we were most go this is our see the u.k. team as well joined the nest and b. peace was stolen in a multi-billion dollar deal to me will be on top not the arctic the bench is being hailed as a groundbreaking success by the moscow. federal employees of the heart of the u.s. capitol running twice as much as that private sector colleagues knew us a consensus of figures that jess the wages of continue to rise above average despite the financial crisis gripping the country. and schools in indian run kashmir choose education over separatism in defiance of volatile warnings to cancel

. a school bus was recently celebrated sidestream s. and is only and only its past and just barely made it. ok next moscow's expose the best places to enjoy some solve it in a styles or in the modern day russian capital. sure. you're. not heard. hello and welcome to the program on this week so be going back to the u.s.

assault 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 music octets or soto we must under his as we take a look at culture and life as it was decided it's. on top of the museum is the famous statue the look and collective farm women old and how much the sickle old least twenty five which is why the sculpture was made by vir moved enough for the nine hundred thirty seven welsh in paris the sculpture is an example of the socialist realistic an object of style division prevailing in past years almost twice as long as the feature of each one and any shit from long innovation the sculpture was returned to his place of the oldest exhibition center in the summer two thousand and that is that it was culture was restored in absolute shambles go from finesse original some fragments however were made from scratch and they were more or less destroyed over time has no way to the soviet exhibition area used to

be a display of achievements of socialism clearly selling a stock of texture and jobs there will several exhibition holes in the museum the pitches he highlight the busines progression to his current location is also impressive why collection of all that was created to help 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. so we're all 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 fashionistas.

high street fast fashion as it's. being sold. to a fast food restaurant on top of views of. the complex. exhibitions of contemporary art. the first of which are 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 rare editions of kipling stories provided by the state library or 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. an experience of life in the soviet union the sixty's seventy's. various

places barons murals and statues decorate the cafe because i don't think it's all in the truck it's feels more like a museum meets themed restaurant. with its traditional service sounds playing this group back eatery is the place to cheat for various serviettes stay. 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 become a whole meal for the hundred and fifty rubles that's around five dollars gold price of land slightly worried about the quality and how it face a fine out. this place is amazing this is

a just peace for the sick well i can't say the least bad for my soviet meal here you try this say it's all stand intrusively tradition and i've got bored of the largest dollop of smithtown this. was 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 you have the. other experiences and you find in moscow today located next red square room number one is of rebuild version of the prominent soviet food store founded in the months and

fifty's the fascinating architecture and style strewn shopping the new shop opened at the same place and has the same glamorous serviettes design where 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 staff. the hotel. is the. museum. and finally the place full of the spirit is the hotel.

suite by gandhi 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.

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 was. the state owned their grease street 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 bottled beer at that time but i was far as i can remember and final question george is that anything that you miss about

the seventies you i'll be honest with you martin i can never forget the taste of the ice cream that was sold in the new department store in red square it's called jean which means department store and i understand 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 it the. second phase of this book joyce it was lovely to meet you thank you. thank you and we look forward to hearing you more on all three. final location it was mostly outside. friends begin scouring the country to rescue the next machines. dozens of them doing their best to bring them back to life in the cold war grapes. this next location will bring out all of

the museum of soviet paid games and there are dozens of. space invaders 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 you just need a fifteen pack piece in the same as the museum. provides. movie theaters train stations and recreation centers across the u.s. assault packs with these games sales to go after the first movie arcade machines appeared in the mid eighty's quickly becoming popular with kids soon grownups annoying people queued up in gaming who is known to run out of cooling so i could stay and watch other people play like i could get away with a supercomputer it was also the people had new it's a good time at least attractive millions of soviet people died to. face a largely 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 space moscow out back to the us so i'll see you again at the same time next week for more cultural events is around the russian capital until then from a crew inside the crazy well it's a soviet octane games that are. going to have to have an africa.

they were tongues filled with joy. with parades and marches. inspiring people with enthusiasm. but it was everything really good and the loud for me to speak out. though she shared her thoughts only with her diary it all became evidence in the trial for counter-revolutionary activity. the evidence which condemned to a label. the diary of

a soviet school on. repairing a broken. highway construction and humanitarian aid. but as shady officials look at the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. afghanistan on the dollar. wealthy british style the stock. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars

a report on our. roster in the u.k. see wild. dogs. deal with spittle balance hope not to. say that being hailed a groundbreaking success by. federal employees of the halls of the u.s. capitol are running twice as large as that private sector colleagues new u.s. consensus figures suggest their wages have continued to rise above average despite the financial crisis gripping the country. run schools in india run the kashmir education eva separatism in defiance of vaughan and warnings to council close is a school bus was recently set ablaze fine stream and it's only passenger badly made out. with the union to go away.

