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As the conflict in Ukraine rages on, the Federal Security Service (FSB) hunts for the mastermind behind the "Crocus" terrorists, while Ukrainian forces deliberately target residential areas in Belgorod and Kursk. Amidst the chaos, Ukrainian soldiers pawn off drones and gamble away the proceeds in online casinos. This video offers a glimpse into the grim realities of the ongoing war, exposing the dark underbelly of the conflict and the human toll it continues to take on both sides. Subscribe and stay informed with the latest news from Russia and the CIS countries in English! Disclaimer: We use automated voice translation to create our content. This means that we don't make any adjustments to the translation, thereby ensuring a timely release of videos for our viewers. We strive to offer the most accurate and comprehensive translation, but please bear in mind that the translation may occasionally contain inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the original text due to the characteristics of automatic translation. We thank you for your understanding and appreciate your interest in the news from modern Russia and the CIS countries. The videos used in this content have been sourced from publicly available media outlets. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. These videos are not intended for violation of copyright laws, they are used for educational/informational purposes only. Hashtags: #UkraineConflict #RussiaUkraineWar #FSBinvestigation #CrocusTerrorists #BelgorodStrikes #KurskAttacks #UkrainianSoldiers #WarCrimes #HumanToll #PawnedDrones #OnlineGambling

As the conflict in Ukraine continues, French President Emmanuel Macron and his NATO allies consider deploying troops to the war-torn nation. Meanwhile, on the 10th anniversary of the "Russian Spring," the Donbass region flourishes after its integration into the Russian Federation. In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party faces a surprising setback in local elections. This video delves into the complex geopolitical landscape, exploring the potential consequences of NATO's involvement in Ukraine, the resilience of Donbass, and the shifting political tides in Turkey. Subscribe and stay informed with the latest news from Russia and the CIS countries in English! Disclaimer: We use automated voice translation to create our content. This means that we don't make any adjustments to the translation, thereby ensuring a timely release of videos for our viewers. We strive to offer the most accurate and comprehensive translation, but please bear in mind that the translation may occasionally contain inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the original text due to the characteristics of automatic translation. We thank you for your understanding and appreciate your interest in the news from modern Russia and the CIS countries. The videos used in this content have been sourced from publicly available media outlets. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. These videos are not intended for violation of copyright laws, they are used for educational/informational purposes only. #NATOinUkraine #UkraineConflict #Donbass #RussianSpring #ErdoganSetback #TurkeyElections #Geopolitics #UkraineCrisis #NATOexpansion #RussiaUkraine

In a world where geopolitical tensions are at a boiling point, "Shadows of Conflict: Global Powers on the Brink" unveils a series of high-stakes episodes that could reshape the future. Ukraine's strategic strikes extend beyond its borders, targeting Russian territories and stirring the pot of global unrest. The Main Intelligence Directorate's plans to dismantle the Crimean Bridge signal a new level of escalation, raising questions about the potential need for buffer zones or more drastic measures. As France prepares its military for deployment, the soldiers face the grim reality of becoming legitimate targets for Russian forces. The looming threat of destruction hangs over them, while the world watches to see how the Americans and NATO will respond. Will they dare to intervene and risk igniting the flames of World War III? Meanwhile, Brussels braces for a different kind of battle, one against the promises of Trump. His pledge to refrain from arming Kyiv if re-elected casts a shadow of doubt over his intentions. The alliance is left to grapple with the daunting task of sustaining weapon supplies without the United States' involvement. "Shadows of Conflict" is a gripping exploration of the delicate balance between war and diplomacy, where every move could either prevent catastrophe or plunge the world into chaos. Subscribe and stay informed with the latest news from Russia and the CIS countries in English! Disclaimer: We use automated voice translation to create our content. This means that we don't make any adjustments to the translation, thereby ensuring a timely release of videos for our viewers. We strive to offer the most accurate and comprehensive translation, but please bear in mind that the translation may occasionally contain inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the original text due to the characteristics of automatic translation. We thank you for your understanding and appreciate your interest in the news from modern Russia and the CIS countries. The videos used in this content have been sourced from publicly available media outlets. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. These videos are not intended for violation of copyright laws, they are used for educational/informational purposes only. #Ukraine #Russia #MilitaryStrikes #Belgorod #Kursk #Tatarstan #Intelligence #CrimeanBridge #Geopolitics #Kiev #France #MilitaryDeployment #RussianTroops #NATO #WorldWarIII #Brussels #Trump #Presidency #ArmingKyiv #GlobalAlliance #WeaponSupplies #UnitedStates

In the midst of conflict, a surprising trend has emerged in Ukraine - the rise of new millionaires. Over the last year, the number has increased by 3,000. This intriguing development prompts us to explore the complex dynamics of a war-torn nation, where, against all odds, wealth is being created. Dive into the paradoxes and the hidden narratives of Ukraine's profitable war. Subscribe and stay informed with the latest news from Russia and the CIS countries in English! Disclaimer: We use automated voice translation to create our content. This means that we don't make any adjustments to the translation, thereby ensuring a timely release of videos for our viewers. We strive to offer the most accurate and comprehensive translation, but please bear in mind that the translation may occasionally contain inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the original text due to the characteristics of automatic translation. We thank you for your understanding and appreciate your interest in the news from modern Russia and the CIS countries. The videos used in this content have been sourced from publicly available media outlets. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. These videos are not intended for violation of copyright laws, they are used for educational/informational purposes only. #Ukraine #Paradox #ProfitableWar #RiseOfMillionaires #Conflict #WealthCreation #WarTornNation #HiddenNarratives

Eleven individuals have been detained in connection with the recent terrorist attack in Moscow, and the circle of accomplices may expand further. However, these are merely the perpetrators. Where are the masterminds, and will they be held accountable for their crimes? The West claims that Islamic radicals are responsible for the attack, ignoring the clear Ukrainian connection. Are they protecting the criminals in Kyiv or attempting to conceal their own involvement in the deaths of our people? President Biden called Vladimir Putin a "butcher." Does the White House hope that the world has forgotten about Biden's war crimes in Yugoslavia and the atrocities committed by Americans in other countries? Subscribe and stay informed with the latest news from Russia and the CIS countries in English! Disclaimer: We use automated voice translation to create our content. This means that we don't make any adjustments to the translation, thereby ensuring a timely release of videos for our viewers. We strive to offer the most accurate and comprehensive translation, but please bear in mind that the translation may occasionally contain inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the original text due to the characteristics of automatic translation. We thank you for your understanding and appreciate your interest in the news from modern Russia and the CIS countries. The videos used in this content have been sourced from publicly available media outlets. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. These videos are not intended for violation of copyright laws, they are used for educational/informational purposes only. Hashtags: #MoscowAttack #TerrorismInRussia #UkrainianConnection #BidenHypocrisy #PutinButcher #WarCrimes #Yugoslaviabombing #AmericanAtrocities

In this compelling video, we delve into the heart-wrenching tales of those affected by the tragic events at "Crocus," explore the political tensions surrounding Oleg Tsaryov's statements on Zelensky's legitimacy, and uncover how the Boeing scandal could influence the upcoming election campaign of Donald Trump. Join us for a deep dive into these unfolding narratives that span from Russia to the United States, shedding light on the complexities of global politics and human resilience. Timecodes: 00:04:56 "Caught in the epicenter": stories of victims and relatives of those killed at Crocus. 00:16:41 "Trap for Russia": Oleg Tsaryov spoke out about Zelensky's legitimacy after May 20. 00:26:38 The Boeing scandal threatens to hit Donald Trump's election campaign. Subscribe and stay informed with the latest news from Russia and the CIS countries in English! Disclaimer: We use automated voice translation to create our content. This means that we don't make any adjustments to the translation, thereby ensuring a timely release of videos for our viewers. We strive to offer the most accurate and comprehensive translation, but please bear in mind that the translation may occasionally contain inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the original text due to the characteristics of automatic translation. We thank you for your understanding and appreciate your interest in the news from modern Russia and the CIS countries. The videos used in this content have been sourced from publicly available media outlets. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. These videos are not intended for violation of copyright laws, they are used for educational/informational purposes only. #CrocusIncident #PoliticalTension #OlegTsaryov #ZelenskyLegitimacy #BoeingScandal #TrumpCampaign #GlobalPolitics #HumanResilience

Dive into the heart of unity and bravery with "Unyielding Spirit: Solidarity and Survival in the Face of Terror". This gripping video takes you through the aftermath of a harrowing terrorist attack at "Crocus", showcasing the incredible solidarity of the Russian people. Witness the inexplicable survival of the attackers who chose not to end their lives and the inspiring stories of volunteers making a difference in the lives of residents in border areas. Join us in discovering the powerful tales of human determination and compassion in times of crisis. Timecodes: 00:03:11 After the terrorist attack at "Crocus", Russians demonstrated an example of true solidarity. 00:13:10 "If you're a jihadist, you give your life": why the perpetrators of the terrorist attack didn't die at "Crocus". 00:24:54 How volunteers are helping border area residents. Subscribe and stay informed with the latest news from Russia and the CIS countries in English! Disclaimer: We use automated voice translation to create our content. This means that we don't make any adjustments to the translation, thereby ensuring a timely release of videos for our viewers. We strive to offer the most accurate and comprehensive translation, but please bear in mind that the translation may occasionally contain inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the original text due to the characteristics of automatic translation. We thank you for your understanding and appreciate your interest in the news from modern Russia and the CIS countries. The videos used in this content have been sourced from publicly available media outlets. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. These videos are not intended for violation of copyright laws, they are used for educational/informational purposes only. #TerroristAttack #Crocus #Solidarity #Russians #Jihadist #Perpetrators #Volunteers #Assistance #BorderArea #Unity

Vladimir Putin summed up the year’s results and answered questions from journalists and the people of Russia in a live broadcast. 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:24,379 This year, right at the very stage of gathering all the questions, we engaged the National 2 00:00:24,379 --> 00:00:29,859 people's front, so there is no doubt that all of the calls and appeals will be processed 3 00:00:29,859 --> 00:00:33,179 and will not remain unanswered. 4 00:00:33,179 --> 00:00:36,899 The activists of NPF are prepared to do that. 5 00:00:36,899 --> 00:00:41,340 However, the most relevant and interesting questions will be voiced today. 6 00:00:41,340 --> 00:00:49,179 Yesterday, a question came in about the salary not being paid, and salary was paid actually 7 00:00:49,179 --> 00:00:51,179 that very day in the evening. 8 00:00:51,179 --> 00:00:55,460 There are plenty of questions that are yet unsolved, and the thing is that we are living 9 00:00:55,460 --> 00:01:02,420 in a world that is completely different, and people are worried not only about social matters. 10 00:01:02,420 --> 00:01:06,260 It is now, before the New Year, it's time to take stock of the year. 11 00:01:06,260 --> 00:01:10,379 December is traditionally filled with many events. 12 00:01:10,379 --> 00:01:17,500 Last week, Mr President, you've announced your decision to run for president against 13 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:18,500 the current President. 14 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:22,019 What kind of tax do you have abroad and domestically? 15 00:01:22,019 --> 00:01:23,579 What are the main questions for you? 16 00:01:23,579 --> 00:01:30,739 Well, I spoke about that many times, but it bears repeating now. 17 00:01:30,739 --> 00:01:38,780 Such a country as Russia, the very existence of our country without sovereignty is impossible. 18 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:47,340 It will simply not exist, at least in the state that it exists now and existed for thousands 19 00:01:47,340 --> 00:01:48,340 of years. 20 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:50,740 So the main thing is to strengthen the sovereignty. 21 00:01:50,740 --> 00:01:54,219 However, it's a very broad term. 22 00:01:54,219 --> 00:01:59,659 External sovereignty, that means strengthening our military power and security and safety 23 00:01:59,659 --> 00:02:08,460 on our borders, strengthening our social sovereignty, public sovereignty, that means absolute observation 24 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:15,260 of the rights and freedoms of our citizens, of strengthening our political system, parliamentarism, 25 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:23,060 and finally, that is, providing security and sovereignty in economic and technological sphere. 26 00:02:23,060 --> 00:02:30,900 Well, I don't think that in responding to this question, I don't need to cover all of 27 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:35,340 these matters, but I am quite positive that the audience that we have here and the rest 28 00:02:35,340 --> 00:02:39,979 of the country is fully aware that Russia cannot exist without it. 29 00:02:39,979 --> 00:02:50,259 Financial, economic, and technological sovereignty is the future of any country, including Russia. 30 00:02:50,259 --> 00:02:54,180 So if we talk in concepts, these are the main dimensions. 31 00:02:54,180 --> 00:02:55,420 Let's turn to economy. 32 00:02:55,420 --> 00:02:59,300 Many in the world have been surprised that the Russian economy did not collapse under 33 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:05,939 the burden of the so-called pressure sanctions, pressure from our former so-called partners. 34 00:03:05,939 --> 00:03:10,740 But it's apparent that they have the goal to push Russia to the limit and to make it 35 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:11,740 buckle. 36 00:03:11,740 --> 00:03:15,060 So what kind of resilience does Russian economy have? 37 00:03:15,060 --> 00:03:20,520 It's resilient enough not to only feel quite confident, but to move forward. 38 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:27,380 And this resilience, well, we've discussed it many times as well, but I'll repeat myself. 39 00:03:27,460 --> 00:03:29,539 That is ensured by several components. 40 00:03:29,539 --> 00:03:38,099 The first one, and the most important one, is tremendous consolidation of the Russian society. 41 00:03:38,099 --> 00:03:44,500 The second thing is sustainability of financial and economic system of the country. 42 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:51,699 It came as a surprise to our so-called partners, and honestly to many of us as well, that over 43 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:58,620 the past decades, Russia has gained this resilience and sustainability in finance and 44 00:03:58,620 --> 00:03:59,620 economy. 45 00:03:59,620 --> 00:04:09,420 And the third component, naturally, is greater capacity of our forces, I mean security forces 46 00:04:09,420 --> 00:04:11,660 and the army. 47 00:04:11,660 --> 00:04:15,660 And if we talk about economic indicators, specific indicators, what can we be proud 48 00:04:15,660 --> 00:04:16,660 of? 49 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:22,660 As per usual, I brought a table over. 50 00:04:22,660 --> 00:04:30,420 There is nothing special that we don't know, but I think that yesterday, Finance Minister 51 00:04:30,420 --> 00:04:32,340 voiced several indicators yesterday. 52 00:04:32,340 --> 00:04:38,820 The main indicator is growth of GDP of our economy at the end of the year is expected 53 00:04:38,820 --> 00:04:41,700 at 3.5%. 54 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:44,060 That is a good indicator. 55 00:04:44,060 --> 00:04:48,339 That means that we bounced back from the dip last year. 56 00:04:48,339 --> 00:04:52,379 I think we stood at 2.1%. 57 00:04:52,379 --> 00:04:54,540 This year, we gained 3.5%. 58 00:04:54,540 --> 00:05:00,180 That means we bounced back and made quite a significant step forward. 59 00:05:00,180 --> 00:05:07,500 Unfortunately, we have inflation growth that is so, and we expect 7.5% at the end of the 60 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:11,100 year, maybe even higher, reaching almost 8%. 61 00:05:11,140 --> 00:05:15,660 The Central Bank and the government are taking all the necessary measures, and we can discuss 62 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:16,660 that later. 63 00:05:16,660 --> 00:05:22,260 We can talk about increasing interest rates and so on, other measures that the Central 64 00:05:22,260 --> 00:05:28,020 Bank and the government have undertaken, and we hope that we can go back to the targeted 65 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:30,140 level of inflation. 66 00:05:30,140 --> 00:05:37,020 Industrial production is growing, probably 3.6%, but what especially makes us happy, 67 00:05:37,019 --> 00:05:47,740 manufacturing 7.5%, that is year-on-year growth, this is an unexpectedly high rate. 68 00:05:47,740 --> 00:05:55,620 And what makes us especially positive is 10% growth investment in domain capital, fixed 69 00:05:55,620 --> 00:05:57,579 capital. 70 00:05:57,579 --> 00:06:04,819 That means that today we have apparent growth in GDP and industry, plus 10% in fixed capital 71 00:06:04,819 --> 00:06:07,420 investments. 72 00:06:07,420 --> 00:06:13,259 That means that mid-term we have ensured our sustainable growth. 73 00:06:13,259 --> 00:06:18,060 There will be new jobs created, expansion of industry, and so on. 74 00:06:18,060 --> 00:06:21,539 As for unemployment, I'll speak about that later. 75 00:06:21,539 --> 00:06:26,300 The profit stands at 24% of the industry, let alone banks. 76 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:31,019 They are going to earn almost 3 trillion rubles, even more. 77 00:06:31,219 --> 00:06:37,139 Of course, I know that in this audience and from the country that, yes, the banks are 78 00:06:37,139 --> 00:06:43,060 doing fine, they're going through fat years, but those people who are storing their money 79 00:06:43,060 --> 00:06:49,459 in Russian banks, that's good news for them, the sustainability of the Russian banking 80 00:06:49,459 --> 00:06:54,299 and financial system. 81 00:06:54,300 --> 00:06:57,379 Now on to real wages. 82 00:06:57,379 --> 00:07:03,340 It's going to increase by about 8% year-on-year without inflation. 83 00:07:03,340 --> 00:07:09,340 Well, this will not be a universal picture across the country, but more or less these 84 00:07:09,340 --> 00:07:12,340 are specific, precise statistics. 85 00:07:12,340 --> 00:07:15,699 And the real disposable incomes of our people will also be growing. 86 00:07:15,699 --> 00:07:20,340 There are more components therein, but it's going to be about 5% growth. 87 00:07:20,380 --> 00:07:24,300 The unemployment rates. 88 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:32,740 Recently we were proud of record low levels of 3% of unemployment, and yesterday while 89 00:07:32,740 --> 00:07:40,020 getting ready for today's talk, we saw that it stood at 2.9%. 90 00:07:40,020 --> 00:07:43,460 We've never seen that low unemployment before. 