and right next to a statue of former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. this is where we meet alyssa from ukraine. alyssa, it's not about any political cause right on the plan to suffer some 3000 ukrainians, live in indonesia, the majority in body. dmitri is one of them together with his wife or you, nanda. he's attending a football match to raise funds for ukraine. the clubs, head coach feel strongly about the invasion. i mean, we could draw care all day long. and now we got babies. the children being killed. our club as a 129 kids in our club van watching a new grade kids, their age guy. what dmitri, you know, you nanda own the tennis club and our parents of a 5 year old. they've started their own charity, like many businesses, and by the unfortunately stay away are from the water. they just ignore it. so i wanna step forward and i want to, ah, show example that we're not against russian people. so we're not buying the weapons sort of guns. we help children. i know how hard it was with 1st time. i mean 1st name was destiny. i mean like i see i'm and she

mikhail gorbachev did not intend to impede the process of german unification a.fter him, especially no one was going to interfere. what kind of obstacles could there be? mikhail sergeevich asks kolya to urgently help to force the banks to open a loan, and also to give money in advance on the security of military property left by our departing germany troops from the book by andrei chernyaev 1991 diary of an assistant to the president of the ussr when and if you need state political motivated loans. you must understand that we are talking about politics. at that time, such loans could only be obtained from western democracies. they have their own ideas about the norms of behavior of countries that need their financial support. the soviet empire in eastern europe was based on the common conviction that we can and are ready to use only force. how much is needed to keep the authorities in power the communist regime, and actually, what does it mean, and what does it mean for a regime that is all based on the belief that the authorities are capable of using so much vio

the news had just come, ordered to establish the role of mikhail gorbachev in the events of the ninety-first . then small-town special cases. in my opinion. it's the other way around, it's an absolutely systemic story, because it's not a special case, because get there? that's it, to get to the bottom of these places without any system settings of the head. i don't think it will work. let's approx. alexander solzhenitsyn fell under the rink of russophobia in france last week, teachers' unions asked to rename the college in the commune of zenpinet, named after the writer, instead of the author of the gulag archipelago, the educational institution is offered to name the revolutionary anarchists of the civil war, now known as the ukrainian poet, after vsevolodovolin. the american non-profit organization space foundation took in the anti-russian setting the cosmic height the charity evening, which she annually held in april , no longer bears the name of yuri gagarin, it was nocturnal, but became a cosmic celebration. find out what's next for the organizers. they explained that they canceled gaga

system came one of the first alarms in january 1986 he writes a letter to the young reformer mikhail gorbachevssr, in connection with the beginning reforms, will not turn out to be a prisoner of the west named after gorbachev on january 11, 1986, in front of the west , the police, which ensures its stunning essence that the collapse of the soviet union became the end of the russian empire in georgian 1994. richard chancellor british merchant and navigator 1553 , if russians knew their strength, no one would could compete with them. and their neighbors. would not have rest from them, but i think that no god's will. i can compare russians to a young horse who does not know his strength and allows a small child to control him and lead himself to the bridle, despite his great strength. but if this horse was aware of it, that is, neither a child nor an adult would have coped with it. this is richard chancer. it was in 1553 that chancer opened russia to britain as well as america's columbus to the spaniards, and for exactly the same purpose the british then sought an alternative to transport routes

during during the night $91.00 attempt to overthrow president mikhail gorbachev. it's one of several independent outlets forced to close in recent days, will in our development, beijing's when to paralympics of opened under a cloud of controversy on thursday organizes made a dramatic u turn banning russian and better russian athletes from the event following threats of boycotts by other participating countries, ukraine's delegation was given a warm welcome at the opening ceremony after making the difficult journey to china, russian pardon pick, committee says it will not appeal the decision following legal advice. we want to move to our other top story this hour, at least 56 people have died and a bomb blast during friday. present a sham, lost in the shower, in northern pockets on nearly $200.00 worshippers were wounded. many of them are in critical condition. officials declared a state of emergency and say they expect the death toll to rise, aka sounds prime minister, condemned the attack. come on hyde has more for me as lama bought widespread condemnation from t

