on the russian industrial enterprises when european mean what do russian companies need to catch up with a standard itself western production companies i would say catching up maybe not exactly the right word. in russia there is amazing history of story telling and in russia the country would like to get inspiration from the russian stories and make movies based on the russian heritage and culture but use some of the heritage that we have in the world this new company and tell them how we tell stories how the characters develop and we always have the happy ending you know that this is what's really interesting to us actually of. a stable hollywood tradition here in russia or just a russian audience needs to be felt like a very specific context that it's used to strongly believe that russian audience has very distant taste definitely a lot of big blockbusters work in russia and russian audience love. their love alice in wonderland but at the same time there are a lot of stories that can be told specifically for the russian audience and we believe without fairytales that we started wi

the splendid mighty russian dress. and since you say symbol of life itself with a use for a drink simply the system it's the subject of bread in russia is rooted in the country's social history and i'm sure it will continue to be decades to come. to lift it i mean it's right in the rye bread. box you really should drive in the five important oh it's wrong and i want every life in russia of course really that's all the time we have on this week higher ground i'll see you again in the same five next week coming from me on the wreck within a mile an hour. would be useless without. the tiny pieces needed to make. piece of coltan is extracted to human life. more news today is once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day. wealthy british style old sarah has been tied to the such class. target. markets financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline

russian dressing. and so should this a symbol of life itself but the use for a trained simple data system it's the subject of dread in russia is rooted it's the country's social history and i'm sure it will continue today two decades to come. to lift it what it is wrestling the rye bread the drink but you really should try the most important a false wrong and a lot larry life in a rush for silly that's all the time we have this week for about i'll see you again in the same time next week sometime for me and the rest to think i'll buy that. culture is that so much time in which of course his wife on it will be an end to the u.s. elections the start of a brave new revolution or inevitable and destructive gridlock will anything get. the close up team has been to see you know. where russia first free elections were held a thousand years ago. now party goes to the area that used to be a place of exile since the seventeenth century. where businesses take advantage of the wild growing product. when rich acade

do you think the russian higher education corresponds to the world standards. does it yes or no well if we don't take the ratings which you said we shouldn't overestimate does it correspond in a. yes or no is it the it's a now yes or no it's not a not because russia done some things very well russia actually provides access to its young people kids coming out of high school at one of the highest rates in the world and so there are lots of russians despite what some of those people who are actually getting entry to post-secondary institutions so i think russia does pretty well at that russia does less well at the top of the system that is its universities and the rankings are of some indication of that. doesn't do as well at the very top so all higher educated mass higher education systems big ones are kind of like a pyramid with a small elite sector like moscow state university the higher school of economics here in moscow st petersburg university and others but most of the universities are lower and lower in the rankings and i don't know enough to say how russ

european companies and russian companies named a couple of examples one russian investors were being blocked in europe when some russian companies purchased some projects business projects here in europe energy projects as well now according to him they are being forced out of this and all this is causing a negative effect on investment coming out of russia let's listen to what was going to put in had to say. it pretty much a russian businessmen are ready to invest in european industry but for unknown reasons this can be difficult so when russian money attempts to flow into european businesses european companies look to other emerging markets to keep their costs down there are many examples of russians facing political and economic obstacles when attempting to enter european markets still. the russian prime minister also focused on the global economic crisis in general its consequences both in russia and in the european union and actually he said that during the peak of the crisis the russian authorities were helping the street was helping foreign companies or western companies in ru

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is the are the russians ready for more stronger relations and can the iranians try to trust the russian president or the russian government isn't that a sign though that there is now restored trust in the president has said that iran is now ready to return to international talks over its nuclear program meaning that perhaps russia has been a successful broker in bringing iran back to negotiations. well no i think the iranians from the very start said that they are willing to negotiate in fact on four different occasions it was the five plus one that left the negotiating table despite the fact that they really don't say it in public the iranians have always been saying that they are willing to talk to the greatest problem is the trust deficit that exists any run with regard to the five plus one especially after the attack iran declaration which as you recall the brazilian and turkish president came to iran the brazilian president had a letter from obama saying that if you come to an agreement with iran we will support it and as soon as the brazilians and the turks came to that agreement

