Секретные архивы КПСС, стрельба по министру, спасение Ельцина. Михаил Федотов

"Being Bad" isn't about motivation, it's about coming back to yourself. It's about the dark side, true victories, business results, relationships, and how to be alive. Male transformation without the fluff https://t.me/+ctuPLjvGf1MzYjZi Our guest is Mikhail Fedotov, a legendary lawyer and human rights activist, the man who literally gave the country freedom of speech. He is the same author of the media law by which all Russian journalism, despite everything, still operates. He was the Minister of the Press under Yeltsin, the Russian Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, the head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights under Putin, and one of the president's representatives at the historic CPSU trial in the Constitutional Court. It all began in 1976, when a young lawyer wrote his dissertation on freedom of the press, and his supervisor joked that the only topic more pressing was freedom of street demonstrations. Fourteen years later, that theoretical work evolved into a real law, which Fedotov wrote together with his friends Baturin and Entin. And then something happened that one can only dream of: Minister Poltoranin called him at home and offered him the position of deputy minister, personally implementing his own law. Fedotov himself called this his great peasant reform, the abolition of serfdom in the media, and with genuine joy he freed the editors, giving Kommersant, Ekho Moskvy, and dozens of independent publications a start in life. His career is a kaleidoscope of stories that no textbook can tell. For five years in Paris, he raised the Russian flag at UNESCO, and the Chilean ambassador delightedly admitted that he didn't believe he'd live to see the day when Russia would lead the fight against piracy. And just think of his moment of glory in the Constitutional Court in October 1992, when he single-handedly held the situation for nearly six hours, filing motion after motion and asking endless formal questions, all to prevent his opponents from launching Yeltsin's impeachment before the end of the day. A man of rare integrity, he refused, on principle, double his salary, which was common at the time. When Yeltsin personally offered him the post of Minister of the Press to replace the disgraced Poltoranin, he replied that he didn't wear the jackets of fallen comrades, but the president prevailed and insisted. In the 21st century, Fedotov has nine years as head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights during the difficult years of human rights in the 1920s, the title of Honored Lawyer of Russia, and hundreds of scholarly works under his belt. And his colleagues know him not only as a legal guru of Russian journalism but also as a bard who composes his own songs. A man for whom the greatest thrill of the 1990s was freedom and the opportunity for self-realization. Someone who, when asked what one thing from that era he would carry over to today, answered without hesitation: freedom of the media. 00:00 Mikhail Fedotov, a legendary lawyer and human rights activist, is our guest 03:12 VYUZI, a laboratory, and the myth of a reformer's forge 04:51 Freedom of the press and Russia's sovereignty were born on the same day 07:03 The USSR without rights: why press laws didn't exist 09:05 How the press law was written from scratch 10:24 From the author of the law to deputy minister 11:28 How Poltoranin became a "fairy godmother" in Yeltsin's government 14:22 Birth certificate or freedom 16:20 The KGB's red light, which turned out to be a switch 24:08 Return to the ministry after Yeltsin's quarrel with Poltoranin 29:50 A German loan, a burned-out base, and machine-gun fire in the office 33:45 How Sport-Express was registered in one hour without Bribes 37:51 Creeping Counterrevolution: The First Attempt to Kill the Law on the Media 40:19 Why the Old Law on the Media Can No Longer Be Reinstated 44:44 Is the Constitution itself constitutional? 47:22 A Sand Truck vs. a Tank: How the Kremlin Was Guarded 51:42 The CPSU Case in the Constitutional Court 56:58 Three Petitions and Questions Before Nine P.M.: How Fedotov Saved Yeltsin from Impeachment 01:00:41 The Question of Three Marriages, Chernomyrdin's Joke, and the Failure in the Federation Council 01:09:06 UNESCO, Paris, and the Chilean Ambassador Applauding the New Russia 01:14:51 UNESCO Days in Russia: How the Country Stopped Being a Petitioner 01:17:16 The Constitutional Court Called the Soviet Regime a Regime of Violence 01:18:33 "De-Stalinization" Was an Unfortunate Word; It Was Necessary De-Sovietization 01:20:59 The Wall of Grief, Perm-36, and Stalin monuments against this backdrop 01:23:31 The CPSU Archives, after which there were no illusions left 01:25:09 Why the revival of the Communist Party as the CPRF was illegal 01:26:41 Refusing a Kremlin office: a fork in the road that Fedotov regrets 01:32:06 Medvedev gave two years, but it turned out to be nine 01:33:25 A French image maker on Yeltsin 01:36:21 Freedom, the Union of Right Forces, and Khakamad...