everybody was come. a look at the top story. as oil. stocks in a multibillion dollar deal to explore the untapped natural reserves of the venture is being hailed a groundbreaking success by both moscow and london. federal employees of the heart of the u.s. capitol twice as much as the private sector colleagues new u.s. consensus. continue to rise above average despite the financial crisis gripping the country. kashmir choose education over separatism while in warnings to cancel classes a school bus was recently set ablaze by extremists. passenger barely made it out

alive. so we have minds here in our team next must go out explores the best places to enjoy some softness in a modern day russian capital. sure . you're. hello and welcome to the program on this week so i will be going back to the u.s.s.r. and even with its tumultuous history it wasn't all about politics and suppressive sevi it's how i was brought about amazing technological advances its music and

octets sotto you must under his as we take a look at culture and life as it was decided. on top of the museum is the famous statue the book and collectors found woman old in the house and sickle old least twenty five which is why the sculpture was made by v. or most enough for the my nine hundred thirty seven worlds in paris the sculpture is an example of the socialist realistic an object or style division pervading impasse was almost twice as long as the feature length which ran into the shit from long innovation the sculpture was returned to his place of the old russian exhibition center in the summer two thousand and that is that it was culture was restored in absolute shambles go from venus original some fragments however were made from scratch and they were more or less destroyed over time though it's nowhere near the soviet exhibition area used to be a display of achievements of socialism could excel in istanbul texture and often there are several exhibition holes in the museum that teaches he highlight the

disease progression to its current location is also impressive why collation of all that was created so well the soviet union from top again that's a soviet there are many holes inside the museum here a large pots on. and even though most aspects of culture was under government control. and so we are pieces of the highest amounts of various. around the world. and moving on let's take a look at this week's entertainment news. to become the place to shop for many of the capital's. high streets fast fashion as it's. being sold.

a fast food restaurant on top of views of. the complex. exhibitions of contemporary art. world of richer kipling's jungle book inspired an exhibition which is currently on display at the state and. it features hundreds of illustrations to famous books by the british writer providing a glimpse into the amazing animal world where editions of kipling stories provided by the state library are also showcase for the collections highlights of pictures drawn by the author himself. with a menu comprising of a wide range of traditional russian dishes the city a cafe on to the square is this is the center of. the experience of life in the soviet union and sixty's seventy's. various posts is barry's new rules and statues decorate the cafes because help think it's

all a little sick and feels more like a museum themed restaurant. with its traditional service sounds playing this group back eatery is the place for cheap for various serviettes. back to the us a song well i think we found out. that many. times they come here that bunch of bricks and remember the past in turn we try to keep the soviet atmosphere the reality here. and there we have it's come to me a few hundred and fifty rubles that's around five dollars good price for the land slightly worried about the quality and how it tastes well i'll find out syrian. this place is amazing this is a just peace for the sick well i can't say the least but i thought my soviet meal did you try this say it's all stand intrusively tradition and i've got bullish on

the largest dollop of smithtown. more six like a cranberry juice drink and that's just like i said it history is trying. this is a decent size. actually it's not bad at her reminds me of a cornish pasty which we have. other soviet style experiences and you find in moscow today located next red square room number one is a rebuilt version of the prominent soviet food store founded in the one nine hundred fifty s. with a fascinating architecture and style to future shopping the new shop opened at the same place and has the same glamorous serviettes design however you may now buy

food from almost any post the world here and any time as the stores open around the clock. reopen crane is one of seven six inches high rise buildings traces during the style. the hotel. is the. museum. and finally the place full of the spirit is the hotel. suite by gandy and margaret thatcher. this is his most traditional restaurant

located in the same building. from. this week's gets. to me. thank you very much. and you. like. i would say it wasn't very. very

. no signs of anything no advertisement in the streets or anything i can tell you for one example but there was a big billboard in the city where first lived in the eastern ukraine a huge billboard saying eat ice cream it's nutritious and tasty but no brand marks it will. stay doing their research. there is only one brand of ice cream you could buy just as there is only one brand of beer you could buy it was a most of it was draft beer there wasn't any bottle beer at the time that as far as i can remember a final question george is that anything that you miss about the seventy i'll be honest with you martin i can never forget the taste of the ice cream that was sold

