london we go to alex project he is director of russian and eurasian studies center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen crossed out 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 her in the year dimitri bondage let's look at that time twenty years ago and how the soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to much of what about yeltsin at this time but i think there are two parallel process that's going on which should not be mixed up there was the process of democratization and i think it was yeltsin starro for the first time in russian history and man came to power while honest election against the will of the government that was

university. and in oxford we have produced mangi he's editor in chief of the penguins who canoes all right this is lady and gentlemen that means you can jump in anytime you want and i know we have difference of opinion so i want my viewers to see it here as if i go to you first in oxford i do like to go to the term africa in the new great game the scramble for influence because a lot of people are saying this right now as africa is stepping up its development some countries are getting ahead while some are not but nonetheless there's enormous foreign interest and i'm thinking of the united states and china do you like the term great game well i thought well i think there's been an enormous interest in africa since about the 1980's with the introduction of the neo liberal policies of the international monetary fund and world bank ever since then i think the situation in africa has become one in which which essentially we have not a neo colonialism we don't have a new colonialism what we have is essentially occupied territories territories occupied by the large corporations and supported by the inte

jendayi frazer she's a professor at the carnegie mellon university and in oxford we have photos manji he's editor in chief of the pangas who can news all right this is cross talk lady and gentlemen and that means you can jump in anytime you want and i know they have difference of opinion so i want my viewers to see it if i go to you first in oxford i do like to go the term africa in the new great game the scramble for influence because a lot of people are saying this right now as africa is stepping up its development some countries are getting ahead while some are not.

all this government eventually. professor accost us news in oxford the university of london told r.t. earlier that greece is being enslaved by europe economically what is happening to greece now and what has happened over the last year is that we have imposed upon of european countries work we used to call an economic structure of adjustment these measures mean that the salaries and pensions of people in the public sector have been cut to up to forty percent they mean that unemployment is going up to about sixteen percent to forty five percent of youth unemployment ili which means that the whole generation of young people is being destroyed they mean one hundred fifty thousand jobs lost in the public sector and they mean that some of the most important utilities like electricity power what is being sold off of this is absolutely unprecedented in any western european country for the last one hundred years this is an i.m.f. imposed totally new york along a set of measures but politically also what has happened over the last year is that the i.m.f. the e.u. and the e.c.b. keep sending ev

jendayi frazer she's a professor at the carnegie mellon university and in oxford we have photos manji he's editor in chief of the pound those who can news all right this is cross talk lady and gentlemen and that means you can jump in anytime you want and i know they have difference of opinion so i want my viewers to see it if i go to you first.

frazer she's a professor at the carnegie mellon university and in oxford we have produced manji he is editor in chief of the pound those who can news all right this is cross talk lady and gentlemen and that means you can jump in anytime you want and i know they have difference of opinion so i want my viewers to see it if i go to you first in oxford i do like to go they termed africa in the new great game the scramble for influence because a lot of people are saying this.