petersburg or in moscow or in other regions, although we understand that dagestan was the prize-winner in received cargoes 200 e-e indeed e-e moscow saintsburg other large cities to a lesser degree affected it a-e burial that is, e-e here corpses have come here dagestan is a river of changes in the number of killed e-e on the territory of ukraine this is, er, dagestan yakutia, er, buryatia, that is, with all the national outskirts, and you have dagestan, and er, except for everything ordinary . this is what is happening from the very beginning, this means the third final stage the rise of the russian empire 1:17 p.m. second 91st now putin launched 3 finals of the right-wing russian empire in the conditions when , in fact, he only had such measures left as the war , that’s it, that’s the insane mobilization that is now already being resisted by a significant part of the regions and uh, the third of the world - this is the joining of four regions of ukraine, which are completely meaningless, what for the generals of the hostage ego of the army and for president zelensky, it has no meaning at all, as he calls these the occupied territories

particularly ethnic minorities, what dine in this war it was not the lead, it was not people in moscow in saint petersburg that is starting to change with a small was ation. he still has, i think, a very strong hold on power. i don't think he's in danger of any popular uprisings, any time soon. the repression apparatus in russia is very, very formidable, but he is definitely starting to lose enthusiasm for this war. as people are starting to sacrifice personally for it. i spoke to one analyst earlier this week who suggested that ukrainian forces will push through to crimea by the end of this year. do you think that's a realistic assessment? i think that's incredibly optimistic. i think this war is gonna continue for at least another year. perhaps even longer, and i think i, the cranes are very far from making progress into crimea. dmitri alper of it's just purely expert based in the u. s. thank you so much. and you for several days now. russia has been launching airstrikes across ukraine. one incident in cuba and was widely reported a lampart glass, pedestrian bridge took the force of a missile blast. a c

moscow. and it's the point where if you're if you're the empress, you're a german, you're living in saint petersburg at the edge of your empire. and the guy can get that much support and actually represent a serious threat to your power. you're a little nervous. see, she's educated, she's well read. she's extraordinarily independent. and she corresponds regularly with enlightenment, enlightenment thinkers. the need to row actually comes and visits her for a little while. the founder father of one of the encyclopedias and she's a regular correspondent with voltaire. she is a reformer, determined to improve the internal management of russia. important for us, she wants to involve a wider cross-section of society in governance, government decision making was primarily with the aristocracy. these guys all have these largest gates full of peasants. they make their money off their estates. she wanted to promote this merchant. merchant class and give them a role in promoting society and promoting the economy. to that end, she and she has a treaty signed between russia and britain. in great britain, the com

taxi driver and then got into saint petersburg local mayoral politics and then was given the job of head of the of the fsb of the intelligence services in the late 1990s in moscow. certainly. he was a very capable manager, you know as a phd in law has self-disciplined and intelligence so that was attractive to yeltsin, but there are many people who had those attributes. i think what yelts and most importantly felt was that he needed somebody who would come into power and not prosecute his family, you know, the elton had his own issues with corruption, but more to the point his family members had been on the take and so if if they had ended up in jail, i think yeltsin would have been you know, devastated and so he chose somebody who would be loyal to yeltsiness putin. in fact was nobody was ever prosecuted from yeltsin's family and he got that loyalty. he also got a lot of other things in the bargain and you're right. it's a huge turning point. scholars do disagree about the extent to which that was the driving the driver behind yeltsin's decision sure about the so-called family really was organized crime right dealing there. but what's funny about that is when