of risk in russia is obviously elevated. because of the protests and the disturbances in moscow and around russia as a result of the parliamentary elections long term it doesn't necessarily have to be that way i mean i think if if the kremlin listens to the protesters and understands that there is a growing call for more. parity in parliamentary politics as well as a very strong economic necessity to reform. the way that the budget generates. its revenues records revenues from predominantly not just oil and a slightly more diversified knowledge based economy if they can make these changes i think for investors may well worn story in russia fresh can show itself to be dynamic the lessons are concerned and i think the risk premiums might might start to dissipate i think there's a real potential for foreign investment to start flowing into russia i think in the short term maybe run the run up to the elections it will the presidential elections in march to that a bit more complicated but beyond that potentially this recent proce

do you think this is going to have impact all foreigners look at russia because now russia is part of the club you can actually say now we're a member now everybody has to play by the rules i mean how much do you think the consumer in a very macro sense who is going to benefit from entry into the w t o or russia has been entering into w.t. or for a long time since one thousand nine hundred three or since two thousand and active stage. a lot of changes that could have happened there already happened russia broad the legislation customs regime more or less. lined with double duty or requirements so i don't see that in the short term there will be any significant impact in the world in prices lower for people because moscow is a very expensive city well it is. but i think in the meat the longer on the goods that russia imports will go down in price because of for slight five to ten percent change in custom stereo and as a result russia will become more competitive so i think local industry will respond by raising the productivity and then eventually bring the prices well ok picture i'm g

in russia mr hard headed back. in the crisis stricken economies return to growth or two years ago most of them are still weak and vulnerable to the major indicators of the konami killfile worse now than they were before the start of the financial crisis in two thousand and seven economists warn that entering the second recession at this stage would be much more painful to see the new wave is most likely to hit the u.s. and europe first but eventually every country will feel the pressure. hello mr list mr breckon welcome to the show thank you very much thank you very much for coming well first of all everybody today is talking about an imminent second the way of recession does the i.m.f. share this pessimistic pessimistic negative mood and if yes when you least expect it ok well clearly the world economy has entered into a new and dangerous phase we adjusted down resource growth projections for the world economy only last month by about half a percent this year to four percent and also to four percent next year so w

vote counting is almost over in russia's parliamentary election the united russia party is in the lead winning the majority of seats in the lower house but still losing a big share of its previous popular support. as global players meet to decide the future of afghanistan pakistan his role is key to stability in the region boy because the event even eighty's recent deadly air raid on one of its border posts. gyptian is a back at polling stations for the second round of the country's parliament reelection after an opening stage which saw an overwhelming win by the islamists. and online with international news twenty four hours a day this is our city. now russians have had their say in who they want to see in parliament with almost all ballots counted after sunday's election four parties have made it into the country's no house the state duma the ruling united russia party remains by far the largest group but has been dealt a significant setback with a sharp fall in support. of his intent from moscow for us with the latest piece is a with a vote counting almost complete hour what does th

is not important for russia russia is not a member of the european union and so whatever the european in think of the russian elections is not relevant for the russian leadership. and i sing basically. take into account the statements which were made on this score by the leaders even of opposition parties. this is a consular datas position of the russian parliament whatever. requirements and requests the opposition parties may have. they would like it to be domestic procedure the opposition parties in the parliament even those who insist that they were well asians and russian elections do not support the declaration of the european parliament and the statement which was made by hillary clinton they regard it also as a domestic affair. therefore i think that the pollens will probably stick to this. position although as we have already seen there were some public protests against the result of this elections and some opposition party members of those opposition parties took part in this process i. know that the russian services dealing with those issues are open twenty or twenty one cri

russia or expresses concerns over u.s. plans to maintain military bases in afghanistan even after the planned twenty fourteen withdrawal but this as a conference a little today where the international community is set to decide the country's future. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow with me alice had that. start with a moment of truth for russia's ruling party with almost all the very now counted in the parliamentary election united russia is to lose the large majority it held in the previous steamer but will still stay the biggest party by follow circles live out off the sarah ferguson central midfield more analysis and over syria the official results are still do you good one of the latest standing. at the moment is the figures stand united russia is good at just under fifty percent of the votes of the communist party just under twenty percent that rush's got around thirteen percent of the liberal democratic party around eleven percent now the election commission actually come up with the early results

