the bed was preferred to live in are going to go to the villages to brazil or more a way of living and to brazil of their own culture it's only a matter of time before the village gets demolished for the forty eighth time and the people living here hope for more than just the guinness book of world records will take note policy r.t. or keep village in the negev desert exactly half past the hour here in the russian capital as promised kate is here with the business news and katie well rich russians are at all happy about the potential bailout deal in cyprus still that's what we're going to be concentrating on in the business vote and how it will affect russian billionaires and also sensible savers as well as the journal for the right of way having full analysis in the business but listen katie thanks.

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live. live. live. live. live. live. live. live. live live live. well come to visit thank you very much indeed for joining me. cyprus has always been a popular place for wealthy russians so just sensible savers to park their cash because

it's been a safe haven it is after the european bailout plan to freeze bank accounts this weekend and the levy a tax of ten percent on all accounts over one hundred thousand euros all could be set to change if the vote goes through in the cypriot parliament now to put this all into practice as you can see twenty five percent of cypriot banks are home to russian accounts and seventy percent from the e.u. cyprus is also home to some of russia's biggest companies as you'll be able to see as you can see sevastopol through soul and of the corporations as well now ten to twenty billion dollars worth of russian deposits are kept in the country and today i spoke to peter weston chief and he stresses that on on how we will be affected if the bailout package is agreed upon this week. what people won't look from now is the it's kind of strange demand that the euro zone is imposed on them which is levy on deposits which really help the rich russian sort of money side of his

nation so this is part of president the risk of course is that if you don't deal with this that we have a contagion effect that we've had every time that we look at some headlines regarding that price and eurozone previously so even though we've had parliamentarians in europe saying that this is a one off the question is will the posture sitting in italy spain and greece leave do so and that would be schools are sort of a renewed massive crisis your so if there is a believe among depositors and you know other sort of indebted countries that this will be the case then we could have a run on the banks of these other nations so far as we've heard for spare the has to be the major party as of yet but i think that the misperceived this is really the biggest fear maybe not so much sadness and isolation but that spreads to other nations and it could be a real reality and let's talk about russia that because plenty of wealthy russians choose to put that money that sus they want to talk about companies that have base

that how will they be affected and how much of a disadvantage is it for them and how do you see this playing out because we know that russia has aided cyprus the some years just say the relationship been tellin asked as well as cyprus is reputation question is how easy is going to be be for these companies to change. that's that's one issue and the reason that we have these companies in cyprus also why rules how to get the russian government aid you cite. i don't think that they will move immediately but they were definite look at the situation closely what we understand is if we look at the metals in oil companies that have subsidiaries of some sort of cyprus we don't store much cash we know that russian banks have some exposure russia six sort of exposure but what we at least believe we know is that the russian companies don't store a lot of cash in cyprus and when money goes to cyprus it might not be the final destination it could also go from cyprus to switzerland cetera but i do believe that russian companies would have some kind of operations in cyprus would be

monitoring the situation very closely. ok we're actually going to stay with the topic just now got tanya just had to fill me in on all the details and as i understand it you've been speaking to heads of companies russian business what it's like to save all of us right here so you know i've spoken to russia's richest man been there alex amer of the show of who's the owner of this deal giant severstal and his content is registered in cyprus through three cypriot offshores at least that's according to media reports however he told me that his business won't be a factor as outof even leave the tax is imposed. are not shocked at all. business is not going to be secular anyway cyprus was not. going to follow deposits of an artist knows what cyprus doesn't play any role at all what i wrote about cyprus was. surprising for me as a robot. has no. practical telling you can just.

ok tanya something that i'm slightly confused on is that i didn't realize it was a separate thing altogether that you could run a company in cyprus have a large corporation but not be deposited there is there's two separate things campaign exactly how he explained it to me that you can enjoy all the benefits of a tax haven risk you want to hear a asked me off camera who do you think will be storing his cash in a country is such in the such a crisis situation and in fact you know i thought would you be storing your cash in the country under the threat of default you know well i don't have any money. if i did have money you know maybe not you know it's interesting all russia's metal giants that are owned by russian oligarchs and i read just that in cyprus which is that you have razzo of more original and carefully sin now and some of the assets or through solid. however we can come to

a conclusion about if more of the show doesn't store his cash in the conscious of probably his fellow all agog have also moved all of their money out of the concert even if they ever had to use so you know as always it reaches a point lose anything probably and i still way is absolutely always count smelling of roses as they say my mom would say no way. to thank you very much indeed for that is all we've got and actually speak exclusively there is the president of belarus that is. right after this break. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding segregation no for via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language

leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines place to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines israeli human rights group but selim said the attempt at the polling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the us is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion.

