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And just in case youre worried about whos going to pay for it mexico will pay for. It well see what happens who knows jose who knows well see how this bill will be successful. What started my interest i should say and black americans in the soviet union in the thirtys was finding this portrait even though i had gone to grad school for the masters degree in russian literature i speak russian and i had lived over there in the late eighties finding this portrait was. A Stunning Development for me how did i not know about this. I didnt know that this was a phenomenon that there were many. Africanamericans who went to russia and the in the thirtys. In the 1920 s. And thirtys several 100 africanamericans moved to the soviet union and many of fish. And still live in russia. I mean you. Know no one. Needs one being the son. Of a russian that i meet here the 1st day like hey youre part of that i want to ask the question and then. We wait. They mash it all. Back home black american suffering fro
Figure how to explain the only says he is making progress in his recovery as moscow and berlin continue to wrangle over evidence in the alleged poisoning. Watching the weekly here on our to a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days plus all the latest Headline News thanks for joining us this hour. Opposition crowds have regrouped across belarus and theres now a major protest underway in minsk anger at the alleged rigging of the president ial election and Police Brutality has been driving people to the streets for 6 weeks now. Earlier describe the tactics the protesters have been using. What they do is they gather in little groups over the city in various districts where they live and then they could show all of that into a into a huge rally huge much asss happening barden knowledge crowds merging together right now its difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps 5000 people behind me more maybe joining the but the impression so far is that there are fewer p
About the far right, white supremacist, from the streets to the white house, we will spread out globally we will be looking at it historically, well probably deal with terms like fascism and populism and nationalism. Before we do that, i want to spend just a moment talking about what we are going to do with the technology. Number one, we are asking all the videos stay off. So we dont get video bombed and that we use all of our bandwidth for the conversation as opposed to video. Number two, to ask questions rather than doing it orally, what we are going to ask you to do is to type your questions into the chat box, to do that if youre familiar with resume if you run your cursor across the screen you will see at the bottom of a box that says chat, click on chat and you will see off to the right hand side of your screen a line at the bottom where you can type it in your questions and comments. As we go through this discussion with Larry Rosenthal if youd be good enough to type in your ques
A little nugget d. W. Made for mines. Last winter in moscow. Thousands of people lined up in the middle of the night to be a part of an old ritual. The russian soul where the siegel of which weve put our faith in god makes a strong lets be honest here a yetta. Something resembling a baptism for adults is taking place next to a church. The faithful take a quick dip in ice cold water. During the soviet era this Russian Orthodox ritual to mark a picture and all but disappeared now its being revived. This is not just about faith its a way to show the world but russia is capable on. Russian television is here to show president Vladimir Putin taking the plunge. 400 kilometers from moscow the man who serves as a role model for his country enters the chilly water. This ritual good nights russians in different parts of the country. And the faithful are impressed that their president is leading by example. With both the broad bottom of it a good russian or a religious russian if you spray people