we know that yesterday and fiona hill mentioned this briefly in her introduction, the kremlin announced that russia was with drawing from this agreement that it had with the united states on the disposal of weapons grade plutonium and the united states was of course blamed for that and putin when he announced this that the reason russia is doing this and i'm quoting now the emergence of a threat to strategic stability and as a result of unfriendly actions by the united states of america against the russian federation and he tied russia rejoining this union to three conditions. one of them is that nato can with draw and sources in russia's neighborhood. and obviously because of what's happened with crew crane. and in the region and then thirdly and has to ago are regate the act and continue lack of understanding about separation of powers in the united states and how that system works. those are three conditions that mean that they won't be met obviously so that rush wra will now have withdrawn from this agreement. so the purpose of our panel today is to ask why has it been so challengin

i'm fiona hill, director on the senate the united states and europe, and it's my great pleasure to bea today and had the opportunity to moderate the panel of three extremely distinguished people who all have their own connection to this summit 30 years ago. 30 years ago i was just starting off at university watching all of these gentlemen on television and wonder how this is all going to turn out. it's quite common for the younger people in the audience, just think we might be in 30 years time. you just never know. we actually are using this occasion to get ahead of another big anniversary which will be coming up at the end of the she which is the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the soviet union. we can be sure there will be lots of events related to this, of the fall of the republic of slovenia including the russian federation. after the end of this year. we thought reykjavÍk was an extremely important anniversary and we would like to welcome to the ambassador of iceland, very pleased you could be here with us in the front of the audience. because reykjavÍk was one of the key eve

i'm fiona hill, the director of the center on the united states and europe. it's my great pleasure to be here today and to have the opportunity to moderate a panel of three extremely distinguished people who all have their own connection to this summit 30 years ago. 30 years ago, i was just starting off in university watching all of these gentlemen on television and wondering how this is all going to turn out. it's quite, for the younger people in the audience, think where you might be in 30 years time. you never know. we are using this occasion to get ahead of another big anniversary coming up at the end of this year. the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the soviet union. lots of events related to this and the independence of all the former republics of the soviet union, including the russian federation after the end of this year. we thought reykjavik was an extremely important anniversary. we'd like to welcome here the ambassador of iceland. very pleased you could be with us in the front of the audience. reykjavik was one of the key events that led to th

i want to come back what fiona hill said at the end.work out an agreement between the center and the different republics of the soviet union and that was related and that was the thing. and the other brief, before he met president reagan was i arrived in the soviet union in moscow three days before the accident, i had a fellowship for one month at the world economy and international relations and i had with me a 1-year-old son and that's relevant what i'm going to say. so i had been there two days. i'm listening to the bbc radio and then i realized that some catastrophe has happened in terms of a nuclear accident. and the next week a few days later i gave a talk at the institute and i was trying to be forward leaning and the importance of improving u.s.-soviet relations and the person who hosted me, the chair of my panel then started attacking me for the quote, unquote the lies that the united states was selling. there had been in accident, no one had been killed. that was one version of it and by the way, after my talk i had people pri

sunday want to come back to what fiona hill said at the end. approximate cost of the collapse was in italy to work out an agreement between the center and the republics of the soviet union. and that was related certainly -- but that was of the thing in the end that brought the soviet union down. and the other brief reference about 1986 to show gorbachev had only been through a major destination before he met president reagan at reykjavÍk was i arrived in the soviet union and moscow three days before the chernobyl accident. i have fellowship one with at the institute for world economy and international relations, and fight with me in one year old son, and that's relevant to what i'm going to say the chernobyl. i hav had been to today's. i'm listening to the bbc radio and a realized some catastrophe has happened in terms of a nuclear accident. and the next week, a few days later i gave a talk at the institute and i was trying to be forward leaning and talk about the importance of improving u.s.-soviet relations. and the press who hosted me, the c