Truly Original has partnered with Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough to develop the true crime documentary series currently titled “The Kremlin’s Long Shadow.”
The series will chronicle Scotland Yard’s newly reopened investigations into 15 mysterious deaths that could underscore a diabolical Russian program.
Presented by Burrough, the series will explore a recent chain of bizarre deaths and assassination attempts, utilizing a network of exclusive sources, including widows and children, defectors and spies.
Following the March 2018 assassination attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal via a military-grade nerve agent, the British government is reviewing the cases of 15 suspicious deaths, none of which were originally classified as murders. The series aims to connect the dots between each death.
Cases also include Boris Berezovsky, an anti-Putin Russian oligarch living in exile in London, found dead in what was deemed a suicide, not long after four of his British lawyers and three...
The series will chronicle Scotland Yard’s newly reopened investigations into 15 mysterious deaths that could underscore a diabolical Russian program.
Presented by Burrough, the series will explore a recent chain of bizarre deaths and assassination attempts, utilizing a network of exclusive sources, including widows and children, defectors and spies.
Following the March 2018 assassination attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal via a military-grade nerve agent, the British government is reviewing the cases of 15 suspicious deaths, none of which were originally classified as murders. The series aims to connect the dots between each death.
Cases also include Boris Berezovsky, an anti-Putin Russian oligarch living in exile in London, found dead in what was deemed a suicide, not long after four of his British lawyers and three...
- 7/17/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
“This is the price I had to pay for naively assuming I was merely a witness,” says filmmaker Vitaly Mansky toward the close of “Putin’s Witnesses,” his riveting, incensed documentary chronicling the early stages of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s tyrannical rule. Years after spending considerable time filming Putin at close quarters, in his capacity as head of documentaries for Russian national television, Mansky has evidently spent much time pondering his degree of complicity in the president’s toxic power — making “Putin’s Witnesses” not just a major, access-rich overview of recent history, but a compelling work of personal self-reckoning, one that should resonate with a broad swath of audiences at a time of international political questioning and activism.
One audience that probably won’t get to see the film, of course, is the one that needs it most. It’s hard to imagine “Putin’s Witnesses” seeing the light of day in Russia,...
One audience that probably won’t get to see the film, of course, is the one that needs it most. It’s hard to imagine “Putin’s Witnesses” seeing the light of day in Russia,...
- 7/6/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
BuzzFeed News announced Friday that it has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over information on the 2015 death of former Russian media czar Mikhail Lesin. Also Read: Trump Says Putin Would Prefer Hillary Clinton White House: 'I'm a Big Military Person' (Video) According to a 2016 report from the U.S. Department of Justice (Doj), Lesin was found dead in his hotel room at the Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 5, 2015. Lesin’s death was officially ruled an accident — the result of falling down drunk “after days of excessive consumption of alcohol.” But based on new evidence that.
- 7/28/2017
- by Ashley Eady
- The Wrap
A former Russian press minister and, until a year ago, head of Gazprom Media, the country's largest TV and media company, Mikhail Lesin, was found dead in a hotel room in Washington DC. He was 57. The body of Lesin was found in a room at the four star Du Pont Circle Hotel Thursday morning, according to reports by Russia Today (Rt) and Russian wire agencies. His death, according to family sources and the Russian embassy in Washington, was caused by a heart attack. No signs of foul play were found, although DC police have opened a formal “death investigation,” lieutenant Sean Conboy
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- 11/8/2015
- by Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The lawyer acting on behalf of the founder and former CEO of Qed International branded as ‘absurd’ on Wednesday evening the infringement and unfair competition lawsuit filed by the Qed principals.
Martin Singer issued a statement disputing claims in a filing earlier in the day by Qed Holdings co-CEOs Sasha Shapiro and Anton Lessine, asserting that Block never acted without the knowledge of the principals.
In a brief statement Block (pictured) said he had always acted in the interests of Qed, its employees and filmmakers and associates and expressed confidence he would be “completely vindicated.”
The statement by Singer read as follows:
“The claims asserted against Bill Block by Qed are ridiculous and have no merit, and we are confident that my client will prevail on Qed’s specious claims.
Nothing was done by Bill Block without the knowledge of Qed’s attorneys and principals.
The fact is that since 2014 Qed did not have the financial wherewithal...
Martin Singer issued a statement disputing claims in a filing earlier in the day by Qed Holdings co-CEOs Sasha Shapiro and Anton Lessine, asserting that Block never acted without the knowledge of the principals.
In a brief statement Block (pictured) said he had always acted in the interests of Qed, its employees and filmmakers and associates and expressed confidence he would be “completely vindicated.”
The statement by Singer read as follows:
“The claims asserted against Bill Block by Qed are ridiculous and have no merit, and we are confident that my client will prevail on Qed’s specious claims.
Nothing was done by Bill Block without the knowledge of Qed’s attorneys and principals.
The fact is that since 2014 Qed did not have the financial wherewithal...
- 4/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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