thanks for joining us this is sports today i mean these are our headlines this hour . freefall it's a ninth straight defeat for the k. on it gets worse losing this time against the second worst team in the league it's . home court heroics completes the perfect warmup for next week's australian open with victory in the kooyong classic. and there are eight so we take a look at saturday's opening round of divisional playoffs in the n.f.l. . let's get going on the ice where things just keep getting worse for moscow 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 place team in the western conference into their pains on friday asked robert for new reports. three points that old school has managed to grab says the twenty second of december twenty. eight games in a row without a win truly shocking status for the club still awaiting themselves as one of the main favorites for the good of this year the visit of the cape chills side beaches look like a good chance for the must go through cover however despite their lowly status to visit their exposed to recent record. with four wins in four games. you know we'll 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 white ladies signing the two thousand and nine stanley cup winner you're a slow shot i but they did manage to open the scoring in the second period. luke

rushing home from the blue line to make it one meal i six minutes later him and he grabbed an extent of the hand size lead. to neil i bought he just poured back your bills of turning this one one chance in to go to make it to one by the second their mission i know went to a head in the final period but their opponents managed two goals in life including the slap shot from said. to load terms in the regulation time i was goalless in overtime meaning the game went down to a shoot out and it was done out for the noma is the only man to find the net was the visit there are three some i'm getting victory to be just i didn't get the result on his i think i. know i think we had more of the game played by

a truck just to score a run off he was out of chances and two in his game so i think that the 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 i know are still on the verge of a place in the playoffs but we all know that we said chances there will be severely punished. for it but the new on our team. all right that brings us on to tennis where lleyton hewitt will enter next week's astray an open and hot form after clinching the kooyong classic crying the former world number one has won two grand slams during his career but his home major is not one of them he'll be hoping that's all set to change this season after doing well just about everything right opens traditional warm up in melbourne the first set against face going down to the wire but you it was able to finish when it mattered french morphemes was being

suffering with a buck problem of late on his second step. formants was testament to that but hewitt himself just recently returned from a three month layoff with one hundred seven five six three how it ended up meaning the odds shorten just a little on the first home champion in thirty five years he also you. or i 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 with a bang on sunday with baltimore facing off against pittsburgh while green bay and a.f.c. top seeds of love to for company looking ahead to the clash is events of course. for another bruising round of the n.f.l.'s heavyweight match the ravens steelers rivalry the team split their. game apiece in the regular season with each win three points. 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. and while the thirty four year old veteran enjoys the extra days off his team. can always go for a few more practice reps. for the teams are virtually mirror images of their. physical top ten defenses not quarterbacks. ed reed and troy polamalu. interception are two of the premier players and the free. respectably.

should play despite an ankle. through a family tragedy veteran receiver derek mason there's no love lost between the sides. 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 eight packers defensive lineman desmond bishop however they rankings go out of the window at this time of year. talking about the seed. we don't really feel like we're in a playoff just like everybody else. you know. the

packers face their toughest test yet as they head into the rowdy ga the already lost. five six defeat 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 want to. go to pro bowlers probably could have been three. really good cover guys but also really good at playing the ball so it's a good defense so one thing that hasn't changed. so anticipation is building for exciting hard to predict divisional games kicking off a great weekend of postseason n.f.l. action. are key to get ready for. one of the world's

most successful cycling. twenty eleven roster at the end of the month the competition for a place is as high as ever within. 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 sea 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 warm and we can cycle without feeling uncomfortable three teams to explore in the camp including the continental it's there a cut 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 got to shop pro team has eighteen russian cyclists so the abundance of contenders is obviously high enough for the rest of it all our boys have serious intentions they know what teenage joined and what future prospects may open up for them freeloading won't do here cyclists have to be eager and concentrated plus with a prospect of joining the pro team the guys should be more purposeful and disciplined. to 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 twentieth and alone over eighty percent of the country cyclists

have applied to be on the same contract with get you shall also pave the way to the national team for some cyclist which they say quite seriously yes you can certainly feel the difference when you race with a russian national team all they could to shooting their own says many races for the national team as their own. for the katyusha and you feel responsible immobilized if you race for the national team. while the pro teams extension turns to the season opener in a straight is to 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 scene remained to your words but 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. jewish i 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 so new heights for him on costs are of artsy dilemma still cypress. and that runs up all the sport i'll see you soon where the weather's coming up in just a tick.