Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (10 June 2024)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

The Sever Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of the AFU 57th Motorised Infantry, 42nd Mechanised, 3rd Tank Brigades, 113rd, 125th territorial defence brigades close to Volchansk, Veseloye, Goptovka, Radyanskoye, and Tikhoye (Kharkov region).

The Russian troops repelled seven counter-attacks launched by assault groups of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade, 36th Marine Brigade, and 416th Rifle Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 255 Ukrainian troops, nine motor vehicles, 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, two 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and two counter-battery stations.

The Zapad Group of Forces’ units improved the situation along the front line and inflicted fire damage on the 77th Airmobile, 14th, 43rd, 54th, 63rd, 116th mechanised brigades, 12th special brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and 18th National Guard Brigade near Serebryanka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Berestovoye, Sinkovka, and Timkovka (Kharkov region).

The enemy lost up to 570 Ukrainian troops and four motor vehicles.

In counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops neutralised one U.S.-made 155-mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, two 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one UK-made 105-mm L-119 howitzer were destroyed.

The Yug Group’s units improved the tactical situation and delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of the 46th Airmobile, 78th Air Assault, 24th, 28th, 41st, 54th mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Dyleyevka, Verkhnekamenka, Katerinovka, Kurakhovo, Dzerzhynsk, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The enemy lost up to 430 Ukrainian troops and seven motor vehicles.

In counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops hit one German-made 155-mm Panzerhaubitzer self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, three 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

In addition, one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station and two AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.

The Tsentr Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines and inflicted fire damage on the 71st Infantry Brigade, 115th Mechanised, 25th Airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 109th Territorial Defence Brigades near Novgorodskoye, Kalinovo, Karlovka, and Rozovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

Five counter-attacks launched by assault groups of the AFU 59th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 24th, 47th, and 110th mechanised brigades were repelled.

The enemy lost up to 345 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and two pick-up trucks.

In addition, three U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzers, three 152-mm Msta-B howitzers, three 152-mm D-20 howitzers, two 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, and four 122-mm D-30 howitzers were eliminated.

The Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance into the depth of the enemy’s defence and liberated Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 72nd Mechanised Brigade, 123rd and 128th territorial defence brigades near Velikaya Novosyolka, Vodyanoye, Neskuchnoye, Urozhaynoye, and Ugledar (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 140 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one UK-made FH-70 howitzer, one 152-mm D-20 howitzer, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

The Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 35th Marine Brigade, and the 121st Territorial Defence Brigades near Mirnoye, Nesteryanka (Zaporozhye region), Osokorovka, and Tyaginka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 60 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks, one 152-mm Giatsint-B gun, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have hit the command post of the AFU tactical aviation brigade, the field artillery depot, as well as temporary deployment areas of foreign mercenaries, clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 147 areas.

Air defence units shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Forces.

During the day, the Russian Armed Forces intercepted one Neptune anti-ship missile, two U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missiles, four aerial bombs (French-made HAMMER and U.S.-made JDAM), seven U.S.-made HIMARS and Uragan projectiles, as well as 51 unmanned aerial vehicles.

In total, 611 airplanes and 276 helicopters, 25,514 unmanned aerial vehicles, 528 air defence missile systems, 16,308 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,331 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 10,302 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 22,413 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

It is in our face…

I realized that my government hated me and you also, when they act like it is a big deal to increase food stamps and other food stuffs to feed the poor and yet spend trillions upon weapons that are all show no go and spend this money without even squabbling over how much they spend. Just image what could have been done for the USA and her people if the 6 to 7 trillion in illegal war wasted dollars was spent in housing, food, infrastructure and so many many other needed items. – kKEETON…

They slap us with hate constantly and they even give themselves raises in pay as they do it…