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i decided you were special one by sure still is with me to go hello and thank you very much for being with r.t. this if you've come to st petersburg to discuss further integration of russia and belarus with president putin well you know earlier there was talk of single currency single flak single problem but that now less than twenty years on it's kind of obvious that it's not really going to happen why have these large scale plans have fallen through the what's tearing our countries apart. like that with poland was late solution promotional skills that is this group you're absolutely right except for one thing when you say that it will never happen. so you remember . historically we came up with a treaty that saw the creation of the union state of bellary said russia now if you actually look it up you'll see that it lays down a clear plan of action to build this union state listing all the key elements

needed like the single currency and common institutions although it's a very detailed blueprint we were also supposed to draft a new constitution and hold a referendum on it however we never did this last bit there was no constitution or referendum overall we have made significant headway over the past years although we have not been able to deliver on what was spelt out in the treaty we have come to realize that perhaps we are not ready for yet that is not the time or but there is still one great upside our joint efforts towards a union state led to the creation of a new organization the customs union which in its turn both about a common economic space and we are now working to transform it into the eurasian economic union. if well let me on to russia you were very close to chavez he was a man who united around himself leaders would challenge the west to western corporations western capital now that he's gone what is the future of this

alternative now. i would not say that chavez united us simply because it's so difficult to do i first realized that when we became part of the nonaligned movement there are so many forces including united states trying to win these nonaligned countries over to their side to drive a wedge into the movement of hugo chavez worked hard to unite developing states he shook up latin america almost all the leaders there are left wing and they all came to pay their last respects to chavez this is a very clear proof of his legacy he is gone he set it going similar trends can now be observed in africa asia and other regions the. movement for freedom independence and justice will not wind down now he's gone no way but of course his role was essential to see what it would take a look at bennett's wella chavis was not the only popular figure there are one or

two key opposition figures well known to the world but in case of valorous it's only look that the world knows sooner or later you will have to hand over the power to somebody else right how will that happen the king records a good immune response to be honest i never think in these terms i swore that i will never hand over the power to my relatives to my in-laws or children it's out of the question but the bottom line is that you need to win a fair election to get power so i remember that i won my first poll as an opposition candidate it was a fair win just like all the following elections was won i've always played by the rules and i want people who come to power after me to do the same to win an election in a fair way. well i remember that during your summit this is to events chavis was still alive and he said we have a great holiday today because our guest is to president of belorussia look at shanghai and his son and then you told him that he was right in mentioning the boy because we need someone who will continue our case someone we can pass to baten to

twenty or twenty five years from now. i didn't say pass the baton i said carry on our cause i do remember very well and i said it in a very responsible way when i say carry on it doesn't mean he would just take the helm and go into the president's chair we have a million boys like junior and it's them who will continue the cause which. some time ago they will continue the work that i have been doing. frankly i didn't mean my son he must be thirty five to even qualify as a presidential candidate thirty years from now i'd be almost ninety five but if nicholai wants to make a career in polish. six will he support his choice. he is free to choose his profession but i would like him to become a politician he's eight now and he's seen enough of his father's presidency he's never had this idea that he will be president because his father was president i

never bring up this issue at home that's not a topic to discuss with children that's for my grown up sons they're pretty straightforward about it we've had enough of your presidency they tell me so we never talk of a power handover with them and generally i never talk about it anywhere else why should i i'm still alive and kicking so i think i can carry on for some time. what yelton say that democracy valorous is just as good as in america or here are absolutely who cut it it will absolutely it's just as good trust me i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in bellary so shall i in order to be a dictator in dictate one's will one has to have the resources economic social military population and so on but we have none and i am being objective about it i am telling you that we have no claims of global importance and don't see ourselves so having major global problems we don't have the resources to do so what we want

to do is find our place in the sun and live as an average civilized european state that's all i want. what you want. mr president you know the list of things to european union holds against you so i'm not going to repeat it. you know what you can if you like i don't mind though i do know them very well that's certainly true . and so does everyone lack of political pluralism freedom of speech and so on and so forth and it's a long list but what i would like to ask you is why do you think you're persona non-grata there was a little. you know i visited venezuela recently and i had some time to think i did some reading on allies things and i thought of it as if i were debating with the americans and the west in general so i say all right look it is persona non grata for you you need to know he meant tree but you also deny entry to both my eldest sons and even my youngest who is just

