go to if you go to new how you will hear russians russian speech so it will be. glamorous places i guess for the new generation of russians who grew up around europe the most expensive places are not necessarily the best so you'll see a lot of people you know go to shoreditch hanging out in soho they prefer their friends be rather than. well as i. would like to thank you. because scene of russia and the former soviet republics is not all about bush and pancakes why not try something new and right in the heart of london's mound of bone and buckle some accounts in the name of the beetle city opened in two thousand and ten and already has gained a reputation. venue specializes in central asian cuisine offering its international guess a chance to taste the exotic flayed is to stand. in stylish interiors two kitchens go through what you can see chefs at work making delicious bread in clay ovens and pulling needles into shape following the recipes which you've been passed down to generations these recipes has been passed on. she's very much in control in the kitchen sh

buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian art it's far more difficult for them to be in the run if i can put it this way during the option but they're very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that from the meat seventy's up to the ninety's the barriers for russian all known russian buyers and what are we talking about is it postboys contemporize it's over is a classic what kind of rethink everything you when you're talking about paintings it's can be eighteenth century can be nineteen century it can be early twentieth century porcelain one thousand century early twentieth century five vision silver bronze is we're used to so i can we stop to sell outcomes but more or less everything well i says that it's me in my place for a time so you can see by. christie's we can outside the particular night. it's so hard. some say has been revolutionised by young. hostages. from. teams coming in to spend their cash when the sun goes down. has never seemed so popular. every day. to the british. is a great place to spend time with friends just. the thing we have here a revo

we love russian. everybody and love the russian. they are going to have a man then that. night the idea that any. man. with more moved russians actually moving to the u.k. every year the ones according to the so london grads and in fact many experts say that russians about that this is the price the bruising the british army. has some might be afraid the relationship is such emerging markets others to. cherish in a new opportunities include trucks they bring. russian playwrights and i can schools have been very popular around the world for decades and the british capital is no exception very interesting pays off performed on the stage used by both russian and british companies. whenever there is a play on. usually trickles there is no doubt almost immediately when the national trust theatre does it or any private company or even. smaller fridge companies it's a put on a russian play. it's. so certain terms of service there is a huge bounce or a scare recently the show feels it has had a performance staged by the prominent person director say you are special titled the mar

of the russians are going to the society right . the society has reached traditions to reach our conscious and it was this is europe's largest your graphical library containing four hundred forty thousand volumes in russia yes. petersburg yes it has archives of various famous travelers like preserve. them. well in the us media hollywood has a great impact on everything. because they have this fantastic film indiana jones you've probably seen it's what they said made this profession very popular. but what about russia do russian students dream of becoming a traveling with the media even more everyone is thinking oh you go into business. that's exactly why we have decided to address this issue in the serious manner. if you consider all the trouble or some expeditions say of the past. two centuries you will realize that we need to do our best to promote this work and not just the government. popular people to should encourage people to love their country to explore their country to explore its nature it's just nice it is aaronson kraft

who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more difficult for them to. to be. put it this way during the auction but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that the meat seventy's up to the ninety's the. russian buyers what are we talking about. everything everything you when you're talking about. the nineteenth century it can be twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used to stop to see. that more or less everything. to the particular nightspot so. some say has. been happening for the past ten years from huge marketing. teams coming in on missions wanting to spend their cash when the sun goes down. has never seemed so popular. every day. to the british. it's a great place. just. the uk we have a revolution we would expect. this from russia is one of the boxes that we actually used to be probably allegedly revolution has dozens of different flavors of the great. it's a c. menu. drinks mix unshaken defection. absolutely the missus. from taking i mean these papers to make a major moves within the fashion art scenes appe

the president of the russian pilgrim. side spotlight will be back we'll be back in the studio in less than a minute. some . of. the men on. this street still keep seed secrets but now it's time to move feel the shooting of the soviet files nikita khrushchev's between black and white on oxy. well one one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemical city whether it's sonic boom city factory marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or destroyed corps reserves in the pacific for landing purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. welcome back

