did not understand russia and are afraid of it as eastern european countries have become e.u. members they have showed a few years and passed them on to the you saying that russia used to be an empire so why should it seize being an empire and can't be trusted now that is imperial past has been forgotten by now people have already understood that russia is missing its own path but time has shown that georgia for example which is always been saying that it wants to save itself for russia that's why it wanted to access need to feel that russia will dominate georgia again look i think that such fears originate from some kind of misunderstanding of the break up of the soviet union because it was so sudden no one could adjust themselves to immediately all the european and pioneers have collapsed but they collapsed after decades of preparation even russia itself was not ready but there was no you don't believe in russia's imperial ambitions to write i don't believe it or i'd rather say there was some kind of an astrologer but that's a completely different saying what a country can f

it happened overnight many countries primarily those who are to solve it influence the eastern european countries and countries that used to be part of the soviet union but are now into balance states did not understand russia and are afraid of it as eastern europeans countries have become e.u. members that have showed it here is and passed them on to the law saying that russia used to be an empire so why should it cease being an empire and can't be trusted now that it is in the past has been forgotten by. now people have already insisted that russia is missing its own path but time has shown that georgia for example which has always been saying that it wants to save itself from russia that's why it's what it takes us need to feel that russia will dominate georgia again and look i think it's a few years originate from some kind of misunderstanding of the breakup of the soviet union because it was so sudden no one could adjust themselves to immediately the european amateur prior's heart of calabria but the collateral after decades of preparation you can russia itself was not ready to thr

something is wrong here. >> for a long time, hungary was seen as an eastern european success story. the new motorways were partly financed by the e.u. this one leaves south. the tourist trade is still profiting from the e.u. subsidies. 10 years ago, 2 million euros were pumped into the project. the director now has new plans and wants another 3 million euros from brussels to expand. >> without the money from europe, we would not be able to do it. e.u. subsidies are enormously important for our project. we have to submit to strict checks by the authorities. >> just 10 kilometers away, there is little sign of u.s. support. -- e.u. support. this church soup kitchen and out more than 90 meals a day. the recipients are roma with an estimated size of 500,000 people. they are of the largest minority here. most of them are unemployed. the e.u. does provide subsidies to help them. the millions from brussels have lost their way. >> we cannot access the subsidies. the application forms are too bureaucratic. it takes too long. the e.u. money is not helping to improve the lives of the roma in th

. >> for more, we're joined by an expert on eastern european affairs. he has been following events in russia for many years. thank you very much for being with us. this is a seemingly never-ending series of attacks. what would you say the russian government is doing wrong in its efforts to combat terrorism? >> well, i think there's some details which you can always debate, like concrete measures around airports or metro stations. as president medvedev said, the corruption in the security apparatus, but at the end of the day, i thi the russian society is very well connected today with the rest of the world. we have globalization going on everywhere. there is no quick fix for these kind of things. if there is a small groupith people really want to create headlocks, they can do it. and there are other opportunities, unfortunately. >> moscow has always taken a hard line against terrorist and separatist groups in the caucuses. does it have any other options? >> none to talk about. once there is terrorism, you have to be very decisive, and you have to take pa

different programs you see involvement to go with european integration like eastern partnership program definitely. humanitarian social programs will suffer that's why definitely we can expect said books which are not restricted only to you to build russian leadership because the sanctions would be to see discredit the the national standing of the country but could these does sanctions further affects the reputation of a country that's already being dubbed europe's last dictatorship well the reputed asian or belittle or to be more precise that or provision of president lukashenko has already suffered a serious blow i think that president bush has made a big political mistake precisely on december nineteenth when hours after. after the presidential elections he started the thread down on the position he lost i think he shouldn't have done this thing because by doing this he has undermined the credibility of his more this attempts to show that there is. any movement towards democracy let's be frank the. last election campaign was more democratic compared to other ones but this actions dur

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european, russians and pols is my family background. but immigration because they come from situations where they have nothing and darn it, they were denied opportunities but their kids are going to have them, versus the fact that it's a chinese method versus a russian method. >> i think the author herself said, it wasn't peculiar to her -- to asians that there are other ethnic groups that push them. i think -- >> she said generally speaking. she said she even mentioned a south dakota dad who raised his kids like she does and she called him a chinese mom. [laughte >> let me tell you, wasn't there a survey recently that said, that the first two years of college were wasted by the majority of students. let me tell you you, asians aren't going to waste them. >> all of them? >> maybe not all, but the majority, there's a belief in education that is being the key to advancement that is as jewish as it is chinese as any other ethnic group that believes that that's the key. >> you can make an argument that americans -- >> i'm not sure -- wait a