security council which russia co-sponsored. but the regime in damascus today is very unpopular not only in syria itself but also in the arab world in the arab street and you know with the arab street it's a very powerful opinion. making process so isn't muscular great of losing his prestige in the arab streets we are not afraid of anything let the syrians decide for themselves this is the core element of our position why all this meddling why all this interference from abroad i don't know what might be the can sequence is which the so-called arab street draw. from this our idea here is we need to ensure that any internal crisis would be first and foremost addressed by the people by the locals by the government and opposition led them to continue their dialogue. surprise western diplomats by submitting the draft on syria which can then both sides without mentioning sanctions is it fair to blame the syrian opposition which is mostly a no army civil protest equally with a repressive regime massacring its own people. several issues

is russia the u.s. with your permission who's under secretary clinton was very sharp in her remarks criticizing the elections we. telling the our u.s. colleagues two things number one. no one from abroad should give characters we have post-election period we have a campaign period for presidential elections we do not need any meddling is specially any meddling in terms of financial support of russian n.g.o.s from abroad and i'm very sure that this message this signal has been heard by our u.s. partners that different thing is whether or not they will listen to these. in two thousand and twelve russia will have a new president do you think that the change of guard in the kremlin will somehow influence russian foreign foreign policy no no no i think there will be full continued i think we have a national consensus i would dare to tell it this way national consensus about all major building blocks of our foreign policy be it relationship with the c.i.s. countries and collective security treaty organization

to stop russia joining with. how fair has the process been i haven't been active in this file for the last eighteen years have been. steering the process for the last six months let's say. and. i believe fair negotiations yes i mean some time stuff and they go about with a view by both parties to get to a result they're also major interests at stake you know it's not a chat of course it's a negotiation but i believe that they were fairly treated and they were also asking us to be let's say lenient in them for example in the automotive sector was not easy to come to decision because there was this new scheme with a very high level of local content and so on so it was not easy i think it's a fair deal you know and once you have a concluded the deal you should stop discussing the content of the ones that is a deal is a deal and then you execute it many russians think they've made too many concessions in agricultural industry to join the. how can you show them that's not the case it's certainly not true that they mad

and russia's insurance companies seem to be resilient. against the global economic downturn research by consultants all of a y man shows that most insurers expect their business thirteen percent this year and up to twenty percent next year they also forecast more consolidation as a result of new capital requirements reducing the number of insurance firms from more than five hundred eighty to about two hundred within four years. and the global gambling industry is seeing robust growth despite economic uncertainties it's set to rock about more than nine percent annually for the next four years pricewaterhouse coopers predicts high roller market revenues to grow from last year's hundred eighteen billion dollars to one hundred eighty three billion in twenty fifteen we also expect the asia pacific to out run the revenue of the biggest gambling market li united states in just two years russia though is mostly set aside from the the street due to strict legislation. coming up next i'll see the headlines do stay with us. oh i see. it's all design

for russia w.t. or membership will become a leap into the are known some states have benefited enormously from membership china's exports to the west of skyrocketed in the decade since he joined the top tier works by cutting countries import tariffs to make international trade easier but others have found the hold to compete with an increase in cheap for import the w.t. a world wide consensus building every country could veto talks the latest objections came from georgia has taken some last minute mediation from diplomats here in switzerland to find a compromise but membership also provides opportunities brussels low cost space could allow it to export more products to of the w.t. or whoever's if the signing ceremony goes ahead as planned on friday evening who could remain with the russian parliament to ratify membership russia's chief negotiator here back to medved causes that should happen in the first part of next year the real test will be given as much as companies begin to face new internationa

