is the economic breadbasket of the russian federation and the investment in human capital and economic terms, the chinese government is making in the region, dwarfs what the russian government has done. places like a lot of vostok are closer geographically to beijing and moscow. what data map. these regions on russia's distant east which is in a very real sense still treated by people in moscow as an economic and political backwater are increasingly transforming and beginning to view themselves as asian generally and chinese specifically. back tees up a massive problem for russia because not only is russia not able to pivot to asia economically, it simply doesn't have control over it that territory, it is one in which real territorial conflict can arise and a rise soon. for those that don't know, this is a territory that cumulatively the russian government and the government of china have tussled over for centuries. the border was demarcated in 2001 by treaty called friendship and good neighbor but that is not infinite. the russian negotiators of the treaty tried to make it infinite, n

today something like 1% of the russian federation is estimated to be hiv-positive. and this is being perpetuated and expanded by russia's own culture of drug use. russia has according -- and notice by the way i think it's important to stress we are talking about u.n. statistics which are not the most forward looking on demographics but they certainly can be said to be the most impartial because they do these aggregations for every country around the world. according to the u.n. statistics, the russian consumption alone accounts for more than a fifth of heroin used worldwide. and since injectable or a primary means of the hiv virus, this is or chemically linked the problems russia is experiencing with hiv/aids. now, if russia accounts for a fifth or more of all heroin consumed globally, notice the trend line, more than one-third according to the u.n. of injectable drug users and russia are hiv-positive. and then you understand why one russian experts themselves talk about hiv and aids in the context of an epidemic, one that they have a very hard time getting their ha

discipline good fighting kit and good studies i serve the russian federation. my wish is for these guys to serve conscientiously. well for the year so that in the event of war. or any other unforeseen circumstances we'll be able to fulfill our combat role honorably. there's no question my time in boot camp has been the most physically demanding of my life but you quickly feel that you're part of something special. the sense of comradeship is very genuine here even for an outsider. i've got no doubts that in a combat situation these guys would lay down their lives for each other among a group of nonprofessional soldiers many still teenagers that shocked me most of all some of them will stay in through others like me i destined for regiments around russia. still possible all get the opportunity to redeem myself but for now i'm on leave. you already know that. pulls. a. little writes. a. little. pink the young girls can bowl for the future harder. between two and three hundred million guns the united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away f

discipline good fighting good and good studies i serve the russian federation. my wishes for these guys to serve conscientiously. well for the year so that in the event of war. or any other unforeseen circumstances we'll be able to fulfil our combat role. there's no question my time in boot camp has been the most physically demanding of my life but you quickly feel that you're part of something special. a sense of comradeship is very genuine here even for an outsider. i've got no doubts that in a combat situation these guys would lay down their lives for each other among a group of nonprofessional soldiers many still teenagers that shocked me most of all some of them will stay in through others like me are destined for regiments around russia. still possible oh get the opportunity to redeem myself but for now i'm on leave. although you already know that. choose your language clearly we can without any financial planner say still some of us. choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact your life choose b

1971 the home port for the mediterranean flotilla so preserving the stability is huge for the russian federation but the benefits still remain to be seen. from damascus ec president putin jet off to tehran where he talks about russian cooperation and the potential reactivation of the sale of the nuclear missiles to the iranian regime something that was tabled in moscow. so not a great progress but all of this is symptomatic of something that we sense when we look at u.s. foreign policy in the middle east is not very strategic in not very assertive there has been in a effort of the strategic advantage so it projects a country on the march but if you look at what is happening within russia itself it is fairly clear that perception is wrong. internally it is a transformation that when it sets in in every bit as big as the collapse of the soviet union. this of people is the product of three trends that will leverage now been contradictory in a very dramatic way. russia is dying demographically speaking. if you are not a demographer good for you. [laughter] not exciting profession but 2.one is the ma

discipline good fighting good and good studies i serve the russian federation. my wish is for these guys to serve conscientiously. well for the year so that in the event of war. or any other unforeseen circumstances we'll be able to fulfil our combat role. there's no question my time in boot camp has been the most physically demanding of my life but you quickly feel that you're part of something special. the sense of comradeship is very genuine here even for an outsider. i've got no doubts that in a combat situation these guys would lay down their lives for each other among a group of nonprofessional soldiers many still teenagers that shocked me most of all. some of them will stay and others like me that destined for regiments around russia. still possible all get the opportunity to redeem myself but for now i'm on leave. you already know that. they all told me my language well but i will only react to situations as i have read the reports so unlike the players no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say it's.

