Africa. For centuries the kremlin chimes have been counting the hours and minutes and marking changing times india is for those who dont know or maybe have forgotten i will remind you that the times india has changed surprisingly regularly in 20th century russia. In 1917 the bolsheviks overthrew the czar and replaced him with a communist government for the following 70 years. Then in 1991 after Michelle Goldberg perestroika reforms the russian people overthrew the reds and voted Boris Yeltsin in as president in the countrys 1st democratic elections. Now. With freedom came the economic crisis and the 1st chechen war whilst yeltsin was anointed modern days are and then his health started to fail. This is how russia entered the new century and a new millennium. Being a documentary film director i recorded what was going on around me. This film is my personal witness testimony about the events of one single momentous year. From the 31st of december 1999 up to the 31st of december 2000. Have you opened your present chair to you said patiently tally. Your votes is this for me yes. The show goes. Well look at the moment im wrapping up present. The present so there come on who gets this one. This hawksley its a lonely heart. He cant show your happy face how do you like the chocolates. Yummy i love them. You have no present have you no has no present. Thang songs with lyrics. Tally success for television. You got. Nothing to add you can turn around and. She goes you need your present for everyone but what about you. Look at you dear. You know its hilarious she. She. You know. Who will address the people at midnight puter. Stop it let me relax why are you stalking me 1st mom stop there but. Your. Arm was. For. The car youll. Open the door its going to do a lot of freak at last with your camera this is my chronicle dull enough harassing us with your chronicle leave us alone were human beings too is the limit for our. Order to you vitale its enough that its getting on my nerves i cannot. Get you to know what happened to a sick world yes but why you should see me. Im about to burst into tears i believe that the time has come. Yes it would you like me to Say Something high flown in from that camera i told you im shocked weve got the firm hand that the people are so fond of again. Those lets see how we all ties in this cruise its awful to look back on yeltsins time as a time of happiness will think it was like utopia dont you agree with most of the try to. This is the new the so why you. Talk to me the current i think its a nightmare now utopias all of a sudden gone what will become of us that hasnt ever been a president like the new one. Is a grey mouse. Or. Well to see. What it does he trick on new years eve. Who just now who will address a system of nice simplification will. The new generation is coming the flats just fail me to use the old will be afraid of us again lose them by goes bust. Yeah i just fell. Off laughing. I doubt. It but i. Have to get back to that but like gary yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All. Right here. I did was you. See with all. The ethical i think you. Said that also business its all about. Its a disease that i see but isnt the engine gets. The most looking much. Civil. Its beautiful it up at this age and youthful the most and yet the order. Of the italy is it interesting. But english when. We queue up stuff. I soon media about its a start. That again to see. That he said he should. See what any of us was in or a business was with us. She distinguishes states or whatever it is indian tennis. That amir putin took the Russian Federation over from Boris Yeltsin who stepped down voluntarily he took it over complete with its Constitution National flag and answer the basic symbols of the new and democratic russia that had replaced the old soviet symbols left in the past together with the soviet union seemingly forgot. The shift in power on new years eve moreover during the transition to the new millennium it was a really clever move. Following a long standing tradition the whole state drifted into a state of rampant revelry and was incapable of a sober analysis of what was actually happening. At the same time russians were supposed to get used to the idea of a new president during these very days i started shooting a p. R. Film that was supposed to be used in putins Election Campaign. Will do in this race will audiovox a little but if you want commission i read a month. Or so. Much of the footage was taken from my old film about putin the audience back then. Notice trivial details such as the watch on his right wrist rather than listening to what he was actually saying. But looking back over those shots today i notice that even as acting president putin was already clearly embodying traits that some worship and others demonize. Some of. Our main goal is to make people believe in everything we say and do that ours is a heartfelt position dictated only and soley by considerations of the National Interests. Just that this is the key to success if people believe that thats the main thing. Did you get that the task is to convince the russian people that National Interests are more important than those of the individual. Meanwhile his electioneering was in full swing even though he wasnt publicly campaigning at all he was just all new present on all the t. V. Channels everybody reported to him on t. V. Governors army and security people work collectives rural labor as children and old folks and everybody was happy about him which partially reflected the actual state of affairs and his technologists skillfully modified his image from that of the firm hand to a glad hand. But. Just a critical as a close he wouldnt but over the years. However the key element in his campaign was the importance of the army and the threat to russias security so putin now. Really spent defender of the fatherland day in the heroes city of volgograd talking to the veterans of the long past battle of stalingrad and then promptly on all the russian t. V. Channels turned the spotlight on to the heroes of the new victorious war in chechnya. Plus loses in East St Louis louis this is. 2 and a half months of nonexistent electioneering went according to plan putin managed to visit almost all the regions of the state and on the 8th of march International Womens day the acting president who was at the same time a candidate for the presidency made a rather symbolic trip to the womens capital of russia the city of weavers ivanova. And of course he was accompanied by teams from all the principal t. V. Channels. As far as i remember by the 8th of march 2018 days before the election