The Putin System JM Carre (2007)

JM Carre (2014) Poutine pour toujours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUb-vSkRTEU & https://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=3f9522a4-7d6e-45cd-958c-910a0add97a4 (Jean-Michel Carre's Putin is Back). This doc shows, through interviews with Putin's close advisers and press footage, how Putin gained his power step by step by monopolizing oil and gas, endorsing corruption, rigging elections and jailing journalists, all with former President (now Prime Minister) Medvedev's slavish support. Medvedev changed the constitution to allow Putin to be re-elected, according to the film. The film also exposes the dramatic rise of collusion between Church and State during Putin's regime,as well as Putin's blatant anti-homosexual discourse: "The West is forcing its homosexuals on us!" the prime minister pontificates.