seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. it's a half past the hour in the russian capital a recap of today's top stories now with the u.n. expected to take action on the syrian crisis activists in the country crying massacre as hundreds are allegedly killed by government troops in the city of homs u.n. security council meets on saturday to consider voting on a controversial draft resolution aimed at ending the conflict. part of protests against the police and the military government escalate in corinth across egypt for several people killed and hundreds injured demonstrators are accusing the police of negligence the ruling military council to step down. with just

a month left until russia's presidential vote tens of thousands are expected to rally on the streets over banks on saturday the kremlin is trying to ensure that the upcoming election is fair and transparent calling for more observers installing webcams and polling stations. next week the russian prime minister's economic idea is under the microscope. spotlight. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. hard because a big. hello

again and welcome to the spotlight play into the show on our t.v. i'm older now and today we're talking about economic challenge despite the recent global turbulence and crisis russia has managed to keep it stuck on a me and a lot but even the most efficient models become obsolete one day a new way to be found to meet new challenges prime minister and presidential candidate played a potent has published his version over how the russian economy to be changed in the new risk future the article was warmly welcomed in general but some critics claim it's contradictory and say putin didn't propose any real solution so

is the program a real remedy or rather intellectual speculation we're asking journalist sean ramsey and a bladder or some at. russia's prime minister vladimir putin has recently been sharing his vision for russia's development in this series of pre-election manifestos published weekly major russian newspapers the first antico outlined his vision funded through lies in russian society and was particularly addressed to the country's needle class. the second touched upon issues of migration and zina from. these weeks article the third is considered by many of the most important so far as it deals with the country's economic revival presents a case for ending russia's dependence on raw materials and sets two thousand and twenty as the deadline for a. fight than russia's height experts should double the same is expected to happen to the country's average salary who don't also offers ways to attract capital into

russia's economy and monopoly things he insists on the actual return x. will do well in. our general work with the show thank you very much for being with us well first of all you both read the article have you find something in this article that indicates that if is elected russia is facing major economic changes be my guest please. well i think i think probably russia is on the move my feeling is that. good good things happening in russia and the basically people are working hard there's a lot of interest in making russia a global economic power and it's a good thing so you know it's not only mr putin here we're talking about the russian people you know one hundred forty million people who want to do

something and want to book but let's talk about the article that it did you get a question that put it there is ready if he's reelected to start real change in the kind of the main point of this article is that we have no exact we also hers how and where his other program is just a dream and he said in general i want to see russia in this picture but he doesn't see how yet and that is the point which is criticized from. and i guess absolutely they are absolutely right and i have to tell you the. russian erosion economy has a very long history like any other country and definitely we have some negative questions in the in our previous history and he didn't see us didn't tell us how to reorganize the koval how to do our to do to make the main direction of economy how to change the country of gods and oil production company to some yard as

for example maybe to the company which will lead to the country which will produce gasoline or something else and he we have no this articles show. i understand putin's intention to to be objective to to be like a what will lie all we journal we write articles so we try to be objective but when i read he's not a journalist he's the prime minister and i would be president so i get an impression that trying to be objective he's writing this article as somebody who's observing the economic situation in russia from the outside looking for bearing no responsibility for the twelve hour so who is he addressing himself that well that's interesting you know i guess i get that feeling also because he deals very lightly with certain major very important and fundamental issues in russia's economy which was that the soviet union was

a very powerful industrial country that did have a lot of what is what is used the term of its kind of its own technology it had created its own area of expertise and a lot of independent from the rest of the world because of that because of the the wall the russian word for technology today is no how no how good is the russian front technology that that's right and even kids now i mean i talk to kids about movies because i also. so make films movie maker film maker yeah and i talk to kids and they don't know even nouveau russian classics much less so the world is changing and russia is changing too and you really get that feeling i first came here in ninety one and then i was again spent some years here in the beginning of the nineties saw the coups saw the political the political movements but it led the way back to back to that subject i think. it's it's kind of you usual thing

is well we what we want to do but he says you know of course there are a lot of specifics a can't be covered in four page letter but to me i guess you have the mistake a huge mistake it is the position of the person who declared before we had a very poor in economical way country and also yeltsin and all this period will try to improve the situation and now dear friends and how it's a electorate i have to receive the possibility to start to look to looking forward and to do something that's not the position from the people of the foreigner or robber or point of view it's position of a person who says yes we did something but it's not enough but we did something and we have to do something well here's a quote from the russian prime minister on why russia should develop modern

technologies. russia must play a bigger part in the international division of labor not only as a supplier of commodities and managers but as a no longer all regularly operated carting and knology at least some sectors otherwise we are doomed to deplete our resources by constantly exchanging down for expensive for in technology to produce consumer goods materials and pharmaceuticals that we cannot develop ourselves. well this quote basically means that russia has not overcome its dependence on commodities which has been the goal of putting the government there even if down to put his presidency under medvedev presidency but. the article it doesn't contain any explanation why wasn't it overcome yeah yeah the point is excuse me the point is that he wrote what you want to listen to hear. it is very good for you yes. this

