see how differently people saying cool alexander solzhenitsyn was. we're not asking russians who folk know well as. i guess we could have received many similar answers do you know russians know solzhenitsyn and his legacy how important is it to them. think it's an option hopelessly i actually am not the right person to answer this question because i no longer consider myself a young person but i know to works by solzhenitsyn one day in the life of on denise rich and maturing this place they are now part of the school curriculum. children read them in the ninth tenth or eleventh grade it's up to the teacher to decide when the from this year and a bridge version of the gulag archipelago was introduced into the school program to alexander solzhenitsyn asked me to prepare it a short version has existed for a long time in the us and other countries but the material for bridge meant and the way how it was done are different from what edward erickson did in the u.s. so from now on this book will be studied in comprehensive schools. while in specialist schoo

a little work of alexander solzhenitsyn which i remember being published how to build russia is solzhenitsyn's reaction to perestroika of the fact that is a surreal of them today. i mean you unfortunately and i mean it it's very relevant unfortunately you know one of what she feared was a voyage. of his warnings where she did it so what we have now is twenty five million compatriots from russia in kazakhstan. and other places and they're still barely treated in russia and here wrote about it. he wrote about the system of education we will lose several generations he wrote and we did land ownership elections he wrote on so many topics but things do not improve only get worse and make no headway that the article was not read by the government but people did read it at least twenty seven million copies of it were stalled in the come some of the newspaper published by the way here. in the media was later it's not phone porton at that time it was like a bomb you could see people read meat everywhere the newspapers editors called us environment and told us that within a week they got two thousand le

foundation not out yet solzhenitsyn i. know it must be missiles and it's and we've started talking about the gulag archipelago that's parle stuff to do take into consideration that it's been a long while since the book was written. a lot of documents and facts which alexander solzhenitsyn and could not have been revealed before the fact that this fact affect her work you know that there is history and there is literature of the same things. and of course. of course numerous. they're ready called changes which have taken place in russia over the past twenty years and many of the work quite unsuccessful so we can say that reformers themselves produce their most aggressive. so many of them think that xander soldier has absolutely wrong figures in his book and that he exaggerated them ten fold this is an outright lie nonsense alexander solzhenitsyn really did not have any official sources they have or inaccessible and continued to be so for many decades after but when axes was opened the state archives of the russian federatio

say the writer solzhenitsyn or his wife because with i'm not trying to say anything bad about the ninety's as compared to now because the authority was like. an olive branch the wind was strong it was possible to own away entirely what we have to face up to the truth and he talked about. there are two key points i think you are the first aspect is the people of georgia this is who provides humor and information from hot spots from skin valley to baghdad globally to the to me and the other aspect is defeat among all the viewer this is quite important to me when all of us use the channel your news was brought in from russia ten years ago russia twenty four year old they like to directly left channels and we're going to have twenty more channels and several years as you said this gives us a telling the degree of freedom he has so like i said it will be the level of freedom corresponds to the spirit of the time and for our times i believe the usual . well we all read newspapers and we've all heard what will save t.v. i consider some of these. well a bit snobbish with me who do so because it's

i'll go off talks to the wife of the great russian writer and communist regime opponent alexander solzhenitsyn that's to come shortly tonight after the weekend business update next. and i welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me. demand for world oil be higher than expected next year it will stay haul into two thousand and fifteen as according to the international energy agency brant crude traded over ninety one dollars this week ahead of the apec meeting on saturday but analysts a split a longer term outlook for the oil price touch out of reports. in contrast with many traders russia's finance minister. has a green prediction for oil prices sixty dollars per barrel within three years among those who agree with him feature rating agency says it's a fair price justified by fundamentals and stripped off speculation it is our view that a lot of producing countries are quite comfortable with the level of between sixty to seventy because it helps them balance their budgets but also think the price of between sixty to seventy companies can actually conduct and carry out some of the highe

look, solzhenitsyn became a rich man.don't think when he wrote his book he was ever thinking about becoming rich. - mm-hmm. - and that's the way you operate. and i never in my life had the target to make money. i had the target to create things. i need the means for it, i need the resources, i need the tools for it. but if you look at me, really, i don't spend my money on buying new ties. and that's very important. and that's one reason why you cannot buy me with money. you can buy me if you tell me, "how about making this kind of new product with me?" and i'm going to work it over with you. - nicolas hayek, we just made a new product. we've made a great tv show. thank you. good luck. - thank you. - nic hayek. our special new year's edi as a tribute to this great swiss entrepreneur. now, here's something else coming up on the world show, but please stick around. our annual ritual is also coming up. - i can talk about my case, but what do i know about cases that you have quoted? as far as i know, you're mixing people who a