and yeltsin started to do that. oh. the president's daughter was ever present while staying in the background. unlike her mother, nina, who was happy to be sent to the front line with somebody who was with. 7 accompanied by a team of doctors, yeltsin embarked on an arduous race to catch up in the pulse with every percentage point taking its toll. oh, you can of was reveling and his role is the anti yeltsin. throughout the spring, the communist was considered a sure bit about president a 12 communist nightmare. yeltsin once again looked to his friends in the west. he convinced clinton and the other g 7 members to meet in moscow. 6 weeks before the 1st round of the election. a p r triumph, his impoverished country, looking like a superpower, clinton and yeltsin discussed the situation. i think this nuclear, somebody will help you a great deal. ordinary people will see that you're doing the right things. it will add 10 percent. my vote. do you know you're a factor in this campaign bill? i do want to say something that coul

may yeltsin once again look to his friends in the west. he convince clinton and the other g 7 members to meet in moscow. 6 weeks before the 1st round of the election. a p r triumph, his impoverished country, looking like a superpower, clinton and yeltsin discussed the situation. i think this nuclear summer will help you a great deal. ordinary people will see that you're doing the right things. they will out 10 percent. my vote. you know, you're a factor in this campaign bill. i do want to say something that could be used against you. i want to russian people to know how much the american people support rushes, commitment to democracy and to reform. and we've learned from our history that building a thriving democracy is not easy or automatic. but russia is making dramatic progress. please understand me correctly, bill, for my election campaign, i urgently need for russia alone of 2500000000 dollars. yelton's political instincts were back as he borrowed the west's money and campaign methods. with the election rapidly approaching, yeltsin ba

the slogan was adopted by pro yeltsin popstars. a music road shy was organized to mobilize the young, a direct imitation of clinton's, choose all his campaign in 1992. no voucher cast vladimir donations mission enough got zanna gretsch, nova ross is a list of attend sky ra, stuff. oh, oh, the wide world might have scuffed at such images, but a week before the election, the obvious message was that yeltsin was alive and kicking a proposal to chicago. it was so embarrassing to vote. can you imagine a monarch or president dancing? i was shocked yet a quote i said to tatiana, oh, you're killing your father. there's not much left of them anyway. don't you do the talk so seamless despite cause you cause protests? nothing was going to stop this communications machine now. right up to the climax. the final campaign event in front of the kremlin the miss jude are to nibble at this feature. if you come, when you leave, everybody got what they wanted, combine you will money from the budget was spent on the election campaign or the ve the same

that was attractive to yeltsin.there are many people that had those active boots, what yeltsin felt, he needed somebody who had come into power and not prosecute his family. yeltsin has its own issues with corruption. more to the point, his family members had been on the take. so, if they had ended up in jail, i think yeltsin would have been devastated. he chose some of that would be loyal to yeltsin as putin was. no one was prosecuted from yeltsin's family. he got that you loyalty, he also got a lot of other things in the bargain. you're right, it's a huge turning point. >> scholars disagree about the extent to which that was the driving, the driver, behind yeltsin's decision. the so-called family. really, -- dealing there. what's funny about that, when you look back at what yeltsin told clinton, how he described putin. he said he is a democrat. lower chris. the he said he's a democrat. i recently watched, which i do for some of my podcast, i'm digging into the archives, watching old news conferences. i watched vla

yeah to say the least 1999 why does yeltsin choose putin? well, yeltsin is one of those key points in history it is it is, you know, and and you know, nobody could quite see the significance of it at the time because putin was unknown outside of russia. he had been a kgb officer as i think most of us know in in east germany. he came back for a while apparently worked as a taxi driver or said that he worked as a taxi driver and then got into saint petersburg local mayoral politics and then was given the job of head of the of the fsb of the intelligence services in the late 1990s in moscow. certainly. he was a very capable manager, you know as a phd in law has self-disciplined and intelligence so that was attractive to yeltsin, but there are many people who had those attributes. i think what yelts and most importantly felt was that he needed somebody who would come into power and not prosecute his family, you know, the elton had his own issues with corruption, but more to the point his family members had been on the take and so if if they had