the kids spoke russian and i was very envious but at the same time happy but do you. say that that this board of diplomacy really happens on the grassroots level not only on the foreign ministry level is it happening this is very important well i hope it will happen the more cultural exchanges the more business the more people traveling i think the better off we are i mean people must understand in russia that for us the st petersburg region the leningrad old bust is extremely important it's a source of basin is it's a sort of source of exchange we work a lot in v board we'll work a lot in st petersburg i'm going up to petro squad tomorrow so it's a great business opportunity i met a lot of finnish business leaders here in st petersburg today and their basic message was that more finns should plug into the wonderful market resources that you have here so yeah i mean i do my main core business with sergey lavrov in moscow that's the diplomacy that i do and then the grassroots diplomacy here on the border is very important finish for a minister alexander stubb talking t

and whenever the russian see it or as the russian troop or is he wrong or right. it always attracts . a bigger man than a big number of friends and or didn't it's not you look back and see parties illegal drugs and the g.o.p. just said partying in bream's like this many young middle class machines live in london and that brings us to this week's guess. a little why do you think russians love london so much seven status i guess the level of the people that rational that they could makes here is aristocracy celebrities it was different it wasn't the say that we had in russia. you know you could go to elton john ball here you can do it now prob in moscow but you couldn't do that before so people i guess they're really detracted by all that and you work for a magazine so i presume that you were out everything a lot of different events and functions that's through a lot of what's the obvious and social scene like russians don't seem to congregate just in one place if you go to no boy if you go to if you go to new how you will hear russians russian speech so it will be.

does the embassy help british and russian relations i think the russian culture needs no major. introduction or advertisement here. because russia is a branch of the european christian civilization and i think we share the same. values who enter in the same perception of the good and bad. life and if you will and. there is no such thing as a cultural barrier between the two nations the russian cultural heritage is extremely. popular here to keep them around the word never. russian see it as a progression for is he wrong or right. it always attracts. a bigger man than a big number of friends and or do. its not look back and see parties illegal drugs and the g.o.p. just said partying in dreams like this many young middle class christians live in london and that brings us to this week's guests. to me a little bit why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say. that all of the people that. they could mix here aristocracy celebrities it was different it wasn't the say that we had in russia. you know you could go to elton john ball here you can do it now probably i

new russian ambassador to the u.k. he was formerly of the press department at the ministry in moscow is the academic thank you very much for talking to us he congratulations on your new pasting and a very warm welcome to london now as you took up your first post as a diplomat in one thousand nine hundred seventy six how do you think that working for the diplomatic service and diplomatic relations between countries in general have changed since then i think since that time you know there were quite a serious changes. first of all if you look at the gender of the leaders of the countries and the agenda of the negotiations between the ministers or foreign affairs you can find you know thirty thirty five years ago. more than fifty percent were the by little issues know when the ministers are meeting they are talking about the climate change they're talking about the international security so basically the big issues you know the global issues takes almost sixty or seventy percent of the agenda and that is very important th

strong buyers who are not russian who are interested but russian all out it's far more difficult for them to. to be. put it this way during the auction but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that the meet up to the ninety's the. russian bods one often talking about. everything you when you're talking about. the nineteenth century it can be twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used. to say. but. everything. to the particular spot so. when the sun. has never seen. every day. to the british. it's a great place. just. hundreds of. we have here. is one of those that we actually used to allegedly. offers dozens of different flavors of the great. taste see menu. drinks makes me shake in fiction. absolutely delicious. from taking i mean these papers to making major moves within the fashion and scenes appears the russians are now fixing everyone's lives in the u.k. while some are skeptical of these new foreign businessmen and women others embrace the collaboration and opportunity it brings it seems russians and the amazing culture they offer are in l

consular section issues two hundred thousand visas for russians who want to visit london the russian embassy says it supports the russian business while in britain offering assistance wherever possible but how does the embassy help british and russian relations i think the russian culture needs no major. introduction or advertisement here. because russia is a branch of the european christian civilization and i think we share the same. values fruitarian values the same perception of the good and bad. life and few will and. there is no such thing as a cultural barrier between the two nations the russian cultural heritage is extremely. popular here to kick them around the world over the russian. theatres of the russian troopers are right. it always attracts. a bigger man than a big number of friends and order. it's not all about him see parties illegal drugs and the g.i.p. just said partying in dreams like this many young middle class russians live in london and that brings us to this week's scares. me a little bit why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say. that