91 00:07:43,460 --> 00:07:50,740 This is a very good integrated or aggregate parameter of the overall economic performance. 92 00:07:50,740 --> 00:07:56,460 When I spoke about the real disposable incomes rise, I must mention that starting from the 93 00:07:56,460 --> 00:08:02,980 1st of January, we will increase the minimum wage by 18%, which is not something that we 94 00:08:02,980 --> 00:08:03,980 do frequently. 95 00:08:03,980 --> 00:08:11,060 The public debt has been shrinking, which also testifies to the macroeconomic and financial 96 00:08:11,060 --> 00:08:12,060 stability. 97 00:08:12,660 --> 00:08:21,699 The public debt slumped from 46 to 32 billion USD, and the private external debt also has 98 00:08:21,699 --> 00:08:22,780 dwindled. 99 00:08:22,780 --> 00:08:27,579 All our companies have been repaying on schedule. 100 00:08:27,579 --> 00:08:33,700 It went down from 337 billion dollars to 297. 101 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:39,059 So the repayment is on time, sometimes even before, ahead of schedule. 102 00:08:43,060 --> 00:08:50,180 Well, the aggregate social parameters also will talk a lot about social and welfare matters 103 00:08:50,180 --> 00:08:57,740 today, but there is a comprehensive parameter of the life expectancy growth. 104 00:08:57,740 --> 00:09:06,500 In 2021, the life expectancy in this country was 70.06. 105 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:12,180 In 2022, 72.73. 106 00:09:12,180 --> 00:09:24,899 And in 2023, we expect the life expectancy at 74 years, which is an indicator showing 107 00:09:25,059 --> 00:09:34,019 that we are doing fine in terms of our welfare and social policies and economic policies. 108 00:09:34,019 --> 00:09:39,379 The other day, you awarded some of the heroes of Russia, and you said that the guys should 109 00:09:39,379 --> 00:09:43,419 be spared, but we should continue pressing for two years. 110 00:09:43,419 --> 00:09:49,299 We have been living amidst the special military operations, so we receive a spate of questions 111 00:09:49,299 --> 00:09:53,500 from everybody on that. 112 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:55,179 What is your take on these two years? 113 00:09:55,179 --> 00:09:56,940 What is the current pace? 114 00:09:56,940 --> 00:09:59,379 What the goals may be? 115 00:09:59,379 --> 00:10:01,740 Are they the same, or have they changed? 116 00:10:01,740 --> 00:10:04,179 And when we will arrive at peace? 117 00:10:04,179 --> 00:10:07,980 The peace will come when we reach our goals that you have mentioned. 118 00:10:07,980 --> 00:10:12,539 And coming back to the goals, they remain unchanged. 119 00:10:12,539 --> 00:10:21,500 I will remind you, it means denazification, demilitarization of Ukraine and its neutral 120 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:22,500 status. 121 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:30,220 Have a look from the perspective of denazification. 122 00:10:30,220 --> 00:10:39,139 During the negotiations that followed after the preparation of draft of possible agreement 123 00:10:39,139 --> 00:10:44,980 back then, that was mentioned by the Kyiv authorities the other day. 124 00:10:44,980 --> 00:10:54,779 Well, on the whole, they did not agree they needed some denazification, saying that there 125 00:10:54,779 --> 00:11:00,860 was no Nazism growth in that country. 126 00:11:00,860 --> 00:11:02,860 Well, how come? 127 00:11:02,860 --> 00:11:09,420 Their national hero is a well-known Nazi, the figure Bandera, who has been proclaimed 128 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:11,460 a national hero. 129 00:11:11,460 --> 00:11:12,460 How come that? 130 00:11:12,940 --> 00:11:15,019 Yes, they do have it. 131 00:11:15,019 --> 00:11:23,300 And when today's head of presidential office in Kyiv, before the whole world, gives a round 132 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:29,139 of applause to a former SS soldier that participated in the Holocaust, which was the extermination 133 00:11:29,139 --> 00:11:36,340 of 1.5 million of Jews, Poles and Russians, and gave a misstanding of Asian, is it not 134 00:11:36,340 --> 00:11:37,780 a manifestation of Nazism? 135 00:11:37,779 --> 00:11:42,500 So denazification is a relevant thing. 136 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:50,819 During those talks, we were told that, well, actually, they did not, would not rule out 137 00:11:50,819 --> 00:11:52,899 enacting some legal acts. 138 00:11:52,899 --> 00:11:55,579 That was during that series of talks in Istanbul. 139 00:11:55,579 --> 00:12:02,939 Now, with respect to demilitarizing Ukraine, unless they want to come to terms peacefully, 140 00:12:02,939 --> 00:12:06,860 we have to take some action, including military action. 141 00:12:06,940 --> 00:12:11,820 But today, Ukraine virtually produces or manufactures nothing. 142 00:12:11,820 --> 00:12:16,500 They have been trying to maintain their manufacturing capability, but, you know, actually, they 143 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:24,379 have been importing things for free, freeloading. 144 00:12:24,379 --> 00:12:27,300 But, you know, it will come to an end sooner or later. 145 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:32,220 Well, they will keep receiving some aid, but, you know, the extermination, the annihilation 146 00:12:32,220 --> 00:12:33,220 continues. 147 00:12:33,220 --> 00:12:43,899 With respect to aircraft and air defense systems, they received like 420 or 330 tanks, as had 148 00:12:43,899 --> 00:12:46,980 been promised. 149 00:12:46,980 --> 00:12:47,980 Everything had been delivered. 150 00:12:47,980 --> 00:12:53,660 I mean, all the things that the Westerners had promised were supplied, but all that was 151 00:12:53,660 --> 00:12:55,980 annihilated. 152 00:12:55,980 --> 00:13:04,620 747 tanks were destroyed as of last night since the start of the counter-offensive round. 153 00:13:04,620 --> 00:13:10,539 2,300 armored personnel vehicles of different types. 154 00:13:10,539 --> 00:13:11,940 This is demilitarizing. 155 00:13:11,940 --> 00:13:20,259 Either we come to terms on the specific military parameters, and we did agree upon these parameters 156 00:13:20,259 --> 00:13:28,460 that were put into the litter bin later, and so we have other opportunities either 157 00:13:28,460 --> 00:13:31,779 to come to terms or to have our way compellingly. 158 00:13:31,779 --> 00:13:37,620 Well, a short question, a brief question, where there will be a second wave of mobilization, 159 00:13:37,620 --> 00:13:39,460 I know it is a sensitive matter. 160 00:13:39,460 --> 00:13:43,679 So look, we had some partial mobilization. 161 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:56,080 We recruited 300,000 people, and at the outset, there was a great deal of irony, and the reason 162 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:04,280 they were called reccees, recruits, but they have been doing an excellent job. 163 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:11,680 Now we have 14 heroes of Russia out of those people recruited back then, and a lot of other 164 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:17,160 decorations also were awarded to them. 165 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:27,560 So now around 244,000 people, servicemen are in the operation area. 166 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:35,800 Regiments have been formed to service the military equipment, because there are a lot 167 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,440 of very good professionals. 168 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:51,000 Around 41,000 people have been dismissed because of the age limit or have some health problems. 169 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:59,280 And after that, we started a broad campaign to attract volunteers to sign contracts with 170 00:14:59,279 --> 00:15:12,879 the armed forces, and we planned to recruit 400 and 400-something thousand people. 171 00:15:12,879 --> 00:15:23,120 As of last night, I was reported, I was informed that 486,000 people have been recruited, and 172 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:35,120 the inflow of men that are ready to defend their motherland with arms is not dwindling. 173 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:42,600 One point five thousand every day up and down the country. 174 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:47,080 So together with the volunteers, well, the contract is signed for two or three years' 175 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:56,520 term by the so-called volunteers, although all these are the warriors of their fatherland. 176 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:02,720 Well, there are yearly terms, but it's going to be around half a million of people till 177 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,280 the end of the year. 178 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,240 Why do we need another wave of mobilisation? 179 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,800 No need about all of that currently. 180 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:19,840 If you allow me, I remind you that we have a blended format of a hotline and a press 181 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:27,280 conference, so probably if I may, just a second, I apologise. 182 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,760 Well, actually, we have a democracy here. 183 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,480 Now, just Mr Peskov, please proceed. 184 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,560 We'll give him the mic. 185 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,440 The mass media are hectic people. 186 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:40,720 My name is Lyudmila Kuleva. 187 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:46,240 I represent North Ossetia Republic, region number 15. 188 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:52,320 Mr President, North Ossetia has always stood guard of the interests of our country. 189 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:58,960 Ipsatlev, Khadzhiratman, sort of, are the warlords and the heroes of the Soviet Union 190 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:07,519 that obtained glory during the Second World War, the Great Patriotic War now. 191 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:13,639 Many residents of North and South Ossetia and all the North Caucasus uphold the interests 192 00:17:13,639 --> 00:17:14,639 of our motherland. 193 00:17:14,639 --> 00:17:17,119 We have a lot of volunteers. 194 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:26,680 We have two volunteer squads, Storm Ossetia and Alania, and today the contracted servicemen 195 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,160 receive a lot of benefits and support measures. 196 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:34,440 Whether the volunteers can also expect to receive those allowances? 197 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,480 You know, I have looked through the questions. 198 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,279 Well, definitely, there is a huge spate of them. 199 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:41,279 It is impossible. 200 00:17:41,279 --> 00:17:45,480 2.1 million, 2.1 million of questions. 201 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:52,440 Well, Mr Peskov brought in a pile, a huge pile, a thick pile of questions, and I looked 202 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:53,440 them through. 203 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,440 I reiterate my position. 204 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,480 Well, we may have more questions of that kind. 205 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:05,480 All the volunteers, all those bearing arms and defending the interests of this country, 206 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:16,480 risking their lives and their health, will enjoy the level playing field, the equitable 207 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:17,480 conditions. 208 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:18,480 There are some flaws. 209 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,480 We know about them. 210 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:24,480 And yesterday, I analysed the letters, and I spoke to the defence minister and head of 211 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:32,480 the General Staff, and Madam Golikova, the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the warfare. 212 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:37,480 So on some of the matters, we'll have to amend the legislation. 213 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,480 Probably we'll come back to that during the press conference. 214 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:47,480 I'm sure that the members of Parliament will definitely support, certainly support that, 215 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:53,480 and we need to put it in proper language, and everybody should receive the benefits 216 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:54,480 of that. 217 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,480 Everybody should receive equitable support, equal support from the state. 218 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:05,480 I know Stoma, Stoma city and Alanya are brilliant warriors, and the head of that region told 219 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:06,480 me about that. 220 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,480 And this is the pile I have selected. 221 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:18,480 Well, the certificates of war veterans issues, and let's receive a video question. 222 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,480 Can Sergey Sobolev from Novosibirsk phone in? 223 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,480 The city of Askitin. 224 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,480 Mr President, good afternoon. 225 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:41,480 It's a huge privilege and an honour to speak to you from Donbass. 226 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:47,480 We are very far from the front line, and you can hear the warfare well enough. 227 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,480 The Storm Brigade of the Defence Ministry is behind me. 228 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:53,480 They're veterans. 229 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,480 This is a brigade that bears your name. 230 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:04,480 These have been around here for two years, near Donetsk, and they are quite firm, and 231 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,480 the defence of the enemy is about to break down. 232 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,480 It's all in cracks, and each day brings good results. 233 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:19,480 Our victory is soon, is close, and even the enemy knows that, but when the war is over, 234 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:24,480 one has to care for all these people that participated in the war. 235 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,480 The veterans have huge combat experience. 236 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,480 They are a model of real patriotism. 237 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:42,480 They could also educate the youths and prepare and train people to be the succession pool 238 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:43,480 for the army. 239 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:49,480 Probably there is a point in establishing a patriotic structure, a body. 240 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:54,480 Well, first of all, I'd like to thank you for all that you have been doing. 241 00:20:54,480 --> 00:21:03,480 This may be a customary phrase, but actually I tell that with all my heart, and you know, 242 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:10,480 very many commanders have told me that, you know, we have veterans at a certain area of 243 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:19,480 the front, and for sure that will guarantee full control of the situation. 244 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:27,480 This is a proper assessment of what you can achieve at battlefield with respect to the 245 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:37,480 relevance of such people as you to bring up and educate youths, our schoolchildren and 246 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,480 youngsters in general. 247 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:48,480 It is very, very relevant to the utmost degree, and this is absolutely obvious, especially 248 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:56,480 during the turning points in history like we're experiencing these days. 249 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,480 It would be quite misplaced to remember the wars of Bismarck, but still he used to serve 250 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,480 and live in Russia even though he became a prominent German figure. 251 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,480 He said that wars are not won by generals. 252 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:17,480 They are won by schoolteachers and priests, and he was right. 253 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:22,480 This is a very precise statement. 254 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:29,480 The upbringing of young people in the spirit of patriotism in the good sense of the word 255 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:35,480 is most important, and we're already beginning to do that. 256 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:45,480 Over a thousand of your colleagues, your brothers in arms who have served and come back to 257 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:51,480 a peaceful life, over a thousand of them are working in schools, working with children 258 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,480 and teenagers, and we will keep doing that. 259 00:22:54,480 --> 00:23:00,480 We will keep expanding these activities. 260 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:06,480 It is one thing to read about something in a textbook or watch a movie, and it's absolutely 261 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:11,480 different to meet someone in person to show an example. 262 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:17,480 The best education is a personal example that you show, and who could do a better job than you? 263 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,480 We are alive. 264 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:25,480 We can see the people, their reactions. 265 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,480 Please, Dmitry Sergeyevich, over to you. 266 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,480 I am sorry, Dmitry. 267 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,480 I see the poster saying, Volga is dying. 268 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,480 What is it about? 269 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,480 Let's take this question. 270 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,480 Hello, Mr. Putin. 271 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,480 My name is Elena Usmanova, the business newspaper of Tatarstan Business Online. 272 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:55,480 This year, the people of the Volga region have experienced a catastrophic lowering of the level of the Kulbyshev water reserve. 273 00:23:55,480 --> 00:24:01,480 Throughout the summer, the water has been flowing down the Volga from our water reserve. 274 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:06,480 They were saying that they were trying to save the fisheries of Astrakhan. 275 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,480 Do you think there is a solution for the Volga water level problem? 276 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:15,480 Don't you think that we may lose this river due to shallowing? 277 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,480 I hope this doesn't happen. 278 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:25,480 There is a conflict of interest between the energy industry and other water users downstream the Volga. 279 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:32,480 The energy producers want to keep the levels high to make sure that the volume of electricity production from the Volga cascade 280 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:42,480 and the dams is sufficient to ensure the energy supply for the industry and the economy and the users. 281 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:51,480 However, those using the water downstream, like the fisheries and the shipping industry, 282 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,480 want to ensure their transportation lane and want the river to be deeper. 283 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,480 We're aware of all these issues related to Volga. 284 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:06,480 The government is working on that, and we will not let it flow idle. 285 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,480 Sure, I know there is a problem. We will continue. 