Vladimir Putin's Rise to Power Full Documentary

In the spring of 2012 Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin entered the Kremlin to start his third term as president of Russia. It had been a remarkable ascent in just over 20 years, a journey from unemployed spy to modern days are. lieutenant Kornel Zikropf has watched that climb to power.A former police investigator who once wanted to arrest Putin he says his rise has come at great cost. - Of beeng agent yup second is the receivable of Sagada well of course there has always been corruption in Russia but building it into such a particular system was something only mr. Putin has managed to do. you now what scared him talk more smitten is that my new toy basket or a woman good food will be held criminally responsible based on the evidence that has already been gathered absolutely yes they'll swap not the fish was so that in 2010 Zeke off laid out evidence he had gathered from an investigation of Putin's early years in city government in st. Petersburg they posted it on YouTube mysteriously there have been efforts to delete it from the web but not before it was downloaded by Russia expert and author Karen delisha and in in its essence what did that series that he posted what did it what was the summation of it the summation of it was a detailed account of the criminal activities that he feels Putin was involved in abusive power abuse of his official position involvement in relations with organized crime knowledge about money laundering I mean a whole range of economic crimes in your apology but he said your device's get us it delicious says that Z cause charges are part of a larger culture of corruption in Putin's Russia she has been gathering extensive documentation for a new book on what she calls Putin's kleptocracy and how he and his circle have shaped the country I started thinking instead of seeing Russia as a as a democracy in the process of failing we need to see it as an authoritarian system in the process of succeeding that that they are not actually incapable of being democrats they don't want to be Democrats what about that let's work on that pieces and if that's correct when did that start and that's what took me to the nineties because they were stealing from the very beginning yeah in 1990 the old Soviet system was collapsing but what exactly would replace it wasn't clear the uncertainty had a whole nation on edge among them was a young KGB officer named Vladimir Putin it returned to his hometown of st. Petersburg from his posting interested in east germany and he was looking for work he would eventually find it at st. petersburg city hall his former law professor and a totally subject had just been elected mayor so charge widow of millionaires ova remembers her husband's response when his former student insisted on telling him that he'd been working for the KGB way we'll move the prize EULA at the my husband was shocked by the candor and destroyed his job costs and he said he had worked in the German Democratic Republic in east germany and he said well i just happened to be looking for people that know Europe that no other languages in order to work on foreign economic relations they wouldn't have hired an idiot to work in reconnaissance oh I hope you can manage it go by and it needs to be said that according to my husband he never regretted Putin would soon be deputy mayor of the city and crucially chair of the committee on foreign economic relations he was the linchpin he controlled which foreign companies could register their offices and receive offices after all remember all this property with Soviet property Soviet Union had fallen yet so how is a company going to get access to property to set up a a branch in some Petersburg Putin Putin would have to assign it yeah yeah even as his star rose there was an early example of his ambition he commissioned a documentary about himself it was called power made by your shotgun no we're gonna blab your night sec putting head and a gentleman she wanted to admit that he had been a KGB agent in for and reconnaissance nosy multi-units near as we continue I'm okay faith in a little equipment interesting happen for Putin it was an effective way to out himself as a former member of the reviled KGB but from their subject Putin's past would prove useful after all it was running a city with a notorious criminal history and according to prominent political analyst stanislav belkovsky he needed someone who could work in its shutters in Petersburg halted bended capital of Russia gangster capitalization at that moment and the mayor's office should communicate to those europeans soundly but of course naturally some chuck could not be involved in such contracts and it was blood in their person who was in charge in the exciting where people can assume go to pull a premium member you may evil when I arrived for the shoot his entire lobby was full of foreigners this included finished Germans and there was some agreement they were all coming to work in the doubles now the agreement for the most part was about food aid for sale ah beginning fourth February had his work cut out for him the collapse of the Soviet Union brought terrible food shortages to st. Petersburg the agricultural system was in chaos and there was little foreign currency to buy food from abroad to fill the shelves a program was devised companies would be allocated raw materials like oil and minerals to be sold abroad and the money was then used to buy food in his film the deputy mayor assured hungry residents food was on its way muscle adore Delano he said he said the decision block of code your decision should pour at a party just keep critical interpretations know that the two days that's it the trouble was most of the promised food never arrived despair turned to anger and then protest a city councilor named marina CA was charged with investigating what happened Sally would eventually leave politics disillusioned and retreat to the countryside but she kept all her documents she says they show what went wrong in st. petersburg in the nineties and who she believes was to blame there is only so