st. petersburg and moscow. they are very much under attack. the problem they have faced this community building organizations are probably the worst position to fight to a political battle. they are very community oriented. weber not consumers and tell this started to happen and they are thrust into politics they have got a lot more support from lgbt in russia and the small liberal militants than they ever have before. that is the silver lining of the whole campaign. but most of the attention the network is getting most of the calls are from people asking how to get out of the

st. petersburg that do not get electricity, basic water sometimes, basic internet functions, all they get a slightly higher pension that europe gets, and they get cheap grain alcohol and a lot of them waste their lives away. it's a very sad situation. >> russian foreign minister wrote that russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilization in ukraine. your reaction? >> that's a farce. everything he has said has been beyond the pail of truth. at times he doesn't even get to communicate with mr. putin, because he is running this very closely in his inner circle. >> what do you say about the people in donetsk who want to be part of russia? >> it's a very small percentage. people in those regions are very

at the press conference in time in st petersburg and i'm told these messages were in fact kiera keith keith heard them there during the press conference when a journalist asked those questions he said that i'm jz a shooting at its own people by shooting at its own people the government completely legitimate powers in kenya are conducting a very serious crime and hiking compared to the so called authorities in kyiv to about military germs are on all operating around with a fool not accordance with international law he also said that such events such bloodletting events will have serious consequences for an interstate relations said thank god we've also heard that the russian imagery at the border with ukraine started him in which the exercise and this may be one of the reasons some are speculating at the moment as to why the ukrainian troops stopped for the error of two months on the below post off of the supporters of july station in the east of

situated right at the border crossing the traffic is always heavy on the road between seven and st petersburg. but it's favorable location on this busy or away hasn't brought any economic benefits to the city. such adorable but he's a visit to a local cafe to meet some friends the conversation turns as so often to the struggles of day to day life here. many are worried about the future and they're frustrated that the correction of the soviet era is still an ongoing problem the employment office in our back is different from the rest of estonia. get a jump your unique connections people say it's changing but it's slow. i have no idea how long it will take. no one fights back but then nothing will change. no one can ask for. i get home i mean is i sleep and her family are looking at old photo albums they've been reminiscing a lot these past months. and the old soviet days are taking on an ad for rosy glow in their memories then he said. the doc also sports an educational traditions and the country held told an icon and accounts for children the one to freeze frost yet it was a russian fuel cost

st. petersburg.e used to go there a lot, but now i need a visa, and that makes me sad. >> the family steel does not feel much connection to estonia, but they also do not want to leave the eu and become russian. they will just stick it out, they say. the border passes between the castle on the one side and the fortress on the other. many russians say they feel torn between the two countries -- not entirely estonian, but not russian, either. >> german hunters tend to think of themselves as environmentalists who make sure they keep certain animal populations down and diseases like rabies at bay, but there is a bigger issue brewing -- while gun possession is heavily regulated in germany, the country is rather out of date when it comes to checks on ammunition. lead bullets are still widely used by german hunters, and studies show that the toxic heavy metal is dangerous for people and animals alike. >> is palace is a paradise for german hunters. the estate north of berlin is home to one of the country's mo

her position as a russian i feel close to st petersburg with the show used to go there alot. now we need a visa that makes me sad. by then the family still doesn't feel much connection to estonia. but they also don't want to leave the queue and become russian. they'll just take it out they say the border passes between the council on the one side and the fortress on the other many russians and owner of a cd feel torn between the two countries. i'm not entirely estonian not russian either that doesn't hunt is tend to think of themselves as environmentalists to make so they keep second animal populations down and diseases like rabies at a box there is a big case you bring. while gun possession is heavily regulated in gemini the country is brought up t tod the new nation. well it's all still widely used by attending hunters. the study said that the toxic heavy metal is dangerous for people and animals alike. even dave penney is the kind i include jan hunt. the state's new companion is home to one of the country's knows what the eagle shooting ranges. i was testing the ammunition

