alexei thank you for being with us you come from a background in television what do you think that you're going to bring to this position that other people. well my background is larger than life but larger than to be i have started my career as a diplomats in the united nations in geneva i was part of the russian delegation. soviet the legation of. the committee on does arm and basically i never left the field of foreign policy studies so i would not say that i am new to the area. what. a person like me can bring i think during my work on to be i got a pretty accurate. feeling of. what the russian population and the russian citizens. think of russian foreign policy what kind of foreign policy they would like to. and. what images they have of their own country of themselves and how they place russia and themselves on the global scene i think it's very important that nation. foreign policy matches the. image that the population would like to have of the foreign policy the russian parliament and you as well you begin your work in the wake of much foreign criticism with regards to the parlia

optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral both in the united states and russia alexei pushkov i'd like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure. it's . politically. more news today voss says once again flared up. in these.

at the beginning of the second period alexei to put russia in front of people you have to play i mean i could stick by nick provisions a long way but to russia it was the first of the great bout easy heat that it is to restore power to midway through the game as chairman added his second of the not converting a powerplay thirteen minutes into that period of gave russia a three suit lead the pack rebounded off his skate right into the net there was past so minutes into the period the czechs got back into the game and still must relate it made it free all taking the game its overtime additional five minutes didn't produce the winner. lottery where the czechs rode their luck. for the final game of the competition. against reigning world champions finland for a start in about an hour. time. so regardless of the result this would get from today's game that already the channel one witness that's after beating russia on saturday the bread machine lost to sweden for two this is but before seeing it for us. russia and sweden started the clash cautiously however isn't a lot of small and didn't

while that game so atlanta star alexei come by he also returned to action for the first time in three months following an injury but it's what had been announced the former n.h.l. great would also help teach some children and support a charity that's close to his hans come across referee ports fifty nine hundred ninety four stanley cup winner and one thousand nine hundred sewell and pick champion alex a commonwealth has spent almost his entire career in the n.h.l. following eighteen seasons across the atlantic the thirty eight year old right wing signs at city year deal with moscow regions auckland last summer but away from the club make sure he has his talent to help future generations of players it's exciting for the kids because you always put yourself in their position when you're their age and they never had a chance to you know had a chance skated good with some superstar or whatever because of where. but they have the chance and a lot of a lot of players become and are good to come so they come to practices and school the kids for which is it's exciting for them and i know how

makes for terrible all given the holders out so alexei of all gov and anton support in left their rivals with no chance to look and had some problems with suiting but the team made such a great deal of russia among the ladies by the end of the second stage russia's meant more things in the shooting and fast on the track that beats their closest rivals czech republic. a survey by census seven seconds in france came home with bronze. what's available now where barcelona have won the club world cup that's after beating brazilian outfit santas in the final clash in japan it finished for nail in favor of pep guardiola as men the game bailed message versus naima was more like us alone against centers goalkeeper off the catalans dominated the game all the way through with the opening coming from lionel messi seventeen minutes in soon after that they doubled the lead for the european champions with a precise strike from inside the box passers third goal failed and remaining entry into a very first half the biggest piece for there to the break messi made it through to pass to the second club in t

while that game so atlanta star alexei kovalev of return to action for the first time in three months following an injury but it's what had been announced the former n.h.l. great would also help teach some children and support a charity that's close to his heart from a cost for every port. nine hundred ninety four stanley cup winner and one thousand nine hundred zero olympic champion alex sake of n.l.p. has spent almost his entire career in the n.h.l. following eighteen seasons across the atlantic the thirty eight year old right wing signed a two year deal with moscow regions are plans last summer but away from the club make sure he uses his talent to help future generations of players. it's exciting for the kids because you always put yourself in a deposition when you're buried sunday never had a chance to win or had a chance skate with it with a somewhat super star or whatever because they were. but they have a chance and a lot of a lot of person by the common man will become still the compu of practices and school the kids for which is this exciting for them and i know how the feel

this this is my go and do i want to become a legend by sticking with the i stuck in our atlanta star alexeicoverly of return to action on thursday night for the first time in three months following an injury buts while he's been out of the former n.h.l. great was busy teaching children and supporting a charity that's close to his heart but on closer at reports. fifth nine hundred ninety four stanley cup winner and one thousand nine hundred sewell in pic champion alex ache of an elf has spent almost his entire career in the n.h.l. following eighteen seasons across the atlantic the thirty eight year old right wing signs at city year deal with moscow region's auckland's last summer but away from the club makes sure he has his talent to help future generations of players it's exciting for the kids because you always put the stuff in the deposition when you're their age and they never had a chance to weigh in on had a chance stayed with it with a some superstar or a lot of the plug a player. but they have the chance and a lot of a lot of players by the common good to counsel the comp through pra

