putin owes his power to boris yeltsin who picked him together with his entourage as a successor, andin is basically continuing the yeltsin russia as it was built under yeltsin. and then putin. gorbachev was a sworn enemy. they were with yeltsin. and putin, to some extent, inherited that. also right now, when gorbachev passed, putin is fighting a savage war in ukraine actually to remake what is seen as gorbachev made. gorbachev presided over the collapse of the soviet union. putin is trying to build it back by blood and steel. so, it is not that there is nothing strange that the present kremlin and gorbachev had lukewarm relationships. he was not announced officially by the kremlin, though some forces to denounce him as a traitor, and so on. but he is also no hero. and gorbachev would be a much more private affair. again, maybe his family also did not want her to be a state funeral, too -- did not want it to be a state funeral too. that is not clear right now. hashem: ok. maria, the 2021 poll that you spoke about which qualified gorbachev as the worst political leader in russia in the

boris yeltsin was reviled by the vast majority of the russians who blamed him for the economic miserygiven all of those honours, nevertheless. my question is, to those who voted for boris yeltsin in 1991, elected him, and the russian president, 56 1991, elected him, and the russian resident, ~ ., ., ., president, 56 million voted him at the time, president, 56 million voted him at the time. do _ president, 56 million voted him at the time, do they _ president, 56 million voted him at the time, do they realise - president, 56 million voted him at the time, do they realise they - president, 56 million voted him at| the time, do they realise they carry responsibility for the collapse of the soviet union in a sense? that is a very good — the soviet union in a sense? that is a very good question. _ the soviet union in a sense? that is a very good question. nobody - the soviet union in a sense? that is| a very good question. nobody wants to take responsibility, _ a very good question. nobody wants to take responsibility, they - a very good question. nobody wants to take responsibility, they

so we had the mess and the autocracy of the boris yeltsin years.resting things, i don't think anyone was prepared, certainly gorbachev wasn't. he was prepared to let the warsaw pact lives. i don't think it was important to him, the economy in russia needed attention. i say russia, i do mean in the soviet union, because he was a man of the soviet union. but the post gorbachev, which happened very quickly, he didn't expect to be the victim of a coup when he went on vacation in crimea. it was a very, very difficult time for him and i think that no one has ever seen what happened to a society that has been a totalitarian society, in which everyone has turned on everyone else and you have this central kgb chequered history where anybody at any time can be denounced and sent away. that structure, political, economic and social disappears, i think it makes people a little crazy. and after a while they begin to want the comfort of what was, even if what was was really kind of awful. i think that what happened post gorbachev in russia, was that people gravi

when bill clinton arranged for a $10000000000.00 i and f loan to buttress boris yeltsin canada. and there was done, it was completely open. in fact, hollywood made a movie about it. cause boars that treated the whole thing like a joke. so you know, so this is just, you know, it's just ludicrously, one sided at i don't think anybody in the world and really believes that i mean, obviously moscow has denied these allegations that i'm sure washington would also say that most of that may be a trillion dollars was well spent, but it's, it's just something that they kind of do. yes. and actually was surprisingly uncontroversial until and so 2014. i mean, yes. the us has a national endowment for democracy, a government funded agency, whose job is to distribute funds to political parties in and other countries. it was part of the law. and you know, and, and yes, it is what states do it, but it's what the us in particular has been especially aggressive in doing sort of blame russia to throw around figures like $3000000.00 in the nose. but he had was seen or $1000000.00 compared to the $10

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of course, gorbachev was followed by boris yeltsin, a man who didn't exactly lie. gorbachev, this was the beginning of the as it gig, beginning of the cow arctic nineties in russia ingrained in russian collective mind as a decayed of cows and lawlessness. but people mix it all up to day and to blame garbage or for everything are we talked to moscow, vice 9 people out of 10 sant he caused to the disintegration of their once. your great and beautiful country is javier t union. there is a lot of nostalgia for the good old days. and of course, a lot of frustration about the 1st years after the collapse of the soviet union, which were very difficult. and you see the kremlin and also russian president vladimir putin reaction to college of state wooten paid tribute to gorbachev through a he scrambling spokesman pis scoff, saying he was a great statesman. ah, he expressed his convalescence to the family today. however, putin, your sad into will not be attending the ceremony because of scheduling reasons, at least that's what the kremlin says. and it is, of course, ah const. because that putin

