actor at a prison where she is serving a seven year sentence for abuse of power. up next al gore and of catches up with the president of the sochi olympics organizing committee about how ready russia is for the games spotlight next. hello again and welcome to spotlight the intent on art i'll be you know and today my guest is dimitri chatham the show. two years before the winter olympics in sochi about seventy percent of the big venues and infrastructure are already built and the ski slopes are already open for both tourists and press officials promise such will be ready long before the deadline but skeptics point of some serious problems so what's the latest from the coolest city on the cubs who will learn from beneath

the chair of the shuttle president of the tsotsi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee. from three d. graphics to reality that cook asian slopes new sochi are evolving into sporting venues some of them unique like this one a modern eighteen hundred meter bobsleigh a track the longest and then us to the world it's been designed for three zero in big high speed ice disappoints the bobsled and skeleton the tracks got sixteen turns and the maximum speed up around one hundred thirty five kilometers per hour as for such a ski and then years they've already had some successful high level test runs they hosted both the european and the world alpine skiing cox some of the world's best winter wrathfully it's praised the facilities include an american olympic gold medalist told miller who described it as world class. the slopes have also seen

russian president dmitry medvedev showcase his skin scales there's just under two years until the search games get go and yet it seems even more highly anticipated by russians then this summer event in london which is just around the corner. howard which we welcome to the show thanks for coming in first of all are you going to learn today you planning to go to london for the last games before your own games and certainly if i have to wear very exciting this is the last opportunity for us to learn from the successful experience of our i would say elder brothers because the sense of the successful or beautiful on them games were inspired views as a blueprint the best practice they have and now we're learning from them and they raise the bar very high and we have a lot of thing to improve the reach of the better so they're setting the new standards you have to be to in two years that was said why is the final countdown

to the london olympics practically ignored in russia today i mean in the press in the in the interviews are i mean politicians because because of the election here or because we are not expecting big sporting results and you know i can only convince on behalf of the games again i. will deliver the product in two thousand and fourteen we're not in charge of the paper aeration the. result of a national team a short visit with a room to look but do you agree that the upcoming london games are sort of a bit of low profile now and in the press on no no not a great absolutely no you will see that shortly. hundreds they go and the rosary will be widely celebrated all around the world in russia as well it will be maybe a more attention but probably for a little bit busy this all circumstances political things around you. our new

committee is holding a competition right now to go the people who want to become volunteers at the games we've just decided with you that that my kid is too young to be a volunteer so what are the requirements so is illegible to become a module you write we started our own recruitment campaign for this such a pro volunteers exactly two years to the games it was on seventh of february of this year and we already have broken several all in pick records the first day we collected them selves and placation. first date then sells them now we've got more than sixty and we expect that it will be about one quarter of a million those who are really patient cabinets candid and how many do you need frankly when they'd just twenty sols to and we can fulfill our needs only by attracting and then neighboring volunteers but we also want to give the chance in

geishas all the nations through the select in the volunteers from the all region so fresh i've given them the echo opportunity to participate in this once in a lifetime when what about foreigners what have people found. from europe when can they you know i mean list yes and one of the first they can do that to become the volunteers in sochi we already obtain some obligations from even exotic concepts like from the kin and from the neighboring countries of course so there are no limits. where welcome in international on tears as well and we'll all volunteers have to speak fluent english because i'm asking because it's easy it's easy for england from london but a bit russian it's a numbingly speaking country so they actually communicate. yes they have. speak

english and russian of course. and they have to be not only committed and passionate about to work at the games but they have to be able to provide to certain amount of services during the game say in the different area of course some of them should be language volunteers some of them will work well just like translators interpreters they have the right to something you have pretoria some of them will be working in the protocol in the arrival and departure in the area where their. knowledge of the foreign language is not right. it's a critical for the success story of that duration of them but some of them who will be serving in the vests and cleaning on food and beverage. it's less than a do ok now not a question you are opening i'm just following the news right now this so-called

olympic sites areas in a number of major russian cities so in which cities aren't putting these olympics olympic live sites and what is it one of the four you know it's a new initiative and the first ever in the history of the olympic games yeah i never heard of this through the. london games will be connected with the next host in nations like russia in brazil and like south korea and we award this electorate several cities most of them just a big city like like you can in the work who wants to have the life feed from the london for the local community to be able to avoid share what's going on in london and to share to share the moments of glory hopefully will follow athletes and also to be. involved in the sea must feel the london games and of course the