the general mood in the country was that it was all a full grown conclusion by the end of the Election Campaign even the candidate himself didnt hesitate to admit it. A lot of t. V. Spots are you going to have you participate in any t. V. Debates. It is my opinion that people involved in practical activities either in parliament or in the authorities have to prove their competence with practical deeds rather than t. V. Spots or any other advertising devices or means. The socalled t. V. Debate is one of the t. V. Campaign spots even more so thats advertising. You dont need to find out from the Election Campaign whether tampax or snickers are more important so i wont be doing it. All that was true putin didnt sink to the level of campaign spots or t. V. Debates as far as i remember all the other candidates did take part in debates but may need to emphasize their closeness to putin himself. Its time to win this phrase turned into putins Campaign Slogan but i personally think as i see him the majority of russians did that the beginning of putins campaign really dated back to a time long before he was made acting president you can actually fix the day and even minute. On the 8th of september 19th 1900 11 59 pm a block of flats in a sleepy suburb of moscow was blown up with the explosive r. D. X. Killing many of its residents the same thing happened 5 days later and then a rash of explosions broke out all over the country. I very well remember how military patrols began to appear in the buildings and on the city streets the country was gripped by fear prompted by the intense Media Coverage the man in the street started to camera louder and louder calling for a firm hand. In had been appointed as Prime Minister 22 days before the 1st explosion he was the 6th Prime Minister of yeltsins administration so his ratings were almost 0 irrespective of who was behind them the explosions appeared to benefit him and over the next 7 months his ratings grew to 50 percent. His famous quote will rub them out in the outhouse became a new symbol of the time. At the end of one working day putin accepted our offer to go to the site of the 1st block of flats that have been blown up in moscow. If you like here for the 1st time. Just to be clear neither then nor now did i actually believe putin was personally involved in the bombings of these blocks of flats. Bought an attempt by f. S. B. Officers to plant similar sacks of the r. D. X. Explosive in the basements of a block of flats in areas im came up by accident and lead to some serious questions for the. Stability. Of it do you believe that the end justifies the means. To their aims do they justify the means. To the aims of the terrorists yes can you. Because. I do not believe any sane person can ever choose to commit such an act. To blow up a building with people in it. Innocent people at night. And you know its really its beyond me its unbelievable just on believing. In human cruelty. We must understand that we can only counter this with force. Otherwise we wont we dont safeguard our state lets protect our people. Dont worry wouldnt know when youre going to want to look. Into when you. d were. Straight. Shooter were. Really if you knew. Full well number one you mean. Even if you were. Italian lets go. Do you really think we have to vote yes i do. Even if nothing depends on us at least we wont be voting for the communists so i matter. To tell. Im still going to let them anyway. I think that its important to us because its the 1st time weve been able to do it as registered voters as it will that weve got nothing here. Ok lets go back to our. Lead. Political leadership he was to do with his ticket there. Was. Something. You could look. If live. By you are it will leave no not at all because. If. You believe believe. It you know it will. Come out if you. Will. Find it but you wouldnt believe it was going to go just here for you to pretty. Clear you could use for. The future. If. If. If if. Ever. You firm up the computer explicitly you. Find that youve got what you want the work to show what you. Write but for what it will sell to. Somebody. Then you will still but the people that use machine you see from the new place getting it which you know you see is going to plug. From one of those so i think thats a. Question that if you go down. To. The press left the polling station with putin just one french journalist stayed behind to interview the former president of the u s s r michel go put you off who came to cost his palace with his daughter and granddaughter for the. First you may ask who you will vote for you need you to could go to school. Lets wait and see who the hell are you voting to. Go for a chance didnt tonsil. Was pretty but having cost his votes he couldnt resist having a drink with his former colleagues. Let us know about taking anyones place you know. You. Yes. I just wanted to say that im proud that i was the 1st to speak at the congress i said the president of the u. S. S. R. Should be elected immediately and it should be only one candidate we all remember. They tried to persuade me they should you should agree to do is read. You could have agreed to become the president for 15 years and. Then this post should have been introduced into. The general secretary live in clover was it would you consider would. You. Just like napoleon at 1st elected 1st consul for 4 years and for life. Or the for the. Meanwhile Boris Yeltsin was surrounded by his family and waiting for the fast Election Results. Lets put it that. My daily routine will certainly change. You know is already. The constant pressure of. All of russia on your shoulders every hour every day. Problems are pressing something has happened here or there decisions have to be taken. And daily thousands. Its a constant pile. And its a hell of a job. I just know its not pressing on you. Theres just a routine work left. You know the burden is on a bloody mary bloody miro bridge poutine its his day no. I gave him a 6 month head start on purpose. So that after being elected. He could make use of the experience he had gained as acting president was a good piece of this you know the word says head of the russian government. That was the importance of the decision i took on december 31st 1990. There are still reproaching are talking about a protege or something but yeah when you acted so decently addressing the people and telling them you want him so they could evaluate his work. It was all done so democratically and honestly i was a means to you but you would surely through an agent who was also his ratings rose from true to 50 percent. You know it. Was all due to his work. He did not have