training places and russia we. actually have only one or two stadiums for the world cup and there is a long long road to the world cup so russia has the potential and it will feel that would be the reason to give first of all how important would it be for russia to win this very important because we have to build this infrastructure build the stadiums actually. build all the roads build the high speed trains between the communications the hotels for such a big tournament so. it will be a major breakthrough for the russian now the two countries that you see as the front runners england and is going to host the next olympics but russia has never hosted a world cup do you think that in a way enhances its chances to win this but yes i think so and the russian delegation thought so in the morning because. they save the state of the fact that eastern europe never got the chance to host the world cup bot we know that. falls into twelve ukraine and poland will host europe and. i mean that increases the chances to get the w

there we'll hear from russia and italy top. ten seconds after russia was such a step up thanks. so you eat sasha ole miss the point all sasha little milan's i'm a tom and he has max and up with us so who sasha then sasha is just a caption the maybe they chose the name because it rhymes with russia fashion russia there wasn't much in the way of coasting to become the joint face of russia the director wanted yon identical twin foodless and there's not many of them on. thank you because i know they called out dad and told him they need to twins because there wasn't much time it meant that i want to sweat the other one could sleep and this is how he left i was it took four weeks to make and a lot of work but the boy's father and i know it's a player and his son's first coach says it was worth it yes the dispersed oil in the happiest fog on earth no joke russia won the mud boys played a role too i'm so proud of the national he'll be even prouder if his kids now just a young full backs playing for a moscow football club ever take to the pitch in the colors of russia's national team i

russia relationship also in russia and and i think this agreement by getting this agreement rather of by we will open the doors for greater cooperation in the future ok if i go to you agree with the ambassador there are people in the political establishment rush would say yeah i see you can't trust these people see you can't ok he feeds upon the extremes in both sides unfortunately the extreme in the us seems to be mainstream go ahead. well the start treaty ratification also came up when the russian prime minister spoke to us prime time talk show host larry king but they were putin said that if america fails to seal the deal russia will have no choice but to build up its nuclear forces several other topics also came up in the latest wave of wiki leaks with putin saying it was no catastrophe because it was such a poorly kept secret but he did last out the assessment office with nations with as an inventive saying the comparison to robin was arrogant and unethical routines interview on c.n.n. on wednesday evening in the u.s. and is likely to be the last statesman to appear on their even

welcome to the money where the business of russia is business is business in russia reaching its potential what are the strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats in short what holds back businesses in russia today. to discuss administrative barriers to growth i'm joined by alex feld the coffee he is the general manager of leverage cement and also with me is on the way down that's he's president of alcoa russia ok first alex i'd like to go to you've been in russia since nineteen ninety two and of i so are you seeing it all really different calculated all right so given your global perspective here that's happened in russia in your experience in business what is the biggest single administrative barrier for your company to be a success here and i want to i want to talk about this year successes in the past and what you want in the future but you've given your time here what is the biggest thing it's got in the way i think the biggest thing we have in russia always is this huge amount of paper that we have to produce for everything for anything and it just just is enormous and you have t

russia. reporting from moscow. well artist tests are silly as in zurich where like the world cup voting will take place on thursday sales more on russia's chances to win and the scandals behind the. let's have a look at the a bit currently in the ready for the hosting rights and it's and today i have to present or add to a forward to have a bit more insight about that this how does russia fare compared with the other competitors and i think russia's bid is very strong simply because it is so different from its rivals its main rivals which are england and the joint bid from spain and portugal and russia has never hosted a world cup before england had it albeit back in one thousand nine hundred sixty six and spain had it in nine hundred eighty two and feature is very conscious that it should be giving the world cup to new parts of the world on top of that faith is very interested in the development of a legacy in the country so for example if russia was awarded this world cup it would be the catalyst for huge amounts

