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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 or maybe have 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 government 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, whilst yeltsin was anointed, modern days are and then his health started to fail. this is how russia entered the new century and the new millennia. 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 year . from the 31st of december 1999 to the 31st of december. 2000

i have yes. and your present mortality is a patient vitale. journals is this for me? yes. yes you goes by the look at mommy's, i'm wrapping up. present. oh oh, the presence of that come on them. who gets this one done via the chocolates and

lollipops kneecamp. now show your happiness. how do you like the chocolate of it? oh yeah, me. i love them. no, i deal. they you have no present. have you the old has no present load, but little st. lucie the songs with lyrics her mission, natalia, any success with the television. i really gone for nothing to add, get around to resume. she bought a new year present for everyone. but what about you to corporate t o l address the people at midnight paycheck stub. had let me relax. why you stalking me? deborah? mom, stop it with mom. oh

oh oh yeah. 00000000, i open the door with free, get lost with your camera. this is my chronicle. no longer enough harassing us with your chronicle. leave us alone. we're human beings to a more r e vitaly. it's enough that it's getting on my nerves. i cannot. you know what happened? i. yes, but why? you should see me. okay. well, i'm about to burst into tears. i believe that the time has come up. i think because of the permian, would you like me to say something high flown in front of a camera? please?

i told you i'm shocked cuz i know we've 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 that most of some of the i do, you know, so i, you, mr. talk to me that the but i think it's a nightmare go, 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. here is a gray mouse here, blue barrel. you oh, i know what it does he take on new year's eve. laura, who has now who'll address us at midnight support and well more new generation is coming. you. let's just fail me. the world will be afraid of us again. was the yes . cool. yeah,

put yourself all the way down here. i see that i did have a with movie. oh yeah go. i mean ah

ah, did you lose you see with the bills this is chisola. i see, but he says, alicia alicia, much similar dates, if you get already a copy of the teacher, david said nunez said you got the a border. he had to wait, but he didn't. i see putting it shayna, rekey. what stuff. but i still mean yeah i, but i think starting that

a year to see that he said she was going to me, i was losing. huh. i guess was go over this with this kid is 3. he said to stay yet, 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 sober analysis of what was actually happening.

at the same time, russians were supposed to get used to the idea of the new president. during these very days i started shooting a p r film that was supposed to be used in putin's election campaign. we'll do it this way, then we'll, we'll order you about a little. but without your permission, 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 today, i noticed that even as acting, president, putin was already clearly embodying traits that some worship and others demonize. somerville is to ludy store. our main goal is to make people believe in everything

we say and do that. ours is a heartfelt position every dictated only and solely by considerations of the national interests for it. just that was of it was, this is the key to success. if people believe that, that's the main thing that us 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 thinking jessica globin as doris loves you. which impala premier's method. 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 grat, talking to the veterans of the long past battle of stalingrad. and then promptly on all the russian tv channels turned the spotlight on to the heroes of the new victorious war. in chechnya, with

luckily easy one o 2 and a half months of non existent electioneering went according to planned. putin managed to visit 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 doesn't look like he, he's not so you're going to have only will you participation any tv debates? 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. the so called tv debate is one of them. 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 tv 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 putins 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 to clamor louder and louder. calling for a thumb hand. vladimir putin had been appointed as prime minister 22 days before the 1st 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 at the end of one working day, put in, accepted our offer to go to the site of the 1st block of flats that have been blown up in moscow. in my 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 espy offices

to plant similar sacks of the r d x 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. facility, quickly the millennium. here vladimir, of ich, do you believe at the end justifies the means syllabus their aims to they justify the means what the 2 to reach the aims of the terrorists? yes. can you check this down with vicious enough for that? i do not believe any sane person can ever choose to commit such an act. huge to blow up a building with people in it. innocent people. so at night, yet moving your clothes neither. i yeah, you're a, it's really, it's beyond me though. it's unbelievable. just unbelievable is this. it's in human

cruelty to listen to financial people with us. we must understand that we can only cover this with force. otherwise we won't. we won't safeguard our state and protect our people, use. ready to move is that what you're doing because your social regular teacher issue and you can only expect the financial especially with the state school uniform which is good to go to where

she's done more like you can. you still have to have a good thing with another. i knew you were italian. let's go. do you really think we have to vote? yes i do. even if nothing depends on us, at least we won't be voting for the communist. so matter to tell. well, let's go anyway. 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've been nothing. okay, let's go and load it up.

