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life took its fair share of the world headlines this month with a parliamentary vote and its aftermath firmly in the limelight as for the global view from russia r.t. now hears from the man who leads the lower house of parliament's foreign relations committee about where the country's attention will focus. 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 life but he. started my career as a diplomats in the united nations in geneva i was part of the russian delegation. soviet legation 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 a 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 when i think the response has been already given president medvedev. in brussels he basically stated 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 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 asians 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 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 that 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 they. 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'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 you. 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 there is. a crisis. as stated in the beginning to mine rope a moment when russia responded positively to the. button that hillary clinton offered just a lover of during that meeting in february. my feeling is the 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 but me to me to underscore. in which she 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 world sold over and search 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 this 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 alone russia to veto our.

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 all for to resume negotiations addressing the federal council of the russian federation to do it once again stressed that we are ready for negotiations basically he once again and. 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 always have impacts

on 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 sink. 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 b. 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 from far right positions and basically all those positions quiet into russian 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 for what i have just said 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 you know

pay no attention for the election times and as we know all this is a 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. parliamentary also russian population is of the opinion 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 that was a support web staind but basically we allowed the research 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 the gotoh support for those for their 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 signed a w two zero 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 reset between moscow and washington is extremely fragile so i'm not very optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral both in

the united states and russia. of i'd like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure. koreas. and touched by. surrounded by stupid. case paintings on display for found some sympathy is. eastern sun beyond the time go. on to see.

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and i will welcome to the latest force and the use of the top stories harry's hotspur read not says garrison bales not for sale as the welsh wing backs brace sends tottenham third off a two no when in the english premier league. while i want more and if you should get tom gets his fulfilment vixens after returning from injury to win the russian championships for the record two months time and birds of prey atlanta thrashers russian own new jersey nets in the whole game of the shortened n.b.a. season. but first a football and so on the manager harry redknapp says doris bile is not for sale after the welsh win back scored both goals in supposed to know when ignoring that sent them surge in the english premier league the twenty two year old call for help from his defense of thoughts to score two goals in twelve second off minutes and ensure the top ten record when in ten league games well earlier i also missed the chance to go falls off being held to a one one draw at home to ten models and q.p.r. came back to draw one want the swans a. well meanwhile on

a draw packed boxing day newcastle scored twice into second half minutes to win two nil a second bottom bolton chelsea's title hopes all but ended as full of hits back to drilled one one in the west london dalby lot then ease the pressure on manager steve keen as they battle to a one one draw at little pull. it off scored a hat trick is not you know he thrashed ten men within five to go level on points with me to snatch the city star drew neil neil with aston villa in a troubled midlands dog the controversial penalty held at the controls one. some talent city fell to score in the league for the first time this season as they were frustrated by west brom in a goal this nail biter at the hawthorns. so off to all those games the big winners at the top of mansion i think and talk of city remains first a five goal of vantage a.b. united spurs a thirty seven points off the leaders with a game in hand chelsea still a fourth and fifth after those two draws. has moved on to figure skating where

russian star yevgeny pollution car has talked up his chances at the sochi winter games in twenty fourteen the two thousand and six olympic champion spoke after winning the russian national championships for the record ninth time on his much anticipated return after the surgery while the three time world champion was in second place after the open short program inside just six hundred kilometers east of moscow but he is free program puts him firmly on top of the podium headed up to attack that day one of a relative veteran at twenty nine pushing to is still aiming for his fourth olympics appearance and sorry but he has a long way ahead of him. watching the audience for him so when i'm happy everything worked to plan at the nationals i'm pleased with my result and my ninth gold i'm happy i was able to perform the quadruple jump and all the combinations but emotionally it was very hard for me to compete for the first time after the injury and now i will try my best to prepare both mentally and physically for the sochi olympics i know there are still more than two years to go but when people say you

can no longer compete at this level at twenty seven it's nothing but a lie yes you can if there is a will and a dream. well apart from pushing russia's medal hopes of their first ever winter games in sochi have been given yet another boost a sas korean short track legend on should sue has finally been granted russian citizenship the twenty six year old captured three golds and won bronze at the charitably expect in two thousand and six he's also a five time overall world champion but has been struggling to fully recover from knee injury which he picked up four years ago. however the newly converted russian aims to win in such a way that has taken on an appropriate name viktor. meanwhile the first of a year's winter olympics will get underway in the austrian city of innsbruck in a fortnight russia sending a team of sixty seven athletes and according to russian olympic committee president alexander as you call some may soon be making history for. the

