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next given his first major interview since confirmed he is running for president again the outline to russian t.v. networks why he wants to return to the kremlin and his vision of the country's course if he gets the job. good afternoon again you don't have to do i am open to your questions mr putin the latest convention of the united russia party made its political situation in this country much clearer very same with why are you returning to the kremlin with this clear yeah but as i've mentioned many times and as first russian president buddies yeltsin said i never aspired to this position it's a well known fact that 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 criticize me and to me to be made good of when they say that if your

humble servant takes part in the election that would mean there would be no election at all 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 want to present their platform and what's more important not only to present it also to prove uncracked is that they can do this job better we can also refer to the experience of other countries franklin roosevelt stood at the helm throughout the ordeals of economic depression and world war two and was elected four times because his policies were effective helmut kohl spent sixteen years in power in west germany he wasn't president but his post was actually the most important executive job in the country and the same goes for one of the former canadian prime ministers look at post-war france where a president could have been elected for seven years without a limit on the number of terms 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 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 it's these pillars of stability including in politics that play a vital role as regards my return nothing is decided until the people have voted it is one thing when i hear some people say that they would like to see that happen or when people. certain regions suggest something that it is a different thing when the whole country goes to the polls and we need our people to come and express their attitude to what we have been doing there is another important aspect here the most active part of the political spectrum people who talk about democratic institutions in russia they are concerned the democratic process is maybe ruled back this is definitely not going to happen because i can't imagine russia developing without democratic institutions and this is exactly what i intend to work although i will strengthen our country's political system and its foundations i will work to develop democratic institutions and a market economy with an emphasis on social needs your. problems he recently visited china and as many know it was your first visit rule since you announced he

was going to run in the election does that mean china is becoming less his priority international partner because the idea it is a coincidence if you look at the government schedule it is not a classified document you will see that russian chinese intergovernmental meetings were conducted on a regular basis we have all reasons to consider china a strategic partner of russia and not only because we share the world's longest border that our trade is growing at a great rate china is they're going to be in very rapidly turning into a valued partner a great market for russian manufactured goods and a source of investment into our economy. a partner mr putin not a threat. i have said this on more than one occasion to those who tried to scare me with the chinese threat in most cases it was our partners in the west however lucrative natural resources of eastern siberia and russia's far east might look we all know they are not a pfizer today's biggest global struggle that struggle is for world leadership and we're not going to get in china's way there china has other competition there let

them figure it out for russia china is first and foremost a reliable partner we can tell the chinese authorities and the people of china are willing to build up a good neighborly relations with us to look for middle ground solutions to issues that seem extremely complex. we can tell they are ready to do it we take measures to indicate we are ready and as a result we find points of contact i'm sure it will continue to happen in the future or hidden within the idea which is for a global leadership you recently wrote an article for the easiest your daily where you suggest creating a eurasian economic area that will get a bridge between europe and the booming economies of the asia pacific region at the same time everyone remembers you calling the downfall of the soviet union the last century of the it is geopolitical tragedy in this respect what would you say to those who see in your word some sort of an imperial condition that is there to recreate and un or imperiously title to it well you don't need to be an expert to

realize that if we combine our country's attentions in technology infrastructure transports energy sector mineral resources workforce territorial and language opportunities which are no less important for developing a common economic space if we combine all these potentials our competitiveness will surge it will grow dramatically we are using the potential we have inherited from the older generation and we can transfer it to a new modern basis today and if we are committed to introducing the principles of the world trade organization into one operating procedures this will make us more transparent to our external partners as for the foreign critics who say that russia has imperial ambitions so what can i say we see what is going on in europe for example integration has reached a level even the soviet union could never dream of i think you know and if you don't i will tell you that the european parliament has more decisions binding on the member states and the supreme soviet of the soviet union ever passed with the soviet republics and look at america and north america is engulfed in intense