with that form you've been working with are you are in the line? no, not at all with you. oh boy. oh let me with

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will with english and the baby to go the older the press 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 balance 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? yes, i did, but having cost his boat, he couldn't resist having a drink with his former colleagues. yes, my mom diane, he wants to play. she did with yahoo because i just wanted to say that i am proud of that. i was the 1st to speak at the congress. i said the president of the ussr should be elected immediately, and it should be only one candidate. we all remember more with, oh,

i know they tried to persuade me they should. you should agree for 2 or 3. his mom i am able to deliver. nobody is going to make a survey of which you could have agreed to become the president for 15 years, much you will for then this pose should have been introduced to 2 and i would still be general secretary, let me go over with you wouldn't again say come see you with a program with you but not will your, just like napoleon authorities at 1st elected 1st console for 4 years and then for life we go from here on the left us inhaler, the fellow who wanted both. i meanwhile, boris yeltsin was surrounded by his family and waiting for the 1st election results . but other weaknesses,

me. my daily routine must certainly change. oh so you know, took lucas and has already deleted the constant pressure has gone up. the chef is 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, psi, and daily 1000. he's to thousands. these guys, it's a constant pile of the cold. it's a hell of a generator. and a water has it's just hard now. it's not pressing any more to push to lose just the routine work lived on as well. yeah. now the burden is on vladimir bloody mirror of each protein. it's his day now, although, you know, call, i gave him a 6 month head start on purposeful, go on. so that after being elected,

who's the days go to, he could make use of the experience he had gained as acting. president obama was still in the good peace panell does not. in other words, says head of the russian governor, article or thoughts who are full of policy. that was the import. those have the decision i took on december 31st, 1999 up to be sure they're still reproaching if you could talking about a protege or something or some chip. but yeah, when you acted so decently well, brush addressing the people and telling them watch him to sign so they could evaluate his work that that thing needed this bush and it was all done. so democratically and honestly, i was amazed. she esna you a jury duty agent who was wrong. his ratings rose from true to 50 percent. right. you know it. oh buckle. it was all due to his work should couple since he did not have any special campaign advertising or t v spots. so when you click on that already, can you go to you?

he visits the region where deals with the problems and he's putting your mom, he goes to yvonne. oh, any sorts of problems in the textile industry who i know whether to use tv appropriately. he goes to course by some sorts out the miners problems. oh great. well my goal is to come chat gao or with a sar carlene was in deals with the problems in the far east. one, was it, was it easy to take your 31st of december decision yet digital? now it was hard on the cfo. me a strange as it may seem. after that, i felt better because i do, you have the things i said to my father to sort fool explain to my ministers in the presidential staff. look on william with you and then to vladimir vladimir rich himself. i explained to him 4 times. he woke up the coil, we had meetings from lead 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,

i see it to be. did you have to persuade him away from it? look shinny razzle you didn't agree immediately he said i was also was hills for beer. of course my 1st we just got acquainted late. why little vanya come here? why little yvonne and your cheeks are just like after i was 14? 0, so who do i have to vote for vanya tell grandpa you voted for. it was, it was the video, this is a global self. now going to do it. so there he said it aloud. in your own words, go the whole global. you have a copy of nana. how is he saying written he pronounces it's so funny. funny. how do you call preaching up? yeah, good luck. reading

