he's racked up 7 lea, title of in england, spain and italy, and when the champions league 5 times saudi arabia, it will again face accusations of sports, washing using sport to distract from human rights abuses and boost the country's image. a shock world cup victory, a but argentine had brought a wave of football fever to saudi arabia, the country, and the play. rinaldo, a boast now entering new territory. that's it for now, coming up. next is a documentary looking at the rise to power russian president vladimir putin unexpired. to watch imagine so many portions of love are thrown out in the world. climate change very hard to story. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how my wife can really get

we still have time to act. i'm doing all this for 5th. 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 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 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 as a wholesale muster 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 well and shared press freedom of nobody appreciates the freedom in this country. here 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 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 in bratia, either directly or indirectly. glad patalouski, 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 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 publicly humiliated after a tv shows screened a hidden shooting of his intimate life flat his laugh. so cough was the kremlin main id all list 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 yelton 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. so difficult to put in the loop with the emotional unavoidable father. you have something in him, a little busy with the struggling with nick over certainly before his new cavellas, the sequel with chicago study ship, a visual militia luther. no. no. he still gonna, maybe she was, she can play and couldn't get over fresh. so we'll talk like i'm going into that

new. those you with 3 now is vital and yeah, thing a plugin yet? yeah. anyways, you know, what is a good idea? growing in west village. yes. literal for the school. amber is full of those lively, lovely company. she thought that the phone with you guys, you want to please either with the tool again? no. yes, no. store yet deal. jennifer, when you say no, not yet. of the thing, you know, when you will consider what i mean a little bit that we're doing it. we do you mean the ones that you don't need in which you should you should write it at the moment. if you do move him, you put it on but you might 50 that, you know when but it was,

there was no it doesn't it doesn't it greg? nope. shoots it. was it? no, seriously we she isn't less than it. the press conference is great. these are great words, love up once you take them 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 toast, who's pouring cold anyway, we'll just leave those on his way. even more you thought about, you know, never mind watching you know the clue so he will serve us. there are no waiters here with 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 the people are us, the electorate? well, if there's anyway, it wasn't somebody 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 everyone, once again my money more, you can use them 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 has to be aiming at the result. we're currently moving closer toward

getting this issue in the crowd. you loaded some of several of them. so i want to thank you all and congratulate you with my mortgage just for this is your success? well, a bench 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 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 the church with a with i think if you are fortunate, unless you don't learn much erosion, even now, looking through the footage, i can hear boris ned solvece, voice coming from the t v against the hubbub in the winners campaign headquarters. i turn up the volume,

rush upon it. so if i didn't nick with whom to come out, a block wash a positive history from this. oh so, so celia logic in position a fusion center. listen to them. don't wish joe, this is just a goes to mister mussa woocommerce, will work to work with him. do them for ready wound you magazines, you know, deserves to fusion fermi level plan deductible, yet lose doctors lose our system. so near dawson univer that to morrow 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 putins 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 ready 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 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 trickle i was still the national flag of russia, the presidential guard swore allegiance to the red flag of our old soviet homeland . oh, so you muslin some good news um oh, okay. oh,

more than once. that is the new president also brought a new inner circle to the kremlin equal sanction putins 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. michelle 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

yeah, i got to be something that he got them 40 days out of you know them because they didn't oh him not to them directly myself because a failure must not 50 stuff guys gonna do that. huh. oh. when you got a few things with you from a di da, dominic 1000000000, 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 against the yeah. on the goes, i have, ah, i should though goes with about the way people live. it recently. i was in lensky in 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 previously with a full wrench. what can you say to that? it's impossible to get anything back. you're losing, you can neither recover your youth nor bygone days than you will of this. the damage is moreover, if we try to return to the west ism,

we will definitely destroy everything we went over to ensure that people aren't doing worse than they did before. you act better, would've been willing it look, that is something we can do region french, allusion at the most sustain. see, this is such a candid conversation. so i cannot help it ask, why did you restore the old soviet anthem? ah, it would frontier, this is connected with what i just said. maybe when the children are you still on the ground, it is necessary to restore the citizens confidence in the establishment. ah, but essentially means that woman that against who said we should give back her old life cannibal the way it was 20 years ago was numberless to believe. but just to people shouldn't feel that they are being deprived of something that might lead. yes, she has to grow old, but we have to live on ah no with oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

i'm finished. oh 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 have a solution. when we listen to the anthem written by alexandro 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. thank you for you. 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 with you. 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 any it would be very cruel towards our parents. so that is at least one reason she wanted to go back. no, the for quality 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 for a, you know, what does it, what was the governor, who did this all castro, 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

