does the embassy help british and russian relations i think the russian culture needs no major. introduction or advertisement here. because russia is a branch of the european christian civilization and i think we share the same. values who enter in the same perception of the good and bad. life and if you will and. there is no such thing as a cultural barrier between the two nations the russian cultural heritage is extremely. popular here to keep them around the word never. russian see it as a progression for is he wrong or right. it always attracts. a bigger man than a big number of friends and or do. its not look back and see parties illegal drugs and the g.o.p. just said partying in dreams like this many young middle class christians live in london and that brings us to this week's guests. to me a little bit why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say. that all of the people that. they could mix here aristocracy celebrities it was different it wasn't the say that we had in russia. you know you could go to elton john ball here you can do it now probably i

if you go to new how you will hear russians russian speech so it will be. glamourous places i guess for the new generation of russians who grew up around europe the most expensive places are not necessarily the best so you'll see a lot of people you know about to shoreditch hanging out in self they prefer their friends be rather than. well as i. would like to thank you. because scene of russia and the former soviet republics is not an pancakes why not try something new and right in the heart of london is not a bone strong some accounts in the name of the beach. opened in two thousand and ten and already he's gained a reputation visit a venue he specializes in central asian cuisine offering its international guests a chance to taste the exotic flavius of kazakhstan a mission in stylish interior to the kitchen where you can see chefs at work making delicious bread in clay ovens and pulling needles into shape following the recipes which you've been passed down to generations these recipes has been passed on. very much in control in the kitchen she makes sure t

around the world never the russian see it as a russian troop or is he wrong or right. it always attracts. a bigger man than a big number of friends and or do. its not look back and see parties illegal drugs and the g.o.p. just said partying in dreams like this many young middle class machines live in london and that brings us to this week's guests. to me a little bit why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say i guess that all of the people that. they could mix here aristocracy celebrities it was different it wasn't the say that we had in russia. you know you could go to elton john ball here you can do it now probably in moscow but you couldn't do that before so people i guess were really detracted by all that and you were from magazine so i presume that you were out every single hour to different events and functions that's through a lot of what's the old russian social scene like russians don't seem to congregate just in one place if you go to no boy if you go to if you go to new how you will hear russians russian speech so it would be glamorou

buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more difficult for them to. to be. put it this way during the auction but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that the meet up to the ninety's the. russian bods what are we talking about. everything everything you when you're talking about. the nineteenth century it can be twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used to say can we stop to say. that more or less everything. time. to the particular nightspots so. some say has. been happening for the past ten years from huge marketing. teams coming in on missions wanting to spend their cash when the sun. has never seemed so popular. every day. to the british. it's a great place. just. the uk we have a revolution we did extensive. one of you actually used to be probably allegedly revolution has dozens of different flavors of a great selection it's a sea menu. drinks mix and shaken to action. absolutely the missus. from taking i mean these papers to making major moves within the fashion and hot scenes appears the russians are no

arctic which are very important today according to what the the the the russian leadership says. yeah definitely i mean it's an untapped resource the arctic it's very important from a climate change an environmental perspective it's very important from an energy perspective and therefore it becomes important also from an economic perspective we are members and founding members of the arctic council of seven states but we are not a coastline state like for instance russia canada and the united states and norway so we want to do some bilateral cooperation and that's why we today launched together with russian authorities a bilateral cooperation project with russia and i think the value added is if the northern passage ways and when the northern passage ways open up we have a lot of ice breakers a lot of good transport and i think it's an area where we can work very closely with our russian friends. there was this this agreement between helsinki and moscow over the in got out of the case and it has been making headlines for quite a while has any progress been reached over this dispu

to love russian. everybody and they love the russian. i guess has been that. night that the idea. of a man. with more move russians actually moving to the u.k. every year the ones according to the so london grads and in fact many experts say that russians about that this is the price the bruising the british army. has some might be afraid of the relationship is such emerging markets others to. cherish in a new opportunities include trucks they bring. russian playwrights and i can schools have been very popular around the world for decades and the british capital is no exception various russian pays off and performed on the stage used by both russian. companies. whenever there is a play on. usually trickles there is no doubt almost immediately when the national trust theatre does it or any private company or even the smaller french companies it's a put on a russian play. it's. so certain terms of there is a huge bounce or if there recently the shelf is has set a performance stage with a prominent person director say you are special titled the marriage the play is a comedy by the ou