so we had the mess and the autocracy of the boris yeltsin years.— yeltsin years.es. i don't think— let the warsaw pact lives. i don't think it _ let the warsaw pact lives. i don't think it was — let the warsaw pact lives. i don't think it was important to him, the economy— think it was important to him, the economy in— think it was important to him, the economy in russia needed attention. i say economy in russia needed attention. i say russia. — economy in russia needed attention. i say russia, i do mean in the soviet— i say russia, i do mean in the soviet union, because he was a man of the _ soviet union, because he was a man of the soviet— soviet union, because he was a man of the soviet union. but the post gorbachev, which happened very quickly. — gorbachev, which happened very quickly, he didn't expect to be the victim _ quickly, he didn't expect to be the victim of— quickly, he didn't expect to be the victim of a — quickly, he didn't expect to be the victim of a coup when he went on vacation — victim of a coup when he went on vacation in — victim of a coup wh

well, no one has ever seen him, but it means that this electorate is because boris pokalevich yeltsinthat's what boris mykolayovych yeltsin said, because his rating at that time was 5%." we all the time accept i am very surprised by this, we perceive putin's departure from power approximately as the death of stalin i am surprised that stalin died in 1953 god knows when there were people who were at all adults when stalin died, there are practically none now , these people who are still there, they will be children then, but this magical event simply affects even our analytical abilities, we for some reason believe that here is putin, and it will be march of the 53rd year, and these heirs of his will come to the podium of the mausoleum they will say that now there will be a peaceful coexistence of peoples that it is putin himself who is evil and not the collective putin who surrounds him. immediately, but it was definitely an unchangeable evil for good, then we all saw the historical death of leonid brezhnev, which is much closer to us. it is certainly not putin, but this person led a

shield when it was a vaccination, then during a tour of russia, a young kyrian noticed president boris yeltsinsimply fascinated by him so he liked it so much that he said in german listen, give me this guy nemtsov categorically refused in a few years, the germans already took the first deputy head of the russian government into his command and hideout today lviv thank you at the beginning of 1998, when russia was on the verge of default, completely unexpectedly for the whole country, yeltsin announced the resignation of chernomirdian, who within five years was the second person in the state to save the economy, appointed a 35-year-old man from kiriyenko under pressure from yeltsin and the threat of the state house on the third attempt gave the go-ahead and serhiy vladlenovich became the youngest prime minister of russia kiriyenko nemtsov didn't just decide with the shadow, he just jumped out of it, but here in nizhny, no one ever considered them equal-sized figures, and when later , uh, it happened, this is a sensational appointment in nizhny, everything went from smart families, it was easy,

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unlike most russian leaders that he voluntarily stacked to back, admittedly under pressure from boris yeltsin and the ukrainian or russian leaders. and but he didn't fight to stay in power. he didn't have the army come and support him. so i think we shouldn't criticize him too much for what he said about ukraine because for a man of his generation and it's not surprising registered, i want to pick up on the, on the, the potent factor here. you, along with fiona hill, wrote an article in foreign affairs recently in the title is the world. putin, watts has putin succeeded already in dismantling everything that gorbachev was able to achieve inside russia in terms of greater openness and ex, extending freedom such as freedom of expression. freedom of the press on russia is a far more oppressive place now than it was. the soviet union was under gorbachev. and it resembles to some extent what life was like under the breaking the breaking up period. the only difference is that russians can still, with great difficulty, leave russia. he really has a dismantled most of that. and primarily he is hell b

