prime minister and presidential candidate for the next election putin gave the interview to several of the country's top t.v. channels he talks about why he chose to run for the kremlin to get an outline of the political and economic course he thinks is best for russia. good afternoon pretty good afternoon i'm open to your questions. defeats in the recent convention is the united russia party made the political situation in the country much clearer just a couple of weeks ago we had a chance to discuss that with russian president dmitry medvedev on today we wanted to ask you the questions which we believe are of interest to our fellow citizens the first one was voiced both by your supporters and skeptics why are you returning to the kremlin russia it is clear yeah i am aware of the wave of questions and comments in this regard that appeared on the internet in online and print media and

here's what i would like to say as i've mentioned many times it does first russian president but he's yeltsin said i never aspired to this position it's a well known fact initially when this offer was made i explicitly expressed doubts over my ability to handle such a huge workload and enormous responsibility for the fate of the nation but once i take up a job i do my best to complete it or at least to yield maximum results. but there are people who as you mentioned the criticize me and dmitri may get if they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean that there would be no election in old delhi perhaps that would be the case for them but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important not only present it but also to prove in practice that they can do this job better there are others who say that we're in for a period of stagnation similar to the time when soviet leader leading position of

was in power but i do not want to sound too critical there were indeed many achievements but in fact i do not recall any of the post-war soviet leaders who would be as hardworking as myself or the incumbent president dmitri medvedev you know i don't remember any good. and you people you know they couldn't i mean money if they couldn't do their physical condition and a lack of understanding of what needed to be done they might well have done something they didn't have a clue or enough will for that we can also refer to the experience of other countries i didn't try to hold on to power and you know it perfectly well although i could have easily taken advantage of the constitutional majority of the ruling and i had russia party to amend the constitution but i stop short of that i didn't change the constitution to suit my one man only myself that i wanted people to see that there would be no tragedy in the natural change of power but let's turn to other countries that were up to the end of the second world war the us didn't have any limits on the number of presidential term it's a nice meal that yes franklin d.

roosevelt was elected three or four times what do it prior to that in some u.s. presidents ran for a third time but if i'm not mistaken people none of the attempts was successful except for franklin roosevelt who was elected president four times running he stood at the helm throughout the ordeal that economic depression and the second world war and was elected four times because his policies were effective human. but the exact number of terms in the years in power do not really matter that helmut kohl spent sixteen years in power in west germany and he wasn't president but his post was actually the most important executive job in the country the same goes for one of the former canadian prime ministers are not a look at post-war france our president could have been elected for seven years without a limit on the number of terms able to see it was just recently that france introduced amendments into its constitution and cut it down to no more than two five year terms very similar to what we have in russia you know what does that mean when

a country is facing difficult and hard times when it's recovering from a crisis and getting back on its feet if these pillars of stability including in politics that play of vital role in you actually. mr putin you talk a lot about stability stability has its negative side story as it sometimes results in a nationwide stagnation. you feel about the lack of staff rotation in the government some ministers have not and you could use g.p.s. results over their terms in office doing what they produced was a series of failures or do you think the fact they are still in office might be a sign of a standstill in the country so you know what else you have of their frequent reshuffle to the government or a sign of weakness they indicate that officials are either incapable or unwilling to accept personal responsibility if they keep passing it around like a hot potato and the if you have to try everything you can to make it official work before you decide to dismiss him because one more thing when we choose people for certain jobs we always try to make

a good thought out choice it does not always work out perfectly of course and in these cases we are forced to let people go this is true that the pound not for some of it is still the best way to go into too much of a standstill and you'll start to get rid of some of your old allies who are no longer working efficiently your predecessors so but you often. they never hesitated to drop off the ballast going up this is actually the reason why. politicians discuss especially notable political figures are always essentially alone general de golyer winship churchill spoke of this do you perhaps feel the need to let go of some of the people you keep working with in paris to get us through it alternatively will things go a different way which is perhaps easier to envision in russia with current kremlin residents and moving to the white house and vice versa resulting in you know changes if you're staying still so of course there again which is there loneliness is not related to staff policy it has nothing to do with appointments and reshuffles it is there but let me tell you what causes it prominent political

figures cannot let anyone near themselves if they're not allowed to favor certain people over others their decisions cannot be based on personal sympathies and they have to be based on special you know impartial analysis and the will to take responsibility that is at the same time we cannot go to extremes there has to be a degree of succession in power we cannot start by playing games and we can't go and dismiss the parliament just because someone on television or some print journalist said we have to think that would not be serious we have to look at the people who are making their third or fourth attempt to resolve problems they've been working on and if they're tired with their performance was adequate we have to find some other place where they can apply their efforts talent and experience once their positions are open we bring in new people with fresh ideas and motivation to implement that open this is what we're planning to do we have a lot to learn from the great politicians you mentioned that they each had plenty of experience in politics i would even say they were philosophers as well as

