but first here's a brief report on yeltsin's contentious legacy. in recent russian history few personalities remain a spoiler rising as boris yeltsin twenty years after the fall of the soviet union yeltsin is still seen in the west as the politician who end of communism and ushered in a new area of personal freedoms and western style capitalism. anything you learn just better perceived from a distance especially history i think we still need more time for the emotions and troubles to give way to serious analysis of what to take tannic figures you'll see really was in a moment. leader became one of russia's most iconic yeltsin with genuine popular support helped to stare down an attempted coup in one thousand nine hundred one yes we declare illegal the crees decisions by the state emergency committee in the us and in the western world yeltsin was seen as a reformer and a leader who could compromise he was embraced as a friend and told he was treated as a peer and when he died in two thousand and seven some of the warmest eulogies came from western l

yeltsin was a democrat in the early ninety's by the end of the ninety s. he was a different person talking about their political system it were it became very difficult to access hear him much more difficult than to accept gorbachev in the end of weakness there were all kinds all weird people around him who had absolutely no legitimacy including on a political base was never elected by a. sole basically people when they made demonstrations in support of us in one thousand nine hundred one what they wanted was kind of their social democratic political girl is this point out of the road regular continue our discussion of the legacy of boris late yeltsin. white stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is miss mirage. yes but this new day brings down the speed of more than two hundred kilometers per. step to launch an all. wealthy british style to sign. the time that. the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report

with the most comments and yeltsin was ahead of even the u.s. government many outside observers and moving forward were a lot of people and most notably the first president bush seemed to indicate he wanted to preserve the soviet union i'll be it any more reformed way but you ask about yeltsin i think he was in many ways one of the most politically courageous people i've ever been around and i was in moscow time as a diplomat but also he was a tremendously contradictory contradictory figure whose career has to be separated into a number of phases not all in not all of which are performed admirably alex in if i go to you in london which speeded up a little bit let's have mr yeltsin as president of the of russia the first president of russia how do you see his the beginning of his reform process because this is where people start disliking yeltsin then and very much to some extent hating him today i'm talking about the liberalization of the economy. yeah before i come to that and i have to say that i agree absolutely with the fact that he's a larg

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 an achievement i asked for the collapse of the soviet union it

unlike former soviet leaders yeltsin campaign like a democratic politician meeting the electorate and delivering stump speeches at factories and in town squares that his rallies attracted hundreds of thousands while the election night came we were hopeful with when but we still weren't sure after all it was the communist party that counted the votes but soon enough the results became clear boris yeltsin defeated the communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance their father in the coup later not summer his popularity peak but over the next decade the support fields and among russians dwindled as the country went through difficult reforms surveys show that as the anniversary of election approached if you remember and even fewer care. i don't have emotions about it but i did vote for yeltsin and by i am far less political now absolutely by voter but i can tell you these are all just politicians games they have nothing to do with me. it's not surprising that those who lived through the difficult times did not want to celebrate this occasion but

was in charge of new a sovereign russia and promised reform but calling for an open election yeltsin challenged the authority of the communist party over russia. with this victory in the election yeltsin through the you could stand up to the communists establishment in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try and protest with this victory ensured that the soviet union can break up with armed conflict. unlike former soviet leaders yeltsin campaign like a democratic politician meeting their electorate and delivering stump speeches at factories and town squares. his rallies attracted hundreds of thousands when the lection night came we were hopeful would win but we still weren't sure after all it was the communist party that counted the votes but soon enough the results became clear boris yeltsin defeated the communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance for far learn a coup late in a summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade the support fields and among russians dwindled as the country went through difficult

millions voted to make boris yeltsin russia's first president to shouldn't movement in the country's history but that this was the first free election in russia the day after we left behind a totalitarian state and had a new job of building a democratic society that respected the rights of its people. by the time the lection took place the soviet union had less than a year to live but no one knew how it would disintegrate its fifteen republics began to declare sovereignty one by one while staying a part of the year ceasar provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other mikhail gorbachev was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist functionaries boris yeltsin was in charge of a new sovereign russia and promised reform but calling for an open election yeltsin challenged the authority of the communist party over russia. with this victory in the election yeltsin through the you can stand up to the communists establishment in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try and protest with this victory ensured that t

whistle boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time and opinions differ widely don't know when. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are today. wealthy british style holds the time to rise. above their. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. week's top stories from our team nato launches its heaviest and most punishing is strikes on the libyan capital killing dozens as the rebels complain the alliance is ignoring the real front line meanwhile the chorus of international condemnation over syria gets and i'm. also. an american warship docked in an address in southern ukraine to take part in the to war games something the russian foreign ministry is completely not happy about. even this all star team matches are placed in exchange to continue the bailout money. and it was the day that marked the birth of modern russia celebrating the country take to ration sovereignty and it

i don't have any emotions about it i did vote for yeltsin then bam far less political now. i voted but i can tell you these are all just politicians games they have nothing to do with me. it's not surprising that those who lived through the difficult times did not want to celebrate this occasion but hopefully the next generation will truly appreciate the historic significance of this moment and of yeltsin as of now russia's first president himself remains unappreciated with only one in five saying to have a positive attitude towards him many outside of russia even today it's the more procedures not perfect and some inside the country side are they still yearn for the soviet union but one thing is very hard to argue against as a result of these changes twenty years ago russians are wealthier have more personal and political freedoms either i never see moscow. looking ahead feel just a few minutes tonight we talked for a possible candidate for next year's french presidential elections and a woman who believes that france is in danger of being colonized by its own former colon