problem has been on the top the agenda and russia russia's role possibly in trying to help the eurozone nations that one of the ideas put forth is russia contributing a certain amount to the international monetary fund now the amount has not been specified by a president medvedev although there have been talk that it's in the vicinity of around ten billion dollars and you know there is the option also the contributing to the f.s.f. or even russia would prefer to contribute to the international monetary fund and again both sides reiterate the importance of this partnership russia in particular because the e.u. comprises about more than half of the foreign trade between the two countries and its foreign reserves are also a euro so it does see its interest in trying to support the country in the countries in overcoming the crisis that are in right now both sides did admit to and reiterate the ties between the two countries saying praising the success particularly of the nordstrom project and they say baby could be will expect continued continuous exchanges especially in the energy sector a

guarantees on the missile defense system that it is not targeting russia it's all verbal russia has beefed up its defense capabilities especially on its western border and russia had also said that it may be forced to deploy modern weapons systems if again they don't get this kind of on paper guarantees that they are asking for sergey lavrov that nato should respect russia's right to protect its territory and how to explain that of course russia would have that concern because if nato radars are positioned in such a way that most of russian territory is visible then of course russia would have to do something about it but it has to be noted that the in both sides were giving their take they were calling each other partners and they still hope that some sort of agreement will be reached. and has said that hopefully a political agreement will be reached before the end may two thousand and twelve summit where nato will unveil its provisional structure and operational corrector a six of that missile defense shield certainly very important to have an agreement with russia on that point.

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and has a bilateral back with russia but there are very few c.i.s. instruments because this is was done intentionally to be very decentralized because of the memory of the soviet union and presumably the memory of the russian empire itself so it's really what you put into it is what you get out of it for example georgia left of its own on its own because of the conflict that it started in south of thirty in august two thousand and eight and it went on its own way isolated in the neighborhood because it doesn't have the same kind of agreements that it would used to have through the c.i.s. so i guess i'm guy it's a long way of me saying there are actually some benefits to it it just depends how much you want to put into it. very true but if the instruments that have now been put in place to create a single economic space are to thrive then they do eventually have to work on the type of arrangements which the e.u.'s taken forty years or more to work on namely to have some sort of weighted voting which i think by the way they're working on and to basical

russia's biggest trading partner a foreign partner and also for more than forty percent of russia's reserves are are in euros so it's clear that russia has indicated that they would benefit from a stronger e.u. economy and also with the w t o you expect more liberalization you expect more import tariffs to go down and that would definitely benefit russia and in terms of liberalization they will also touch upon energy talks so many things on the table here a lot of it to do with trade and business. now fresh clashes between tribal groups of iraq to the libyan capital the situation the country's been deteriorating since the toppling and killing of colonel gadhafi libya's new leaders the national transitional council struggling to keep the peace now they're under pressure from fouls in the violent protest is happening ghazi by the revolution began demonstrations that won't be and he seemed to resign saying it's not doing and not to bring change physical journalist david brown the country's back on the brink of civil. now you're going to see. people are very dissatisfied the way it seems are goi

the new comes to russia. the difference between the good and. this terminology because i do not like words like crisis or wave of crisis i believe that this is new reality new market economics this is for a very long period of time and we cannot just easy come back to the good old times you say gold is ninety's as euro suzi begin only of the century then the global growth was in average around five four five percent i thought no or none of the good over the seventy's there. all this but gone. and that is the the problem there it's not that it's not not the you know damage or something we'll have to understand that that is your normality new reality and to conform and to prepare ourselves to that so it means that grows demand to see not so hard and this driver of russian economic growth will not work very fast of course there are other drivers it means consumer demand of the population and this go up most of all because of the growth of retail lending i said before that. in general and in. will increase by twenty four twenty five percent but the

