Putin: The New Tsar
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Putin: The New Tsar is 2018 a documentary produced by OxfordFilms/BBC and directed by Patrick Forbes, airing on BBC2. It discusses Vladimir Putin's rise to power. Interview subjects include politicians and non-politicians, with some being Russian and others being foreigners.[1]
Among the participants are Garry Kasparov, a chess prodigy;[2] Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch;[3] Sergei Pugachev, who was in Putin's power network;[2] Ksenia Sobchak, a member of Russian high society;[3] Ian Robertson, a psychologist from Trinity College Dublin; and Jack Straw, a British politician.[1] Robertson stated that Putin's experience in a high political position "profoundly changed" his brain.[3]
Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph stated that Putin: The New Tsar's "true purpose was to place in historical context Putin's unlikely rise from provincial obscurity in St Petersburg" to being the President of Russia.[3] It was produced prior to the 2018 Russian presidential election. Power stated that it "fleetingly touched upon" allegations of Russian agents attacking enemies of the Russian government outside of Russia.[3]
