if you live in soviet russia, you are never able to look at people with different information bubbles. so you never thought about it. living in a small, tiny echo chamber. which brings me to a related topic of fake news. andd not see any evidence, i encourage you to send me some if you have any, that we are somehow surrounded by more fake news today, that we are surrounded -- than we were surrounded by 20 years ago. why the opposite -- quite the opposite! [laughter] michal: i will take that. quite the opposite, the amount of information that we have, not only as a society but also each individual person in the room, is again away larger than whatever people had in the past. and one of the outcomes of us having so much valid information, and also being able to access any information humanity has ever produced, including sensitive data, just with one click of the mouse on the internet, it would -- what happens is if you have fake news or you heard something, you heard a story, you can quickly debunk it. what happens in the present society is we have gotten so quick at debunking stories

i think i did not cut the soviet. russia says new video claiming to show a chemical attack in syria by a smear campaign against president assad. c n n accuses gone from promoting violence against journalists off to president pro some wrestling video showing him taking down the channel. two thousand and seventeen confederations called germany warning one goal to give that goal will bring you the chances at all the draw and if you. are welcome to all teams match the law from moscow. thanks for choosing.

these penetrating deal with george kennan , soviet russia and the cold war. 's longknow that kennan telegram, which was sent in february 1946 from moscow to xshington and his so-called article the following year that appeared in the journal of foreign affairs -- these two pieces of writing embodied the core, the very core of u.s. containment policy for the cold war. documents that frank focuses on and extrapolates from. important bothe substantively and methodologically. re-examines, he kennan's motives and thinking. in so doing, he makes a major methodological contribution. he injects a motion a major factor for us to think about that emotion -- injects emotion as a major factor press to think about, rather than the rational realist, frank portrays kennan in all of his humanity. rational? yes. anxious,insecure, and fearfulfearful of seeming fearful. us toes us, frank urges ponder the intersection of emotion and reason. the intersection of sensibility and rationality. ,ow, to discuss these matters we have three major scholars who have been deeply influenced b

irony of course is peter was mentioning if you know during the cold war capitalist america and soviet russia they sat down and talked but what donald trump talks of a lot of your putin it's treasonous but it's everything is flipped upside down thirty seconds alexander last word goes to you one of the great problems is that the united states believes wrongly in my pinion that the previous cold war and he's very angry with the fact that it's now turned out that isn't quite how the russians see it and this is one of the major concerns that the americans have with the russians and one of the great causes of friction the americans need to put behind them donald trump prove he's many flaws seems to understand and i think many people in the united states are very angry with donald trump because he is a realist ok so soon as he is he's a realist we'll end on that point many thanks to my guests in washington pittsburgh and here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules.

certainly in the soviet days, wech the caller discusses, maintained a containment and deterrence regime which was much more powerful than russia is today. we have to be careful what we talk about the soviet union and russia. they are different countries. russia is less economically stable. it is less economically powerful in the world stage and just not as much a relevant level actor no matter what putin has been doing in foreign policy recently. we all want better relations with the russian federation. russia is a major nuclear power. it has the capacity and ability to destroy the united states, that is true. we need to engage with them to make sure we don't go off in our relationship. there has been a long history of the russians tearing of international agreements, including some very serious agreements on arms, like the imf treaty. if you want a better relationship, you have to know you can trust the person on the other side of the table. so far since the end of the cold war, the russians have not demonstrated they are a trustworthy partner to the united states. until there is some action on the russian side to do so, abid

russia. whether any soviet era or the putin era. the russians take a hard view of the treaties baseline, does the treaty serve their interests? if it does, they might abide by it. it doesn't, then they don't. the soviets signed the anti-ballistic missile treaty in 1972, for instance, because it served their interest. us technology was more advanced than if we developed an advanced missile system, their nuclear deterrence would deter that much. but that didn't stop the russians from pushing their luck. for years, they maintain a large phased array radar that plainly violated the treaty. the us protested, still, the soviet union finally agreed to dismantle that radar. seven years after we first detected it. from their perspective, the treaty and his violation was a bargaining chip. the russians, any treaty is just another point of leverage, especially against nato. it is not an inviolable commitment. i would suggest it's time we look at the inf treaty in the same way. beyond what our commitments are, we should ask ourselves what shoul