286 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,480 Yes, our colleague is quite active. 287 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:18,480 Let's skip the parity. We may come back over to Mr. Peskov. 288 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:24,480 Thank you. I see a journalist from Itartas in the middle sector, the first row. 289 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,480 Please, over to you. 290 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,480 The Kremlin pool. 291 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,480 Mr. Putin, good afternoon. 292 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,480 Ekaterina Krastofseva, TASS Agency. 293 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,480 We have a question on the international agenda. 294 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,480 The question is threefold. 295 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:44,480 First, do you see any prospects in normalising relations with the European Union? 296 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:50,480 Recently, it's been becoming apparent that the West is growing tired of supporting Ukraine. 297 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,480 What do you think about that? 298 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,480 Another question. 299 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:00,480 The right politicians are getting stronger on the European political scene. 300 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,480 How could you comment on that? Are you concerned about that? Thank you. 301 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaking of normalising relations, it's not only up to us. 302 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,480 We did not ruin the relations. 303 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,480 They did that. 304 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,480 They've always been trying to push us back to the backstage and the background, 305 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:24,480 disregarding our interests, the conflict that took place in Ukraine. 306 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,480 How did it begin? Let us remember. 307 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,480 Let us take three or four minutes. 308 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:34,480 It all began with a coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014. 309 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:41,480 Before that, we've been trying our best for decades. 310 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,480 We've been trying to build normal relations with Ukraine, 311 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:51,480 even following essentially a coup d'état when Viktor Yanukovych wasn't allowed to come to power 312 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,480 when he won the elections. 313 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,480 They declared a third tour of the elections, the third round, 314 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,480 even though this went against the Constitution. 315 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:07,480 This was something like a creeping coup d'état, but we accepted that. 316 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,480 So what happened next? 317 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,480 He won the elections, the next one. 318 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,480 So what did our so-called opponents do? 319 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,480 They committed a coup d'état. 320 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,480 You see, here is the problem. 321 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,480 Despite the tragedy of these events, 322 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:31,480 we've always been saying that the Russians and Ukrainians are one people essentially, 323 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:36,480 and what we're witnessing now is a great tragedy resembling a civil war between the brothers, 324 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,480 when brothers are opposing sides. 325 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,480 And it's not even their fault. 326 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,480 The entire southeast of Ukraine has always been pro-Russian. 327 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:53,480 Historically, these were Russian territories. 328 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,480 My colleague is raising the poster saying Turkey. 329 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,480 He knows that the entire Turkish and the Black Sea region knows that. 330 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,480 The entire Black Sea shore went to Russia following the Russian-Turkish wars. 331 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,480 This has nothing to do with Ukraine. 332 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,480 Odessa is a Russian city. Crimea is Russian. 333 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,480 Everyone knows that perfectly well. 334 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:18,480 But they started making up historical nonsense, 335 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,480 saying that back in the day, Vladimir Lenin gave those territories to Ukraine 336 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,480 when the Soviet Union was established. 337 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,480 We accepted that even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 338 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,480 We accepted that, and we were ready to live with that. 339 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,480 But the southeast, the pro-Russian part was always important to us. 340 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,480 During the elections, they've always been voting for those 341 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,480 who promoted the pro-Russian policies of inside and outside of Ukraine. 342 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,480 And this was perfectly fine for Russia. 343 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:53,480 But following the coup d'etat in 2014, it was perfectly clear 344 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:59,480 that they wouldn't allow us to build normal relations with Ukraine. 345 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,480 The coup d'etat that the Americans spent $5 billion on, 346 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,480 they stated this openly. 347 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,480 In 2014, three foreign ministers came from Europe, 348 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,480 the Polish minister, the German, and the French. 349 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,480 And so they signed up as guarantors of the agreements 350 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,480 between the authorities, President Yanukovych, and the opposition. 351 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,480 They said that everything would be resolved peacefully. 352 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,480 But two days later, they committed a coup d'etat. 353 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,480 Why? They could have gone to the elections. 354 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:35,480 But no, they had to create a conflict. 355 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:40,480 Who did that? It was our American so-called friends. 356 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,480 The Europeans who had signed up as guarantors of the agreements 357 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:50,480 between the authorities and the opposition pretended to know nothing. 358 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,480 Now ask anyone in Europe, can anyone remember that? 359 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,480 Of course they don't. 360 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,480 But we do, and we will not forget it. 361 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:06,480 In their aspiration to creep up to our borders and take Ukraine into NATO, 362 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,480 they have led us into a tragedy. 363 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:14,480 Remember the violent events in Donbass throughout eight years. 364 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,480 All of this resulted in the current tragedy. 365 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,480 They forced our hand. 366 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:28,480 And so when I talk about the United States, they organized that, 367 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,480 and Europe is only playing into their hands. 368 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,480 How can we build a relation with them? 369 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,480 We are ready for that, but the Europeans pretend to know and remember nothing. 370 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,480 They made only two or three references to the Minsk agreements they had signed, 371 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,480 although they had no intention of complying with them. 372 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,480 That was a pretend signature. 373 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,480 The guarantees between the authorities and the opposition in Ukraine in 2014 374 00:30:55,480 --> 00:31:00,480 were supposedly signed by them too and immediately disregarded. 375 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,480 Here is what I am talking about. 376 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:09,480 They have mostly lost their sovereignty. 377 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:17,480 Many of their decisions are harming themselves, but still they do that. 378 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:26,480 Many European public figures on the surface are acting like General de Gaulle 379 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:32,480 who was fighting for the interests of France with weapons. 380 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:37,480 He assembled all the French people to show resistance to the occupying forces. 381 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,480 However, in practice, they are acting like Marshal Pétain. 382 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:48,480 Even though he was a hero of World War I, in World War II he was a Nazi collaborationist. 383 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,480 He accepted the will of the occupying forces. 384 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,480 Almost everyone is acting like that. 385 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,480 A few people can be an exception. 386 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:04,480 For example, we see some examples like Viktor Orban in Hungary and some other people. 387 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,480 They are not pro-Russian politicians. 388 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:12,480 They are national politicians protecting their own national interests. 389 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,480 There are no people like that anymore. 390 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,480 I am not sure about the explanation. 391 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,480 They are too reliant on their big brother, the United States. 392 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,480 Still, we are ready to build relations with them. 393 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,480 Speaking of the United States, we are ready to talk to them too. 394 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:36,480 We believe that the United States is an important and necessary country for the world. 395 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:41,480 However, their absolutely imperial policy is hurting themselves. 396 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,480 It's not even hurting us. 397 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:50,480 It's hurting them first and foremost because in the public eye they have to act as an empire. 398 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:57,480 And when they are trying to compromise on something, their voters see this as a failure. 399 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:03,480 That's why the elites are forced to act in this way. 400 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:11,480 As soon as something changes domestically, this would establish the fundamental conditions 401 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,480 that would allow them to respect others, to respect other countries, 402 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:20,480 to seek compromise rather than use force and sanctions. 403 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:26,480 Only then will we see the fundamental conditions to establish full-fledged relations with them. 404 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,480 So far, we see none. 405 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,480 But we are ready. 406 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:35,480 Let me talk a bit more. 407 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,480 Not all the military journalists are on the front line. 408 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,480 I see someone in that sector over there, Mr. Nikolai Dolgachev. 409 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,480 Over to you, sir. 410 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,480 Mr. Putin, good afternoon. 411 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:52,480 Nikolai Dolgachev, Vesti, the office in Lugansk. 412 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:58,480 The Lugansk Republic has almost been liberated, but still we are concerned 413 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:03,480 and we know that the fighting is active in the south and along the Dnieper River. 414 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:09,480 And for some time, they've been talking about the enemy front line on the left bank of Dnieper, 415 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,480 in the Krynky locality. 416 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:18,480 What is that concentration of Ukrainian forces and how can you comment on that? 417 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:24,480 And let me remind you that in the liberated territories, further away from the front line, 418 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:30,480 we see active work to restore those territories, to restore the infrastructure and the social sites. 419 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,480 We see life is changing. 420 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,480 But still there are questions and concerns. 421 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:39,480 So let me ask you, what is the future of the new regions of our country? 422 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,480 What is the end goal? 423 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,480 What will happen in a few years? 424 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,480 What will these regions look like as part of Russia? 425 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,480 We know that your word is in order. 426 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,480 So please tell us, what will happen? 427 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,480 I wish it could work like that. 428 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:02,480 Unfortunately, we see something different in the world practice. 429 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:11,480 I believe that everyone present here in this audience and every listener and viewer knows that we speak about something, 430 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,480 and then something works, something doesn't. 431 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,480 And that's okay. 432 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,480 Still we should aspire to reach our goals. 433 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:25,480 Now speaking about these regions specifically, speaking about the enemy forces, 434 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:32,480 they have declared their major counteroffensive, but they have failed everywhere. 435 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:40,480 The recent attempt was made, at least as of today, it looked like the last attempt, in fact. 436 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:47,480 They were trying to break through in the left bank of the Dnieper River and move towards Crimea. 437 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,480 Everyone was talking about that. 438 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,480 Everyone knew that. 439 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,480 This is no use. 440 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,480 See what happened in that part of the front line. 441 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:04,480 The Ukrainian armed forces have concentrated their artillery strikes in a very narrow part of the left bank 442 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:11,480 in order to make sure we can save our guys and not to endanger them, not to take too much losses. 443 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:16,480 We decided, the military command decided to withdraw a few meters. 444 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:22,480 You're a military journalist, you know what I'm talking about. 445 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:28,480 They withdrew into the forest to save the people, to save them from the unnecessary losses. 446 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:41,480 Then the Ukrainian forces entered this territory around 1,200. 447 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:47,480 And I don't know why they're doing this. 448 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:52,480 They are pushing their people and these people are going to be killed. 449 00:36:53,480 --> 00:37:00,480 Ukrainian military say that this is the road, one-way road. 450 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,480 They're sending their military. 451 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,480 There were around 80 people at the time. 452 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,480 Now there are fewer people. 453 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,480 They use only boats. 454 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:16,480 But they are affected by artillery, drones, and other arms. 455 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:27,480 Our military have sanitary losses, two, three, six wounded people. 456 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:33,480 And the enemy losses tens of people. 457 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:42,480 So they are now staying in this area only because of the political causes. 458 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,480 And they are sending the military there only because of the political reasons. 459 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,480 We can only imagine why is this happening. 460 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:58,480 We can only imagine that this is related to the visits to foreign countries 461 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:06,480 to get financing for the country, for the military, for the equipment. 462 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,480 This is their approach. 463 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,480 They are going to other countries, asking for money. 464 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:20,480 And now they have to show that the Ukrainian army has some chances to reach at least something 465 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:29,480 without thinking about any losses in the context of the so-called counteroffensive. 466 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,480 And the military is getting pushed out of there. 467 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,480 They could do something, but they understand that they will be destroyed. 468 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,480 That is what is happening. 469 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:50,480 And I would like to point out, these are not just the military of the Ukrainian armed forces. 470 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,480 This is elite. 471 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,480 These are storm troops. 