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Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)

History TV Movie Documentary
Release Date: 2021, November 18
Directors: Madeleine Leroyer
Countries: France
Production: Point du Jour, Les Films du Balibari, Sundial Entertainment, ARTE, RTS
Cast: Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Tatyana Yumasheva, Sergei Pugachev, Anatoly Chubais, Gennady Zyuganov, Alexandr Korzhakov, Mikhail Fridman, Helmut Kohl, Michel Camdessus

Overview:

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?

Keywords:

corruption 1990s russian oligarch presidential election election campaign financial crisis intervention archive footage privatization spin doctor interference