russia. well that's right it's been a very very exciting day it started off really with that intense a competitive spirit here we've heard from all the bidding countries for there were . twenty eight and finally it was down to the last to england and to russia of course after england's bid was england made the presentation there was a lot of talk that england was likely to win of course that casts a shadow of a doubt over russia's chances what as we know russia finally won the hosting rise of the world cup twenty eighteen now a lot of it has to do with russia was saying that the the reason why russia says it should get this is because there's a lot of need for there's a need for growth and development in russia would be do with would be living up to its philosophy of spreading the game it's more than just a game it's about here is humanity it's about people it's about bringing the game to places where it hasn't isn't as popular and so that is one of the key factors that has actually made russ

russia and the european union will sign a document on russia's accession to the world trade organization on december seventh and brussels that's according to deputy prime minister alex on the shock of in russia signed an agreement which included timber export tutors along with pricing formulas for goods and services russia which has been waiting its entry into w t o full seventeen years hopes to become a member next year. to look at the markets now u.s. stocks jumped into december strong gains as robust u.s. jobs figures and better fact trend data from china and the u.s. u.k. helped investors look past festering concerns in europe. and europe the footsie finished up more than two percent the dax gained two point seven percent at the close which was the biggest gain in three months as investors speculated that the sovereign debt crisis may force european central bank policymakers to expand their arsenal at their meeting on thursday for shared found six point two percent off to investors approved a six point six billion dollars stock sale to richie's big company because debt before its mer

russia relationship also in russia and i think this agreement by getting this agreement ratified we will open the doors for greater cooperation in the future ok if i go to you you agree with me ambassador there are people in the political establishment rush would say yeah i see you can't trust these people see you can't ok and it feeds upon the extremes on both sides unfortunately the extreme in the u.s. seems to be mainstream i. think you can. i. now of the start treaty is the basis of rebooting relations between moscow and washington another reset of ties on the table this time between russia and european security group fifty six member of states of the have gathered in kazakhstan for its first top level summit in more than a decade there russian president dmitry medvedev is pushing for a new security treaty for europe and it's ready to resolve differences over conventional arms in europe parties that are doing the work of a house more. president it has said that. our vision for security and cooperation in europe is currently seriously outdated indeed the last overseas summit took plac

ambassador in russia is is writing. former moscow mayor yuri luzhkov you're right he was and so on and so forth how he bribed the kremlin while the gulf was fired by the kremlin is september as we remember it because the president did interest in many more kind of the pointed out to the point about how much of the stuff released by week of these is actually new store or secret many of those cables are speculating on on rumors sort of hearsay. in washington there well russia is not alone in dismissing the wiki leaks disclosures even though the latest wave paints a bleak picture of russian politics this time detailing how spanish and american officials claim organized crime runs at high levels in russia it comes as the u.s. scrambles a diplomatic rescue mission often leaked cables revealed less than flattering opinions of other countries portnoy explains. a global partner in peace or paranoid superpower hungry for secrets our diplomats are doing what diplomats do around the world every day which is build relationships neg

russia has longstanding traditions secondly russia has never hosted a world cup before also a fever always supports the development of professional football by staging such major tournaments as the world cup host country is able to build stadiums and football infrastructure in order to develop world class. i think this is the most important thing on the beat is have already hosted world cups and you move the months so i think russia has a major chance both the financial and political situation in the country stable economy is growing and there is a huge desire to host the company that's what should help us to grow with. so i says so a lot of confidence coming from the russian capital makers are still putting out russia as one of their favorites and of course the russian cab is keeping their fingers crossed that they would get the clear majority voting process that will happen later this afternoon which we will be bringing to you live yes fingers crossed. thank you both very much. well it. has been gauging what russians themselves think of possibly hosting the world cup he says there was a