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and suddenly it turns out that what was still guaranteed by leonid brezhnev mikhail gorbachev, boris yeltsinmir putin will simply destroy it in a few months, despite the fact that gazprom is his personal wallet, we know that he actually receives money from the activities of gazprom himself." first of all, those who belonged to a certain, well, even if it was a party, but still elites who were capable of a certain analysis and behind whom there were people who, well, let's say so, suggested where and what can be done to bypass some icebergs and so on. and so on. in the case of putin, we have a completely different person intellectual, and that's why i think that well, and also, and besides, extremely confident and narcissistic , that's why i think that there is an obvious failure in the context of er-e to pronounce mental and all other abilities on putin's on p and on the other hand on his er-er he has driven himself into a dead end, from which he cannot escape now, because he cannot retreat, this is also the result he created himself. he is invincible, he is all-powerful. he is the first eve

when boris yeltsin died it was _ really matter.apse of the soviet union and for that a lot of russians absolutely reviled him. i lot of russians absolutely reviled him. ., ., ., ,~' lot of russians absolutely reviled him. ., ., ., lot of russians absolutely reviled him. i wanted to ask you about the olarised him. i wanted to ask you about the polarised opinion _ him. i wanted to ask you about the polarised opinion within _ him. i wanted to ask you about the polarised opinion within russia - polarised opinion within russia itself and also around the world. he is viewed in very different ways depending we are in the world you are looking at events today. absolutely. look at the baltics. the day after president gorbachev died the president of lithuania called him a criminal because back in 1991, gorbachev ordered troops to move into lithuania and suppress an independence movement resulting in the deaths of at least 15 people. in ukraine he is by no means seen as the person gifted independence to ukraine. no, people rememberthat for ex

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republics of the former soviet union, belarus . and ukraine eh russia has submitted a letter from boris yeltsin are the successors of the soviet union. therefore, we should be in the un and in the un security council. what is the current time, just ask the question and hold it. it is procedural to keep russia for some time. expelled from the un security council and, in principle, forced them to go through the usual procedure that these countries that join the united nations go through and see if they meet the requirements that are in the un, despite the fact that china went through such a procedure in its time, china now does not supports this issue and, frankly speaking, there are few prospects in this right now, but you are telling us to put the official circumstances on the internet, a representative told us yesterday just as he was addressing everyone, they said here and to you who are dealing with the places of the soviet union , that is, officially we put it, moreover, it is in the archives un letter from lawyers and vagonivskyi who say that it is really necessary to go through the proced

he tried to deal with the forces he unleashed himself, which led to boris yeltsin ultimately to vladimir putin, is sent this, this russian nationalism which had been suppressed by the soviet regime. and we have to keep that whole complex picture in mind as well. he could not any longer maneuver once he also won, won the leadership that support of most of the russian population. but i wanted to add one more point we haven't talked about, which is to say that i think the west fundamentally misunderstood what was going on at the time just as we misunderstood what was going on. and i, the one seeing it primarily as a democratic, great through against the soviet regime. it was not, it was much more complicated. phenomenon than that and not as problems are said. the issue of communist party money, soviet money, which was sloshing around the system in the mid eighties in the late eighty's and ultimately, which gave rise to the oligarchs and all, many of the other corrupt unpleasantness we see now corrupt by comparison, even with the corrupt past the u. s. and the west had really trouble underst

marshall plan and who knew what was needed would be outside governance instead of an alcoholic named boris yeltsinnto the ground and gave it away. it was very idea logically tinged on the west side that the free market would win and sort out russia and you just needed the anointing of the country. instead, it was a form of asset stripping not backed up by institution building. which has laid the foundation of some of what we are seeing in ukraine and in putin's reign, i guess you would call it. just leaving that aside, let's talk about something else which is unfinished business, michael, over to you, iraq. this is a massive over simplification so shoot me down in flames if you like, but to what extent, the violence, the power of the militias, a straightforward legacy of the way of not so much the way the invasion was conducted but the occupation was conducted ? you can trace it all the way back. when i was talking about totalitarianism, what i can say with real conviction, i was in the country when the saddam hussein regime disappeared, i'm talking about people who had lived the previous decades

novodevichy cemetery, where lie not only many soviet politicians, but also the main political opponent boris yeltsinthe only president of the ussr and the last general secretary of the cpsu, was buried next to his wife by flight kateryna fedorchenko tsn 1+1 marathon only news in a new format with a limited number guests and locations with a spare stage in a bomb shelter, poetry readings are held in chernivtsi, meridian charnets, works by 30 authors, and in addition to ours from germany, austria, switzerland, and israel, andriy lyubka, iryna karpa, kateryna kalitko , present new books before a full-scale invasion, for 12 years in a row, the radian chernivtsi festival was a bright cultural event and collected a lot of non-tourist places, poetry was read in unusual locations, on the train, in the market, in the synagogue or just in the middle of the sleeping area and accompanied music and theatrical performances, but during the war, the organizers say, it is important even that the poems just sound and they want and can listen to them. in 2017 , the poetry festival at this time is already a phenomenon

