yeltsin used to drink tea out of a glass like this. then boris yeltsin reached out for six tumblers and placed them on the table all the way to try them off. of what you. we're going to drink from v he declared that it was. when yeltsin was a young man he was an enthusiastic and skillful sportsman this helped his career in the communist party in the year olds here he was reputed to be a no nonsense tough administration knew but he would never dare to pull the lever is only. after he moved to moscow to take the post to president quite a few people among his associates were noted for weird practices one of them yuri mountain was a professional psychic. i said it was possible to improve ratings summit so that they would be beyond the reach of opponents would give me forty five minutes of any maintain the status annals and a certain candidate would be elected this is called the management of the collective mind the management of the audience. leaves of the nine hundred ninety six elections president yeltsin was going out of his way to demo

when yeltsin was a young man he was an enthusiastic and skillful sports will this help his career in the communist party in the euros here he was reputed to be a no nonsense tough administration knew that he would have a difficult the liberalism is. after he moved to moscow to take the post to president quite a few people among his associates were noted for weird practices one of them yuri man and was a professional psychic. said it was possible to improve ratings summit so that they would be beyond the reach of opponents give me forty five minutes of any mainstream restates annals and the certain candidate would be elected as this is called the management of the collective mind the management of the audience. in the league of the nine hundred ninety six elections president yeltsin was going out of his way to demonstrate that he was physically fit for now the term of office he was indeed elected for a second stint but he paid a price for his exertions wilson urgently needed heart bypass surgery it was decided to be complex operation would be performed in russia it lasted several hour

is a among this younger generation would you talk about that doesn't remember the disaster of the yeltsin years and that is only you know coming to the election for the first time in their lives there is a great sense that they want things to be changed they want russia to be more like other countries they want to get rid of the corruption they want to get rid of the cynicism so they see it a lot of the us and i think that is why some of them will not vote at all because they're disgusted with the system and others may vote for anybody but just to register the fact that they want to change they want a different elite this man has had twelve years as you say in power maybe it's time for a different one ok but it's been a very successful twelve years to relatively speaking going well you likely will see if your words and i agree with people here i should hear this is certainly all right we're going to jump in and we're going to do. yeah. it is not this is the people the russian people may want change but if they want change quite frankly it's not the change that the west wants to see if we

look at the yeltsin years when basically we had a government which was very largely beholden to the west which was very popular because they were doing what washington and brussels and london wanted to do. and the situation was not a happy one and so right now i think russians can feel a certain pride in the fact their country is independent and is assertive and is increasingly wealthy you know jonathan i think one of the interesting things is that. in looking at political change of the last twenty years that's something that's been a little bit more global here is that you know when. the first putin was first president he introduced a number of political reforms that a lot of people were very skeptical about but one thing about governors about the threshold for political parties signatures signatures for candidates and things like that and that was in put in play and it created a great deal of stability now we're hearing these sounds that you know now they're going to ease down on some of those things or so it really would be the political route we need political reform with the dance g

putin is trying to reverse the things that happened in russia under yeltsin. many people came to power in russia and secured a large amount of the wealth in rusher or people that russians have been against in most of their history. there's an element of anti- semitism in russia. their work jewish so they took a lot of the wealth. reconstruction in the south when the blacks rose to power and the congressman and senators from the south and there were carpetbaggers' that cayme in. putin is trying to reconstruct rusher and take back the wealth that these outsiders had taken in russia. he has tried to keep that power. that's why you see wealth being taken. many of these guys were in the black market. they were able to take advantage of yeltsin's weakness. guest: i think that over draws it a bit. we have seen under putin 8 flourishing of- a jewish life. you can go to high holiday services in moscow. you see people practicing their faith openly without any persecution. you saw a small group of people who called the shots and were able to manipulate yeltsin and to do

but, yes, he was plucked out of nowhere in 1999, complete unknown, chosen by the former president yeltsin'ser circle from a line of other faceless bureaucrats. and he was basically an accidental president who got incredibly lucky with the russian oil boom. >> jon: why, then? why putin? because your description of him in the book is he does not come off well. (laughter) the face that we see is one of a... generally what seems to be a thuggish individual who intimidates opponents. i mean, a real tyrant. did they see that in him? did they say "ooh, i like the cut of that fella's jib"? or did this arise out of nowhere. >> he didn't hide it. but nobody wanted to see it. and the interesting thing about putin is that he spent basically his whole life in the k-bg so he spent his whole life in secret so he got to write his own story when he became a public politician and the story he wrote is one of a street tough, a thug, somebody who can't end a fight, somebody who has trouble controlling his temper. that's pretty much all he talked to his biographers and in early 2000. >> jon: when he spoke with

