five thirty pm here in the capital city. to syria. opposition groups from abroad. and russia. doesn't rule out military intervention. eastwards as she tries to convince china. support for an oil. to persuade iran.

and egypt. is killed in. the field in the seaside city of. egypt. clashes understand the investigation into the tragedy is underway. police action. and now our spotlight host al going off talks to russia's minister of communications about the latest technology that will be used to prevent fraud in the country's upcoming presidential elections that's next right here. well. science technology innovation all the moves to from

around russia. how again a welcome to spotlight. on today's. show . the upcoming presidential election in russia. in a bid to prevent votes from. two hundred thousand webcams put polling stations across the country video feed will be available on the internet making more transparent the first effort will cost about billion dollars some critics say is too high so is it really were. possible to implement the

project given a month before election day. russia's minister of communication. half a year ago russia topped the european internet users rating becoming the market with the highest number of online users some seventy million people served on the internet regularly and most of them social networks in december. alleges election work coordinated by facebook expected in february and march song of the polling station is. a response to the anxious users officials to provide uninterrupted access to all of the cameras the overall bandwidth. russian networks will be increased by fifty percent. along with the shovel and welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us well let's start with the webcams which is is it really

a process unprecedented in world history to have webcams inside the polling stations. perhaps not but big stones you know will be as you've said it two hundred thousands of webcams stations all over the country in each and every polling station and to have a network with two thousand webcams transmitting single tenuously doing unlimited number of uses it is unprecedented and the world history of very high technology just how detailed will be i mean the picture of what will be the quality of the cameras will be really allow the viewers to see some irregularities that may happen during that there were two cameras the each they could be in station. their proximate speed of transmission will be five

hundred twelve but the second it's pretty high quality and a lower elevation but you may see it's not a very high definition but it's enough to to see to see the details so there will be two of them one will show the. station. with wide angle so we will see the whole the whole while the whole. second one will be directed to the boxes of the boat and boxes and then. after. the board will be finished the boxes will be removed and the table will be put in the same place where the commission will count the voices listen you are directing the cameras. at the polling boxes at the ballot box as they are coming from but when i go to. do that i have a literary but they were that we are i want to be and i don't know no nobody will

see you i mean the boxes where you drove where will your good job. not where you. put the sign on the bottom so the place where you where you actually make your choice there will be no you will fill in the bottom of the well i don't ever ask and then if you fold. couldn't you just put it inside. the comforter will be put to buff you know so will. the face not to see how they will not see they will not see my face or so so there is nothing anti constitutional and democratic and i think that people can can protest against as we see it it is not a decision that was taken just for the government there is an advisory council including members of the central voting commission. of political parties. from the next week on leaving from this week on there will be representatives of the headquarters of all the registers candidates so everybody will see. how the

procedures are made what are the requirements and how it will go on during the election well as as they say it doesn't matter. though ting it matters who's counting it that there is such a state and at the counting of the of the voices of the votes is is one of the most . contradictory well while at moments in the in the whole and the lection process so you say that those tables where the counting will take place will be under the cameras two but will it be possible. i mean using these cameras to see whether this eager surely if but this is so as lattimer put it if i put it in here out there you have just. given us but probably not you will see how many of the kind of this is good that it was going to be

explained or maybe explained by the commission members but it is a suggestion of one of the political parties. the vote of counting. the president of the commission shows the result into the camera so now it will be you are just the sun and saved so this will be a special new procedure to salute during the counting of the vote to make it to make moment make it more transparent absolutely not visible will everybody well any use around internet get free access to those webcams where will it be sort of a limited number you know maybe some limitation is supposed to be accessible to every user and so the theoretical theoretical rather silly move the theoretical to the system is a well constructed to allow two hundred twenty five million. you know people. to see during the day one hundred million two hundred

people similar to honestly. sixty thousand viewers. camera at every given moment i do get a figure and i'm sorry like the the the traffic on the russian internet lection day may reach five point four petabyte which five point four million terabytes which it's incredible. absolutely if you take you tube you know that every day the use of uploads on the on this resource about four years of video every day what we will have with the system is going to be five hundred years. within a day. after the election and the election morning russia will have the most advanced internet in the world absolutely absolutely as far as the video

conferencing and probably. medicine and with facilities for those medicine concerns here so it will be the case. with the shock of well one thing is watching the election which is fun of course for users for for for for for for a bit of crowds for for party meant for politicians but another thing is having access to the archive say our after the election somebody says there was there were irregularities and one of the polling stations who will have the official access to the f. thirty archive of very specific station recorded by the webcams this is more of a political question and it concerns directly the election legislation of russia so it has to be decided upon it's within the political class or will you know we're in with just wages as we see it but anyway there will be him.

