russian traveler. first came to alaska in two thousand and nine he organized an expedition to retrace the steps of his fellow countryman. the ghost in 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 welcomed his agustin two hundred fifty years ago their homes may have changed a lot but their attitude to russians remains the same. shit over clearly will welcome the east into places that it once said as bases. are 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 jobs in 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 made local women and their children were called c

the russians many of the local people said they had russian. when the russians came to. the indigenous people. 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 visit. to the locals and. russian. girls. russian. women and children creole. in the russian capital as well as in the colonial administration. lives a life entirely different from his ancestors to him putting out to sea is more like fun than work. 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. to he. inside and that's something that we've been doing for centuries and tradition. which is a russian just. taking. sven sees the history of his people as a mission he curious a museum which is one of the principal tourist attractions of. when few tourists visited during local people come here to when the russians actually took over. claimed alaska. spirit. one of the friends together

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. trying to do that in orthodoxy as a young man and eventually answering the call into the priesthoods. the church were father in a county sears 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 in doing th

russian. girls. russian. women and their children. in the russian capital as well as in the colonial ministration. lives a life entirely different from his ancestors to him putting out to sea is more like fun than work. 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. to he was steaming. inside and that's something that we've been doing for centuries and tradition. which is a russian we're just. taking. sven sees the history of his people as a mission he curious a museum which is one of the principal tourist attractions of. when few tourists visited during low season local people come here to when the russians actually took over. our claimed alaska. spirit. one of the friends together with his family is listening to his story although his name is of russian origin he doesn't know a single word of the language spoken on the other side of the bering strait nor does he know much about where his last name comes from. what

the russians followed. now, we estimate -- i heard an estimate earlier of 2,000-something, 3,000 -- this is according to "the bulletin of atomic scientists." you know, we estimate they have a large inventory of operational nonstrategic warheads, 5,390 is the number here, tactical warheads, air defense tactical, et cetera. so they still do have more. and it still is a very legitimate concern to us. that is why -- that is why, my colleagues, in the resolution of advice and consent, we have the following declaration: the senate calls upon the president to pursue, following consultation with allies, an agreement with the russian federation that would address the disparity between the tactical nuclear weapons stockpiles of the russian federation and of the united states and would secure and reduce tactical nuclear weapons in a verifiable manner. that's one thing we say that's tactical. that's in the resolution. you can vote for that. in addition we say, recognizing the difficulty the united states has faced in a

his russian aides and questions. the ukase nuclear missile to terence now as far as what's going to happen to her now we know that she's in detention and we understand that her deportation has already been agreed to by the home office. and the home secretary can call. while employer is very adamant that he says she's going to appeal against the decision he points out that she was already picked up for questioning back in august at which point she could have left the country with no further consequences but she chose not to because he says she felt that she did nothing wrong so he's come out vigorously in defense of her if confirmed however this would be the first case of a russian spy working in parliament to be expelled from this country since the end of the cold war. the guardian newspaper says this story is big in britain because the media that still loves cold war and spine mysteries. it's the kind of story though hey there we love in britain it sort of raises it brings back memories of the cold war it brings bac

a different path if you told russians let's answer russians living to go living in riga in other cities of flats here and there are no quarrels on an ethnic base no not at all well i think the task of the visit is was not to settle their relations between russian selecta and buttinski let's hear but to settle new level of relationship between our two states well let's speak about here east fears. are always something that that makes may make it difficult to establishing good work in relations recently wiki leaks has disclosed the existence of a nato contingency plan for a possible. russian aggression against the baltic states well do you think that latvians really fear still fear a possible russian invasion is it a fact of life in your country or not oh i think the question has been answered by the latest nato summit. nato summit adopted a new nato security strategy. it confirmed but. politico is a military is a defense alliance and all the states have obligations to defend it chose article five is still valid. nato is a seat time stated a necessity of cooperation of closer cooperation

once it was a part of russian territory there are still reminders to this day children wearing russian national costumes people having russian names and many orthodox churches are standing here but more than one hundred years ago it became the u.s. territory though some americans still don't know about. still asking for more idea about. like nothing i don't know a thing about the alaska it's called. it was called a box of ice a polar bear garden and war russia but in the language of the indigenous peoples the word alaska means the great land.

the point is, on russian intentions and interpretations, i would take into account what the russians have said. and without going into a long, detailed explanation, here are just a few headlines and maybe quoting from one article. headline -- this is near the time of the signing of the treatiate, right at about the time. this is april 6. "russia may pull out of nuke deal if u.s. expands missile defense." and there are a lot of other headlines and articles that point out the same thing. here's bloomberg business weefnlgt "russia may exit accord if u.s. pursues missile plan. "kings that according to sergei lavrov. let me quote a couple things he says and i don't think it's been seriously questioned that the russian have made it very clear their intention that the preamble sets up the condition along with their unilateral statement for the extraordinary circumstances that would allow their withdrawal under article 14. this is the article that is dated april 6, posted by joshua keating, f.p. pass -- know, that's not the -- i'll put this in the record. it's from "foreign policy.com post.