were a little it's a it's a i'm sorry it's a it's a good thing here he was if he was a presidential candidate from the outside it would be good to try to give people what they want to hear but when you're the presidential candidate from the inside he has been president has been for he owes explanations to people dizzy and if you remember the very old movie if we're talking about movies but if i enter any of asked if small be a little be a little baby what do you want that i will cut your hair or you will go to the summer house. and the girl said yes to somehow this here told to you want you prefer you said yeah it's a good idea but i have no time just in this small article to give the explanation about how it is a program of the government it's not mine but in general i want to show you the way you want to go by this week that said it was a problem now it does a presidential candidate from the outside not the reelected one zero zero

explanation. to people will did those good dogs so he well his critique he could he critique he made he talked about how certain government but you still come to the white house it hasn't work i mean he doesn't want to give them up they can't be answered inside the country. that this is a well. i don't know i have to say there's a there's a cultural gap here like for americans we do criticize ourselves and it's more every three of us you know but russians i mean there's a certain thing that from living in russia i don't know if that's changing but kind of classically you don't criticize yourself too much well cause i'm afraid we're going to criticize and i say russians are more self-critical than americans but we don't we don't get so critical when talking to foreigners we so frugal with each other you know we i thought against you because you were sort of on together yeah well i think russians are very self-critical in terms of criticizing the russians and if you're hard on each other you know you know that. high standards of living

standards lie but when it comes to themselves to say ok i made a mistake i did something wrong even with words it is our position that hearing all around the show is that you didn't think that he had a make you made a hint about mr mineta he said we lost for years i dreamed that dmitri will come of the will stall this and it was my huge mistake and now i have to restart it once more time and that's why i declare to you what we will have to do that is the answer i guess well did you did you get at least a hint from this article on the warrant is put in the to do to make country less dependent on all for us is what i did it's a very kind of nice sounding plan i think it's seductive but again the question is this quite simply just like in the case of obama obama's

finishing four years he promised a lot of promises and now his goal is going for reelection he's not criticizing himself and saying i should have fought harder and i didn't have i didn't have clear when creating a medical system we don't really know about the the recovery really did to me every trial and said all right so in the senses is it sounds good to me but how's he going to do it right there it's the question and i have to attract your attention on the one thing everybody said it's a very bad thing that the economy of russia belongs to the gas and oil and we somebody declared we have to build new factories which will be reproduced oil and to produce the gasoline and to bring it to the market and let nobody have to ask himself who care about our give them who we are in a common market with our blood again because in a world where there are a lot of sore maybe we have to do something else. say journalist shawn ramsey and

latimer some of the spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us though. the close up team has been to the hub bar of screech of the for the country's little wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our chief goes to the area. dr len is looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. for the four by fours are made and should be tested to the limit. welcome to the. russia close up.

of the mood. welcome back to spotlight time norman just a reminder that my guests on the show today are

a journalist show. ramsey journalist and filmmaker and lead him or similar go business minutes and journalist and writer and filmmaker not sound if you're going to get over it thank you thank you very much both. for being here just a reminder that we are discussing the latest article published in they in one of the russian paper about the part about lattimer put in the presidential candidate and now let's listen to another quote let's hear what the prime minister says about what awaits the russian manufacturer is in the w t l mark. i can see all the challenges that our exemption to the w three always putting before a number of industries a whole week and i would like to assure them that i will do my best to transition based problems however the manufacturers of industrial and technological goods must be clearly aware that the days of competing in the single national market have gone now one there will be no profitable knishes for high tech products and there will

be only one market the global one. so here seductive again you promises to question but are you proud or anti w in terms inter i mean for russia what was your storage in my opinion every my time on i was again is this the person because we are talking about how to develop in a different kind of directions our economy if for will try to produce shoes or dresses or food or something else we have a lot of samples has which come to us abroad from abroad like import and like weeks here and for example you have are such a. russian family really are the jackets yeah so how you will have to organize the competition between us so if we will open the gates you have to know what you will do next time if your how would say introduce somebody or at track some. intention

to come to your market you have to understand what you will do we have no the senior we have no plan that is the biggest mistake but in general to be involved in the world economic relations definitely is good but how showing us is complaining that i quote most integrated companies the favorite braincell have put himself have so far failed to become globally competitive or highly capitalized nor are they consistently profitable and quote so do you think that he's ready to address the importance of it the main reason are the situation the lack of transparency the you know. an efficient management most of whom are. personal friends and so on yeah putin takes a lot of flak about about the so-called. corruption that's. it's. he's he's at the top so he has to stop here he has to

answer for what's happening in the country but. i guess that and this may be unpopular but he's probably trying i imagine he's trying to do something maybe he's not doing enough. i don't mean to apologize with no no i'm not on the putin payroll that's for sure but i mean i wish i was but. i don't but i don't think i think a course you have to fight hard you know it's a tough problem and it has a history and he inherited it it started before his his time and never could figure out of your putin's promises that i quote the government will support large infrastructure projects firstly this means transportation their words and reliable communication with siberia and russia's far east and quote well the question to you as a free successful businessman you were so so are so the cost of road construction it's

too high in russia it's raising corruption suspicion so so what's putin what is he proposing to control it and why why could they start trying to rosewood ten twelve years ago. it's a difficult question but i'll try to make the answer first of all in the whole world there are few programs international programs which can be very useful and convenience to many countries it's a road constructions and build the buildings yes it's a very good because it's a lot of people who will be involved a lot of money turnover and etc etc etc and then the same time he has to declare to the any other sector of economy possibility to develop so this is two way one belong to the state sector and another one belong to the private sector if you will have a very good combination between these two and give to them very good road conditions