472 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,480 There are not many of them. 473 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,480 Let's take like one month and a half. 474 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,480 And we see the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces. 475 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,480 And we understand that this is very sensitive for them. 476 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:16,480 I think that this is foolish and irresponsible for the political leadership of the country. 477 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:23,480 But it's their decision. 478 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:28,480 It was said, just try not to push them too early from there. 479 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:33,480 It's very useful for us to send people there. 480 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,480 It's very useful for us. 481 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,480 This is the logic of the armed fight. 482 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,480 And they're continuing to do that. 483 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:47,480 This is a tragedy for them, I think. 484 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:55,480 But, well, the minister said that the territory will be narrowed, and this is happening. 485 00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:04,480 And I think that the situation will end. 486 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,480 Well, if we're speaking about the situation in the front, you all know it very well. 487 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,480 You are experts. 488 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:22,480 And sometimes I look at you, and I'm really afraid, and I see girls on the front line running over there. 489 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:28,480 Well, I should ask to keep women out of there, because I'm really afraid to look at that. 490 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:33,480 But what can I say about the situation? 491 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:48,480 Along the line, the front line, our armed forces are improving their situation. 492 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,480 They are working actively. 493 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:58,480 I'm speaking about all the front line, and the situation is improving. 494 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:06,480 As for the future of the regions, there are many issues. 495 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:14,480 There are many questions about this from the new regions and from other parts of the Russian Federation. 496 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:15,480 What will happen? 497 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,480 How will they develop? 498 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:30,480 Every year, the federal budget has more than one trillion rubles for that, for the development of these regions, 499 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:37,480 to introduce them progressively into the social and economic life of the Russian Federation. 500 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:43,480 In other regions, the situation is much better. 501 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:53,480 For instance, like in Crimea, Kiev authorities were not paying a lot of attention to them. 502 00:41:53,480 --> 00:42:05,480 But every year, we provided one trillion rubles, and this is what we're going to invest in the future. 503 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:13,480 We also have fraternal relations between these regions and other regions of the Russian Federation. 504 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:19,480 Around 150 billion rubles were provided by the regions. 505 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:24,480 Other regions will also provide around 100 billion rubles. 506 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:39,480 What I would like to say is this year, these new regions paid to the federal budget 170 billion rubles. 507 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,480 What does it say? 508 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:50,480 It means that the economy of these regions is restoring, and now it is in normal state. 509 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:54,480 Yes, a lot has to be done, and we will do it. 510 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:58,480 We're working live, and there are some technical issues. 511 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:04,480 Earlier, we saw a video question from Sergey Zenin. 512 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,480 Well, I would like to speak to a colleague from Turkey. 513 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:14,480 Let's listen to the question, and then we'll turn to the military correspondent. 514 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:18,480 And there are also girls around the military correspondent. 515 00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:31,480 Nadolu Agency, Mr. President, the results of the attacks of Israel in the Gaza Strip, every six, seven minutes, one child is dying. 516 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:42,480 Eight thousand Palestinian children have died and 6,000 women. 517 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:50,480 Unfortunately, the UN and the biggest countries of the world cannot stop these attacks. 518 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,480 What do you think? 519 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:58,480 Has the UN lost its function? 520 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:11,480 And because of this situation, is Palestine still existing, and is Turkey and Russia doing anything to preserve the peace, to establish the peace in the region? 521 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:17,480 And what Moscow and Ankara are planning in this field? 522 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,480 Regional questions. 523 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,480 Are you planning to visit Turkey in the nearest future? 524 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,480 Thank you. 525 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:29,480 Well, first of all, I see what is happening in the Gaza Strip. 526 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,480 That is just my evaluations. 527 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,480 I agree with what has been said. 528 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:47,480 I would like to say that President Erdogan plays a leading role in this, in restoring the situation in Gaza Strip. 529 00:44:47,480 --> 00:45:05,480 He is one of the leaders of the international community who pay attention to this tragedy and do everything to change the situation for the better, to create conditions for long-term peace. 530 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,480 And this is obvious. 531 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,480 And he is very active on this track. 532 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,480 And I wish him all the best. 533 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:19,480 Everything that is happening is a catastrophe. 534 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,480 There is also a situation related to the Ukrainian crisis. 535 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:37,480 But you and everyone here, everyone in the world, see what is happening in the special military operation and in Gaza Strip, and everyone can see the difference. 536 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:43,480 Nothing like that is happening in Ukraine compared to Gaza Strip. 537 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,480 There are thousands of women and children. 538 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:55,480 The Secretary General of the UN said that today Gaza Strip is the biggest cemetery of children in the world. 539 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,480 And this evaluation means a lot. 540 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,480 This is an objective evaluation. 541 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:06,480 As for the role of the UN, there is nothing unusual in this. 542 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:12,480 We have been speaking about this during Cold War. 543 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:19,480 Different states were blocking some decisions that were promoted by other states. 544 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:27,480 But initially, the UN was created to find consensus. 545 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:34,480 If it is not found, then the decisions cannot be made. 546 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,480 Nothing unusual is happening in the life of the UN. 547 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:42,480 It was always like that, especially for taking Cold War. 548 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:58,480 Mr. Gromyko, Foreign Minister, he was called Mr. No because Soviet Union was always using his veto right. 549 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:07,480 If a country thinks that some actions are hostile, then they will not be taken. 550 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:14,480 And this is important to have such mechanisms because then the UN will only be used as a platform to talk. 551 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:24,480 After the First World War, for instance, what has happened, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to find consensus. 552 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:39,480 But in Turkey, we think that we should implement the UN decisions about the creation of the Palestine state with the capital in the eastern Jerusalem. 553 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:50,480 We need to create fundamental basis for the Israeli-Palestine settlement. 554 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:56,480 We stay in constant contact with President Erdogan. 555 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,480 And we have very similar positions. 556 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,480 I think that we'll meet with him. 557 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,480 I plan to do that. 558 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,480 I was planning to do that. 559 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,480 It's not a secret. 560 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,480 President Erdogan didn't have time because of his schedule. 561 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,480 Well, I am ready to go to Turkey and I informed him about that. 562 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,480 But he couldn't do this because of his schedule. 563 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,480 It was not my fault. 564 00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:30,480 Maybe in the beginning of the next year, we'll have a visit. 565 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:42,480 As for our efforts, you know that in two Arab countries, we have consultations in Saudi Arabia, in United Arab Emirates. 566 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,480 First of all, we need to preserve people. 567 00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:48,480 We need to protect people in Gaza Strip. 568 00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,480 We are always in contact on that. 569 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:56,480 We need to provide massive humanitarian support to people. 570 00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:02,480 When we were in the United Arab Emirates, I was there. 571 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:22,480 We knew that Emirates created in Gaza Strip, not in Gaza Strip but near it, near their border, they created a hospital there, a field hospital. 572 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:29,480 So maybe it's possible that Russia could open its own field hospital there at the stadium. 573 00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:35,480 For that, we need the permission of Egypt and Israel. 574 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:39,480 I have spoken to the President of Egypt. 575 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,480 He's in favor of that, supports this idea. 576 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,480 I have spoken to the Prime Minister Netanyahu. 577 00:49:46,480 --> 00:50:00,480 We had consultations on that with special forces, and Israel thinks that Russian hospital will be in danger in Gaza Strip. 578 00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,480 But it doesn't mean that we will stop these efforts. 579 00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:12,480 Maybe today it's dangerous, and Israel will not support it. 580 00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:17,480 However, we have some agreements with Israel, and they asked us about that. 581 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:25,480 They asked us to provide more medical equipment, and medicine. 582 00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,480 We will do that without any doubt. 583 00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:35,480 With all the countries, we stay in contact, and we will continue to work actively with them. 584 00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:40,480 Let's speak about girls, women that will work on the front line. 585 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,480 Now we will speak to Valentina Solovyova. 586 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,480 She's now working in the region of Zaporizhzhia. 587 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:51,480 Hello. Right now we're at Melitopol Cancer Ward. 588 00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:53,480 This is a regional ward. 589 00:50:53,480 --> 00:51:00,480 You can see how many people are stationed in each room, three and six beds placed here. 590 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:05,480 They had Dr. Konstantin Lakunin. 591 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,480 Dr. Lakunin, we see that you have a lot of patients. 592 00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,480 So what's the situation with doctors? 593 00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:17,480 We have a lot of patients, and naturally, just like in the rest of Russia, we don't have enough doctors. 594 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,480 But maybe we have a more dramatic situation. 595 00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:26,480 We need oncologists, hematologists, PEDs, oncologists. 596 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,480 Well, they're simply not present here. 597 00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:34,480 So we have, as a cancer ward, to take over the functions. 598 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:39,480 We have two federal research centers that are helping us with clinical and methodological support. 599 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,480 They're taking our patients for treatment. 600 00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,480 How many patients per doctor as of now? 601 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:56,480 As in outpatient care, 50 or 60 people per day, and 30 as supposed to be as a standard. 602 00:51:56,480 --> 00:52:03,480 So the burden of the patient burden is at double. 603 00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:07,480 The same applies for inpatient care, 20 people per doctor. 604 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,480 That is also twice as high as standard. 605 00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,480 Still, you're developing. 606 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,480 You have some medicine in common. 607 00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,480 Yes, we're renovating. 608 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:25,480 We're doing large-scale renovation for surgical ward, and we're doing everything according to federal program standards. 609 00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,480 This is a surgical table for new surgical rooms. 610 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:37,480 We believe that we'll start working with great success, with new success. 611 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:43,480 So the matter of staffing is very important, is very acute. 612 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:44,480 You wanted to ask a question. 613 00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,480 Yes, it's a question and also a proposal. 614 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:58,480 Maybe we could create a special federal program to bringing staff to new regions, into health care and social sphere of the new regions. 615 00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:11,480 Possibly this could be residential construction as well as land plans, possibly mortgages with certain benefits and concessions. 616 00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,480 But we need to attract people here. 617 00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,480 Is the salary competitive? 618 00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:17,480 Yes, it's very competitive. 619 00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:21,480 I think people are coming over for that salary. 620 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:26,480 I cannot say that people are not traveling here, but it seems that these measures are not enough. 621 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:27,480 So that is our question. 622 00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,480 Thank you. 623 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,480 It's very understandable. 624 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:40,480 You know, I was happy to hear the fact that we don't have enough specialists and doctors just like in the rest of Russia. 625 00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,480 That's a quote. 626 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:51,480 So there is a feeling that their region, the region of Zaporozhye, is part of Russia. 627 00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:58,480 I wanted to reference that and to highlight that question. 628 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,480 This issue is very understandable. 629 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:17,480 The idea to create a special federal program that would help buy apartments and flats at the federal level, I don't know whether it's necessary, but we do need to pay attention to that. 630 00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:22,480 We have a special mortgage program for that region at 2%. 631 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:30,480 It's way more than a concession, even better than for families with children. 632 00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:47,480 As I understand the issue, is that these benefits can be applied only to newly erected buildings, and it seems there are not quite a lot of those new buildings. 633 00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:58,480 So just like in the Far East, I think we need to expand it to secondary housing, and we need to work really fast and to start doing that work right away. 634 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,480 That's number one. 635 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:12,480 Number two, as for creating additional encouragement, well, if the doctor has said that the salary is competitive, then what else is needed? 636 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:16,480 Shumbrat, that means hello in Mordovian. 637 00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:20,480 Yes, I will respond to your question. 638 00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:25,480 So what needs to be done? 639 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:45,480 Possibly, just like in the Far East, maybe we need to get a higher relocation grant for regional doctors up to 2 million rubles and for paramedics up to 1 million rubles. 640 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,480 I think that will be a good stimulus. 641 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:55,480 We have already adopted the federal budget, but maybe we can do that in the nearest future. 642 00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:56,480 Thank you. 643 00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,480 We see that colleagues cannot wait for the end of your response. 644 00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,480 Well, you said that – yeah, I promised. 645 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,480 I think you're from Mordovia, right? 646 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:05,480 Yes. 647 00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,480 Please give the floor to the lady in red. 648 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:15,480 Mr. Putin, my name is Anastasia Murtaeva. 649 00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,480 I'm from Mordovia and represent our multinational republic. 650 00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:23,480 I would like to invite you to our pavilion at the exhibition called Russia. 651 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:27,480 Thank you, first and foremost, for this idea. 652 00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,480 What was the feedback? 653 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:38,480 We took stock and it seems that 97% of Russians are taking pride in their country after visiting the exhibition. 654 00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:41,480 Naturally, the regions have a lot to be proud of. 655 00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:58,480 Mordovia is doing innovative manufacturing, optic cable, pharmaceuticals, and naturally the calling card of Mordovia, black diamond of our region, is specially treated oak tree. 656 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:06,480 Well, it's a possibility to take a look at the beauty of our region. 657 00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:13,480 And, well, this is an opportunity to solve matters with the business community and to solve other matters as well. 658 00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:17,480 I'd like to invite you there and I would like to be present there as well. 659 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:23,480 In the run-up to New Year, every girl dreams of a miracle and even a big girl. 660 00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,480 So I'll be happy to be there. 661 00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,480 Yes, thank you very much for your invitation. 662 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,480 Indeed, Mordovia is a very beautiful republic. 663 00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:46,480 What I like is the way the people treat their traditions, their culture in all of its manifestations to the traditional dress, traditions in

