perhaps that's why there is a growing demand among people in russia's main cities organic products unfortunately for them russian shops have little to offer what is sold as eco and bio friendly is often far from it. by brothers have found a niche in the market think starboard environment and in you fashion for a healthy lifestyle. there are no legal standards also to hide labeling schemes for organic produce in russia. so individual farmers define it in their own way but it's really on every farmer's own conscience. alexander is a computer programmer who turned to working the land what started as a hobby is now a mini industry with several farms in the moscow region covering livestock fish vegetables and habs he's even aiming for his first harvest of black caviar first urges he breeds not far away from moscow if you ever only go big business simply

can't afford to produce ecologically clean product of their years past decides to boost growth and lower the cost of everything i do is pure without a drop of chemicals related to this new market in moscow had said and ambitious task to offer its customers and unprecedented range of eco products what started as an attempt to bring organic food to the masses turned out to be almost impossible in reality no russian foremost can produce all this let alone in quantities needed for a large city so anything truly eco and bio friendly remains a luxury only a few people in russia can afford. despite soaring prices for anything organic individual farmers find it hard to make their businesses profitable beaten by the supermarkets with their cheap processed food by the sec ema founded and online organic store trying to help small farm a survivor and at the. same time improve the quality of life while food conscious

customers just like amy. initially we simply wanted healthy stuff for our families and friends now we handpick each person involved in the production of meat or bread that we sell so that we know where the food has come from and the business is growing but. some go as far as saying russia with its plenty of land could eventually become an organic food basket for the whole world a very severe nine hundred fourteen russia third half of the world and we could easily get back to that but the state needs to start investing in agriculture. and while city dwellers are only starting to go back to their roots milledge is in russia's most organic far away corners are probably unaware of the treasures they could offer and russian klondyke to be discovered. r.t. scary. our web site r t dot com is the place where you can find all the latest news and analysis and then our blog section right now are online exclusive reflections

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video. and. now in the palm of your. home. the u.s. defense secretary has hailed afghanistan's involvement in peace with the taliban president hamid karzai has confirmed u.s. and afghan efforts aren't legal cheating peace but artie's military contributor says karzai continues to avoid the real issues that prevent stability in the country. interview to a wall street journal was the most important public relations event for the president of afghanistan it was rather strange when mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev

referring to stand as the bleeding was in full display of political correctness mr karzai was careful this spared from answering two most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. around the narco aggression. leading factors there who precipitated the implosion of ghana's stand from within russia and china came under international fire when they refused to take sides in serious conflict and vetoed a u.n. security council resolution it's just the most recent example of the two standing largely on their own party's resident new york went to ask people in the big apple

whether the two countries should be feared. if you believe the news media you should fear china and russia this week let's talk about why if they wanted to china could wipe out the u.s. in probably three minutes but anyone with an atomic bomb true so why china in particular chinese people are very dangerous why what has made you think that have you ever been personally threatened by a chinese birth no so why do you feel that way. they know kung fu i don't think we were in the good of a relationship with them so should we fear them is that going to make relations better and we should fear of them i think they should fear us i think there's some legitimate concerns about human rights there and i think to need to pay attention to what are their legitimate human rights issues everywhere don't we have them here in the u.s. sure i think

a different scale there but but yes we do have another places when this there was stuff to find out so well that is a step to find out so well that will screw nobody's going to give us some money or would be but we're participating in that why is it their fault because they're acting smartly. it's hard to resist last year i was in china i wasn't scared at all so i don't think you'll be should be i don't think we should run our country like china or russia but i think there are some ideas and some kind of plans they have that help their economy so maybe we can learn from a that's more amul a thing i'm looking up to rather than fearing but we're taught to fear them why do you think that it is because fear keeps you in control if you are afraid it's easier to be manipulated by somebody telling you to do something rather than questioning what they say everybody is freak scared to do because the new than old the media makes people scare them specially in america why china and russia in

particular are we made to feel scared because they're very powerful that's what we think ultimately they're going to be a part of the growth picture and they need us as much as we need them so why are people scared of that why are they painted in this horrible picture you know it's always the same so maybe we should get to know them to be good invite them over for coffee like that whether or not you believe the world should fear china and russia the bottom line to me is the old adage those who live in glass houses should never throw a stone. from coming up learn more about the magic of cirque du soleil the company's latest spectacular offerings arcana is currently in moscow only the second city in the world to welcome it formed in the eighty's by two street artists cirque de soleil also false over the years and three unique makes up performance art and acrobatics and a few minutes artie's interview show spotlight talks to

a man who first brought the renowned company to russia about what the crowds can expect this time first though. i'll update you on today's top stories in just a few minutes time. oh

