had been marking his deputy prime minister and dmitri medvedev carbon of the. responsibility for government policy and media policy. his resignation follows a particularly fractious cabinet meeting with president putin yesterday where putin criticized the cabinet for ticking boxes but not following through with substantial policy reforms he called the their work superficial point. beg to differ during that meeting and his resignation was accepted by putin shortly afterwards he's called the great card listen why is that yeah. the evidence griese the great heart of the kremlin known by russia watchers everywhere he is the out of p.r. into the kremlin administration and is the concept architect behind what's known as sovereign democracy this was the ideological and political pillars around which found a lot of your putin built his early administrations so when democracy. advocated values of pride independence and what became known around the world as i guess as part of putin's don't lecture us stance when it came to democracy in transition particularly young democ

said well it's he's you're are you referring to school couple here and when worked with president medvedev of modernization he advocated setting up the school of a technology hold the research excellence hold the running outside moscow now. a strong vision for modernization of russian economy and bring innovation culture into russia's economy. most recently has been involved in a rather controversial. corruption probe. has been gazed in a public dialogue with one of the prosecutor spokesman's spokesman on that. it was stressed today that decision to resign had nothing to do that also well he also expressed recently in the london school of economics at a speech he gave last week that he might be looking at a return to the business world where he worked quite successfully. about racial it with more news here including the story of thousands of americans locked up for not paying their debts. every detail. every piece of metal. and every one of those who will step on red square on the ninth of may are ready. for the victory day parade. want the live coverage on r t. american civil liberties un

he said well it's easy you know are you referring to school cohere and when worked with president medvedev of modernization he advocated setting up the school of a technology hold the research excellence hold the running outside moscow now. a strong vision for modernization of russian economy and bring innovation culture into russia's economy. most recently has been involved in a rather cultural. corruption probe. has been used in a public dialogue with one of the prosecutors spokesman's spokesman. stressed today does a decision to resign have nothing to do that also will he also express recently the school of economics at a speech he gave last week so he might be looking at a return to the business world where he worked what success was. used to do just a couple minutes from now. israel's massive attack near damascus days ago why be syria's raging civil war then there's the issue of chemical weapons should western support of assad's enemies people drawn if it is proven the rebels are using them against their own people. choose your language. we can we know if. someone. chooses to use the

worked with president medvedev of modernization he advocated setting up the school of a technology hold the research excellence hold the running outside moscow now. a strong vision for modernization of russian economy and bring innovation culture into russia's economy. most recently has been involved in a rather controversial corruption probe. has been gauged in a public dialogue with one of the prosecutors spokesman's spokesman. stressed today the decision to resign had nothing to do. back in a few moments with more news for you including the story of thousands of americans locked up for not paying their debts. israel's massive attack near damascus days ago why be syria's raging civil war then there's the issue of chemical weapons should western support of assad's enemies people draw on if it is proven the rebels are using them against their own people. download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't go by with your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. and i welcome back the american civil

in the not too distant past he then went to work with president medvedev . from two thousand eight thousand and twelve with responsibility for modernization and again this is kind of conceptual. developing here and so in some way he was the key behind the concept of modernizing the russian economy and he was one of the key proponents of the innovation hope we know this is the. technical excellence and on the on the outskirts of moscow most recently as it has been involved there's been embroiled in a somewhat unseemly. case of corruption there are allegations that prosecutors inspected spoke of his office recently. was involved in a public exchange of views by way of open letters newspapers with one of the prosecutors spokesman. and express to someone happiness with that i had maybe that between. the goings on it's called and the present unhappiness with the government that he felt it was the right time to tender his resignation it should be said he's a somewhat poetic character he's a somewhat literary character and he did tell r.t. a couple of years ago in

modernization for president dmitry medvedev he was a. former owner of the skolkovo project which is the tech technical innovation hold based outside of moscow they found a number of very high profile deals because it made a visit visited silicon valley during his presidency to and made a couple of very high profile connections there and he. has been mired in. controversy where some have been accused of misappropriating up to half a million dollars of phones i think probably saw that that was something he didn't want to have to deal with on his watch and it may have informed his decision to resign it may not we don't have clarity from him or from the administration on that ok thank you ivan it's news that it's at a crossing i'll be back in a few moments with more news for you including the story of thousands of americans locked up for not paying their debts. i. have to know the song and good morning we will remember that we will leave. that. mission. critical free. free. free. free. free. free. video for your media project free media r.t.

many people watching this service i understand also the prime minister and the president putin and medvedev are in attendance too is that usual today was attend the easter services thing this is their personal choice as far as i know mr putin preferred to attend services in their small. rural areas or in the small cities around russia and now he is for the first time. as far as i can recall for the easter service in christ the savior cathedral. this is not the sort of something official i mean they're more like. private citizens in the church here well i hold they're praying to well it's certainly a spectacular setting and you can follow this live on our website. at the moment to learn he's been giving some live commentary as we've been following it the live transmission from across a save a cathedral there in central moscow in the meantime thank you very much indeed executive editor of the journal of the moscow patriarchate chaplin thank you very much thank you. for coming up after the break altie delves into the beautiful but brutal world a ballerina training its blood sweat and ballet in

with respect to -- to russia, i mean, here we are, the president met with president medvedev in 2010, and the two of them in a press conference talked about the mox facility and the agreement on mox, and here we are three years later with this president submitting a budget number that in fact -- in effect starves this program and would have the obvious intended result of eliminating this program and thus breaking his word with president medvedev in 2010, and also breaking the united states agreement with russia. that has the potential to have very serious consequences on the international stage. also abandoning the project is going to have severe economic impacts to both the state of georgia and the state of south carolina because of the individuals that have been working there for now senator isakson said 50 years. we -- it's also going to strand up to 64 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium, and where else is it going to go? there is no place for it to go. there is no state jumping up and down saying please bring your uranium and your plutonium to my state and we will deal with it

we need to make a deal with medvedev and putin. never, ever will put down their arms.need to threaten them homages -- we need tod trenton -- we need to threaten them just like putin did in yugoslavia. this goes on and on. i have given up on the middle east because these people cannot help themselves. we need russia and america to deal with this, just like we did in world war ii. we did the meeting there. we will see how we can deal with this. gass bigger than the sarin which is a fake. they have pesticides sold all over that country, syria appeared one of those six or seven terrorists groups that are involved there probably want america to go there and find a place for them, like the taliban. they are out there. everybody wants a piece of syria because any country there .annot manage i just give up. i give up. thank you, c-span, for allowing me to speak. host: for janie a beach, virginia, thomas is a republican. -- virginia beach, virginia. caller: much of the problem is with syria or any of the countries is that in our own country, our own government has taken the tac

dimitri medvedev you take a shot. , it has to be competitive. we did not want to toss in their unverified atmosphere. we had worked on the three or four areas which had been growing and will continue to grow throughout the region. each of the cultures in the region had been making sustained investment. sectors that framed the entire .ealth delivery system logistics'. everyone wants to move products and products throughout the region. and we need to do this efficiently and in a way that protects the produce from point a to point b. very expeditiously. advanced manufacturing. mexico is producing more engineers today, i think, than the united states. these are areas in which we are all invested. there has been an enormous of vantage i am beginning to think together about how to invest more smartly on that. pilot do that, we suggest programs initially in which people get educated by common standards. this is a very difficult thing to do. that is why it has been suggested that we start little pilot projects. we have work with unions, universities, wh