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although russia performed well among eastern european countries its main problem was deemed the reporting of budget gains and expenditures which is not conveyed to the public in an understandable way the least budget transparent countries on the list were equitorial guinea and fiji. let's look at the markets now in the u.s. the dow jones is up nearly a half percent but the nasdaq is down marginally this hour bank of america is up marginally despite reporting a two point two four billion dollars fourth quarter loss and google is up over one and a half percent after posted a twenty nine percent rise in fourth quarter profits to two point five four billion dollars. and rushes bourses closed trading up on the day the r.t.s. and my sex were both over three quarters of a percent. lukoil and was enough for both up close to two percent bucking the trend was gas pop shedding over three quarters percent. and that's your business update for this hour but you can always find more stories on our web site that's archie dot com slash business thanks for watching. if. russia would be soo much brighter if

i'm an eastern european historian. almost all that we have learned. the russians and hungarians, almost all of it has been framed. the enormous tragedies that i'm discussing or will discuss can only be seen from a certain point of view. one can only catch part. probably the country to which this would apply the least would be ukraine. where half of the killing happened. however, even from a ukrainian point of view, you can't see the totality of killing. certainly not the events beyond the famine. the second history is the soviet union history. russian, ukrainian, and american and other historians working on the soviet union has discovered incredibly important things about the subject of my work. collectivization and terror. what has not happened, these findings have not been integrated into a geographical approach. which is the one i'm focusing on. what i meant with ukraine. i think now it being this was a deliberate action designed to starve people. we know much more about the great terror. both of these policies, collectivization and terror weighed

and i understand what the history and everything by some of the eastern european state would like to nato around. but does she think nato is relevant and we promised russia we wouldn't expand nato after that. i think it was the first president bush that we would expand nato. >> guest: we have indeed broken that promise and i think you raised a very key question. i don't think nato has any relevance. i think it's a military -- a u.s.-controlled military alliance in search of a mission. we're going to be hearing more and more about that. the nato summit that just occurred a couple months ago in lisbon was taking up that. we saw it back in 1999 when there was the first effort to craft a new -- a new definition for the nato alliance when its whole reason to be was to defeat the soviet union had now happened. whether nato was going to take credit of it or not is not really important. what was important instead of acknowledging, we were created to do something. that thing that we wanted to be done has happened. so what do we do now? do we declare victory and go home? apparently not. we dec

although we learned a tremendous amount about eastern european history in the last 20 years, what has happened is that what we've learned in east european history, and here i mean the estonians and the creations, the ukrainians and the polls, the russians and the hungarian almost all of it has been framed within a familiar national context. so these enormous tragedies i'm discussing or will discuss can only be seen from a certain point of view. one can only catch part of it. probably the country to which this would apply the lease would be ukraine or about half of the killing happened. however even from a ukrainian point of view you can't see that what the of the killing certainly not beyond the famine. the second problem has been the history of the soviet union. i would emphasize russian ukrainian american and other historians working on the soviet union have discovered incredibly important things about the subject of my book but has not happened is these findings have not been integrated into a kind of geographical approach which is the approach and favoring. the consensus has shift

i understand the history and everything, eastern european states like nato, does she think nato is really relevant any longer? and we promised russia that we wouldn't expand nato any further. i think it was the first president bush, to expand nato after the cold war ended. we have totally broken that promise. >> guest: we have indeed broken that progress. nato does not have any relevance. it is a military you as controlled military alliance in search of a mission. we are going to be hearing more and more about that. the nato summit occurred a few months ago in lisbon. we saw that in 1999, first effort to craft a new definition of the nato alliance. to defeat the soviet union had not happened. nato was going to take credit which is not very important. was important was instead of acknowledging we were created to do something, what we wanted to be done could happen so what we do now is declare victory and go home? apparently not. we decide we will stay together as a u.s. controlled military alliance that is expanding and expanding including the notion of how we are threatening russia by exp

the data for the developed european economy differs from that in eastern european economies. the situation in russia is not all that different from romania or that yet. there were drastic consequences of the crisis. overall, we are finishing this year in a satisfactory manner. will we see a return to the pre- crisis quality of life? i think a positive trend is already under way. people should be able to feel better. last year, our unemployment was 6.2 million. this year, we have reduced unemployment numbers by 1.2 million by creating new jobs or restoring old jobs. this is a good indicator. it is a lot better than just satisfactory. i hope that people have started feeling that changes are underway for the country under whole -- country as a whole. gross domestic growth in the case the size of our economy. when the economy goes back to the levels before 2008, we will be able to say people are feeling the change as far as their salaries and the job market has come back. according to certain experts, we will regain our pre-crisis gdp in late 2012. some say late 2011. the truth a

