are you all over the. egyptian president hosni mubarak has finally caved to pressure the part about the rule the eventually is stepping down after weeks of unrest across the country his resignation is being welcomed by western powers led by the last week of the regime approach decades with massive financial and political something. also makes additionally hearing in the case so we could leaks founder julian assange has been shunned for four sites in london is one of my stockpile of sex abuse charges that we're trying to troll but which he says open it's clear motivated. and how it's so weird and maybe just a short stall plus sunshine leaked cables uncover an american agenda behind the swedish tongue in all that mice and the washington to press espionage charges on

the person from the. next all going off talks with the president of the russian jail graphical society and imagines his minister sergei showing good about why many russians are unaware of their historical heritage and the natural treasures of that country. hello again a welcome to spotlight on r.c.i. malvern off and today my guest in the studio is shy. many russians are unaware of their historical heritage and the natural treasures. addressing the russian geographical society prime minister putin said there are a lot of places in russia which can become popular tourist attractions but for

infrastructure. only for extreme tourists so what can be done to improve the situation and why has the russian emergencies minister become the president of the russian geographical society here's. the russian geographical society's one of the oldest of its kind in the world established in the meet nineteenth century it set out to research the boss regions of russia today the task has been enlarged to popularizing russian culture and nature and environment protection the society is supported by the very top of the russian political elite its president who is also the emergencies minister with prime minister putin heading the board of trustees. thank you for being with us today hello. michael well the first thing i'd like to ask you is why the emergencies minister and everyone in russia knows you as the

mergence is minister. presides over the geographical society. is there some sort of emergency with geography. you know first of all it's very interesting. to you personally mentioning to me personally. i find it extremely interesting and the second reason is that this society probably the oldest non-governmental organisation in our country. it's one hundred sixty fifth anniversary last year. another reason is that it has a remarkably interesting history a great number of cheeseman and an outstanding people if you recall the famous russian audi's picture the meeting of the state council. eighty percent of the people for trade there were members of the russian

geographical society members of the russians are typical society right. the society has reached traditions are conscious it was this is europe's largest your graphical library containing four hundred forty thousand volumes in russia yes what's going. on because petersburg yes it has archives of various famous travelers. well in the us media hollywood has a great impact on everything. because they have this fantastic film indiana jones you've probably seen it what they're saying is you've made this profession very popular. but what about russia do russians students dream of becoming a traveling with me even more everyone is thinking of you know into business. that's exactly why we have decided to address this issue any serious matter.

if you consider all the trouble or some expeditions say over the past two centuries you will realize that we need to do our best to promote this work and not just the government. people to should encourage people to love their country. to explore their country to explore its nature it's a new cities it's arts and crafts. you know there are many branches in geography for example economic geography. geographical statistics and so forth. i'm pretty sure you know what i'm talking about the other was to i'm grateful to the people who launch such projects is the my planet channel. personally i consider it among the best projects of the recent years.

so a good lawyer this channel received an award recently yes and i would like to congratulate them because they're really good investment it up they're doing a good job a very good job. with all board of trustees and his chairman. will award grants each year than we did but we didn't last year and this year i think will come together even more maybe a pro to appeal to the storm won't tell the legibility criteria for such support an overseas candidates eligible yes they can they're eligible which if they want to receive a grant and they knew to submit an application and we have a board of very famous researchers and travelers explorers into yog refers and this commission where there's board and they come together and consider the cations like any of those applications like i want to go to the uk to come photograph a whole there's no not turlock that

a research project could go out of course and applicants should states in purpose of their research it's subject matter it's expected outcomes and benefits and what the end product is whether it's a documentary or air report or a paper and expected cost perhaps naturally tradin clued expected costs. well after the fall of the solvent union main institutions fell apart and as far as i know many regional history you were all left without support even though they were a unique specialist civil i knew to this end when you could leave does the geographical society help them these days given to them through the creation of course. of course in fact recently we had a meeting of the geographical society and we invited all those enthusiasts who preserved very museums i mean both there's staff and their buildings and.