biggest live side will be there both in moscow and in sochi and the sochi in the central square in front of the harbor and see poor will be big screen and daily program with different activities and we also even dream to create by a literal signal saw the citizen of social world be able to communicate how many cases with long guest visitors so it's a great initiative to get all in big cities and countries are you going to do that during the sochi olympics for people but the minute i do believe this great nation here is a successful way it will be again i say the same for general use it for the necklace and when i had it bad that it suddenly occurred to me that a russian be a producer is running an aggressive advertising campaign right now under the slogan open your search in love and so was it approved by your team and should

discovering south should be associated with opening a can of log. on what kind of beer producer. yeah they say oh it's open open sochi in london and they open it kind of beers on t.v. showing a little bit the london olympics the baltic is official partner of going to is or some such a games and everything that the requirements and they couldn't stand alone and regulation is allowed to be advertised and there is nothing wrong that they did in communications but it's true that in the area not on the sport competition venue but in this area surrounding the venue has found them to be could be sold. we don't think obstacles and so so so so. this. producing company is one of the sponsors one of the willing to invest

in the games. such eat two thousand and fourteen has already licensed a lot of goods at this and the sale is very big throughout russia will this campaign allow you to raise a considerable amount of money i mean some of these these sort of bunnies and tigers and a little bit you know what with yet here this is my favorite. plea deal is a great am phone call this is a success sort of mission of the beer yeah right must go from the moscow game so this is the grand son of the moscow games moscow this year's it's a pool or big brown there and yes it's a poor beer one in one of the three with this knowledge and with bonnie bonnie bonnie correct three of them on the highs demand and probably the most desirable

license and product our goal is to. earn about. how billion dollars turnover billion dollars turnover all the goodies yes and consider different royalty. our profit which will reinvest into the games will be. three zero million dollars so so. they sold pretty well right now so maybe you can try to run to to buy through the internet. decide that there are many other lessons and prove it in more than. five hundred different categories and ways spec that it will be increased by the games time by five thousand different kind of goods and products memory. maryla and we believe that it will be part of the.

memory of that. russia could take from the games so to me three children the shankill president of the solitude two thousand and fourteen organizing spotlight will be back shortly after the break so stay with us the three of us will be back in a time. machine

would be so much brighter if you mean moon about sun from flights to impression the sun. screens for stocks on t.v. dot com. welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore and often just a reminder that my guess. on the show today is the me three chair in the shank of

president of the saatchi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee and next to the polar bear which is one of the mascots of the ellen pic why the way saatchi is the first good base that i remember that has three different mascots a bear a bunny and the leopard so every person should have his favorite was your favorite the best. you know. i am more you know this is not a levy i don't suppose they have what i can order just one of them i love all three of them but my younger daughter should prefer the snow leopard she prefers. now let's talk about about the construction site about the work and saatchi that's being discussed massively today what percentage of the venues is already ready i mean open for the public is it true that it's nearly seventy percent is it's already done in general it's it's even more well on track and in some area even

had the phone be sure to plan we just successfully passed through the. part of the our protest events session and this season was successful that the mountain cluster were all when it was fully ready have been fine then you say i think yes i mean for that duration no and this is the come by and by it's long and cross country ski stadium this light in center the alpine center and ski jump and so all of them are tested with some of them it was first in the history of. international events like these fine walled car and now we've got. tracks and the slopes are we ready to welcome their vans which were never held in russia before and we've got the. prize also from the infrastructure. not from us about from

international airspace. and because of everything we're doing we're doing to give the efforts of the chance to perform the best in the best conditions and they were mostly surprised with the quality of the infrastructure and especially of the sochi slope and the slope they called magnificent and one of the most challenging in the wall even body miller said it's fine even despite that he was never here he is now to contend with well it is no but this that he said it was ok the slope was really aggressive was very hard to win and he was very happy that finally he was the first good reads one of the most difficult slope in the world but you have this seventh of the o.c. called nation coming to such an event this year what was the result what were they what were they satisfied with and did they criticize it. their partners and their

