Weapons but otherwise showing uncharacteristic restraint proteins top priority along seem to be restoring russias place as a Global Player as he lost his touch our title russias explosive frontiers what is courtiers goldring and. Cut. Up the. Hello and welcome to to the point it is a question to introduce our guests beginning with about a new you suppose he is a colleague here on t ws russian desk and he says putin wants to keep the power and make russia great again and im very glad to have with us alexander our hes a political scientist an analyst actual izing on russia and his view as a whole this is change like the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 how explosive it will be remains to be seen and a pleasure to have with us again ive learned. She is a correspondent a german broadcaster. And she says sowing divisions supporting dictators subverting borders russia remains on the wrong side of history. So. Its seems like supporting dictators and support subverting borders used to come a bit easier to Vladimir Putin after protests over the rigged election in belarus began he waited weeks to affirm his support for the go last time armenia and azerbaijan clashed it took russia just 4 days to quell the conflict now it seems to be reluctant to stop the fighting whats going on i would say. When it comes to. This. At the end no question for putin who she wants to support of course its looking cool and he wouldnt allow a bit of a mass protest cant change regime thats what chief us all of the time and there is no way to not supporting the question of course its possible that she creates a figure like it so quote Opposition Leader and install him in belo rose with the help of a bug on court t. V. Journalist and so on and fake news and information well thats all possible but its a 1st step. I wouldnt say that he really thought about not confirming and not supporting the question of no new idea and sort of members you say russia wants to hold on to putin wants to hold on to power is his power actually at risk certainly his Approval Ratings appear to be quite i dont see any risks for witness power and keep the power is the most normal thing for any british from religion or political in their in their work so their political systems are different but the rich to keep power is the same were they were a country of the so i dont think back to the question i dont think and there is for fortunes for river appropriate since then go up and down by the norio erm then sort of for him last time his poll ratings were declining in 2012 he quickly revived his standings with moves like the annexation of the crimea are we seeing a different strategy now in order bird thanks 30112002 throw for her through a huge loss for just on the streets of moscow which were richer there escalate the very professional over by russian authorities and crimea was 2014 for your state or. So i dont think going to connection with the river urgings 2011 from preference to crimea up of 3 years later. Sort of the question simply is the question of whether were seeing a different strategy now well its really how russia is dealing with the conflicts in the neighborhood know the threats theyre on the same the focus of a russian government is much more political so whats and also russian publics for some reason some for some parts because the clearest shift from domestic issues for economy for medical problems which we have the conflicts of course on the crisis the russian government is very much busy gilpatrick syria libya belarus with many many issues on the global level and not paying much attention to the domestic issues in the toilets and grosser russian public and russian russians inside the country because i dont think the other russian president would be less interested in deal politics but probably more interested in domestic issues. Alexander you know russia well from what ive read you have dined with president putin and youve also consulted for major russian firms like gazprom so you say in your Opening Statement that the Current Situation could bring about change like the fall of the berlin wall what do you mean exactly where is this change going i mean that the world is facing radical dramatic changes and i compare the changes will witness with the changes which we have saw 30 years ago. I think that of course there is nobody at all to collapse but the world is moving from one world order from the i would say when you pull our world order which was designed as a liberal world order by the west by the United States and the European Union after the end of communism where moving now to a new stage in World History where the world will be defined by major powers not only by the west but by a very strong china. By a new russia who is no strengths but also a more military mind that russia and also a strong. Movement and a force which will witness also from the cells and do you see any change in putins way of dealing with the tensions in the neighborhood compared to how he might have handled it earlier in the i just came back from the valdai club in moscow as we could ask him with a question. Who would he deliver again this speech which he gave to the german exactly 20 years ago when he said the cold war is over. Would you do the same speech again i ask him and he said yes but in a softer way and what he confirmed is for him is the nato expansion whats the of the mother of all the problems which. He faces with the west this is a russian view of course but the same this is a geopolitical fight which the russians have today with the west and with as the russians or nato expansion over values or many things what i wanted to say about the neighborhood i think that putin is not really afraid that the west will take advantage of the changes in kyrgyzstan in armenia there by john and bill russia way because all those countries are much better and much closer connected with russia than crane was 66 years ago bill russia is comically completely dependent on russia care just as well because kyrgyzstan is also a member of the euro Eurasian Club and in azerbaijan and armenia both countries also who gets weapons from russia and are comically intertwined with was moscow so you know theyre very briefly your Opening Statement said russia remains on the wrong side of history what would it take to put it on the right side and is that to be a protein capable of delivering not what oleksandr just sit makes me thinking about the past. The situation compared to what we have now if you its like the fall of the war when i think about this former time it was just a period of