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meets the russian prime minister's spokesman to discuss the impact on the country's energy sector and the wider arab unrest. hello again a walk from truth park like the into the shop on r.t. i'll bring our then today my guest in the studio is dimitri scott. europe has long been trying to find alternative energy roads to secure gas clocks viewing the new russian problems with uncertainty but the recent visit vladimir putin paid 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 let's ask the press that three of the russian prime minister

dmitry peskov. after the guest trance of crisis two years ago european started to actively look for alternatives to russian gas supplies they launched the idea of their own pipeline which would pump gas from the middle east and central asia but the project is still just a pile of paperwork the liquefied natural gas is becoming increasingly popular with investors who were trying to diversify their shipping possibilities but it looks like even a concerted. interest is coming back to russia. good miter thank you very much for coming closer to be here with you again a pleasure so ours if you will first of all i just. came to my mind that many years ago when on the first news conference since 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 mystically for you today just prime minister a candidate for next presidency the leader of the united russia party or whatever whatever who is if he isn't. well currently has a prime minister i don't know who you know you know i'm working for the building to do a thing as he's pretty press secretary well. if you look at this as a 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 word and this is what we're doing so if we see reality politic as the french state he's the prime minister and that's he's the prime minister in a false sense of this world and well he is quite an active one and i would say

quite a success he's a let's sneak about the activities well recently thirty's out of your team was going to europe to brussels you had a lot of folks mr putin had long talks and very interesting significant talks with mr grasso 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. a visa problem was was on the agenda was one of the most important issues it was frozen by. by 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 cooperation between the e.u. and the russian federation and we had nearly a full cabinet sitting on the russian side and let's say ninety five per sand of european commissioners from the other side. and this is really

a very good opportunity to look in the broadest porous possible way call existing questions including visa. this iteration is very simple russia is ready to go as far as european side is ready to go even. he wouldn't. even fire them then. european commission because we're losing interest because we're losing moneys there were losing tourists were losing money we're seeing about modernization of our corporations were saying about adding new dimension to our true relationship between e.u. and russia but at the same time. we cannot lift our leg from the brake pedal because this is the hugest brake pedal that we have with chile 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 nowadays 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 e.u. territory illegally and unfortunately we even together we cannot count the violation of war for one hundred percent so it does not affect criminals but it is it affects in a very serious way those who are willing to go through who are willing to trade ok . promise to quit and discussed another very important issue with nasser which is

the european gas supply policy gazprom russian gas supplies well why couldn't this problem been so directly by gas problem and customers does it mean that it's more a political problem russian gas in europe than the economic. well it's not a secret there we are a little bit disturbed. disturbed by. but some regulations apply by european commission that in our understanding. come in contradiction with existing international law and sometimes. faces the past so that can affect the past obligations. now i mean unbundling procedure in terms of those who produce.

transport it will car bones and who consumes carbons the division between us. well we are deeply convinced that the bundling procedure. is not good for the future of this sector he will you will not benefit. 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 have to meet higher prices and this will effect negatively households. but certainly we cannot interfere it's a ride 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 company is made their investment investments already on the territory of e.u. we have gazprom which invested in some baltic republics and now it is being forced . in accordance with our 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 atmosphere of mutual confidence and for the development. of all corporation bringing it to new levels so you know the question. again is that recently putin said that gasp

should tree domestic customers as far as the cost is according to to the so-called take or pay principle doesn't that mean protectionism does this preferential treatment doesn't contradict the w t o rules. well certainly we have a transition period in terms of oh a negotiation is for w a q and we are on the way of equaling domestic crisis for the international press as well but let's not forget we have been in we are still only cordons with our constitution a social state. so you know first of all first of all we have all of the gender 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 have proved proved to during lots of decades that it could 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 certainly stand 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 of modernization our plans of increasing productivity. to the contrary it is becoming too easy it's becoming cheap is becoming nothing so this way certainly we are not interested in extremely high prices for over a valued price as overvalued prices for energy sources to the contrary were

interested in the moderate prices in a real value for energy sources we know that this real value is quite high but not been high and there is the reason we will look with that with a deep concern to 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 led to the islamists of power is moscow afraid of the of the democratic position going on in the middle east all of these events. well in case it is real democracy is asian like the rest of the. international community i have no doubt that moscow is interested in my who will say. that we are facing democrat is a sion process on the middle east with

a great let's say well for one hundred percent i don't think that anyone will be able to say 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. and discoveries buzy. communicate with you want. to test yourself and become free to. see what nature can give you on our team.

