the collective west has got the extremely good experience of building the consensus. and now in a global world, where you cannot take decisions only on your own, on behalf your country when it comes to covid, to energy crisis, even to military force. we have learned how to make the consensus, and how to make collectively the decisions. but what putin hadn t learned is to be part of some consensus. broader consensus. and until he understands that he should be a player together with everybody, this could change the situation. you say putin is not part of a consensus, but he has got friends, hasn t he? we have just seen russian troops go in as part of the collective security treaty 0rganisation, into kazakhstan to help president tokayev there, sent a couple of thousand troops. he gets on very well with alexader lucashenko in belarus this is not somebody without friends in the region.
friends, hasn t he? we have just seen russian troops go in as part of the collective security treaty organisation, into kazakhstan to help president tokayev there, sent a couple of thousand troops. he gets on very well with alexader lucashenko in belarus this is not somebody without friends in the region. so maybe sergey and carl can pick up on that. looking at post soviet countries and conflicts there, are there some aspects to putin s policy where he actually acts as a stabilising force, as he has in kazakhstan? i would argue yes. in terms of kazakhstan i personally think kazakhstan has been a hideous dictatorship, and but, you know, they had chaos. the russians went in, when they went in, the international expert community exploded with commentaries to the effect that russia was annexing almost kazakhstan, and restoring the ussr.
her elderly parents in arizona, demanding that they pay or that they raise millions and millions of euros to pay a ransom in order to secure the release of their daughter. so, he admitted for the first time publicly that in our first interview. and he has since pleaded guilty, hasn t he? he has since pleaded guilty and admitted all charges in the united states. our final conversation with el shafee elsheikh and alexanda kotey had a slightly different aim. we were there with the story of one person in mind, the family of david haines. and we thought that it would be a legitimate and an important editorial exercise to try to seek
to covid, to energy crisis, even to military force. we have learned how to make the consensus, and how to make collectively the decisions. but what putin hadn t learned is to be part of some consensus. broader consensus. and until he understands that he should be a player together with everybody, this could change the situation. you say putin is not part of a consensus, but he has got friends, hasn t he? we have just seen russian troops go in as part of the collective security treaty 0rganisation, into kazakhstan to help president tokayev there, sent a couple of thousand troops. he gets on very well with alexader lucashenko in belarus this is not somebody without friends in the region. so maybe sergey and carl can pick up on that. looking at post soviet countries and conflicts there, are there some aspects to putin s policy where he actually acts as a stabilising force,
he was in touch with herfamily. her elderly parents in arizona, demanding that they pay or that they raise millions and millions of euros to pay a ransom in order to secure the release of their daughter. so, he admitted for the first time publicly that in our first interview. and he has since pleaded guilty, hasn t he? he has since pleaded guilty and admitted all charges in the united states. our final conversation with el shafee elsheikh and alexanda kotey had a slightly different aim. we were there with the story of one person in mind, the family of david haines. and we thought that it would be a legitimate