st. petersburg, russia.evere rain causes the streets to flood. >> you've got small lake in the middle of this neighborhood and then all of a sudden you see a car coming through, the trunk is open, and then you realize it's because somebody's wakeboarding off the back of this car. >> guy's really taking to the next level. what i used to do growing up in russia, hold on to a bread truck when it was snowy and kind of skate behind it. >> snow is fun to slide on, but this water could cause a lot of damage. >> i certainly would not mind being the wakeboarder, i don't want to be the driver. have you ever seen what happens to care when the engine intake sucks up all of the water? that engine block is done. insurance company's not going to cover you for being a dumb ass. >> if i knew how to wakeboard, i'd do something like this. you have to know what you're doing. this is totally cool. i love this guy. >> coming up -- keep your eyes on the road. and romance gone wrong. >> i don't understand how cow sex works but thes

st. petersburg, he had no job. and the former mayor of st. burg, one of the former leaders of russia just he picked him up as a former student. and in that new position and an assistant to the mayor of st. petersburg. putin proved to be very useful. and even people in the kremlin administration and president yeltsin said how come in leningrad they have better lives than in moscow, and he said well, i have a very good assistant. so that assistant, mr. putin, was invited to moscow and became deputy chief of the business administration. from that moment on he would start reforms in his own way. and this is part of his character in that sense, russia is lucky. well, in a political sense it is a different story. but as a man who has enterprising nature, the man who knows how to handle things. >> what do you think he is up to when it comes to ukraine? is this purely about national pride, and purely about reaping the fruits of the empire without having to pay for it? what is his end game? >> well, let me remind putin's words years ago. the collapse o

st. petersburg. a russian reform guy and reform-minded, and it was who i knew pretty well approached me and asked me if i could name someone for the kgb to use as a contact man with the kgb office. i mentioned a couple, and he said no, no, they are too highly placed. i need someone lower ranking, and then he picked up himself the guy who was one of his students at the law school of the leningrad university, and that was putin. ever since putin proved to be a very efficient guy. he was actually helpful in resolving some of the economic issues on the leningrad regional level, and he was just noticed by the kremlin business administration. it was president yeltsin who said why do they have less problems with food and supplies in st. petersburg, unlike moscow? so i had a good guy, an assistant who knows how to handle things. that's when our putin was invited to the kremlin business administration. he was put in charge -- as number two man in charge of russian property abroad, and that began his new caree

st. petersburg festival is still on. it was originally scheduled to participate in the session in may. the group included labeling fine up goldman sachs, a whole host of american business leaders and pepsi as well. it is putting the companies in a particularly tight box. you have these rising tensions with russia will stop a lot of them do a lot of this mess as well. some of the companies talking about why they would know here. they have officials going to understand better the current economic environment. you have a statement about why the company is going to continue to participate. we continue to watch it closely to determine what impact if any there may be on our ongoing business. that couldompanies be willing to risk some concerns on the part of the united states government by going to this event. just in the last few days michael corbett of citigroup announcing he will not be attending as initially planned. one of the considerations for a host of americans doing businesses in just a few weeks time. heard anything from capitol hill? has there been any comment from any of the hous

st. petersburg, a man who had been mayor of st. rges. and putin threw some out of russia, saved him. for yeltsin, that was it. >> he is basically one of the most extraordinary rises from sort of obscure technocrat to the leader of the russian federation in the course of a couple years. that one could possibly imagine. then in a short basically year and a half time period, he went from running the fsb to being tapped by one of the wealthy oligarchs and his allies to become yeltsin's successor. >> so it's a very rapid assent for putin. and it's partly because of this ability for him to move in the background to win people other using the recruitment techniques he learned in the kgb to rise to the top and be selected as the successor. >> putin secured his footing on the national stage using the power and money of a close knit group of oligarchs. during his first stint as president, he solidified relationships to help strengthen the russian economy. but he never let the idea of reclaiming the glory of the soviet empire leave his mind. t

st. petersburg. this is the editorial. this is in very bad taste, according to the magazine. ofis making a mockery berlin's foreign policy, which he should be defending publicly. shamespiegel says it is a that he did not try to talk some sense into vladimir putin behind the scenes. >> much focus has been on the new prime minister. >> yesterday the lower house of parliament give the green light to his 50 billion euro saving plan, but it was a close call for the prime minister. you can see that he is waltzing on a thin line, a little pun. is facing that valls a crumbling majority in parliament, opposition from the far left, the green party, and now the socialist rebellion. 's have decided to abstain from the vote and have vowed to keep a watchful eye on what the government does next. >> other papers are talking about the socialist rebel group. >> a business paper says a real movement was born, and his group will hunker down and present a real challenge to the president and the prime minister. this could be definitely tricky for them in deed. the front a look at page, it talks a

