yeltsin was quite sick and mr.putin came in so the period that i was in government was at period, a downward period and clearly a recognition in the u.s. that it had not been able to achieve what it wanted to do. now that reset under president george w. bush was initiated by putin and i do think at the beginning of his time at the kremlin mr. putin was entrusted in a better relationsrelations hip with the united states and closer integration with the west as he understood it. obviously after 9/11 he was the first person to call to offer condolences but also to offer support in helping the united states then establish its bases in central asia. i think from president putin's point of view the desire was to have as one of my russian colleagues call it an e. whole partnership of an equals another worst of the strategic partnership with united states and in the beginning to push a administration was favorably inclined to that. the personal relationships seem to be better and certainly the cooperation in the fall of 200

yeltsin was stealing the election and states identified with the yeltsin administration because yeltsin became more agreeable on foreign-policy issues and were willing to support him but the russians got the impression that if you are prepared to walk in lockstep with american foreign policy. >> guest: i don't think you are wrong. i think to the u.s. government's point of view the belief was that the worst is we are communists and we are going to come back into power. after the 96 election the leader of the communist party stood a very good chance. he had been to davos the world economic forum in the beginning of the year and eight a speech where he sounded quite reasonable. the u.s. embassy in the state department and the other parts of the government, without yeltsin the system that everyone was working so hard to create in russia would collapse. therefore of course you are right that people in the underground at the embassy in moscow understood what was going on that this wouldn't be a fair and free election and we also now know that they weren't. people who worked for him not yeltsi

and there was the falling out between gerber chuck and yeltsin thomas and yeltsin comes in as an anti-communistformer communist who was an , and who really did buy into the idea that russia was a great country that could finally manifest its greatness at the end of the 20th century by joining the international community with universally accepted norms, including norms of how to govern your own country. and while i think president clinton has a good deal to be proud of and what he was able to period,sh during that he had a huge advantage that his successors, president bush 43 and barack obama, and probably presidents to come, will not have. and that is that there was not an operative in the kremlin -- that is the subtitle of cliff -- but thereook was a democrat. he is a democrat occasionally slipping into vocabulary meaning so hele like a czar," wasn't a jeffersonian democrat. and he really did believe in those of values and the notion of partnership. and that ended even before yeltsin left office, because putin was increasingly not just -- i will and on this -- not just in an increasingly power

and there was the falling out between gerber chuck and yeltsin thomas and yeltsin comes in as an anti-communistformer communist who was an , and who really did buy into the idea that russia was a great country that could finally manifest its greatness at the end of the 20th century by joining the international community with universally accepted norms, including norms of how to govern your own country. and while i think president clinton has a good deal to be proud of and what he was able to period,sh during that he had a huge advantage that his successors, president bush 43 and barack obama, and probably presidents to come, will not have. and that is that there was not an operative in the kremlin -- that is the subtitle of cliff -- but thereook was a democrat. he is a democrat occasionally slipping into vocabulary meaning so hele like a czar," wasn't a jeffersonian democrat. and he really did believe in those of values and the notion of partnership. and that ended even before yeltsin left office, because putin was increasingly not just -- i will and on this -- not just in an increasingly power

debbie bush only overlap with president yeltsin for about a year. that is very much for the focus and of course general scowcroft was the national security adviser when the focus was on disarmament and arms control issues, deep nuclear rising, ukraine, and otherwise making sure after the collapse of the soviet union at the nuclear weapons was saved. there is probably not enough attention given to helping out the new russian government financially, economically and president nixon himself was in favor of that. that was very much a. when the attempt to improve relations with the new russia focused on interests, the arms control, nuclear issues. when the clinton administration came into office they had a much more ambitious agenda for his own reset. clinton himself as fresh adviser says clinton was the russia hand. clinton himself was interesting he and those around him thought they had eight years of the maximum to refashion russia to turn it into a democracy and a market society. we know in retrospect that was clearly overly ambitious. you can't rema

where a book by boris yeltsin's first chief of presidential administration, a man of real democratic integrity. he was telling about provocations against him. arranged by some particular services they did not like. the man who was very much involved was litvinenko. been 1998 there is a press conference in moscow. litvinenko who just had left the federal security service announces that there was a plot against boris, a plot to murder him. there was a press conference but

the days of boris yeltsin's heart-wrenching indulgence were over. russia and its leader were now lean and mean. the sporting extension of politics. different perhaps from the old soviet days when the country was a major sports player that used the olympics as a propaganda tool but not that different. sochi's message is that russia is back. but there are risks. >> they have exposed russian corruption. they have focused international attention on russia's disciminatory ways against gays. >> russia and its leader will be perceived around the world by how thes >>> some high clouds now streaming across our skies, maybe not too long and we're talking about a little rain. but for today, just some high

