before the end
of the Games, they ousted

2019
02:05:32,200 --> 02:05:35,480
pro-Russian President Jan
Kovich, who fled the same day.

2020
02:05:36,600 --> 02:05:40,980
The chaos that ensued gave the Tsar a
golden opportunity to invade Ukraine.

2021
02:05:45,120 --> 02:05:47,280
Russian snipers killed over 100
protesters.

2022
02:05:48,280 --> 02:05:49,800
I say you were in charge.

2023
02:05:51,900 --> 02:05:52,900
Who says?

2024
02:05:52,901 --> 02:05:53,901
Ukrainians.

2025
02:05:55,500 --> 02:05:56,660
From your own emails.

2026
02:05:58,680 --> 02:06:00,720
I say you have Ukrainian blood on your
hands.

2027
02:06:09,710 --> 02:06:11,750
It's the night before the closing
ceremony.

2028
02:06:12,630 --> 02:06:17,050
Following his grand plan, the Tsar decided
to annex Crimea.

2029
02:06:19,750 --> 02:06:21,850
Crimea was part of Ukraine.

2030
02:06:23,250 --> 02:06:26,930
Who went about to send regular trips to
invade a sovereign country?

2031
02:06:27,490 --> 02:06:28,490
No.

2032
02:06:28,870 --> 02:06:32,890
You sent in Russian soldiers who weren't
wearing any national insignia.

2033
02:06:33,690 --> 02:06:34,690
Little green men.

2034
02:06:35,410 --> 02:06:37,150
Was your fellow journalists used to say?

2035
02:06:37,450 --> 02:06:41,610
When Zalda Stonov and his night walls
brought this circus to crime here,

2036
02:06:41,850 --> 02:06:43,246
you were the one pulling the strings.

2037
02:06:43,270 --> 02:06:44,270
True.

2038
02:06:44,390 --> 02:06:45,890
I gave them a supporting part.

2039
02:06:47,350 --> 02:06:48,790
Supporting actors are important.

2040
02:06:50,670 --> 02:06:52,470
As long as they don't get too carried
away.

2041
02:07:17,000 --> 02:07:18,560
Have you seen all the flags?

2042
02:07:19,720 --> 02:07:21,940
We're not using the Federation once
anymore.

2043
02:07:22,980 --> 02:07:24,440
We have something else in mind.

2044
02:07:25,240 --> 02:07:27,280
We are no longer a Federation,
will ya?

2045
02:07:27,820 --> 02:07:29,440
We are conquering new lands.

2046
02:07:30,980 --> 02:07:33,940
We have taken back the army from the
Ukrainians.

2047
02:07:35,220 --> 02:07:36,780
Soon a hollowed on bus will be Russian.

2048
02:07:37,580 --> 02:07:38,820
This high time will take stock.

2049
02:07:39,660 --> 02:07:40,660
It takes stock.

2050
02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:41,260
Truly.

2051
02:07:41,940 --> 02:07:42,940
I'm a man of action.

2052
02:07:43,760 --> 02:07:45,480
We are here to support the Russian army.

2053
02:07:46,500 --> 02:07:47,620
Help them bring you victory.

2054
02:07:48,140 --> 02:07:49,420
Who said anything about victory?

2055
02:07:51,600 --> 02:07:53,760
What we want in the Ukraine isn't
conquest.

2056
02:07:55,160 --> 02:07:56,160
It's chaos.

2057
02:07:57,480 --> 02:07:59,776
The Ukrainians have fooled
themselves into thinking

2058
02:07:59,777 --> 02:08:02,081
that their orange revolution
would get them into Europe.

2059
02:08:02,580 --> 02:08:04,620
But it's going to take them back to the
Middle Ages.

2060
02:08:05,740 --> 02:08:08,880
If you listen to Westerners' promises,
it always ends like that.

2061
02:08:09,380 --> 02:08:13,100
They drop you at the first hurdle and
you're left alone, your country and ruins.

2062
02:08:13,600 --> 02:08:14,800
That's the moral of the story.

