this fall as a visit by the, the up in government delegation to the area on tuesday. it was the 1st such trip since a pe steel was signed. last month i aimed at ending a brutal 2 year conflict with mother said, what was in still happening in your and that's all been used for now. i'm anthony howard in berlin, the w company and wherever you're watching have a good day and don't forget there's more to be found on have writing, use that, and on. social media handle unique. instagram and twitter is at a devotee use. ah, and we're interested in the global economy, our portfolio d w business beyond here the closer look at the project, our mission to analyze the fight for market dominance. get us to the head

with the w business beyond. 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 tsar and replaced him with a communist government for the following 70 years. then in 1991 after mikhail gorbachev, 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 the 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 millennium. being a documentary film director, i recorded what was going on around me. this film as my personal witness testimony about the events of one single momentous year from the 31st of december 1999 to the 31st of december, 2000. she

for the freedom of russia, i suppose there must be for the freedom of the media with their food and when so the freedom of the media will be guaranteed with fish with people are really curious. they've all gathered here. the i will ensure press freedom of nobody appreciates the freedom in this country this year with jim wilson. we know you are wrong, we do appreciate it. thank you. take care bye. by nightfall. all the key figures in the campaign had gathered in the campaign office . it's important, i introduce them to you me hi,

lesson rushes minister of press broadcasting and mass communications and the owner of the country's largest advertising agency. his ministry supervised all the tv channels in bratia, either directly or indirectly grab patalouski, the former soviet dissident and chief political adviser in the kremlin. in the early years of putins rule. 12 years off to put him became president. he joined the opposition logo, senior upon almighty, over the former head of channel one, russia and deputy head of boot ins campaign office. she joined the opposition shortly after the election and died in 2016. at the age of 54. mikhail castiano of prime minister of russia during putin's 1st term or so later

went into opposition. he was persecuted and public a humiliated offer a tv show screened a hidden shooting of his intimate life. good blood, his laugh. so cough was the kremlin main id all just and held senior positions between 2002013. he was demoted after pu tim returned for his 3rd term in office with valentino. marcia was boris yeltsin, chief of staff. and the 1st person yeltsin spoke to after the election results were announced in 2002, you must have married yelton's daughter, tatiana anatoly troop ice was co leader of the union of right forces and parliament. and one of the architects of economic reform in russia. as well as a close associate of boris nance off after putin's 1st term,

his party lost all its seats in parliament and went into opposition against the new with you. when you go to school. so difficult to put in the loop with the emotional unavoidable father amused slash something in the middle of with the struggling with nick understood absolutely. before his new cavellas, the sequel with chicago's ladyship eventually she thought, no, no, he still gonna maybe she would play from korean. yeah. okay, so we'll talk a little bit of a company into that new. those you with 3 now is vital. and the other thing i put

in here anyways, you know, what is the boost here growing in west village. yes. literal for the school. amber is one of those level, globally company. she thought that the phone with you as you want to please you to with the do it again. yeah. yes. no store yet deal. jennifer, when you say no, not yet of so you know, the thing, you know when you will consider what i mean, but they were doing it. me, do you mean the government was like, i don't need that much. the issue. you know, at the moment i believe you do move him, you put it on, but you might 50 that using the listen and that was an organ that doesn't that, doesn't it? greg?

no shoots. it was a no city a so we she isn't last middle of the press conference is great. these are great words of love up once you take them down, congratulations. well now we should, we should have a drink with you. oh, let's have a drink and then get to bed with. we should toasted. who's pouring comedy what it will just leave the job is way more you thought about, you know, never mind. i have no clue so we will serve us. there are no waiters here with the say, we concern ourselves, but there was a meeting tomorrow at 10 with