a little boy what wrong could he have done does he have anything to do with the alleged wreaking of elections all of my children are completely excluded from the election process how can they possibly just label them whatever it is they labeled the something bad obviously and simply pan them from the european union if they care about human rights why do they abuse the human rights of my citizens so i can understand why they don't want to put up with shenker i can tell you the reason why they don't is not because i'm a north or terria leader although that may be true and it's not because they call me a dictator well they used to no one has been calling me a north or a tarion or dictator for a while they used to call me that because they have been instructed to do so by the us but it took that with good out of what you so why then really mean you know what you are asking why me you know when the new state of bell aris appeared on the map and claimed a place in the sun just like georgia another newly formed state those who'd already

been there didn't like it as they wanted that place in the sun for themselves and now they have to move over and someone happy about it but that's not the real problem then it starts to go from bad to worse because she decides to take a hard stand for the state's independents. well everyone wants a piece of what valorise has to offer in terms of the economy they didn't like me taking a stand and so they started calling me all sorts of things next we don't privatized everything and some are unhappy about that we are a welfare state with a strong social policy the social and economic policies i pursue you are very different from what the west would want us to have next we do have a rigorous political system when power is divided between entities like the parliament and the government the president ends up with no power and it's easy then to what happens in the state you can state fights and conflicts this backlash

on the people behind all this you can lay your hands on some valuable assets through privatizing before anyone knows so they don't like it that they can't do it for freedom of speech is another such things but that can't be serious how is it even possible not to have them with all the modern media around us and there is also the internet our analysts have calculated fifty one percent of our active population are active internet users how can i possibly keep their mouths shut i am more than anyone opposed to bans building fences and other such things you can win the fight if you stay strong if you're weak you better stay out of the fight because you're only going to get yourself and your state chased into a corner i don't want to sound like i'm being overconfident but i just want to say again i feel strong enough to fight and stand up to any attacks on me my family and my state my berries speaking of which two years ago you said germany and poland had

conspired against valorous what conspiracy did you mean and what do they want from valerie i do remember it was right before the election the german foreign minister came to visit it was a high profile visit as for. that was it when the foreign minister was offended by your. comments regarding his sexual orientation right on his being gay but why take your hand if that's what you are did you know he was gay when you were talking to him no i didn't i had no idea at the time my staff included it in the memo but i didn't finish reading it. why did you even bring up the subject i didn't they did sikorsky did and i simply responded he kept asking questions like moscow banned the gay pride parade would you ban it if your people wanted one i replied you know i probably would let them do it downtown i'd have them parade somewhere on the outskirts let other people watch it maybe say something i basically don't mind

lesbians but i definitely do mind the gays why because women turn gay only when we guys are not good enough did you think it helped arrange a relationship between germany and. britain it wasn't about that they had previously approached me with basically a list of terms and conditions of the kind that will be friends with you if you do this. and that and i responded yeah i can do this and this and that i did most of the things they had required but they did nothing in return they simply found an excuse to talk themselves out of it actually the excuse being that incident when we dispersed back out of the one hundred people who tried to break into the government building. what's causing the nicely they did not care at all what the west and the united states have to say about you. no in fact i do care because it's not just about you it inevitably affects to country's image right you are and you just

said it correctly if you were only about me i would probably get hurt and say are to hell with them but the thing is true that they are trying to hurt the entire nation the state so i can say i don't care at all although i should say i am not taking it too much to heart and when they say dictator dictator i feel sorry for those who actually believe it when they say it is they don't even know that they are deluded about their reality and the person they're talking about that's the only thing i really feel bad about it was a few days ago there actor of us national intelligence presented a report forecasting a possible new crisis for us in two thousand and thirteen would you agree with this is my new model so why not say the same about america i could put it this way the global community including belarus may face a new economic crisis if it comes from its usual place of origin i.e. the united states the fact remains that europe has failed financially if that's

true and since europe accounts for half of our export turnover it's obvious that it's going to affect our economy our export turnover with russia is also declining a little bit although there's no crisis as such in russia yet and so it's true even more so for georgia bellary see crain in other states the kind of real sectors of economy they have with no oil and gas of their own and the need to pay high prices for them yourself of course is a problem for us when the entire world's economy is going down there we have some reserves of our own and we'll use them if the need arises will make it thank you very much for this interview sir please don't call me sir i am oh lord it takes too much money to become one mr look at thank you very much for the interview my thanks to you for coming over to have a talk. a

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