well that game so atlanta alexei cover your return to action for the first time in three months followingan injury but while he's been actually a former n.h.l. great has also helped to teach the kids and supporter charity that's close to his heart one cos are reports. nine hundred ninety four stanley cup winner and one thousand nine hundred sewell unpick champion and the sake of an elf has spent almost his entire career in the n.h.l. following eighteen seasons across the atlantic the thirty eight year old right wing signs at city here deal with moscow regions auckland's last summer but away from the club makes sure he is his talent to help future generations of players it's exciting for the kids because they always put in the coffin of their position on your show and they never had a chance to go in or had a chance skate with some superstar or whatever because of where. but they have a chance and a lot of a lot of players by the common will become still the comp through practices and school the kids for which is this exciting for them and i know how they feel like i want to feel the same

spotlight on today's program although no if asked the first deputy chairman of the russian central bank alexei what if russia is vulnerable to the external shocks including of course the eurozone crisis. hello again the welcome. to you shall. i love or not and today my program is. right. here has been particularly challenging for the world because christine legarde the left managing director says the financial crisis. pushing it to the great recession but russia relatively speaking has fared pretty well delivering growth and a balanced budget but still the risks ahead are real and russia remains vulnerable to external shocks like for example fall and as you propose so how will the country get two thousand and twelve asking first deputy chairman. back to see that. despite global economic instability russia has prospered in two thousand and eleven official say the end you inflation is at historic low it down to seven percent while g.d.p. almost five percent consumer loan rates have dropped significantly reaching the pre-crisis levels and deficit rates have risen the central bank also has the wor

laws take precedence and russia's courts metals magnate alexei much of the soft told r.t. the world trade body accepted the country as a member as you mentioned on friday and the boss of the steel giant severstal expects entry to spur much fairer decision making in russia's legal system. eastland of free will mourn those who for their own volition the species because of the pollution even those with early humans with regard. to cruel want to assure me uncertainties are good news or if you dream of going to pursue you want a little warning russian recession russia before you got me through three international growth computer going to be sure you love your little seven year old new show. timeouts take a look at the markets then the crude oil futures are urging higher than a two and a trading on tuesday oil is up for the second day on forecasts u.s. stockpiles are to decline adding pressure is speculation that for the second sanctions may be imposed against iran open its second largest producer. european stock markets shaken on the bulk of early losses on tuesday that's helpe

would dissolve this this state duma and call for new elections we also saw former finance minister alexeicouture in speak to the crowd he spoke officially on stage and he called for people who were involved in the so-called of vote rigging to be brought to justice and calls for snap elections in terms of the parliament really well as soon as we saw protests which happened almost immediately after the vote some of them sanctions others unsanctioned we heard reaction from both president medvedev and prime minister putin saying that protests are encouraged in terms of people coming out and voicing their demands and that's important for russia's political development and important that people are politically active as long as it stays within the law but we also just two days before this rally heard from president medvedev a proposal about some mass reforms to russia's political system disease centralized power from moscow but also to create more of a representative proportional system in the russian parliament there are a lot of different political parties and organizations that have been com

optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral he both in the united states and russia alexei pushkov i'd like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure. seemed . a. pity. from. the a. c. . on.

to discuss the consumer boom in russia i'm joined by alexei make a notion he is senior vice president of integration at pepsico and victor he's a managing partner at new merchandising technologies we also have ben eris he is editor in chief of business new europe and tom moody he's chief strategist of a critter but first let's look at how russia consumes. inhumanly jam to its first breath in russia in more and more people consumerism has entrapped buyers throughout the country the spending habits shooting up in the past years unlike the west that is suffering under the burden of the financial crisis raising economic turbulence and dined european currency russia remains a major resource exporter with the sec's rope or oil and gas making up in lion's share of the country's exports since defiled and russian g.d.p. has grown by an average of seven percent a year in the same period dollar income for head has grown by nearly twenty nine percent in your early rising from three hundred dollars a month after fifteen hundred in moscow and st petersburg i think russians are have their own can se

couldn't be president court due to poor health so the hearings were postponed till wednesday artie's alexei are chefs he has more the fate of ukraine so a prime minister still remains in the shadows because we understand according to her lawyers that according to the iranian law the appeal decision the decision on her appeal cannot be taken without due to a psycho herself presence in the court room and she is not here and there's also a great deal of control over c. on that story as well so some sources say that she has a very serious blood disease now the sources say that she has a ruptured spine and she cannot walk by herself that's why she was not delivered to the court building as of today on the other hand. the medical crew inside the detention center report that her condition is not as severe as it's been told and that in fact she can and she's able. so it's on this court session so it's a mystery why she was not delivered to the court building as of today now. it's being convicted to seven years in prison for abusing her power during when she signed gas deals with russia in two thous

was detained actually earlier this week and another i think it's fair to say up and coming star is alexei love on a he is a blogger very well known here in russia not so much in the west he was detained and will say detained for fifteen days so he didn't come to this rally a lot of his supporters were here what you don't hear a lot about him is about his nationalist line you know a lot about his anti-corruption work but you don't hear about his speeches about russia's for russia and so on but if you look a bit. so you can see in some of his speeches that he made earlier this week at protests there were some statements that could easily be clear be classified as hate speech one of his quotes was i will cut their throats so really some of the people that came out today don't necessarily associate themselves with a political party they came out for free and fair elections but a lot of different parties here today and a lot of different faces of opposition reporting from moscow and he's now a. well russia's election attracted worldwide attention and through some criticism from foreign policie

