attacks happening almost daily corruption and a poor quality of life are often blamed for causing violence next we talked to the president's special envoy to the north caucasus about how the situation in the region is being improved. this disappointing thank you so much for being with us today thank you whatever president medvedev said that one of the key problems many countries including russia face today is interestingly tension and criminality many russians associate the root of these problems with the kook face you were entrusted to think of by what can we do about it. because so gross i strongly object to your putting it this way that the caucus is the epicenter of the ethnic crime unfortunately and it has

repeatedly been stressed crime has no national identity i would support those of the opinion that the criminal group in question is of no particular ethnic origin and another important issue we have to tackle today is migration migration on fortunately or perhaps on the contrary luckily is an economic process strictly speaking modern russia has two major centers today moscow and st petersburg perhaps another two or three cities and liberations that abandon competitive business opportunities jobs and everything related to this these centers attract people from the republics of the north caucasus siberia and the far east stimulating migration towards big cities this is the first issue and i repeat it is of purely economic nature but the same can also be said of education today the most popular and prestigious higher educational institutions are the universities of moscow and st petersburg therefore it is only natural that young people are eager to enter these universities above all others we should focus on the issue and take all the necessary steps a government level to provide for similar competitive educational facilities in the

north caucasus and many other russian cities of if we want to develop our vast country another really great problem is the unrestrained inflow of cheap labor from the former soviet union this is a huge. problem today we are getting a cheap and uncontrolled workforce that is not always civilized and cultured and cannot always adopt a living in the capital and other big cities we should concentrate on this problem what it would have to interconnected questions for you the first one is the bad the outflow of the russian speaking population from the north caucuses in fact it's not only students that migrate to the big city but also all types of common citizens who can't compare this process to that of siberia or the far east because unlike these regions the kook that has to deal with every cultural installation as a result of internal russian migration that could eventually split the country what can be done to reintegrate this population back into the north caucuses. let's look

at this problem from another angle who benefits from the migration of the russian speaking population if you think the republic of dagestan where the chechen republic or any other constituent entity benefits from it you are fundamentally wrong they need a russian speaking population like bread or air because the russian language is the link between various nationalities co-existing in the north caucasus there is another thing here you know the notion of population mobility and the russian speaking population is far more mobile than the caucasians who are more devoted to their homes and roots their land and traditions that the state should deal with this by creating new competitive jobs or we believe that the state development program for the north caucasus should focus on creating conditions that would facilitate an inflow of russian speakers into the region it's in our immediate interest to work on this and what is particularly encouraging the republicans are interested in creating such conditions to vote with you in august a high ranking french delegation visited the north caucuses and announced that

decision to invest considerable funds in developing two reasons that could this result in building a cluster of two or three disconnected from the rest of the region where misery and lawlessness still persist. are you saying that there will be a zone where law and order will be installed and chaos and misery everywhere outside that zone i'm asking you this in audio was possible. of course not it i want you to understand that we are not reinventing the wheel here we are not inventing constructions that have never been heard though it is perfectly obvious that unless the local population is integrated into the tourism cluster development process all our attempts to build ski lives and five star hotels will inevitably fall flat if we disenfranchise the indigenous population the local population must be involved in all of these developments for us how do we do that against you first of all we must get out of what i call the starship troopers well that's up to ten thousand young people who will be employed in the tourism and service sector these people must be local and live in the areas where these mountain skiing clusters

will be developed a second from any residential areas located around those skiing coasters we are going to select young people teach them and do our best to help them set up small and medium businesses sometimes with the help of the state they may open small hotels for tourists we want people to be able to make money if people feel involved and integrated in this process i see no problems at all austria had the same experience a while back austria's vice chancellor said in the conference that there were also explosions in austria while infrastructure was being built the local population he said was also terribly obsessive until authorities managed to involve locals in what was going on before the project had incurred great difficulty i can go through this to flip on and you said the piece through to many in business people and even state officials paid terrorists to ensure that fe fifty and the back money later of used to finance terrorist attacks what can be done about dot when even fifty to fish other than civilians have to pay terrorists. over greater proportion of all i

would say it has to do with a certain lack of trust the business people have in the ability of federal authorities to protect them from criminal extortion networks recently active. in the caucasus this situation however is changing now and we're working actively to explain to people that aiding and abetting terrorism is a crime just as destructive as terrorism itself and that any money given to terrorists can be seen as a crime equal to carrying out a terrorist attack today we have many cases of local citizens and business people cooperating with law enforcement the results are improving gradually but again this is a long process but i've talked to several leaders of move quick this republic and that opinions differ some of them say negotiations with terrorists i'm necessary on a thing that there is no talking to terrorists do you think authorities must negotiate with terrorists. i believe there's nothing to negotiate with terrorists but we should talk and negotiate with parents of those children who have left for the woods and haven't committed any crimes yet if there's

