further bolstering of the legal. grounds and i'm sure such policies will be supported by our citizens in the wake of the elections and i am positive that the fundamentals. better will approach transparency based on non-confrontational support of our national interests we'll find their place and. will be pursued because they are not on our part only if we get a sense of that being productive in basic meaning they are universal principles of international relations and their perceived. virtually impeccable deeds and international arena by all countries. and i am convinced that further on to will utilize what we have accomplished to set out maximum favorable conditions for modernization in our country so that the citizens who would get a sense of practical results whether it be the increase of number of visa free

countries for our citizens protection our citizens find themselves in difficult circumstances brought up to setting out. equal nondiscriminatory. for all businesses a broad i'm not talking about big business but also small and medium businesses there are many people willing to have trade with the european union to start some small bakeries other enterprises there are now it's not allowed to do but after the entry to the u.k. i think that. means we'll also get a sense that. they're so good natured expansion abroad will be perceived more favorably perhaps i'll stop here now the second question was regarding. the union state between russia and belarus you know certainly this. is still valid no doubt about that. medic questions being asked concerning the fact that.

they have already shaped up to come and economic space european. union is there or will that in devour the union state a russian bear was a wonder i will no try to predict things at this stage i might as well say that the union state includes serious agreement which is so far so far i should stress within this troika. all of these economic space have not been reflected and they go beyond the agreements already reached there in particular i will point out the fact that ensuring equal rights for citizens of belarus in russia and ensuring equal rights of russian citizens in the bill or was addressing such matters is already made that there are some dems down there all too we'll probably go over them over and. sealing and other aspects. involved i don't.

perceive any reasons on the contrary i would think that this state will further be developed among other things including the fact that. you know. we certainly. have. to go who is. at the helm of this unit state and who will take a fresh look at what needs to be done in addition for the well being allowed countries there let alone the fact that the military aspect of the interstate defensive aspect is also there i predict that it will be developed bearing in mind the integration process is russia and there is are involved elsewhere. there by johnny colleagues have a question here please. please could you to make your question more coincide if possible and questions and answers

to mark on size right. i want to have their budget information and insist on their surrogate. my congratulations to the on the holidays i am a question i will ask just one question here what was the two thousand and eleven era like regarding a russia as they are by generations are especially concerned. with this thing is russia intending to further invigorate their cooperation on the settlement and would like to clarify the date of the upcoming meeting a lot of presidents if possible my second question concerning the. investments on the caspian state what's the current state of the disc questions and very briefly third questions that's the government's. radar what's the current status of. talks and what should be the agreement there thank you. cameraman i respect them very much. to you you know i could probably provide you

a better full opportunity is it with me probably visiting here and there now our relations with china strategic and very important ones so we assess highly the potential already or reach there in existence for further development operators have been regularly meeting we've been regularly in touch with my colleague many other of. literally tomorrow he will be visiting with us here in moscow will sign a very important document in agreement on the issues pertaining to the public diplomatic . immobile so we have computed measure of everything included and this is how we'll close the overdue question and we'll be discussing the next trilateral meeting of the presidents on the by. traill settlement on the twenty third of generally this meeting will take place in sochi and basically

holding this meeting will answer the question of whether russia intends to pursue its intermediary efforts on going i go about settlement of course we do plan to do that we've been doing a term in the final works. our participation in detroit called the color chair so that means care always see. a group co-chairs will also be there in such a and if necessary their presence might as well communicate with them. as to whom the global in iraq are. virtually these days i don't remember what dates are involved these talks will be continued between our military delegations i understand the question is about the concrete parameters of the lease rate i know the basic problem is. and simply they need to agree on this thanks editors the status of caspian i will have to express my dissatisfaction after the summit.

unfortunately not very vigorously those greedy decisions by presidents have been pursued to basic agreements reached there that's to announce most of sturgeon. experts and they gave two months for preparation for such agreements to be implemented up till now they have failed to do so. it's not the fault of azerbaijan of russia might as well say here is a second ago and to concerned. the basic agreement is to establish the literal areas to define the electoral areas of caspian which would. include the area under serenity of the lateral state and the area of exclusive fishery rights and here. we have been continuing our discussions working parties have been. working together and have been discussing

these matters they have agreed to already on the with of two sides areas. apparently that satisfies our one and all but it's also important to all move ahead on other issues including the issue of the right of peaceful to. such intending. that their military ships of all electoral states in the caspian area could go on and defeat cation peacefully pass those areas the question is being tackled. i don't exactly remember at the end of the year i guess that the regular meeting of the working party took place on the serious of aspects of the legal status has been have they have achieved progress and i'm quite optimistic on the further and so this effort that we are interested in being a promptly productive on top of that there is an agreement to all of the next has been a summit to be a stage in moscow once the negotiators will have agreed. will plan their dates for

