year's eve and january the seventh millions of other people around the world and some here at moscow already popping in the champagne so join me most of them breeze as we take a look at the merry christmas in the russian capital from the ninety seven t. but pollution into a forthcoming this is christmas had a rather tenuous status the soviet union and the family was officially frowned upon me in surprise the citizens turned it into a new year's festival as for the lazy christmas celebrations the russian orthodox church still still is the old shooting calendar which is currently thirty days behind the gregorian calendar. both. left i love recently a nice needed to watch and now even though your personal thoughts christmas is in two weeks time people here in moscow already start preparing various dishes he has corrected and one of the famous has to forward this is all of your salad so you can

see something ingredients from the table district and do together to sell that the stock to what you do now so first you have to put the chop carrot and hunt in the wall. then he has to change the shelves from there. shelves coming off now this is your salad is still popular for the whole year here. on the main tun you would say that is all the new year's eve yes but thanks to chop one last pickle cucumber and pull potatoes i think they are faced with some sort of little tidbit to make them smaller. and it's all the ingredients to a large bag. at the pigs said costs are good and listen it seems like it's a whole month long christmas celebration here in russia that's correct and starting from the furniture from december it's not actual out crystal but there's a lot of parties and different clubs and places like will help there. a new year

than christmas and the ending of the old me well it seems that there's a lot of a lot of a thing intriguing here correct fall and spring going away. that sprouts. what's next funnelling greens. of mayonnaise knowledge you have to take it take a mix of ok without the closeness of ok. then pull it will fall. apart. and that we have it. i don't think we did too badly. but let's try the one we made . fun of it we did a great job but it's me i was married to another christmas merry christmas. so if you want to create a festive rush an old western dish was the best place to buy christmas ingredients

in moscow retail world closer every week in russia. and you'll be for the latest supermarkets the have opened up here in moscow take a look at the things it's good it's an amazing it's a wide you will pay for it there are currently thirty five as be the case because in my car whatever country or farm you'll find everything you need the best there is. nothing in the laws of fruit from around the glazed grapes from its dragon tree and from thailand kiwi from chile i love to know that tasty treats. from christmas crackers chestnuts and can be sourced i will hunt to find everything i need. from a good place for it that's a must for. some advice i would offer is to compare prices the strangest i see such as imported nuts or exotic fruits can be shocking. expensive so with the most make

a supermarket chains like. seven continents and pretty crystal clear a christmas whenever you celebrate it could easily be fully stocked full of delicious specific goods edible gifts. as for me it's time to shop until i drop. that santa grounds i'm moving to our next location let's meet this week's guests i would love to meet you must be a merry christmas tell me how did you end up here in the pursuit of a still. shows work and to buy and i headed back to london for a week and i got a phone call while i was there and so i decided to come check it out and here i am now you originally from a zealand right that's right yeah now christmas is a completely different over here isn't it. here you know people celebrating our for the twenty fifth it's very unusual for me anyway. you know the

whole sort of. christmas period which sort of rolls on a rolls on and keeps go you don't know where one's gone and they come back again so his unusual what about the ingredients i mean you know are they difficult to get hold of or yeah i think for more these days in the shop she can find different ingredients for full for the festive period you know you have to look around a little bit now but you know you can always find your turkeys you know cranberries and stuff like this and it's a little bit easier to find in terms of russian traditional russian christmas is based around. the mayonnaise and sort of called the traders in the hands of they put together you know pickled fish and this type of thing you know how do you think the recent dyes has changed over the past twenty years over the last ten years i think it's been a big change in diet and people are travelling a little bit more so they're coming back in one. little bit but i think that's

going to carry on a valving over the next sort of ten twenty years what are you doing over the new year's eve period. new year's eve period hoping to be away travelling actually get away from the cold weather and get away from the call and head for a bit of sunshine you know so rayna here for you now so it's a good time to get away with everything you enjoy the festive period she's very close or christmas day. so what are the specific items can you buy in moscow well there are several place where you can purchase various christmas themed desserts there is carlson hotel located on the central first street is well known for its wonderful gingerbread and impressive edible fairytale house display bringing out the charge in all of us the pastry chef create very special shapes and decorate the delicious dessert using a range of icing sweets jellies and chocolate christmas in russia should not be a time when you think about a diet here it's self-indulgence the way. famous