without going into all the details i'll tell you from this document signed by Putin all 124 million disappeared without a trace without a trace because from this list of materials that i have listed not a single gram of food King you know we're all over lowers and what happened was a fly-by-night companies were set up many of his friends who are still around today we're behind those companies the goods went out and incomplete or no shipments came back so millions millions were made just in that episode alone in the end the st. petersburg city council approved Sally his recommendation to turn the case over to the prosecutors general yeah we concluded that Putin and his assistant should be fine mr. subject dismisses the investigation as a political vendetta against her husband when you might understand that all of the investigations will uncle that were being undertaken by the deputy's was complete love those two CHS taxes at the bull cuz possible it was just a way to somehow influenced my husband to get rid of the probably more amorphous biol Seth boots Allah but so check protected his deputy the case of the missing food would never be prosecuted and Putin would deny the charges and blamed the companies and other bureaucrats yeah a six hour drive west of st. Petersburg is the ancients Fionna Gorski monastery and raizy cough says he comes here often to find peace he is haunted by case 1441 to wait it was an investigation into a construction company called 20th trust which had been registered by Putin's economic relations committee lieutenant colonel Zeke off was the top federal investigator in st. Petersburg and became convinced that crimes had been committed got that cause it's what does that he would so doing to have billion rubles were transferred to the company's account that's the way it worked was the funds were supposed to be used for specific building project but ended up being used for completely different purposes it you can go hard it's attracts emotional gates the investigation tracked how the city paid 20th trust to do work of the work was never done and how much of the money disappeared in one case according to seek off money was siphoned off by Putin and his friends to build vacation villas in Spain not about changing it was theft suspect that he put some chicken Putin should have been jailed and would be in jail undoubtedly know political will be first and foremost as the greatest number of documents and orders were signed by him a special but Putin didn't go to jail he went to Moscow by 1996 he began his rise in the Kremlin and was soon in a position to help his mentor back in st. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak had a problem he just lost the election that was the subject of yet another corruption investigation didn't notice the system god Duke the in 1996 when subjects stop being there as is often the case in the Russian alief a lot of people immediately turn their backs on him right now watching bloody marys woman was nearly the only one that didn't do that at this time subject was questioned by prosecutors but suddenly he had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital what he got the way so when my husband had a heart attack and it was hard to get in treatment because people were calling the chief cardiologist of the city was treating him tellegen dog treats subject let him die that's when I decided to take him overseas for treatment the only ginia the grams it was an orchestrated escape subject took off on a national holiday weekend aboard a private plane apparently arranged by vladimir putin weeks later he showed up in Paris looking surprisingly healthy while more light important helps me organize that missing everything back in the Kremlin Putin's loyalty to subject had been duly noted by 1999 and ailing Boris Yeltsin was nearing the end of his presidency and looking for a Savior himself his administration was the focus of a massive corruption investigation having partial doubt much of Russia's wealth to a band of oligarchs and allowed aids and family members to enrich themselves in the process there was fear in the Yeltsin camp about what might happen if his successor proved less than understanding it already hired and fired for Prime Minister's before anointing glad amir Putin well I think what they saw in him was that he had protected some chalk and as they said he didn't give up some chalk and he's not going to give us up how vulnerable were they at the time very vulnerable but there was a problem Putin was a faceless bureaucrat unknown to the public would have to win an election if he was to become president of the country and protector of the Yeltsin family as in st. Petersburg and instant biography was commissioned natalia Vokoun was on the writing team she now lives in Paris what was the narrative that they wanted out justjust his everything I mean where he comes from who is he why he was in KGB he was that was the main thing about him he's the KGB man that's all so what they wanted to present him that he is a normal human being has parents had the biography his biography tells of an only child who grew up in a poor quarter of st. Petersburg an unusual boy who at age 16 went to the local KGB office and asked to join up it was told to come back later seven years later he did with a law degree and after KGB training was assigned his post in East Germany once and always KGB can you explain to a Western audience what what does that me they they are the people who prefer to operate in shadow they are the people which are a like state is first and people are second all these kinds of things and he hasn't you and he cannot I don't think he can change it you know it's unchangeable he was so much the KGB man he would take a turn as head of its successor agency the FSB in the year before he became prime minister yeah then one month into his new job in the fall of nineteen ninety nine this bomb is obliterated for apartment buildings in Moscow and other cities all blown up at night while people slept hundreds died this was russia's 911 russian historian you refreshed in ski has written a book on the apartment bombings that