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medvedev outlines his stance on global security and calls on the u.s. to step up efforts to form a new international defense structure. a day of mourning in russia's republic. tore through a crowded market in its capital killing seventeen more than one hundred. on the eve of the anniversary of nine eleven r.t. investigates why some americans are converting to islam despite the extreme reaction by some people like. well the modernization of russia must continue no matter who runs the country or even what political system is used to govern it president. says there's a determination to root out corruption and promote a more diverse economy she's been speaking to our correspondent going off exclusive interview.

a year ago president published his vision for the future of russia to fill us in on what progress has been made i'm now are joined by his press secretary not that it's a makeover that i do thank you very much for joining me. but it is. in his article a go russia published last year the president named corruption as one of the biggest problems slowing down the country's development according to some figures it's volume which is around half of the u.v. g.d.p. what's changed since then that is what was up and did a year ago in his article go russia president medvedev gave a detailed and unflattering account of the situation russia is currently in it was not unflattering in the meaning of critical of the previous period and previous achievements no on the contrary they were giving credit but it was stated that the model of development russia had chosen and pursued until now is no longer viable

that the president named a number of reasons that stand in the way of the country's development corruption was named as a major reason for delay in development it is true that now competition is possible until we have a well built up to date traditional system until we combat corruption and have fair unbiased courts and all honest and unbiased law enforcement personnel in without all this it will be hard for russia to secure a good place on the global scene also both in this article and his other speeches the president said that the task of combating corruption is quite challenging regrettably illegal nihilism is typical not only of some layers of our society in the first place of the law enforcement agencies which have a greatest problems with corruption and of the group pratik machines it is generally typical of the whole society and most of the people every one of us has ideas that are far from an ideal about how various issues must be settled the brightest example we always mansion is the dealings with traffic police officials and are quite

a few examples like this. therefore naturally the task to overcome corruption is set for more than one two or even four years it requires much more time because it requires not only some changes in legislation introducing more rigid rules for state officials businesses and courts but first info most it requires a change in the public opinion of these things obviously it will take time nevertheless many steps have been made over this year to start implementing the ideas outlined in the president's article i remind you that since last year the state officials are required to publish their tax return reports both for themselves and for their family members. in addition to that the anti-corruption council had by the president as active a number of amendments to the entitled option legislation have been adopted i'd like to recap we're not expecting immediate results it would be strange to expect them right now it is obvious that it is a long term scheme which will continue and which will remain

a priority on the president's agenda but. russia is one of the biggest oil producers in the world but that has led to an economic dependency is there anything else that can take the place of picture dollars. the president said that the country's dependence on oil and gas industry and oil prices has become devastating for our economy of course such a large country with such a large population and such a large number of open social issues should not build its economy and its economic expectations purely on the global oil and gas prices it would be a strange and unhealthy dependence that is why the president brought up the subject of modernization and the necessity to switch to new innovative economic development patterns in order to have other major so is his for our budget the nearly all well and gas we have made good progress over this year first of all large projects such as skulk of i have been launched last year it was just an idea while today. it's

a fouth scope legal project with clearly defined tax preferences and with a clearly defined team it's overseas partners are adding in number it has been joined by such global companies as cisco and nokia and we could be saying that this project must become to some extend the agony of the process and show how the economy can be built and how money can be made in other ways rather than by oil and gas moreover and number of decisions have been made to support small and medium sized businesses and aspect of innovative technologies and we hope that this measures will yield results and the taxes turned in by the small and medium sized businesses will no longer be earned on the processing a resounding of goods but on innovative projects. go to the war she spoke with thursday's blast in which you got to attack some more schools metro in mortuary various incidents in the south of russia have made this year very uneasy many people lost their words what's being done to fight terror. the president

believes that modernization is impossible without solving that problem despite the fact that we had a number of serious terrorist attacks this year in which unfortunately many people were killed our law enforcement agencies have been quite effective for instance they managed to arrest several people who are behind the most serious terrorist attacks incidentally i'd like to point out that this is an improvement because in the past security forces rarely were able to capture terrorists alive so now a number of terrorists have been arrested and interrogated the terrorists who organized the blasts in the moscow metro have all been killed. so this work is going on all the time it's not that old this it times but it is definitely a priority simmo tanny asli this story it is where to improve the social economic situation in the north caucuses as you know alexander who are born in was appointed the president's authorized representative in the region and at the same time has

