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america wants to put government went looking for a crane but ended up homeless. spotlights continues beating mickey figures who battle for seats in russia's state duma next weekend. hello again and welcome from spotlight to marty i'm alan alda and today we continue our election levy. on december fourth russia is electoral that do not go lower chambre probably several parties are campaigning for the four hundred fifty seats

under the new laws and peace term in office will be five years instead of four over the course of the campaign was like giving up community to hear from all the parties i am today my guest this villain lives in sudan the leader of the russian colleagues. the strongest reminder of russia's soviet past is lenin's mausoleum on red square in moscow while the leader of the revolution rest peacefully here at the very heart of russia's capital the present day members of the party he thought are working hard getting ready for the parliamentary election the second major party in russia and like all of those standing in the election race aspired to be the first in one thousand nine hundred one just before the soviet union collapsed economists much of the van saw the republic of russia banned by decree by president yeltsin the two years later the park emerged under the

leadership of do not use uganda the painful transition from state run to marking to in the one nine hundred ninety s. some millions of russians into poverty many became the times of the soviet union when low prices indeed. and wages were guaranteed by the state the communist party grew in popularity on the back of that sentiment throughout the turbulent nineties but the turn of the century so great economic stability in russia and the subsequent tsunami in the party's approval ratings yet despite the ups and downs the party has seen its candidates always been second you know presidential elections since the school it was. seven decades a liberal communist still the soviet union accepted no rivals now they find themselves in a parliamentary election race with six other parties including their major one and the ruling united russia party which won six times as many seats in the state duma

four years ago. that with you hello mr zyuganov and welcome to the show that. says we have an international audience my first question go to this is the communist party happy with russia's current foreign policy and if not how would you change it please let me go to goodies we are definitely not happy for one simple reason but russia's plan in forming other countries policies and unable to resolve many of its problems will affect among other things how russia survives the crisis russia produces approximately five hundred million tonnes of crude oil which accounts for fifteen percent of global production of the same time where not involved in determining the price of that oil the price is determined by b. wigs in london and new york and since natural gas is packed oil this basically means they decide gas prices to them. it's not really new york a price is

a set by opec and russia is not a member of opec anyway the point is we have no say in it secondly we could have pursued own industrial strategy for modernization but instead the government. taking orders from the w t o they say don't subsidize science don't subsidize agriculture bring domestic prices for hydrocarbons up to the international level how can our industry compete and then one production costs in russia are much higher as two thirds of russia upon a frost you can buy the best machines from germany and bring the best skilled professionals to the euros but still we have to make the walls of your factory in the urals thicker than in europe and have to lay the pipes deep down in europe and your workers will have to wear winter clothes your costs will be higher no matter what that's why our foreign policy should help russia develop not just for long

uncle sam blindly and other dictate terms to us as a matter of fact i was going to ask you about the w t o rumor has it russia will join the w t o immediately after the elections. or are you against that. it's not that there is nothing wrong with russia joining the w t l the question is on what terms to be joined. they're saying we can subsidize science but only recently a third of inventions in the world were coming from russia. you know what bill gates employees fifty percent are mathematicians from russia. how can we develop skolkovo if we have no other science projects. novosibirsk the best science park in the world with twenty five well class institutes is now left without financing. how can we develop agriculture if winter's last six to seven months even in our

best lands in the combine religion. we can't compete with britain or france but. that's why we need to defend our interests otherwise our entire second do sector and agriculture will vanish where again. that moreover russia has forty one million hectares of land in the land if we invest in those lands and cultivate them we will be able to supply seven hundred million people with natural organic furred. prices will only grow in the future. russia is importing hotham with food. which is very unwise and very inefficient. mr zyuganov there is another thing i would like your comment on. you have probably heard about the occupy wall street movement that started in the united states and spread through other countries. now we have had guests on this studio say it was nothing

other than a socialist revolution spirals in up he's the. what do you think of this theory. let's face it the liberal speculative model that the united states has forced upon the world after the war i mean the economic model. yes the financial and economic model it has failed it ing was trade in centuries old banks you can't plug that hole with more money obama's failed to do it and so has europe. it was flourishing only yesterday and they can't even bail out crease and they have crises in portugal and possibly spain and italy coming up this means they need a different approach government needs to play a bigger role social policies need to be smarter regulation in various areas including the finance market needs to improve. bankers' object to that naturally

