straits and other incentives but will this project make russia the country of world class innovative products nobel prize winner and co-chair of the size of the project. is here to answer this question. this is one of the most respected scientists in the world is research into semiconductors has become a cornerstone for all modern high tech devices he's worked in the nobel prize ten years ago when russian president medvedev said he wanted modernization and you know patients in the economy and industry was definitely thinking of people like to take the lead it's seen as a priority to restore russia's intellectual potential and stop the brain drain. rational thought upon his american colleague roger kornberg have been invited to spearhead a scientific c.t.d. a moscow the russian silicon valley today's arrest has come to spotlight to talk about what's ahead for the russian science.

thank you very much for coming and coming to the studio well first of all let's talk about the name silicon valley as soon as the government decided to develop this project it was named silicon valley after the after the american silicon valley so do you like the name and do you are you ready to follow the american example and you. can be considered here only. because silicon valley and the united states. was started to develop visit goal of the well up and it was a semiconductor microelectronics based on silicon transistors which reflected wish reflected the u.s. emphasis on computer industry right still fall it will happen tough that was a discovery of semiconductor transistor out of the fortress and really.

who was on of the inventor of semiconductor thousands of levels of bell telephone that he in came by and with patient to the stanford to new york city and he found that he's all the. company shockley that i'm just going to put asian bill shankly was outstanding then great scientist and not a good businessman but he had to direct it and many young scientists who started get some companies their child and late that it became now a very well known for payrolls company. but that it was fewer stoffel development of the semiconductor microelectronics veach played very important role in the development of their science technology and even social science so it was based on modern information technologies and then it was not as a place it was a very good california nice climate stand part of the new go to it you could go to

city in better clee so it was a very good place because all of this can be developed on leone's a base of science and develop some new kind of technology so eve in my opinion we are not going just to quote be silicon valley in zero night that state's bud's a.g.s. just to create eight some new same teeth you could be sure to send that beach must be definitely events that only connect it bizarre is that any sort of sense that it's in our country and you know from our school and very proud of it a mosque or but that i was on it was a to create a disease in you that is short center and development of new technology in our country and dr akhter many internationally well known and the russian scientists the exam it was a main indeed why i was a guinea practically to be chairman of just st keep it all of just. center because

i'm a in a year just to develop size beach became zip basic is a base for the development of our high tech because knowledge we in our star says so you are ok with the name but you're not going to copy the american example ok now not now if if silicon valley started as you mentioned with semiconductors with transistors and this this was the cornerstone of american history at that time computer technology which high tech industry could become the cornerstone of russia's technological revolution you see it's very you put to me a very complicated and difficult question. and. one of the. very best the results of what we call it importance during blustering to yours is that we practically destroyed industry which were concentrated in our industrial ministers to reach gold then minutes that you invested

a military court military complex but it was very well developed quite taking this thing no we are indeed a very difficult situation because my career looked on x. non-addicted i knew it was the next step very important one but the north pole come pete insists area and it wouldn't surprise him dressed to court it would have been done we must find out some kind of thing you very press picked you. direction in the shortage region became zip braces for a new for a lot of your startup companies and zan to develop a technology industry well let's take a look at what the russian version of the silicon valley isn't meant to be here's this report from spotlights energy me that. in five or seven years time the small town of school on the outskirts of moscow hopes to become the

russian equivalent of silicon valley the project is part of the country's attempt to move away from its dependence on oil and gas exports last year the government spent almost forty billion dollars on innovation projects but the number of tech start ups just fifty was a disappointment the skookum a project expects to make a difference to avoid the key backs common in state project businessman addictive xo barack has been to charge the russian version of xuecun valley will also get special economic gain legal status. tax breaks are a key issue for businesses which skolkovo residents will pay the. property tax for ten years experts believe attracting foreign brains to the project is essential american by a chemist and a bell prize winner roger kornberg has already agreed to co-chair the scientific and technical consul overseeing russia's new silicon valley to make it more

attractive to foreign scientists amendments or be made to the russian immigration laws there are going to be around thirty thousand people even in school of all the lion's share of the sites funding who initially come from the government to private investment is being strongly encouraged corruption is big problem for russia but i believe it. will be able to escape from. the new school of our centers and david is will focus on five priorities and information technology communication via medical research and nuclear technology the most challenging part of the task will not be the research itself but find in practical application poor it in the past russia has been good at scientific innovation but bad at turning it into commercial products.

