was the very beginning of the international space station which is still in use today in fact the u.s.s.r. the united states being the two leading countries it was pushing that project forward so very important in terms of getting the countries together but also nowadays a lot of our work in space is done on the international space station in this mission thirty five years ago was what led the way to that happening maybe that was the last season. a russian billionaire is taking legal action against christie's auction house. picked out of a board a painting believed to be by the russian else's but as for two point six million dollars five well he's now demanding a refund and senior editor website says the case could affect christie's credibility with russia. christie said they were chaos an internal investigation but this hasn't generated any results or at least not results which of satisfied. over the weekend he's launched this legal brit presumably to force their hands to get them into a courtroom and thrash it out so far all they've said is that this is a mass that taken very seriously

looks back at how the relations between u.s.s.r. and the u.s. warmed after their first ever a link up an orbit. to moscow are curators have been found guilty of inciting religious hatred after an exhibition which prosecutor said insulted human dignity the show called for benard included an explosive mix of works some of which were banned from previous public displays. a gross a million or an artistic license when these images went on display in two thousand and seven they oust wage rush's religious community and they put the curator and the museum director and the middle of a nasty tug of war over freedom of expression and ultranationalist complaint and so began a fourteen month trial on charges of inciting religious hatred through controversial works of cricket it was not the church that initiated this prosecution order but to people who were offended that the investigation proved to that the yard at this exhibit was offensive towards believers and insight into religious hatred throughout the trial artist rights activist journalist and oppositi

but it's very very unusual most traitors for example spies who spied against russia or the u.s.s.r. in during the cold war were themselves russians oil ukrainians or you know and traders in the west were british or americans. very rare to find someone who can pass. for me gordon lawns dale who was the must of mind of what we call the portland bill spy ring many years ago was indeed colonel. of the k.g.b. but he was gordon levels of the canadian businessman. and he was asleep but it's very unusual it's the most unusual. form in which espionage takes place and this is all that it's actually still ongoing just this week we had the arrest of another yet another spa in the united states only twenty three years old which seems extraordinary young what kind of training do you think he would have had at such a young age well i don't know what i don't know how he was able if he was indeed able to process of the thing about america it's an easier. to penetrate than in british society because i mean america is an ethic melting pot and you can say hey you know i'm a bum a polish immigrant i lov

from the u.s.s.r. they all work together for six months and then they went in space on july seventeenth and they docked and spent forty four hours together conducting experiments eating together and doing things together specifically one of the things that they did was they actually used at the apollo module from the united states and maneuvered it in front of the sun so that the u.s.s.r. could take pictures of the sun for scientific research so really working together and starting a brand new era in space exploration and it was thirty five years ago today that those two ships left each other then the soyuz model spent an extra five days in space the apollo module spent another nine days in space and they went on their ways but again very important in symbolism between the two countries and starting a new era of relations well incredibly significant from a country relations standpoint how it's being marked today is the prime minister vladimir putin has actually met with the surviving members of both of

myself was affected by the board and like that i was working under the so-called legal cover of a u.s.s.r. embassy worker in mexico as a result of a political campaign five of us were declared persona non grata and thrown out of mexico as well didn't happen then how did that affect my life in particular to some extent my further business travel opportunities were limited i wasn't allowed to a number of the so called main added three countries on the other hand i was transferred to another category of the call spies intelligence needs such blown agents for assignments in situations where they don't want to risk non blown agents so i started working in this area therefore when experienced agents who work for a long time fail for various reasons they can then be used in all kinds of areas intelligence has a very wide range of working areas they can keep regular workers and use them in the field of training and education for instance. the u.s. secret service and say they've been on the tail of the russian agents for almost a decade why did it take so much time for them to bust the spy ring it

technical and scientific unfortunate but it was also a great step towards cooperation between the u.s.s.r. and the u.s. it wants peace they want no losers the main thing was that we started to work on friendship ties between the two countries it was like search and find ways to survive and live together in this world it was the first time the soviet people and americans looked at each other is the it was a beautiful project and my friend brother if you can confirm it it was a space race but. we had the russians and the soviets for be had always you know done showing some great feats in space and my dear friend my brother alexey was the first whatever to walk in space but it was so interesting. here we had. two different languages two different units of measure. two different. completely different political system it was a very meaningful symbol to the people of the world when we open the hatch in a lecture and i show you. now that brings us up to date here in r.t. and i'll be back with a recap of our main news stories in just a moment. much brighter than. the bounce from phones to pressur

