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union in nineteen seventy eight in her book pickle laps of an empire is here with us today by super bowl. thank you very much my dumbed down course for your time in your recent book between two walls you talk of russia can we presume from the title that you think russia still hasn't found its place in the world. of since was looking not exactly what the book says is that russia has made these kind of decision but over the past ten years it's been pursuing two different paths rather than one what i've been trying to explain is that after the soviet union disintegrated russia rushed to europe but as you have did not offer a woman welcome says the beginning of this century a russia's foreign policy has been focusing on two directions rosin and one is on the one hand the fall courses on the west on the other hand because it was joe

graphical position and decided to position itself as an asian country it gives it great it was an influence in the world it's been pursuing this policy for more than ten years now and has brought great success and then out of the twentieth century russia's international reputation around the world was not very good but now after the past decade it's obvious that it's been reckoned ver's it's a big change russia has taken a very important step forward and in my pin in this process is irreversible russia has become a world power for voice. in your introduction you raise the question of whether russia should be feared do you mean that the imperial russia and then the soviet union which. europe used to be afraid of are still alive. to think that gave up on this not only in europe the collapse of the soviet union was not interested baited it happened overnight many countries primarily those who are to solve it

influence the eastern european countries and countries that used to be part of the soviet union but are now into balance states did not understand russia and are afraid of it as eastern european countries have become e.u. members they have showed a few years and passed them on to the you saying that russia used to be an empire so why should it seize being an empire and can't be trusted now that it's imperial past has been forgotten by now people have already understood that russia is pursuing its own path but time has shown that georgia for example which has always been saying that it wants to save itself from russia that's why it wanted to access nato that russia will dominate georgia again and look i think it's a few years originate from some kind of misunderstanding of the break up of the soviet union because it was so sudden no one could adjust themselves to it immediately all the european and pires have collapsed but they collapsed after

decades of preparation even russia itself was not ready but there was no you don't believe in russia's imperial ambitions to write i don't believe it or i'd rather say there is some kind of an astrologer but that's a completely different saying ok what country can forget overnight that it used to be a powerful empire but russia has common sense despite the fact that some russians say used to be so good and that is a shame is forgotten about a still russian people and specifically is those in power have common sense as their stand too well that it's over and it's russia's future is not to be an empire but rather to build up its reputation and via satellite our rather. and by force. this will be a king as well they will fit what are the main styria types of russian faces today . honestly thinks that it's because russia has the legacy of the solve it here in n.c. and it will be marred by this stigma for a long time i come from

a country in which the collapse of the empire was a difficult one but bloodshed in the fifty's and sixty's yes unsaddle take as much and as you can swallow and another day he said you're free to get out of here is that many things about fashion of gardening people for godly some axes to was dominating under still fear and then got scared of the country or what it was or how or another ability to speak is positively with erlich and try as all this was for god needs and these new russia was not interested i see it what engine your country are people suspicious of russia i don't know what to say to that boy the thoughts of her go without your current president nicolas sarkozy said in his election campaign it's better to shake hands with than with putin who would you shake hands with. and then you have to all i feel uncomfortable talking about my

president is changed a great deal in he was in love with america it was an example of where a believer would that he did not know russia has a hunger an origin and hungary it was a factor but the soviet union to a certain extent and even by russia this is come a long way that he chose russia's and i agree with him but it's in europe's interests and in france's interests cross has always had its interest in relations with russia. and why has the course changed what is these changes related to. simply because he realized what's right he's a very smart guy really i should not be calling my present a guy well he's a very smart process and fortunately he's very active and he thinks something over he. to understand things correctly he took a look at the world and has realized a lot of things over two years with your realized trust that russia wasn't a terrible country it was

a country to be spoken to not let the georgian president helped him to his stylish to close relations with the russian president and prime minister he realized the dialo for a european country is the most important thing to build relations with russia he also realized russia was a european country or at least he didn't understand very well it for us he also realized that europe was no longer strong it was falling out of the history of global relations always going to fall out of it was to be completely cv it from russia his current position which i think is very smart is not the trash should be part of europe russia is too vast for europe it would not adapt what we need he thinks is a model for all asians but for you why does europe and yet russia now see a move not a russia is needed because the entire history of international relations is moving away from europe it's played out in asia even the us city country is

refocusing its foreign policy on asia you are aware of the huge countries that will play the big roles located here in asia or latin america but that's a different question now what is the current state of european asian relations europe is of no interest asia view europe as a landmass that tweezers the pacific ocean with russia and europe are not a whole but you have a picture there was an alliance then we can say europe reaches the pacific that this is the reason europe needs russia and i'm not sure russian is europe but europe at the moment needs for russia what were the ones that. are for in one of your interviews you spoke about the role of poland and said it could become a. each between europe and russia what kind of bridge and what are the current dynamics of russian polish relations machine door until very recently it