there are several books about russia and soviet union economic reform. right now it's the final part of the new book with the working title russia's crony capitalism. the main idea is very much vladimir putin has successfully integrated enrichment of the elite in his economic system. i would say i see the russian economic system today and power system as four different circles. the first circle is state power and judicial power are no independent court in russia. therefore there are no real property rights. if you have it abroad, why bother getting it in russia because it stops here enrichment. also the state corporation. russia's state sector, 12 years ago, according to official russian statistics, generated 35% of gdp. today it is 70% of gdp. the big state companies are buying out the other companies from the former oligarchs weekly at half the price because the oligarchs are not allowed to sell to one another or to foreigners. they have to sell to vladimir putin's friends were to state companies and then the prices are at most half of what they should

russia was brought in as sort of a political move, when the soviet union fell apart.a bunch of hardware for their next mir-2 space station. we said bring it to the party. we'll include it on ours. that is essentially what happened. it did provide a good model for international cooperation. it hasn't been easy, has not been a smooth road but it works. the problem we're having right now, major partners are european space agency, which are great, wonderful smart people, wonderful engineers, don't have very much money. the russians space agency, again lots of experience and in orbit,. lots of experience with life-support on large rockets but really struggling financially. most of their problems are shelved at the moment. we need to pay them to do it. of course partner of choice would be china. they have flown in orbit. they have launched two small space station. they will launch a third that will be bigger. they have gone great guns. they are landing probes on moon. sending them to mars. they will send astronauts to the moon we think in the 2020s. we have this thing calle

i've written several books about russia's soviet union's economic reforms. right now i'm at the final part of the new book, with a working title, russia's crony capitalism. the main idea is very much putin has successfully integrated enrichment of elites in his economic system. and i would say that i see the russian economic system today an power system as four different circleses. the first circle, that is state power, f.s.b., and judicial power. no independent courts in russia. therefore there are no real property rights. property rights are something at you have abroad, not in russia. but since you have in abroad, -- [inaudible] -- because it stops your enrichment. the second part is the state cooperation. russia's state sector, 12 years ago, according to official russian statistics, generally id 35% of g.d.p. today it is 70% of g.d.p. the big state companies are buying up the companies from the former oligarchs quickly, at half the price. because the oligarchs are not allowed to -- the former oligarchs are no longer to sell to one another or to foreigners

therefore, the history of the soviet era and the u.s.-russia relations remains vitally important today. our 30 yearaching anniversary of an important moment in that era, the ratification of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. 30 years on, it's still a ofarkable achievement president reagan's statecraft. not merely imposing numerical limits on weapons systems but eliminating entire -- an entire class of weapons, namely land-based weapons with a range of 500-5500 kilometers. those missiles pose unusually high risks in europe. and movede stockpiled rapidly making them difficult to monitor. they cut warning time for launch down to just a few minutes. in contrast to intercontinental missiles. it was deeply provocative when the soviet union deployed such missiles into eastern europe in the late 1970's. nato had no choice but to respond. president carter began the planning steps and president reagan carried them out, deploying american built missiles to europe in 1983. a decision that was protested widely in the united , protest thatope were

a lot has changed in russia since soviet days but much has stayed the same. e might of the state now serves one man and a circle of very powerful and wealthy people around him. >> the russian mafia is the government of russia. it's a mafia that is running a sovereign state with nuclear weapons. >> we spent months investigating a single case and multiple murders in russia and around the world. the story is ahead. we are live in hamburg. when you really want to save big on a hotel just go to priceline. they add thousands of new deals every day at up to 60% off. that's how kaley and i got to share this trip together at this amazing hotel. yeah ash and i share everything - dresses, makeup, water bottles... we do? mmhmm. we share secrets, shoes, toothbrushes... what? yeah i forgot mine so i've been using yours. seriously? what's the big deal? i mean, we even dated the same guy. who?! uh, go to priceline and get the hotel deals you won't find anywhere else. casper's truly changed our lives. ♪ a mattress of unparalleled value. love at first night. ♪ (grunts) i'm a so