later and their success shaped global politics to this day that is polaski expose the relics of the u.s.s.r. push nuclear supremacy. it was the culmination of the manhattan project the first american nuclear explosive device nicknamed the gadget went off in new mexico just weeks before devastating the japanese city of hiroshima many including the godfather of the atomic bomb j. robert oppenheimer were terrified by the power of the deadly mushroom cloud people . cried both people were. the echo of that blast carried far beyond the atlantic in the soviet union experiments with nuclear energy were on the way too but just like the us and this research institute on the black sea coast the main rules were played by german scientists this used to be a top secret nuclear facility but aside from these lines the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers the lab will see it in deep inside up cause a subtropical paradise. three hundred germans top nuclear physicists their assistants family members and even personal chefs were brought to this clue's compound and up cause by the order of joseph stalin in o

events do happen periodical in interstate relations national interests do diverged and after the u.s.s.r. ceased to exist it was claimed that the intelligence service no longer had friends or foes and began minding national interests here the secret services are always guided by u.s. national security interests something cropped up in u.s. territory they sort of neutralize it while outside u.s. territory they viewed stress globally no matter where they emerged and took steps to neutralize them as well. do you think the country's sunni point is a kind of a bad habit dating back to cold war the one we are rather to get through. as long as the student of the state is in existence within a human community or intelligence services will exist as well methods change but principles as described in the bible this is to this day but the information revolution doesn't affect intelligence priorities of course. thank you very much a leg for joining us. in the russian empire. to save the soviets. five hundred tons of gold and dozens of colored. six hundred. roubles. the train. station. sentry long way

>> because stalin's u.s.s.r. put pressure on them. because he was a subversive, the germans wouldn't have him at all because he wanted to create a dictatorship of the proletariat in germany. now what country in the world would say yes, come in. be our guest. so he was always a very uncomfortable person to have in the country. and revolutionary mexico was the only haven for him by the end of the 1930s, and very regretfully, that's where he went. >> how many years was he in mexico? >> he was in mexico for three years before stalin's political police caught up with him. >> what was -- what were the circumstances of his death? >> an assassin, a trained assassin, ramon mercader was sent out from moscow, with a team -- he was told to seduce one of the many young women who worked as secretarial assistance for trotsky. he did this very effectively. he inveigled his way into the villa on a regular basis in coyoacan in mexico city. and one day one sunny august 1940 afternoon, he turned up in a mackintosh claiming that he had heard that it was g

technical and scientific comportment but it was also a great step towards cooperation between the u.s.s.r. and the u.s. towards progress in space there were no losers the main thing was that we started to work on friendship ties between the two countries it was like search and find ways to survive and live together in this one world it was the first time the soviet people and americans looked at each other is the quills it was a beautiful project and my friend and brother can confirm it it was a space race. the russians or the soviets for be had always you know shown some great feats in space and my dear friend my brother alexey was the first whatever to walk in space but it was so interesting. here where you had. two different languages two different your submersion with. two different. different political systems it was a very meaningful symbol to the people of the world when we open the hatch in a lecture and i showed you how the u.s. banking system is about to go through its biggest overhaul in over seventy years the dot frank bill is designed to prevent a repeat of the financial cris

his message barely ever got through to the u.s.s.r. in the late 1930's. trotsky was politically dead before he was physically dead. stalin was a bit of an obsessive. if you wanted to get rid of a problem, you exterminated the manifestation of the problem. >> how long did he live and what was the funeral like? >> the funeral was a great mexican state occasion. crowds turned out to see the hearse going through the city. people turned out who were catholics for the death of a militantly atheist revolutionary leader. this is one of the aspects of trotsky's life that you have to take account of. what people thought trotsky was was not what he had been. it was a tremendous a session -- it was a romantization. most people who had written about trotsky had fallen in love with him. all those that have not really gotten trotsky out of their head. i try to read every single thing that he wrote and i tried to read the draft of everything. the drafts of his autobiography in the hoover institution archives are amazingly helpful. >> do you speak or read russian? >> yes,

