turns out boston our must get this is our team foreign intervention in troubled libya gets closer as the u.s. repositions its naval forces in the region while the u.k. refuses to rule out using military assets against gadhafi is raising. fresh satellite images of he on rest in libya threw down the resting place the examples military time civilian protesters. and it's a day one of the much heralded going on of russians police to try and boost public trust in the force but many say that is only skin deep. ahead of the eight years

that the first and only president of the u.s.s.r. i'll go to now talks to me. to discuss his defining impact on today's lots. how again you're welcome to spotlight the answers shout an artsy. vent to they were . eating their garbage. the first president. of a child is celebrating his eightieth birthday for many people in the world his name

is synonymous. to strike and openness his new and prejudiced policy towards the west the iron curtain and made the u.s.s.r. a new country his heritage today is his ideas of democracy and freedom promoted by the barbershop foundation. do they have much worse to do these days here's the vice president of the garbage foundation and the order of the first and last president of the u.s.s.r. got rich. after years of stagnation some circles in the saugus leadership came to understanding change it was necessary that was the time for new. comparatively young local leader to step him up to being elected as the communist party secretary general he announced in. policy terms glasnost stupor openness and perestroika watched him for

a construction of the world's political vocabulary gorbachev took the country from confrontation to a ration with the west and he's talking america and europe and america brought him beneath me already. justiciary man thank you for being with us today thank you for inviting me in and could she tell us where and how mr gorbachev is spoiling to celebrate his eightieth birthday there has been a lot of talk about that many people have already said they would like to send very greetings to mr gorbachev how will tell take place because it has already been a long celebration long want forgot that he has so long won the first celebration was held when a photo exhibit opened in the menus exhibit hall in moscow it was called gorbachev and his time that let's take a closer look at the richard era in a report by spotlights elizabeth there are. twenty years of the girl ricky of ceased to be leader of the country his name you could debate among russian some

praise him for the democratic freedom they wrote about others when the economic instability of the right to ninety's and the collapse of the soviet union and the overthrow of three homes were the first point that the word was a bittersweet day those who remember the guy one of the younger man at the top level of the us saw or richard showed his passion for reform almost immediately after he'd become the leader of the country in one thousand eight hundred five weeny little war for the world and here we have a deeply developed strategy the only way program of perestroika before long the world became internationally known and the changes implied was profound for the society that had been used to move in along the same track for seventy years computers that were made in the economy to shift from state regulated to consumer based model began and private business was allowed that came together with

a tremendous change in political life months than literature was published secret soviet archives were opened state control over the media was used and political prisoners were released. and for the first time the leader of the country will see them in a crowd of him and please me closer to the people i'm as close as i can be. a broad group it sure was hailed as the man who helped and the cold war his name is associated with the fall of the girl in war and companion for nonproliferation in one thousand nine t. he received the nobel peace prize however at home he spoke to erik you wayne is there in memphis is not very strong the way to disappointment you can within the year we can all make reforms the one nine hundred eighty s. the shortages of basic food stamps unemployment and unpaid wages became

a reality keep in mind those economic hardships many russians are not yet ready to look at the richer with completely impartial eyes and it might take another generation to aversions he swaggers see a truly understood and accepted. correspondent one today that's edition you can see some of the photographs that weren't just played here it's very nice that for the exhibition featured many holographs which all of us remember very well but what about personal photos what are worse taken from family archives where you also displayed at the exhibition yes of course it was me a blower and her team who prepare the exhibit was the first such event we're planning to organize a slightly different exposition in berlin believe it will tell more about gorbachev as a person opened it on february twenty fourth what those are you but the main celebrations will take place on march second it's going to be on gorbachev's birthday we're

going to celebrate it in the company of close friends colleagues sisto shapes and relatives in short within their own circle of people the more so can we call their families celebrations in first not quite so our family is still smaller than three hundred people. do you mean that all these three hundred people are the closest friends or mr gorbachev yes. the rules really it's really surprising but can you really say that dean. nico gorbachev has three hundred friends perhaps there are not france but simply people with whom human teams close contacts. we can now enter a discussion that will consume all our time. so why not i'm all for that was a close friend and who is just a friend who is a close person who is a colleague there are people with whom we maintain pretty warm relations can i put it this way yes of course but does mr gorbachev has some really close friends yes of course how many close friends does he have. more than that more than that more

than there more than that. many say that people especially when they're turning eighty have one or two close friends left all the others are just acquaintances is that really so known perhaps is because they're a different generation their relationships have stood the test of time and they value and appreciate his relationships a lot depends on how you value those relationships so i think that we have many more friends than just five or ten many more many friends come from the region he has many classmates he stays in touch with of course there are fewer of them left because of their old age after all that he. has occurred to me though i've never planned to ask you this question have you been baptized because sure yes who is your god father you know i don't know the name of my godfather because my grandmother my father's mother baptized me secretly and that's