2063
02:08:15,360 --> 02:08:20,200
You see, Alexander, this war isn't fought
in real life, but in the people's mind.

2064
02:08:21,260 --> 02:08:24,980
On the TV news in Moscow, Kiev,
Berlin.

2065
02:08:26,080 --> 02:08:29,091
You are actors in a
play that goes over your

2066
02:08:29,092 --> 02:08:32,841
heads and resonates
far beyond these borders.

2067
02:08:37,910 --> 02:08:41,190
Either you agree to be upon in my game
with the attendant advantages,

2068
02:08:41,870 --> 02:08:42,870
or you don't.

2069
02:08:43,130 --> 02:08:45,670
But just remember, I can pull the plug on
you whenever I like.

2070
02:08:45,671 --> 02:08:49,190
And then things will get a great deal more
complicated for you.

2071
02:08:49,730 --> 02:08:52,670
Your walls, your little business ventures.

2072
02:08:54,290 --> 02:08:55,910
It's flourishing from what I gather.

2073
02:09:14,690 --> 02:09:16,630
Can I bother you for a moment,
Madam Alexesh?

2074
02:09:17,390 --> 02:09:18,390
All right ahead.

2075
02:09:20,270 --> 02:09:21,810
How did you trip to the Gansko?

2076
02:09:22,350 --> 02:09:25,190
Well, I'm sure you've read your services
reports.

2077
02:09:27,690 --> 02:09:29,710
We have news from the Americans.

2078
02:09:30,570 --> 02:09:31,570
What news?

2079
02:09:31,830 --> 02:09:35,150
It seems they have drawn up a black list
of people forbidden under soil.

2080
02:09:36,170 --> 02:09:37,170
Your name is on it.

2081
02:09:38,850 --> 02:09:41,410
But if you'll have to forget about going
to New York for a while.

2082
02:09:42,850 --> 02:09:44,750
There's sanctions for the takeover of
Crimea.

2083
02:09:45,190 --> 02:09:46,190
When do they start?

2084
02:09:46,370 --> 02:09:47,370
This Monday.

2085
02:09:48,510 --> 02:09:51,370
It's a good thing I stopped liking New
York a long time ago.

2086
02:09:52,350 --> 02:09:54,070
I've heard something else too.

2087
02:09:56,910 --> 02:09:57,910
Go on.

2088
02:09:58,530 --> 02:10:00,170
It'll be official tomorrow.

2089
02:10:00,870 --> 02:10:04,470
Your name is also on the Europeans'
shortlist.

2090
02:10:06,310 --> 02:10:09,110
Paris, London, no more.

2091
02:10:10,710 --> 02:10:11,930
I'm told you're misnapals.

2092
02:10:15,070 --> 02:10:16,930
Well, I won't bother you any longer.

2093
02:10:17,090 --> 02:10:20,650
I'm sure you have arrangements to make.

2094
02:10:21,970 --> 02:10:22,970
And fast.

2095
02:11:06,220 --> 02:11:07,260
Leonia, have you heard?

2096
02:11:07,580 --> 02:11:08,240
Yes, sanctions.

2097
02:11:08,460 --> 02:11:10,260
Yes, tonight, or tomorrow, the latest?

2098
02:11:11,920 --> 02:11:11,920
No.

2099
02:11:12,420 --> 02:11:12,800
No interviews.

2100
02:11:13,340 --> 02:11:14,160
Just a press release.

2101
02:11:14,340 --> 02:11:15,340
Can you take this down?

2102
02:11:15,840 --> 02:11:16,840
Yes.

2103
02:11:17,740 --> 02:11:22,280
I see the sanction as an Oscar awarded for
my entire political career.

2104
02:11:23,820 --> 02:11:26,320
It means I've served my country honorably
full stop.

2105
02:11:27,420 --> 02:11:28,420
No.

2106
02:11:28,920 --> 02:11:29,480
That's all.

2107
02:11:29,760 --> 02:11:30,760
Thank you.

2108
02:12:05,340 --> 02:12:08,620
Xavier, pack your bags.