such a meeting. russia. t.v. channel. russia. that's already been erratic language sure russian t.v. channel now our reasoning and that's our big spring early show to have their affected the global world processes and the vital interests of russia. from your perspective as of today do you think. there are certain forces in the world which would like to step in is there a new influence over those states trying to export democracy over there what's your insight on what needs to be done to restore stability in the region and what role might be played by russia thank you. for the stability in the region it's important

not to introduce not to put fuel to the fire there's a lot of fire in place already out there not to impede the efforts to establish and improve a national political dialogue internally in all those countries who are you have that turbulence not to instigate. croupe see involved. in the conflict so that they would be. impregnable in their positions and not to take to arms and russia might as well help with the fact that it supports firmly those principles of international law of not interfere is seen domestic affairs. world. there are our long term partners russia to have a multi confessional country islam is the second largest religion in our country. and. to us we cannot stand aloof or do what's going on in the countries we thought for decades when developing a close friend or relations there

a second. from our own experience we know how important it is to develop the entire confession of. peace and concert and we prepared on these positions of principle to take specific steps to calm down the situation there. as of late or regularly for several months we have not just. on a day to day basis being working with the syrian leadership but also we've been regularly in touch with the serious syrian opposition we've been actively promoting all the participants in this syrian drama. to see to it that they would promptly hold a meeting where they could agree on the launch of the international national or other dialogue we've heard that dan the league of arab states proposes to start such dialogue in cairo. if and of and there are any difficulties to occur with regards to this then we are prepared in our territory to

receive all the syrian parties involved without any interference in their discussion to set out proper conditions for them to start talking between themselves one more thing them i do and will do that just have said we'll. oppose we will not allow that to happen told that the security council should do bless any illegal. decisions which would not meet the interests of the countries of the region place. first channel sergei victory what's the probability that this here the war in iran will start could you provide us a waiting for such an opportunity where is a guarantee that the nuclear program iran is soley peaceful second question concerning protection of our citizens abroad to the consular service have been criticized there the kind of corridor line or the.

case he stayed for several months in. a budget is stand and in case of severe a mother of five months in custody again so what needs to be done by the russian diplomats to protect the. citizens of russia brought well or getting the facts just posed to have different effects i had a chance to express myself earlier and maybe you have not noticed the fact. put forward or getting settled in a chief first. i don't exactly remember the date. when he and he's a stony and colleague were informed that they could not fly out or that they are not allowed to. from distant. nobody informed diplomats or consul offices in either side only chee or his

colleague or the owner of that airliner we've learned about that all in may and the next day literally our ambassador wrote an official request to the minister of foreign affairs to the service of national security the social national security of the tickets and a letter and since then at all litigations. our consular officer was present and the subject was put up to the top level on several occasions we did not make too much fuss about that it well you know about sometimes. horrid dealing with a specific problem they are already entered to todd's getting results rather than get. a popular blessing or getting it reset the situation is much simpler that the fact is she released in chile without any court litigation that was married to a law or consular service and. there who dealt directly with the leadership there

and once they got information on her detention this was the situation under control this lady. herself tells this story and i've seen it on t.v. myself unfortunately signed a paper there you know a big language which was a forwarded to her. without any insistence on prior to signing that paper she had to meet our consular officer but in the paper she signed her sincere admission affect even it having such. as the queen of approved it has been possible for us to resolve this big problem now as regards the costa concordia casualty probably have a distorted information a couple days ago at this second channel competing with you on a russian t.v. i guess there was a big program with but his patients. are all those people who are on that boat. the and that's their spoke directly on the t.v.

it was not exactly how some people would like to portray to i've heard that one of our tourists who traveled to st petersburg and in airports he said that people had given we gave him no money and no tickets was purchased for him by our diplomats and allegedly he was given some paper. to replace best work well that's an education of return without which you cannot travel because all passports have drowned understand funds. for the purchase of a ticket we cannot. why those scenes don't have such funds in the first place still . since the embassy learned about what happened about that casualty and that's approximately two hundred kilometers of rome our representative traveled there immediately he has a link to the. emergency. group of.

government and our consulates in their corner and marsay were involved immediately . we established context here in moscow with the minister of emergency said direct link was made to the embassy of. russia in rome and there are stories and fact is one hundred eight tourists and three russians are members of the crew there and they were. documented by different tourist companies and some of there were individual tourists too so they found themselves in different hotels still immediately contact was established with them your weeks the ship and by the way we're going to first get information. about the fact that our citizens were on the vassals that the no casualties. so is january fourteenth our amber c.

