as vladimir putin creating a post-yeltsin soviet union? your studies of russia and when you look at the events that we see in 2014, what elements of a soviet union can you bring forward? well, i think it is the idea that you could control domestic politics, especially foreign-policy orientation of the so-called national republics , which is what they were called during the soviet days. does not want to re-create the entire soviet heon territorially, but certainly does want to create a situation where russia has total foreign-policye economic orientation and olicies of those countries. >> you have a wonderful widelytive on putin, considered definitive on his path from kgb to where he is now. what are we getting wrong in our coverage? what do we need to know about mr. putin that we are not reading today? >> my book is not a biography of ro it is a prelude to putin, explaining how the soviet union collapsed. you have to understand that president putin does have an agenda. he does feel that russia has been treated unfairly in the fall of sovie

when yeltsin told him very clearly, yes, we need russia first with the nato to avoid the commotion, to avoid all those difficulties. so that was our concert, russia first. and that's why we were against speedy or hasty, as we called it, expansion or joining by poland of nato. so my formula and the yeltsin forum at that time was yes to partnership with nato, fundamental, strategic partnership, and no to hasty enlargement because we were fearful that we would be left alone, you know, left in the cold. so we wanted -- but the problem of russian nato is of course much more difficult with all due respect down the problem of other countries in eastern europe, including ukraine even, and george. the problem is that rush is a nuclear superpower. it was nuclear superpower and it is still nuclear superpower. we are still targeted by russian missiles even as we speak. that's very important point, and went -- >> by u.s. missiles? >> when we are speaking now -- >> i am targeted by my own missiles. [laughter] just to be sure. so it sounds funny, but i don't feel it's funny. because i know the missil

while they failed to tell that to president putin -- to president yeltsin at that time. so that brings me back to my point. it's not enough for the to be on the right side of history. it's important. but they should speak in clear terms. that's what russians deserve. that's what putin deserves. that's what russian parliament deserves. that's what ukrainian people in particular today because they are suffering in the war actually. so they deserve very, very clear message. and the message which meets the end. because somebody whispered something to somebody, you know? somebody hints that, yes, we will go very far in giving you protection from wherever there is pressure situation, and if that does not happen, that might spell in blood because people start fighting believing that there is somebody behind them like those so-called pro-russian militia. they are fighting there believing that the red army stands ready on the border which is probably true. so, and i tend to believe that it's true. so that's one thing. the other thing if you promise something to people and then yo

they failed to tell that to president putin -- president boris yeltsin.hat brings me back to my point. tois not enough for the west be on the right side of history. it is important. speak in clear terms. is what russians deserve. that is what putin deserves. that's what the russian parliament deserves. the ukrainian people, in particular today, because they are suffering. they are in a war actually. message.rve very clear and the message which meets -- somebody whispers something to somebody, you know? somebody hints we will go very protectionng you from whatever there is. thatat does not happen, might spell in blood. people start fighting, believing their somebody behind them. like those so-called pro-russian militias. they are fighting and believing the red army stands ready on the border. which is probably true. i tend to believe it is true. that is one thing. the other thing, if you promise of the people and then you fail, better not thomas. they will do it themselves. we're pretty sure that russian people haven't said their final word yet. there will

those days boris yeltsin -- remember -- don't you miss boris yeltsin?ughter] god, he was such an improvement on what we have now. but he was always having to get up and stand on tanks and prevent, you know, a coup. and i became sort of obsessed with the fact that the russians had gotten rid of communism. they still had lenin's embalmed corpse on red scare, the sleeping beauty from hell. although the lines to view it are much shorter now. [laughter] there are actually alternatives now on saturday night, you know? what do you want to do tonight? let's go see lenin's body again. [laughter] perfect date, you know? so i thought, well, let's see if we can give mr. lenin a push. so i wrote with up a hoax -- i wrote up a hoax article saying that we had just received some very hot information that the russians were so strapped for hard currency that they were going to auction off lenin's corpse. [laughter] they were very concerned that this be done in a dignified hander. [laughter] manner. and the corpse could not be used for crass commercial purposes. you know,

