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president medvedev goes on line to condemn recent anti russian rhetoric from belo roots in this latest video blog message the russian leader stressed that the unfounded accusations must not affect relations between the two neighbors. and britain is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the e.u.'s overbearing influence that's according to the freedom zone the largest event on the fringe of the conservative party conference. but europe is struggling to stay in the international arena and won't be able to hold on without help from russia that's the view of french historian and author and could have done cause she spoke to our teaser covering the ground about russia's role in today's world politics and why the country is so often misunderstood in the west. out of the course of history and humanity permanent secretary of the french science

academy and the woman who predicted the breakup of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight in her book laps of an empire is here with us today by super bowl sure about them cause thank you very much my dumb cost for your time. in your recent book between two walls you talk about russia can we presume from the title that you think russia still hasn't found its place in the world media. since was looking east was not exactly what the looks as though certain russia has made this kind of decisions over the past ten years that have been pursuing two different rather than one of which i've been trying to explain is that after the soviet union does integrated russian turned to europe because europe did not offer well welcome since the beginning of the century russia's foreign policy has been focusing on two directions rather than one on the one hand it focuses on the west

it was well on the other hand because of its geographical position and yet it's decided to place itself as an asian country gives a greater pre-stage and influence in the world has been pursuing this wallasey for more than ten years now and its great success at the end of the twentieth century russia's international reputation around the world was very good but now after the last decade is that it's being reckoned with it's a big change russia has taken a very important step you've almost and in my opinion is that in this process is irreversible russia has become a world power and then you in your introduction you raise the question of whether russia should be feared do you mean that be imperial russia and then the soviet union which europe used to be afraid of are still alive. not only in europe. the collapse of the soviet union was not anticipated it happened overnight many countries primarily those who were under soviet influence in european countries and

the countries that used to be part of the soviet union but are now independent states did not understand russia and were afraid of it as eastern european countries have become e.u. members they have showed their fares and passed them on to the e.u. saying that russia used to be an empire so why should it cease being an empire and can we trust it now it's in peril past has been forgotten by now people have already understood russia is pursuing its own path the time has shown that georgia for example fear that russia will domination again that's why it wanted to access nato i think that such fears originate from some kind of misunderstanding of the breakup of the soviet union because it was so certain no one could adjust themselves to it immediately all the european empires have collapsed but they have collapsed after decades of preparation even russia itself was not ready. so you don't believe in russia's imperial ambitions just right i don't believe it i'd

rather say there is some kind of a style but that's completely different thing what a country can forget overnight that it used to be a powerful empire but still washing people and specifically those in power have common sense and they understand too well that it's a virtue and it's russia's future is not to be an empire but rather to build up its reputation and influence via soft power rather than by force. what are the main steerer types russia faces today. russia has the legacy of the soviet union and it will be marked by this stigma for a long time i come from a country in which the collapse of the empire was a difficult one the bloodshed in the fifty's and sixty's yeltsin sat take as much independence as you can swallow and another day he sat your free get out of here many things about russia were forgotten people forgot that the soviet system was

dominating and instilled fear and then got scared of the country that neither the power nor the ability to speak as poignantly with other countries all this was forgotten and this new russia was not understood as i see it and in your country are people suspicious of russia i don't know what to say to that. your current president nicolas sarkozy said in his election campaign it's better to shake hands with bush than with putin who would you shake hands with but. first of all i feel uncomfortable talking about my president has changed a great deal he was in love with america it was an example for him he did not know russia is of gary no engine and hungary was affected by the soviet union to a certain extent even by russia has come a long way and he. and i agree with him it's in europe's interest and france's. interests. and why has the course changed what is the change really to to.

it simply because he realized what's right is a very smart guy really i should not be calling my president a guy but he's a very smart person is very active when he thinks something over he comes to understand things correctly he took a look at the world and he has realized a lot of things over two years he realized first that russia wasn't a terrible country it was a country to be spoken to not blocked it established close relations with the russian president and prime minister he realized that dialogue for a european countries the most important thing to build relations with russia he also realized russia was a european country which he didn't understand very well at first he also realized that europe was no longer strong it was falling out of the history of global relations it would have if it was cut from russia his current position which i think is very smart is not that russia should be part of europe russia is divorced

