to the yeltsin.and they have a very different take on putin did we do in the west when we compare them as they tend to do to parliamentary democracy and by the standards put in a very short. unless we begin to take into account the predominant frame by which most russian won't understand how he certainly did get an majority in elections on fourth. perhaps it is 63%, 64% reported, the cert by over 50% and independent ravings gave 60% approval. >> professor alan, how political institutions in russia to develop enough they can quote, unquote survived vladimir putin i'm been in office? >> is certainly have not. in fact, this is a major concern a political scientist at the decision. it also has to be a major concern of pigeons. two years ago the tragic train crash in russia, which wiped out the polish leadership civilian military from about 80 liters, the highest levels in your poll and continued to. institutionalize real political democracy. russia is the only country in post-soviet europe for executive

from that decision by boris yeltsin. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> is the fbi using the no fly list to coerce muslims into spying on communities? that's what four muslims, all legal residents of the u.s., are alleging in a federal lawsuit on tuesday. they claim after finding themselves on the no fly list, fbi agents offered to take them off that list but only if they were willing to become informants within their communities or to pose extremists online. joining us via skype from wes haven connecticut is one of the four plaintiffs in the lawsuit. he's been separated from his family for 27 months. joins us in new york is a staff attorney with the clear project creating law enforcement accountability and responsibility. she is representing the plaintiffs in their lawsuit against the fbi. it is good of both of you to join us. you last saw your family in afghanistan, including you're then newly wed wife, over two years ago. you were detained and questioned by the fbi multiple times during your return trip. what did

fortunately for us yeltsin wasn't drunk. he didn't believe what the military was doing -- was saying. he waited. and as he waited, it was clear this was not an attack, it was not a u.s. ballistic missile. they closed the suitcase, crisis averted. it's a footnote in history. what would happen now? what would happen now if that happened? what would putin do? this is the miscalculation. this is the worry you have. this is what you have to -- when you have chance you have to get rid of as many of these weapons as quickly as you can. you have to take them off hair trigger alert. ready to launch in 15 minutes. you have to here this, when you have the chance, because you don't want to risk that miscalculation in a period of unpredictability, a period of crisis like we might enter. >> just quickly. you were saying our comments about the republicans' criticism of obama. let's talk about the democrats' criticisms of obama's foreign policy, which -- it's not simply -- republicans only, that would make life easy and predictable, but eve

but yeltsin supporters known as the family pushed back.utor general with two prostitutes. despite a lack of concrete evidence, putin then the head of federal security, authenticated the video forcing him out of power. >> i think it's fair to say that russian politics has practiced in this post-soviet era has been extremely dirty politics and the use of what russians call compromising materials whether it's phone calls or videos or leaking transcripts of cell phone calls to me media, all of those have been practiced under putin and his colleagues. >> but he's also the kind of person because of his kgb training who is prepared to leverage things against people. particularly compromising information. so some of the classic putin strong arm tactics really nothing more than blackmail. >> many say this was the seminal moment behind boris yeltsin's decision to name putin prime minister in 1999. his first real role as a public figure. it also put the family in prime position to pull the strings behind the russian government. this would allow putin

in the midst of three yeltsin milk. we knew the government's offer to hold polls to end the crisis when not only ready for tylenol with the region's said both the caulfield race to perfume local requirements and wishes of all the citizens of our country he added. tia. so long the warning usual and the ability to not be stunning. now it seems all participant down from the threat of using force to end the occupation and concrete it to cool tensions that appeared to be spreading clashes erupted last night between pro and anti russian protests is in the desert leaving several people injured. all of them split off to prove he is active destroyed to prevent the region's presidential candidate or the desire after beating his hotel. i know which if you love cheetos and other detergents and to cut gas supplies to ukraine and the unpaid bills and has been elected to the leaders of eighteen european nations explaining the gas situation to them. he also warns them ukraine mike's siphon off supplies destined for them for united stat

but let's keep in mind that back in the yeltsin era when yeltsin was sending in his tanks against the russian parliament also phobia was lying rather dormant because russia was going to be weak a supplicant of the west abject pathetic poor. and people were cheering on yeltsin so this whole idea that that the liberals are opposed to putin because he's anti democratic i mean they were perfectly happy with yeltsin just killing parliamentarians like yeltsin rigging the one thousand nine hundred six election so a lot of it has to do with michael russia is now emerging as a serious powerful player building up its orange let me jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion and it's a focus state with hard to. believe the only thing we want. is a. eurasian media for a diamond of journalists politicians and public figures from east and west are writing of opinions confrontation abuse the quest for compromises and new possibilities for you world affairs media for people who are country. because our style. speak to language. pr