have to understands the whole country is very nervous that's the fuel needs at every several day so like once a week the building is going to get blown up all of a sudden the Prime Minister few Russians had heard about was everywhere swearing revenge still it is the video what about - what about to issue delusion is the toilet when we is that the exam was filled with tension building would point to rebels in Chechnya for a separatist movement was holding ground the Russian officials said that there was a Chechen trail hard in the apartment bombings not proof of Judge involvement a chant rail it wasn't clear what that meant but it was used in order to justify a new invasion of Chechnya Putin's invasion would be brutal yeah yeah yeah yeah man who waged it was a new national hero you quickly became the most popular politician in Russia even though before the apartment bombings he was believed to have had no chance to succeed Yeltsin as president they needed a set of situations in which they could postpone the elections entirely and make it more difficult for the opposition to focus on unimportant things like the corruption of the US and family as the irony is that this is precise because the first Chechen war was started the situation war was started and provoked in 95 in order to have a situation would allow the government to council elections or to postpone elections claiming that you and not have them urine support and absolutely the same was done in 99 so there was a real Yeltsin interest in this but there also was a Putin interest because he wanted to be President and it worked three months into a new millennium Russia had a new president he seemed a modern man a man for the future a future all Russians folk would be better than the past but 15 years later shadows from the past haunt this place it's a memorial to those who died in those apartment bombings since that day books newspaper reports and documentaries have all raised disturbing questions about what really happened here who was really responsible among the questioners McHale Tripp askin who spent two years trying to investigate the crime on behalf of one of the families a former KGB officer himself and a lawyer for passion was always dubious about the official story the Chechen connection his doubts only grew when his former colleagues in the security services reacted to his investigation I was in that in the cherished or incapacity or telling me don't dig into it otherwise you'll get in prison yourself and then specifically they were telling me in a straightforward way just leave it if you don't want to have trouble and I was saying that well I'm the former investigator and i have experienced and I can help and I can run my own investigation has provided by resting but there would be many obstacles placed in the way of an investigation the Russian government destroyed all the evidence in the case of the earlier bombings no sooner had the bombings taken place than bulldozers showed up to to remove the rubble including human remains and that case they destroyed the crime scene with the troubling questions about the bombings were really fueled by what happened here a few days later in a town outside Moscow called reaction a fifth bomb was discovered in the basement of an apartment building Andrea's on bye-bye watchful inhabitants of that building and that bomb was defused and the people who had placed that bomb in the basement turned out to be not Chechen terrorists they turned out to be agents of the FSB the Russian security service tests showed that the bags contained an exclusive military explosive called hexagon the detonator to was military I think that the evidence that there was an FSB operation to place explosives in the apartment building in realizin is incontrovertible at the time the FSB claimed the reason operation was part of a training exercise with the broader conclusion that security services could have killed their own people and the other apartments was dismissed by the government in his biography of them called it utter nonsense totally insane no Chechens were ever charged others arrested were convicted in secret trials and still others in trials tainted by allegations of forced confessions but all along it's been disturbingly dangerous to investigate too closely people who tried to investigate the apartment bombings in many cases ended up dead our Yaran shahe chicken Sergei's shonkoff alexander litvinenko anna politkovskaya Sergei Markov is a political analyst and often speaks for Vladimir Putin there have been a number of credible investigation that have concluded that this was the work of the SBA and could not have happened without the knowledge of mr. put it was a new one credible investigation which shows that had been down by efforts where all this propagandistic Kwazii investigation just you think tricks and so on I already head about this story about this episode's be exploded the building consume more school maybe hundreds of times in all these people free no order nobody was in jail don't be a victim of propaganda it's very dangerous also there were three attempts in the Russian are Duma to investigate the events in riaz on in all cases they were voted down or with with the ruling party under Putin's control voting unanimously not to investigate and not to ask questions McHale true passion was asked to help with one of those do my investigations a week before he was due to report his findings he was stopped by the police as much it there after 19 and now so they stopped me at the police check point where there was a crowd of people it's in we have the right of this month they only invited us a check my identification twice and check the car and they didn't find anything profession when I was closing at one of the officers threw in a bag and I told him that's not mine why are you putting that in my car yet the state would you open the bag and said here's the gunner here is the gun it's not accepted standard and I was immediately arrested at second week in Las Casas somewhere sabriye your passion was sent to prison for two years he came out and again spoke about his investigation of