Maybe Putin wanted to fire Medvedev , but how is he supposed to do that after my film?

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia.

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

President Putin will run again in the 2018 election. He wants to be the czar of this new Russian empire that he is rebuilding. I think he is really obsessed with the idea.

We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people are put in jail because they liked something on the Internet.

Putin needs to terrorize his own elite. He is more afraid of those in his own surroundings than any protests; there are people there who are at least as critical as I am because they see up close that the system doesn't work. He wants to silence them.