Telecast theme (1999) 07.09.1999
Part 1
0:37:07theme 07.09.1999 (1999)
Reel №1
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.
Personnel:
Bestuzhev-Lada I.V. -- doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Pain E.A. -- Russian political scientist and ethnographer, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences. Satarov G.A. -- Russian public and political figure, analyst, publicist, political scientist, sociologist, president of the Foundation for Applied and Political Research "Informatics for Democracy" (INDEM). Titov K.A. -- Russian politician and statesman, Doctor of Economics, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation, Governor of the Samara Region (1991-2007). Eljcin B.N. -- statesman and politician, the first president of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev M.S. -- state, political and public figure, the last General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the last Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the first chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the only President of the USSR. Kravchuk L.M. -- candidate of Economic Sciences, teacher, politician, first President of independent Ukraine. Shushkevich S.S. -- doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the BSSR, politician, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus (1991-1994). Baklanov G.Ya -- writer-front-line soldier, screenwriter. Gluzskij M.A. -- Soviet theater and film actor, theater teacher, People's Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Karaganov S.A. -- Russian political scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, economist, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics of the Higher School of Economics, Adviser to the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration for Foreign Policy (since 2001).