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deputies of russia's lower house of parliament have been gathering for the very first session is to find out if the fresh faces will herald a new changes are talks next to the man in charge of the duma's foreign relations committee. i'm joined today by alex a push pull the newly appointed chairman of foreign affairs in the russian parliament 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 to be i have 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 image 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 stayed to the opinion of the european parliament. 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 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 asians on russian elections the north 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 which had dealing with those issues have opened 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 all 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 they have accepted the their mandates they have been the first opening session of the russian duma which the. 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. 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 broke

a moment when russia responded positively to the. button but 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 do it 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 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 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. 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 power on 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 live 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 the trollish and 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 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 from far right positions and basically all 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 of just 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 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 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 the 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 the 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 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 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 resets now what have we got in return the admission of russia in the. 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 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 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.

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and i was just forced and these other headlines. say do say me this goes do you know when is the russian player of the year award for a leading twenty four goals so far this season. while seeing red under fire liverpool striker luis suarez admits a charge of improper conduct and the mr red stay with newcastle on the friday. while i want to know yevgeny pollution that targets his fulfilling picks in such a top when the russian championships her record ninth time. but first football and moscow's prolific strike us a do do india has been voted the russian premier league player of the year by the country's sports journalists the twenty three year old is the top flight's leading scorer going into the winter break after netting an impressive twenty four goals in thirty games for the all the men so far and the in-form ivorian has also starred in the champions league adding another five in as many appearances as they've got

booked a place in the last sixteen well then i must go captain and vote and then came second in the general is all he has netted eleven goals as well as notching up a league eighteen twelve assists and was also named ukraine's player of the year last week while the needs alexander goes you go completes the top three the russia star has scored sixteen goals for the defending champions this campaign including a memorable one trick against ricky's present in will cost. meanwhile over in england liverpool striker luis suarez will miss friday's premier league game a time to newcastle after admitting an essay charge for improper conduct the twenty four year old europe why stock has been battered for one match and fined over thirty one thousand dollars and given an offensive have ingested two full of fountains in the reds one will defeat at craven cottage on december the. fifth suarez is currently appealing against an eight game ban for racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra and could now miss almost

a quarter of the season while the result six and unbeaten at home so far this season have drawn six of their nine games and scored only eleven goals in form newcastle a just a point behind the really wants the reward for the fantastic play that of just different shop but he goes because i'm so looking ten year pursue that go. i'm sure next year will be better for this being said before this year was a strange fairly calm programme where everybody drew yourselves and sort of my new one so that's very helpful for us. now we're going to tough going we're looking forward to the new going to those going to the brass spirit conference about it so we're looking forward to going to our field well me tottenham manager harry redknapp says gary's belt is not for sale to the welsh bring back scored by its second balls to know when ignore it they're eighteen

victory from ten unique games that sentence third in english premier league but also missed the chance to go for the elderly one one draw at home three ten nine wolves and q.p.r. came back to draw one one that's one of the side after the two days of christmas for all the big winners at the top when manchester united on top no one should the city remain first with a five point advantage by the united states versus thirty seven points off the leaders with a game in town chelsea state and also fifth drew newcastle who as we had to go to the before on friday are sevens and lost twice and their travels. while at the bottom blackburn remain five points adrift of bolton state second bottom and wigan are also still in the drop zone and the wolves kept a lifeline with that one one draw at arsenal. figure skating now on russian's diag any pollution 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 championship for record ninth time on his much anticipated return after knee surgery when all the free time world champion was in second place after the opening short program inside as much as six hundred kilometers east of moscow but he is free program puts him firmly on top of the idea of how to get inside game one of the three will not work that next month's european championships in the english city of sheffield a relative veteran of twenty nine plushenko is still aiming to make his fourth and become parents in stock trade but he knows he has a long way ahead of. which in the audience for him so when i'm happy everything worked to plan at the nash. knows and pleased with my results 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 pollution russia's medal hopes at their first ever winter games in sochi have been given yet another boost a south korean short track legend on film soon has finally been granted russian citizenship the twenty six year old captured history golden won bronze at the chewin a limp dicks back in two thousand and six is also a five time overall world champion has been struggling to fully recover from a knee injury which he picked up four years ago however the newly converted russian aims to win such a has taken one kind of appropriate name victor. staying on the ice and k h l side in our way again have become the first semifinalists into the annual sixteen spangler cup at the ski resort of the boss in switzerland well the latvian club has not been enjoying the best time in the k h l so far this season but are looking good on the international arena they beat the german runners up vosburgh at

the invitation event and their second victory out of to predict bob and good and you can score all those three minutes of each other. but now we're in the driver's seat roberts burkett's added a short handed goal to make it three no in the third period while vosburgh could only manage a late consolation through nathan patch and line up so three one was the way in which they're going into the last four russian powerhouse gossipy just like this could only be a trophy last season. basketball now and russian side next have been pitted against euro league champions paris and like us. after the draw was announced in boston for the top sixteen stage take a chunk and spend about change and italian side i mean can milan go round often to change it so it looks like a stiff competition is installed for the side from cars on. wall to scout has been joining all the way and much easier to finishing the regular season the second time

and make a streak break as it's an impi on course and sides on sunday and most focused on its way to the quarterfinals. and let's finish with some basketball and the latest special holiday feature and be a star dwight howard paid a visit to the russian capital in the summer and our own curiously close voyage from on closer as caught up with the orlando magic center. a very special guest 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 stadium today you are a first you know emotions when we you know when you saw some 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 game down it was just great to see you go down there to be the least unbelievable experience to leave i've always wanted to tell me what it's

really one of my dreams is to be here and russia knows all found here you know and so i would be you know one of the ones they had to look out in the n.h.l. a bunch of players here they came to play in russia because russia may get the second promise of the n.h.l. told what if it's a hypothetical situation there's a lot in the n.b.a. where would you go in europe i don't know this might seem like a great place to live because there is very good the suit is beautiful. good risk all of it is very nice to get there you know just a great place you know number having a lot of blood here just me not a thing like playing basketball you know been embezzling but if there were. do you see yourself playing at the beginning of next season. ok because. you know as a little earlier a member that would be a little. hard to tell for that you wrote it about a sort of pool deviously medal a team os will play for it all is still there you know i'm happy

a little small three you know you know all the right these hackers. might have to take place right if you were to pick go for partners from the n.b.a. will they be oh look. first of all steven trixie. was. very aloof and. anthony morrow or you know i got five months to. get him back to russia what of the rest of your plans and would you like to come here like incognito not with no not anybody knowing you just have some fun by yourself and. i think both of those of you who know to be a good idea may just come here and this will lead us. but you know this is for good is looking to the race with the circuitry to get full and so far as we are very have a lot of the city you can't just walk around the city you know will see the good

news aspect as to all this you know what would your advice be to young russian basketball players the ones who aspired to play in the best league in the n.b.a. . often to continue to work with me up to speed patience but also you have seen this and know you have to sacrifice and my guess would be our lives it was so sad if you spoke. to us because look what you've always got on our vehicle are you mr moose we do street work all sleep there was no town to go and sleep is right now going to be focused on nasty you know that's all i've got here i saw a lot of guys who believe yeah they got really sacrificed so they really loved basketball this is not about white thanks very much and best of luck in the upcoming season. and that's all the sport i think.

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