town of eastern ukraine which has been rocked by two blasts were reports of authorities will meet the demands of those behind the attacks and no on the way to give them the five and a half million dollar ransom they demand and stop them letting off more bombs are the reports from ukraine. thus far as we heard the town is now is in full panic everyone is panicking mothers are taking their children away from schools and kid in gardens that is because in the middle of the night two blasts rocked this four hundred thousand odd town of mikey in eastern europe east of ukraine something very and typical for this country terrorist attacks don't happen here too often so everyone now is in panic and especially because the and unidentified terrorist group said that they would explode five more bombs if the government doesn't pay four million euros to them or more than five million u.s. dollars we managed to acquire some thoughts from locals let's listen to what they had to say themes of the savage we ask here because their promise in moore's law slated today we are very nervous we're all shocked

legal system and member of european parliament for now garnished now are you a member of the european parliament what impact do you think the new has had on french national identity and the french culture not a positive impact in fact unfortunately because europe should have be protected against the side effects of globalism but it wasn't the case the borders were kept open open to all kind of floats of people and oversaw funding from from or from abroad and oversaw law course. manufactured in conditions of slavery by some people and this has a very very negative effects on the economy and system unfortunately do you see the european union as the solution to europe's problems or perhaps more as the instigator it was supposed to to be the solution of some of our problems for example to build. a huge common market but is this market was open as i said to two to globalise men as in the field of for example external policy we are completely now we just follow the united states of america which is so so we do not see the use of european union and also european union strain to to build a ki

to be part of the eastern partnership with its neighboring countries an interloper the european union but multilateral a treaty r m f a g peretti report to be cut off but yes there are these further steps that we could make in the future and we are putting personally on notice the international community does not recognize the election results and will not stand idly by as innocent opposition members are imprisoned or beaten or tortured and civil society suppressed in this country we will not look the other way. now alleged gun ron i think that a boot is set to make his first u.s. court appearance for a free trial hearing he faces charges of conspiring to kill americans and supplying weapons to terrorists albeit maintains his innocence the media continues to call him the merchant of death and since it's not good that reports. are one three. true to form hollywood and most of us love a great villain in the film lord of war nicolas cage please have your was officials celebrate his arrest the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate who is this merchant of death and why is he

to be part of the eastern partnership with its neighboring countries and our local the european union but multilateral a truly r.m.f. if you report we cut off but yes there are these further steps that we could make in the future we are putting personally on notice the international community does not recognize the election results and will not stand idly by as innocent opposition members are imprisoned or beaten or tortured and civil society suppressed in this country we will not look the other way. but some of the international news in brief way this hour. tony is to face a second round of questioning over his role in the run up to the iraq where inquiry is investigating why many people supported me with simulation will be asked to clarify he will be judged antiwar protesters are expected to demonstrate throughout interrogation. more than one hundred twenty people have been arrested in the largest single day in. u.s. history the use of numerous valid legal acts of murder and extortion to drug trafficking f.b.i. agents used what ups and intelligence are leading this distance of a tho

to be part of the eastern partnership with its neighboring countries and our local the european union but multilateral a through the i.m.f. if we were poor to be cut off but yes there are these further steps that we could make in the future we are putting personally on notice the international community does not recognize the election results and will not stand idly by as innocent opposition members are imprisoned or beaten or tortured and civil society suppressed in this country we will not look the other way. not in some other international news in brief you this hour more than one hundred thirty people arrested in the largest single dollar for a crackdown in this history they're accused of numerous or violent acts for murder still to drug trafficking. agencies wiretaps and televisions and even assistance from the families of informants the soup's which targeted new york's five crime patterns took place in the city in the east of the country. south korea has agreed to draw a high level military talk to the north following months of tensions through two countries any proposals by com

partnership with its neighboring countries and our local the european union but multilateral a through the i.m.f. if you are poor we cut off but yes there are these further steps that we could make in the future and we are putting very personally on notice tomorrow is going to have a secret ration you know gratian with no international gas there and that's because the international community does not recognize the election results and will not stand by as innocent opposition members are imprisoned or beaten or tortured and civil society suppressed in this country we will not look the other way. so we'll do stories in brief your south korea's executive branch proposal from the north to hold high level military talks on off about pyongyang earlier this month to hold discussions was rejected by so criticize the offers and sincere tensions have been high on the korean peninsula since last november's deadly artillery between the two countries also thursday so welcome to the group between the u.s. and chinese leaders on the need to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula. the promise o