any country including georgia can grok the russian russian recession. but what makes us confident that we can go through this process is the real interest of our major partners. both in europe and the united states in russia joining. we know that they're interested so it's clear that they will try to help. the there is a technical way to communicate with her for our swiss partners. as our representatives . right now so certainly switzerland will be one of their partners but we also expect support for our our other partners in this process. another couple and one xperience i would hold them rather critics of what you do with the president say that the problem is actually in the fact that the demand for integration products is extremely low in russia as well as the level up competition would you agree at least partially to i was fully with that and you know we started working our own arm of the middle initial program that i visit the same idea that to stimulate demand for innovations how can you do something which is out of them on the block this is very

this guy is a russian he was right he was russian he asked him to come to his table to have a coffee with him he starts to speak what are you doing yes i'm preparing a machine which is to fly vertical. so and finally he help him for free he. completes breakfast lunch and bread for years until he's a. copywriter for over and washed for his machine so it was sponsored. so the world of the the world should be or should be thankful to get out when the not only for the music you know but also for the telecoms about. making a mountain to climb again you have siri every day one or two persons envelops this extraordinary machine. in. two thousand and seven that was a film a movie by paddled indian here in russia. and it was ok if you never saw him nobody told me that about but in this movie you may know that there is a scene. but i'll tell you there's a scene in the movie where sarah get off my enough refuses to play in the carnegie hall and the presence of the soviet ambassador so i'm not going to pay. what is it true was the war was the true story like that or is it fiction. was told about

because most of most of the russian intellectuals the russian elite settled in europe and most of them in france some in germany but why did you choose choose the stables i think for the unity of pianist carnegie hall is number one. you know over statistic it's about one. the one thousand and that's not what it was. a chance to play in carnegie hall once in his life that's was alexander you were. ten years old when you give us money and died right if you like to make some substructure yes. ok now now do you do you remember do you still remember him alive did you miss him a lot yes of course really every summer we spent together for months so early this international pianist you know he spent from october to april in the states and in europe from may to october so you do have good challenge that's why he had. this property of us what sort of things you must have not for one week that for two weeks but regular even for several months what kind of a person was he because you should have like childhood. recollection magical and never heard him in a bad mood never increasing she's voice alw

russian newspaper says it has revealed the identity of the man behind exposing eleven russian agents in the u.s. this summer come our son claims he was a former foreign intelligence service employee our correspondent you go to school now has more. i'm going to cite a newspaper claims to have held its own investigation and the see that call most should call for an officer of the russian foreign intelligence service was a double agent working undercover in the us migration service and it was him responsible for blowing the cover on his colleagues in the united states last summer which resulted basically in the biggest spying scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war era now if all this is true then the big question is at the moment is held. manage to hide his activities from russian authorities the newspaper says that before this scandal erupted paula should walk or was offered a promotion by russian authorities which she rejected possibly because he had to take a lie detector test which could have revealed his activities as a double agent and also reportedly several mon

trees in the russian. twenty. you can buy them in several locations and he just simply makes the pounds on its own and hey presto you have to shoot plenty in no time. see you again oh welcome back to tell me how did you end up working here most going to be in small scale a couple of times on consultation jobs in fact bakeries. when i have to call from one of us to say i was safe thrilled and i came back in the sauce and. i'm so lucky because the menu i have here is really international as you can see with saddam's bread basket you've been here for a few years now the whole thing is i mean i've been here for five you really do see the difference. when i first arrived here it was. rather nasty plastic sliced bread as old dog heavy rye bread which is very much the traditional staple of the russian cuisine and now when this will be used bakeries opening the whole night was amazing you can have for cat share and buy gas with cheese all these different flavors fantastic now you have queues around the block with people w

may start discussion on russian. accession to two to two to nato i think that's kind of discussion can be very helpful for the discussion on the european security and on russia's attitude towards its national security i do not think that it will be realistic in the short run but in the long run anything is possible rasmussen is in moscow ahead of nato he is here for a couple of days and that. this is why we are once again discussing nato the position russian made to relations ukraine and nato is another serious question foreign minister grisham co ukrainian foreign minister says that ukraine is not going to join nato anytime soon so this is the changed position of you create a new presidency straight away nato general secretary rasmussen insists that the major's doors are still open to ukraine so does nato still have means to attract well ukraine but in effect well you know nato status. allows needed to have an open door policy to all the european nations who apply. for nato join for nato membership and who meet the