a chance to bring them back from the woods with the help of our religious leaders or their parents and families elders councils and any other social institutions we should be doing our utmost to take it serious we should encourage those who report to us and inform on these people those who are willing to lay down their arms and start living a peaceful life we should consolidate our efforts because once they take a gun and commit a crime there's nothing to talk to them about. how many terrorists operate throughout the north caucuses today. we like giving numbers but it's actually very difficult to make a difference between bandits and terrorists the overall number that i usually give to media agencies for both small groups of five to six members and large groups of twenty to thirty is up to one thousand people in all the north caucasus republics the women we're aware of these gang leaders and we've been working thoroughly on their cases. and they funded from within the concho by all the country. was a. recent analysis shows the abroad domestic funding ratio is about ten to ninety

the latter being russia they don't need to support of international organizations and other worldwide terror networks such as al-qaeda. the money they extort from business representatives can fund them this actually means that it's not so much terrorism as banditry at the same time i want to stress again that there is indeed a funding inflow from western foundations charities and human rights organizations these funds are used among other things to finance radical religious literature and a number of branded leaders who exploit children for profit in the caucasus. mystically point in many north caucuses residents go to muslim countries such as pakistan and saudi arabia to study by the time they return home what is this subtle line for them between their spiritual freedom and the realize ation that the citizens of a secular state with or with worth. at the greatest. unfortunately this line becomes blurred we are indeed facing this problem until recently we were

unaware of the number of young people who travelled for religious education in saudi arabia pakistan egypt and a number of other countries having lived and studied for five years in a country like saudi arabia which is an absolutely non secular state a person returns to our country to secular authority institutions and laws and feels lost amid these realities these people require a special approach and out of protection program in essence various countries have different ways of working on this matter for instance turkey and particularly azerbaijan have practically made a decision on providing active adoptive work for these people until these people are really fully adopted to secular laws and to particular rules and principles of behavior until they are prepared to follow these laws they have no right to take any position in any state unit simple or regional structure nor to do business they have to go through a certain out of taishan system first unfortunately there is no legislative base

for this it's a very complicated process it requires a lot of patient and tedious work on the part of families for example on relationships with parents we need to keep track of children who travel abroad to study as we can prohibit them from receiving religious education at the same time we should certainly develop our religious institutes to train experts of examine studies in the north caucuses i believe a key aspect will be to establish a secular islamic institute through the north caucasus federal university or another regional institution. macwrite for a lot has been now said about democracy and i bent of mind to not country and most people believe that sooner or later we'll reach the buttons down democracy in the cookies but centuries that have been in the queue since which i'm very difficult to be rooted out these institutions that tend to lean comprehensive put the best in mentality that is the tape system islamic jimmy a particular new. does this kind of a society where we need a western style democracy. i don't know what

a western style democracy is the west itself has various kinds of democracy in the political interpretation of democracy but everyone wants to impose their vision of democracy on other countries i'm totally against it i believe russia has its own form of democratic development for our republics i wouldn't dramatize the situation regarding the peculiarities of the north caucasus there is perhaps one significant difficulty which we should gradually give up this is a certain activism which over the past twenty years was reimposing the caucasus for some reason i'm talking about the fact that executive power structures of our regions are being established according to ask the identity this is the most acute issue which subsequently brings up speculation about plans and corruptions of executive power but he should be stopped courting to professional rather than ethnic principles and ask for ethnic features traditions culture and religion are these aspects should be manifest in the parliaments or people should generate laws

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yes thanks as always rory great sports ball is going to have a pocket full of stuff we're going to start right not. during our precious football team or per for a massive week of action for wins against the. durable guarantee them a place twenty twelve. mikhail youzhny advances to the final eight of the china open while come patri fear is only real with progress was halted by on the eve on the bridge. on bridging through the buckle the soviet sport of some to reach is a new practitioners with an often galang select demonstrating their skills in. football for a stand it's make or break time for russia's footballers this week with euro two thousand and twelve qualification wrapping up dick advocates charges take on slovakia and jay leno on friday before a home clash with dora on choose they also mata qualification will be made sure by

winning those two games moment your advocate saying if the game is achieved the players kwan quote drink as much as they want afterwards that statement coming in response to criticism leveled at some of the players doing just before a world cup play off in slovenia two years bike advocate also saying he will quit his post should russia fail to make next summer's poland and ukraine final. to the ice we go on the kontinental hockey league. well and truly beginning to live up to their pre-season hype the army man sits second in the western conference following a three one home win over metzeler novokuznetsk a victory because fourth in their past five games though the muscovites had to wait until the start of the second twenty minutes to seize the advantage dimitri kruger show of the. mon sliding home for one nothing the visitors equalised ten minutes later though koosman finishing off a beautiful pass that made it one one but it would only spur on serious golf really

love letting rip right before the end of the period and then putting the tie to bed five minutes after the breakthrough on the final score in the capital it is. still only the legal role with. now the tennis were on seeded russian mikhail youzhny is through to the quarterfinals of the china open world number three over though hudden quite the same fortune as her compatriots former world number one home you found it she's been looking good of late and she certainly didn't wait around in beijing the serb dropping just three games on route to a straight sets win at the bottom of your screen there three matches meanwhile dropped off before the on the chinese hard court rimini and nickel less q. so often chummy chef persia in the first of the second seed victoria azarenka also made the quarterfinals at the expense of the lineage her child while i guess the right one ensured her passage with victory over jai shared. mikhail youzhny is

