reform program as well you remember that in one thousand nine hundred nine when handing over to putin yeltsin reflected on his own contribution to russia and he for started by saying of course the great achievement was we broke with communism broke as you just wanted to know the command economy into broken to a liberal market capitalism but then he added an apology and he apologized for the fact that he was along with others so naive to think they could do it all in one big breakthrough breakthrough politically breakthrough economically breakthrough socially and if you break through you break things and ended up with a lot of inequality a lot of corruption a lot of the things that yeltsin i don't think would have wanted i remember meeting him in that in the two thousands and he sincerely came over as someone who was a big populist leader concerned with people's welfare and he. reflected that it was a shane with so many poor people still in russia after all he tried to do so the economic change was necessary whether it could be done in one big leap but whether it would be better done in small

yeltsin. vladimir putin appointed her presidential adviser on human rights and his successor made her the head of the council. she has now turned her back on the government. >> over and over you hear the right words, "liberalization" and "freedom. over and over they say they need to take action against criminals, but they do not take action. they're just words, no deeds. >> she is a familiar face at discussions about freedom in russia. she does not play the opposition party, denouncing the kremlin. she is a democrat through and through, respected by the opponents of the regime. >> i have been arrested and put behind bars and i was only released because respected activists stood up to me -- for me. she helped me a lot. at the time, she was the adviser for human rights. >> she was the head of the advisory council in eight -- for eight years and in the end served under medvedev. she placed her last hope in him, only to be bitterly disappointed. she felt her only action left was to step down, which she did. >> whenever putin did not agree with something he would say no. but when he supported an in