petersburg again and russia returned under this man, boris yeltsin. could do was keep his head down and work hard. one day they called him to moscow. >> he had a rapid rise to power through the beaurocracy. what explains that? >> i think it's a combination of genuine talent. he is not stupid by a long shot. he has clearly got a considerable intelligence, a lot of self-discipline, and he knows how to play the system and play personalities. >> putin's meteoric rise through the ranks gave him increasing power and influence. >> he has his goal to keep russia in one piece and elevate russia to the proper position in the world, which to him is bring russia back into the top league of global players. >> in december 1999, putin had his chance to take charge. >> translator: i resign. i did everything i could. i do it not because of my health but for many other reasons. >> boris yeltsin shocked the world by stepping down and naming the unknown vladimir putin as his political heir. >> translator: dear russians, dear countrymen, today i've been given the responsi

i spoke with a prominent member of the russian duma who served in the straigs of gorbachev, yeltsin andutin and the grandson to the right hand hand of stalin. usually america thinks of rush shaz wild, underdeveloped, undemocratic, imperial -- evil. >> m-hmm and those stereotypes are wrong because? >> russia is not vicious, not wild, not imperial or dictatorial. so you are wrong. >> but average russians would know i was right. who is good guy? who is the bad guy? >> bad guy, bad russian stereotype. >> that's say great russian stereotype. >> these guys should be bad guys but actually this is american (bleep) i think. >> they may have been stair yes types, i think but no one can argue with the greatest president who called the russians an evil empire. >> i never considered myself to be evil or part of an evil empire. >> but you sound evil. >> me? >> yes. >> why? >> because bad guys like like this good die gives talk like this. >> bad guys talk like this. >> no bad guys talk like. this bad guys talk like. this are you doing an american accent? >> uh -- >> cojoke all he wanted but he couldn'

some think that russia under putin is much stronger than it used to be under yeltsin, but the problems in russia, economic performance is not great. corruption is pervasive, and things that were happening in sochi -- they were sending two messages yes -- two messages -- russia is back but not that quite yet. >> by putting the games so close to the troubled caucasus region, is president clinton trying to gamble to show that he is -- he can pull this off and is stronger than the insurgency the bid inn he made 2007, i'm sure he did not know that the issue in the caucuses would still be going on. i do think security in sochi itself is likely to be adequate. >> there have been 70 controversies in the run-up. everything from anti-gay laws to grumbles about the cost of the security issues. what do you think will make the games a success and president clinton's eyes? >> there were a number of things, and you just mentioned them. basically, it will be about the games. it will be about athletics. it will be about flawless or less than flawless performance of the game organizers, so the real gain

here are a bow and a game of the beastie yeltsin has us. it may be the nastiest to get a new recipe to get both the defence which was almost more good news. instinctively knew it was basically the goodness. confusing. his notable what sick of sodium must admit it but t mobile zones. instead it's a bit too much to post his is an awesome couple more sets up about it was expected to sell records the changes as it sounds seventeen eighteen and the contents of my sins the consequences is that having been prone to central asia. i've seen the eighth century. all are. because it's a predominant also means infection at the school was optimistic the tea into the next three games and contests. during the real news of communism. sofia tells the weighty suppress dissenting religious practices as well as kazakh national identity. since independence. islam has enjoyed a week at camp. i just read on and tell him to sit still and it's a strictly secular state. the situation country whose constitution does not shine as best i can still use them the bridge ap

hands of some new a grain in government which may be anti russian it may be headed by someone like yeltsin you'll complete check or you know all the people who you know they are american state department called yachts and clinch in their private conversations so it's quite clear that there will be a lot of bickering but russia is neutral it just helps ukraine it doesn't help the government. in its current list for voice of russia dmitry babich dimitri thank you very much indeed. stay with us international with the latest updates from ukraine. team russia is fast talking big playoff clash against norway isn't force when now none of the sides have nice open the scoring in the first period earlier this morning a member of the russian snowboarding team wowed the public with a silver medal finish a tight race and a nice and now i reports it will surprise podium position although. russian fans certainly celebrating this tuesday russia wasn't tipped to take any medals in the snowboarding but there you go that's the magic of the olympics nicholai noonan finished second in the cross the country's f

to push hard and fast but that's exactly right the thing made it perfectly clear that they want mr yeltsin year to become prime minister mr you'd say in your case mr young. opponent and washington clearly sees him and miss nuland has confirmed that it's man now the point to make about the ukraine not being a democracy anymore that there is a threat to the demat to democracy in the you know in the ukraine and we see where it's coming from it's coming from the people including the united states who want to overthrow its constitution and a democratically elected government and they want to do that before that government is due to come up for reelection in march two thousand and fifteen now there may be all sorts of issues with mr yanik of which he may be corrupt he may be incompetent he is entirely within his rights not to sign an association agreement with the european union if he had. judges that that's inappropriate if you want to remove him the right constitutional and democratic way to do that is through an election which is due in march of next year not through these extraordinary maneu