integration processes that involve the united states canada and mexico the same is true for latin america and africa but it is ok over there and nobody has any objections but when it comes to russia here we are imperial ambitions i can tell these critics who. by the way they don't seem to be very conscientious or scrupulous you know was mind your own business gokhan about the climbing inflation and the growing national debt and even obesity do something useful here mr putin western countries did not react strongly to your decision to run for president at the upcoming elections he said it was russia's internal affair and as angela merkel put it they were ready to work with any legitimate lee elected president you must understand however that politically western states consider you all feel about that what is going to happen to the reset of russia if u.s. relations which exists as an idea it is not many signs it is working very very well

the hawk is a good word but you are certainly no dove i am a man and i do not like cliches our foreign policy in the past and today it 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 but naturally we have and always will defend our national interests but we have always been a car full of others when we did it and we plan to maintain that and a future. in case of a disagreement or a conflict we will always look for a compromise that would be acceptable both to our partners and our country that what we are not interested in confrontation on the contrary we are interested in cooperation a greater europe is not a geographical concept it's first and foremost it is a cultural concept we share the same values with europe of course those are mostly christian values but it goes beyond that even those who consider themselves atheists were raised on christian values would russia is

a multi-faith contrast with that we have many muslims in russia as well we have judaism we have buddhism our fourth traditional religion our history our culture and traditions make it easy for us to develop harmonious relations with any country of the world and this is exactly what. we are going to do it and we're going to put on the patriots mr clinton it looks like there is another storm brewing stock markets of tumbling and people say the reason we so much that trade is themselves going to do it battle to record an urgent market so losing capital for the same is true about fresh air i recently read an article that said there were government needed a new program to counter the next crisis a program that would be like a good scout only girl short and offering an attractive perspective supposedly that would help win back businesses interest and stop at prices where does your government have such a program and while be at it since are going to discount related presuming the price of oil would be at least two hundred dollars per barrel oil prices are

falling are you going to revise the good shit. that. you know if we keep talking about the full 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 a six to seven percent economic growth figure we managed to deliver that in the pre-crisis years and we will try to do it again as i've said before we will of course try to make our economy more open there are fears however especially in the light of russia's w t o a session that opening up too much might harm it returning to your metal for a short skirt looks good on some women while others are better off wearing something else that was the longest skirt. but yes in other clothes russia turned out to be one of the picked for the two thousand and eight two thousand and nine financial crisis what are we dealing with now we are carefully following developments in the global economy and are the world's largest markets because

clearly our economy is not sufficiently diversified at the moment but if we say that openly to feel more confident the problem is when western countries markets shrink you are good the prices of are going. all that is taking into account that only forty seven russian industries are represented well on those markets therefore we are tells a heavy blow because if we have fifty to one hundred industries represented the situation would be more balanced and we would be able to switch to a floating currency race until that happens our national bank will be forced to somewhat regulate rates generally speaking and we will only be able to say we are ready for any changes in internal trends after our economy is diversified what you wish was to conserve gas problem has been facing certain problems in western europe the german offices of gas brum had been searched what is your take on a situation like this around one of the companies. it's

quite simple i have repeatedly said in public that the sellers are always trying to sell the commodity at a higher price it will produce the buyers always want to get it cheaper or even free which is better still we're not a good as we say you won't get anything for free naturally without a smaller price yes and that is not they are after it and as a result unilateral decisions are taken by the third energy package for example which was adopted retrospectively from the fact that this is only a piece of paper that we feel we should be considered unacceptable in the modern world but it is don't despite all considerations we think ultimate goal behind this course of action is to bring down the cost of the product and to disrupt the market pricing mechanism which is closely connected with the price for crude in russia but it is we who set the price in a centralized manner we depend on crude and include goes out the natural gas price goes up drops so does the gas price i don't think there is a far sighted approach to pricing because today the price for crude may be fairly

high and tomorrow it may planet and gas bubbles up for losses and the pirates on the contrary benefit i don't think this is justifiable besides a natural gas market is very specific because it's largely. depends on the concrete supplier that it is a mistake to introduce a third party in the process or as our partner suggested or a third buyer and a third seller this is to say the russian gas that has reached the border with western europe should be first sold to the third party or a legal entity that will further sell it to the consumers do you know what this scenario can lead to that someone will simply be given an opportunity to pocket additional margin and i'm good at the price will not necessarily go down or were such that what would be a good percentage for united version these elections are trying to get a political forecast out of being good you know and i'm not asking for a numbers i just ask you what results you would be satisfied whether there had been there or not would russia has to remain the leading political party in the country

and the parliament that would be a good result the way yes thank you very much for this top mr putin thing which i believe we all finished for today thank you.