obama is trying to deal with them but he can't europe can't do anything either speculating and blowing financial bubbles is not only dangerous capitalism has had twelve crises over its one hundred fifty year history the last two global crises resulted in world wars it is still unclear how the current crisis will end with the second wave coming up already sweeping across the us by the way i recently met with steve cohen one of america's best political experts will discuss the situation in detail the protests currying in eighty two countries worldwide their currencies mauler and medium sized towns but does it look like a socialist revolution it looks like a new stage of class struggle in order for a revolution to happen the lower classes need to be no longer willing to live as before and the upper classes need to be no longer able to control the situation you

also need a social force a strong smart well organized party capable of carrying it out we're not quite at that point yet but you have to keep in mind that both the east and the west do not have much time left of a fourth person and earth today is suffering from a shortage of bread and water. there will not remain patient who could write recently occurred in forty countries of the world mr zyuganov. called me commented i understand your hints about the need for a strong party. but communist and socialist parties are very weak in the countries where the occupy events protests are happening the russian communist party only contrary is the second biggest party in the country a vital part here it is the main opposition party the oldest party in russia and of course it is very influential in the country indeed the party with rice influence is huge i see the to speak so well of us are you going to vote for us in the

elections you see i'm still undecided on what exactly i'm going to do on december the fourth the question is why are people not coming out into the streets in russia where the communist party is so strong it never happens even when prices are raised what they call me breaks down there. it happens in all other countries but not in russia. why is that happening is it because of the russian mentality or because you're not doing your job properly. first of all russia has a very special history of social protests no other country in the world has suffered so many difficulties problems and so much grief related to public protest the russians remember that and they would rather change the situation by voting than with cons and seriously in that when the subway fare doubles russians can live with it because the civil war going much worse anyway. it's not just that in

many ways it is a question of traditional. but there is also another tradition i once said that if people don't come out into the street in full force they will not stop until they have dealt with the people who are robbed our country oh devalue of the savings and shut down seventy five thousand factories who abuses their children who are responsible for all pervasive corruption who ignore the keys of the children women and old men anyone raping our country today should keep this in mind especially those who are trying to score seventy percent of the upcoming elections by stealing and planting ballots instead of organizing decent electoral debates where the real competition between parties their leaders and their programs. these people are not just taking a mild risk. they need to take

a look at what's happening in north africa and especially egypt barracks party digitisation version of united russia has scored eighty percent at elections prior to his downfall knowledge of should we believe these results given the current crisis if russia has no credible government this will destabilize the situation and mainly to mass riots says he that is you got that leader out of the communist party spotlight for you that should we are there wait self state with those who. are angry . wolf. more and more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can science

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welcome back to spotlight i logan oh and just to remind a guest on the show today is the. leader of the communist party here which. mr zyuganov you have just confirmed something that many foreigners say i mean the people in russia do not fight for their rights but all they can do is riot will. russians don't protest when prices are is known but if they do take the streets the consequences will be very serious. on the contrary russian people are born fighters

because of the vast expanses of this country out of a thousand years of russian history we spend seven hundred years in battles and wars defending our freedom and religion our culture and our land our hopes and aspirations of course russians are very tolerant people because it's what we have full hard toro we had to overcome numerous difficult is it would have been impossible to develop such a huge continent without hard labor tenacity and patience and a first step to unsettle an island and turned to look a russian territory overlaid by call over the urals over the volga river and it is barrack i was immediately convinced that impatient and good for nothing people would not have been able to develop such a piece of land into question and suzi of them and russian capacity to get over difficulties to do this that's something we are good at getting over our challenges without too much grumbling but there is

a limit to our patience and now that it's reaching its limit the situation is becoming dangerous for everyone but let us not talk about modern day communists about your eyes or. your mention several times that the communist party is not the c.p.s.u. policy of this or if you near your vision your objectives and your methods are different from those employed by the soviet communist party which created and eventually destroyed the soviet union who are you these days actually. are you liberals or social democrats. or are you missing the paternalist stalinists state. mr goodloe i knew that you were a master of smart and tricky questions this is a subject that can only be treated in a big volume perced the communist party of the soviet union was not a political party but a system of administrative and political control to developed in the crucible of two world wars when it was necessary to centralize control over the country as much as possible but originally it was a policy yes it grew out of