politicians de gaulle had a lot of different sayings and he's one of my favorite figures in politics they were professionally connected to france would be so you might know the saying of his always choose the hardest way that you will never find rivals they're always in the book at them concordant. with the piece in western countries did not react strongly to the will decision to run for president at the upcoming elections they said it was russia's internal affairs and as and. the merkel put it they were ready to work with any legitimately elected president you must understand however that politically western states consider you a hawk how do you feel about that and what is going to happen to the recess of russian u.s. relations which exists as an idea but there is not many signs that it's working. yes well the hawk is a good word but you are certainly no. i am a man and i do not like cliches our foreign policy in the past and today was thought out and aimed at creating

a favorable environment for russia's development this means we want to have friendly relations with all of our partners that naturally we have and always will defend our national interests but we have always been regarded well of others when we did it and we plan to maintain that in future said that gillet ok. mr person you just mentioned the economy and the crisis it looks like there is another storm brewing which stock markets are tumbling and people say there is only so much the traders themselves can do about it emerging markets are losing capital the same is true about russia i recently read an article that said the government needed a new program to counter the next crisis a program that would be like a good skirt on a girl short and offering an attractive perspective it would supposedly that would help businesses try and stop the crisis does your government have such a program. that. you know if we keep talking about the fall of the stock market indexes they might never recover russia will grow by four percent this year which

is satisfactory china will grow by nine percent which is a good result we have to push for six to seven percent economic growth we managed to deliver that in the pre-crisis years and we will try to do it again as i have said before we will of course try to make our economy more open and there are fears however especially in the light of russia's w t o accession that opening of too much might harm it returning to your metaphor a short skirt looks. some women while others are better off wearing something else . a longer skirt and yes other clothes from our point of view i believe we have managed to make ourselves safe from unpleasant surprises as we negotiated on russia's w t o x session which was essentially entire branches of russia's economy are going through a long transition period i will say it again however we only need make our final decision yet when all of the failsafe causes that we might need to protect our economic interests one point or another are in place. of such what would be

a good percentage for united russia in these elections but there it is you are trying to get a political forecast out of me. that it's causing i'm not asking for any numbers i just ask you what results would be satisfied are you in their eyes here united russia has to remain the leading political party in the country and the parliament that would be a good result. but what if there is a way thank you very much for this talk mr putin with your i believe we are finished with today i said thank you. from the days of the manhattan project in one thousand forty two the university of california has been involved through the science of its provision and scientists

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tributes pouring as precious driver dan wheldon dies at thirty three all in a fifteen car pileup last pages in the three hundred. eight when i was enjoying his test the moscow missed several key players as they prepared to host group really this track sounds for crunch champions league match. is the number one do you laurie unseats roger federer to go third in the world rankings after clinching a hat trick of asian title as. the first tributes are pouring in for two time indy car champion dan weldon has died at the age of thirty three after and horrific crash during the last race of the season in las vegas fifteen cars were involved in the pileup in the first ever fate ality at the circuits forty year history despite drivers expressing fears about the speed of the track in the schwinn world and was at the back of the pack and was working his way through the surgery for coffield

but just minutes into the race two cars touched and wild and couldn't avoid the pileup which was devastating to cause were airborne including weldon's which flew over another vehicle and landed in the catchment as you can see the top of the screen during practice drivers had raised concerns about the pace of the las vegas track with speeds topping three hundred sixty kilometers per hour and this crash took out nearly half the cause well done was airlifted to hospital but died from his injuries two hours later he leaves a wife and two young sons the race was council of all the drivers returned to the track to giving the tributes to the driver weldon has moved from england to america to follow his racing dream and have won the indy five hundred for a second time in may he was also in line for a five million dollars payout if he'd won this race and fellow drivers have been paying their respects. you know we can put so much pressure on ourselves to win races and championships and it's what we love to do and it's what we live for

and then days like today doesn't really matter you know we we lost i lost we lost a good friend i think everybody in indy car series. considered dan a friend of mine you saw the reaction he's one of those. special special people this is a dangerous sport i don't know. which was that every day in the normal life as well but. you know you don't think about it. you have think about it. last for for my best friends. now let's move on to football and have to make do with a much to please a bench for the volatile champions league group match against turkey clubs on change day after twenty seven games of the domestic season at least seven of the russian clubs injured players won't be fit in time for the home game against a surprise group leaders from one culture after ports. says come moscow are one of

the favorites to win the russian premier league but they're achieving this year have come at a price injuries have plagued the club from the beginning of the season with captain and iconic goalkeeper of the national team in favor the latest player to join the sick list also sidelined our japanese mate fielder case with the honda defenders victor vita good idea of carroll now bumpkin and forwards. you to the team's domestic success most of the players became leaders in their respective national teams that fact alone has certainly added to says goss poor record in the recent games including the latest disappointing domestic to all draw at home to take note of what he did but we've been playing with it depleted squad for quite some time already plus most of our men were instrumental for their countries in recent international matches is obviously built up by now the moment nation costs us dearly what if but i think it will make the right conclusions from what happened and these things won't happen again i mean it wasn't the best of starts versus gone

