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it was to be a steal worker who had the weakness and lose vision. 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 or maybe have forgotten, i will remind you that the times in deer is changed surprisingly regularly in 20th century russia. in 1917, the bolsheviks overthrew the czar and replaced him with the communist government for the following 70 years. then in 1991, after may, shall, gold beach offs, perestroika reforms, the russian people overthrew the reds and voted boris yeltsin in as president in

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 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. she

for the freedom of russia. i suppose therefore for the freedom of the media with their food and when so the freedom of the media will be guaranteed with fish and with people are really curious. they've all gathered here the well and shared press freedom of nobody appreciates the freedom in this country 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. with me hi,

lesson russia's minister of press, broadcasting and mass communications, and the owner of the country's largest advertising agency. his ministry supervised all the tv channels and bratia, either directly or indirectly. glad pavlov. ski the former soviet dissident and chief political adviser in the kremlin . in the early years of putin's 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 his 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 publicly humiliated after a tv show screened a hidden shooting of his intimate life. good. glad his laugh. so a cough was the kremlin main ideology list and held senior positions between 2002013. he was demoted after pu tim returned for his 3rd term in office. with valentine, you must have was boris yelton's, chief of staff in the 1st person. yeltsin spoke to after the election. results were announced in 2002, you must have married yelton's daughter. tatiana anatoly to bice, 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 with the emotional unavoidable father threatening him up with the mobility, the struggling with nick over certainly before his new cavellas, the sequel, a chicago study ship efficient militia, thought that he still gonna maybe should washington blake and couldn't get out of college so we'll talk schlepping, woburn, california into that new those you,

we 3 now is vital and yeah, the thing with her but is that was the yeah, groaning my facility. yes. literal for the school. amber is full of those lively, lovely company. she thought that the phone with you that you want to please either with little it with you. yes. no. still yet deal jennifer? up the middle. not upsetting the thing you know when you will consider me a little bit that will blow junior cutting me. do you mean the one that you need in which the issue you should know at the moment when you do move him, you put it you might think he leaned but it was there was an

organ. it doesn't it doesn't it greg? nope. shoot it. no seriously. we, she isn't with the press conferences. great. these are great words, love up when she taken down. congratulations. well now we should, we should have a drink up with you. oh, let's have a drink and then get to bed. we should toasted who's pouring clone anyway. we'll just leave the jolie's way more you thought about, you know, never mind wash. you know, the clothes. so who will serve us? there are no waiters here with that. we

concern ourselves, but it was, there was a meeting tomorrow at 10 with where are you from? oh, i belong to the people. oh, no one. do you mean the people the people are us, the electorate? well, if there's anyway, he wasn't supposed to see music. unfortunately, not all of us can gather here, is it, some people are sitting up or downstairs, where there's no table like this. so they're sitting at their pcs or not, with a showing on which in most, i'm your, but their enthusiasm is obvious. and i'll ask dmitri anatolia, which to think every one, once again, my many more you can use them subjects. the same goes for every one gathered here. i'll say met them in your bottle, 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 law and super aiming at the result, we're currently moving closer towards the guidance issue in the ground. you loaded

some of several of them. so i want to thank you all and congratulate you with my mortgage. just this is your success as well. so the bench i didn't know that her a 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 end of the day,

the t v sat in the campaign headquarters was tuned to n t b. just a year later, rush as best channel would be broken up and nationalized with a much more decision. even now, looking through the footage, i can hear barest net solves voice coming from the t. v against the hub in the winners campaign headquarters. i turn up the volume brush

with whom you could probably wash a positive history from this. hello, susan. so susan, alicia logic in post solution vision of fusion center. listen to the rules are issued out. she just goes to mister mussa, lucy brussel and work to her new to be able to do them for reading good magazines. with in, with this issue with her school teacher, with no deductible yet lose to do is lose our system. so new doses on the moon of that tomorrow 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 nance 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 persons til with him at least for now is dimitri met v i 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 app rate, us 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 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 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, 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 band did they hoist over the righteous dog in 1945. the red soviet flag of course with its star hammer and sickle. and although the trickle i was still the

national flag of russia, the presidential god swore allegiance to the red flag of our old soviet homeland. blue u b. u muslin. some good news um oh okay. oh no more. this is wrong with the new president also brought a new inner circle to the kremlin equal section. putin'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 mikkel, caught a corpse. kay,

said she would take over his head dive ra, snapped the oil company that swallowed up, caught a cough skis you caused after his arrest. mm hm. yeah, i got to be from about acres. that example, if you're out of you know them with us through them. oh, similar to them directly myself because i understand you must not have to duck kind of a d shakima. when you look at a few things with you from