when bruited was asserting his power taken over from yeltsin and there was speculation in to this day as to the russian security forces tried to blame the chechens. but again there is a mix that i don't think we know the answers to yet. >> host: in march another professor at duke "the foundations of modern terrorism" is the book. tv college series and it is about 20 minutes. >> duke professor ken judith kelley, thauorof >> host: to professor judith kelley author of the book "monitoring democracy." whd international election monitoring come in to vote? >> this started ticking off in the late 80's, beginning 90's. i think, you know, there had been election monitoring under un regimes in different ways, but this is a new flavor of it. outsiders going in the sovereign state some of turner elections. and the way it came and, the way it rose is very important for understanding how works today. initially we had all lot of governments toward the end of the cold war that had not been democratic. now they wanted to show off their intentions to behave more democratically. and so they have an inc

where is your yeltsin, he said? where is your person prepared to stand on the tank and say, this is wrong and to call the people out, and i said, well, one thing about our country, is that we have such confidence in our democracy that we know no matter who wins this election, there is going to be another election in two to four years, and that election is not going to be affected by who won this election. this is not going to be a situation where the person comes in appeared does a coup, manipulates the electoral process. there is going to be a fair election four years from now. and if we lost this one, we have a chance to win it back next time. and because we have that confidence in our democracy, we are able to let the courts decide under a rule of law who decides because when you think about it, the courts are the only place that you can go to get a decision. i disagree. >> plenty of people did disagree and what do you tell those people who say, well, the courts weren't fair. >> well, what you have to tell them i

had and i was talking to talking about yeltsin in my book more as a metaphor for people recognizing fundamental problem and being able to address it because the parallel that i was using in my book was to the way that this corruption in the american political system is ignored by so many people because it's just like alcoholism with a prominent leader seems almost impossible to address but that we have to address it we have to find a way to address it if we're going to find a way to recover the core of what our democracy is and that's obviously the most important thing you know from my perspective is that we need to do but i think there's an equivalent question russian citizens need to ask about their own government i think this is the ultimate objective of citizens you know every government around the world. i think citizens can look at their governments and say they're corrupt they're corrupt for different reasons you know our government is corrupt not the way that india might be corrupt or not the way that african government might governments might be corrupt but it's corrupt in

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 seen 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 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 and it's a focus state with our. that's one of the things that has been so excited about bitcoin is that it's technically technologically beyond the control politicians and all in all it's can be a wonderful wonderful thing it's going to lift so many people out of poverty all over the world and if the politicians try and stop that that's on them that's the

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. 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 a mugging 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 was a focus state with. the least. for probably the most complex of. the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder . the bunch of people there on the phone with their families their review of people. reading. this some shoots my brother in the leg not intend. because again because it was night time i'm sure in the mornin

apartment buildings blownup moscow in 1999 when putin was just asserting his power and taking over from yeltsin. there is speculation to this day and documentation to cause concern about this, as to whether in fact the russian security forces planted the bombs in the moscow apartments in order to blame the chechens, who are despised in russia, as are the roma, as are and have been jews and many others. so, again, there's a mix here of volatile passion that i don't think we know the answers to yet. >> host: martin miller, professor at duke, the foundations of modern terrorism is the book. >> judith kelley talks about election observers. part of booktv's college series and is 20 minutes. >> host: duke professor judith kelley, the author of monitoring democracy: when international election observation works and why it often fails." professor kelley, when did international election monitoring come into vogue? >> guest: it really started taking off in the late '80s, beginning '90s. there had been election monitoring under u.n. regimes in different ways with decolonization but this is a new flavor of

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 they were perfectly happy with yeltsin just killing parliamentarians 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 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 stayed with argue. with. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry keep. norrish. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook news feed. the plentiful supply was terrible and they are legendary hard

over the threat of russia publications across the country on the day of the new prime minister arson yeltsin who has called them a holiday periods. the most dangerous time for ukraine since independence in nineteen ninety one and accused moscow of claiming victory in five months renters in moscow was struggling to come to terms with the new us financial penalties which may have far reaching consequences to the castro aggression for me u s is using the new anti tax evasion or to punish moscow for its actions in ukraine measure that could become more effective than various sanctions announced in recent weeks which did little to deter the kremlin's defect or invasion of ukraine the twenty ten federal law on tax evasion was us claims to stop withholding a thirty percent tax on certain payments to financial institutions in other countries unless this foreign banks have agreements in place to share information about us account holders tech's offense. russia and schools in other states have been negotiating with the us in an effort to protect infants from the financial penalties that the treasury d