russia. reporting from moscow well as we've heard there's still a lot of work out to be done in russia but officials behind the russian bid are not looking at this as a disadvantage in fact they see this as an advantage a potential for growth and development to support as well as a fetus legacy. behind could be a massive now joining me to talk a little bit more about this is our sports presenter andrew farmer now adjure russia is pulling out the big guns that was the latest from the camp site the big guns but the big news at the moment is that prime minister putin will not be coming to europe he says he does not want to put unfair pressure on the faith the executive committee which will vote tomorrow another logic behind it is that mr putin was largely credited with bringing the winter olympics in sochi twenty fourteen to russia heated up in guatemala. see you then gave the vote to russia but this time around he says he wants russia to win the debate on its i marries and therefore he does not

russia's harvest fell. because of the summer drought the experts say weather was only partly to blame for the farming industry is an urgent need of improvement of all the details. you report to sound but not in russia this year the country lost transfusion million tonnes of green the government wants to cover any shortage by boosting next summer's plantings by caution but russia's farmers have their doubts . the banks cannot give loans to farmers whose debts are already restructured if the situation remains as it is now plantings may not increase but actually fall because farmers face the toughest financial situation in many years. grain crops declined by a third after the war struck one hundred thirty. she hears how with the nature can't cure all the blame analysts say sixty percent of losses were due to all took knowledge and practices. russia's wheat crop yield is a third of that of europe to improve we need access to modern see our seed industry has been lost and foreigners won't sell their technology t

here in russia the y. stocks the artist finished wednesday's session most of the main players behind it with gazprom leading the gains its shares stalled four point seven percent this comes after the german energy company on soda stayed in the russian gas giant. more in that news now the german energy company all is selling its three point five percent stake in gas for more than three billion euros russia is the bank with five two point seven percent the rest has already been sold in the market and says it will continue investing in russia's energy and gas sector. with gas problem early russian gas giant and ukraine's energy company naftogaz have agreed to create two joint ventures in ukraine the first will extract gas from coal beds the second to develop black sea offshore deposits parties didn't provide any further details. fountains of is a relatively small russian pharmaceutical company which is just raised almost eighteen million dollars deny p.o. in an exclusive interview with r.c. the company's chai

russia. reporting from moscow. well there's been a lot of attention given to russia the russian bid especially from the british press one of the main questions coming from them is whether prime minister vladimir putin is coming well now he said that he will be staying home and he's also made comments on the media allegations of corruption in a fever and now joining us in the discussion is r.t. sports presenter andrew farmer now andrew what do you what impact do you think it will have on russia's bid well it sounds like bad news doesn't it that mr putin is decided to stay home but actually could be a p.r. masterstroke because he's actually sounding very sympathetic towards fee for in the executive committee saying he's staying at home because he doesn't want to put pressure on them he's come out to criticize the timing of the media campaign which is alleged corruption within feet for saying that this whole event which is here really to decide who will host the next two world cups has turned into something of a smear

the more than russia russia that develops the russia over there he's with the european community we've been of the european community within the world community we're going to take a second to remind our audience of course that we have breaking news here on our team russia won the twenty eighteen bid to host the world cup let's listen in to the big announcement. twenty. ladies and gentlemen to be organized and. then amazing moment there are lots of excitement let's go back again to this presentation because obviously it had a major part of them winning the bid what do you think were the strong points of the russell bet i don't think that the presentation itself is something that could affect the executive committee the course everyone everyone and i think you know the way they go that well it's everything i don't think they really believe that any of the executive committee members they come to the office today and they didn't know what to do i will see in the presentation i will see david beckham on the stage and maybe i will decide if it's good i think everything will have been decid

during the summit between russia and india. recently we've done a lot to promote partnership between russia and india but yesterday i spent a whole day in new delhi and we hold talks we prepared and signed a number of documents on cooperation between our countries. yet in india russia is seen as a more friendly it is india's number one supplier offering it cutting edge weaponry such as beans and money. and now the countries of signing the biggest ever defense contract and he gets history thank you what billions of dollars and talking is a deal to jointly develop a fifth generation fighter aircraft costing nearly one million dollars apiece the jack will be able to compete with the american if you do raptor that costs three times as much at present the u.s. is the only country in such technology which is. even with. the new aircraft developed by russia and india would have steps teachers and noble for the ripley to be built for their forces energy is another sector the two countries are they stick together russia has agreed to bu