so what do you think how will skulk over and will it be able to close the gap between fundamental science and production. it is she's a good bit fundamental science and production exists everywhere in every country and has special type of what it could be six video old friend of mine unfortunately he died a few years ago george bush at that who was president that london the royal society has said once that all science is applied science is the differences that some of the patients came in better short of time but some that even century. we can see that as a problem of how to make development of the shortage and zen became industrial production in soviet union in the united states and saudi

exists different type to do it better a lot of that and it got a nice type it's creation of what we call now startup companies in very important to have very strong connections between basically shortage and development g.'s photoplay creations so as a startup company is that is you must fall. to look for the most prominent christian church duty and. is this a very difficult time in ninety four instance is that ash an academy of science and that it's in our academy of science we're sort of i have got to stop all due to joint projects because deep in thought in laboratories and put in stone myla has a lot of special context be stable. i remember in the end of ninety s i science it agreement between your cute and eat thirty industrial technology institute and they

whine and the special kind took institue you at the beach combine maybe from some point of view like. a science that the knowledge of it and somebody showed she institute it because approximately six thousand people who are victims there and it just weighed by budget and created the prospectivity shortage indifferent paid yet and as our health is a lab order to sepia be paid by companies when somebody is outs ins is budgeted what it is became prominent patients. so i think it would be important to have some kind of an island in skolkovo legs that but it was a main important problem for our continent. is just not. to stop what signs they finitely science a source of all technology has but the very important to one half now is

a problem is that ok we can create some startup companies be out of deeds that for instance when you projects at us nonna waste on the science and technological it. out out there now and then with science in our institute and when your to go but we need to create taking this study this is the most important problem says. a nobel prize winner spotlight will be back shortly right after the break so stay with us don't go we will continue this and. one of the key elements of democracy. which is so uncomfortable for me authority. who pays for the news. how dependent does this independent media.

and who is behind the t.v. story. charge and media fiction and reality on t.v. . and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you on. welcome back to spotlight on al gore and often just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is that as i'll fill out of now bell

prize winner and cochairman of scientific technical board of skulk of l. science city project at this hour for a while we we talked about this this new and this new project in skolkovo which russians are on already labeling as the as the second silicon valley well the question that i had immediately after after i realized that this is serious that this is going to happen is that the soviet union had research centers all around the country from france from from did not to novosibirsk they were they were called the so-called no confidence from the from the sixty's now did they proved to be insufficient in the end post so that russian what they should look at might be one of the best places and maybe in one it was a different divisions of russian academy of science they said marion braincells academics science one of the best one it may be. developed well

and no it should be a descriptor idea i'm going to talk about a good place and sisters yes this is good sane typically self-centered. and i see an exact skolkovo of would not be just what i have strong connections visit and i get up near from school if i could i'm going to look in there which should be a visit. where there is this place is if you have this then we should develop before but always it's very different to change some. then to start to grow some new ones and big. opportunity the growing new same typically shared center which wouldn't be separate from season one mutual pair they fit and strong connections but would be developed if some goals and main goals since called it just be me and my question in the

roger court would be for the same keep it console of the skolkovo center one of the main problem would be just the just sight of each direction subsidy church. in order to create new height the technology base in our country well let's see if people in the streets of moscow think that the innovative city in skulk can change the future of russia spotlights carts on the other has the details from the streets of moscow. how well recently their vision city in skolkovo which is considered to be russia's version of the silicon valley and its plan to build me a moscow has been widely discussed in the russian capital but people think that this high tech hub can change the future of russia. i look upon the subject with great skepticism mainly due to what russia's history has taught us historically

most scientific and technological breakthroughs in russia at least in the fields of rocketry chemistry in the military were made in so-called sure rush because what this means is that conflict scientists were assembled to work on certain projects under the supervision procured structures i think it will be very hard to create a scientific or technological way says a russian as long as the country's interior problems chiefly bureaucratize nation court system malfunctions remain unresolved. and one hundred percent certain that skolkovo will help improve russia's future the reason is there are smart people working on it people who know not. only how to manage government money by their own money as well no one will invest their own money without hope for turns and that's talking about it cynically another thing is that young people young scientists will finally have a reason to stay in russia to make the leap for themselves and lead an interesting life of science. out of that money has got a question about get back that is. my question is is it true that school come on

will be a state within a state that it will have its own laws and this is true that mathematician we're going to be the man has agreed to work in school so here we have two questions well let's start with the with the last one is mr perelman has he agreed to leave the workings called. that t.v. must mean. because of the pip and that is not very important because. we're going to go to put him on his genius yes but we need then school really is a saint just out of work and in physics chemistry biology bio none and technology microelectronics so. in theoretical mathematics which is just in very pure area of set a tickle machine magic's and of course people like. the fact that he's a brand he's

