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for centuries the kremlin chimes have been counting the hours and minutes and marking changing times india as for those who don't know or maybe have forgotten i will remind you that the times india is change surprisingly regularly in 20th century russia. in 1917 the bolsheviks overthrew the czar and replaced him with a communist government for the following 70 years. then in 1991 after michel gorbachev's perestroika reforms the russian people overthrew the reds and voted boris yeltsin in as president in the country's 1st democratic elections. however with freedom came the economic crisis and the 1st chechen war whilst yeltsin was anointed modern day czar and then his health start. to fail.

this is how russia entered the new century and the new millennium. being a documentary film director i recorded what was going on around me. this film is my personal witness testimony about the events of one single mum enters year. from the 31st of december 1999 to the 31st of december 2000.

for the freedom of russia also responsible for the freedom of the media. we. didn't win the freedom of the media will be guaranteed. but. people are really curious they've all gathered here. well and share press freedom. of nobody appreciates the freedom in this country. you know jim was told we know you are wrong we do appreciate it thank you k.k. . by nightfall all the key figures in the campaign had gathered in the campaign office. it's important i introduce them to you. live on. less than russia's minister of press broadcasting and mass communications and owner of the country's largest advertising agency his ministry supervised all the t.v.

channels in russia either directly or indirectly. gleb tough love the former soviet dissident and chief political adviser in the kremlin in the early years of putin's rule 12 years after putin became president he joined the opposition. senior palmarejo over the former head of channel one russia and deputy head of putin's campaign office she joined the opposition shortly after the election and died in 2016 at the age of 54. mikhail kasyanov prime minister of russia during putin's 1st term also later went into opposition he was persecuted and publicly humiliated after a t.v. show screened a hidden shooting of his intimate life. as

lobster or cough was the kremlin's main ideology. just and held senior positions between 2002013 he was demoted after putin returned for his 3rd term in office. you're in reality in your musharraf was boris yeltsin's chief of staff in the 1st person yeltsin spoke to after the election results were announced in 2002 you much have merit yeltsin's daughter tatiana. anatoly to beis was co-leader of the union of right forces in parliament and one of the architects of economic reform in russia as well as a close associate of boris nemtsov after putin's fast term his party lost all its seats in parliament and went into opposition.

wasn't really good. as all of the. issues others fish. you know. only. you know. well talk. to me all those. it. was usually. enough where. it was not only company should buckle it both me. if you want to be here with.

your. illegal. not yet absolutely what you are to me is no sleep when you will have considered that if you want to hit. me a little bit of a bludgeon you could lose it when you mean. you want to. meet him in a very you know you don't wish. you should know. who to do you do with him you. really should do we. should know that i was but then there was nothing and we think i do not. know if you. still are. not serious. here with.

the press conference is great these are great words to take them down congratulations well now we should we should have a drink. with your oh let's have a drink and then get to bed for we should toast chorus you. on the way there is always why it is good warriors are as useless as. washington. and they'll ask. the council who will serve us there are no waiters here every single thing is there was a. mistake on my sleeve like you say we can serve ourselves like always there is a meeting tomorrow at 10 it would be more looks a little girl would know. where you're from. i belong to the people. what do you mean the people. all the people are us the

electorate it's the same with you wasn't serious and unfortunately not all of us can gather here and some people are sitting up or down stairs. where there's no table like this so they're sitting at their p.c.'s mark with the solution i'm just but their enthusiasm is obvious and i'll ask dimitri on a told you which to think everyone once again has. more you mention. sometimes she says the same goes for everyone gathered here. now it's name of you prove it. not me some do you know we didn't always agree but in fact which everything was developed step by step little by little noticeable aiming at the result we're currently moving closer towards. the end solution at least in the canal you know it's a. struggle. so i want to thank you all and congratulate you. you know. but at the moment to trust but verify this is your success because there

is so much. also that her re already sounds a bit hoarse that's because we're all tired it was a great effort now will get a 2nd wind. possible thank you and see you tomorrow. on . the t.v. set in the campaign headquarters was tuned to n.t.v. just a year later russia's best channel would be broken up and nationalized in me. as you say it was for the right to shoot you know not cool you only hear.