for all plotting what britain has done the us violation of its promise is to do a workshop at the yeltsin. when gorbachev acquiesced in the reunification of germany for example that nato would not know one each for their deeds were valid violating major league by president clinton and continued to be violated by george bush. i don't blame russia for its great for our instincts to stop it. so that's a big part of the negotiating posture both countries are taking to the ice age for example could wind up green announcing the agreement that i believe was announced in tbilisi where we said that we were looking for georgia to eventually eventually be a member of the site of the american is going to die for tbilisi and article five applied to tbilisi with my tomato a phony alliance immediately. i make those having a hard time as it is anyway. it doesn't have the resolute desk trying anymore since the soviet threat went away and were desperately trying to find one for a doubt are out of area operations became the latest attempt to do so in afghanistan and elsewhere so visit this is a complex prob

in particular i think we would endorse the strategy that the prime minister yeltsin you can sprout of attacking this as both a security problem but also a political problem. we see the outreach to eastern oval as the prime minister and his team having kitchen is being very important we welcome the steps that the prime minister has taken with this process of constitutional reform intended to address the grievances that people in eastern ukraine had expressed intended to identify a formula to deepen democracy to enhance prospects for economic growth clearly there's a security dimension to these issues and we will never question the ukrainian government's rights the decision to uphold its own laws including through through the enforcement mechanisms. we also acknowledge and happen to agree with. the judgment the prime minister has made ultimately if ukraine is to insulate itself against the kind of instability that is being prevented from outside it is coming across with these political tourists in a phrase that nobody heard until two months ago. i'm a bit of ukraine is to insulate itsel

he was deputy prime minister under yeltsin and today is one of putin's most vocal critics.s in, but the chef is a brit, so maybe he has less reason to worry. >> first course, gentlemen? >> ah. >> at yornik restaurant they are serving their own versions of dino-era russian classics. a modern riff on borscht. typically a chunky hearty beet and cabbage broth with chunks of meat, here it's a puree with a more elegant, shall we say, deconstructed presentation. critics of the government, critics of putin, bad things seem to happen to them. >> yes. unfortunately, existing power represent let i say russia of 19th century. not of 21st. >> critics of putin, beware. oligarch mikhail khodorkovsky accused putin of corruption and wound up spending ten years in prison and labor camps. alexander litvinenko accused state security services of organizing a coup to put putin in power. he was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium. and viktor yushchenko the former ukrainian president poisoned, disfigured, and nearly killed by a toxic dose of dioxin. i'm not saying official russian bo

he was deputy prime minister under yeltsin and today is one of putin's most vocal critics.s in, but the chef is a brit, so maybe he has less reason to worry. >> first course, gentlemen? >> ah. >> at yornik restaurant they are serving their own versions of dino-era russian classics. a modern riff on borscht. typically a chunky hearty beet and cabbage broth with chunks of meat, here it's a puree with a more elegant, shall we say, deconstructed presentation. critics of the government, critics of putin, bad things seem to happen to them. >> yes. unfortunately, existing power represent let i say russia of 19th century. not of 21st. >> critics of putin, beware. oligarch mikhail khodorkovsky accused putin of corruption and wound up spending ten years in prison and labor camps. alexander litvinenko accused state security services of organizing a coup to put putin in power. he was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium. and viktor yushchenko the former ukrainian president poisoned, disfigured, and nearly killed by a toxic dose of dioxin. i'm not saying official russian bo

bush, now president obama, that we would work with the russians, and this was president yeltsin's russiald work on a peaceful basis. i was involved on this as a white house staffer for president clinton. and so i think it was a good idea. hasn't turned out to be. hasn't turned out to be good for the dwruunited states. we need to shift gears. >> yeah, we do. he probably has a citi thankyou card and gets 2x the points at restaurants. huh the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn 2x the points on dining out, with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. >>> there is breaking news. carlsbad, california, city officials have reported that evacuations are mandatory. they're sending out 11,000 notices

he got word to clinton that unless he consulted him before his summit meeting with yeltsin in vancouverould write an on-ed attacking all of bill clinton's foreign policy. so clinton had to call him. you may recall this. clinton finally had to have it but he did it at night so reporters and photographers were not around. but he was not beneath or above that. >> let me get your wisdom on this. we in the washington media try to take every scandal and give it the gate. >> that's terrible. >> is there anything that even remotely has ever come close to watergate? >> nothing. chuck, this was a constitutional crisis. we didn't know if the constitution was going to survive. was the president going to be accountable to the congress in the courts? the second thing about it was you had the party in power trying to manipulate the opposition party's choice of a nomination, of a nominee. now, did they succeed? you can't prove it but they didn't want ed muskie to be the nominee. and they got the weakest candidate, which was mcgoff rn. now that's very, very serious stuff when you're the party in power.

