russians many of the local people said they had russian. when the russians came to the lives of the indigenous people changed. many of them began to work for the russian american company jobs involved hunting for sea otters fishing and taking part in the building of new settlements russian priests and monks visited alaska and baptized of the locals into the orthodox faith russian men married local girls. russian men learned local women and their children were called creole. creoles were well educated they held top posts in the russian capital to ship as well as in the colonial administration book. committed. to. sven how concerned the lives a life entirely different from his ancestors to him putting out to sea is more like fun than work. sven is proud of his traditional bathhouse he sees it as a symbol of successive generations and imbedded russian traditions. when the russians came. the thing that is similar are the rocks and the heat and steaming the washing inside of vanya and that's something that we've been doing for centuries and that

russian.speaking don't see me and often doesn't need to speak russian services in the orthodox church in kodiak city are held in english. father in a county was born in new england a place that is far away from here he has no russian roots nevertheless he decided to serve as an orthodox priest in alaska but it was a long story. it's a story of growing up in a christian church protestant church but always wanting the seeking out for face a for experience of the faith and finding that an orthodoxy is a yellin and eventually answering the call into the priesthoods of. the church where father in the county series stands with the first church in the new world used to be alaska is still predominantly orthodox us state. russians and the priest said then came didn't force us to not speak our language they didn't force us to not follow our traditional ways of living we did you know stop practicing our all the religious practices but pretty much everything else stayed the same hunting language but then

russian traveler. first came to alaska in two thousand and nine he organized an expedition to retrace the steps of his fellow countrymen. as a ghost and it was the first ever european to reach alaska's hinterland in this unexplored land and establish contact with the aboriginal people. local people welcomed warmly just as their ancestors welcome these agustin two hundred fifty years ago their homes may have changed a lot but their attitude to russia remains the same. shit over clearly will welcome the east into places that it once served as bases as a ghost can expose. the russians many of the local people said they had russian and . when the russians came to the lives of the indigenous people changed. many of them began to work for the russian american company. hunting for sea otters fishing and taking part in the building of new settlements russian priests and monks visited alaska and baptized of the locals and people with the dogs fish russian married local girls. russian men married local women and

russians is i so global russians are really good for for england for my. just for america but. are you sure that foreign investors like yourself are ready to develop new technologies here in russia and those deprived from more and more global russians are all as. before and their world is becoming and life's more plays and in a technology world it really does not matter where it was originated there were actually a look at the centers of excellence silicon valley is not the only center anymore and now what it was created in silicon valley is being used in russia and asia the products of all those big company is pretty much for the world so my dream is that there will be businesses in russia which will be oriented as for the domestic market that is well we should have a potential of competing with the global browns on the world market and there i think it benefits russia and the. it's time. together the global markets was doing my homework getting ready for the soon to be are really. lot of people who see that russian corporate lore is not thoroughly helpfu

he used to teach english to russian children in the russian town of. course today he teaches russian in alaska none of the children in his class has a slavic name all of them are americans who have decided to learn the language that was once dominant in this part of the world. your wont during pre-op why. oh. this is a lie you know this that. i'm not. here. grigori sees himself as a representative of the new wave of russian settlers of alaska who fears he makes himself at home the russian legacy is everywhere. because today there are at least about seven hundred. names. conspicuously russian for example. then the presence of the churches here so you know the words. let's put it like this here in . the presence of the past. after. trying to stick to a lifestyle of siberia. people first came here in one thousand six to eight years this is the first house they have built he added we take why they feel you're not young enough how do you choose in an age when for some reason trying to guess why there's no escape for you dressed to kill. is famous. and she i

great russian so. i think it should have many russian elements it should have less shooting and more russian reality we have a very beautiful nature which would be a very good addition to any story our russian traditions should be at the heart of this film. the truth our reality good and bad the real situation facing our country our russian mentality if shown in the right way to win is an oscar and i think real situations can serve as a good foundation for us to win an oscar life in russia as it is without the silver lining with too often see in the russian movies i think the truth could win an oscar it should have more truth however it should still be a form of art but if i think we need some new movie directors who really understand the great russian soul and are able to interpret it in a way that could touch foreign hearts out i've got that here she's got a question for our guest but would you have a compromise to win an oscar. the generally speaking is winning an oscar a compromise or not well i be