and at some point you had thoughts about the fate of yeltsin.fter all, you actually took pity on him and left him as a minister of the minister. that could have been him then, or were you such thoughts to send him some words, when the entire central committee. e shouted so to speak down and so on. everything could be solved. but this is me for me this unacceptable. but what kind of perestroika is this, if being a member of the political bloc with a candidate has been treated like that until now? yes, if you ever allow it all, of course, the houses of the words of the story. as you know, gorbachev did not recognize the auxiliary mood in power for only 6 years, but these 6 years were filled with stormy, sometimes dramatic events. how happy the soviet people were when, after eighteen years of brezhnev's stagnation and a series of magnificent funerals of the kremlin elders , 49-year-old mikhail gorbachev became the helm of the country healthy, energetic, sympathetic, able to speak fluently at once, promising cardinal reforms. to honor gorbachev, it

plane yes, the plane calls and says that yeltsin gave distributions there.ain you all to arrest such a picture and yours. i felt that they, of course, had come to ask for forgiveness, or that some kind of unbeaten gaze met each other, and i did not begin to talk. i came by, there was some kind of lostness , you know, that is, some kind of such. the state of prostration was such an incomprehensible look, and we entered the dacha. mikhail sergeevich went out to meet in such faith. unshaven joyful guys, thank you, i believed that you would come, these bastards bastards, and you know that was the speech. i never heard from him. such a speech three planes landed one was the other. the first plane flew in sergeyevich's metal beam. it was the plane on which the rudsky practically flew to this plane for them. they took a pen with them, of course, to let it go far from them, and at the moment when i was rushing down the main ladder to the ground in the evening, his wife, relatives, who were with him, i was at another gangway of tail planes. and so, when i looked to t

the soviet union, which she tried to reform and put in of hers hated yeltsin for pro western policies for trying to curtail the parasol the k to be and essentially by basically reducing russia's growth, standing as a great power in the world. so both had their attitudes to yelton, but putin being a politician understood that she cannot avoid declaring national mourning for yeltsin because that's just the protocol. we know that mikhail gorbachev supported the 2014 annexation of crimea. but what happened afterwards? it's not to clear me, do we have an idea of what gorbachev thought about vladimir putin in the invasion of ukraine? you know, brent, i think that's my impression. gorbachev was always very careful to keep his bill to himself. and although we had some hints that he was disappointed with what happened from the 24th of february, oh, this 8 years since put in invaded, he craned 2014. she never said any word of direct criticism. he supported, as he said, the annexation, he supported put his policies that his official, what he thought maybe will know eventually, but not now. his p

i mean that yeltsin supported a huge number of our citizens.g, millions of demonstrations came out in support of yeltsin to say this, and he led the country to collapse, but in my opinion, well, i feel that way about stories, this is my view. and as they say, who doesn't like it. agree, who doesn’t, but in my opinion, to blame e gorbachev or even yeltsin for the collapse, so to speak, here is the great ussr that i love loved and will love and appreciate very much. well, it 's like blaming it. e was such an emperor of ganuria, the last emperor of the roman empire. that's the same as blaming ambition for the collapse of the roman empire. nobody remembers this ganuri, there are historical circumstances that occur apart from, apart from the will of historical figures. i don't believe. and in all cases is not acceptable this idea that the historical figure. it fundamentally changes the course of history. he can influence the course of history if he gets on the right side, there are such people in history. they seem to remain, but pochev found himsel

