in russia on the russian industrial enterprises when your opinion what do russian companies need to catch up with a standard itself western production companies i would say catching up maybe not exactly the right word. in russia there is amazing history of story telling and in russia the country would like to get inspiration from the russian stories and make movies based on the russian heritage and culture but use some of the heritage that we have in the world to the company and tell them so how we tell stories how the characters develop and we always have the happy ending of the movies that's really interesting to us actually. a stable hollywood tradition here in russia or just a russian audience need to be felt like a very specific context that it's used to strongly believe that russian audience has very distant taste definitely a lot of big blockbusters work in russia and russian audience love. their love alice in wonderland but at the same time there are a lot of stories that can be told specifically for the russian audience and we believe with our fairy tales that we started wi

may start discussion on russian. exhaustion to to to to to need to i think that kind of discussion can be very helpful for the discussion on the european security and on russia's attitude towards its national security i do not think that it will be realistic in the short run but in the long run anything is possible rasmussen is in moscow the head of nato he is here for a couple of days and. this is why we are once again discussing nato the position russian made to relations ukraine and nato is another serious question foreign minister grisham co ukrainian foreign minister says that ukraine is not going to join nato anytime soon so this is the changed position our view create under the new presidency soit away nato general secretary rasmussen insists that the major's doors are still open to ukraine so does nato still have means to attract well ukraine that in effect well you know nato status. allows needed to have an open door policy to all the european nations who apply. for native join for nato membership and to mee

do you think the russian higher education corresponds to the world standards. does it yes or no well if we don't take the ratings which you said we shouldn't overestimate so does it correspond in the u.s. you know years ago yes or no you said yes and now yes and i know it's not enough because russia though some things very well russia actually provides access to its young people kids coming out of high school at one of the highest rates in the world so there are lots of russians the spite what some of those people who are actually getting entry to post-secondary institutions so i think russia does pretty well at that russia does less well that's the top of the system that has its universities and the rankings are of. some indication of that. doesn't do as well at the very top so all higher education mass higher education systems big ones are kind of like a pyramid with a small elite sector like moscow state university the higher school of economics here in moscow st petersburg university and others but most of the universities are low or lower in the rankings a

this guy is a russian he was right he was a russian he asked him to come to his table to have a coffee with him to start to speak what i guess i'm preparing a machine which is to fly vertically. so and finally he helped him for free. breakfast lunch and bread for four years until he's a. copywriter for over and washed for his machine so it was. so the world that the world should be or should be thankful to get when the not only for the music you know but also for the telecoms about. making a mountain to climb again the you have siri every day one or two persons envelops extorting machine. in. two thousand and seven that was a film a movie by pavel than being here in russia. and also if you never saw him nobody told me that about but in this movie you may know that there is a scene. well i'll tell you there's a scene in the movie where said to get off my enough refuses to play in the carnegie hall and the presence of the soviet ambassador say i'm not going to pay was it true was the war. was there a true story like that or is it fiction. was told the visitors will do if it's through doc

betrayed russian agents in the u.s. this summer a russian. intelligence service employee. joining . the biggest display yet. tens of thousands of. university fees with more money being poured into e.u. bureaucracy. well republican victories in the u.s. mitt underlined voters growing anger with the current government exacerbated by the . political infighting. the mess one democratic congressman now is taking it on the chin.

using russian made equipment. and that is why some of the russian. some of the russian armament. more. suitable and evgeny climate like helicopters or some other things that we have to. thank you very much indeed for joining us here with us thanks. wow still ahead of their ideology that refuses to die. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but on intolerant audiology of mass killing. sixty five years often during bad trials so leading nazis convicted of crimes against humanity we are squires some europeans are now cannot find a nazi. now set in democracy abroad doesn't come cheap has hard up american taxpayers are finding out to their cost the u.s. is spending billions of dollars to finance foreign politicians and parties which fall on its side of the fence as jihad office expects a. great party but who's picking up the tab apparently the american taxpayer nine billion dollars spent by the united states agency for international development and promoting washington's democracy initiatives. a new model for influencing a target country's internal politics and favor of

also travel just beyond the russian audience even though the book was created for the russian origin specifically that d.v.d.'s is one of the sources of your income's piracy is a huge problem in russia one of the animal losses for this name for your unit have to snake here in russia and how do you fight it how do you protect your intellectual property piracy is definitely a big issue for disney not only in russia but in a lot of countries what we see recently that people try to buy quality content and they used to buying d.v.d.'s in retail we also developed a lot of programs for various price points and we work with a lot of retail partners to make sure that we get a quality legal product to the audiences for very different price points and what we see our d.v.d. sales and brewery growing really really fast even though we know that now the market is changing and blu ray and digital distribution is really around the corner but still a lot of families buy d.v.d.'s they want to watch movies together they buy it for their kids so would you say their losses in piracy are aren't considerab

