and welcome to hermitage.s is my office now, it was my father's office for many years but historically it was the , office of the cabinet of ministers of the russian empire. the of ministers were here? mikhail: now it's a working office, and it is historical. the desk belonged to alexander iii. the belonged to tchaikovsky. this portrait is of catherine the great, our founder. this is the way of diplomatic gifts. this is how they are giving their portraits as diplomatic gifts. charlie: the queen and king. prince phillip. mikhail: the queen of the netherlands. these are old friends of hermitage. charlie: and there's the clock that tells us it's noon in moscow. mikhail: and there's a cannon. charlie: a cannon goes off at noon. and here -- may i take this? mikhail: sure. charlie: this is your father. yes, my father worked all his life in hermitage, 26 years as director but all his life, 70 , years, from young student to director. he was an archaeologist. great archaeologist. charlie: but your expertise is arab and

this is one of the inner parts of the hermitage. it's also the hermitage theater. there is a small theater in the hermitage which was for catherine the great, it was for 150 persons. >> rose: it was for she and her friends. >> she loved theater. she was writing for historical operas. >> rose: this is the museum. this is the museum. >> rose: with the saturday afternoon crowd. how many people on average. >> 3.5 million every year. the problem is most come in the summer. that's why there are so many. >> rose: as we do this in june, we have all the people who are away from school. >> exactly, from school. this is the room that's italian. this istthis is -- this is the n department. this is the peter and paul fortress. and the celebration of the niva. >> rose: this is the niva right here. >> one of the special features of hermitage, is it's not only one of the best collections, it's the best view from the windows in the world. (laughter) no other museum in the world has this. >> rose: you say that as the proud director of the hermitage. >> right. well... this is one of

welcome to hermitage. this is my office now, it was my father's office but historically it was the office of the cabinet of ministers of the russian empire. now it's to a -- now it's a working office, and it is historical. the desk belonged to alexander to alexander iii. he -- this belonged to tchaikovsky. this is the way of diplomatic gifts. they give portraits as diplomatic gifts. charlie: the queen and king. prince phillip. mikhail: the queen of the netherlands. friends of hermitage. charlie: and there's the clock that tells us it's noon in moscow. mikhail: and there's a cannon. charlie: a canon that goes off at -- a cannon goes off at noon. may i take this? this is your father. mikhail: yes, my father worked 26 his life in hermitage, years as direct york but all his life, 70 years, from young student to direct yomple he was an archaeologist. great archaeologist. charlie: but your expertise is arab and islamic art. mikhail: it is. charlie: and you took over from him at his death. mikhail: yes it was in

. >> the chief executive officer of the investment fund hermitage capital management went on a mission to avenge his lawyer's death. >> we knew who did it. we had all the evidence. >> browder pressured the u.s. congress to pass sanctions - the magnitsky act - to hold the russians accountable. and now he is working on a global version of the law. >> so to human rights violators from venezuela and kazakhstan and an-- anywhere. all bad guys should have a bad deal. they should all be scared of this stuff. >> the real-life russian thriller is an unlikely tale for the grandson of the communist party leader in the u.s. that is where we began our conversation when i met with bill browder in new york. >> you come from a family where your grandfather wasn't just a communist, he was possibly one of the biggest communists in america. >> yes. so-- so my grandfather, earl browder-- was a labor union organizer in wichita, kansas. and he was so good at organizing the union that in 1927 the international communist party said, "if you like labor unionism you're gonna love communism. why don't you come t

charged hermitage capital with tax fraud. most of browder's team fled russia except for his tax attorney sergei magnitski, he was taken from his home and jailed for over 400 days and then things turned tragic. >> they chained him to a bed and bead him until he died. >> the story doesn't end there. coming up how bill browder struck back in his own words. >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the sound bites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. >> we're talking russia, diplomacy and the deterioration of human rights under vladimir putin. before the break you heard the story of bill browder, a successful investor in russia but then he got kicked out of russia and his attorney was arrested. magnitsky died in 2009. i talked to browder about the guilt he feels over someone who was defending him. >> i thought to myself, how do we get justice outside russia? if something like this

the russian interior ministry raided the funds moscow offices and charged hermitage capital with taxraud. most fled cents for his tax attorney, sergey manifski, taken from his home and jailed for almost 400 days and then things turned tragic. >> they chained him to the bed and eight riot guards came into that cell and beat him until he died. >> you can watch ali velshi "on target" at 10:30 eastern here on al jazeera america. there is a new startup company some are chauling the uber of the skies and like uber, the company faces legal hurdle did. in this case, the battle is with the agency that protects air safety. jacob ward reports from san francisco. >> as a college student, matt vaska who flew planes in illinois spotted what he considered a wasted resource. >> look at the number of airports that commercial planes fly to. it's about 500 in the united states. if you are looking at general aviation, you are going to 5,000. so, it's a 10 x improvement of places you can go to. >> vaska knew about the informal process of offering a ride in the plane for the exchange of gas money. it's a