but let's keep in mind that back in the yeltsin era when yeltsin was sending in his tanks against the russian parliament also for the way it was lying rather dormant because russia was seen to be weak a supplicant of the west abject pathetic poor. and people were cheering on yeltsin so this whole idea that the liberals are opposed to putin because he's anti democratic i mean they were perfectly happy with yeltsin just killing parliamentarians like yeltsin rigging the one thousand nine hundred six election so a lot of it has to do with regular russia is now emerging as a serious powerful player building up its origin let me jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion i'm supposed to stay with arctic. lisa bloom. is a. zero tolerance is the idea for any particular misbehavior the schools will have no discretion and personally i think it's a foolish idea. to as. prison industry. just the government but we have a company that. literally can't be taking for chewing gum in class or for talking to loudly and leave to go t

region's me that common sense he met with regional officials who once opposed his new government in kiev yeltsin yet did not meet the barricaded protesters false think outside of orkut is in vignettes kids more with a good thing that t i came to this region that i managed to get away from the city of donetsk without getting beaten up or having eggs thrown at him that gives us a new technique is extremely unpopular in it being really nice with the people he met with business leaders in them as of the three cities that have been the most affected by the separatist movement gets cocky about the gods. and it seemed as though he had to listen to old son in particular to read that the permits of ukraine's richest man is a very very influential on the god given to me it's good he was saying that to ukraine should remain united to these regions should get the whole regional powers that there should be he said to my face in such a study at the new toe with sewing and stuff to be ready to rock and instead make some kind of concessions on that point that he insisted that he was not going to tolerate said t

but let's keep in mind that back in the yeltsin era when yeltsin was sending in his tanks against the russian parliament also for the way it was lying rather dormant because russia was seen to be weak a supplicant of the west abject pathetic poor. people were cheering on yeltsin so this whole idea that the liberals are opposed to putin because he's anti democratic i mean there were perfectly happy yeltsin just killing parliamentarians yeltsin rigging the one thousand nine hundred six election so a lot of it has to do with michael russia's now emerging as a serious powerful player building up its orange let me jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion and it's a focus state with our. legal. i would rather i asked questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question for. you. look it was a problem very hard to make a plan to get along here there's a lot happening that are exactly would that make their lives l

the situation at that time -- this was back after the collapse of the soviet union, but really yeltsinas in charge of russia. ukraine was led by cucamonga and christian. the last prime minister i dealt with was a guy named paul maslin go. he is just finishing a basics-year stretch in federal prison here in the united states for money-laundering. he reflects, i think, an unfortunate trend of the very wonderful people the ukraine has suffered for more than 20 years of mismanagement, bad government, and corruption said in its most extreme forms. >> go back to your military source. two tours in vietnam. >> as a young man i was drafted and then turned into an officer candid it's cool officer and sent to the third brigade fourth infantry division along the cambodian border. i was fortunate. a sergeant walked up to me when i arrived at base camp and said, you're in charge, but i've been here seven months, and if you let me help you win by both get out of here alive. >> the experience for you? >> well, i learned at that point i had almost no college education and i needed to learn more history

they did not expect it from boris johnson was stopped -- yeltsin. what do we do with russia?hat to do? tell us. let's spend 20 minutes and you can ask questions. let's keep it as informal as possible. this is a very nice informal event. this is a nice lady. i used to know her very well and she was my close friend. it will tell you a lot about the reagan administration. they had women dealing with foreign policy with russia. they succeeded. let's hear the wisdom from that time. >> thank you so much. when you are talking, you let me to something. i was not going to start this way, but i think i have to. i have thought, and this is what i have come up with. russia is -- i read this and it is the first quote in my book. if countries have gender, then russia is a woman. this explains her capriciousness and her emotion. she starts everything with her own particular way. then of course the man in her life is america. after all, i see it as an older woman. she happens to have had a tumultuous background. because that tumultuous background has developed in her of course, weariness, su

the second is with a view of the yeltsin government, people at kos about in their advisory that the only way russia could have influenced in the neighborhood was by promoting good relations with the governments which are headed by two certain nationalities, promoting at nick russian nationalism among these russian groups. could be viewed as an unfriendly act as you can testify his son and and latin stew that as a state. consequently, despite a lot of talk about it, moscow did relatively little to play the card except in estonia latvia between 91 and 2010. relatively little. but the reason there is a third reason that matters even more. most of these people did not see themselves as a rush and the way we wanted to see benefit to question as members of a coherent national community. instead, they saw themselves as speakers of a language and because their identity had been defined by the state, if the russian state was weak and somebody else is offering a better deal, that you should take. i have a picture of a demonstration and scoff globalists, which is the western most of the russian fed

