chapter. of the republic of the caucuses is gearing up for an early presidential election on the twenty sixth of august now the vote was called in after after president said gay big option died of cancer surgery now a lot is at stake for any future leader with the region still recovering from a long period of conflict with neighboring georgia because the other had been fighting for its independence from tbilisi since the early ninety's it was recognized by russia and a number of other states following in georgia's military aggression on the south of setia another caucasus republic and next r.t. talks to one of the presidential candidates prime minister said again about the challenges his country faces. we are in the republic of a pause here where preparations are under way for the august presidential election . is the country's prime minister and also one of the candidates and he's here with

us today the upcoming election is the second presidential election after. recognition what does it say about a pause as a more than independent state. we have been an independent state for a longer time than we've been recognized so this is in fact already our fourth election democracy is working its way into our society and so each time elections get more democratic the public gets involved more actively and so we expect this time it will be a democratic process how many international observers will be there at the elections will have a number of international observers no doubt we had quite a lot of them during the previous election and they came from different countries including some european states who's been invited and who has agreed to come and visit and we'll definitely have representatives from those countries that recognize us as well as officials from multiple international organizations political parties including those from europe they will receive invitations from our parliament and

our central election committee what else was done to make sure these elections are fair and conform to international standards. the observers reported that our previous election conformed with the standards of democracy and to that the election procedure was well thought through although there has been some feedback from the candidates on what could be improved and it has been considered by parliament in order to make the election outcome even more reliable. the prime minister of your main competitor is the acting president how do you manage the country. the governmental mechanisms are working and currently in accordance with our constitution presidential duties are performed by the parliament speaker all the ministries are working as usual you with concerns. that elections would be falsified and promise to fight if your victory would be taking from you hope for are you ready to go. alexion ford is nothing but lying to our own people it's the worst crime one could commit all of us here enough because you will do everything

to never let that happen political tensions put the country on the brink of civil war in two thousand and four isn't a threat today. if someone attempts to rig the ballot or pull some dirty tricks then of course that can be a threat well what will your foreign policy priorities be. our priority strategic partner is russia and our foreign policy will focus on relations with russia in addition to this we keep working on getting the other more distant countries to recognize us we're looking for partners for friendly states which are less dependent on nato as policy and the united states despite some quite high pressure from the major powers such states are at their this process continues and it will not stop we are convinced that a cheating further international recognition will to a significant extent depend on how we keep on developing as a country on our progress in home affairs and what example we'll be setting. is joining russia an option any time in the future. we are highly interested in

joining those international organizations that russia our strategic partner is a member of for instance such organizations as the shanghai cooperation organization with this joint military program also euro sec and the customs union and many other organizations we'd like to participate wherever possible that's our interest but we are not talking about becoming part of another state and neither is russia thinking in such terms are talks with georgia possible. in a certain format the talks with georgia are still ongoing if we think of the geneva talks as for direct dialogue i think it is possible and will be necessary in future . i know right at the moment the prospects to reach a consensus on this matter appear quite negative with first of all the georgian authorities have themselves restricted the possibilities for dialogue by adopting the law on occupied territories this doesn't leave any chance for maintaining

a dialogue is there fear of another georgian aggression. we are quite used to it by now and we have had to deal with a number of acts of aggression but now that we have a strategic partnership with russia which defines our mutual obligations it gives us reliable security guarantees and our society has stopped considering the external threat to our security as a priority issue we have other top priority threats to deal with now. how far is georgia prepared to go to restore what it calls its territorial integrity. these are the roots of our conflict that lie in the fact that georgia is claiming our territory as long as it keeps claiming it there is no way to reach an agreement. georgian refugees are allowed to return to the bordering district of are you prepared to let them return to their homes and so whom the capital of the policy of . this process has actually been completed those people who wanted to return did so well those who didn't are adapting to their lives at their new places of residence

and they should be receiving help both from the international community and georgian authorities because the problem of refugees is a two way problem which should be addressed everywhere via a combined two way approach those people who can be brought back home should be helped to return and that's what we did in jew course those who couldn't return should be helped find accommodation where they ended up living those people who can be brought back home should be helps to return and that's what we did in due time well those who couldn't return should be helped to accommodate where they ended up living those people who have been returned home want to be citizens with full rights we have been visiting towns and settlements in the bordering district of galilee during the election campaign and the main thing the districts were. events are asking for is to speed up the process of recognizing their citizenship providing them with passports and that's what we want to help them become our country citizens with full rights and adjust to all international processes. and

there is a whole generation of people in a pause there who survived two wars with georgia during the past twenty years how is it possible at all for these people to live peaceful lives if the good it is or if we speak of youth organizations we have twelve such groups in abkhazia and two of them are participating in the fair election campaign their position is neutral and they're going to be observing the upcoming election ten other organizations have gone public with their decision to support my candidacy because it needs foreign investments but is it possible to attract capital to projects in the country when its legal and economic status is doubted by some potential investors we have a law that provides guarantees to businesses and international investors and we are working on other additional mechanisms to provide security guarantees for their business we're very interested in it and our laws will be increasing the extent of security guarantees for their business we do want to attract more investors the russian city of sochi is very close to our cause there is there any profit for

a pause in the fact that so much is being invested into saltines olympic projects when we were just at the current stage we are already co-working on this project we're supplying the olympic construction sites with materials and there are a number of other projects which we are interested in participating in but it is possible we will at any rate we're already receiving support on some communications projects as you know we've obtained a loan to restore a railway system that we've signed a letter of intent pertaining to the reconstruction of our airport and we are considering all this in the context of the sochi olympic project. sergei shamba thank you for your time with us today. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from