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for being with a quick recap of your headlines ballance escalates on pressure grows on the regime in syria with china and russia trying to mediate peace but there are fears that if damascus falls on the nation's key ally iran could be left stranded and propelled into action. be a vote on whether russian the language spoken by a third of its population should earn official status authorities claim it threatens national integrity but russian speakers say the referendum is just the

first step to ending decades long discrimination. i mean idea of euro unity hold strong despite the region's crumbling finances as some e.u. schools are accused of brainwashing few peoples critics say they are trying to convince children that the project is infallible. and max following talks to craig cohen the man who brought the world famous cirque du soleil shows to russia. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

hello again oh welcome to spotlight they interview shirley i'm proud to say i now granada and today my guest is craig. suit you so they is back in russia with a brand new is out of college. it runs in one of moscow's largest venues the grand kremlin palace which we acquired a serious medical last summer i was at a combat premiere in new york in the radio city hall and was a warmly welcome by the public something even call it the best suited to sell a show ever so what makes the title so really we're asking the man who brought the famous service company to russia founder and vice chairman of service on a russian branch craig called. the world famous circuit you so late was founded in the one thousand eight is by two street artists given a birthday and danielle good to hear what they came up with was

a very special kind of entertainment circus theater and street before men's all together in the most impressive way the combination of all its proved a success eventually lead into the canadian entertainment company audiences worldwide cirque de soleil has expanded dramatically since its creation it has received a bunch of international awards and has performed on the world's most prestigious stages right now its brand new show this arcana is on that the state gremlin palace moscow is only the second city in the world to welcome the latest installment along with new york's radio city music hall the largest show cirque du soleil has ever traveled with zar can cost fifty seven million years dollars to produce people. from all over the country flock to the very heart of russia's capital to enjoy the fairy tale spirit the canadian company has brought about.

reagan great to have you have thank you for coming i well first of all is it true did did do you believe that dot com is the greatest show that sort of this they ever had then what makes it unique what should we expect what surprises i think why it's a great show here is because of the venue there's a venue because the venue so if you get then you are happening in the inside the kremlin well everything happiness on the ground kremlin is a great show. it well right but i think the combination of the show which is a fifty seven million dollars production seventy five artists one hundred people backstage and eight hundred people working the whole the whole kremlin combined with that theater which is the biggest leader in europe and the only two places in the world could take at radio city music hall in the kremlin that's what makes it a great show they actually are fantastic as a matter of fact you mentioned anything happening inside the kremlin well actually

to to to be great well probably so this it mean that it's hard to get access to get the permission to doing it and side the actual kremlin walls wasn't all right. i've been doing business here for twenty years so i know and i think ultimately the way you know it's i don't think business anywhere in the world is easy i think it's just different here you have to build relationships do what you say you're going to do there is a lot of paperwork mounds and mounds and mounds of paperwork so i have a hard it's hard but you know anything worth doing is takes a lot of work this for anything it's fun and it's for as well as that is staged by one of the most respected opera directors fund. yes and the music was written by australian nick little more than who used to work with john and i said this is a big it's a rock opera it's a type of rock opera it's not your classic rock opera why classic is jesus christ

superstar which is a great rock album which is a classic it is different it's different is not god's for this and you know this is based off circus arts with incredible theater incredible design great music it's an invented language so yeah i spent on something something like that so everyone understands it no one understands and and it's it's what makes the essence of searches so they work in a mental language is something like you you have a link where you know that you have a linguist stuff i don't care what you do well well when i had a guy who invented it they did brussels is like i want to do pizza but if i want to see chess that is you're like yeah i don't like that this is a little bit more bizarre. you mention seventy five or just seventy five is how many of them are russians thirty percent thirty percent right the russians are a strong contingent in this show mainly mainly acrobats about how important is

russian talent for for the suit is so limited and for western circus in general because i would be las vegas a couple of times on circus i mean you get your heart of the russians moment from the sofa. i'm going to beat you and sure sure all russians so important fulfill for the circus is so important they have incredible training coming out of the gymnastic program of the circus program and they're the best in the world in trap and banking game in hand balancing and so for circus arts they're the best and that's why there's such a large contingency of russians and ukrainians and kazakhstan is in search of a world wide in this show specifically the coming home so they're excited so since so the russian circus it's sort of law like the bolshoi ballet i mean it's a brand and some of them some somebody from from the moscow circus cook and you can just walk into a circus wherever and what i believe in that we did we had well yes we all say here i am and then the art it's not that simple i mean it's not that easy that's

a huge database and there's lots of culture lots of competition but in general the russians are superior talent too because of another because of the sporting background or where they are mature as circus i think it's a combination i think it's a sporting background and i think it's the discipline i think it's their ability to always continue to get better and once like enter sort of so they move from sports to artists and so it's the blend of the two which is being a sportsman and an artist that's what the really really was special really great i'll be frank with you of never being in the suit. because i'm a kid i was too small i don't i look like sure that you get a shot at sag thank you but. i've seen it i've seen on television and a friend of mine went to went to see it live i think last year in moscow and he said well it's not a circus anymore he said the less used before it's it's like a show you know it's like a like a more like