president reagan presented the first reagan freedom award to mikhail gorbachev of the former soviet unionhow times have changed. 30 years later, , the award will be going to, residents of linsky who is fighting a tyrant trying to glue the soviet union back together again. -- president zelensky. in this time of devastating upheaval and loss, if you would, please join me for a moment of silence or the freedom loving ukrainian people fighting for their very lives. >> thank you. reagan library regulars will know that the title of this, , r most prominent speaker series, a time for choosing, comes from a speech and october 1964 that launched ronald reagan's political career. it was a speech so pivotal that around here we simply call it the speech. and with that supreme court, a full 16 years later ronald reagan would gok on to transform a party and change a nation. today, that party, the republican party, is facing its own time for choosing. as it moves forward the thes confronted with some fundamental questions. what should it stand for? what are the republican philosophies we can all agree o

and edvard chavez, nancy and mikhail gorbachev in a certain way, was eventual welcoming of russia not only geographically because geographically it's there into europe and even into nato membership 1st with a political alliance. and then the military allies that want to strike in 1994 and later years when we started doing this while the band and expansion of the alliance . but that is no way condones and invasion into essentially a neutral country, which nato leadership and washington this leadership had already admitted. they were willing to say, would never be a member of nato much the way they have done pro forma with georgia. it's still good and good. you said that because of course as you know, washington the by the ministration little nature leaders yet jen, salt berg and the rest se nato expansion has nothing to do with the current conflict. and anyone who says that is a booted apologist. well, i'm not a boot an apologist in any way. i think he's brutal. i think he's insane. now. i thought he was pragmatic. i thought he was a brilliant strategist. i thought he was doing things

another element of aggression which is the expansion eastwards of natal. breaking promises made to mikhail gorbachev when the soviet union came to came to an end in positioning. all nato forces miss allison warships around the borders of russia. that is an issue. once we get over that hump over, hopefully of coming to a negotiated solution to this conflict, which is what's needed, then there has to be a discussion about nato expansion. my fear is, is that america has really shifted the agenda in europe over this question. in particular by shifting the german government to a much more aggressive stance to saying it's going to increase its arms expenditure, a long term goal. the americans have achieved by very much corso, to the american agenda and making the german government distance itself from, from russia, which has been a long term trading part. and that is a big success for the americans. and is going to influence how things play out here . because previous to this conflicts, germany, it's an extent france, we're much more skeptical about this new conflict with russia than washington and wonder

in 1985, mikhail gorbachev was the last leader of the ussr. he jump-started economic reforms, led to the rise of privately owned businesses, free-market capitalism. but it had the opposite effect, leading to the collapse of the soviet union. in 1992, the first president of modern russia, boris yeltsin would lead the country to the wild west of capitalism. debiting consequences to the economy and the well-being of its citizens. out of nowhere, in 2000, trampolines to the post of president was vladimir putin. but he was a nobody. how did he rise to power? putin's story begins in 1952. only child born in st. petersburg. his parents were factory workers. putin attended leningrad state university and studied law. 1975, he'd be an intelligence officer for the kgb. when the soviet union collapsed, he retired and returned home to work in local politics, becoming the mayor's head of external relations and first deputy mayor. when the liberal politician lost in 1996, putin moved his family to moscow, quickly climbing up the ladder in boris yeltsin's adm

a nod to the 1991 coup attempt of mikhail gorbachev.oining me is host for deutsch tv and her husband and editor in chief for the station. both of you, welcome to the program. you are friends, so this is a personal conversation for me. we should note and tell our viewers you are no longer in russia. you escaped and fled the country shortly after your network signed off. >> yeah. >> they are in neighboring georgia. if you can just start there and talk about that decision to leave the country. >> well, this decision was taken because of the situation. both of us and some of our other journalists, we started to receive threats, and all this atmosphere where we existed, our tv station received a letter from the regulator of the media in russia. then on tuesday march 1st, our website was blocked alongside with the website of a rid owe station and other media outlets. then we received information that police was going to start raiding our office. it never happened, but still with all this information and with plans of russian members of parlia