therefore, the history of the soviet-era and the u.s. russia relations remains vitally important today. we are approaching our 30 year anniversary of an important moment in that era, the ratification of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. 30 years on, it's still a remarkable achievement of president reagan's statecraft. not merely imposing numerical limits on weapons systems, but eliminating an entire class of weapons, namely land-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5500 kilometers. those missiles pose unusually high risks in europe. they can be stockpiled and moved rapidly, making them difficult to monitor. and they cut warning time from launch down to just a few minutes, in contrast to intercontinental missiles. so it was deeply provocative when the soviet union deployed such missiles into eastern europe in the late 1970's. nato had no choice but to respond. president carter began the planning steps and president reagan carried them out, by deploying american-built missiles to europe in 1983. it's a decision, i should add, that wa

russia is important so the plan. was clear and he made a few phrases skipper phrases that will keep infuriated for. example of the soviet leadership russia now that he is a polka ball and you know soviets and non-si is in slave in poland to put up a sign over a quarter between the nonsense and the communist. no we just hear what was really astounding was he is praise that the wall has never known a bet that can be unity of them all with community of nations and he was not speaking about the present. in the united states he was talking about christianity so it wasn't in the rebellion because the west now is not on the christian or nationalist dictatorship it is on the ultra liberal goal that is dictate what we do he is speaking to alex which i think is interesting is that if you look at public opinion polls recently taken in europe talking about the key issues of terrorism of trade of immigration there are a lot closer to the lot of things that donald trump says they may not like him as an individual yes but i think that speech was also it was snow to brussels and this post modernist ideology the every we talks about on

along the border this breaks that gentlemen's agreement from the early ninety's between then soviet union russia and and secretary of state james baker during the. german unification talks there was no official treaty as you know but for you know there are thousands of meeting minutes and memos transcripts that suggested that it corroborates that that there was this gentleman's agreement so doesn't this give item or put enough valid complaint or concern to address with with president trump you know the complaint is on the record for a long time home would call who just two weeks ago in his his own records as chancellor of germany had that noted so you know that's a real bone of contention and it is indeed why putin self admitted li was really interested in getting crimea back into the fold he said nato you know that was bad enough. but crimea where our naval bases are only a woman would report that was even more important in my green to accept crimea back to russia i mean is this sort of like a tit for tat then if the u.s. is doing these the encircling with the antiballistic missile systems then

the truth is, this is nothing new for russia weather in the soviet era or the vladimir putin era. the russians take a hard view of the treaties they signed. does the treaty serve their interest? if it does, they abide by it. if it doesn't, then they don't. the soviets on the anti-ballistic missile treaty in 1972, for instance, because it served their interest. u.s. technology was more advanced and if we developed an effective missile defense system, their deterrent would not deter that much. that did not stop the russians from pushing their luck. for years they maintained a large base radar that plainly violated the abm treaty. u.s. protested until the soviet union finally agreed to dismantle that radar seven years after we first detected it. from their perspective, the treaty and is violation was a bargaining chip. to the russians, any treaty is just another point of leverage, especially against nato, not an inviolable commitment. i would suggest it's time we look at the inf treaty in the same way, beyond what our current commitments are, we should ask ourselves what should they

