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nations signed a long delayed deal to make economic discipline compulsory but critics fear the new realistic expectation struggling. to stay with us to explore the best a vegetarian eateries are right here in the russian capital is now. russian cuisine is. famous for its pies beef stroganoff and hearty brock's but have you ever wondered about a mission this must go. about five to ten percent of muscovites are in fact

vegetarian. preference religious or ethical reasons. when the person council. has health become a modern requirements in a competitive metropolis. promoting free. on the menu. is one such a machine. is one of his rising vegetarian and beacon markets. so i. basically just marinated hopes. some solid leaves very different strokes cooked different ways. no eggs. meat. no animal products of any sort. salads to dishes. and you name it kitchens around the council having to reinvent themselves on

a regular basis. so how is the old difficult is it to have a meat free diet. i hear you i hope all my questions. lovely to meet you nice to meet ya so you're the president of the international women's club here in moscow that's right you're a vegetarian yes i have educated. me being very glad when it was you told me of this in stride because i come from a family who are all vegetarian why are normally got a taste for non-vegetarian. part of it was tradition and. it was a religion initially and then once it becomes a habit then once a vegetarian always about regarding food and this turn is and you must see the huge

change we've got in restaurants people's opinions and yes needs oh yes absolutely i think ten years back i mean the restaurants are always there. and applied but the change of what i feel in last ten years is that this time last many more rest restaurants lots and lots more choice of vegetarian and. more fun. games to a lot of the more the hindu gods to is this interest being among the most popular muster venues the vegetarians juveniles menu is a mix of international vegetarian cuisine featuring indian tie mexican chinese and europeans issue is. the eat inside the restaurant choose from a range approached him products from the shop to cook something. sinister knows we started in a small well here's. a large chain restaurant a food shop and a health product online store we also publish

a vegetarian magazine and produce our own brand of products with many spices and it's difficult in finding regular soup. mix up soya products soy milk and cheese are produced with a special machine called the soy. so i see and sunday to have your kitchen claimed by some as the miracle health food of the church for a century or so is the basis for many cerium products and in fact it's so popular in moscow that there's an organization called the family club of soy consume is its members often visit the special shop where they can get very soon products made writes on the schools there is a problem come up with the next i meet are consumed by rejects hearing. on breweries diets in. the right style. in those with cardiovascular. in total there right around eleven thousand families in moscow and in moscow region

in our. how easy is it to gain access to all ingredients in moscow in moscow it's god's ways i mean i see the change in ten years ten years back we had to get a simple thing in indian cooking like a korea and a green coriander is so vital you know and i personally am a big one for korea and and everything it wasn't was very difficult to get it done years back when i was here and i'm just giving you a simple simple example now you have it twelve months a year and you have not only about indian in all kinds of vegetarian. for all kinds of diseases but there is indian or italian a chinese i don't find it difficult i find the markets are very well stocked so the markets are not show much more international than they used to and the number of supermarkets definitely has an east and a lot. of you have one dish where your fruits and she comes

from especially in the middle of the cold snowy winter how fresh and clean is the salad in the plastic packets. well this looks company issuing its busy factory floor my it's a concept some of those questions. delay. meaning white's country house is a group of companies for the production of fresh cut salads they in one of its businesses just look at the amount of machines in this room it has the capacity of fifty tons of ready products i'd say a vegetarian heaven can see whizzing in where a in order to get you the most garden fresh crisp produce available. on. the road apart although i never knew green could be so exciting and then find us. but it does break up today.

we produce a wide range of both mono and mixed salads made of different kinds including record sound and spinach and any others. regarding vegetarian food let's cut to the chase is it boring is it less exciting. it depends how you look at it i mean a person like me who's never been never had meat or who is a vegetarian all through life so for me what i eat is very exciting and i have a better idea of. whether it is italian international jazz you know chinese continental. whatever so it depends. but i think it is exciting. in spots

there's no time to be bored if you're a vegetarian in the russian capital various conferences gatherings and expressions often organized teaches at a recent event. will food was highlighted and hundreds gathered to attend mass across the presentations of new products also taking the chance to meet new friends who. same lifestyle. very tasty maybe this healthy food and vegetarian lifestyle is something worth thinking about. as invited to speak at the first roll through congress row three vegetarian congress in moscow i think it really comes from the idea that very few people actually want to look like their parents i think really from the foundation of that idea is that we have to maybe look at changing our diets to get a new type of paradigm and different type of generation in regards to how we have parity. our final location is the restaurant loving heart

