hands reportedly restricting cash and even closing borders. and a controversial court case starts in russia as prosecutors seek to ban the main book at the very christian movement for being extremist a move that's caused an outcry among india's political elite. but also its political life in december dominated world headlines the parliamentary election and its aftermath firmly in the limelight caught up with the newly appointed head of the foreign relations committee in the house apartment and i asked him what changes might be expected in russia's foreign affairs. i'm joined today by alexei pushkov 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. well my background 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 legation of. the committee on does arm and basically i never left the field of foreign policy studies so i would not say that i am new to the area. what. a person like me can bring i think during my work on to be 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 nation. 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 think of the russian

elections is not relevant for the russian leadership. and i sing basically. take into account the statements which were made on this score by the leaders even of opposition parties. this is a consular 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 asians and russian elections do not support the declaration of the european parliament and the statement which was made by hillary clinton they regard it 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 elections 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 it 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 as i think that there is. a crisis reset for the. state of the big. broker moment power in. russia responded positively to the. button that hillary clinton offered just a lover of during that meeting in february and nine. is the 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 underscore

. in which he mentioned a number of kontum measures that russia may take if the. system is placed by the united states and europe without taking into account russian worries on this score i think that it was a well sold over answer 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 interim 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 neal 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 plan this suggestion was not accepted by nato and recently we have heard from the u.s. state department that the united states will not allow russia to have a veto or. 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 offer 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 us 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 us 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 always have impacted. 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 would have been possible i mean two presidents could have met once again and decide what has gone wrong with their 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 it's much harder to do the republicans taking a bomb of from the right sometimes the far right position and basically hold those positions or quiet into russia they are accusing obama of being too soft on the rest of the story 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 jeopardize american security interests and still he was a kid and he was accused of being too soft on russia 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 reset 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 the election times and as we know policies of being modeled after the requirements of the electoral campaign obama 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 there is a lot of disappointment with the reset russian. parliament who is also russian population is of the russia has given more to the united states than it has received from the united states we have offered i would support on iran

sanctions against iran we have stopped to sell iran the c three hundred into missile systems we have basically passed a resolution well it was a support web staind but basically we allowed the recent lucian on libya to be accepted in the security council which opened the way for the nato operation in libya so we made a number of steps which were quite important for the united states and to go to support for those there are policies in the framework of the reset now what have we 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 seemed russia was doomed. to be inside the w.t. it was just a question a matter of time and when hillary clinton decided that it is. affordable

for the u.s. administration to attack. russia on the results of the election this has just shown that all this state of research between moscow and washington is extremely for jal so i not very optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral both in the united states and russia alexei pushkov i'd like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure. loaf

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a move that's caused an outcry among indians it's called elite. sports news next with your buck. 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 the 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 battled that super bowl the n.h.l.'s detroit red wings speaks exclusively with our team after be named the best russian n.h.l. or. moved games park or is taken russia by storm who will

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 innsbruck 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 an end to history for their country. are used in the upcoming util 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 they could reinforce over sooner teams very soon use and if some of those youngsters people will brokers where they may with a little more time doing the russian olympic team who are sort she twenty fourteen meanwhile here in the russian capital legendary ice hockey 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 grandkid knoxy. follow in 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 one hundred seventy six. i'm glad to be in the u.s. olympic team 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 when everyone wants to school one three t.x. in the net i don't tan me human toll i didn't have his background so i wasn't under as much pressure it will be psychologically heart but everything depends on him he

loves hockey and devotes whole 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 went to fourteen two thousand and six and the 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 republic of marjoe 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 gets inskeep finished in second with forty nine point eight while it's or gave foreign off completed the podium with the results of forty point seven two nine. two ice hockey now where russia have made a successful start into the under its once the world championships in canada but very broad against men scored three unanswered goals against switzerland. and rigor ranko were on the scoreboard of the defending champions in other games sweden

thrashed latvia nine for canada destroyed ten wins by eight goals to one while the americans left denmark capsular the no chance defeating them eleven three. let's stay on the ice and move on to our g.'s holiday specials now where we'll bring you the best stories of twenty eleven which will air over the next couple of weeks old that suit has ended alexander ovechkin his five year reign as he won this year's harlem of trophy the prize run by the russian newspaper service q 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 drills it's all in what they have from the rigging system there

i'm out there from. mike not only in the inside team and the whole organization i'm not really working like the real deal is fifteen years might be more when it's a big people work harder where jump inside they feel like i'm in the family of the supplier and everybody in the more important days waiting for me and. i'm still play soccer and sides have a lot of other. things stored so it will sum up what i can like more. this is my way when i'm down to just thinking with the fireplace party and some of them plans are going to them start when i'm playing the hockey and then find the time for soccer and i am i've been working.

at some level with more thought her from the broad theme is more than i also in the courtroom me from the minute in her ear training was just going to make help i was focused on your small business like communication. or maybe are strong enough to hold somebody or frequent that so more and be in the mode like penalty it's always been ok you know when you stop working applause i never thought was. worth going on to. it's a big secret and it's a be immortal it can just move me into this post i'm going to people load heal me

stop what you're going to looking for. the fish are a million russian build a. thing is something the movements of the slave mall slaughter i want to never been sufficient so close to the couple from the look of the book it's a month earlier that president mina small a quiet laid one and so on but i had to find an old hall so all being on the 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 and trucks category the face of the team has become younger though the line out for the upcoming fifteen day race includes head toward nicholai if andre carr get health i right

marge a f and his brother in seven sides a car race japie a bloody murder charge in her it's art 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. should usually be too we expect serious rivalry between our young drivers and i'd be trying to say to this mom from the russian t.v. in the previous year is. a race will be interesting and unpredictable to the group but we hope that the rookies will be able to continue a great winning tradition in the sport. and less and this additional with another holiday special bark or is the art of overcoming urban obstacles uncertain mountable for untrained 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 our teams put together the highlights of the events that as it usually happens turns into a huge party and. educate people.

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