russia relationship also in russia and and i think this agreement by getting this agreement ratified we will open the doors for greater cooperation in the future ok if i go to you i mean i would like to repeat the question the republicans willing to throw away all of the improvements that we've seen in this bilateral relationship because it really would throw a wrench into the works because they'll be there and do you agree with the ambassador there are people in the political establishment in russia would say yes see you can't trust these people who see you can't ok and it feeds upon the extremes on both sides unfortunately the extreme in the u.s. seems to be mainstream go ahead. very much hope that it will not happen dead people both sides understand again i hope to fade if you'd be a pro but if not you still have a very important list. joined interest and sort of point out we have succeeded in finding a close understanding between the two countries i should note some point out that i have to discuss this issue on a proof or in the kremlin and it's not that it is completely symmetr

agent russia champ and replies to start a political career and if you look. at this football fans groups become infiltrated by white wing nationalist movements part of it is to protest says they need to be uprooted. and coming up next i'll see his guests whether kosovo is graduate turning into a criminal state supported by washington on dates nato allies close talkers up next . if you. live. well from the crosstalk i'm peter lavelle call so again on the brink after a less than successful election in allegations of organized crime including organ trafficking and heroin smuggling this self-proclaimed country is a threat to its neighbors. play. here.

to bring you all the latest on russia's win as well as all the celebrations taking place around the country tonight. russia will never provoke an arms race unless it's pushed to extremes prime minister putin sets the record straight on missile defense and his relationship with the president during an interview with veteran talk show host larry king. washington lands itself in hot water after a new leak exposes its true colors opinions of a so-called corrupt russia raise questions over u.s. politicians and their stereotypical. very good evening i'm kevin zero in this is r.t. it's ten pm thursday night and a huge good news story for russia dominating our coverage this evening for russia it's as good as winning the world cup itself the country has been awarded the right to host the sporting spectacle in twenty eighteen hours not only promises a feast of football but also billions of dollars of investment in a massive influx of tourists let's get some comment about this our correspondents are out and about across russia tonight and also in europe as well we're going to zero in right now andrew

respects that balance in russia the outcome of the vote in the u.s. senate has been well come from many in moscow it's a signal that the u.s. and russia can now open a new page of cooperation with the president obama did a really good job under rather difficult conditions if you managed to get this important treatments approved in the senate liquid now security for the next few years will be based on this treaty and in general i can say that it's easy for me to work with president obama on that list because you can really listen to him and he has he's not impeded by stereotypes of with and what is probably the most important thing for the illustration that will he keeps his promise that he should russian lawmakers made it clear they had no objections to the treaty advocates of the treaty see the outcome of the vote not so much as obama's victory but a victory for the whole world which on the one hand is going to have considerably. you were weapons of mass destruction and on the other hand two nuclear superpowers former adversaries actually trusting ea

to russia and of course. russia as well so we need to. focus on to invest in the infrastructure and the transportation to really get that up to scratch so the content we have all these sounds coming out to watch the games that will be in place and running smoothly much of that already underway here in st petersburg the new senate state it is already under construction it's take the new states the us arena i will be completed in just a couple of years' time and that then of course i will probably be the place where the world cup semifinals will be hasted i know that russia is successful. many many other cities across russia that will really better said this increase in investment now speaking to fifa referee. for us earlier on today and he was saying that it really will make an absolutely massive difference for many of the places that will now have been invested in that to build new stadiums and that will help for a grassroots level as well though you know that places searches and because it's all they've got major piles of place already a

