so staying home, i bracing for record breaking quick temperatures. if you're not bottled up, love love to have life or a booth. probably some under selma long johns or whatnot. you will be called. the storm is sweeping through the fennel united states and heading east forecasters one millionth more will 5th, harsh weather. in the coming days. external documentary looks at the rise of russian president vladimir putin. i've been for solon, enjoy your christmas, terry not we'll have your news. ne, south of i revert to understand that globalization work, but it is not reach more than 30 percent of the world population in the mediterranean as become a kind of great sarcophagus. if anything he was proud of, it was to be a steel worker who had to win as

a news. where do we stand? starts january 5th on d, w. ah, for centuries the kremlin chimes have been counting the hours and minutes and mocking, changing times and eras. for those who don't know, maybe half forgotten, i will remind you that the times and deer is changed surprisingly regularly in 20th century russia. in 1917, the bolsheviks overthrew the czar and replaced him with a communist governments for the following 70 years. then in 1991 after may, shall gorbachev's perestroika reforms. the russian people overthrew the reds and voted boris yeltsin in as president. in the countries fast democratic elections.

however, with freedom came the economic crisis, and to fast chechen war 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, momentous. from the 31st of december, 1999 to the 31st of december. 2000

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present, have you the old has no present loads, but lucas sang sousa, the songs with lyrics. the so lucian, natalia, any success with the television? i really gum. yeah. nothing to add new content around with feel she bought a new year present for everyone. but what about you all look at you. dear. yeah, no, it's a more sure. he's to store you school. shamrock bush. john. yeah. to proceed. oh, i'll address the people at midnight. he returned. stop it, let me relax. why you stalking me? her mom, stop it with long hours.

oh, easy. oh, oh. oh, oh, oh, dear. oh, there is no loose year. i opened the door. would you do me free? get lost with your camera. this is my chronicle. no vulgar enough harassing us with your chronicle. leave us alone. we human beings to a v. tony. it's enough that it's getting on my nerves. i cannot. you know what happened? i yes, but why are you shooting me over? well, i'm about to burst into tears. i believe that the time has come with me. would you like me to say something high? flown in front of a camera? please?

i told you i'm shocked. i have not got the firm hand that the people are so fond of, again, that those let's see how he'll tyson this cruise. it's awful. we'll look back on yelton's time as a time of happiness. we'll think it was like, utopia, you still don't you agree to some of the, i do, you know, so why are you, you talk to me that the, but i think it's a nightmare. all our utopia is all of a sudden gone. you will become of us will begin to go to there hasn't ever been a president like the new one is a grey mouse here. blue girl you oh, i know what it does he take on new year's eve, who has now who'll address us at midnight at support and well more new generation is coming. you let's just fail me. mute the road will be afraid of us again with

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starting that a year to see him that he said he should say we're going to me. i was looking at a business going with this with this kid is 3. he said, to say it's a little, but he didn't finish. jeremy putin took the russian federation over from boris yeltsin, who stepped down voluntarily. he took it over, complete with its constitution, national flag, and anthem, the basic symbols of the new and democratic russia that had replaced the old soviet symbols left in the past. together with the soviet union, seemingly for good. the shift in power on new year's eve. moreover, during the transition to the new millennium was a really clever move. following a long standing tradition, the whole state drifted into a state of rampant revelry and was incapable of a so by analysis of what was actually happening

at the same time, russians was supposed to get used to the idea of the new president. during these very days, i started shooting a payoff film that was supposed to be used in putin selection campaign. this will do it this way. the one will order you about a little bit about your permissions. jerry, i'm under one more so much of the footage was taken from my old film about putin, the audience back then. note is trivial. details such as the watch on his right rest rather than listening to what he was actually saying. but looking back over those shots to day, i noticed that even as acting president put him was already clearly embodying traits that some worship and others demonize some a bullish debility store. our main goal is to make people believe in everything we

say and do that. ours is a heartfelt position, though every dictated only and solely by considerations of the national interests fall into it. just that one of the was, this is the key to success. if people believe that that's the main thing that was did you get that the task is to convince the russian people that national interests are more important than those of the individual? meanwhile, his electioneering was in full swing, even though he wasn't publicly campaigning at all. he was just omnipresent on all the tv channels. everybody reported to him on t. v. governor's army and security people work collectives, rural labor as children and old folks. and everybody was happy about him, which partially reflected the actual state of affairs. and his technologists skilfully modified his image from that of the thumb hand to

a glad hand if with anybody they could do just a glitch glove again as you can. doris loved you, which it bundled with me. it was nothing. it wasn't however, the key element in his campaign was the importance of the army and the threat to russia. security, so put in naturally spent defender of the fatherland day in the hero, city vulgar grant, talking to the veterans of the long past battle of star in grad, and then promptly on all the russian tv channels. turned the spotlight on to the heroes of the new victorious war in chechnya.