2109
02:12:08,940 --> 02:12:10,080
I'll be over for 15 minutes.

2110
02:12:12,580 --> 02:12:17,540
A few hours later, we landed in Stockholm
for our last European weekend.

2111
02:12:58,790 --> 02:13:02,400
What's bound to happen?

2112
02:13:04,160 --> 02:13:05,660
Only you could avoid it.

2113
02:13:06,520 --> 02:13:07,520
By resigning.

2114
02:13:07,780 --> 02:13:08,780
For instance.

2115
02:13:11,200 --> 02:13:12,440
The power is addictive.

2116
02:13:13,520 --> 02:13:15,000
It's a tough habit to kick.

2117
02:13:15,680 --> 02:13:18,900
Before, when he spotted that kind of
truism, I could hear the irony.

2118
02:13:20,420 --> 02:13:21,420
Not anymore.

2119
02:13:21,640 --> 02:13:22,640
There was none.

2120
02:13:23,700 --> 02:13:25,140
The war in Ukraine is like the rest.

2121
02:13:26,340 --> 02:13:27,440
They never wanted it.

2122
02:13:28,160 --> 02:13:29,220
They even opposed it.

2123
02:13:29,460 --> 02:13:30,460
If you say so.

2124
02:13:30,560 --> 02:13:30,860
Indeed.

2125
02:13:31,100 --> 02:13:33,320
I do say so.

2126
02:13:34,200 --> 02:13:37,060
And I also say that once it's hard made up
his mind.

2127
02:13:38,100 --> 02:13:40,240
I did everything I could to see it
succeed.

2128
02:13:41,040 --> 02:13:42,080
Out of habit.

2129
02:13:43,740 --> 02:13:44,740
Out of pride.

2130
02:13:46,200 --> 02:13:47,340
And because I could.

2131
02:13:47,600 --> 02:13:48,600
With no compunction.

2132
02:13:49,060 --> 02:13:50,060
That's true.

2133
02:13:50,460 --> 02:13:51,580
That's how it's always been.

2134
02:13:52,800 --> 02:13:54,120
With the Moscow bombings.

2135
02:13:54,600 --> 02:13:56,280
And the war in Chechnya.

2136
02:13:57,620 --> 02:13:58,620
With Dimitri's arrest.

2137
02:13:58,860 --> 02:13:59,860
And Boris Rowsky's fall.

2138
02:14:00,220 --> 02:14:02,940
And now the murders on the Maidan.

2139
02:14:04,080 --> 02:14:06,480
I never wanted any of those things yet.

2140
02:14:07,060 --> 02:14:09,240
And each depended on my tireless labor.

2141
02:14:10,160 --> 02:14:11,160
And now you're tired.

2142
02:14:12,260 --> 02:14:13,860
Russia devoured my grandfather.

2143
02:14:15,860 --> 02:14:18,320
You met my father, it devoured him too.

2144
02:14:19,760 --> 02:14:22,200
I don't know about me, I don't know if
I'll be saved.

2145
02:14:22,720 --> 02:14:23,720
Probably not.

2146
02:14:25,260 --> 02:14:27,060
In any case, it's too late.

2147
02:14:30,940 --> 02:14:32,400
But our child will be saved.

2148
02:14:56,660 --> 02:14:57,660
Chechnya!

2149
02:15:01,460 --> 02:15:02,460
Chechnya!

2150
02:15:21,530 --> 02:15:22,010
Chechnya!

2151
02:15:22,011 --> 02:15:23,011
Chechnya!

2152
02:15:45,770 --> 02:15:48,470
Going to Novo or Garievo was never much of
a thrill.

2153
02:15:49,470 --> 02:15:51,010
A bleak, sporty mood pained me.

2154
02:15:51,850 --> 02:15:55,090
After I got back from Stockholm,
I almost never set foot bare again.

2155
02:15:56,030 --> 02:15:58,550
A prince's trust is not a privilege,
but a conviction.

2156
02:15:59,670 --> 02:16:00,870
I had played my part.

2157
02:16:01,410 --> 02:16:03,010
I was no longer of any use.

