nabhan just a reminder that my guest on the show today is set again of course russian deputy foreign minister your excellency you just mentioned the former soviet republics really enter great in today as being our allies the allies of modern russia but the last war russia conducted the the conflict with georgia not a single country of which you mention as the russian allies has been an ally in this conflict why even virtually i wouldn't describe it the way you did because number one there was a georgian attack on south a city and russian peacekeepers russian never asked for any military assistance because we believed time was sharp we need to react immediately subsequently we worked in order to ensure that there is a plan in place that you know creates a better situation for this territory for the new independent state of south and for there we do think time will come when everyone around including our immediate neighbors recognize the new reality but we are not begging for it with think it's self-explanatory what happened there i think it's fine how worked with our allies on this is

welcome back to spotlight i'm angry nabhan just a reminder that my guest on the show today is alex lucaya and he's the first deputy chairman of the russian central bank and we're discussing the financial results of two thousand and eleven and maybe what it's awaiting in two thousand and twelve mr kif. the. i.m.f. and i would say mr brett he was interviewed by spotlight couple of weeks ago and he said that russia has the potential to grow six percent per year. you said that sitting in your chair would you agree with this assessment from the i.m.f. or. not so optimistic about the potential i believe in. future and global cost focused not so high and russian prosperous and not so high because well very much dependent on the global demand demand for commodities demand for export and they demand pretty much dependence of the rate of growth in the parts of the world i very much believe that the general rate of growth will go on down i mean in developed countries will be something around one point half to two percent and even in emerging markets where it will go down hopefully not so fast all is

while come back to the spotlight i am algor nabhan just a reminder that my guest on the show today is richard stallman founder of the free software movement richard we've got we've got dozens of questions from our viewers and here's one from a man called k.z. and andre he put a question to you on our website what can the free software movement do to convince people to use free software instead of buying have only more akin in proprietary products because. some people still believe that that windows or mac. well it works better than that free stuff well they don't realize that it's full of malicious features it's basically an instrument to give someone else power over them and this power is being abused constantly so what i do to try to show people why they should move to freedom respecting free software. is i don't talk about practical things mere convenience because you know free software in some cases is convenient in some cases less so just as proprietary software in some cases given that in some cases less so they're not all incompetent i'm not going to claim that but they never r