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of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters and calling for the prime minister to stand down are going on reported by the international media the demonstrations demanding social justice are the biggest the country has seen in decades. now the global positioning system developed by the us says long been the only world wide navigation tool but recently russia introduce its own equivalent glow in the us good of interviews the director general of this innovation google spotlight is up next.

hello again or welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t.e. i'm al gore and today my guest is. g.p.s. the global positioning system developed in the united states has long been the only functioning and reliable worldwide navigation system put recently russia introduced its own system called. its satellites are meant to see areas with g.p.s. doesn't together they could guide us from space to every inch of terrain but as it happens i mean the development and the cop ration care is the director general of grown ass delegation systems. the positioning system has been functioning put two years in this short time it's had some positive feedback from outside of russia the swedish company says glonass

operates better than g.p.s. in northern latitudes but there have been some problems with the satellites three new ones crashed into the ocean on their way to the orbit this accident cost some space officials their jobs and the criticism from the president. well after this criticism from the president that we just heard. today the the serious of scandals connected to to development was there a major rethink of the project will there be any change in the glow nuts program. first of all i would like to point out on the the go on ours and settle it in a given system is a very complex. technical system and. sometimes these kind of accidents happen so in the future we are not planning

to change to change our projects. we believe that the project is very well that a success but it would be successful and the major tasks where following are now. the. beat up of this speeding up of development of the system and the limitation well the the the total fool each of satellites for glow should be twenty four you know you lost three cell lives recently you planning to launch new ones when will you get here twenty four satellites and this year we're planning to launch six more said lloyd's and now we have tried to say one set of words in the orbit. of the backup satellites and one and you settle a new generation of satellites which is which is being tested the moment. we

believe. in a few months so we'll have to try to force it away it's this number is enough to cover the goal so by the end of this year you will be fully equipped and ready to ready to to to cover the globe great by the end of the year we will have even one set of weights including some work up so little of that couple ok the well as far as i remember the argument when they started developing the global system was that it's needed for the armed forces were there because a great superpower as russia is having its big armed forces could rely on a foreign positioning system so. today the russian armed forces are not yet equipped with us when will glow in our spare positions systems become standard issues for the russian army when will it become independent from their from the american g.p.s.

in fact it is a independent already. for the courage of russia we need only. he to unsettle its medium said words as enough to cover the russian territory but now i'm we develop the end user equipment that can work with two systems with one nasa engineers. these dual system equipment. as we believe. give the cost of the user more of a liability and accuracy so this is the major technology technology culture around . and said oh it may be given. the usage of the use of two system point. i just just crossed my mind that it would have been a very good answer for example if you said that the russian army uses learners on its own territory to position and the army russian army doesn't need a positioning system outside the russian carry that up but it's going to be that

explained at i hope so by the way we all hope so ok well as to gloat or satellites those eighteen or whatever you have today nineteen they are already used today intensively i mean they are functioning or they just ready to start being operational the can some of the console lease on the set away is added to to be used but now we need to develop the. chipsets. for the devices to be used. for different applications. so within two or three years. we're supposed to develop a few different. devices for this evil. purposes for the military purposes for fleet management system so for many others so when they started developing learned here they said well a g.p.s.

is ok but the two systems together will give super precision when they work together incarceration i can like one it will allow us to position people whoever up to eight inches well glenn as is being developed g.p.s. itself is very developed today where for example in your car wherever it gives you a couple of years this is more than enough do people have to meet to pay more i mean they did the users the consumers to get even better precision they don't need it real well they do it depends on the if you keep your job because of for many politicians where mission critical. you need better pre-season better accuracy go on hours appears to have been used for many years already and look what where do you need inches you need inches for a geodesic implications for cryptography for a car duster appreciation when you need inches just as you mentioned but.

in these professional bill occasions dual system equipment gone are the peers have been used for many years already but for the consumer market the go on os. is just about to be used. gives the go on r.g.p. equipment works better. in the cedar's when the big buildings. are. due to the. better accuracy in a way ability you can see more so the way it's. also. go and ask. what is better. in the mountains for example which is also very important for some people cations. so. g.p.s. is not really perfect for many countries it's important to be independent from

military system and with fuel we see the demander in different countries do too if you basic reasons but the quality of the positioning the independence. from one system doesn't. know treat one to have their own position system i can understand that but the american army it relies on g.p.s. just as the other armies is it possible technically for americans to switch off for example the russian army on the sorry beat on you ever switch them off let us g.p.s. but continue using g.p.s. for their own soldiers i think this is this is not possible is it for a little any asset or a system one os and g.p.s. special more the variation has a serial called and it has a military code with a limited access for four users. and you. generation of

g.p.s. . there will be the possibility to switch off the signal. above some special territory and when it's needed. the development of russia's global satellite navigation system has been a decades long struggle to overcome obstacles spotlight yelena demitra has more on this. the goon os program was begun in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. and managed to survive the collapse of the u.s.s.r. but in one thousand nine hundred five all the satellites necessary for the systems functioning were in place however the economic crisis of the one nine hundred ninety s. led to the system's gradual degree day by the beginning of two thousand and one on the six out of the twenty four set lights were operational it took the russian space agency nine years to get coolness back on track and eugénie ration of longer

lasting and more sophisticated satellites have been built and it seemed to goodness was only a step from completion to launch of three said the lights failed they didn't to reshuffle at russia's space agency the missing satellites are however not the only problem the system is facing another one is a lack of digital maps for russia there are naval above for big cities producing digital maps for all the provinces and they become the largest investment from one os over the next two years. when all know that one of the best advertising advertising ideas for glass was well let me put his dog got a special special glow as navigator and that this is one of the. best well known gadgets that we have in russia here he is carney but does lois lerner system