ah lockwood easy with 2 and a half months of non existent electioneering went according to plan. putin managed to visit to almost all the regions of the state. and on the 8th of march international women's day, the acting president who was at the same time a candidate for the presidency, made a rather symbolic trip to the women's capital of russia. the city of weavers, yvonne, nova. and of course, he was accompanied by teams from all the principal tv channels.

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as far as i remember by the 8th of march 2018 days before the election, the general mood in the country was that it was all a foregone conclusion. by the end of the election campaign, even the candidate himself didn't hesitate to admit it was the quality of these thoughts? are you going to have it again? will you participate in any tv debates? with it is my opinion that people involved in practical activities, either in parliament or in the authorities, had to prove their competence with practical deeds rather than tv spots or any other advertising devices or means of the so called tv debate is one of the tv campaign spots even more so that's advertising. oh, you don't need to find out from the election campaign whether tam packs or sneakers

are more important. so i won't be doing it all that was true. put in didn't sink to the level of campaign spots or t v debates. as far as i remember, all the other candidates did take part in debates, but mainly to emphasize their closeness to put in himself. it's time to win. this phrase turned into pollutants campaign slogan. but i personally think, as i assume the majority of russians did that the beginning of putin's campaign really dated back to a time long before he was made acting president. you can actually fix the day, our and even minute on the 8th of september 1999 at 1159 p. m. a block of flats in

a sleepy suburb of moscow was blown up with the explosive ardie axe, killing many of its residents. the same thing happened 5 days later, and then a rash of explosions broke out all over the country. i very well remember how military patrols began to appear in the buildings and on the city streets. the country was gripped by fear prompted by the intense media coverage. the man in the street started a clamor, louder and louder calling for a thumb hand. vladimir putin had been appointed as prime minister 22 days before the fast explosion. he was the 6th prime minister of yelton's administration,

so his ratings were almost 0, irrespective of who was behind them, the explosions appeared to benefit him. and over the next 7 months, his ratings grew to 50 percent. his famous quote will rub them out in the outhouse, became a new symbol of the time. ah, at the end of one working day, putin accepted an offer to go to the site of the 1st block of flats that had been blown up in moscow. begin by you here for the 1st time just to be clear. neither then nor now did i actually believe putin was personally

involved in the bombings of these blocks of flats. but an attempt by f as be offices to plant similar sacks of the audio, ex explosive, in the basements of a block of flat scenery. as anne came out by accident, and led to some serious questions for the authorities. to quickly the millennium. here vladimir, of ich, do you believe at the end justifies the means syllable, their aims to they justify the means. what do you want me to, to reach the aims of the terrorist? yes. can you check down us with vicious for that i do not believe any sane person can ever choose to commit such an act to blow up a building with people in it. innocent people. so at night moving close. neither i yeah. you are. it's really,

it's beyond me though it's unbelievable. just unbelievable laziness. it's in human cruelty. is the lesson of financial thinking with us we must understand that we can only cover this with force wise. we won't, we won't safeguard our state and protect our people just the way you were doing social fit, the regular teacher did you when you're going to just only expect it to work with the state school uniform, which is good. i do just have to go through it. she's done. what do you do?

have a good you thought that with another i knew really italian . let's go. do you really think we have to vote for? yes, i do. even if nothing depends on us, at least we won't be voting for the communism. so it won't matter to tell unless so anyway it's, it's, it's, it's important to us because it's the 1st time we've been able to do it as registered voters. before that we were nothing. okay, let's go and load it. huh.

