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controversial trial starts in russia as prosecutors see. a broken right wing extremist group that supports an outcry about india's. russia's political life in december dominated headlines with. firmly in the limelight. with the newly appointed head of the foreign relations committee in the lower house of parliament and asked him what changes might be expected in russia's foreign affairs. i'm joined today by alex a push pull the newly appointed chairman of foreign affairs in the russian parliament alexei thank you for being with us you come from a background in television what do you think that you're going to bring to this position that other people lack. well my big ground is larger

than life but larger than to be i have started my career as a diplomats in the united nations in geneva i was part of the russian delegation. soviet the gauge and of. the committee on does armaments basically i never left the field of foreign policy studies so i would not say that i'm new to the area. it's a person like me can bring i think during my work on t.v. i got a pretty accurate. feeling of. what the russian population and the russian citizens. think of russian foreign policy what kind of foreign policy they would like to. and. what images they have of their own country of themselves and how they place russia and themselves on the

global scene i think it's very important that. foreign policy matches the. image that the population would like to have of the foreign policy the russian parliament and you as well you begin your work in the wake of much foreign criticism with regards to the parliamentary elections claiming that they weren't fair what kind of a challenge does that criticism present to the parliament and do you first see a response well i think the response has been already given president medvedev. in brussels he basically stated that the opinion of the rypien parliament. is not important for russia russia is not a member of the european union and so whatever the european in these think of the

russian elections is not relevant for the russian leadership. and i sing basically the. taking into account the statements which were made on this score by the leaders even of opposition parties. this is a consulate datas position of the russian parliament whatever. requirements and requests the opposition parties may have. they would like it to be domestic procedure the opposition parties in the parliament even those who insist that they were well ations on russian elections do not support the declaration of the european parliament and the statement which was made by hillary clinton they regarded also as a domestic affair. therefore i think that the pollens will probably stick to this position although as we have already seen there were some public protests against

the result of this election and some opposition party members of those opposition parties took part in this process i. know that the russian services dealing with those issues are open twenty or twenty one criminal case so these things are being started i think they may be considered in the parliament but once again not because hillary clinton said it or the european parliament declared those. elections illegitimate i think that all the political parties which are presented in the state duma they consider those elections legitimate although maybe with some elections they have accepted the their mandates they have been the first opening session of the russian duma which basically is a declaration that they have accepted the results so you mention hillary clinton and the united states specifically critical of these elections do you think that there's still a future for the reset and not reload policy promoted by barack president barack

obama well i think that there may be a future for. but i think that it's time to reset the reset. the reason is not just these elections and the american reaction to this election is a saying that the reason. crisis policy. as stated in the beginning. when barack obama came to power and when russia responded positively to the. button that hillary clinton offered to a lover of during that meeting in february. my feeling is that a number of contradictions have accumulated since that time and the. biggest contradiction is the issue of the a.b.m. american a.b.m. system in europe. very tough statement which was made by me to me did it on the

score in which he mentioned a number of kontum measures that russia may take if the v.m. system is placed by the united states and europe without taking into account russian worries on this score i think that it was a world sold over and so it was not just a kneejerk reaction or some kind of impulsive statement i think it is the result of the fact that the negotiations on the pm basically have gone into an impasse. summits where mid-term inventive. nato leaders in the vendor last year was declared. a success but it was maybe a success in p.r. relations i mean. some of the spirit of the summit was positive but the results of the summit with neil basically we. russia offered

a certain plan which could have mean a compromise between russia and nato on the a.b.m. issue but this bill and this suggestion was not accepted by nato and recently we have heard from the state department that the united states will not allow russia to have a veto power. u.s. plans. a.b.m. deployment in europe. that russia will not be able to change the plan itself and the schedule basically this was a no which was the answer to the debate of scoffer to resume negotiations addressing the federal council of the russian federation midriff once again stressed that we are ready for negotiations basically he once again hand. although as i said the united states have already given a negative answer so now. i think it's up to washington to decide whether they want

to share quite a bit of or they want to let it hang in the air do you think that both with russia and the u.s. having presidential elections and twenty twelve do you think that there's going to be some sort of impact on bilateral relations with that outcome. by that relations especially such complicated relations as relations between russia and the united states and my feeling is that these elections will not be an exception and the effect will be negative. where is in calmer times i think. the reset of the reset could have been possible i mean two presidents could have met once again and decide what has gone wrong with why we are in an impasse on a why this new tension which appeared between russia and the united states and maybe maybe with their personal. input they would have been able to overcome this

once again to push the button but during the elections is much harder to do the republicans are taking a bomb of from the right sometimes from far right positions and basically hold those positions or quiet into russia they are accusing obama of being too soft on russia the story of the appointment of the new u.s. ambassador to moscow michael mcfaul is quite an illustration. i mean. paul has been accused of trying to best sensitive information to russia just because he made a reasonable offer on the some exchange of information on the future a.b.m. system which does not g.o.p. does american security interests and still he was a kid and he was accused of being too soft on the. he was accused of being the architect of the reset policy i mean to be an architect of the reset policy is

considered to be by the some of the republican candidates as a sin so what kind of resent can we have. in these conditions i mean the administration will have to be sensitive to this attacks they cannot just. pay no attention for these election times and as we know all this is of being modeled after the requirements of the electoral campaign a mama cannot be insensitive to this criticism so i think we are in for a very hard year in russian you know solutions i think that in russia too the reason lot of disappointment with. the reset russian. parliament or it's also russian population is of the union that russia has given more to the united states than it has received from the united states we have offered i was support on iran sanctions against iran we have stopped to sell iran the c three

hundred and to missile systems we have basically passed a resolution well it was support with staind but basically we allowed the recent lucian on libya to be accepted in the security go solution open the way for the nato operation in libya so we made a number of steps which were quite important for the united states and they go to support for those their policies in the framework of the resets now what have you got in return the admission of russia in w t o basically i don't think it's really a kind of payoff because those elections have been going on for almost twenty years and i seem russia was doomed to be signed a w t o it was just a question a matter of time and when hillary clinton decided that it is. affordable for the submit to

a tech rush on the results of the election this has just shown that all this state of reset between moscow and washington is extremely for a job so i'm not very optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral he both in the united states and russia. like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure.