st. petersburg.hey sleep only in the best hotels and enjoy the idyllic lifestyle. >> i have been coming here with the family for four or five years. we come to ski every winter. the kids feel it is a pleasant town for parents and children to spend their vacation in. >> the russians love of the town has given up real estate prices. dozens of businesses and buildings are owned by russians. they go for luxury places like this that cost more than 3 million euros. >> i'm happy to show you around. we have an open hearth with a large dining table. the owners always have one guest or another. they are very family oriented. >> the real estate agent says sanctions against russia are a bad idea. >> we worked hard to get where we are. it would be a terrible mistake to start up trouble with big countries. if putin says don't go to austria anymore, the russians will stay away. that is my concern. >> the russian guests account for 27,000 overnight accommodations a year. most austrians do not care where the money co

st. petersburg where he met putin and worked with putin in the mayor's office in st. petersburg.ial in the russian government himself until the russian government decided they should not have senior government officials also running state backed companies. since then, he has been the ceo of rosenft. -- rosneft. >> what will this mean for rosneft and other big companies? >> the company itself has not been sanctioned. in this case, it is just the individual. just the ceo of the company. it is not great, though. exxon does business with the company. the are hoping to drill most important well of the year in the arctic starting in august. think about bp. iny own about a 20% stake rosneft. bob dudley, the ceo of bp, he is an american citizen. he will have to go to these board meetings. from an optics perspective, from pr. >> thank you very much. that does it for today. i will see you back here on bloomberg tv at 3:00 p.m. for street smart. ♪ bloomberg television is on the markets. we are 30 minutes into the trading day. let's get you caught up on the markets. the nasdaq is up by about

st. petersburg in 1902, believed lost after the russian revolution, it made its way instead to the united states. a man bought it at a flea market for only $14,000 and intended to sell it for scrap. >> welcome back. the world's biggest democratic election has started in india where over 800 million people are eligible to vote. >> pulling will take place over the next five weeks. people in the northeastern states are the first to cast their ballots. the dgp party is tipped as the favorite to replace the governing congress party. there is also a new contender hoping to make an impact on voters who are disillusioned with the established parties and their inability to deal with rampant corruption -- rampant corruption. >> whether shirts, trousers, or traditional indian saris, there is plenty of work for this seamstress and her employees. the 33-year-old dreamed of joining india's growing middle class and took on work to start her own middle -- her own business. she says it is getting harder to make her own payments. >> whichever party wins control, i hope they do something to improve things f

st. petersburg, florida, but this noise is music to the ears of owner kelly lessem-bates. her business of producing cold- pressed juice jumped 400 percent since starting out just 18 months ago. it's been such an exponential growth, even from the time i was by myself in the kitchen. juicing is squeezing every last nutrient out of fruit and veggies until it's left into a pile of pulp. the juices are combined into ecclectic concoctions that nourish your body with more veggies than most people eat in a week. this process. it not only allows you to get those nutrients, but it allows you to get it in a very concentrated form. there's 4-6 pounds of fruit and veg that are in any 16 oz drinking tall glasses of green has gone beyond just the yogis and hollywood health nuts. a swanky juice bar like squeeze is the latest trend in the 50- billion dollar health and wellness industry, and the category is estimated to grow by 6 percent a year. as these juice bars grow and evolve they're going to saturate the market, similar to the way cupcake have grown over the past six years juicing is

st. petersburg. it was auctions in new york in 1964. it was not identified as fab share at the time. it reappeared last year when the egg was bought by a scrap metal dealer at a flea market in america's midwest. he paid 8,000 pounds for it and kept it in his kitchen. it was only when the new owner opened up the egg and saw the insticks, it's the name of the watchmaker that he looked it up online. he found an article about the hunt for a missing faberge egg and discovered that this lump of gold was worth 20 million pounds. the man who discovered the ultimate golden egg wants to remain anonymous. it will soon disappear into the vaults of a private collector and this historic jewel may never be seen again. >> 20 years ago this month, rwanda became hell oneth. in the space of three short months, 800,000 people were killed. the government tried to wipe out the minority and the genocide still stands as a shocking mark of western failure to intervene. amid the horror, an untold tale of bravey of a united nations peacekeeper took place. mark has returned to bring us this story. >> rwanda, 19