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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, mila dixon. the easiest me. why haven't re return to the old melody by alexandra leaks. is really unfortunately many people don't understand his turn story. sabrina . and it's strange that there is such a misunderstanding. us 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 sure to are new. so they're double neatly lucidly. sure that he might have. let's say the restoration of the aunt from way to soviet melody and gives additional bonuses to someone involved in politics in respect of increased ratings or public confidence wishing, indeed, and this is necessary in order to achieve anything that i wish the best 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 kimberly williams. 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 with the idea to renew it. no, it was signed by people who did fail it and who voted for you. when i did, i showed you understand a little bit whenever i had 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 one him ups and then act as i deem necessary. mathias will begin. illusion. d stood duck of shadow museum. this is written so you're not afraid he will lose some of that trust by taking tough decisions level some of what they did. he staged it, elena bonnie, i think it's obviously a decision should be taken in the interests of the state when you max,

regardless of whether they provoke a positive or negative reactions the way that the policy can do. you have to understand that we would either nickerson you can agree or disagree unless you ceiling as well, but you really must understand that. yeah. if you really think about it. yeah, absolutely, absolutely. that you're already wavering me at, you know, i'm not if you want me to say that i'm way varela, why 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, lamb just good. 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 needed. yeah. alien wasn't willing to do that. that's your opinion brigade. others think that land reform could have been put off afterward. they said that there was no need to introduce a new land. colin of a people like that exist to name it. do you think they are less important than those that do not want to have the old anthem back within with you mentioned give that to when you get your medium. but it's the politics is the art of the possible,

the art of possible compromises, isn't it? well it, 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, he said it was a compromise. and on the mobility on the scene douglasville smith, yes. to a certain extent, it is a compromise again, but it's still though it certainly looks like a compromise. it really did. the company state of this is misty p companies, but it still gets mostly used. nevertheless, this using these are meaningful actions to achieve a position which you can rely on to solve substantive task in the reconstruction of the state, a good and the modernization of the economy, the digital against filtering soon. it won't let me subsequently see, i can't disagree with that argument isn't with 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 there any one left to disagree with him? i you consent? you haven't persuaded every one at the correctness of this decision. it was not 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. 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, usually it, no offense, but i still don't share your opinion about the anthem. his 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 us in oh i oh yeah. oh oh yeah. ju property. oh, she is a mula muse. portable port where unit, gimme a so you would use it when you pull that should go to see but the would you like a. busy visit you did it, did you have the owner this is. busy shane with

a little general socio littlewood story. oh booting got his c legs quickly enough and increasingly distanced himself from his mentor. with jenny read them with the finance or 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 through the outgoing yes, that wasn't feeling good. 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 su ringing out the old ear and ringing in the no, no sure, 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 the shop or rather bringing out the old deer look with a certain sense of loss. so sadly, no. hello. i says long 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 more with it, cuz 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 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 limbs fall union 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 or for 3rd, it was already be everything we use the cold extreme in this st. margaret and certainly doesn't help but rather harmless. furthermore, if the vomiting is all the but for she, monuments and other elements of autocracy leftover from the pattern can naturally as every one like that they are very difficult to counter them over that other. not that division thought about. shall we go with them? i admit, despite the fact that this was only the 1st year of putin drew, 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,

which is much in 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. this is alicia. so 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 of some of us, but 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 when 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. never mind. well, these are wonderful words fe 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, 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 to him on a good or 1st of all, human on the life of modern is quite complicated. appeals who i have met monarchs quite often in recent years in various parts of the world during official visit steps with them to 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 is harsh and full of restrictions, new dinging, but they're just stupid yet though they don't belong to themselves. inclusion of cynthia will that's their destiny with those mr. trees 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 them in service to the motherland with a maximum effort a maximum was due, so even when the solar. 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 signal . mm. and you don't like 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 aren't ashamed of. well, i was more just 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, luna, 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, wrote that he didn't use it,

they stated that we'll get it done. you and it's a good, that's pensioner lou city of mr. wall. 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, anybody addition bushnell lapse? 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 worthy future for both the country. and you personally, there was an age that no young go out of school with discretion. nebula rice, you'll do more. but as i'm telling you, so i've sat and thought it was the rack, my brains about how it should be there, steve bowden. 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. 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 bye democratize you. democrats, even though to push this muscle to people. no, there's no idea what to say now. so let's keep our fingers crossed and thumbs up. when you, when you look really going to get the hold again, this is in bill of newton. i'm here 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 naively, 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.

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