because most of most of the russian intellectuals the russian elite settled in europe and most of them in france some in germany but why did you choose choose the stables i think for the unity of pianist carnegie hall is number one. you know over statistic it's about one. case of one thousand and that's not what it was. is it has a chance to play in carnegie hall once in his life. was alexander you were. ten years old when you give us money and died right if you like to make some substructure yes. ok now now did you do you remember do you still remember him alive did you miss him a lot yes of course really. we spent together for months. so all of these international pianists you know he spent from october to april in the states and in europe from may to october so you do have good that's why he had visited us and yeah it's property of us what sort of things he must have not for one week that for two weeks but regular every four or several months. what kind of a person was he because you should have like childhood. recollection magical and never heard him a bad mood never increasing she

in the russian capital. recently. so tell me about the rest for mr may here in the concept when we opened. it was we're going to do a fifty percent traditional chinese menu and fifty percent and we do traditional chinese food which you know we're using lots of different sources used to chickens . like traditional chinese cooking and then we do a pension which is what we make everything else and you know has more of a western life and what doesn't capital i was brought here three years ago by. chef and down evil stuff. so he found me in sydney an invited me. here i am today the russians famously dual sushi but chinese food it really kind of is a new thing for the mission that. i think it it's starting to grow to like chinese more i think the flavors are a bit different for them. they used to. maybe blended type foods i mean from the soviet era. but i think slowly the it's catching on also the flavors i mean we have to sweeten everything. for this for that we take out a lot of spice. because russian people on that reall

the splendid mighty russian dress. and since you say symbol of life itself with a use for a drink simply the system it's the subject of bread in russia is rooted in the country's social history and i'm sure it will continue to be decades to come. to lift it i mean it's right in the rye bread. box you really should drive in the five important oh it's wrong and i want every life in russia of course really that's all the time we have on this week higher ground i'll see you again in the same five next week coming from me on the wreck within a mile an hour. would be useless without. the tiny pieces needed to make. piece of coltan is extracted to human life. more news today is once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day. wealthy british style old sarah has been tied to the such class. target. markets financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline

russian dressing. and since he says it's a symbol of life itself but the use for a trained simple data system it's the subject of dread in russia is rooted it's the country's social history and i'm sure it will continue today two decades to come. to lift it what it is wrestling the rye bread the drink but you really should try the most important of all it's wrong and a lot larry like in russia of course really that's all the time we have on this week for about i'll see you again in the same five next week so that for me and the rest i think i'll buy that. question was that so much time in which of course he was on it for years after the us elections the start of a brave new revolution or in evitable and destructive gridlock will anything get. the most up team has to be. where russia first free elections were held a thousand years ago. now party goes to the area that used to be a place of exile since the seventeenth century. where businesses take advantage of the wild growing product. when rich academic

russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs will. become a participant of the world festival of russian language and really exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. a longstanding territorial dispute has sparks flying between moscow and tokyo japan has recalled its ambassador to russia amid a diplomatic dispute following president medvedev visit to the far eastern russian territory of the woods. the democratic process is supposed to be a check on corporate power and instead what we're seeing is corporations hijacking that system in order to funnel more money to themselves the u.s. vote in midterm elections with opinion polls putting republicans in a strong position but many fear massive corporate funding has put democracy in danger. and triumph of science and human endeavor the international space station marks a decade as a manned mission as critics demand results from the mu

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any country including georgia can grok the russian russian recession. but what makes us confident that we can go through this process is the real interest of our major partners. both in europe and the united states in russia joining. we know that they're interested so it's clear that they will try to help. the there is a technical way to communicate with her for our swiss partners. as our representatives . right now so certainly switzerland will be one of their partners but we also expect support for our our other partners in this process. another couple and one xperience i would hold them rather critics of what you do with the president say that the problem is actually in the fact that the demand for integration products is extremely low in russia as well as the level up competition would you agree at least partially to i was fully with that and you know we started working our own arm of the middle initial program that i visit the same idea that to stimulate demand for innovations how can you do something which is out of them on the block this is very

