and c.i.s. reacted these are countries that call themselves russia's allies and partners they didn't support russia's actions and they did not recognize the breakaway republics how do you feel today when you discuss the matter with officials from these states . let me tell you how it went when the conflict broke out i called for a c s t o meeting i spoke to my partners and i told them that i had to make a difficult decision i told them i did not expect anything from them but i understood how hard it would be for them to make a decision of that sort i said a lot of you have territorial issues a lot of you have economic problems the world we live in is complicated and interdependent the decision we've made is final but that does not mean i'm asking you to recognize these new republics if you do recognize them it will be by your own decision if you do not our position will not change now i may be

a young man liberal president but i do have some experience and i realize that i would not find many supporters after having made that admission but that is another matter but. you could regard it as an example to nikolay cardillac. i just want to bring the discussion of this to a close with an example that is relevant today you are personally involved in negotiations on the gora car back you have had nine rounds of consultations. that's a great question alex you know both president a lier for him president sarkozy and came to saatchi shortly after the conflict in georgia program out you know what they told me they said it was a very bad thing bad for the caucasus then each of them added that it was also a lesson. they said they realized it was better to conduct seemingly endless negotiations on what will happen to nagorno-karabakh whether the region will have a referendum on what the peace treaty would look like rather than go through five

days of or i think this is a good example because if our friend in georgia had been a little smarter we could have been meeting in such a concern or any other venue today to discuss possible middle of the road solutions for the relations between georgia and its breakaway provinces which it would have been a political process i do not know what it would lead to we may never have reached an agreement with the confederation perhaps or what saakashvili did was rip his own country into pieces this is what people are going to remember. talking about the recognition of applies in south ossetia he had said that it's impossible to find common ground with saakashvili but realistically speaking i didn't say we would come to turn agreement i said that if it were not for saakashvili we would be able to restore our diplomatic relations and begin to see a shift on any issue apart from those which we have already had a position on what we will be ready to discuss even those issues.

who would accept the loss of our plans in south ossetia and this means that even with those who will come after sarkis really russia will have fundamental differences that of the less people we have our differences of course but they will be people we would be able to negotiate with i'm sure they will be willing to negotiate in spite of all possible disagreements. because. i guess what if europeans continue to vote for the people currently in charge with the way the countries go now what happens you know those go their own way say some unflattering words about snickers freely because unlike president sarkozy he does not seem to be a person worthy of respect that's not a luxury but i could not insult the poor dear little young people of georgia vote for a certain defeat because the little that is a choice made by the people of georgia we will respect that it would probably not have a very good effect on our relations but we will respect the choice of the georgian

people. and worship the steps that was. the russian orthodox church regards up. as canonic territory so that george and patrick white are secular and clerical authorities have such different views on the situation would understand what's going on with the secular authority is one thing and spiritual authority is another in this case the secular authorities were forced to make certain decisions in very dire circumstances if the circumstances were not a reason the decisions would not have been made then you could are talking about a spiritual authority but they were in a different realm and i do not want to discuss in detail it would not be reasonable if i did i have discussed the matter with both petrie archaeal and patriarch of the second the situation itself does not have standing but almost canonical territories are often different from state borders but for instance russia and ukraine are two different countries today but the russian orthodox church of the moscow

patriarchate works in ukraine. mr president a question about south. ninety five percent of its residents are russian citizens in the two thousand and eight presidential election ninety percent of south thirty in the voting for president medvedev they receive benefits pensions and everything else the russian citizens rights they are russian citizens by looking at that we can tell you that i said to you that are still a divided people they are divided into north and south and. legacy has the possibility of uniting leads to republics being discussed by the russian authorities south i said here could become part of russia i would you feel about that. there is no legal precondition for this as of now but we can tell what the future will bring this situation could develop in any way whatsoever looking at it now i think the renault legal or defacto prerequisites for that to happen this is

the reason why decrees called for recognition of the breakaway states and subjects of international nor nothing more i think it's a good way to develop neighborly relations between russia and south to settle here it's a normal way of doing that. so the fact that oil fell to six year olds are russian citizens and they are voting for president bad it is not a legal prerequisite for south africa coming up to russia. it serves to create a certain environment in south a settler but i don't know what's going to happen in all twenty years of the south are certain demographics like how many russian citizens self-assertive will have as opposed to citizens of south a setting where you're going if it will be going to introduce total citizenship or take some other measures that is why i don't want to leap ahead. you've said that you knew the recognition of a pardon south will be happening slowly and that's true only three countries have