so both had their attitudes towards yeltsin.ut putin, being a politician, understood he cannot avoid national mourning for yeltsin. brent: we know mikhail gorbachev supported the 2014 annexation of crimea. but what happened afterwards is not so clear. do we have an idea of what goachev thought about vladimir putin d the invasion of ukraine? >> you know, that is my impression, gorbachev was also very careful to keep his ideals to himself. although we had some hints that he was disappointed with what happened from the 24th of february, over the eight years since putin invaded ukraine, he never id any word of direct criticism. he supported the annexation, he supported putin's policies. that is official. maywhat he -- what he thought, maybe we will know eventually, but is public record remains as such. brent: russia and the passing of mikhail gorbachev. thank you. experts from the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog around the way to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in ukraine to carry out long-awaited inspections. to get there, they have t

and yeltsin of course leads _ what happens in russia.yeltsin of course leads to put in. _ what happens in russia. and yeltsin of course leads to put in. we - what happens in russia. and yeltsin of course leads to put in. we are - of course leads to put in. we are now seeing president putin with a desire to recreate some of the old elements of the soviet union if not in scale than the actual system. how much of that do you i think what you said is important because some are talking tonight about putin as though he took power from gorbachev but he did not. there was a ten year period, a very difficult decade from 91 when gorbachev abdicated in the beginning of the 21st century when putin takes over and you cannot achieve gorbachev of being responsible for everything responsible for what happened in that ten year period. it is not surprising that putin and his people are damning gorbachev with faint praise. he stands for all the things that in a sense gorbachev wanted to put right in russia. he wanted to put right in russia. he wanted to pu

who opened yeltsin's monument to yaroslav the wise in moscow it seems that in st.petersburg or in moscow, moscow is also speaking - yeltsin spoke, that is , the democratic president there, who actually shot his own parliament, just as he was opening this monument and then said that phrase. he said that yaroslav the wise is our great prince русский russian, that is, he also gives us an example how to collect land, this is a phrase that perhaps many people did not pay attention to at the time, this is also some important point , that is, they already appropriated to themselves in general , that is, to continue this policy of appropriation of ukrainian and at least common history, and it was precisely this emphasis on the imperial policy on the revival of the imperial councils that started early, there are friends, yes, you are right, they sent out to discuss the russian polls, it is true, i prepared everything for this, and moreover, i looked at the original of this study and i want to say right away that i am very angry with ukrainian journalists, not with the espre

admitted, in my opinion, and yeltsin is a fundamental mistake.st in the fact that the soviet union collapsed, but in the fact that neither mikhail sergeevich nor boris nikolayevich created the conditions for russia to emerge from this collapse in the best condition in the best condition. this i agree. since he did not sign , uh, the agreement with nato, and not the expansion, did not sign this paper as well as the yeltsinization, the dissolution of the rope into a responsible yeltsin could well, so to speak , set a condition, at least crimea, and maybe the donbass could then take and put conditions in the baltic countries. they would go for it at that time to leave the russian bases in tallinn in riga and there would be no nato and leave. as they say, control over the railway at that moment they would have gone for it all. he didn't. here's what. speaking of which, i think, uh, those fundamental mistakes that mikhail sergeevich and boris nikolaevich made in this sense, but uh, on the other hand, they were products of their time and those people w

however, yeltsin refused to give both a watch and a piece of refined sugar.'t stop us from taking off. and after 2 days we were already flying to bulgaria. vanga arrived there early in the morning, they were already waiting for us. we were very excited. this story was under wraps for a long time in 2010 . for the first time i decided to tell about it and once again went to bulgaria to follow in the footsteps of that trip. we flew to sofia at night and from there immediately went south into the hands of something. the village is located on the site of an ancient volcano casing, which went out thousands of years ago, and therefore hot mineral springs are everywhere here. first in england , she used this place as a summer cottage, and in recent years she practically did not leave here. she said that she was energized here. was early morning, but vanga was already waiting for the guests. immediately on the threshold of the room, i heard a guttural sharp and it seemed to me a very loud voice guests from russia vanga was sitting on an armchair, her shoulders were c