the splendid russian dressing. and since he says it's a symbol of life itself but the use for a trained simple data system it's the subject of dread in russia is rooted it's the country's social history and i'm sure it will continue today in decades to come. to lift it while it is pressing the rye bread on the brink but who really should try the first important affronts role and a lot larry live in russia for silly that's all the time we have on this week for about i'll see you again in the same time next week sometime for me on the record i think i'll buy. the close up team has been. my russia first free elections were held a few thousand years ago. now party goes to the area that used to be a place of exile since the seventeenth century. where businesses take advantage of the wild growing product. when rich academic life gives birth to kind of a divine dia come to come screeching much of close up on our. and minimums forward to be held down say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy o

trees in the russian. twenty. you can buy them in several locations and he just simply makes the pounds on its own and hey presto you have to shoot plenty in no time. see you again oh welcome back to tell me how did you end up working here most going to be in small scale a couple of times on consultation jobs in fact bakeries. when i have to call from one of us to say i was safe thrilled and i came back in the sauce and. i'm so lucky because the menu i have here is really international as you can see with saddam's bread basket you've been here for a few years now the whole thing is i mean i've been here for five you really do see the difference. when i first arrived here it was. rather nasty plastic sliced bread as old dog heavy rye bread which is very much the traditional staple of the russian cuisine and now when this will be used bakeries opening the whole night was amazing you can have for cat share and buy gas with cheese all these different flavors fantastic now you have queues around the block with people w

time to make friends nato hopes for a better russian. seeks moscow's help on missile defense and afghanistan president medvedev set to join this been summit. dishing out democracy at a price the u.s. taxpayers shelling out billions of dollars to fund foreign influence. and living with lear one hundred years after the world lost one of its greatest thinkers revisit the whole story its detente with the russian branches leading. world news and much more your tune to r.t. nato seems to be sending a clear message it wants russia as an annoyed the bloke is meeting in this been right now and he's courting moscow to sign up to a joint defense shield and it's hoped that present attendance could signal an historic turning relations between the two sides. explains the common interests the former rivals now have. today here in lisbon portugal where the nato summit is taking place russia nato relations are expected to be key on the agenda russian president dmitri medvedev is expected to be here in talks with nato as the alliance continues trying to i

readers to stations and russian. possibilities in and in our movie or to be integral part of a new international a missile defense system which will be used on principles of equal partnership and this is all a message to nato today we believe in equal partnership we believe in a fifty fifty partnership and we do not believe in a younger orsini of brothers anymore do you think something like that something something like this need a new defense system this new alliance a joint anti missile system somehow that will be maybe. discussed in lisbon this week and i hope it will be discussed in lisbon this week because we have to move forward in our relationship with nato we have to do something creative we have to do something positive and we really need breakthroughs like we have to do some joint operations in areas of concern i think we showed great example with our american partners in afghanistan where the famous anti-drug operation which was executed together by russians and americans and i think we can do more we can

passes been a russian staple of refreshment for centuries enjoyed by generations of russians across the country. from the pushkin describes how russians believe they need a class like the living in russia and a piece of the gracies the most commonly known drink in every class of society. and official here they have a small museum and an area where you can taste different varieties sounds good to me made from black regular ryegrass the color of the bread use contributes to the color of the resulting drink and the alcohol content from the fermentation is typically around one percent. stringy popular in russia his army times mass manufacturing you have to drink to supply the whole country to gamble. has become popular and nowadays when talking about the mass we think of the don't go on first but only a century only a light colored drink was made it was called white christmas and it was on a filter. called. koehler the shia even started selling class in new york in hopes of winning over the american pallets to the motley fool mentioned russian drink with a particular crisp molds taste. the

russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs well. because the participant of the world festival of russian language and really exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. thanks for choosing a team from moscow tonight i'm kevin owen with our top story the g. twenty leaders agreeing not to use currencies as weapons to protect themselves while throwing up trouble for other countries. likely to translate into action. betrayed by the boss a russian newspaper says it's unmasked the man who it claims sold out to ten agents expelled from the u.s. this president says the revelations are no surprise and that he was aware of this all along also headlining for moscow israel is accusing pro palestinian charities of fueling the conflict in the region and supporting terrorism the activists say groundless several charities and. after israeli authorities. twenty to thirty. first metropolis like

a russian cosmonaut. have made a successful landing back on earth they spent five months doing tests of all sorts on the international space station. joseph stalin was responsible for the caps in which twenty two thousand people were killed the tragedy souder relations between moscow and warsaw. well up next we take a look at some of the latest and greatest from the world of high tech and.