moscow in the group stages of the u.a.e. a champions league but the muscovites displayed true strength of character coming back from two goals against little to salvage a draw and says almost managed to repeat that feat in the next match against its wanted ten champions in terror but a late goal by mozart to left the army men in last place in group b. tribes and war on the other hand find themselves at the top of the group after defeating answer in italy while french outfit little have drawn both of their games in stand in third place so the top two qualification spots are still up for grabs. drugs and spore will be aiming for nothing less than a victory in moscow in order to increase their group b. league and following in historic one nil away when it inter milan anything seems possible for this turkish side the club is doing pretty well in their domestic league as well in second place after six matches resumes work at the head of this tournament very few people had any doubt that we would be in the last place but as you can see things are going well we remain optimistic and are looking forward to

a positive result both in moscow under home but we understand that serious car has put a lot of hope into the next two games against us says current shrub's of spore replaced other again in group b. next match which will take place on the second of the denver interrogate and the sides upcoming tie on tuesday should serve in both teams aspirations for this european campaign. artsy moscow. well meanwhile despite having played any eights domestic game so i saw english premier league has managed to city are also facing selection problems up front ahead of their home game against a out in group a on cheers day when kenyan side have taken just one point from two games so far and i'm just about the mancini is limited in terms of their striking options with mario balotelli suspended and make some assigning say you're struggling with a growing injury why in munich are top of the group ahead of knuckly and it's where our bringing up the rear have no point so far but small cheney still expects

a steady. place to. be out of because they play football very well but for us it is very important and i think the thing that is not being bought the food play away at it or not or not well is important the way we win this game and that in that if we win this game may be after depending on their suit that come from. munich and a point but after i think that we care if we win we can we know so the group is possible we have a chance at the. well group de lay does well in the days will put their leading position on the line when i has french side me on. tuesday the visitors are two points behind so could propel themselves into the driver's seat if they win at the burn a bath right now are one of just three teams with a one hundred percent record so far in the group stages but managers a merino is not afraid to lose it. it's not easy to win every game in the champions league so it will be no great drama if we don't get it when results were top

a maximum points which makes us the best place team to win the group but first of all we have to qualify and only after that will think about winning the group. and staying with football and in the russian premier league rubin one strain over time to sponsor moscow on sunday to gain a confidence boosting victory ahead of thursday's europa league clash had taught them well the win in design came despite a long injury list and has moved the home side to sixth in the table the band the d. of men took the lead so christian about eight minutes into the second half and just four minutes later it's in the sunset found himself unlocked in the box to make it to you know. deep into stoppage time the brass not show finished off the resulting victory by doing a search so the three know it finished to have been just a point if one spot acts. well meanwhile locomotive's charge at the table continues the moscow side and i'm full of after beating ten men

bottom side top three nil at home to go eleven games unbeaten since the arrival of manager jersey in july so he had a bitch open from the spot twenty minutes in the overdue dan and i were sent off for a second yellow card and eleven minutes after the break in these crucial golf paid it's two nil. and then the situation quickly wrapped things up mako come to be held on three nil now just five points off the top spot. come in while i'm kos apprise cabana after wrapping up a comprehensive three one two. in poland the colombia love each opened for the host experimental was committed which made it to know just before the hour. and make it a very strong but the home side threw in a lot of analysis the visitors did not a consolation with injury time effort from galle the book or what it was three useful points from coming rise to eleven so it could bounce that fellow rubin to

sevens. had finally on sunday a second bottom spot on multics national dramatic last minute equaliser tomorrow morning time to big spending about who seems to have given the visitors the lead off the defensive approach. of the match with a shelf struck into the roof of the net in the dying seconds to send home crowd into fractious. tennis now russia's biggest tournament the kremlin cup is underway here in moscow with local go the other to shove in a providing the first upset in the women's draw the twenty five year old must have done something about the when she of italy who seeded sudden and started to show not just in patrick's nicely put clover the former finalist and another russian but another italian side at ani also made an early exit at the hands of a caliphate long periods when the rover is the top seeded here in moscow and the russian has defended her form this year. averaged two grand slam finals last year

but this year was a very consistent year for me and those players that i lost in the grand slams. you know really well throughout the season i didn't really have bad matches throughout the whole season i didn't lose the first or second row and you know i've been playing deep into the tournament so i had a very consistent year no matter what and i think i'm pretty satisfied about it. and finally over in the men's game a target has been fulfilled randy murray as the red hot spot is asked to roger federer as well number three mari achieved his goal for the season off the bench in his third straight asian title in shanghai on sunday following victories in tokyo one is the first time in eight years the sixteen time grounds found when a federal has been ranked as side the world's top three the first real swiss masters widely regarded as the best player of all time super serve the backdrop of which is still the runaway leader with

a five second. batted fair completes the top five. and that's was bought for this evening.