so far recognized their independence this is of course difficult for ordinary people in this republics for example as simple trip abroad it becomes a problem are you ready to issue all this people question passports. and. if they ask for it then of course we will give them what they want given that they are willing to become citizens of russia. because you've said that even in your close circles there were differences over whether to recognize a prize in south. there's a question both in russia and georgia since the end of the war russia has given forty billion rubles in aid to other guys in south. this is a huge amount of money that could have been used for russia's internally what does russia need this for. and she knows that. we have a lot of programs to help and support other countries i because we are in south a set here right now maybe you focus to russia in diplomatic terms they are

entirely dependent on those days they are close to us and the russian citizens living there now if we're providing aid or to foreign citizens in foreign states then of course we're going to provide a nearby companion aerators because with a large share of russian citizens this is normal that it used to help god knows who you know you know in soviet times i was in the studio. there's a little let's let's push really. really good having said that that's russia international tribunal should be founded what they're looking at of events of august two thousand and eight. i look at it as a lawyer would look at the let us forget about saakashvili for a moment that if it's an international tribunal initiated by one of several states supported by the international community then there is no call for that but if the tribunal in question is an example of volunteerism if its purpose is to resolve a political problem by removing a leader then i am against it last the difference we believe that if an

international tribunal is called to judge a leader following an international incident then such a tribe you know has the legal competence the higher justice if you will to judge a head of state. but if the tribunals is only motivated by someone's going to change the political system of the state i would strongly disapprove. it but. i think what happened there was a flagrant violation of international law however it would not be possible to rely on russia's position alone on this matter so the creation of such a tribunal is impossible problem this means the conflict will ultimately be judged by history going to short term perspective the voters of georgia will have to decide which way the country should go. so which is good which the new version with different. president of the me from advent of there speaking to our t.v. echo most of the radio station and the georgia based a pick a television channel he was talking looking back at the year two thousand and eight

as such in war and touching on a sensitive issue such as his relationship with male saakashvili as well as the recognition of a cost. well there's much more that he'll be talking about if you missed it you can log onto while the site that's our team dot com there you'll find a full version of the interview all be back with more news in a few minutes. in the good guys. from all over the world if you central. time goes to the army or reach. for the gold rush still gets people to. try to save its culture. where claims are protected in the first.

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far no holds barred look at the global headline financial. cars report on our team . they're watching our team you are covering international stories for you more news at the top of the hour but first we go back to the second part of the interview president medvedev gave to three media on the eve of the third anniversary of the a section for. the question of russia's a session for the world trade organization is very relevant this nice thing it's over russia wants to join with. russia the problem as far as we understand is a georgia is working russia's assertion that it's the only country that's not in favor of russia's joining. us there has been talk about georgia agreeing to agree

to russia the session if russia lifts its embargo on the georgian make some other concessions is russia willing to barter for it and what is your take on the prospect of russia's joining a bit of. that was very well put the one but i don't want to do is barter for it that would be a moral a moderate georgia has a position on russia's w.o.t. over session we respect that position as we respect the start of a sovereign state as long as that position is in line with the goal set out in the w kiryas charter trade secret preferences custom regimes are we ready to discuss it all the important wine and mineral water we will discuss. but the problem is something else in essence our gods in georgia can't afford a new edition of the political problem just under the guise of w.q. recession i'm referring to entry point control over the traffic of goods stability

and then they will want to get the e.u. involved russia our position on this is clear if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit and south asensio we will provide it via a modern electronic database i've agreed to the suggestions made by the swiss president let's go to the can i recently discussed about president obama what we're ready to implement a model that switzerland has proposed. whether if they try to change current political reality yes they're serving it as a prerequisite for russia's w t o recession we won't fall for that. recession is not too high a price to pay here. can i ask you a question on a more practical level about visas have lots of russian friends who travel to georgia and their issue these are in the georgian app or to put georgians can travel the same way i can't even invite my closest people to visit me here are you planning to do anything to resolve this or. i am willing to