that indicates one of the fundamental differences of where putin is at the moment and where mikhail gorbachev the communist party back then in 1989 and 1991 when he was turfed out of power. the communist party had been sort of collapsing, eroding, and the russian people, soviet people, knew that it was busted. putin's in a different place. he's built a hard shell around himself. he's quite isolated. it's a weakness. but he's still had, until recently, relatively decent popularity in russia. over 60% -- those are kremlin figures -- but they've been pretty consistent over the past few years. it perhaps gives you the sense that he thinks he can endure those losses and try to get the military gains on the ground which have clearly at the moment, kyiv and the south of gain, and perhaps more after that. he perhaps feels that he has the popularity or the ability to endure more suffering in the battlefield. but it is easy to see how the tide of that can shift. >> yeah, very quickly, nic robertson, appreciate it. >>> coming up more on the war in ukraine, including a look at the country's air force, wh

lisa: then, in 1991, communist hardliners tried and failed to overthrow reform-minded mikhail gorbachevdisavowed the coup attempt and resigned from the kgb. as the soviet union collapsed, putin rose, from a deputy mayor in st. petersburg, to president boris yeltsin's right hand man, in just six years. that rise, in part, to his handling of a russian crisis. >> the chechen war started. this basically was what catapulted putin to the presidency. lisa: in 1999, putin took over and unleashed hell in chehnya, a scorched-earth assault that left thousands of civilians dead. as putin surged, yeltsin plummeted. facing criticism and health problems, yeltsin resigned, making putin president on the eve of the millenium. his survival was tied to russia's. he stabilized and breathed new life into the economy. businesses opened, poverty dropped. pres. bush: i looked the man in the eye, i found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. i was able to get the sense of his soul. lisa: and putin warmed to the west, an ally after september 11, smiling and shaking hands across the world. but while he t

government which played the , same loop on state-tv in 1991 when a failed coup was underway against mikhail gorbachev. russian authorities also shuttered the country's last independent radio station, echo of moscow. it has been facebook, the russians can still use apps like telegram, whatsapp and instagram for now. instead, the government is steering propaganda at even the youngest russians, releasing this virtual lesson on "why the liberation mission in ukraine is necessary." russian disinformation gets a boost from some u.s. media as well. fox news's tucker carlsen has repeatedly criticized u.s. involvement in ukraine, and expressed support for putin, and those clips have made it onto russian news. >> these people are so ghoulish and of course they are promoting war. william: in the u.s., carlsen's view is just one of many americans can listen to and way for themselves, but as the carnage of putin's work continues, the reality for many russians is only as real as their government allows. joining me now is a researcher on disinformation and propaganda inside russia at the university of wisconsin. ve

. >> it sounds like the excesses of the '80s as you're going through talking about mikhail gorbachev hen gorbachev started giving the managers a chance to own some of the industries they managed. then elites yeltsin accelerated. when putin came in in 1999 there were disputes among you will aof the oligarchs and he basically said to them i am going to be the president and i will resolve your disputes and protect you but you've got to have my back or you'll pay. and of course kordievsky was put in jail for ten years because he went against putin and finally fled to the uk once he got out. so the oligarchs are afraid and they'd better be afraid now of the european union, the united states, japan, korea, australia, new zealand, and other countries that are going after their assets. and trying to find out where they've put this money into all ki kinds of bank accounts, into all kinds of physical assets that will be hard to dig up. but this time it will be found. >> that was my next question, if you think it could be found. and you said it will. as we heard, there are already two o''ll gark