if russia would join the w t o we'd heard russian industry. your own safety as well it mate russia's industry. may create programs to. subsectors of some of the three like we like what. first. not competitive. and. nobody could trust us to go to so medium level of competition in us like the current leakers but i don't think america will suffer. because come back us if you treat mentors which of russia as a russian companies saying they will from taxation that are doing things are ok they are big big big the lot a car is a way away which has been dying for the last twenty years. but. also we have to modernize its production and. closer sometimes i was discussing different kinds of trunk pressures as well from if you are interesting you said you said that the debt we to membership can can hurt the industries which are not competitive i don't know anything less competitive that block the cars on the european market so what's less comparative please please like me. during all those years of excess and we have received on me. one letter from my ind

russian and u.s. special forces have conducted the first ever major joint operation against drug producers in afghanistan destroying four labs and seizing almost a ton of heroin russia's top and driving forces says moscow and washington can only tackle the afghan narcotics trade if they work together well it is going to scar has the details. in a puff of smoke. for drug producing labs in the mountains on the border between afghanistan and pakistan more than a ton of heroin and morphine destroyed in the process this is rushing nato working together closer than ever before in a first ever joint operation on a grand scale the school these laboratories were in the mountainous area near the pakistan border after we gave information to our u.s. and afghan partners the three sides planned the operation for three months we used about seventy special forces units three landing helicopters and six supporting ones the whole operation lasted less than four hours we discovered and destroyed four drugs should you s

i definitely consider myself russian . i'm british as well. of a lot to russian education too. and that sounds absolutely. but you chose to go to continue your work in england because what because the university you're in now gives you more research possibilities what else what if you compare well you already said in a couple of interviews that that the russian system of training in physics is the best in the world but after you trained compare russian and european british what are the differences. first of all let me let me tell you that it is absolutely normal practice that scientists grow from one lab to another to learn different techniques and obtain different skills i can tell you that if you got ph d. in holland for instance he was be able to continue as a polls log because you would have to while or you would have to go away from the country ok there are some some some some researchers of course applied. was the to the major difference or probably one of the one of the good things for me about . western system of science is its openness and so so easy to move from one u

agreed terms of market access to russian. market of goods and services but we have not discussed that so called systemic commitments to be sure russia has to undertake because of its obsession its commitment. in last. act of how russia implement troops and muster was a negotiated engineer was in a multilateral framework about the respect of some of the. united states traditionally. big interests. more interested in finding solutions to the base of their requests that's why. we were. in certain positions for three years four years with united states and we have completed by the first of two since you russia's negotiator on the deadly issues who do you think you are who you feel to be are you in economist a politician or negotiator a diplomat who are you today. is a good question i think somewhere in between. there are very few people dozens of people in the world doing trade richard doing trade negotiations and it's not a profession. i think it was. it's a condition for most of my colleagues who it's a hobby not to me because

a russian. flight will be back shortly will continue this interview in less than a minute stay with us. dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace and with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with it was a bit always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life changing side effects. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. quote comeback welcome back to spotlight i mouthing o

russian cars are on the streets of vietnam while vietnamese streams are a much loved delicacy on russian dinner tables last year alone the trade turnover between the two countries reached almost two billion dollars with both hoping to increase to ten billion. russian money big companies are flowing to vietnam bringing millions of dollars of investment which is a good sign of healthy relations. but the biggest venture a still had russia is to build vietnam's first atomic power plant it took several years for georgeson environmentalist to find the right place here in vietnam to build the country's first nuclear plant they chose the central province mench on haiti's locals call it the land of sand and so on. there is no rain here now it's raining but it's for the first time in the last few months and as a result few people live in here and that makes it an almost ideal place for a future project and the plans include a power stations within the next two decades we think the first unit we launched by twenty twenty it will provide us with cheap and safe energy to meet up to fifteen percent of

in the power industry we plan to explode russian electricity to poland. partners to participate in constructing a baltic nuclear power plant but the shareholders and in other fields. are informed about the privatization of some oil assets that would take place in the near future and we agreed that russian companies would be able to participate in this. and less likely markets finished higher on friday here in moscow the r.t. has raised earlier losses and managed to pull into positive territory the markets gave more than one percent made his lead supporting banks bad law says otherwise expand bank of two percent. after climbing past the sixteen hundred level at the beginning of the week couldn't hold on to those games despite the rebound of. the week below where they started well and that. explains why. market started off quite well earlier in the week and then it came off towards the end of the week and the really big talking point of the stimulus package coming out of the u.s. can keep pump enough money into the u.s. economy to not only get the u.s. econ