if the entire procedure within every. voting. district will be. reduced to twice in a double way so one is going to be in everywhere cation on the computer that will serve the cameras and the second one is going to be in the data centers in the central data centers of the com so the respective low chance that any air station is going to be lost and well know what interests me is look like a week two weeks after the election if there is information and then there has been for all that will the representatives of the civil society have that possibility through a court decision or otherwise to get a fair shot recordings take them to court and look at them and make a decision whether it was a fraud or not so there will be such a mechanism which absolutely absolutely absolutely does it's impossible to watch

two hundred thousand calories per day absolutely to which you are going to put. the previous question concerned the mill the theoretical but the physical possibility of due to watch all of them. then that flicks network into the united states and its three hundred thousand view a simple tell us we try to work to watch some mission it takes almost a third of the entire capability of the unit you see internet so if it's going to be more the internet will collapse even in the states. by now we've got much weaker internet so we we are considering not a restriction about the. possibility of registration so everybody who's going to watch the vote on the fourth of march. is invited to to

use his facebook of contacts class to cure cancer or whatever account to also young turks accounts to. register himself in the network and to have a private cabinet to show which you know what cultists he's going to visit they're not showing on the fourth of march and this way the porch on the site is going to go on the first of february so within the months we're going to calculate the capability of networks that is going to be needed for the most popular cations and probably increase so you'll hear here to tell the demand. increase for those locations where the demand will be the most you know. popular says eager to share their lives russia's ministry our communication spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so don't go away stay we all will continue this interview in less than an.

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welcome back to spotlight i'm algor knob and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is shug minister coming to cations of the russian federation mr sharp if we're talking about the high tech high tech collections the you webcams that i'm going to be installed as a matter of fact this was the initiative of prime is to putin and we always one of the candidates on the actually the main candidate for presidency on the upcoming election so but it wasn't his idea actually from the very beginning yes well what it originally inside the ministry oh well was that the internet community who came up with this idea first putting on cameras it was his own idea of trying to get all of the absolutely because a year and a half ago when there were in the summer of two thousand and ten there were huge forest fires and you know just to rebuilt the bung down villages and

well i don't want to say yeah it was the idea time so that the members of the construction site or something to control the start i'm sorry absolutely and he was he was very pleased with it you know when there was the fact i had to deal with that problem. absolutely i did work yeah yeah and the cameras are still there you remove them remove them after the construction work was done but they were there you had to think of a place where to put the cameras and you decided to put them in a post here after. ross to look calm is the company behind this i mean the main provider of these cameras you know the whole system well the operation is worth like thirteen billion rubles what are they carrying tease of the transparency of the whole of the whole deal of the held up ration health project well. this summer consists of two parts one of them. the price of the equipment itself that would be installed in the building. but the other part is the cost of the

upgrade of the inter network so when the price of the equipment is two and a half rough way. and the rest as you want to stand is the nine and a half was going to work through the network but if you consider the comparable programs in other states someone will not appear as huge as you put it now oh look and brazill. they're going to invest about six billion dollars in upgrading the internet. just to reach the miller supposed. to make electronic services possible it's hundred and eighty billion groups we just thirteen billion. russian telecom companies every year invests in the networks and comparable. solutions about three hundred

building rubles so with so it's just just slightly. under five percent your your camera deal can be can be comparable variable with the so-called national projects i mean you have to up the absolute have and if you take the scale of the project and in the time frame work. it's going to be a record for sure that's a very you believe that one day the voting itself and i mean the election will maybe organize through the internet without any posting technically technically it is possible even know but there has to be a year. certain degree of the public trust and confidence in how those systems today any work if we look at the if i'm sorry if we look at the rallies that are going on in moscow yes today there the legally public seem to have