independence amongst the 15 nations that emerge from it, previous members of the ussr, was too great and boris yeltsinesident of russia effectively consigned the soviet union into history along with the presidents of ukraine and belarus who pushed hard for independence. president gorbachev was unusually well travelled for a russian leader and he had many contacts even amongst some who are critics of the soviet regime and his great campaigns were for openness and more knowledge about what was going on the soviet system and also for reform and change of the soviet many muscovites and russians rued the day these reforms became an because it became an economic free for all and the economy suffered in the aftermath. figures from across the world have been paying tributes to the last leader of the soviet union. our correspondent helena wilkinson looks back at mr gorbachev�*s life. mikhail gorbachev, a leader who will be remembered figures from across the world have been paying tributes for overseeing enormous changes. mr gorbachev took power in 1985. he introduced political and economic reforms to kickstart

immediately taking control of the situation, gave all the laurels of the winner as an emergency to boris yeltsina more than convincing explanation for his wife. raisa maksimovna , against the background of what she experienced, became seriously ill, mikhail sergeevich spent a lot of time in the hospital with her not in vain, then they quoted his words, which they considered. romantic i'm married not to the side married to my wife, this choice turned out to be in many ways, decisive for a further political career. gorbachev although he fought, the chances of signing a union treaty, even if a confederal one , remained. here are the leaders of the republics, including yeltsin, publicly speaking out in favor of the union november 91st press conference in novaya orel will i think that the union will be kazakhstan but always stood for the preservation of the union please discuss that the union will be a union of sovereign states tire the confederate states turned out to be a lie, instead of signing agreements between the leaders of russia, belarus and ukraine gathered in the hunting residences of belo

it said and alcoholic name boris yeltsin around _ and alcoholic name boris yeltsin around the countrylaid this foundation for some _ not backed up by... which has laid this foundation for some of - not backed up by... which has laid this foundation for some of what . this foundation for some of what we're seeing in ukraine and in putin's rain, i guess you call it. leaving that aside, let's talk about something else which is unfinished business. michael, overto you, iraq. this is a massive over supplication. to me down in flames if you like. —— shoot me down. what extent is the power of the militias, a straightforward legacy of the way, not so much the invasion was conducted, but the occupation? you can trace it — conducted, but the occupation? you can trace it all— conducted, but the occupation? you can trace it all the way back, and when _ can trace it all the way back, and when i _ can trace it all the way back, and when i was — can trace it all the way back, and when i was talking about totalitarianism, the reason i can say that— totalitarianism, the reason i can say that with real

i think you said boris johnson, not boris yeltsin. but boris johnson, i'm pretty sure you set.britain is a better place because of queen elizabeth. is it fair that she has been the glue holding the monarchy together? >> yes. i mean, it is a lottery. when you have a family, you know, hereditary family inheriting the head of state role, it is a lottery who you get. and i think britain was particularly fortunate to get somebody with such a natural touch. and, such a sense of duty and obligation and professionalism. and it, is on average, you are unlikely to get that. and british history is a pretty good illustration that you could get some really bad characters. george the third being. one and holding britain together, well, there is a possibility, and maybe a probability with scottish independence referendum. the interesting thing about that though is that they wouldn't become a republic. they would be independent from britain. but they would keep the monarchy. and nicola sturgeon, scotland's first minister was, you, know actually more fulsome in her tribute to the queen after he