does appear to me looking back that the russia of the late 1980s and early 1990s of gorbachev and yeltsin may have been a special moment in history, the time when they were weak, its leadership lightened and worn out by decades of communist failure. the mood of that country changed quickly as oil prices rose in the 1990s. the russian economy grew and the russian state reasserted itself. in russia there has always been a great debate, at least since the 1840s, between westernizeres and slavofiles. the western russia wanted russia to become western, while the slavofiles thought it need to do lay in its slavic foundation. today, at least, it looks like the slavofiles were right. go to my website and read my take. and let's get started. >>> the truce brokered in geneva last week may have made sense to those at the table, but does it help western ukraine? they want to lay down their arms and give back the government buildings they've seized. for the most part, this hasn't happened. any hope of an eastern peace in eastern ukraine has been shattered with a shooting today. four people are reporte

putin moved to a posture very different from when he had my job as security advisor for boris yeltsin and very different from where russia was under president medvedev. the russia perspective was something they would describe as opposition to the united states. a lot of elements here to why this happens and a lot of it has to do with president putin's domestic policies. this is about preserving his regime and it is an autocratic regime. we have seen the most oppressive russian regime since -- >> -- the crackdown of opposition and the media. so where is it today? i think we are in for it -- this is nothing like a cold war because we are not ideologically standing off against each other. but we are in for a cold period here where russia will define itself in opposition to the united states. >> you mean leaning towards a different direction down the west in its own identification. >> yes. i think it is leaning back from the west frankly and trying to carve an independent stance, if you will, basically defined in negative terms of the west. the domestic picture that putin's propaganda tea

and even people in the kremlin administration and president yeltsin said how come in leningrad they haver lives than in moscow, and he said well, i have a very good assistant. so that assistant, mr. putin, was invited to moscow and became deputy chief of the business administration. from that moment on he would start reforms in his own way. and this is part of his character in that sense, russia is lucky. well, in a political sense it is a different story. but as a man who has enterprising nature, the man who knows how to handle things. >> what do you think he is up to when it comes to ukraine? is this purely about national pride, and purely about reaping the fruits of the empire without having to pay for it? what is his end game? >> well, let me remind putin's words years ago. the collapse of the ussr was the greatest geo-political disaster of the 20th century. these are putin's words, i quote. well, ukraine is part of the slavic community. and ukraine was so close to russia in many ways that the separati separation, the gradual departure is really from many points, strategic militarily

by the way, from the posture he was in when he had my job as national security adviser for boris yeltsin, and very different where he was under president medvedev, to a much more hostile stance, as seeing foreign policy as something they were going to define as opposition to the west and opposition to the united states, very much zero sum. there are a lot of elements here as to why this has happened. most of it has to do with, i think, president putin's domestic politics. >> rose: his popularity is rising. >> yeah. and i think today, any-- by the way, this is about preserving his regime. and it's an autocratic regime. we've now seen the most repressive russian regime since the collapse of the soviet empire. expressed in opposition to the media, massive propaganda campaigns being run by the state. so where is it today? i think we're in for a-- this is nothing like a cold war because we're not ideologically standing off against each other, right, but we're in for a cold period here where russia is going to increasingly define itself as in opposition to the united states and the west. we ha

russia has nobody else to blame for this extremist threat than russia itself, than the way yeltsin approached it both times and then putin took it over. that's how putin came to power, let's not forget. the point tom made about ukraine, neutral, i really hope the days when russia and the united states decide the orientations and memberships in organizations for other countries are over. let's let ukraine decide if temperatures to be neutral after things have settled down. >> i'm going interrupt. the u.s. wasn't exactly neutral about whether moldova or ukraine or any of those countries -- i'll give you a little extra time -- would join the e.u. the u.s. toughly campaigned on the e.u. behalf. was it really russia's choice? >> i would actual zalgree. i think the u.s. was asleep when the e.u. was pushing to sign -- >> but after the protests started, you bet -- >> sure, sure. but, in fact, because what the people for the most part represented in mydon reflect our interests. we don't want ukraine to join the west and orient itself to the west to the exclusion of good relations with russia. geograph