russia. whether in the soviet era or the putin era. the russians take a hard-eye view of the treaties they sign. does the treaty serve their interests? it if it does, they abide by it. if it doesn't, then they don't. the soviets signed the antiballistic missile treaty in 1972, for instance, because it served their interests. u.s. technology was more advanced, and have we develop and effective missile defense system, their nuclear deterrent wouldn't deter that much. that didn't stop the russians from pushing their luck. for years they maintained a large based array radar that plainly violated the abm treaty. the u.s. protested until the soviet union finally agreed to dismantle that radar. seven years after we first detected it. from their perspective the treaty and this violation was a bargaining chip. to the russians any treaty is just another point of leverage, especially against nato. not an invoilable commitment. i would suggest it's time we look at the imf treaty in the same way. beyond what our current commitments are, we should a

russia by 755. traveling today the vice president is in estonia, a former soviet state. >> we expect russian behavior to change. >> reporter: futen blamed the u.s. for deteriorating relations after congress overwhelmingly approved new sanctions to punish russia for 2016 interference and aggression towards its neighbors. >> the president made it very clear very soon he will sign the sanctions from the congress of the united states to reinforce that. >> reporter: the strain tonight is far greater than just three weeks and putin met in homburg. >> president putin and i have been discussing various things, i think it's going well. >> reporter: complicating the tensions is the political drum between the trump team and allegations of russian intrusion. there are inresolved conflicts like control over two diplomatic compounds seized by the obama administration. unknown will president trump give them back. >> no decisions have been made on that whatsoever. >> reporter: president trump doesn't have his own man in moskow yet. he is awaiting confirmation. former ambassador described putin's ouster of american d

as marco said, the soviet union and then russia has been doing this exercise for long time. they are regularly planned and announced at four-year intervals. the two most recent ones took place in 2009 and 2013. the 2013 exercise has some aspects which are very much worth noting as we look ahead to this september. it was, first of all, there is a question of what its purpose was. this september.it was charactere russian official statements as essentially an antiterrorist exercise. when you look at what happened , it is pretty hard to believe that that's really all that this was about. clearly it was exercising and testing mobilization and deployment, including newly formed units of command and control arrangements and the like. i think we'll see a lot more of it this time. a second characteristic has to do with its size. 2013, russia was still following the vienna document conventions of reporting upcoming exercises. they are not doing that anymore. the vienna document. their declaration was that it was going to be on the order of 20,000 troops. there were several problems wi

and the history of the soviet iraq and us russia relations remain slightly important today. and approaching a 30 year anniversary of an important moment in that era, ratification of intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. 40 years on it is still a remarkable achievement of president reagan's date craft. not merely imposing limits on weapons systems but eliminating an entire class of weapons, mainly land-based missiles with range of 500 to 5500 km. those missiles pose unusually high risks in new york. they can be stockpiled and moved rapidly making them difficult to monitor. they can warning time to a few minutes in contrast to intercontinental missiles. it was deeply provocative when the soviet union deployed such missiles into eastern europe in the 1970s. nato had no choice but to respond. president carter planning steps that president reagan carried out by deploying american built missiles in europe in 1983. a decision protested widely in the united states and europe, protests that were funded in no small part by the kgb. for the next week for years that we decide the ne

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russia by 755. traveling today, the vice president is in astonia, a former soviet state. >> we expect russian behavior to change. >> reporter: putin blamed the u.s. for deteriorating relations. after congress overwhelmingly approved new sanctions to punish russia for 2016 election interference and aggression toward it's neighbors. >> president made it clear that very soon, he will sign the sanctions from the congress of the united states to reinforce that. >> reporter: the strain tonight is far greater than just three weeks ago when president trump and putin met in hamburg. >> president putin and i have been discussing various things and i think it's going very well. >> reporter: complicating this kaeslating tension is the political drama around the trump team and investigations into russian election intrusion. putin said that did not play into his decision. there are unresolved conflicts like control over two russian diplomatic compounds seized by the obama administration. unknown, will president trump give them back? >> no decisions have been made on that satveoer. >> reporter: president trump does