the rank of the deputy prime minister his main job is to attract investors to the north caucasus and to create jobs there we hope that these measures will ease social tensions that terrorists often take advantage of. it's only happened because everyone for that region across russia destroyed the whole country this summer you know in the regions by surprised who is to blame rescuers see they're not responsible for preventing forest fires forestry officers claim we do have the money to deal with all that is enough being done to prevent such disasters in the future. with this situation with wildfires this year was very serious and unfortunately it did not only destroyed buildings but killed many people too which of course is the worst outcome of these fires showed that local authorities in many places were not ready to protect people issue warnings they also show that there is a serious shortage of equipment necessary to fight the. fires we will draw

a necessary conclusions from this the president prime minister and government are working on this there is a mutual understanding that the measures that were taken were not enough and there needs to be a more systematic approach to this where the president recently had a meeting where this issues were discussed changes could be made to forestry legislation so that our forests would be better protected from fires we need to define responsibilities of local and federal authorities because unfortunately in many cases the main reasons for tragedies were negligence or failure to follow fire safety regulations there were no fences and necessary buoys in the forest which led to the rapid spread of fire also this natural disaster showed that we need to get better equipment in many places they still use fire trucks from the nine hundred thirty s. they're totally outdated and all respects of course we need to have the latest equipment so that this never happens again. to the polls on the get better judging

by their comments a lot of people who read the president's vision expressed skepticism about reforms to the country's political system how can you make people believe change is possible more guarantees can you give that a bit of last. ditch the nickel the president talked about it in his article modernization in russia has usually taken place for some harsh measures just think about the reforms of peter the great or stalin's modernization it was in no way democratic it was done through totalitarian means many people failed victims of this modernization so it is a big question whether or not the end justifies the means that is why and he's article the president talked about how difficult the path of modernization was if we want to do it now in the developed democratic society of course as you rise in his article mordant society requires a mordant political structure it could be different. in every country that it is

clear that the room you chilled values mutual its religious values of human life freedom of opinion freedom of speech freedom of religion private property of course all those things that are up held in russia have to be protected and implemented as part of the political system that we are building. the president has proposed a number of amendments to legislation this in management allow the opposition to participate in the life of the country there have been cases where civil society appealed to the president directly and received a response the vast example is the situation around the him to forest it got the president's attention after the opposition as well as united russia asked him to start the process of clearing the woods and study the situation in more depth of the president has mentioned the issues several times it is important for authorities to stay in constant dialogue with civil society with its representatives expressing certain opinions so that there is always consensus on

all issues that. i sort of put out all the changes mentioned in the article can't happen overnight does president need to read of a plan to run for second term to see through all the reforms he envisions of what is a obviously a plan i don't think that's the right way to look at it the point is not just the second term the point is that like you said it will take more time to implement the plans declared by the president than just a year or two. today a large part of the russian people and the government support the gender of modernization proposed by the president it includes many long term projects that can be implemented in a year or two so this work will go on no matter who becomes the next president this is it gender is not just some program that has been put together haphazardly it deals with serious urgent problems that have to be addressed regardless of who is president. and i tell you thank you very much for joining this was the press

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coming up soon stay with us here on alt. our ballots cross the library to jaroslav all the russian president dmitri red river is making his formal address of the global policy forgot to remember once

again that for a few christmas such form of public the arrangement which. is oftentimes subject to test and trial it's few and unlike years removed to tell the tarion regimes democracy is more vulnerable. yesterday in the political stage of europe with terrorist acts took place which claimed just human lives lives of citizens of russia and i would like to ask you to honor their memory. but she will thank you please be seated. i tell her what i'm going to push them against this backdrop and i would like to say that we are determined. to most of your complete struggle how to

fight against terrorism in this country there is no identity of the goal and this fight. will continue i did and terrorist victims of the plane involved in such crimes will be destroyed. once again we'd like to welcome all of you think you should be taken but you know what's good and this. is the we're going to call it in for me global policy forum a way we're getting stephen you can and if you have no one would have credit to it is not to have your politeness and i really believe that this forum might have to implode on the development of our country that you may be. on to this question is which are how global i believe but it was that. the people invited to take part young workers. are if you're witnessing and have

witnessed high look professional microscope with my development as democratic institutions technocrats so that cellulosic quality of public administration and i hope it will help young boys are shown through the cure ones to build the notion. of life exchange views on the market i'd say state of development dollars for democracy in our country if you do not try to talk about the fate. of democracy globally maybe it will get you to no political country to get the cultures have been enough the best health care bill in bed with special security yaroslav all afghans that if any value transferred from the global political growth this is something that doesn't really help the family very different be able to get all of their vision out fer the world this is a global development transformation of state systems you know national institutions