is russia going to profit from it here's the way to the russian president. russia is promoting its currency the ruble as the new global reserve currency. is the ruble in trade with its neighbors including china but it wants to see two used more a working group has been created in an attempt to improve the reputation of the russian currency the plan is to turn moscow into world trade center the adoption of the ruble as a reserve currency would strengthen the russian economy and give it competitive advantages when it eventually joins the world trade organization. says the accession into the organization will happen next year but that we've heard many times before. hello mr welcome to the show thank you very much for coming well first of all let's talk about the g. twenty that is just that the just took place well first of all on the g. twenty leaders agreed and so to abstain from devaluation of their national currencies and this as president medvedev has put it i quote inspires optimism about the future what can guarantee that this agreement will be implemente

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because russian. we change it a little bit but you know we try and keep it as traditional schools i want to. bring the. fly most of the stuff in twice a week we bring it from china. and what you think about living here in moscow i love living here you know. three years every day it's exciting every day something it's unpredictable you don't know it's going to happen. and. not look forward to trying more of your chinese food in the future. it's coming in. some of the side a number of chinese tea houses have sprung up in the center of the capital at a cost few years the longest established being the tea cups in the emma tosh. russia is one of the world's great teacher inclinations and in moscow today a small cities can be found expensive exotic traditional and healthy once the beverage of chinese floral sedate with its spread across the world the methods of production and brewing have also undergone a sea change. and from tea sets to chinese lanterns the gift shop here has a range of exciting games. wel

russian titanic. woke up back to a spotlight on al gore and often just to remind of that my guest in the studio today is alexander enough the grandson of the legendary composer say that i am on the fires and it is also the director of the damani enough foundation mr a kind of we started speaking about the years that says that he gave us money enough spent abroad after he fled russia after the bolshevik revolution of one nine hundred seventy well was he closely following the events. in soviet russia and the soviet union was he interested in what was going on in the music and russian contemporary music what was in touch extremely extremely extremely interesting looking every day. you do over it what he did in new york times yes i'm sure you know yeah. yes that's where he his visit was not allowed to play for until fifty three thousand nine hundred fifty free for reasons he would have a little he was a very close look at this do you think that your family may have ever returned to live in russia once aga

to sell the best chinese food in the russian capital. and. we're going to do a fifty percent traditional chinese menu and fifty percent and we do traditional chinese food which are using lots of different sources. like traditional chinese and then we. make everything else. and what. capital i was brought here three years ago. found me and said in. here i am today the russians. chinese food it really is a new thing for them. i think it starting to grow to like chinese i think the flavors are a bit different for them. they used to. maybe blended. coming from the soviet era. but i think. it's catching on also the flavors i mean we have to sweeten everything. for this for that we take a lot of spice. because russian. we change a little bit but you know it's traditional. i want to. bring the. fly most of the stuff in twice a week we bring it from china. brought in from abroad and what you think about living here in moscow i love living here you know. three years every day it's exciting every day something it's unpredictable you don't know it'

george's arrest of the russian spy a political farce aimed at scoring political points to move forward with mistrust. one of russia's top investigative journalists was severely beaten in moscow his professional activity is suspected to be behind the attack. responsible because the smuggler one hundred five dollars in the us will sell it you to iran over four hundred poverty and despair for so many iraqis to smuggle back home to neighboring iran at the risk of their freedom and life. follows the dangerous traitor. and obama's party who suffers a defeat in the u.s. mint but some say it's common americans who have really lost interest but big businesses played a big part in deciding. with the top stories of the week today this is. in a fresh james bond style scandal between russia and georgia tbilisi this week confirmed that it had arrested thirteen people accused of spying for moscow russia says the whole story is a political fuss and the georgian authorities are simply attention seeking ahead of a nato summit and as a teaser reports many georgians fear the government's russian mania cou

and eleven am the russian capital you watching r t. welcome to the program first off the alleged russian arms trafficker viktor board has left thailand after being handed over to u.s. authorities it follows the thai government's decision to approve his extradition washington accuses the businessman of a number of crimes including trying to sell weapons to rubbles in colombia. and will bring of course more on this case as we get it in the meantime let's take a look at other stories that we're following for here in our top u.s. officials have urged the outgoing senator ratify the latest nuclear cuts treaty with russia before the end of the year they say america's national security depends on prompt ratification but as artie's guy an edge to account reports many republicans are banned on scrapping the deal. obviously this is going to be a last minute push to get this landmark deal passed through the senate before you newly elected officials step into office in january there is a very tense partisan game going on here in washington and the

