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minister's spokesman to discuss the impact on the country's energy sector in the why of arab unrest. hello again i was going to spotlight play into the shot on our t.v. i'll bring all of them today my guest in the studio is dimitri described. europe has long been trying to find alternative energy roads to secure yes clocks viewing the new russian proposal with uncertainty but the recent visit vladimir putin pay to brussels following the dramatic events in the arab east has shown that the european energy sector investors are returning to russia to what degree is this change politically motivated first ask the press secretary of the russian prime

minister dmitry peskov. after the gas transit crisis two years ago european started to actively look for alternatives to russian gas supplies to launch the idea of their own of pipeline gastronomy at least and central asia but the project is still just a pile of paperwork to liquefied natural gas is becoming increasingly popular with investors were trying to diversify their shipping possibilities but looks like even considering. the interest has come back and russia. miter thank you very much for coming televisor to be here with you again a pleasure so i was going to move first of all i just. came to my mind that many years ago when on the first news conferences one of the first questions to your boss was who is mr putin well i think it may be appropriate to ask you this question now who is mr fuld for you today just a prime minister

a candidate for next presidency the leader of the united russia party or whatever when who is if if the. well currently has a prime minister. who you know working for the guild to do a thing as his preferred press secretary well. if you look at this. question in a broader sense and well maybe he's he's a bit of everything that you have mentioned. i don't know about next next elections presidents elections it's we still have lots of times before we have this elections and since it's not a proper time to think about it it's a proper time to think about current affairs about current work and this is what we're doing so if we speak reality because the french say he's the prime minister and that he's the prime minister in a full sense of this world and well he's quite an active one and i would say quite

a success yes so let's speak about the well the reason the thirty's of your team was going to europe to brussels you had allowed to locksmiths to put had long talks and very interesting and significant talks with mr braswell and as far as i know the abolition of the visa regime should have been should have been discussed was it and is there any progress well viz a viz a problem was was on the agenda and one of the most important issues it was frozen by the. russian side during the talks actually we have to imagine that we had actually it's a very useful and a very effective mechanism of co-operation between e.u. and the russian federation we have nearly different cabinet sitting on the russian side and let's say ninety five per cent of european commissioners from the others

and this is really a very good approach. to look in the broadest course possible way call existing questions including visa. this intuition is very simple russia is really to go as far as european side is ready to go and even. he wouldn't. even fire them then. european commission because we're losing tourists because we're losing moneys they were losing tourists were losing money and were saying about modernization of our corporations were saying about adding new dimension to our true relationship we are in russia but at the same time. we cannot leave our leg from the great peril because this is the hugest brake pedal that we have actually we. will limit the. broadening of

the interaction between our business people between our students between our people of culture and other people so it's actually in our days it's totally senseless borders it was mentioned by the way by prime minister putin that if we are speaking about measures of precaution in terms of not letting criminals entering the territory of e.u. this is again sandler's because all criminals are enjoying a freedom of movement unfortunately they use whatever possible means to enter you territory illegally and unfortunately we even together we cannot combine well ation of war for one hundred percent so it does not affect criminals but if it affects in a very serious way those who are willing to go through who are willing to trade ok . promise to discussed another very important issue with brassiere which is the

european gas supply policy gazprom russian gas supplies well why could they have this problem so directly by gazprom and european customers this it means that it's more a political problem russian gas in europe. well it's not a secret there we are. or be disturbed. disturbed by. by some regulations implied by european commission that in our understanding. come in contradiction with existing international law and sometimes. that. faces the past so that can effect the past obligations. now i mean one link procedure in terms of those who

produce. one's will transport it will card ones who consumes huge horribles the division between the us. well we are deeply convinced that the number one link procedure. is not good for the future of this sector he would you will not benefit the final consumers in europe because it will only lead to higher prices to higher invoices that people are receiving in their households the sector of energy is a very expensive sector in terms of investments and smaller companies divided companies simply cannot afford these amount of investments so they will have to up to me higher prices and this will effect negatively households. but certainly we cannot interfere it's it's a right of european commission to do whatever procedures although although it will not contribute to further development of the sector in our understanding what is