Vladimir Putin answered questions from Tucker Carlson, a journalist and founder of Tucker Carlson Network. 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,480 Who blew up Nord Stream? 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,759 You did. 3 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:09,560 I was busy that day. 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:15,200 I did not blow up Nord Stream. 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,199 Thank you though. 6 00:00:17,199 --> 00:00:21,679 Well, personally you might have an alibi. 7 00:00:21,679 --> 00:00:25,679 But CIA doesn't have one. 8 00:00:25,679 --> 00:00:28,640 Do you have evidence that NATO or CIA did it? 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:35,079 You know, I'm not going to go into detail. 10 00:00:35,079 --> 00:00:41,079 But as they say, you've got to search for someone who had interest in that. 11 00:00:41,079 --> 00:00:47,079 And in this particular case, you have to search not just for someone who is interested in that, 12 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:53,079 but also someone who has the capabilities, because there are many people who are interested in that. 13 00:00:53,519 --> 00:01:00,519 But, you know, not everyone is capable of scouring the bottom of the Baltic Sea. 14 00:01:00,519 --> 00:01:04,519 But I'm confused. I mean, that's the biggest act of industrial terrorism ever. 15 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:08,519 And it's the largest emission of CO2 in history. 16 00:01:08,519 --> 00:01:13,519 So if you had evidence, and presumably given your security services, your intel services, you would, 17 00:01:13,519 --> 00:01:21,519 that NATO, the US, CIA, the West, did this, why wouldn't you present it and win a propaganda victory? 18 00:01:23,519 --> 00:01:29,519 Well, it's very difficult, you know, to achieve a propaganda victory, 19 00:01:29,519 --> 00:01:33,519 because the US controls all the global media. 20 00:01:33,519 --> 00:01:37,519 And as far as many Europeans, European media are concerned, 21 00:01:37,519 --> 00:01:43,519 the end beneficiary in many cases are American funds, foundations. 22 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:50,519 So, you know, getting mired in that, well, this is one avenue to pursue. 23 00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:53,959 But, you know, it can turn out to be very expensive. 24 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:59,959 And moreover, we might reveal our own sources of information without securing the end result. 25 00:01:59,959 --> 00:02:05,959 The whole world understands what happened, and even the American analysts speak about that publicly. 26 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:09,960 But here's a question you may be able to answer. You worked in Germany, famously. 27 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,960 The Germans clearly know that their NATO partner did this. 28 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:18,960 But they, and it damaged their economy greatly. It may never recover. 29 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,400 Why are they being silent about it? That's very confusing to me. 30 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,400 Why wouldn't the Germans say something about it? 31 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:33,400 Well, I am as confused as you are. 32 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:39,400 But the current German leadership is not guided by national interests. 33 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:44,400 What it's guided by is the interests of the collective West. 34 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:53,840 Otherwise, it would be very difficult to explain the rationale for their action or a mission to act. 35 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,840 Well, yes, Nord Stream 1 was blown up. 36 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,840 Nord Stream 2 has been damaged. 37 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,840 But one of the streams is still very much alive, and you can get gas through this line. 38 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,840 But they're not getting that. We are willing to do that, but they're not asking for that. 39 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:18,280 And they're trying to get gas through the route via Poland, and Poland has shut that down. 40 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,280 But Poland is eating from the hands of Germans. 41 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:30,280 They're taking money from the European funds, whereas the biggest donor to those funds is Germany. 42 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:36,280 But Poland has shut down the pipeline leading to Germany. 43 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,280 Why did they do that? I do not understand. 44 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:41,719 Let's have a look at Ukraine. 45 00:03:41,719 --> 00:03:47,719 Germany is the second biggest donor after the U.S. in terms of financial aid provided to Ukraine. 46 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:51,719 Through Ukraine, there are two gas pipelines. 47 00:03:51,719 --> 00:03:55,719 So why wouldn't they take one of the gas pipelines? 48 00:03:55,719 --> 00:04:02,719 They could ask Ukraine to open that up, and they would get gas from Russia. 49 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:06,719 So the Germans are giving them money, giving them weapons. 50 00:04:07,159 --> 00:04:14,159 So they could ask for gas from Russia in response, because otherwise they have to pay triple price for LNG. 51 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:20,160 And it brings down the competitiveness of the German economy. 52 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:32,160 And they've given money to Ukraine, and they could ask in recompense for some economic support like gas. 53 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,160 So you should ask them why they're doing what they're doing. 54 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:41,600 Maybe the world is breaking into two hemispheres, one with cheap energy, the other without. 55 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:42,600 And I want to ask you that. 56 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,600 If we're now a multipolar world, obviously we are. 57 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,600 Can you describe the blocks of alliances? 58 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,600 Who is in each side, do you think? 59 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,600 You are saying the world is being split into two hemispheres. 60 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,600 It's our brain that is divided into hemispheres. 61 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,040 One hemisphere is responsible for one field of action. 62 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:09,040 The other is more creative. 63 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,040 But still, it's one brain, it's one head. 64 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,040 And the world should be one, should be united. 65 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,040 Security should be together, should be common, shared. 66 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,040 It shouldn't be security just for the golden billion. 67 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:28,040 And only if it's one world, then the world is going to be predictable and stable. 68 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:36,480 And as long as the head is split into two, it's a disease and a grave one, too. 69 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:41,480 And right now the world is suffering from this grave disease. 70 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:50,480 But I think to a large extent, thanks to sincere and honest journalism, we will be able to overcome that disease. 71 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:56,480 Well, let's just give one example, the US dollar, which has kind of united the world in a lot of ways. 72 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,920 Maybe not to your advantage, but certainly to ours. 73 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,920 Is that going away as the reserve currency, the universally accepted currency? 74 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,920 How have sanctions, do you think, changed the dollar's place in the world? 75 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:22,920 Well, you know, I think this is one of the gravest strategic mistakes committed by the US leadership. 76 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:29,360 You know, using the US dollar as an instrument for foreign political confrontation, 77 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,360 because dollar was the cornerstone of American prosperity and power, 78 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:39,360 and everyone understands and understood that, because however many dollars you've printed, 79 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:47,360 they go around the world, inflation is at a minimum, I don't know, 3 percent or so, 4 percent, 80 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,360 which is an acceptable level for the US. 81 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,800 And you can print as many US dollars as you like, 82 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:05,800 you know, because the public debt of the US is testimony to that. 83 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:11,800 But be that as it may, dollar is still the cornerstone of American power across the world. 84 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:19,800 But once the US leadership decided to use the US dollar as an instrument for foreign policy confrontation, 85 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:25,240 once they did that, they dealt a blow to the American power. 86 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:39,240 I would be loath to, you know, use better words that are improper, but it is a very grave mistake. 87 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:47,240 Look, even the American allies decrease their dollar reserves, 88 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,680 they are starting to search for ways to shield themselves, 89 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:56,680 because if the US applies restrictive measures to certain countries, 90 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:02,680 such as, you know, freezing assets or restrictions on transactions, 91 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:07,680 then it is a very grave signal to the whole world. 92 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,120 What did happen in Russia? 93 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:20,120 Until 2022, around 80 percent of Russian foreign trade transactions were carried out in US dollars, 94 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:28,120 and US dollar accounted for about 50 percent of our transactions with third countries, 95 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:35,120 whereas currently this figure has been brought down to 13 percent or so. 96 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:40,560 But we were not the ones to prohibit the use of US dollars. 97 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:42,560 This was not our goal. 98 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:49,560 It was the US decision to restrict our transactions in dollars, which is absurd, 99 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:53,560 especially from the point of view of the interests of the US taxpayers, 100 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:58,560 because this decision has dealt a blow to the American economy, 101 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:01,560 undermining the American power across the world. 102 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Incidentally, our transactions in yuan accounted for just 3 percent. 103 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Right now, we have gone up to 30 percent in transactions in rubles 104 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 and 34 percent in yuan, in renminbi. 105 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,000 So why did the US do that? 106 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 I think it is self-conceit. 107 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,000 They thought that the Russian economy was going to collapse, 108 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,440 but it did not. 109 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,440 Moreover, look at the other oil-producing countries. 110 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,440 They are doing the same thing. 111 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,440 They are following our suit. 112 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,440 They start to pay for oil in renminbi. 113 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,440 Do they understand what they are doing in the US? 114 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,440 What are they doing? 115 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,440 You know, it is like oil is a commodity. 116 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,880 What are they doing? 117 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:03,880 It is like undermining their own prosperity. 118 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,880 Ask anyone who is a thinking person in the US. 119 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:09,880 I think that is a fair assessment. 120 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:11,880 The question is what comes next, 121 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:14,880 and maybe you trade one colonial power for another, 122 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,880 much less sentimental and forgiving colonial power. 123 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,320 Is the BRICS, for example, in danger of being completely 124 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,320 dominated by the Chinese economy 125 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,320 in a way that is not good for their sovereignty? 126 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,320 Do you worry about that? 127 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,320 You know these spooky stories? 128 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,320 We have heard them before, bogeyman stories. 129 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,320 China and us are neighbors. 130 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,320 You cannot choose neighbors or relatives. 131 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,760 We share a border with them, 1,000 kilometers. 132 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,760 This is number one. 133 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,760 Number two, we are used to one another. 134 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,760 We have been around for centuries. 135 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,760 In terms of our coexistence, third, 136 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,760 the foreign affairs philosophy of China is not aggressive. 137 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:10,760 Their main tenets are about searching for compromise, 138 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,760 for a trade-off, and we can see that. 139 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:21,200 The next point is as follows, and I try to lay it out mildly 140 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:26,200 in my language, where I said that the volume of cooperation 141 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,200 and trade with China keeps growing while the pace 142 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,200 of the growth of China's cooperation with Europe 143 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,200 is higher, outpacing the cooperation with Russia. 144 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,200 Just ask the Europeans, are they not afraid 145 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,200 of being exposed to China? 146 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,640 They might be, but you know, anyway, 147 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,640 they want to enter the Chinese market 148 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,640 when they face the economic issues now. 149 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,640 They're facing economic issues now, 150 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:54,640 and the Chinese enterprises and companies 151 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,640 are tapping into the European market. 152 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:02,640 And there are a lot of Chinese entrepreneurs 153 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,640 and businesses in the U.S. 154 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,080 Well, the policies are to the effect of confining. 155 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,080 They are damaging themselves, actually. 156 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,080 Trying to confine, limit cooperation with China, 157 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,080 you're damaging your economy. 158 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,080 This is a very intricate matter. 159 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,080 There can be no silver bullet solutions. 160 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:30,080 As also regards the dollar, well, 161 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,080 with respect to the legitimate from the perspective 162 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,080 of the UN Charter sanctions, one should have a second thought, 163 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,520 whether to make such decisions or not. 164 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,520 So you said a moment ago that the world 165 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,520 would be a lot better if it weren't broken 166 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:45,520 into competing alliances, if there was cooperation globally. 167 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,520 One of the reasons you don't have that 168 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,520 is because the current American administration 169 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,520 is dead set against you. 170 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,520 Do you think if there were a new administration 171 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,520 after Joe Biden that you would be able to reestablish 172 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,520 communication with the U.S. government? 173 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,520 Or does it not matter who the president is? 174 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,960 Let me finish the previous thought. 175 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,960 We have $200 billion. 