join us for technology update on r g. welcome back to spotlight i'm al green of and just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is former british intelligence agent michael smith who's joining us via satellite link from london we're talking about his recent recent book where he writes a couple of fascinating things since ational things well. one of them is an episode about summers mom who he says who michael says was british intelligence agent in one thousand nine hundred seventeen he was in russia and he reported back to to london that that the bolsheviks what never come to power that the existing government was very strong which turned out to be a mistake so so michael do you recall a lot of such after the when when british agents were were mistaken but such a huge proportion. i think this was probably and i say in the book it's probably the worst prediction ever given by a british intelligence officer in the whole of the history of british intelligence because as some are more now actually admitted when he was

join us for technology update on r g. welcome to our business program with me kareena malakand good to have you with us bella was in russia have settled their differences over the customs union and set the stage for more members to join the four country grouping when more hears artie's money the question of. prime minister placement would sound like reality but this writing meeting between the prime minister is a customs union and the members it was said that the establishment of the common economic space in the customs created by belarus kazakhstan and russia is proceeding costed that was the previously expected parties also work out the budget issues for the near east feature and decided to form the necessary legal base out by the beginning of twenty i love the prime minister like human rights and also suggested that the custom union he's opened. and the next possible member it might be ukraine followed by other two countries are it's a cheeky stand and up to mr. after the signing and ratification of all documents relat

join us for technology update on r g. welcome to our weekend business program california's governor arnold schwarzenegger led a group of billionaires to russia this week in search of innovative business ideas but one of them said russia's rich must take a few risks with their money before foreign as well fall. there's a lot of rich people here who are not that i know of investing in venture capital they built their own companies they got a lot of money foreigners would love to see at least some of that money going into russian venture for private money i think that's a that's an obstacle there's a perception about corruption and difficulty of doing business in an honest way but also markets have to believe that russia is not a huge country it's a nice sized country not growing particularly but you have to be able to believe that russia can export that means that the technologies and the products developed from those technologies addressed a world market for the for the markets here are probably not large enough to attract

join our technology update on r g. and. welcome back to rostock i'm peter lavelle remind you we're talking about modern media diversity. but first let's see what russians think about this issue as the digital media channels multiply. internet messmate is a role in society has become more problematic than ever while previously the so-called fourth estate was an essential check and balance for democracy diversity in new media is itself becoming a source of controversy a russian public opinion sent a poll assessed the section of diversity in mass media fifty three percent of respondents said media broadly reflect the needs of society thirty three percent word this set is fied with the variety of today's media given the challenges traditional news providers face from new voices it seems certain the demand for diversity in media will continue to rise. ok john before we went to the break you said you wanted to jump in and a reflective arm something that was said earlier go ahead. right well i think i need to separate myself from

join us for technology update on r g. hello and welcome to the business bulletin president medvedev visit to china this week put the seal on a number of new energy deals the negotiations have been drawn out and at least when gas contracts the consent of us still more to do but as medina cochon of our reports there's now a greater sense of urgency. china is the fastest growing energy consumer in the world and in russia its neighbors the biggest energy provider it's a business smash this crying out to be mate the deals have been a long time in the making finally this week in quest put on the dotted line what was a surprise is that we didn't see reciprocal deals from china you know it's quite clear to russia went down there looking to barter energy and materials exports to china in exchange for some commitment for investment into russia's new industries into infrastructure into technology etc and there was any mention of that whatsoever gazprom has agreed to supply thirty billion cubic meters of gas annually to china over th

join us for technology update on r g. hello and welcome to business with me kareena malakand rosneft has signed a deal with the told us that as well that to acquire its fifty percent stake in germany for one point six billion dollars signing comes after talks between president medvedev and his venezuelan called a particular child that another deal is a joint construction of an l n g facility piper told us that as well and gas from the russian and venezuelan energy ministers also expressed support for tank piece acquisition of b.p. assets in venezuela. almost every scene go russian on this company has a. project outside russia but for think it was an issue before. and the reason probably was b.p. itself because one of the. official reasons for the conflict between the. orders was that the object to against. distributing it's all over the world well probably because not to create some competition between the b.p. and through it so as a result now i would call these projects as a first significant stream project for abroad a

from across russia and around the world join us a technology update on r g. hello again a welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. . today my guest in the studio is to meet the at. the upcoming summit of the nato leaders in lisbon and will discuss and most probably accept a new security concept this document will guide the blocks policy for the next decade the concept poles terrorism nuclear proliferation and cyber crime the main threats to security. agree scots and did russia have managed to somehow influence those who masterminded the strategic paper or maybe there's something moscow would like to improve we're asking russia special envoy to nato anything that was. just a month before the lisbon summit many experts agree the proposed security concept be welcomed by all analytical think tank criticizes the concept of the lack of a unified perception of threats to the alliance with countries to suit their own goals and fail to find a common threat the need to secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen says he is sure the walk real time. proposed missile d

join us our technology update on r g. hello and a very welcome to the business news long term investors and russian stocks may soon be exempt from paying tax on profits it's part of a new package of incentives put forward by prime minister vladimir putin he also recommends making the installation of some high tech and energy saving equipment except for. the tax breaks for help russian business trucks additional company. if the pope. just implementing tax amendments to create favorable conditions for innovative activity the tax changes will send a strong signal to those who participate in the economy and will help companies and producers increase efficiency and competitiveness to produce high tech goods with russia's giant lender of michigan on bank warns it's not ready to take boston think government's fast privatization program top officials unveiled the selloff of nine hundred state firms on wednesday and presidential aides to the record which has said the a b. could be one of the first to become the joint stock company

join us knology update on r g. it's twenty one past noon here in moscow welcome to business russia calling the international investment for a movie t.v. capital is underway in moscow with top political officials and businessmen taking part i'll correspondent charles farley has more. upstart shinzo well underway here at the second of the tb capital investment for the most so is russia calling up basically sums up the idea of this three day event it's about promoting dialogue between russian and in some fashion or companies and showcasing moscow as a place full of foreign investment and that's what the focus is on here is trying to encourage more foreign companies come here to russia and invest also in flu cooperation so this lace will be hearing from prime minister vladimir putin on his thoughts but now i'd like to hear the opinions of someone else's alexei boys they have joins me now from the t.v. captain thanks very much for speaking to us this hour one of the panel discussions is russia on the call to innovation