meetings at the top level are a step towards an era of recovering the kind of relations the us and the u.s.s.r. used to have during say well what to what should we do in the present situation should we keep working even though we know there's nothing to be found that in these twelve days that shook the world we thought our relations were about to explode again in spite of the recent warming and rapid developments and almost every african solution and i p look a happy ending for both countries everybody is happy relations seem even stronger now and a compromise found the solution was found unbelievably quickly these events are the top level of intelligence work during the cold war it used to take years to prepare such swaps as it turns out now to some extent the foundation was laid even before this issue was made public. because one side was already prepared for it and the other one was interested in doing it smoothly in the current situation either one wanted to use this opportunity to gain is grain of gold this would be the purpose of all previous achievements i mean the summit during the rus

almost no other option but to work for either moscow or washington if fierce competition between the u.s.s.r. in america to get hold of nuclear weapons was on and even though the us were the first to successfully carry out a nuclear test their rivals caught up pretty quickly share security of the bullets and the germans here thoroughly analyzed the us media reports about the blast even from there they were able to say what had to be done next but. oleksandr chunk of is a veteran of the sukhumi research institute he says many people here remember the time the germans successfully accomplished their mission and were let go by the soviet authorities in the nine hundred fifty s. he's showing us the four thousand book library with rare physics digests and german the office where head professor used to work and the equipment had left for russian scientists. this machine is called the spectral brush it's a high definition device a very precise one even when the germans left our scientists used to get great results with this equipment. but the rest of the building where german physicists used to wor

and the u.s.s.r. to tell us briefly what impact that was. certainly the in fact it would work together for twenty years but the engineering that allowed them to work together allowed them to then move on to the shuttle mir to program and then from the shuttle mir to program a program which was on officially called phase one then launched phase two which was the international space station and people say that this was the beginning of the easing of tensions between the two countries which allowed for us to move forward to the diplomatic relations that we have today and even the space station that we have in operation right now sean thanks very much indeed thomas live in moscow thanks very much indeed for that. it's twenty two minutes past the hour here in russian capital about with a look at the headlines in about eight minutes from now in the meantime business he's next. welcome to business the government is heading for a potential showdown with the king industrial sector in the russian economy it wants to raise taxes for six truck this incl

viewer, "when the government controls the market you did amtrak, negative earnings, just like the u.s.s.r.. the free market is best." and unwelcome encore to the oil spill in jefferson parish, "lessons from the bp oil spill," in virginia, "officials are still looking at the possibility of oil rigs off the coast of virginia." nancy, colorado springs, colorado. caller: good morning. i have no desire to purchase a volt. first of all, cars depreciate. they do not increase in value. did over the years your car will eventually depreciate. that is what they do. to spend something like that on a car instead of an investment on a house, that is just crazy. to think that someone wants to spend that money, what is the purpose of this entire thing that led to what, clean up the air? -- the entire thing is to plowh, clean up the air? i have no idea what they are trying to do, like we can somehow save the world by having the least car -- or the volt. it makes no sense at all. other than a liberal plot, a liberal idea. you bring nobody on to talk common sense. to bring this up as a subject is silly. hos

that country was called the u.s.s.r. that country economically failed and collapsed. we all saw it coming. we were frightened of it because of their nuclear weapons but we saw their economy didn't work. what are we doing? every single thing the soviet union was doing which is the government is going to take care of your housing, going to take care of your food, going to take care of your health care, going to take care of your education and jobs, the government is taking over all these businesses. we're repeating the same thing that didn't work. americans all across this country, i'm not talking about just republicans and democrats and independents, just people are starting to get it, we're on the wrong track. so it led to the bumper sticker that says, had enough change yet? i think that's one thing the president promised was change. i think he's keeping his promise in that regard if in no other. so these are things that are really upsetting people and when you take a look at the combination of what's going on, these are really, really serious. the comparison of these