Meet Robert, Ukraine's best private detective, as he drives you round the beautiful Black Sea port of Odessa.This documentary, broadcast in February 2009 on Al Jazeera's 'Witness' strand, offers a unique view on daily life in post-Soviet Ukraine.

In 2006, whilst taking a Russian course in Odessa, director Raj Yagnik met Robert Papinyan and thought he'd make a good subject for an observational documentary.

The following year Grisha Rudko was sent out from Moscow to film Robert and the following "trailer" was cut - as a way of selling the film to a broadcaster.

The film was commissioned by Al Jazeera the following year.

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