that function of the system as putin set it up is reminiscent, of course, of what happened to mikhail gorbachevhere was a coup against him. so that's kind of, i think, the situation that putin finds himself in now. >> and we're all seeing these recent photos of putin at these ridiculously huge tables physically far apart from other people, and in some cases it seems like he's set apart from, you know, people in his national security and foreign policy realm, other top level government officials, which is kind of strange when you think about it. what is going on with some of that in your view, and i mean, is it covid? we've talked about some of this before, or is he actually worried that somebody is going to trayy to kill him? >> i think that it's a combination of things. i mean, it does appear that putin was inordinately concerned about contracting covid, which is sort of ironic because, of course, russia pioneered, if you will, the sputnik shot, the vaccine, which he assumedly would have had but i guess didn't have a whole lot of faith in. he normally is in somewhat of a bubble simply because

ironically the first freedom award was given to former russian president mikhail gorbachev 30 years agove continuing coverage on the attack on ukraine on our website through kpix.com and streaming on cbs news bay area. >>> today a hearing for south bay church that refuses to pay nearly $3 million in fines.>> justin andrews is live explaining what the church did to rack up these penalties. >> santa clara county says calvary chapel church violated covid health orders repeatedly and county officials have been locked in a legal battle with the church since october 2020 when they sued the church for hosting large, mask free indoor services for months. the services were banned at the time for public health reasons due to covid. the county counsel thought the church would get caught up on paying the 2.8 million dollars in fines. a few weeks ago it and this is after a judge rejected a request by the church to dismiss the lawsuit and an attorney for calvary strongly disagreed with the judge's ruling same accounting arguments have no legal standing in the case. the county argues the church and it

an evil empire, predicting it would wind up on the ash heap of history, or later saying that mikhail gorbachev should tear down the berlin will. there's no question there was a rise in tensions in part because of that rhetoric, in part because of the tough things the reagan administration did to contest soviet power. but in hindsight, i think most historians would focus on the fact that reagan was vindicated, that the soviet union ultimately did collapse, and we later learn the his words gave heart and hope to many dissidents behind the iron curtain. this is something we haven't really talked about, but i would think that president biden's words calling out vladimir putin as a war criminal and saying that he should not remain in power, i would think that would give hope not only to ukrainian patriots, knowing that we stand with them, but also to russian dissidents. remember there are still some brave people in russia who are willing to challenge putin's rule, and they need to know that america stands behind them. >> our ivan watson was in a mayor's office in anybodnipro o around there. his off

at the height of the paristroika economic reform under president mikhail gorbachev.was located in push and square. it was a very, very big deal. this was the front page of the washington post on the day that the store opened. a one below the fold was on the mcdonald's titled quote moscow plays ketchup. get it, ketchup. this is how nbc news covered the story at the time. >> the grand opening hype was foreign to moscow as the hamburger. george cool heart started -- with the soviets 14 years ago. it was ecstatic. would >> i'd recommend is that this is a great market. this is a market that's open for business. >> indoctrination of the young staff has -- confounded some first day customers. >> it's very unusual for soviet people to be polite to everybody. and in a city where restaurants often close early because the food runs out. moscow's newest state open hours after it's scheduled closing tonight. when it finally did 30,000 customers have been served. an all-time one day record for the chain. good omen for the 19 other mcdonald's plan for the soviet capital. peter kent

was broadcast on soviet state television in august of 1991 during the attempted coup against mikhail gorbacheveland. thank you so much for joining me on the show this evening. can i start by asking you, is tv rain now done? is it completely over, or are there plans to revive it abroad perhaps, broadcast for another country? >> well, it is done for now unfortunately because of the military censorship in russia. a lot of our journalists are not in russia anymore. but since we -- for example, me, i don't know how to do anything else, only journalism. and since we understand that we have a huge responsibility to our viewers who were supporting us over these last 12 years, so definitely sooner or later, rather sooner, we will continue something new somewhere else and of course tv rain will somehow be back. >> tikhon, what was it like not just to have to suspend broadcast of your channel and your work, but to then have to leave your own country too? i can't imagine what that must be like. >> well, i would say that it's really humiliating because we are not criminals. we did nothing wrong. we were ju

