Cspan two. Politics at russian and the influence of russian president Vladimir Putin. Speakers include a russian journalist, a former u. S. Ambassador to russia and nato and the first Russian Foreign minister who served under Boris Yeltsin. This is just over an hour and a half. John good morning. My name is john herbst. I run the Eurasian Center here at the atlantic council. Thank you all for coming. We have a Wonderful Program for you this morning. And i should mention that this is part of our series on internal developments in russia. We began with a session in october on demography in russia. And this of course is on politics. Next month, we are doing a session on the russian economy, followed by a session a session probably in april on Energy Sector in russia. We have a real treat for you this morning. We have a wonderful lineup of speakers. I will not describe them except to say yevgenia albats, a topnotch journalist from moscow, who has written a very provocative and a fascinatin
John good morning. My name is john herbst. I run the Eurasian Center here at the atlantic council. Thank you all for coming. We have a Wonderful Program for you this morning. And i should mention that this is part of our series on internal developments in russia. We began with a session in october on demography in russia. And this of course is on politics. Next month, we are doing a session on the russian economy, followed by a session a session probably in april on Energy Sector in russia. We have a real treat for you this morning. We have a wonderful line of speakers. I will not describe them except to say yevgenia albats, a topnotch journalist from moscow, who has written a very provocative and a fascinating paper on russia politically. Foreign minister kozyrev will comment on that, as will eugene rumer from carnegie. And ambassador and former deputy secretary nato, Sandy Vershbow will bat cleanup for us this morning. And with that i will turn it over to dr. Albats. Yevgenia thank y
A very provocative and russia,ing paper on politically. With that, i will turn it over to i would like to extend my to whoatitude invited me and asked me to write the paper there who invited me who invited me and asked me to write the paper. The main topic of the paper i council the democratic and in this paper, i argued that we have been witnessing the transformation of the regime in russia. History in italy with mussolini. To be sure there is no conspiracy and the story i am outlining, i am just arguing has win Vladimir Putin president in 2000, and over the years, over eight all layers staffed of the russian government, the upper levels of the government and the president ial administration and as a result, almost 60 or 70 of all positions in the top layer of the russian government were kgb and somehe people from the military intelligence group. 2015, it became clear in the public sphere that the country is run by the people who grew up or by their sons and daughters. We have witness
San francisco board of education San Francisco Unified School District for tuesday, october 11, 2016, is now called to order. Roll call ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton thank you ms. Wynns mr. Haney ms. Sing thank you. Please join me for the pledge of allegiance. Thank you we want to welcome everybody who is joined us for for those of you who dont know to address the board of education we want to ask you to fill out speaker cards theyre available in the hallway and please give them to ms. Casco before the item a called item a approval of the minutes no approval tonight item b sprurnts report superintendant lee. Thank you mr. Haney last wednesday im happy to announce that mayor ed lee joined Dianne Feinstein Elementary School students and families for subconsciously walk and role to city hall rec and park Phil Ginsburg joined us and sfmtas ed reiskin greeted the students it was estimated for 17 thousand students walked or rode their bikes to school sfusd t
We have a backup. Metering lights are on. Doesnt look too bad coming up to the pay gates. 880 northbound and southbound traffic is moving along pretty well. [ no audio ] [ no audio ] the ordeal with the hijacked egypt airplane is over thankfully. The hijacker has been arrested according to the cypress foreign ministry. All hostages including eight americans on board have been released. Local tv footage show what is is believed to be the last of the crew and passengers held leaving the plane. One man could be seen climbing out of a cockpit window. Negotiations resulted in dozens of passengers being released. They could be seen climbing down the stairs in two group and boarding a bus. This started six hours ago when egyptair 181 bound for cairo was hijacked and landed in sigh press. The hijacking was not something that has to do with terrorism and the hijacker may have been motivated by a domestic situation. There were reports the man claimed he had an explosive belt. Egyptian Government