any special Campaign Advertising or t. V. Spots so i mean you deal. He visits the region and then deals with the problems. He goes to ivanova sorts out problems in the textile industry. He goes to cause by some sorts out the miners problems. Goes to come child care our sarkar lane deals with the problems in the far east. Was it easy to take your 31st of december decision. It was hard. Strange as it may seem after that i felt better. Things i said to my 4. Explained to my minister president ial staff. Demerol volodymyr over true self i explained to him 4 times. We had meetings. And events really he got the message that the idea was to transfer power to him. As acting president of russia. Did you have to persuade him away if. He didnt agree immediately. First we just got acquainted. My little man yeah come here. Where the fun and your chicks are just like nothing else. You. Have to vote for by not go grab oh you voted for. This did you this is a. Very senate allowed to leave the room it was go the fuck would you a horrible car. Why should i not how is he saying to britain he pronounces it so funny funny how do you call preachin. Little of this is really merely mero bitch could you get a translator. When. You want some candy. You. Have. To go to this is. Where you want to live this is that it is. Easy to settle cases it is a. Good thing. But for the little boy who lived enough. To do all the different business interests. Though i dont remember any mention of putins Campaign Office in the press it had the biggest headquarters and all the senior state officials were involved. Lets see whats happening in moscow. Moscow 46. 71 percent no change. At. All. Will see to morrow and. St petersburg is fine but these are producers and how many votes has a critic us defense keep 18. 54 percent you can call this he loves to shoot thats an outrage. The Campaign Office was run by Dimitri Medvedev who tins form a subordinate from his time in some petersburg who was little known at the time. She was. The 1st to see if you was going to go if it was a student. Or. Hello dammit talk to me give a little bus. Conference theres no nothing theres nothing. Worth youre really. Going to far east all the reindeers have voted there. In fact the Campaign Managers were experienced political operators who could take advantage of the administrative resources provided by former and future federal ministers heads of the president ial staff and media and sociological service process. Whats the public opinion. That sasha whats the forecast 61 percent who are known for serving dear oh dear. You. Are going to get it. So what are your data sets. This is anatoly to. Beis cochairman of the union of right forces the center right democrats were in fact the only nongovernmental Parliamentary Party to support putin in the election. Still the borders of the us or nothing what is going to win is that i would say just getting the story for you simply do not hold up their marshall was the composer here richard i mean most of it is the force. Of his. Own feeling. Or he would still couldnt. Yeltsin hadnt expected to see gold which off it was probably the 1st time since 1991. Yeltsin had practically overthrown the president of the u. S. S. R. And knew perfectly well what happens to alstead leaders in russia as long as yeltsin was president expresident gorbachev simply disappeared even from t. V. Screens maybe thats why yeltsin himself a thought so hard about his successor in advance. Im sick or a long list of. My numb the Election Results are coming up. On my own just a bunch announce that now they might wait until 9. The Election Results are coming up. Were. Going to go there. You. Go. With. A clip here for your people working here what about seniors to you they went to the station this morning you. Responded with maybe just go with let america lead to marriage are you on the. Good evening tatiana the atenco calling i guess how many of already votes here 60 percent. Let us down. The most of the world so we can already drink champagne is taking small steps all right may very. Well tell gina to get the champagne banks. During the last years of sins presidency when his health was causing a lot of problems the concept of family was established in the public consciousness the success of the state of ministration was attributed to this family tiana played an Important Role in the whole process. Tonya you could you live without politics all not any more. Than me. Like an easy d to me if i dont believe you when you think it is because of worries like him that emphasis on worried. Him or for him. 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The sounds of the dead sea thats why you did what you thought you had said to ourselves look pointed a person and let people see he was up to the job they saw that it wasnt voted for him. Look at what he did he answer to that he wouldnt appoint a bad person or one he chose from among so many. Possible good pick him out from 20 candidates within 4 months my stop at him for who else was on the list of typical of what was moral 20 candidates running to go through the car stopped him and started working with things where you just felt you were a bully for the money for. The tag the latest figures its 51. 2 percent. For it or just give up on. Your show for which youre supposed to. Make us a gave its again we gotta was such a sad face to the group that its own ok so lets switch to m. T. V. Whether people are good people didnt end it for cheers. I dont want to go to the election. Results but wouldnt you dad im putting you through to gun into mush if. We know we have. You not familiar with this model yet it works like this. One. Though. Im not familiar with his model here. Its curious that valentino was the 1st person yeltsin called after putins victory. Sure. Congratulations. To this great. Time super max i owe you one. As far as one can understand yeltsin was thanking his former chief of staff for something. Thats it mom and dad finally free the main thing is in the 1st round. Why did you call that you may have that image of each. Legend would you wish it was when. You are here let me do it. Nice for the british here good evening. Congratulations on the 1st results of the elections. Id like to talk to let emir bloody meet overage putin. Right now ill hang up. Everything of a crisis. Will come back. Line and change. Sustainability. Environmental projects. Give globalisation the face biodiversity Species Conservation exploitation. Human rights displacement. The Global Impact of local action. Global 3090 minutes on d w. The creative world still. 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