to be russian at least half russian or you prefer to observe as a foreigner in life from a distance well i'm not sure what i would prefer but the fact is that i was born and raised in london so although i was spoke russian with my mother and indeed i do speak excellent russian but i can't count that as my team and it's because my mother told me from childhood and although it turns out that i have now spent actually pretty much half my adult life in russia i'm still a foreigner here i'm still a foreigner and one of the things that i think a lot of russians why i was slightly nervous about this book appearing in russian is that above all it's a journey of of someone a foreigner albeit a foreigner with white close ties and with. the russian language it's a foreigners journey into russia trying to explain so i'm trying to explain to for myself and trying to explain for the reader so it's not a russian book about russia it's a foreigner's book about so in your book here you take a view of a foreigner but. and inside yourself you always consider yourself to be a londoner rather and that russia

and inside yourself you always consider yourself to be a londoner rather and that russian russian is something something from a book here for you this is early because actually i'm now my my wife is russian and now i'm there for my children and now three quarters so now i mean i should probably feel more at home in moscow doing london and i certainly find it more interesting to live in moscow than i do to spend time in one of the restaurants or surely better them taste. but this is the way that i think that there's a great letter from. russia great russian poet million to thought of a wrote from paris because she after the revolution she spent some years in paris and she writes to her friend on the mouth of a who's he remains in in leningrad the she can't bear this the she she misses the the visitor or the little one the little wind in russia. all the people in russia are. subjected to these sort of seismic events of history and. so i always thought even before i lived in russia that there was something in a more real and if you do have this feeling for this that arc and stuff there

get married and have a question about the russian version of russian translation the russian dish and the book the picture and the car cover shows your parents like resembling the famous statue of a worker and a peasant but if they if there's an estate you carry a hammer and sickle you are scary an x. . know whose idea. it was it was just a joke it's really hard is it is just a joke it's actually from a series of very funny photographs that were taken of my mother who is very young and she was a librarian and it's her. fooling around. to continue to be the work of the president of minnesota the actual picture i mean it's a it is a it was a shot of today it's a real photograph taken like many years ago had taken. that was your words far that it was just there was just just playing around. so they had neither am i nor. in the library i don't know but the numbers they got and they just sort of you know it was a series of sort of funny photographs ok well this sort of kidding would have been considered anti-semitism stands and you know i very much. tell me about the book tell me about the

russian cinemas always been very passionate one but it it was easy because i fell in love with russian cinema apart from you know my general education as a cinephile where i saw a lot of the soviet classics i mean i i happened to start researching russian cinema at a time when the conflict committee was opening the doors that had been locked so i also joined the fight you know and discuss with your skin or at the time if i could sort of look into people into those locked doors and what i found was what i thought was films. first choice and then his first feature it was easy you know to get excited about. such a dynamic zero. movement because it really felt like a movement. to understand you know the. this is the system that i created could also suppress those films but the passion for discovering new and new facets of russian cinema has not left me you did a lot to promote names like light like. german juniors very concerned and they and they do pretty well in venus and the festival but why don't film makers who who do well first of all european festivals they rarely have the big scree

murder of russian journalist. and in the u.s. all charges are dropped against former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn who had been accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. more headlines coming your way in less than half an hour but first our interview show spotlight here with r t don't go away. hello again you're welcome to spotlight the show on heart. today my guest in the studio is key to hear how the world economic forum in st petersburg president leaked e-mails a visit launched an investment fund aimed at healing the country's economy with borrowed money innovative businesses and high tech manufacturers stand among the main recipients of the promised cash flow to fulfill them vicious go the president sent one of the iconic figures of the best in the market to spearhead the project but where will the money be coming from here is the head of the russian direct investment fund. recently created russian direct investment plan bankrolled spross projects in a couple of months half a billion dollars will

do you think i i definitely consider myself russian. i'm british as well and we are of a lot to russian education too. and that sounds absolutely. but you chose to go to continue your work in england because what because the university you're in now gives you more research possibilities what else what if you compare well you already said in a couple of interviews that that the russian system of training in physics is the best in the world but after you trained compare russian and european british what are the differences. first of all let me let me tell you that it is absolutely normal practice that scientists draw from one lab to another to learn different techniques and obtain different skills i can tell you that if you get ph d. in holland for instance you want to be able to continue as opposed the get there because you would have to by law you would have to go away from the country ok there are some some some some researchers of course applied. was the to the major difference or probably one of the one of the good thing for me about

