theatre pay day came in the seventy's during the bolshoi successful tomorrow america going around audiences at the metropolitan old iraq and san francisco are. the world's biggest names in the it really like a charcoal chain and joined sutherland as both some duets with you know posts not are. not . i am. loathe. float. hello thank you for joining us today it's a great honor to carry here the pleasure is mine thanks for the invitation mayor started with a personal question straight away it was the last one on my list but once i saw you i decided to start with it ok you look gorgeous i'm sorry for what i'm saying is not fully proper at what you're aware you're in the history of both russia and the world culture and yet you make no secret of your age you make no secret of your diets you make no secret of your plastic surgeons why usually women are different. people know my age anyway to plastic surgeon i make no secret of his name because i like him very much he's a handsome man also i hope that looking at me elderly women who get on stage also consider that they should be looking after thems

reagan were to attend a concert at the bolshoi theater. and i must say that the u.s. security. protection at that time was a little heavy handed and they started to frisk just about everyone who was entering the bolshoi and as a result of that the concert the beginning of the cancer was late by almost an hour and that frankly upset over children that upset racer and they said well do we need to go to the concert do we need the last dinner that was to follow the concert and frankly at that time not as a psychologist but i said. that you know it's the heavy handed decision in a certain person the regroup of people let's not you know tarnish the great event very good summit with. making this a big deal and perhaps it helps because. everyone on the visit and then on a nice note well i want to talk a little more about crippling not clicking i mean you obviously speak to gorbachev and we speak to people there in a language so you understand a little more of their mentality and their their path of thinking did you ever maybe advise him uncertain approaches to certain persons. some top

. >> from the outside, all is calm at the bolshoi. inside, decorators are working around the clock to get this lavin complex restoration project closer to completion. far more than a fresh with paid has been needed here. in medieval concoction is being used. this was a theater is sinking into the ground. >> the reconstruction and restoration of one of the main symbols of russia is a very difficult process. the key task was to keep the building intact. we manage to do this thanks to a -- the building was suspended in the air and the foundations were taken away by hand. the opera house was built in 1776. its effort years of neglect. the main stage was closed in 2005 toward the restoration work. it was meant to reopen three years later. there's been a huge delays and it is now expected to be completed this october. what is finally being achieved here is reviving this bid to its further glory. whatever the reason -- what of the rooms that has had a facelift. but there is still work to do. russia hopes they will remain on track for october

will use their own bands that will have katherine jenkins a very popular opera singer will have the bolshoi ballet in the my belly will. dimitri quarter still ski there will be an all star host crew sharon stone and kevin spacey will also have my scene of amy and the russian are all group yes they really hurt or spearing i'd like to ask you this one for the last resort is popular known as gorbachev foundation but it's official name is the international foundation for social economic and political studies. do you think russian politicians for example in the government or industry duma c.s.k. are interested in your studies to do. list that i have said whenever we have the major project but not just one off thing but i always do our best to make the results available to everybody then take for example we did a major study on globalization it was a while ago this is important because globalization is the process that expects the world to be mostly so intellectuals have analyzed all those issues but people in practical politics often tend to ignore those intellectual findings that it is impracti

the national oil corporation or an all seeing it's a huge state run into allies that controls the bolshoi extraction and media concessions of hounds for a very small share so the arnold seems expected to privates and to be sold abroad to foreigners and mariel in particular british to some extent it naturally the americans and the british were very happy with the respect of that prospect collapsed and went up on the turn to be the first occasion he was considered a bloody dictator and that liberal reforms were needed with the liberal reforms may imply among other things the public has ation the end of see. gadhafi rhetoric started from the right conditions of marriage to just look the bombings over time and jettison the u.t.a. aircraft caused the campaign against gadhafi prior to that there was a campaign against gadhafi support for the artist republican army. before incidentally as far as the claim explosions are concerned air france shouldn't be blown up it's really horrible or it's a terrible thing israelis shot down the libyan aircraft which only mistreated over the sinai on broad dayl