a di da da marie williams, i 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 is turned on your camera again. should the young lady on the go was i have ah, i should talk absolutely 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 serialization the way it was 20 years ago. and i'm

thinking she's looking for a ranch. 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 if it is. moreover, if we try to return to the west and 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 region ranch a lot more sustain says this is such a candid conversation. so i cannot help it ask, why did you restore the old soviet handsome? ah, it would frontier, this is connected with what i just said to me. we don't want to show you what was the one who did a good it is necessary to restore the citizens confidence in the establishment, but essentially millions that woman that he ends who said we should give back her old life cannibal the way it was 20 years ago there's no malicious ability, but just to people shouldn't feel that they are being deprived of something. it

might not yes, oh you she has to grow old, but we have to live on. ah, no with oh no, no. none, none of them finish those. yes, you're right, we have to live on with those in the why do you think we should live with this music rather than that, she will when you move them a switching. when we listen to the anthem written by alexandra alligator, why can't we think about our victory in world war 2, that rather than the gulag? she wasn't upset. and why should we necessarily associate this music with the worst aspects of life during the soviet period? but i mean, as reasoning 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, young are those fate. but if i told you it would hardly be possible to restore

things, but she thought too much with postal. but it's really important to sense that the majority of the population has a certain, the style, jackie, you must not deprive people of everything you should you. this is the moral aspect 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 to go back. not the so called and he got a loose 3 voicemail. one issue that said you were talking so that he started his, which had not seen assignable. jesse or she got 45 years ago, you know, does it, will you, was it gotten if you did this all can strike under the supervision of the film

director. nikita mccall cough and his father survey who read the lyrics but to soviet anthem's is working hard to record new versions of the former soviet and present russian anthem's words again by macau cough senior. with sure. what to do with hightail reveal recovery ah ah . with just my children,

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yes. so now with some love, see i thought matt laura, where you guys are of zoom 30 at each. got you in there with them. you an unexpected morning calling 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 should though,

strictly speaking good. if i thought i could take the liberty of talking about it, it was 30 who i do not know what your goals are in this way. and i won't interfere in the creative process. it the new things as you see fit me. i'm not trying to impose anything on you have 50, which i just want to state my point of view. and you can decide whether you use it or not. it is so about our conversation about the anecdotal, even the shim, rudy still remember the dixon, the easiest nipple. i haven't re return to the old melody by alexander only casually. unfortunately, many people don't understand his turn twisted, 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 manage to convey this yesterday and what was more or less a formal conversation that emily should or no. so they're double nittany loose edition that he might have. let's say the restoration of the ant from way to soviet melody and gives additional bonuses to some one involved in politics, in respect of increased ratings or public confidence wishing, indeed,

and this is necessary in order to achieve anything that, that most of us you must be able to rely on the population, i trust that in the city. of course, you can always argue about the ways to make that happen and choose the best option of too many 1000000. 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 from the tragedy that the people are going through doing dr. ged good. he did is, you know, it was signed by people who didn't fail it and who voted for you. understood when i did, i showed you understand a little bit whenever i had to make certain decisions, it dumped durable. some people got to wish, 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. mathias will begin. illusion destroyed duck of shadow,

newsome. this wind, so you're not afraid you will lose some of that trust by taking tough decisions. have wilson with a v h dash the absolute no any. i think it's obvious that the decision should be taken in the interests of the state when you mix, regardless of whether they provoke a positive or a negative reaction, is the way that the policy can do. you have to understand that you would either nicholas in india, you can agree or disagree unless you're stealing some of what you really must understand that. yeah. if you really think about it. yeah, absolutely, absolutely. you're already wavering me at, 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 malls. elim jessica, what was leading them of them was an issue of the labor code. could also been put off a good a vehicle of no, he couldn't have a needed yeah. ailing miserable in that is 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're less important than those that do not want to have the old anthem back within with your kamesia, cham give a touring? if i get your medium religion, politics is the art of the possible, the art of possible compromises isn't it? well, it's, unless it is, although that's a nice phrase that you can use whenever, whenever you need to fill a pause state a little need both movies, you said it was a compromise. i've been on the move to the on the scene douglasville smith. 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 come from you state of the season, sep embodiment. but if so, guess within the yeast it. nevertheless, this using these are meaningful actions to achieve a position which you can rely on to solve subsystem task awesome in the reconstruction of the state. a good in the modernization of the economy that you

will reconstruct. incident woman got me subsequently. see, i can't disagree with that argument as it was in what you see were already moving closer was it see him on but only with his argument. notice because our positions are moving closer, i will get it, 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 there any one left to disagree with him? i, you consent? you haven't persuaded every one of the correctness of this decision and it was not that you cannot persuade every one. unfortunately, it's impossible. no 140000000 people couldn't. you can't discuss things with every one person yet. okay. this, although i think i'd be able to, if i could, it was more bit of only it's not possible. least busy. i'm sitting in jo. well, you, sheila said no offense, but i still don't share your opinion about the anthem, which is pity for their 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 be with it? oh i oh yeah. oh oh yeah. june oprah b o y. she is a formula news portable port would you nicky me assist you with to would you like