in the. department store in red square it's called. room which means department store and i understand that people from all over the country who would come in to visit moscow by all means go to this department store and taste the wonderful ice cream i can still taste. the faces as well joyce it was lovely to meet you thank you. thank you and we look forward to hearing you more i'll say. final location it was mostly outside. friends begin scouring the country to pieces next machines. dozens of them doing their best to bring them back to life in that cold war graves. this next location will bring out all of the museum of soviet paid games and there are dozens of. space invaders to ceasing galleries

they range from nine hundred sixty five all the way to ninety ninety one and best of all is that they're all in working order just the steam packed piece from the same as the museum. provides. movie theaters train stations and recreation centers across the u.s. the stuff packed with these games sales to go after the first movie arcade machines appeared in the mid eighty's quickly becoming popular with kids soon growing up was annoyed listening to people queued up in gaming whose nose he ran out of cooling so i could stay and watch other people play like i could get away with a supercomputer a little something people had knew it's a good time and like this attractive millions of soviet people died here. they still largely on the japanese or american designs soviet factories produced some seventy different video game models however productions of the game ceased but the collapse of the u.s.s.r. . and from set the arcade games to museums cafes and shops there are many soviet

themed experiences still to be found in modern day moscow and today many aspects of russian culture are still influenced by the shadows of soviet life fusing such a vibrant past with the capital this present delivers a unique historic culture social diversity and present a deep rooted russian so well unfortunately that's all the time we have in this race moscow out back to the u.s.s.r. i'll see you again at the same time next week from all cultural events is around the dressing capital to them from a crew inside the crazy well it's a soviet occupation games for now. i'm going to have to have another go.

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to explore the untapped natural reserves of the arctic adventure is being hailed a groundbreaking success by both moscow and london. federal employees of the heart of the u.s. capital are earning twice as much as the private sector colleagues the new us consensus figures suggest either way just continue to rise above average despite the financial crisis bringing the country. and schools and in the end run kashmir or choose education over separatism in defiance of warnings to cancel classes a school bus was recently set ablaze by extremists and its only young passenger barely made it out alive. we have lines here and the time now for sports and a few here are the things to do yeah i mean and there's a massive weekend of american football by is just around the corner yet it's the

vision. for all of the top teams in the country they play on saturday we'll have a look at the two games in just a moment. thanks for joining us this is sports today i mean these are our headlines this hour. freefall it's a ninth straight defeat for moscow in the cave on it gets worse losing this time against the second worst team in the league it's. home court heroics completes the perfect warm up for next week's australian open with victory in the kooyong classic. and there are eight so we take a look at some rays opening round of the visual playoffs in the n.f.l. . let's get going on the ice where things just keep getting worse for.

a superb start to the concept of a hockey league season fading memory with the blue and white schooling down to their nine feet in a row as the lowest placed team in the western conference into their pains on friday asked robert for dunya reports. three points that old school have managed to grab says the twenty second of december twenty. eight games in a row without a win truly shocking stats for the club still waiting themselves as one of the main favorites for the good of this year the visit of the cape chills bottom side looked like a good chance for the must go through cover however despite their lowly status the visit there is believed to recent record. with four wins in five games. dyno will quick to get down to business creating a number of good goal scoring chances early in the first period one of them wasted

by the blue and whites latest signing the two thousand and nine stanley cup winner you're a slow shot than i but they did manage to open the scoring in the second period. luke rushing home from the blue line to make it one kneel. six minutes later devaney grant extent of the hand size lead. to neil i bought the just bored back bills of turning this one one chance in to go to make it two one by the second their mission i did not know when to ahead in the final period but their opponents managed to goals in reply including the slap shot from said in too low terms in the regulation time i was goal is in overtime meaning the game went down to a shoot out and it was down an out for the number is the only meant to find the net was the visit there was three some and getting victory to be just i didn't get the

result we wanted i think. overall i think we had more of the game played but i'll try to just score a run on the use of chances and to win this game so i think that this side of this game. would like to apologize to our phones we could have decided the game in the first period we created so many chances but most of them were wasted. no more are still on the verge of a place in the playoffs but we all know that whistle chances there will be severely punished. for it but in their own party. all right that brings us on to tennis where lleyton hewitt will enter next week's australian open and hot form after tension the kooyong classic kron the former world number one has won two grand slams during his career but his home manager is not one of them he'll be hoping that's all set to change this season off to doing well just about everything right the opens traditional warm up in melbourne the first set against face going down to