Costs of War_U.S. Budgetary Costs of Post-9 11 Wars_9.1.21

Now that is interesting and we are fools and 8 trillion in 20 years…

WtR

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Vladimir Putin um dear guests please allow me before we move on to our conversation like to thank you Mr
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President that throughout all these years you’ve been helping maintain a wonderful tradition the tradition is
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that the information agency of Russia toss news agency gathers its um foreign
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colleagues to meet with you and I don’t know the way you find every time um you
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find time in your business schedule and you find time to have have you been offered a tour
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around this Center yes we have and possibly after the conversation we’ll go up to the roof don’t don’t agree to that
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shouldn’t is it dangerous no it’s hard to get out of the um
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cleaning uh grip of Mr Miller um it’s hard to get out of it because he talked
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about detail of um every part of this building he’s in love with this building and it’s hard to get out but did you
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like the building yes I did naturally uh what’s the view from the 87th
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today you have 16 countries represented here through its leading information
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agencies uh there were supposed to be more of us however our Indian and Brazilian colleagues um were not able of
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to travel here because there there have been certain issues with the election and our egyp I colleagues broke a leg
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people and we think that they make up for about 80% of the whole Global News
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um flow and throughout the time that we haven’t met many of the countries that
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they represented all of a sudden became non-friendly countries to Russia but possibly that would make it even more
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interesting to take a look at what’s happening in these countries and what they think most
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important despite the fact that it’s meeting number eight we like to note
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that it’s taking place when task news agency celebrating
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120th birthday I think it’s the first time that such meetings taking place amid such um un complex conditions and
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it seems that the world has gone crazy and it’s been pushed to the brink on purpose and but we truly hope that after this meeting we come maybe a a step
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closer to understanding the way we can lifts this tension to lower the degree
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of the double standards and misunderstanding of each other and hostility to boot colleagues as a moderator on behalf
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of Tas news agency I’ll give you the chance to ask you what one main question I don’t know whether it will be
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possible to ask the second question or number three question it will all depend on the president and we have a wonderful
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tradition the first floor goes to the beautiful part of humanity to women why
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because Russia treats women traditionally with love and respect and
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with awe so the first question goes to our wonderful enena akov director
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general of Belta BOS Telegraph agency she also has a higher education in music
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so we’ll expect her to set the right tone and tonality to our question uh
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Madame movich you have the floor um if you’d allow me I’d like to welcome you all and possibly you’ve been held in in
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this tower for half a day I guess and I’d like to apologize I’d like to repeat myself that it’s very hard to get out of
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the grip um of Mr Miller the head of gas prom and he keeps talking about each
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detail on each element of the build buing and his optimism is
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viral contagious so to speak about the gas prom
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activities people here are very well informed it’s it’s hard for me to imagine what can I tell you that you
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don’t know already you know it all and possibly you know even better than I do whatever I say you would still think
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that you know it better than I do therefore I
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suggest that we have more of a not a Q&A evening but rather an exchange
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of opinions I think it will be more interesting it will be interesting for me to learn your opinion as well to the
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questions that concern you and I think that’s that’s all I wanted to add at the outside so um Madame marovich please you
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have the floor thank you very much Mr President for this opportunity to have a conversation with you we understand
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fully well that indeed you have a very busy schedule this me
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is awaited not only by us but the largest news agencies in the world media
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are closely following it as well I’d like to say that the the right to ask
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the first question is not only that we’re trying to regulate gender issues but also because belus is the closest
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Nation for Russia it’s not a question but it’s more of a exchange of opinions and a
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statement with Alexander yushenko you’ve met about in the ’90s so you know our
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present for more than 30 years now there have been very different
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times in relations between our countries and their relations nevertheless you managed to find all solutions to all
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matters security and economic issues I wanted to ask you is it hard or is it easy for you now to talk to them and
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other leaders in the European Union with whom you can find solutions to complex
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issues today thank
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you yes um I’ve known the president of BZ for a very long
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time indeed we’ve been through different times there were different
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relations but since at the very core of the relations there are fundamental
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interests of both nations of of the people of Russia and the people of belus
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therefore we’ve followed that precisely and following that we’ve managed to find a solution to even more most complex
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issues seemingly impossible to solve without simple
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answers it is why from the very beginning we have worked to build and we
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continue to do that to build a Union state and we’re successful
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we’re doing that following the aspirations of our peoples we’re doing very
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carefully very calmly and always when we TR try to find a
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solution to any matter or when we take a step we’re always taking a look at our