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daniel to feel about that. it is with the other with admission that they need to go to building the pres, let the polling station with boot and just one french journalist stayed behind to interview the former president of the u. s. s r mikhail gorbachev. who came to cost his ballot with his daughter and grand daughter. may i ask who you will vote for a white and sake?

are you voting to gorbachev didn't tanza i didn't, but having cost his boat, he couldn't resist having a drink with his former colleagues. yes, natalia wants to play. she did with ya, but i just, i just wanted to say that i am proud that i was the 1st to speak at the congress school. i said the president of the ussr should be elected immediately and that should be only one candidate. we all remember more and with, oh,

i know they tried to persuade me, they should, you should agree for 2 or 3. is it with another you wanna make a segue of which you could have agreed to become the president for 15 years i've met you that will full, then this post should have been introduced to to and i would still be general secretary. let me go over with you. when i get sick, i'm see deal with a program with you to see what you were your, just like napoleon, stories at 1st elected 1st console for 4 years and then for life goals and then i'll finish inhaler the fellow who but it, it it. meanwhile, boris yeltsin was surrounded by his family and waiting for the 1st election results . but by the other,

he could use these means my daily routine must certainly change or so, you know, at the glucose that has already the li, near the constant pressure and i screwed up the shaft, all of russia on your shoulders every hour, every day, the problems are pressing something has happened year or their decisions have to be taken at thousands of papers signed daily, thousands to thousands. the space. it's a constant pile of the cold. it's a hell of a java a. what does it has? it's just right now. it's not pressing any more to push to not lose just the routine work lived on. and now the burden is on vladimir bloody mirror of each protein. it says, you know, the, you know, horrible. i gave him a 6 month head start on purpose for one. so that after being elected,

who's in today's go to, he could make use of the experience he had gained as acting president obama was put on a good piece. panell business, in other words, says head of his russian governor, article hostile to laughable of toner. so that was the import, those have the decision i took on december 31st, 1999 with up to be sure they're still reproaching or you could be talking about a protege or something or some chip. but yeah, when you acted so decently well, but i feel addressing the people and telling them watch him to sign so they could evaluate his work that that thing he did this motion, it was all done. so democratically and honestly, i was amazed. she asked me what you would kill hewitt agent who was wrong. his ratings rose from 2 to 50 percent. right. yeah. you know it. oh, buckle. it was all due to his work. shoot the symbols he did not have any special campaign advertising or t v spots. so when you go out there already,

can you go to you? he visits the region where deals with the problems and here just putting your mom, he goes to yvonne. oh, any sorts of problems in the textile industry who i know was it was that you see the appropriate woman. he goes to caused by son, sorts out the miners property else on korea. so my role is to come chat cow with sar carlene was in deals with the problems in the far east. one of us is, was it easy to take your 31st of december decision digital know when his heart needs to go see a thought was strange as it may seem. after that, i felt better because i do, you have the things i said to my for sort full explained to my ministers in the presidential staff and would you let you and then to vladimir of ramiro, which himself, i explained to him 4 times. he woke up the coil, we had meetings with years, so stayed, eventually he got the message that the idea was to transfer power to hampton for

next to his acting president of russia. but i see it to be did you have to persuade him a late charlotte to look shinny. razzle you didn't agree immediately as also was hills for piero's course. my 1st we just got acquainted. wage curt. why little danya come here? why little yvonne and your cheeks are just like asking, i was in the oh so who do you have to vote for vanya tell grandpa you voted for a video. this is a come up also. well now go routine. ok. so there he said it aloud with your own will go whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, how is he saying didn't he pronounces it's so funny. funny. how do you call

preaching? yeah, good afternoon. i'm reading a id member id, marriage with you one that being in a translator. i mean, why would you move over to people? would you wish you? well, i want some candy even with moving over the tea and the book you go on? yeah, pretty much we hear all of it. i see somebody that they get the will be with you if there is a problem with it. what's the name of the story they did done that before

with though i don't remember any mention of putins campaign office in the press, it had the biggest headquarters and all the senior state officials were involved with was let's see what's happening in moscow. scow 46.71 percent i didn't know 10 bucks. so book with us we'll see tomorrow is with st. petersburg is fine or good is with and how many votes has krisha got you davinsky? 18 point. 54 percent with him of tissue. that's an outrage. the campaign office was run by dimitri met via jeff hooton's former subordinate from his time in saint petersburg, who was little known at the time with

the with fellow zeal, dammit, talk to me via little us with got it, got it, and co overgon the far east all the reindeers have voted there and in fact, the campaign managers were experienced political operators who could take advantage of the administrative resources provided by former and future federal ministers. heads of the presidential staff and media and sociological serve his bosses. once the public opinion, a little sasha, what's the forecast on 51 percent?