the wire but it was able to finish when it mattered french more face was being surfing with a buck problem of late on his second step. formants was testament about but hewitt himself just recently returned from a three month layoff with one hundred seven five six three how it ended up meaning the odd short just a little on a first home champion in thirty five years the also you. all right let's move to american football where the business end of matters in the n.f.l. gets going this weekend the divisional playoffs start off for the buying on sunday with baltimore facing off against pittsburgh while green bay at a.f.c. top seeds atlanta for company looking ahead to the clashes events of course. yet set for another bruising round of the n.f.l. heavyweight match the ravens steelers rivalry the team split their north match ups of one game apiece in the regular season with each win three points the ravens

showcase their patented self defense and an improved passing off thirty to seven victory over the chiefs in the wild card. the steelers watched their full home. the playoffs. every week after week after week. so. it's great and while the thirty four year old veteran enjoys the extra days off his teammates. can always go for a few more practice reps. for the teams are virtually mirror images of their. physical top ten defenses not too many quarterbacks look forward to facing. ed reed and troy polamalu

scoring here on an interception return or two of the premier players and the free and strong safety positions respectively. should play despite an ankle. recently gone through a family tragedy veteran receiver derek mason meanwhile knows there's no love lost between the sides. fans. the green bay packers travel to the top seeded atlanta falcons in the n.f.c. divisional playoffs the visitors battled adversity all season. to keep personnel and prevailing in. wild card game beating philadelphia twenty one to sixty packers defensive lineman desmond bishop however their rankings go out of the window at this time of year. to talk about the seeding. we don't really

feel like we're in a playoff just like everybody else you know the packers are going to felt. good. the packers face their toughest test yet as they head into the rowdy ga the already lost in late november five of green bay six that feeds this season came. third year quarterback matt ryan has only lost twice at home in the past twenty two games but he also has something to prove have never won in the postseason a tough test for ryan with one of the league's most feared pass rushers clay matthews the third just one of his many worries. you know to pro bowlers probably could have been three. you know. a really good cover guys but also really good at playing the ball so it's a good different suspects and one thing that hasn't changed when you look at them so anticipation is building for exciting hard to predict divisional games kicking

off a great weekend of postseason n.f.l. action. our cheat sheet to get ready for fireworks one of the world's most successful cycling teams cut. twenty eleven roster at the end of the month the competition for a place as high as ever within the russian team but riders in. their cypress training camp takes up the story. the island of cyprus was chosen by the russian global cycling project cut you shop for its ideal winter training conditions and suitable terrain it's a first experience for some athletes but older members of the team have enjoyed the local advantages before. i've been here five times the best thing about this place is the woman climates no other place in europe can offer such good conditions good roads combined with good weather even if it rains here the weather is still boom and we can cycle without feeling uncomfortable three teams to explore in the camp

including the continental eight sarah cuts you shot and under twenty one and twenty three youth teams the pro tour is probably the ultimate goal for these young men and they know they stand a real chance that's when she eleven version of the thirty men cut you shop pro team has eighteen russian cyclists so the abundance of contenders is obviously high enough for the rest of all our boys have seen recent tensions they know what team mate joined and what future prospects may open up for them freeloading won't do here are cyclists have to be eager and concentrated plus with the prospect of joining the pro team the guys should be more purposeful and disciplined. that you show is supported by a major russian businesses and the result of this cooperation has led to sixty seven boat you places last year alone. the russian global cycling project is one of the finer examples showing how the business community is vital for advancement of

sports and its three year existence the team became the most sought after by russian athletes in twenty it's and alone over eighty percent of the country cyclists have applied to be on this team a contract with god to show also paves the way to the national team for some cyclists which they take quite seriously and yes you can certainly feel the difference when you race with a russian national team or they could to shitting their own says many races for the national team as they're all for the. and you feel more responsible immobilised if you brace for the national team. while the pro teams that sanction turns to the season opener in a straight a's two are done under preparation for the upcoming season will continue in cyprus as the island is getting geese to seeing cyclists sporting a russia uniforms constant sest and struggle to prove your place on the team remained to you which is what the competition is tough last year eighty percent of russian cyclists have applied to join katyusha i've been in and since the car was

found it kind of strengthened my position since and the management has extended my contract for twenty eleven. that you show will be looking forward to continuing to win titles in twenty eleven and with the reserves being hot on their heels the leaders will attempt to take the team sinew heights rim on cos forever artsy lemme sell cypress. and that runs up all the sport i'll see you soon where the weather's coming up in just a tick. wealthy

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