![]() The film takes us through his battles with oligarchs and the military campaigns in Ukraine and Crimea, right up to Syria and the interference in foreign elections and referendums. He accumulated power and wealth at an exponential rate, as well as the ego and narcissism that go with them. It’s an excellent portrait of the man who is certainly going to win at the ballot box, from a boy growing up poor in a St Petersburg flat, to a low-ranking KGB officer with no political ambitions, to accidental power and wealth that he then got a taste for. And this film, timed to coincide with the run-up to the forthcoming Russian elections, suddenly takes on even more poignancy. If Saakashvili was travelling to Britain today, Lukashenko might advise him not to visit any Italian restaurants in the Salisbury area. ![]()
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