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No sovereign rights.republics d. truly did not have it. in practice there was a centralized unitarian state. stalin in reality implemented, not lenins, but and however, he has not brought any changes into the constitution. le lenins principles of building the soviet union were revisited or reviewed, it seemed like there was no need for it. everything kept working just as well, and on the surface seemed to be very good. its a shame, from the basic legal foundations on which all of our state was b...

This is putin speaking just now. and then give these republics the right to leave here and madness. that is exactly what putin said moments ago. he then said that the bolsheviks try to stay in power at any cost. he goes on to talk about the breakup of the soviet union, which he believes there is the greatest test or a catastrophe for russia of all time. he lays out, with very cold and calculating language, "we are ready to show you what real dcom unitization looks like." ukraine, after the break...

I appreciate it. weve been listening to the general here. we heard what the president said today announcing serious sanctions that target russian banks, key putin allies, the ultra wealthy oligarchs who hold a lot of power in russia. are those the only likely things to hurt putin most? >> look, the biden administration faces a difficult challenge, and theyre handling it carefully, deliberately, systematically, and i think basically intelligently. you are trying to punish putin for what he has do...

Officials as to the urgency, the imminence of an attack. the daylight is disappearing. it includes increased patrols, particularly around critical infrastructure, power plants, bridges. the reason is it is the u.s. intelligence view of this that those will be targets in a russian invasion of ukraine. >> and according to a senior ukrainian official, u.s. officials warned ukraine that theyre particularly worried about a possible attack on the city of kharkiv outside the donbas region which putin h...

People that they will not be able to leave as we came in earlier this morning we saw a steady flow of cars heading out on the main road, also on that main road there were gas stations with very long lines of people waiting for gas. notably we are seeing a lot more military vehicles, ukrainian military vehicles than we have seen over the past few weeks, just a short time ago, a truck with a tank on its bed going rumbling by. but this area is of particular concern because when president putin anno...

Footing around the definitions which are frankly absurd from the perspective here. >> yeah, indeed. define invasion. one manage its foreign boots crossing on to a sovereign nations territory. sam kiley, appreciate it. thanks so much. lets bring in ukrainian political analyst ta tara zaragrovicz. your read on this? when is an invasion an invasion? >> yes, good morning, michael, thanks for having me. the most important from yesterday is mr. putin is he is declaring new republics. in terms of put...

Good evening from the ukrainian capital kyiv, and a city and country now praying for peace, but preparing for war. the government has announced plans to impose a state of emergency to last 30 days, and today urged its citizens living in russia to leave immediately. the rhetoric from moscow is defiant, with president putin saying the security of russia and its citizens is �*non—negotiable�*. and in the uk, borisjohnson warns moscow there would be "even more" sanctions, if its military opera...

Reservists and seek ac diplomatic position. how optimistic is president zelenskyy? >> well, look. first off, president zelenskyy or other ukrainian officials have been really welcoming the sanctions imposed by the united states and by other western powers like britain, particularly germany, which went ahead and put a hold on the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia to germany, a big strategic project that was causing a lot of concern and the germans have gone out there and theyve put a hold on...

At any complex foreign conflict. its one thing to claim a kind of neutrality about russias squabbles with their former republics. its another thing to claim that putin showing some great capable results right now. it is one of the strangest developments in the policy of u.s. foreign policy ever. i mean that. you dont reverse decades of cold war culture in a single term. i harts as the u.s. is part of this alliance. how did the republican party go from the party of mccarthy and his red scare of c...

Demand for denizification, which is a word i use carefully because there are no nazis there, but its how the russians describe the united states government. do you see the path to an agreement? >> i can design a possible agreement. it would have to deal with those issues, with crimea, with the state of the republics in the east, issues of our militarization and so forth. the problem, though, is in any negotiation is less the details than it is the willingness and ability of the parties to strike...