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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,420 Happened twice, both times in exactly the same way. 2 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:13,700 Both times I was in Moscow, 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,020 I started feeling really sick for no reason. 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,460 And within the space of a few minutes, 5 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:20,820 I was completely incapacitated. 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:22,900 I couldn't breathe, my heart was racing, 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,136 and within hours all of my major life organs were shutting down 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,220 one after another. 9 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,620 I remember both times very clearly thinking, 10 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,260 "This is it. This is the end." 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,500 The official diagnosis give to me by my doctors in Moscow was 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,900 toxic action by an unidentified substance, 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,100 so translated from medical speak to normal human language, 14 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:52,260 it means poisoning. 15 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,220 I have no doubt by the way this was done, 16 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:03,400 that this was done by people 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,656 somehow connected with the Russian domestic security services, 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,300 and I have no doubt absolutely that this was done as retribution, 19 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,460 for my political activity in the Russian opposition. 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,500 There's been a strangely high mortality rate 21 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:19,660 over these past two decades 22 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,060 among the people who are standing up against Putin's regime... 23 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:27,940 ..journalists, human rights activists, 24 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,260 political opposition figures. 25 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,180 A mortality rate that I don't think can be explained 26 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,060 by any normal statistical model. 27 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,216 We're all products of our experience we're all products of our background 28 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:44,680 we're all products of our education. 29 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,260 Vladimir Putin's background is the Soviet KGB... 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,780 ..one of the most repressive organisations 31 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:52,980 in the history of humanity. 32 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,460 He's doing what he was taught to do. 33 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,780 Manipulate, lie, recruit, repress. 34 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,660 He seems to be quite good at his job. 35 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,540 Putin was very small, but he was a fierce fighter. 36 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,460 There is a vengeful side to Putin. 37 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,540 He is a man who never forgets a slight. 38 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,540 I'm quite clear on what I think drives him - 39 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,220 to make Russia great again. 40 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,300 He's a convinced patriotic Russian. 41 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,780 You can't make a president in a few months, just like... 42 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:32,336 ..a click of your hand. 43 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:33,700 It's just impossible. 44 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:35,420 This is the code of the spy. 45 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,660 Nothing is forgotten and nothing is forgiven. 46 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:53,740 Good evening. 47 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,040 Could this be another example of a Russian being poisoned 48 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:57,380 on UK soil? 49 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,340 The man in hospital tonight, Sergei Skripal, 50 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,060 is in a critical condition. 51 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,980 Counter-terrorism officers have take charge of the investigation 52 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,820 into the suspected poisoning of a former Russian agent 53 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,740 in Salisbury on Sunday. 54 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:16,260 Sergei Skripal had been convicted in Russia 12 years ago 55 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,660 of passing secrets to MI6. 56 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,900 President Putin's spokesman told me earlier, 57 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,420 "We have no information about what happened. We cannot comment." 58 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,740 For many people, Soviet childhoods are pretty grim. 59 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,700 Most people lived in appalling conditions. 60 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,780 Behind the grandiose architecture, 61 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:38,700 these dark alleyways and dark courtyards and street gangs, 62 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,020 and it's... it's pretty filthy. 63 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,740 It's not a very nice place to be a small boy. 64 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,420 He was a schoolyard thug, 65 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,820 and part of a gang. 66 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,100 He was very small, but he was a fierce fighter. 67 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:35,620 He was saved from going into the crime life by sports. 68 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,820 His coach of judo pulled him out of this street life, 69 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,220 and he became a very avid fighter. 70 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:50,460 The KGB were watching 71 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,980 who was doing this kind of sports in the Soviet Union. 72 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,460 Putin didn't make any secret out of the fact 73 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:01,060 that he wanted to work for the secret services, with KGB. 74 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,860 He dreamt to become a kind of Stierlitz, 75 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,420 which is the Russian version of James Bond. 76 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:20,400 Asking, you know, "Do you remember the character Stierlitz?" 77 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,060 it's like asking anybody in this country, 78 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,300 "Do you remember the character Bond?" 79 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,200 You know, yes, you remember the character Bond. 80 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,620 The theme of Stierlitz in Seventeen Moments Of Spring, 81 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,900 the idea of, sort of, a glorious Soviet spy, 82 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,340 I think is very important, 83 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,340 and this was an extremely important film to Putin. 84 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:46,980 He was 21 years old when Seventeen Moments of Spring was released, 85 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,340 and two years later, he joined the service. 86 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:53,180 He joined the KGB. 87 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,060 Now, I can easily talk about that, you know. 88 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,260 For 20 years, I was intelligence officer. 