i want to talk in a moment, mikhail, about the multimedia aspect of it. but let me back up for a second, and i think i know the answer. but for you, why chekhov? there are many who believe he is the best playwright ever, of course, but -- >> well, it just happened, you know, because we developed this in connecticut in hartford more than 100 years ago. and it's so relevant, because it's all about, as you say, universal kind of situation. when you speak about love, about ethics of it. it's about possibility. it's about self-examination and duties of a man. and fears. it's really -- that's a classic theme. it could have been written yesterday. >> yeah. let me go inside the production for a second. either of these stories, "man in the kcase" -- i mean either woud have been two short, so you sort of weaved them together. how did that come about? >> i suggested that to hartford stage. and i suggested directors because i knew them socially and i admired their work from afar. and after first meeting, we realize of course that "the man in case" was too short for a

on it's very difficult to have all of that is exactly what's going on but listen let's talk about mikhail khodorkovsky yes because someone docky that he was getting political vocally here in russia he had his eyes on the presidency perhaps and therefore was shipped off to a gulag in siberia well the thing about this he was getting politically minded but the thing is there's nothing wrong with that because i know he was punished because of tax evasion and what there is something wrong with this when you're trying to buy the state duma and when as a speculated you're trying to do this with the intent of changing the constitution from turning russia from a presidential state into a parliamentary one where the prime minister of the the person in power and if you bought off the duma issue an issue of form no this is just back away and of course and a lot has been written about it in russia. sources washer's sources and one i would welcome any viewer to do their own research and draw their own conclusions but he wasn't politically punished as i mentioned before european court of human rights fo

ÑiÑi mikhail gorbachev comes to power in march of 1985.iÑwkr of course, he not only institutes glasnost and perestroika but begins a series of meetings with president ronald reagan. so mikhail gorbachev's ascension to power is unexpected and his interest in reform is unexpected and matched by a level of interest by ronald reagan. george h.w. bush in contrast is much more skeptical of gorbachev. his national security adviser always liked to point out that either gorbachev was a fraud on which the u.s. should be on its guard, or gorbachev was for real and he may have good intentions but russia could be dispatched with a single bull eat and the soviet union had the ability to destroy the united states. the bush team once it took office, once george h.w. bush became president, when i'm speaking of bush i'm speaking about george h.w. bush was much more cautious. one of my surprises is how much tension there was between the reagan team and bush team. political scientists who are not interested in this topic but work on presidential transitions u

mikhail gorbachev comes to power in march of 1985.f course, he not only institutes glasnost and perestroika but begins a series of meetings with president ronald reagan. so mikhail gorbachev ascension to power is unexpected and reform is unexpected and matched by level of interest by ronald reagan. george h.w. bush in contrast is much more skeptical of gorbachev. his national security adviser always liked to point out that either gorbachev was a fraud on which the united states was a fraud or gorbachev was for real and he may have good intentions but kobe dispatched with a single bullet and the soviet union had the ability to destroy the united states. the bush team once it took office, once george h.w. bush became president, when i'm speaking of bush i'm speaking about george h.w. bush was much more cautious. one of my surprises is how much tension there was between the reagan team and bush team. political scientists who are not interested in this topic but work on presidential transitions used the reagan-bush transition as a particu

mikhail gorbachev introduced a certain amount of liberalization, which allowed people to hold her tests without being arrested. people in estonia, latvia, and lithuania seized the opportunity to set a joint world record, forming the longest human chain in history -- 600 kilometers of people holding hands. >> from above, it looked like a traffic jam, but on the ground, it was the largest demonstration in the history of the soviet union. august 23, 1989 -- never before had so many people turned out. some dressed up for the occasion. others came straight from work. they formed a human chain six hundred kilometers long across the three soviet baltic republics -- estonia, latvia, lithuania -- signaling the beginning of the end of the soviet union. a quarter of a century later, a quickstart is a stroke of luck -- a quick start is a stroke of luck for this vehicle. jonas had no second thoughts about taking his family to the original demonstration. their granddaughter was two years old when she joined the demonstrators. half the country was there, so nobody was left to babysit her. >> we saw li