them it's like whoa there you are listening to this. because you know sir you. are just like you're. the baby it's just awful it isn't a good place if you are fortunate. that our software which is very secure. even now looking through the footage hi can hear boris nemtsov voice coming from the t.v. against the hubbub in the windows campaign headquarters i turn up the volume. and. classifies it so thank you for your ship cool to look cool because of the up question whether it's a distinctness i think you are looking a little bit ourselves so you care superior to syria you can post mission of your little conscience or news just into the work of others so are you still just

a ghost a lister on the actual use of personal work towards you to build a computer for reading worthless novels it is your visitors to use in the world you would need to use to communicate because we're not up to the surface but you can use words that are the governors who put the border into our center which was of course in the last year of the national student governor just a little still in the depths of the never used to do list new service ever since a certain new year to which was the result of. that tomorrow was to stretch out for many years in the autumn of 2015 the body of the millionaire mccann lesson was found with head injuries in a cheap hotel in washington d.c. it was a very different picture. and in the winter of that same year sauf who had joined the opposition to putin was shot right on to the

walls of the kremlin strangely enough most of the people who worked for putin's victory in. stood shoulder to shoulder with him when he was elected have today either gone into opposition or been dismissed like alexander voloshin the kremlin chief of staff and even putin's wife looked miller whom he divorced. and the only person still with him at least for now is dmitri medvedev who became interim president of russia between putin 2nd and 3rd terms. that amir putin took power like a hot knife slicing through butter co-opting a submissive state operators ready and waiting to follow its new leader all the other state was as yet still unfamiliar with the concept of vertical power the

subordination of everything from parliament to the economy to one single command center was already going into high gear. although the oligarch mikhail khodorkovsky hadn't been imprisoned yet and n.t.v. was still daring to criticize the president as for example over his handling of the loss of the cursed nuclear submarine it was already becoming quite obvious that it was better not to cross the president the ghosts of the past were reappearing and trying to make up for what had been lost in the present soon of ladysmith putin the president of the russian federation would call the collapse of the soviet empire the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. meanwhile i went on shooting my film which was now about the elected president followed by a film about life in the kremlin it seemed that nothing radically changed during

the 1st year of putin's presidency just details and nuances that seemed insignificant at 1st glance. for example the president signed a federal law returning the banner of victory over fascism to the army. well what bana did they hoisted over the reichstag in 1985 the red soviet flag of course with its stock hammer and sickle and although the trickle i was still the national flag of russia the presidential card swore allegiance to the red flag of our old soviet home that.

the new president also brought a new inner circle to the kremlin. putin's former deputy in some petersburg became one of its main figures it was said chin who was seen as the prime mover in bringing the business community to heel and imprisoning mikhail khodorkovsky. said she would take over as head of rosneft the oil company that swallowed up khodorkovsky as you cos after his arrest.

see. exactly how do you know them because. i'm going to be going to all of us are you with us i'm sure she was going to talk about. the news after the. movie so you see. my work resulted in an official film that was aired on russian state t.v.

on the 1st anniversary of putin's presidency and the shown in many countries of the world. even today i'm not ashamed of it in fact it seems to have matured and shows a lot that had gone unnoticed at the time however i am still being asked if anything was left on the cutting room floor it was for example this. so you turned on your camera again you know you're going is going to have. about the way people live. recently i was in the end and some woman not get elderly but also not young said to me. give us back our old life. you the way it was 20 years ago. what can you say to that it's impossible to get anything back if you're losing and you can either recover your youth nor bygone things and you will lose you know moreover if we try to return to that we have to seize the

moment but we will definitely destroy everything over to her to ensure that people aren't doing worse than they did before you look better. that is something we can do human rights. it would sustain so this is such a candid conversation so i cannot help but ask why did you restore the old soviet tantum. and if this is connected with what i just said to me one issue. it is necessary to restore the citizens confidence in the establishment yeah. well . that woman who said we should give back her old life the way it was 20 years ago . people shouldn't feel that they are being deprived of something. she has to grow old but we have to live on. this. was the number yes you're right we have to live on.

the why do you think we should live with this music rather than that. solution when we listen to the anthem written by alexander why can't we think about our victory in world war 2 rather than the gulag. why should we necessarily associate this music with the worsening aspects of life during the soviet period i mean. i think. with that conversation about the anthem i was trying to find out why putin thought the state should return to the past at all especially when today's russia still has not yet come to terms with it. but if i told you it would hardly be possible to restore things. but it's really important to sense that the majority of the population has a certain nostalgia. you must not deprive people of everything. this is the moral aspect and. this is what i think about when i remember my parents but this was part

of their lives do we just dump it all on the scrap heap of history as if they hadn't lived at all and yet would be very cruel towards our parents so that is at least one reason. i didn't. you know the sort of what i'm certainly going to like. that produced the divorce medical but i'm. pretty sure that's what you would look unsubtle there is certain as worship not sitting outside of the tourists who. don't wash your car for a fortune 5 years ago your student was out of. the us it was a good recruiting. effort. this all castro under the supervision of the film director nikita mikhail called fantasia's father surrogate who wrote the lyrics for 2 soviet anthems is working hard to record new fashions of the former soviet and present russian anthems well that's again by mikhail cough sr. and that the will.

