and the military accused of pulling the strings. now that brings you up to date at this hour up next catches up with the president of the sulky olympics organizing committee to meet the chenier schenkel about just how ready russia is for the games that's on spotlight don't go away. well. it's technology innovation all the news developments around russia we've got the future covered. and hello again and welcome to spotlight the internet on art i'll be you know 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 perth officials promised salt she 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 sawtooth 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 in big high speed on ice disciplines 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 searches 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 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. hello which we 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 we're very excited when this is the last opportunity for us to learn from the successful experience of our i would say elder brothers because the since the successful are beautiful on the games were

inspired used 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 us 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. 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 on no no not a great absolutely no you will see that shortly. the hundredth day to 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 probably for a little bit busy this all circumstances political things around you. our new you committee is holding a competition right now and 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 a military you're right we started our own recruitment campaign for this such a proud volunteers exactly two years to the games it was on seventh of february this year and we already have broken several limb 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 there will be about one quarter of a million of those who are really patient kevin sanded 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 in geishas all the nations through the select in the volunteers from the region so for russia given them the end quote opportunity to participate in this once in a lifetime when what about foreigners people fanfare. 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 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 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 this they have to. speak english and russian of course. and they have to be not only committed and 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 in the control just like translators interpreters their little guy just something in the air 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 ration of them but some of them who will be serving in the vests and cleaning and on food and beverage. it's less needed ok now another question you are opening i just following the news right now this so-called loop it collides sites areas in a number of major russian cities so in which cities aren't putting the 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 through the. london games will be connected with the next host in nations like russia brazil and like south korea and we. had several cities most of them just a big city like the like you can work in 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 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 a big scream and they really 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 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 put them in i don't believe this great

initiative is a successful way will be again i see you also say that for really and then i will use it for the next one i had a bad that it suddenly occurred to me that a russian being a producer is running an aggressive advertising campaign right now under the slogan open your saatchi and learned so was it approved by your team and should discovering celgene she did be associated with opening a can of log. 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. show you want to look at the london olympics the baltic is official partner of organizing such a games and everything that feeds the requirements and they should install 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 has found them 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 in. sochi 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. is a great example we call this is a successor 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 dollar turnover all the goodies yes and considering 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 i mean you can try to buy through the internet.

decide that there are many other lessons and prove it in more than. five hundred different categories and respect 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 the part of the. memory that everest citizen of russia could take from the games says to me three children the shankill president of the saatchi 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. download

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welcome back to spotlight i'll go in all of them just to remind you that my guest on the show today is the meet the 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 elevator one of the way saatchi is the first dillard 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. i am more you know there's not a levy i don't suppose they have what a favor i can see we're just one of them i love all three of them but my younger daughter shipper for 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 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 in track and in some area even though they had a fall and vicious plan we just successfully passed through the first part of the hour put this to vance session and this season we successfully tested the mountain cluster where all venues fully already have and find a venue so i think yes i mean it will lead to rationing when they says they come by and buy it long and cross country soon to 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 feel fine world 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 efforts of the 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 body miller said it's fine even despite that he was never here he is now no contend with well it is no but this that he said it was ok the swap was a really aggressive move was very hard to read and he was very happy that finally he was the first. one of the most difficult to open the world you have this seventh

of the. 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 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're already beyond. middle and out of ten well over the 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 in the movie you're 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 committed and. it's also a 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 rule has been established recently and it's called to recognize the contributions made to sustainable development under the preparations for the saw 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 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 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 a low cost for for that the rating of the venice and so on and such a savant 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 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 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 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. over some duty 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 they compensate in major and the proper control and the 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 now it's a neutral valuable peroration they've got those own goals we've got those goals to minimise the impact and to demonstrate they will take the credit you should leave it to that course of. their 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 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 many 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 would tested this season and because 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 in full swing in russia right now does it have to do something where we will start your 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 with the in big 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 traditional culture fall from all across russia and the best and the winners of this election will be probably 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 where what will be in parallel with the with the sporting on them because does it have something to do with the deal for games or not what is or it's not a story of pearls or since it's so so so though for games is not the thing i mean i mean this is nothing to do 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 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. and 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 and post 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 controlling the situation and where it 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 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 the big competition and competitive 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 to 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 go about you're dealing with corruption i'd. say that the slogan on

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