hello again a walk. in today my guest in the studio is. the president has appointed a new head of his council dealing with democratic institutions and human rights experts say the wait nominee has enough experience. to fill the champ today the head of the presidential council on civil society and human rights will tell us about the first steps he's getting to take in the new position. of his well known on both the domestic and international scene of the. democratic reforms mr was the minister of press and information he was one of the authors of the media will abolish censorship and freedom to journalists after leaving this

ministerial position mikhail was appointed the permanent representative of the russian federation to unesco. works in the organization as a member of the council on human rights and culture of peace now he's to top the presidential council on civil society and human rights. good day mr the lot of them thanks for coming to the show congratulations on your appointment well known in russia and europe as head of the presidential council of human rights was hardly a surprise to anyone but there was also mr lookin. you both come from the same generation he's also very well known too can you explain the difference between the two of you. mean that's what people are going to call you right for adult of. knowledge the country only has one ombudsman and that's what demur looking. the difference between us is that my mobile phone was on. awful day to day because i

was working with joran alist so we were working on a program about the nine hundred ninety s. and even then i was telling them about the coming east party trial which i took poured into representing barry seal senator and then i got a call it was lookin he told me that on was appointed head of the presidential council for human rights so you get the bill but so the reason very big difference between us is he knew bugs my appointment before i did let on to be so he's your boss right now which if it is above you in the hierarchy well he certainly knew north of the problem because he got on the internet a week or. seven but still there is a difference between you and jurisdiction functions certainly and the position of human rights envoy visaged in the constitution mr lucchino was chosen to occupy this position it's because i have to say that we are old friends i like and respect

the man and i appreciate his contribution to the human rights cause in russia i admire his position he has a stance of he's own no matter what position in the government he may occupy us so he's the classic the kind every country is supposed to have what about you that i'm the chairman of the presidential council on human rights in the development of civil society. school but i fail to grasp the difference. it's very simple mr look teens who are goes on that so many is based on a federal constitutional law them that the last states that he has to look at the state new movie or whenever a human rights are violated. so he can go to courts on cases all for human rights violations at least one you know other words he works with individual cases according to law in the. church so people write letters to him yes. what about your

council there. are council he's in advisory body under the president the president he is the protector of constitutional and human rights and our councils job is to help the president exercise he's a constitutional authority here with us there used to be a presidential commission for human rights but now it's no longer exists because it has been integrated into our council so no our council works both on human rights and on the development of civil society and i think that's a very wise decision because you know take environment protection for example but it is a problem of developing civil society. because it has to do with the development of social institutions the protected environment and i mean protectors who will use various means to do what to protect our right for

a safe and clean environment so there is a very close connection between human rights and the development of civil society. so if i understand you correctly. and has to make the president follow the human rights situation. help the president do that. you know the young man can make anyone do anything. well and remind him of the situation with u.b.s. but not just the president the government in general or including the president yes and you have to help the president exercise his authority. yes we have to help the president when i met with the president told him that i think the council's it should barracked as its collective advisor now what as an advisor do he gives you advice. the president has to be able up on hearing this advice. implemented

and achieve a positive effect. on this position was. a woman from our generation very well known dignified and very liberal she resigned saying that she didn't fall into step with the authorities. she said she confronted the ruling. she said in one of her interviews that the president was her only ally. that really happened. i think you know better than us because because you are good friends with. business certainly. ella was the first person i called after i found out about my appointment unfortunately her phone was off but we still haven't talked which makes me very unhappy i have to say that. i had the position of the council's

cheer for eight years eight years and this means she had a lot of resources to use in the battle for human rights. nevertheless i'm sorry but. when she left she said the human rights situation in russia was quite hopeless does that mean that she wore out her resources. in a way. you know human beings don't last forever. our capabilities are limited so naturally she just got tired. solving cumin riots and civil society. there was always a resistance. but this resistance is not true and by specific people it's driven by wrong decisions mistakes that's what i've been fighting with throughout my whole life. stakes stupidity climb if

you and i'm going to continue to battle these things but it's not about me. i'm just the chairman of the council i'm not the council chief i'm not the minister for civil society on only the chairman yes. the council members. and there are over thirty people in the council and actually i'm hoping it will bring in even. are you preparing a route of escape for yourself right now in case the council fails to make progress on the you with the chairmanship. still going to be responsible spawn going to be responsible yes what about your resources the council members are my resources are you going to change the council are you happy with the current lineup there are some very worthy people there i've checked course i will not change the current membership i'm very happy with it i think it's green but we currently have three

empty cheers. at the first there is the cheer that he used to be occupied by a local. and then there is the cheer off delayed to him should call for a well known expert on culture and the restoration and then there is to cheer that belong to go roshan journey or the film director. so these three seats are currently vacant so i think we will suggest to the president that he invited people that he considers worthy to be with to join the council see you going to expand the council do you have any candidacies in mind not yet well i would like to see at least three more people in the council but i have to stress once again that i'm not the council's boss we are going to discuss these things collectively yes you said that but unlike mrs pedophila you also advisor to the

president. does that help. does that give you more influence. and you cooling at any time and say hello mr medvedev. well of course i can do that because he's the president and actually i don't know of any person who could just pick up the phone and say you did it. you don't know any people who might. know. but i have been told the presidential adviser calls the president and the president will definitely call him back within a day or two of you and that makes my position very important because when you and i have to say that it was a problem for me. i was the one who initially proposed that the position of council head and presidential advisory be held by the same person. but it's the president then told me yes but then he would lose

a degree of independence. from that was true formally i would lose some independence. but i told him she said mr min that if you know me i'm a man of his age i'm not a man of formal position. whatever position i ought to apply i will advocate india ideas. personally agree with. me if i disagree i'll just come to you and see mr ms that if i disagree with the ideas you want me to implement and they go against my personal views then you accept my resignation says a lot of presidential advisors and chairman of the presidential council for the promotion said no society institutions and human rights spotlight will be back shortly after a break stay with us and help. the

