since russia i'm joined by dmitri barber chair in the studio with me he's a political analyst at ria novosti news agency in washington we have donald jensen he's a resident fellow at the center for transatlantic relations and in london we go to alex proud he is director of russian and eurasian study center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want well the reason why we're doing this we're doing our series here on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago and twenty years ago on june twelfth one thousand anyone else who came the first popularly elected president of the russian soviet federated socialist republic would basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow later in the year dimitri babbage let's look at that time twenty years ago and how we as soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to chop off what about yeltsin at this time but i think there were two parallel processes going on

i mean the barber terms of political analyst for the ria novosti news agency says despite the fact that you're a big fan of had strong support among ultra nationalists it's unlikely his murder will trigger a by that response. the story is very complicated first there was this story with the church and go presumably why would one of their lawyer who would defend the who have recited the interests of the family or the girl was killed in mosque or very much in the way dunn was killed not so it would be. nice when mists it could be people from extremist anti-nationalist organizations with which but all with the mother too and the killer was least. there can be a lot of versions what i'm sure about is that there will be no nationalist backlash because there are very few people who identify with them but there was the trial and people who supported him i would see it in particular why it's humus a person it was rather a protest against syria which was a reigning in the liberal must media at the moment the broom us media blitz on of duty before the trial so there were some people who sympathiz

peter over a little bit later this hour for more details but to me bob it's a political analyst for ria novosti news agency says despite the fact that you were going to have had huge support among nationalists it's unlikely that his murder will trigger a violent response. the story is very complicated first there was this story with the church of god presumably killed why would one of their lawyer or would you friend who represent the interests of the family or the girl was killed in mosque or very much of that we was killed not so we would be. nice were missed it could be people from extremist nationalist organizations within reach but the mother of the war and were killed was the least. going to be a lot of versions what i'm sure about is that there will be you know all nationalists very question because there are very few people who identify with who don't or there was a trial and people who supported him i would see didn't particularly like you most a person it was rather broad first against syria which was a reunion in the libor almost media at the moment the groom us media. guilty before