go to person never that is. what it is going to stabilize him. my job would be every bit of. the o.-o. . o. o.-o. was told is the most rigid we can just watch over its natural. course of motivation to portion of. the schtick some but it really seems to have 'd moved interest jeff's on the suspicion in the running underworld. yes that is if you see it in

your own nuking clue for instance if the fullest. system is new and it's a really good. so we believe this movie is we sure it was in the.

slum. well scientists have some. really good. teachers that you know something of. an unexpected morning call from the kremlin brought me back to the president's office if you can believe it hello you again with the silly camera the careful the cameras on it would seem to me if. i wanted to have a heart to heart talk strictly speaking i thought i could take the liberty of talking about it. i do not know what your goals are and i won't interfere in the creative process. do things as you see fit i'm not trying to impose anything on you at the sleeve which i just want to state my point of view and you can decide

whether you use that or not. so about a conversation about the end of the. 30000000 bits of the me why haven't we returned to the old melody by alexander city crucially unfortunately many people don't understand is that we and it's strange that there is such a misunderstanding as we should have. been i do not know if i managed to convey this yesterday in what was more or less a formal conversation. so there. was an issue of the emergence of let's say the restoration of the ashram way the soviet melody and gives additional bonuses to someone involved in politics in respect of increased ratings or public confidence. this is necessary in order to achieve anything that those that you must be able to rely on the population is trust. of course you can always argue about the ways to make that happen and choose the best option. what happens if there is a dispute with your thora tis with

a president it's very simple there are instruments of democracy a lot of people have signed a petition against the anthem like the conscience of the nation so to speak. this conscience does not feel for the tragedy that the people are going through. it was signed by people who do 10 who voted for you. you understand whenever i have to make certain decisions some people including the ones who voted for me will always say that they are wrong so i believe i have to explain my motives to everyone simply everyone him and then act as i deem necessary with us who are. used to it. so you're not afraid you will lose some of that trust by taking tough decisions that will some with a view. on you i think it's obvious that the decision should be taken in the interests of the state regardless of whether they provoke a positive or

a negative reaction. you have to understand that. if you can see here you can agree or disagree but you really must understand that if you really think about it you absolutely see you're already wavering you know i know what you want me to say that i'm wavering on was the. norm but this is a matter that could have been put on hold for now like the issue with lennon in the mausoleum. in the. issue of the labor code could also been put off. couldn't tell you need. to that's your opinion others think that land reform could have been put off a little when they said that there was no need to introduce a new land code of what people like that exist to do you think they're less important than those who do not want to have the old anthem back it would mean that you get when you get your. and if the politics is the art of the

possible the art of possible compromises isn't it. yes it is although that's a nice phrase that you can use whenever whenever you need to fill a part of. the movies you said it was a compromise. yes to a certain extent it is a compromise. but it still. certainly looks like a compromise to continue state of. things but. nevertheless these are meaningful actions to achieve a position which you can rely on to solve substantive tasks in the reconstruction of the state and the modernisation of the economy so that you. can say i can't disagree with that argument you see we're already moving closer. but only with this argument before positions are moving closer and yet you say people

can't be persuaded. i don't know why putin needed to convince me his decision was right when it was already impossible to restore the anthem wasn't anyone left to disagree with him are you concerned you haven't persuaded everyone of the correctness of this decision that if you cannot persuade everyone unfortunately it's impossible 140000000 people because you can't discuss things with everyone in person yet although i think i'd be able to if i could only it's not possible. well you should say no offense but i still don't share your opinion about the on some. pity. on the 31st of december 2000 exactly a year had passed since the resignation of boris yeltsin and the appointment of vladimir putin as his successor.

was. oh yeah. oh. yeah. oprah. for the. news. you want scientists and. words are they to get this interview. or will. it will hear.

some more good stuff you're going. to eat. polluting got his sea legs quickly enough and increasingly distanced himself from his mental. issues in the field of the book when he could have played them he didn't like them in person the point was that we brits are the truth as they should be mad at me but he not as a critic of the critique of the and put it it's not really that the director but i think it's become into the flow of books. during the year after his resignation boris yeltsin rediscovered the original meaning of the word family you're just 3 minutes to midnight to the let's drink to the outgoing yet the bush and putin did

not deliver the it would mean that by the way this is the 1st year that it's been more or less peaceful there's none of the yearning of the previous 10 years the feeling of thank god it's over with here dear relatives records are dear friends and so on. tonight. hearing out the old year and ringing in the new you know i'm sure that for this country. would be upcoming year will be better than the old one. will be better it's a view and yet we are ringing in. our rather and bringing out the old year with a certain sense of loss so i never had. this one for. somebody.

