to give on the former russian foreign minister and he's also the president of the russian international affairs council a man who's very active today in building informal bridges between russian and foreign experts and the next. leader ivanov to prominent russian diplomat since joining the foreign ministry in the seventy's works in spain some of your trade and diplomatic missions two decades later he was appointed the russian ambassador there mr bernanke reached the top of his diplomatic career in the late ninety's when he was appointed foreign minister despite several cabinet. kept the procession from six figures. service we've driven off the russians purity council. and now here lectures in the russian foreign affairs university and i have a national. survey of it welcome to our program on the hello. let's start with this is the us in new york press on with their plans in europe they keep saying russia is not any we do not see it is search our steps do not target russia so forgive me but russia does not buy this why so why this is just why is it that these assurances are not enough for us to mishear