those denying or approving crimes established by the nuremberg tribunal the russian public opinion research center asked what russians think of introducing criminal liability for their denial of the use of sars victory over germany sixty percent said they support the initiative twenty six percent disapproved of the idea back to peter or it before we went to the break here i know that robert intel has he wanted to say something is very lively discussion go ahead. yes there is one thing about that is quite unprecedented about the trials and that is the way in which the prosecutors had to prove that there was a conspiracy to commit all these these are the three main offenses and the notion of a conspiracy like this that there was this conspiracy to commit wars against peace . conspiracy to commit. war crimes and so on this is in my opinion one of the most slippery aspects of the case because because you have to prove a conspiracy but that the defense then has to say all they have to say is that they were ignorant of it and prove that they were ignorant but the more important point is that and this br

sparked a lot of debate and the issue of censorship is high on the agenda the russian public opinion research center conducted a survey and asked citizens what should be censored on the t.v. fifty seven percent said it was necessary to ban sex scenes fifteen percent wanted censorship of reality t.v. programs and the same percentage of people called for a filter on the use of bad language and the five percent say they want to see the coverage of tragedies and terrorist attacks censored how about eighty percent believe there should be no censorship at all on the russian t.v. back to peta ok stephen i'd like to go back to you because i want to talk more about values and that's what you were talking about again another comment i'd like to read about what i came across in preparing for this program a car a community of more materialistic morons who don't think blink twice about running around naked while swallowing live cockroaches if it means being cool and winning a million dollars to do so again i go back to the values because i've always believed and i liked how documentaries educated people made peo

special gambling zones created in other areas of the country according to the russian public opinion research center only six percent of russians keen on gambling most of them preparing cards and slot machines the poll has also stepless that relegating gambling to remote regions was the pool of seventy percent of russians however and that the fourteen percent believe victim the casinos will prove again bull to fall back to peta ok richard i go back to something you were saying earlier barney frank once they have loosened up the unlawful internet gambling in foresman act and he's his argument is that. tens of thousands of jobs i think thirty thousand have been mentioned and billions and billions of dollars of tax revenue could be generated in is this the way that you feel comfortable with the government me making money i mean ok they have deficits be they've just you know the the wall street has destroyed the economy for everybody but is this a way that you find appropriate to fill back the coffers. well the reason why. the reason why i would agree with congressman frank the government should regulat

according to a poll conducted by the public opinion research center the everetts russian is not a frequent fast food restaurants seventy percent of respondents said they have never eaten a false food forty percent admit going to foss food restaurants but only once a month and the other eleven percent say they have been to fast food restaurants once or twice during the whole lifetime and only four percent of russians say that visit fast food restaurants every week so perhaps this may explain why a base city in russia is thin on the ground. ok if i go back to kelly is obesity a class issue too because you have poor people earning less that's why they're poor they're they may be working a lot of hours expression during this economic crisis they buy cheap food that is not good for them so it's a matter of time in about of money in the in the kind of food culture that they're involved in and it becomes kind of cyclical there and they end up being obese their children are obese i mean is this an issue that needs to be it is what i'm getting at is a class issue as well. clashes class issues are i

pervasive with governments all over the world grappling to find solutions and recent public opinion research center survey gauge depression's attitude towards drug addiction thirty seven percent saw drug addiction as a symptom of wider social problems twenty nine percent view drug addiction as a disease which they believe should be treated in hospitals some say drug addicts represent a threat to social order and should be isolated from the rest of society and another six percent take a libertarian view believing drug abuse and its consequences is a matter of personal choice the russian government has a clear view of the problem president dmitry medvedev sees drugs as a threat to russia's national security and has committed huge resources to combating drug trafficking and addiction. ok before we went to the break we were talking about elements of criminalization of some drugs you want to continue your thought before the thought you were carrying before you into the break no i'll just continue briefly with that because of course there are massive problems associated with the with drugs regardless of

not yet convinced of social networking xm merits a recent poll conducted by russian public opinion research center found that fifty two percent of russians online use social networks thirty five percent said they do not through percent said they had given up spending time on social networking sites back to you peter. ok christina before we went to the break we were talking about the usage of information and i gave up the gave the example of credit cards and you retorted quite correctly before we went to the break that it's regulated so should facebook and other social networks be regulated like the anything else would be when it's gathering details on information personal information commercial information financial eccentrics i think that federal trade commission and other regulatory bodies should start explorations into regulation but i think that facebook's behavior does not stand for the rest of the industry and so i'm not going to take a program stance but i do think we have to remember that the law is very behind in terms of technology as an intellectual property lawyer i see this all the ti

billing me as citizens attempts to impose a luxury tax failed in the state duma russia's public opinion research center conducted a survey to gauge people's attitude towards luxury tax in times of crisis while fifty seven percent supported it twenty eight percent opposed taxing the finer things in life overhaul for respondents also expressed the belief that no luxury tax could help narrow the gap between rich and poor peter. curtis before we went to the break you want to finish your point about the luxury taxes go ahead . well i was making a point that we tried that in the us and it ends up hurting low and middle income workers because people cut back the rich cut back on purchasing the items that get hit with a luxury tax but in a broader sense taxing the rich doesn't just hurt the rich listen i don't have any great sympathy for the rich course they can afford to pay more but that's not the standard we should be using anybody with ten dollars in their pocket can afford to pay more taxes we should be looking at is the economic impact and when you tax the rich it hurts the rest of us they cut back on in