for europe it would not adapt what we need he thinks is a model for relations. why does europe russia now. russia is needed because the entire history of international relations is moving away from europe it's played out in asia even the us a pacific country is we're focusing its foreign policy on asia where are the countries that will play the victim role it in asia and latin america but that's a different question now what's the current state of european asian relations europe is of no interest to asia if we view europe as a landmass that reaches the pacific ocean russia and europe and not a whole but if we picture them as an alliance and we can say europe reaches the pacific this is the reason europe needs russia although i'm not sure if russia needs erupt. in one of your interviews you spoke about the role

of poland and said it could become a bridge between europe and russia what kind of bridge and what are the current dynamics of russian polish relations. door until very recently sent like a crazy idea when now reconciliation between russia and poland has actually happened i think however that some politicians smart politicians for solace even prime minister donald tusk it was bringing poland closer to russia before the plane crash poland has always been the final frontier of europe russia began after that front here it's also in close contact with ukraine the question of ukraine is very delicate giving it e.u. a session without accepting russia would anger moscow poland is a bridge of sorts between russia and europe it's a bridge to russia because it is at the same time a slavic and a european country which could surf for bringing countries closer russia and europe

poland and russia and ukraine and russia so poland could play use oracle role if it understands the situation it's in one of them on course at one point you predicted the collapse of the soviet union and you knew forecasts for more than russia. that's the you know i don't make forecasts when i was writing about the soviet union i didn't even see it as a forecast i looked at the country and saw many negative elements i couldn't help but ask myself how long will it last i don't make forecasts as a rule on the story and i look at the past and try to figure out what's happening in the present i think russia has come a long way over the past twenty years which is having some difficulties as countries do it's not easy to introduce democracy or capitalism it took western europe centuries to do that doing it within twenty years isn't so easy i think russia is following the. che's nine hundred ninety one there have been ups and

downs but i don't see any problems so i think we can be calm about russia's future it's starting to look more and more like a normal country yes it was before if somebody asked you to describe more than russian just three what's what would those words be. the first one would be mighty which was and ten years ago it was a the second important aspect is that more than russia makes multi nationality actually work multiple nationalities was what killed the soviet union this would be dynamic i thought i'm going to thank you very much thank you.

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his latest video blog message the russian leader stress that the unfounded accusations must not affect relations between the two neighbors. and britain is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the e.u. overbearing influence that's according to the freedom zone book largest event on the fringe of the conservative party conference. i have many more details on all the stories at three pm moscow time up next all the latest sports with. this is. these are some of the stories we're covering. can only draw in sunday's opening premier league. leaders and record yet another win. what's another day. at the ryder cup to monday with europe

gaining the upper hand on sunday. the revival of sports in. part two of our reports coming your way in short. hopes of recording a russian premier league title suffered a blow on sunday. only mustering a draw against rock bottom sabir it has to be said the first goal of the game came against the french. right before. it was really second half before the visitors could. judge the greenfeld in the. rest. believe bush. hopes of all three

points were dashed just two minutes later. from the three. then. so it's still very much. inside russia extending their. two points with two games and second. following victory over. elsewhere all the teams in action on the day. now and the alexander. reason is its head in russia it can mean only one thing the domestic basketball league season is just around the corner constantine to top off took up a seat for the opening night of the tournament. the c.m.o. school basketball fans can enjoy the third tournament named after legendary coach alex on the honesty or design spirit in a case and says got

a booking for the title this week when it was judged years from me to any of it surprised everyone when using will build up two years ago and the green words were ready to repeat that success they faced the greek side and if you like risk in the first semifinal the game was tight slowly but surely increase their lead in one and cleans up a top ten and if the last quarter they had a comfortable holding for institution management has made several desperate efforts to come back into the game between day seventy six seventy two jugglers who played the final and of course the delicious tidbit but it was sure to second match which has got it sorted out last season the red and he is trying stuff against the serbs the bruins manchu of the euro league final four with your church at the helm of the build rate side however this season the sirup who spearheaded the black and whites for nine years will be only taste cabbage the hosts haven't wanted to see it and

they are million fans who hope they will manage to read the scene where at the third and so they produced electric sword and broke away home favorite try juggling that during several lies he throws and as a result he coined a game high four to grace just one point behind with says guys new sonny john warner who tried to impress the fans in a new coach the twenty three year old shooting guard is still getting to know his new teammates and it seems to enjoy sprayed with them. a loving. mother to. her profession a bad old show you respect their banks all the rhetoric has helped you on a quarter of all the oil sales are all. done with this group of guys playing with paul newman while the army men were overconfident. you could go into reducing the school in only one one super region teams so they're losing everything to plea for head of the decisive. quarter.