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dollars in damages to the former shareholders of you cos they defunct russian oil giant was owned by mikhail khodorkovsky who was arrested for tax evasion in two thousand and three the firm was then sold off and went bankrupt all of which was legal according to moscow the new court decision says you cos was in fact illegally seized by the kremlin one analyst told us they say is just another move in a wider political game it strikes me as a very political decision the west manages to create this illusion of fair play of rule of law of steering this in the judicial process and this is a bad joke mr holder called ski and he is he's have been found guilty not only in russian courts but that guilty sentence for tax evasion and fraud was upheld by the european court of human rights it is outrageous that anyone should imagine that russia is going to pay fifty billion dollars to these criminals. on a whim and a prayer the leaders of germany's three largest religious religions are set to build a joint place of worship now they need is the money and they're trying to get people to donate the nearly fi

mikhail gorbachev comes to power in march of 1985.f course, he not only institutes glasnost and perestroika but begins a series of meetings with president ronald reagan. so mikhail gorbachev ascension to power is unexpected and reform is unexpected and matched by level of interest by ronald reagan. george h.w. bush in contrast is much more skeptical of gorbachev. his national security adviser always liked to point out that either gorbachev was a fraud on which the united states was a fraud or gorbachev was for real and he may have good intentions but kobe dispatched with a single bullet and the soviet union had the ability to destroy the united states. the bush team once it took office, once george h.w. bush became president, when i'm speaking of bush i'm speaking about george h.w. bush was much more cautious. one of my surprises is how much tension there was between the reagan team and bush team. political scientists who are not interested in this topic but work on presidential transitions used the reagan-bush transition as a particu

at least to the point in one nine hundred ninety where according to both former soviet president mikhail gorbachev and former u.s. ambassador to russia jack matlock as well as the classified documents of meetings between the former german so foreign minister and soviet foreign minister that there was a clear commitment made at that time in one thousand nine hundred during the german reunification process that need to would not expand eastward into europe in fact the quote was not a thumb's with further to the east and of course that has been broken time and time again over the past two and a half decades to the point where. we were needed with situating missile defense shield sites in poland and in romania the point guided missile destroyers to rota spain over the next two years as part of the nato missile shield and of course commentating with obama's announcement in june that a one billion dollars would be put towards a european security fund specifically to help poland and the eastern european nato allies this is just another part of that bigger picture that shows that nato is not com

other's arsenals on a regular basis to make sure the treaties weren't being violated one the clock back mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan put pen to paper on that day in one thousand nine hundred seven that made so many headlines it's such a big news it marked the first time the two superpowers agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals the landmark agreement paved the way for the removal of other types of weapons and ultimately helped bring about the end of the cold war as well . and if you'd like to see the full interview with russia's deputy defense minister you can sign the website stream if you want to check it out of r.t. dot com sixty minutes past eleven at night now but with more news from moscow after this short break. live. live. live . cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to. live. there's the media leave us so we leave that maybe. i will see motions to cure. all your party physical. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only the mark to live. their dog days ahead it seems to finland economists say

. >> join me next time mikhail borisnikov. that's next time. see you then. >>> next on "kqed newsroom" -- >> i support moving in a new direction, taxing, regulating for adults this drug. >> lieutenant governor gavin newsom makes the case for legalizing marijuana as polls show shifting attitudes. >>> money woes force the sacramento philharmonic orchestra and opera to scrap their upcoming season. why some art companies fail and others thrive in a turbulent economic climate. >>> and at the state capitol, the legislature tackles hundreds of bills before the end of the session, including assisted living reform, a controversial water bond, and california's cap and trade system.

by blocking mikhail enradar, i can be sure things that need attention are going to get it during the >> you can't go back in time. smartphones are only getting smarter. i'm a ceo of a company. i'm receiving hundreds of e-mails a day. here i am taping the show. i don't have my cell phone with me the next hour. >> because we won't let you. what about in a meeting? >> the truth of the matter, i try to put it down. if i'm working with a vendor selling to me, if their phone is going off, i'm not doing business with them. put the phone down. no matter how important the call is. they can wait 30 minutes. i don't want to wait 24 hours to get a response. 30 or 60 minutes, not a big deal. put the phone down. >> i find the real issue is less at work and more personal time. then i have to be more disciplined about put this away. >> the big struggle is with the family at dinner time. they are sitting at the dinner table and can't get them to have a conversation. >> no phones at the table. >> try to enforce it. >> my kids are little. finally, we have a question about getting a lawyer. >> for a bus

dollars in damages to the former shareholders of you cos the defunct russian oil giant was owned by mikhail khodorkovsky was arrested for tax evasion in two thousand and three the firm is then sold off or went bankrupt all of which was legal according to moscow but the new court decision says you cause in fact illegally was seized by the kremlin one analyst told us that this is just another move in a wider political game it strikes me as a very political decision the west manages to create this illusion. a lot of steering is in the judicial process and this is a joke that is just sort of called ski and here is these have been found guilty not only in russian courts but their guilty sentence for tax evasion fraud was upheld by the european court of human rights it is outrageous that anyone should imagine that russia is going to pay fifty billion dollars to these criminals. facebook's speed accused of sharing a bit too much in this case an austrian student river see he wants a social networks one point three billion users around the world to join him a legal battle over it as well could kick

