if he blew up residential houses in moscow in one thousand nine hundred ninety provoke a war in chechnya this questions have nothing to do with the case. and in the past couple of years you have been the owner of a private security firm right. yes yes that's right it's a private security firm but that's just the main business and apart from that we also had stakes in a large number of other companies. let's get back to the courts the easiest way to stop. the cause of death is to started a post. as far as i know to date no one except for those who did the examination he does actually see and of course some of the other papers delivered to the coroner's court know they were not in when the coroner who presided over the course but it's a question to the official from the crown prosecution service explaining that he needed to decide on whether to hold an expensive door closed hearing it was a barrister from scotland yard stood up and requested the courts to put off the hearing for two weeks because they needed together some more documents two months have passed since this court session has n

these bombings in which 300 innocent people were killed, were blamed on chechnya and rebels but there was never any proof that chechens were involved. putin spoke about a chechen trail, not chechen culprits and not evidence, not even suspects. and it was this act which seem to be directed against the very heart of russia, gens ordinary people, sleeping in their beds in their apartments in the middle of the night, women, children, old people all of whom were blown to bits and these acts, which terrified the whole country were used to justify a new invasion of chechnya and as a result of the initial successes, putin, whose popularity rating had been in -- yeltsin's as a result of the first polls registered at 2%, and air in mind that pollsters say that 6% of the respondents don't in any poll, don't understand the question. under the circumstances, he was an absolutely negligible political figure, with no chance to assume power after yeltsin completed his term. but as the director and executor of a victorious war waged in part in revenge for a heinous act of terrorism, he became instantl

in chechnya, 99% fopor putin's party. >> what will be the reaction from people in terms of the presidential election? >> he loses its popularity by at least 3% every week. he did not win the presidential election in a first-round. it is impossible. , an opinion -- common opinion across russia is that it has been told of falsification. massive falsification. there's no way for him to win in march without that. >> vladimir in the past has been hugely popular figure. >> there are two main reasons why i lost popularity. first, economic stagnation. russia has still not recovered after the 2008 economic crisis. second, corruption. there was a big article about corruption and his close circle, close friends. there are 51 internet users in russia. corruption is spread widely. economic stagnation and enormous corruption are the two reasons on behalf of russian authorities. >> thank you. still ahead, homosexuality in nigeria. amnesty international criticizes a new bill which could put someone in jail 14 years from being, sexual. we have a special report -- for being homosexual. stopping trade in bloo

bombings in madrid, chechnya. yeah. eric? oh, my god. what's happening? his pulse is thready.s. my god... come on, eric. hang in there. oh, my god. come on, buddy. hang in there, buddy. steve... why are you stopping? help, please. tell him to keep going. why are you stopping?! i'm sorry. it's... no. man: oh, my god. lagosto: hey! is he dead? yes. oh. oh? okay, angela... that's all you have to say? eric never did anything to you. okay. he harbored a known terrorist. riyaz is not a terrorist! what's wrong with you?! okay, she's escalating him now. angela, you know what, we need to stay really calm right now. hey! all right, just shut up! quiet! shut up! both of you! you come in here on a muslim witch hunt... you're not listening to me, all right? this is a front for a terrorist operation. a front? so then what does that make me? all right. oh, my god, you're one of them. you're a black widow. so now i'm a terrorist, too. aw, crap. everybody, get back. stay back, everybody. get back! get back! davis, what do you see? all right, she's got a bomb. she's about to detonate a bomb! we

they registered 92% in, 99 1/2% in chechnya. this has been the case in several voting rounds. so there's good reason to believe the actual result for united russia was much lower than the 49% officially announced. in fact there was on exit poll across 24 russia regions a moscow basins statute and these are thing figures they gave 38ers for united russia. 48% for comist ins. 15% for ldpi and 5% for the only prodemocracy party that contested the election. this last figure was significant. because if it crossed 5% threshold would have meant not only voice in parliament but unimpeded access to all the regional elections and the country and presidential elections. parties in the duma even represented by one person do not have collect signatures that is the most popular way prevent opposition from contesting election, quote, unquote fraught lent signatures. its vote was pretty obviously stole inch especially in moscow war vote tally reduced from 18 to 20% recorded by independent on searchers where they were present to eight and a half, 9% in the official protocol and in moscow and 4

collapse in 1992 and the boom years and attack on the parliament in 1993 at the beginning of the chechnya more and the international economic collapse in 98. sort of an unending series of disasters for the russian people. i am wondering how much that colors in russia the debate looking back december 25th, 1991, you describe some of the nostalgia people feel. >> host: the day the russian parliament declared they wanted to be sovereign was celebrated under yeltsin as independence day. a national holiday. but vladimir putin changed that to russia day because he didn't want -- independence from what? they weren't independent. they were head of an empire. people today in russia, i know this from my own family and frequent visits back there. they look at the soviet era as an era when people were bombing airports, when the nationalities were reasonably well together, there was a degree of education for every body, when there was little in the shops but everybody suffered in the same way except for privileged members of the party. and -- >> host: connections matted but there wasn't the pervasive

