to fund to help victims of the soviet regime and their families in the u.s.s.r. . eighteen years ago the soldiers from foundation moved to russia today they continue helping former political prisoner and developing ideas. spello massage units and i thank you so much for being with us today it's an honor . to the works of alexander solzhenitsyn i remember that when he was alive you plan to publish a complete thirty volume collected works but two thousand and ten which is this year actually. and this year is coming to an end was the progress that. well as usual we are late and we will not manage to publish the entire thirty volumes by the end of the year however we've just published another three volumes so you can find fourteen volumes in bookstores already another two will be ready in a short while with those two the total amount will be sixteen which is after all more than a half there are they are the volumes which require a lot of work on them and written comments so i'm hopeful that in three years it will finish in three years so there will still be the same pa

a decade after the u.s.s.r. disappeared from the world back the former soviet republic of the latter became a member of the news but has been sixteen years since the head of states out of the lab in the public was on an official visit here in the last what brain said he promotes now now and one of the goals of the large delegations out politicians and top business was that he brought along well i asked the state secretary of the latin foreign ministry and this tasteless. top russian businessman are forecasting a significant improvement of relations between russia and lesbia they say the new generation of politicians on both sides is ready to leave behind old preconceptions and prejudices and it can already be seen in some important deals with gazprom has agreed to cut gas prize for letter via brega is ready to support moscow's bid to lift the visa regime between russia and the. us to take on this i welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us. well first of all this was the the first visit to let me

been dismantled across the country and schoolchildren are being shown a documentary that likens the u.s.s.r. to nazi germany but as r.t. sorry for her ports many georgians feel nostalgic about their soviet past. the destruction is savior at monuments a law banning savior symbols and now an anticipated documentary and a series of cartoons in local newspapers all part of an anti said it campaign currently being led by the cuban government that both the timing and methods of implementation have led many to question its real natives. and then you say it's not just anti soviet propaganda but anti russian those conducting this campaign are trying to put russia on a par with the soviet union. it's been two decades since julian independence and just two years since children attacked south of provoking an armed conflict with russia and history of tense relations and these recent events i thought likely to have a bearing on what's now happening. in a local newspaper that they view general various chieftains. with the from this white. part of the anti favor campaign is being accused of being anti russ

was a very small percentage of the population this time it is the entire world if you look at the u.s.s.r. they couldn't buy gold and they didn't have an exchange that helped set the price of gold the spot price was set on the london metals exchange and the commodities exchange in the us there was. the only two places where the stock price of gold was set today it's set by exchanges all over the world everybody can buy there's not enough of it there's not enough so over this the whole thing is going nuclear it's going to be huge now china has come out publicly and said that they need to increase their gold reserves by three four maybe five thousand tons to try to catch up to the u.s. they've been stealthily buying gold for the last few years they've raised their reserves in gold up pretty pretty sharply but now they've said we've got to buy a few thousand tons is this really how are they going to do this without moving the price substantially or is it just all bets are off and it's a mad scramble at this point for gold yeah if they do what they're saying then you're going to see the price

but a very vital no was among the first to receive while to drug therapy for leprosy in the u.s.s.r. in many ways she was lucky to be treated at all at a time when diagnosis was hard the telltale patch on her food was missed by most doctors. but i will look at my hands it's weird that they did this and they're worn all the time in bronze in the cold barbara found her killing terrorists can sure also find a husband and their life it offered her and many others the chance of a relatively normal existence now is hope centers like these will no longer be needed in the last decade they have been hardly any new cases of leprosy in russia however doctors say the reason need to keep institutions open even if they're virtually empty. if we don't leave any sign. how what where and why it will be very difficult for men kind of to start combat in leprosy all over again it's possible that one day due to poor living conditions and things like that the pandemic will return. for now those still living in terror scheme no longer needed medical care but a change in attitude in the outside world a soci

payne in afghanistan the country was great by civil war at the time and the government asked the u.s.s.r. for support the us intervene and decades a lot of ghana's dana still torn by conflict are his military contributor of getting herself who fought in the country says little has changed u.s. policy over the years. the least expected guests at the christmas parties since nineteen seventy nine what they soviet spits snobs who commands the most successful special forces operation. back on christmas night in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine ironically it was not only a smashing success for the joint. task force it was a tactical success for their opposite numbers back in langley washington d.c. the nine hundred seventy nine christmas party was celebrated as the beginning of the new era of entrapping this soviet union in afghanistan as a way to revenge for the united states failure in vietnam and as the beginning of this so-called wilson war otherwise known as the anti soviet jihad and their proxy war against the soviet union in afghanistan conducted by the united states and their alli