the apartment bombings and was arrested and jailed for another two years well the apartment bombings saved the Yeltsin system they saved the corrupt division of property that took place after the fall of the Soviet Union they cost thousands of innocent lives both Russian injection by starting a new war are they brought to power someone up from the security services and that's Putin who of course how had not had had no interest in democracy his first act as president was to grant his predecessor boris yeltsin immunity from prosecution but Putin's administration would quickly ensure his own safety to case number 144 128 that corruption investigation in st. Petersburg quietly went away a salad and some have a prosecutor general gave an order that the criminal case should be terminated a wind-up dolls explained to us that criminal investigations are not pursued in relation to the President of the Russian president of elemental images investigators Zeke are still wonders how things might have been different had he been allowed to continue with his case look at the situation in our country would be different people with respect civil law because everyone would understand that if the president can be prosecuted then in essence our officials would understand that the law has to be protected as it now stands Russia has no lawfulness probability models convenient in the early years of his presidency there was hope that Putin would live up to his billing and take Russia on a path closer to the west democratic liberal and capitalists in 2003 he summoned the country's oligarchs to a meeting in st. Catharines hall in the Kremlin under Yeltsin they become billionaires under Putin they hoped for even more business and new legitimacy on the left the richest of all Mikhail Khodorkovsky finished school I got the impression that he was are a person of our generation scary in Nashville : what do you mean by that of our generation Italian - ready clean you should kill Gloria our parents generation they have a totalitarian view even if they're against him as opposed to our generation were closer to the west Khodorkovsky was concerned about a new us anti-corruption law that would affect Russian companies doing business in America couples for company doesn't below go ahead and digital that the force the heads of companies who wanted to list their shares on the market to sign a disclaimer from that they don't allow corruption practices within their companies initiated the wood at the same time by 2003 corruption was already the key method of state governance used by the bureaucrats and bureaucrats starting to demand the kind of money that was impossible to hide first letís why hasn't make a choice build companies that are open and list them or do business Russian style in other words they bribes to receive privileges but remain within a closed system we decided the question was worth discussing what was the score with up swinging Furcal ski asked if he could speak frankly I made the case that it was time for Russia to change its ways most of the property where I see I'd seen you when we expect me to your heart - lets see it easy tonight you like over-unity it's similar to the first anyways the door as i understand that what you were essentially doing with the television cameras running was accusing the president of russia of running a corrupt state not some really yeah poor condition of computer did not accuse him personally of corruption and this is not how he took it in the spring and let the story but there's a basic uses inner circle and him of creating a model that uses corruption as his backbone so thank you . midweek tooth too far in creating that model store boughten reminded him that his oil company Yukos was facing tax problems now that does narrow was the company's stock at the going to do is snuggle is losing it bring your life yeah they're pretty easy here that girl is your problem look away the problem is this is dustin look at taking probably always Nick Lee it was a veiled threat on all the work i do you take a picture know yourself I did not argue with him i said we may have started that but we must be the ones to end it did I realize it wasn't about putting the displeasure of course it did but I thought he would choose the European model and I was not the only one thinking that because it was obviously more beneficial for the country more achievable of a good in this training Khodorkovsky was also perceived as a political threat he had been funding opposition parties and spending money to promote democracy the meeting in the Kremlin had sealed his fate he was arrested his oil company dismantled and divided among Putin loyalists russia's richest man would serve 10 years in a Siberian prison camp today he lives in exile in Switzerland and has no doubts about the system put in put in place once she sells phones model at first you thought you could build sort of a Democratic model that he could control nobody model like this has not exist so he started to slide towards at first mild totalitarianism and then an increasingly harsh telat arianism if the situation develops further you will reach your food a latarian model nothing in reality every authoritarian system is equipped khakhra see you let's equip the great ski some early evidence of that khakhra see and how it worked was found in 2003 when police raided the offices of a small company called spag in a suburb of frankfurt germany author and journalist organ Roth has written extensively about the raid which targeted money laundering in several countries allegedly by st. Petersburg's tablets kya mafia group insist reports they mentioned suspect as in company has close links to criminal organizations so called Tom bastia my friends and Peter's book and mr. put in and so they were it was money that was being being laundered in Germany long and insurance through investments in in real estate Putin had been on spags advisory board since 1992 and had a close relationship to one of its principles I only stepped aside when he became president definitely but when german police moved in two raids bags officers they discovered they had a problem