from j a k to boris yeltsin, the most famous woman in the world held her own, among some of the most formidable leaders. she also worked hard to maintain her popularity, home keeping the common touch became a key feature of her reign. but the queen's monarchy wasn't without adversity. her silver jubilee coincided with economic hardships and political em rest of the 1970s . and in 1981, she was shot at by a member of the public during the tripping of the color parade. thankfully with blank bullets. a serious fire tall through winter carsley 1992. when that same year, her daughter prince, as anne, was divorced, while the separations were announced in marriages of both prince charles and prince andrew, leading the queen to famously described the year as her annas. horrible. this tragedy followed 5 years later, when diana princess of wales, who dedicated herself to charitable causes and became a global icon, died in a car accident in paris. while the death of queen elizabeth sister, princess margaret, as well as the death of the queen's mother, cast a shadow over her golden jubilee celeb

continue too. 29 years ago, russian president boris yeltsin, who was very liked by the west , dispersedliaments, arranged the execution of the supreme council directly in the city of moscow, i liked the reaction of the united states most of all russia 's private affair russia's internal affair your concept and here you do not notice the violation laws of rights and consider that this is permissible in the whole history that has been taking place in the last eight years and i will also pay attention to when the coup in ukraine took place in 2014. you perfectly saw the nazis and you know perfectly well who and whom burned in odessa you even know very well who shot down the boeing you know perfectly well who killed children in the donbass we all know this very well, they know perfectly well who now blew up perfectly know where the nazis, what units they are in and what they are doing today were great, you know and you continue it use, but here it was said about the new territories. so i will say that the territories are not new, although in this you are trying to present in such a way that

this is the story of the most involved and bitter election campaign in russian history. 1995 boris yeltsin was tired and sick, making any occasional appearances in the kremlin and even then only for a few hours publicly and privately he'd lost his old dynamism. the one time man of the people was now merely the aging head. if a clan anderson with civil no wireless, sir, we were all worried about the election. my father was exhausted at the at them. his 1st term had been very hard with one crisis after the next you can use the radio gear war started as popularity had dropped by the end of 1995 and it was at rock bottom of us that are his approval rating was may be 3 or 4 percent seasonable, get very close to the door for the reason yet. and had wanted a rapid transition to a market economy resulting in mass unemployment and devastating inflation. the state could no longer pay public sector salaries and pensions so the name of good career. so good hospital for open one more minute off, but just fall off. ah, it was only a few steps from crisis to catastrophe that the boss of g d. p had fallen

to the russians he rather made it a cornerstone of his own political standing his predecessor boris yeltsin started his role as the overthrower of the soviet union in the early 90s as his biographer timothy colton recalls he was animated by a desire not to inspire russian empire with a new life but to instead build a civilized modern state for yeltsin another point as i see it was determinative he opted against the neo-ussr because he was opting for a russian state self-standing governable and capable of modernization and normalization to put it another way he opted for nation building over empire saving however when yeltsin's government started moving in this direction and launched ambitious economic reforms the harsh socio-economic context almost immediately triggered this great power syndrome and by the end of 1993 yelsen as a leader was surrounded by all kinds of populists grieving for russia's past greatness he succumbed in part to this pressure his war in chechnya was seen as a political response to imperial demand and during his second presidential term his line pivoted toward soviet

i'm sure, years and years we chancellor merkel, we spent a lot of time to speak with president boris yeltsin and with president zelenskyy. in trying to implement the minsk agreement signed was the best way to avoid escalation. i think what we got in 2019 was very positive for ukraine. and was definitely a progress for this. but as i told you, post-covid-19, there was a situation, and he decided to break the situation and go to the war. and i do believe that all of the suspicions we had. second, i think in his own logic, i'm not saying this is an explanation or i don't give an excuse, but we have to take into consideration that there is a lot of resentment on the russian side. you have a feeling that post 1990, we didn't respect him totally. i think it's a reason. to do what he did. >> but it's his mind-set? >> it's his mind-set, it's actually to be more respectful and find a way when you have this decision. i think, for instance, thanks to this dialogue, wing wered to organize this mission with national diplomacy to go to z zaporizhzhia and have an independent mission and we are, i hope, fin