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interests first and foremost in the sphere of economy politics and foreign polit
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policy as well it may seem strange but also in in Environmental sphere and
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cultural sphere this set of issues when we’re
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looking at it comprehensively at what unites us that
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allows us to solve in small issues sometimes even most complex when they
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arise and you know that we have such a such a relationship
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that we can always look at something if we take a look at our trade in dollar equival and it’s not a secret everyone
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knows that 48 billion US almost 50 billion us and that’s
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impressive and this economic relationship is very Diversified it goes for agriculture
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almost 90% of the whole export of bellarus is um to the Russian Market in
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as for agriculture as for industrial production and
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cooperation quite recently we’ve we’ve discussed at Minsk it seems that we are constantly in touch and we’re always
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discussing these matters and my trip after reelection as a president of
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Russia was a seemingly um matter of ritual but not
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so we gathered key players from the government and there were some disputes
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as well that regarded the industrial cooporation and localization of
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production it’s a traditional matter still we were talking about our supply
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of our goods and first and foremost oil to the
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processing plants of of belus and we were also talking about products of belish going to the Russian
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market and so on so all these issues are very tangible and the quality of life of our citizens depends on them but I can
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repeat myself that we have a good sentiment and aspiration of society
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helps us always find a
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solution you know sometimes it’s out of the box however strange it may seem we we
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have such a great relationship and it seems a routine matter but no you always have to make an effort to
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find an answer to the questions that arise we’re successful and I know that
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will continue so so there there are no difficult matters with belis no there are such but the solutions can be found
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we always find a solution because at the foundation of these Solutions are the
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interest of both Nations so can you find such Solutions with the leaders of the European Union well you can find it with
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leaders if if they felt more confident they would have they could
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find more courage to defend their National interest but I’m sure that colleagues will talk about that
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later thank you Madame makovich and I would like uh to invite to give the
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floor to the chief um Global News Agency
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Madame Samia nakul she has traveled through many hotspots and was heavily wounded in Iraq
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please you have the floor Madame n thank thank you
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Mr when did this happen with you when we were in during the US invion ofq
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in3 it’s during the invasion of Iraq in
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2003 thank you thank you for receiving us uh Mr President given your past
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interaction with both president Donald Trump and the president Biden can you
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give us uh according to your perspective and your views which one do you think would be the most favorable candidate or
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uh you know to us and Russian relations given the ongoing war that is going on
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in in Ukraine now I have already spoken about that and
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everyone perceived my statement about President Biden with a smirk so to speak
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and in that they saw some kind of a a hidden um critique of President
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Biden well indeed he’s an old school politician and the fact that he didn’t
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like it and and to a certain extent it started to attack me well I knew that
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that would happen that means that I was right and he predictable that only confirms our Notions about what I’ve
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talked about but in
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general we don’t really care because president Trump ex president Trump who
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was accused of being a spy for Russia we know that it’s pure nonsense just
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garbage just an an element of domestic political infighting between Democrats
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and Republicans um baseless ridiculous accusations against Trump well we have
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always perceived that as as an Ament of domestic bickering
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in in the United States that was later confirmed during National investigation
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in the US and there were no connection with President trump it never
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existed however what remains a fact is that he during his presidency started to
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introduce massive sanctions against the Russian Federation he
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left the intermediate nuclear forces treaty that was that happened during his
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presidency so and I’m speaking very sincerely Now That We
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Believe thinking that something will change in the US policy regarding Russia we don’t think
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that not we don’t think that anything will change no serious changes will take
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place but what’s happening in the United States you know it fully
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well what happens during the political infighting they’re burning themselves
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from the inside their political system their
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state and I I have to say it whether it’s Pleasant or not and their alleged
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leadership in in democracy they’re also burning to the ground because
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it is apparent to the rest of the world that the prosecution of trump is partially in court on the
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allegations that happened due to events that happened years
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ago without direct proof well this is purely using the court
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system for political
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purposes it is apparent to us here in Russia and I’m sure that it can be seen in the UK as well and the rest of the
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world can see that as well and most importantly they think that in the United States as well because after a