jeff. where are you from? oh, i belong to the people. oh, no one. do you mean the people with the people are us the electorate? well, if there's anyway, it wasn't someone succeed music. unfortunately, not all of us can gather here. some people are sitting up or downstairs where there's no table like this. so they're sitting at their pcs or not with the shooting out from you, but their enthusiasm is obvious. and i'll ask dmitri anatolia, which to think every one, once again, my many more you can subjects at the same goes for every one gathered here. i will say message, if i don't give it not, not my son, we didn't, we didn't always agree, but in fact, which everything was developed step by step little by, by the no one that so aiming at the result, we're currently moving closer toward the end. this issue in the crowd, you loaded some of several of them. so i want to thank you all and congratulate you

with silicon, put it on my mortgage. just verify this as your success with the message with the world that her re already sounds a bit harsh. that's because we're all tired. it was a great effort that we'll get a 2nd wind especially, but thank you and see you tomorrow. at the health day, the t v sat in the campaign headquarters was tuned to mtv just a year later,

rushes best channel would be broken up and nationalized with a, with a merchandise even now, looking through the footage, i can hear forest net solves voice coming from the t v, against the hubbub in the winners campaign headquarters. i turn up the volume rush upon it. so it's a comfortable out rush of positive history on this

with bridging sector, listening to that one of the losers don't wish to. she just goes to mister mussa lucy brushwood, what daughter needed to be worked out and do them for ready give my visit with you with this issue we just, we can use learned i was in the near keith at leisure, student level plan deductible, yet lose to dollars lose our system. so new doses on univer that tamara was to stretch out for many years. in the autumn of 2015, the body of the millionaire maker lesson was found with head injuries in

a cheap hotel in washington dc with and in the winter of that same year, boris nymphs off who had joined the opposition to putin, was shot right under the walls of the kremlin, strangely enough, most of the people who worked for putin's victory and stood shoulder to shoulder with him when he was elected. have today either gone into opposition or been dismissed. like, alexander vall, ocean, the kremlin chief of staff and even put his wifely miller, whom he divorced the only person still with him at least for now, is to me 3 met via d f, who became interim president of russia between putin 2nd and 3rd terms. ah, vladimir putin took power like a hot knife slicing through butter co, opting

a submissive state apparatus, ready and waiting to follow its new leader. although the 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 caught a kosky hadn't been imprisoned yet, and mtv was still daring to criticize the president. as for example, over his handling of the loss of the could 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, vladimir 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. ah well, what banner did they hoist over the righteous dog in 1945. the red soviet flag of course with its star hammer and sickle. and although the tripler was still the national flag of russia, the presidential guard swore allegiance to the red flag of our old soviet homeland

. hulu. you muslin hunger is oh, oh, the more the the new president also brought a new inner circle to the kremlin. equal sachin, hooton's, former deputy in saint petersburg became one of its main figures. it was set, chin who was seen as the prime mover in bringing the business community to heal and imprisoning. mccalla caught a cold ski sketching

would take over his head to frozen after the oil company that swallowed up, caught a cough skis you caused after his arrest. mm hm. you yeah, i got to be something that you guys did them but you know, out of you know them with us didn't pay more. holds him not to them guy locally myself because eleanor stanley, which must i'm sure she does kaiser. does that. huh. when you enter the field, don't even collision with you from a di da dominic william. so miss you my

work resulted in an official film that was ad on russian state t v. on the 1st anniversary of putin's presidency and was 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 a bit. we should have turned on your camera again. sure. yeah. marianna goes, i have, ah, i should though go to with louisa about the way people live it recently. i was in lensky and some woman, not yet elderly, but also not young, said to me, marie, give us back our old life video musician you the way it was 20 years ago and i'm producing, she was going to lunch. what can you say to that?