with the yeltsin center.re are many disputes around it, many questions. well, do you have a suggestion? how to decide the fate of this center, in what its essence? we always believe that it is necessary to listen to people in any situation. it is necessary to consult this applies to the city of moscow and others. not daily scandals around the yeltsin center, the communists, as always, will deliver on the fact that it needs to be closed, destroyed, forgotten. and what is this extremist center, a hotbed? what would not be there. alexander demin and i went to see for ourselves. e, not in a special way, they just came, bought tickets and went, but this is a very interesting platform. few moreover, it is not so empty any. this is such a center of attraction for the residents of this city, guests of this city are having a master class. uh, some study. basically, there are young people. she lives more than that, we went through the entire exhibition slowly, listened. as a historian by education, i can say that this

and at some point you had thoughts about the fate of yeltsin. after all, you actually took pity on him and left him as a minister of the minister. here could it then and any of you such thoughts from the opposition to some central committee. e shouted, so to speak, down with the central committee and so on. everything could be solved. but that's me, that's not acceptable to me. well, what kind of perestroika is this, if being a member with a candidate was treated like that, we could now be a general, yes, it still does not allow. it everything, of course, is at home. i hear history does not recognize the subjunctive mood, as you know. gorbachev tried power for only 6 years, but these six years were filled with turbulent, sometimes dramatic events. how pleased the council. eighteen years of brezhnev's stagnation and a series of magnificent funerals of the kremlin elders at the helm of the country became 49-year-old mikhail gorbachev, healthy, energetic, handsome, able to speak fluently at once, who promised cardinal reforms to her credit, gorbach

with the yeltsin center. there are many disputes around it, many questions. well, do you have a suggestion? how to decide the fate of this center, what is its essence we always believe that it is necessary listen to people in any situation. it is necessary to consult this applies to the city of moscow and other cities. ah, not the daily allowance now. uh, the scandals around the yeltsin center, the communists, as always, will deliver that it needs to be closed, destroyed, forgotten. and what is this extremist center, a hotbed? what would not be there. alexander demin and i went. uh see for yourself with your own eyes. e, not in a special way, they just came, bought tickets and went, but this is a very interesting platform. moreover, it is not so empty any. it's such the center of attraction of the inhabitants of the guests of this city passes master classes, some classes, studies. basically, there are young people. she lives more than that, we went through the entire exhibition slowly, listened. all i can say

this agreement was signed in 1997 by yeltsin and kuchma, then we had a series of different agreementsng cooperation, including economic cooperation, then - these quotas were before the war before the big attack then there were the minsk agreements 1 minsk agreements two all all documents the entire contractual base that was between the two countries was simply ignored by russian diplomacy and the russian leadership. this raises the question of whether to restore or let's say some kind of dialogue or to agree on something, what documents should be relied on in bilateral relations between ukraine and the russian federation, there is no trust in russia and it cannot be that you have repeated this long list of things that russia has violated. i think that it is difficult to find anything in international law that russia has not violated, and actually speaking, russian diplomacy, starting from around there, from the same year 1997, maybe a little later, from the end of the 90s. she destroyed with her own hands the entire base of trust of some kind of mutual respect that existed in principl

but, with yeltsin, i think that the work of this agency and of the intelligence community through the really, probably, will never get the credit that it deserves for affecting these changes. for your role in bringing about these changes. and having presidents, hopefully, make informed decisions on the world we face. but we did manage to work out with yeltsin a treaty over there, finalize a treaty. , many here, and one way or another, contributed to it. it does provide hope for a better and safer world. i'm very happy that we were able to conclude that treaty before i go back to houston, texas on january 20th. but we can't fool ourselves. those who would challenge us, we're seeing right now as we try to decide what we should do over in iraq. those who would challenge freedoms gains are many, and we continue to face threats in the world of terrorism, where a lot of good work has been the anti-terrorist work and intelligence contributing to that out here. it's fantastic. many here are concerned about and worked on weapons of -- weapons proliferation, and of course, i remain very much co

