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say has been killed off by government intolerance to criticism and a panel reporting journalists say they're under pressure to tell the line by backing official state policy. millions of russian celebrate orthodox christmas with the holiday season in the country still dream going all the way christmas has been openly celebrated across russia since the end of the soviet union almost two decades ago. those they had lines here in our next moscow out with a look out worried a bag a bargain in the january sales and worse top of the shops in russia's capital.

hello and welcome to the show that was millions around the world are recovering after the recent festivities most russians are celebrating the orthodox christmas this weekend but soon it's back to work for everyone and the colder weather is on its way to moscow but it's not all doom and gloom as january is the best time to go shopping subject this week's program the department which we see here is one of the most glamorous places to buy clothes in russia. built between eighty ninety and one thousand nine hundred three located next to red square came one of the few stores in the soviet union that was not plagued by shortages of consumer goods today well it's all about expensive designer clothes first it's into one of my favorite shops paul smith an example of such design is that of open stores in russia this moscow shop opened in two thousand and six muscovites and. eccentric approach to the classical british style. although the stalls in cuba are

generally expensive january is the best time to come shopping here you'll find terrific bargains during the sales and western designers such as paul smith. for example amazing clothes discounted prices striped fabrics smith's trademarks and those russians who can afford it have already joined the army of those already wearing. his goods on sale in dozens of countries. it was a huge step forward as well as a large event for the capital's fashion. store has been open for five years now so paul smith himself attended the opening of a special fashion show was organized with a cation and moving from boom to our next clothing location let's take a look at this week's entertainment news. the two hundred fifty fifth season at the bolshoi theatre has finished with the magical performance of the ballet the nuts. cracka states to peaceful music by tchaikovsky

performance premiered at the bolshoi in one nine hundred sixty six and since then it's become the most popular show to see over the festive period. the ballet is a must see the perfect fairy tale treat to two thousand and eleven. this year has been announced as the year of italy in russia many events featuring the country's culture of being staged in moscow throughout the year a festival called the winter garden of arts has already taken place dedicated to the italian city body the event featured an art exhibition and showed concert by both russian and italian musicians and many other performances bringing the cultures of two countries closer together the. trumans close now but in a much lower price. than english.

indifferent to the moscow fashion scene its. designer clothes that have been put to the back of the unwanted presents bra size is simply old fashioned secondhand they are old and decrepit not. amazing with amazing price tags. january sales. were out. of our first shop was opened over fifteen years ago the one we're in now is open just two years we get clothes from celebrities and less known people like their owners are tired of having them in their wardrobe we have very sales and discounts and only sell branded products from the world's top designers. second breath is among a group of small companies that understands firing the. class from vintage dresses

to private school purses this is what moscow needs more of and some retail industry insiders aim to change just that. located in the back streets just off the moscow river this place is not easy to find but what's a gem is a must the code look as if they're brand new the collection is impressive the prices are low cost that's the regional price sounds good to me only the dates. sume one of the largest the most successful department stores in russia the stuff which is all gone east of moscow for the next venue it's nice to shop to be seen after it's about chic and stylish prada gucci and dean g. code scanner was a lovely to meet you there to meet you so tell me about your position here in through i'm a fashion their fashion director is the person choosing the brands that was to be in the store late this friends the most popular this collection i have

goal and. tell my buyers what a goal what to buy how to buy and i know it soon as one of the best apartments souls in moscow but how would you explain the complex to somebody who doesn't know what it is to international law and department store in moscow. it's in the center of moscow it's been all stored in building. and always had a very patient with a good while it's a close and good service so. company mercury took it over around six years ago i decided to order the. department store was because of everybody. they know they have to come to sort of a clothing industry has changed dramatically over the past decade. yes of course

because you know. we have more and more stores more different with cheeks more brands that will bring all over the world and of course you know twenty years ago we wouldn't even need to have a living like this today. russians international love country everybody here. our customers have a great base. will bring with them the best. design is the showcase the. question there's and this is the bell up a lot the last two years and we. know what does the russian design this is the way it's been good you know we're looking at each season one wonders where the russian is that we have a space for them here and. we're very supportive of them and you also have many western designers the. showcase excuse me here. we have american designers in this show we have any designers that. you know this season that they

are. good at it with asian everybody talks about them i am the first one to run and get them for sale on the for. the to make it. very much. various international design issue because the clothes that suit many of which are exclusively by presenting stool american brand recently launched his collection on stands here the top model naomi campbell attending the event now moscow's fashionistas can join the label spans monkey research as in the co kidman janet jackson and brooke shields a controversial subjects in fashion many say that such glamorous spark coach wraps and hats on the city's caution freezing russian winter months living in america we are almost doing what we all know that it's the biggest and the most important story here so for me. it's an hour's agree here to be able to bring my collection

