situation is different due to the fact that our southern borders with the former soviet states including the c.i.s. member states borders easy to cross the existing situation in the southern regions of the former u.s.s.r. dictate a necessity to introduce measures like registering new comers transit routes for drug trafficking to europe come through russia to that is why the registration procedure provides for order in european countries also and in my opinion we are doing everything right in this regard. special how safe is it now for foreigners to stay in the territory of the russian federation. because the pros look up the number of crimes committed against foreign nationals from the near abroad mainly the c.i.s. states dropped by twenty five percent last year while crimes against foreigners from the far broader have dropped by fifteen percent this is showing a stable trend towards a stabilization of the crime situation in moscow and it makes it possible to draw a long term conclusions. the citizens from the western countries and far abroad turn to police for help most foreigners speak english o

c.i.s. thank you so much. and we continue our top story today is russia's state owned bank which saw a successful privatization of a ten percent stake in the company on monday has decided to go ball up one of its rivals bank of moscow it to be wants to buy out one hundred percent a one a russian stopped by banks in the first half of the year currently the biggest shareholder of bank of moscow the moscow city government estimates the bank of six billion dollars but some minority shareholders even estimated up to nine and a hope in whether one of the tributes supervisory board members presidential aide which was against it was issued is that the jewel which didn't go through returned to process the tampa most was decided to become an international financial center. let's have a look at how the markets are faring that's our job in europe if so it is a quite a busy day euro zone g.d.p. figures along with economic sentiment data from germany and inflation figures from the u.k. . on choose from later in the day so far the european indices are flat minus and most financial stocks are in the road on foot see xstrata a

c.i.s. . well they start he talks to director of the nato information office in moscow bob the current state of relations between russia and the alliance as well as their prospects for the future. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello again or welcome to spotlight the interview show on r t. and today my guest on the show is robert.