most of them are russians and i know that you even work of the so-called russian floor at the inverse of manchester although about stories now that by russians so you are a british citizen game is a dutch citizen but did consider yourself still too good to be russian or or british where i don't know european or what do you think oh. i definitely consider myself russian. i'm british as well and we of a lot to russian education to stare. and sounds absolutely. but you chose to go to continue your work in england because what because the university you're in now gives you more research possibilities what else what if you compare well you already said in a couple of interviews that that the russian system of training in physics is the best in the world but after you trained compare russian and european british what are the differences. first of all let me let me tell you that it is absolutely normal practice that scientists go from one lab to another to learn different techniques and obtain different skills i can tell you that if you go ph d. in holland for instance he won the big be able

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car industry the growth potential of the russian call market is such that x. prize believe more foreign manufacturers will be looking to set up joint ventures with domestic firms but as the industry here expands some kinks in the manufacturing process need to be are in outs analysts say russia needs to produce more high quality models. components if it's to fulfill its potential as a base for foreign carmakers might in the question of business r.t. region russia would increase gas supplies to poland by as much as forty percent following the signing of a new agreement after the two years of negotiations and legal delays the deal has been sealed yet one of the contract was agreed in january this year but it then faced a long process to comply with european antitrust law that the prime minister igor sections of the talks in warsaw also included agreements in other areas of the energy sector. utica in the power industry we plan to export russian electricity to poland we've offered our polish partners to participate in constructing a baltic nuclear power plant but

now their counterparts from all over the world will gather in the russian capital to discuss the challenges facing what. to talk about it is the director. department. created twenty years ago to deal with emergency situations worldwide the new body approved its efficiency very quickly one of its first operations was so difficult it's made it into the guinness book of records since then has been improving its reputation in russia and abroad working in different locations it has accumulated unique know how that it's now ready to share. says the forum rescues and fire fighters is also a great opportunity to gain valuable experience from their foreign colleagues. thank you for. the first time that russia is hosting an international forum. representing fifty seven countries the gathering is taking place in moscow can be regarded as a sign of international recognition of russia's achievements in rescue work and fire fighting. convening in moscow for the first time and the fact that it's being held in moscow certainly sort of a recognition of russia's air. it's over the past twenty years during wh

russian secret service agents sent back from the u.s. the summer in a high profile spy scandal to receive state awards from the president. all of employees of the russian intelligence services in a ceremony at the kremlin palace. has more. this story was probably the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war in june. a group of ten people who are suspected of being secret russian agents were working for many years in the united states undercover they've all been detained had gone and undergone trial were found guilty of being on registered illegal russian agents their property and belongings were taken away by american authorities that were also banned from ever coming back to america and a green light is given by the white house itself there also brigitte from ever publishing any information on their activities while we're working undercover for russia in the united states and then they were deported from america in exchange for four people who are serving time here in russia after having been found guilty of

president bill clinton that slammed russian immigrants in israel for being an obstacle to peace with the palestinians off talks to mark levin from the national conference on soviet jewry about the diaspora and how it responded to the accusation spotlight is coming your way next here on r.t. . hello again and welcome to spotlight and today my guest in the studio is mark levin . the recent verbal attacks on the immigrant jews by former american president bill clinton have added to the rising nationalist divide in israel he accused them of not willing to find common ground with palestinians that bring peace talks in the middle east what do the serbian born jews have to answer here is mark levin executive director of and c s j which advocates on behalf of jews in russia ukraine the baltic states and. the world appears to be fostering a more tolerant attitude towards jews and vice versa the new exhibition in berlin on hitler and his power over the german people has been welcomed by the country's jewish community they see it as an important step to a greater understanding of the holocaust

