Episode Title: Democracy Threatens Season: 1 Episode: 2 Series: Putin, Russia and the West Air Date: January 26th, 2012 Genre: Documentary Summary: Internal politics in other former Soviet republics often were significantly influenced by intervention from Putin's Russia. In Georgia, legally elected president Shevarnadze was confronted to Shakashvili's parliamentary opposition, which ousted him with Russian support, only to side later with minority opposition inside Russia and joining NATO, like the Baltic republics. Large neighbor Ukrain with millions of ethnic Russians was the object of a major, bitter row with the west, Putin playing dirty and falsely blaming the British 'manipulators', a game which turned worst concerning Russia's own state-manipulated elections. IMDb Rating: 7.5/10 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2146799# Directors: Wanda Koscia, Paul Mitchell (series director) Video Info: Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41) File size : 2.94 GiB Duration : 59 min 24 s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 7 085 kb/s Collection : Putin, Russia and the West Season : 1 Album : Putin, Russia and the West Album/Performer : BBC TV Part : 2 Part/Position : 1 Track name : Democracy Threatens Track name/Position : 2 Grouping : Factual,Politics,Documentaries Performer : BBC Two Composer : BBC iPlayer Genre : Factual ContentType : TV Show Description : Leonid Kuchma talks about the election of his successor in 2004 and Putin's involvement. Recorded date : UTC 2012-01-26 21:00:00 Tagged date : UTC 2022-03-24 18:09:29 Copyright : 2022 British Broadcasting Corporation, all rights reserved Cover : Yes Lyrics : Vladimir Putin, after eight years as president of Russia and four more as prime minister, is stubbornly holding on to power. He has announced his intention to return as president and declared his party the winner in parliamentary elections that are widely seen as fraudulent. In Moscow 100,000 protesters have taken to the streets in the largest demonstrations since Putin took office. / / Putin began his career as a KGB spy but when he became president, he made himself a valued ally of the West. How did he do it? And what made Washington and London turn against him? / / The second episode includes an extraordinary interview with former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, who was widely thought to be responsible for murder, corruption and sanctions-busting. He tells how, in the 2004 election, he set about getting his chosen successor elected president - with the help of Putin and his Kremlin advisers. / / The opposition candidate, Victor Yushchenko, tells what it was like to be poisoned during the election campaign. It won him many voters and exit polls gave him a clear lead, but the Putin/Kuchma-backed candidate was still declared the winner. This result sparked the Orange Revolution. / / Kremlin officials tell how they made sure that Putin would not face a similar revolution at home. It is claimed critics of Putin, including the British ambassador, were intimidated and some were even murdered. Tens of thousands of young Russians were mobilised to fight the threat of democracy. / / PLAY: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01bfwf1 / / INFO: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bfwf1 Comment : Leonid Kuchma talks about the election of his successor in 2004 and Putin's involvement. HDVideo : Yes Part_ID : s01e02 TVNetworkName : BBC Two LongDescription : Vladimir Putin, after eight years as president of Russia and four more as prime minister, is stubbornly holding on to power. He has announced his intention to return as president and declared his party the winner in parliamentary elections that are widely seen as fraudulent. In Moscow 100,000 protesters have taken to the streets in the largest demonstrations since Putin took office. / / Putin began his career as a KGB spy but when he became president, he made himself a valued ally of the West. How did he do it? And what made Washington and London turn against him? / / The second episode includes an extraordinary interview with former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, who was widely thought to be responsible for murder, corruption and sanctions-busting. He tells how, in the 2004 election, he set about getting his chosen successor elected president - with the help of Putin and his Kremlin advisers. / / The opposition candidate, Victor Yushchenko, tells what it was like to be poisoned during the election campaign. It won him many voters and exit polls gave him a clear lead, but the Putin/Kuchma-backed candidate was still declared the winner. This result sparked the Orange Revolution. / / Kremlin officials tell how they made sure that Putin would not face a similar revolution at home. It is claimed critics of Putin, including the British ambassador, were intimidated and some were even murdered. Tens of thousands of young Russians were mobilised to fight the threat of democracy. / / PLAY: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01bfwf1 / / INFO: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bfwf1
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