why i'm asking you this question i don't think that mr gorbachev would have approved of that it was a convinced communist right i don't think that was the case that simply wasn't common practice was the same with me my grandfather deftest me when i was six months old my parents brought me to my grandmother and she secretly invited a priest to her house who baptized me let's get back to me. i know that on march thirtieth this. gorbachev has gone to war in a unique prize titled the loser people who have changed the world and who should be commended for their contribution to the development of the world community it's a very long name to please tell us more about this prize how many categories does it have how many people are going to be awarded do you know them already you know there will be three categories the candidates have already been nominated the categories are pulled away last list openness and spreading exhilaration so there's

three well known more those yes they've been selected as models for which there could be a fourth model called new thinking yes but we've included that in the perestroika category the nominees in this category are people we change the world through social processes. that's. today certain but today years to date not at that time humans why there are people who don't always fit into the formats of academic awards existing in the world see the nobel prize is a very good award but it is i don't know how to put it to formalize maybe yes formalize is the right word but it is a good and respected prize to formalized that there are people who can really influence and transform human existence but they don't just change it we don't want to word those who change the world by driving it into the nitty. well we want to

word people who resig lead changes the entire way of life of the world community of a continent or of a country that we don't want to limit ourselves to global issues. jerry will decide who should be awarded. this time we're going to word the price but we want to make it a long standing prize for supporting people of this level. and if this really works you know i'm a very big pessimist by nature that's us and then too i don't how my glass fool i always see that it's half empty so if this idea works and this very morning it takes place the jurors are going to be selected but in fact they've already been selected and who has selected the jury there will be a prize console we're going to select them the initiator is to include the gorbachev foundation russia and the new policy forum. the noble peace

prize for him in the green cross international his company some thirteen international team that comes from all over the world yes are you going toward the prize always russians you know we're going to word the people who change the world by seeing this person maybe living in kenya what do you choose london for the war ceremony i will they deal with a word game leader and a deal of london i deal with a deal london came together with an idea to hold the charity concert on the case of the jubilee can you go into regardless of what people say i strongly believe that london is and i feel the new for charitable events. yes says gorbachev the vice president of the gorbachev foundation. daughter of the first and

last president of the us a son spotlight will be back shortly will continue this internet hall to assure the break so stay where you are going help. ah. that's me tom foreman and mobile home just to keep those creation off the global food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. sure not trading the actual cash physical grain or trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for

reasons modulators silver or gold that can be negotiated in order to some degree in some place. yet or. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future. for your feet. on. the. wealthy british style some time to see what's right in front of.

the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at. the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our key. welcome back to spotlight i'll be loving just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is. going to the child of the vice president al gore but your foundation and daughter are the first and last president of the u.s.s.r. and you know clearly now what we're talking about the gorbachev prize which she's gone toward in london soon it's not the gorbachev prize yes i know but it's mr

gorbachev was going to award it but it's not the main data word which oh well it's your award oh yes this project is our brainchild as you said that there is going to be a big concert in a big charitable you think and you just name at least some of the stars who are going to participate in that with us just so that people can understand the level of the forthcoming event it will really be something just to give you an idea i can say that. will be they chief conductor for this concert the london symphony orchestra will be the main orchestra for the night except for a few numbers that will use their own bands that will have katherine jenkins a very popular out there a singer will have the bolshoi ballet and then my belly will have dimitri who are still ski they will be an all star host crew sharon stone and kevin spacey will also have my scene opinion the russian ra group yes in the hot sauce area i'd like

to ask you this one of the resort is popular and known as gorbachev foundation but its official name is the international foundation for social economic and political studies history of the do you think russian politicians for example in the government or the state duma. she skips are interested in your studies. with that i said whenever we have a major project by not just one off thing i always do our best to meet the results available to everybody then i think for example we did a major study on globalization that it was a while ago this is important because globalization is the process that expects the world to be mostly so intellectuals have analyzed all those issues that people in practical politics most often tend to ignore those intellectual findings politics

in practical politics people are always preoccupied with something in britain and they have enough problems of their own that's why that they want to be reelected so they need to take care of practical things like electricity heating gas and water supply and so on so when we finished that project or a global ization was thoroughly analyzed and we published the bulky monograph on the subject incented to everybody if this is the duma the government and the president and so on i knew what they i don't know how much they were interested in oh yeah it's hard to say yes or not presently we're working on another interesting project devoted to federalism we often lose track of the subject in the bustle of empty arguments over insignificant details. but the problem of federalism is gradually becoming very acute in russia and it will continue to do so in the future yet very few people think about it as so right now we're working on it