i can give you a lot of examples for instance the. original history has the nicest building in town which was built with donations from the russian graphical society and also from local merchants to governor another prominent figures including by the way descendants of the end decemberists but it's the nicest building in there called sky. of course it's no longer belongs to the geographical society in houses the museum of regional history now. but they have preserved many of the traditions it was thanks to those people you have mentioned that there was these people who preserved the archive sing sing and both the archives in the organisation in vladivostok they were there used to be a museum there too. much was lost during the saudi it era and especially during the

post soviet period. i think we'll start recovering in revolving all that now just a shade you're talking about history but times change don't they said previously those expeditions you talk to mt were sent off to explore and fill in the blanks polis on geographic magazine. and first and foremost on russia's map it was in the middle of the nineteenth century when the world's map wasn't complete yet what about today is what are the goals of the russian geographical decided today school just. first of all our goal is to continue studying the wild nature of both plants and animals of russia. this year we're running a big program on the arctic covering such as it says environment protection at the economic issues at the study of the foreign the wants ethnic minorities and their cultural traditions which need to be preserved. and i think this is

a noble goal. another goal is if you ask an average school student to do how many ethnic groups live in our country they most probably wouldn't just say many more who would say i'm a most probably of that. or they're clever but the thing is every single athlete group has a unique culture which goes back four centuries in a time they possess unique canny craft skills that will summarise fellowships are granted for this purpose by the way in particular the grants we shoot in two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten. and we do you value the researchers who work in this area and promote this knowledge they should documentaries read books. and know we are trying to revive the past to reduce. the russian share graphical society that i see

a good such as the scenic russia project of the nineteenth century. such things are really precious and i'm not talking about money. it's about giving our people and i had me that i may sound a bit to magic now giving our people as solid a feeling of motherland. in a weariness. that this is my mother in law. that's what it's like. oh i love it and how i should preserve. my organ i would put the word father wise if you don't know your mother. what is due for you to love you. distribute the british well let's take a look at the history of russia's geographical exploration in a report from a spotlight on the demeter. here in moscow in the very heart of continental russia is a special place for seal lovers in seafarers the history of russia's navigation and

geographical exploration is written on this wall these are the names of russia's coahuila says for example these play here is in memory of all the key to rick of the first european never to set foot on southern alaska who is part of food recall you have center in moscow the lead on that is what the famous russian traveler will say about places like those who the south pole and mt everest his circumnavigated the globe several times and first did later caution in this role when both the spirit of adventure is something he must've inherited from jr reaches a version explores. in eighty three this vessel two questions on their first ever circumnavigation of earth the expedition was headed by a van cringe there who later became one of the founders of the russian geographical society which in the shaded systematic exploration of the remote parts of the country among the most famous members were. from a client who lived through

a one time among native tribes of southeast asia and australia studying and describing their way of life when the cooperation of rural ski who discovered several previously unknown species including a wild horse named after him the soviet union promoted and encouraged exploration the russian plane needs of the arctic like to meet or even proponent in who were the first to carry out scientific research on poor rice stations in the one nine hundred thirty s. became national heroes today of computer technologies in space travel this still appear to be places to explore an earth like the seabed of the north pool which was for the first time reached by a group of russian scientists four years ago a spirit of adventure this new generations to new discoveries include new hope swallow thing is waiting for new names to be written on. time

expeditions were sounds mainly for natural resources which means that they used to bring about benefits the right to say that she's days geographers are more concerned about environment protection than about the exploration of natural resources. yes and that's exactly why last year we reintroduced the environmental aspect into the geographical society scope of work and by the way it was the year before. montu that russia's very first nature reserve. reserve was established on the initiative of the russian general graphical society says. the president of the russian pilgrim. fickle society spotlight will be back shortly and we'll be back in the studio in less than a minute after a break so stay with us. we'll

. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. the observed nature and discovery. lend lease the communicate with the wild and learn. test yourself and become free. and. see what nature can give you on on t.v. . and .

her. play. her. new play on her. sister st still keeps its secrets but now it's time to move feel. the soviet files miki to. life on obsolete. welcome back to spotlight i'm not just a reminder that my guest today in the studio here is said again the president of the russian geographical society this man mr mr show you in two thousand and ten the russian geographical society held the international arctic forums i received

a global public response would become a regular event are you planning to conduct another forum this year and what do you think about these forums practical value in general it. you know it was our first project of this guy and we did it together with the area know with steam usage in secret and it proved that this kind of dialogue he's in great demand if you recall all forms multo was the territory of dialogue our objective was to outline and present our interests and discuss them with our neighbors in the arctic clay sitting in port so to say that there were delegations from sixteen nations many interesting reports were presented and this brought about the common understanding that such discussions conferences are reports expeditions and the most importantly an exchange of opinions between we'll known public figures and politicians including heads of states and governments are something we very much

need and so we made a decision to make it a manual event and right now we are busy preparing the next arctic forum in twenty eleven that means of russia one of your board members prime minister putin gave a speech at the last forum and he said some tough words urged everyone to start a big thorough cleanup of the arctic and in the first place to get rid of the nuclear waste buried there has the work started yet did you hear the call of mr putin here in russia we did and in other countries what about your colleagues. for other countries we haven't heard of any significant or service. actions which would develop into a consistent program off calling up the arctic region. this is you know our country we have a located funds in the federal budget and signed contracts with companies which will work on this project. the ministry of natural resources he's monitoring this

