changed i think the west expected a kind of a breakthrough to a larger version of maybe one polartec republic is today and that simply was never in retrospect going to be the case second the west i think it's important to recall the rest championed the nine hundred ninety three constitutional reforms that gave a much stronger presidency to yeltsin then have existed before and as a consequence to some extent we better what we now criticize as a super i thought a super presidential regime but i want to go back to ninety one i think there was a lot of misperception about what happened in ninety one were as i and many others thought it was a democratic breakthrough i think there were a lot of impulses there populism anti soviet system and frankly russian nationalism in a moderate form which which blended together with the pro so-called pro democratic forces so ninety one i think was misinterpreted and once that was misinterpreted a lot of what we saw go on out in the following decade was i think underestimated and misinterpreted as well you know it's very interesting is because you think in retro