. with most. reasonable responses to challenge a subject. that is by recently told that our four and your colleagues and friends take part in our duties and work so i would like to give expression to. the chance . another council of ministers are to tell you about bloke. the president of republic of korea still limited access thank you very much for joining discussion was any of this despite your very dated tenderness. which is that trolls or i'm a sign of your capacity with the dates here but in the present it's actually here we are holding this one to gaze free of the baggage drug of. one of the patients said is that i can train it and i would like to get there but you can just thank this wonderful russian city all the own hospitality that was extended to all of

us thank. god and we try to this forum where discussing problems are think we simply have a vision the looking for tuition with the knowledge to strengthen global security the role of the state closing not noticing new economy and incentivizing technical innovation principles of shaping universal standards of democracy on the basis of your new democratic experience of those of many nations so i'm very pleased to join this discussion started in the morning by meeting with our colleagues political analysts the trip present russia as well as other countries i believe both had a very interesting discussion but evidently the discussion must be continued short would you please for one. reason or another only have faith in democracy or as probably the form of government not only having faith in

democracy which is political regime would you want but i also believe that democracy is capable of saving. the change humiliation millions of people in our country and billions of people globally recently in a big enough. of the diplomatic corps which is russian with a gracious anybody i named as one of my very key is our foreign policy to our country. our interest in seeing more and more both fall in the bath of democracy and stand there it if you're through is. the minute you get your eighty eight of influential democratic governments follow the same policy to both kind of this present here remarked in monaco statement that joint when you work on the spreading democracy in the world is a special and old ones if you indeed it can take different shapes it has its

historic good sections but we are united by common and shared values so this world must be. advocates of practical importance for all of us that's a declaration of millennium the united nations organization which stipulates that will spare no effort to encourage democracy and interest most law and order also to ensure all international are very strong my rights to to monitor our sense of democracy just like human rights watch all of you because standards of democracy in congress as you just must be internationally recognized that is the only way of making them truly an efficient and what's important is that standards that are drafted together can never be double standards cannot be tricky because it's about it that takes part in draft in them is one of them to try and them for themselves

the whole state is doing a good for them inside them without concerns that those could be used to limit sovereignty or interference in the internal affairs or as demagogic figure of speech tells the size scope of the pressure for some economic agenda bledel interest of so so you countries all know but it doesn't go stroll into the. fred to do this all delusions of leaders which sometimes does happen to us a lot of people such. arguments were sometimes used to hold pressure so to get there was just criticism to get to a regular basis. and which we say if it wasn't terribly well from time to time i just really see. and it just it was an absolutely biased assessments well political system one thing i would like to tell i know drawbacks of the system

to go back nobody else but i'm not sick of me just because as your president i am better informed of what you and my grimace experience might. give me more burden it is good to get hurt but i would strongly oppose those who say that there is no democracy in russia. that. it is governed by authoritative trouts it is not the case russia is undoubtedly a democracy. there is democracy our shadow yes it is young it is true it is imperfect it is an experience but it is democracy now in the last. one year and a very few are just making first steps along the way a lot has to be done but. to date i would like for you to give you my opinion on this so that's what criteria should be met by twenty first century state to put it differently what

a good model universal standards of democracy is to that truly i'm not predicting this is trying to say that is an element of truth. and my been in as a very served to specialise in some foreign place we will discuss show you but i may give you five requirements which in my view are the most simple the problem we approach political in the mentation of humanist values and ideals that means that all the cell use we believe in must have legal translations making those values both low then she would direct the development of the whole range of public relations with said. trend of public development second standard which would be the ability of a state trooper ensured like and support a high level of technological development inside. our indian innovation which allows.