missile shield saying it's not directed against russia do you agree. well i think i don't think it is but i don't know who it's directed against it is knows dziedzic purpose and i think it's just it's just arm wrestling it's just it's just wagging you know showing that we have the power to do it and and there's political reasons but not the teacher points but but i cannot believe that that that it would be directed against russia at this point because it was certainly wouldn't defend against it's russia wanted to attack it is not missiles that no missile defense system is ever going to make a difference so the big worry here of course is that you know with tensions building up some time some compress the wrong button and it could all kick off could have mattered because expand the military presence you think actually lead to conflict at the end of the day i think that's a possibility that i one of my houses i'm chairman of the board of the bulletin of the atomic scientists which is been designed for for sixty years to try to warn of the dangers of nucl

and russia. formerly the leader of the joint the world trade organization thirty days after the we have a right to fight these deal which we all hope with happen but you know this is this is on which has to be taken by the russian parliament ok well we journalists are awaiting the a session russia and to the devil each of course we we expect news we expect breaking news like bankruptcy this happens when countries become members do you expect a lot of bankruptcies happening in russian industries after it happens what i mean i i think you are correct your looking at news headlines. both on the economic side and on the political side. and just let's start with the political side with one thing that will change for the moment russia. because it's not a member of the organization has no participation in the decisions of the organization now with its accession on russia against a seat at the table where the rules of a global trade are crafted and this season politically a major improvement now on the e

twenty years let's compare russia and egypt. sixty three percent of the muslim brotherhood in a part of the myth that will pretty much have no power so the military is running the country the west all of the reports i saw in western media the first steps towards democracy everything is great no one was speaking about violations which were much much much more severe and at least what i saw in egypt you saw people going up to people whispering in their ears practically in the polling stations you saw cars driving by campaigning right outside polling stations with given thousands of people on the streets listening to this campaigning up to the booth and i make a fool comparing rushing the job because countries are just to different they are so different but that is what everyone thought it was nobody but in this is actually. fleshing out the point i'm trying to make is that in one size doesn't fit all ok and and of course and we're doing russia right now but i mean john if i go to you i do get a little worried though when the the m

russia's deputy foreign minister he's heading the russian side of the us russia working group that deals with issues of global security arms control missile defense thank you very much for joining the mystery of russia and boy to nato said the u.s. seems to be surrounding russia with military installations like an anaconda and that was his comparison and that russia would have to try and break out of that not how deep is the misunderstanding on the issue at the moment and it doesn't seem like all of russia's concerns are falling on deaf ears in washington i wouldn't describe this is along the lines as you did i think we have a very very productive and all the way straightforward a difficult one but a very productive dialogue with our u.s. partners we are making no secret of our concerns we are definitely disturbed by the fact that the strategic instability will grow according to our assessment because of the u.s. effort to deploy a missile assets in several regions of the world including in europe according to what was described by president obama and his people as european face the dept

the trouble for russia continues. russian gas to europe are also affected is that ukraine remains highly politically unstable ukraine's last prime minister yulia timoshenko is in court today fighting her conviction for being too generous with russia on a previous gas deal with many ukrainians still opposing closer ties with this deal could easily be affected if. returns to prominence in key of let's have a look at the markets now or prices are surging outpacing a broad rally in stocks strong retail sales the rosy glow of the u.s. economy and this trading at one hundred dollars the balance. is that over ninety dollars a barrel now stocks in the u.s. cut games turn a negative and late morning trading on tuesday the decline comes up to media reports that german chancellor angela merkel has turned down the idea of boosting the. rescue of the euro. stocks in europe and spain sold four point four billion euros in government debt more than. banks remain under pressure on traders over the solving debt crisis german shares are

to russia's borders. stright missiles that are called their nature is already labeled as twenty two or stone once again president david says that he doesn't want this to be the case and the last thing russia would want to do to be forced to do rather is to pull outs from this idiot arms reduction treaty that president and president barack obama signed some two years ago the treaty that signified the reset of relations between the two countries this ending of the cold war but if its security continued to be threatened that that's will be the case. all right time for the prisoners corrina joins us next. hello and welcome to our business thanks for joining me the european union has agreed to discuss exempting russian companies from some of the provisions in its new energy regulations so-called third energy package requires the separation of energy production transit and sales something that russia strongly opposes but in the course of the reports on the meeting between russia's energy minister said. the comm