a. busy this is shane with a little is a no show sandlewood story. i hey booting got his c legs quickly enough and increasingly distanced himself from his mentor with actually read them with the finance or looking to sell

a book during the year off to his resignation. boris yeltsin rediscovered the original meaning of the word family. just 3 minutes to midnight with strengths of the outgoing yet wasn't feeling good. do you 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 develop to france. so again, renee is ringing out the old year and bringing in the no no show. i'm sure all that for this contra board, the upcoming year will be better than the old one. 0, it will be better. jimmy amelia and yet were ringing in or rather

bringing out the old ear with a certain sense of loss. so sadly, new, yeah, well, i says long him i a home with with, with, with with, with, with you did a restore the anthem without your knowledge, even the new lyrics couldn't save it more with

class. it's reddish. oh, i found 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 presidency thing does the president have to say over a lot of things through him norgard, they certainly from the head of state has a say over many things. so, certain functions of the president are laid down by the law, and you should like, they are very comprehensive and presidential powers may become the determining factors, performing these functions correctly. you problems vanya as a rule, as far as things i haven't planning are concerned, i or i basically managed to meet the goals i've set for myself on global level is debilitating silicon to visit with lucy's. 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 after i sent the slip irony in your question. for 430 was already be everything we used to call extreme in this sam. okay. that certainly doesn't help, but rather horns. furthermore, if the by me thing is all the busha monuments and other elements of autocracy leftover from the past, i think it naturally is everyone like but they are very difficult to counteract them with rather not sit in washington. but shall we go with them. 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 listened and believe what put in said, then you should have had no reason whatsoever to worry about. russia's future reaches motion the 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. unless there's a problem with the traffic. yes, 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 is that by the got a different i'm sure this is just the simplest example that some of us quit, everything is like that, that question. so would you like that when the easier or wishing that you? yes i would. yeah. i do believe that the day will come when i'll be able to return to a normal life. i might. 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. fe foster sat, an optimism conducive to music was much of the didn't know. i don't a sense of the irony and what you say though, of you, it's true and i'll tell you why you also put you as it's, it's very important at that says go 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 amana i go to. first of all, human on 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 be at the property, memphis, tennessee, the. 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 bother, but almost does it just their life is harsh and full of restrictions, new digging, but who's at cbs yet though,

they don't belong to themselves. it was on the same day with that's their destiny when those missed the vision and it's for ever you spent alone with in this respect and elected head of state has a better life. although 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 amongst let's do it even when so no, but at the same time that might gives you an opportunity to live a normal life after you reformed your official duties, after the edge of your term signal, formulate alternate. you are constantly being reminded that your turn will end one day. you have your listener, which it shows me that on my lunch luca, you know mr. book that 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 aren't ashamed of when i was moses. no of you so so that you can address people openly in your new position without averting your game. and so he doesn't he

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 dose, you'll be confronted with everything you do with the state in the society now was an ordinary. who said a self groups that you didn't? yes. escalate. they stated the waters venue and it's a good that's michener lou city of misty. it's a good thing to remember that before taking any decision, rather than yielding to monarchical english, i was, i, on the heaps, members, they british bushnell perhaps, i'll put a camera down inside his offscreen the leash. he said, if you do exactly as you are saying, you will do now. it will become a pledge of uh, we're the future for both the country and you personally there wants leech that. no, i'm good with just from nebula. right? you don't know. but as i'm telling you, so i've sat and thought with the rack, my brains about how it should be there, steve,

about the waiter. think about how your children related to the way, how the children of your friends and relatives will live and how you will lose it. it's got what kind of country it will be. do seriously vickery. this is a serious issue. most probably the source of all the advantages of democracy applies to some lady. iona would 3 match to one of the reasons why democracy and democracy. these are more resilient, you consecutive most conscious name via credit you democracy, even though it is at the special mortgage. and i've no idea what to say now. so let's keep our fingers crossed and thumbs up. when you when looking, but couldn't going to figure the hold again. this is in there. you didn't hear them

ah, to tin still 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 was in moscow, the olympics and doping scandals, the crimea, and the war in ukraine. and to growing competence 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 a glorious future that ultimately came to echo the dog passed. ah, ah ah ah, she's ukraine's 1st female train operator victoria coach. this has always been her dream job for just a few years ago, getting it was unthinkable. discriminatory regulations prevented ukrainian women

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