well let's now have a look at the latest headlines and the week in review here on our team russian investigators get a breakthrough just five days after the suicide blast at moscow's them a get about europe board the culprit has been identified as a man from the north caucasus who was targeting foreigners the attack killed thirty five people and injured over one hundred. fresh in egypt as the country descends into chaos with protesters a lashing out against the government for the sixth day in a row over a hundred have been killed and thousands injured in be uprising leading to the dissolution of the cabinet. and the start treaty gets the final go ahead as russia

and the u.s. completes the ratification process the leader signed the agreement last april despite opposition by u.s. republicans. president dmitri medvedev spoke exclusively to bloomberg on the sidelines of the world economic forum in davos well that interview is coming up right here on r.t. . president to thank you very much for joining us you want to rush into a modern country you've got mcdonald's you've got shopping malls you've got through she what's missing. what's missing is that more common things like infrastructure business infrastructure and legislation to properly regulate that business activity i'm missing the official establishment bureaucracy a lack of proper legal consciousness and a well developed judicial system is missing that once we have

a latin provided there is no corruption it would mean that russia is ready to steam ahead along its modernization track but work most of it with nearly all of the companies that are traded in russia are either controlled by the state or controlled by billionaires or also known as all other minority investors foreign investors often find that in these circumstances they are not treated fairly all investors talk about it and yet the regulator does nothing. do you think the regulator should do more about it with a can of it you can get around any law including corporate law american or british the question is whether there is an effective control over the way the relevant legal regulations are applied a business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms unfortunately as regards to compliance with legislation in our country the situation here is as follows a businessman often try to strike a bargain with public officials civil servants and among themselves in order to get

around a legislation which is not underdeveloped in my opinion and try to close deals that are contrary to laws but that is not only a question of the legislation itself it's a question of legal culture a question of effective compliance control and the question of effective work by n.t. monopoly agencies or wait let's look at the way things stand in the united states we noncompliance with antitrust legislation is often a violation much more serious than a minor criminal offense because the consequences of that would be disastrous for any business minute so we have a lot to deal with here a lot to work on when. we talk a lot about corruption and the need to clean up corruption you've taken three steps but you yourself admit really you haven't accomplished a lot. why. go after if corruption is as total as

you say it is in russia why doubt go after some really senior government officials . i would like to say that here we do need to speak legal language someone knows that somebody is a bribe taker well we can think that way about any governor and not just in the russian federation but per point let me just stop you there though sir so you have said that corruption is nearly total it's not just singular cases many people are corrupt so theoretically it shouldn't be very difficult to find people that you are where the evidence is there so why not do that with that but. i believe we should act as follows here indeed corruption has penetrated all branches of power and it spread far and wide after the emergence of a market economy and a new political system which is only natural let's be honest i mean there were no such corruption levels in the soviet union but why because there was no freedom no market economy unfortunately a state officials in a business men were not ready to communicate any civilized way from the start and

corruption grew let me tell you the situation is difficult but not hopeless last year alone civil thousand high ranking state officials were prosecuted for corruption and bribery and two thousand of them were sentenced. when mikhail have of course he was arrested the first time it's said to sit signal to all of the oligarchy that the state was in control and one thing that happened was everybody started paying taxes so wouldn't it wouldn't you have the same effect if you went after one of your own wouldn't that send the same signal to everyone else that this is no longer tolerated. when you go as regards the payment of taxes not just by could of course keep but businessmen in general yesterday i had a look at some statistics. last year alone one thousand private entrepreneurs and some three thousand employees a major companies were prosecuted for tax dodging but this is

a big number i didn't expect it to be that high. and i had a look at certain cases the information was given to me by the prosecutor general's office some of those people i'm not talking about the well known cases got eight to ten and fifteen years into nces so i would say it's not exactly correct such talk about selective use of justice but about. cooking a little bit more depth. every december russia's biggest investment bankers brokers get together for an informal chat this year at that chat one of the investment bankers raised his glass to make a one hundred of course not because anyone in that room liked mikael khodorkovsky i was told but because they all believe that what happened to him the second conviction is devastating for russia's investment climate don't you what the story of mikhail heard of course he did just go away don't you want to stop it. yeah.