it's impossible to get anything back. don't you think you can neither recover your youth nor bygone days than you will of this year she produced. moreover, if we tried to return to the castle, is him, we will definitely destroy everything we went over to ensure that people aren't doing worse than they did before. did you like better would've been willing it look, that is something we can do, reach him right? i lose it. the most is t. c. this is such a candid conversation, so i cannot help it ask, why did you restore the old soviet handsome o at the wood frontier. this is connected with what i just said. you may been issued. are you still on the ground? it is necessary to restore the citizens confidence in the establishment. ah, the additional millions that woman that against who said we should give back her old life. and on the way it was 20 years ago, there's an ambush debility, but used to people shouldn't feel that they are being deprived of something like net e, yesteryear you. she has to grow old,

but we have to live on ah, no with oh no, no. no, no, no, no, i'm finished. oh yes, you're right. we have to live on. we're going to missouri. but why do you think we should live with this music rather than that? she will when you have a solution. when we listen to the anthem written by alexandra alligator, why can't we think about our victory in world war 2, the rather than the gulag? she was an obsession. why should we necessarily associate this music with the worst aspects of life during the soviet period that, i mean, she's near 0 thanksgiving? 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 and young are those. but if i told you it would hardly be possible to restore things that you thought or what you thought or. but it's really important to sense that

the majority of the population has a certain style, jackie, you must not deprive people of everything you should you. this is the moral aspect because we deal with this is what i think about when i remember my parents at the moment. this was part of their lives to we just dump it all on the scrap heap of history as if they hadn't lived at all. and looked at and it would be very cruel towards our parents. so that is at least one reason that much money. i debate not a problem. you got a little steady voicemail issue. that said you were talking to them in which i had not seen assignable. jessie doors, she bought a shot, watching a kid. oh, does it all you was a gardener. who did this all can strike under the supervision of the film director . nikita mccall cough and his father. so gay, who read the lyrics,

but to soviet anthems is working hard to record new versions of the former soviet and present russian anthem's words again by mc al cough senior with what sort of deals live a very good bill ah ah . with

the motivation package portion that i've been each of show you show from that i believe she may have more dollars. just so with a good a

flu. yes. uh huh. now with some love see i thought matt, laura, we got out of 1030 here. did you go in there with um you an unexpected morning cone from the kremlin brought me back to the president's office with hello you again with a silly camera. be careful the cameras on the substitute william, i wanted to have a heart to heart talk shit though. strictly speaking, good job, i thought i could take the liberty of talking about it, but it was totally,

i do not know what your goals are of this and i won't interfere in the creative process. it the new things as you see fit in. i'm not trying to impose anything on you have to flip, which i just want to state my point of view. and you can decide whether you use it or not. it means so about our conversation about the end of the odl, even the shim rooted story, melinda dixon. the easiest me. why haven't re return to the old melody by alexandra lee casually. unfortunately, many people don't understand his turn story. sabrina. and it's strange that there is such a misunderstanding as we'll go. sure. was lou echo lima. i do not know if i managed to convey this yesterday and what was more or less a formal conversation that emily should or no. so they were double neatly loose. alicia, that he might have, let's say the restoration of the and from way to soviet melody and gives additional bonuses to someone involved in politics in respect of increased ratings or public confidence michigan day. and this is necessary in order to achieve anything that i

wish the best you must be able to rely on the population i trusted in the city. of course, you can always argue about the ways to make that happen and choose the best option of kimberly william. what happens if there is a dispute with the authorities with the president, which involves it's very simple. there are instruments of democracy. a lot of people have signed a petition against the anthem like a conscience of the nation, so to speak. with this conscience does not feel for the tragedy that the people are going through. indeed eager to read through it. no. it was signed by people who did fail, attend, who voted for you. when i did, i just you understand that whenever i have to make certain decisions, it dumped durable. some people got to reach, including the ones who voted for me. will always say that they are wrong, so i believe i have to explain my motives to every one. simply every want him upset, then act as i deem necessary. matthews, who will be a union illusion? d stood deck of shadow museum. this is written so you're not afraid,

you will lose some of that trust by taking tough decisions that will some, would they be reinstated? absolutely. hm. and yeah, i think it's obviously a decision should be taken in the interests of the state many months, regardless of whether they provoke a positive or negative reactions, whether the policy can new. you have to understand that you will either nickerson, india. you can agree or disagree with your ceiling as well, but you really must understand that if you really think about it. yeah, absolutely, absolutely. you're already wavering me at the, you know, i'm not, you want me to say that i'm way varela. my was. this is a, can you both know, but this is a matter that could have been put on hold for now like the issue with lenin in the more the lamb just could but was sleep in the movie wasn't given issue of the labor code could also been put off a good a vehicle of no, he couldn't have needed. yeah. ailleen movable and that's your opinion through gave others think that land reform could have been put off a little bit. they said that there was no need to introduce

