The Caviar Connection(La Diplomatie du caviar)

How do infamous dictatorships like Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan make themselves over publicly from closed despotic states to welcoming democracy-lite nations? Ruled by a handful of dynastic governing families and fuelled by the astonishing wealth of Caspian oil, these regions wield "caviar diplomacy," a specific brand of lobbying power that launders them from human rights abusers, suppressors of free speech and unchecked regimes into free-market partners and liberal government allies. In an investigative series first, renowned journalist Khadija Ismayilova reports from behind bars, blowing the whistle on who is purchasing the legitimacy of the world's democracies and at what scandalous costs.