it was a political affair they must inform at this time chance like a traitor so it's a fast time I think set about a normal investigation from prosecutor in a small town in Germany mr. Schroeder get informed or would like to be informed about this investigation why he would like to be informed because put him it was also high level to this day gerhard schröder and Vladimir Putin are close friends to celebrate birthdays together what happened to the investigation in the end it finished without any resultant Schroeder has never publicly addressed the case but their friendship provoked the scandal in germany in 2005 just two weeks before losing a general election Schroders signed off on a billion euro loan guaranteed to Russia's gas pipeline to europe after he retired Schroeder had a new job chairman of the pipeline's consortium they got shredded epitomizes the scam in germany and was it largely he didn't seem to be very bothered about avoiding the appearance of impropriety my field in his early days in office Putin went on a charm offensive towards the west you President Bush famously looked into clue to his eyes and saw his soul he believed he was committed to the best interests of his country pretty was trained in the KGB to deceive foreigners he has a very sharp I figure week this is good at persuading people and just intimidating them and he's been doing this with Western leaders sometimes with charms sometimes with threats but boy does he do it early on british prime minister tony blair was charmed by him and as with Germany there are two economies would become even more entangled London's financial center was a city enchanted by Russian money these were the years of high oil prices and Putin's Russia was growing like never before it fueled massive corruption and much of that money was flowing into London City of London which has made huge amount of money item laundering Russian money over the years the city has ultimately the measure of the British economy and it runs on Russian money Larry murrow's off is a Russian construction magnate who now lives in exile in london his company has done project for the criminal most recently on the scandal-ridden sochi olympics but finally he says the corruption under Putin had gone beyond what he could live with if you put these people in the United States or in canada and check what they've done they're criminals Yeltsin was brought and supported by criminals Putin I was brought up to power in this nineties he had his own know and it is called it when he came to my school and became prime minister and president it was called Peter scope so he changed immediately the whole system but not changed he made it different he made it in order it is everywhere it is a system so the system is a system of a mutual support and tribute it's a pay-to-play system if you are on a list of possible people who might be approached to be a member of the Duma for example you have to pay for your seat once you're in there then you can turn around and charge businessmen to have line items in the budget same thing all across all sectors Sergei kolesnik ours is another russian tycoon who lives in exile he fled to tallinn estonia he has intimate knowledge of how the system works and how he says corruption goes right to the top at the estaba muy it's the probability Russian business entirely depends on protection is it the small you need protection it is called having a roof or in Russian creature that she's through it at the creation of boiler example in the most creature you have the more successful your business will be so every businessman dreams about giving presents and getting protection and if you give a present to the president it's like having God in self watching your back at the rapture video me Stan we shows that the best football Krishna car says he used to run one of Putin's giftings games and explains how it worked a business put money into a charity in this case full of hope kolesnik arms company called Petra mad took the money to buy medical equipment purchased from siemens but the profit margin was huge around forty percent that money was funneled through a myriad of other companies ending up in something called Ross invest kolesnik our phone two percent of rose invest but he says ninety-four percent was owned by vladimir putin see in BCTC authority if she practically all investments all projects of rose invest only implemented if Putin said yes to it in ya person because you want no activity would have been possible without his acknowledgment bring it could really thats Kolesnikova says in the beginning the money was raised for a 20 million dollar retirement home for the president but then the president decided not to retire at that point kolesnik all says he was told to divert even more money and soon the retirement home had blossomed into a palace built on state land it's a 250 million dollar italianate extravaganza overlooking the Black Sea near sochi but they're not sure what the fish Michelle v she got to order I started saying that I'm not happy with all the finances going for his palace and I was told witnesses are and you are his servants question set at the hope Putin has denied that he has any connection to the palace it was reportedly sold to a rich businessman but it remains a heavily guarded mystery classic off believes his scheme was only one of many ways to hide money for Putin through proxies how much is a matter of speculation and some educated guesswork I start with such investigations more than seven years ago and in late two thousand seven ty published my estimate on the assets being kind of a person's personal control it was the figure 40 billion dollars 40 billion dollars that figure was reportedly confirmed by the CIA in 2014 if true it would make russia's President one of the richest men in the world in 2008 as he approached the end of his second term that wealth was a problem under the Constitution he would have to leave office for at least one term before he could run again diplomatic cables revealed he was worried about how his riches might be viewed by a new president he solved the problem by swapping