where the stay of the russian of the black sea fleet in crimea this agreement was signed in 1997 by yeltsin and kuchma, then we had a series of various agreements on cooperation, including economic cooperation, then - these quotas were before the war before the big attack then there were minsk agreements one minsk agreements two all all documents the entire contractual base that existed between the two countries was simply ignored by russian diplomacy and the russian leadership and here there is a question in general if we are to restore or let's say some kind of dialogue or agree on something, then what documents should be relied on in the bilateral relations between ukraine and the russian federation, there is no trust in russia and there cannot be, so you repeated this long list of this and that. regarding this violation, i think it is difficult to find something in international law that russia did not violate, and actually speaking, russian diplomacy starting there, approximately somewhere in the same 97th year, maybe a little later, from the end of the 90s. in principle, it existed. t

but we did manage to work out with yeltsin a treaty over there, finalize a treaty. so i'many, here, in one where another contributed to it. it does provide great help for a safer world, i am very happy we were able to conclude that treaty before i go back to houston, texas, on january 20th. but weight cannot fool ourselves. those who would challenge us for saying it right now as we try to decide what we should do over in iraq. those who would challenge freedoms gains are many. we continue to face threats in the world of terrorism, where a lot of good work has been an anti-terrorist work, intelligence contributing to that out here has been fantastic. many, here, concerned about or have worked on weapons, weapons proliferation, of course, i remain very much concerned about that. i have a little briefing on just a corner of the world on the cortex trafficking. and here the agency and communally is doing a superb job on the intelligence of that. economic security, isolate those who were involved in the economic side of our intelligence. and all of these things must cont

and at some point you had thoughts about the fate of yeltsin. after all, you actually took pity on him and left him as a minister of the minister. could it then, or were you such thoughts, send some word when the entire central committee. uh, shouted, so to speak, gave the central committee and so on. everything could be solved. but this is me , this is not acceptable to me, but what kind of perestroika is this if you are a member of the politburo with a candidate like that we could now be gensivny so far. yes, the second, if you entered when it's all, of course. speculative history of the subjunctive mood, as you know, does not recognize gorbachev tried in power for only 6 years, but these 6 years were filled with stormy, sometimes dramatic events. how happy the soviet people were when, after eighteen years of brezhnev's stagnation and a series of magnificent funerals of the kremlin elders, 49-year-old mikhail gorbachev became the helm of the country, healthy , energetic, handsome, able to speak fluently immediately promising radical reforms. t

one man stopped the boris yeltsin, the russian president gorbachev was allowed to return to moscow. but politically, he was ruined. he else in band the communist party and publicly humiliated coverage of you sell the yo yos your initiative. i was with you shortly afterwards, the soviet union was dissolved in december 1991 mikhail gorbachev announced his resignation. his attempts to regain political ground in the new russia failed. many russians held him responsible for the demise of the soviet union. but while his own country turned its back on him, gorbachev was hailed around the world as the man who helped tear down the iron curtain and bring about a peaceful revolution. when i pull in our correspondent roman going jordan, go for more room in one of our viewers know you met mikhail gorbachev. personally, i want to talk about that in just a moment. but 1st i just want to get your reaction like everyone around the world. we're just hearing about the passing of mikhail gorbachev. what did you think when you heard the news? well, as many i've been expecting that because there were a r

one man stopped the boris yeltsin, the russian president gorbachev was allowed to return to moscow. but politically, he was ruined. he else in band the communist party and publicly humiliated coverage of new selma jojo sure, issued shortly afterwards, the soviet union was dissolved in december 1991 mikhail gorbachev announced his resignation. his attempts to regain political ground in the new russia failed. many russians held him responsible for the demise of the soviet union. but while his own country turned its back on him, gorbachev was hailed around the world. is the man who help tear down the iron curtain and bring about a peaceful revolution. a german chancellor, olaf hold says, commented on the passing of the last soviet leader, he's what he had to say be. this one does a and then inside your spot, we know that he died at that time when not only democracy has failed in russia. you cannot describe the current situation there in any other way about 5. but as russia and russian president, putin has created fresh divisions in europe, settled and begun a terrible war against its n