do it but the problem as i've said is that we have no one to negotiate with generally we're open to sensible initiatives ship if not from saakashvili we're ready to consider suggestions coming from other georgian officials which we recently restored air traffic and that seems to be working we have to move towards that goal. but do you have friends in georgia and heavy i've been to that country. but i do have some friends from georgia of course i don't know what they're doing now but i think the majority of them live in russia we studied the legal department together they were very nice friendly people we were good friends i only been to abkhazia before the conflict happened that was in one thousand nine hundred five i left with a somewhat grim impression i went to sort and then myself and a friend went on to georgia we drove around because you looked at the site we came back and a year later the crisis program i felt very sorry i thought what

a beautiful land with beautiful and hospitable people now i can't even go there because of what is happening that was how i felt about the events of the early ninety's which. mr president i have a question about russia and georgia relations but the recent conflict some media have reported that the cia has confirmed georgia's version of all the woman on the us embassy in the lucy organized by the russian special services as well as a number of other formats in georgia some media have reported that some want readers have confronted you about this can you confirm this. and yet the leader. plainly it was you know head of state has said anything about this to me their children might be upset about this but this subject is not on my agenda of negotiations with e.u. leaders it's just not there the subject was painfully two thousand and eight because of the compact with my god but now it's off the agenda but that there is

one issue one as you said you know a session which we're discussing mainly with the us and sometimes with e.u. representatives which that's where the explosion was the version you mentioned is pure provocative and on some. question about uprising mr president. every answer you give korans to more questions so we started the war with the city it was why did we recognize the. georgian troops did not answer it what no one died it were did not break out there but we recognize the prize as well why is that yours wasn't i think the answer to this question is perfectly obvious possible and we could not recognize one the territory and ignore the other it would have been the same as saying we were attacked south of setia we recognized a power attack of cars here and we would recognize them as well which they would get it but what's more that south a settler was weakest link it's more sparsely populated and perhaps less stable it should let us test our strength there and then if it works we will try to restore

constitutional order in our cars here they feel well it didn't work and that was their fatal mistake. with their little i will ask you a simple question or are you proud of what you did in two thousand and eight i received do you suffer because of it what are you now know that three years have passed how would you describe your emotions. like that or profess to know if i will try to answer this i don't know if i can do it like a child would but i will try i suffer to this day because of what happened then i am convinced however that the decision to retaliate and the recognition of the breakaway republics and subjects to international law would point decisions to make i believe my actions will constitutional not only on my own ashamed of what i have done i believe my decisions will nor for thought out is unnecessary but things. president medvedev there speaking to our t.v. and radio station and the a georgia based pick

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focal russian premier league team g helping find over twenty thousand dollars for violent scenes witnessed during a game last month with an eight visa. on a mobile phone from the flights with. fourth watching my hunch collaboration f.a. stating local fans and police at the visiting said petersburg spectator and g. one of the country's richest football clubs will also have to pay two games behind closed doors if similar scenes occur again in the next three months. that was just ten days to go until the english premier league season kicks off chelsea have gone about strengthening their squad the blues signing oriel romero on a four year contract from barcelona but that shelling out seven million dollars for the midfielder but barr said about eight by clause they only to spend fourteen million dollars should they wish to bring this five year old in the first year twenty one million in the second the nineteen year old whose nickname bulldozer is expected in london street after the under twenty world cup in colombia. and shara

food chain off has proven he's top of the pile at the prestigious rock star bouldering event in the us austria the russian keeping his best for last to beat local starkly in fish in the final head to head battle for week three short reports . strong arms from muscles a lot of chalk and divert school obstacle called a boulder to climb that's the rock star competition for just seven minutes from fourteen countries battling a town to new form and the top six men and women made the finals there they had to climb to boulders one after another through absolute standard fans to the super final to take on a third even more difficult obstacle to two hundred climbing fans from around the world who came to watch the event got to see a world premier the first time ever to compare to squander an identical route at the same time on a super boulder without seeing each other in order to finish on top athletes had to stand with both feet on the shoulder and possibly the super final saw the reigning

world champion commuter sugar for dinner for russia taking on reigning world cup holder on strike isla fisher the local hero missed his last move to start from the book some while his russian opponent uses. chance and won the battle claiming the title in the men's competition i may not be because this is going to do so in is a visit to the asian male at l.f. . i certainly agree going right for even though i waited a little bit longer and actually catch the champ in the first right i thought ok that's it i'm going to do it but that is a long reaching move was too far for me the first ryan's maybe three like right down the river and they didn't bother me so i was a big battle. in the women's super fun it was on a stall to took on a spin leave and the double world champion easily beat america and it's been a minute in mystique and found. things are beginning to heat up on the

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