it was especially high in moscow and leningrad. while marx argued that cabalist contained the seeds of its own distortion, by not showing a highly educated population, communism planted the seeds of infrastructure. although in all communist countries the full-time officials wielded more power than any other group, the highly educated and city dwellers made up a disproportionately large part of the communist party mentorship. the west was important just by being there and providing a source of alternative ideas. on the minority of soviet citizens were allowed to travel abroad, but that minority included leading party officials officials. it is said that travel abroad, over many years the long serving soviet foreign yurt minister was living proof that this does not happen automatically. however, it could make a huge difference. gorbachev was said that it was his job to present and 1970s to open his eyes between soviet propaganda and how people actually live in western countries. groucho marrs, not karl marx once enjoyed going to beli

i was born in moscow.i spent all my life there and my impression was i would never leave that place. in moscow i went to school, i went to academy of music there. until age of twenty i wrote music and was going to become a composer. then starting at the age of twenty, i started writing poetry. fourteen collections of mine have been published to date in moscow i met steve in moscow too steve and i represent a rare case of cooperation the history of poetry knows a number of examples of poets being man and wife. though those were not very happy marriages unless i am mistaken there has been no case of the wife being the poet and the husband being the translator this gives a lot of advantages to the translator because he gets to translate poems we have lived through together >> if only i knew from what tongue your i love you has been translated, if i could find the original, consult the dictionary to be sure the rendition is exact: the translator is not at fault. >> ( translated ): i started wring poetry when i

recently, we discussed some issues outside moscow. i talked to the russian railroads ceo.der of 2010 will remain at the same level as 2009. >> translator: at least this way i think that the country needs train cars. >> translator: there'll be less tape that -- train cars but more locomotives. overall, it will stay at the same level. that's what i was told, that the level of orders will stay at the same level. maybe it will even increase if russian railroads gets more revenues. >> translator: from the right wing sector, questions. let's give the floor to our young people. we have students from various high institutions, many questions. who wants to ask a question? >> translator: hello, i am maria. this year i graduated from the siberian institute of railway transportation, and now i have a postgraduate course and many of my friends entered the postgraduate studies. we are active, and we are aware of what we are doing now, that this will affect our future and the future of our country. and we start to ponder what -- [inaudible] please, tell us what russia are we to build? wh

ey were the last remaining source for aricans of news of the her world now captive to moscow. >> you begin the book thnight befo you read the secret police files. u were scared of what you would discover. you did discovery information about thoswho worked with the secret pice. >> watching clerksn white coats wheeling in supermarket carts of marton fami files i was panicked. the head archiverlooked at me and said yours is e of the biggest les. terrifying. what theiles contained were shking at times. everyonerom our inner circle, even our baby sitt, the most treacherous of all. >> you never likeder. >> no she always liked msister better. was right, she was wrong. shwas a full time agent reporting on our every me using me. i was 6 years old at the tim and my older sister as her ief sources. everyo, all of our cleaning ladies, our dentist,he guy at the grocery store, erybody was informinon my parents. >> and there was someone ithe american embas. th was shocking. >> that was -- i think f pants this must of been the most painful thing. en they were finally arreste the evidence wasr provid

we worked on the treaty of moscow which took us down significantly with respect to weapons.ogether through trying times as we watched georgia and ukraine emerged from their post-communist time. many a long night we spent on the phone as we chatted through these transitions of without violence. we worked through situations that were so difficult but similarly as with yashka i could always count on his support and understanding because we knew that we had to make sure that the ties that bind remain strong. that is what diplomacy is all about. that is why we have a state department. to make sure that the people of the united states, the president of the united states are representing the values of the united states to other nations. and we take into account their values and their salt -- sovereign interests. it is a partnership with every nation of the world in one way or another. we must always advocate are believed in democracy, our belief in human rights, our belief in the will of the people. we should always be committed to extending the hand of american generosity to peopl

i work in the innovation center of moscow university. we're planning to have innovations in the education process and will the state support the initiatives of sorts? >> yes, we're already supporting it. a contest that was held in september of this year and now we're summing up the results of 14 innovative institutes. they will be receiving support, financial support precisely for the innovation programs of training. they will get about 11.8 billion rubles over a period of five years purchasing additional equipment and working at those innovation programs which you just mentioned. thank you. let's go over to the questions i have singled out. >> we've been going on for more than three hours. >> that i think god. -- thank god. >> let's have a question from alexander petrov. i consider it an important question and i'll read it to you. they're increasing pensions to all categories from november and he wants to know what the valorization means and i want to know what will happen to pensioners, sergeants, ncos and other ministry. my pension is

we worked on the treaty of moscow, which took us down significantly with respect to weapons.ogether through trying times as we watched georgia and ukraine emerged from their post-communist time. many a long night we spent on the phone as we chatted through these transitions of without violence. we worked through situations that were so difficult, but similarly as with yashka, i could always count on his support and understanding because we knew that we had to make sure that the ties that bind remain strong. that is what diplomacy is all about. that is why we have a state department. to make sure that the people of the united states, the president of the united states are representing the values of the united states to other nations. and we take into account their values and their salt -- sovereign interests. it is a partnership with every nation of the world in one way or another. we must always advocate are believed in democracy, our belief in human rights, our belief in the will of the people. we should always be committed to extending the hand of american generosity to peo