well russian diplomats say first of all russian diplomats say they need an immediate access to vic that a boat and who is a russian citizen of course they hope his rights will be respected and for two years russia and the u.s. have been in a tug of war over his extradition the u.s. believes is evil in the stock violence by selling arms to war as a war regional war torn region regions like liberia's sierra leone afghanistan sudan and so on russia says because of a lot of accusations that the u.s. is hung up on victor bush there are doubts that he will have the chance to stand a fair trial in the united states russians also believe the u.s. managed to get boat extradited from thailand by putting unprecedented political pressure on the government and judicial authorities of the country and here is what foreign minister sergei lavrov had to say. despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying viktor boots guilt was not proven the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the us i consider this unprecedented political pressure on the legal process and on thailand's govern

russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs well. because the participant of the world festival of russian language and really exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. thanks for choosing a team from moscow tonight i'm kevin owen with our top story the g. twenty leaders agreeing not to use currencies as weapons to protect themselves while throwing up trouble for other countries. likely to translate into action. betrayed by the boss a russian newspaper says it's unmasked the man who it claims sold out to ten agents expelled from the u.s. this president says the revelations are no surprise and that he was aware of this all along also headlining for moscow israel is accusing pro palestinian charities of fueling the conflict in the region and supporting terrorism the activists say groundless several charities and. after israeli authorities. twenty to thirty. first metropolis like

a russian cosmonaut. have made a successful landing back on earth they spent five months doing tests of all sorts on the international space station. joseph stalin was responsible for the caps in which twenty two thousand people were killed the tragedy souder relations between moscow and warsaw. well up next we take a look at some of the latest and greatest from the world of high tech and.

is russia going to profit from it here's the way to the russian president. russia is promoting its currency the ruble as the new global reserve currency. is the ruble in trade with its neighbors including china but it wants to see two used more a working group has been created in an attempt to improve the reputation of the russian currency the plan is to turn moscow into world trade center the adoption of the ruble as a reserve currency would strengthen the russian economy and give it competitive advantages when it eventually joins the world trade organization. says the accession into the organization will happen next year but that we've heard many times before. hello mr welcome to the show thank you very much for coming well first of all let's talk about the g. twenty that is just that the just took place well first of all on the g. twenty leaders agreed and so to abstain from devaluation of their national currencies and this as president medvedev has put it i quote inspires optimism about the future what can guarantee that this agreement will be implemente

the splendid mighty russian dress. and sushi he says it's a symbol of life itself but the use for a drink to simply take the system it's the subject of bread in russia is rooted it's the country's social history and i'm sure it will continue today two decades to come. to lift it i mean it's russian rye bread the drink you really should drive in the first important a cultural oh larry life in russia of course really doubtful that we have this big fire about i'll see you again in the same five next week so that for me and the rest of the things i buy without. question is that so much time in which of course he's right on it will be heard in the u.s. elections the start of a brave new revolution or in evansville and destructive gridlock will anything good . morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images for world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day. wealthy british. margetts why not scandals. happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. the clos

enter a new russian comic. they're out to build super powerful super fast cars and now they've bought a stake in britain's virgin racing team they'll be helping to build the first f one machine when i should i would assure you know this because all the shit i would do we started working with the virgin team his technical partners and year and a half ago at this point we've bought a significant part of this team now this is going to be the first russian team change and. in fact russia seems to have won and truly waved the star to flatten his formula one ambition the prime minister hopped into a rental if one comes here this week and hit two hundred forty kilometers an hour and the ink's just drives on a deal to host formula one races in the southern city of sochi from two thousand and fourteen but despite all this promise russian races have a long way to go to realize around visions of the them accountable to. win a game systems is on the d n a it's the one hundred twelve our team will have a russian driver but