with the russian shareholders old take a b.p. one a u.k. cool don't choose to look barnaby peace deal with rosneft no we need the big agreed on the fourteenth of january to see what is seven point eight billion dollar stake in the company for nine point five percent of russian oil producer ross yes and that the two companies would also agree to joint venture to explore areas of the arctic water is not only that according to the russian shareholders it take a b.p. did not breach the terms of their own shots under which they should have been also emission and given first refusal on any major need ventures undertaken by b.p. in russia and this didn't happen so it went to cool to be justice microburst you say the both parties have been able to prevent entirely in accordance with common stand on this but now that the b.p. . shares top has been frozen the any discussions about the arctic exploration have been to fit in until the completion evolve a trade which is sure jude the february twenty fifth now we've had comment from the vice president of

now the russian foreign ministry has called ireland's expulsion of a russian diplomat and unfriendly move and promised it would respond. of six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year r.t. said workers cannot has the details ireland claims that this deportation of the russian diplomat as a result of an investigation we started right after last summer's spy scandal between moscow and washington when a group of people were found guilty in the united states of being secret russian agents some of them had irish last names including such popular surnames as murphy and finally irish authorities say that they started looking into how that was possible and now they're accusing the russian intelligence service of stealing six real existing irish identities in order to forge irish passports which were allegedly used to cover up some of these secret operations in the united states and just to remind you this was the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war in iran the whole group was deported from a

popular here to keep them and whenever the russian theater's russian troop for zero arrive. it always attracts. a big big number of foul. it's not me but embassy parties illegal drugs and the v.i.p. just said partying in bribes like this many young middle class russians live in london and that brings us to this week's scares. me a little bit why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say the level of the people that. they could mix here aristocracy celebrities it was different it wasn't the say that we had in russia. you know you could go to elton john ball here you can do it now probably in moscow but you couldn't do that before so people i guess were really detracted by all that and you were for magazine so i presume that you were out every single hour to different events and functions that's through a lot a lot what's the social scene like russians don't seem to congregate just in one place if you go to no boy if you go to if you go to new house you will hear russians russian speech so it will be glamorous places i guess for the new generation of russi

of strong buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more do. to be. put it this way during the option but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that for the meet up to the ninety's the four. known russian bottoms what are we talking about. everything everything you when you're talking about paintings can be eighteenth century can be nineteenth century it can be twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used to still i can stop to say. but more or less everything well. outside the particular nightspots so. some say has been revolutionized by the been happening for the past ten years from huge marketing events to networking teams coming in on missions wanting to spend their cash when the sun goes down. has never seemed so popular. every day. to the british. it's a great place to spend time with friends just. hundreds of. the work we have here a revolution we did extensive. process from russia is one of the boxes that we use is actually used in the private allegedly revolution office dozens of different flavors o

capital is no exception various russian plays often performed on the stage used by both russian. companies. whenever there is a play on. your. there is no doubt almost immediately when the national. or any a private company or even a. small fridge company is put on a russian play. it's so. certain in terms of there is a future about forest recently the shelf is hosted a performance staged by the prominent russian director so you are the chef titled the marriage the play is a comedy by the outstanding writer. britain almost two centuries ago the production remains popular still today performed by themes come from moscow event was cos the states a festival called russian classics of the mexico theater in great britain. one of the oldest most famous opera system five houses chrissy's which is founded in london in the seventeenth sixty's and sell week twice a year for the ocean itself chrissy's organizes. to give collectors a better chance to examine to learn more about the art pieces on offer to dish and . i just happen to coincide with chris. but i think that is more. to say now is

and and from italian into russian or. of languages and communication of very important but i watched all the three languages russian spanish and italian and been ousted by means of market economy and soon they find themselves on the fringe of the international exchanges you mean nothing else yes but with all my respect to the english language a deal it's not somebody evil plan which but a natural processes of say. i'll use english is simply convenient it has become today's esperanto for use. for everyone for us. i mean that ask around so it's not exactly a language but a means of communication a business or business in for diplomats right maybe for tourists or not for anything else you see it does not spread to cultural saw us we have a great interest to tell you in and spanish languages in russia in russia because we have good schools especially since spain and italy we have strong translations schools of literary translation translation of poetry translation of c. of on to among the best in our opinion. very difficult t

the russian foreign ministry has called our lives expulsion of a russian diplomat and all. and promised it would retaliate. in stolen identities of irish citizens as a cover for russian agents in the u.s. . and no war and no peace the stalemate between our media and azerbaijan has lasted for over sixteen years the conflict dates back to nine hundred eighty eight the nagorno-karabakh region mainly populated by armenians was part of the soviet republic of by john after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. declared independence which resulted in this several years of armed conflict a truce was signed in one thousand nine hundred for russia france and the us have been mediating talks since then well r.t. caught up with foreign ministers of both sides of the conflict watched their interviews throughout the day well to armenia now. according to russian a poor peace is better than a good war but is it always the case.

