russia during yeltsin's tenure how do you assess that i mean was there a pendulum there whether mr sampson's on one side or both sides. i think they were misperceptions on both sides russia expected the west to applaud to the end of communism the introduction of a post common is purportedly democratic regime and it. expected the west to give lots of money to support the regime in to stabilize the transition to market democracy but the west responded to russia's soft liberation by appearing to be fairly mean it wasn't the best of economic conditions the big marshall plea marshall plan number two as it were didn't come about and russia became more and more disillusioned about real partnership with the west but the trouble with russian foreign policy we went back to before the discussion is the rhetorical there was a lot of protest about nato expansion nato militarism and european like a friend in us but in actual fact the actions were pro western until the late one nine hundred ninety s. it was the combination of the one way of course of war and preceding that the economic crisis the banking c