Episode List
Season 1
Dec. 20, 2011
Democracy Threatens
Internal politics in other former Soviet republics often were significantly influenced by intervention from Putin's Russia. In Georgia, legally elected president Shevarnadze was confronted to Shakashvili's parliamentary opposition, which ousted him with Russian support, only to side later with minority opposition inside Russia and joining NATO, like the Baltic republics. Large neighbor Ukrain with millions of ethnic Russians was the object of a major, bitter row with the west, Putin playing dirty and falsely blaming the British 'manipulators', a game which turned ...
Dec. 22, 2011
New Start
Putin, first as Russian president and later as prime minister but power behind the throne of Medvedev, is unshakably determined to rebuild Russia's status as super-power rivaling even Bush's US. After the West's support for Kosovo's breakaway from Russian ally Serbia, the secessionist rebellions of Abchasia and South Ossetia against Saakashivili's Georgia are are a test of strength and determination, where the US refuses to commit against Russia, leaving mediation to French president Sarkozy. Meanwhile former Warshaw Pact states' US-pushed NATO applications are ...
Season 1