let me expand on this for it is indeed of certain interest to everyone first of all let me say once again that last year alone several thousand private entrepreneurs and employees of major business entities were sent to prison for tax crimes secondly i've always believed that the president of any country including russia should not talk about individual cases just because that would be an interference with the judiciary system but thirdly as regards mr khodorkovsky and some of his colleagues prosecuted by law and the respective sentence it is not entered into legal force and fourthly i believe that all talk about the shortcomings of an additional system as well as any intends to bring pressure on me as the president i totally destructive in this context because they make everyone else think that the judicial and legal system in russia is so imperfect that you can simply tell the president or someone else change the sentence for khodorkovsky or someone else and

then we believe that you'll needle system is not that hopeless that is kind of working what but that would be unacceptable. how can investors be sure there won't be another other cost issue. i think that any investor be it foreign or russian should have by and by laws otherwise he can get a term the way it happened with khodorkovsky and as was the case of bernard madoff who got a longer sentence because you talk about the deed for more political competition to modernize the russian economy. how can you fight corruption in the government if there is no real opposition if the opposition political opposition in russia isn't allowed to exist. but if. it's not right the political opposition in russia does exist the question is how strong is it there are for political parties represented in the russian parliament which sometimes really do haunt the government that has been formed by the leading

political force they criticize the government clamor against it and so on just as it happens in the rest of the world and other things that we currently have just one powerful political force which controls the situation in the parliament there are negative sides to it but it's obvious that there are positive sides to it one of those in the one nine hundred ninety s. president boris yeltsin could not adopt any law because the communists or other parties would block it that we've been able to adopt a normal legislative some but that doesn't mean that united russia or any other party should get a mandate to rule once and for all but. probably in the city for that's exactly what i'm asking about i am more interested in the opposition leaders that are outside of the parliament that's what that's what i'll ask you about why is it that an opposition leader again in russia. can be arrested at a peaceful demonstration. just because he said this demonstration no he was

accused of provoking a police and bit a lot of people so that. again i wouldn't want to interfere with the proceedings but if you mean administers of the rest of small opposition party's leaders then this issue should be addressed in a lawful manner no country in the world allows violating its laws on the meetings rallies and demonstrations or acting against the police by committing unlawful acts against those who maintain law and order for the months that you're a very popular president the opposition is very small why create these situations because they're just bad press for the investment climate outside of russia where these opposition leaders are getting arrested were demonstrations whether they were officially sanctioned or not are dispersed why not just let them demonstrate you know that your sentiment that they do that all the time out of dozens even hundreds of demonstrations and rallies perhaps only one violates the million there was just one problem with holding a demonstration on a specific day in a specific place truthfulness square once the city administration changed these

demonstrations were sanctioned they gather there but it's impossible to file a dozen applications for the same location by the way opposition leaders got the sanction as far as i know the problem is that they can't close with each other like somebody said i will be there someone else added we won't be there we'll take it to another location look we need to learn to observe the laws like that with them both of them or not but which it's on it's a very good route for president two thousand and twelve. i'll see how things go as what's up with you if you do run would prime minister putin continue to be your prime minister at the boy that he starts all over again but you it would depend on a whole number of things and circumstances as regards me i won't speak about mr putin right now ok he's another person my friend my colleague so i won't speak on his behalf as for me i'll certainly make my own decision and i'll do that this year but i mean a decision what to do next if i think it would be right for the country for our

political system and first and foremost for our citizens for me to participate in elections i'll do that if i think the other way i'll state my position openly and i will say that this is for the good of our society and our state but if i decide to participate then i will of course make a subsequent decision regarding prime minister this is obvious i should. just end my final question obviously the terrorist act in moscow was a tragedy. that aside do investors need to worry about the security situation in russia you've got. the olympics coming up you've got the world cup coming up is is russia's security situation something that needs to to worry investors. can actually do more well i would like to start with something else the situation differently concerns first and foremost all russian citizens and