places with his hand-picked Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev it was an arrangement that worked for a while I think it was proved by many sources and rambling and round robin and 2010 and first half of 2011 he wanted to let me dream additive to go for the second term in 2012 but the chain of the revolutions and Arab world has made to a big impression upon what I'm a person the Arab Spring surged out of Tunisia in to Tahrir Square and on Tripoli proportion these mass demonstrations overthrowing powerful dictators must have been worrying about the first stage of his and receiver has coming to understanding that he could network with the post because it's the destiny of Qaddafi and waiting for him in 2011 when Vladimir Putin announced he would run again for Russia's presidency yeah the response was mass demonstrations in Moscow streets protests which had to be put down by police there's never been a good succession model I'm in the Soviet Union or in Russia and he's very worried about how he will leave . doesn't believe in a coffin he doesn't want to go to a jail cell he has got so many guilty secrets so much money is being stolen so many people have been killed but he doesn't really trust in want to keep him safe if he steps down from part so in a way he's both the master of the treadmill but also present in 2012-13 moves made yet aside and took back the presidency in a Kremlin controlled election by now the presidential term had been extended to two six-year terms Vladimir Putin could remain in power until 2024 but the country he rules over is in deepening trouble in Russia cities there is a veneer of prosperity left over from the earlier days of high oil prices but the economy has been pillaged and in the vast reaches with the majority of Russians live deep poverty stubbornly prevails Britain's greatest fear is that the Russians will realize that his modernization project has failed he came into power promising to make rush into a modern western country and it's still basically a corrupt backward country the bottom line just to put it with two numbers two numbers is all we need the median or the midpoint wealth for the average Russian is 871 dollars according to credit suisse very neutral report 871 dollars means half the population has more than that and wealth and half the population has less median wealth in India over a thousand dollars so the average Russian is poor than the average Indian so that's one number 871 the other number is 110 110 individuals own thirty-five percent of the wealth of Russia they are the most unequal country by far in the world how to distract from that very powerful tool he's got his aunt is this and blame the west from this going wrong and couple that with a very powerful propaganda machine where all the mass media is under family control and he's in a very good position he has a very strong sense of entitlement that Russia had stopped taking away from enjoying the Savior collapse and Russia has the right to get it back Putin has invaded Crimea and redrawing the map of Ukraine claiming he is protecting ethnic Russians according to a spokesman it is a justifiable response to Western encroachment on territories the Soviet Union once held a look at the latter estonia which is became full members or four European Union and NATO is a not independent were technical Russians under the clear discrimination in those country and look at the paper clip and what with ukraine united states all this year supported diversification if you're Russian you can be killed if you're Russians you are still cried because I would not be protected if you're Ukraine an ultra-nationalist ok you will be in the parliament you will be the president every single bit to you but you have if you're Russian bombs artery array and killings will be an answer this is one sorry we answer it stronger No it is a sentiment that has played well at home on the streets where they demonstrated against him only two years earlier they were now singing his praises meanwhile the United States was calling for strong sanctions against Russia but in the capitals of Europe there was reluctance keep on trying to bring this depression and we invite into are some meetings we try and treat rushes north country and we think we're trying to calm things down but in fact what we're doing this were staking things were giving mr. Putin the impression that were not to be taken seriously and he continued to push harder and harder and harder and that's extremely dangerous then in July 2014 1 violent act would transform the political landscape malaysian passenger plane MH 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by what was widely believed to have been a Russian supplied whether 298 people were killed suddenly the West was galvanized I demand that Russia fully cooperate with the criminal investigation of the downing of mh17 it's necessary to make it clear that it will not be business as usual for opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine which is a threat to the world as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of mh17 in November Putin arrived at the g20 meeting in Australia and found himself on the margins of the class photo Obama and other leaders who once welcomed his rubles is gas and oil now distance themselves at lunch Putin seemed a lonely figure he left the summit early he returned to a country in crisis an economy beset by plummeting oil prices a ruble in free fall and new tough sanctions the question is what will he do next I haven't seen any evidence that he's willing to back down and it's not his style at all ever he doesn't back down there's a story in his biography that Putin tells about himself it happened in this building where he shared a one-room apartment with his parents and it involved a cornered rat he said that I learned very good island forever don't try to push somebody into the corner they will jump - because when you don't have what shows you just you attack and I think it's um it's absolutely sure about himself when he's in the corner that's why he's dangerous he can jump he will not say okay let's talk yeah you won't jab