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Foreign policy hands, and they were very dismissive of what happened in those meetings. by the way, i used to meet with a lot of russians as ambassador. and you can have frank, tough conversations. there is nothing wrong with that, but you need to push back on things that i think are wrong. but number two, i hope to goodness sakes that tomorrow they go out and at least meet some people in russian civil society, the opposition, you know for all of the difficulties on policy we had with congressma...

Jake. >> and, ivan, obviously the context here is important. a lot of putins critics, whether theyre politics or journalists have a curious habit of ending up dead. does she fear retribution for making the accusation shes making? >> reporter: you know, she said that every time -- she lives with their three children in virginia, by the way. she said that every time he would come back to russia to do opposition work, she was absolutely terrified, but she said that he was a russian patriot, he was ...

>> well, frankly, there is no other possible reason. i dont have any money dealings. i didnt have any personal enemies. i didnt steal anybodys wives, nothing like that. the only possible motive in my case is political activity. >> the political activity, particularly in a country which has, of course, jake, such a poor record, a terrible appalling record when it comes to killing critics of the kremlin. >> and he was friends with boris nimsov. he was one of russians high profile opposition leader...

Documentary coming nearly two years after the assassination of boris nimsov on that bridge just outside the kremlin walls. but, of course, he says himself hes a political activist. hes a kremlin critic. he heads the foundation to carry on the work of the assassinated politician. hes also sort of the face of one of the biggest political opposition groupings in russia as well called open russia. so, there are plenty of reasons why he could have been targeted in a country like that. >> matthew chan...