Consolation prize. Mikhail gorbachev, of course, was the last soviet leader. He did win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 as his country collapsed and when you win a Nobel Peace Prize you get a medal, you go to a big ceremony in norway, you give a big speech but you also get a big pile of money. And its interesting. That Nobel Peace Prize Mikhail Gorbachev won in 1990 it was worth a little more than a half Million Dollars in todays money and one of the things he decided to do with his Nobel Peace Prize money is he bought some office supplies. He bought some very Early Computers and printers and other Office Equipment and he bought that stuff because he decided he would use his Nobel Peace Prize winnings to set up a new newspaper in russia. And that literally was its name. New newspaper. That paper got off the ground in 1993, independent paper with an investigative bent. Came into its own over the course of the 90s as the Old Soviet Union became the new kleptocratic oligarchrun russia and a
Consolation prize. Mikhail gorbachev, of course, was the last soviet leader. He did win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 as his country collapsed and when you win a Nobel Peace Prize you get a medal, you go to a big ceremony in norway, you give a big speech but you also get a big pile of money. And its interesting. That Nobel Peace Prize Mikhail Gorbachev won in 1990 it was worth a little more than a half Million Dollars in todays money and one of the things he decided to do with his Nobel Peace Prize money is he bought some office supplies. He bought some very Early Computers and printers and other Office Equipment and he bought that stuff because he decided he would use his Nobel Peace Prize winnings to set up a new newspaper in russia. And that literally was its name. New newspaper. That paper got off the ground in 1993, independent paper with an investigative bent. Came into its own over the course of the 90s as the Old Soviet Union became the new kleptocratic oligarchrun russia and a
Million dollars in todays money and one of the things he decided to do with his Nobel Peace Prize money is he bought some office supplies. He bought some very Early Computers and printers and other Office Equipment and he bought that stuff because he decided he would use his Nobel Peace Prize winnings to set up a new newspaper in russia. And that literally was its name. New newspaper. That paper got off the ground in 1993, independent paper with an investigative bent. Came into its own over the course of the 90s as the Old Soviet Union became the new kleptocratic oligarchrun russia and as an intense little man named Vladimir Putin rose from the kgb to be the head of the Successor Agency to the kwk, the head of the fsb and he rose from there to be Prime Minister and then president and then Prime Minister again and then president again. And unlike us, rush has no longterm political consensus that there ought to be an aggressive an independent press holding its politicians accountable for
And this new abnormal will continue. Dana jeff fall is live on the ground in malibu. Jeff, whats it looking like today . Reporter well, dana, the winds are starting to pick up within the last hour or so. I dont know if you can tell, every once in awhile a gust will come through and you can see them move. You can feel maybe ash or debris in the air. Thats what firefighters are worried about. Theyre starting to get this fire contained. This wind can start up more fires. 300 structures like this, many which are homes, were destroyed because of this fire. You can see maybe what were some gutters. This gives you an idea. This was likely someones beautiful home in malibu. I can tell theres a chimney. But other than that, Everything Else has been reduced to cash. This fire burned 90,000 acres. It is only 20 contained. Unfortunately investigators are looking into two deaths. Looks like the people were trying to get out of this fire. They were found in a badly burned car. Investigators say that