within the top brass each with their own motives element is broken or an elected government mikhail gorbachev as the general secretary of the c.p.a. susanka commit. the criminal go into nothing in a comfortable semi retirement they saw in gorbachev an inexperienced politician with peasant roots that they could easily manipulate. when gold which of gold nominal power he had not yet won a real authority in the party or the state. by contrast the few advocates of reform hoped that this relatively young and energetic man would be able to transform the nation. deliver to keep report on economic reform just a month after taking the nation's top post in march nine hundred eighty five. here we have a deeply developed strategy. a program of perestroika that has been thought through and suffered. it is through the. perestroika was meant to fax only the economy of the book but later the world also came to employ other issue as the report was based on what had been done under and drop of the old party leadership viewed the young leaders ideas with suspicion and such an intensely indoctrinated country pop

believes that it simply asking for nato to keep the promises it's made to the then soviet president mikhail gorbachev back in one thousand nine hundred when it promised not to move quite as much as the thumbs which further to the east say russia simply things that they are all saying they to keep to that promise that was made all those years ago other cording to foreign ministry buildings this plan was actually puts.

that it's simply asking for nato to keep the promises its made to the then soviet president mikhail gorbachev back in one nine hundred ninety when it promised no.

believes that it simply asking for nato to keep the promises it's made to the then soviet president mikhail gorbachev back in one thousand nine hundred when it promised not to move quite as much as the thumbs which further to the east say russia simply things that they are asking nato to keep to that promise that was made all those years ago other cording to foreign ministry buildings this plan was actually put forward as far back as december and has been in the stations ever since but will now seriously be on the table in the next months allow mugg russia nato meeting to take place in lisbon and possibly even before that when they take secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen visits moscow well one the particular area in which both russia and they can cooperate is in the own going issue of afghanistan and maintaining peace in that area and also in the ongoing fines against drug trafficking that comes out of afghanistan earlier this week several leading u.k. newspapers and made the statement that russia would be sending it troops back into the country to help in training afghan forces now russia's env

believes that it simply asking for nato to keep the promises it's made to the then soviet president mikhail gorbachev back in one thousand nine hundred when it promised not to move quite as much as the thumbs that were.

heralding so reform but it was derided at home for the pain it caused more than a decade after mikhail gorbachev's unstoppable changes were set in motion we look at the reality of living through one of the country's most haven't periods. seventy years of the red machine would show real people wanted to believe in the. law is it possible to change the country's regime so politically. people's minds. yes that's on the way in about ten minutes time stephanie joins us now for a business update and news that grain prices are continuing to rise step yes kerry in fact the price of corn has just seen its biggest one day jump in thirty years i'll have more on a potential food crisis a bit later in the tent but first a group of top fund managers says the global economy is risking doomsday much worse than the events of the past three years eighteen investment experts say that views are being widely ignored by the media so they've published them instead in the book the gathering storm. that spoke to co-author patrick young to ask what governments and central banks are doing wrong. we've spent the last twenty