but how soon will a normal a normal russian citizen if he's not the dog of the prime minister enter a supermarket and buy a globe as gadget when it will be commercially available. thank you for mentioning this unique opportunity there was no i mean it. was for fun for. for somebody but for our company it was a very difficult. experiment because a few years ago it was quite difficult to find appropriate zippier of the chipset to deal in these devices but. coming back to your question this year. we've come. if you devices. portable navigation devices for. presented at the beginning of the year but if your

company is. the big years. are already in the shops but we believe that there will be we will need a few more years to develop. comfort of consumer products. g.p.s. has been on the market for twenty years. the development of a consumer product just one of three years ago so you need another two years to develop the market for for the letter back so we need so much time says alexander got a call the director general of the globe and that's navigation system spotlight will be back after we take a short break then go say way your. posts

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welcome back to spotlight time i'll get off in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alexander because the director general of the global nasa navigation system. when will glow in ass navigation. get the full set of maps of the russian territory i know that well that at least a couple of weeks ago you still didn't have this this is true. there are a few companies. and also some global company has been developing the maps for the russian territory and digital maps. so we don't see a lot of obstacles so commercialised going mastic knowledge of. this area. of course it would like. if you russian company was to become leaders in this

market. were planning to stimulate. you if you chosen a company is to develop the position in this area but that the moment is a matter that we don't see a lot of problems in this market i remember that in the soviet times maps were of great secret i mean i mean you couldn't buy maps of some vast territories of the soviet union because of military secrets is it still a problem in russia or were the or or it's not no longer a problem actually the russian irrigation market started four years ago when this secrets. were removed in this industry in this area and now we don't have g.p.s. because because because google google because it was obvious for everybody to

those figures and they were not relevant anymore. so the moment don't see we don't have this problems there are some secrets and secretary stories. military. people. have other ways to. guarantee this secret i've read it in the paper is that starting in two thousand and thirteen all new cars i mean automobiles in russia on the russian market will be equipped with area glow nasa navigators how much will it cost and we will it be necessary additional and desirable expense for the consumer. the estimated price for these embedded devices is about one from a dollars for for pork for dewar's and these projects were those are initiated by our own company and supported by the president and by the government. because of

this project will to save lives in the accidents in europe for. the same project was started developed in the developing a few years ago and it was the name of the project is called emergency call a similar project. is being deployed in. brazil. and one of the task of solving the harmonization of the founders of the requirements between the european russian and brazilian systems but isn't trying to make people buy something make it obligatory making people pay for me and making them pay for the glow in the us instead of g.p.s. making the choice for them isn't it's a violation of consumer rights. we don't think so that we don't think that

this is the very least another consumer. it's completely opposite we are trying to. to guarantee better security and safety in the end there on the roads for our people for our citizens and. we may discuss the burden for our common affection as in this project because a actually this is the responsibility of a common affection is to build in these systems in their cars but for consumers it's up to them if they get connected to the service to the system or not if so it's up to their choice and then there's the choice is still up to the consumer if you don't want to pay for it you may not pay for it ok now. there is no there twist to the same question as there are speculations are fears that the

government may impose additional customs barriers for it g.p.s. equipment afterglow ness becomes hundred percent operational if that happens this minute this may mean extreme protectionism can you cut their comment to that there are some initiatives from russian borders official borders to increase their customs duties for g.p.s. based equipment. we believe that this is the sort of the these kind of measures sometimes can be applied to. stimulate local technologists but. it should be done very carefully. in order to avoid the damage for the market. price increase in some cases. it's this kind of matter so appropriate. the technology

of the industry's aerated to replace the imported goods. in the country. we will see what will happen by the end of the year and all that the ministry of and also the relevant is planning to introduce of this kind of measures and this is the good thing about about g.p.s. which we all news and even i'm sure i have used the least once is that you can go wherever you want specially in europe you can go from country to country using the same device even if you go far away just by a new chip and you have the new map will it be the same with lowness will you be able to use it outside russia wouldn't it be much more expensive to use less or you'd rather need to go to europe. it can be used anywhere and more the mania of european developers and producers have presented go on our g.p.s.

equipment already and that all of them have their old maps their plans for development do more the quick mind in different types of devices and portable navigation device is mobile phones trackers and some other systems is g.p.s. willing to to cooperate with you are they glad that you exist are they happy about being forced to make those g.p.s. they're yours we do cooperate was g.p.s. developers. were trained to harmonize or standards. to make it easier for customers for users to work with both systems and also. china and europe for developing their own systems composite galileo so. this world is getting a little would be easy for such

a way to get in systems what i would call is competition but you haven't mentioned the word competition for the last twenty minutes why isn't it a competition from your point of view yes there is the competition between go on nasscom pass and girly up but all of these systems. detail and let you take them friendly into the g.p.s. and to be comfortable why why because g.p.s. because they're going to eat you up. otherwise we will not achieve the results to improve the quality of the service do foreign countries. show any interest in your program in the blood test program which countries and of course. if you. have been signed by the us the space agency with. many different countries. with brazil. cuba india. counters from the middle east from.

our company. works sort of closely with partners for us in brazil and the middle east the key markets thank you thank you very much for being with us and just your mind that my guest today on the show transferred questions was aleksandr will call the director general of the grown as navigation systems we talked about the development of the russian analog to g.p.s. a russian. built for the schmidt system called gloves and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your sales spotlight we have someone in mind to let you think i should get to you next time to drop me a line at al green or at r t g r u and let's keep spotlight interact. with more comment on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on party

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