the berlin wall in 1989, there was a soviet scholar who was able for a short period during the boris yeltsin presidency to actually get into the kgb files, and he was able bring out extensive notes about he found in those files the cumulative evidence between the venona decrypts and the in the cage and the kgb files that were gotten out in the nineties make it absolutely clear alger hiss was not just guilty. and that spy trial for passing top secret soviet papers in the 1930s. but he and a bunch of other spies were. instrumental. they were stalin. stalin's willing agents who had done incredible damage to the us during the war years in after you. but let's also take a look at the book itself, gods of deception because the elder, his is told through the lens of edward, who is a man who was the defense team for hiss, and also it talks about his family, his or to his grandson. it talks about the ripple effect of this case on. one family, i think there were some interesting things about george. um, george altman is, the grandson is called in to help. his grandfather finish his memoirs which deal

his successor, boris yeltsin, will have one of his people pick it up shortly.ent, george h.w. bush, is celebrating the christmas holiday at camp david. gorbachev calls to say good-bye. [ speaking unon-english ] >> i would like to say merry christmas to you, barbara, and the entire family. >> reporter: it's how the final hours go. a series of good-bye culminating with a farewell broadcast to the russian people. >> translator: dear fellow citizens -- >> reporter: an hour after the resignation speech, i'm invited back into the office. >> i understand we're saying good-bye. but i'm not saying farewell. >> i hope not. >> reporter: gorbachev's answer to an innocuous question resonates strangely now, more than 30 years later, here in the united states. what are you going to do tomorrow? >> translator: tomorrow i will still be here, sorting out some papers and some personal effects. some will be sent to the archives, some will be destroyed, some i will take to my country home and some to my city apartment. so i have to do it, it's the big wash. >> reporter: a haunting

and you're absolutely right also that boris yeltsin when he passed away in 2007, he did not just receive a state funeral, the day of his death was declared a day of public mourning as well, kim. >> and again, just to bring our viewers up to date, we're seeing live pictures of the remembrance ceremony for mikhail gorbachev at the hall of columns in moscow as we see the soldiers approaching the casket in the ceremony. we were talking about his legacy, and you wrote in the end he wound up racing to catch up with history rather than making it himself. but obviously, he was a man of peace and things can easily have gone another way. and i think that especially in the west as fred was saying, he is seen as a transformational satisfying. talk to us a bit about that. >> the really important things that gorbachev did were the things that he didn't do. he didn't prevent the reunification of east and west germany. he didn't tell east german guards to fire on people when they were crossing the berlin wall. he didn't stop ukraine from declaring independence. he didn't prevent the baltic states from s

we had this hope period, with boris yeltsin. then we had the period of bad boy putin. he helped us after 9/11, he helped us with the iran deal, but he tried to hack our elections, but he was sort of a bad boy that we can deal with. the thought of a pariah russia, or an unstable russia, with 5000 nuclear weapons and spending 11 time zones, we've never lived in that world. >> the second option he gave, which is a. dirty deal so landscapes in the middle that dirty deal and he obviously does not want to give up any land. how do you see in signs that zelenskyy would be willing? we give a proposal to the un today, but it doesn't seem like there's any indications there on the advance right now. >> i was just in europe i just came back from europe the day before yesterday but i think the support for this war is very is very broad, but it's also shallow. -- if you are closing choosing between heating and eating, there will be pressure and zelenskyy. how much, i don't know. i think within ukraine, there is real solidarity, i think president biden is behind him 100 percent. but i

a sign that as well for president boris yeltsin said simply, did not work at these times and it did not clearly help at this juncture with the russian invasion of ukraine. and that's why he felt that this new ha packed is so critical. now, as the ukrainian military offensive continues in the northeast, we're starting to get a better sense of how this is being received in russia. and we're seeing russian bloggers and pro russia military analysts that are now commenting. and there is a lot of finger pointing now within russia, on who is responsible for them. battle field losses that rushes encountered over the last few days. few people are more pro russian than this man, ego gurkin, at the beginning of russia's invasion ukraine in february. the self described ultra nationalists with a staunch supporter of the russian military predicting it's advanced weaponry and skilled soldiers would make easy work of the out numbers ukrainian. now, gurkin tone has changed. i have an impression that over our rough anatomy, if you will break into pieces, it's not because they are competent are covered be