russians are going to feel society. the society has reached traditions are conscious it was this is europe's largest your graphical library containing four hundred forty thousand volumes in russia yes it was me if there is it in moscow in st petersburg petersburg yes it has archives of various famous travelers like preserve. them. well in the us media hollywood has a great impact on everything. because they have this fantastic film indiana jones you've probably seen it made this profession very popular. but what about russia do russians students dream of becoming a traveling with me even more everyone is thinking of you go into business. that's exactly why we have decided to address this issue any serious matter. if you consider all the trouble expeditions say over the past two centuries you will realise that we need to do our best to promote this work and not just the government. people to should encourage people to love their country. to explore their country to explore its nature it's just nice it is their day to be

sally and and from italian into russian or. of languages and communication of very important but i watched all the three languages russian spanish and italian and been ousted by means of market economy and soon they find themselves on the fringe of the international exchanges you mean nothing else yes with all my respect to the english language if somebody is an evil plan but a natural processes i would say. all these english is simply convenient it has become today's esperanto for use. for everyone for us. i mean that ask around so it's not exactly a language but a means of communication business or business in for diplomats right maybe for tourists but not for anything else you see it does not spread to cultural saw us we have a great interest to tell you in and spanish languages in russia in russia because we have good schools especially since spain and italy we have strong translations schools of literary translation translation of poetry translation of serve on to among the best in our opinion. very difficult to translate

is a private boys owned by both russian and foreign investors russian companies frequently trade on both bourses supporters of emergency the different strengths of each index would compliment each other. professional not verses about. what they want. good financial basis very good support of the state it's hoped that the deal will help promote moscow as a major international financial center and make russia a more attractive country for foreign investors and sun for the entire business r.t. . let's have a look at the markets now in asia both the nikkei and the hang seng have jumped by almost two percent as a surge in u.s. manufacturing and strong company earnings convinced investors to pile back into risk assets despite the turmoil in egypt. and in russia they are chasin the miser's closed on tuesday and such strong gains tracking very upbeat investor mood globally the indices gained ground up to monday's losses showing that correction on the markets was apparently shot. and russian missiles will stop trading in and out stime so we'll bring you about in less than fifteen minutes. what an

buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more difficult for them to. to be. put it this way during the option but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that for the meet up to the ninety's the. bods what are we talking about. everything you when you're talking about. the nineteenth century twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used to stop to see. but. everything. to the particular spot so. when the sun. has never seen. every day. to the british. is a great place. just. we have here. is one of you actually used to allegedly. has dozens of different flavors of the great. tasty menu. drinks makes me shake in fiction. absolutely delicious. from taking on the newspapers to making major moves in the fashion and scenes it appears the russians are now fixing everyone's lives in the u.k. while some are skeptical of these new storm businessmen and women disney brace the collaboration and opportunity it brings it seems russians and the amazing culture they offer are in london to stay. not just here russia is now closed to m

has just taken up the post as the new russian ambassador to the u.k. he was formerly of the press department at the ministry in moscow thank you very much for talking to us he congratulations on your new pasting and a very warm welcome to london now who took up your first post as a diplomat in one nine hundred seventy six how do you think that working for the diplomatic service and diplomatic relations between countries in general have changed since then i think since that time you know there were quite a serious changes. first of all if you look at the gender of the leaders of the countries and the agenda of the negotiations between the ministers of foreign affairs you can find that you know thirty thirty five years ago. more than fifty percent were the by little issues now when the ministers are meeting they are talking about the climate change the talking about the international security so basically the big issues you know the global issues takes almost sixty or seventy percent of the agenda and that is very important this is first second there are

and the russian foreign ministry has called islands expulsion of a russian diplomat and unfriendly move and promised it would respond dublin claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to create account of the documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year r.t. is it work is going off has the details. and claims that this deportation of the russian diplomat as a result of an investigation we started right after last summer's spy scandal between moscow and washington when a group of people were found guilty in the united states of being secret russian agents some of them had irish last names including such popular surnames as murphy and for all the irish authorities say that these started looking into how that was possible and now they're accusing the russian intelligence service of stealing six real existing irish identities in order to forge irish passports which were allegedly used to cover up some of these secret operations in the united states and just to remind. this was the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war era the whole