. definitely all of them has to strengthen against the corruption and this is the main question how. for both of you well one of the favorite favorite person nash is in the putin's government is mr force and how they can head to their the education minister the same goes for simcoe reforms hated by by the parents by the kids by teachers by everybody put in says new head your cation is the primary base for the new economy let's hear the quote. restoring the inner beauty of nature will be common should begin with universities we should be seen as equal centers with fundamental science and resources for innovative people we need to pursue a national objective that results in globally competitive russian universities by twenty twenty we should have several world class universities that spanned the entire spectrum of mood material and social technology. if i would

comment on this i would say that putin is understands that the quality of education in russia is falling and the rate of the brain drain is rising which is what your strange way but it is that many said so do you think that something urgent should be done and u.k. should please even obviously i mean if if if if somebody plans to stay in russia and plans lead russia they have to keep russia strong and that has that means they have to keep what they have you keep keep obviously keep your your best people in the country i mean that's why it was impossible in the soviet period right you couldn't open the doors in the soviet period you spent twenty years investing in these people and you had a closed system a closed economy you couldn't just open the doors and say ok you want to go so you're taking our equivalent of i don't know how much is a great brain worth two hundred thousand five hundred thousand just take it and go and then who work in another economy can't do that well and he has. to protest to

how much is like a pair of feet worse than if their feet feet from the bolshoi i mean. really i mean that's just a common sense stuff so obviously that's his job can he do it. i wish him luck because i like this country much as far as my opinion a long time ago during the period of soviet era we had a very good system of education it was in my opinion that one of the best but it was previous period and the new period has to have the new variance of education which will be much more convenience to the new used of economy definitely we need force and maybe he is not so good in this way because he didn't think about this like about something extraordinary he thinking i have a task i'll try to do the best but it's not in my forces in general we have to see that the new house

a structural failure in russia just grooving just enforcing it is not the last period he just maybe just maybe he's not clever no so smart but we have to do more in this way and this is i'm in this way i supporting mr putin exactly because if you want to build a new country you have to have the new kind of education i want to just add if i may that russia has a tradition of great as you said in tradition of great education and it also has the resource it's the ninth or the sixth largest economy depending on how you're judging in the world can afford and if it does if they don't do that and it's a big failure in a long while one thing more you have a lot of program is the. people who are making the programs in the united states from who belong to the rusher and so that we have a capacity we have a potential but the main idea how to organize it and force and unfortunately he's not the best person to do move to move to push this process that is the question.

in one of the in one of the lines putin talks of the so-called rival countries he says russia is losing out to rival countries in terms of its investment climate one well what would you say sean. what does putin imply which one of those rival countries is. and what is it with well it obviously isn't just actually read through been talking about enemies of rival gravels around. or does he really believe that somebody wants to take or to take over russia. well i mean. is he talking about china for instance or india. mr putin about it really means we couldn't have this surprise you know we will we just talked of earlier before we came into the studio and we talked about the a bit the anti-american rhetoric of the russians and the russian government's number but we said that it's only inside it's only in the in the russia when russia

washes go outside they're not anti-american at all i mean i mean the. world well what putin does isn't bad at all for the united states is it it doesn't do anything bad for the states no the other countries in the world i mean right i mean in fact . obviously we since mr obama has kind of dealt with the nato issue so that nato no then the west is no longer pushing pushing the former soviet union poor of russia in with nato expansion into its you know into its socks. i think you know basically putin has said we're on good terms right there's no big reason for for problems that can last very short question to mr similar to many people many ordinary people read this article said oh it's about the luxury tax there's going to be a special. there are you concerned with on us it is necessary because we have a country who came from the soviet union system and not. come to the new one we

are in the middle and if you want to go in the wind somebody you have to see what the hell you are you make the invitation for what he said in the future in a new world all the rich people will be how it's a punish because they are not so good and you are simple people workers the collective farmers you will be together with me will give some hints of this people that is the it's a propaganda nothing else lot of it thank you thank you sean thank you letter and just to remind you that my guests on the show today were journalist and filmmaker sean ramsay and filmmaker and journalist politician and businessman of lattimer symantec thanks was a pleasure talking to you in just a reminder that spotlight will be back with more first time comments on was going on and outside russia until then stay on russia today and take a bite.