see how differently people saying cool alexander solzhenitsyn was. we're not asking russians who folk know well as. i guess we could have received many similar answers do you know russians know solzhenitsyn and his legacy how important is it to them. think it's an option hopelessly i actually am not the right person to answer this question because i no longer consider myself a young person but i know to works by solzhenitsyn one day in the life of on denise rich and maturing this place they are now part of the school curriculum. children read them in the ninth tenth or eleventh grade it's up to the teacher to decide when the from this year and a bridge version of the gulag archipelago was introduced into the school program to alexander solzhenitsyn asked me to prepare it a short version has existed for a long time in the us and other countries but the material for bridge meant and the way how it was done are different from what edward erickson did in the u.s. so from now on this book will be studied in comprehensive schools. while in specialist school

to work of alexander solzhenitsyn. been published to build russia is solzhenitsyn's reaction to perestroika of the fact that. today. i mean you unfortunately and i mean it it's very relevant unfortunately you know one of what she feared was a voyager. one of his warnings where she added so what we have now is twenty five million compatriots from russia in kazakhstan. and other places and they're still barely treated in russia and here wrote about it but he wrote about the system of education we will lose several generations he wrote and we did land ownership elections he wrote on so many topics but things do not improve only get worse and make no headway that the article was not read by the government but people did read it at least twenty seven million copies of it were stalled in the come some of the newspaper published here. in the i mean it was later it's not so important that time it was like a bomb you could see people read meat everywhere the newspapers editors called us environment and told us that within a week

in the truth essentially alexander solzhenitsyn was one of the most famous russian writers and communist regime he passed away in two thousand and eight at the age of eighty nine leaving behind a rich heritage novels and historical works after being ousted from the u.s.s.r. by the communist regime the true freedom loving patriot lived and worked abroad until finally returning to russia in one nine hundred ninety four his wife has always been his best friend and his sister now often writes is that she manages the foundation how is she promoting her husband's ideas today here's the presidents are the foundation not the. novel but it's on the social need some of the gulag archipelago tells of the repressive machine russia communist leaders try to prevent the book from being published abroad but in nine hundred seventy three the gulag archipelago was printed in paris the following year. established a fund to help victims of the soviet regime and their families the u.s.s.r. . eighteen years ago the soldiers from the foundation moved to russia today they continue helping former political priso

the works of alexander solzhenitsyn i remember that when he was alive you plan to publish a complete thirty volume collected works by two thousand and ten which is this year actually. and this year is come internet and the progress. well as usual we are late and we will not manage to publish the entire thirty volumes by the end of the year however we've just published another three volumes so you can find fourteen volumes in bookstores already another two will be ready in a short while with those two the total amount will be sixteen which is after all more than a half there and they are the voice which require a lot of work on them and written comments so i'm hopeful that in three years it will finish in three years so there will still be the same petroleum. content of the collected works was prepared together by me and. it's done exactly as he wanted but there are only complete novels there. it's the most complete edition of the complete works is something a bit different a complete works edition usually contains different versions of novels and unfinished works and there are quite

host i'll go off talks to the wife of the great russian writer and communist regime opponent alexander solzhenitsyn that's to come shortly tonight after the weekend business update next. and i welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me. demand for world oil be higher than expected next year it will stay haul into two thousand and fifteen as according to the international energy agency brant crude traded over ninety one dollars this week ahead of the apec meeting on saturday but analysts a split a longer term outlook for the oil price touch out of reports. in contrast with many traders russia's finance minister. has a green prediction for oil prices sixty dollars per barrel within three years among those who agree with him feature rating agency says it's a fair price justified by fundamentals and stripped off speculation it is our view that a lot of producing countries are quite comfortable with the level of between sixty to seventy because it helps them balance their budgets but also think the price of between sixty to seventy companies can actually conduct and carry out some of the highe