title fight meanwhile is continuing in the men's side of things the russian he is just his quarterfinal berth at the expense of spain's feliciano lopez before that fernando verdasco did keep the spanish flag flying beating italian five you support in three sets to six six one six games. to wilfrid tsonga who is top seed out the event was made to work hard in his opener he defeated grigor dimitrov of bulgaria twenty rules offering plenty of resistance but song to prevail to seal it seven six seven five the frenchman needs the points to boost his bid for a place at the tour finals which take place in london next month. also in the running for that season ending eight moment bent is tom marshburn. dick chick supporting his quest for victory over austria's you're going melzer a break in each of the two sets on the day getting the job done for the number

three seed seven five seven five the final score verdict has reached the quarter final stage up at least thirteen seasons thus far this season. the national basketball association a labor dispute between owners and players shows no signs of resolving any time soon the league counseling the rest of the preseason games with the proposed november start no in series boston celtics star paul pierce among those attending the negotiations he was joined by mari stoudamire on a host of other stars derek fisher one of the most vocal players representatives but the reporters are all awaiting the arrival of his high profile lakers teammate kobe bryant rumored to be working extensively this sign in italy with belong you know common ground between those stars on the owners though as of yet. to day world be you know announcing the. cancellation of the rest of the exhibition season by

monday we'll have no choice but to cancel the first two weeks of the season. that's where we are we. gauged in more. you know intense discussions today to see if we can close you know we're remains to be a very large gap between. you know the n.b.a. and b.p.a. and today was not today. is on the baseball diamond new york however delivered what it mattered most in the american league division series against the tigers the yankees hunting i ten won the show lock into detroit on the road forcing the best of five series back to the big apple for the decider yankees pitcher a.j. burnett watching his teammates curtis granderson save the day after don kelly hit a line drive in the first inning understands time to step up to the plate in the. if time again the thirty year old delivered an r.b.i. double making the score three one with the troy getting increasingly demoralise the

feisty visitors continued to points in the tigers making it eight to one in the inning robinson cano taking the opportunity to bring the school into double digits then with an r.b.i. single and ten one that was the final score the two sides now had the big apple on thursday for that crucial series the sideline. the rangers will be watching the game closely to see who their next opponents will be first they'll be having a drop or two of champagne as you can see after closing out their own series against a top at bay race texas will they were shocked nine to nothing in new york nerves before buying back to win the next three winning the final game just four three the rangers going for their second straight american league title. on the diamondbacks have a great last gasp effort at home to stay alive against the brewers in the national league divisional series the phoenix home crowd enjoying a dominate one victory which followed two straight losses by three or more runs

pulled goldschmidt the highlight reel this time it's often up to the rocker of a grand slam in the fifth that made the score seven. the rookie also contributed a single in the first inning or is or will still enjoy the comfort of their home support in game four as they look to tie the series to peace later on when. i bring to the formula one response vettel is getting ready to claim his second drivers' title in a row to achieve that the german needs just one point in the five remaining races this season while jenson button who currently sits second in the standings has said he's staying with mclaren for the foreseeable future thirty one year old button who won the f one championship in zero nine committing his driving future by signing what the team called a quote. contract the driver's current contract was set. expire after this season on he rallied to secure his future with the prestigious stable but he is as i said second overall on behalf of all nearly insurmountable odds to take the title this

year he'll have to win all five remaining races what vettel not scoring the single point for now it looks as if the former champion will have plenty of chances to get it right with mcclaren twenty twelve. and finally sport has once again proved the way all the united nations rushes some wrestlers creating their opposite numbers from afghanistan no less in a move of mutual goodwill here in the russian capital mikhail gorbachev has this report this magnificent seven have traveled all the way from kabul to moscow all to hell december skills you learned with these martial arts was created a friendly tournament the pinnacle of the state the fighting to compete was crafted to the soviet union is a mixture of the world's toughest styles around eighty countries across the globe practiced the sport now including afghanistan but there is still no better place than russia to learn and you treat or to. somebody is the same back in again his

term as it's here in russia but unfortunately we don't have such good conditions at home if we had similar equipment we would produce results which are just as good. as is often the case with meetings like these competition was not the only goal well a bit of attention doesn't do any sport any harm but with all the cups and medals handed out bridging to cultural gap was the rather important message as the organizers revealed but i looked at it this was not only about sport but also about cultural exchange already going to guests not only wrestled but also visited the kremlin and central moscow so we hope they will have happy memories of this trip for the rest of their lives. the small tournament dubbed together we're stronger has been deemed as a local success and hopes are high it could become the first event of many which will strengthen at least the sporting ties between russia and afghanistan and even other countries. some hard guys and both sides there will that is all

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