a court in the georgian capital tbilisi has ordered former president mikhail saakashvili held in custody for two months about a rules on charges against him accused of abuse of power as president by cracking down on a protest in two thousand and seven and launching illegal raids on a t.v. station and unlawfully seizing a businessman's property really is currently in the us and supported by the government and supported the anti-government demonstration in kiev last december he rejects the accusations against him. are manias capital bucharest is said to be one of the most earthquake prone spots in europe but if suffering from tremors from time to time wasn't bad enough for the residents the government seems in no hurry to help them protect their homes are here weapons going off or it's. been living in this building most of her life first working as a manager and leader getting a flat of her own on one of the top floors even though it's officially been determined that it may collapse she chooses to move anywhere else that. this house is strong nothing happened to it before and it can withst

ukraine boils down to a february one thousand nine hundred ninety promise bade by james baker to mikhail gorbachev that note that nato would not expand one inch eastward if gorbachev assisted in the peaceful unification of ukraine the west broke that promise specifically bill clinton broke their promise every time nato expanded russia russia and went ballistic so to speak and but they were ignored so long as they were weak will finally in two thousand and eight ok i'm sorry or just using the pretext of shelling walter finish your point come on hello be fair guys finish your point walter all you use use using the pretext of shelling in georgia the russia invaded and shut lopped off pieces of georgia and essentially it was a smack across the face of the united states and nato saying you're not going to expand there to any further and the same thing as happened in ukraine when when the when the coup changed the government from a somewhat pro russian leader unocal which to the to the coup regime. this russia did exist made sure it secured its black sea fleet by. making allowing a referendum

basis to make sure that the treaties weren't being violated me maybe you'll recall it yourself when mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan put pen to paper on that day back in one thousand nine hundred seventy it marked the first time the two superpowers agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenal the landmark agreement paved the way for the move of the types of weapons to and ultimately helped bring about the end of the cold war. and just a tip you off if you'd like to see the full interview with russia's stepper defense minister it's streaming on our website r.t. dot com thanks to choosing out international seventy minutes past ten in the evening they'll be back with more news after a short break. i was. in december. more likely to be raped in college than in the real world. i didn't think that to each other when they knew each other i thought it was a stranger on the bus this. girl complaining about the son of an alumni. millions of dollars from the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school of schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they woul

the chronological sculptors from july 1991 that starts with president george bush and mikhail gorbachevand that goes all the way to december. and so i have written the beginning and then i came back and so for one semester on the 21st we decided there was no soviet union anymore. so when i came to the university of alberta we had a foreign crisis and at that time i was working and i thought, come on, i can't do that. and so coming from the soviet union i changed my view on that and so i decided, okay, i will teach more about the foreign crisis, but they knew nothing about economics and so let's teach about democracy in moscow. so what i know and my perspective is very different. this is about national identity and who is interested in nation and the republic and so i prevailed by the time the course was disintegrated. not exactly because of the drive for democracy. and so when i revisited literature on the soviet union it was three years ago and i still wasn't satisfied with that. there was little in terms of the perspective of the experience that i have and it was a very important part

. >> his mikhail, he told me his friend was murdered by separatists because they discovered he was giving information to the ukrainian army. >> at first i hoped they would be punished. they didn't do anything when the separatists were charged and they still don't do anything. >> we went to the farm where he said his friend was murdered. his family did not want to talk to us. back in slovyansk, 14 bodies were found in this grave. only four have been identified. apparently killed because a separatist leader wanted to take over their business. we don't know who the other ten bodies belong to but this is a town where many are still looking for answer he. barb biphillips, al jazeera, slovyansk. >> video, showing a black teenager, just moments before he was shot down by police. darren wilson has been named as the officer who shot the teenager. following the shooting, residents of the predominantly black suburb of st. louis clashed with police. officer released more details. >> there was an ambulance present. at 11:51 there was a 911 from a convenience store nearby, not this one. add 11:52 -- at