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first of all russians russians living abroad like the nobel prize winner andrei game i recently talked to him are often less optimistic about skolkovo than for americans like yourself what makes you to mystically the adventurist spirits of americans they. they make the believe that is going to happen i can tell you the following first of all there is no alternative. russia needs such a project if it is to make best use of its talent and. succeed as a developed country in the future russia has great resources but these are expendable they are being expended now they make the country wealthy at the present time but that will not last forever it needs to leverage its. human resources to assure the best possible future it needs to leverage those resources for the benefit of the country and to avoid their loss. otherwise as has happened so often in the past this talent will migrate abroad there are many other countries that have in mind the goals of the scope of a project they are fast implementing them if russia wants to retain its capacity to compete and it must do this now science in the

russian come us more in twenty minutes . a warm welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is our team with me nice and now way first up brazilians are having trouble choosing their next leader despite a push by the outgoing president to line up a successor dilma rousseff fell just short of becoming the country's first female president in the first round she now faces opposition leader jose serra in the race to the top arches more lister reports now from sao paulo. brazil is one of the only countries who has managed its way out of the financial crisis and to a growing a quick clip that other countries would envy they're expected to grow seven point five per cent this year it's the largest economy in south america the largest a second largest economy in the western hemisphere and part of the bric bloc of brazil russia india and china there seem to symbolize the shift in global economic power from the g seven developed nations to the developing world of which all of them are newly advanced economies that are s

some board the latest super vehicles have russian military arms. comedian jon stewart has more clout in america's m. president barack obama and that's the view of voters on an online man's magazine who picked the daily show host as the most influential man of the year in the u.s. and as our reports the saturday he's putting his popularity to the test them public . but when its own box gets in the way of political promises. promised during the campaign change of the believe in right it wasn't change it to believe in eighteen months when the media war was over with fear and anger. and the minds of a population are attacked with misinformation there's such a lack of truth on the airwaves are being dumbed down by the news business who are americans left to trust according to a poll conducted by an online men's magazine comedian jon stewart is the most influential man in america after eleven years on the daily show how four million voters bumped him up to the number one spot and i would be concerned if it was they said larry the cable guy was the most t

three pm now here in the russian capital you all with welcome to the program the war in afghanistan today has its tenth year with little sign of an end extra american troops may now be in place but public support for the campaign is slipping rapidly with about two thousand nato troops so far killed in the conflict it's a critical time for the u.s. led campaign as it struggles to turn around the fight against the taliban all of this ahead of the expected withdrawal of international forces next year afghan officials continue the coalition's efforts but even they admit that after all this time there's still no tangible result. reports. american soldiers are hardly helping matters. house goes up in smoke and with a justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital the culprits soldiers who can be heard saying fantastic before posting the clip on the internet even if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is byron and that how's that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more. religious is true then it's to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to b

the asian of russian language and literature teachers will host a world festival of russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs well. become a participant of the world festival of russian language and really exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. see the global news broadcaster from moscow these are our top stories tonight a russian boy returns to his homeland after years of abandonment of a twelve year old was allegedly sold for drugs by his adoptive parents in the dominican republic and then turned over to several for the tourists he came back after his guardians were arrested for cocaine trafficking. ukraine's constitutional court gives more power to the president is for the two thousand and four parliamentary shift in legal means to. be able to choose his own government. and the hotel it all but may seem like a distant fourth but not for one russian firm that set out to build the world's first commercial space station and make it a tourist hot spot orga

the russian president's recent russian rhetoric has not affect relations between the peoples of the two countries that's one of the messages in the russian president's video blog the retreat medvedev also stressed that after almost twenty years of close partnership recent actions from minsk shows in gratitude. i thought and i was extremely surprised to see the belorussian of florida's have lately taken up and he russian rhetoric some election campaigns in belarus are essentially based on anti russian stories we see hysterical accusations aimed at russia of not supporting bella reuss or its economy we hear curses aimed at the russian authorities it's hard not to see that the desire to sow dissent between our two peoples is the reason for these campaigns president lukashenko is uttering is not only go beyond all diplomatic sense they're downright indecent he is obviously concerned about a lot of things bringing order to our economy russian journalists talking to belorussian opposition even what happens to some of our retired satire officials the president of the roots it seems should be l

of russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs well. become a participant of the world festival of russian language and really exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. this is good to have you with us top stories now that's how russia is seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its border with it and that would limit the military presence. hoping for closer cooperation with moscow particularly on european missile defense and afghanistan. tensions high in northern iraq. to u.s. troops leave the kurdish controlled region concerns intensified after the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks released documents highlighting cases of hostility between kurds and arabs. and a showdown looms between israel and lebanon over recently discovered oil reserves in the eastern mediterranean with turkey. claims without clearly defined maritime borders experts predict the countries

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