russia boris yeltsin at the time he was at his residence near moscow the chief of his security guards alexandre korsakoff was with him they drove a service car to moscow and reached the city unhindered. yeltsin was seated between two guards are you flatly turned down the idea of wearing a bulletproof vest so we simply put it over him just in case. that heavy vest weighing nine kilos was of the kind worn in the army but the driver was told to go as fast as he could without stopping no matter what. yeltsin managed to get to the white house where he reunited with his team later he climbed a tank to read out a message to a large crowd that had gathered outside the white house for claim all the decisions and orders by that committee illegal. by then white house defenders had set up a makeshift barricade near the building in a bid to block the access of military vehicles. everybody was dragging whatever they could lay their hands on a trolley bus stop there the driver got out and lowered the trolleys the trolley bus was left standing across the road the barricade was here that's how we began blocking

rebuild the nation's economy lies in ruins after years of struggling to maintain and dependence alexandr on will have his hands full was eliezer country through the next five years. i'll have more for you in less than a thirty minutes tire in the meantime aren't you looks at what can be done to modernize russia's infrastructure much of which is stuck in a country soviet past all the money is next. hello and welcome to our in the money with the business of russia is the business side peter lavelle today we're talking about infrastructure and the building of the new russia. to discuss this issue i'm joined by you know our team here in the studio with me he's director of strategic development for a.b.b. in russia also here live cousin yet chairman of the board of directors at barclays corp michael owen franca he's an analyst at ferus and stephen cousins he is a partner in the p.p.c. group in the moscow office of c.m.s. ok we're going to go to you first give me the bad news just how bad is russia's infrastructure in two thousand and eleven. ok not so excellent and in a way we have a lot of o

alexandr unquote up was feisty president one the man he succeeds as leader sergei bug option died in office last may the two saw a pause in independence recognized by russia and a number of other countries in two thousand and eight with both men helping prevent war with georgia at the same year for almost two decades after a pause in a declared independence from georgia in one nine hundred ninety one military conflict along with fear and uncertainty marked life in the country the mood now seems to have changed the early battles for independence led many scholars in a policy as capital you can see how badly the parliament building was damaged cleaning up the rubble and getting things back in order will probably be the toughest part of the job for the new president keeping good ties with russia and restoring the economy will be the top of and clubs agenda. and we have to admit it and that is true we see certain growth but it is no no we need loans and serious investments. the campaign was monitored by more than one hundred international observers from countries including france austria

well they will need him because russia have scored six times in the last six games but main striker alexandre has upon his shooting was in the top scoring the russian premier league with thirteen goals so four and he also scored a hat trick last week or so there is growing hope russia could be more from attacking force on friday night we have to do it because we did it in the away games as well. but you know to go to a coming of not different games because we have to in the real teams as the winners will so we have hopefully much fun to watch so we know that we have to get this six point you can't underestimate the importance of friday's game and the one against ireland four days later. should top of group b. and with only the group winners guarantee the next summer's finals a look at his stated on the six points will do the same but about archie. staying with the ball as it took for a spending russian side and just a day to learn at the newly acquired goalkeeper. back to test. moscow thirty seven year old former russian squad regular has been brought back as a replacement for eagle act in fr

well they will need him because russia have scored six times in the last six games but main striker alexandre has spawned his shooting boots for the new the top scoring the russian premier with thirty goals for four and he also scored a hat trick last week or so there is growing hope russia could be more from attacking force on friday night we have to do it because we did it in the away games as well. i think it is ireland to play next and. but there are two games were coming up different games because we have to win and the other two just to win as well so we have to hopefully go back front so we know that we have to get this six court you can't underestimate the importance of friday's game and the one against ireland four days later victories in russia top of group b. and with only the group winners guarantee of a place next summer's finals i look at his stated on the six points will do the same but out of. moscow. well russia so having also there in their bid to qualify for the finals european loves germany have the chance to become the first nation other than crane and poland to reach the

as a former ranking communist was there, alexandre, a tall handsome blond russian command he smiled and said if no one within won't do it we have some spares. i think at that time they had something like 10,000 stairs. what was he talking about? by the way curt was there and spoke russian. he said did you hear what he said? of course i heard it but i didn't understand it unless it was translated. >> what was he talking about? something that would shut down our who were critical of our communications for six months or so and no fear of retaliation slbm is launched from the sea, who would know where it came from if it was launched from the sea? he was talking of course about emp, electromagnetic pulse. it is an inevitable accompaniment of any nuclear detonation above the atmosphere, any nuclear weapon doubled produce a emp pulse. our only experience was in 62 johnston island. hawaii, 800 miles away. not much microelectronics back then in 62. hawaii, 800 miles away had some pretty serious consequences of this of the atmosphere detonation there was a lot more experience than we realized whi