ended up playing for russia and hoped that a world cup in russia might inspire others to follow in his footsteps the one i wasn't the easiest get to manage when i was little my feel scorch sore something. something more than just a terrible. football made me. it took me. forever to play. my coach believed in me but no one else did. and now the i ask you to believe them that's. and help shape the future afresh the process is relatively simple the winning bid for the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cups will need an absolute majority of twelve there are twenty two members on the thief executive committee it could mean in a final round of eighty two teams are tied on eleven if that happens the fate of president sepp blatter will have the casting vote he has made positive noises about russia's bid over the last few weeks and if russia did get through to that final round who knows he might push it russia's way but after winning there winning votes have been decided it's not clear but we do believe that the bidding teams will not know who's won but they aren't sure when his name

this is the on screen russia play itself on oxy. you. welcome back your weather team here is a look at the week's top stories the historic arms reduction deal between russia and the u.s. goes out to both countries the lower house of russia's parliament voted to give initial approval of the agreement on friday after it was approved for ratification by the u.s. senate a few days earlier. tensions fly high on the korean peninsula as. sacred nuclear war so carries out more war games speaking on state t.v. the north troops have accused the south of provoking them into attacking island last month. or so questions russia's findings in a crash which killed the former president and ninety five other people the labor leaders brother claims the body buried doesn't belong to. say moscow has conducted an investigation. from wiki leaks to wildfires the russian president has given his frank views on the events that shaped twenty ten sitting down with the country's leading t.v. channels dmitri medvedev looked abhaya slows the passing year we bring you t

still to come on the program the call for russia's deaf community today. while it's a sign of the times as the country's millions of hearing impaired people pledge to get that language record tonight. russia's most famous for agent is making you foray into politics as a leader with their reading united russia party as a youth movement on the chopper shot to fame during this summit in the u.s. as one of the number of agents swarmed between moscow and washington after the f.b.i. and covered a russian spy ring. washed ashore to call her new role. it was at this meeting of the young guards organization which was filled with a young audience looking towards a political future in russia that chapman turned up and gave her blessing to them she was elected to the public council of the organization and when she was given the microphone she gave them some words of encouragement. you know so many people who are sunni power fame and money but does all this make us happy probably we seem to need positive human emotion is he would be less negativity in society if each o

and coming up in the business update russia. and that's not just because of the family drought that's called a complete overhaul of the farming industry but have the details about thanks. live from moscow you're watching r t a welcome to the program well later on thursday football's governing body will make the biggest decision in sports will select who gets to host the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cups which for the winners will spark a decade of multi-billion dollar investment in those countries russia is among the favorites to stage the world's largest sporting event in eight years time and we're bringing you full coverage of decision day our correspondents are in switzerland where the bond well being is taking place and also in some of the places russia hopes to stage world cup matches under former first in zero eight they are untrue the presentations underway so it must be a real sense of excitement that now. yeah the excitement is growing here in jericho she said the bidding nations for the twenty eighteen w

to country russia will be the leader. it's nice to see there's still some spirit of patriotism and i feel happy for our homeland. and in other news washington lends itself not water off a new leak exposes its true colors opinions of a so-called corrupt russia raise questions over u.s. politicians and their stereotypical views secret diplomatic cables or just the latest in a string of documents released by whistle blowing web site wiki. and russian officials say they deeply doubt the credibility of fresh allegations against the country released by whistle blowing web site wiki leaks a secret u.s. diplomatic cables brand russia for organized crime and corruption with some even calling the country a mafia state allegations. also made against prime minister vladimir putin claiming that he did last a fortune in foreign banks during his time as president bush's press secretary is dismissed study information is quote utter rubbish saying it's a bunch of groundless rumors the file is the latest in a growing list of leaks originat

would want russia's actions will only be in reaction he said and russia will never be the one to provoke an arms race. but if we receive very negative to our suggestions and moreover if there's an addition with threats in the form of a new missing a show like new. have to maintain its security by taking. new missile strike systems against the new threats in your own borders and create new missiles because it's not a choice we do not want it and it's not a threat in any way we're just talking about what it waiting for us in case we can't reach an agreement on collaboration and. i repeat we do not want this little . regarding what was leaked by or there was a glowing website we prime minister which has said he doesn't see a catastrophe in what happened to sort of suggest that u.s. diplomats be more cautious with their internal correspondents but he also said there was a number of facts personal believe the hype around weekly leaks was created on purpose to be able to later or maybe use it as an instrument for reaching political goals nothing is known for sure but experts are looking into t

