decisive in strict boris yeltsin had sat in the kremlin instead of gorbachev at that time. i don't think we'd have left the forest so easily. the standoff between two political heavyweights mikhail gorbachev and boris yeltsin lasted for several years. and was transferred to work in moscow from the urals and nine hundred eighty five unexpectedly for many boris yeltsin went from being merely a professional communist party a wretched to go bitch off main opponent. as a result yeltsin was stripped of his party post however two years later he was elected the people's deputy that. liberal. has with ensuring all those previous decades will never get going again on the contrary. slipping into the bog from which we've just started to emerge. by that time. in the country has dropped to almost zero in stark contrast yeltsin hired a new team and started playing by his own rules with gusto the race religion. was initially very athletic man. and he had a fighting spirit inside him. tennis helped him to keep fit for. the seventeenth of march nine hundred ninety one. the referendum was hel

one is an extraordinary day in russian history twenty years ago a secret meeting took place between boris yeltsin leo need crush choke and stun is left just gave each day with the heads of the former soviet republics of russia ukraine and belarus in the final moments of the soviet empire the three announced states on the world map known as the u.s.s.r. had ceased to exist. the dense bill of asia forrest webelos borders poland in soviet times people would come here and excursions from all over the us as. a bell a recent t.v. journalist was the only one lucky enough to shoot the moment of signing the documents that entered history as the belle of asia accords we were fairly we were left on the military airfield so i approached a k.g.b. officer and said what do we do to prove look we're missing such an important meeting. i said it's ok given i'll take you for. several minutes later but i didn't get son and he was being driven to a secret place named the school in the central part of the bell of asia forest it was in this place at the head will be a rose stone is left just give each and decid

this is the decisive in st boris yeltsin that sets in the kremlin instead of. young. forest soaries a. decade. with the discussion still rages was this a plot or a fait accompli. this is. the latest top stories for. the biggest protests in recent history as people unhappy with a parliamentary election result. president has now ordered an investigation into all claims of violations during last week's poll. a fresh rift within the e.u. britain vetoes a new treaty tightening fiscal rules for bloc members in a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit door most other e.u. members have agreed to brussels total oversight of their budgets. liberated a but desperate for money libyan authorities plead to the un to release billions of the country's still frozen months after the end of the military conflict that the country's government struggles with paying salaries and providing subsidies. my colleague bill dogs here in half an hour's time but for now the three signatures that brought an end to seventy three years of soviet history a chance to hear t

unlike russia's president boris yeltsin was much more resolute and decisive he made his way. and became the dolling of international news broadcasts for three whole days. that's what declaring legal all the decisions in decreased by the state of emergency committee. and the cool guys were extremely unconvincing journalist. was the first to put a question for coup leader. of the news conference concerning the incident. was so nervous that his hands were trembling. just say that they looked hesitant would be an understatement and they looked as if life was dying out of them and there was no way to tell if he left in their faces and she they looked like people who had lost a battle before they had a chance to start it. the coup eventually failed k.g.b. units refused to storm the white house and were pulled out of moscow many people felt as though they were personally shaping history. the bright future which the communists had been talking about for seventy years finally became a possibility we could build it with our own hands we were used to the fact that the state was on evide

on that day he had to give that up to boris yeltsin who was president of russia. that meant russia, nuclear power. when you think of it, it was the end of one of two totalitarian systems of the 20th century. it was last day of a totalitarian system. >> within the system still totalitarian by that point? >> it wasn't as totalitarian. you could call it authoritarian at the time the soviet union -- this was because of the reforms gorbachev introduced as general secretary and the communist party in 1985. >> back to the moment, the nuclear briefcase moment. a powerful opening section and almost a comedy of errors and conflict and vanity and comeuppances at an end. there was a plan for the handoff but it all goes to not. >> details worked out a couple days before that. one of the agreements was after gorbachev made his resignation speech on television at 7:00 in the evening, boris yeltsin who was watching television in a nearby building would make his way to gorbachev's presidential office and received the nuclear suitcases and it would be recorded from russian tv but a

boris yeltsin and can come over a year. the whole thing -- they agreed they witnessed the documents. interestingly this moment not only symbolized but in effect meant the end of the soviet union as a superpower was to be recorded on television but only a set of generals walking away -- they handed over to boris yeltsin and the only witnesses were the cnn crew who filmed the resignation speech y. brad peck of their equipment. >> host: no pictures of it. >> guest: don't go any further and these generals exchange of this object which was clearly in the british circus. >> host: extraordinary moment. in reading the book i was so struck by the variety of sources, memoirs, diaries, you credit one of the top aides for boris yeltsin, prime minister giving you a minute by minute blow by blow orange airmass -- journalism phrase a ticktock and in the same sound gorbachev says -- the press secretary did this thing kind of providing some insight. can you say a word about where you got this incredible detail? because by that time you had

