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Still robin youre watching the aljazeera news our life one headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. Were watching those votes lead a vote against us will save a lot threats from donald trump were just hours away from a showdown between some members of the United Nations and the white house plus. At this stage we believe that a deliberate act and i repeat that at this stage we believe he is i believe work act two people have been arrested after a car plows into a crowd in Me...

What i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland but they were mothers postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. Bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what were being told about. I want to go and i want to see what its like and my process of disenchantment from the western Propaganda Machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events ...

Time surfing and i know its a typical but i think its a nice mental picture to get you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russia and theres trial and contacts. The associations are probably not so positive are they. They can be quite negative unfortunately weve been fed a diet of cliches about russia. Russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens. Of success the state to the soviet union and somehow or other. Of starvation in the countries of extreme cold disc...

Interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. You mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country its a very complex society its sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism ...

Ask you whether you ever felt that you are giving this country an easy pass i dont think i think that the majority of the content of my book deals with the sometimes very disagreeable parts of russias history ive got a chapter on the leg museum ive got a chapter on the Jewish Museum of tolerance and i talk very frankly in those two chapters of some of the black spots in russias history and i think what i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland an...

A diet of cliches about russia. Russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens as the successor to the soviet union and somehow or other images of. Starvation in the country of extreme cold discomfort of. The kinds of things that unfortunately still linger and you wrote the whole book to address some of those negative stereotypes and i think you have a very unusual take for a western or former western diplomat. When it comes to russia because. I think theres a lot of understanding the...

A former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland and. The mother asked postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. Bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what were being told about. I want to go and i want to see what its like and my process of disenchantment from the western Propaganda Machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest and fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way i...

Impossible not to agree that many of those adventures created more harm than good and yet they also produce very little in the way of south reflection to what extent this insistence on portraying russia as redeeming really ugly is predict a date on the needs of the west who sees itself as invariably good despite all its recent policy blunders yes i think youre absolutely right. Its very important for the west and i laid however you define that military diplomatic political media that. Believe in...

Basic decency towards this country has become so does your mental conditioning and mutual propagandizing to the point where people come to believe each other if they keep telling each other thats good you know if you if you repeat lies often enough they become the truth and when youve got people in in time Media Communities who are constantly referencing each other with attitudes and opinions that really have no basis in fact unfortunately fulfill turn to will to fulfill to the reality takes hol...

Let me start out by thinking everybody who put on this festival. It is day two of the amazing event here in the tucson premier book festival of the country. Of course, the great part of what is going on here in arizona. Lets give them a big round of applause. As i said yesterday, we ended one streak, but there is a new streak of good book festivals that has just started out. Maybe just as important. We are very lucky to have doug stanton with us here today. Before i start, would like to take a m...