you suffer through stalin but mikhail gorbachev emerges. the cosmic dice have landed on people. thap oar not going to be there forever. one other analogy to think about, we use this expression crossing the rubicon. it's what julius cesar did in defiance of the roman republic. how did he end up? he was assassinated on the ides of march. i think there is a hope that within russia the light will go on that russia is headed in a terrible direction. how realistic it is at this moment does not seem to be because of the way in which vladimir putin has his hands firmly on the levers of power. information, light, and continuing to talk about what he's doing to russia i think should be part of this solution. >> that brings us back to nato very briefly. melinda, what do you hope comes out of the talks today in brussels? >> i hope the europeans send jets to ukraine. they talked about doing that this week and back tracked on it. the ukrainians need airpower. i understand there are risks, but there's also risk to inaction. we have 2 million ukraine nl refugees that have already streamed into

i know your network claimed swan lake in an ad to the coup attempt of mikhail gorbachev.ed swan lake. that's veteran knew something was amiss. that that was the statement when you were forced off air in light of these new laws that could put someone in prison for calling this a war for 15 years. you heard that pro-putin anchor interviewing somebody who had been for the crimea invasion as i understand it who says the suffering of innocence are no compensation for the suffering of other innocence. the war, calling it a war, is a frightening picture. we should be aware it has an oppressive influence on our society. did it surprise you to hear that? >> well, first of all, thank you so much for inviting me. and to answer your question yes, i was surprised. because you can hear such things and such thoughts on russian state television, but this is an exception. you can't -- you can find a lot of people, a lot of guests on this television channel who could say something like that. who could say in a couple of words about the victims of this so-called special operations. mainly t

not very far away from the german parliament, although then it was a monument saying to mikhail gorbachev, the leader of the united, the u. s. s r to tear down the wall. so clearly, president zalinski is tailoring his comments to suit each form to try to as it were terror at the heart strings really make people here understand the predicament of his people, what they are going through in this war. and the interesting thing is that he was given a standing ovation. and afterwards there were elements of the conservative opposition here who were very unimpressed by the fact that the german parliament didn't have a debase about ukraine. immediately after hearing from presidency lensky, which shows that there is not a 100 percent unity behind what the coalition government here is doing. there are voices to say that more could be being done to help ukraine than is currently being done. i don't stay with us because i want to get your thoughts on the, the nato secretary general. yes, styles and bag is visiting berlin again, warning against a full fledged war between the lines in russia, tech liste

armored columns of troops have taken up positions throughout the soviet union and mikhail gorbachev isto be under house arrest, in his vocation home in crimea. at the, moment tanks lined the streets of moscow and there have been demonstrations and some gunfire, though no reports of any injuries. boris yeltsin, the president of the republican of russia is at the center of what resistance there is. he has called on his people to resist the emergency committee and he has urged an immediate general strike. >> that coup was defeated in a matter of days. at the communist party collapsed. and the soviet union dissolved within months. former soviet republics, including ukraine, became independent overnight. it signaled a massive shift towards freedom and democracy and began an era the decade between 1981 and 2001 where liberal democracy was largely uncontested peak. in 1992, amid american political scientist francis fukuyama published about the end of history and the last man. it was large and misunderstood at the time. his main point was not that nothing was significance would never happen ag