176 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:19,960 This is the target of myself and that of my friends, 177 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,960 Xi Jinping, the President of China. 178 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,960 We want to reach $200 billion of mutual trade. 179 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:28,960 And we have smashed that. 180 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:29,960 We have exceeded that. 181 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,960 We have around $200 billion. 182 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,400 We have around $230 billion of bilateral trade. 183 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,400 And the Chinese statistics say that it's around $240 billion. 184 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:48,400 And what is important is that it is a well-balanced type 185 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,400 of mutual trade, mutually complementary in energy 186 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,400 and scientific solutions and technological solutions 187 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:57,400 and other things. 188 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,400 It's well balanced in an equilibrium. 189 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,400 With respect to BRICS, by and large, 190 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,840 Russia has assumed the presidency there 191 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,840 since the start of the year. 192 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,840 And, you know, BRICS countries' powerhouse economy 193 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:11,840 is rapidly developing. 194 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,840 I hope my memory wouldn't let me down. 195 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:21,840 In 1992, the G7 countries' proportion of the global 196 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:31,840 economy equalled around 47 percent. 197 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:38,280 In 1992, it slumped down to 30-something percent, 198 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:47,280 while the BRICS share was 16 percent in 1992. 199 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,960 And now it is in excess of the G7 share in global economy. 200 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,960 And that has nothing to do with Ukrainian developments. 201 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:01,360 The global trends manifest themselves in this way. 202 00:15:01,379 --> 00:15:02,440 This is inevitable. 203 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:03,720 This will keep happening. 204 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,320 It's like the rise of the sun. 205 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,879 You cannot prevent the sun from rising. 206 00:15:07,879 --> 00:15:09,879 You have to accommodate and adjust. 207 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:12,480 How does the United States accommodate that? 208 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:18,000 With help of force, sanctions, pressure, bombings. 209 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,519 Armed forces applied everywhere. 210 00:15:21,519 --> 00:15:24,639 This is about conceit. 211 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:28,840 Your political elite does not understand that the world 212 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:35,040 has been changing, and it is an objective process, 213 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:36,040 a natural process. 214 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,800 And you have to make proper decisions, 215 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:44,320 timely decisions to preserve its level of dominance. 216 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:51,320 And such gross actions would lead to the opposite results. 217 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,680 This is obvious today. 218 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,720 You've just asked me whether another administration 219 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,400 in the U.S. would change things. 220 00:15:58,439 --> 00:16:00,519 It's not about the leader. 221 00:16:00,519 --> 00:16:03,079 The personality of the administration had a very good 222 00:16:03,079 --> 00:16:06,360 relationship with George Bush. 223 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,399 I know that in the United States, 224 00:16:09,399 --> 00:16:14,639 he is treated as a simple countryside guy that has little 225 00:16:14,639 --> 00:16:17,279 idea of things, but it's not true. 226 00:16:17,279 --> 00:16:21,240 And with respect to Russia, he did a lot of mistakes. 227 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,879 Also, I told you about the Bucharest summit of NATO in 228 00:16:25,399 --> 00:16:27,320 2008 to open doors to Ukraine. 229 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,799 But, you know, it was under Bush, 230 00:16:29,799 --> 00:16:34,120 and he put pressure on the Europeans. 231 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,919 But actually, I had a good personal relationship with 232 00:16:37,919 --> 00:16:42,679 them, interpersonal, and it was no worse than any other 233 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:45,039 American or Russian or European politician. 234 00:16:45,039 --> 00:16:49,480 He knew what he was doing, as well as other people I had. 235 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,759 A good relationship with Donald Trump. 236 00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:54,440 It's not about the personality of the leaders, 237 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,400 it's about the sentiment of the elites. 238 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:03,480 If the American society has the prevalence of domination at all 239 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,480 costs with the help of resorting to force, 240 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,559 things will deteriorate, keep deteriorating. 241 00:17:10,559 --> 00:17:13,279 But if they come to a conclusion, 242 00:17:13,279 --> 00:17:16,200 they come to infer that the world is changing and that it's 243 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:21,480 a natural process that cannot be helped, 244 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,519 they have to adjust themselves using the advantage that the 245 00:17:24,519 --> 00:17:27,720 American nation still has. 246 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,079 In this case, something will change for the better. 247 00:17:30,079 --> 00:17:34,400 The Chinese economy has become number one by PPP. 248 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,319 They have outpaced the U.S. in volumes. 249 00:17:38,319 --> 00:17:42,920 And then there is India, 1.5 billion people living there. 250 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,599 Then comes Japan, fourth. 251 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:49,920 Russia is fifth global largest economy. 252 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,440 Last year it became the largest economy in Europe, 253 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,920 despite all the restrictions and sanctions. 254 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,680 I do think it is natural. 255 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,640 A lot of sanctions are exerted against us. 256 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,880 We have been disconnected from SWIFT transaction system, 257 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,920 and our ships are under sanctions, 258 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:12,560 our vessels, oil-carrying vessels and aircraft of ours. 259 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,759 The biggest number of sanctions in the world is applied against 260 00:18:16,759 --> 00:18:20,879 this country, and we have become the biggest economy of Europe 261 00:18:20,879 --> 00:18:22,079 over that period of time. 262 00:18:22,079 --> 00:18:25,279 The instruments and the policies of the United States 263 00:18:25,279 --> 00:18:26,759 are ineffective. 264 00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:30,400 So they should think what to do. 265 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,480 If they come to understand that, I mean, 266 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,400 the elites, the ruling classes, things will improve, 267 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:44,039 and the leader of the country will probably act in the 268 00:18:44,079 --> 00:18:48,480 interests of the voters and the decision-makers at different levels. 269 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,279 But you're describing two different systems. 270 00:18:50,279 --> 00:18:52,839 You say the leader acts in the interest of the voters, 271 00:18:52,839 --> 00:18:55,159 but you also say these decisions are not made by the leader, 272 00:18:55,159 --> 00:18:57,599 they're made by the ruling classes. 273 00:18:57,599 --> 00:18:59,559 You've run this country for so long, 274 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:01,159 you've known all these American presidents. 275 00:19:01,159 --> 00:19:06,079 What are those power centers in the United States, do you think? 276 00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:09,279 Like, who actually makes the decisions? 277 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:11,480 I don't know. 278 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,119 America is a very complex system. 279 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:15,680 On the one hand, it's conservative. 280 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,000 On the other hand, it has been changing rapidly, 281 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:27,759 and it is hard to have an idea, an exact idea of what is happening. 282 00:19:27,759 --> 00:19:29,839 And each state has its own legislation, 283 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:33,960 each state has its own regulation, 284 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,119 and they can bar people from, candidates from elections. 285 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:42,600 And they have the two-stage, two-tier electoral system. 286 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:50,160 It is very hard to know it quite well. 287 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:54,320 There are two main parties, dominating parties, 288 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,360 the bipartisan system, and there is the decision-making center. 289 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:04,640 But anyway, look, after the collapse of the USSR, 290 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:09,240 there was an erroneous, unfounded policy against Russia, 291 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,120 the policy of pressure. 292 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:17,000 NATO expansion means pressure and the backing of separatists 293 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,240 in the Caucasus, and the ABM, 294 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,320 the Missile Defense System establishment, 295 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,759 is also about pressure. 296 00:20:22,759 --> 00:20:27,960 Then Ukraine was dragged into NATO. 297 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,520 It is also an element of pressure. 298 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,920 Why? 299 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:37,720 Because excessive production capabilities were created. 300 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:42,120 Lots of think tanks and centers and Soviet studies professionals 301 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:44,400 that knew no other thing, 302 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,279 and they persuaded the political leadership 303 00:20:47,279 --> 00:20:50,080 that they should keep pressing Russia, 304 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,080 mounting pressure to partition Russia 305 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,759 with several quasi-states on its territory 306 00:20:58,759 --> 00:21:02,319 so that their aggregate potential and capability 307 00:21:02,319 --> 00:21:04,920 would be used for further struggle with China. 308 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:11,559 This is a mistake because there have been too many professionals 309 00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:15,960 dealing with the opposition to the USSR. 310 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,839 Probably there is need for new, fresh blood and forces 311 00:21:20,839 --> 00:21:22,759 and people that are forward-looking 312 00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:24,640 and know what is happening worldwide. 313 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,560 Look at Indonesia, 600 million people, 314 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:38,160 a huge population that you cannot turn a blind eye upon. 315 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,360 And Indonesia is now entering the club 316 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:42,400 of the leading economies. 317 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:47,280 And despite all economic problems, 318 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,720 the U.S. has a good economic situation, 319 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:54,680 and the growth rate is around 2.5%. 320 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,480 If I'm not mistaken. 321 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,559 But actually, if you want to provide for a good future, 322 00:22:01,559 --> 00:22:06,279 you have to change the approach to what has been happening. 323 00:22:06,279 --> 00:22:09,000 The world will anyway change, 324 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,440 irrespective of what is the outcome of the Ukrainian situation. 325 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,839 The world has been changing. 326 00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:19,480 And the pundits and experts in the U.S. 327 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:23,759 start writing that gradually the United States 328 00:22:23,759 --> 00:22:27,240 changes its policies to the world. 329 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,200 But whether it's abrupt, quick, and painful, 330 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,680 or smooth and gradual, this is the question. 331 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,400 And these are the ideas of people 332 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,079 that are not anti-American in nature, 333 00:22:43,079 --> 00:22:45,720 that just they are looking and tracking 334 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,559 the global developments. 335 00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:51,839 And I know we need to have more forward-looking people 336 00:22:51,839 --> 00:22:55,599 that can analyze things and recommend something 337 00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:57,240 to the political leadership. 338 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,639 I just have to ask, you've said clearly 339 00:22:59,639 --> 00:23:02,200 that NATO expansion eastward is a violation 340 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,679 of the promise you all were made in 1990. 341 00:23:04,679 --> 00:23:06,799 It's a threat to your country. 342 00:23:06,799 --> 00:23:10,399 Right before you sent troops into Ukraine, 343 00:23:10,399 --> 00:23:11,599 the Vice President of the United States 344 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:12,919 went to the Munich Security Conference 345 00:23:12,919 --> 00:23:16,159 and encouraged the President of Ukraine to join NATO. 346 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,600 Do you think that was an effort 347 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,040 to provoke you into military action? 348 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:35,400 Well, we repeatedly, on many occasions, 349 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,920 suggested that decisions to the problems 350 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,880 that emerged in Ukraine after the coup in 2014 351 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,560 should be found with peaceful means. 352 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,320 But no one listened to us. 353 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,400 But the Ukrainian leadership that was under the American 354 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,520 control stated all of a sudden that they would not honor 355 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,920 the Minsk arrangements. 356 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,520 They didn't like a thing about that, 357 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,480 and they kept waging warfare in that territory. 358 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,440 And the NATO military structures 359 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,920 tapped into the Ukrainian soil 360 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,000 with training centers and military bases 361 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,800 established under these guides. 362 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,200 And in Ukraine, they proclaimed that the Russians 363 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,800 are not an original nation, 364 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,440 not an authentic nation, and they enacted laws 365 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,759 that would limit the rights of the ethnic 366 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:36,560 Russian and Russian speakers. 367 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,480 Ukraine received the southeast as a gift from Russia, 368 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,320 but all of a sudden they stated that Russians 369 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,039 were not an authentic ethnicity there. 370 00:24:47,039 --> 00:24:52,039 In their totality, all these things brought about 371 00:24:53,599 --> 00:24:57,599 the desire to stop the war launched by the neo-Nazis 372 00:24:57,599 --> 00:25:01,759 in 2014 in Ukraine with the use of force. 373 00:25:01,759 --> 00:25:03,519 Do you think Zelensky has the freedom 374 00:25:03,519 --> 00:25:06,319 to negotiate a settlement to this conflict? 375 00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:15,720 I do not know the details. 376 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,039 I can hardly judge, but I probably think he has. 377 00:25:20,039 --> 00:25:25,000 Well, his father was at war against the Nazis 378 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:25,839 in the Second World War. 379 00:25:25,839 --> 00:25:28,639 I spoke with him once about that. 380 00:25:28,639 --> 00:25:30,639 I told him, Vladimir, why are you supporting 381 00:25:30,639 --> 00:25:33,839 the neo-Nazi in Ukraine today when your father 382 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,079 fought them, he was the front line soldier. 383 00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:40,519 I would not respond what he, 384 00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:41,879 I wouldn't say what he responded. 385 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,320 It would be inappropriate. 386 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,520 But with respect to liberty and freedom, 387 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,720 well, of his, he rose to power. 388 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:56,880 Well, with the help of the Ukrainian expectations 389 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,560 that he would bring peace to Ukraine. 390 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,240 This is why he had a landslide victory. 391 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,480 But when he rose to power, he figured that probably 392 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,880 it would be better not to quarrel with the neo-Nazis 393 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,320 and nationalists because they are aggressive 394 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,399 and you can expect anything, they are loose cannon. 395 00:26:13,399 --> 00:26:18,399 And the second point is that the West will keep supporting 396 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,000 those who are against Russia always, 397 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,039 because it's beneficial. 398 00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:24,439 So this is why he adopted this position, 399 00:26:24,439 --> 00:26:29,439 despite the previous promises and pledges to his people 400 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:30,960 to stop the war in Ukraine. 