To move on, to try to forget about it. You have chosen to write a book, to dig deep into your memories of that chaos, that desperate time. Why . There are really two questions that people asked me when i got back from kabul in august 2021. One was, why did any of this happen . Why did it happen after a 20 Year Campaign there, the expenditure of thousands of lives, the expenditure of trillions of dollars . How is it that this came to be back in the control of the taliban . The other question i was asked was just what was it like . What was the Human Element of this . What was it like dealing with desperate people trying to flee their country, you know, with their lives in a Carrier Bag . What was it like for the people on the ground . And what was it like for the soldiers who had invested so much for so little over that 20 years . You are very candid about the degree of trauma that you felt and that many of those around you felt. Would you say that, sitting here with me now, that trauma
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Twitter Christ Foul calling an open free internet of basic human rights and social Media Platform steadily, senses, excuses, United States, ah, by that lives are worldwide. This is archie international from moscow. Its sunday, that means were going to take you through some of the biggest stories that weve been covering here over the past 7 days 1st. So getting you up to speed on whats happening this weekend to restore contacts, organized, direct dialogue. This is what Ladiva Approach and says hes expecting from the upcoming summer in geneva with Joe Biden. The russian President Cabbage thoughts and a newly released interview with stacy television. Right. Lets get across that. Now, to shed more light on that correspondent he drank with a good, its pretty ras president put in to talk about an upcoming summit. So well keep an outlining while this time mister pool, who was quite specific about the things that he is intending to bring up in geneva when he meets Joe Biden. And 1st of all, th
That to us now. So you know, you should look at what the u. S. Is doing, not russia. As far as nonsystematic or nonstandard opposition is concerned, and the question you equated, first of all, this man knew he was breaking the law of russia. He is somebody who has been twice convicted and he consciously ignored the requirements of the law, the gentleman in question went abroad for treatment and his registration was not asked for. As soon as he got to the hospital he shared his videos on the internet, but he ignored the demands of the laws and knowing about that he came back to russia and so i take it that he wanted consciously to break the law. He did exactly what he wanted to do, so what kind of discussion are we having . What will we talk about there . As far as the unofficial opposition is concerned, i would just like to say the following. Look, i dont think that im going to say anything complicated. It will be completely comprehensible if you manage to get the message across to you
signed a document acknowledging that the ussr, the union of soviet socialist republics was coming to an end. the baltic states had been first to bale out of the soviet union but by the end of 1991, 30 years ago, all the constituent parts of the ussr had been fighting for or declaring their status as independent nations and it was a landmark moment 30 years ago this week when russia, itself, acknowledged the game was up. the leader of the ussr mikhail gorbachev realized basically he would have to agree. and before the end of that month, on christmas night, december 25th, 1991, mikhail gorbachev stepped down as head of the soviet union. the hammer and sickle flag of the ussr was brought down at the kremlin. the three color flag of the russian federation was raised in its place. and on christmas 30 years ago christmas, 1991, boris yeltsin became president of the russian federation. he served as president for eight years almost exactly from christmas 1991 until new year s eve, 19