. >> he understood the pressures on mikhail gorbachev, both culturally, from members of his party andhe communist party, and that he had to work as president of the united states to allow these changes to take place in a way that did not make gorbachev feel like he was losing. and i think that's one of the great talents and arts that george bush displayed as president of the united states. >> both sides committed themselves instead to achieving a strong effective treaty. >> democracy had prevailed. nato had prevailed. the united states' values had prevailed. this was a time when any normal average person would have gloated and said we did it, we're number one, we're this, we're that. but president bush did not do that. >> i remember at the time recalling something that churchill wrote. he wrote it becoming prime minister, he felt at the moment he became prime minister that all his life had been a preparation for that moment. i think as the soviet union trembled on the brink of collapsing, george bush's experience, george bush's background, george bush's nature, george bush's instinct

. >> a few weeks later in mid-may, the situation intensified when soviet premier mikhail gorbachev heads to china. for the first sino-soviet meeting in years. >> remains a world turned upside down tonight. he was an advocate in his home country. his visit gave them an opportunity to go to the streets and express themselves in a way they had not before. >> they knew they had the world watching them. >> and this also enraged the chinese authorities who are used to stage managing every photo op. and suddenly they had no control. >> after gorbachev leaves and the protests continue, chinese authorities change their tactics. >> the chinese communist party cracked down, and they declared martial law. >> despite repeated warnings from the government, the protesters refused to leave tiananmen square. everyone expects the government to act, but few predict what actually happens next. >> on the night of june 3rd, the square was filled with people milling around. we started getting rumors the army was starting to shoot its way into the center of downtown beijing. >> all of sudden we hear this noise.

russian indy driver mikhail aleshin was attempting to turn turn four there and somehow lost control,re, crashing into three other cars. aleshin's the first russian to ever race in the indy car series is in serious condition. three other drivers were not seriously hurt. the indy car series final takes place tonight. >>> and finally, president obama is taking on his critics this time for his fashion statement also known as tangate. the president lit up social media or his attire did after he decided to don a light tan suit during a press conference on thursday. during a visit to rhode island yesterday, friday, the president has switched back to a dark suit, but he said he liked the tan suit and chose a light color in his words to claim every bit of summer he can. and it looks like a fan agreed giving him a high-five during his arrival. and i checked some of the comments about his tan suit online were sad, terrible and whacked. i like it. >> let the guy do his job and keep picking on his clothing. >> we had a little bit of a who wore it better this morning. a little bit of a split scree

-russian relationship is much worse now than it's been since really at any time since mikhail gorbachev came to power in 1985. i think part of it is personality. i think president clinton, president yell tin had a good relationship and president bush and president putin did for a period of time. president obama had a pretty good relationship with president medvedev. but the problem has been since putin has come back to power, russia has taken actions like giving edward snowden asylum that have really made -- caused a great deterioration in relations. so it's worse now than it has been really since any time since before 1985. >> all right. angela, thanks so much for joining us today. we so appreciate your insights. >> thank you. >> we'll be watching that meeting tuesday. angela stent. >>> even more dangerous than al qaeda was before 9/11. that is what defense secretary chuck hagel is saying about isis today. so how does the u.s. and allies stop them? our panel will start there, as we're looking ahead on "sunday morning futures." when a pro at any 2014 pga tour event sinks a hole-in-one,

. >> unless it's a narrative algorithm mikhail created content, which works, politics.rk well in >> you have found, and what you're saying is that there is, if not a sophistication, certainly an expectation in the audience and the voting public that will sniff through this kind of thing and this conversation now is required and can't be faked. >> i agree. >> yes. >> another question, sir? >> my name is israel. i'm a student in political science. as campaigns used to be vertical and now they're becoming more horizontal and as they do, i'm sensing you lose some of your ability to be administering orders to the soldiers. run ammo or do things that perhaps you're against or you didn't think about. plus, you have to respond in seconds to whatever the other side is doing so how do you keep control of your troops? >> that's a really great question. when we work with organizations, political campaigns or otherwise, we talk about a progression of how to design that organization that's going to be effective working in the world we're in. that about the progression goes, values drives strategy tac

miller, my name is mikhail, but in 1939, my name was michael finke. i was 5 years old.nk you're looking for me. and i -- he said he lived in a suburb of tel aviv and could i call him, which i did right away. and he told me he was expecting this call and we asked him to tell us his name and his parents name to verify dates of birth and everything, and it all matched. i said, can you tell me your story? how did you survive? first of all, two things i want to tell you. one, only my mother survived and she died six months earlier. michael was a little boy, so she was the one who would have had the real memory, and his father, he said, died literally just of illness as he was being put on a cattle cart to auschwitz. he just died. that's what we were told. he never made it. he said my father was off the coast of miami beach and died on a cattle car to auschwitz. how did this happen, mr. miller? then he said to me, in hebrew, that america -- that america bears the burden for the responsibility for the death of my father. he told me afterwards that he and his mother were libera

