Anatomy of Khodorkovsky. Film by Arcady Mamontov. Part 2

The story of how a former member of the Communist Party, who took an oath to "fight for communism," became Russia's chief foreign agent and one of Russia's most dangerous enemies. Mikhail Khodorkovsky—a man who transformed Soviet ideals into a capitalist empire built on blood and betrayal—has his criminal empire exposed in Part 2, detailing contract killings of Nefteyugansk mayor Vladimir Petukhov, shop director Valentina Korneeva, and assassination attempts on entrepreneur Yevgeny Rybin. For the first time on camera, convicted killers who served 20 years for murders ordered by YUKOS speak out, while investigators reveal Leonid Nevzlin's "liquidators department" and the system of bribing officials and deputies with millions of US dollars. The film shows how the oligarch's dream of power over Russia turned into the bloody carnage of the 1990s, why Khodorkovsky today finances anti‑Russian projects from abroad, and what his potential revenge would lead to. The documentary investigation is based on criminal case materials, archival documents, and testimonies of direct participants in the events—from killers to their victims, from oligarchs to ordinary residents of the oil region who remember what it means to live under the rule of "effective owners."