Lakshmi Chaudhry provides a brief overview of the the topics covered in the "Russian Godfathers" series.

Host Lakshmi Chaudhry provides a brief overview of this episode of the "Russian Godfathers" series, which focuses on businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

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 host Lakshmi Chaudhry provides an update on what has happened to Mikhail Khodorkovsky since the production of the "Russian Godfathers" program detailing his plight.

Author Jonathan Sanders and expert Margarita Akhvlediani explain who is behind the major opposition parties to Putin's Kremlin.

Lakshmi Chaudhry asks Jonathan Sanders why Americans should care about the internal power struggle in Russia.

Spotlight guests Jonathan Sanders and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss talk about how Mikhail Khodorkovsky became entangled in the political gamesmanship of Putin's Russia.

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 what they see as the future of democracy in Russia.

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.

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss describes the political and economic conditions that have precipitated the current developments surrounding Khodorkovsky's imprisonment.

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...