in the '80s, bruce worked with then president mikhail gorbachev to reduce nuclear risks and played a key role in bringing together top decisionmakers during the cuban missile crisis. you have all kinds of experience. i'm really curious to hear how you see the negotiations that are happening. first, though, zelenskyy is hoping to negotiate one on one with putin. do you think putin will ever talk? >> i actually do. this is just watching your reporting, it's heart rending, it's horrific. this is a stage i've seen many times in war where it looks almost impossible. and that's actually a moment of opportunity. because as president zelenskyy said yesterday, ukrainian people have shown their dignity. they've fought back. they fought valiantly. and i think as he said, you know, but our dignity is not going to preserve the lives. so it's now at a stage where the cost of continuing the resistance has gotten to a point where i think president zelenskyy is ready. he's asked to talk to putin. putin right now has many problems at home. and forces are having significant challenges, as you've just r

the red army was mired in afghanistan, the man at the top in the kremlin was the reform-minded mikhail gorbachev, we're going to try to win this war one last time. i'll give you more troops, but you've got a year or two to win it. >> reporter: gorbachev, in effect, doubled down? >> he did double down. by early '86, he started looking for an exit. >> reporter: in the months and years after, the berlin wall came down and the soviet union collapsed. could ukraine bring about the collapse of putin's russia? >> i think for the first time in 22 years, his role is in jeopardy. >> reporter: an invasion intended to restore the russian emtire. >> what does he do when he is losing for the first time? you had won smaller victories, and now you're losing big, what do you do. >> reporter: this is christina ruffini. in the fight against disinformation, this is the front line. in prague, writers and producers for radio-free europe radio liberty are battling kremlin propaganda. >> our role is to provide surrogate journalism in countries where freedom of the press is under assault. >> reporter: jamie fry is the p

russia from tom back to the point when he was one of the first western journalists to interview mikhail gorbachevcracy is coming to russia, we will never have to worry about a cold war again. and many people said, there won't be another tyrant like some neostalin, because russians now know what freedom is like and they won't give it up. if the economy doesn't work, they'll demand a tie rant go and also that democracy does not lead to unnecessary wars. as recently as a couple of months ago, joe, tom, i think people in the united states had some reason to question whether we were all right. look what has been happening the lasted two days with putin, doing something that's totally against the interests of his people, totally against modern feelings about what democracy is and staying away from wars that are illegal and unnecessary even in russia, which we would have thought was a total dictatorship until almost the last few hours, it's beginning to crumble. >> tom, in that historic interview with putin, you also asked the russian leader about a subject that he's really rarely ever talked ability, h

. >> i would say though at the same time there's also mikhail gorbachev who tried to create a society with greater liberties, greater opportunities for its people. that's part of the pictures is that gorbachev and that kind of view is viewed by putin and his cronies in the kgb and beyond as deluded, week and somehow a disaster for the country. you are right. there are examples in the past of totalitarianism and autocracy for centuries in russia, but i don't think it is baked into the cake forever and ever for russia. the tragedy is that putin himself has no politics surrounding him that we yet can discern. that emphasis on what we can discern, there's so few people around him that give him contrary opinion, who put political pressure on him, and he is acting in a solitary way. you saw that in his meeting with the security council when the head of foreign intelligence got up and tried to disagree just a little bit, he was humiliated. >> right. >> we have to hope that the people around him start doing -- not just put pressure on him, but act more forcefully. >> it is a tragedy because o

i know a lot of people on the left love to say it only happened because of mikhail gorbachev. no, it only happened because of the united states of america, ronald reagan and our allies pushed them into a corner they couldn't get out of, economically, militarily, politically and every other way. that's happening now. for 20 years we've had presidents that have allowed vladimir putin to push the world around. that stopped. that stopped. by the way, if joe biden sees refugees, if he sees mothers, if he sees orphans, if he sees family members who lost a holocaust survivor in this round of bombing, yeah, i hope he gets emotional and i hope he calls him what he is. look at the man, look at the man on your screen. you know what he is? he is a butcher. he is a butcher of babies. he is a butcher of grandmothers. he is a butcher of holocaust survivors. he literally, he literally, as dr. brzezinski wrote in the early 1980s, russians, they're weak so they go find weaker countries to go into and they try to wipe them out, as dr. brzezinski said, biologically. he's committing war crimes. so