with the russian shareholders all to pay b.p. one u.k. just to look barnaby peace deal with rosneft we need to be big agreed on the fourteenth of january to see what is seven point eight billion dollar stake in the company for nine point five percent of russian oil producer rosneft and that the two companies would also agree to joint venture to explore areas of the arctic water is not only the cooling to the russian shareholders it take a b.b. to reach the terms of their contracts under which they should have been also in michigan and given the first refusal on any major any ventures undertaken by b.p. in russia and this didn't happen so it went to justice microburst to say the both parties have been able to leave it entirely in accordance with common sense and that now that the b.p. shares to what has been phrase in the any discussions about the arctic exploration have been fit and till the completion of attrition which is sure to february twenty fifth now we've had comments from the vice president over us never he said the process of pu

russian assets russian financial assets. much hearing about you here in the studio one of the things that really bothers me in living in russian i've been here for almost thirteen years is the lack of competition is there enough competition in the banking sector another key pillar of being a financial center is there enough competition in the banking so well i think that sentiment has worked very hard to establish that all the. liquidity and we obviously know this very different right and it's their bank and everybody else for it and you know well it was possible because different right so i think the process stuff but. even if i were them i mean how many how many banks or how wide variety of about of instruments that you can have when we look at retirement and we look at these kind of things here i mean we still only a small number of people actually look at exactly i think that's exactly the point it's not the number of banks you have you have countries with one or two drinks working right and that's that's fine and point

good to have you with this is our team from here live from the russian capital top stories now this hour the president of russia's republic of carbon dismisses reports of casualties in an attack in the city of chick he says only one police officer was injured only reports claim up to twelve people were injured often f.s.b. security services building was shelled in the region after four groups of militants of course have taken part in the attack. but the u.n. says the death toll in libya could be in the thousands as the government steps up the battle against protesters and as the rest pushes for democratic change in troubled regions fears grow their interference will add fuel to the fire. the case accuse of double standards by agreeing to extradite wiki leaks founder julian assange to overrate claims for refusing to do the same for international terrorists . i'll be back with another update for you in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime not a nine hundred goes oriental in the russian capital in this week's moscow out. against course and struggle i personally think that sushi is now o

one of the best i would say russian military analysts i'm among journalists among my colleagues and a good friend of mine alexander golts he wrote i quote the biggest problem with this sexual idea is that nato has little faith in the ability of russia's military defense system and put is this the reason why nato has rejected the so-called sectoral missile defense proposed by moscow needles approach to missile defense and i hope it is clear to our russian interlocutors is not based on any different platform than the same platform that is sustained the alliance since it was founded in one thousand nine hundred ninety nato is job is to defend nato as territory and that's what we do and when it comes to missile defense that's what we will do i have seen quotes from foreign minister lavrov just in the last few days saying that of course russia would defend russian territory that's what russia does like any nation like my own country canada so nato will defend nato russia will defend russia our challenge is to be interoperable. to cooperate and to become more than the sum of our parts when

the kids spoke russian and i was very envious but at the same time happy but do you. say that that this board of diplomacy really happens on the grassroots level not only on the foreign ministry level is it happening this is very important well i hope it will happen the more cultural exchanges the more business the more people traveling i think the better off we are i mean people must understand in russia that for us the st petersburg region the leningrad old bust is extremely important it's a source of basin is it's a sort of source of exchange we work a lot in v board we'll work a lot in st petersburg i'm going up to petro squad tomorrow so it's a great business opportunity i met a lot of finnish business leaders here in st petersburg today and their basic message was that more finns should plug into the wonderful market resources that you have here so yeah i mean i do my main core business with sergey lavrov in moscow that's the diplomacy that i do and then the grassroots diplomacy here on the border is very important finish for a minister alexander stubb talking t

up next to modern unders with sun his chopsticks friday in the russian capital last hour is next here on alt. yes course i was struggling i personally think that sushi is now one of the most popular dishes in the us in capsule the months away but apart from so much it's also another fostered al that's the same there isn't a restaurant in this city that doesn't serve japanese cuisine so join me on this week's moscow hours as we take a look at the sushi mania the second over the russian capital. change of russia in the one nine hundred ninety s. a difficult word to pronounce at first this muscovites are fascinated by the small rows of rice and the fish today there are hundreds of sushi bars here and with russians becoming more knowledgeable about other cuisines thrown in with lower prices it seems sushi is available to the tourist from easy unique of the totally unique could japanese venue in moscow it was opened in april two thousand and eight and became one of the most popular japanese restaurants in moscow sushi is a very popular dish in moscow i think because of japanese cuisine it'

