Films with: Rakhmanova, Tania

Democratic revolutionary handbook

The recent democratic revolutions in Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003, and the Ukraine in 2004 all seemed to follow a quick and easy pattern: the exposure of rigged elections, followed by massive street protests, and a regime that collapsed without a fight. But the film reveals the lengthy and meticulous preparations behind these seemingly spontaneous demonstrations, showing how modern marketing techniques have combined with revolutionary politics to transform the region's governments. Features interviews with founding members of the opposition political parties - OTPOR in Serbia, KMARA in Georgia and PORA in the Ukraine. The democratic revolutionary game plan doesn't always succeed as in the case of the failed 2005 attempt in Azerbaijan.

DVD 4865

Prise du pouvoir par Vladimir Poutine How Putin came to power /

A biography of Vladimir V. Putin, a former KGB agent who rapidly rose from a minor political figure in St. Petersburg to become president of the Russian Federation in the late 1990s. Argues that his ascendancy was "the result of a power struggle between factions of the country's ruling oligarchs and a behind-the-scenes political deal" brokered by Boris Yeltsin (container). Includes interviews with Kremlin insiders Yevgeny Primakov, Yuri Skuratov, Boris Berezovsky, Sergei Dorenko, Boris Nemtsov, Elena Tregubova, and Ksenia Ponomareva.

DVD 4854