majority of process has to do with this as affection of people that put in who started to move from yeltsin time stopped somewhere in the middle and they want to continue. the what i can say for the whole liberal opposition but at least for the leaders of the belladonna square which are in the eyes of the majority of society the bankrupt of the ninety's they would like to turn back and so there are protests and protest in the majority of protest you wait. expect mr putin his next term to. energetically attack such problems as immense social inequality because social state is not what we have now and of course he helps those who are and the virtue of perishing which has never been done before but he is not he hasn't touched this. origins which is reproduce all the time these foundations for this such social inequality but in russia we cannot live but in a social state because all conditions are different from the west. anyway. victorious election campaign is over but the political activism is far from subsiding. as more and. russians have demonstrated an unprecedented level of political enga

yeltsin will emerge as the leader of the russian federation, and all other republics, baltic states, i mean, ukraine, i mean, they all became independent. that was the beginning of the new era. i was really appalled. i did not really mean that. i thought the more solidarity internationalists we have, wherever we live, that's good for the whole world, but the -- this -- this dissolution of the soviet union, well, now, my -- my former subordinate, i mentioned mr. putin, vladimir, they were working intelligence one day. that's a major misconception, i mean, primarily made by the soviet propaganda. the only place abroad he ever worked was in dresden in germany. he was liaison officer between russian kgb and the stasi, the east jer began security and intelligence service and that was the interest. when he came back to leningrad, st. petersburg where i was born, we were born actually in the same block, mr. putin and i, well, he was never accepted back to work. well, the reasons are generally known, and i said again, if you read the files, and the fact that he was poisoned, he revealed on t

because the key is the yeltsin years and i think the the attempts now and this is again going back to egypt the revolution happened in egypt very much because it came. kind of mimicking a parody of the u.s. system where you have a tiny economically powerful elite that just controls all the political system so i think that this is a very important point that the media cannot pick up on because the media is part of it it's a cheerleader for the poly arche ok gilbert how is the west going to deal with putin the fate of the program i asked if anyone is going to gradually putin i mean russia is a force to be reckoned with i mean you can't ignore it on the international stage you do if you do you do it peril and i agree with you life will go on they will continue to have a stable relationship but the atmosphere is not a good one he's clearly not the amount of the united states and its closest allies wanted. to they will have to learn who in the world that they want and russia have never got my head around that a communist or nationalist. ok beyond you want to jump in go ahead john abell nee

as a result of the out and recklessly implemented policies of the pro-west and boris yeltsin so we can continue to see from russia under vladimir putin is a strong russia seeking out influence around the world and been a global player as indeed the united states is as in the u.k. and as in the front seats as well and backs that's the greatest seen in the eyes of western powers of law to be approaching because ideally what they would like to see in many western capitals washington and london in particular is a weak russia a compliant russia russia is dependent on not only i.m.f. so the fact that there could have been. issues of electoral fraud in sunday's presidential elections in russia. is not really it's not really the problem for many western statesmen because no political system in the world electoral system in the world is perfect let's forget let's not forget in the two thousand presidential elections in america large parts of the african american community in florida which prevents it from voting so no electoral system is perfect but the fear the concern in the west is that russ

campaigning and the biggest pro and anti-government rallies the country has seen since the time of yeltsin what provoked and he did political debate were the results of december's parliamentary vote which a majority of seats in the ruling united russia party needed to fruiting accusations and mass protests in response to government promised the most transparent presidential election in russia's history nearly two hundred thousand were cameras were installed in stations across the country the online monitoring system which cost over three hundred million u.s. dollars allowed only one anywhere in the world to log on to our website showing a live broadcast of russians cast in their ballots. so this is this is the world the results look like we have them on the screen and here in the studio of consent in similar political analyst with whom we will be discussing the result is going to welcome the local officials well as a result of the results that we see now really they fully correspond to the public opinion polls expectations doesn't mean that we had a clear transparent and fair election is i