more trust in the voting in the internet than in the voting on the problem stations so what you say is that if you are the government which voting to the internet yes . there will be less trust in that. you have to build your we have all we have to to you know to have some results of social votes and polls to see which part of society and how this problem. here there were between twelve thirty and fifty year thousand people here we've got about. hundred million voters in russia so probably those are the people that were taking part and those. many of them even didn't vote because the you know. political or creative class don't go to the voters voting so yes well it just occurred to me that if we if we start thinking big brother the

meaning of all those so i think that like internet voting gives the government even more possibilities to control the society there than this simple polling station i think is a mind game with well one of the considerations are of those who are against the system so i believe it's more a psychological than time technological question in two thousand and eleven the number of internet users in russia has reached seventy million is a continue to to grow and what's the rate because because because this is a lot this is a lot and we are the biggest market in europe and. bigger starting with two thousand and eleven continuing to grow and. while we will be for the women it is the number of russian citizens that this number so we consider this is

a very positive way but it puts enormous pressure on the government and our minister because everybody is not such a society was just some and they were well seventy million is about a hundred it is about half and half of the population proper roughly well actually every every computer is usually used by husband wife and man wife no no no this is not just just the computerless people of the people so me my wife and my son who use the same computer three years. or so so so in other another fifty percent increase. we can have it we have ok now you mentioned the sopa and there are people there's another act in america that's being considered now your attitude your personal attitude to these acts to what's going in the states the protest and did you hear any maybe talk within the russian government

there about that what's the attitude of the kremlin towards similar acts having similar acts in russia. or we're not considering to. take similar acts and. the problem with the sopa and the people is not just. a problem of the united states and their intellectual property. it's the way how we are going to resolve different problems concerning the internet on the world scale what russia proposed there will be an international mechanism allowing to attack those kind of problems any kind whether it be intellectual property on piracy cyber crime or children proper not graffiti so the the internet is something that is global that doesn't know any limits and any borders and if one state pretense to resolve all the problems. for his own good but

disregarding the problems of other states and not cooperating with other states that's not quite right that's why we suggest the first we. know this is american idea might not work well it might work but it will mean the collapse of the internet. as we know it today because it's international but with the sopa. practically and in internet participants from service provider to those search engine to know that it will be required to cease providing services with any any internet agent accused of piracy and it doesn't matter was whether it is in the united states or outside it you mentioning the pirates the piracy and we know that there is like the pirates party

that has been organized in russia and they and their sea seeking official registration and there their leader has been in the studio a couple of days ago and he said that you personally you visited one of their gatherings well and officially but you were present at one of their at one of their meetings well mr shulman he said the following the russian government is lacking ideas and is trying to find them from external sources like the pirate party so. your visit to the party part of the meeting is it because you really want new ideas is it because you consider it to be adequate people and do you want to cooperate with they were with the people like the pirate party. because just visited on the subject. bookstore just looking for some books. by the way it was. julian it's

a very known novel of go to google but it was edited ten years ago and it was the only store where to. get out of the. well not not quite but this one a special no. and there was a gathering of some young people and they recognised me and told me we're going to discuss they were trying to democracy in russia we've got a working group you know we're going to workshop. could you well chat with us for half an hour while and turned out that there were not just people from the working group but there were the represent of the part of part so which was not the powder that they were in there with their photo book but as i had those thirty minutes just stayed with them and discussed a couple of questions i wasn't prepare prepared to to the unsuspicious if it questions because i didn't see their papers in eighty years it was just general

change of minds but. as far as the intellectual property within the us. is concerned we do not like ideas we've got quite specific ideas that were presented by even by our president during the last g eight and g twenty summits. that were not accepted at the summits but i believe they're still being considered so we do have ideas but that we take into account the fact that all of the europe part is you know appear and even in the us even if it consists by now i believe of some dozens of young people but there is a certain demand and there is certain to move towards a model that will be different of the model how the intellectual property was ruled in the nineteenth or the twentieth century because the people are not satisfied with the requirements of the intellectual property. but i told us they want that

their demands are considered as well so this is a certain mixture. of brit. golden solution that lies but in between between the rights holders and the pirates and so far their ideas might be of help as well thank you thank you thank you for the straightforward answer just a reminder that you could shove the minister of communications of russia marked with my guest on the show and that's it for now from all of spotlight will be so then they are our team can take you.

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