When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. The Power of Community tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity...

The moving documentary portrait of four international photojournalists killed behind the lines while chronicling resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's.

(Russia/Australia) The Moscow Underground is special. Like many of the subways of the former Soviet Union, each stop was conceived as a tribute to the nobility of The People. So...

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

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.