Hello and from the late 20th century, Tutu, Pinochet and Khodorkovsky.

On Pinochet we hear from a British advisor who helped with his image while he was under arrest

in Britain in the 1990s.

I did like him and I respected him because he was a he was a

very religious man he was very old-fashioned he was an army officer from

1936 and he was a man that commands respect on Desmond Tutu how his enthronment as Archbishop of Cape Town helped to change South Africa's

history.

We have another holy man, a Polish priest who has made a saint after volunteering to die in Auschwitz. Plus Nigeria transformed in the 1950s by

oil.

Equatorial Africa is the latest scene of the unending search for oil, the black gold of modern industry and transport.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But we begin this week in the dramatic and potentially dangerous years that followed the collapse of

communism in the Soviet Union. The new Russia that emerged in the 1990s turned out

to be something of an economic wild west where a favoured few managed to acquire vast personal

wealth by grabbing chunks of the newly privatised state industries.

But those favoured few also found themselves treading a delicate path when it came to the politics of post-communist Russia.

In 2003, the richest man in Russia was arrested.

Mikhail Khodokovsky was at that point the owner of the

Yukos Oil Company. He spent 10 years in jail but he now lives in London and

he's been speaking to Dina Newman about what happened.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's arrest changed the speaking to Dean and Newman about what happened.

Mikhailadarkovsky's arrest changed the balance of power between Russia's tycoons of whom Mr.

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