me as the president and this is the most important thing because only by consolidating all public forces can we vanquish this evil up. we have no right to be hysterical about terrorism and spread out so this will make terrorism stronger could look at the way the americans came together after the nine eleven events but even those who are not very fond of president bush said yes he has to be at the helm he has to be tough and it's got to be the same for our country that's the only way we can defeat terrorism but at that moment as regards fears and concerns of investors and all those who want to come to russia rest assured that we will ensure a high level of security that we will ensure the proper level of security for the olympics and the football world cup and all other sporting events this will be a task for the entire society and for law enforcement agencies and special services of course we will do that as effectively as possible but should we still limit. i missed but thank you thank you very much i would appreciate if i was the time i saw

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. the latest headlines and the weekend review here on our team russian investigators get a breakthrough just five days after the suicide blast at moscow's damage out of the airport the culprit has been identified as a bad from the north caucasus who was targeting foreigners the attack killed thirty five people were injured over one hundred authorities say they will not reveal the name of the responsible until we track down and arrest his accomplices. fresh talent in egypt as the country descends into chaos with protesters lashing out against the government for the sixth day in a row over one hundred fifty people have been killed and thousands injured in the uprising leading to the dissolution of the cabinet world leaders have urged the

president to refrain from violence and give in to people's demands of reform. and the start treaty gets a final go ahead as russia and the us complete the ratification process the leaders signed the agreement last april but were not supported by both republicans the treaty will reduce the number of strategic arms on both sides by over one third. i'll be back with more news in fifteen minutes time but first it's the sports update. a lot of these posters are not to look at the headlines. japan claim a right had both asian cup title with a hot fourth grade of australia becoming the most successful team in the tennis history. full well number one tiger woods says plaster result in years and they

promise i'm sure as a torrey pines while the world's second best phil mickelson lays it on the mend along with bill haas. and also all fours tears of joy i can fly says we're still trying to open for the first time in what could be the final season. let's kick off with. narrow window of australia on saturday to claim their fourth asian cup trophy making them the most decorated team in the tournaments history the socceroos graded a series of openings in the first half but failed to be japanese goalkeeper a.j. the shame of commands to keep the ball out normal time could separate the signs as it's their main goal to ninety minutes sell the final went into extra session well with eleven minutes to done yet believe that i am the way they think is to my right the world's asian cup title the twenty five year old striker hall made his international debut japan's opening group fixture against jordan weeks ago came off the bench in the ninety nine minutes of the findings in that town minutes later in

spectacular fashion the man of the match however sad it was a team effort. in this tournament i was in a little mood as it only was sent to the field as a substitute in one game in the group stage. is very unified and we really attach great importance to construction my team mates has been encouraging me and helped me maintain a good spirit today's game showed that something can all so many great contributions . the team and can also play a key role in the when i'm really happy but i want to say that there's gold doesn't just belong to me it's the result of the hell japanese team we had our opportunities and what it's always encouraging in the way we play and we create opportunities however then it's crucial to convert them and later on in the game it it backfired and that's a problem we have to do. we have to be more clinical in off an issue and.

basically it's not enough to win a game if you don't score. well for bill now as there's been plenty of action in england two in the fourth round of the f.a. cup including chelsea is hard for draw with everton the top seeds to believe that we saw that for silva. aston villa beating blackburn three one balls and against wigan finished goalless while the other top flight team their best to get came from behind together three two victory over common treat. them all fixtures premier league leaders manchester united came from a girl down to get southampton the saints who play in england's league want to be a first album made through richard chapter loeb on second hope goals from michael owen and javier unarmed as united fruit to the next stage elsewhere victories for burnley sheffield wednesday reading brighton and crawley. and golf phil mickelson is on his way to his first title of the error of the farmers insurance open the

former world number one and three time when a shooting out of the cost sixty eight to build levelled with bill hawes it's been exactly ten years now since the lefty's maiden trip torrey pines public course he grew up playing in san diego however he also was a player from rob at the ball pope classic just a week ago still says joint top off to some exciting shots including this birdie at the fifteenth the toughest one force elsewhere bubel watson produced a shot of the day with. the third watson birdied that haul and is now tied with home to main road behind the leader is dying or was meanwhile struggled throughout the day finishing a child's back and ending a story go twenty one rounds at. on the south course to worry about. trying to figure out their once even when i got back to what over at the turn. put me up five i just post here non i'm right there the ball good. good good good you

