people around the world and from here i must go already popping in the champagne so join me martha dandridge let me take a look at the merry christmas here in the russian capital. which origin newspapers have launched an anti soviet cartoon campaign backed by president saakashvili a number of soviet age monuments have already been dismantled across the country and schoolchildren are shown a documentary likening the u.s.s.r. to nazi germany but as r.t.s. our fourth reports may georgians feel nostalgic about their soviet past. the destruction is savior monuments a law banning savior symbols and now an anticipated documentary and a series of cartoons in local papers all part of an anti save it campaign currently being led by the cuban government that both the timing and methods of implementation have led many to question its real natives and then you say it's not just anti soviet propaganda but anti russian those conducting this campaign are trying to put russia on a par with the soviet union. it's been two decades since georgian independence and just two years since children attacked south thi

people around the world and from here at moscow already popping in the champagne so join me martha dandridge let me take a look at a merry christmas here in the russian capital. the western authorities are looking for areas a closer to tourist spots to build new zones for illegal gambling the gaming ban first enforced almost two years ago is widely seen as a failure and the original four official gambling spots just haven't taken off. stacks of cash and roofs of one armed bandits federal security service agents breed an illegal casino in moscow eighteen months ago a strict gambling law meant casinos in russia could only exist in four special zones but it failed then the show idea had to build gambling zones far away from residential areas just didn't work it takes several hours to get from the nearest airport to this casino in southern russia and as you can see the zone still doesn't look like gamblers paradise the distance according to regional authorities almost killed the whole idea some of the transportation is the key factor today we have a steady flow of gamblers coming to this casino