and boris yeltsin, by his account, said i'm not allowed by the doctors to leave my bed. gorbachev said, that's okay, we'll look after that. and a doctor came along and injected him with a sedative and some anti-spasm agent, and he was taken by his bodyguard by car to the inquisition. which it was really an inquisition. and he was made to suffer four hours of abuse from gorbachev and other members of the central committee. this was the first central committee meeting of about 300. and he never forgave gorbachev for that. and this -- >> host: and given his health conditions, he did not push back at that moment. that was not a time when he actually was physically able to get up on the tank, for example. >> guest: that's right. >> host: as he did much later. >> guest: one of the interesting things i discovered, and i don't think anybody's made this connection. years later when yeltsin was president and his prime minister was mere can, he discovered the doctor who had injected him who yeltsin really hated for what he did, then he was the private doctor to the prime minister.

on that day, he had to give that up to boris yeltsin who is president of russia. so it was important on that point of view but it was also when you think about it did was the end of one of the two totalitarian systems of the 20th century which conducted the red square history. it was the last day of the totalitarian system. >> host: was that system still totalitarian i that point? >> guest: it wasn't as totalitarian and in fact i think you could call it authoritarian and partly democratic at the time of the soviet union and this was because of the set of reforms that gorbachev had introduced to the secretary of the communist party in 1985. >> host: let's go back to that moment, that nuclear briefcase moment because it's a very powerful opening section in your book and it's almost a comedy of errors and conflict in vanity and comeuppance is at the end where there is a plan for that hand off, graceful, almost in front of the tv cameras but it all goes to not because of this tension that is of the at the core of your book. >> guest: the details were worked out a coup

he created conditions for boris yeltsin as the representative from moscow. he got something like 9 million votes. so gorbachev created the democratic conditions for the democrats to advance. i think that we must seek gorbachev as a statesman and yeltsin as an opportunist with the right imposes. a thing that would be the best with some without. >> opportunist but with some incredible moments of courage. >> a good bet on his instincts. it required a lot of courage to do that. history proved that he was right. the time but come to wind down the soviet union, and he was the one who realize that and to went doing it. for bringing freedom to russia. >> what about the way, gorbachev to be looking back toward the years, well, a couple of big mistakes were not breaking the communist party earlier on and perhaps not signing the union treaty in such a way earlier so that it would head off the coup, and if i had done that we could have had a union and the demilitarized more democratic union, soviet union still. >> the legitimate exercise in history. one of the what ifs

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on that day he had to give that up to boris yeltsin who is president of russia. and that meant russia, the nuclear power. ghostly power from that point of view but also when you think about it was the end of the one to two of the totality systems which conducted the greece were in history. that was the last day of that totalitarian system and. >> host: was that system still totalitarian by that point? >> guest: it wasn't. in fact, i think you'd call it off or terry and and party democratic at the time. this was because of the reforms that gorbachev has introduced when he became general secretary of the comments part in 1985. >> host: let's go back to the moment, the brief for passionate nuclear briefcase mode. it's an almost a comedy of errors and conflict and vanity and come up and says at the end, where there's a plan for the handoff, graceful, almost in front of the tv camera, but it all goes to not because of the tension that is the core of your book. >> guest: the details were worked out a couple days before and. one of the agreements was that after gorbache

this is the decisive in strict boris yeltsin that sucks in the kremlin and sort of cool itself at the time. then i don't think we have left elevator forest soaries. two decades have passed but the discussion still rages was this applause for a fait accompli. the headlines on our t.v. thousands go out onto the streets of central moscow to contest the outcome of sunday's parliamentary election the opposition claims the vote was rigged and is demanding a new. u.k. balance out of a pan-european deal to save the euro shattering the unity dream and leaving the rest to work out new budget rules since all amongst themselves the treaty will be signed between individual governments in march. and israeli rockets and sanctions continue to squeeze palestinians with four people killed over the last few days sending gazans to seek a better future elsewhere with the even with war ravaged libya looking attractive to some. of the some of the headlines we're not see for the saturday or next dimitri and the sports. hello there welcome to the sports update to thank you very much for joining us this hour a

of russia's opposition leaders after recordings of some of his phone conversations surfaced online boris and yourself could face a split within their ranks after using insulting words to describe his allies. and cowardly penguins were among the least offensive times that he used as artist on battle reports. revelations were published in life news dot ru a notoriously tabloid sensationalist websites in russia and they concern six hours of private phone conversations recorded boris nemtsov an opposition figure in which he insults fellow opposition leaders using very profane language and calls protesters how woodley penguins and internet comes to those protesters turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all denies of the protests has hit back saying that this is kremlin phone tapping and that they've been released these phone conversations to try and discredit him and to split the opposition he doesn't ever admit that some of the phone conversations did happen and he's apologized for any insult caused in those but h