french fine food stall restaurant and cater also of those exquisite pacific gift baskets campus with a history dating back one hundred fifty years india is rich in clary and gift traditions and their own produce and various gift items both some of the best qualities packed with ices such as delicious french handmade chocolates sumptuous cheese and delicate dry champagne a gift from n.p.r. is bound to impress. finally champagne the ideal drink for yuletide celebrations streaky offices boutique one stores and supermarkets from extravagantly expensive to cheaper pocket from the labels various sparkling wines are readily available in moscow with huge varieties on offer whether it's been teach french champagne you want or sweet. sick looking

disappointed with the choice on. the town hall for a champagne from various contrails france a place of pain in russia as well prices start at two hundred true goals that's around six dollars and there is no upper limit. arriving at our final location for all those who are likely to bet on the turkey or too tired to cook a launch christmas dinner for family and friends it is simple she conquered her home and celebrate in style in the restaurants because she will get elegant atmosphere with the cost of all the ingredients when it save everything you booze for boxing day the new year extravaganza treat yourself to a christmas dinner to remember that there are dozens of restaurants in moscow where you can enjoy christmas dinner with all the trimmings and i've been recommended chicago prime have by various friends whether it's see through turkey or steak he wants this new venue if it's awful some of the best in the russian capital it might take you two or three hours to find all the breeding and their fight expensive and

then forced to pay for a ship to get spent six cooking for coming here and you could also have a great steak instead of turkey if you're in the made for something else. i've been invited into the kitchen to see what some impressive to say the least downright try a christmas feast fit for a king. as. i can lay. the meat in place to look absolutely amazing wow can we get new york steaks just delays all the prime we have porterhouse steak dry in a tomahawk grangemouth does the rib eye also prime rib the broken thing on the grill with a smirk amazing humongous turkey yeah yeah live from russia. gritty of. my ideal colored merry christmas wish amazing food wine and champagne delight.

scars while we go to you first because we're going to try the prototype you know. impressive stuff. can i just like grandma made this company brings me that was how we have on this week special christmas program i'll see you again next week for a new year's eve special shout out to them for me the crew and all the stuff here that's because your prime merry christmas. it's to see. into the country. instead invasion by means of.

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a taste in bosnia and herzegovina available in hotel bosnia and the children of each. cubic at you know to put you know photo peer to tell my photos your holiness kildare a boutique hotel and you're like towns. in serbia multis available in moscow and hyatt regency they are going to. top stories now the world's biggest exporter of heroin is also one of the worst sufferers of drug addiction cheap opium makes a daily impossible for the addicts about gonna start on the quit. demolishing monuments to propaganda cartoons of georgia ninety seven campaign as a growing number of people accusing the government they're messing with history. and a new conflict diverts media attention from pressing matters in the u.s. conservative christians say the country is locked into a war on christmas. it's midnight forty five her moscow coming up next on the

latest fest in sport with. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. the latest from the kontinental hockey league where atlanta defeated nama paul straight win. last in england the busy festive period begins this chelsea prepare to face arsenal in the big. boss alona unveiled their latest signing huge international with fuel that you put him after they. start their with the kontinental hockey league. good form continues beating western conference leaders dinar must go three nil for their fourth way in a row of fiddle to the world over the break for the hosts elsewhere service tell the talk radio two one for their fourth win in five and there were no problems for

a long lengthy. letting twice in their sixteen thrashing go. through their worst record in the twenty two defeats in thirty five games this season. let's turn to the football now where i did have the chance to increase their lead in the english premier league on sunday they host sunderland in the boxing day fixture at old trafford and expect to welcome back plays hit by flu mandeville and anderson have recovered from the illnesses the united topic christmas for the first time in four years and could go five points clear of arsenal who play chelsea on monday sunderland who is six the number of selection problems they'll be without danny welbeck who's on loan from united and he's not allowed to face his parent club while cattermole be suspended and join mensa is it. meanwhile to see if he could go top themselves if united slip up roberto mancini's men are two points off the top and play away newcastle but the city boss says he feels his

captain collis tevis should say sorry to the club's fans the argentine had. said he wanted to leave eastlands and then in a dramatic u. turn decided to stay and cheney says on the club's website the fans still love him but he should apologize. to games on sunday spurs travel to vello wolves take on we're going with both clubs fighting to get out of the relegation zone inside west face followed her only for everton who beat city last time i entertained. table teams blackburn and study head to head the prize package gets a far this season bolton and west brom face each other bolton boss owen coyle saying that seventh place in the table is well deserved. to see where we are where there are a mirror because we're going to. suggest that we should probably have more points more with after this point. because his mind is what we can affect is what's in front of us to do that we need more of the same stance against west brom books and