in style, and at some point you had thoughts about the fate of yeltsin. after all, you actually took pity on him and left him as a minister of the minister. that could have him then or were you like that thoughts from the counter-roll according to when the entire central committee. e shouted, so to speak, gave the central committee and so on. everything could be solved. but it's me for me it's not acceptable, but what kind of restructuring. if we were a candidate to be a member of the politb , we could now be a general, then you still allow all this, of course, speculation, history, as you know, does not recognize the subjunctive mood, gorbachev tried power. only 6 years, but these 6 years were filled with stormy sometimes dramatic events. how happy soviet people, when, after eighteen years of brezhnev's stagnation and a series of magnificent funerals of the kremlin elders, mikhail gorbachev became the helm of the country, healthy, energetic, pretty, able to speak fluently at once, who promised cardinal reforms. to my credit. gorbachev, i must say that it

of the soviet union with future leader boris yeltsin. then coming to the 4 good, the 19th, 1991 on every tv channel in the country, a continuous loop of the ballet swan lake. meanwhile, in moscow with dramatic scenes were playing out a moment. vehicles rolling into the cabin the presence of the usa seller is out of town and not a house arrest. the holiday home in crimea will radio and t v announcements proclaimed mikhail gorbachev was no longer fit for duty. and the country was now under the control of an emergency committee. ah, citizen was motionless. stoopa stay unused at all. yeah. the phone, you got a bunch of them if you wanted to gauge him. so i doesn't list the president. this is a say. these anesthesia, the volume shuttle playoff missing him at his teaching is up on misty, but at least teaches a chain, a pleasure, any of us didn't. if me, if we're supposed to set natal, tracy nick, it's have independent media shut down. people across the soviet union left struggling to understand what exactly is happening. well, most device were

yeltsin did not.ly smashed all the furniture and changed the system, brought down everything and it was the end of the old soviet union. >> jill, i want to ask fred about this, too. fred, how did gorbachev and the gorbachev era influence what we're seeing now, influence vladimir putin's leadership? >> well, i think it influenced vladimir putin in a way that vladimir putin never wants russia to be what the soviet union was when gorbachev took over and of course when the soviet union fell apart. i think a lot of what influences vladimir putin today and throughout vladimir putin's career is due to the end times of the soviet union, to the time vladimir putin spent in dresden when he was an officer there. and then later, of course, when he went back to russia after the soviet union fell apart and had a pretty tough time there. i think it has a huge influence on vladimir putin in that he wants russia to be a lot stronger now than the soviet union was at the end of its days. >> very interesting point. jill,

and, of course, they did with yeltsin on the other hand to destroy their own the empire that they didot need any help, and i have repeatedly heard. unfortunately, i had no contact with the president. i knew the brand very well, kraft said, and i knew him well for many years before he took this post. he was the chairman of the advisory board for my small program. i have heard this said many times, just not concerned that the soviet union might be too strong, and that it might become weak, that gorbachev might lose power, that there could be a chaotic situation in a nuclear power? yes, of course, uh, if you want both bush and kraft's grin had cold war instincts. they, in principle, were aimed at competitions by the soviet union. and, of course, they never wanted any strengthening of the soviet union, but by the time they came to power, and gorbachev and yeltsin had already done so much, the main concern was how the soviet soviets were going down. and no one can go up. here dmitry i agree with you, but they did not want the revival of soviet power, but they did not want it either. declin

children who go to lectures at the yeltsin center they are shown this cartoon.'s say a boy. it was there for five or six years. led the country. he will say nikolaevich's illness. ask him fedya and who was alexander iii , he will say, i don’t know how he can know him at all, even in this cartoon about history there is no one of the greatest leaders of the country, emperor alexander iii, and he already has distorted feelings and impressions about everything about history country, its culture, and in general about everything. what's happening? here we are, knowing this, understanding this, we can say that you know today the director of the yeltsin center has become a graduate of the moscow state university of the faculty of history professors there associate professor, no matter such and such. and by the way, it doesn't matter that he's not a pro, but a professor there, an associate professor, no matter such and such. and by the way, it does not matter that he did not live most of his life in america, which , knowing and loving history, will teach it in such a way

