also artie's close up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia which is now become one of the most promising innovation in russia. ten pm in moscow good to be with you here on r t our top story russia says the alleged spies arrested in georgia have nothing to do with a national secret service this comes as georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people were detained last month accused of being undercover agents for moscow are. reports from from tbilisi. this story has all the makings of a spy a movie and not a quality wanted that let's get the facts out first thirteen people four of them russian nationals arrested by the georgian ministry of interior fares for allegedly spying for russia now and no evidence has been presented at least publicly they do say that apparently they have concrete evidence and that evidence has been gathered by none other than a mall which also allegedly has been implanted into russia's directorate of military intelligence by georgians this statement was made a week after f. foreign media source broke the story reaction has been

as the star we travel to the tomsk region situated in western siberia with its four hundred year history its capital tomsk is known for having been a place of residence for many exiles to also hear reports on how the past of the area is affecting its present. we're here in tomsk in southwestern a siberia with a stunning natural environment beautiful architecture and rich history for outsiders though siberia is more often than not associated with banishment punishment and the gulag now this negative fame of being a lot of convicts and special settlers is not without basis of course now during the regime and the soviet rule under stalin many people were exiled to this region and to tomsk in particular now those exiled included criminals political dissidents and opponents of the regime but of course history is not one sided there are many perspectives from which to look at this in retrospect now on the positive side those who were exiled here became a crucial part of shaping the intellectual and cultural personality of this region . there's a saying every time slocum you know god created pa

also ought to use it close up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia just now become one of the most promising innovation hubs in all of russia. and in business the dollar drops into oil jumps up to the federal reserve announces this fresh stimulus to boost the anemic u.s. economy more emphasis in twenty minutes. live from the heart of moscow this is ought to welcome to the program. russia says the suspects arrested in georgia have nothing to do with the national secret service it comes as georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people were detained last month accused of spying for moscow artie's reports from tbilisi. they basically gathered a holes for a journalist to announce that they have arrested thirteen people four of them are russian nationals the rest of them are a georgian air force officers there are also some members of n.g.o.s and businessmen news broke about this so we could go by the ministry of interior has decided to keep mum about the details probably trying to maybe make it sound a little bit more important than it actually is in fac

also close up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia which is now become one of the most promising innovation hubs in all of russia. well life from the heart of moscow this is a very warm welcome to. russia says the suspects arrested in georgia have nothing to do with the national secret service it comes as georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people were detained last month accused of spying for moscow. reports from tbilisi. thirteen people have been arrested and charged with espionage for russia four of those are russian citizens the rest are georgians and most of them seem to be officers in georgia's air force the arrest happened in october but none of none of this was known until of last week precisely last friday when the news was broken by the western media company afterwards the minister of interior affairs of georgia or any other georgian officials health kept silent on the matter refusing to comment on this latest spy scandal of course reaction is already coming from russia. georgian president mikheil saakashvili at least two passions one relat

alan darcy's close umpteen takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia now taking all the boxes towards becoming one of the most of all missing arms all in the patient. news from russia and around the world this is the with me thanks for joining us as the rest of thirteen people of georgia accused of being russian spies is a political follow was engineered by tbilisi ahead of a nato summit russia denies anything to do with those held and says this is a deliberate provocation by the saakashvili government aussie's re not going to reports from tbilisi for us this story has all the makings of a spider movie and not a quality wanted that let's get the facts out first if. team people four of them russian nationals arrested by georgian ministry of interior affairs for allegedly spying for russia no no evidence has been presented at least publicly they do say that apparently they have concrete evidence and that evidence has been gathered by none other than a mall which also allegedly has been implanted into russia's directorate of military intelligence by georgians this statement was made a we