and islands expelling a russian diplomat over spy related accusation. in the russian secret service office doing the real irish identity speed order to cover up its secret operations believe that its speech find out more in the program. a very warm welcome to you this is r.c. line from moscow with me alice head but first to egypt were recalled rallies underway in the capital in the country's capital well at least a quarter of a million people have gathered in the center of cairo with the latest attempt to force president mubarak to step down also fall three hundred people have reportedly been killed and over three thousand injured since protests began over a week ago well for all the latest that's cause live now hall correspondent paula samir who's are following the events for us in cairo paula we hear the protesters have been that seeing peacefully so far but what about all position leaders around the all forty one have they taken today. well and i said really depends who your sources are in the latest word we're hearing from the egyptian state televis

capital is no exception various russian plays often performed on the stage used by both russian. companies. whenever there is a play on. your. there is no doubt almost immediately when the national. or any a private company or even a. small fridge company is put on a russian play. it's so. certain in terms of there is a future about forest recently the shelf is hosted a performance staged by the prominent russian director so you are the chef titled the marriage the play is a comedy by the outstanding writer. britain almost two centuries ago the production remains popular still today performed by themes come from moscow event was cos the states a festival called russian classics of the mexico theater in great britain. one of the oldest most famous opera system five houses chrissy's which is founded in london in the seventeenth sixty's and sell week twice a year for the ocean itself chrissy's organizes. to give collectors a better chance to examine to learn more about the art pieces on offer to dish and . i just happen to coincide with chris. but i think that is more. to say now is

consular section issues two hundred thousand visas for russians who want to visit london the russian embassy says it supports the russian business while in britain offering assistance wherever possible but how does the embassy help british and russian relations i think the russian culture needs no major. introduction or advertisement here. because russia is a branch of the european christian civilization and i think we share the same. values fruitarian values the same perception of the good and bad. life and if you will and. there is no such thing as a cultural barrier between the two issues the russian cultural heritage is extremely. popular united kingdom to remember the russian see it as a progression for is he wrong or right. it always attracts. a big among the big number of friends and the audience it's not me but embassy parties illegal drugs and the v.i.p. just said partying in dreams like this many young middle class christians live in london and that brings us to do speak scares. me a little why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say get the level of

russian. still business because these do is extremely important for russia and i'm sure such people was. nice to be out of the old woman route. well that is why in this case. the russian shareholders. have some small benefits and other questions that go into the problem or for example. and stay with b.p. the british company has announced it will pay dividends for the first time since the gulf oil spill after posting a profit in the fourth quarter of two thousand and ten despite an overall loss of five billion dollars last year this comes as to include b.p.'s russian shareholders decided not to approve a one point eight billion dollar dividend half of which would have god to be created. let's take a look at the stock markets u.s. stocks start the new month on high notes as wall street's focus shifts back to optimism about the global recovery ahead of the u.s. manufacturing data the dow jones is up on the day nearing three quarters of a percent and the nasdaq has risen by over one percent this h

russian leaders joined them to drug operation in afghanistan last year was a milestone marketing new stage relations and trust however the parties haven't yet found common ground concerning the anti missile shield in europe their mind sees it as two independent systems sharing intelligence moscow champions the idea of six areas in europe each of them responsible for threats coming from certain directions . home as of self thank you very much for being with us on the show thank you for inviting well first of all you repeated many times speech speaking with newsmen for one that russia and nato don't consider each other enemies these are your words that you there that you like to repeat however nato the global ambitions and we have mean the expansions to these the anti-missile plans in europe are officially or unofficially cited in the russian military dot train as threats to our national security so russia does consider it a threat officially so is it part of your job to to see that those threats are removed from from russia's mentality and from russia's documents well first of all i r

with the russian shareholders old take a b.p. one a u.k. cool don't choose to look barnaby peace deal with rosneft no we need the big agreed on the fourteenth of january to see what is seven point eight billion dollar stake in the company for nine point five percent of russian oil producer ross yes and that the two companies would also agree to joint venture to explore areas of the arctic water is not only that according to the russian shareholders it take a b.p. did not breach the terms of their own shots under which they should have been also emission and given first refusal on any major need ventures undertaken by b.p. in russia and this didn't happen so it went to cool to be justice microburst you say the both parties have been able to prevent entirely in accordance with common stand on this but now that the b.p. . shares top has been frozen the any discussions about the arctic exploration have been to fit in until the completion evolve a trade which is sure jude the february twenty fifth now we've had comment from the vice president of