89 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,180 My generation of... of kids 90 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,540 were brought up in the sentiments 91 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,460 of very heroic novels about World War II. 92 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,900 In the heroic of small kids, who were fighting fascism. 93 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,740 And the heroism of our intelligence officers. 94 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,180 For an agent, it was very important, 95 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,860 if he wanted to have a good job, 96 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,540 to be married, happily married, 97 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,900 'cause otherwise, we can't trust you fully. 98 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,580 You could do your own business with other woman there. 99 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:45,980 We would dislike this. 100 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,380 Putin's wife, Lyudmila, when he dated her for the first time, 101 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,820 he never told her that he working for the KGB. 102 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,020 He was telling her that he worked for the police. 103 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,540 And he examined her character. 104 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,700 He sent his friends and they wanted to date her as well, 105 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,940 and she said, "No, I have already boyfriend. 106 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,460 "I have Vladimir." 107 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,340 And that was enough for him to be proud of her 108 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,580 and to understand that she really likes him. 109 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,740 He ends up in Eastern Germany, 110 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,620 and he's not even in the capital, Berlin. 111 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,020 He's sent to Dresden, a provincial backwater. 112 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,940 And I think if you've been brought up in Leningrad 113 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,980 and then you've trained a bit for the KGB in Moscow, 114 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:42,940 going to Dresden, 115 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,820 quite the opposite from what you'd hope from your foreign posting, 116 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,780 to taste the forbidden fruits of the West. 117 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,300 And I think it probably must've been a bit of a let-down. 118 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:53,820 You get a hint of it. 119 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,300 His wife talks about how they were homesick 120 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,700 and longed for the Soviet Union. 121 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,620 So, it feels as though they had a comfortable life, 122 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:03,540 but not a particularly exciting one. 123 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:09,820 He drank a lot of beer and there were a lot of pictures 124 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:16,420 at parties, in restaurants, or among friends. 125 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,020 You know, if you go there on a very secret mission and you're a top spy, 126 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,380 no picture exists of you, 127 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,500 not in books, nor in the collections of your friends 128 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:27,820 or in family albums. 129 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,540 So, I shouldn't portray him more than he was. 130 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:40,340 And then his world collapsed. 131 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,620 His dreams collapsed. 132 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:46,460 East Germany has tonight opened its borders to the West. 133 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,340 28 years after the Berlin Wall was built, 134 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,860 its people are once more free to travel anywhere. 135 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,700 I was Moscow correspondent at the time, 136 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,220 and I wouldn't have said at the end of 1989, the beginning of 1990, 137 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:00,660 that I would expect 138 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,940 that within two years, the whole Soviet Union would collapse. 139 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:06,820 So, I don't suppose he did either. 140 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,620 I think it must've been a huge shock. 141 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,340 He didn't welcome these changes. 142 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,740 He knew that he had to... return back from the GDR, 143 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,620 a country which didn't exist anymore 'cause it was reunited as Germany. 144 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,300 He had a wife and two small daughters. 145 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:39,500 He had a car, which he took to drive back from Dresden to St Petersburg. 146 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,780 He didn't know what kind of career he will have in the new Russia, 147 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,500 what will happen to him, to his family, to the country. 148 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:06,500 Coming back to '90s in St Petersburg... 149 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,940 ..it was gloomy city. 150 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,340 Despite the fact that there were some new expectations... 151 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:21,180 ..it was a real trauma to Soviet society. 152 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:29,820 They were losing their sense of belonging to great country, 153 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:31,020 to great history. 154 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,340 They were losing the means for survival. 155 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:54,140 When the institutions lost the ability to function, 156 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,220 of course criminality is rising. 157 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:03,740 They had contract killings every single day. 158 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,900 They had bombings nearly every single day. 159 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,700 There's people being killed left and right. 160 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:17,060 I mean, it's, like, pretty much comparable to Chicago in the 1930s. 161 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,860 And probably Chicago was not as violent as Russia. 162 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,500 Just now President Putin denied 163 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:07,260 having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. 164 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,740 Every US intelligence agency has concluded that Russia did. 165 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:12,420 Who do you believe? 166 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,380 People came to me, they said they think it's Russia. 167 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:20,980 I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia. 168 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,540 I will say this - I don't see any reason why it would be. 169 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,140 I have great confidence in my intelligence people 170 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,940 but I will tell you that 171 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,100 President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. 