a political party but then it was a trade by the socialist revolution it is and exposed to provocations then the war broke out of chile the communists pursued our extremely flexible policy with him alone in the doctor the number of consecutive programmes was communism surplus requisition could tax and the new economic policy which was a fine balance between public and private property and the girl a plan was the most prevalent modernization project in version history so the policies pursued by the communist party have been quite diverse they can disown it communist party went through some evolution during the war difficile number of communists among the population was just three percent of them one of those who fell and about all that figure was forty percent that's because many soldiers and officers wanted to be remembered as communists in case they were killed since the war the communist party has had many victories it sent the first satellite into space harnessed the atom and achieved

a nuclear parity believe us but once some of its leaders namely got a bunch of yachts in and others began to betray the concept of justice and respect for the working class they used as i began to collapse our party is just one on the list we welcome political competition we want democratic and fair elections and these should be elections and not vote rigging elections where they key figures will engage in an open dialogue and debates i have personally invited president yeltsin put in a new venue for debates today it's the communist party their defense. impractical and asians in this country while the regime relies on illegal activities and vote rigging now moving on to a different aspect our party decided to guarantee freedom of religion with its ranks about a third of our supporters i believe it is almost work is a vote for us and support our party also missing this should be multiple forms of property public property collective property and private property these three types should compete with each other but there is one thing you need to bear in mind if

you want to introduce a free market economy along with the transom beer and railway you will only be able to do so within the range of fifty kilometers from the railroad beyond this corridor all production costs will be so high that you won't survive without government regulation in the russian empire prime minister said gave it introduced this transport rates for the wages of sabeer in russia's far east because not allowed to raise the rate east of chalabi and otherwise will be never be able to develop siberia and the far east what do you think must be changed in russia's political system. first with urgent the need to change our financial and economic policies things will only get to us a new wave of economic downturn has hit the u.s. and now is sweeping across europe well part of that system the russian budget is based on the assumption that the average will price will be one hundred dollars a barrel if it falls below the seventy dollars budget will go down to pieces we

won't be able to meet our social obligations i mean to pay pensions student to now and says our salaries top of that work is second put in his government should be dismissed immediately it isn't acceptable to have ministers like bush and considered off they're not capable of brushing efficiently in a modern day environment said we need to pass a law that would turn our mineral resources into a source of revenue for the whole nation not just a small group of people russian allies asian of mineral resources it's not just nationalization we had a popular referendum recently and nine million people voted in favor of our plan it is the root cause of the problem in the united arab emirates for example ninety dollars out of the hundred and trim oil production would be placed into national coffers to pay for freed you cation medical insurance and so on in norway eighty two dollars out of one hundred will go to goose the nation's wealth that's just small countries norway has turned into a winter games champion russia has more snow and ice than anyone else in the world

but despite that we barely made it into the top ten countries at the vancouver olympics and it's a point out you're a smart politician. of course you don't need much snow and ice to become a champion of winter games just as you don't need to leave on an island there is the ocean so become a swimming champion. at this facility this must be available to all groups of people including children you're right there is today any sports facility would charge you a fee that's an outrage therefore one of our future steps would be to make all the facilities that will. once misappropriated available to children again and again all kinds of property will be allowed they will compete with each other but the government should be a smart and efficient manager not just a guard protecting someone else's property other ways will do but this option is hardly regarded as acceptable either in the west or in the east much as in russia well you're in for president you're a spring election next year it depends on the outcome of the december vote of

course i'm nominated as a presidential hopeful in all russian which in siberia the far east north caucasus the euro's district and the volga district and one of the most experienced and qualify politicians have given lectures in all of the world's best universities and spoke spoken to members of parliament in all major countries i'm familiar with international agenda and i've been working in the council of europe for seventeen years i studied european experience i've participated in all the assemblies of the international conference of asian political parties we have a strong team our election ballot consists of seventy three groups and more than forty of them are headed by famous scientists among key figures are now about the laureate in physics jurist author of commander of russia's black sea fleet admiral come to term here of the soviet union test pilots have known the service care was also an excellent expert on defense and security their members in the big business community entrepreneurs that helped develop western siberia and demonstrated their ability to compete in the international market again we have quite

a strong and intelligent team which is fit to set up a government of national confidence so you don't rule out running for president no . here's the last question then why do you think russia suffered from a problem of political leadership that he took over a lonely talking about the opposition very often we don't see a leader even in the ruling party do you. know why we do have the this is just that mediocracy is dominating politics the ruling party can. stand smart intelligent and promising people they are afraid of them thank you very much for being with us i just i reminded that my guest on the show today was a good idea who got the leader to call the communist party of which kind that's the foot out of office spotlight will be back with her to tell them to stay on r.t. and take. this stick for.

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