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Cover-Up
2025 · Documentary
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30 votes
Oligarch. Prisoner. Dissident.
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
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Stephen Campbell
January 2, 2020
_**Factually comprehensive but suffers from an over-idealisation of its subject**_ >_I am not hiding and I don't plan to become a political émigré. If it's a choice of forcing me out of the country or putting me in gaol, then they'll have to put me in gaol._ - Mikhail Khodorkovsky (July 3, 2003) As superficially entertaining a show as it was, _Sons of Anarchy_ always had one especially egregious flaw – no matter who…
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SWITCH.
March 3, 2020
'Citizen K' makes an interesting companion piece to Herzog's 'Meeting Gorbachev', which captured the promise of 1989 and mourned what came next. Gibney's documentary is essential viewing for anyone needing a history lesson about Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, wants a frontline report on the current geopolitical landscape in Europe - including Ukraine - or just wants to know what it takes to bring down a t…
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May 19, 2020
Western propaganda from the pen of a smug self-made man who tries to mitigate his moral failings.
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