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hello and welcome to the tuesday night sports round up on the first to take nights of champions league football and here the top story is. always first victory say dubious scores of the chargers to scout beat leaders tribes on score three nil temporarily top of champions league group b. . while medley medal all time greatest olympian michael phelps finally finds his form to take gold at the world cup spring stage in moscow. and keeps getting tougher champion development as the fellow riders learn the new even harder route and next year's tour de france. but if you do india has bagged a brace to help this guy moscow thrash turkey's side all three nil on high ground take the provisional lead in group b. in the champions league during the lunch lady it's nice to have a heavily depleted score to choose from he's linchpin so far this season do go with

the army many fronts just because the hostile mark latvia midfielder alexander sound out and then double their lead off the bench midway through the second car pulled into the trades last now if you're traveling small coffin with six and five minutes to go slow take out a temporary top of undertaking trabzonspor on goal difference must wait for the results of the other times are in spain into milan and both. sets in the. english premier league leaders not just the city also for a selection problems as they have a year a all in group by this choose they rank union side have taken just one point from two games so far and manager roberto mancini has limited options up front cost ebbers is still a virtual at cost of the club after allegedly refusing to call off the bench and buy in munich in city's previous time mario balotelli is serving the last of a three game european suspension. big summer signings. struggling with a groin injury city a third behind great leaders buying and napoli and can't afford to drop points

against a outside seem to. be out of because they play for war very well but for us it is very important it is not going to be if we are playing in a way or was not aware as you said we'll be in this game and i think that if i'm in this game. after the printer there is from the pentagon from. the promise that after i think that the record if we can win a little bit it's possible we have a chance i think but only while rivals manchester united are also looking to kick start their european campaign three time champions have drawn two games so far and face remaining outfit autumnal. restless tuesday night star striker wayne rooney leading a strong side united are third in group c. behind and then feed and play each other in back to back matches something so alex ferguson things could benefit his team a viewer who would wait when teams will board games. so.

for the pleasure of his. i think the important thing is for us to train when it way that's all the problems. where group d. lead israel madrid have a one hundred percent record on the hosting french side lille themselves could go top with a victory but u.a.l. coach there's a renewed wasn't i'm getting worried about keeping top spot. it's not easy to win every game in the champions league so it will be no great drama if we don't get 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 you will think god will have a group. well those matches are among eighteen europeans eyes taking place this tuesday night and something i've just kicked off elsewhere is a battle between the bottom searing group of. as did i was zagreb take on dutch giants by x. its top thirty second in group c.

as well to be fair in switzerland and leaders why again it has been crowned champions full time slipped on to second place napoli in group a just one goal less so for. that elsewhere russian champions it's in petersburg will be without captain alexander and you cough and top scorer i was on the courier cough for wednesday night's match at ukrainian track and shots are only trying to stretch as well have travel to do that's the best match in group. and you cough strike a cough mustn't feel that i like say it on off on board the plane it's an eight week course so three wanted home last time as it were hell to go in the straw by domestic rivals and i must go on saturday some pieces break so i asked second group and surprise me just achoo out from cyprus while schachter asked. well who also was up well also when say they have been boosted by the return of brazilian strike a club where he's been with a shoulder injury for three weeks is expected to pair up with compacted hope they