be allied with them politically so for instance you know in one thousand nine hundred three boris yeltsin sent the tanks against the russian parliament a highly underground demo undemocratic act and of course the united states for that but with somebody like a lot of you know somebody who we might have some critical remarks about but regardless because he displays an independent straight you know he's a robot so we see the same thing in ukraine if we feel that the government is one that is going to be in line with us interests will support it not if we want and of who comes to power and does so even through the overthrow of the violent or rather violently through a. protest to result in a democratically elected government being pushed aside as so be it you know as long as the united states gets the government it wants how do you think that government may turn out looking at the current crop of opposition leaders who are now for all intents and purposes in power there do you think that that could end up being a viable government well it's really difficult to set this point is the situation

in may of 1997, boris yet yeltsin visited the ukraine. relations cooled. russia stopped to supply gas, thousands froz to death. >> in 2010 viktor yanukovych was elected president. julia tymoschenko declared election fraud. >> last year they broke ties with the e.u. for closer ties to russia. tenses of thousands protested an aborted deal. it's the largest demonstration since the 2004 orange revolution. on december first 350,000 rallied. protesters took over the office, others occupied city hall. ukraine's president signed an anti-protest law prompting outcry. there was repeal 10 days later. protesters left city hall, after the government voted to release protesters. yesterday viktor yanukovych agreed to trim his powers, and bring the opposition into the government. that still did not satisfy protesters, who demanded he step down. >> we turn to nick schifrin. it's been 6:30 in the morning, thank you for staying up all night long. can you give us an update on developments that happened overnight? >> right now itself very quiet. there's a few hundred people in

. >> i liked the soundtrack talking about boris yeltsin. where do we find these videos ? >> i don't know. i guess romance really is dead , much like the women you killed in the 90s. >> listen, veapped is a rid -- valentine's day is a ridiculous holiday. my children celebrate. they went to school and gave valentine's. i gave my daughter's valentines and we have a box at home. otherwise it is foolishness. >> what is wrong with foolishness? >> it is another day to put pressure on couples and single people and it is silliness. listen, when i was a young mandating i leaked to take a woman out to a restaurant and get a bottle of wine. you can't even get a table! >> that's jo to make reservations. >> i'm a walk in guy. >> you walk in with a cigar. you throw your porch -- poncho over. is this appleby's? how long is the wait? can you give me one of those things that buzzes while i wait outside? oh wait. that's the out back. mikey, you are here as well. what do you think of the mcdonalds? it is nice, fast, convenient, cheap. they are helping people out. no reservations. >> if you d

was not a union republic, it was an autonomous republic inside the russian federation and president yeltsin said niet. i will not bore you now with all the details of how those to s developed, suffice say that the then-defense minister said that if he has a battalion of tanks, he will retake the capital in four hours. it took, unfortunately, two years, over 100,000 victims and probably hundreds of thousands of refugees, until a cease ire. and then a fascinating thing happened in front of our eyes. the nationalist movement of the chechens transformed itself with the outside intervention of the likes of imam al-zawahiri, the current head of al qaeda, then number two, to osama bin laden, into an internationalized radical islamist threat. ends.6, the war 1999, chechen rebels led by the late basai invade their neighbor and these are already people with green ban da in as and black flags with the battle cry on the flags. so in three years, it transformed itself from a nationalist, mostly secular movement led by the former soviet army officers and generals to a radical movement. as a result, what

know, we are dealing with a putin-led russia that is a very difficult entity, much more so than a yeltsin-leds advocate, did we go too far in supporting the protesters back in december? our assistant secretary went out into the square with bread. did we provoke russia, sting our finger in the eye at all, do you think? >> i think russia's decision to essentially boycott ukraine over the associate membership issue is what really provoked the situation. that said, i think one learns in diplomatic school, you don't use a cell phone. you certainly don't use -- you know have sensitive discussions on a cell phone. but the fact that the russians would then put that out on youtube really speaks to the fact that we're dealing with a russia that is really -- doesn't know how to behave these days. so i'm not going to blame the americans on this. i think the russians have really created a situation where we, frankly, had no choice but to take an active control and to try to encourage what many ukrainians want to see, that say better relationship with the west. after all, the ukrainian economy has been ext