bombings in madrid, chechnya. yeah. eric? oh, my god. what's happening? his pulse is thready.breath sounds. my god... come on, eric. hang in there. oh, my god. come on, buddy. hang in there, buddy. steve... why are you stopping? help, please. tell him to keep going. why are you stopping?! i'm sorry. it's... no. man: oh, my god. lagosto: hey! is he dead? yes. oh. oh? okay, angela... that's all you have to say? eric never did anything to you. okay. he harbored a known terrorist. riyaz is not a terrorist! what's wrong with you?! okay, she's escalating him now. angela, you know what, we need to stay really calm right now. hey! all right, just shut up! quiet! shut up! both of you! you come in here on a muslim witch hunt... you're not listening to me, all right? this is a front for a terrorist operation. a front? so then what does that make me? all right. oh, my god, you're one of them. you're a black widow. so now i'm a terrorist, too. aw, crap. everybody, get back. stay back, everybody. get back! get back! davis, what do you see? all right, she's got a bomb. she's about to detonat

but the collapse of 1992 and the boom years and attack, parliament in 1993 at the beginning of the chechnya war and the international economic collapse in 1998. a sort of unending series of disasters for the russian people. i am wondering how much that colors, in russia, the debate looking at december 25th, 1991, you describe the nostalgia people feel over this. >> >> guest: the day the russian parliament's declared that they wanted to be sovereign was celebrated under yeltsin as independence day. a national holiday. but vladimir putin changed that to russia day because he didn't want -- independence from what? they weren't independent? they were an empire. people today in russia and i know this from my own family, they look at the soviet here as an era when people were not bombing airports, when the nationality was reasonably well together, when there is a degree of education for everybody, everybody suffered in the same way accept privileged members of the party. >> guest: >> host: bribery wasn't everywhere. there wasn't the pervasive corruption. >> guest: and of course the national pride

should we go into chechnya and tell the russians to stop murder there. ould we have gone into rwanda and burundi and stopped the murder there. why didn't we do sething about cambodia when ty killed 2 million people. and none of those are a defense for not doing anything in bosnia. they are, hever, an tempt to describe to you the kind of problems we're going to have to face. and so we're going to have to say we can do something about. and some we're going to say awful but we can't do anything about it and i will now shut up. i have lectured far too long, i'm sorry. >> rose: what bring you the greatest satisfaction? >> i think that i will tell you what i have-- still within participation. and that's going-- when you go. >> watching your rformance. >> from the day before, you go in and you see i hope it is as good as i thought 2 was when we did it or i hope i overreacted and it wasn't as bad as i thought it was when we did it you go in, and you can't wait to se it and yo go out and are he late order you could be depressed. >> when you went to college, did y

these acts, which terrified the whole country, were used to justify a new invasion of chechnya. as a result of the initial successes, putin, whose popularity ratings have been enthralled to yeltsin's, as a result of the first poll of registered at 2% -- and bear in mind, pollsters say that 6% of any responders do not understand the question. in this sense, he was an absolutely negligible political figure with no chance to assume power after yeltsin completed his term. as the director and executors of a victorious war, waged, in part, in revenge for a heinous act of terrorism, he became instantly popular. all of that anger in russia that had been built up over an entire decade of tillage -- pillage, depredation of a small group, connected members of his family, was redirected towards the chechens. putin was no longer seen as yeltsin's logical -- and was no longer seen as a participant in the yeltsin-era corruption. instead, he was seen as the savior of the nation, defending it against an attack by terrorists. this brought him to power. in december 1999, parliamentary elections, t

for example in chechnya, it was reported that 99% of the population participated in the election, and 99.5% of them voted for putin's party. that seems a little suspicious, especially considering that the putin government has waged years of bloody warfare in chechnya. despite the fact that the recent dupeoa -- duma election fell short of international standards and violated russia's law, substantially fewer russian voters chose to cast their vote for putin's party, including in its stronghold and home base of st. petersburg. this frustration has subsequently poured into the streets where russian citizens have peacefully sought to demonstrate against the recent election fraud. the russian government has responded in turn by arresting hundreds of opposition leaders, democracy and human rights activists, journalists, and other members of civil society including boris nensov, and ilia yashen. they are exercising human rights and fundamental freedoms that should not be a crime in any country. i call on the government of russia to release every russian citizen that is unjustly detained for

i think everybody remembers a few years ago when there was that war in chechnya with regards to the territorialntegrity of russia and especially seeing the protests going on right now, it could really lead one to ask the question. do you -- >> host: i apologize. we've had some callers who have gotten through and we apologize. guest: well, that happens. host: we're going on to ellen in washington, d.c. caller: i wondor if you could talk about the effectiveness of russian propaganda in light of the fact that a lot of people quoted completely dismissed mr. putin's suggestions that u.s. money was behind the turnout. guest: i don't think that putin's statements are convincing for russians. as far as -- especially for russian demonstrators who know perfectly well why they turned out. if you have 50,000 people who have appeared at a demonstration, each of them has his own reasons. and putin saying on television that this was inspired by hillary clinton sounds perfectly bizarre to people who know from their own experience that they had much more telling and immediate reasons for showing up. it only und

by the way, i was against intervention in chechnya and i stated it publicly. let them go.to deal with russia anyway. stop that war. that was one of the major clashes with the current regime, and at one point mr. putin called me a traitor. i called him a war criminal. i said he will face a trial like mr. milosevich of yugoslavia. well, anyway, back to the old days. gorbachev, when he came to power, really revived and resurrected russia on a different path. before that, because of my internal criticism, and because i was suspected of being a cia agent -- i am very proud it was released later on that i was recruited by the cia in 1958, together with another guy. he was also a student, in world war ii veteran. we were both recruited by the cia, and from that moment on, we will try to push the soviets out of the way and provide a free ride to the cia. in that sense, and i am going back, president reagan played a tremendous role. i remember so well, "teardown that wall, mr. gorbachev," despite the open, friendly relationship. gorbachev reacted in a friendly way. no wonder he was