Just as the Chernobyl series turned a known disaster into a global reckoning, Countdown to Power will drag the 1999 Russian apartment bombings out of the shadows into the world’s living rooms. For years, the truth has been buried in niche documentaries and specialist debates but only a scripted drama built on evidence and human stories, can shatter that wall of indifference force these events into the mainstream.
Just as the Chernobyl series turned a known disaster into a global reckoning, Countdown to Power will drag the 1999 Russian apartment bombings out of the shadows into the world’s living rooms. For years, the truth has been buried in niche documentaries and specialist debates but only a scripted drama built on evidence and human stories, can shatter that wall of indifference force these events into the mainstream.

Drama Miniseries

SYNOPSIS

Washington, D.C., 2007. The cameras are live. A U.S.
Congressional hearing room falls silent as Aliona Morozova,
a decorated U.S. Marine, takes the stand.

Years ago, she was a student in Moscow. In one night, her mother and home were obliterated in a blast.

The Kremlin blamed Chechen terrorists. Now Aliona looks the lawmakers in the eye: “This wasn’t terrorism. It was a government operation. Putin is not your partner. He is your enemy.”

Back in 1999, the American journalist David Satter and his friend Sergei Yushenkov — a Russian parliamentarian who risked everything to expose the truth. Together they followed the trail from the rubble of bombed apartment buildings to the Kremlin’s inner circle, where oligarch Berezovsky and an obscure ex-KGB officer Putin plotted to use fear as a political weapon. From Moscow’s morgues to State Duma confrontations, from tense encounters with FSB agents to hearings in Washington, David and Yushenkov race to prove the bombings were staged to ignite a new war and install Putin as president.

As the walls close in, Yushenkov is gunned down in Moscow. David returns to Washington, carrying his friend’s voice and Aliona’s story into the halls of power.

In the U.S., Michael McFaul becomes David’s opponent — an idealistic Russia expert and future U.S. ambassador to Russia — who believes that engagement, not confrontation, is the answer.

The fight is not only against a regime willing to murder its own citizens — it’s against the West’s willful blindness.

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WHY NOW

The apartment bombings that propelled Putin to power in 1999 were dismissed as a “training exercise” — now,
Ukraine’s shattered high-rises echo the same script, revealing those explosions were never just Russia’s tragedy, but were a rehearsal before the world’s nightmare.

Moscow 1999

Kyiv 2025

The fully realized multimedia ecosystem
is the factual basis for the miniseries.

Documentary 3×46

Play the Trailer  Play the Episode

We began with a pilot episode on the Kursk disaster because it was a purely technical catastrophe, yet Putin managed it with deception, cruelty, and complete indifference to the human cost. The other three tragedies unfolded on an even greater scale, shaping his image as a leader who could exploit crisis to cement power.

Documentary 3×46

Play the Trailer  Play the Episode

We began with a pilot episode on the Kursk disaster because it was a purely technical catastrophe, yet Putin managed it with deception, cruelty, and complete indifference to the human cost. The other three tragedies unfolded on an even greater scale, shaping his image as a leader who could exploit crisis to cement power.

Metaverse Extension

Play the Demo

Step into the evidence: an immersive metaverse reconstruction where users walk through the shattered remains of 1999 Russia, connect eyewitness accounts with classified documents, and build their own investigation boards in a digital replica of the cover-up that reshaped global power.

Interactive Museum

Play the Concept

An investigative museum without walls—explore declassified documents, personal testimonies, and forensic reconstructions in an interactive archive where every visitor becomes a researcher uncovering the truth behind Russia’s darkest political tragedies.

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