401 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,879 So he deceived his own voters. 402 00:26:33,879 --> 00:26:37,039 But do you think at this point, as of February, 2024, 403 00:26:37,039 --> 00:26:40,559 he has the latitude, the freedom to speak with you 404 00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:42,359 or your government directly about putting an end to this, 405 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,839 which clearly isn't helping his country or the world? 406 00:26:45,839 --> 00:26:47,440 Can he do that, do you think? 407 00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:52,440 Why not? 408 00:26:53,679 --> 00:26:55,960 Well, he believes himself to be head of state. 409 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,000 He won the election, although we believe that all those 410 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:05,000 things that happened after 2014 originated from the coup d'etat 411 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,000 and today's authorities are flawed, deficient. 412 00:27:12,599 --> 00:27:16,000 And he believes himself to be president 413 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,720 and the United States and Europe recognize him 414 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,079 and acknowledge his status. 415 00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:23,400 Well, we had talks with Ukraine in Istanbul 416 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,759 and we nearly came to terms and he knew about that. 417 00:27:26,759 --> 00:27:30,240 And Mr. Rahami, who led the negotiating team of Ukraine, 418 00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:35,079 still is head of Ukraine's ruling party faction 419 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,920 in their parliament. 420 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:43,480 So he still is head of that presidential faction. 421 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,960 So he's still an MP and he subscribed 422 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,960 to the preliminary instrument in Istanbul. 423 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,359 And publicly later, he said that we were ready to sign it. 424 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,319 But Mr. Johnson, the then Prime Minister of the UK, 425 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,480 came and dissuaded us to do so, 426 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,960 saying that better go to war with Russia 427 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,639 and they would give us anything and everything 428 00:28:07,639 --> 00:28:12,639 so that we would return all the lands were lost, he said. 429 00:28:13,279 --> 00:28:16,559 And they agreed, he said. 430 00:28:16,559 --> 00:28:18,319 His statement was made publicly, 431 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:20,599 said it publicly and openly. 432 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:22,439 Can they come back to that or not? 433 00:28:23,399 --> 00:28:25,359 Do they want it or not? 434 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:28,040 And afterwards, the Ukrainian President 435 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,920 issued a decree prohibiting to negotiate with us. 436 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,920 Let him strike it down. 437 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,280 Let him repeal that decree. 438 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,840 Whether Russia is ready, we hear these questions, 439 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,080 but would not decline to talk. 440 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,280 Let him abandon and repeal this decree. 441 00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:55,279 And the fact that they obeyed the persuasion 442 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,559 of the former UK Prime Minister Johnson 443 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:04,559 is ridiculous and very sad, I think, altogether. 444 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,680 As Mr. Arhami said a year and a half ago, 445 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,960 we could stop the warfare, 446 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,960 but actually the British persuaded us not to do so 447 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,799 and we turned it down. 448 00:29:18,839 --> 00:29:21,720 Where is Mr. Johnson now and the war is ongoing? 449 00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:24,399 That's a good question. 450 00:29:24,399 --> 00:29:26,759 Where do you think he is and why did he do that? 451 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,039 Hell knows. 452 00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:34,759 This was a mainstream idea. 453 00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:37,000 Everybody was delusional that Russia 454 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 could be defeated at the battlefield. 455 00:29:39,879 --> 00:29:43,480 This was about self-assurance, conceit, 456 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,480 and very few reason, very little reason 457 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:54,440 this was with a whole heart, but with little reasoning. 458 00:29:55,319 --> 00:29:57,599 You've described the connection between Russia and Ukraine. 459 00:29:57,599 --> 00:29:59,440 You've described Russia itself a couple of times 460 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,279 as orthodox, that's central to your understanding of Russia. 461 00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:03,720 You've said you're orthodox. 462 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,839 What does that mean for you? 463 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:11,559 You're a Christian leader by your own description. 464 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:13,399 So what effect does that have on you? 465 00:30:18,919 --> 00:30:23,919 Well, you know, as I mentioned previously, 466 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:30,480 in 988, Prince Vladimir underwent baptism 467 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,440 as his grandmother Olga had done, 468 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:42,039 and then his armed troops also got converted, 469 00:30:42,039 --> 00:30:45,279 and then other Russians converted 470 00:30:45,279 --> 00:30:49,480 into orthodox Christianity. 471 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,480 It took some time, and then it put some roots, 472 00:30:54,759 --> 00:30:58,079 very deep roots in the minds of Russian people. 473 00:30:58,079 --> 00:31:03,079 When Russia expanded, taking other nations and peoples, 474 00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:06,639 professing Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, 475 00:31:06,639 --> 00:31:11,639 Russia was always very loyal to those 476 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,359 who followed other religions, 477 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,640 and this was the source of Russia's power. 478 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,040 There's no doubt about that. 479 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,280 All world religions I have mentioned 480 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,160 and which are also traditional religions 481 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,160 of the Russian Federation have almost the same precepts. 482 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,040 The values in these world religions 483 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,640 are very close, if not identical. 484 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:42,640 And the Russian authorities have always cherished 485 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,759 the culture and the religions of peoples 486 00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:52,200 admitted into the fold of the Russian state, 487 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,880 which served as the cornerstone of security 488 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,320 and stability of the Russian nation, 489 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,840 of the Russian people, because all peoples, 490 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,120 almost all peoples living here view Russia 491 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,880 as their motherland. 492 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,000 Say, if there are people coming to the U.S. 493 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,520 from Latin America, or there are migrants 494 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,440 coming to Europe, very often they come 495 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,520 from their historical land to you, 496 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:23,520 to European countries, whereas those 497 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,640 who profess other religions than orthodox Christianity 498 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,920 in Russia still view Russia as their motherland. 499 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,080 We are all one big family, and our traditional values 500 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:35,519 are very close. 501 00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:39,319 I said this is one big family, but each family 502 00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:41,919 also includes other smaller families, 503 00:32:41,919 --> 00:32:44,960 and this is the basic foundation of our society. 504 00:32:45,879 --> 00:32:50,319 And if the family has tight-knit connections, 505 00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:53,399 then that is exactly the case, because you cannot 506 00:32:53,399 --> 00:32:56,159 assure a normal future for your children 507 00:32:56,159 --> 00:33:01,159 unless you ensure a normal future for the whole country. 508 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,920 But can I say that the one way in which 509 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,400 the religions are different is that Christianity 510 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,680 is specifically a nonviolent religion. 511 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,240 Jesus says, turn the other cheek, don't kill. 512 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:17,080 How can a leader who has to kill, of any country, 513 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,080 how can a leader be a Christian? 514 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,720 How do you reconcile that to yourself? 515 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,120 Well, it's easier to reconcile if you need 516 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,400 to protect yourself, your family, your country. 517 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,280 We have not attacked anyone. 518 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,360 What was the starting point of the developments in Ukraine? 519 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,680 The starting point was the coup d'etat, 520 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,680 as well as the flare-up of violence in Donbass. 521 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,040 And we are protecting ourselves, our people, 522 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,680 our country, and our future. 523 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,360 As far as religion in general is concerned, 524 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,000 the thing is it does not manifest mostly externally. 525 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,200 It's not just about going to church every day 526 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,960 and kneeling to the ground. 527 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,120 Religion resides within your heart. 528 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,320 This is our culture. 529 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:15,960 It's very human-oriented. 530 00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:21,360 You know, Dostoyevsky is very well-known in the West 531 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,720 as a genius of the Russian culture 532 00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:26,640 and the Russian literature. 533 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:28,279 And he spoke about that a lot. 534 00:34:28,279 --> 00:34:30,359 He spoke about the Russian soul. 535 00:34:30,359 --> 00:34:33,039 The thing is, Western society is more pragmatic, 536 00:34:33,039 --> 00:34:37,480 whereas a Russian person, a Russian is more concerned 537 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,879 about eternal things, moral things, values. 538 00:34:42,599 --> 00:34:44,839 Maybe you'll disagree with me, 539 00:34:44,839 --> 00:34:48,159 but I think Western culture is more pragmatic. 540 00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:51,759 I'm not saying this is a bad thing. 541 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:57,080 This is what gives the golden billion the chance 542 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,920 to show some very good achievements 543 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,960 in practical terms, in science. 544 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:06,920 The thing is, we look the same, 545 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,160 but our conscience, our mindset are somewhat different. 546 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,200 So do you see the supernatural at work 547 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,080 as you look out across what's happening in the world now? 548 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,080 Do you see God? 549 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,080 Do you see God? 550 00:35:19,319 --> 00:35:21,360 Look out across what's happening in the world now. 551 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,480 Do you see God at work? 552 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:23,799 Do you ever think to yourself, 553 00:35:23,799 --> 00:35:26,319 these are forces that are not human? 554 00:35:32,279 --> 00:35:34,679 No, honestly, I don't think that. 555 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,920 I think the world community is developing 556 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,079 following the inherent laws, 557 00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:43,960 and these laws are what they are, 558 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,799 and there's no escaping that. 559 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:51,400 It was always like that in mankind's history. 560 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:56,400 Some countries rose, some peoples got bigger, got stronger, 561 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:01,320 and then they left the international stage, 562 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,080 losing the quality they had been accustomed to. 563 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,120 Well, let's look at Genghis Khan 564 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,600 or the Golden Horde and the Conquerors, 565 00:36:13,799 --> 00:36:16,400 or let's remember the Roman Empire. 566 00:36:19,519 --> 00:36:22,519 You might think that there was nothing greater 567 00:36:22,519 --> 00:36:27,319 than Roman history and the history of mankind, 568 00:36:27,319 --> 00:36:29,759 but then the barbarians got stronger, 569 00:36:29,759 --> 00:36:31,920 got more numerous, and Rome fell. 570 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,239 They had a head start. 571 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,239 Their economy started to grow stronger, 572 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:45,240 and the regime opposed by the Roman Empire fell apart, 573 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,720 but it took five centuries. 574 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:53,720 The Roman Empire had been disintegrating for five centuries. 575 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,840 The difference from the current state of affairs 576 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,120 consists in the fact that right now, 577 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,320 the developments are far more rapid 578 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,880 than they used to be during the Roman times. 579 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,080 So when does the AI empire start, do you think? 580 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,200 You're asking increasingly more complicated questions. 581 00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:30,520 In order to respond to this question, 582 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:35,080 you would need to be an expert in big numbers, 583 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,240 in big data, in AI. 584 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:41,000 The thing is, humanity is facing a lot of threats 585 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,040 in terms of genetics, for instance, 586 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,880 because right now, geneticists can't go as far as to 587 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:52,080 create a specialized human being like an athlete 588 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,000 or a genetically engineered military man. 589 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:55,840 What do you think of that? 590 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,600 And a chip has been incorporated 591 00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,040 into the brain by Elon Musk. 592 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,360 Well, I think there's no stopping Elon Musk. 593 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,800 He's gonna do what he thinks he needs to do, 594 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:08,480 but you need, I don't know, 595 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,800 to find some common ground with him. 596 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,519 You have to search for ways to persuade him. 597 00:38:13,519 --> 00:38:15,039 I think he's a smart person, 598 00:38:15,039 --> 00:38:18,600 and you've got to come to an agreement, 599 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:19,960 come to terms with him. 600 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,320 This process needs to be formalized 601 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,160 and subjected to certain rules. 602 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,160 Humanity has to give some thought 603 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,240 to what's gonna happen to humanity 604 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:35,240 due to the new developments in genetics or in AI. 605 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:38,760 You can't forecast what's gonna happen 606 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:41,800 in a more or less accurate fashion, 607 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,680 but once humanity felt an existential threat 608 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,920 coming from nuclear weapons, 609 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,640 back then all countries who possessed such weapons 610 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,360 decided to come to terms with one another 611 00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,680 because they understood that nuclear weaponry 612 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,520 could drive humanity to extinction. 613 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,640 So once an understanding comes 614 00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:08,799 that unbridled development of AI or genetics 615 00:39:08,799 --> 00:39:11,879 or other fields which cannot be stemmed, 616 00:39:11,879 --> 00:39:13,920 you know, you can't stop them, 617 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,960 research is gonna continue as it was impossible 618 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,480 to prevent powder from being used. 619 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,039 And once humanity understands 620 00:39:26,039 --> 00:39:28,400 that the threat comes from these fields, 621 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:33,400 then the time will come to come to an agreement 622 00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:36,360 on an interstate basis, intergovernmental basis 623 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,880 on how to regulate these fields. 