only mention one thing while he any iranian president crossed chilcote's in the persuaded maurice yeltsin to dissolve the soviet union such that they this is enough to show who he says it's a he but again it's not for me to judge him i know too much about your scale which any fine make at least a single fact public that would be enough for him to retire from politics for the rest of his life but i have never done it and will never do so see why you said it was not allowed to leave the country well the european union has come up with a list of people who are banned to travel to europe and your humble servant is among them there were other sanctions too but that this measure was introduced on the initiative or a fifth column and one of its active leaders in stanislaus just gave it to voters ill he responded with your own travel and then list well we have not introduced it formally no it isn't working yet is it should be what we'll do that it is this fifth column that tells the west which people are going to say chanson and surprises should be on the down list they're calling for economic sa

serious loyal constructive opposition and for twenty years there hasn't been one i mean i remember the yeltsin years the opposition was fairly pathetic and right now it is it's not much better so it's still going to be putin for the probably the next six years russia needs to modernize but it's going to be a slow process and what mr putin keeps saying is supposed to be a new gradually we're going to see gradual change so russia has to move up the value added chain and it has to modernize but it's not going to happen overnight. goods not indeed there have been those who have been directing their anger at directly. certainly there were those who were hitting the streets of the russian cities asking demanding for a fair election to. place to happen in russia this time and definitely the election process which we've been witnessing and the election campaign have every indication is that this may become the most transparent and the most democratic election that russia has seen since the collapse of the soviet union take us through some of those steps if you could that are being made to make sure th

serious loyal constructive opposition and for twenty years there hasn't been one i mean i remember the yeltsin years the opposition was fairly pathetic and right now it is it's not much better so it's still going to be putin for the probably the next six years russia needs to modernize but it's going to be a slow process and mr putin keeps saying this push through pain you graduate we're going to see gradual change so russia has to move up the value added chain and it has to modernize but it's not going to happen over night. some of the anger of the protestors was directed straight at the country's prime minister but a large chunk of this protesting crowd was also it was look protest in particular against someone they were demanding fair and free election to be held in this country with the words you said trying to do everything they promised that this would become the most transparent election that russia has seen since becoming a sovereign state in one thousand nine hundred one whether that is so we'll know in the very rich or well let's say you talk about officials are struggling to make th

would only mention one thing for all he and ukrainian president prof chilton them or sweated maurice yeltsin to dissolve the soviet union the first thing this is enough to show who he says it's a useless vote but again it's not for me to judge him need i know it soo much about you skits and if i make at least a single fact public that would be enough for him to retire from politics for the rest of his life but i have never done it and will never do so say well you said it was not allowed to leave the country well the european union has come up with a list of people who are banned to travel to europe and your humble servant is among them there were other sanctioned students but that's enough for this measure was introduced on the initiative or a fifth column and one of its sets of leaders astonished leftist gets what is the here responded with your own travel and then list well we have not introduced it formally now it isn't working yet is it should be no votes will do that at the un it is this feast column that tells the west which people are going to say chanson enterprises should be on the

serious loyal constructive opposition and for twenty years there hasn't been one i mean i remember the yeltsin years the opposition was fairly prophetic and right now it is it's not much better so it's still going to be putin for the probably the next six years russia needs to modernize but it's going to be a slow process and what mr putin keeps saying this gradually we're going to see gradual change so the question has to move up the value added chain and it has to modernize but it's not going to happen overnight. definitely the country is changing and the fact that this election takes place in the way it does is a change in itself because many of the people who are protesting in the streets of russia tens of thousands were directing their anger not at prime minister putin but they were demanding fair election and this is what we're hoping will happen this time here this time around in russia now there are many steps that have been taken to make this vote transparent tell us more about that. will certainly just imagine how a billion u.s. dollars alone were invested into building into into liv