also use a close up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia which has now become one of the most promising innovation hubs in russia. and business the toll of trucks and oil jumps off of the federal reserve announces its fresh stimulus to both of us economy more in twenty minutes. news live from moscow. russia says the suspects arrested in georgia have nothing to do with the national secret service it comes as georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people were detained last month the accused of spying for moscow. reports from tbilisi. they basically gathered a holes for a journalist to announce that they have arrested thirteen people four of them are russian nationals the rest of them are georgian air force officers there are also some members of n.g.o.s and businessmen but basically georgian minister of interior have said that they have uncovered this enormous aspiring they said that there are a lot more people than just these thirteen that were charged with espionage for russia but the others are coordinating with the ministry of the interior allegedly

added to siberia his family was sent here in one nine hundred thirty one he was just four years old. when the work of year we were transported by horse drawn carriage then by railway then looks on a boat on the river at the destination there was nothing except burnt up forest we had to build barracks of wood and to live in when it got cold we made window panes of ice lamps we had no food and we dry bread we had with us it was very difficult. while nicholai supplied was because of stalin the former soviet leader himself was banished in a room in one thousand nine hundred twelve stalin was exiled for the sixth time and sentenced to four years in siberia he lived in this house but after only thirty nine days he escaped. the family who were already exiles who were sent to this region and it is in this room. and it was here in this bed that stalin had actually slept. staal is a riot he lives on in tomsk preserved in this investigative prison museum until the one nine hundred forty s. this is story building housing the tomsk pretrial detention center and was also headquarters of the people

this week we travel to the tomsk region the city of tomsk one of the oldest towns in western siberia which was officially open to foreigners only in one nine hundred ninety s. become one of russia's major hubs and fastest developing innovation based centers. has been finding out what makes to tick. well we are here in tongs in southwestern siberia now this is a very important region for oil exploration and production companies and some of the major industries here are machine building metalworking and timber but over the years this region has also diversified their industries and they have become known as a town of science and an important economic center here in siberia and it's also a subject for nuclear research and production however today investment is flowing into new relatively new and growing industries and that includes technological innovation scientific research and development as well as the start up companies well tom is continuing to carve a name for itself in technological and scientific innovation now in this report we'll look at some of the people behind this effort

it's one of the oldest towns in siberia but it was only officially open to foreigners in one thousandnine hundred ninety today wooden houses hundreds of years old still lined the streets and there contrast it by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to tomsk the home of siberia's first university. korean is a graduate of the thomas cloyd technique university he's only twenty four but he's already working on a ph d. and is running his own welding company with twenty six branches all over the country because. i started doing this three and a half years ago while still in underground we sampled our first models in a small garage then we want to few contests and received grants which allowed me to launch the company. but in the world of business a great idea needs money to get off the ground. and that's where venture capitalists like nikolai but dual income in. my business model is if not me then who i was looking for different ways i could invest and i found something that i thought was best investing innovations creating new products new technologies. one of the many businesses

thousand nine hundred twelve stalin was exiled for the sixth time and sentenced to four years in siberia he lived in this house but after only thirty nine days he escaped. from this house and ixia family were already exiles who were sent to this region and it is in this room of the state and it was here in this bed that stalin had actually slept. staal is a riot he lives on in tomsk preserved in this investigative prison museum until the one nine hundred forty s. this is a story building houses the tomsk pretrial detention center and was also headquarters of the people's commissariat for internal affairs or n.k.v.d. . here people charged with caring to revolutionary activities were kept in detention interrogated sentenced to death and there is evidence that executions were also performed here. you know what. i like sinister ankle was sentenced to ten years of hard labor in one of stalin's gulags and five years in exile knew me in that order i was tried for treason against the motherland i told him it wasn't against the motherland it was against the government the cases and charges they m

are to close a team is off on its travels again this time to the tomsk region situated in western siberia it's a place renowned as a destination for exiles dating back to the sars regime does our affiliate reports on how the past still affects the present. there is a saying every time slow call knows god created paradise while the devil created know him near him is located in the southern part of the tomsk region difficult to get to and right smack in the middle of a swamp cut off from the rest of the world it's a place renowned as a destination for exiles dating back to the sorry. the first exiles came here in sixteen thirty eight they were most likely polish jesuits later there were more exiles decemberists who rose up against the tsar in one hundred twenty five then russia's pre-revolutionary political party the bolsheviks and i case an iraq nix. in the early nineteenth century the population grew rapidly because of exiles to the point that every fifth the residents of tom scandal surrounding areas was in exile. the last batch will form a wealthy peasant they were cooled oppositionists