$9.00. dear rhoda with wow. so what your data sucks to do with this is anatoly to i saw co chairman of the union of right forces the center. right. democrats were in fact, the only non governmental parliamentary party to support putin in the election. a letter was held up. i'm not sure we would have been, we've been study went from nazi. he just became a started for the as you, william. not old. deborah mitchell with also gauge i'm also each of those growth are going up with a little before it's still gonna yeltsin hadn't expected to see gorbachev. it was probably the 1st time since 1991 yeltsin had practically overthrown the

president of the u. s. i saw a knew perfectly well what happens to al still leaders in russia, as long as yelled sin was president x president. gorbachev simply disappeared. even from tv screams. maybe that's why yeltsin himself had thought so hard about his success in advance. what would be? am sicker it belongs to melissa? oh, oh oh my none. the lecture is also coming up for my children. they won't announce it now . they might wait until 9 months. the lecture is also coming up with her usual with his region. it is ora with zillow. oh, really?

i still okay with the missouri with glen camp. are your people working here? what? what about senior senior man? we went to the stations this morning with warner with maybe just got was that amir vladimir of inch? ah, you adobe. hello, glenn. oh, good evening. tatiana dia, tinka cooling, i, how many i've already voted at 60 percent, where she's moscow's let us down. mr. was, he's more the so we can already drink champagne, taking small sips loving. all right, they're very smooth. then i'll tell gina to get the champagne bags of years of tropical be at the bottom. during the last he is

a bars yelton's presidency. when his health was causing a lot of problems, the concept of family was established in the public consciousness. the success of the state administration was attributed to this family. tatiana played an important role in the whole process that tonya, could you live without politics or not anymore? because somebody that yeah, i can easy. mean, i don't believe it's what when you think it has a busy i can, but i'm so worried a bull number of it was super me another minute. but in just a do it vision you will, if you got lots of georgia, which of these of them don't live or is your own should, should the affordable care you don't need a lot with the law. i've been on the losing my when it's you'll, when a little girl with

her. so say it now we can start drinking champagne, taking very small sense. you know. good so poor that glass of champagne is just, you know, go and quick about it. it was obvious that the issue of succession wouldn't have been resolved as easily without tatiana planning, mary smells, that book to cook. for of you kick me mother. know. there are a lot. 1 of us there are many of us organ vitale stop feeling what we yet got. is this. oh really? i can't believe it. look with so it was huh. they treat it. now it's over with 1. 121 with the election has been confirmed as we were hoping, she threw up a meeting with i

think we're being there, we'd have one, anyway, all the same, 1st round or 2nd, with the in the loop. i be lena with one with a and train your glasses. one way that i can bet it will be this way. i've already made a bit with a dead the that's why you did what you thought you had to do to w appointed a person and let people see if he was up to the job and they saw that he was indicted for him. and i mean, he wouldn't appoint a bad person. he chose from among so many of the b o picked him up from 20 candidates within 4 months. my stopped at him, but came to florida. who else was on the list as well?

20 candidate with no need to go through them all. i stopped him and started working with a local so didn't get my dad the latest figures. it's 51.2 percent infinity. so you oh, a little just go to little job just over a month ago. oh god, mckesson gave it again. mean we're not a was such a sad face related. so a switch to and tv people are gonna be a good man to live. yeah, cheers. i go up on a to the election. oh wow. what did you, dad? i'm putting you through to balancing you much if i know i

know that you're not familiar with this model yet. it works like this with hello when i'm not familiar with his model. yeah. but it's curious that valentino marcia was the 1st person yeltsin cold after putins victory . oh boy. oh, when oh sure. yes. alpha, congratulations have got all it's great. her daughter is great. i see. i see what acts i owe you one lawyer, but only as far as one can understand. yeltsin was thanking his former chief of staff for something that's it. mamma. dad's finally free loud. the main thing is, in the 1st round. why don't you call vladimir vladimir of ich lead. you wouldn't even ship with it here.

let me do it with miss. nobody be here. good evening or congratulations on the 1st result of the elections nearby. i'd like to talk to vladimir, vladimir over 14. yeah. all right, i'll hang up everything will be grice that will come back a ah, ah, ah,

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