russian troops. much of. it was very remarkable new speech came recently of all the successful joint operation we all expect out of this cooperation real continue in the future because the russian people are more full of their every day life. drugs. reapers a huge threat to all of us all of us. and you can always find more news videos and blogs on our website r.t. dot com let's take a look at some of our online stories now. there may lie some truth in the stereotype of bears roaming russian streets to find out why these wild encounters in the city found her may become a more common side. yeah it's a college education not an option for american students anymore discover why young people are being strangled by the kids of dad at r t. one of the most ambitious projects in history the international space station is marking a decade of manned operations this is the longest period of continuous human habitation outside the earth learn what it takes to become a space. november second two thousand the first permanent

and later talks to a top russian c.e.o. about the importance of developing an innovation economy you're going to resign says it could be just a matter of years before roe materials run out and that new forms of energy will be needed. in the next ten fifteen or twenty years the world economic architecture will change so much but the raw material sector will simply lose the significance it has today a considerable part of the ultimo bill fleet will operate totally differently it will be electrical environmentally clean etc who will then need us and our oil if the world stops consuming oil as an energy resource in such huge amounts and if we fail to diversify reorganize our economy and reduce innovative development then russia will turn out to be uncompetitive in the world market. where you can watch that interview in full that in the program here in l.t. . now china's emergence as a major economic superpower has raised concern among policymakers in washington they fear beijing's rise could result in the u.s. for the trade war

that a currency union between russia and the european union will be created that's a message from russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel who have pledged to strengthen economic ties between their countries. has more now from the german capital. judging by what we've heard today in berlin on friday russia and germany are continuing to move closer together an increasing and increasing cooperation which means russia and the european union are moving towards each other as well russia's prime minister vladimir putin and the german chancellor on go america will have been discussing joint ventures and projects in many years like energy and car making and other sectors joint projects joint investments both in business and science but even talked about the possibility of. currency union halls of course and that is something which is really far away at the moment hard to imagine right now but both of them have knowledged that this is something inevitable which would happen if they continue moving closer towards each other let's listen to what was going to put in i

moscow calls thailand's actions illegal sentence russian businessman of. the us to stand trial for trafficking arms to the world a war zone. a blow to the very foundations all the e.u. its president failing currency could drive the entire union down with it. and out of the. human race by. the us for abusing prisoners in afghanistan secret detention center with claims there are more cases of torture to be made public. global news twenty four seven you're with are live from moscow well moscow has dubbed thailand's extradition of russian businessmen to the u.s. as illegal washington is accused of using unprecedented political pressure to have him handed over america says the man nicknamed the merchant of death trafficked d'armes to dictators and conflict zones all around the world journalist and jackpot and brings us the details from bangkok. after the thai cabinet made its decision this morning mr byrd was rushed immediately to the airport by about fifty elite special forces including police snipers and handed straight over to u.s. drug enforcement agencies

russian business men big. challenges and weapons smuggling out of terrorism out of course in the us he was hasty exit only to. stay. plans for a year of only if it's an equal probably not a that was one of the allen columns of the naysayer in this been which has been hailed as the first stops and there were also. two israeli soldiers accused of using a palestinian child as a human shield to see a night same tunes much to the end of human rights groups and the international community. very warm welcomes he this is arty like from moscow with me on his head that russian businessman and alleged arms smuggler with the boot has pleaded not guilty to charges including terrorism and arms trafficking he was history extradited to the us from kong earlier this week and we've described by moscow as a legal reporter not to take up the story. a two and a half year campaign to get one russian citizen accused arm dealer victor boot begins to face american justice victor boot came into u.s. custody on tuesday set to stand tria

russians and by. recently you good luck with everything i had to say thank you. moving on to other indian themed locations in moscow first up let's take a look at the krishna temple various services are held here people gathering to read sing listen to and discuss sacred can do scriptures anyone can visit the temple the matter what your religion or nationality is a note even though elections are held in russian translated are available. the engine cultural center also offers a range of indian dance classes the complex office sessions of all levels and also provides the wonderful colorful costumes the catwalk is one of the eight forms of indian classical dances originating from northern india professional indian dance tutors passionately teach the classes of russians and foreigners the secrets behind each of the exotic moves. very much indian culture. by the dance dedication devotional discipline which we found in india similarly the found shelter so. if you fancy something asian about with a contempor