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well-known decision of the Court where the jury gave a guilty
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verdict we all know that the rating the ranking of President Trump grew by 6%
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right away I think and donations to his um election
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campaign also increased what does it tell us it tells us that the people in
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the US do not believe the the court system the Justice systems of the United
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States when it makes such decisions and believe that they’re politically
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motivated maybe it’s counterintuitive but in the foreign policy in domestic
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policy and in Economic Policy as well I think that today’s Administration are conducting one mistake after another
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sometimes I get surprised at what’s happening therefore we are watching it
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from from aside we’ve never interfered in the domestic politics of the United
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States and we do not intend to do it but we’ll see what will happen what it would lead to I’d like to um wrap up my my
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answer with what I’ve begun the end result as we believe does not have a great signif
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ific will will work with any president elected by the US people with regard to
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Ukraine you don’t think anything will change in terms of their support for ukra for the Ukraine war if Trump comes
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back you don’t think there’ll be a
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change it’s hard to say I don’t think I can make
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um a clear cut conclusion whether something will change
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or not I think we’ll need to take a look at the priority of the future Administration if the future
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Administration is or will follow the national interest and if they think that
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the national interest will be to stabilize the
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situation within the
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country not to bet on migration but to consolidate the society within the
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United States to amend the mistakes that led to a tremendous debt and inflation
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within the us then naturally following the domestic national interests if they
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would follow them then it
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would pursue the goals of global liberalism that I think is destroyed by
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the United States from the inside well they strive to be the leader of the
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global liberalism well no but if they follow the national interest then maybe
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there could be some changes in the foreign policy towards Russia and towards the conflict in
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Ukraine but remember how many ifs I
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mentioned in that case some changes are
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possible but I think you would agree with me that no one is interested in the
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United States in Ukraine they’re interested in the magnificence in the supremacy and Leadership of the United
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States in the world and they don’t want to allow any kind of success by Russia
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indeed because they believe that in that case that will be detrimental to the US
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leadership that’s the whole point of what the US is doing but if the future
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Administration changes the priorities for itself they
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would set the goals differently and they would see the essence of their work in strengthening the United States from the
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inside Finance economy building normal relations in the world more respectful
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towards everyone then something may change I
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think that it depends on the sentiment in the society
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and I think that the sentiment is Shifting to that end and I think that if
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the future Administration will will catch that wind in their Sals then the change is
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possible thank you Madame n now I give the floor to the
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men I like to ask my question to presid I have to give the floor to vugar aliev
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the chair of azer Taj please you have the floor Mr Putin thank you for the time
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that you given us today the relations between aeran and Russia are developing
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in an upward Trend and recent visit of president alev to Moscow gave a chance
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not only to celebrate a memorable anniversary 50 years of the bomb um
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railroad but also to discuss bilateral relations what’s your take on the future outlook
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for bilateral cooperation and in particular the development of the transportation
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Corridor north south our relations are developing
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successfully reliably and in a pragmatic
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fashion you know we feel the stance of as
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ban which is building our Interstate relations based on Mutual interests and
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also there is an element of mutual sympathy because otherwise it wouldn’t be possible to explain the presence of
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300 schools in Russian language in aeran
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children are being taught in Russian and I know that president aliev is fully supporting the study of the Russian
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language in aeran and we can see that in all aspects in all spheres which tells
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us that the leadership of aeran believes that the Russian language
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is going to be something the aeri citizens are going to need and they will need that language for further
21:45
developing our bilateral ties which are developing our trade stands at
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4.5 4.6 billion US Dollars and the pace of
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this development is very good very steady and we are increasingly diversifying our relations I’m
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confident that should we manage
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to preserve these good intentions on both sides and in Russia we share those
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intentions then the outcomes are going to be great of course they still a lot
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that needs to be done and you are absolutely correct in saying that we need to further develop the logistics
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not just um the north south cor but also there are other dimensions to that such
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as setting up Logistics hubs at the aeri Russian border at the dagistan stretch
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where the works are currently underway it also applies to other directions we have uh quite a big number of uh
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students studying at Russian universities uh receiving scholarships from the