perestroika was restructuring, not revolution and | restructuring, not revolution and boris yeltsin,d up breaking up the soviet union, the thing that mikhail gorachev set in motion and unwittingly bring in the end of the soviet union. when i met him and 1992igot soviet union. when i met him and 19921 got the impression still had 1992i got the impression still had not really come to terms of what had happened and did not quite understand what had happened and was still in his new foundation he set “p still in his new foundation he set up enough to the soviet union ended and was talking about the need to check on how perestroika was going. what he had set up no longer assisted by then and he had no longer come —— and it was a new world did not come to terms with it. i remember being on the 25th of december 1997 withjohn simpson on the night the soviet union formally ended. nobody expected him to make the announcement that day and the red flag was seen in images coming down off the kremlin and suddenly the announcement came on the wires which were paper wires in those days and i thought

and boris yeltsin and boris yeltsin, of course, we remembered i for a n b in the 1st leader of independent russia. and he and yes and were mortal enemies? and at the very end of the soviet union, yes. and you humiliated gorbachev. morris tossed about, it's a criminal. and since then gorbachev has been a critic of both the nelson administration. and more recently of the prisoner penetration, he did a to his credit brings a to russia, the 1st ever democratic elections. i was there. i saw those elections were free and fair to the assembly of people's deputies, which he, which he set up. and when he did, try to bring democracy and earn western values to russia. and his legacy will be that he did do that though he failed in his attempt. and on he mentioned that you were there at a time when you met him. what what, how did he strike you? he strikes me stuck miss very urban and private. apparently he was quite free with his tongue when he was berating his associates, he struck me as a genuine dis one. he restart to the west and away is of no russian leader ever. and he was able, because he was so

completely irresponsible and completely contradicts the obligations that were given to gorbachev yeltsin, i was there all the days. these were clear commitments against nato expansion to the east, and certainly not towards ukraine or georgia, so our own recklessness is now at the heart of an unprecedented instability. we need to stop the war through negotiations. we need to stop the rhetoric about the victory over putin and the victory over russia must be stopped as soon as possible nato expansion, preserving ukraine, leaving russia alone, this is what was on the table initially, but nato and especially the united states did not accept it. then, unfortunately, europe lost the voice of dredge macron, scholz, they all lost their voice. they failed to say what is right for europe and here we are. what went wrong in the nineties i can tell you in detail what went wrong. something went wrong? it is that the us and europe were ready to support central europe we were not ready to help russia moreover russia became an enemy again because this is what the american neoconservatives wanted. they wa

they thought that is for yeltsin perhaps in the cheating, shares for loans process.id all of that, what is important to say, there is no linear determinism, even from events like that which were destabilizing and unnecessary, to what is happening now. when president putin came in, he was not anti-european, anti-american. but what he saw was the incredible arrogance of the united states, the expansion of nato, the wars in iraq, the covert war in syria, the war in libya against the u.n. resolution. we have created so much ofhat we are facing right now through our own and attitude and arrogance. there was no linear determination. it was step-by-step u.s. arrogance that has helped to bring us where we are today. amy: jeffrey sachs, president of the u.n. sustainable development solutions network and has served as adviser to three u.n. secretaries-general payment thank you so much for joining us from austria where he is attending a conference. coming up, we will talk to a reporter who has documented how, over the last year, the u.s. has approved just 123 afghan parole appl