172 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:38,460 Thank you. 173 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:39,940 Thank you very much. 174 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,380 Well, Vladimir Putin came into my life 175 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,940 through a problem that I had with my investment at the time. 176 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,860 Through my activities as a supplier for law enforcement equipment, 177 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,220 I ended up in Russia. 178 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,580 One of the deputy police chiefs thought it was a good idea 179 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,420 to try to take over my investments. 180 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,060 So, I want to the US consulate and someone there said, 181 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,856 you know, "The guy you should... you should confront with this problem 182 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,140 "is really Vladimir Putin." 183 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,620 Putin is a guy that became sidekick 184 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,580 to the first democratically elected mayor of St Petersburg, 185 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:40,900 Anatoly Sobchak. 186 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,140 And so I went to see him. 187 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:03,140 Vladimir Putin was a very dry, obviously very humourless man 188 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,780 of rather small stature. 189 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,620 You could see it was very important to give you a good handshake, 190 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,260 to look you straight into the eyes. 191 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,300 He basically says, "No, I'm not gonna get involved. 192 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,900 "I'm busy enough protecting my mayor. 193 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,500 "I don't need an additional headache." 194 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:22,860 That's exactly what he said. 195 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,420 I didn't understand what... what that meant 196 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,020 until I went out and I learned 197 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,260 that Mayor Sobchak was completely corrupt, corrupt to the bone, 198 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,260 and one of Putin's main functions was to keep him out of trouble. 199 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,540 There were no real rules, there were no real laws. 200 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,740 Of course, people bribed in order to get certain privileges. 201 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,860 I was told by people who were close to Sobchak, 202 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,820 "You have to pay $100,000 203 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,300 "in order to have a soup with him." 204 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,220 But they didn't manage to keep the city running as it should be. 205 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,700 The city was collapsing. 206 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,620 People were searching for food. 207 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,900 Everything was dark. 208 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,140 Sobchak needs someone who is, sort of the interface 209 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,420 between what they call the organs of state, 210 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:46,700 that is the KGB, the police, anybody of executive power 211 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,220 that he could potentially get into a conflict with. 212 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:55,140 For a simpler term, I would call Putin a fixer in the day. 213 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,980 He was always in the shadows. 214 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,540 You know, if there were pictures being taken 215 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,980 of Sobchak doing something, 216 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,100 even if Putin was there, he wasn't gonna be in the picture, 217 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,040 or if he was, he was gonna be off in the corner. 218 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:17,460 Sobchak trusted him, 219 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,580 because Putin proved, first of all, to be very loyal. 220 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:24,580 Loyal to Sobchak. 221 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:26,140 He's a bulldog. 222 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,700 He grabs on and he gets something. 223 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:36,380 1992, there is a documentary film director 224 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,940 who wants to make a series of short films 225 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:44,620 to introduce those people working in the St Petersburg administration 226 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,740 to the public, the whole team. 227 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,580 And for the film, he decides to set the scene. 228 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:59,940 And Putin, sitting behind the wheel of the Soviet Volga he's driving, 229 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,780 and in the background, there is music, 230 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,980 there is a theme tune from Seventeen Moments of Spring playing. 231 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,780 Putin is not an accidental man. 232 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,540 The idea to bring this tune 233 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,380 and bring out this association with Stierlitz 234 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,140 was... was clearly very important. 235 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,620 Power, power, more and more influence 236 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,500 in St Petersburg connections, 237 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,100 with Western politicians. 238 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,700 He made himself indispensable for Sobchak. 239 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,700 Until 1996... 240 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,060 ..when Sobchak lost the governors elections. 241 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,100 He lost everything. He had no money. 242 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,940 He was again in a situation where he had nothing. 243 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,780 The lesson from Sobchak's loss was that 244 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,460 you cannot leave the democratic process to elections 245 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,380 and you cannot leave the elections to ordinary people, 246 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,540 in the sense that someone could vote you out of office. 247 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,140 I would like to make a statement 248 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,940 about the death of Alexander Litvinenko. 249 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,260 Mr Litvinenko suffered a cardiac arrest 250 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,260 caused by his ingesting polonium 210 251 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,540 while drinking tea at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel. 252 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,100 Mr Litvinenko was deliberately poisoned 253 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,460 by Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun 254 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,100 acting on behalf of others. 255 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,980 There is a strong probability 256 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,940 that they were acting under the direction 257 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,140 of the Russian domestic security service, 258 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,820 the Federal Security Service, or FSB, 259 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,700 and the inquiry has found 260 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,740 that the FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko 261 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,100 was probably approved by President Putin. 