friends they're not criticizing us they advise on us what to do and they control and how we're delivering our milestones and just very remains very sad to say that we're already beyond. middle and out of ten were already past seven and. closer to the games where polish and some small details of the product to deliver the most outstanding and you know weight of games will move you moving so fast that we've just discovered that one of the pictures we show to to to to illustrate the what was going to was going to start you were always late even television is always late because you're always sad when we show out tell you take this hotel is only being constructed today so glad you weren't already at the south of day already but this is good every time i'm coming to sochi even surprising how rep of living in

perth structures go in there and you can imagine my feeling being such a native spent long life there and now we're changing how dramatically. see how dramatically social change or some significant movement has been established recently and it's called to recognize the contributions made to sustainable development under the preparations for the sought she two thousand and fourteen olympic and paralympic winter games this is the name of the word what does sustainable sustainable development mean in this context and those who's going to get the these ones the first of all you have to know the search is the great blood form for any brave experiment in creating the new standard which will be a great legacy not only for the particular region of russia but. for all country

and one of the legacy will be creating the new standard for sustainable development in many many weeks from the green standards in the construction and from sustainable exploding of the various with reduction of the impact to the nature and with a low cost for for that the rating of the venice and so on and so chase one of the most successful case in our country with a modest standard and with the most in a way to technology environmentally friendly technology which really deserve to be recognised to be considered the new standard industrial stand there for those who will be following. the with the construction or redevelopment of the region all across russia when you talking to did out there today talking about the green standard in construction being proud of being green i remember that

a couple of years ago when you started you started with the scandals even with clashes with environmentalists and such so can you say that today it's been put aside there's no more problems with the environment or you still have some problems you have to so many on a daily basis you know things for enjoys. given a chance for them to look. over some duty and this is good because we always got the opposite opinion but even though can confirm that minor things. change into the positive side now and this all new standards they lead to positive changes sustainable changes in particular for the environment in the region and we minimized the impact and in the area where it was impossible to avoid the impact. the compensation major and the

proper control and money toward in place so you are an example that in russia the n.g.o.s fight against the system can be successful is that right now it's a neutral available to ration they've got those own goals we've got those goals to minimize the impact and to demonstrate they will take the credit and if you leave it to that course of. then many events let's get back to supporting we seen some of seen we've seen the downhill we've seen the the cross country now that many other events that will still be held in such i mean international big competitions before the games themselves or yes you know this. season two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen next winter next winter but this will be already this winter yeah yeah yeah i mean international were years around the corner. it will be in december it will be grand prix for the figure skating and it will start to test our

boats cluster mountain cluster which with tested this season and the course focal us with twenty two different scale international level test events walk up and. another thing i know that you personally are somehow behind the first national classical music competition which is really in full swing in russia right now does it have to do something with such e.u. olympics so what we're talking about the cultural olympiad i suppose we've got four years period of preparation for the cultural olympics to be held during or in parallel with the olympic games in sochi and this year is the year of music successfully started this year selecting their most brides impressive example of the russia contemporary and traditional culture for from all across. russia and the

best in class the winners of this election will be proudly representing the region and the culture of the local community that has to when they have to fight for the right to go to south korea back then we already faced the huge competition and the great of the regions to participate in such as this cultural olympiad were what will be in parallel with the with the sporting event because does it have something to do with the deal for games or not what is or it's not a story the pearls are so so so so so though for games is another thing i mean i mean this is nothing to do in a culture it's euro no. ok well another question i want to ask you definitely today is about corruption corruption in russia is almost legendary right but despite that your biography has stayed impeccable for all these years how do you do that is it about what you told me i say years to remember you told me

that your goal is to keep all the money all the all the financial activity very transparent. is the only reason why you why you managed to to do to stay away from from from any scandal at all connected with you look. it's very difficult to manage the biggest construction site in the world with more than fifty five thousand constructors and billions of turnover with thousands of suppliers and so on but look with such great interest from different bodies from the media there are no major scandals that means that the state is really controlling the situation and will reach the level of efficiency and transparency. well enough not to allowed someone to earn and to make some do their thing there.

i think that making it corruption free i think it may be even harder than doing the job itself i mean given the circumstances in which you want it i mean let's be frank you know. my opinion is that. big competition and competitive competitive environment force source strong and on the biggest player could come into the market and they don't have their real goals to steal the money they've got different agenda how to deliver the infrastructure and the best possible level to demonstrate the ability to earn more so sports are hearing about choice about sure about you dealing with the and you i know about you're dealing with corruption i'd. say that the slogan. organizing committee is the art of the possible thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was the meet the challenge president of the saatchi

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