suggest that the ones who are finished will make the results of our research available well i don't know if people will be interested you see we do our work nobody asked us to stay defend journalism if that's what you mean by being interested. has anyone asked you to study the history of perestroika through it. people today want to learn more about that period no one has asked us but it's our standing concept so you've been doing it absolutely we do on a permanent basis because we believe if we don't provide an analysis books documents and eric ives no one possibly will. ask to see you publish classified documents a korean secret i think there are hardly any documents on perestroika available to the public to the news we have to wait for another a few fifteen or twenty years or something to appear. after that

naturally we can't publish what was classified by the government and wilson don't have access to those documents so we had a very interesting project which eventually resulted in the book published three or four years ago it wasn't titled the rule of this c.p.s.u. central committee your own but it was based on handwritten notes made by aides rather than official transcripts so damn that's why we were able to publish them because they were not official transcripts they were just nosed taken by his aides and i was amazed when i read how the members of the. discussed the various issues because you can tell that those people were engaged in historic discussions had never read the book. you said there were many things you could publish. i mean quest by documents we don't even have them but he knows a lot of things and yet he prefers to keep them safe from cell phones is this

because he has some sort of when understanding what it currently to ship actually signed an official nondisclosure paper it's you know this because he feels responsible as the president so the reasons are purely i think oh absolutely i mean the president you have to act responsibly but there is no other way. i will do this . he tell you anything that no one else should know i don't think so oh i feel that i know an awful lot use the but i'm afraid it's not a classified heated worry so you can sign any non-disclosure papers and you can freely share what you know perhaps illiterates puzzles all right irina how does your foundation make money you'll know about some exotic things as for example mr gorbachev appearing in it's a hard commercials but it was speaking seriously worries your primary source of funds being it's mostly here incentives and lectures. donates some of the money he gets from not appearances in lectures to this foundation.

i mean he still works and he works hard yes in how many lectures this huge amount proximately. i think even bigger than most and on this year for example because of his birthday we had fewer lectures. after we're through with the birthday celebrations who would normally have a couple of two week trips to the united states to give lectures to the various universities. that people you know still visits to japan. and so one when you you know it's hard to count we don't have a set number of actors per month and what is your lecture on the same old subject clear end of the soviet union and perestroika or something different you say you know there is no then what are people interested in his resume the current situation on today's politics exactly absolutely that one subject is the global

world and global challenges and the other one is environment protection and another subject is russia usually the lecture is called either russia yesterday today and tomorrow his vision for russia in the global world maybe russia in europe people often ask. to speak on some specific subjects like problem of what are resources or environmental problems after all he founded green cross international and environmental organizations so there are subjects like this to. your phone dition isn't a charity right and then it's a foundation for political studies and analysis. but you do a lot of charity work with why didn't your a do your i mean your father's idea you know it was my mother's initiative than it was she who began it when my father was awarded the nobel peace prize he decided

to give the prize money to hospitals in russia i think. she was really the first in russia to get involved in charity work no question about that. at least at the state level she was you know in one thousand nine hundred one i think she was just first period over what later after the resignation we continued our charity that is it was mostly her wish that after she died and because she had given so much of herself and her money for charity to help children suffering from leukemia and by individually she died of leukemia herself which is the accepted as our family mission we've so you picked up the work she had begun in your health mr gorbachev with the foundation you personally view this as a mission of your lifetime or just something interesting to do or is it me duty or responsibility what's your attitude to the wrist this is perhaps part of my family

life or dip to me being a family means sharing the same interests i sure hope i do. perhaps that's because of this family i was born into because of the values i was raised with to me this is both my duty in my normal everyday life. but did you ever want to have a life of your own without baltics without gorbachev without politics yes change your last name maybe change my name but possibly in five years or so i'll be ready to even change my name what's this about you know how children of famous people not only politicians tempura run away from that frame i think is because of their unfulfilled ambitions. perhaps they're on had they because attention is always focused on their parents and in their largely ignored. i have no such

worries myself i'm happy to remain in the saddle you know that's how i look at it to me it's my family my father my whole life. i'm an absolutely public person and i cope well with that i lead such an eventful life i have so much experience well i do get tired of it now and then everybody gets tired of working once in a while because mr gorbachev a good father yes because he was a very good house and i heard that from our use a gorbachev your mother is he good father to that or he's a unique father in a unique man in washington thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was either going to challenge the rice president of the guard which off allegation on the shoulder of the first the last president of the us and that's it for now for the last year if you have your sins floodlight or if you have someone in mind you think i should interview next time

with alderman of the two to me dad and let's keep spotlight interactive we'll be back with more first and comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take a. listen. we'll . remind you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered.

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