star the salt as well as the first man to walk in space alexei now the party's platform essentially revolves around modernizing the economy uprooting corruption and add to radicalism however united russia is also often criticized as bureaucratic inefficient and to some extent blamed for political and economic stagnation. and the second of the number of seats is the communist party headed by its own shall and. got off the communist saw the biggest opposition force in the country constantly in second place and one of the most prominent deputies in this sector of us of federal he's a nobel laureate in physics in two thousand and the communist party promises a not for the first nationalization of key industries they're often criticized for sticking to a platform that caters to an elderly constituency that still dreams of returning to the glory days of the soviet union. or another old timer of the russian the state duma. he's a leader of the liberal democratic party of russia now it's often called a one man party judy dobbs he is widely considered to be a show mad at his over as eccentric behavio

alexei miller who said that russia begad the south stream project in order to secure delivery of gas to europe without having to go through ukraine that was after key have caused a transit disruption saying the cost of russian energy supplies was too high as the prize talks of now got off the ground analysts say russia could cut the capacity of south korea or even abandon the project altogether ukraine comes to agree. christmas is over in most parts of the world but in russia the first of season has only just begun despite their concerns in europe and the u.s. shoppers still aren't slowing down and as our correspondent in the course of doubt russian men are at the forefront of the seasonal spending extra figure. year's eve as when the russians give gifts and this year they're going all out at least eighty one billion dollars will be spend this the center and the fifth of that will go towards presents consumer spending is expected to increase by twenty eight percent and muscovites will withdraw twenty percent more cash than any of the month of the year that's about five hundred sixty

the most well known i think it's fair to say now you get a lot of coverage from western media is alexei nonviolently he was arrested in fact last monday had an opposition rally so you see a lot of pictures of him being detained and he's actually being detained for fifteen days so he won't be at today's protests a lot of his supporters will be out here he's known as a really popular blogger who does have quite a following i have not really associated with any kind of party what you don't hear i said about him a lot is is is really i should say that what you do here is about his movement his anticorruption movements is what you're a lot about what you don't hear is his movement which which could be called quite nationalistic he's known to make speeches about how russia is just the russians and if you look at some of the video in fact from last saturday this of course was not shown on any kind of western media some of his statements were quite harsh he said stuff and i will go cut their throats of course refer. we're into the government so it's quite a violent hate speech kind of trend tha

love was confirmed alexei kudrin is replacement on friday mr vall of told r.t. he expects a continuation of his predecessor's policies and dump him very conservative. it's a very good news for the minister of finance because he will continue with the politics which was originated by the minister of foreign minister good reason and it means for the russians employed you know for the external world to be very conservative and stable terms of finance. let's have a look at the markets crude oil futures edged higher in electronic trading on tuesday but stay below ninety five dollars a barrel oil is up for the second day on four count but u.s. stockpiles declined citing pressure of speculation that further sanctions may be imposed against iraq opec second largest producer asian markets are mostly higher taking back a fraction of the previous session steep losses automakers a notable gain as honda motor added two and a half percent and mazda motor corporation put on one of the half percent hong kong shares have swiftly we covered in early trading banking stocks improve

probably i think it's fair to say the rising star of the opposition not affiliated with the party alexei not valid and he is a blogger very well known he writes a lot about his movement for anti-corruption here in russia where you don't hear a lot about him is nationalist line he often speaks about russia is for russians and if you listen to some of the speeches that he made at a protest on monday where he was arrested and is being detained for fifteen days so he wasn't here today a lot of his supporters out but what you don't know if you look closer at some of his speeches they do tend to be out excuse me they do tend to be on the line they hate speech is one of his quotes was i will cut their throats but the lot of people here are just coming out to demand free and fair elections not associating themselves with any specific party all right so i knew somehow where they live in central moscow thank you. updates of the opposition meeting in moscow are available on our website called you can get a minute by minute updates from our crew to various parts of the city plus view all the latest

one recent year ozone member which finds itself reluctant to pay you for others debts as artie's alexei or chefs reports. on paper these people live in one of the most prosperous economies of the baltic region reality their homeland. is the poorest country and after spending a year being part of the euro zone these people say the positive changes they were promised are nowhere to be seen at the home of a lot recently euro commission check their pensions are authorities told they received an average pension of six hundred this is far from reality pensions in greece which fifteen hundred here get around two hundred. a stone he adopted the usual last january but despite a general positive attitude towards the move until now it is mostly big businesses and politicians that are really enjoying the transition there are clearly some political advantage in terms of if you want locking a stone you're more firmly into the e.u. economic advantages as well in terms of investment the support for the euro is holding up very well people seem to be to see the advantages you may be politically rather th