home with the world. to see. it. through to the. heat. with. me. all the words. i did they were still the anthem without your knowledge even the new lyrics couldn't save it. presents redish. i felt this word reddish which embodied all the bitterness of this reanimation of the soviet past also became a valedictory sign for me yeltsin died in the 7th year of that amir putin's

presidency. but. so. does the president have a say over a lot of things. certainly the head of state has a say over many things. certain functions of the president are laid down by the law they are very comprehensive and presidential powers may become the determining factor for forming these functions correctly but you have enough as a rule to be just far as things i have been planning are concerned i basically managed to meet the goals i've set for myself. it was the ability to see because of it was. just what is your attitude towards the all embracing unity of the nation under the guidance of the wise visionary and just that it may have putin do what you should. trust him to and i sense a slight irony in your question. so if anything everything we used to call extreme

in this sense it certainly doesn't help but rather for. use to buy anything so all the bustling monuments and other elements of our talk receive left over from the past and cannot release everyone but they are very difficult to counter the most attention to the shall we go if. i admit despite the fact that this was only the 1st year of putin's rule all my questions were already raising issues of succession of power imperial ambitions and autocracy although there was no obvious reason for this and if you listen to believe what putin said then you should have had no reason whatsoever to worry about russia's future. we do washing the beats and getting out of the car and buying

a mug of beer is quite difficult as you can probably guess because you're always on the move you don't. a lot of people around you it's not so. much with someone so there's a problem with the traffic just if i get out of the car and start drinking beer thousands will wait for the motorcade to pass and nothing good will come of it he should you be so you're so sure just that but i still got attention to a lot of this is just the simplest example that some of us put everything is like that but most of. the why would you like that. let me use your alternate yes and i would yes i do believe that the day will cause when i'll be able to return to a normal life i want since i do believe that someday i'll have a future as a private citizen from with that i'll be engaged in some other activity and will live the life of a normal person anymore she did not mention. oh well these are wonderful but stay foster a certain optimism and don't accumulate. was not something you should know i don't

sense any irony in what you say but of new york's true and i'll tell you why you know what you have to do it's very important at the expense goes with this by the way as we are returning to your question about whether it wouldn't be better to step into the shoes of a moderately issuance of him on a. regular 1st of all the money on the life of a monarch is quite complicated she'll survive but monarchs quite often in recent years in various parts of the world during official visits just give them hope and it's only reasonable and i can say that their faith does not inspire me at all or at least i would not like to experience anything like that although some of them tell you. the mother comes this is just there life is hard and full of restrictions meaning you could lose that seat even though they don't belong to themselves it was in the sea. well that's their destiny but also most of the. reason that it's forever is one of the with the muslims in this respect not an elected head of state has a better life than those since it gives you

a chance to prove yourself in the greatest need to eat and service to the motherland with a maximum effort. posters already have been stolen but have the same toxic nobody gives you an opportunity to live a normal life after uniforms or official duties after the elder term signable mean then you don't let your constantly being reminded that you're terminal and one day . you have your nose know what she did not manage look at you notice the book and you will know it 1st of all have to live a life of a normal person to learn as they used to say in a way you want to shamed oh. well i was more than. normal so i'm so that you can address people openly in your new position without of hurting your game yesterday close to you but don't eat yourself and one more thing is very important it is necessary to understand that you will live as a normal citizen even if you know that in a few years time and often you'll be confronted with everything you do with the states or in the society now as an ordinary citizen she was just going to get in

there we're going to go on you. it's a good just mentioned the seriousness of all it's a good thing to remember that before taking any decision rather than yielding to monarchical initials look so. that he just member it's very good here to show. us how we perhaps all put a camera down inside his offscreen huge as you can see. he said look if you do exactly as you are saying you will do now it will become a pledge of homes where the future for both the country and you pass an early plea deal was reached the more you're going to storm of discussing never goes right but as i'm telling you just as a coach i've sat and thought what a rack my brains about how it should be there is to do it don't think about how your children will that if you think how the children of your friends and relatives will live with it how you will have to stop what kind of country it will be. to city as new recruits and this is a serious issue most probably the source of all the advantages of democracy cup

going to stumble a bit i don't know it would be rash one of the reasons why to mark. it seems that democracies are more resilient you go back to. the market you immigrate to you know to put it should be with you. more goes no idea what to say now so let's keep our fingers crossed and 2 thumbs up. when you. look at the going to get. you know.

who to instill rules russia a lot has happened over the years he's been in power the end of the war in chechnya and the beginning of the chechen wars in moscow the olympics and doping scandals the crimea and the war in ukraine and a growing confidence and getting kicked out of the g 8 war over there was any gratian imprisonments and the deaths of those who try to speak out against putin and there was also the price i had to pay for naive li assuming i was just a witness life has proven that tacit consent turns witnesses into accomplices so we all voluntarily became hostages of the very person who was leading us towards a glorious future that ultimately came to echo the dark past. the.

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where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship of just one to the shadow and a few newspapers when official information as a journalist i had worked off the streets of many can trust and their problems are always the same 14 social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption who can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jen paris and i work a day dalin. please

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