the euro plans reportedly include restricting cash flow when even close importers. a controversial court case starts in russia prosecutors seek to bad version of the main most diary creation of movement for being extremist moved out brian money india's political elite. and next russia's political life in december dominated headlines with the parliamentary vote and its aftermath firmly in the limelight r.t. caught up with a newly appointed head of the foreign relations committee of the lower house of parliament and asked him what changes could be expected in russia's foreign affairs . i'm joined today by lexi push 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 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 game 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. what. 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 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 foresee a response well i think the response has been already given president medvedev. in brussels he basically stated that the opinion of the european parliament. is not important for russia russia is not a member of the european union and so whatever the european in m.p.'s 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 data the 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 the north support the declaration of the european parliament and the statement which was made by hillary clinton they regarded also as a domestic effect. therefore i think that the parliament 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 which had dealing with those issues have opened twenty or twenty one criminal case so these two 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 on 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 being specifically critical of these elections do you think

that there is 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 seeing that there is. a crisis all the same. as stated in the big. rope a moment. russia responded positively to the. button that hillary clinton offered just 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 underscore

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

a certain plan which could 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 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 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 would have been possible i mean two presidents could have met once again and decide what has gone wrong with their wrists and why we are in an impasse on a why this new tension we should hear 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. during the elections is much harder to do the republicans taking a bomb of from the right sometimes from 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 mccaul is quite an illustration. i mean mark 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 all this is 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 or it's also the 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 and to 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 seem russia was doomed. to be inside the w t o it was just a question a matter of time and when hillary clinton decided that it is. affordable

for the us administration 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 gyle 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 to talk of. the least explored areas. pure and touched by. surrounded by steep rock. case paintings on display for thousands of years.

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a move that's caused without it be as politically. a model next with sports stay with us here on r.t. . hello and welcome to sport on r.t. coming to you from the russian capital with me or i'm on call 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 maintained the best russian n.h.l. are. free to move 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 a team of sixty seven athletes and some of them according to a russian olympic committee president alexander as your golf may soon make an m.p. history for their country. 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 because during force sooner teams very soon use it 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 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 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 he metol 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 that so it 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 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 get inskeep finished in second with su forty nine point fifty eight while it's or gave lauren off completed the podium with the results of forty point seventy nine. to ice hockey now where russia have made a successful start into the under its once the world championships in canada but very broad gains 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 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 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 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 top 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 process so when will they have

a manner of doing system there i'm out there for. like not only in the inside team and the whole organization they work unless the real deal is fifteen years and maybe more when the people work hard to get word to jump inside they feel like i'm in the family of the swine everybody the more days we can from here. i'm still playing 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 drunk i'm 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 might be working.

with some of the would bore throws her from the crowd to miss more than i also would call sure they move in a minute in her ear training was just going to make how well was for this one girl small business like combination. maybe are strong enough to hold somebody or three going to do that so more and be in the mode like penalty it's always been all to you together when you stop working applause 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 your new stuff washington looking for. the fish for a good meal yeah the russian builder. thing is some of the movements of those like malls or the ones that never been so efficient so close to the couple from those with the look it's a number of years but president in a small way quietly and one and so on but i do find this 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 up for the

upcoming fifteen day race includes nikolai if andre carr get off iraq and his brother in desire are seven times a car race japie have led to get her it's art from the last every will be that seems manager of 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 to groups who hope that the rupee's will be able to continue great with the tradition in the sport. unless the end of this edition with another holiday special bark or is the art of overcoming urban obstacles bonser mountable for 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 our teams put together the highlights of the events that as it usually happens turns into a huge party. educate people.

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