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welcome back to. just that my guest in the studio today is a lot of he is the newly appointed presidential advisor and chairman of the presidential council for the promotion of civil society institutions and human rights here in russia. tell me do you currently see as your main goals you. know you as one of the heads of russia's journalists' union. we know you as the willful of the russian. i know you're proud of the law but will even more proud because it is probably the best law in the world. one of the best in any case. your viewers would see in english. nevertheless the freedom of the press situation in russia is currently not the best in the world the law is the best but the situation is not is this what you're going

to work on first and foremost. be my primary objective but i will work on that as well. you're a man of ideas is there an easy fix as i would say the. you to the kremlin. well it was an invitation that brought me to the kremlin it was not part of my plans to become the chairman of this council. but when i got the offer i realized that i could be of use to the president and more importantly be of use to society. what i see is the main thing in you will be surprised you'll probably say i'm just touching words that have become. i see modernization as the priority but what i mean by modernization is the modernization of society the modernization of the relations between people the modernization of the social

system in general the modernization of politics the modernization of the human rights system and the modernization of the media industry and its current situation because i still don't understand why we don't have public television that also was to countries that have correlates that have elections that have regard for human rights that have a separation of powers all states that have the words rule of law in their constitutions or almost all of them have public television and they don't have state television companies why is it different in russia. i posed this question to the president one and a half years ago and i gave him a traffic bill on public television and radio broadcasting. and i hope now it will be easier for me to explain to the president just how important public television

is for us to do you know how many people in russia broke their teeth trying to promote public television famous people people of authority popular influential people but still nothing well i've got good teeth. let's look at what people. in russia in general have to say about their rights spoke. today. today outside to find out the people of this city to mine which right there is a good deal get violated the transportation could be a big. salary is not big enough. the people from other places that live in my city they take jobs away from those who are from here no sin the prices are too high. salaries too small i can't buy an apartment that is a crime increase to the russian courts of justice. system mollett business and get taxes are too high it's very difficult for small

businesses to get established. well that's what people in this city have to say about the violation of that right now let's have a look at statistics according to the two thousand and ten survey by the potus center people are concerned with the full. senate two percent are concerned with rising prices fifty one percent with poverty unemployment thirty eight percent good upson thirty three percent here risen ten percent in a liberal percentage concerned with he won rights violations so what's your comment on this why is there such a big gap stu why only four percent consent of a civil rights and freedoms. people don't realize the connection between human rights. laws by which they think human rights are something abstract they don't realize human rights are very specific as you mean high prices unemployment poverty corruption terrorism and of course one to high prices low salaries what is

a low salary in violation of a person's run for adequate reward for his labor. so in effect the seventy two percent of people concerned over the growth of prices know how to fight for their rights while the four percent who say they're concerned about human rights don't know what they're talking about is when you know that you're going to know the interesting cuban rights are an abstraction but actually they're not the business of unemployment for example on employment it's a violation of human rights and poverty is a violation of human rights. corruption is a flagrant violation terrorism is the fall of persons right to work. they're all human rights but unfortunately our society isn't educated enough in this here over human rights. teach them schools and institutes but society

does not accept human rights you know how the human body is sometimes. medicine but it's the same with our society our social organism is being told about human rights but it won't accept. you and president medvedev have found a common i'm sorry this is exactly what has to be more than i asked the way people perceive social life. agree on modernization that you've mentioned the soviet communist party trial that you took part in. you were talking a lot about the needs to. the public opinion in russia. based on what you've said about this i drew the conclusion that in your opinion it is the society that needs change. not the state. not the media. but the society itself. the people we all think ready to change

societies or even for change that is giving birth to change right now these so called groups fighting against officials using. these things are ten aerated by society so i know of several public an issue in provinces like. the ball of the region recently these are all the future of civil society. and we have to support them. a civil society. organizations it's made up of citizens and indeed every person in our society here realizes that he's been a citizen of this country that he has his rights and his responsibilities and he's a member of this huge community called the russian people when citizens realize

that it's up to them to decide what course the country will take that day will be the day we gain an attempt to have a civil society that civil society will monitor government. and then government officials will change. in your opinion do you think you will have time to let the people influence the new law and police. i mean yes it is a very important. extremely important and we are currently preparing for a meeting with the president during which will touch upon the police and a judicial reform these things are interconnected you seen modernization implies and mordred in the traditional system more than police more than society and most importantly more than people with the free and open minded people

brady to compete with others because we don't need to prove that our social system is the best we're done building communism fortunately. and as one of the participants so the communist party trial i can appreciate the progress that we're making you know. but i have to say that we're not done yet. and i can appreciate it as a form of building communism. thank you. thank you very much. and you speak english. next time you're in the studio that it's just a reminder that my guest today was the daughter of presidential advisor and chairman of the presidential council for the promotion of civil society institutions and human rights. state. thank

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going to be alone a show where we get the real headlines with none of the mercy we're going live to washington d.c. tonight we're going to talk about civil rights for students to add to the issues plaguing our public school systems civil rights complaints are now rising dramatically so why the sudden surge and our zero tolerance disciplinary policies creating a second class of students i'll speak with and berrien of the young turks to get her opinion on the erosion of students rights and america's public schools next one small town is ban a one small town school excuse me is banning school dances because students are dancing to erotically gap and ohio school board is taking a cue from the film bootless and for middling students from dancing all together and this is no joke.