the president of the russian pilgrim. pickel society spotlight will be back shortly and we'll be back in the studio in less than a minute after a break so stay with us. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. of this nature and discover it's. neat. communicate with the want to. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you the. wealthy british stock. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. on. stop going. back. alley will sell lots of beer will rob. they will wear uniforms the damage is down the black man know that but very little damning the way. they are the key to our problem are all right. welcome back to spotlight i'm all going off and just to remind you that my guest today in the studio here is said again the president of the russian geographical society this means that mr show us in two thousand and ten the russian g

of strong buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more difficult for them to. to be. put it this way during the auction but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that the meet up to the ninety's the. russian bonds what are we talking about. everything you when you're talking about. can be nineteen century it can be twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used. to say. that more or less everything. to the computer nightspots so. some say has been. the past ten years. when the sun. has never seemed so popular. every day. to the british. it's a great place. just. hundreds of. we have here. is one of you actually used to allegedly. offers dozens of different flavors of the great. tasty menu. drinks makes me shake to perfection. absolutely the missus. from taking i mean these papers to making major moves within the fashion art scenes appears the russians are now thirteen everyone's lives in the u.k. while some are skeptical of these new foreign businessmen and women others in the race the collaboration and opportunity it brin

actually comes without however the website of the russian olympic mascot will be operating available to everyone not just russian citizens because there will be a very handy feature that will allow users and browsers basically to choose the language that they want the presentation to run in all of the shortlisted mascots will be on that website basically themselves explaining to the visitors of that website why it is them that have to be chosen to represent the russian winter olympic games and i have already chosen my favorite having just across all screens now but of course the visit to the the wider public to choose you mentioned coming at the end of the month is that when we can expect to really find out who's won and bowl kind of fame and fortune awaits the victorious. it is indeed it's going to be quite a suspects filled month of course as people browse the web site as they get acquainted with all of the shortlisted mascots see what they have to say for themselves they've been animated of course and placed on that website to tell. a little bit more to the people that are going t

of strong buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more do. to be. put it this way during the option but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that for the meet up to the ninety's the four. known russian bottoms what are we talking about. everything everything you when you're talking about paintings can be eighteenth century can be nineteenth century it can be twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used to still i can stop to say. but more or less everything well. outside the particular nightspots so. some say has been revolutionized by the been happening for the past ten years from huge marketing events to networking teams coming in on missions wanting to spend their cash when the sun goes down. has never seemed so popular. every day. to the british. it's a great place to spend time with friends just. hundreds of. the work we have here a revolution we did extensive. process from russia is one of the boxes that we use is actually used in the private allegedly revolution office dozens of different flavors o

the russians and the french were delighted. i don't know who logged more but i think it was beneficial for all of us only. last year it was around the year of russia and france and the euro france and russia this year you doubled it russia in italy and italy and russia and russia. and russia what was the reason to intensify the cultural ties thank you but. there is no finance oriented plan behind this idea simply get to get acquainted with the spanish and italian cultures that we love and value. it turned out there waiting for us in spain and italy for all the best ballets trickle performances and dark exhibitions. and another reason we still have the money for eight. years. of the money is coming to an end. is huge funding investments in culture are not the same as in business they do not give direct returns. should do so by forming culture and intellect culture and education and all the two things that form. the nation's intellect the intellect and the values of every person's. culture is so important. to me information trans

next march and hundreds were sought his chopsticks and writing it in the russian capital moscow has up next. i. suggest course as stroganoff i personally think that sushi is now one of the most popular dishes in the us in cup so i might sound weird but apart from so much also another fostered al that's the same there isn't a restaurant in this city that doesn't. seem so to me on this piece moscow hours as we take a look at the sushi mania the sacred over the russian capital. came to russia in the one nine hundred ninety s. a difficult word to pronounce it first most muscovites are fascinated by the small rows of rice and well fish today there are hundreds of sushi bars here and with russians becoming more knowledgeable about other cuisines truly with lower prices it seems sushi is available to us so there are some these are unique of the cultural uniquely japanese venue in moscow it was opened in april two thousand and eight and became one of the most popular japanese restaurants in moscow sushi is very popular dish in moscow i think because of japanese cuisine severely healthy cuisine