a musical so now you're talking about acrobats once more so is the acrobatic thing still in the center that i think is the d.n.a. of a certain way it started. it is because what i see on television it's usually fantastic acrobatics but people say it looks more like a show like a musical now i think it's everything it's a new genre so it has at the center is obviously acrobats which is the wow moments where your hands start to sweat your palms your hands and the sweat but the sets are incredible in the show and they look amazing at the chroma theater just just really beautiful and you'll see that you know shortly how different is that staging a circus on stage i mean a circus is something in the middle when people all around and he have a stage you have backstage you have all that it's easy is it a lot different it's different and i think one of the thing was the same in new york city right it was the same in new york city one of the things that's why the show is a very expensive show because you have to fill an enormous stage with

a lot of activity and it's very very different so the audience is slightly larger than a traditional circus and the ceiling is low was in the ceiling is actually very high and the room and yes and it's incredibly high and so that's why that's why we did it when we started to whatever and said oh you can never do it at the room and later that was one of the reasons because we know it was a great stage the show was specially created for new york city and moskos why why was moscow chosen the only other city new york to save the show and then another because it was the only place where you can find the the building i mean this well that's that's one of the reasons but not the only reason is the only two large large stages in the world that could fit a show this big and yes that's it really yeah absolutely well the outdoors outdoors what we what we're prosector so you want. to be low i mean you can do that instant some of that but we don't do a lot we don't do a lot of shows and i would doors like that that's number one number two is. the

business that we set up here you know so it's a special business and we want to bring some plane to russia that the russian audiences deserve and i. i think they did the big there's a great audience here i think they're very well educated in arts and entertainment and so for the artists it's a wonderful place to perform is the show exactly the same in moscow than in your city i mean it's the same thing it's very very similar some of the yes but it's a bit different because of because of this stage already because of the staging a slightly different the acts are very similar but in general the show is almost identical and it has that same high end quality that we have in new york where we start to cast this is the same cat here and there that i mean the artists here and there there's been some minor changes but but the quality of the cast of the same and they're excited to to open up on us on set and how many.

shows are you going to stage in moscow i mean did you have the number do you know were actually performing eighty times eighty so we had a new york you had we had more than eighty or so a lot more than a but two actually. every night of the mondays perform in the kremlin theater three minutes in the kremlin so we took that here every night no one else's and what do what if putin or medvedev won something well let me in congress throw a party and there's a. story that i think scares me but you know we have a well because you know the crew tell us actually was built and actually used to the first i was there as i don't remember the congress and what i mean it's fairly brazen after all that i would say you know basically it of course is the president's theater and the president wants to use it or he can use that leader we would help entertain maybe some of his party yes. but you know it's. i don't think that's going to happen if it does what will do

with it so if the ruling elite once the place there won't be and i think there's other theater you know we're there we are just. are you planning to stage a kind of elsewhere only moscow new york that's moscow that's you know. there's your positive yeah yeah and i don't think you know this is the one time it's coming to moscow and you know the odds of it coming back are going to be you know at of continue and york for a couple of years but it's it was done for these two citizen who says craig vice chairman of. russian french spotlight will be back shortly after break so stay with us we'll continue this interview no.

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welcome back to spotlight i maldonado and just to remind that my guest on the show today is craig cohen vice chairman served russian branch creek well i'll continue to the subject of my family going to caesar's just like it's my son is taking care of my son who's twelve and one of the interviews you said that maybe maybe i'm mistaken some of your kind said that this is a con that is an adult shell well not not an adult child but mainly for adults right i mean there is a true it's a like when you say adults mainly i mean what's the what's the age for from which you you i would i would say if you look at the russian circus which is targeted at you know two families and it has been for a very very long time circus so it was always targeted to an adult population and from the very beginning a very much as it was going to was

a kind of in general and so when you say i know what you mean you mean like starting where fifteen twenty thirty when you become an adult. when how are you going forward i'm not yet and i mean and i don't i mean if you ask me i think you know what we're starting at sixteen above there any reason other than it is a. an art form that was developed for ten percent of our audience are children children is like below sixteen like like. sixteen. and other nineteen a gers are ok teenagers are fine i think you know at twelve years old or to eleven or ten is far below ten i don't i don't think it's a good use of people's money to i don't think you're a hundred percent adult because you're going to because your kid is also twelve or ten or something yeah i have a total of ten year old he has a sister so so we're both teenagers that will remember it very well become adults when our kids become adults and we become grandfathers then we then we feel like i got comics. then what about the tent now you staging it

i mean stage in the kremlin grand palace but but the ten do the arches miss i mean that this atmosphere i mean i mean like being us i think it's a different type of feeling for the artist so this show is made for a big immense impact on the audience the tent is more intimate experience and it's a difference we brought we brought attention was to moscow twice and the show and i think there's a room for both in the city you mentioned one a couple of minutes ago that it's not exactly a circus not exactly a show is that something so so so you wouldn't call it a circus you know you you mean you say that it's something different and so it's somewhere in between so you have to show what i mean if you think of the evolution of entertainment that's happening around the world this is a show that crosses.