a new lanchen of people like that exist to him. and do you think they are less important than those that do not want to have the old anthem back within with your kamesia, cham give that during if i get in. but it's the politics is the art of the possible, the art of possible compromises. isn't it? well, it's a mess. it is, although that's a nice phrase that you can use whenever, whenever you need to fill a pause state, a little nipples movie said he was a compromise. a button on the move to the on the scene douglasville his name. yes, yes, to a certain extent, it is a compromise. thank you. but it's still though it certainly looks like a compromise. it really did the company state of the us mississippi combining my district get within the gc it. nevertheless, this during these are meaningful actions to achieve a position which you can rely on to solve, substantive task awesome in the reconstruction of the state, a good and the modernization of the economy that, that you will reconstruct incident woman. that means that 2nd, see,

i can't disagree with that argument is missing what you see. we're already moving closer with you see him on, but only with this argument. notice because our positions are moving closer, i regret it, and yet you say people can't be persuaded. i don't know why put in needed to convince me his decision was right when it was already impossible to restore the anthem. wasn't it any one left to disagree with him? i, you consent. you haven't persuaded every one at the correctness of this decision. it was that you cannot persuade every one. unfortunately, it's impossible. no, no, as 140000000 people couldn't. you can't discuss things with every one person. yeah . okay. although i think i'd be able to, if i could, it was more with only it's not possible. least busy i'm sitting in jo will use was it? no offense, but i still don't share your opinion about the anthem, which is a pity there. 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 ah, with what would you put in to deal with it? oh i oh yeah. oh oh yeah, june barbara b. oh, she is a formula. nice poor little boy. when it came here, he would use it when you pull that, you know, see what the word georgia. a visit you needed for the name of the you know good.

this is. busy shane with a no show sandlewood story i booting got his c legs quickly enough and increasingly distanced himself from his mentor. with looking to sell a book. during the year after his resignation,

boris yeltsin rediscovered the original meaning of the word family. just 3 minutes to midnight. so let's just go to the outgoing yes. the brushing feeling? good boy. i mean by the way, this is the 1st year that has been more or less peaceful. there's none of the yearning of the previous 10 years feeling of thank god, it's over here, their relatives or the other to france. so again, renee is me ringing out the old ear and ringing in the no, no, sure. i'm sure all that for this contra void, the upcoming year will be better than the old one. 0, it will be better it jimmy amelia and yet were ringing in the shop or rather bringing out the old ear with a certain sense of loss. so sadly, no,

hello, this long him. oh, he's a home with with with with you did a restore the anthem without your knowledge, even the new lyrics couldn't save it a crush

. it's reddish. well, i felt this word reddish, which embodied all the bitterness of this re animation of the soviet past, also became a valedictory sign for me. yeltsin died in the 7th year of vladimir putin's presidency thing? does the president have a say over a lot of things luscious through him? norgard, certainly the head of state has a say over many things, though, certain functions of the president are laid down by the law and interest, and they are very comprehensive and presidential powers may become the determining factors performing these functions correctly. are you private members? vanya as a rule, as far as things i haven't planning are concerned, i or i basically manage to meet the goals i've set for myself on global level is debilitating silicon to visit with miss what is your attitude towards the all

embracing unity of the nation under the guidance of the wise visionary and just leave vladimir putin ladyship just through i sense a slight irony in your question, sir, for thought it was already be everything we used to call extreme in this st. margaret and i certainly doesn't help, but rather harmless. furthermore, if the by meeting is all the but for shit, monuments and other elements of autocracy leftover from the past, i think it naturally is every one. like but they are very difficult to counteract them with rather not that information about shall we go with them. i admit, despite the fact that this was only the 1st year of putins 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 listened and believed was put in said,

