When introducing Putin to his new Position in the Kremlin in 1996, which would be the position of the Substitute leader of the property Management of the Kremlin, Jeltsin's assistant said that the Russian Federation wants to assassinate the Chechen president Dzokhar Dudayev in order to win in Chechnya. However Ddayev was assassinated on the 21st April 1996, while Putin joined his Kremlin Position in August 1996.
Scene 1989 Dresden they open a brief case with big face US $100 bills that didn't come out till 2013.
In the news scene during the Chechnya war in the second half of the 1990s a flat screen is visible next to the newscaster. The first flat-screen was released in 1999 and was available to the public only later. They were very unlikely to be used in Russian news studios in the 1990s.
The Russian TV station "Rossija", known today as "Rossija 1" got his name in 2008. In the movie in 2012 the TV set still shows the logo that resembles old logo of "RTR".
During the 54th birthday party of Anatoly Sobchak in 1991, a guest is calling him the "Mayor of St. Petersburg". Sobchak's birthday was on the 24th August but St. Petersburg got its official name change from "Leningrad" only on the 6th September 1991.
In the scene of Putins Childhood in Leningrad the bullying kid is wearing a "Budjonovka" hat. Those hats weren't worn in Russia since 1945.