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budget and we see there is a very big interest in receiving further education
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as far as that north south coridor is concerned it can turn into a
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international route which is in high demand because right from here cargo you know in shipments from the
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port of St Petersburg can flow through the European part of Russia then on to
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aeran and then on Ward to the coast of
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uh the gulf maybe 10 days or so faster than if
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they were to go through the Su
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Canal we are not saying anything bad about this R Canal it’s very good for
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the world trade but this new trade would be an additional route a very good one
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for shipping goods from the north to the South and vice versa 10 days faster this
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will help us Save A Lot this is a very good route but still there is a lot that
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needs to be done we are working on both sides I am aware that President
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Le supports this project we’ve spoken with him about that on many occasions
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the leadership of Iran is also in support of this project and since this project promises to be very beneficial
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there are other foreign investors that have expressed their interest in that route
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uh not Regional investors investors from other uh say the wealth wealth funds
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soving wealth funds of uh the Arab countries because they’re always
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searching for possibility to invest money in reliable Endeavors there are
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still issues that need to be studied further in particular
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what stretches and where and how they’re going to be funded is it going to be
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based on loan or there’s going to be direct funding from Russia how this is
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going to fit with the uh strings that are going ahead
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westwards across the territory of aeran we need to finalize some issues with our
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Iranian friends and partners or whether it’s going to be a Narrow Gauge or
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wide gauge Road I mean the one that’s going to be
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built on the territory of Iran but the cracks of the matter is everyone is
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determined to implement this project we’ve set up the uh directorate vtb as
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uh the organization responsible for that I’m confident that we will complete this
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project well uh it’s going to take some time there are some issues about funding but this is not the only project we are
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pursuing together apart from that aeran is a Caspian State it’s one of the
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five Caspian States and that means that we’ve got many uh joint interests some
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apply to the environment of the Caspian
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SE thank you Mr Al and now I’d like to give the
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floor uh to a state you will never be different
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to and that’s Germany with guard Martin romanic head of news of DPA here knows
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uh from Firs hands about our country because in the ’90s he worked as a
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correspondent in Moscow over to you
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sir good evening Mr President good evening everyone
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Chancellor ol of Schultz
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has agreed to provide weapons to
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Ukraine if Chancellor were to change his
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opinion what would your stance be
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then and what do you think the future of Germany is going to be have you made any
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threats or any warnings to Chancellor when he made
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the decision to provide weapons to Ukraine well we we never threaten
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anyone especially if uh that means threatening
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the head of another country because that would be just bad form we have different positions on
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different matters we are aware of the position European countries have taken and in particular taken by Germany with
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regard to the developments in Ukraine everyone thinks that it was Russia that had started the war in Ukraine but I
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would like to underscore that no one in the West in Europe wants to remember how
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this tragedy had started and it started with a Keta an anti-constitutional Keta
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that happened in Ukraine that’s the origin of the
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war is it Russia that is to blame for that ketar
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no it’s not and have those that are trying to
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accuse Russia forgotten that the foreign minister Ministers of uh uh Poland
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Germany and France came to Kev and put their signature to a document aimed at
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settling the political crisis they put that signature to the document as
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guarant that the crisis would be resolved in a peaceful constitutional
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manner Europe and in particular France and Germany prefer
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to leave that out and if they were to remember that then the question question
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would arise why did the European countries and
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Germany and France as guars in particular have not demanded that the Ukrainian leadership should get back to
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the legal field as it were why have they ignored their responsibilities as the
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guars of those agreements that have been reached they’re the ones to
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blame they are guilty of what has transpired alongside with those
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forces from the US that provoked the anti constitutional
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C this was followed by the desire of the
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citizens of Crimea to withdraw from Ukraine then it was succeeded by the
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decision of the people of donbas not to submit uh to those who had supported the
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kud that’s the origin of the conflict afterwards Russia has made every effort
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to arrive at a formula that would allow to peacefully resolve that conflict in
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2015 Minsk saw the signing of the so-called Minsk agreements and
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incidentally these agreements were endorsed by a decision of the UN
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Security Council it’s document that should have been implemented
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but it has not been