the russian parliament says it needs time to address the wording of the u.s. ratification resolution why is that. well despite indeed despite both sides promised that rid of occasion in their countries would be a synchronous last minute the u.s. senate approved the education resolution a very controversial document in russia's view which they believe contradicts the preamble of the agreement because at the ass insult the treaty and the essence of the treaty is that there should be a balance between the fancy weapons and the defensive capabilities of the parties to the treaty and these resolutions says in particular that a new new treaty new start should not contain the u.s. anti missile programs development and of course russia will be studying the docket the document carefully with regard to the u.s. missile defense plans especially close to russia's borders at the moment the u.s. plans to deploy until he sells. systems in eastern europe have been the biggest irritants in the relations between moscow and washington and this is why to me that long to hit the r

it is music russian is america you know that of american culture and what's cool about about russians is russians really look at the people they don't look at the geopolitics so if i were to clarify the statement they love anything american well it's an occasion they would not like the president to but they do like the people and the american people like them too so there's a lot of synergy and a lot of good momentum between the cultures and what the cultures sell each other and what you miss about your home country you know i have to tell you if you have almost everything we have almost everything in moscow. probably what i miss most about america or where i live in america doesn't have the traffic that moscow has stuff. but moscow has found a way to in many ways have the best of everything and we've got an american style health clubs american style restaurants but moscow is developing also an identity unto itself in the way you're a. positive collusion going on in moscow as well so you living in the russian capital. there's so much energy here and the russian capital is so misunders

once it was a part of russian territory there are still reminders to this day children wearing russian national costumes people having russian names and many orthodox churches are standing here but more than one hundred years ago it became the u.s. territory though some americans still don't know about. just over the last no idea about. like nothing i don't know anything about alaska it's cold. it was cold a box of ice a polar bear garden and.

now, the russians are developing new missiles. shouldn't we have some understanding of the capabilities of those missiles?

and the russians signed that treaty. so now we come and they start the same bluster against the obama administration, but, unfortunately, they gave in. these negotiations started early in the year. the treaty negotiations started in march of 2009. and by september of 2009, president obama unilaterally announced, to the shock of our polish and czech allies, that we're not going forward with the polish site. much to the delight of the russians, who'd achieved a significant victory in a negotiating point that had gone on for many, many years. so to say that this treaty has nothing to do with missile defense is not correct. and, did the russians say "thank you," we're so glad that -- we'll be glad to work with you on the treaty? no they still wanted language in the treaty that put them in a position to walk away from this treaty anytime they wanted to, if we deploy a missile defense system in europe. and they got it in there, in the preamble. and it leaves not just an ambiguity, as i think i said earlier, it's really a misun

unlike in washington the russian parliament both chambers of the russian parliament the federation council and the state duma must approve these must be ready by the new start treaty and all the state duma has already started its deliberations and today we expect the voting in the first reading on the actual script of the new nuclear security treaty and they'll be two more sessions but most likely they will take place after new year. now in the us it was quite a rocky ride before the senate voted to approve the treaty tell us more about that . will of course the way but then you start has been a long time coming and it was very rocky this way to there was such in the u.s. russia relations to say the least long before president obama sealed this major deal with the signatures that had been long debates between the delegations of the both countries on the text of these treaty and of course the presidents knew that they'll be a lengthy very delicate process operative occasion in both countries and especially in the united states of america we've been. we've witnessed those along debates. heat

cots traded while unlike in washington the russian parliament both chambers of the russian parliament must say yes to these treaty and while the rest of the world is now guessing whether russia will say yes or no to these document russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was more than optimistic over there what we hope the new treaty will have the support of the state duma we think all necessary prerequisites for that have been met implementing this treaty will contribute to the security of our country and huge national stability that will contribute to nuclear nonproliferation and help our relations with the united states and the rest of the world before now we have the first results coming from the state duma the lower chambre of the lower house of the russian parliament which said yes to these treaty to the court document in its first meeting in the first voting which took place today three hundred feet to vote three hundred fifty deputies said here state against fifty eight the plan to cut the arsenals up post the treaty itself well it seems like a good start for new start in russi

russian polish ties continue to warm as the two nations mourn together. in twenty ten russian mark sixty five years since defeating nazi germany in what's known as the great patriotic war. an elaborate parade was how down red square as heads of state looked on to commemorate some twenty seven million so we had lives lost during world war two. it was the first time in history countries that made up the allied forces took part in the tradition. twenty ten also saw the return of cold war spy scandal sending bombshells like her anna chapman into the headlines for weeks and then home to russia. she's. innocent inspires me more than the amount and the quality of people and might in new york it's the strongest the largest and the most solid community in the world. but you didn't get to stay for long fam for a towel and chapman was just one of ten alleged russian spies exchanged in vienna for four american spies serving sentences in russia the scandal worthy of a hollywood blockbuster broke just after obama and medvedev dished out politics over burgers in virgini

the last two managers of the russian national teams were foreigners do you believe there are russian coaches who could fulfill that role successfully by going. you know i've always advocated one principle that the national team of any country and especially russia should be headed by a homegrown specialist they can't be two opinions on that and well today's football executives make different decisions but if we take a look at history the teams that won european and world cups were mostly coached by home specialists in particular if we take the highest achievements of soviet football they were also made under soviet coaching this is why i think foreign coaches are not a panacea but rather a fashion trends that will fade soon besides i think we should be more patriotic in this respect them. i asked is there philosophy which you give to a team feel a sort of philosophy i give to my team is simple it's a philosophy that brings victory to any philosophy offensive or defensive is the right philosophy if it brings victory as the ultimate results are. and finally is there a lesson which huge

the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov made the comments the russian state duma which started its still. the ration is the treaty it will go through three reading sun today's the day one of the vote in the first session on the actual text of the script for belviq two more sessions but we expect that they will happen often europe we're. now in the u.s. so was a bit of a rough ride before the senate voted to approve the treaty tell us more about that . well of course the wait for the new start has been a long time coming it was a long starts before the presidents of the us and russia still to this deal with the signatures it was of course a culmination of tremendous work between the talks between the delegations of both countries telephone and face to face conversations between the presidents and the foreign ministers the secretary of state sergei lavrov and of course up to the president signed the treaty it was clear that it fell it very lengthy process all pretty big cation by the u.s. senate and the russian solomons will follow we witnessed those heated debates on capitol hill on