serious loyal constructive opposition and for twenty years there hasn't been one i mean i remember the yeltsin years the opposition was fairly pathetic and right now it is it's not much better so it's still going to be putin for the probably the next six years right president it has you know has been promoting modernization and going away from the dependency. our natural resources will disappoint you think will continue after the presidential election bush needs to modernize but it's going to be a slow process and what mr putin keeps saying is supposed to pena gradually we're going to see gradual change i mean i think russia also has to look at the australian model australia has is very rich and very comfortable exporting to china and i think this is going to remain the mainstay of russians economy not just oil but food stuffs grains agricultural products metals wars etc so the question has to move up the value added chain and it has to modernize but it's not going to happen overnight right and one more question for you well obviously the current leadership has been pushing for social and econ

serious loyal constructive opposition and for twenty years there hasn't been one i mean i remember the yeltsin years the opposition was fairly pathetic and right now it is it's not much better so it's still going to be to conclude probably the next six years russia needs to modernize but it's going to be a slow process and what mr putin keeps saying is supposed to pena gradually we're going to see gradual change so russia has to move up the value added chain and it's . has to modernize but it's not going to happen overnight. most of the people some of the people a large chunk of the people of the protesters were directing their anger as i said directly at prime minister vladimir putin but certainly a large part of the protesting crowd were demanding fair and free election in this country certainly this is basically the main change we've seen so far with hundreds of thousands of people working as observers at the polling stations all throughout this state any russian citizen could become an observer and this is a dramatic kind of major change to all the election complaints we've had ever since

serious loyal constructive opposition and for twenty years there hasn't been one i mean i remember the yeltsin years the opposition was fairly pathetic and right now it is it's not much better so it's still going to be putin for the probably the next six years bush needs to modernize but it's going to be a slow process and what mr putin keeps saying is supposed to be gradually we're going to see gradual change so russia has to move up the value added chain and it has to modernize but it's not going to happen overnight. but it's not only the prime minister who had all the criticism against him it's also the election process in russia as it is which which was criticized by the people in the streets and and online so definitely this election the way we see it right now the way the way the complaint the election campaign has been going on is something different very different from russia and about that election process because some of the steps of the visuals are taken to make sure that this vote is transparent. well the biggest step the authorities have undertaken in this particular election it's

particularly united states and i said well it's kind of popular among russians and his message unlike yeltsin unlike what about joe putin actually cares about public opinion at home ok he doesn't care if what americans think about him or brits or anybody else he really doesn't care he cares about russians ok i mean is this one of the things that irritates the west because you know viremia putin is sensitive to their sensibilities and their red lines and all of that. i'm not sure they even think about it that far i mean i think that what is often missing. i think the words often missing from the western view of putin and russian politics is the idea that there is a domestic audience to play to in russia as there is in america as there are in in europe. the idea that putin when when he's speaking before the election is speaking in an election campaign context is something that is simply it's not taken into account when you talk when you look at the words that obama is using at the moment the meetings that he's having the speech that he gave yesterday for instance to the israel lobby in washingt

he's not done very well he's always come second in one thousand nine hundred six he ran against mr yeltsin where he got thirty five thirty two percent of the vote in fact that was his highest. turnaround and his highest vote of the entire political party and then in two thousand he ran against mr putin where he got up to twenty one percent of the vote and then two thousand the last of votes that he had in two thousand and eight he did run against mr again and then he got seventeen percent of the vote once again coming second in place would never get into that top seat for the kremlin as for him as a political man and as a man that many people have spoken about we've been here around the camp we've heard him in terms of his political persona he's always been seen as a marxist leninist one who is you know he's almost like a nationalist and even come up with things like very humorous things like saying that you know jesus was a phrase communist so he does have a personality he does have some kind of charisma perhaps is a little bit misunderstood a lot of people who know him say that he's actu

president yeltsin. and obviously he was reported to occasionally have a few libations. to say the least. well, his generals came in and told him that the americans were bombing belgrade, and he basically told the general in charge to go on full nuclear alert. now, when you go on full nuclear alert, that doesn't mean you're going to fire your weapons. it means, though, that everybody in the world -- is going to be focused on that. the united states would know that -- we go on alert. and then you get a fwlok flock of geese on the radar screen and who knows what's going to happen. those are not the conditions you want to allow to happen. we can do better than that. and we certainly don't want to get down to the situation where you have -- we need to increase the warning time. let's hypothetically say that it's 30 minutes now, 20 minutes and the president gets down to four or five minutes to make a decision. we need to increase that to an hour. and we need to do it for the russians, too. we need to have military-to-military discussions about how we can geoff give our presid

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