get married and have a question of their russian version of russian translation the russian version of the book the picture on the car cover shows your parents like resembling the famous statue of a worker and a present but if they if there is an especially carry a hammer and sickle you are scary an axe. whose idea. it was it was just a joke really thought it was just a joke it's actually from a series of very funny photographs that were taken my mother who is very young and she was a librarian and it's her. fooling around. pretending to be the work of the president of the distance and actually maybe an intern as i suppose it is that the shock of today it's a real political hell is going to take unlike many years you have taken money. that was you weren't far there it was just it was just just playing. so they had neither a hammer nor sit. in the library i don't know but based on this they come back and they just sort of give us a series of sort of funny photographs and ok well this sort of kidding would have been considered anti-semitic stance and you know i pretty much. ok now. it's

first of all russians russians living abroad like the nobel prize winner andrei game i recently talked to him are often less optimistic about skulk about then americans like yourself what makes you to mystically the adventurist spirits of americans they make them believe that it's going to happen i can tell you the following first of all there is no alternative. russia needs such a project if it is to make best use of its talent and. succeed as a developed country in the future russia has great resources but these are expendable they are being expended now they make the country wealthy at the present time but that will not last forever it needs to leverage its. human resources to assure the best possible future it needs to leverage those resources for the benefit of the country and to avoid their loss. otherwise as has happened so often in the past this talent will migrate abroad there are many other countries that have in mind the goals of the scope of a project they are fast implementing them if russia wants to retain its capacity to compete and it must do this now science in the u.s

young russians is a zero. may i say yes but i don't think this is accurate analogy with the gun a yeah. exactly terry jeffrey go ahead well i don't think this is really about communism a tool communism wasn't involved in the coup remember the coup plotters in their declaration never mention marx or lenin or communism they talk about the integrity of the soviet union and one has to remember that whilst many other non russian nations welcomed liberation from the soviet union the russians saw it as a deprivation and the russian communist party really represents two strands in russians thinking about their own country it represents of course soviet imperialism but it also represents the russian orthodox church the promise love me understanding of russia's history and it's an uneasy combination of the two and that's one reason why it hasn't really been all that effective it's trying to bring together two incompatible narratives about russia and persuade ordinary people that they should vote for that party ok do you

floor like a whole whole floor or all the rooms they're all russians were there oh this is the russian flyer but it doesn't happen in movies in the united states why russians represent a great school of cinematography why don't you flock together why don't you work as a team because because you quit it you wanted to do it to make american movies in america or because the producers try to keep your point and not that she was not like your blind eye but i wouldn't say that there is there is an attempt to really spread people around depending on their it new city actually at the class there was some moment where a group of three or four maybe five russians were working together as a team but. i don't know it's just my observation probably it's not very welcome to have people of the same cultural group be in a locked out from from the rest because in animation and i guess that in live action movies it's the same communication is the key it's extremely important to communicate with all the other people and when the people start being locked out and being isolated in a small group of their o

recently created russian direct investment plan will bankroll its first project in a couple of months a billion dollars will go towards madison pharmacy agriculture an important placement the deputy head of the russian central bank says much of this money will probably come from the middle east but the fund still has much work ahead to make everyone believe their investment question will be so. please. you're welcome to the show thank you for coming well first of all i wanted to ask you what makes your fund the new fund you're having different from other investment fund that are existing in the country because. people have been investing into russian economy for a long time i'm sure sure one of the key features is a core investment feature so we will be able to invest any money in any business unless there was at least the same amount of going vestment coming from lead in international investors so that's a very unique feature and it's very important because it always allows us to have second pairs of eyes looking over investments we are doing it allows us to bring foreign investment

this is one of the new hoops of russian aviation it's called the m.s. twenty womb and it's time to it is an airline of the twenty first century there's a lot riding on the fate of this plane it represents the efforts of a russian aircraft industry that so far failed to break into international markets and it will have to be as modern as it says it is to survive the competition. as a short to mid range passenger jet it will be going up against the likes of boeing seven three seven an airbus has a three twenty both will established planes its makers are fully aware of the challenge ahead we understand it will not we are not interested in this market. market. but we hope we will. all market. will succeed. they're confident the m s twenty one will be able to technically match its competitors with a third of it built like complicit materials and totally us it will save them the crucial substance fuel. present some. approximately fifteen percent or so of course operation of course. but the image twenty one also follows the earlier sukhoi superjet was one of t

and the russian the russian deputy head of the central bank mentioned the necessity of the tracting the arab capital the capital from arab countries to russia why such special attention to this part of the world to arab money well there is a first of all quite a bit of light as it has been managed for example of the drug universe plethora to manage and manage just over six hundred billion who gave investment office managers over two hundred fifty billion and we've been in discussions with both of them and they're very much interested was what russia just offer and we believe that russia offer us. what's so interesting investment opportunity to arab investors but they were just not so much focused on the region they preferred to invest in other parts of the world so being able to attract them as well as china and european fans from american france is actually good for the russian economy in the one of his speeches one of his recent speeches as a matter of fact prime minister putin promised that he would be protecting for investors and i think he even said personally taking care for inves