his successor, boris yeltsin, will have one of his people pick it up shortly.david. >> merry christmas. >> gorbachev calls to say good-bye. george, my dear friend, i greet you. let me begin by saying something pleasant. i would like to say merry christmas to you and to barbara and your entire family. >> it is how the final hours go. a series of good-byes culminating with a farewell broadcast to the russian people. >> translator: dear fellow citizens -- >> an hour after the resignation speech, i'm invited back into the office. >> ted, i understand we're saying good-bye. but i'm not saying farewell. >> i hope not. >> gorbachev's answer to an innocuous question resonates strangely now more than 30 years later here in the united states. what are you going to do tomorrow? >> translator: tomorrow i will still be here sorting out some papers and some personal effects. some will be sending to the archives, some will be destroyed, some i will take to my country, to my city apartment, so i have to do it. it is the big wash. >> and a haunting answer to an earlier question

thousandths at the very beginning of the year, dear friends, because it was performed by boris nikolayevich yeltsinkov, instead of flying to the united states , turned to this lantika instead of supporting yugoslavia, but you must agree with you. thank you very much, really. turn off the soul fears were a little less, but still they still did not find attractive. they still wanted to work and enter western institutions, yes, but when putin came to power. now this unattractive composition is not attractive to you. they were our nineties. very attracted, of course, you just forgot. well, of course, or does not know, in general, this is a model for us. you say your western model was not attractive in the nineties. our model what was the western model of the country in this city, dear friends, stupidity, just please look with russia. so let's get back to the topic. that would be great. you forgot about hitting the kin, actually. this man who said this on september 3rd when trump spoke, i needed some support from becky but, by the way, 83 years old. he is an american veteran politicians. he himself was

the first president of russia boris nikolaevich yeltsin said, i ask forgiveness for not justifying some hopes of those people who believed that we could jump from the gray, stagnant totalitarian past into a bright , rich civilized future with one jerk, with one stroke, with one sign. i myself believed in it, it seemed like one jerk, and everything was given. with one jerk, they didn’t succeed in something. i was too naive to understand. the image of the future, which the first president of russia so aspired to, was associated with the desire to enter the community of western powers. and now it is already clear that no matter how russia aspired to the west game on an equal footing is unlikely. perhaps the centuries-long confrontation between russian and western civilizations with periodic cycles of military conflicts and relatively peaceful coexistence, according to the theory of civilization of the russian scientist danilevsky, should inevitably lead to a clash in which one of the civilizations. it may just disappear that the world community was warned by vladimir putin during his onlin

i quoted boris nikolaevich yeltsin mmm, replacing communism with capitalism and rearranging it in placesuse after this humiliation. when we talk about russia, the following will be those who talked once a few years ago by the president of azerbaijan, by the way, a graduate of your institute, as i understand it. and he said very wisely, he said here, when he came to power, there was one after one people's speech and, moreover, such gigantic crowds of 10,000 20 50 100 thousand, and then we closed foreign funding and a maximum of 500 people came out. here we are in russia when we finally woke up. and when stalin end acts tough, and who are you looking at right away? and somehow everyone was drawn to their owners, because you very accurately said that this is cr2, and treat it like that. to them. vladimir vladimirovich must be exactly the same about a number of our supposedly journalists there. yes, today the fucker said that they were already working against russia, and now they happily left for their real owners. so it is here, therefore, when we are told. oh yes, we are talking about cats

he is elected a people's deputy, and then boris yeltsin invites him to go to the bundles in the presidentialoffended. well, it’s not clear to me what i will do, he says, you will deal with the military-industrial complex. this is my theme my theme, and in the end, the elections were held for agriculture. that is, yeltsin needed you, as the hero won the elections. this is a look at events from today. and then there was no time to think august 1991. reception yeltsin here all rudskoy khasbulatov's inner circle in the defense of the white house in military skills came in handy much more rudskaya calls for afghan veterans to the barricades. then he leaves for gorbachev in foros, the regime in the control room of the aircraft for his grandson. no, i'm saying, it's purely a view. this is yanaeva. you don't even think. i say, he went, you know where we flew, we are approaching, standing near gorbachev's dacha, yazov kryuchkov and lukyanov. i go up to them or the guys, why are we here? we are already under arrest, who arrested him or vladimirovich himself. well, we go into dacha, damn it, towards go