Anatoly Chubais

KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.

In-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all walks of life talk about the highs and lows in their lives.

A talk show

A documentary series that explores who brought Vladimir Putin to power, and why. It meticulously reconstructs the sequence of events that have led us to the present day.

In 1991, the great power the Soviet Union split and ceased to exist. In the same year, Finland's economy plummeted into a historic recession. In the documentaries, Esko Aho, who became prime minister in 1991 and his contemporaries, talk about the storm that our small country experienced during that year. Editor Tapio Nurminen leads discussions about the dramatic year's consequences for today's Finland and international relations.

Kader ve politika: Rusya’nın en zengin adamı nasıl oldu da Rusya’nın en ünlü mahkûmu haline geliverdi? Bu belgesel, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’nin kusursuz bir sosyalistten kusursuz bir kapitaliste, sonra da Sibirya’da bir hapishanede kusursuz bir kurbana dönüşmesinin hikâyesini anlatıyor. Devlerin savaşı, Rusya’nın bu en zengin adamı Başkan Putin’e meydan okuyunca başlamıştı. Putin onu uyarsa da, hapse atılacağını bile bile New York’tan Rusya’ya dönmüştü Khodorkovsky. Milyarlarca doları olmasına rağmen neden sürgünde kalmamıştı? Sekiz yıl sonra dönmesinin sebebi neydi? Film sadece bu ilginç adamın kişisel hikâyesini değil, Rusya’nın siyasi manzarasını, yeni parayı, gücü ve arzuyu da ele alıyor.

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?

31 Aralık 1999’da Vladimir Putin, Rusya Federasyonu’nun başbakanlık koltuğuna yükseldi. Ünlü belgeselci Vitaliy Mansky, o günü ve takip eden yıllarda gerçekleşen olayları, tanıkların ifadelerine yer vererek belgeliyor.

After her father’s death, the daughter of one of the forefathers of modern Russian democracy, Ksenia Sobchak, tries to understand the 18 years of his political fate. Together with the director Vera Krichevskaya she gives the word to Anatoli Sobchak’s colleagues and opponents, gets acquainted with the criminal case which annulled his career, and tries to find an answer to the question what Anatoly Sobchak’s fate would be in today’s Russia.