office of russians work and movies in the united states lots of russians in hollywood. but we never see them working as a teen i mean as a russian teen. it occurred to me when i when i read about these sciences the guys are good nobel prize in physics this year they have a russian floor but a whole whole floor all the rooms they're all russians with the oh this is the russian but it doesn't happen in movies in the united states why russians represent the great school of cinematography why don't you flock together why don't you work as a team because because you quoted you want to do it to make american movies in america or because the producers try to keep your point and not. place your blind eye but i wouldn't say that there is a there is an attempt to really spread people around depending on their ethnicity actually at because there was some moment where a group of three or four maybe five russians were working together as a team but. i don't know it's just my variation probably it's not very welcome to have people of the same cultural group be in a locked out from th

people have been investing into russian economy for a long time i'm sure sure one of the key features is a quote investment future so we will be able to invest any money in any business unless there was at least the same amount of going vestment coming from lead in international investors so that's a very unique feature and it's very important because it always allows us to have second pairs of eyes looking over investments we are doing it allows us to bring foreign investment into the russian economy before you were appointed president of this new fund you were president of the i can promise the equities that true what was so special about this company what was so special about the job you did there that made you fit and for the need and position that made president pick you personally for this new position i'm sure well we've been doing investments and i've been doing investments in russia for the last ten years and it's very important investment businesses to have a good track record so not only to make good investments but to have good ags it's so i've been lead into firms one is

russians would be so much brighter.

qualified to play for the russians for his mom's parents who were both born. adam didn't actually speak the language well when these in his youth and he gets on the plane to new zealand plenty of chance to practice good majority of the school don't speed. much english however the city needs as soon as he's one on top of these don't to nations customs. the attention of school in ninety six actually or a while ago now and what i know about russia is pretty much what i've been told by our parents fissions cultural things here and there was celebrated christmas russian traditions. are on the upbringing in the family burns is said to make his debut for russia on sunday against be english premiership side. as world cup finalists continue their tour of a ukraine that suffered two heavy defeat so far and coach kingsley jones is hopeful that the new import can provide the team with some much needed experience he brings that he he's got a slight twinge at the moment. we'll see him play on this trip and we'll see. he steps up and take him to the little is expected of the

most of them are russians and i know that she even worked at the so-called russian floor at the inverse of manchester although directories how that by russians so you are a british citizen game is a dutch citizen but do consider yourself still to be to be russian or or or british or i don't know european a what do you think oh. i definitely consider myself russian. i'm british as well and of the last two or russian education can steer. and that sounds absolutely. but you chose to go to continue your work in england because what. because the university you're in now gives you more research possibilities what else what if you compare well you already said in a couple of interviews that that the russian system of training in physical is the best in the world but after you trained compare russian and european british what are the differences. first of all let me. tell you that it is absolutely normal practice that scientists go from one lab to another to learn different techniques and obtain different skills i can tell you that if you go. in holland for instance you want to be able to conti

of course i would like some if you russian company was to become leaders in this market. were planning to stimulate. if you chose a company is to develop a position in this area but that the moment is a matter that we don't see a lot of problems in this market i remember that in the soviet times maps were of great secret i mean i mean you couldn't buy maps of some vast territories of the seventeen you because of military secrets is it still a problem in russia or were the or it's not no longer a problem actually the russian edition market started four years ago when this secrets. were removed in this industry in this area and now we don't have g.p.s. because because because google google because it was an absolutely obvious for everybody to those figures on the are not relevant anymore. so the moment don't see we don't have this problems there are some secrets and secretary stories. military . people. have other ways to. guarantee this secret i've read it in the paper is that starting in two thousand and thirteen all new cars i mean automobiles in russia on the russian ma

the russian company has become leaders in this market. we're planning to stimulate. your future was in line companies to develop the position in this area but at the moment there's a massive dossier of problems in this market i remember that in the soviet times naps were of great secret i mean i mean you couldn't buy maps of that territories of the soviet kenyan because of the military secrets is a problem in russia where the. no longer a problem actually the russian edition market started four years ago this secret. worry moved in this industry in this area and now we have g.p.s. because of the because. google because it was absolutely obvious for everybody to those figures on there were not relevant. so the more months i don't see we don't have this problems there are some secrets so secret territory is. really true. people. other ways to. guarantee their secret i've written to the paper is that starting in two thousand and thirteen all new cars then you go to bills in russia and the russian market will be equipped with. navigators how much will it cost. me and nec