arctic which are very important today according to what the the the the russian leadership says. yeah definitely i mean it's an untapped resource the arctic it's very important from a climate change an environmental perspective it's very important from an energy perspective and therefore it becomes important also from an economic perspective we are members and founding members of the arctic council of seven states but we are not a coastline state like for instance russia canada and the united states and norway so we want to do some bilateral cooperation and that's why we today launched together with russian authorities a bilateral cooperation project with russia and i think the value added is if the northern passage ways and when the northern passage ways open up we have a lot of ice breakers a lot of good transport and i think it's an area where we can work very closely with our russian friends. there was this this agreement between helsinki and moscow over the in got out of the case and it has been making headlines for quite a while has any progress been reached over this dispu

it but this is all to come to mind from the russian capital twenty four hours a day top stories now this is the u.n. says the death toll in libya could be in the thousands as the government steps up the battle against protesters and as the west pushes for democratic change in troubled regions there's growth and their interference will add fuel to the fire. u.k.'s accuse of double standards by agreeing to action not just in a sort of a great plains of refusing to do the same for international terrorists but we can make fun of things for them the european arrest warrant system that doesn't require sufficient evidence before extradition. cost bursting the russian armed forces the government announces a multi-billion dollar program to upgrade its military equipment to tackle future threats present to me treatment it is a long term goal is to modernize the country. but as promised next martin andrews goes oriental here in the russian capital that's in this week's moscow arts. forgets course and struggle i personally think that sushi is now one of the most popular dishes in the us and cups all

the president of the russian pilgrim. side spotlight will be back shortly and we'll be back in the studio in less than a minute after a break so stay with. discovery . communicate with the wild. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you. welcome back to spotlight time all going off in just a reminder that my guest today in the studio here is said again the president of the russian geographical society. in two thousand and ten the russian geographical society held the international forums of which received a global public response would become a regular event for example are you planning to conduct another forum this year and what do you think about these forums practical value in general plates and. you know it was our first project of this kind to get through with the new search and see. this kind of. he's in great demand fury coliforms malta was the territorial dialogue our objective was to outline and present our interests and discuss them with our neighbors in the arctic let us say that there were de

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of the new mascot for the next winter olympics well a russian. defeat of the world number one tennis player carried in but that's the one ladies open i have that's plus the latest from ice hockey playoffs. a long welcome to the sport on r.g.p. coming to you from moscow with the room on call for of all the details are moments away but first off the headlines. tennis aces that has won out over defeats carolyn does not speak for the qatar ladies open sides all know about chalk a bitch meanwhile makes it three titles in a row in dubai. cage shell play offs western conference teams continue their quarterfinal series on saturday we have the latest scores plus to recap friday's action. steyn huzzah russia's basketball coach david glass announces he will stay with the team through to the london olympics in twenty two well. in tennis said that doesn't mean that obama has beaten the world's top female singles player karolyn was nowitzki the world number three russian producing an amazing display to lift the cots are ladies open side felt was no less heavil

and ireland's expelling a russian diplomat over spiral aided accusations w. claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. but they had lines in our special report that now american holocaust is coming right up. to syria was that they were bombing only steel and concrete that it was was a surgical war that they were. you know maintaining planetary instead when i got over there i found out to church passed both houses entire villages were being wiped out people just discovered the united states was fighting an entirely different kind of war than they claimed it was violating all of the international laws of war.

the russians and the french were delighted. i don't know who logged more but i think it was beneficial for all of us only. last year it was around the year of russia and france and the euro france and russia this year you doubled it russia in italy and italy and russia and russia. and russia what was the reason to intensify the cultural ties thank you but. there is no finance oriented plan behind this idea simply get to get acquainted with the spanish and italian cultures that we love and value. it turned out there waiting for us in spain and italy for all the best ballets trickle performances and dark exhibitions. and another reason we still have the money for eight. years. of the money is coming to an end. is huge funding investments in culture are not the same as in business they do not give direct returns. should do so by forming culture and intellect culture and education and all the two things that form. the nation's intellect the intellect and the values of every person's. culture is so important. to me information trans