How did a poor boy from a tiny flat in St Petersburg become one of the world's most powerful leaders? Admired by Trump, and feared by his rivals, on the eve of his almost certain re-election as president of Russia, The New Tsar reveals the story of Vladimir Putin's extraordinary rise to power - from a lowly KGB colonel to Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man and ultimately his successor. There are revelations from Putin's inner circle at the Kremlin, including former confidante Sergei Pugachev, who helped Putin to power, before falling from favour. Chess-master Gary Kasparov recounts his failed attempt to stand against him and Oligarch Mikhail Khordokovsky, who was jailed and stripped of his wealth, speaks of the consequences of experiencing the wrath of Putin. The programme also hears from former Home Secretary Jack Straw, who recalls Putin's first encounter with Tony Blair, the leader who Putin apparently attempted to model himself on, and Straw wryly observes that the two are "very similar". Former Foreign Secretary William Hague entertained Putin during the London 2012 Olympic Games and bonded over a shared love of Judo - but later found he was unable to influence the decision to invade Crimea.

这部BBC系列纪录片调查俄罗斯的一些富人们（“寡头”）和普京在克里姆林宫的行政之间的关系。这一系列纪录片依次聚焦曾获许进入政治中心的一些人，试图找出他们多年间扮演了什么角色，对2005年产生了影响。他们五个人中的两个现在已被驱逐，面临刑事审判。他们正计划运用他们的财富和政治影响开展反普京的竞选活动。 I　流亡者 在利特维年科被谋杀事件的前一年[俄罗斯前特工利特维年科被疑遭人投毒，于2006年11月23日晚上在伦敦去世，次日，伦敦警方在利特维年科的尿液中发现大量放射性元素钋210，初步断定这是导致利特维年科丧命的主要物质。此部纪录片拍摄时间为2005年。译者注]，这部吸引人的系列纪录片揭密普京和他的对手——俄罗斯寡头之间的斗争，而且这斗争还在继续。 此纪录片的第一部分访问了利特维年科的支持者，流亡英国的鲍里斯·别列佐夫斯基。[别列佐夫斯基是俄罗斯七大寡头之一，集数学家、金融家、媒体大亨和“政坛鬼才”各种身份于一身，是一个颇具传奇色彩的人物，被1996年度美国总统竞选人之一称为“克里姆林宫的红色教父”。译者注]。他在媒体上和俄国边境上抨击、反对普京。即使是在引渡受审的威胁下，他还曾在2004年支持乌克兰的橙色革命，帮助亲西方总统维克托·尤先科顺利上台。 II　囚犯 第二部分聚焦俄国的富豪米哈伊尔·霍多尔科夫斯基的审判和定罪。霍多尔科夫斯基在法庭的笼子里咧嘴而笑的面孔世界著名，而且这个片段显示了普京打压这个石油大王，将他从公司和财富中孤立出来的战略。 III　政客 最后一部分讲述的是普京和寡头们的斗争。这部纪录片拍摄于利特维年科被谋杀事件的前一年，片子探索的是普京与竞选总统最具威胁的对手尤里·卢日科夫的斗争。追随卢日科夫的人们和这位叛逆的亿万富翁、莫斯科市长选择了与普京唱反调。这是一部吸引人眼球的纪录片，既展示了普京击破反对势力的铁腕手段，又揭露了存在于俄罗斯政府高层的极端腐败。（喵喵驴驴译，错误之处烦请各位达人指正，谢谢）

On a cold November night in 1993, Wanda Lopez was stabbed to death while she worked at a Corpus Cristi Texas gas station. 21 year old Carlos DeLuna was arrested, and over the next six years, through his trial and subsequent imprisonment he protested his innocence, declaring that it was another Carlos who committed the crime. The prosecution insisted that this other Carlos was a “phantom’ and didn’t exist. Through illuminating interviews with witnesses, Carlos’ family members, and legal experts the film asks, for the first time since 1993, if the judicial system executed an innocent man, examining key evidence that calls into question whether or not Carlos DeLuna was right about the other Carlos. Was he a phantom after all, or was he a brutal killer, and did a poor Hispanic young man have any chance within a justice system and a society that by it's actions seemed to regard him as disposable? —Deborah Rudolph