a journalist who works for a newspaper in st petersburg and the head of president putin's administration wanted these two men have in common their name because of us sanctions city one of the politician is unable to go to the us while sipping a bottle the journalist was unable to buy new running shoes from an american online store. the thing is these two names or the combination of names is so widespread in russia thousands of people actually carry them and we checked one of the most popular social networks in the country and down over sixty thousand users with the main city run off. there will also no wonder the us postal service got confused because after the city tv journalist me the border. he received a letter from the store saying that his name was found on a u s blacklist of sanctions and the delivery could not be complete. in fact if you tend to change. the recipient's name and address to his mothers who ended up receiving the shoe was but in the end boards to the gays ended up meeting at a basketball game where the head of the present administration said he was so lori for all t

st. petersburg when now president putin was deputy mayor.hen.working for him that he came to the kremlin at was deputy chief of staff for putin and deputy prime minister. he became chairman in 2004. the government decide it is not go for officials to be chair men. maybe i should not just a ceo of rosneft because it is the world's largest public we traded oil company. >> thank you so much. still with us for his views on the market is yannick naud. we talked a little bit about oil a you were saying, some of the companies have taken profit. you had an interview with the ceo today. anything else or are you waiting for more details? it is difficult at the moment to see how these sections will affect. now, you have got to be a big element. large investment in russia. nevertheless, even before the sanctions, after the exploration , it has been trouble for quite some time. or whatever it is in russia. we have more and more trouble in finding the oil. anyway, even without the sanctions, exploration and russia -- in russia. >> we were talking but it i

she's a b or asian immigration security in forming a single legal framework were discussed in st petersburg cis into parliamentary assemblies your second cst on meetings were held and will often involve both the detriment of the issues related to a number of social projects are really into fighting legislation on tele medicine were discussed issues related to the improvement of labor legislation are also considered the three of them with the us open in doha but the thought. the main items of spring season was the meaning of accounts of the collective security treaty organization the speaker of the copics added passenger was so kind to dissipate in the meeting in his speech he stressed that the cia steel was held as an import international structure the state of the senate also hold bilateral meetings with colleagues from russia and all rose in addition participants discussed the signing of a tree at the highest level on establishing the eurasian economic union in the near future. there is for the fight to create a common market and sensitive products such as medicine excise taxes on alcohol

danced he made an exception i have recently returned from budapest where together with a group of st petersburg state academic ballet theater conquer the scenes of old world. he finished with it she can't move took advantage of all i would like us to show two different performances with artists and would i give him because he brings something new to our performance i would say something unique in national and something that enriches the core graphic how late that we represent them and most of the dish in a way to play to create a future school cooking with stuff the russian ballet performs road in london for the first time ever. therefore the responsibility of the leading solace of kazakhstan is very large yes you can get him to come back to choreograph these difficult. i watched so many films in order to understand score graphic ever present not only myself but because extend our theater and my teachers i think a very much that they have sent me here and gave me an opportunity to plunge into this tale. and yet they meet in temples built machine. additional pollution which we're very excited an

the class put on display in st petersburg in nineteen oh two the lead to loss after the russian revolution it made its way instance the united states a man bought it at the food the market for only fourteen thousand dollars and intended to sell it for scrap. taken with one minute break that record is i'm not. do the eye . it is. and all. world's biggest democratic elections started in india were offered eight hundred million people are eligible to vote on polling will take place in stages throughout the country over the next five weeks and people in the north eastern states of us on and support for the first to cast their ballots. the bjp party led by hindu nationalists narendra modi is tipped as the favourite to replace the governing congress party there's also a new contender in the race the atp is hoping to make an impact on voters who are disillusioned with the established parties and or inability to deal with rampant corruption the trousers old traditional indian saris. wednesday was a seamstress monday color of their employees. the thirty three year old dreamed of joining india's gro