work and naturally we to monitor the situation to see we are we are today in the arctic. the great. projects have been planned for this year. one project is work in progress it's underway we're studying the migration path center habitat so full are barriers. this project is underway and we expect it to continue. in the next you might know that we had a major expedition to. which was led by the chairman of the board by the way. position managed to achieve a lawyer for him this work will be continued this year we would like to send it begin a comprehensive expedition and i think that pretty soon possibly sometime in april we'll start screening candidates. students for russia's major universities to take

part in the expedition to the new siberian islands it's a site for an incredibly interesting research in many different fields. that you cooperate closely with environmentalists you mentioned earlier that the work of protecting the environment is on your priority list because it shows that the environmentalists have raised in the lawn now a lot in the news about the future plans of b.p. and ross knapp's to develop an oil field in the south and part of the car is say at the powder does this project indeed present a serious environmental threat to that's right. nor are they just being precautious but even steve knew that of cool. to ensure your i'd say they're pretty cautious. because of course any such a project involves a very serious parliamentary research and analysis my x. birds and security specialists. specially after that incident in the gulf of

mexico in the post. in my opinion it was a huge you know our mental disaster. so talking of an environment protection and environmental movements in general. what i would call it could be politicized often marmont protection that's a killer good with a good thing is what i mean is that a political dance. being achieved or put it through environmental means. does this politicize ation of environment protection affect your work it seems that it does from the way you speak. don't you see it here so there's an environmental movements and the very idea of an arm and protection gets more and more involved in the division no markets. get used as a tool to prevent a company or

a nation from answering certain markets such as the hydrocarbons market. you might notice that during the discussion of c pipeline construction projects when building a gas pipeline for example the point is often to resort to environmental arguments . among other things of course but the point i'm making is that when an environmental disaster happens people start throwing political slogans let me think that it's interesting that you a politician ish and you're a veteran minister say she is for you know one of our country's most influential positions and yet you're against the politicized environment protection that. does that mean for you your posts in the government and your role in the russian geographical society a completely different things but there isn't the issue back up with c. such as family and career something like that. something like that is to new it is possible at all the think. i have to admit it and naturally i'm very grateful to my

colleagues at my main place of work for their a tremendous support including help in organizing expeditions because in the ministries vast and comprehensive network of training and rescue centers as well as a great number of rescue squads are a unique resource we can use to ensure the safety and working conditions for a expeditions that is there. something no other imagine she has i would think that's why it is quite hard to separate these two jobs and when i talk to people these say zation of in my. arment protection i didn't mean that my membership in a political party or my position as a minister should have no impact on what i do at the russian geographical society. so you mean using environmental protection as political leverage. here us that's exactly what i mean. yes that's exactly what i mean. you

know it's a well known fact that there are many environmental organizations that are actually becoming less and less concerned with environment and at the same time the more and more concerned with politics. what particular organizations do you mean. how would you rather not name them because i don't want to advertise them. i would advise our people not to join those organizations because they are in misleading when people tell you you can't do these stories that is because it causes harm to the environment and your health. and they say this without any preliminary study or any research any examination. without engaging in japan and x. spurts and even without conducting primitive laboratory tests they were good to us

from was this whole was puts me on my gore. should let him play even one more question if he there have been reports that the russian geographical society along with the into restraint of agencies are going to develop ecotourism in russia but as any to. tell us more about this project do you really have such plans. your european viewers probably know that there is such a thing as a greek culture and tourism in europe. when young people go to the countryside and we want to farm and they so. they harvest they take care of animals well in russia that would need stream tourism or other. variety of eco tourism. but in our country it's much more interesting.

because we have the world's biggest a reserve war all freshwater in lake baikal. so why not send an expedition there. to help preserve the lake. which at the same time explored with what might harm it. or for example sure we can arrange environmental expeditions to some endangered polices. so that people can not only see some things that there was some exotic places for example with their own eyes and at the same time. they would be able to. people of. people what is being done to make sure that industrial facilities pollute the environment so i think

it's a promising project. thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was sygate pool the president of the russian geographical society and that's a fellow from all of us here who've been back with wolf comments on what's going on in and outside russia and so let's stay in the hot seat and taking. the longest big game hunting history. she was trying to stall and. what sprung the traps they laid for him. on the radio we have the surge blogs around the. always always missing. one shot turned to

take. the global drug industry's godfather became the most want to trophy the world to the troops. are not stopped going. back.

if.