special importance to people still committee on state security of the u.s.s.r. may 14th, 1983, this subject down to feed your curiosity, regarding senator kennedy's request to the general secretary of the communist party, opening line, on 9/10, may of this year, 83, president reagan, fbi speech in march, evil empire speech, reelection campaign coming up in 1984. senator edward kennedy's close friend and trusted confidante and they know who this was was in moscow. the senator charged and to convey the following message through confidential contacts to the general secretary of the central committee of the communist party. senator kennedy like other rational people is very troubled by the current state of soviet-american relations. events are developing such as this relationship coupled with the state of global affairs that makes the situation even more dangerous. the main reason for this is reagan's belligerence. and his firm commitment to deploy new american middle range nuclear weapons within western europe. he goes through in the document and lists different re

and u.s.s.r. on the limitation of antiballistic missiles at signed in 1972." that was their signing statement. just like this signing statement. guess what, mr. president? the united states of america saw our national security interests in getting out from under the a.b.m. treaty. we got out from under the a.b.m. treaty. this language, just like the language we're debating today, meant nothing at all. and they stayed in the treaty. they didn't pull out. so we're debating something that has no impact whatsoever on this treaty or on our lives today. let me go further. secretary gates said, "from the very beginning of this process more than 40 years ago, the russians have heritted missile defense. rate it's because they can afford it and they can't. we're tabooing able to build a good one. we're building a good one and they probably aren't. and then he said, "and they no longer want to devote the resources to it so they try to stop us from doing it through political means. this treaty doesn't accomplish that for them." now, my god, after cepha severa, either the

the u.s.s.r. may all kinds of problems about weapons of mass destruction.hit d nuclear weapons underneath the ground. the head other factories we never found out about. this is not the time to disarm. when you're at war with two different radical areas and the people have relatives, sons, daughters, killed by u.s. drones and u.s. soldiers, we have some fanatics out there. if they get a wild weapon, they will use it. host: joseph cirincione. guest: you raised a couple of good point. i want to show the drgraph in "the washington post" today. you will see the chart that shows the 60 years of the nuclear arms race. on the first half of that, the first 30 years, there was a rise. and then you get to the middle, and that is where we start the arms control process. you can see the u.s. forces leveling off. and then the steady drop, which was begun by ronald reagan. we have dropped 70% in the last 25 to 30 years. frankly, we are not less safe because we no longer have 22,000 hydrogen bombs, which is what we had 25 years ago, and we only have two thousand hydrogen b

the u.s.s.r. may all kinds of problems about weapons of mass destruction.y hit d nuclear weapons underneath the ground. the head other factories we never found out about. this is not the time to disarm. when you're at war with two different radical areas and the people have relatives, sons, daughters, killed by u.s. drones and u.s. soldiers, we have some fanatics out there. if they get a wild weapon, they will use it. host: joseph cirincione. guest: you raised a couple of good point. i want to show the drgraph in "the washington post" today. you will see the chart that shows the 60 years of the nuclear arms race. on the first half of that, the first 30 years, there was a rise. and then you get to the middle, and that is where we start the arms control process. you can see the u.s. forces leveling off. and then the steady drop, which was begun by ronald reagan. we have dropped 70% in the last 25 to 30 years. frankly, we are not less safe because we no longer have 22,000 hydrogen bombs, which is what we had 25 years ago, and we only have two thousand hydrogen

the u.s.s.r. in the united states and that isn't the scene today.ne of the problems i have withbetween unite d this treaty is a treaty between the united states and russia. where this is not really in my opinion is where the threat is.t is the threat was if iran north korea.essment every time we get an assessment on north korea we are wrong. they have more than we believe they have.ill intelligence would confirm. we and then we are put in a posit position where we know they are treating with countries like -- iran and iran is in a positionven according to our intelligence a not even classified they wouldith a have a delivery system with a nuclear warhead by 2015. com so there is esthe issue of missile argumen defense comes and i weknow the'v o argumennt, we've gone back and forth on the missile defense. i would still say that when you have russia's foreign minister rus lavrov coming out and saying we saying haven't agreed on a missilen defense issue and we are trying to clarify how the agreement two reached by two presidents withh the the actions ta