upcoming youth olympics games is a great chance for us to test out just how good we'll be at winter sports in the near future and in some sports even over the next few years they could reinforce our senior it seems very soon and if some of those youngsters perform well in is brokers they may with a little more time join the russian olympic team for sort she twenty fourteen. well the new year for motor sport starts in january the first of the annual dakar rally now and after the retirement of russians the again the country will be relying on some young blood in the camis team to bring home success from argentina chile and peru well the new look team that was unveiled here in moscow will be spearheaded by the most experienced trauma edward nicholai of the russian team have been the perennial favorites in the trucks category one chagnon retired from the sport last february the seventh time back on track and has moved up to become the calmest team manager and the veterans now hopes the new generation will keep up their winning tradition. we expect serious rivalry between our young

drivers and those had been trying to steer the bomb from the russian team in previous years this year takara race will be interesting and unpredictable good but we hope that the rookies will be able to continue our great religious tradition in the spokes to just let it go good basketball now and in the n.b.a. russian and club the new jersey nets of fell to make it two wins from two so far in the shortened season losing one hundred sixty seventy on home court the atlanta hawks well the nets did beat the washington wizards in their opening game but were totally eclipsed by the hawks who were playing their first match of the visitors led by eight points to no on after occasions two and a half minutes and they took eight digit lead still in the first quarter. that none of which inflicting the biggest damage said and went on to finish with a game high seventeen points off the bench marshawn brooks would four in as many points for the nets but the home side never got close to mobbing williamsport

another fourteen. time georgian substitute that as opportunity added a double double a certain points and eleven rebounds. and let's finish with basketball and the latest holiday special feature and be a star dwight howard paid a visit to the russian capital in the summer. and then i'm on call so i caught up with the orlando magic santa who spoke about his the best in the league and how hard it is to make it the same very special guests for you here today and that's the magic said white howard white thank you very much for speaking with us today your first time in russia you've seen a bunch of people playing basketball here at luzhniki stadiums and say you know you are a first you know emotions when we you know when you sell something people bring back what you know you know russia was very you know i know russia is not very big basketball or soccer or football and who's just great to see good

enough there to be the loser unbelievable experience to leave i've always wanted to come it was really one of my dreams is to be here russia you know small town here you know so i would be you know one of the ones they had to look out in the n.h.l. in the bunch of players here who came to play in russia because russia because of the second promise of the n.h.l. stolz what if it's a hypothetical situation there's a lockout in the n.b.a. where would you go in europe i don't know this might seem like a good place to. look because there is very good the soup is. good risk calls it is very nice to hear it. just a great place you know and i'm reading a lot of fun here just me you know a lot of people like playing basketball you know it's been a better put it there where do you see yourself playing at the beginning of next season. because. you know as a player you know that would be a little. hard to tell for the everybody is sort of cool do you get to

the metal team i suppose play for a little less that you don't have to scroll through you know all the right things have the. right to the players right if you were to pick go for partners from the n.b.a. or would they be oh look. there's no. speedman tracks enough. of. those. aerial loops. there. are you know i got five months to live get back to russia what of the rest of your plans and would you like to come here like incognito like no not anybody know where you just have some fun by yourself little. things both those of you who know to be a good idea may just come in this with let's. go to a loser school kid is looking to the us with the circuitry yet still. so far as

with very little sleep the lot of the silly can just call the student a little silly look at the stats all the see. what would your advice be to young a russian down school players the ones who aspired to play in the best league in the n.b.a. . off the hook and so you know we're moving up to speed patience so yeah i've seen this in the us the set limits would be our lives at the surface so if you still use such always rather your cards still in school you have to spin the ball slow there was no time to get saluted referees and look at the focus to best serve that's all i've got here so a lot of guys who believe yeah they got it sacrificed so really the best was not about to do i think very much a best of luck for the upcoming season this was. speaking exclusively with.

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