2158
02:16:04,010 --> 02:16:06,710
At some point, I let him get out of the
habit of seeing me.

2159
02:16:07,130 --> 02:16:08,130
That's all.

2160
02:16:09,550 --> 02:16:13,710
He gets up early in breakfast on fresh eggs
sent by Patriarch Kirole from his farm.

2161
02:16:14,290 --> 02:16:16,444
If there's an emergency,
that's when he reads his

2162
02:16:16,445 --> 02:16:19,071
confidential notes and
makes his wishes known.

2163
02:16:20,130 --> 02:16:22,130
Next, he swims a kilometer.

2164
02:16:22,950 --> 02:16:24,870
His first visitors wait by the pool.

2165
02:16:25,610 --> 02:16:27,770
Minister's advice is CEOs.

2166
02:16:28,470 --> 02:16:32,550
The presidential motorcade only leaves for
the Kremlin in the early afternoon.

2167
02:16:33,590 --> 02:16:35,490
The streets are closed half an hour prior.

2168
02:16:36,110 --> 02:16:39,750
Putin drives from Novo Garievo to the
Kremlin through his frozen capital.

2169
02:16:40,890 --> 02:16:42,470
And his real day begins.

2170
02:16:44,290 --> 02:16:46,350
Sometimes, only ending a dawn.

2171
02:16:49,570 --> 02:16:51,270
One man stays awake.

2172
02:16:52,890 --> 02:16:58,910
When everyone else who matters in Moscow
shares his vigil, I can start on his day.

2173
02:17:01,510 --> 02:17:04,430
Who's that who is this?

2174
02:17:04,770 --> 02:17:06,950
Oh, hi, my sweet one.

2175
02:17:08,270 --> 02:17:09,790
Can I play with Machika?

2176
02:17:10,310 --> 02:17:12,210
Of course you can, you're not bothering
us.

2177
02:17:12,830 --> 02:17:14,710
Where is she?

2178
02:17:15,410 --> 02:17:16,690
Where's that Machika?

2179
02:17:17,390 --> 02:17:18,390
Is she under the table?

2180
02:17:18,470 --> 02:17:19,710
She's not under the table.

2181
02:17:19,711 --> 02:17:21,070
Is she under the cushion?

2182
02:17:21,470 --> 02:17:23,050
No.
Are you sure?

2183
02:17:23,410 --> 02:17:24,410
Is she under the piano?

2184
02:17:24,530 --> 02:17:25,530
No.

2185
02:17:27,110 --> 02:17:28,650
There she is.

2186
02:17:29,430 --> 02:17:30,430
There she is.

2187
02:17:30,770 --> 02:17:31,770
Well,

2188
02:17:39,530 --> 02:17:42,170
the happiness I've known in the world is
concentrated in her.

2189
02:17:43,850 --> 02:17:46,230
Daddy, what do you think Machika would
say?

2190
02:17:46,430 --> 02:17:51,610
Hmm, I think she'd say... I'd
have more fun with a real rabbit.

2191
02:17:51,990 --> 02:17:52,370
Daddy?

2192
02:17:52,770 --> 02:17:53,350
No, no, no.

2193
02:17:53,351 --> 02:17:57,290
She'd say, I like you best of all,
Anya.

2194
02:17:57,650 --> 02:17:59,230
I only want to play with you.

2195
02:18:01,510 --> 02:18:06,111
Cats aren't my favorite thing, but how much
longer will I be able to make her happy?

2196
02:18:07,090 --> 02:18:09,370
I never felt fear before, Anya.

2197
02:18:10,050 --> 02:18:12,950
From the moment I first laid eyes on her,
I'd been living in terror.

2198
02:18:13,810 --> 02:18:16,390
I realized my life is in her hands,
not the other way around.

2199
02:18:17,490 --> 02:18:19,690
My daughter doesn't count the hours of the
days.

2200
02:18:21,150 --> 02:18:22,730
I've always lived in the future.

2201
02:18:25,630 --> 02:18:26,990
She's given me the present.