seemed like a great idea but now represent between russia and poland has actually happened and i think however that some politician who's smart politicians foresaw this and even prime minister donald to disk he was bringing poland closer to russian with a plane crash ball and has always been the final frontier of europe russia began after that france here is also in close contact with ukraine the question of ukraine is very delicate and given you the e.u. accession without exception russia would upset russian you know with poland is a bridge of sorts between russia and europe it's a bridge to russia because it is at the same time a slab it and a european country which could serve for bringing its kind was closer russia and europe holiday russia and ukraine and russia so poland could play a historical role if it in the stance the situation saying i've seen one of them cause so much damage on course at one point you predicted the collapse of the

soviet union and you knew forecasts for more than russia. that's the fear you know i know i don't email forgot it's just what i was writing about the solving i didn't even see it as a forecast i looked at the can tweet and saw so many negative in elements that i couldn't help but ask myself how long will it last i don't make forecasts as a rule historian if 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 he's having some difficulties as countries do it's not easy it is reducing democracy of capitalism it to western europe centuries to do that. doing it within twenty years isn't so easy i think russia is following the path he chose in one thousand nine hundred ninety one there have been ups and downs but i don't see any discontinuities so i think we can be calm about his

future it's time to look for more and more like you know when the country as it was before if somebody asked you to describe more than russian just three what's what would those words be. the frost fund would be mighty which it wasn't ten years ago that there was a this second important aspect in a modern russia make small time nationality actually work multiple nationalities was what killed the soffit union and this. would be dynamic. time goals thank you very much thank you.

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a string of terror arrests sparks accusations that lacks checks are to blame for the spread of an extremist threat. we reported from iraq where people driven from their houses by the war make a landfill sites their home and then livelihood. time now for the sports with natasha. hello and welcome to the spoils of day here nazi thanks for watching and here is what's coming up in the next ten minutes. liverpool manager roy hodgson leaves the glove with former red star dalglish replacing him at anfield until the end of the season. better as star season in style edging out devon damn going because our open final to claim his first title of the year. and also russia's

junior hockey team are still winning the under twenty world championships in the u.s. . and will begin with hockey as the newly crowned junior well champions are finally back home after spending a couple of days a buffalo airport the youngsters booted all of the fast fly due to what was described as unruly behavior russia claimed the under twenty well title for the first time since two thousand and three the junior red machine boasting a series of stunning comebacks which saw them beat the month and sweden on their way to the final wedding faced a bitter rivals canada the russians were trailing by three goals at the start of the size of period but full back in style scoring five without supplies for a five three you think trade when they finally made it back to the next generation of russian hockey stars received a hero's welcome at moscow's sheremetyevo airport. but while there is going to be going over every minute throughout the tournament will playing better in the way that we reached peak. lul losing we just all got together some of those.

for everyone who loves us in form the only don't follow tremendous victory is unless we've got a great team with great relationships between the leaders and the. moving on to the kontinental hockey league now well it might save all the new. overall he does despite some of these loss to minsk the game and in a shootout many locals still air and a point which was enough to replace. the table the rest of the schools out there as well that is needed over time for bids in a mall school without a paddle salt for two school regions to registered a five three. and spartak moscow defeated struggling beaches by a single build here in the capital. now the english premier league where kenny dalglish has replaced hodgson as livable manager according to the club officials the previous coach left his post by mutual called sound. as their as manager last

summer but has been on the pressure poor out of results recently a home defeat to wolverhampton and a loss of blackburn so the team dropped to twelfth place in the standings just four points above the relegation zone fifty nine year old dalglish will take over on till the end of the season in what will be his second spell in charge at tanfield he won eight titles as a player and manager with the reds and also led them to their last league title back in one thousand nine hundred ninety however dalglish has been out of management for over a decade since leaving celtic in two thousand. and stay with english football where the pick of saturday's third round afaik up action so also will survive against leeds thanks to a late equaliser fabregas the birth of the spot in injury time to make it up to the gun as lowly to open the scoring in the fifty fourth minute with another panel change we want to draw a mainstay will be a replay to decide the winner else was still also drew the match with cardiff of

