POISON(S)
How the Kremlin’s master used poison as a strategic and diplomatic weapon. An edifying documentary series told by the targets of the “Putin system”. When Vladimir Putin, ex-director of the FSB, came to power in 2000, the Russians, experts in the art of poison, turned it into a central weapon in their strategic arsenal. Thus, over the last twenty years, Vladimir Putin has targeted both opponents of his regime and former spies who had switched sides. From Alexei Navalny to Vladimir Kara Murza, recently sentenced to twenty-five years in prison, from Alexander Litvinenko to Sergei Skripal, several high-profile affairs have revealed the power struggle, with major diplomatic and geopolitical stakes, which pits the Kremlin against the West behind the scenes, in the straight line of the Cold War.
EPISODE 1: THE THREAT. November 2006, a poisoned Alexander Litvinenko dies accusing one man: Vladimir Putin. Litvinenko publicly denounced the FSB mafia collusion.
EPISODE 2: A NEW COLD WAR. Former Russian agent Sergei Skripal is poisoned in Salisbury, England. Meanwhile, the FBI is tracking undercover Russian spies.
EPISODE 3: THE WAR. August 2020, Alexei Navalny is poisoned with Novichok. The world diplomacy accuses Putin’s Russia. A few months later, the war with Ukraine is triggered and the sanctions fall on Russia.