most. hard to believe this year is that in some cases this procedure. will harm the interests of the companies who made their investment investments already on the territory of you we have gazprom which invested in some baltic republics and now it is being forced in accordance with an bundling procedure to sell its premises to sell its actives in some baltic republics certainly it's something that we can hardly stand and something that does not contribute to admins fear of mutual confidence and further development. of all cooperation bringing it to new levels so the question. is that recently put in said their gas should do tree domestic customers

as foreign customers according to the so-called take or pay principle doesn't that mean protectionism there is this preferential treatment doesn't contradict the d.d. w. o. rules. well certainly we have a transition period in terms of oh a negotiation is for w t o and we are on the way of equaling domestic prices from international prices well but let's not forget we have been in we are still in accordance with our constitution a social state. so first of all first of all we have on the agenda and first of all we have to care about the demands of our own nation and then about our or. our partners who are receiving receiving our it will carbons abroad whole though russia proved proved during lots of decades that it used to be these and it will

continue to be one of the most reliable suppliers of energy sources the oil price is expected to be as high as one hundred forty dollars per barrel pretty soon this is make the russian government happy well to certain extent to stand. we all know there is a yes there is a but we all know that after a certain. limit. high prices extremely high prices make no good for economy of the country mean good for our plans for modernization our plans of increasing the productivity. of truly is becoming too easy is becoming cheap is becoming nothing so that's why certainly we are not interested in extremely high prices for over a valued prices over a better price for energy sources to the contrary were interested in the moderate

prices in a real value for an interest source as we know that this real value is quite high but not then high and there is the reason that we will look with the with the deep concern what is going on in the middle east. and the question concerning middle east putin said when he was talking about what's going on in the middle east he said he remembered the revolution nine hundred seventy nine in iran the the palestinian election both lead to islamist of power is moscow afraid of the of the democrat isolation going on in the middle east all of these are. well in case it is a real democrat is asian like the rest of the. international community i have no doubt there moscow is interested in my who will see. that we are facing a democrat his asian process on the middle east will agreed let's say well for one

hundred percent i don't think that anyone will be able to say it says dimitri this cough press secretary of the russian prime minister spotlight will be back shortly we will continue this interview in less than a minute to stay with. cultures have so much to live. on the mark with a growing sense to me arab middle east as change sweeps the region to saudi arabia immune to outside influences you want. discoveries to be easy. to. communicate with you while you. can still sound and become free.

to. see what nature can give you cannot see the. welcome back to spotlight imo we're now in just a reminder that my guest mr today is neatly to scoff press secretary for the russian prime minister it's a postcard we started this sent. by answering a question hose mr putin here and. i want to you mentioned around and should the upcoming elections in which he may take part as a presidential candidate mr gorbachev in the russian star of russian politics and celebrated his eightieth anniversary recently given

a couple of interviews and in some of them he criticized sharply both medvedev and putin in particular one of the things that he blamed them for is that he said why are these two people going to decide who we should have as the next russian president so why isn't putin also into this criticism and do you agree that mr gorbachev had grounds for such criticism. well first of all i would rather say once again that truly tauriel means a premature. and current stage. mr prime minister have his always been very tolerant towards criticism this is why he's not answering it he's extremely flexible and he's tolerant towards the criticism. the reason i

think this is my personal point of view of the reason that no answer came from either of the subjects of the criticism of mr gorbachev you know from representatives spokespeople is very simple none of them has never said that they would sit together and decide who's going to be the next president of this country. they said they do would consult each other and then they would decide who's going to run for the presidency because they don't mean they don't want to fight against each other is there is there the well that is this is what we're here this is what we hear. but they simply cannot decide who is going to be the next president they can only decide who is going to run but the final decision will be taken by by the nation in nationwide elections it is as

simple as that it's why you know criticism like a. question that i think many of our viewers with a light on this kid is about the new center as to how to ski many people especially the western press expected this is this new sentence to whether kosky would reduce dramatically the investment into the russian economy what about the statistics what do statistics say is it really happening are investors coming or. after they heard this news. well investors are coming and they continue to come and actually as a government that has on its agenda one of the. major receivers like a leg preserving the endless fear for favorable for investors for foreign investors i mean we're quite satisfied that investors are continue to come look ikea

after the problems that it faced here i mean it is very true here. now and i was looking for foreign has and it's a broadening its business here. during the well so-called scandal about her record second trial. we witnessed altogether the signature of an extremely important and i am president of president and agreement. on exchange of assets between ross and ross nafta and b.p. . although it is on court there are some some difficult as difficult as with this agreement but we have no doubt that in this obit way it will be implemented. we. recently we missed another where an important. signature is the. total french total company

