. >> but putin could not fix all of yeltsin's problems. >> yeltsin needed to come up with somebody whoould succeed in becoming president and then pardon him as the first activist presidency so that yeltsin wouldn't end up facing criminal liability. >> a decisive man, a man who knew how to manipulate power. vladimir putin. >> in august 1999 yeltsin appointed 46-year-old vladimir putin prime minister of the russian federation and endorsed him for the presidency. but yeltsin's plan for his new prime minister to become president and then pardon him soon looked like it would backfire. >> translator: and i remember how the parliament was laughing. they were quite happy actually and very pleased. and that's why they voted for putin. a person who was embraced by yeltsin himself would lose any chance for a political future. >> but yeltsin hadn't played his final card. on december 31st, three months before the next election, boris yeltsin resigned and designated vladimir putin acting president until the election was held a few months later. that afternoon putin addressed the nation on russian st

person who was embraced by yeltsin himself would lose any chance for a political future. >> but yeltsined his final card. on december 31st, three months before the next election, boris yeltsin resigned and designated vladimir putin acting president until the election was held a few months later. that afternoon putin addressed the nation on russian state tv. >> translator: i'm drawing your attention to the fact that even for a minute there will be no vacuum of power in the country. not before, and there will never be. i want to give awe warning that any attempt to break any of the russian laws to violate the russian constitution, will be decidedly foiled. ? for many russians the new president was a welcome replacement for yeltsin. >> he first becomes president, they take a poll. what was the attitude about vladimir putin that russians admired most. something like 40-some percent said he was sober. >> he has a face that doesn't show any human emotion. can you take any of your eown emotions and project them onto the face and think that's the kind of person he is. and everybody did that. ev

never mind of the putin under boris yeltsin the russian parliament both houses of the russian parliament. a territorial claims rights the crimea and against about this has been going on for thirty years very briefly glenn you want to respond to that. well there if this is a reference that in one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety seven agreement it's worth noting that the blue cross agreement also suggested. the u.s. britain and russia would all respect their political autonomy while this the territorial integrity of ukraine so i guess after the coup in two thousand and fourteen there was an interest that while this was considered to be broken by russia as well now i do agree though that this conflict us two dimensions on one hand you have two different identities so well broadly to a dentist in ukraine there which never really harmonized which is why the country has been so divided in terms of how it explains its close relations with russia i mean how fast the country out of the country arguing that this is. purely relink others arguing that they're essentially been historical brothers

never mind of the putin under boris yeltsin the russian parliament both houses of the russian parliament. a territorial claims rights the crimea and against of this has been going on for thirty years very briefly glenn do you want to respond to that. well there if this is a reference that in one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety seven agreement it's worth noting that the blue cross agreement also suggested. the u.s. britain and russia would all respect their political autonomy while the territorial integrity of ukraine so i guess after the coup in two thousand and fourteen there was an interest that while this was considered to be broken by russia as well now i do agree though that this conflict us two dimensions on one hand you have two different identities so well broadly to a dentist in ukraine there which never really harmonized which is why the country has been so divided in terms of how it explains its close relations with russia i mean how tough the country how the country arguing that this is. purely religious others arguing that they're essentially been historical brothers the

never mind of the putin under boris yeltsin the russian parliament both houses of the russian parliament. a territorial claims rights the crimea and against about this has been going on for thirty years very briefly glenn do you want to respond to that. well there if this is a reference that in one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety seven agreement it's worth noting that the blue cross agreement also suggested. the u.s. britain and russia would all respect the political autonomy while the territorial integrity of ukraine so i guess after the coup in two thousand and fourteen there was an interest that while this was considered to be broken by russia as well now i do agree though that this conflict us two dimensions on one hand you have two different identities so well broadly to a dentist in ukraine there which never really harmonized which is why the country has been so divided in terms of how it explains its close relations with russia i mean half of the country the country arguing that this is. purely relink others arguing that they're essentially been historical brothers the same pe

and clemens on definition and also it was difficult when president putin did his best, -- resident yeltsin did his best, the west was sending a message to russia, we go together and there was a long time basically that they play together, and he attended in but for the russians it was very 1999. to accept this reality. the 1990's was a difficult period for the country. if you don't know what has happened in russia and you're leading the economic data, this is a country that lost a major war. one third of the gdp lost. 25 million russians out of the territory of the russian federation. losses have meeting. many people have feelings that they lost their country and this is the most important at least in my view. for us, everybody was anti-communist should be happy that soviet union disintegrated. this was true for many, but not for the anti-communist in russia are going to know many anti-communist in russia who from the soviet union was their state, so they didn't want to be communists, but they were not necessarily eager to see the state disintegrating and this type of expansion to generall