a journalist who works for a newspaper in st petersburg and the head of president putin's administration what do these two men have in common their name because of u.s. sanctions city one of the politician isn't able to go to the u.s. while city gavan off the journalist wasn't able to buy running shoes from an american online store the thing is these two names or the combination of names is so widespread in russia thousands of people actually carry them and we checked one of the most popular social networks in the country and sound over sixty thousand users with the name city given off alone so no wonder the u.s. postal service got confused because after city gave the journalist me the order he received a letter from the store saying that his name was found on a u.s. blacklist of sanctions and the delivery could not be complete in fact here he had to change the recipient's name and address to his mother's who ended up receiving the shoes but in the end both city gays and it up meeting at a basketball game where the head of the president's administration said he was sorry for all the inco

st. petersburg university came to me and said, you don't understand. what don't i understand?russia, people are very poor. they don't need rights, they need food. reply and themal way i did it. how are they going to -- going to get food if they cannot challenge the decisions? it will end up with the elite and powerful as it always does with aid. she look that make was a klee and said china. -- quizzically and said china. that is the product of social development. ruled by law, whatever is authorized is law but not law and the rich and thick sense as we know it. china,e of weeks ago in all discussion about independent -- judiciary was banned and those who did discuss it were taking away and reeducated like in the old days and put back into the posts after that. does a a challenge the lot of africa and asia looks to china and is amazed at the socioeconomic developments and is impressed. singapore and others are looking at that kind of command and control model. it is something we all should really grapple with because it does seem to be working. the conventional wisdom is that y

st. petersburg. , who benefits from the midst of the russian armed forces are allegedly going to take ukraine? who is actually trying to alienate from our brothers and partners? and can we invite everyone who wants to visit the border regions with ukraine? can we do that openly? >> it has been a matter of -- the desire to set up or him between russia and ukraine, it has been a matter of international politics for centuries. if you can recall the expansions of the white movement leaders after the revolution, you will see that in spite of any contradictions with the bolsheviks, they really never even thought about a division between russia and ukraine. they always thought it was part of one territory and one nation. now, it just happens that we live in different states and unfortunately the policy of theseing and separating, two components of one people. it is continuing. particularly, forces that are afraid of our power. look at what they did to yugoslavia. they carved up into such small pieces. they mutilated it. that is what i think some people want to do with us. but if you look at what hap

st. petersburg, florida say this guy entered a circle k convenience store wearing a wolf man mask.o the counter, pointed a handgun at the clerk, threw a plastic bag at her demanding money. after he grabbed the cash he ran to an alley. police hope the bizarre mask will be the key to his identity. 6'2" weighing 190 pounds. a muscular build last seen wearing dark work pants and a grey long sleeve shirt. >> are they sure it was a mask? >> maybe not. >>> "the real story" with gretchen carlson starts right now. >>> thanks, guys. we start with a fox news alert. the worst may still be yet to come. unfortunately, severe weather could bring more tornadoes across the midwest and southeast today. >>> hi, everyone. i'm gretchen carlson. so glad you are with me for "the real story" today. >>> 16 people have been killed in oklahoma, arkansas after an apparent ef-3 twister destroyed dozens of homes causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. sheet metal, wood tossed and splintered turning some small towns into virtual wastelands now.

st. petersburg. normally you don't send medical brigades on troop exercises. maybe they get trench foot or athlete's foot or whatever they need -- routine dental checks -- >> right. >> but that's not who is being mobilized. these are emergency-care kinds of people. you could say it's for an exercise purpose, but normally it's not done like that, so this is another worrisome indicator that this option is being followed. maybe putin hasn't pulled the trigger on it yet. we have to convince him it would trigger. >> good to have you here with your incite. thank you. >> thank you. >>> well, here tonight at the milken institute global conference, michael milken once smaed headlines for all of the wrong reasons. plus from the sands of canada to the pipelines of america, i'm looking at the oil from alberta, and why there are critics on if i told you that a free ten-second test could mean less waiting for things like security backups and file downloads you'd take that test, right? well, what are you waiting for? you could literally be done with the test by now. now you

st. petersburg. putin was pretty strongly worded statement from him saying that if the kiev authorities have used the army to as he put it against pro russian activists, then there will be consequences. basically, repeating the message that sergey lavrov had made the day before. russian people being affected is an attack on the russian federation. there's been a new development in the last half hour. we've learned that from the defense minister, said there are new military exercises underway in the south and western parts of russia near the ukraine border. he said this is in response to nato's partial mobilization bringing in american troops to poland and the build up of ukrainian troops. he's been specific, 160 tanks, 230 armored vehicles, several air force units, and artillery are involved in what he says is a large scale ukrainian deployment in the southeast of the country. really, this crisis just seems to escalate day by day. another exercise was being held. the time for talking it appears is fa