of very creative this wonderful department for me so i just feel very much excitement and to come back. the face of my company that really big city was crushed. not to spend a fortune on clothes even the most democratic brand sometimes give my clients a chance to explore design a fashion plate swedish company a.t.m.'s worked with several top designers to create special collections and the latest collaboration with one of the world's oldest fashion houses was a huge success london's signature styles box with h. and m. price tags sold out within a day in moscow it's now called the sales in russia extraordinary. signature is one of the best known designers in russia is like sheep store in bars located on moscow's trendy selection among such pretty expensive black berry under its own symmetry of has developed his own style mixing traditional russian patterns

with contempt the culture in his designs the well known red black and yellow compacts into a centuries old as well as prince of serbia symbols on t. shirts and i closely associated with its name. there are several discount stores in moscow. vintage here is one example they offer discounts between seventy and ninety of their. brilliant to get credit card. calvin klein the clothes are cheap or they're from tasteless love the jackets to bright pink or green jumpers if you do you have to search for the perfect dog in the eyes of the business i like to shop because there's a wide range of brands on sale here and you can find various clothes from casual to classic. to many isn't fashion heaven and high prices might put many off but still with many recent designers new shops and malls. hoping all the time

things are changing here. if you're looking for something a little special i think with good research of local stores up and coming designers and new boutiques the city has a lot to offer. as a true sign of an evolving country recent crisis or not the fashion world in moscow is simmering with excitement but don't wait till it's all settled and up there with milan and paris. take pause in the ride now and sales and discounts aside just remember to save. me for a while unfortunately that's on this week's program on clothes shopping in the. same time next week for me and the rest the.

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christmas the holiday season and the country's still jangling all the way christmas has been celebrated across russia since the end of the saudi in two decades ago. we had lines here in our state and the next we'll sports update. great to have you with us this is sports today i'm not only let's take a look at some of the stories we're covering this hour. on top of the world team russia trying to ice hockey champions for the first time in eight years after a thrilling come from behind win over canada. great expectations we catch up with all black legend sean fitzpatrick who looks ahead to this year's rugby world cup finals in new zealand. and a long winter no problem russian tennis chiefs serve up

a new form of the game on some. more not just a moment but let's start with the news that russia has been crowned world youth ice hockey champions the red machine blitzing canada after a slow start to claim their first under twenty title since two thousand and three but big things are expected over russia in buffalo heading into the third period again well and truly up the canadians secured a three nothing lead by the end meaning the final twenty minutes was needed. charges to produce just hitting five and i'm sure goals to claim you talkies just win. the victory comes of a particularly good time for russian hockey because the senior team helping struggling lates just a year after back to back world titles and new blood was seen as parliament no problems on that front then with russia's thirteenth. president dmitri medvedev

earlier offered his congratulations in the fiat is a twitter account. the pressure will be firmly on new zealand to win the rugby world cup for the first time in twenty four years when the competition gets underway and nine months time richard caught up with former all black great sean fitzpatrick who says he expects his country to break that drought on when the william webb ellis trophy on home soil. thank you very much shawn feel time will looking we also internationals well it's really very difficult to see past new zealand as they were just fantastic the other playing very well applying the very commercial very well laid the got a. blend of youth and experience. so the moment of doing everything well the very commercial got a real focus on what they're doing and you can see that the weather klein very good coach. and sit up. all rises they continue to having a bright from now until the start of the first day. and they move into the countdown to the world cup september the ninth yeah they're good at. reading the

game will look at the end of the autumn series against but other than that they played some sublime rugby but bit of a wake up call to get the stroller in hong kong but it was purely because you know i might if you child was on the field it didn't work out well graham henry's worst nightmare must be have done casserole richie mccaw get struck down by illness or injury at a tournament you know i've had people saying you know who would play stand with you never got to apply stand he's a level of anyone else we just saw in the autumn series here how much of an influence he was on the game and how easy it was for him he looked as he was you know just cruising around the field in the afternoon rugby looked like he had just stepped out of the shell bicycle. you know he's a key player for us obviously and along with richie mccaw i think he could be the best kept in the world rugby at the moment and they crucial but if they do fall over we have to be able to apply some we saw a nice seven. possible. so. hopefully we've done everything we can of

