mikhail gorbachev rejects criticism of his leadership.ld take moscow four years to bring all its troops home. but to what kind of a country were they coming back? the soviet union had gone, russia was struggling, the returning soldiers were low priority. vyacheslav had commanded a tank battalion in germany, the 16th guards division. its mission, he says, was to defend the motherland and moscow‘s allies in eastern europe. they were an elite unit, but there was nothing elite about the conditions to which they returned. there were no facilities, there was no accommodation, nowhere for their families to live. it was almost as if they‘d been forgotten. you know i think that in many ways, vyacheslav‘s story encapsulates what happened to his country after 1989. the soviet union, this giant superpower, suddenly found itself dumped on the sidelines of history. and as a result, russia felt abandoned, it felt lost and it felt humiliated. perhaps if the end of the cold war had brought instant prosperity to people here, then maybe this loss of status,

it's an agreement signed and initially by ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev to allow on surveillance flights over that two countries to promote trust and peace. trump is not saying the us copper made part of the treaty subject to repeated violations by the russians return denied violating open skies. to technical issues what began as a bilateral accord now has some thirtyty five countries signed out. it't's a troubling history this latest move to pull the us out of a major global treaty. u. s. dollars to set stroll might not have. kind of a good. study has more i in washington. thank you says event or- has approved. our members stayay frm over certain areas of. the russian and terror treat including at the e exclave of kaliningrad which is located between. p poland and the baltic states do it is at the land mass the russian land mass closest. to europe and that's something and that and the americans are not too happy about that russia also are preventing some points over certain areas at certain moments saying that the military exercises. so they didn't want to add any member state f

walker bush jim baker in the secretary of state in the president himself that they had with mikhail gorbachev president of the soviet union and where sharon i.z. the foreign minister about you know how to reunify germany and how to get the soviet union out of the east. sure in other countries guarantees were made about nato not expanding. security baker said you know nato is in the post cold war and are more of a political institution than a military institution but somehow the united states lost track of the asian nato today is very much more a military institution and a political institution when you say military institution to confront who'll if we say you don't want to have a problem with russia if you want to peacefully co-exist then why do you have a military alliance whose sole option is to control and russia nato is time is long past and it's time for europe to us we got a better way to spend you know its defense money being part of the of in order to have an alliance who dates back to the late 1940 and reach early 1952 when the world was a completely different place as no role in the