Spotlight host Lakshmi Chaudhry introduces the third and final episode of "Russian Godfathers," which focuses on the colorful, larger-than-life political player - and mayor of Moscow - Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov.
Author and Kremlin expert Jonathan Sanders, and Margarita Akhvlediani, Caucasus Program Director and regional editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in Georgia, discuss the recent Russian power...
Spotlight guests Jonathan Sanders and Margarita Akhvlediani share their opinions on whether the intimate access afforded to the filmmakers of "Russian Godfathers" may have compromised a truly objective approach to...
Margarita Akhvlediani provides a Russian perspective on whether the charismatic and determined billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who is waging his own Russian Revolution against President Putin, is really a political player...
Lakshmi Chaudhry asks her guests whether there is a place for a free press in Russia, where once Soviet totalitarian censorship limited information, and now the threat of violence and...
Experts Margarita Akhvlediani and Jonathan Sanders share their views on the Russian president's political agenda vis-a-vis the emergence of a new type of political opposition.
Lakshmi Chaudhry asks her guests which way the political winds will blow with upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in 2008. Will Putin's reign continue or will the rise of the...
Lakshmi Chaudhry asks her guests whether the new oligarchs will affect reforms that actually benefit the average Russian or if their political promises mask more selfish gains.
Spotlight guests Jonathan Sanders and Margarita Akhvlediani share their opinions on what roles and responsibilities the United States has in encouraging democracy in Russia.