262 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,660 There's a very famous word in Russia, 'poryadok', 263 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,460 which means 'order'. 264 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,696 If you ask Russians what they want out of their leaders, 265 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:03,800 what they want is poryadok. 266 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,580 What they want is order. 267 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,860 At that time, the president was Yeltsin, 268 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,420 who was visibly very unhealthy, kept on humiliating himself. 269 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:23,180 For the ordinary Russian, 270 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,976 who thinks of himself as a citizen of a proud country, 271 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,180 this was just intolerable. 272 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,380 A lot of the people who were around Yeltsin at the time 273 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,100 were looking for someone who could take a grip. 274 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,620 Russia had spent ten years sliding into anarchy 275 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,500 with hyperinflation, 276 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,740 trying to cope with the loss of all the Soviet republics. 277 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,980 It had defaulted on its debts. 278 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,180 It had, sort of, lost its way. 279 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,220 And society seemed to be out of control. 280 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:25,740 Putin moved to Moscow from St Petersburg in 1996... 281 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,500 ..as a... ..low-mid-level bureaucrat, 282 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,420 whom they found a position inside the Kremlin apparatus. 283 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:43,060 Very quickly he starts growing. 284 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,140 In a year, year and something, 285 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,540 he becomes the head of Russian FSB, 286 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,780 the Russian special forces. 287 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:23,300 This is an incredible career. 288 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,620 When Putin was installed as director of the FSB in 1998... 289 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,180 ..corruption had become so pervasive, 290 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,820 FSB assets were just simply there for hire 291 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,460 for any gangster or businessman who wanted to use them. 292 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,940 When Putin came in, 293 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,700 everybody expected that he would start cleaning the stables... 294 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,060 ..ridding the FSB of corruption. 295 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,780 So, that's how it all started. 296 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:08,820 I've never met Putin in my life, 297 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,820 but he's the subject of my obsession in a way, 298 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,620 since he ordered the killing of my friend Litvinenko. 299 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:27,820 Sascha Litvinenko's conflict with Putin was not political. 300 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,060 It was a conflict of... 301 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:36,140 ..an honest cop with corrupt superiors, essentially. 302 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:57,940 They met, 303 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,620 and Sascha Litvinenko started explaining to Putin 304 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,380 that this one should be removed and that one should be removed 305 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,420 and that is a crook and so on, and Putin listened to him. 306 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:12,500 Then ordered him out of the FSB, 307 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,820 because he was making too much trouble. 308 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,140 That's how Sascha Litvinenko's conflict with Putin started. 309 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,460 The stakes were very high. 310 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:05,820 Yeltsin could be prosecuted. 311 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,900 The danger comes in the figure of the prosecutor general, 312 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:15,960 Skuratov. 313 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,540 Skuratov already started investigation 314 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,220 in Yeltsin's financial dealings, 315 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,540 with huge political support of Russian parliament behind him. 316 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:36,220 Behind Yeltsin is Putin as the head of FSB 317 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:43,540 and... and... and... and... and a willingness to... to fight. 318 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,860 So, what they do? 319 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:55,420 They expose this prosecutor general on television. 320 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:12,740 They have this footage of him having sex with some ladies 321 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,900 in some apartment in Moscow, 322 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,140 and they air this footage on television. 323 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,180 After that... 324 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,260 ..Prosecutor General Skuratov was dismissed. 325 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,980 It was the first time, probably, when 326 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,620 we saw that you can achieve... 327 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,860 ..a very important political outcome 328 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,820 through some kind of special operation 329 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,140 by exposing your opponent with kompromat. 330 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,420 Yeltsin won this fight. 331 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,020 And of course we know Vladimir Putin played huge role 332 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,860 in this special operation. 333 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:39,300 When Yeltsin appointed Putin as active prime minister in August '99, 334 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,700 he immediately said, "This is my successor. 335 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,860 "He will be Russia's president." 336 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,060 And that was impossible to believe. 337 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:51,180 That was just simply impossible to... to sort of grasp, 338 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,340 because we just didn't know his face. 339 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,500 Even those who supported Yeltsin were thinking that, 340 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,620 "Hey, this is crazy. He can't make it. 341 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,500 "You can't make a president in a few months, 342 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,620 "just like a click of your hand. 343 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,060 "It's just impossible." 344 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,300 He would definitely lose, 345 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,940 and everything that had been achieved by then 346 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,140 would be destroyed. 347 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,380 I have to admit, I don't remember my first feeling of, 348 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:56,740 "What is Putin, who is Putin?" 