theme №370 07.09.1999 (1999)

The collapse of the great and indestructible Soviet empire, in the opinion of some, was inevitable, in the opinion of others - a conscious action organized by certain forces outside and inside the country.

In any case, the" evil empire " has collapsed.

When we woke up in the morning, we learned that the country in which we lived was no longer there.

On December 8, 1991, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich declared that the USSR as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality no longer exists.

On December 25, Mikhail Gorbachev appeared on television as the President of the USSR for the last time.

Today, on the threshold of the XXI century, we increasingly hear that Russia is on the edge of the abyss, that the state is falling apart and that we are almost a "banana republic".

Unfortunately, not only Western, but also many Russian politicians talk about the collapse of the once mighty empire.

Will the centrifugal forces be able to destroy our country, what should be the state structure of Russia, so that all the peoples living in it feel proud of their country, so that Russia can be reckoned with again?

These and other questions are answered by the guests of the program: Governor of the Samara Region Konstantin Titov, academician Igor Bestuzhev-Lada, President of the INDEM Foundation Georgy Satarov, member of the Parliament of Karachay-Cherkessia Hadji Murat Khatukayev, political scientist Emil Pain.

The program also includes fragments of interviews with the views of the chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Sergey Karaganov,

actor Mikhail Gluzsky and writer Grigory Baklanov.