hundred people i'm with you mean that all these three hundred people are the closest friends of mr gorbachev yes. in the. dream it's really surprising but can you really say that's a dream. gorbachev has three hundred friends perhaps there are not france but simply people with whom human teams close contacts. we can now enter a discussion that will consume all our time. so why not i'm all for that that was a close friend and who is just a friend who is a close personal who is a colleague there are people with whom we maintain pretty warm relations can i put it this way yes of course but does mr gorbachev has some really close friends yes of course how many close friends does he have. more than that more than that more than there are more than that. many say that people especially when they're turning eighty have one or two close friends left all the others are just acquaintances is that really so. or has this because they're a different generation their relationships and stood the test of time in the value and appreciate his relationships a lot depends on how you value those relationships so

as the next russian president so why isn't put also into this criticism and do you agree that mr gorbachev had grounds for such criticism. well first of all i would rather see once again that privilege tauriel moods are primitive our. current state. mr prime minister has always been very tolerant towards criticism this is way he's not answering it his extreme the flexible and he's tolerant because the criticism. the reason i think this is my personal point of view the reason that no answer came from either of the subjects of the criticism of mr gorbachev offered you all from representatives spokespeople is very simple none of them has never said that they would sit together and decide who's going to be the next president of this country. they said they do would consult each other and then they would decide who is going to run for the presidency because they don't mean they don't want to fight against each other is there is no. way that is this is what we hear this is what we hear. but they simply cannot decide who is going to be the next president they can only decide who is going to run b

around and should the upcoming elections in which he may take part as a presidential candidate mr gorbachev in the russian star of russian politics and celebrated his eightieth anniversary recently given a couple of interviews and in some of them he criticized sharply both medvedev and putin in particular one of the things that he blamed them for is that he said why are these two people going to decide who we should have as the next russian president so why isn't putin also into this criticism and do you agree that mr gorbachev had grounds for such criticism. well first of all i would rather say once again that truly tauriel means a premature. and current stage. mr prime minister have his always been very tolerant towards criticism this is why he's not answering it he's extremely flexible and he's tolerant towards the criticism. the reason i think this is my personal point of view of the reason that no answer came from either of the subjects of the criticism of mr gorbachev you know from representatives spokespeople is very simple none of them has never said that they would sit together and

because mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today you know you're good to see you again but mr gorbachev you're turning eighty did you ever think the world will look like this on your eightieth birthday. it's not easy to surprise people like me those who lived to see her eightieth birthday have seen a lot in life ese is a loss we should thank god for giving us so many years and because it eighty you already know a lot of experience many things i can view life in a primitive way to think back a safer today compared to the late eighty's what is this what if we look at the middle east for example in most countries where people took to the streets demanding the resignation of their leaders these leaders have been in power for twenty or thirty years it is unbelievable mubarak has ruled egypt for twenty nine years as for gadhafi we are all confused about the actual day when his rule began so i think we were right when we said there should be a limit otherwise people got tired of the same leaders in addition after ten years or so you get nepotism leaders become too preoccupied to t

well mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today good to see you again well mr gorbachev you're turning eighty did you ever think the world will look like this on your eightieth birthday. it's not easy to surprise people like me those who lived to see there.

mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today good to see you again well mr gorbachev you're turning eighty did you ever think the world will look like this on your eightieth birthday. it's not easy to surprise people like me those who lived to see the eightieth birthday have seen a lot in life is a lot we should thank god for giving us so many years and because it eighty you already know a lot you've experienced many things i can view life in a primitive way. safer today.

well sophie shevardnadze interviewed mr gorbachev and this is what he said to her about what he thinks his legacy is. if you can use you know the world. overcome mutal the world through the only logical struggle. he can put this is perhaps the most important creating new syrian prerequisites and conditions to them. ok stephen you heard that ok you know any you know the traffic stream lee well i mean things are get you know both are friends. you think he's being fair to himself you think fair to reality when his seventy fifth birthday five years ago he had a conference and i gave i gave a paper called there's a new cold war and he became very angry at me because he considers his great achievement certain achievement the ending of the last quarter or so there's a new cold war something went wrong the fact is something went wrong after nine hundred ninety one now we could have a whole separate program but remember the soviet union ended twenty years ago and yet obama said we have to have a reset which suggests something bad relational you and i disagree on a lot of things but on this one

well our sophie shevardnadze interviewed mr gorbachev and this is what he said to her about what he thinks his legacy is. i think it is you know world. yet you. as a world where in. the world for the ideological struggle you know and he has to put it this is perhaps the most important creating the necessary prerequisites and conditions to move us. ok stephen you heard that ok you know and you know much of extremely well and i wouldn't think you know get you know both are friends. do you think he's being fair to himself you think fair to reality when his seventy fifth birthday five years ago we had a conference tonight i gave i gave a paper quote there is a new cold war and he became very angry at me because he considers his great achievement certain achievement the ending of the last cold war so there's a new cold war something went wrong the fact that something went wrong after nine hundred ninety one we could have a whole separate program remember the soviet union into twenty years ago and yet obama said we have to have a reset which suggests something has gone badly wrong for rel

well sophie shevardnadze interviewed mr gorbachev and this is what he said to her about what he thinks his legacy is. i think it is you know world. a world where he's overcome. the world. particularly. if you put this is perhaps the most important creating new series prerequisites and conditions to move them. ok stephen you heard that ok you know and you know got a bunch of extremely well and i mean things you get you know both are friends. do you think he's being fair to himself you think fair to reality when his seventy fifth birthday five years ago he had a conference and i gave what i could think recall there was a new cold war and he became very angry at me because he considers it is a great achievement certain achievement the ending of the last course of his new cold war something went wrong the fact that something went wrong after nine hundred ninety one we could have a whole separate program but remember the soviet union into twenty years ago and yet obama said we have to have a reset which suggests something that's gone badly wrong a relational you and i disagree on a lot of t

because it well mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today good to see you again but this regard you're turning eighty did you ever think the world looks like there is on her eightieth birthday. it's not easy to surprise people like me but those who live to see the eightieth birthday have seen a lot in life eighty in the last we should thank god for giving us so many years because an eighty you already know a lot of experience many things i can't view life in a primitive way because he's a laugh a safer today compared to the late eighty's. if we look at the middle east for example in most countries where people took to the streets demanding resignation of their leaders these leaders have been in power for twenty or thirty years believe it will. because ruled egypt for twenty nine years as for gadhafi we were all confused about the actual date when his rule began. and we said there should be a limit otherwise people go tarred as a leader in addition after ten years or so you get nepotism leaders become too preoccupied to take care of the things that are really important that's why

says of glasnost and perestroika back to peter that's what russians think about the legacy of mr gorbachev well our sophie shevardnadze interviewed mr got a bunch off and this is what he said to her about what he thinks his legacy is. going to issue i think it is a united world. pursues a world where. the world free of ideological struggle. but you have to put this is perhaps the most important creating necessary prerequisites in conditions to move them. ok stephen you heard that ok you know and you know got a bunch of extreme lee well and i would say you know get you both are friends. do you think he's being fair to himself you think fair to reality when his seventy fifth birthday five years ago he had a conference and i gave i gave a paper called there is a new cold war and he became very angry at me because he considers his great achievement certain achievement the ending of the last cold war so it was a new cold war something went wrong the fact is something went wrong after nine hundred ninety one now we could have a whole separate program remember the soviet union into twenty years a