the chief negotiator for russia. did tell me that he expects that to happen early next year so we should expect the whole process to be wrapped up if it does happen today if the signatures do come from the trade ministers today we do expect the procedure to be finalized next year i k a daniel keeping us posted our correspondent. live jimmy. well throughout years of talks boyce's both for and against. russia. and went to find out who the winners and losers. assigned. with almost two decades of hard talks no over it's still not clear exactly what russia's w two your membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the greens to firmly behind closed doors experts are left to try and little crystal ball gazing. their predictions begin with agriculture one of the most vulnerable areas it will probably be one of the most seriously affected to enter the w t o russia had to pledge to reduce in-state support to farming which amounts to nine billion dollars annually today is expected to become just half of t

and manufacturing activity in russia is speeding up the h.s.b.c.'s purchasing managers index rose to almost fifty three points and that under a reading about fifty signals growth in the sector has b.c. says risks of stagnation have diminished you orders only rise pushing employment higher however that's mostly due to stable oil price and state investment. that's all for now i'll be back with more a look at the large it's just about forty five minutes from now thanks to each. other it's life in the fastlane almost slow but. alongside. the bachelor of science and technology. the thing for the city of this land gets a zip. code. six a r.t. . to. the be. the book.

democracy flourishes in russia one day and stabilizes russia will go down gorbachev will go down as the greatest reformer in russian history if democracy falters and fails in russia and he'll go down in history as another tragic russian former he knows that and that's why his blood pressure about what's going on in russia is rising on his eightieth birthday already maybe he's just protecting his legacy here ok i was going to go to you anyway go ahead life the thing is here is that maybe some people attribute democracy to one leader or another but most russians don't attribute democracy to either yeltsin or got a bunch of go ahead. i would just like to make one point i think that gorbachev was actually responsible for peaceful disintegration of the soviet union and i think this is a very important point especially when we see what's happening in the middle east so that would be my first ball and secondly i would argue that russian democracy is proceeding on course i don't think that little bit of authoritarianism and in the meantime to stabilize the political system to stabilize the econ

developments around russia. the future. oh in wellington crosstalk i'm peter lavelle as he turns eighty male got a bunch of salacious each season loved abroad in a low speed home as glasnost and perestroika become distant memories we ask how will history judge the man who seemingly ended history. and. discuss the legacy of the last soviet leader i'm joined by stephen cohen here in the studio he's a professor of russian studies and history at new york university and his latest book is the victims return survivors of the gulag after stalin in london we go to geoffrey hosking he is an emeritus professor of russian history at university college london and his latest book is rulers and victims the russians in the soviet union and also in london we have lad sobel he's an analyst at the i would securities and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want stephen i want to go to you first here as got a bunch off is eighty years old today and let

vote counting is almost over and russia's parliamentary election the united russia party is in the lead winning the majority of seats in the lower house but still be using a big share of its previous popular support. as global players meet to decide the future of afghanistan falcon sun his role is just ability in the region the boycott the event over the eighty's recent deadly air raid on one of its border posts. downgrade diplomatic ties with qatar all to the back of this of the countries assaulted by airport security with plane the incident could be linked to moscow's position on syria. a very warm welcome to you this is our c.n.n. live from moscow with malice had that. russians have had their say and who they want to see in parliament with almost all ballots counted after sunday's election for policies have made it into the country's lower house the state duma the ruling united russia party remains by far the largest group that has been dealt a significant setback for the shop for all in support. of a is in central moscow. united russia taking the majority of the vote the communists

there is no need for russia or for the united russia at this point in the next duma to. compromise with other factions and opposition parties to pass regular federal laws. that may be required to pass a constitutional or which needs two thirds of the votes and then the united russia will have to cooperate with the so what you're saying that even after losing a significant number of seats the united part russia still is still considers itself and still should be considered by everybody else as the ruling party in the . countries that are true well absolutely status is at least till the next presidential election since president invidious was leading the list of the united russia party in the parliamentary election and now it's get it got more than fifty percent of the seats which makes it not just the strongest political force but the force with a law making capability now let's hear what the meat the middle of who lead lead united russia through this election said last night. the party has i thought fairly well the party represents almost fifty percent of the population