situated in the cotswolds shopping mall often outside the city center there are dozens of delicious healthy meals and drinks on offer here the menu features only the condition alcoholic drinks natural juices kinds of cocktails as well as a fine selection of green. and fruit cities. seems that you are happy vegetarian here. i enjoy being here and it is not difficult at all. i'm going to. pleasure. the fitness and health has always played in the past in young people's lives in russia but now it seems the green main dietary machine of other countries has caught on here too. ten years ago. difficult to sustain in moscow put today there are several such a tear in shops clubs societies festivals all offense that take place throughout the year all with the aim of proving that anyone can have

a meat free diet in plus minus thirty. it's out of the stroganoff and with the salads. so impressive very scary. and best of all it's. pops i could be a bit scary myself quite possible but. i thought well that's a sad place will still be made but sliced well of course we've got the time how all the things programmed until next week for a hot dog fight. russia

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the headlines on r.t. . now enters the syrian city of homs the government forces push the opposition from a stronghold but locals report the rebels are still in the area and are still killing. prime minister and presidential hopeful says an energized opposition helps the government respond to the public mood but does it reject calls for an early parliamentary election. plus the majority of e.u. nations sign a long delayed deal to make economic discipline compulsory but critics fear unrealistic expectations will hit the struggling nation. so now it's time for livest action in the world of sports with kate.

and i welcome to the latest for this friday afternoon and here's what's coming up. russian stock coach neutralised realty kits and they are starting to shine once again for the meat as a russian premier league regimes this weekend after the winter break. while double celebration birthday boy mikhail i mean since course twice put it on my last go is that we do not want to mince second time in as many days in the k h l playoffs. on the road to victory we take a look at and i'm officially the new russian cycling team which is aiming for that big lorry. but first a football and the russian premier league regimes this weekend after the three month winter break and it coaching charms belletti believes he can get the best out of andrea sheldon the striker is on loan from austin until the end of the season

and is expected to feature in the league leaders crucial game at second base says count on saturday well arshad enjoying the squad after helping russia wind chill against denmark in copenhagen in wednesday's friendly and could be straight into the thick of the action against the all event the result could go some way to deciding the russian premier league title so major only six points clear if they've got so it's a crucial time for shouting for joy and coach but actually believes his new signing could shine in his not so new environment. and i said to all from my point of view i'm green is returning here and here he means situation and tasks that are more complicated at arsenal of course we want to win and that's what arsenal we don't know what they wanted. well in this transitional eighteen month season the league has been split into two with the top aides competing for the title and european places among men are looking at their six but i mean six points of the champions league spot on saturday well the other right sides are fighting to avoid relegation

the last to go down second bottom spot to take on culture with a chance of getting out of the drop zone basement sidetone travel to paris. was also a busy something out of football in england in the back of the programme table so it was not just the city host even bolton the better known chinese man look to right the gap ahead of not just united to five points fourth place also travel to live with paul who are seven points adrift of the european places chelsea are in fierce behind also on goal difference and trouble to inform viceroy of lost city manager mancini says in fact one striker call us tough as nails can build up his fitness before making historic. gun laws it looks great but this moment he needs to drain it. is important in this moment the. score the goals for this is very important because it. can be and the next game for the great world history. i stuck it out and in the k h l playoffs it was the birthday

fortune i must go forward economy said he netted both goals in his side's to know when over to now no minutes on wednesday and then gives the muscovite side a commanding cino series late in the western conference quarter final when the sun was celebrating his twenty fourth birthday by minsk gifted him bits of room for his best league in the second period russian popped the top four and a couple of minutes later he made it to don't even know a powerful shot missing was a constant grannis you could grab the trick by his later thoughts offside the best of seven series now moves to better east and west is different from the can i expect the games to be tough. really but for me it's going to. work similar to this through your c.v. here in moscow. but i don't know if it's going to be every four hours or more but they don't play in the ring because everybody knows so. good they're very far but

we have to be focused on over the world are. moving on to tennis and the call usually has failed to break is roger federer jinx after russia's top man lost for the twelfth time against us with in the two five quarterfinals of phedre did not face a single breakpoint and needed to break usually just once in either sets to easter a six three six four retreat in just over an hour either and proving his to sticks to a dozen wins and losses it's usually the romex that for the world number three is one martine del potro beat challenge will feed some. on britain's andy murray booked a semifinal place all to beating publish her take for the first time in six years murray didn't have it easy that you were running off the edge of the t.v. screen here during this rally against the czech before finally winning the point but he battled through a six three seven five victory by defending champion them top of each for

