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Oct 4, 2026
Art BellHOST
In addition to presenting slide illustration lectures in the USA, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, England, Italy, and Mexico, he's appeared on television in the USA, the United Kingdom, and more recently with Oprah Winfrey.
Art BellHOST
Walt is vice chairman of the International Committee for UFO Research and is one of the founding members of the new Joint American Soviet Aerial Anomaly Federation, or JASAAF, organized in 1991 to promote UFO research and cooperation between UFO organizations in the USA, similar organizations in the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States.
Art BellHOST
So all the way from Texas, here is Walter Andrus.
Art BellHOST
Good evening, Walter.
KiriothHOST
Anyway, brace yourself.
KiriothHOST
The timeline then suddenly jumps to 1996 where Boris Yeltsin is assassinated in Russia, forcing Russia to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Independent States.
KiriothHOST
What?
DKDiamantesHOST
Whoa, whoa.
10 MINS LATER
DKDiamantesHOST
Jeez.
KiriothHOST
So, uh, NATO was dissolved in 2003, and global oil production was disrupted horrifically thanks to wars in the Middle East between Arabic nations and former parts of the Soviet Union.
KiriothHOST
The Commonwealth of Independent States loses more republics.
KiriothHOST
[laughs] Shai, stop it.
Benjamin RemmlerHOST
EU leaders will discuss Ukraine's financing on October 15th and 16th.
Benjamin RemmlerHOST
And now for international diplomatic news, the CIS's upcoming summit in Turkmenistan.
Benjamin RemmlerHOST
Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a Russia-led geopolitical bloc, meet on October 9th in Avaza.
Benjamin RemmlerHOST
Putin is expected to attend.
Patrick SandersHOST
Yeah.
Patrick SandersHOST
And you think back to those early years of the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and particularly in the period when you were C, did seem to be an opportunity to draw Russia more closely into the national order.
Patrick SandersHOST
And there was a lot of cooperation between Moscow and West, particularly after 9-11, they participated in what was then the G8 war.
Patrick SandersHOST
Where did that good faith go? I mean, did we lose Putin or did we just fundamentally misjudge him from the outset? No, well, that's
Michael MahoneyGUEST
During that time, I studied threats.
Michael MahoneyGUEST
And the way I studied threats was Russia or Commonwealth of Independent States.
Michael MahoneyGUEST
I can't remember if they were then or not.
Michael MahoneyGUEST
And ROW, which meant rest of world.
Tim ElmoreHOST
I can only imagine they're talking about, well, you know, the Soviet Union is gone.
Tim ElmoreHOST
Mother Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States is in.
Tim ElmoreHOST
Mikhail Gorbachev is gone.
Tim ElmoreHOST
Boris Yeltsin is in.
Lev PrystupiukHOST
уровня.Что вас мотивирует продолжать работу и откуда вы черпаете ресурсы и знания для этого?
Asel KerimkulovaGUEST
Для продвижения, э-э-э, инсультнной службы у нас в Кыргызстане я беру опыт, э-э-э, международных экс-экспертов, также наших, э-э-э, соседних стран, также стран СНГ.
Asel KerimkulovaGUEST
Потому что ситуация в странах СНГ, во многих именно, которые еще находятся в Центральной Азии, в основном похожи.
Asel KerimkulovaGUEST
Иии нам очень понятно, куда нам нужно идти, как нужно двигаться, чтобы улучшить ситуацию.
Asel KerimkulovaGUEST
А также мы смотрим на, э-э-э, мировые достижения, потому что мы должны идти к самому хорошему опыту, который есть в странах, например, в европейских странах.
Andrew SelousSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, starting with Nigeria, potentially, uh, four hundred million, uh, pounds worth of re-takaful premium and the Nigerian Insurance Regulator, NAICOM, have been very clear that, um, they have expressed a strong preference for re-takaful to be provided on takaful business, um, pending the development of adequate re-takaful capacity, which it isn't there yet and I'll talk a little bit about the chicken and egg issue which we, we are facing to resolve this issue.
Andrew SelousSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, just carrying on around the world, um, Uzbekistan and the CIS states, so Kazakhstan, uh, Kyrgyzstan and many of the other states, a significant market.
Andrew SelousSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've have a major Uzbek delegation here, uh, this morning, uh, Uzbekistan, a company growing about eight percent a year, uh, massively Muslim majority country.
Andrew SelousSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, this is coming.
Thomas777GUEST
Um, and April, 1992, now for context, um, The Soviet Union no longer existed.
Thomas777GUEST
This was the era of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Thomas777GUEST
But the group of Soviet forces in Germany are finally leaving now.
Thomas777GUEST
The withdrawal is complete.
Keir GilesGUEST
But of course, it depended on not listening to what Russia was saying.
Keir GilesGUEST
It depended on pretending that Russia was not already in the early 1990s saying we need to reconstitute the countries that were previously under our control in a new union, whether it looks like the Commonwealth of Independent States under Russian domination or revising the borders.
Keir GilesGUEST
that Russia inherited from its internal administrative borders within the USSR became international borders that were never properly recognized as such by the Russian state.
Keir GilesGUEST
So if you were paying attention to what Russia said, it was much less of a surprise when the language became increasingly hostile.
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