started around the clock duty and. channel five from st petersburg once dialed the number of the hotline that was given five am that was and then a duty officer answered all the questions the correspondent had by the way i also heard that who were reproached that japanese for instance used helicopters to transport their citizens so we asked the italian civilian population service whether that was true they said that it was not just that. passengers that were evacuated from the cruise vassal. that was. traveling there were evacuated. with helicopters not because they were japanese but just because helicopters was the only means of rescue. that could be employed in

this situation so i could not agree. with. all the negative assessment of book about embassy on the contrary we think that they worked very well and we're getting gratitude from aggression citizens that were rescued you know many people actually decided to stay until the twenty first in rome because they wanted to enjoy the tel and capital we had a duty doctor who was in a hotel or told times. type get trick or hacks but was also there. we also purchased clothes food fruit or baby formula for those that need it before they were given any money from the tourist agency so i want to ask colleagues to check before you make such statements because in this case. my colleagues were beyond reproach of course it is not always

the case but in this case it is. we were just. told by it ice spanish newspaper recently trends new strain elections took place a new president was elected which marks new stage or an attempt to start a new stage relations and get respect does russia have any new approaches. or is it ready to be more creative in finding so lucian's to the gulf like to try to double and meeting and should any economic assistance be rendered in the future should be conflict continues russia. has relations first transnistria it's an important component of our relations with hold over we have economic ties with the region. we believe that arrangements.

that were reached by transplant kishen have an unobstructed for an economic activity of. companies should be honored at the moment financial is break in trenton a strange situation is difficult so we used to rent some assistance and the past were prepared to consider any request on further humanitarian assistance and we care just because many trendiness trends are russian citizens. and then they of course enjoy all social rates because russian citizens have as regards the settlement. while. no new solution is needed back in one thousand nine hundred three we had good opportunity to finalize the matter but then i got him and that was initialed by the ballot is the night before the signing

ceremony. you. know. it was assisted by some european colleagues it. was huge. listening put aside from discussion so this long awaited document was not signed had it been signed eight years ago i am sure that it would have long forgotten about transnistria conflict now i don't know what or the reasons behind that stop probably someone in europe. one it was. the laurels of peacekeeper to themselves but that is but let it be on the conscience of those that committed. we are not. gonna sit idle but. we need to take

a number of important steps first and foremost we need to recognize that during negotiations about equal and i stress. it's a general global practice kishen of and cheer us people are equal participation of negotiations secondly. you. need to give up any extreme positions because in the year two thousand and five in moldova a law was passed on certain aspects of the status of certain settlements on the left bank of. this trail which basically states that there is no transnistria issue a joint decision should agree that the live in a unitary state solution this approach is not realistic. mr in response to that approach is in saying that they already made their own

decision and that they independent so as long as kitchen of incest. that law of cause and five is the only framework for settlement trends just trends will continue advocating another extreme we've formulated our proposals. that have been broadly supported by our e.u. colleagues now i hope that they will. also be endorsed by the parties we need to give up extreme positions and agree on the broadest possible. solution autonomy for transnistria for special status of the region then united sovereign. neutral republic of moldova that should preserve its territorial integrity what it takes is a political world of those that can influence both parties when touch but those thought is we frankly and openly give our position and explain how we

see. conditions for settlement some other. outer disciplines of this from the outside. tried to back one of the parties and pressured the other. but this will not have any positive effect and i don't think it's moral to use for political purposes the incident that took place on january first on the checkpoint. when the. country to all the agreed rules were greeted by tourists. and russian peacekeepers. so contrary to all those rules. which people rushed through checkpoint. on their car without stopping after that a peacekeeper and accordance with the rules that have been approved by all parties

had to shoot in the air and felt russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov fielding questions over russia's foreign policies over the past year the situation in syria and the turmoil there he said we cannot interfere in processes using armed force especially the outside countries who have nothing to do with the region we should support national dialogue of course we'll have more on this throughout the day here on r.t. and that news conference continues a live translation at r.t. dot com. when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave. the. more. the president.

someone asking. when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. experiencing very serious problems of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but if you will that was when the problems began piling up. interviews. they were all from been humiliated in public. temp to protect property put in real danger that we have been deprived of the only nene's to live in i have gone to the originals of all the papers. the ownership rights on the basis of companies. becomes just.

the headlines. all foreign military into. syria as foreign minister lavrov also appearing day in moscow he also criticized sanctions on iran saying country is ready to hold six party talks over its nuclear program. the largest online encyclopedia temporarily shut up shop over u.s. bill it says could fatally damaged internet freedom. to occupy activists to send them on the point saying it's not money that makes all

decisions at the top event didn't live up to the hype. to draw tens of thousands of people. when it comes to big money in america's politics lobbyists a lot of people who know exactly how it works next to our tea talks to form a lot of explains why he thinks washington is corrupted to the core. i'm sitting down with jack off once the most powerful lobbyist in washington referred to as the man who bought washington he brought government officials in order to gain political support for his clients in two thousand and six he was convicted of ripping off his clients jack abramoff served three and a half years in prison guilty of conspiracy fraud and tax evasion mr abrams thank you very.