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won't step down until september and the country's military has vowed to support him . although russia warrants tapan against pushing forward it's a tough stance on the can rely linds of territory tokyo and wanted back since the end of world war two. joined martin andrews in his search of the russian spirit in the british capital moscow out goes to london next. the hundreds of thousands of us living in great britain said. the story.

is a. seems that come fishies. just how much. has several in fact. in the british. think well. you can if. it's celebrations in the city streets of. new style.

several. times everything. i'm trying trips to. the recent past means you're one of life's great supply to me here. working in russia i think. it's a wonderful. nice to meet your clients that frank said just a little but i think you're going to be the one i love my god i'm. wrong on this well thank you very well educated yes i buy that yet i think everything else. that there might. be a sense of style is what they do they know what they want and. they go off trail and we will work very well together. to love russia but. i think that the party and

of the russian. have they that. night that the idea that anybody. with more move russians actually moving to the u.k. every you know once in a calling the capital funding grads and the fact many experts say that rushing about that this is the crux of the bruising british economy. some might be afraid the relationship is such emerging markets others to. cherish in the new opportunities include trucks they bring. russian playwrights and i can schools have been very popular around the world for decades and the british capital is no exception very stringent pays off performed on the in stages by both russian. companies. whenever there is a play on. usually trickles there is no doubt almost immediately when the

national trust theatre does it or any private company or even. smaller french companies if they put on a russian play. it's. so certain terms of service there is a huge about for us there recently the show feels it has to perform and staged by the promise director so you are special titled the marriage the play is a comedy by the outstanding writer nikolai gogol britain almost two centuries ago to. reduction remains popular still today performed by faith come from moscow if it was cost the states a festival called russian classics. in great britain. one of the oldest most famous opera system five houses which is founded in london in the seventeenth sixty's and sell week twice a year before the ocean itself proceeds organizes. to give collectors a better chance to examine to learn more about the art pieces on offer to dish and they've always been. tradition in london it's always been and. i just happened to

coincide with christmas. but i think that it is more. to say now is thing very serious. and that she'd take time to do things and we need to make a decision about what they want and that collection is pretty party to the sound system event the b.b.c. get a. living aboard including artists and descendants from autistic families as well as collectors of the latest ocean chrissy's through a door more than three hundred lots of russian fine art including paintings imperial porcelain and furniture which are sold for fifty million pounds twenty four million dollars in total. we're quite a. bit option that we sell off in the eighteenth century right up to the present day so for example in this auction we have nineteenth century rights twentieth century right up space contemporary. one of my favorite western says actually this

levittown which you could buy the horses which is a fantastic probably eighteen nineteen to a private collection here and it's really really special saying it chris let's meet this week's guest. thank you very much for your time but tell me about your position here at christie's position the. the international head of the russian department kristi's . started to work at christie's twenty five years ago in the russian department i became the head of the department in london in one thousand one and i believe it became the international head i mean sort of the five seven years ago and it seems that russian art has exploded here in london and paris and new york recently well i think it's a great paradox about russian audience has always been present in the old market.

yes you have kind of a boom in the field which started five six years ago but you need to keep in mind that you do very straight in a very strange way to second boom you already had the boom in the late eighty's around one thousand nine hundred nine at the time of the perestroika people who could great interest in russia. and we got in the ninety's is especially well i presume there were many restrictions about was you could take in and out of russia or the u.s. is ours it was that well you're putting your finger on something that was interesting that. at christie's or thing even in a certain way even with all the auction houses we sourcing if i can put it this way russian of arts around europe around the states that in fact not in russia. and people buy russian or in europe and in a certain way bring it back to russia but we're not sourcing this.

in russia which explains why us specialists are pretty busy in the russian field sort of travelling around europe or the states and when you're traveling who is by not the main by is always the russian but to say that it's only russian to buy a russian of it would be totally wrong you still have sort of strong buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more difficult for them to. to be. put it this way during the auction but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that the meat up to the ninety's the. russian bottles what are we talking about. everything you when you're talking about. the nineteenth century twenty century.

one thousand century early twentieth century. we used to stop to see. but more everything. not spot so. has been revolutionized by. the past ten years. when the sun. has never seemed so popular. every day. to the british. it's a great place to. just. have

a revolution. is one of you actually used to allegedly. offers dozens of different flavors of the great. tasty menu. drinks makes me shake action. absolutely delicious. from taking i mean these papers to making major moves within the fashion art scenes it appears the russians are now fixing everyone's lives in the u.k. while some are skeptical of these new foreign businessmen and women others and brace the collaboration and opportunity it brings seems russians and the amazing culture they offer are in london to stay and not just here russia is not close to many european cities that you think and i know next moscow house was

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a tough stance on the grio islands a territory tokyo's wanted back since the end of world war two i'll have more details on all those stories at the top of the hour worst sports is next with drama . hello welcome to sport an artsy coming to you from the russian capital with me from on cost for a pledge of sporting action coming your way invisble it said including. ice hockey your tour team rochelle squad wins this winter games opener against finland. we will be in a total different form of ours you have no chance there looking ahead to euro twenty it's all qualifier against armenia national football coach got a call it speaks exclusively to r.t. . and a sick notes illness rules three times grand slam champion maria sharapova alex of