and russia who ignored the hype with cool cooperation. record heat wreaked havoc in russia with summer temperatures in twenty ten lingering at forty celsius for over a month hundreds of wildfires ravaged the country killing over fifty and leaving thousands homeless. the flames left the capital covered in a blanket of toxic smog for weeks almost caus mayor stay on vacation in the outs yuri luzhkov was sacked the next month with president medvedev saying he lacked confidence in the mayor and sergei sabean and soon became our scouse top man. officially our first in the middle east iran's bushehr nuclear power plant was launched and loaded and is said to be connected to the country's electric grid within months saving iran eleven million barrels of oil a year the plan design provided by specialists from russia which also provides the nuclear fuel and deals with the waste iran considers the launch a victory and proof of their peaceful atomic program despite criticism from the u.s. and israel. he never made it off the short list as time's perso

participation russia participated. exactly participated in the russian nato summit which had its own agenda indeed many political analysts are saying that the summit was successful indeed a new strategic concept was adopted nato and russia agreed that russia should be more involved in supporting nato to it is an afghanistan that they agreed to work together on a european missile defense system but there are other issues for instance that of urging russia to a knowledge it's decision to recognize south a said. the summit did not discuss our initiative on the european security treaty escapism i also believe there was no breakthrough on the c.f.e. treaty so odds say that was a summit of a major international organization concerned with security representatives of nato member states assess it as successful we for our part took note of its results nonetheless i want to stress we would really like to cooperate with nato in such areas as maintaining security in of ghana stand and central asia drugs illegal migration terrorism

as the country wide celebrations of russia's winner on the way we'll go live to. can offer is there reporting on an unusual way that football fans have come up with to cheer on team russia what we got for us to go. well it seems that the whole city was supporting russia's bid since cousin is one of the cities which is going to some of the games during the two thousand and eighteen football war and they supported russia's bid in their all unique way this pitch which i'm standing on right now it was used to a. man stop football match which the players were changing but it continued from eight am to around half an hour before the end else what the final announcement was made in europe and everybody found out what washington the announcement on this big t.v. screen installed here people came over to this indoor arena in the center of the city despite the fact that it's over minus twenty five degrees at the moment outside people gathered here was extremely extremely happy atmosphere the suspense when they were announced. the winner of that bid was almost unbearable but

russia's golden cards series are are substantial russia's economy is on the rise. g.d.p. seven percent annually we do not see any obstacle on the way of successful investment projects in the way of successfully. creating this infrastructure that is much needed not only for the world cup but for forward normal life standard in this country in general and many many people now think that we need this interest infrastructure specifically for the world cup we don't the world cup will benefit from the natural course of development in many of our countries regions but not just economically able to socially as well because russia's going to be opened up to hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of supporters are going to come over to watch the woke up and spots dispel some myths about russia which amongst people in the west the reputation image benefits are immense. it's very hard to overstate them because we it was our intention in the first place to really show a totally different country to the world to really see what it's like here that it's no different from any other count

these in many from other asian countries continue to flock to russia. although they get paid a lot less than native workers would be paid for the same job is still a lot more than they would have earned back home migrant workers are a very valuable resource countries with developed economies they do paid jobs that no one in the country wants to do. russia has the second largest number of immigrants in the world after the united states and there's plenty of jobs in industries such as construction and retail the flow of migrant workers doesn't show any signs of drying up even if the hours are long in the living conditions are cramped. palestinians have called on the you to recognize the west bank of the gaza strip as an independent states despite the peace process being frozen after settlement building resumed in september but up next our interview with rabbi andrew break of the american jewish committee. is no middle east peace solution is possible without israel. thank you very much for being with us today so we'll start with a question do you think is

tell you about my russia. i represent now modern russia a new generation of politicians who work for the government and who work for the future of my country i was born into court which is the remotest far north district of my country it's approximately ten hours flight from moscow which is where i ask is the immediate neighbor on the shores of arctic ocean and you know the normal temperatures for winter there minus.

