vlad knew that. >> narrator: with viorel's help, the ukrainian police arrested vlad and charged him with sex trafficking, setting the stage for a rare prosecution in odessa. this was when the team first saw vlad, as he was led into court. he has spent one month in custody. now he faces up to 15 years in prison. >> ( translated ): in the name of ukraine, mr. vlad v. is accused of criminal activity. the accused is charged with finding women in the republic of moldova and bringing them to the city of istanbul, turkey, in order to sell them for the purpose of sexual exploitation. >> narrator: katia was willing to testify against vlad, but she was not even notified of the court date. >> it was very unusual. neither viorel nor katia were invited to the court. the proceedings took about 15 minutes. the judge read the verdict and let him off the hook. >> narrator: the defendant is hereby sentenced to no less than five years imprisonment. the accused will be released from the five-year sentence and put on five years probation. is the sentence clear to you? the court session is adjourned. >> the p

shortages in the cities so that the way he carried out the reform did not work or it worked badly vlad what do you think about that i think the soviet economical so dysfunctional so wasteful it was impossible to reform it the only way was actually what is a and complete call arcs and disintegrate.

flash-vlad watch begins tonight at 11:00 for the santa cruz yeah, down towards monterey bay. that obviously where the heaviest rainfall will be. we're looking at the possibility of four to five inches. elsewhere, one, one and a half, possibly two muchs of rain across the rest of the bay area, close to three inches in extreme north bay areas in the sierra, already picked up 16 inches of snow last night. expecting one to two additional feet above the 7,000-foot level so the winter storm warning is in effect until 11:00 tomorrow evening, and the bulk of the rain overnight tonight and the wind overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning, by tomorrow afternoon, still see scattered showers and may see sun breaks as well, and temperatures pretty much uniform in the mid-to-upper 50s. tomorrow afternoon, spring arrives so we'll look for more spring showers for us as we head into monday. could be heavy at times. we gate brief respite on tuesday, and then another large storm moves in wednesday and thursday, with rain, heavy at times. >> alan: doesn't look like we're going to see the su

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in russia is rising on his eightieth birthday already maybe he's just protecting his legacy here ok vlad i was today and i was going to go to you anyway go ahead live if he is here is that maybe some people attribute democracy to one leader or another but most russians don't attribute democracy to either yeltsin or got a bunch of go ahead. i would just like to make one point that i think that gorbachev was actually responsible for peaceful disintegration of the soviet union and i think this is a very important point especially when we see what's happening in the middle east so that would be my first point and secondly i would argue that russian democracy superseding on course i don't think that little bit of a thirty thirty and isn't in the meantime to stabilize the political system to stabilize the economy will actually do very much harm and i would argue that. place it in that video is now leading a new way if similar to perestroika and i would guess that in about ten years we will see genuine democratization in russia it's very and it jeff i got to you in london i mean it's very inter

really the evidence suggests that the communist party of the soviet union was really unreformable ok vlad you want to chip in on that if i got it yeah i would i would i definitely agree business conclusion and i would just that the united russia party is in a sense a revival revived communist party because you know it's a party of the officials of the of the state you know some wondering whether you know the russian political culture needs this kind of party you know and whether we could see united russia in a sense a revival of the of the idea of the communist party communist party was beyond reform in my opinion ok one of the gentlemen one of the things that is very interesting is that if we were if we look at what love got a bunch of left behind left a lot of new republics the former soviet republics became independent in an interesting way if i go to you on this one joke he's really the father of a lot of new nations in the world even though we don't really tie his name to them if i'm thinking of all the republics minus of course the russian federation. yes well they had very differen