he had talked earnestly and productively with our historic adversaries in moscow.as a test to the wisdom of his policies. after restoring our economy and restoring our confidence, and setting the stage for the end of the cold war, ronald reagan retired from politics. then he retired from public life. when the lord calls me home, whenever that may be, i will leave with the greatest love of this country of ours, and eternal optimism for its future -- he wrote. you will remember we did him a final farewell five years ago. right here in this capital, with the deepest respect, and with love, and yes, with tears. and with a renewed appreciation of what he had done for the united states of america. that shining city on a hill that he saw so clearly, and that he loved so very dearly. and now, fittingly, comes this magnificent bronze statue of this great american. it will stand forever as a silent sentry in these hallowed halls to teach our children and our grandchildren about that which once was, and to inspire them with visions of that which can be again. today, tomorrow,

in moscow to of a russian officials he remarked in a briefing earlier that north korean officials acknowledgearance of the six-party talks and a joint statement of 2005. in a statement and calls for the north to end its nuclear an update on the climate some of this hour. developing countries are refusing to produce a bit in working groups, putting it talks in copenhagen into disarray they are demanding that rich countries raised pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. meanwhile, a senior official says the meeting by five world powers on iran's nuclear program has been counseled. to china's opposition. the u.s., china, russia, britain, and germany plan to meet on friday in brussels. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> head of the u.s. enmr!y information administration announces projections for u.s. energy supply, demand, and prices for the year 2035. live coverage begins at 9:30 eastern on c-span3. the peterson-2 commission on but to reform was to the discussion on the federal debt. participants include former congressional budget office director, alice rivlin and

moscow and washington had hoped to strike a deal before the end of the year.". california. this is our coastline. jeff is on it. -- oppose line. jeff is on it. caller: i do oppose it, and i would like to bring up a single payer. that is where we should be going. we have negotiated our way out of that. there are a lot of people who watch may be the fox network who don't think the way i do. i guess it is because they watch people like glenbrçmnn beck. i am similar tao glenn beck in that i'm a visual guide. he sees socialism in every part architecture prepa. our ic in -- i see in fox -- aetna. and a big zero in the contents of his mind. why do they get their health care information from these folks? host: about the network -- what you think of the values of the single payer system? gcaller: a single payer system would make it all effici.. if we will leave people in the tracks who the dreg -- in the dregs to suffer and die, that is also in the bible. we should not be doing that to people. host: here is a little bit more. "a lower value plans would have higher out-

he had talked earnestly and productively with our historic adversaries in moscow. wisdom of his policies. after restoring our economy and restoring our confidence, and setting the stage for the end of the cold war, ronald reagan retired from politics. then he retired from public life. when the lord calls me home, whenever that may be, i will leave with the greatest love of this country of ours, and eternal optimism for its future -- he wrote. you will remember we did him a final farewell five years ago. right here in this capital, with the deepest respect, and with love, and yes, with tears. and with a renewed appreciation of what he had done for the united states of america. that shining city on a hill that he saw so clearly, and that he loved so very dearly. and now, fittingly, comes this magnificent bronze statue of this great american. it will stand forever as a silent sentry in these hallowed halls to teach our children and our grandchildren about that which once was, and to inspire them with visions of that which can be again. today, tomorrow, and unto the ge

but i also think arguably in moscow and don were quicker to realize that the verities comedy assumptionse contingent predictions that would offend you for the last four years were not true under these circumstances. the scholars, the outsiders were slower to update. and i think that's part of the result of information. the guys in government have better information, but i also think the scholars were more formally wedded to a way of thinking of developed over the last 40 years. to answer your question, how do you know? you know, when one thing happens that outside of the expectations , that is perfectly readable to accept that's an anomaly. but as the event continued to pile up that are not consistent with the paradigm that you have in your head, that's when you should start to update. i have to say in hindsight, looking back i planned community of international relations scholars i am struck at how long it took them to realize that much of the stuff they thought they knew based on the cold war bipolar experience did simply not apply to the great power politics anymore. a quick comment o

just as we finish let me stress again in my swing from the region from seoul to beijing to tokyo to moscowi found very strong agreement that the unity of the five is very important in trying to deal with north korea. and i found there is strong support for continuing to enforce the sanctions and there was also a strong view that it had been useful for the united states to take on this direct contact with the north koreans in the context of the six party framework. so i think it's been useful and move things forward. i would like to be able to be more precise about a timetable for the future but at this point i am not able to be. so anyway, thank you. >> we will take a few minute breaks. [inaudible conversations]

talks expected to focus on possible russian aid for the war effort in afghanistan, moscow has signaled its willingness to help on the concern that a taliban return to power will endanger russia's own safety. and word four afghan officers very killed until a an attack. in afghanistan. people "final" magazine has just named their person of the year for 2009. ben bernanke. last year's winner was then president-elect barack obama. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> "washington journal" continues. host: on this screen now dale robinson, founder and president of tea party.org. and the rally that was held at the capitol yesterday which we covered live on the c-span networks, what do you think was accomplished with that rally yesterday? >> well, we're really upset with the fact that congress continues to pass bills creating a tax burden on the taxpayers. our biggest focus should be jobs. coming into office i wish the obama administration had focused on the jobs. the idea is that you need to increase your tax base and we're focusing more on these entitlement programs. so

no less than operating on the korean peninsula from pow to north korea to moscow. acknowledging such transfers have come from former u.s. and soviet officials and defectors as well. all of this suggest that much more effort needs tour made before we can truly say we have accounted for our missing serviceman. we recognize the difficulty with north korea. however, a thorough have view of documents will provide valuable information and new leads on many unaccounted for serviceman. searching for men at lost locations when the indicate the men were captured will not lead to recovery. these when these recovery operation fail, as they will, remains are then declared unrecoverable. this is not accounting. this is fiction. in one vietnam case, dpmo the four were ambushed and killed. they site a report of 20 to 30 grounds in the area to support their conclusion. the facts do not support the dpmo analytical review. multiple documents including letters from the u.s. army to the families of the missing men all states the gunshot's heard involved another squad and did not relate