suddenly yeltsin-center communists like always, e, they will instruct that it needs to be closed, destroyedtten. and what is this extremist center, a hotbed? what would not be there. alexander demin and i went, and look with your own eyes. e, not in a special way , they just came, bought tickets and went, but this is a very interesting platform. moreover, it is not so empty any. this is the center of attraction lived and the guests of this city are undergoing master classes , some studies. basically, there are young people. she lives more than that, we went through the entire exhibition without hurriedly listened. as a historian by education, i can say that this is not about politics. this is truly a museum that tells. and that era of the nineties is very difficult about it, it constantly talks about how what changes have been in our country, but in my opinion for young people - this is very useful, that is, to know, and it’s very important to know your history and draw conclusions . because do not repeat the mistakes of the past, so ah, we also talked to people and believe that this is the

in zyrenburg they announced the verdict to the guard who ruined the picture in the museum of the yeltsin center. what punishment will he incur for adding eyes to abstract figures? in the far east, all forest fires have been extinguished, the main fight against fire is taking place in central and northwestern districts in the ryazan region. the area of ​​fires per day increased by 500 g. in total, in 3 weeks. the fire covered almost 20,000 hectares in the disaster area, including the meshchersky national park, where about 200 species of birds live, some trees, 300 years old in wetlands, they say, bushes and reeds. well, yes, the fire did not reach the turf, about 10,000 people put out fires, almost 25,000 tons of water have already been dumped on the burning forest. the earth is plowed around the hearths, creating the so-called mineralized strips, their fault has already exceeded the threat for 100 km, there is no settlement, but in the nizhny novgorod region. the area of ​​fires began to decrease as a result of this enormous labor, the ground in the forest is covered with a dry fly layer

does he think this war in ukraine can n, and why all those years ago did russian president boris yeltsin, groom unknown k, g, b colonel as his success? all that and more on conflict. so for we can cut down of welcome to complex own hello tribute to be review. you said recently you left russia earlier this year after a new law was brought in, providing for 15 year prison terms for calling the war a war or an invasion. how difficult was that decision for you? it's difficult to difficult them, although just i'm in the position for more than 18 years. just always was under pressure, but these i would say risk to be a be, be in jail, it would be samples. of course, i decided not to keep not to take the risk and i will out the russia, are you scared of the my put in i'm afraid of all the situation for all the russians. for myself and my family. of course, i don't want to be in jail. i don't want my raises my political activities to be in jail. unfortunately, i already get 3 of my political collaborators already in jail, just on the investigation on this new law that is already just applicable

and you were at some point e thoughts about the fate of yeltsin after all, you actually took pity on him and left him as a minister of the minister. here could it then and any of you such thoughts send it to some words when the entire central committee. e shouted so to speak down and so on. everything could be solved. but this is me, this is unacceptable to me. well, what kind of perestroika is this, if being a member of the police as a candidate was treated like that, we could now be a general, then until now. yes , yes, this is all, of course, at home the history of the contributor. declination, as you know, does not recognize gorbachev tried in power for only 6 years, but these 6 years were filled with turbulent, sometimes dramatic events, as the soviets pleased. the people of downtime and a series of magnificent funerals of the kremlin elders at the helm of the country became mikhail gorbachev, healthy, energetic , handsome, able to speak fluently at once, who promised cardinal reforms to her credit, gorbachev must be said that it is beautiful to speak far away. not everyone, may

ukraine to belarus or a state there with the fact that later on it would be returned mentally and yeltsinand all their top brass understood that, well, de jure ussr there is no fact, it is and the time will come and it will be restored a then when the time came and it did not recover and then there were attempts to separate crimea with that president mishkov, then there were many, many stories when russia tried to combine it again, well , the creation of the cis and so on. and is today's war really just a fact that russia decided , as they say, to repay her debts, and since she cannot do it with good will, she decided to return the weapon to the ussr, because she never gave it up, please well, first of all, i admire uh-uh, such thoroughness, dedication, which p yaroslav documented this entire national liberation process, he is a fantastic personality in this, because all the significant events were documented by him in a lot of documents . and now his testimony is more than important, because i observed the same process on the streets and us there there was probably a million and when at