how many of these soviets were latvians citing the participation of latvian citizens in the fight against the nazis this is not unusual for nato the alliance has kept bad faith with russia and the soviet union's legacy of sacrifice in eastern europe following its collapse since two thousand and fourteen nato has conducted joint military operations in ukraine while providing the ukrainian government with military equipment and funds the ukrainian government which all but explicitly champions the legacy of nazi collaborator step on monday or the horrible asks if today beyond there is a hero and the forest brothers our freedom fighters saving the baltic nations what can we expect tomorrow ukraine would be the crown jewel in nato as crown if the nation were to join the alliance since one thousand nine hundred nine nearly all of eastern europe has joined nato that's thirteen countries with montenegro joining this past year meanwhile nato is twitter account has become a fan page for the ever expanding military operations conducted along or near russia's border hash tag we are nato the page reads leaving many to wonder if this includes nazis and their sympathizers anything goe

since seventy six that i've been dealing with the soviet union and russia i've never seen relations with such a low. it's an almost it's in no way exact situation very very sad. it is now if we look at the concerns of europe because this is quite unique particular it's we've seen such nina negative rhetoric anti russian rhetoric for more lova but the situation as it stuns a lot of european countries have said they are really no happy about this in particular we've got germany austria and france can you explain why they've spoken out well if you think if you think back when sanctions first began it was very much . everyone welcome some sort of a movement some sort of emotional response to whatever their perceived rights or wrongs were as time goes on people get sober. and they do the math and they see what is really important in the directions of companies of cultures of countries and they see that sanctions as perhaps. are being implemented for lack of another better idea and it's being now pushed down the throats of a lot of countries it's not something doesn't voluntary and desired but

so these kind of tentacles you expect to have been in place in the old soviet union and, you know, russia is just -- it's a child of the soviet union. i guarantee you at least -- there was at least one if not multiple folks who had some intelligence connection in that meeting. >> david, i want to read you a portion of your cover piece for "time" magazine. thanks to trump jr.'s twitter stream, he knew of purported attempts to help his father weeks earlier. the proof is in an e-mail chain. you're alluding to the e-mails that he tweeted out himself right before "the new york times" of course put together their latest reporting. do you think enough is being made to the fact that the trump campaign was told last summer that there was a russian government effort to help them win, but even to this day questions russia's interference in the election? >> i think that this is what makes this story so big is that it's no longer the intelligence community of the united states. it's no longer the media that's going into this. it's -- we have the firsthand testimony as it were in that e-mail chain of p

there was an interest in removing sanctions on the soviet -- on russia as a result of human rights violations and that was related to a russian adoption ban, just to clarify for our viewers. it was part of the magnitsky act. their story is that the sanctions -- >> the russians were -- the russians reacted to the sanctions by blocking american adoptions of russian children. so, there is a relationship, but that's really a cover. >> right. >> and so -- >> but not the relationship to the sanctions imposed by the obama administration. i just want to clarify for viewers. it wasn't the sanctions imposed after the election because of election meddling. >> and i think it's important to let the process work. mr. mueller is moving on with his investigation. bipartisan committee efforts are going forward in the house and senate. we tend to chew these things over and try and analyze them in the moment, but these investigations are going to go much deeper and probably already know much more than we know right now. >> now, yesterday, you talked about the president's statement, how he defended his son. he a

russia. he's getting ready to meet with our embassy staff in estonia. the former sovietepublic along russia's western border. eric: the vice president is there with a message to our allies. a new bill slapping sanctions on russia is now headed to the president's desk it was passed overwhelmingly in the house and senate, veto proof. it prevent the president from imposing sanctions on russia without going to congress first. a tit for tat with us seizing their diplomatic residences here. form ear ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. ambassador, what is the message to vladimir putin with this bill? john: i think the sanctions are respect to russia are a clear political signal about congressional disapproval of russia's efforts to meddle in our election. but the form and approach the sanctions take are against individual or entities that would be designated as violating the terms of the sanctions, it's a weak way to approach sanctions. if you are going to use them you ought to use them in a big comprehensive, thorough way. i'm not looking for change in russian behav