a he says ready? member id marriage. when they get a translator, let me live. i mean, why not? my boy, you know, over the people will do it well. i want some candy even with community when you book it you go. so i yeah. pretty well. we get all of it. i see somebody with a double. i think it's the whole the much with the legal side. what's the name of the word actually didn't done that before we did we 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. moscow, 46.71 percent. i didn't notice a book hold little while sure. we'll see tomorrow is with the st. petersburg is fine or agrees 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 hello. so you'll damage talk to me via live by us. with christian co overgon the far east, all the reindeers have voted there. 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 about sasha, what's the forecast of 151 percent employee now in point 7. dear rhoda,

with more so what your data sucks with this is anatoly by so 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 wonderful dog. i'm not sure we would have been we've been study, went on say just because of started warning as you william a. busy you'll also gauge we've also each of those growth that we've got with both in the quote it still can 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 allstate, leaders in russia, as long as yelled seen was president x president. gorbachev simply disappeared. even from tv screams. maybe that's why yeltsin himself had thought so hard about his successor in advance was living by. i am sicker, it belongs to melissa. oh oh. oh mama, none the election results are coming up or something. they won't announce it now. they might wait until 9 months. the lecture is also coming up. media is done. most of the usual with his region. it is ora with zillow. oh is luigi?

i stephen mckoko. okay lou. we'll go with him. glen. yep. are your people working here? what about senior senior man? we went to the stations this morning with one with maybe just got was that a miracle and a mirror image. ah, you know be hello glenn. oh, good evening. tatiana dia, tinka cooling. i've, i've heard of how many i've already voted at 60 percent, where she's moscow's let us down. mr. was that he's more the so we can already drink champagne, taking small sips loving or i can at various, most them. i'll tell gina to get the champagne bags of usa tropical via the money 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? personally, that yeah, i can easy. busy mean, i don't believe it's what when you think it has to be sure i can, but i'm so worried. a bull number of mccormick was super me with just a do it vision. if you got lots of more through each of these, of them done, the boy is your own should. should the affordable care with only dilemma and i'm going to lose in my when it's, you'll read a little girl was done with her. so say, now we can start drinking champagne,

taking very small sense, you know? good so poor that glass of champagne is just gonna 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 like to cook. for of you kick me mother. know. there are a lot of us. there are many of us organ vitale. stop killing. what we get got is this. oh really? i can't believe it liquid. so it was her vague treat to now it's over with $11.00 with the election has been confirmed as we were hoping. she threw up a good he'll

be there, we'd have one anyway. all the same 1st round or 2nd, with the moment i mean, lena, which one with a den and drain your glasses. one way that i can bet it will be this way. they have already made a bet report of somebody for dead. see, 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 a job. they saw that he was invited for him. and i mean, he wouldn't appoint a bad person, but he chose from among so many of the p. o picked him up from 20 candidates within 4 months. my stopped at half. that came up. who else was all molesting deposit as

well? 20 candidate no need to go through the mob. i stopped him and started working with a dad. the latest figures, it's 51.2 percent continued to tell you a little just a little blue shows a bunch up ago. oh god, make us and gave it again. it was such a sad face related song, a switch to and tv people are going to be a good man to live here. cheers a to the election results. but did you dad? i'm putting you through to balancing your massive this is

a, i know that you're not familiar with this model yet. it works like this with zillow with, i'm not familiar with his model. yeah. but it's curious that valentine you, marsha was the 1st person yeltsin cold after putins victory on wednesday. oh sure. yes alpha, congratulations have got all it's great. hello, daughter is great. i see we're trying to see what acts i owe you one or more, but only as far as one can understand. yeltsin was thanking his former chief of staff for something that's it. mamma dad. finally free loud. the main thing is, in the 1st round. why did you call vladimir vladimir? of ich ah, let me what image it was when i go with it here or here,

let me do it. i miss the what is your good evening? a congratulations on the 1st result of the elections nearby. i'd like to talk to vladimir, vladimir over 14. yeah. all right, now i'll hang up. everything will be grice that will come back. ah a ah ah ah

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