happiness of hope of joy and i can see this in this moment. The other way around i would see no nothing nothing what do we see in the how is she here is the changes the coronavirus its taking over the life of the whole life and you know nothing nothing at all but. To come back to the question. Protein and russia and the right side of history would mean to stop him to feel riddance in. Other countries sawing discord and other countries too would too to do something that was positive energy not just everything with such negative and energy of what i see now and thats what i mean thank you very much let us take a closer look at now as we are history is taking the managed to democracy is a term used to describe not only russias system but also those of key neighbors like the laos but many people there have had enough. Mass protests have been held for weeks and bellow groups against alleged Election Fraud in the president ial election president look at Security Forces have brutally beaten down the protests and he has thrown off position politicians and demonstrators in jail but the opposition is not giving up hundreds of thousands of bellary sians continue to take to the streets calling for a general strike and demanding that lucretia youll step down Opposition Leaders. Had to leave the country for her own safety the fight for our rights in belarus now for our dignity and im sure that the well succeed so no later russian president putin supports the bellary sian government but is continuing to hold back as long as looking power is not truly endangered. Amid a difficult situation in belarus the relations with russia have a solid foundation. How far will putin go to maintain stability on russias external borders. Let me know whats your thinking in terms about could we see. Generational change there or do you think go in the end will prevail perhaps not least thanks to help from put it i would divide between what we hope to see. Her for if we hope to see it doesnt change our main aim the 1st man in germany or hope there for a change. But im a friend of her and it isnt because theres like. A couple of months ago last year that mr ward or what was the earth for the rest to be a president for france earlier and does appear to from the public view. Very wary of her im afraid of so i think center of our what if anything might prompt putting to actively intervene how close are his relations with the question go goals close relations but still shouldnt forget that. Its not put in puppets hes doing his own policy whenever russia is too strong for him to press to do is press a button in the end here so what the west in my opinion. Will not survive the next presidency he will go but not today in a couple of years but before that he will change the constitution and through will see you i think some some of the power structure. Power momentums in this country so he now there is putting continues to exercise restraint could that incentivize opposition in other places kyrgyzstan for example where were already seeing tensions or kazakhstan even do you think we could see further unrest in other parts of the neighborhood i would i would say that this depends on the situation of these countries and of course there is no protein in the root who can stop people going on streets as we saw this or see this in a ruse and in other countries not everything turns around putin and thats thats very important to know and not to fear just because putin doesnt lie such mass demonstrations such call are over lucians that they shouldnt start it and i wouldnt agree that this is the scenery a lie in this way i think the time of looking over yes she fears protein thats right she is afraid of nothing annexation in his country and this time and. This is not over but you cant stop. The people thinking they want to change. And change isnt done and thats why im not so pessimistic about the lows that im as you told us that to the grid degree that there is negative Public Opinion in russia about putin it has to do with the perception that hes not doing enough about domestic challenges so does it matter to russians how we handle these tensions and conflicts in the area yes and no yes its mothers because food preparing or close attention to a brothel or origin in their arsenal remember is concerned about this approach or that on the run and on the other hand theres no such things like free and democratic elections in russia sort of the populations in the pivot the government theres no chance to remove or sort of this government with other branch of government so even if it opposition or if it now and he she can do what they were here like some you tube but theres no chance for him to be a part of establishment of the become a bunch of what it tickle extinguishment and to change the sinks in the country so the british and you can be angry in your government as much as you want but you have no chance to change to change things on the legal way. Let me take us to another place in the neighborhood namely the enclave of Nagorno Karabakh xander a nato member turkey is now intervening in support of about john while russia at least in the past has actually delivered weapons to both sides so whats putin really want there are simple he doesnt want to loose as a by john knows that armenia is. A part of the of russia because it is part of the Eurasian Union thats part of the military union with russia and its dependent on russia but for putin its more beneficial if turkey has its influence on in the caucasus than to have nato bases on the american supervision in the caucasus and therefore he doesnt want to lose a budge on to they took sabina i was not in there is turkey actually looking to challenge russias head to moni in the region and do you think it could succeed i think. Yes yes it is possible but i think the the. In my opinions in more important thing is that up. Took a president is so he was for 4 full protein and to cant risk to loose at all on and on its very important to saw discord and to divide nato thats the most important thing and they they both know what they do and they both wont risk they are i wouldnt say kind of cooperation but but they depend on each other and yeah thats why i think that is the sort of restrained off putting and maybe the reason is that looking at the e. U. Has been accused of doing too little to push back against both turkey and. Interesting lee enough russia joined forces with france and the u. S. To call for a cease fire is there perhaps even an opening here in regard to nagornokarabakh and the tensions between a minion azerbaijan for closer