host: with regard to the soviet union, you spent a lot of time focusing on russia and the former soviet union. host: can you explain? guest: we did go through periods in which the administration came under criticism for being too liberal with the soviet union. and in the administration was more hard lined, talk about the evil empire, and came under criticism for being too harsh and confrontational. ,hile there was a strong debate they were not polarized along party lines. there were lots of hawks in the democratic party. people like the senator from e verygton, who wer critical of the republican administration for being too soft on the soviet union. and there were plenty of doves in the republican party critical of reagan and others who were too harsh. while there was a hawk/dub division in the congress and country, it was not republican/ democratic division. the fact it was not polarized along party lines meant consensus was easier to achieve. host: line was madeleine albright your favorite secretary to work with? guest: i admired the way she operated, the first woman as secretary esta

>> russia considers us to be the main enemy. this is what the soviethat the russians would continue to say today. >> the g20 summit has another day to go and well-guarded rooms. but everyone here knows that the main event is now over. so that does it for us from hamburg tonight. rachel will be back on monday and i'll see you again next friday, live from iraq, where we'll take you to the front lines forth final push to drive isis out of the city of mosul. >>> my dad hung up the phone and told us that jenny was gone. >> a house in flames. the body of a woman inside. >> we have a body. i need a medic. >> but it wasn't the fire that killed her. she was dead before it started. >> accidents will happen. this was no accident. >> who wanted her dead? her boyfriend said he knew. >> there's people after us. >> what does that mean? >> they're trying to get us. >> but police knew better. >> this is a very

that russia has not changed since break-up of soviet union. don't forget the first time russia had, or soviet union had the zapat exercises in 1973. zapat '81 bawas the biggest eve. that was show of force against nato and somehow against poland which had internal crisis at the time. but what is different from times of zapat '8 is or zapat '84? the only element i see changed since then is the location of front line. instead, denmark and danish straights, we ha straits, we have now poland. going back into '80s. i found very interesting paper written by the now rear admiral of u.s. navy. in 1983, he was student at the monterey naval school researching the security aspects of the baltic sea. that time, he addressed, since the end of world war ii, ussr. he's created a situation there, avoiding nuclear war. the soviet union could win strategic victory by suddenly attacking the danish straits. what is most striking actually is the fact that the recommendation gave to the security environment in the baltic region 34 years ago feel also as if it were wr

a leader who is somewhat trump-like, but it's also a nation that juxtaposes itself with russia, the former soviet union. poland and russia very wary of each other. by going there tomorrow, is the president sending a message to russia? >> absolutely he's sending a message. the polish government is looking for affirmation from trump that he will maintain american commitments to nato. that's in poland's interest because they're threatened by russia. it's not that inconsistent with trump's demeanor so far in russia. he has spoken positively about putin, but at the same time, he's been inconsistent and criticized russia and the state department has take an hard stance on certain russian behavior. that's part and parcel of the instability and unpredictability that trump wants to generate in government and to the foreign governments that he's dealing with. but poland is playing their cards really well right now. >> admiral kirby, obviously the north korean missile test, which may be the most proximate challenge facing the president, how much will he have to deal with on the ground there, how much can he

power than most anybody else on the global stage, but you say what happened to russia in 1917, what happened to the sovietsf and for his country, which would have been to change russia from a top-down authoritarin political economy to one based on high tk and surely they're full of intelligent people, and he could have done it when russia was awash in oil money around 2004, 2005, 2006. he blew his great historical chance. that's his downfall. that will lead to russia's coming crash because one piece of news that got buried in all the hooplah in hamburg was volvo has decided to not make any more gas cars soon. gas is on the way out. putin has staked his bet on a dying horse. now why did putin do that? that's an interesting question too. putin is ultimately a kgb man and a kgb mentality. that doesn't mean, as john mccain is always saying, that he is a brutal thug. the essence of kgb is suspicion. suspicion shading at times into paranoia, which is an unhealthy state of mind. putin couldn't trust the world to let him make that change in russia. he felt if we were letting people into nato like estonia, latvia,