the element of controversy here is that michael mcfaul is associated with democracy promotion and cut the rising soviet ology yeah yeah i was not that you know your dad but i particular the democracy from all these right so that the problem probably wouldn't have made such a difference if the previous ambassador had met with the opposition non-systemic opposition that day but with michael mcfaul it seemed that the demonstrations break out the ambassador's change and then almost the first day i think it was actually meeting with i think was nicholas burns yes it was it was a meeting with nicholas burns and the best of the meeting but he still was gave his imprimatur to the meeting of people who had rickets and she was never an advocate of human rights. ok let's hear what vladimir putin wrote after he met kissinger by the way what he writes about human rights and double standards and human rights protection. which is often said that human rights holder rights state sovereignty as well when states already recently finally did in the name of this provision when human rights are protected

i think it's unfortunately more than likely we have the american ambassador michael mcfaul i guess i can say this from here he's an expert in color revolutions he thinks that he's the the man who brought us the ahrens events in two thousand and four he'd like to cap that with the revolution in moscow but it's very interesting if we look at the actual demonstrations especially in moscow in the last three or four months with the big ones the second largest i think was a demonstration. one hundred thirty thousand people the biggest as far as i can see was the victory park demonstration in the first week of february which were nationalists who were. anti u.s. embassy interfering this was addressed by people like my friend maksim shevchenko and others and they were interested in stability their line was that the. people like. the orange group that they're interested in really smashing the russian state. but doing some permanent harm to russia so even in the narrow terms of who can mobilize support in moscow alone i think the task for these bright orange. is basically hopeless and they sho

when michael mcfaul suggest there's is no association between a country's respect for individual liberties and its business environment, he is simply denying reality. when two parties enter into a contract, it is essential that both parties operate in good faith. there is scant evidence that the russian government operates in good faith. it has a troubling pattern of intimidation, disregard for the rule of law, fraudulent elections, human rights abuses, and government sanctioned anti-americanism. contrary to the administration's assertion, russia the moving further away from international norms and values. in recent months, moscow has not only blocked u.n. security council action on syria, but has continued to sell arms to assad's regime, which is responsible for the slaughter of innocent citizens. this is not a government that can be trusted to uphold its international commitments or give a fair shake to american businesses. and looking only at the wto context, russia has not even lived up to all the commitments it has already made on intellectual property rights, for example, as a condit

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michael mcfaul spoke about u.s.- russia relations and of the two countries' policies towards syria and iran. this is hosted by the peterson institute in washington. it is 50 minutes. >> as you might expect, he is under very tight time constraints during his stay here, but he thoughtfully carved out an hour for us. we wanted to bring in friends to catch up on all the recent and extremely important events that are going on in russia at this time. i have introduced mike several times here. as you know, he's an outstanding academic. he has been professor of political science at stanford, senior fellow at the hoover institution, director of the center on the mark kriski development rule of law, and a number of other things in his distinguished academic career. i think it is fair to say -- he may not agree, he is the key architect of the recent policy. he served for three years as special assistant to the president and senior director for russian and eurasian affairs at the national security council prior to becoming ambassador. he was sworn in as u.s. ambassador to russia on in january 10,