the paris open. let's start with the news that russia's quest for a third euro hawk its or crown in four years for maine's very much on track the red machine winning their opening fixture of the l.g. swedish games against finland in the moscow region and it was a team finland who opened early in the first tell me sounds a lot slapshot finding the nets on powerplay although the russians were quick to take all eyes for alexander taeyang and after a tight opening period the second saw the pendulum swung dramatically in the house favorite team russia dominating proceeding see eventually finish the stage we want to but finland were far from finished and early third period goal for russia looked to put the side to bed a back storm defense make it four three however vicious while because charges would have the final say the game ending up five three to russia with the team's old hand mixing up in again of scoring the empty netter the odd shortening on another european title for ice hockey is top ranked squad. we did pretty well

actually we gave our all to play a kind of hockey that suits the russian national team's highest standards my line partner community and school two girls i'm very proud of him. we were in full control of the game in one leap speaks for itself but those two mistakes clues caused some problems for us to go shoot lee we didn't lose concentration and hand they. gave the last four years i enjoyed the game the atmosphere was great here it was nice to get such huge support from the home crowd and the most important thing is that we won a major fans happy. last thing with team russia but moving on to football where the national team is preparing for its euro twenty two off qualifier against armenia on march the twenty six had coach dick advocaat spoke exclusively with our correspondent richard van portly following his side's loss in a friendly against iran in. i'm also

a little bit is opposed to some players to get a chance to show something and i was those quite pleased was that but overall the good thing is what i said we lost a terrible good but something does that does very important for us we have to do is give them a new yeah i mean i mean you know coming up in march is not a lot of time tell my game are you happy things are going to be because normally you have to win against iran but you can see that some players has the problems to overcome their fitness you can see that the didn't a lot of plays a very very tired but also when you play on the russian season leverett even to about a month or so so i mean because no emotion was no she was there to be there but also just i mean this is the experiment where for beating to start talks about russia playing craps in qatar in march i mean is you happy you have this kind of arrangement going to usual country to play a friendly bit of everybody's playing so we can play as well but we can do this why

with all of ours we can better train because where we go to a more about twenty do we go by parts against different opponents he would have been helpful to play a possible skillful team a better team probably around. no i think you only do did ok i mean if you're if you when. you did well in school the team say what's going to work because i'm a move so in that way there was some. some things what is the same as to a mania so in that way i'm happy i'm happy that three you can see that we can to do it this way we have to be an adult a different form otherwise you have no chance that i think have so much to thank. after heading teams and england the united states and his native netherlands route goods has begun on his next adventure in russia the former european footballer of the year touching down in the country's chechen republic to take over premier league side f.c. terek. it is a long character a very strong team they work diligently and so far i don't see any weak points they

have a strong soul and great potential there is no reason to go to a team lacking ambition though one should move forward very cautiously only a few people in the netherlands knew about the last month now and the whole country knows about us. it's a new start as well for a man by your that's all go international joint or real madrid last week asked for a disappointing three years spell at manchester city although his new side lie a full seven points off premier league leaders barcelona the rain just striker says that in manager josie marino they have got the right man to catch up with the champions you know how to talk to people if you go it's only which took two people to make you know some was you want from you and you don't always important to have the money joe who is to you what you what your specific you know what's he want you to do so for me he's very easy to work with minaj i would tell you straight from the give me i want to i want you to do does these days. the yellow jersey has

changed once again in cycling sewer of cots are mark renshaw has taken the overall lead from his australian compassionate hostler that. proved much less windy compared to wednesday's leg renshaw was some four seconds behind hostler he maintained a solid base before saving a burst for what it really mattered a fierce sprint finish effort see the twenty eight year old beat three time champion. and this year's frequent pole to develop danielle but nobody needs to make up six seconds during the final stage. to tennis now where there is more bad news for maria sharapova fans the injury blighted three time grand slam champion is set to miss that paris open with the flu bug shed parrot it picked up the virus while in moscow last weekend lining out for her country in the call with former world number one stating she wanted to play in france. for her supporters sharapova

has had a stealth career with injury missing nine months in two thousand and nine and two thousand and eight with a shoulder tear the siberian they have all sold to miami and charleston events. and set out in montreal tournaments with. some good news at last for injured formula one driver robert. out of intensive care almost a week asked for a career threatening accident in the guru. could be seen here at the unveiling of the lotus renault challenger four twenty eleven crashed during a rally event on sunday he underwent seven hours of surgery to try and save the use of his severely damaged right hand it's now believed the twenty six year old will recover sufficiently to drive again but this season remains very much a doubt. there is russian patrol has been transferred to the accident and emergency unit at corona hospital in the guru. it's

a golf now where rory mcilroy is in control after the opening round of the dubai desert classic the northern irish star leaving the big names behind on the day getting off to blistering start approach shots like this on the eighth season that's when two one year old finish with just this single bogey and. the world's top three goal first in order least westwood's martin kaymer and woods fail to impress westwood and kaymer trailed a leader by four shots while tiger is six back second place sergei garcia lies two strokes behind mcelroy as. probably could have been a little bit lower but you know i'll take sixty five any time i step out on this golf course and you especially with the conditions that we had on the. shelf is a really well it's a great start to turn. and finally just over a week now before cricket world cup champions australia begin their side so defense

skipper ricky ponting who is still recovering from a broken finger saw his side lose the ashes for a second straight time last month a massive disappointments and of the year's biggest tournaments. feta sound pretty fresh. a month from the saw. i was looking forward to getting back into it again and back into proper training and then more importantly back into international cricket as i said it's been a a wall between between games for me and sitting back watching the gods play the last few weeks have been pretty difficult to decide i'm fine as well as that has been very satisfying that's all for now but i will be back with another rob they are less than two hours from now you can also view comments and rate stories on you tube just type in r.t. sports news and you'll find us thanks for staying with r.t. . hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to

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