and a russian newspaper reveals that. exposed ten russian agents expelled from the u.s. this summer. it's five am in moscow giving you today's top stories in a look back at the week's headlines here on our t.v. our top story barack obama has reassured. his determination to see the senate ratify the start treaty on nuclear cuts within the next few weeks the comments came at a meeting on the sidelines of the apec summit in japan. has more from yokohama. there was a first talk at the a second day of the summit and yes at the top of the agenda on the table is the ratification of the new start treaty now a president obama had there reiterated his commitment to the russian president that he is going to make sure that the treaty gets done at the lame duck session of the u.s. congress i reiterated my commitment to get this started tweeting. during the lame duck session. or already this would reduce the nuclear long range missiles of the two countries by thirty percent it and it would allow the two countries to check on the stockpiles of each other two presidents brought this up

compasses been a russian staple of refreshment for centuries enjoyed by generations of russians across the country. from the pushkin describes how russians believe they needed clowns like the living in russia and the peace of the gracies the most commonly known drink in every class of society. and official here they have a spear museum and an area where you can taste different varieties sounds good to me made from black regular rye bread the color of the bread used contributes to the color of the resulting drink and the alcohol content from the fermentation is typically around one percent. screen extremely popular in russia times mass manufacturing you have to drink to supply the whole country to gamble. has become popular and nowadays when talking about the mass we think of that don't go on first but only a century ago only a light colored drink was made it was called white canvas and it was on the filter . coca-cola the she. he even started selling class in new york in hopes of winning over the american pallets to the motley fool mentioned russian drink with a particular crisp most t

foreign minister sergey lavrov reiterated that the russian leader is free to visit any region in the country. gets. japan's reaction to president medvedev strip to the poor alliance is unacceptable it is our land and the russian president was visiting a russian territory i'm sure we've already explained this to our japanese partners today we will summon japan's ambassador to russia to once again on the big was lee reiterate this position we're not going to take any steps that would hinder relations was the japanese side should make its own conclusion. so what president medvedev says russia's interest in developing the creel islands russia's interest that i should say in developing the creel islands r.t. is on a boycott has been following the leaders of those it to the region. made a video for us of the first leader of either russia or the soviet union to visit those islands and one of the reasons why russian and soviet leaders have been so reluctant to venture into that part of the country is because they didn't want to crave the attention of with the neighboring japan but we should

the splendid mighty russian grass. he says he says it's a symbol of life itself but a use for a trained simple data system is the subject of dread in russia is rooted institution truth social history and i'm sure it will continue today to decades to come. but it's wrestling the rye bread bring back you really should drive enough i think. it's wrong and a lot larry like in russia of course they say that's all the time we have in this big fire i'll see you again i say five next week so that for me and the rest the things i'll buy and. dine. forward to be held on say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of liberation. spring of nineteen forty five on our team. the admiral no human. passenger liner sailing in the black sea. this thirty first nineteen eighties hips. twenty three twenty. four kilometers offshore. crashes into another vessel. four hundred twenty three people die. russian titanic. holidaymaker who wouldn't dare to swim so deep. a tourist would be scared of such cold water. and wo

because russian. really like spicy. we change it a little bit but you know we try and keep it as traditional schools and what about the. fly most of the stuff and twice a week we bring it from china thailand. and what you think about living here in moscow i love living here you know. three years. every day it's exciting every day something new it's unpredictable you don't know it's going to happen. to me and i look forward to trying more votes chinese food in the future. coming up. some of us assigned a number of chinese tea houses have sprung up in the center of the capital of the cost few years the longest established being the tea cups in the emma tosh. russia is one of the world's great teacher inclinations and in moscow today we saw cities can be found expensive exotic traditional and healthy once the beverage of chinese floral sedate with its spread across the world the methods of production and brewing have also undergone a sea change. and from tea sets to chinese lanterns the gift shop here has a range of exciti

russian titanic. to. walk a back to a spotlight on al gore and often just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is alexander rahmani not the grandson of a legendary composer say to get him on the fire xander is also the director of the damane enough foundation. mr kind of we started speaking about the years that we get our money and have spent abroad after he fled russia after the bolshevik revolution of nine hundred seventeen well was he closely following the events in soviet russia and the soviet union was he interested in what was going on in the music and russian contemporary music what was in touch extremely extremely in touch you can redress that looking every day and you know that what he did in new york times yes i'm sure you know yes. yes that's where he his music was not allowed to play for until fifty three thousand nine hundred fifty free for the reason he was of little he was a very close look at this do you think that your family may have ever returned to live in russia once again if