a cleaner in virginia wants the courts to force yeltsin to turnover the idea of these reviewers. fair for the business to be harmed by reviews you don't understand or think are right, everyone has the right to say anonymously what they think. stuart: stock is down 5%. >> was down yesterday as well. this is a big decline over the last two days. stuart: free speech and anonymity of. >> free speech versus anonymity and additionally the ftc said yesterday, and complaints about yell. stuart: that is why the stock is down 5%. stuart: our next guest is running justfabin, the biggest subscription ecommerce company in the world. shoe isdazzled.com. a stylist do their shoe shopping for the mom line. in los angeles, let me csi, amir mail have got this right. i pay you a subscription, $40 a month. i think that is correct and then you send me suggestions on what shoes to buy and i am supposed to buy one pair of shoes a month. >> each month i will send suggestions on what items you like, shoes, handbags and apparel and you have the choice to buy an item or this is not what i want to or not be

do you support yeltsin in saying our users should be allowed to put anonymous reviews on our web site? >> the law supports them. and we should maintain a lot of value for consumers to get reviews. they are not as helpful. stuart: they are not factually accurate. suppose somebody gangs up on your business, put out a load of rubbish, anonymously and ruins your business? what do you say to that? >> it is important we create mechanisms that genuine. this is a niche issue. most of the reviews are actually coming for people who are frequent users but that is an issue which is an anonymous one. we already know the anonymous reviews are not as relevant as somebody willing to stand behind them. that is already there. we can do things. amazon has done a great job and we will love that. somebody really has touched that or they purchase that product. the more we can do that somebody has done something is important so that is technology now. apple can allow you to see where a company went so there are a lot of things we can do to ensure we verify these. stuart: i am told pete.com, your web site, i

the second is, there was a view of the yeltsin government that the only way that russia could have influence in the neighborhood was by promoting good relations with the government that were headed by different nationalities. promoting ethnic russian nationalism among these non-russian groups, what would that do? it would be viewed as an unfriendly act, as i can testify that the estonians and latvians view that as a nun from the act to this day. consequently, despite a lot of talk about it, moscow did relatively little to play the ethnic card, except in estonia and latvia between 1991 -- between 1991 and 2010, very little. but there was a third reason will stop most of these people did not see themselves as ethnic russians the way we want to see them as ethnic russians, as members of a coherent national community. instead, they saw themselves as speakers of a language. and because their identity had been defined by the state, if the russian state was weak and somebody else was offering a better deal, that is what you should take. i have a picture of a demonstration in the westernmost region

i did not expect it from boris yeltsin. it surprised us, work to do.i hear the same message all over again and again, what to do with russia. what to do. tell us. 20 minutes, feel free, there will be time for questions and answers but as informal as possible. very nice informal -- adviser to ronald reagan but informal, nice lady, i used to know very well jim kirkpatrick, my close friend who will tell you what about ronald reagan and the administration, two keep women on russian foreign policy, soviet union, they see it. so here is wisdom from that time. >> thank you so much. when you were talking you lead into something. i wasn't going to start this way but i think i have to because i asked this question. i have talked and this is what i have come up with. that is that russia, this is the first quote in my book, if countries have genders and russia is a woman. this explains her capriciousness, her emotion comments and her fertility. anything with her own particular way to astonishing results. if so, then of course the man in her life is america. after

few years of a shock instead of a, the shock therapy of the former or light russian president boris yeltsin i'd like to get the floor to my chinese colleagues here about these comments. >> i will provide maybe a different perspective, mainly from my expertise in foreign affairs and dimensions for why i'm optimistic about the future development of china's economy and why it is achieve such an economic boom in the past few decades. we know that's a governance, provide good governance. and one of the features of the good governance is efficiency. and i think the chinese government can provide the very efficient and very good implementation of the decision which has been made by the central government. and i think it may be easier than the united states and for them, that is good to open up to the world. there were a lot of opposition in china, but decided then we opened up and then we see what we have achieved. and also in the past few decades china has been helped by some foreign trade negotiations including fda. we know that's how difficult it is for the united states to negotiate and bargai

self-discipline he know not being given to the typical russian vices like his predecessor was boris yeltsin i think it was the time magazine a couple of years ago which also wrote about putin even blinking less frequently than other people so this idea of self discipline self restraint is really out there and i wonder if that doesn't make him very different from all the russian rulers and russian people in general because. russians are not very keen on on discipline and the pushing of it all his meticulousness of his pragmatism with his self-discipline he really comes across as more of a western figure it to me it was than your typical russian this depends this is absolutely true but i think that. the kind of. power structure power cult of what i refer to in my book that we're talking about it doesn't stem from doesn't come from the leader as much as it comes from and. i think that in putin steeliness the. image that he puts across it reinforces a lot of those things inadvertently maybe that's not trying to do or maybe it is we don't know but i think that essentially what at heart at the he