really want a bad night but that was a goal by the time just to make it. over of the european tour paul casey the highest ranked player in the field in bahrain told us a little of going into the final round of the champions englishmen just missed out on a ryder cup place last season but has started this one many business cases hitting a third round of sixty six to take a share of the lead with peter hanson from sweden and those two they will only have a one shot question over the others in the northern islands darren clarke seen here with a birdie at the eighteenth and also south african james of the most consistent player out there at the moment guarding his third consecutive round of sixty seven but only three shots separate the top eight and the that lottie's miguel humanise who kept his pottery and want piece on saturday after it literally fell apart the day before the man city the place before the final day. now

a newly crowned australian open champion killing kim clijsters says coming from a said made of victory even sweeter the belgian be china's lean up to claim the trophy for the first time with what could be her last season. legal had written classes just a couple of weeks before the sydney to national ad lib trainee to cause another upset in melbourne and even though she suffered a break early in the final she kept her cool and a spectacular cross called for and allowed the chinese to clinch the first said by six games to three there the two exchanged breaks twice early in the sack and down in the in our pool theirself and frogs three two but it was all quiet as after that the belgian alesha buried her brow strokes to keep her opponents running all over the court third seed lost as a real golf seven straight games to take the second set six three four grabbing to decide to add the championship by the same school and so plenty of reasons for clijsters to celebrate the power back when winning their second straight grass

planting match and will displace russia's biggest one i don't buy as world number two in monday's w t rankings. they're all emotional. you know i think what overwhelms me is that it's so intense off until you know that last shot and then all those loans finished in and it's just like a big new leaf and. yeah and you know the disbelieve me who had tutors and so over and i was able to turn it around i think is what kind of just makes it all so so special i think great tennis and stupid bellamy so i was a national bank a logger allegedly made with joe the ten's and she would only play one so. i mean i'll still have nothing to do with those views even the. soul of gold for myself. formula one why the sport's most talked about team ferarri were the first to unveil

their new car for the upcoming season they telling teams to stop drivers do the honors at their headquarters in maranello last year as runner up for not all loans oh and i'm also point all the covers the cars called the won how did than fifty to mark the anniversary i'll be pleased unification and it features a new moveable red wing and the kinetic energy recovery system the latter was banned last abbott makes its roots in twenty eleven thirty bosses hope the improvements will help alonso point is that after one tie all muscle. and of course so do the drivers. the war has been done in this car months of water and now finally we see that. with us an eleven season with a lot of challenges for us challenging year with new groups again. and some new leaf occasion so you know will be interesting to watch on the world.

now in hockey veteran goaltender dominic hotshot has marked his forty sixth birthday with the us now the shutout for spartak moscow is threshing more seven zero on the road in one of saturday's highlights bob barr on stefan goodrich guy inflicting most of the damage in this lopsided go past the do not see a brace of peace else wes concentrate is good last and that the little book is nuts for juan and superstar also in that it fulfills all of them in the final period to be. moving to the slopes west. the second world cup victory in a row the latest coming in france who share his day his full midway through the season following victory and went in last week with another one here in chamonix this was the only one on saturday to complain because in on the end minutes and fifty nine seconds it's nice dominic paris and klaus troll from austria came second down their back to this when putting top of the world cup downhill standings up to

six races bob the thirty seven year old is still some way off the pace overall lying over four hundred points behind the match patch even some stellar courage. and the latest on the x. games by new way baumgartner became a broken collarbone in the men's snowboarding final denying the pole and the six gold at the event count as the sole to the top one of those in the snowboard street the twenty three year old living up to his billing as one of the best technical rail riders in the world seeing all the louis philippe par dean the final and also all that shall all be won the big gary band well kelly clark dominated the girls' superfly. and that's it for the moment coming up after this is the y. the stay with us. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realm of russia.

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