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india's political elite. sports news. hello and welcome to sport on r.t. coming to you from the russian capital with me or amman calls for it and this edition will bring you the latest news along with holiday specials prepared by our correspondents but first headlines. farewell and good luck in russia are preparing for the first ever use the winter olympics which gets underway in austria in january. best up to wednesday eleven model that soon called the n.h.l. is detroit red wings speaks exclusively with artsy passerby to maintain the best russian n.h.l. or. move games park or is taken russia by storm we'll

bring you the best highlights of a summer festival as part of our holiday series. there are now only a couple of weeks to go before the first ever youth winter olympic games get underway in austria russia will be represented by its sixty seven athletes and some of them according to a russian olympic committee president alexander as your golf may soon make a limping history for their country. in the upcoming useful in big games is a great chance for us to test out just how good it will be at winter sports in the near future and in some sports even over the next few years we could reinforce over sooner teams very soon and if some of those youngsters people will brokers they may with a little more time doing the russian olympic team or sort she twenty fourteen meanwhile here in the russian capital legendary i saw key goaltender of love is love tretiak

saw his grandchild off to the youth and picks in austria he was a one all the best in the sport's history and now his grandkids maxime is set to follow him. his footsteps and joins up with russia's ice hockey team the fifteen year old wears his grandfather's jersey with the number three wednesday and eager to repeat the successful family tradition the. world championships and three and the gold medals including gold in the seventy six. i'm glad to be. it's a pleasure to reaches a level but it's also a great responsibility to wear the home countries jersey it will be very hard for him to become a great goalie has been under pressure since he was five and everyone wants to school when the net i don't tan me he metol i didn't have his bag grown so i wasn't under as much pressure it will be psychologically heart but everything depends on him he loves hockey and devotes ole his time to training. let's move on to figure

skating now where you get the pollution call is once again on course for the salt shouldn't take since wednesday fourteen two thousand and six olympic champion successfully returned to the sport by winning the russian national championship for the ninth time in his career the three time world champion beat all his rivals in the capital of russia's republican via sarongs by taking the men's singles sites all with a total sum of two fifty nine sixty seven points despite any injury parts or get finished in second with su forty nine point zero eight well it sort of gave the foreign office completed the podium with the results of forty point seven two nine . two ice hockey now where russia have made a successful start in the under its once the world championships in canada but larry broadens men scored three unanswered goals against switzerland. and rigor ranko were on the scoreboard of the defending champions in other games sweden

thrashed latvia and nine for canada destroyed finland by eight goals to one and while the americans left that more caps of the no chance defeating them eleven three. let's stay on the ice and move on to our disease holiday specials now where we'll bring you the best stories of twenty eleven which will air over the next couple of weeks by build that soup has ended alexander ovechkin a five year reign as he won this year's harlem of trophy the prize run by the russian newspaper said askew sport recognizes the russian player in the n.h.l. and is named after the legendary soviet hockey player artsy caught up with the soup who gave his views on his life both on and off the ice. it's a hard question slow drill so i want to hear from the ribbing system there i'm out

there from. mike not only in the inside team and the whole organization i'm not really working late to build business fifteen years might be more than the one that's a big move people work hard to get word to jump inside the fuel economy in the family business where and everybody is more important days waiting for me i'm. still playing soccer and i are inside to have a lot of. rain stored so it will slow but i can work more. this is my way when i'm drunk i just think in the wintertime place partly some of them going so i get to them start in them play in the hockey and then find the time for soccer and there might be one thing.

that cement delivered more throws her from my brother tim is more than a also in the courtroom me from the minute in her ear training was just one too big help me i was focused on your small business like communication. we are strong enough to hold somebody or frequently did so more than be in the mode like penalty it's always penalty you know when you stop working applause i never thought was. worth going on to. it's a being in secret and it's a be immortal it can just move me into this but i'm going to be followed you to

stop washington looking for. the fish or a million russian build a. thing is something the movements of the slave mall some of the ones the number of them so efficient and so powerful of a thought to build from the look of the markets a number of years but president in a small way quietly what it saw but i do find it an old pulse on all being at water and more fish tank and the things i'm older than. the new year for sports starts on the first of january with the annual dakar rally the russians are traditionally the main contenders for victory in the trucks category the face of the team has become younger though the line out for the upcoming fifteen day race includes nicholai if andre carr get healthy i write mar

de of and his brother in law gives r.'s seven times a car race japie have led to get where it's are at from the sport last february will be that seems manager the veterans counts on the youth and hope that the new generation won't let them down and continue that seems a winning tradition. we expect serious rivalry between our young drivers and i'd be trying to say to the mom from the russian t.v. in previous years. the race will be interesting and unpredictable groups would hope that the rupee's will be able to continue great winning tradition in the sport. unless and this additional with another holiday special bark or is the art of overcoming urban obstacles on certain amounts of all four on train people in everyday life now the discipline has been made famous in europe through movies and is slowly but surely winning over the hearts of russia's youth a festival called three move games was held in moscow in the summer and artie's put

together the highlights of the events that as it usually happens turns into a huge party. educate people.

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