a lot of the falls over the super fifteen is crucial in terms of number ten the thing aaron cruden and colin slide from canterbury who's going to tiger. i think support of them to develop sonny bill williams to get super fifteen under his belt is really important but you'll see players in the super fifteen who come from nowhere. that was it's been twenty four years since new zealand won the world cup on home soil so must be a lot of pressure on the all blacks going into the world cup in new zealand in nine months time to try and finally win the walk up again. after every world cup you know we're going to win the next one. is huge expect you know we expect we will but it's a win and a very top of the lows it's a national disaster. nothing's nothing's different twenty eleven is all going to be exactly as i was playing in america or applying. to france and i said. we expect to

work you know is a. little bit to the country in eighty seven and won the world cup there was huge pressure on so ninety seven when the world cup. continue what do you expect the challenges to come from the usual suspects so i think realistically it's probably only four or five teams that can win the world cup and that's not being disrespectful to anyone else. but you look at france you look at. i get really nervous but i'm going with a coming from. the current world champions. they showed against rather a couple of weeks ago dangerous they can be just for the physicality of the game and. for e use for those who applies in the world class so they're going to be right up there and just finally i mean what are your hopes for the world cup. one who will cup obviously but i'm a i especially being a new zealand just sort of a bit new zealand hosting the world cup because i think it will be sensational you

get four and a half million people every one of those people and a lot of people don't realise they should actually be in the rugby is such a religion. the have a based on their lives. and it's a great event combination of the twenty third of december with. a lot of trouble with your breaks when i talk to you on things that are so much. ok let's move on to tennis now where maria sharapova has made a shock exit the e.s.p. classic in new zealand the russian's first ever tournament in the country coming to an abrupt end in the quarter finals courtesy of. twenty three year old strop of. sorts early on conceding the opening set in just twenty nine minutes on a six two scoreline punk very unfair for an all in taking advantage of her opponent's slow start in the ensuing set losing out the match six two seven five. will be on the plane home number two seed on reigning champion the with meyer is

still going strong simona halep on able to put up much resistance in their quarterfinal match up six love six two and that one. now russia has had its fair share of tennis stars recently but the sports heads are not for success in a new form of the game beach tennis. reports there may be no sea in sight as yet but there's plenty of this on the stuff. western part of russia is not your typical place for beach status especially in winter when it's minus ten outside. could only be found on the pavement so that the best friends would not slip and fall down however that hasn't stopped them in st petersburg from holding a christmas tournament. this force was born in northern italy over thirty years ago particularly in revenge on a place the world's top beach tennis players still call home today

a resort holiday maker has probably seen if there are people hitting a tennis ball with a wooden paddle on the beach well it's now an official sport with established rules or regulations one that is gaining popularity in colder places like russia as well look at that it's nothing if when we started playing beach tennis in st peter's bank we only had four rockets in four people now take a look at how many people a hand for the aping many people a curious to give it a try they find it fan and that's what we're doing we have huge numbers of people who wish to try out beach tennis because it's banned because it's easier than making a tennis. well fun or not beach tennis is starting to attract athletes from its much older sibling regular tennis while it's only three years old in russia drastically as an infant stage the country's national teams are already competing for top honors on the international scene currently dominated by italy. it is not about the italians had this or fifteen years now so they are obviously the leader

well we've only been doing it for three years and we haven't had the opportunity to train a lot in moscow for instance we only have outdoor facilities in summer it's a great thing that we now have an indoor facility in st petersburg where we can keep training in winter time making beach tennis official in russia is a major push towards advancement into the masses but will that be enough to make it popular in the biggest country on earth much of which is covered by snow six. nine months out of the year obviously not as this new sport requires some infrastructure investment to adjust to the harsh climates in russia and make any headway in international tournaments and this is where private capsule comes to the rescue namely a former athlete himself and now a successful entrepreneur karo who founded a beach sports center in st petersburg wickets on the biggest issue of prisoners we originally around a food business and our first profits were spent on providing for our families and to maintain a decent standard of living today luckily we've moved forward and don't need to

address any survival needs and what we'd like to do is find a way to do business in the areas of personal interest with all that put together business self-fulfillment and fun to why not russian tennis players like that as one i don't even get a coffee cup and maria sharapova to name just a few have already made a name for themselves in their regular game will there be called the east follows suit and make russia and major player in this sport well the abundance of tournaments in twenty eleven will make that evident room on cost artie st petersburg. car i thought your love for not but if you happen to be a new chip a little later why not type in r.t.e. sport news on you'll be kept busy for hours with all the sports there weather is up next here though. the question is that so much you're going to make

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