but we pick it up it's like we plan to. play the coach. come like we played against everybody from the same play. play pretty good play good as a team. when we needed baskets we got to the first. book. i didn't have a little bit on which to continue the trees. easily seen the game taking it simply flying sixty three. or eighty. the ryder cup heads into an extra day today for the first time in its eighty three year history weather again playing havoc on sunday which seemed to suit team europe the americans had ended the previous two rounds on top but europe ended the dominance with some aplomb on sunday six points were on offer after

a rain delay and start the hosts claim five and a half of them meaning they take a three point lead into monday europe are not hot favorites to reclaim team. but bigger deficits being overcome before strap in for a thrilling finale. when you think sport in russia. are the obvious heavyweight cities few include the peninsula as a beacon of world class activity but the country's furthest eastern region has been busy attempting to rediscover its soviet style sure a time when sport and success went. part to overcome in focus series. the city of st peter and st paul had its golden age of sport last century when still part of the soviet union back then people came for the higher wages. and stories of unrivalled hospitality that's

why this remote became the center for solve its alpine skiing. this is ascii kingdon you see him every chance has that in store in place to ski. the famous are grand all ski method of teaching alpine skiing to children she is the first female snow leopard a title given to mountaineers who reached the summit of the soviet union for seven thousand meter peaks she did it seven times over but her passion lies in helping future skiers develop their skills from a young age. to be the best place to raising out. the city has a lot of places to higher education as well as high schools basically all the advantages of the big city start kindergarten you know they can train and returned him in the same day becoming champions in the british. were far more successful than their modern day equivalent. champions like barbaro.

almost all of the russian alpine skiers developed this kills right here in this unique base now why is it unique or part of the reason forty years ago this place was built by hands with the help of local administration and the people themselves now let's go and take a look at what they have accomplished so far. look i got off along with her daughter all gonna continue to train children and develop their coaching take make the ultimate quitting ahead this sensor was invented by her and her late husband garamond her partner in all aspects of their life's work and the simple looking devices invented a few decades ago continued to be used to develop the skills and physique of future athletes imagine what they could do with modern equipment well that's apparently on its way to running in the dental across the country to promote a healthy lifestyle and make young people public and government involvement is

vital when it comes to offering alternatives to the modern dates impatiens they see today she needed to develop suitable infrastructure it is not just sort of super sports is one way to keep the youth of the streets and he supported by holding various competition throughout the year and infrastructure is one area that needs drastic improvement because it's ineffective and simply not fun to train with just fresh air we talk about problem head on as part of a government program to renew sports infrastructure and continue to construct a brand new sports center as a matter of fact we've already helped too and you will advance our new state of the art yeah florescent are. a shortage of modern training facilities has plagued the region stalling any new sporting achievements but new multi-functional sports centers hope to make that excuse thing of the past. center is unique to can chalk up professional and amateur athletes now have a much larger trials sports you can actually we can hold a competition at any level here from food bullets and books and gymnastics. these

young men and women are just some of the athletes who will be able to use the facilities for. karate he's among the martial arts popular after becoming widely available income chopped at twenty years ago some were students then our culture is now a continuance of past their knowledge to the next generation and one problem remains the region remote from mainland russia prevents athletes acquiring enough competition experience in comparison to other places in the country. saying we like competition experience because it's quite hard sometimes expensive for other clubs and federations to reach coming and vice versa but this year we pooled our resources along with the local sports authority is and will hold them towards regional karate advantages hopefully we'll have one every year for the paralympic athletes also hold to compete more the russian team continues to impress in the world stage year after year many of them come from remote places like they come

chock a region but sometimes that's where the nation's real treasures a hidden like the people who devote themselves to helping improve the lives of others that's not going to have been apparent in the culture since one thousand nine hundred six and has witnessed a lot of change what remains constant though is her desire to come here every day and push her students to achieve the best results they can and i think that that government attention to the paralympic athletes has increased since i first started i believe it just one of the reasons freshest paralympians are one of the best teams and dials to do my best so that there are not any more champions from because not well. that was the region sport in a nutshell if you missed it one look at the series and come chaka is online at r.t. dot com ramana calls for it are to see the cumshots to region far east. that erupts up the sport for this hour i'll see you soon the world weather is coming up in just a tick. tick

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