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there thanks for watching and this is what is coming up over the next few minutes. start rubin crash three one defeat to leon in the first leg of their champions league playoffs. maria sharapova leads the russian charge with victory at the cincinnati masters. and great expectations runners up plan in their hopes of success on the swedish bank all the stuff said. the first rubin have it all to do if they want to reach the group stages of this season's champions league they lost three one away at leon and the first leg of their pay off despite taking the lead to meet a groom gave the russian side the perfect start scoring after just three minutes but shortly after the only equalized. valeo then gave them a two one half time eight before brian added another after the break elsewhere

stronger our three one one with better ration campion's bought a bottle of salt copenhagen last three one at home to check side kills and an f t twenty got a two two draw against the portuguese giants their them for you care while arsenal defeat you did a zero one zero at the emirates that despite missing key players and having sold incest fabregas to barcelona although you'd lazy believe it's still an open top. department we could have conceded four or five goals for a team like ours and everyone was talking about it we're a sparseness salt you know want to come to consideration. it's hasn't been easy it was blinking against a great team like arsenal we could have lost my man we were nervous at the start and we grew in confidence minute by minute. now barcelona's new signing sest fabregas could make his debut tonight in the spanish super cup again. the side struve the first leg at the bernabeu two to leaving things evenly balanced for the

return leg the new camp basket coach pep guardiola said his team would need to produce an extraordinary performance though to win the cup but we score you over who he would pick for tonight's game given the talent in the squad and the resigning of fabregas. we have to manage a discussion of the duration of the season we spoke about. the. players are huge players. but there are many many many games. they can understand i can imagine the confidence of me up to the training session the people who go into that's why i don't believe the way i do the bleeder display a nice position to be in now let's go to the tennis and russia's former top management of agenda was moved into the second round of the masters tournament in cincinnati the former world number three reason through the ukraine surrogates the hobs i believe is taking the distance in a second before wrapping it up on a close tie break and when next play last week's finalist in montreal mardy fish

another russian make allusions suffer the first round of think to mark france but roger federer won his second round tie against planned martin del potro thomas the eighth seed also progress is to round. that getting the word to you was joe free to song of the fifteen c. getting past nine chiles to reach the second round he was through the first set six three and then the second was easy to winning himself three match points. one. tanker to salvage almost slipped up against eduardo roger vasoline of france the tie went to a deciding set and a tie break claiming victory when his opponent returned into the net and radek stepanek smacked with american john eyes now also when distance the czech winning deciding set on a tie break stepanek in a bit of form at the moment after winning the leg mason classic and washington. see last week but over on the women's side rachel wrap of the made a winning start getting past and to see it at the anniversary of the grand

elsewhere victories for russians not even true for our maria kirilenko although twelve seed and the sea of public changes suffered a first round of feet against valley pennetta there and i can also tell you serena williams made around beating check out a decade. now the international olympic committee has said russia is making substantial progress in preparation for their first ever winter games while their medal hopes of also received a boost as south korean short track speed skating great sue says he will compete for the host nation in sochi in three years time the triple olympic gold medalist in children and multiple world champion hopes to acquire a russian passport in october the twenty five year old is terribly far from his peak form after failing to qualify for the vancouver games last year but with his knee injury now properly healed through could be going from all the lorry with russia after dominating the sport a few years ago russia has yet to take

a medal in any of the short track back. home but end on the ice because he was the first ice hockey coach to win both feel impacts and the world championships in the same year but now swedish legend all staffs and faces another huge challenge this time on a club level after being given the task of guiding runners up land to lift the cup in the fast approaching season robert that daniel has this report i really narrow margin sebree. disappointment april twenty eleven this is drool side infused with new life. new should you go maybe to the good ones where they will stop just one step. by q chilled both those saw what you learned in these. for the fourth season the magician an old looking to become even stronger. with their major reinforcement coming from sweden new head

coach bent gustavsson led his country to olympic gold in turin two thousand and six and world championship victory in the same year this isn't the simulated clad blue and yellow ambitious expectations are as clear as daylight although gustafsson remains cautious you know it's tough to set a goal now we're going to win the championship course everybody wants to win the protests not a realistic goal right now but maybe during the season we will feel that we could be a should be out there so it's really tough. to set a goal right now however the fifty three year old has a precise understanding of what he wants his team to be going to be like this is a pain in the ass for every team because we're going to be very active all the hard working team and of course a lot of skills players we have the best defense is the great often superior player

novus and so on is tougher and we have the park to stop the other team to score so we take the park and we keep it for sixty minutes and i have a client definitely have the strength to play in that way with their frontline being the most impressive part of the team because biggest signing alexei kovalev is the strongest proof of that one thousand nine hundred ninety two olympic champion and nineteen ninety four stanley cup winner has always been considered one of the moves gifted russian players in the n.h.l. thirty eight year old superstar is no back to where he began and claims he still has the passion to shine in the. still healthy i'm still playing hockey i still got a job and i'm so competing i'm still a fan of have a chance to. enjoy that crowd the noise another tale. that's nothing but think about it and. while one of other new signings brunker devoid of each

confessed it's far better to play with the star of the last caliber then against him news alleging i play with and against him in the n.h.l. i was a young guy and you know he was here he has really good a great hands and skating is really good and i'm happy to be on the same things so the new season gets underway in three weeks time and it's a case of deja vu for plant to take on reigning champions so i bought in a month woohoo priest off last season's final robot in young r.t. . spoke for the moment said we've got more as usual and a couple of ass time stay with us i was the weather an extra not. hungry for the full stop we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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