up next artie's close team is off on his travels this time to the tomsk region in western siberia it's a place where now it is a destination for exiles dating back to the days of those are are these tests are similar reports on how the past is still affecting the region's present. there's a saying every times local knows god created paradise while the devil created know him near him is located in the southern part of the tomsk region difficult to get to and right smack in the middle of a swamp cut off from the rest of the world it's a place renowned as a destination for exiles dating back to the sorry state. in the early nineteenth century the population grew rapidly because of exiles to the point that every fifth resident of tomsk and its surrounding areas was in exile. the last batch will form a wealthy peasant they were cooled oppositionists but in fact these people were just hard working families among those peasants was nicholai gook during stalin's time forced collective farming was introduced many landowning families lost their properties and were deported to siberia his family

siberia region. worldwide news around the clock you are with auti police are investigating a brutal attack on a correspondent of russia's newspaper oleg kashin was physically beaten near is home in moscow and is now in an induced coma investigators are saying but his professional activity may be behind the assault. is in the capital with details. the attack occurred right in the center of moscow where mr caution lives and two attackers were waiting for him to return to his apartment building into the courtyard part of the of the apartment complex where he lives they were standing holding flowers apparently trying to disguise what their intentions were mr cashin arrived they produced a blunt object and set about him in a brutal attack with the caution currently in a very critical condition in a induced coma in a hospital suffering from many many bruises as well as seriously broken fingers from this attack why these these two people we can hear now from neighbors of mr caution who found him shortly aft

search for truth treasures of siberia is coming up in just a few. an amendment to the law governing protest movements and rallies has been vetoed by the russian president dmitri medvedev the proposal supported by the russian parliament would have made the process of getting approval for a gathering even tougher defended his decision saying the legal adjustment would have breached human rights viktor linnik journalist editor in chief of the slovo newspaper says that by vetoing the changes the president was just doing his job. the mad men who saved the world prohibitive major because for instance they prohibited a person who was under proceedings for breaking a law in the past from organizing the rallies number two is that it stipulated notification of the royal they should be extended whereas obviously. this is again something that prevents the freedom of assembly in russia i think the president has a director of the constitution deborah bradley to defend the constitutional rights of the russian population and that. now the u.s. has for the first tim

the times square in southwestern siberia has long been known to be rich in oil and gas and the local economy has been linked with oil and gas and other related industries for quite some time but the local economy has a new growing and developing sector and that involves the collection the gathering of the processing of while growing natural products such as berries mushrooms and pine nuts there are some companies that do invest in the processing of these products and what's very interesting here is that this is really growing in the wild so people here could just go to the forests and go gather that themselves and the results they get of course depends on how much they gather i am in the heart of what really is the perfect example of that lush greenery of that rich forestry that make up such an abundant natural resource for the time squeeze and it has over a million hectares of agricultural land and more than half the territory is covered with forest there are four people injured collecting pine cones in a forest families come with children young people do it a lot too you can collec

a close up team in that sense for wild nations treasures of siberia and just a few. president medvedev has vetoed moves by parliamentary deputies to restrict freedom of assembly the amendment parts by they do you know would have tightened the approval process for gatherings or demonstrations but that aside the restrictions would have breached human rights editing chief of the slogan newspaper says by vetoing the changes the president was doing his job in defeating defending rather constitutional rights the mad men who sexually rural prohibitive nature because for instance they prohibited by person resign or proceedings for breaking a law in the past from organizing new rallies number two is that it stipulated time notification of the rally should be extended whereas obviously this is again something that prevents the freedom of assembly in russia i think the president as a director of the constitution not just temporal brigley to defend the constitutional rights of the russian population and that's what he did. veteran from southern russia has challenge family stare