. so on monday it is chelsea against arsenal at the emirates with both teams aiming to win their respective bad runs the blues have drawn their last three games while winning just one in two months something that desperate to change is important because. in their fight for the. really one who think the team. will be. my things in this period. but i am happy to play this game because getting the. we move on after the moment when we are able to come back to play our football and to try to do everything to him as that again as they have struggle against chelsea in the past couple of years having not beaten since two thousand and eight so they'll be looking to break that record on monday with several key players back the mean during feeding the rb flabbergasts and van persie. we have mixed feelings

because we came out of both games against. man united but it was possible. there was not a difference between the teams and so we have a great opportunity to show that in the coming months and to show as well i believe our room for improvement is bigger than any other team because we are very young side and so it's a whole room where we respond to what happened to us in the end in man united. in other football unusually in our day with the new manager it into milan after rafael benitez was sacked leonardo has had two stints within his arch rivals ac milan during his playing days managed the side last season but now the brazilian is back at the san siro to help his former foes he signed an eighteen month contract into one the trouble last season undergoes in rio today six seven in the table. also

back on familiar to his former locomotive manager u.t. szymon he returned to manage the nomic kiev after leaving them two years ago during his last time in charge he led the training league title and you a cup semi before joining russian premier league side walk a mighty sherman was sacked by the railway men at the end of last season and has signed a three year deal with normal replacement. transfer news now in spain barcelona have officially unveiled their latest signing twenty four year old dutch midfielder . form appears to be. the catalans in a four and a half the deal for an estimated three million euros twenty four year old underwent medicals on thursday and put pen to paper on the deal on friday has won thirty one international caps with the netherlands scoring two goals for the orange squad. yeah speak also with a lot of players a player like. the kind of players there they play very

well here. and they told me that it is the. best club in the world and. one when the contest was. it was for me a dream. i was staying in spain because it was a case of reanimate traits past missing the club's present and all for a noble cause top former and current galactica stars in action in the spanish capital raising money for charity well when is justice and the things it down where an action along with portugal's my feet go down and feet have been enjoying the time that the team thirty eight year olds teamed up to show that competitive spirit is still intact current goalie cassius unable to hold down the fort against the veterans as his team lost by four real winners though with a place charity. who came out here today to help the efforts of luis and this match was for the children and i believe we have to host these types of events as often

as we can because some are shops now where the first of a k. one tournament has been held in the moscow region and explaining more is robert the done. years open discipline was rewarded when one of the world's major mixed martial arts brands he won one zero and made it to russia moscow region hosted the first ever international came one event the king of kings two of them. no wrestling no grappling just the ultimate or of keeping them punching day one is where different standup pointing techniques like good books in karate and white tie collide in one ring i. was. doing very good but.

i'm around and i'm a living legend for tuncay one world champ and the host was called a man. by a legend in your corner was no no to a two time korean champ in one min mood. reza . i tell them around the world from the start that it would reza. but it was stepping back over time and had to. with remove quota for a night it was raining will keep books and chant then. clean breast of who's the most the ukrainian was quick to set the record straight against prince a leap to no downs forced the referee to stop the flow. of the boat between japan's hero and russian aloft recalled the epic battle between

david and goliath in this case says men are in their lives mask one out of to bill russian alexi who didn't have easily made his way to the samis last visit but john still pay wait. it came down to the final four where who spade. placed the big heap of trouble. the queen and juice probably the only tactics that could have given him the edge loci kes and he's been worked forcing a lot of to give of the fight in the first round so it would have been very silly of me to trade punches plus it was important to finish a soon as possible three fights a night that's exhausting i should have saved some energy for the final. meanwhile the two thousand and six world tight books and jen pan alexei couldn't prove he's cool as by knocking. out. and moments later. we're

back in the ring with a final rumble concentrated into shoes best described the first round. at a slight edge in the second although the. look feat and aggressive in the third of the two x. rounds judges dealt a good marathon. but it was bundles of no one really trying to keep. its creed that russia finally hosted a k. one event as i always feel the hole here i had to win here and i did is just the first step on my way to the top of the world in k one. r t. a tough sport that is the ses and to be jolly and a bit silly say hey ray some regs say actually in a way they take it quite seriously hosting the annual no we can radiate racing championship and they can move to a reindeer power in reaching speeds of sixty kilometers an hour and see who is crying champion for twenty ten and says will definitely be back next year the fact

his title. congratulations to him that is always spoke first. well. you know the latest in science and technology from around the russia. we dumped a huge earth covered. me piece. c.v.t. . ilim.

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