Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180722:14:03:00
A period of unusual weakness. it lost its 300-year-old sarist empire. in this context, it watched as the united states expanded nato, intervened against its allies in the ball kins. from america's vantage point locking in the security of the newly liberated countries of eastern europe was an urgent matter. it worried the war was destabilizing europe and creating a nightmare. and they could not condone the wars in chechnya in which tens of thousands of civilians were killed and much of the region destroyed. in addition by the late 1990s russia was moving away from a democratic path. by the mid ...