624 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,599 I appreciate all the time you've given us. 625 00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:43,079 I just gonna ask you one last question 626 00:39:43,079 --> 00:39:45,280 and that's about someone who's very famous 627 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,920 in the United States, probably not here, 628 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,599 Evan Gershkovitz, who's the Wall Street Journal reporter. 629 00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:55,280 He's 32 and he's been in prison for almost a year. 630 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,840 This is a huge story in the United States 631 00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,000 and I just wanna ask you directly 632 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,519 without getting into the details of it 633 00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:01,960 or your version of what happened, 634 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,599 if as a sign of your decency, 635 00:40:04,599 --> 00:40:07,440 you would be willing to release him to us 636 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,720 and we'll bring him back to the United States? 637 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,119 Well, we've done so many gestures of goodwill 638 00:40:22,119 --> 00:40:24,599 out of decency that I think we've run out of them. 639 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,719 We've never seen anyone reciprocate to us 640 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,519 in a similar manner. 641 00:40:29,519 --> 00:40:34,519 But on the whole, we are willing to talk. 642 00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:39,519 We do not rule out that we can't do that 643 00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:48,639 if there is movement to accommodate us on the other side. 644 00:40:49,839 --> 00:40:52,039 And when I talk about the Russian side, 645 00:40:52,079 --> 00:40:54,159 I'm talking about our special services 646 00:40:54,159 --> 00:40:56,440 and the special services are in contact with one another. 647 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,000 They're talking about this subject. 648 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,440 There is no taboo on discussing this issue. 649 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,759 It can be solved and we're willing to solve it. 650 00:41:04,759 --> 00:41:09,759 But there are certain terms that need to be met there 651 00:41:11,759 --> 00:41:15,119 by discussed via special services channels. 652 00:41:15,119 --> 00:41:16,719 I think an agreement can be reached. 653 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,440 So, I mean, this stuff has happened for a long time. 654 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,679 So, typically, I mean, this stuff has happened 655 00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:23,720 for obviously centuries. 656 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,200 One country catches another spy within its borders. 657 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,679 It trades it for one of its own intel guys 658 00:41:28,679 --> 00:41:29,880 in another country. 659 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,679 I think what makes, and it's not my business, 660 00:41:32,679 --> 00:41:34,079 but what makes this difference is the guy's 661 00:41:34,079 --> 00:41:36,039 obviously not a spy, he's a kid. 662 00:41:36,039 --> 00:41:38,119 And maybe he was breaking your law in some way, 663 00:41:38,119 --> 00:41:40,240 but he's not a super spy and everybody knows that. 664 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:43,039 And he's being held hostage in exchange, which is true. 665 00:41:43,039 --> 00:41:45,280 With respect, it's true and everyone knows it's true. 666 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,320 So, maybe he's in a different category. 667 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,000 Maybe it's not fair to ask for somebody else 668 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,120 in exchange for letting him out. 669 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,080 Maybe it degrades Russia to do that. 670 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:05,280 Well, you can give different interpretations 671 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,400 to what constitutes a spy, 672 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,800 but there are some things under law. 673 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,920 If a person gets some secret information, 674 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,480 does that confidentially, then that is qualified as espionage 675 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,760 and that is precisely what he was doing. 676 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,280 He was receiving some confidential information. 677 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,159 He's getting that information in secret. 678 00:42:26,159 --> 00:42:28,760 Maybe he'd been implicated in that. 679 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,320 Maybe he did that out of his own volition 680 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,559 or due to carelessness. 681 00:42:32,559 --> 00:42:37,880 But as facts stand, this is qualified under law as espionage. 682 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,880 And he was caught red-handed 683 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,679 when he was receiving that information. 684 00:42:42,679 --> 00:42:43,880 And it's been proven. 685 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,920 So, if it had been some far-fetched excuse, 686 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,360 some fabrication, then it would have been a different story. 687 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,480 But he was caught red-handed 688 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:59,200 when he was getting in secret some confidential information. 689 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:00,720 But are you suggesting he was working 690 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:02,480 for the US government or NATO, 691 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,640 or he was just a reporter who was given material 692 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:06,599 he wasn't supposed to have? 693 00:43:06,599 --> 00:43:09,920 Those seem like very different things. 694 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:18,920 I don't know who he was working for, 695 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,280 but I would like to reiterate that. 696 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,680 Getting confidential information in secret 697 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,960 is called espionage. 698 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,519 Maybe he might have worked under the banner 699 00:43:28,519 --> 00:43:29,720 of the American Special Services. 700 00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:33,200 I don't think he was working for Monaco. 701 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:37,160 Even though Monaco might be interested 702 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:38,440 in getting that information. 703 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,800 But it's up to the Special Services 704 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,440 to come to an agreement. 705 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:47,400 And some groundwork has been laid. 706 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,159 There are people who, in our view, 707 00:43:50,159 --> 00:43:53,639 are not tied to Special Services. 708 00:43:53,639 --> 00:43:58,679 You know, there is a person serving a sentence 709 00:43:58,679 --> 00:44:00,200 in an ally country. 710 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,400 Well, in a country that is an ally of the US. 711 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:07,400 And that person, due to patriotic sentiment, 712 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:12,039 eliminated some bandits in one of the European capitals. 713 00:44:12,079 --> 00:44:13,880 During the development of the caucuses, 714 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,440 do you know what he was doing? 715 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,639 I don't want to say that, but I'll do that anyway. 716 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:27,559 He was laying our soldiers, taking prisoners on the road, 717 00:44:27,559 --> 00:44:32,559 and then he drove his car over their heads. 718 00:44:32,559 --> 00:44:33,840 What kind of a person is that? 719 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,039 Do you think that's a human being? 720 00:44:36,039 --> 00:44:40,320 And, you know, a patriot decided to eliminate that beast 721 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:41,800 and one of the European countries, 722 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,320 he did that out of his own volition or not? 723 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,440 Well, that is a different question. 724 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,480 Yeah, but Evan Kirschkewitz did that. 725 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,400 I mean, that's a completely different... 726 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,320 I mean, that's a 32-year-old, like, newspaper reporter. 727 00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:01,320 He is not just a journalist. 728 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,920 He is a journalist who was getting 729 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,960 confidential information in secret. 730 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:08,360 Yes, that's different. 731 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:13,840 But still, I'm telling you about other people 732 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:18,400 who are basically controlled by the U.S. authorities, 733 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,079 whatever they are serving a prison sentence. 734 00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:25,960 And there is an ongoing dialogue among the special services, 735 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,680 and this has to be done in a calm, 736 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,400 responsible, professional manner. 737 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,640 The contacts are ongoing, so let them do their work. 738 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:37,760 I do not rule out that the person you've referred to 739 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,320 can go back to his country, Mr. Gachkovich. 740 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:48,440 Moreover, it would be senseless to keep him in prison in Russia. 741 00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:53,440 But we want our counterparts. 742 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,120 The special services in the U.S. 743 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,880 should also think about helping our special services 744 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,320 in achieving their goals. 745 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,280 So we are willing to talk. 746 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,160 Moreover, these talks are continuing. 747 00:46:07,159 --> 00:46:10,480 And there were many successful examples of these talks 748 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,119 crowned with success, and maybe this is going to be crowned 749 00:46:13,119 --> 00:46:14,119 with success as well. 750 00:46:14,119 --> 00:46:16,719 But we have to come to an agreement. 751 00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,079 I hope you let him out. 752 00:46:18,079 --> 00:46:20,079 Mr. President, thank you. 753 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,559 Well, I would also want him to go home. 754 00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:30,559 And I'm absolutely sincere with you. 755 00:46:30,559 --> 00:46:34,920 But let me say once again, the dialogue continues. 756 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,200 The more public we render things of this nature, 757 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,200 the more difficult it becomes to resolve them. 758 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,400 I wonder if that's true with the war, though, also. 759 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,639 I mean, I just want to, I guess I want to ask one more question, 760 00:46:47,639 --> 00:46:50,639 which is, and maybe you don't want to say so 761 00:46:50,639 --> 00:46:54,360 for strategic reasons, but are you worried 762 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,760 that what's happening in Ukraine could lead to something 763 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,440 much larger and much more horrible? 764 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,920 And how motivated are you just to call the U.S. government 765 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,920 and say, let's come to terms? 766 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:10,720 Well, listen, I think I've said that. 767 00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:15,559 We do not refuse to talk, to negotiate. 768 00:47:15,559 --> 00:47:16,800 We're willing to do that. 769 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:22,480 It's the Western side, you know, and Ukraine is a satellite 770 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:23,960 country for the U.S. 771 00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:25,760 It's evident. 772 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:30,720 You know, I don't want you to take that as a swear word. 773 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,840 We understand that that is what is happening. 774 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,400 You know, the financial support is there. 775 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:37,840 It's enormous. 776 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,160 Germany is following suit. 777 00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,200 Dozens of billions of U.S. dollars are fueled into Ukraine. 778 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:49,840 There is a huge influx of arms, of weapons. 779 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:54,640 So, really, you should tell the current Ukrainian leadership, 780 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,640 well, let's stop, let's sit at the negotiating table. 781 00:47:58,639 --> 00:48:01,239 We've received this absurd decree. 782 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:02,359 Sure, but you already said it. 783 00:48:02,359 --> 00:48:03,679 I didn't think you meant it as an insult 784 00:48:03,679 --> 00:48:05,199 because you already said correctly. 785 00:48:05,199 --> 00:48:08,199 It's been reported that Ukraine was prevented 786 00:48:08,199 --> 00:48:10,159 from negoti

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00:00 Intro 00:06 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: Foreign Ministry statement on the situation concerning the Armenian-Azerbaijani normalisation process, April 24, 2023 02:36 Outro Welcome to "Latest Kremlin updates from Russia Moscow" – your go-to source for official English-language news and updates straight from the President of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Russian Government. In this video, we present the latest statement from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the ongoing Armenian-Azerbaijani normalisation process. Stay informed on the latest developments and Russia's stance on this crucial issue. Subscribe to our channel for more updates on international relations, domestic affairs, the economy, and more – all directly sourced from official Kremlin channels and Moscow-based government institutions. Don't miss any crucial updates – join our community and stay informed with "Latest Kremlin updates from Russia Moscow." If you appreciate our ad-free, non-commercial content and wish to support the channel, please find the donation details below 👇👇 DONATE USDT (TRC20): TV7R39sp5pbY1zBEP5TpA78pZUg5fysh54 Popular Hashtags: #KremlinUpdates #RussiaMoscow #ArmenianAzerbaijaniNormalisation #RussianMFA #ForeignAffairs

Welcome to "Latest Kremlin updates from Russia Moscow" – your go-to source for official English-language news and updates straight from the President of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Russian Government. In this video, we present the latest statement from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the ongoing Armenian-Azerbaijani normalisation process. Stay informed on the latest developments and Russia's stance on this crucial issue. Subscribe to our channel for more updates on international relations, domestic affairs, the economy, and more – all directly sourced from official Kremlin channels and Moscow-based government institutions. Don't miss any crucial updates – join our community and stay informed with "Latest Kremlin updates from Russia Moscow." If you appreciate our ad-free, non-commercial content and wish to support the channel, please find the donation details below 👇👇 DONATE USDT (TRC20): TV7R39sp5pbY1zBEP5TpA78pZUg5fysh54 Popular Hashtags: #KremlinUpdates #RussiaMoscow #ArmenianAzerbaijaniNormalisation #RussianMFA #ForeignAffairs

00:00 Intro 00:06 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the UN Security Council's open debates "Effective multilateralism through the Defence of the Principles of the UN Charter", New York, April 24, 2023 10:30 Outro In this video, we present the full speech of Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN Security Council's open debates held in New York on April 24, 2023. The main theme of the event is "Effective multilateralism through the Defence of the Principles of the UN Charter." Listen to Lavrov's insights on the importance of defending the UN Charter principles and how it contributes to effective multilateralism. Stay informed on the latest Kremlin updates from Russia Moscow by subscribing to our channel. Don't forget to like, share, and comment to keep the conversation going! If you appreciate our ad-free, non-commercial content and wish to support the channel, please find the donation details below 👇👇 DONATE USDT (TRC20): TV7R39sp5pbY1zBEP5TpA78pZUg5fysh54 Popular Hashtags: #SergeyLavrov #UNSecurityCouncil #Multilateralism #UNCharter #RussiaMoscow #KremlinUpdates #ForeignAffairs

In this video, we present the full speech of Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN Security Council's open debates held in New York on April 24, 2023. The main theme of the event is "Effective multilateralism through the Defence of the Principles of the UN Charter." Listen to Lavrov's insights on the importance of defending the UN Charter principles and how it contributes to effective multilateralism. Stay informed on the latest Kremlin updates from Russia Moscow by subscribing to our channel. Don't forget to like, share, and comment to keep the conversation going! If you appreciate our ad-free, non-commercial content and wish to support the channel, please find the donation details below 👇👇 DONATE USDT (TRC20): TV7R39sp5pbY1zBEP5TpA78pZUg5fysh54 Popular Hashtags: #SergeyLavrov #UNSecurityCouncil #Multilateralism #UNCharter #RussiaMoscow #KremlinUpdates #ForeignAffairs

Welcome back to "Latest Kremlin updates from Russia Moscow"! In today's video, we cover the important meeting between Russian Government official Alexei Overchuk and Mongolia's Deputy Prime Minister Chimed Khurelbaatar. Stay tuned for crucial insights into Russia-Mongolia relations and other essential updates. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe! Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:06 The Russian Government: Alexei Overchuk meets with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Development of Mongolia Chimed Khurelbaatar, April 24, 2023 01:54 Outro Join our community for the latest news on the President of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Russian Government. Get unbiased, timely, and reliable information on the latest announcements, policy changes, and events in Russia. If you appreciate our ad-free, non-commercial content and wish to support the channel, please find the donation details below 👇👇 DONATE USDT (TRC20): TV7R39sp5pbY1zBEP5TpA78pZUg5fysh54 Popular Hashtags: #Russia #Kremlin #RussianGovernment #Mongolia #ForeignAffairs #Moscow #InternationalRelations #AlexeiOverchuk #ChimedKhurelbaatar

Welcome back to "Latest Kremlin updates from Russia Moscow"! In today's video, we cover the important meeting between Russian Government official Alexei Overchuk and Mongolia's Deputy Prime Minister Chimed Khurelbaatar. Stay tuned for crucial insights into Russia-Mongolia relations and other essential updates. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe! Join our community for the latest news on the President of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Russian Government. Get unbiased, timely, and reliable information on the latest announcements, policy changes, and events in Russia. If you appreciate our ad-free, non-commercial content and wish to support the channel, please find the donation details below 👇👇 DONATE USDT (TRC20): TV7R39sp5pbY1zBEP5TpA78pZUg5fysh54 Popular Hashtags: #Russia #Kremlin #RussianGovernment #Mongolia #ForeignAffairs #Moscow #InternationalRelations #AlexeiOverchuk #ChimedKhurelbaatar