a place in the final. the third world for a second half and i go to stop a certified through it in. a little bit nervous especially because i was going when he came back from forty one of what is going to come through the last leg of the last couple times of an important. passable now and so is going to have ensured they'll have home court advantage for the yearly playoffs after finishing their last sixteen campaign in style they beat anatoly f.a.'s eighty two sixty five in the struggle to win group b. with a five and one record breaker length of top scorer with fifteen points for the army man i'll swear limpy all of us which the quarterfinals with eighty eight eighty one when i got a tussle right and the spanish side has come up believe i went through with only just they had to beat me kyra which they did and i hope read on and read did not win by more than twenty three points against one of the past the c.n.n.

blowout couldn't do what they needed to do the match was evenly of course by the end of the serve period and even though they are moved up here in the final quarter they could only manage one hundred two points to ninety victory against the italian outfit and the risk about a place in the quarter finals. golf now and u.s. ryder cup captain davis love the surge tops the leaderboard at the honda classic in florida although tiger woods is in danger of missing the cut after a poor ugly round what started well enough with a birdie at the first which fell away to record a run over a part seventy one that's seven shots behind it davis not a third he had a holy manjari his round of sixty four and birdie the final two holes while the mcelroy is in a group of eight two shots off the pace victory for the northern irishman to make him the you world number one. and finally with the london olympics less than five months away hopes i rushed to bring home some models in cycling and

a brand new team aptly called rust below could boost that course like us or it has more. following a period of stagnation after the breakup of the soviet union russian cycling is slowly but surely returning to the sport's elite the launch of team type fuchsia four years ago proved successful and show the cooperation between the private sector and the sport's governing body in russia is critical for the rebirth of this particular sport bruce below is the next natural step for russia's global cycling project which was started in two thousand and eight by the president of the cycling federation eager to my car off these people sports is russia's cycling is my time at the moment but the emergence of new competitive teams and a good first indication of really a sense both bills are in basis indeed being at international events in professional sports and exceeding the highest results at world championships and

olympic games. germany's leading cycling expert high cost souths that all was given the reins and over at ruth bello his successful international career began when he moved to australia back in the one nine hundred ninety s. salt's medal later developed a program that bred champions like robbie mcewen can't sell evans and more cavendish to name just a few as he spread his expertise down under as well as in his native germany great britain denmark and canada i never worked for such a copy deprived of pride as before great talents and the public needs. of the park a true i'm really optimistic that we can do something really really surprising it's a lot of pics it's not going to be a surprise for me but for a lot of other countries one of the team's biggest hopes is the twenty four year old beauty it gave minute twenty eleven season saw the russian cyclist win the european championship as well as

a couple of world cup stages at the moment she's one of the country's main contenders for gold at the olympics in london never got. community i have won two speeches of the world cup on the i'm so it should be sufficient to qualify for the olympics we didn't score any points in the team pursuit we still have the last chance of the world championship but it will be a hard job but as for the omnium event i will do my best because i want the. sports director and women's team manager york and gore and bush is also investing a lot of hope in give give your a minute however the former national coach of germany and hong kong has plenty of other willing material that will be able to not only bring podiums to receive the women but also advise the less experienced cyclists on how to achieve greatness as three german stars strengthen the otherwise all russian squad for not just one of the best time for writers in the world. with a mean two thousand and seven but i was

a national coach and germination was world champion in the time trial as one of the she's young but she's very experienced and i want her through to help the russian sprinters for example like. to. get a good position in the races this last four k. she's a very young girl she's thirty years team manager high cause south medal has a long term plan and that's to make russia the greatest cycling nation by the year it's going to succeed however with lympics right around the corner the german plans to impress by bringing home at least a couple of pieces of silverware be a very ambitious call it said. if. after if you come from the law big swiss two medals people people very very happy and baby you can't talk change the color sphere i'm not talking about gold or super bowl brawls be talk about two battles rushes in us i can project risk hello is yet another testament that this sport is on the rise in the country and the birth of this team is

a very timeless since the london olympics are a very short while away and the pundits are already eyeing the next champion from the russian wrist bellotti. r.t. majorca spain. that's all i said just. question was that so much of it which of course is life on its own fans will be voting for the future in two days' time russians will go to the polls to elect their next president what is the nature of russia's political system how has it changed. the world. science technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got the future covered.

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