missed their latest portuguese cup game reigning you rightly champions but it's an enviable home record having lost just one of their last ten year ties at the dug out. but elsewhere chelsea will be looking to cement their narrow lead in group d. as the english giants host the belgian side games the bottom at stamford bridge at least currently have four points that will have to do without brazil midfielder ramírez striker fernando torres is expected to start despite still struggling to find his red hot for a win would put chelsea in firm control of the group and the regular course is bracing himself for a tough competition the result. would say that it's a good result but they are going to just win the game so. of course they want them three points i'm going to. do what i know about the little boys and. a couple of chances will be some good little cars in the world and security so i think i think

the straights and one of. the better looking for gold if you can. and finally in football russia have learned their opponents for their final match of the year following a comprehensive euro twenty twelve probably fine campaign began because men are set to play former champions greece in a friendly and let them with the eleventh but capital city of athens is the most likely venue for the game russia booked a berth that next summer's european championships after finishing top of the head of the republic of ireland greece edged croatia the top spot in group a us. now you go on to swimming now where one of the most decorated athletes in the world american star michael phelps failed to reach the final of the men's one hundred meter freestyle at the third stage of the world's top in moscow before eventually on his four but the five meter ball at the olympic sports complex was once the setting for the ninety nine helium takes the fourteen time olympic champion was initially struggling but fails to add

a last burst of power in the one hundred meter freestyle final and then in the two hundred meter butterfly to take the bronze for the twenty six year old american did find his ball and managed to grab first place in the one hundred meter individual medley. aussie hopefully tomorrow we can have a little bit back to show me a little bit better but you know it's a good first. round to me to to accept that i could be a lot more happy. tennis now and sixty's but monica's that's over has become the latest russian charge into the second round of the program cup here in moscow this is i'm runs from when i was hardly ever travelled during a straight set with me but i missed probably of france and joined in round two ply local up and come up to singapore as i had the time as a fact finding possible way that. the n.f.l. now and the new york jets ended their three game losing streak by winning twenty four six at home to miami has now lost all five of their opening games well the

pressure was on the jets coach rex ryan to end his team's slide all the dolphins were desperate to taste victory for the first time in the season and even though this is just enjoyed an early lead with a field goal it soon went horribly wrong much more throw was intercepted by darrelle revis who ran one hundred yards for a touchdown to make it seven three to the jets the dolphins narrowed the gap with another field goal but at the end of the half the jets were fourteen six in front after not until opted to dive into the end zone for a five yard touchdown and. water back then sealed the victory for the jets and he found san antonio use worked his way up the field for another touchdown so a twenty four six victory for the jets the dolphins and are winless in five games for the second time in five years as the pressure mounts on their coach and it's beyond them. now despite the tour de france already being the world's most grueling

cycling race the organizers have planned for it to become even tougher as the route for next year's edition was unveiled in paris steve pratt mountain climbs and longer time trials were offered even more challenges to defending champion evans and his fellow riders the twenty twelve the route is just short of a staggering three and a half thousand kilometers in nearly one hundred of those will be individual time trials the race which will be health of the ninety ninth time will start in years in gold you understand in the thirtieth all the changes will occur for those taking part to adapt to the new conditions. and that mix of everything especially the first. stage is it's a little bit a little bit i'm still role reversal a bit marriage based on the style of racing and then i really get into bigger mountains and of course long long road longer and probably for the time trials on the shimming would jump over here under a different style of racing to finally go off and it seems that being top of the

world is no guarantee against that she says as the young come to power all conquering yani tseng has admitted she is feeling the stress ahead of the first ever tournament on a highway island of taiwan saying became the youngest ever player male or female to win five majors and she left of the british open trophy in july at the tender age of just twenty team bus despite the speech the taiwanese are still anxious to please the crowd. championship got underway on thursday however all golfing needs including world number to eat at us and to try and actually i'm saying home soil. because we've been working on this german almost almost two years and everybody working so hard for all of food is a very exciting all the government is very supportive chairman issue he's working very hard for this to be a tidal tidal term and so we're all very exciting and i hope all of you here enjoy this weekend i mean they're going to have

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