349 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,580 You remember this famous question, "Who is Mr Putin?" 350 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,820 We didn't know who he was. 351 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,740 But what definitely changed everything was... 352 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,260 ..the war. 353 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,300 Rescue workers are searching 354 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,180 through the remains of a block of flats 355 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:48,060 destroyed by a huge bomb blast early today. 356 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,940 There were reports that 357 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,940 an apartment building in Moscow had been blown up. 358 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,500 About 100 people were killed and many, many more were injured. 359 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,780 Then several days later, 360 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,820 another apartment building was blown up in Moscow. 361 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,300 This is number six Kashirskoye Avenue, 362 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,780 or what's left of it, 363 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,220 home until today to 120 people. 364 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,700 The eight-storey building collapsed in on itself, 365 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,940 pulverising all who lived inside. 366 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,220 It was clear that what we were dealing with was 367 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,460 a series of terrorist acts. 368 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,300 This is when fear came to Moscow. 369 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,740 This was something very new feeling in the air. 370 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:27,500 The authorities said that this was the work of Chechen terrorists. 371 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,140 No proof. 372 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,020 But the aggressivity of the population was such 373 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,260 after so many years of hardship under Yeltsin... 374 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,500 ..and the anger against the Chechens was so great 375 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,540 after an unsuccessful war 376 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,460 that was fought in the middle of the 1990s, 377 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,260 in which Russia suffered serious defeats, 378 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,860 that no-one waited for evidence. 379 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,740 Ryazan is a city south-east of Moscow, about 100 miles. 380 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:17,800 One night, a resident of a building saw a car pull up to the building, 381 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,220 and he witnessed people going down 382 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,980 and taking sacks of some mysterious substance into the basement. 383 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,740 He called the police, they came, they went down into the basement 384 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,340 and they bolted back up the stairs and they said, 385 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:32,720 "There's a bomb in the basement." 386 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:42,020 Shortly afterwards, those who were responsible for placing the bomb 387 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:43,380 were arrested. 388 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:49,780 But they produced FSB identification. 389 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,820 And an order came from Moscow saying to release them. 390 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,780 Short time later, the head of the FSB 391 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,020 got on national television and said that 392 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,340 the events in Ryazan were not an attempted terrorist attack. 393 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,180 For two days, they had been saying that 394 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:18,220 this was an attempted terrorist attack 395 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,060 and the vigilance of the citizens of Ryazan had prevented it. 396 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,500 Now, with the FSB agents arrested, caught red-handed, 397 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,260 they changed their story and said that 398 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,340 this was a training exercise. 399 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,060 What was taking place was a test of vigilance. 400 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,300 Well, I personally have no doubt 401 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,620 that is could not have been a training exercise. 402 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,860 It could not have been a test of vigilance. 403 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,340 I consider it as a conspiracy theory. 404 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,700 I can't take it. 405 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:53,820 I can't believe... 406 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,620 ..that Russia's government or special forces 407 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,660 were able to orchestrate a terrorist... 408 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:03,180 ..terrorist attacks like that. 409 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:07,700 If you talk about forensic evidence, it's an open question. 410 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,420 Who blew up the houses? 411 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,100 But there is lots of circumstantial evidence 412 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:17,460 pointing at some group in FSB, 413 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,860 engaged again of Chechens to blow up these houses 414 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,020 to provoke the invasion of Chechnya. 415 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:37,100 And two weeks after the explosions, after these bombings, 416 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,580 the assault on Chechnya started. 417 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:44,940 That's when the real war started. 418 00:39:56,720 --> 00:40:00,900 There was a demand to restore Russia's pride... 419 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,060 ..some self-esteem... 420 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,700 ..and to win the war. 421 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:14,340 That was the primary demand, not people's lives. 422 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,460 He used criminal slang. 423 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,940 He used the word 'mochit', which in Russian is... 424 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,280 It's what Russian gangsters use. 425 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,620 It means 'turn into liquid', 'liquidate', 426 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,540 but it's..it's a very crude word. 427 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,780 Putin's popularity rating soared, 428 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,460 and he immediately became the saviour of the country. 429 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,100 Suddenly, he was the defender of the homeland. 430 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:45,100 Kind of curtain of silence fell over Russia 431 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,020 on the issue of the apartment bombings. 432 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,060 The phrase "The less you know, the better you sleep", 433 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:05,020 in Russian, if you'd like it... 434 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,940 It means, "better not to know too much". 435 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:09,980 It's dangerous to know too much. 436 00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:01,420 Subtitles Diego Moraes(oakislandtk) www.opensubtitles.org 35551

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