then you should have had no reason whatsoever to worry about. russia's future reaches machine that could be getting out of the car and buying a mug of beer as quite difficult as you can probably guess. mostly because you're always on the moon with a lot of people around you. this is alicia. so if there's a problem with the traffic, just the if i get out of the car and start drinking beer, thousands, we'll wait for the motorcade to pass it. nothing good will come of it. the shoot, you saw it here. so which one is that what is the kind of different? i'm sure this is just the simplest example that some of us put everything is like though that question. so would you like that splendid, easier or wishing that you? yes, if i would. yeah. i do believe that the day will come of and i'll be able to return to a normal life on my end. i do believe that some day i'll have a future as a private citizen with that i'll be engaged in some other activity and will live the life of a normal person. exactly not a minute. well,

these are wonderful words. a foster, a certain optimism don't have to miss was much of the da says no. i don't a sense of the irony and what you say though, often you, you, it's true and i'll tell you why you all's going to put you as it's, it's very important at that says with this, by the way, we're returning to your question about whether it wouldn't be better to step into the shoes of a monarch citizenship him on a good or 1st of all, human as the life of modern is quite complicated. chilson, i have met monarchs quite often in recent years in various parts of the world during official visit steps to get them send and receive them. and i can say that their fate does not inspire me at all. hm. yeah. at least i would not like to experience anything like that. a little bit more than it used to bug, but almost is it just their life isn't harsh and full of restrictions, new dinging, but who's at cbs yet though, they don't belong to themselves. inclusion of cynthia will. that's their destiny

with those mr. vision and it's forever he's going to go to with, in this respect, an elected head of state has a better lie on those since it gives you a chance to prove yourself in the greatest lead way. you'd see been in service to the motherland with a maximum effort a maximum was due, so even when the so long. but at the same time, nobody gives you an opportunity to live a normal life after you reformed your official duties. after the abdomen term cigna formulated, you don't need to, you are constantly being reminded that your turn will end one day. you have your listener, which she's not on my lunch luca in elizabeth, and you will. so the 1st of all have to live a life of a normal person. and as they used to say in a way you weren't ashamed of when i was moses. no mm hm. so that you can address people openly in your new position without averting your gang. and so you to listen e, but don't ye shall. so and one more thing is very important. listener. it is necessary

to understand that you will live as a normal citizen. again that in a few years time doctor, you'll be confronted with everything you do with the state in the society now was an ordinary citizen group that she didn't use it. they stated that will get done you it's a good that's pensioner lou city of miss jewel. it's a good thing to remember that before taking any decision, rather than yielding to monarchical english, i was no on the heaps. members, anybody addition? bushnell, perhaps, i'll put a camera down inside his offscreen the leash. you used to will. if you do exactly as you are saying, you will do now. it will become a pledge of worthy future for both the country. and you personally, there was leech that maria, i'm glad of some of discuss with rice, you'll do. but as i'm telling you, so i've sat and thought with the rack. my brains about how it should be there still, but don't waiter think about how your children related feature to life,

how the children of your friends and relatives will live and how you will live. is it? it's got what kind of country it will be to city of new vickery. this is a serious issue. most probably the source of all the advantages of democracy applies to some lady iona suite. 3 maps, one of the reasons why democracy and democracy. these are more resilient, you close active. most don't just need via credit you. democrats, even though to position as muscle to people. no, there's not, no idea what to say now. so let's keep our fingers crossed and thumbs up. when you put in a pretty going to figure the hold again, this is in there, the new to them and i'm clear them ah

putin still rules russia lot has happened over the years. he's been in power the end of the war in chechnya and the beginning of the chechen was in moscow, the olympics and doping scandals, the crimea, and the war in ukraine. and to growing confidence and getting kicked out of the g 8 . moreover, there was emigration. imprisonments, and the deaths of those who tried 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 the tacit consent, tons, witnesses into accomplices. so we all voluntarily became hostages of the very person who was leading us towards

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