national security. next 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 that's next. hello again and welcome to spotlight the intent on art i'll be known and today my guest is dimitri chatham the showing. 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

saatchi 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 president of the tsotsi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee. from three d. graphics to reality that coke asian slopes near sochi are evolving into sporting venues some of them unique like this one a modern eighteen hundred metre bobsled a track the longest and then us to the world it's been designed for three zero am because my speed on ice disappoints the bobsled and skeleton on the tracks got sixteen turns and the 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 cops 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 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. hello richard welcome to the show thanks for coming in first of all are you going to love to know you planning to go to london for the last games before your own games it's certainly over 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 were inspired to use as a blueprint the best practice that 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 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 some to half of the games again eyes are who 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 read but do you agree that the upcoming london games are sort of a bit of low profile now and in the present. you know the great absolutely no you will see that shortly when the hundredth day to go and the rosary will be widely

celebrated all around the world and in russia as well it will be in my view more attention probably for little bit busy this all circumstances political things around you. are you 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 who is eligible to become on to your right we started our own recruitment campaign for this such a pro volunteers exactly two years to the games it was on seven so february of this year and we already have broken several olympic record 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 of those who are really patient canyon's candidate and how many do you need frankly when it just twenty solves it and we can fulfill our needs only by attracting and then neighboring volunteers but we also want to give the chance and gave all the nations through the selecting the volunteers from the all region so fresh or given them the end quote opportunity to participate in this once in a life time when what about foreigners people fans from from europe when can they you know i mean a list yes and one of the first they can do that to become the volunteers say in sochi we already obtained some implications from even exotic concepts like from the kin and from the neighboring countries of course so there are no limits. where welcome in international volunteers 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 russia it's a numbingly speaking country said the actu communicates yes they have. speak english and russian of course but. 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 in the world is like translators interpreters they live in the right there's something in the air pretoria some of them will be working in the protocol in their arrival and departure in the area where their. knowledge of the foreign language is not right. it's a critical word for the success story of the ration 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 this so-called olympic sites areas in a number of major russian cities so in which cities aren't putting these olympic olympic alive 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 that they threw. the london games will be connected with the next host in nations like russia lies in brazil and like south korea and we were disallowed 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 hopefully will follow athletes and also to be. involved in the history. 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 see poor will be big screen and daily program with different activities and we also even dream to create by literal signals all the citizen of social world be able to communicate communicate 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 to get but the minute i do believe this great nation there is a successful it will be again i say they also say that for really use it for the

next one i had a 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 law and so was it approved by your team and should discovering such shouldn't be associated with opening a can of london. 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 the london olympics the baltic is official partner of the guys are sochi games and everything that feeds the requirements and they could install a law in 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 could be sold. we don't think obstacles and so so so so. this. producing company one of the sponsors one of the willing to invest in the games is. such he sure there's a force he 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 with yet here this is my favorite. recall this is a successor of mission of the beer yeah right mascot from the moscow game so this is the grand son of the moscow games must go this year because it's

a poor 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 their highs demand probably the most is a license and product our goal is to. earn about. hols billion dollar store another billion dollars to know all the goodies yes and consider and different royalty. our profit which will reinvest into the games will be. so t three zero million dollars so so. are they are they sold pretty well right now so maybe you can try to run to buy through the internet or put. there to decide that there are many other lessons and prove that 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 may or will and we believe that it will be the part of the. memory that every citizen of russia could take from the games said need to reach it in the shankill president of the sochi two thousand and fourteen cognizant spotlight will be back shortly after the break so stay with us the three of us will be back in a time. line

. it would be so much brighter if you mean moon and sun from finance to question these. stocks on t.v. dot com. welcome back to spotlight and al green of and just to remind you that my guest on the show today is the meet the chairman the shank of president of the saatchi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee next to the polar bear which is one of

the mascots of the ellen picked by the way saatchi is the first olympics 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 l. . i am more you know the basement of a levy i don't suppose they have what a fate i can see we're 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 nicely 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 to follow ambitious plan we just successfully passed through the first part of the hour put this to vance

session and this season we successfully test the mountain cluster where all the fully ready have and find a venue so i think yes i mean full operational and this is the come by and by islam and cross country soon to ski stadium this light in center the alpine center and ski jump and so all of them are road tested with some of them it was first in the history of. international events like fees fine walled cup 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 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 nicely 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 by the miller said it's fine even despite that he was never here he is now not contend with where all of this though but this that he said it was ok four posts a really aggressive move was very hard. and he was very happy that finally he was the first. one of the most difficult slope in the world you have this seventh of the. nation coming to such a hand this year what was the result what were they what were they satisfied with and did they criticize you. their partners and their friends they're not criticizing us they advised us what to do and they control and how we're delivering

our milestones and just very remains it's very sad to say that we were 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 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 was always late because you're always sad when we show out tell you say this hotel is only being constructed today so glad you weren't already committed to it's also the day already but this is good every time i'm coming to sochi even surprising how repled living infrastructure is growing then you can imagine my feeling being such a native spent

a 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 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 break 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 van with a reduction of the impact to the nature and with the 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 the most innovative 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. 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 scoundrels 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 daily basis you know things for enjoys. given a chance for them to realize that. although some of you think and this is good because we always got the opposite opinion but even though can confirm that my things. change into the positive side now and it's all new standards they lead to the positive changes sustainable changes in particular for the environment in the region and we minimise the impact and 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 no it's. good to ration they've got those own goals we've got our goals to minimize the impact and to demonstrate they will take the credit you should leave it to that course of. many events let's get back to supporting what we seen some of seen we've seen the downhill we've seen the the cross country all that 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 you have meaningful for years around the corner yeah 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 world cup and. another thing i know that you 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 such a year olympics so what we're talking about the cultural olympiad i suppose we've got four year period of preparation for the cultural olympics to be held during or in parallel developing 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 for 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 as to when they have to fight for the right to go to south korea. already face the huge competition and the great of the regions to participate in such as this cultural olympiad well 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 perils are so so so so so though for games is now the thing i mean i mean this is nothing to do in the 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 reason why you why you

managed to to do to stay away from from from any scandal at all can. when it was cheap 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 until 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 the 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 making it through option 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 companies should and compete if a competitive environment was so strong and only 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 to speak or you're hearing about a choice about which you know about you dealing with me and you know about your dealing with corruption i'd. say that the slogan on your 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 cherish and become 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 our team and take your

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