it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. here with r.t. time to recap our top stories now egypt's worst clashes in months leave at least eleven dead around one hundred protesters injured accusations that the military rulers are complicit in the violence adding to deep concerns about the country's stability of presidential elections. american chinese relations are tested as hillary clinton's high stakes visit to beijing is ever shadowed by controversy over the coup dissident even refuge for a short time u.s. embassy this latest dispute comes of tensions continue to rise of the u.s. military buildup in the pacific. and u.s.

refuses to limit its missile defense system in europe despite russia's concerns turn moscow is building a high tech case against a project that it said is a threat to national security. catches up with the president of the sochi olympics organizing committee to find out how ready russia is for the games that's in our interview show spotlight. i i i i. i. i. i. hello again and welcome to the spotlight they insist on art i'll be known and today my guest is

dimitri chairing 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 pros officials promise such will be ready long before the deadline but skeptics point out 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

a maximum speed of 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 scheme skills there's just under two years until the searching 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. hello dmitry welcome to the show thanks for coming in first of all are you going to love the you planning to go to london for the games for your own games and certainly will 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 are beautiful on the games who are inspired viewers has 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 doing in two years the west 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 out 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 agree that the upcoming london games are sort of a bit of

a low profile now and in the press. not a great absolutely no you will see that shortly when the hundreds they go in the road will be widely celebrated all around the world and 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 show 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 mod to your right we started our own recruitment campaign for this such a pro volunteers exactly two years to the games it was on seventh of february 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 can't get candid and how many do you need frankly when it just twenty solves the and we can fulfill our needs only by attracting and then neighboring volunteers but we also want to give the chance and geishas all the nations through the select in the volunteers from the all the region so for russia given them the end quote opportunity to participate in this once in a lifetime when what about foreigners people from from 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 confit

like from the kenya and from their neighboring countries of course so there are no limits. were welcome in international volunteers as well and. 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 said the actor communicates. yes they have to speak english and russian of course. and they have to be not only committed. 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 on small business like translators interpreters their guides or something or pretoria some of them will be walking 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 the peroration of them but some of them who will be serving in the vests and cleaning on food and beverage. it's less needed ok now not a question you are opening i'm just following the news right now the so-called alou pickle sites areas in a number of major russian cities so in which cities aren't putting these elim take a limb take a live sights and what is it one of the fore. no it's a new initiative and the first ever in the history of the olympic games yeah i never heard of that through the. london games will be connected with the next host in nations like russia and brazil and like south korea and we. had several cities most of them just

a big city like like it didn't work once 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. and also to be involved in the sea must fear of the london games and of course the biggest live side will be both in moscow and in sochi and the sochi in the central square in front of the harbor and they see poor will be big screen and they really program with different activities and we also even dream to create by a literal signal sold the citizen of social well being able to communicate communicate with london guest and 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 too for people who just can't put them in i don't believe these great initiatives are successful it will be again i say they also say that for really endemol use it for the necklace and when i had it bad that it suddenly occurred to me that a russian to be a producer is running an aggressive advertising campaign right now on to the slogan open your starchy in love and so was it approved by e.o.t. meant should discovering such as she did be associated with opening a can of london. and what kind of beer producer. valter yeah they say oh it's open open sochi in london in the opening kind of beers on t.v. showing the london olympics the baltic is official partner of guys or so sochi games and everything that the requirements and they put in a law and regulation is allowed to be advertised and there is nothing wrong that

they did in communication but it's true that in the area not on the sport competition venue but in this area surrounding the venue was found to be that could be sold. we don't think in obstacles and so so so so. this. producing companies one of the sponsors one of the willing to invest in the games is. such he 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 to raise a considerable amount of money i mean some of these these sort of bunnies and tigers and a little bit here of what it would be accurate this is my favorite. recall

this is a successor of mission of the beer yeah right from the moscow game so this is the grand son of the moscow games moscow this year's. bronze here and yes it's a poor beer one in one of the three with this knowledge then with bernie bernie bernie kerik the three of them on their highs demand probably the most desirable license and product our goal is to. earn about. how billion dollars turnover turnover all the goodies yes and considered and different royalty. our profit which will reinvest into the games will be. thirty three zero million dollars so so. they sold pretty well right now so i mean i you can try to run to buy through the

internet or put. it beside that there are many other lessons and prove that more than. five hundred different categories send waste back that it will be increased by the games time by five thousand different kind of for goods and products memory mirror and we believe that it will be the part of the. memory that every citizen of russia could take from the games said to me three chip in the shankill president of the sochi two thousand and fourteen target spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us the three of us will be back in a time. russia