cooperation between europe and Russia Research would be this very irish its a march im not sure how the think will be developed its. Absurd if they agree with you putin and theyre gong to bring the game or not though its true in my opinion so i have. Not the prognosis in any future developments on this topic how how close can i go to europe and you know. Im going to go out of a. Thank you very much elsewhere cooperation between russia and the west looks further away than ever following the short lived pledge by both sides to reset russian American Relations an array of developments have driven the 2 further apart. Ever since the successful revolution in ukraine the nation has been a thorn in the side of russias president putin in february 24th teen he annexed the ukrainian peninsula of crimea supported by moscow separatists in Eastern Ukraine also quickly gained ground. In syrias civil war Russian Troops are fighting alongside those of the dictator. After the conflict russia wants to establish a Permanent Military presence in syria this would give russia direct access to the mediterranean and enable it to become a major player in the middle east. Putin also wants to exert influence in the west using k. G. B. Methods for example russia allegedly tried to influence the us elections in 2016 using Cyber Attacks and spreading fake news American Secret Services suspect there is currently a russian descent from ation campaign designed to help trump in the current president ial election. It shows the level of political culture or the absence of such i reiterate we dont interfere. Will putin succeed in destabilizing the west. Alexander harm in many respects trump with his undermining of trust in that the United States and its democratic system with his criticism of multilateralism of nato in particular has really played into proteins hence would you say that is by accident or by design. Who is better for russia biden or porch and i think both are bad for russia i mean for pushing for russia or biden at least hopes to continue the talks on rearmament desire moment. With trump he may create a new world order and this may be a dream in russia and he knows that for trump the big enemy is china and not russia he wants to get to make deals with russia whether biden clearly said that russia is the biggest threats for the west let me come back to the question posed at the end of that short report said be that it was about whether putin is successfully destabilizing the west right now authorities in both the us and europe report significant evidence of russian descent from ation campaigns put teens neighborhood may be increasingly explosive as weve talked about but is he nonetheless succeeding quite well in exporting instability to the United States for example i would say yes absolutely he is an expert in this and resort a very short period of time this variously yeltsin years when information of war didnt play of all but putin revived this and. He uses this as a tool as a very effective tool to meddle in internal affairs to too small to score in not just in our neighbor countries like ukraine like like elect germany despite we are a direct neighbor but. In the u. S. And the overall goal i think is. Who slender democracy itself and thats the very very dangerous thing and its its more important than Everything Else i in my opinion and at this point they meet together. Trunk. And the 2 dictators in front of her and thats really newt. Challenge and to serious challenge a lot of fear in view of all of that and in view of the recent attack on alexei nevada the the russian opposition politician should europe be doing more to sanction putins abuses of power and his interference and if so what additional measures would work well received in. Europe and sanctions in russia since for 6 years from now for the ukraine and crimea and Eastern Ukraine. The question is not a free europe should do more but how effective this may honeys mara how much much influence the sanctions have on their behavior over russia is it possible to change their russian behavior by sanctions and the answer is not truly because we dont have any any substantial change in russian behavior on the euro political. Stage as a result of dissension so we can. Discussing science in europe and europe can impose sanctions some more russian fear or tree more russian citizens but the question is how how effective the sanctions will be. I think that there are some leading german politicians among them former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder have argued in recent years that its time for a german russian reset or those voices growing quieter now after the attack on avanti not sure they are nonexistent anymore i think. Of the problems with russia are obvious. With the europe it was the European Union with that same time we shouldnt destroy in my view what has been built between germany and russia for europe for European Security in the past 30 years and in a dramatic way that. This can disappear and i think probably yes the west wants to punish russia than punish russia but on the other hand theres so many aspects where we should cooperate in future because we are not in the east west conflict anymore but in the last conflict we need a common view on how to talk to fight was a challenge which stands in front of us from the southeast for europe and for russia sabina other ukraine crimea syria there are enormous financial costs to putins expansive moves could that prove to be a problem for him in the end of us lee not russia is rich enough to do this and. Of course it would be much smarter to spend the money in the own country but he doesnt do it and i want to say that i cant agree that we juhani and russia to the same level destroyed the relationship as alexander has had it not not germanys destroyed sort of a ship not i kind. Of have to say that we are just about out of time but let me come quickly back to our title which asked what is put a. Yes go and write american fortunes goal was to restore russias position in the world as a Global Player what do you think the history books will write will they say he succeeded might succeed just. As a truck enough that was so short as can be so a clear yes to that answer from that america is pissed off and many thanks to all of you for being with us today and thanks to all of you out there for tuning in and see you soon. Up. As. Much. Of a. Fight. Not like nancy. Since. The sound of the future. Electric motorcycles are looming and the tests hardly lines why a person here a song. 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