Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club and Tufts Amnesty International for a film screening of the documentary Tango with Putin, also known as F@ck This Job (2022). The presentation will be followed by a conversation with the film’s director, Vera Krichevskaya, the co-founder of Dozhd TV (TV Rain), and Natalya Sindeeva, the founder, main owner, and chief executive officer of Dozhd (TV Rain) Media Holding. The event is open to the public. Please make sure to register via myFletcher to participate in the event in person.

Natasha, 35, is a newly rich, successful woman who is looking for fame, reputation, and dreams to come true. She decides to launch an independent television station in Putin’s Russia in 2008. Natasha hires opposition reporters, minorities, and LGBTQ people. Soon her “baby” becomes the lone island of political and sexual freedom. For 12 years, Dozhd TV (TV Rain) was the only independent news television station in Russia. In 2008, Natasha could not have known she would fight on the frontlines of the war between truth and propaganda, losing all her money and her motherland. The television channel was shut down by the Russian government on the sixth day of the war in Ukraine, March 1, 2022. But it is not the end of the story.

Speakers:

Natalya Sindeeva is the founder, main owner, and chief executive officer of Dozhd (TV Rain) Media Holding, which includes Dozhd TV (TV Rain) and the Republic.ru online magazine. She is also the co-founder and former general producer of the Silver Rain radio station, and the founder of the Silver Galosh anti-award. She is a three times laureate of the “Media Manager of Russia” prize and an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Radio. In 2016, Sindeeva became a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for the Protection of Human rights.

Vera Krichevskaya is the co-foudner of Dozhd TV (TV Rain), Russia, the only independent news TV station in Russia. Krichevska graduated from St. Petersburg Theatre and Film Academy in 1997 and is a multi award winning TV Director: 1996 – 2002 NTV Channel, TV Director, and Producer, Senior Director; 2005 – 2007 ICTV Channel, Ukraine, Senior Director and Senior Producer of weekly Political Talk Show “Freedom of speech.” 2008 – 2011 she was a Senior Producer, co-founder of Dozhd TV (TV Rain); 2011 – 2012 Senior (founding) Producer of 24DOC TV Channel; 2012 The Citizen Poet, Documentary, director and author, theatre and DVD release; 2016 The Man Who Was Too Free, Documentary, director, co-author and co-producer, theatre release (Russian Documentaries’ box office Number One in Russia during the last 20 years); 2019 The Case, Documentary, director, and co-author. Finally in 2021 F@ck This Job (‘Tango with Putin’ – BBC title), Documentary, UK – Germany.