Adam Smith Russia: Threat or Promise? RUSSIA: THREAT OR PROMISE. A fascinating, disturbing and absorbing one hour public TV special. Brought to you by Adam Smith Global Television - the inside scoop on the outside world. Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, has been in office just over a year. Is he a democrat or an autocrat? Where is he leading his country? He is young and fit. He could be in power for many years. Will Putin's Russia be a friend or foe? BATTLE FOR FREEDOM: Go behind the scenes of the epic battle for control of Russia's only independent TV station - NTV. A litmus test of Putin's democratic intentions. RUSSIAN ROULETTE:Tramp the snowy Moscow sreets with an American entrepreneur playing for high stakes in one of the most hostile business climates in the world. YELTSIN'S CHILDREN: Meet Russia's surprising Generation Y - full of hope, oblivious to the Soviet past. Rockers with their very Russian MTV. Budding Kournikova's at glittering tennis camps for kids. Future tycoons at Russia's answer to the Harvard business school. MEETING MR. BIG: Up close with Robber baron Boris Berezovsky - Russia's richest, most feared and most hated man. With the continuing danger of assassination, he nevertheless wields vast power from his self- imposed exile in the South of France. Adam Smith comes face to face with Russia's "Mister Big." These are some of the highlights of Adam Smith's brilliant portrait of Russia today. Look for supplementary material in the Adam Smith bookstore and on the show's transcript page. The name Adam Smith and the logo of Adam Smith are marks Registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Copyright ©2000 Adam Smith Educational Productions Ltd.

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