Mikhail Khodorkovsky started dealing in black market blue jeans and computers. But once Yeltsin got off the tank and Russia started to rebuild itself as a country - not an empire - that was no longer communist but now capitalist, they had to invent capitalism. I mean, we all remember Gorbachev and Yeltsin on the tank. SIMON: Take us back to the Russia of the 1990s, if you could. A few months later, he found himself in a Siberian prison. And at one point, in a famously televised conversation about corruption in Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky frontally accused Vladimir Putin of corruption. ![]() GIBNEY: Well, they had a rather different view of Russia's future. SIMON: So how did Citizen K, as he's called in this film, and Vladimir Putin - two powerful men who had every reason to get along - become adversaries? Thanks so much for being with us.ĪLEX GIBNEY: Thanks, Scott. But is he still ruthless in pursuing his own ends? Alex Gibney, who's also made the films "Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room" and "Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief," joins us from New York. ![]() The new documentary "Citizen K," written and directed by Alex Gibney, shows how a man who was once a Russian state emblem of capitalist success ran afoul of Vladimir Putin and became a dissident and human rights champion. ![]() Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been an oil oligarch and a prisoner, the richest man in Russia and a man in exile in London.
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