and we disapprove of russia and the u.s. will start the new year with a treaty that has become a symbol of trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers i am glad that democrats and republicans came together to approve my top national security priority for this session of congress the new start treaty this is the most significant arms control agreement in nearly two decades and it will make us safer and reduce our nuclear arsenals along with russia. both states have some very significant reductions underway over the next ten years the countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty deployed warheads on each side the deal also limits the number of delivery vehicles and launchers but even with those cuts both russia and the u.s. will still hold more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so many agree that the value of the new arms reduction treaty is not just in reductions but i think it's also important to say that the significance of the treaty is much larger t

respects that balance in russia the outcome of the vote in the u.s. senate has been welcomed from many in moscow it's a signal that the u.s. and russia can now opening a new page of cooperation russian lawmakers made it clear they had no objections to the treaty and would pass it as soon as the u.s. did advocates of the treaty see the outcome of the vote not so much as obama's victory but a victory for the whole world which on the one hand is going to have considerably if you were weapons of mass destruction and on the other hand to nuclear superpowers former adversaries actually trusting each other and looking to work in hands to provide their security get a check on our team washington d.c. . and we will of course bring you more on the ratification of the start nuclear arms cuts treaty later this throughout the night so we can stay with us for that. russia's most famous female agent is now starting a political career it seems as one of the leaders of the youth movement anna chapman became known worldwide after the spy scandal earlier this year betwe

protests it's not certain whether many will brave the chance russia has. position saying the elections in belarus are its domestic business and it is not russia's business to comment on the way the elections were going the way the votes were counted and of course the outcome of that result the russian president had however expressed hope that belarus will follow a more democratic way of development in the future that ties between russia and belarus will continue to flourish as they have been partners and friends for a very long time but no strict comments about how russia views the election which many say is already a comment in itself. well the editor in global affairs magazine told me that some days protests in minsk took place because many think. when empowered. by things that people who went to the streets they doubt that. he can we but he can't win so much submissively so it's so i think it's it's a big. indication of nervousness of the regime the results are so high and the protests were beaten saw it first it seems like people started to be time to

with russia symbolizes the richness of poverty listenership with russia russia is a time tested friend of india that is stood by us in our times of need in the part. ours is a very special and privileged strategic partnership it is a partnership that has and really continue to develop independent of our relations with other countries our talks have been comprehensive and result oriented we have signed several important tech dream and covering a large number of sectors this city flecked howard mutual desire to bring over cooperation in other areas part with our traditionally strong cooperation in to free up defense and nuclear. i am particularly glad that we concluded and entered coming to leg human time cooperation in the aisle and gas sector this is the result of a lot of hard work put in by both sides and it reflects the complementarities between our two economies. we will work towards simply mentation through a mutually agreed road map we've really come the increasing role being played by the india russia forum on trade and investment and the c.e.o.'s cards we have signed agreements

or we've got the world cup coming to russia. the russian football markets of course a lot smaller than the larger european ones could russia hope to reverse this now through through hosting the world cup is going to see much more of an impetus a lot more younger people joining in in the game i don't think it's going to turn around that much but it's definitely a great boost much more money a lot more money is going to be put in. into the football clubs we're going to going to build new stadiums and the infrastructure is going to improve you'll have more people going to watch the actual football stadiums not on t.v. but the tourism side of it what's your take on the. obviously going to see huge influx of tourists for the games well i think tourists usually were interested in moscow and st petersburg for now they're going to visit cities like sorties around samarra. out of any of the world cup you know russia is really on a roll isn't it at the moment of course for those twenty forty lympics and all that development going on there

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