Grigoriy Yavlinskiy

The events that led up to December 25, 1991 when the Soviet flag was lowered over the Kremlin, marking the end of the Soviet Union and its ideologies.

When Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest oligarch, begins to support the political opposition and challenges Russia's all powerful president Vladimir Putin, he sets in motion a series of events that are still being felt today and most likely for years to come. Enraged, Putin instructs his secret service police to arrest Khodorkovsky in a dramatic raid on his private jet in October 2003 and then banishes him on trumped up charges of tax evasion to a Siberian gulag.