course none of us could have anticipated the dramatic development of the agreement between the russian federation and the united states in geneva and so the visit no started under very different premises really than when they went in the first time now imagine how difficult it was for your colleagues to work on the ground and i reported extensively from syria actually a company of u.n. inspectors several times on various trips around damascus and to ah they're serious it isn't serious i can certainly understand how physically demanding and psychologically stressful that can be but i also would like our viewers to understand that when we talk about the u.n. investigation what we actually mean is a group of u.n. inspectors driving at any particular side spending there anywhere between two and maybe five to six hours and in that very short period of time they have to inspect the side they have to collect the samples they have to talk to the witnesses and survivors and i'm sure nobody does that professional is but i have to ask you. how limiting do you think are the time and security constraints on t

in geneva between the russian federation and the united states it started with the accession of syria to the chemical weapons convention and it started with a new momentum towards a political solution so you've basically got three pillars and the three pillars are chemical weapons the second is the political solution and of course the humanitarian solution now it also has to involve the syrian opposition and in order to conduct your investigation on the ground you had to maintain certain context within militarized that position i wonder how did you go about it logistically did you have to rely on you know any of the un members to how open those channels of communication with the opposition what happened for us the as you know we have a country team a u.n. country team in syria the country to mislocated in damascus they also have some outlying offices there are providing humanitarian aid and obviously we have a contingent there of security offices and they basically helped us because they have obviously contacts because you can't move around if you want to distribute your insurance sup

the first vice prime minister of the russian federation he was the one who handed the flame in in athens by the greek side and now he's brought it to moscow. the media i think these are good yeah. i think. so this is. happening this efficient protocol the they're welcoming by the by the regiment the presidential regiment. they're now playing the greeting tune. to greet the olympic flame in the russian capital for the first time in three decades that is. of course what we should wear is the lympics live in that lantern that was lit from the cold room yesterday it's not the official olympic torch itself is it yes. we understand that the olympic torch will be lit at the ceremony at the red square now it will be carried in this little lantern to the red square supported by as i said the motorcade of the night wolves biker group and that's where that the rest where that's where the biggest ceremony will take place . over the north and well a lot of time africa is in the making sure this goes smoothly of course perish the thought what should happen if the flame of a blue out is there a spare.

almost three thousand cities towns and villages across the russian federation at some point of time it will go into the outer space it will reach the bottom of the lake baikal the biggest lake in russia it will also reach the peak of the mountain the highest peak in russia as well so the olympic flame will cover huge distance and also another record here that almost one hundred thirty million people will be able to witness or participate in the torch relay because ninety percent of the russian population will be within an hour's reach of the torch relay route so this is definitely huge not only for russia but for the history of the winter olympic games so it will last for one hundred twenty three days starting from tomorrow from october the seventh and will culminate on the opening night of these sorts of twenty two games on every the second and next year of course we'll be following every step of the torch relay we even designed a special website where you can be able to keep track of the olympics and our cameras will follow the olympic flame the olympic torch every step of the way ma

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way to resolve the situation so would you from this day forward the supremes soviet of the russian federation and its deputies discontinued their legislative administrative and executive functions. responded with a decree removing him from the presidency. vice president was appointed as the country's new. and ignored parliament and surrounded the white house with bob why i . eventually society split in two. and for the political crisis the other called on the supreme soviet to resign voluntarily. wilson won the elections what happened in one thousand nine hundred three was two groups fighting for power we voted for yeltsin in a referendum deputies of the supreme soviet didn't appeal to us at all we had to support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war. the government didn't want a communist rally in central moscow many of these people who supported the supremes serviette were convinced that yeltsin's resignation would make it possible to reinstate the fall of the soviet union and put an end to poverty. slogans which ended outside the walls of the white house. came to new ten soviet po

way to resolve the situation so would you from this day forward the supremes soviet of the russian federation and its deputies discontinued their legislative administrative and indeed executive functions. responded by the decree removing yeltsin from the presidency. vice president alexander it's going was appointed as the country's new . ignored parliament and surrounded the white house with. eventually society split in two. and for the political crisis the other called on the supreme soviet to resign voluntarily. and won the elections what happened in one thousand nine hundred three was two groups fighting for power we voted for yeltsin in the referendum deputies of the supreme soviet didn't appeal to us at all we had to support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war. the government didn't want a communist rally in central moscow many of these people who supported the supremes serviette were convinced that yeltsin's resignation would make it possible to reinstate the fall of the soviet union and put an end to poverty. slogans which chanted outside the walls of the white house. we cam

we are fully prepared to revive our friendship with the russian federation. we realize that it will be difficult. i hope that russia will feel the same way about georgia. together with his supporters cockup indicated say is now writing a book called two hundred years of occupation according to him georgia never wanted to be part of the russian empire it was conquered he says such sentiment is still present in. abkhazia and south of our part of georgia. i hope that georgians will never elect a government that would follow. different policy. different political reality. both russia and georgia have what we call red lines and unfortunately these red lines cross we are not so much concerned about visas or mineral water or wine exports to russia we are more concerned about our territorial integrity about skin vell district this is our concern. ultimately i only need to see is conducted campaigns saying she knows how to negotiate with. downlink. true we are in a dead end unfortunately. but there is always a way out. yes. as a motorist you would agree with me that s