them children is also said to have ordered the two thousand and nine bombing of a train between st petersburg and moscow the twenty six people amar was also the suspected mastermind behind the double suicide attack on the moscow metro in two thousand and ten which saw thirty nine people killed plus the bombing at one of the capital's main airports in twenty eleven and wished thirty six people dead despite repeated claims had been killed last summer emerged again calling on his terrorist follows to disrupt the winter olympics in sochi no socks took place during the games but in the run up to the big event more than thirty people were killed when two bomb blast ripped through the city of volgograd need the volatile caucasus region and the spine that long list of atrocities it took a while before the u.s. recognized as a terrorist international relations and security expert moxley botha explained to us why. the western media even today was referring to mars in its headlines as a rebel and a militant rather than as a terrorist the reason for this is because morris was seen as part of a church an

ford motor company teamed up with a russian automobile maker that got a big switch plant outside st petersburgaid off 700 workers in the last few weeks and a direct consequences of the crisis following the annexation of crimea and must face steadily worse crisis in ukraine. >> thanks for analysis and peter sharp live in moscow. we mentioned that the u.s. president barack obama is in the philippines and now saying a new military deal signed with the country is not intended to contain china and it's a ten-year defense pact that allows the u.s. a bigger presence in the philippines and giving access to military camps and making it easier to deploy fighter jets and ships and the base commander has access to american forces and philippines is involved in territorial disputes with china. and we are live from manila and this is not intended to contain or contonight china says the u.s. president and if not what is it really intended to do? >> reporter: well, this is actually what both leaders reiterated today and not meant to antagonize china in any other way. what they need is to shore up their own de

st. petersburg. i think it was quite clear from what mr.putin saw that that also was not a very clean election. i think that his attitude toward democracy, one has to look at his past and worry comes from. he is not a democrat in any western sense of the word, but russia is also not stalinist russia, even though some people describe it as such. but it is not that. the internet is pretty free. people can express different views. not on state-run to limit -- television. putin is not all-powerful in the way that probably stolen west. he is probably the single most powerful individual in the system which is not very transparent. it is a hybrid system. the groups but different people with whom he interacts and his views he does have to listen to. we can see in economic transactions he cannot determine everything. i think the best way to describe it may be managed democracy. there are elections, but they are not free and fair in the same way that we believe they are. and it looks as if the tendency is going toward less pluralism then there was, c

st. petersburg. see? he takes off the white sheet, revealing a wolf mask. also revealing a pistol. the armed wolf man forces the clerk to fill a bag with the money. and he waits patiently for his loot. and takes off. the wolf man is still on the loose. not sure there was a full moon last night or not. look into that. >>> and finally, a new bundle of joy at the pittsburgh, pennsylvania, zoo. this is a 1 1/2-year-old elephant seal. it was somehow blinded after being stranded in pebble beach, california. animal rescue crews say he was in a very dangerous situation. his life was in danger. so, they swooped in to save him. he currently weighs 500 pounds. but, bianna, pay attention to this. he's going to eventually get very large and weigh about 5,000 pounds. and he has a name. guess what his name is. it's written right there on the teleprompter. >> coolio. >> good guess. >> isn't that a rapper? >> it is. >> a rapper and elephant seal. >> continuing our series, cultural literacy, with bianna golodryga. >> i was a big fan, once upon a time. >> i believe it. i believe it. >> there's a rapp

st. petersburg says they're offing redundant see for now. industry groups say car sales fell 5% in russia in 2013 and fp another weak year. >>> the 74 victims of the boz kneeian war have been identified in the biggest mass grave. hundreds of muslims were killed during an ethnic cleansing campaign. so far 430 victims have been identified at the site. >>> the british government is being urged to do more to understand better the health risks posed by shale gas extraction or fracking. a group called physicians, sciences and engineers for heal healthy energy is worried about drilling in areas densely populated and a warning that the risks could include birth defects of the richard martin explains. >> reporter: in the united states almost a third of the natural gas is produced and comes from fracking, and that's meant a big cut in energy prices. in europe it's a very controversial issue. even though the continent is under pressures of finding new energy sources, france has banned fracking altogether. in britain some des drilling went ahead, but it