a brat yeah yeah but it doesn't meant that in my opinion ok no no the other question which it was is a rather serious question from this young lady is is that is it true that skolkovo will become a state within a state like. autonomous from the rest of russia because people have been aware have been talking about about special laws special taxes maybe even special police and well is it going to be like sort of a vatican inside russia. if for instance it would be policed important. that all in order thought that i had some for insane just yes but in my opinion the main problem it's not as special law is the main problem is that we had direct young russian saying just sophisticated experience that i shun them for insane just to and simply probe and put a science it's not only just the way good say

a lady it message it definitely is not only is the problem of what bachmann that's on it this city though is a main problem for russia right now is a science must be could have stood by me and seen the study and point of view is it creation of a new same t.v. sent that would be viz some a decision will. additional opportunities for science played the important role for the development of new st if we get actions to create new start up companies it's very important for creation nobs a new branch of the economy so this is i again must emphasize one of the most important parts much more important than spare for a long there's this really is very important vital because because we've talked in this studio with a couple of people who have of scientists who have emigrated to where we went to

work in the west and one of the main reason for for leaving this country and going to work to carry out scientific research in the west which they mentioned was that we want to feel that somebody needs doing exert influence our brain to get worried that this is what exactly is this is a main problem right now for science in that are shown for instance the same keep it resides would be requested by state by economy and by society nor on would be started to criticize but i don't like that they may have science and start to speak zakhar them even don't need them so on. eve as a country needs science we need sperm experience good qualified scientists we need to develop a national academy of science and we need to develop new new law that is for instance my pupils emigrated to but are to be very strong connections with them i

remember for instance on a very talented guy or truck or he decided to leave this sandpit a book and work in germany i said that yourself why you are a good example and counsel of community leaders who are on this you know. it's very interesting to your kids excellent atmosphere in our lab ordered thirty by new york to make some new experimental sample i spent just the week on say new equipment i can do it for a few hours so if you need. but after that after we are getting new equipment to be just the tools that i direct action for same typically shortage and book would be interested in the next very important one such psyche economy must be our results must be requested here so do you think this cocoa will be capable of solving the problem of brain draining. school go itself would not solve the problem of brain drain brain drain exist in the tapes for instance my journey from

europe saying just. the huge amount is the united states because because not only because they're as it has better celery and maybe a little bit better condition for life but also because it's the feeling of them if they had results and needed those that go on and on as a main problem and maint that's what's called to create that's my sphere to choose what i did actually unity church and state but as a done me to be idea of people from as a government would be say or create it very important that is and you shall spend the minute part of development of new brain should be industry created by any sharks in skolkovo the press has been writing a lot about skolkovo about this new this new set of the russian version of silicon valley at trial it's in a good book and the ads trying to attract to invite lots of employees specialists

from abroad is it true that you are putting some special emphasis on inviting foreign specialists to what is called no usually i don't consider that as this is the most important program for instance when they was invited to be the chairman of scientific on still and they were supposed to choose cochairman for them if you can still and i was about that they decided that a lot of gotten better would be very good candidate to be my cochairman because he's from stanford he's from a.t.o. of silicon valley but stop all he is very successful in there by anon a technology he is very successful in genetic information problems and. me as a played physicist and he as a specialist in biochemistry and biology would be just add in the right shoes in comes the direction of the research thank you very much for being with us and just

a reminder that my guest today was just nobel prize winner and a cochairman of scientific technical board. size city project that's it for now from all of us here good movie back with more firsthand comments on what's going on and outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take care that's about. russia going to be soon which brightened if you move on from things to pressure these. stock totty dot com.

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by any other name the russian president proposes law enforcers should ditch the revolutionary tile militia to appear more professional. may damask out you're watching our marine a joshing welcome to the program they blanket of harmful small caused by raging wildfires shows no signs of lifting from across the russian capital forest and people continue to devastate a large swathes of central russia with a record breaking heat wave forecast to go on until at least next week to count as in the moscow region. the same dam are sitting the same catastrophic. coverage with a thick blanket of toxic. smog and this village just outside the city caught

fire a few days ago and its residents as well as some three hundred people. have lost their homes in the city itself. in the smoke which is scary carrying some very harmful gases including carbon monoxide is. the norm by some five times. imagine you start the engine of your car in a small garage with doors closed and that's about how it feels like in moscow right now it's especially hard on those who don't have air conditioners people are trying. in an office. yesterday was literally packed with people. from moscow at this time of the year. in good weather. the elderly people suffer most most of them are just trapped in this suffocating environment moscow hasn't seen anything.