and the name to go to market and buying shares in the you know what the company will also work that lower the bar what is there even if not there rising interest and we're speaking about extremely serious international companies conglomerates operating worldwide so and these companies face. they're treating russia as a. country. suitable for their investments and we're satisfied with since you've mentioned it yourself let's hear what the the c.e.o. of the french energy giant tell of the mori had to say about investing rush. today's situation in the world shows that we've been right to aim to boost our investments into russia russia is a very attractive country for investors which is even more obvious to be the

instability that we're currently facing. eventually what would you predict to move the the share shell in. projects increase or decrease after after we had mr christopher visiting of russia and say what he said in sign he wouldn't. you cannot speak on behalf of women are not a spokesman for the production. producers of. any other feelings to show you were a shell is an active player and a respected player in this market and i held that shell can can enjoy lake lake lake the rest of the players on this market like the rest of the international companies being here can enjoy the world the investment climate here they were allegations recently against mr putin concerning the residence being

built on the black sea years in hundreds of yeah one whole called the so-called putin palace on the black sea coast that was so recently due to some. to some other investor you deny that but there's information that the f. s. o. officers say it's like the former k.g.b. guys r r r r r r protecting this one protecting site these people are supposed to protect only the prime minister and the president is a true and why did they why do. you gauge and professional site if it has nothing to do with with the president or the prime minister. we have no information about the preferred royal protection services taking care of this i. never heard about there but they were the only thing is there that i can repeat is. the. prime minister. neither during his presidency in the past nor

during his his present condition as a prime minister had anything in common with and so it was never his property was never. it was never planned to be his residence simply in this condition if it could not ever be planned as a residence for a single man. and as far as i know he never had never been there and i've never seen their only photographs likely a quick anyone else. but definitely definitely it's not. his residence it's not his palace and then we know that it belonged to the businessman and it was it was sold or or whatever to another businessman. i know that there were some problems with the financing of their constructions. well

got got help the new owner of the building to complete the construction but anyway it made a great tabloid story in this castle that well we heard about some other size or. series of i know that another scandal if we started talking about time one person so one is this so-called putin party he you spoke on tell television networks and the other day saying that that this and the times putin party in moscow is outrageous that people are not supposed to to use the name of a prime minister to advertise some vents of products when so but what about the reporting of what's going to be it was putin products being seen produce for years . well it's actually sort of put in what it's. another world in russia in this. i mean. this word is different and sometimes it's very hard to prove to

prove that in a certain composition the world. belongs to understanding of put so you can certainly get them you know sometimes it's a very tricky situation really it's very hard to prove but definitely. mr prime minister himself and all of us working with him we are trying to be very careful about not letting his name being used in an proper and proper stance. he himself is favoring the cases when his name is used for for promotion of a healthier way of living for promotion. to children. takes years and years for sports or promoting sports for promoting whatever useful well certainly i mean using his name for promoting importing in a private club. in my opinion is proper and unwanted for us. way of using his name and i hope it is

not using commercial purposes that is actually destructive. prohibited by law and we're going to to watch very carefully. that it is not and in case it is used in commercial purposes we are determined to use whatever. permitted by law means to stop that. very sure question it's election year and probably mention election is going to happen in december and we'll see that their ruling party the united russia party is having problems with the media corruption scandals and someone is officially the head the leader of the party is he going to do something about that is he going to try to change. the situation well first of all united russia party i wouldn't say that it it has problems i wouldn't say that we can say about corruption scandals on the part you

know it's a part of this is said and a very big part of the society it's one of the well this is. the most popular party in this country so leading the party and it's a ruling party and put in actually is not the head of this party he's the head of this power in a false sense of this world. party is performing very good media is critical media is always critical sometimes media simply does not want to recognize successors of this party and to the contrary it is trying to find something. that does not exist in a negative sense. so i have no doubt that the party party has got a perfect future the party. party will reach successful results during the march through elections and i have no doubt about about total victory on

the next elections and i wish the same two year literally thank you very much and just a reminder that were a guest on the show today with me to scoff the press secretary of the russian prime lives and that's it for now from all of us spotlight will be back with more panel comments about what's going on in russia until then they are party and take.

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