birmingham where easy when i was at. fault on say that savile thing the premier league new york city suniel with blackburn posting in their own. rangers while sunderland went down to want to notts county more fixtures involving top flight signs. ah there on your screen as well. and same with football as we had to do while well respected stock asian cup hosts qatar in the tournament open to the first goal came in the fifty eighth minutes midfielder or do a member of taken up to bowl midway inside the opponent's hof to break into the normal range africa so one meal a move last on a quarter of an hour left in the midfield a set of a departure to advantage a way clumsy defensive mistake asia's foma player of the year intercepting to tar's fast to deliver a confident finish. to new force but stopped. and

was saying in doha where roger federer got off to a great style to the new season claiming his third guitar open title on south to doing better on stumble on his way to victory which was also his first in two thousand and eleven the swiss were russia's defending champion nikolay davydenko in straight sets six three six four but actually in great form i had of the first grand slam of the year the australian open in melbourne. complete the season has already started and gone on the way and i'm already on the board was a title and this one is a big one you know rough it was part of it because it's part of its own has been part of it so it was a really strong tournament to start off the two thousand and eleven campaign and you know i think that we think he's a top ten player not really what his ranking says at the moment he was really injured last year but he seems it's really come back and i'm very happy. and in perth the u.s. team have won big hop on hop off the beaten belgium have made the final episode on

the beach with drew with an injury from a wild spassky sting and now first two of them one out following her straight sets win over gaffney matic sounds the americans were back on track thanks to john mason was a relatively easy victory against belmont is there a natural sounds and panned out to defeat belgium in the size of mixed doubles six one six three and flew into. a record six months. on the greens marcus briere and british open champion louis aust husan share the lead after three rounds out of the africa open bria propellants himself through its all thanks to a solid three under seventy on saturday while also using carded a four and sixty nine helped by and they go on the fifteenth the local favorite was able to match bri is overall results finishing the day on the park so. watch out adrift while drawing overnight leader brandon gray stumbled to seventy second after this triple bogey at the sixteenth hole.

over in chile russian drivers retained the lead in the car elite drugs competition while in the bike section helder a druggist's was awarded stage six victory despite the nisshin second boogie is crossing the line behind can patch. was later reviewed as he did not follow the rule over a fifteen minute stop for a fueling the key tam rider only spent five minutes at the pit stop the remaining time then added to use result. drop down to seventh wild or drug use claimed this stage of a trade mark o'mara however retains the overall lead while in the cars category carl assigns one hundred twenty four as the car stage style extending his overall advantage in the process the action resumes with stage seven on sunday following a rest day. on the slopes and saloons. shared victory in the world cup giant slalom in adult gold in switzerland the frenchman was down in twenty first

place opted for a strong but managed to prove dramatically on number two this time of one minute ten point four nine seconds moved into a league that would be beaten had been sixth boston in the morning and also improved his results later on which gave him a combined total of two minutes twenty five point eight seconds and sat. equaling in the shah's time elsewhere american time the jedi finished in a disappointing twenty place to assume that all the awful there weren't but here in kabul tonight on top of the giants overall standings the single is second and rashard knowledge. and finally two thousand and ten ounce or the formation of a new league in russia the country's basque loves united and the professional basketball league lives in most of the look at how the p.p.l. is improving.

this is one of the best leagues in europe at least in terms of the playoffs and every tweet just be that's until recently russian black basketball was like a game structure that was also shaken by juice the referees stand a lot samari therefore the regime of in a tone of must read was just a matter of time in the modern system both normal to provide a professional. use to organize the. weave. their marketing. platform with the clubs or a voice towards some serious decisions that the leak now consists of dan plots from several different regions russia. we'd like to extend his geography but so far the study on the glass that they're rated to make sure why mike's each team has to pay around to four hundred thousand u.s. dollars and friends at the beginning of the season and their arena should have

a capacity of at least three dollars. something so radio looks solid in the d.l.c. for example the leak is very competitive it was only around twenty percent of their results finish and was a wider than ten point margin between the teams but there are still sold for now each has to be equal gains to be shown something unimaginable for well established beasts there is a big problem with sports marketing russia's gross ratings or for sport programs is very poor compared to the shoulder some things programs russian television. he said that it's not interesting for them to produce distance problems there's. another big concern over recent years has been the quality of french fried . the gates just were all from the unhappy piece of the seats against them the league has hired some young officials but so far steele has denied foreigners took

the shape of the big games and was there much else that you still haven't said the refereeing was high quality at the beginning of the season but at least it was more neutral i think there should be a competition between the referees as well which would make them better. get back to the e.p.l. is only healthy year old and has a mountain to climb to make a big spectacle out of russia pla basketball staff stalwarts least of the me and the league has said that they don't march twenty seventh for its first ever star game but they missed their mark our team. that's led doesn't spoil for the moment coming up shortly as the weather stay with us. well. bringing you the latest in science.