deadly funny as told storms have caused an for an assertive but yeltsin metric see >> : 37 million peopleain in danger summer borane is affected. >> : new protection for those bolts of the base and now in place. like caltrans and us photographs of these caps this field caps are basically the size of paint cans and they're filled with a special greece they are in place on both ends near where one of the 92 boats started to crack last year. the capsule at the shield and the tables from elements such as rain and salt water. is the fix to prevent any future corrosion. this isn't signify problem with those rods again this is an extra layer of protection on those particular rods. airline those trees cut costs just under two ordered thousand dollars. billy went on certain bills well how trends has of elevators and scaffolding in place to assess conditions under the expand. >> : among some here in richmond i just a latino how warm it is out here it is 930 in the morning and 75 degrees outside the huge contrast what was like this morning when i got 4:00 a.m. to get my clothes on for work this is w

in 1992, russia's president boris yeltsin visiting cline in a.e countries agreed not to target each other with nuclear weapons. in 2005, china and russia holding their first joint military exercises. 2007, both countries signing commercial deals worth $4 billion. vladimir putin saying that bilateral trade has grown since 2000 to $30 billion now. to put all of this in perspective, we're joined by the eurasia analyst at the foreign policy initiative. good morning. >> good morning to you, del. >> what exactly do the two countries have in common. >> on the face of it, not terribly much, russia is a major energy provider and china is hungry for energy. if you look at some of the actions they've taken in the past several years, they do seem to both have an interest in the ideas of state sovereignty, of really sort of attempting to make their own way in what they see as a world order that was really set up by the west and by the united states states and that they don't have much of a pardon. they're very interested, really in making their own way and ma

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>> 1996, the first foreign reporter on a presidential plane where boris yeltsin was there. out there forever. every time russia gets in trouble with the west, it looks to china. that's been a 50-year or 60-year thing that's going on. it doesn't work. it is not in kind that's interest to align itself with russia. you want to talk? sure, we'll do a deal. it doesn't mean there's alignment. it's a bit of a head fake. russia thoughs it. china knows it. >> it is there amidst all the usual rhetoric of the west is evil and the united states is doing all these bad things. we have edward snowden. a lot of sticking the knife in on snowden. yes, i believe probably recognize the election results. you see the realization that the sanctions will bite and the economy will be very slow. the china deal will not bear fruit for a long time, if ever, in terms of revenues coming in. so i think you're absolutely right that there was the usual putin fantasy world on display that he creates. at the same time, a sort of moving away from the very pugnacious rhetoric towards crimea. he's got what he w

violation of its promises to gorbachev and to yeltsin when gorbachev acquiesced in the reunification of germany for example that nato would not go one inch further east were violated violated majorly by president clinton and continued to be violated by george w. bush i don't blame russia for its great power instincts to stop it so that's a big part of the negotiating posture both countries ought to take to the united states for example could wind up renouncing the agreement that i believe was announced in tbilisi where we said that we were looking for georgia to eventually eventually be a member of nato no american is going to die for tbilisi and article five applied to tbilisi would make nato a phony alliance immediately nato is having a hard time as it is anyway it doesn't have a result d'être anymore since the soviet threat went away and we're desperately trying to find one for it out of our out of area operations being the latest attempt to do so in afghanistan and elsewhere so this is this is a complex problem but it does have answers to it it just requires exquisite diplomacy a

joined lead to russia also had very strong objections in fact the previous russian president boris yeltsin was. much more resistant to that idea of his successor vladimir putin but decided to put that aside and focus on building a good working relationship with nato but he reacted very very differently one the idea of georgia and ukraine joining nato was floated back in two thousand and eight do you think it was putin changing his mind or rather. overstepping the boundaries well. i go. back to history. and the fact is that at the sort of point in time you have goldman to. show you i'm interested in joining me. but reality. and. the way do you say no to people who. well you can let me is not a democratic organization made against a noise if it believes that taking a certain country is not in its security interest and i think the events in the ukraine it does demonstrate that it is a potential flashpoint which could threaten. to write. you know again and again is a fact that is very difficult to separate. cartesian way because when. we were speaking about joining nato to fall and fall they c