but it measures only one small aspect of what a university does russian universities are dissatisfied with the places they occupy in world rankings and question the criteria used by western rating agencies spotlights to me that i will have more. not a soul of end game this year's nobel prize winners both graduated from the moscow institute of physics and technology but you want to find it on the list the world's top universities russia's higher education officials claim the country is under represented in international university rankings it's usually only the moscow state university which makes it through to the top one hundred and then it's down at the bottom of the list the major russian university has begun questioning the criteria used for the ratings it says the data used in the surveys is not always reliable numbers that it will move we point out a mistake one of the region agencies and after they have been corrected we were up fifty points because of just one mistake which means there must be always the right to go for a university to lodge an appeal of living in. the moscow s

story of the week here in our tease buys lies and videotape many georgians feared tbilisi's and a russian paranoia could find them accused of espionage next. two halves are better than one russian made a pledge to work together to create a fancy is going to do it relies on common threats. obama cold it sure lacking critics say he was just a good obedient but something cash no votes are sure to republicans to victory in this week's u.s. midterm elections. archipelago outraged over he was angered by president medvedev so busy to russia's core alliance which to pay on claims as its own moscow says it will keep investing and its remote region. and the international space station is celebrating ten years of human life in orbit the longest stretch ever spent outside the earth's atmosphere our team needs space it is. watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program this week has seen a new scandal flaring out between russia and georgia as to police he said thirteen people were caught spying for moscow russia claimed the whole story is a political farce and de

of the russian capital. this in syria courts are the style opens five years ago and from contemporary restaurants to various shops and exciting ott that's what we'll be exploring on this for its must go out program chinese culture in the russian capital. although thousands of kilometers from moscow people forget that russia borders china the countries have had diplomatic and commercial relations for centuries and today this extends to russia's fascination with chinese traditions and designs. of furniture from several manufacturers in china and it's all handmade good pieces made of solid wood inlaid with pearls and various tables many chinese people who come to our shop i'm very impressed that this is has been difficult for them to find such missing furniture in their country and we have it here in the us. dating back thousands of years chinese interior design is founded on the principles of energy simplicity and nature they strive to achieve surroundings characterized by tranquility and peace and from chines

russians and by. recently you good luck with everything i had to say thank you. moving on to other indian themed locations in moscow first up let's take a look at the krishna temple various services are held here people gathering to read sing listen to and discuss sacred can do scriptures anyone can visit the temple the matter what your religion or nationality is a note even though elections are held in russian translated are available. the engine cultural center also offers a range of indian dance classes the complex office sessions of all levels and also provides the wonderful colorful costumes the catwalk is one of the eight forms of indian classical dances originating from northern india professional indian dance tutors passionately teach the classes of russians and foreigners the secrets behind each of the exotic moves. very much indian culture. by the dance dedication devotional discipline which we found in india similarly the found shelter so. if you fancy something asian about with a contempor

that the best chinese food in russian capital . and. we're going to do a fifty percent traditional chinese menu and fifty percent and we do. which. of different sources. like traditional chinese and then we. make everything else and you know it has more of a western. and what. capital i was. in. here i am today the russians. chinese food it really kind of is a new thing for them. i think it starting to grow to like chinese i think the flavors are a bit different for. they used to. be bland. coming from the soviet era. but i think. it's catching on also the flavors i mean we have to sweeten everything. for this for that we take a lot of spice. because russian. we change a little bit but you know we try and keep it as traditional schools. the. fly most of the stuff and twice a week we bring it from china thailand. all the. world brought in from abroad and what you think about living here in moscow i love living here you know. three years every day it's exciting every day something it's unpredictable you don't know it's going to happe

russian troops. much of. it was very remarkable which came recently of all the successful joint operation we all expect the. operational real continue if you. because the russian people know more from their every day life. broad's. re presenting a huge threat to all our c.d.'s all our generations. i want a most ambitious project in history the international space station is marking a decade of man operations this is the longest period of continuous human habitation outside the earth artie's learned what it takes to become a space settler. november the second two thousand the first permanent crew reaches the international space station as the world watches its arguably humanity's most i'm bishops engineering project to date a mixture of science technology and political cooperation between formal sworn enemies in the ten years since the sense has expanded to the size of a football field and received two hundred visitors. now the station is nearly complete but the jury in what it has achieved is still out but fo