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back to spotlight i'm al going over and just to remind you that my guest on the show today is the meet the chair in the shank out president of the tsotsi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee and next to the polar bear which is one of the mascots of the ellen picked by 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. in all. i am more you know the basement of a t.v. i don't suppose they have what a favor i can order just one of them i love all three of them but my younger daughter shipper for the snow leopard she prefers k. 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 opened 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 slim would just successfully pass through the first part of the hour put it this to vance session and this season was successful that there's the mountain cluster where all the fully read and find venue so i think yeah i mean if you like to ration them and this is the come by and by it's low and cross country ski stadium this light in center the alpine center and ski jump and so all of them were tested with this some of them it was first in the history of. international events like. fine walled cup and now we've got. a track 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 but from the international airspace escalates and because of everything we're doing we're doing to give the ethyl it's a 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 he. even body miller said it's fine even despite that he was never here he is now no contend with snow but this that he said it was ok to swap was a really aggressive was very hard. and he was. finally he was the first good leads one of the most difficult slope in the world but you have this seventh of the. nation coming to such a heavy hand 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 we're already past seven and. closer to the games where polish and some small details of the product to deliver the most outstanding and innovative 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 say this so joe is only being conservative but today it's so great if you weren't already at the south of day already but this is good

every time i'm coming to sochi even surprising how repled living in perth structures go in there and you can imagine my feeling being such a native and spend long life there now we're changing how dramatically. see how dramatically such a changing some significant rule 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 this award what does sustainable sustainable development mean in this context and who knows who's going to get the these ones first of all you have to know the such 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 of sustainable development in many many things from the green standard in the construction and from sustainable exploding of the van 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 such is one of the most successful case in our country with a modest standard and with most in a way to technology environmentally friendly technology which really deserve to be recognized and to be considered the new standard industrial stand there for those who will be following. with construction or redevelopment of the region all across russia when you talking today about they are 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 relax. 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 new standards they lead to positive changes sustainable changes in particular for the environment in the region and we minimise the impact in the area where it was

impossible to avoid the impact of 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 could be successful is that right you know it's a mutual available curation they've got those own goals we've got our goals to minimise the important thing to demonstrate they will take the credit you should leave it to that course of. many events let's get back to we seen some of seen we've seen the downhill we've seen the cross country have it many other events that will still be held in such i mean international big competition 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 for years around the corner yeah it will be in december it

will be grand prix for the figure skating and we will start to test our both cluster mountain cluster which with tested this season and the course focal us with twenty two different scale international level test events world cup and. another thing i know this. you personally are somehow behind the first national classical music competition which is in full swing in russia right now does it have to do something where we will sort your lympics of what we're talking about the cultural olympiad i suppose we've got four year period of preparation for the cultural olympiad 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 the most brides impressive example of the russia contemporary and traditional culture

from all across russia and the best in class the winners of this selection will be probably representing the region and the culture of the local community has to win they have to fight for the right to go to south carolina. already place the huge competition and the great of the regions to participate in such as this cultural olympiad where 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 though for games is another thing i mean i mean this is nothing to do in the culture it's your oh 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 that what you told me i here is 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 it was 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 cells and four suppliers and so on but look with such great interest from different bodies from the media there are no major scandals that means that this state is really control in this situation and where it should the level of efficiency and transparency it well enough not to allowed someone to

earn and to make some do their thing there but i think that in making it corruption free i think it may be even harder then 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 was so strong and only the biggest player could come into the market and they don't have 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 to speak or you're hearing about. you know about you dealing with the end you know about you're dealing with corruption i'd. say that the slogan. organizing committee is the art of a possible effective very much for being with us and just

a reminder that my guest today was dimitri cherishing president of the saatchi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee and that's it for now from all of us here at spotlight will be there until then stay on r.t. and take your. place in person.

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