was finally willing to take a risks on a man in his 50s, and that man of course turned out to be mikhailll for a while, and he institutes glasnost and perestroika, but he also begins meeting with president reagan. his interest in reform is unexpected, matched by a somewhat unexpected level of witness by reagan. george h.w. bush is much more skeptical. brent scowcroft always liked to point out that either gorbachev was a fraud, or gorbachev was for real, and he may really have good intentions but he could be dispatched with a single bull and the soviet union still could is it destroy the -- once george h.w. bush -- was much more cautious, and one of the biggest surprises in my research was just how much tension there was between the reagan team and bush team. political scientists who word d. used the reagan/bush transition as an example of a particularly vicious one. some have -- -- i was very surprised to see bush documents that referred to mush for brain reagan-its all kinds of phrases saying that it's good that grownups are back in charge. the practice offage summits with gorbachev com

. >> yeah, i mean, the guy's name was like, mikhail gorbachev or something, you know, it would be a hellwn. >> reporter: at least there is a middle name, lee. so now, after some basic detective work, brennan's theory takes a big leap from speculation to certainty. >> well, what i did was i took that information, i went back to the hotel registry, and lo and behold, what do i find out, that there was a michael lee jones jr. that did stay at the airport regency hotel. and -- >> reporter: that's a pretty big moment. >> yeah, well -- that's an ah-ha moment where you say, hey, i was on the right track. i got the right guy. they notated on his card that he did work for center plate. the mike jones that i was looking for was the same mike jones that was in miami at the miami boat. okay? that i know. now, i just got to find out, where the hell is he? >> reporter: brennan's gut instincts have been on a true winning streak, so he figures, why not roll the dice once more? michael jones doesn't work for center plate anymore, but brennan is willing to gamble he hasn't switched careers. >> i said, the

the night and previous hours on the telephone with margaret thatcher, helmet kohl and especially mikhailbachev who pleaded with him not to do anything because the great concern was this excitement in the crowd would get out of hand. that violence would ensue. that no one could control this incredible change that no one had foreseen. each of them had in the back of their minds a singular example of celebration going too far and being turned into violence by those who had thought it had gone too far which was, of course, tiananmen square which had happened only months before. time and again, president bush and his staff said to themselves and approached changes in eastern europe by suggesting, let us not go too far in celebrating those who are democratizing from the streets up. let's not celebrate those reformers because those reformers have enemies and those reformers, i.e., those in control of the communist state have tanks and have guns. and we can see what can happen when they get pushed too far. and ultimately the great fear of the administration t

upper 60s for places like oakland's a cell is a and looking for to pre nice day and where is whether mikhaile associated with what was hurricane rate one in the afternoon holyfield will mark up their livermore 8870 degrees in some detail per '60s for downtown san francisco in terms of what's ahead his look at the sunday on the big four cassettes and will see more fog as we head into tomorrow temperatures slightly cooler for some bull by labor day will have the late or missed a week aboard sonny's bayside upper 60s for the coast and luke's like will cool things down into the rest a week >> : and gramm are usages falling by the wayside in the workplace things to a formal communications such as eels taxing twitter where technology can address this morning the red talk about these and offers the latest on vacation etiquette and the workplace >> : watter people are going with the language long before. as ridding harassment on 1946 paul six english-language and he noticed that there arrested mr. english language in that essay and facts and i do think we have one or the show you a it's been a probl

mikhail awe've had this conversation before -- mikayla, we've had this conversation before.young people rumors. she was trying to make a statement. she brought her family out, kissed her husband on the mouth, which we never see from them. she also gave us 20 minutes of pure vintage beyonce like no one else could do it. >> last and absolutely, we can not have a vma -- >> not the jaundiced, cynical look. >> tomorrow -- >> we believe. >> we can't end this segment without talking about an almost wardrobe malfunction at a music awards show. how is that possible? >> okay, first of all, if i'm talking about orchestrated, i think that nicki minaj takes the crown for -- >> really? >> yes. this is what she said backstage after this moment. we're showing the moment where she's on stage, and all of a sudden she's clutching her dress like, oh, boy, what happened here. she says backstage, "we ran out of time to zip the dress up." she went out with her dress zipped down? come on, come on! >> listen, i'm a fan of super bass nicki, not so much anaconda nicki. she did it before. i think she's