underestimated russia in the 1990s. >> to the flick of russian leadership in foreign relations is with allen lynch, international relations professor at the university of virginia from a director at the university center for russian and east european studies. mr. lynch, author of "vladimir putin and rssian statecraft" explains how russia's president is it that much of the country's population. >> not joining us here at of virginia is the author of this book, "vladimir putin and rssian statecraft" politics professor alan lynch. alan lynch, would you describe russia as a new? >> it is certainly not a political he peered at the same time, putin is very popular. in fact, his approval ratings have increased since he was reelected on march 4th in now approaching about 68% according to an independent russian polling agents he. they're very interesting paradoxes here. putin has supplied the apparatus democracy to obtain political legitimacy. but he has certainly been able to avoid strict accountability to diverse elements in russian society. he has constructed an interesting political machine that combine

lewis allen, also known as able meyer pull sal and that inspired him to write those lyrics of strange fruit. that's another reason why its famous but it's also things because would've been a third lynch victim. basically they were in jail. they drive them out to lunch them and before the drug chains out to lynch them, they convinced them not to lynch him as well. james later founded the black holocaust museum in milwaukee, wisconsin. so the wood of a third victim here. when i talk about "living with lynching" i talk about the fact we're still living with it anyways but what does it mean to be someone like james cameron had basically managed to escape this button also have deliver the fact he would've been a third person and continue to live with the photograph itself circulating. so those are some of things we want to deal with. finally, with this one i want is to be very clear about the composition of lynching photographs. that we're not just about some kind of straightforward record but there's a deliberate composition to this photograph. part of that compositicompositi on i would suggest is that what cheats around the midsection of one of the victims. historians a little bit a deb