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BBC BREAKFAST WITH FROST
INTERVIEW:
VLADIMIR PUTIN
MARCH 5TH, 2000
Please note “BBC Breakfast with Frost” must be credited if any part of this
transcript is used
DAVID FROST:
Time now to turn to the east and that interview, 15 years ago the soviet
Union was an undisputed superpower, a military force whose power
stretched from the Baring Straits to Berlin but President Gorbachev’s
introduction of Glasnost and Perestroika unleashed forces that partly led
ultimately to the break up of the old USSR and the downfall of the
Communist Party as the all-powerful force in the state.
[FILM CLIP - Reference to Putin coming to power as Prime Minister, then
acting President]
DAVID FROST:
In this his first television interview with a Western or indeed a foreign
journalist since he entered the Kremlin I asked him about relations with the
West, Chechnya and his background in the KGB, but I started by asking
him about his stated determination to make Russia strong again, was this,
as some have feared, an indication of a throwback to the days of the Cold
War?
PUTIN:
My position is that our country should be a strong, powerful state, a capable
state, effective, in which both its citizens of the Russian Federation and all
those who want to co-operate with Russia could feel comfortable, could feel
protected, could always feel in their own shoes - if you will allow the
expression - psychologically, morally. But that has nothing to do with
aggression. If we again and again go back to the terminology of the cold war
we are never going to discard attitudes and problems that humanity had to
grapple with a mere 15-20 years ago. We in Russia have to a large extent rid
ourselves of what is related to the cold war. Regrettably , it appears that our
partners in the west are all too often still in the grip of old notions and tend to
picture Russia as a potential aggressor. That is a completely wrong
conception of our country. It gets in the way of developing normal relations in
Europe and indeed the world.
DAVID FROST:
Looking at the opinion polls today, which show you at approx. 60 percent and
Zyuganov approx. at 23 percent. You must be very happy.
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