we want to present. something else. very good afternoon for me kevin owen here at r t today it's half past five moscow time the top stories the cracks grow wider in egypt's troubled election violence swells of a banned religious candidates with the ruling military seeming to be the only ones to benefit. hillary clinton pitches for china's support on north korea and iran but the u.s. military take your place if you build it and support for the chinese dissident leave beijing where we. are nato failed to move forward on euro missile defense star with russia's moscow says it reserves the right to strike back if the system breaches its security. coming up next are going off catches up with the president

of the such a lympics organizing committee to find out how ready the city is for those big games. hello again and welcome to the spotlight they entered an art i'll be known and today my guest is dimitri chair of 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 show and president of the saatchi two thousand

and fourteen organizing committee. from three d. graphics to reality that coke asian slow. are evolving into sporting venues some of them unique like this one a modern eighteen hundred metre 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 on 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 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. also see where should 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 dmitri 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 in sochi certainly 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 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 riches about and 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 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 begin to agree that the upcoming london games are sort of a bit of a low profile now and in the present on no no not a great absolutely no you will see that shortly when hundreds they go and the most of it 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 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 approach volunteers exactly two years to the games it was on seventh of february of this year and we already have broken several. 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 there will be about one quarter of a million those who are really patient cabinets 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 in

gave all the nations through the select in the volunteers from the all region so fresh a given them the end quote opportunity to participate in this once in a lifetime when what about foreigners people fanfare 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 conscious like from the can from their neighboring countries of course so there are no limits . were welcome in international long 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 said the actor communicates. yes they have to speak english and russian of course and they have to be not only

committed patient able 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 they can write there's something here 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 right. it's a critical for the success story of the ration of them but some of them who will be serving in the us 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 olympic site areas in a number of major russian cities so in which cities aren't putting these elim big

olympic alive sites and what is one of the fore. 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 and brazil and like south korea and we had this electorate 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 of our athletes and also to be involved in the must feel 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 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 who just can't put them in i don't believe this great initiative is a successful it will be again i say any also has a need for really good 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 search in love and so was it approved by your team and should

discovering sochi and she to be associated with opening a can of lager. on what kind of beer producer. yeah they say oh it's open open source here in london and they open it kind of beers on t.v. showing the london olympics the baltic is official partner of going to is there 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 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 in obstacles and so so so so this. producing company is one of the sponsors one of the village to invest in the

games. such sheet 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 you know what with yet here 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 years it's a pool of 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 dollar store no other billion dollar turnover all the goodies yes and consider 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 maybe you can try to run to buy through the internet or put. it beside that there are many other lessons in pro to 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 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 children the shankill president of the sochi two thousand and fourteen organizing spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us the three of us will be back in a time. sigrid

laboratory was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot with cricket league doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care only dot com. welcome back to spotlight i'm al green over and just to remind you that my guest on the show today is the three chad 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 l. a big one 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. you know. i am more you know there's a hell of a leap you're not supposed to have what if a i can organise one of them i love all three of them but to my younger to ship or for the snow leopard she prefers the look of 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 if it's even more well on track and in some area even if

they had to follow and vicious plan we just successfully passed through the first part of the put this to vance session and this isn't always successful that there's the mountain cluster where all the fully read and find venue so i think yeah i have to ration them 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 were tested with 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. he even body miller said it's fine even despite that he was never here he is number compared with the slow but those that he said it was ok to stop was a really aggressive was very hard. and he was very final he was the first good leads one of the most difficult slope in the world but you have this seventh of the o.c. coordination committee to search area 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 were already beyond the 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 is 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 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 spent long life there now we're changing how dramatically. see how dramatically such a changing some significant way 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 knows who's going to get the these ones first of all you have to know the search is a great platform 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 weeks from the green standards 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 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 a daily basis. you know things for enjoys. given a chance for them to relax. always on 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 can be successful is that right you know it's a mutual available peroration 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 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 here you have meaning for years around the corner. 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 there. you mean 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 olympics to be held. 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 election

will be proudly representing the region and the culture of the local community led to when they have to fight for the right to go to south korea. already placed the huge competition and the grade 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 so so though for games is another thing i mean i mean this is nothing to do and 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 it about 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 do to stay away from from from any scandal at all connected with it was you look. it's a. very difficult to manage the biggest construction site in the world with more than fifty five cells and constructors and billions of turnover with cells and 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 and the situation and worried should the level of efficiency and transparency. 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 to remind you 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. well from the fukushima it's technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the huge earth covered.

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