would be so which writer if you knew about some fun things to question its. stance on team dot com. welcome back to spotlight island we're now in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is meekly to scoff press secretary for the russian prime minister but of course we started for the sense of you by answering a question who is mr putin here and. i want to you mentioned iran and should the upcoming elections in which he may take part as

a presidential candidate mr gorbachev you know that russian style of russian politics who 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 put also into this criticism and do you agree that mr gorbachev had grounds for such criticism. well first of all i would rather see once again that privilege tauriel moods are primitive our. current state. mr prime minister has always been very tolerant towards criticism this is way he's

not answering it his extreme the flexible and he's tolerant because the criticism. the reason i think this is my personal point of view the reason that no answer came from either of the subjects of the criticism of mr gorbachev offered you all 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 is going to run for the presidency because they don't mean they don't want to fight against each other is there is no. way that is this is what we hear 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 no criticism ok a. question that i think many of our viewers would like to ask you is about the new scentless two hundred many people especially the western press expected. this new sentence to whether he would reduce dramatically the investment into the russian economy what about the statistics what the statistics say is it really happening how are investors coming or share 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 lake 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 yeah. now and i was looking for foreign hansing it's a broadening it's business here. during the well so-called scandal about how the record second trial. we witnessed altogether the signature of an extremely important and i am president of president of agreement. on exchange of assets between ross and ross nafta and b.p. . although it is on core there are some some difficulties difficulties with this agreement but we have no doubt that in this will be

a way it will be implemented. we. recently we missed another one important. a signature. total french total company and the name to go to market and wang shares in the know what the company will also word salad 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 creating russia as a. country 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 pile of them already had to say about investing in rush

. today's situation in the world shows that we've been brights tame to boost our investment into russia russia is a very attractive country for investors which is even more obvious a bit the instability that we're currently facing. in italy what would you predict with the the sheer shell. projects increase or decrease after after we had mr christopher visiting of russia and saying what he said and sign he will this. you cannot speak on behalf of women are not a spokesman for it will come from their productions no producers about. any hard feelings towards showing him. as an active player and a respected player in this market and held that shell can can enjoy like like like the rest of the players on this part like the rest of the international companies being here can enjoy the world the investment climate they were

allegations recently against mr putin concerning the residence being built on the black sea using hundreds of yeah yeah. called the so-called putin palace on the black sea coast it was so recently due to. some other investor you deny that but there's information that the left yes oh office is as likely for me k.g.b. guys r r r r r r r protected we were protecting the site these people are supposed to protect only the prime minister and the president so that is a true and why did they why do what is office is the gauge and protection of the site if it has nothing to do with with the president or the prime minister. no information about the federal protection service is taking care of this i. never

heard of their god well the only thing is that i can repeat is. prime minister. neither during his presidency in the past nor during his his present condition is a prime minister had anything in common with him so it was never his property was never. there 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 a huge well never have never been there and i've never seen their only photographs lakeway quick anyone else. but definitely definitely it's not. it's not his residence it's not his palace and we know that it belonged to a 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 and well yeah we heard about some other side. hears of it now that another scandal if we started talking about that one person so one is this the so-called putin party here you spoke until television and the other day saying that that this an advertised pointing party in moscow is outrageous that people are not supposed to to use the name of a prime minister to advertise some defense of products so but what about the the putin of what he was putin can't it's been it's been produced for years. well

actually it's not a put in what it's. now the world in russian this putin i mean etymology of this word is different and sometimes it's very hard to to prove to prove that in a certain composition the world. belongs to understanding of putting this journey to 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 proper and proper stance. he himself is favoring the cases where his name is used for for promotion over healthier way of living for promotion let's say eight children. yes yes for sports or promoting sports for promoting whatever useful but certainly i

mean using his name for promoting and party 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 history to. prohibited by law and we're going to have 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 there will be ports in the united russia party is having problems with the media corruption scandals one is that they had the leader of the

party is going to do something about that is he going to try to change. situation well first of all the united russia party i wouldn't say that 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 party and it's the ruling party and put an entity 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 successes 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 will reach a successful results during the march of the elections and i have no doubt about about the total victory on the next elections and i wish the same two year retreat thank you very think you can just be reminded that my guest on the show today meekly to scoff at the press secretary of the russian prime minister and that's it for now from all of us the spotlight will be back with movies that are common for what's going on in russia and when they are party and take.

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