how much can you expose to russia also go up i see several big advantages in russia becoming a member of the w t o. for example that is part of those accession conditions it's. a completely new set of rules that respect to. respect to fit to seventeen norms for a for food is also very important what we having concluded pursued back to the old emotive sector where russia had been taking. measures and well that we have come to an end to a compromise on the that certainly contributed to more trade although that vantage i see is that it will be possible to attract more foreign capital because. there are exceptions to the w.t. oh we'll. give them assurances they were in a. legal environment that is more transparent so than it was so that it was before so i expect to. trade with russia to rise considerably some economists think countries have put in meaningless barriers to stop russia joining the w how fair has the process been i haven't been active in this file for the last eighteen years have been the. steering the process for the last six months let's say. and this or i believe fair nego

russia's hoping the e.u. will give it concessions on the hotly disputed third and g package during the twenty eight bilateral summit which starts on wednesday the new rules prohibit a gas supplier from also owning the mains of transit and distribution got to a russian cost no capital believes a sovereign debt crisis is weakening europe's negotiating position. brush a face in the current situation by its face value and obviously totally realize this advantages and the possibility to be a little bit more aggressive right now the other part of the story is europe in this recession it has very deep debt problems therefore europe can reach a point of no negotiation and that would be a very unfortunate situation for the russian delegation because russia wants to touch nerves of europe but it doesn't want to cause they're nervous breakdown therefore politics diplomacy everything must be smooth polite and politically correct and that is all the business news now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes for your next

refusal to cooperate with russia. he is saying that this that this whole scheme the european defense scheme is putting both europe and russia. was putting the whole world in danger of a new breakout or renewal of the nuclear arms race as well as the arms race in space for instance was. mr sturm won't provide any measure of protection against weapons in iran or north korea that they don't exist yet they might in the future but if they do will be able to defeat this system russia can defeat it to that in the meantime it's raising questions about what the u.s. long term intentions are and where where we had it in future and i i think it's a very good thing that russia is taking a harder line on this now i wish it would have done it sooner but better late than daimler. because certainly if the united states continues to go down this. trouble well that to change russia's general style most is saying that he's got the impression that nato and the the u.s. don't listen indeed christly don't want to hear russians can say that

to see vote counting is almost over in russia's parliamentary election the united russia party is in the lead winning the majority of seats in the lower house but still there isn't a big share of its previous popular support we've got the latest for you. moscow downgrades diplomatic ties with qatar after the russian ambassador to the country is assaulted by airport security with claims the incident could be linked to moscow's position on syria. and his global players need to decide the future of afghanistan pakistan whose role is key to stability in the region boycotts the events of the nato recent deadly air raid on one of its border posts. welcome this is r t it's nine pm monday night here in moscow is kevin zero in with you this hour and our top story russians have had their say in who they want to see in parliament. with almost all ballots counted after sunday's parliamentary election four parties have made it into the country's lower house the state duma the ruling united russia party remains by far the largest group but it's been dealt a significant setback with a sharp fall in

innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future. russia holds its breath. election results the ruling united russia party losing its overall majority but still coming out well on top of the latest figures and in-depth analysis coming right out. of. the u.s. spy drone and on the eastern border the use of unmanned american aircraft over the country is being seen as and latest evidence of washington's efforts to destabilize regimes beyond its influence. and cross the atlantic tempers flare again as british m.p.'s fumo for a one sided extradition policy that leaves its citizens. in the american justice system. and later this hour despite expectations of the contrary the russian markets are losing value in the first hour of trade details in about twenty minutes from the business. this is a twenty four hours a day. yes on the moment of truth for russia's ruling party with almost all the votes counted in the parliamentary election a united russia is to lose the large majority it held in the previous two but it will still stay the biggest party by far well for that