st. petersburg that do not get electricity, basic water sometimes, basic internet functions, all they get a slightly higher pension that europe gets, and they get cheap grain alcohol and a lot of them waste their lives away. it's a very sad situation. >> russian foreign minister wrote that russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilization in ukraine. your reaction? >> that's a farce. everything he has said has been beyond the pail of truth. at times he doesn't even get to communicate with mr. putin, because he is running this very closely in his inner circle. >> what do you say about the people in donetsk who want to be part of russia? >> it's a very small percentage. people in those regions are very happy with going in a more modern movement. one person on the ground interviewed yesterday saying we don't trust kiev because that government is run by gays and jews. it's a disgusting anti-ethnic mindset that is going on there, and that's not what ukraine is about. they are a multi-cultural country, we can get along with our friends. this russian-first mentality is not a part of the

st. petersburg, florida, on the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am really enjoying the program. you guys are definitely covering a lot of things that have been really bothering me lately. i have been reading articles on the white house. an old article, increasing taxes on the middle class -- consumer spending. also on cnn that got an article called how america is rigged for the rich. i think a caller from new york hit on a lot of these topics. benefit america if the taxes for the rich and how how doesso sheltered, our government to believe that lowering their taxes so they can keep reinvesting in the economy and that is the way our economy is setting up right now -- however, i don't see any benefit? i just see me and my family, our taxes is going up and our income is going down, on everything. guest: that is really the problem with our current system, is that the rules are so complicated and there are so many special tax breaks for different types of income and different types of taxpayers that a lot of wealthy people and a lot of big corporatio

st. petersburg and moscow. they are very much under attack.e problem they have faced this community building organizations are probably the worst position to fight to a political battle. they are very community oriented. weber not consumers and tell this started to happen and they are thrust into politics they have got a lot more support from lgbt in russia and the small liberal militants than they ever have before. that is the silver lining of the whole campaign. but most of the attention the network is getting most of the calls are from people asking how to get out of the country. >> how concerned are you about the future to be rearrested now they don't try to appeal now with the caribbean situation anyway? >> they are definitely a target. phase of risk being arrested and physical harm i am more concerned about physical harm they have been attacked weekly i am sure you have seen the video of them being horse whipped and more recently they were attacked by a nationalist activists apparently affiliated with the secret police. they sprayed them

st. petersburg for the big economic forum. is this a net positive for russian banks?ense that western banks will be pulling out? evel, we doiwi l not feel any tension. our relationship with western banks is still at a very high level. course, western banks are reluctant to come to russia. at a situational level, everything is good. >> we have got to wrap it up. thank you very much, boris. at least come back and tell us how you are doing. anna'so come, entrepreneur series is back. it is all about cakes and the delicious business that is hummingbird bakery. ♪ >> time for today's company news. europe's third-biggest carmaker reporting a .1% decline in first-quarter revenue. we are talking about rental -- renault. climbed 5.1%.d -- the world's biggest coffee shop chain raised its forecast. held by a sales boost from new baked sweets, sandwiches, and a rewards program with about 8 billion members. same-store sales rose about six percent in the u.s. for the quarter that ended march 30. international investors will be lining up to bid for london's iconic cucumber-shaped skys

st. petersburg in the 1970's on nuclear power.ister of foreign trade, which is where he met vladimir putin. men have known each other since the early 1990's. founded a judo club that vladimir putin is a part of . he is down about $3 billion this year because russians were had by the sanctions. oddly enough, yesterday's fortune rose. there is a legitimate question about how it will affect the sanctions. >> my first question is -- where does that actually come from? a big chunk of a commodities trading operation based in switzerland that he founded with another billionaire partner. so, he has about $5 million in cash after the sale of that. the second largest amount of gas .roduced after the asked laws smaller assets along with a chemical producer. him?at is the effect on more importantly, what is the effect on vladimir putin? >> that really does remain to be seen. the treasury department claims the vladimir putin himself is a part owner or has access to the that this guy sold out of. but the government obviously adamantly denies th