this is when the first george bush was president and said maybe he is not getting the arrival of yeltsin he said he will never write for the "washington post" but he wrote a piece and it was pretty good. we called his office the next were warning -- the next morning that he was up all night working on it to and apparently i was told that brent scowcroft white the peace and had an effect of his policy. >> good evening. i have a question about it during the time of the watergate hearings the information as far as the office and not know if it made into it or not but going into the future with the patron actaeon legislation how little of what he got in trouble for now would be legal? [laughter] >> i will tell you agree no about the salzburg bird three. what we know is the president was told by a john who was his chief domestic adviser battles the head of the plot -- the plovers that there had been an operation in los angeles. it was part of what the plumbers were doing. the type b of this call correlate exactly with the operation here. the president himself was not sure if he and other -- n

would be too difficult to spell and pronounce for people in this country and their name in norway was yeltsin when they got to ellis island to ask them to change event. they picked the name of the farm where they lived which was called the thune farm. my grandfather was nikolai and he became make thune. they got to ellis island and had a sponsor in the code and the cable to work on the railroads. >> american profile interviews thursday night starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span reader in c-span.org. >> on friday the national security council's korea director talks about the effort to keep north korea from developing nuclear weapons including diplomatic cooperation with china. he spoke of the institute of korean american studies for just over one hour. >> thank you, jane. is quite ironic, i'm glad you mentioned the fact that i was here four years ago and people remember four years ago to the day was snowmageddon. and i actually got stuck on my way home for about an hour in the snow taking a back alley down somewhere in washington, d.c. and i will never forget the opportunity. the ot

he was a fierce critic of yeltsin as well.hat was promised to him was pension that was driver,n-indexed, a car i think a security detail, although i think by now he pays for himself. there was a time in the 1990's when gorbachev traveled all over the world and he was paid handsomely for his speeches. he collected all his money in order to establish the foundation. i don't think the russian government -- they may have paid his pension that i don't think they pay for his security or the translator. he does it out of his own pocket. for leon aron of the american enterprise institute comes from jewel in san diego -- joel in san diego. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: we are listening. caller: it seems like there is a recurring problem every 4 years with cities having to build all this infrastructure, and then if we go to beijing, there's issues with human rights abuses that they do, issues like the caller before me talking about syria and russia supporting stereo. why don't we just that -- russia supporting syria. why

when the first george bush was president and we would say maybe is not quite getting the arrival of yeltsin. when we get richard nixon to write a piece force? he will never, never write for the "washington post." let's try. we call them and by gosh he wrote a piece and it was a pretty good one. i came in. i need some work. called his office the next morning. forget l.a. spoke to. he was up all night working on it and apparently i was told it has some influence that brent scowcroft like these, give it to president bush and it was affected his policy. >> my name is terry stevenson. i the question about during the time of the watergate hearings and some of the information came out as far as nixon burglarizing the officers of other things, i don't have it made into the bill impeachment or not. but we we go into the future, the patriot act, subsequent legislation, how much of a nixon got in trouble for now would be legal? >> burglary -- [laughter] >> i'll tell you what we know about president nixon and the ellsberg burglary, which have a not very far from here. what we know is that the president

the days of boris yeltsin's heart-wrenching indulgence were over.s. different perhaps from the old soviet days when the country was a major sports player that used the olympics as a propaganda tool but not that different. sochi's message is that russia is back. but there are risks. >> they have exposed russian corruption. they have focused international attention on russia's disciminatory ways against gays. >> russia and its leader will be perceived around the world by how thes >>> some high clouds now streaming across our skies, maybe not too long and we're talking about a little rain. but for today, just some high clouds moving through. and a mixture of some sunshine outside. the temperatures are going to stay cool though. highs only in the low 50s out towards the coastline and mid- to upper 50s inside the bay and also the valleys. looking out over the next couple of days we thicken up the clouds tomorrow afternoon with a chance of rain. showers expected on thursday. dry on friday. we could see some more rain over the weekend. >> jerry seinfeld op

it is a lot of appeal like this industry is that going to give yeltsin need right now. >> what did you tell me? >> i think unsung headed until you have to at the margins really are. how much you really need the financial leg round because it is. every day is a financial decision ndf to make the best this is is that you can. even on the downside and of down day if you have a good background in business only if financial background and you can make it profitable he looks like it can't be. alitalia then the and it is not about money. lsu, did you pay your house payment, your car payment, put food on the table for your kids, have close to where back then you were successful. did you make it and are you going to continue to grow? those basic provisions for you and your -- >> what did you tell me? >> we did that tell you about we don't have any water. that is a huge issue for us. we are drilling wells. we don't want to drill our way of this problem. the young gentleman and working for me now realizes that. we are trying to rehab nine wells and that the same time drill them free and we ha