on that day he had to give that up to boris yeltsin, who was president of russia, and that gave russia nuclear power. and it was the end of one of the two totalitarian systems. >> wasn't that system still totalitarian by that point, december of 1991. >> i think you could call it authoritarian and partly democratic at the time, the soviet union, and this is because of the reforms that gorbachev introduced to the secretary of the communist party in 1985. >> let's go back to that moment, that nuclear brief case moment. it's a powerful openings section in your book and it's almost a comedy of errors and conflict and vanity and comeuppances at the end, where there's a plan for that handoff, graceful, almost in front of the tv cameras, but go to not because of the tension that is the core of the book. >> the details of the handover were worked out a couple days before. one of the agreements was that after gorbachev made his resignation speech at 7:00 in the evening on television, he would then -- boris yeltsin, who was watching on a television nearby, would make his way over to gorbachev's o

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and do something completely different i can't forgive myself for being too liberal and in the sand boris yeltsin before i should have that was my mistake. this is the decisive in strict boris yeltsin that sucks in the kremlin instead of good stuff at the time. you know i don't think we have left elevator forest soaries or. two decades have passed but the discussion still rages was this a plot for a fait accompli. oh i see. it's all designed to keep you close in your. world as a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like that in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of building and. seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours a chose songs i remember from marilyn manson. slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood to me those are war coming up here into iraq into baghdad. johnny pool the bodies hit the floor which is the rock n roll band it was fitting for the job we were doing. the official. video. feed. of your. top stories from moscow tonight mixed reactions over the election supporters and opponents of the

sensationalist website in russia and they concern six hours of private phone conversations recorded boris nemtsov an opposition figure in which he insults fellow opposition leaders using very profane language and calls protesters how would leave kind wins and internet comes to those protesters turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in that december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all denies of the protests has hit back saying that this is criminal and phone tapping and that they've been released these phone conversations to try and discredit him and to split the opposition he doesn't ever admit that some of the phone conversations did happen and he's apologized for any insult caused in those but he says that others were falsified life muses owner for its part has also added to the controversy by refusing to say where they got the recordings from and all of this is caused a great storm of controversy on the internet with people shocked by themselves words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition

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this is the decisive in strict boris yeltsin that sucks in the kremlin instead of cool itself at the time. then i don't think we have left elevator forest soaries. two decades have passed but the discussion still rages was this applause or a fait accompli. twenty years ago the largest country. disintegrates into. what how did you kill. each began a journey. where did it take to. welcome back to spotlight i'm not been just a reminder that my guest on the show today is jack matlock the last american ambassador to the soviet union well technically bob strauss came to moscow as an investor who placed mr matlock in august ninety one just after the coup buddy but he turned out to be the first and best or in russia technically actually what was the last one to the soviet union the man who said goodbye to to to to to to to the well we were talking about the end of the cold war. speaking about saying goodbye to two. when did you start understanding and i know you did that yeltsin will be the next guy the next man in charge in moscow well actually we had we had hoped that gorbachev and he also

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news dot brew website and they focus on six hours that they managed to obtain all of recordings of boris nemtsov who's an opposition leader one of the more famous opposition leaders and one of the organizers of the huge protests that have erupted since the december early december election results on the wires spreaders reports of vote rigging there the recordings. of the phone tapping of recordings between him and some of his colleagues. they they contain his use of a lot of very profane very rude language about some of his fellow opposition figures and they also catch him saying that some of the protesters that came to the demonstrations were nothing but internet hamsters and cowardly penguins a lot of animal metaphors there i think he's trying to say that they didn't really have a will of their own. the there is a lot of questions also being asked about where these recordings come from precisely the owner of life news has refused to tell the media where he managed to get all these phone tapping conversations from the nazi also raising a lot of questions by and it will be interesting to

this is the decisive in strict boris yeltsin that sucks in the kremlin instead of cool itself at the time. then i don't think we have left elevator forest soaries. decades have passed but the discussion still rages was this applause or a fait accompli. and you can say. welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing what's next for the euro. and you can see. ok and i'd like to go back to you in london before we start talking more about if the euro can survive how democratic is all this process because i find it very curious is that merkel and sarkozy are giving an ultimatum to you all members of the european union saying by friday you have to agree to this and it has to be unanimous and then sometime in the spring we'll talk about the proposals that seems like it's getting everything backwards and i mean are the people of the european union in the euro is that eurozone have any voice in what's going to be done with this common currency it is a common currency after all. it's not only undemocratic and that is worrying and they and the people of europe have