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instead a choice was made in favor of addressing that matter in a military uh
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manner alter and uh Armed Forces started to be used against the civilians in the
31:16
east of Ukraine for some reason in the west and in Germany and France in other
31:22
countries no one wants to remember that so we facilitated the sign of the
31:28
Minsk agreements but it turns out that no one intended to observe the
31:33
agreements and the former chancellor of Germany former president of France have
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said that publicly Mr Roman what am I supposed to
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make of that they have made public statements that they had never intended
31:52
to observe the Minsk agreements the only signed them to rearm Ukraine and to
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create a favorable environment for the continuation of hostilities so they were simply
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duped what other explanation could there be to that for eight years we’ve been
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pursuing a peaceful solution to this issue eight
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years some time ago the former Chancellor told me you know in Cova yes
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NATO had acted without the decision of the UN Security Council but eight years
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blood had been spilled in Kosovo she said to me and what about this particular case when the blood of
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Russian people was being spilled in the east of Ukrainian donbas is it not blood
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is it water for some reason no one wanted to pay any attention to that in
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the end we were forced to act when the then Ukrainian
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authorities declared that they were happy with none of the points of the Minsk agreements
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and the foreign Ministry declared that they were not going to observe the msk agreements you know that eight
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years there was a constant degradation of economy and in human rights in Donas
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uh people were killed so we were forced to recognize their independence it took
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us eight years to do that we were hoping that we would find a peaceful
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solution it was eight years before it was declared that
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they were not going to observe the agreements and once that happened we had to attempt to use Armed Force to force
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them to observe those agreements but we’re not the ones to have started this
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war the war started back in 2014 after the Kuda and the attempt
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at silence those who disagreed with the kar with the use of
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uh force with the use of guns
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now what did we do afterwards so it took us eight years before we recognized
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their independence and once we understood that the me agreements were never going to be implemented please pay
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attention to that we recognized the independence of these self-proclaimed
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republ republics could we have uh could we do it from the point of view of
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international law as article one of the UN Charter
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States we could do that because that amounts to the right of people to
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self-determination and the icj made a ruling you know in written form which
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states states that if a certain territory of a certain country decides
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to become independent it does not have to apply to higher institutions of the
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said country and that is what happened in Kosovo so there is a ruling by the I
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CJ which says that if a territory decides to become independent it is not
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to have to ask for permission from the capital in order for this right to self-determination to be implemented and
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if that is the case if that is what is stated in the icj ruling than
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those self-proclaimed republics which back then were not recognized they were
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fully entitled to do that which they did and what about us were we entitled to
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recognize those those republics yes we were and that is what we did then we
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entered into a treaty with them did we have that opportunity that right to do
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that yes and that treaty stipulated provision of Aid to those republics in
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case of aggression and ke was pursuing a war against these countries which it had
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taken us eight years to recognize did we have that right yes we did and then in
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compliance with article 51 of the UN Charter we started to provide a
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resistance to them whatever anyone here says you know
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I I told exactly the same things to Secretary General gutterz I explained the ration now to
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him where is the error where is the violation of international law here there are none from the point of view of
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international law the response is you attacked anyway we did not attack we
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were defending ourselves and everyone needs to understand that and the first step to with the war
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was made by those who had encouraged the bloody Keta which run a foul of the
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Constitution now as far as the provision of Weaponry is
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concerned such supplies to a conflict Zone well that is always a bad
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thing especially because those who Supply weapons are not simply supplying the
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weapons they’re also managing the weapons controlling them and that is a very dangerous very serious step we we
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we know that and Germany does not deny that I don’t know how it got
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into the media but you know the generals of the bundes Weare were discussing how
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and when they were to strike the Crimean Bridge or rather facilities on the
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Russian territory including the territories
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which uh no one Downs belong to
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Russia when the first German tanks appeared on the Ukrainian soil the
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uh German produced tanks it caused a moral man ethical shock in Russia
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because our relations with Germany had always been very good right now you know there’s talk that
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some missiles are going to appear that will strike the Russian territory then
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this will fully undermine the Russian German
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relations we understand as you know a famous German political leader said
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after the second world war Germany had never been fully independ
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dependent in the precise sense of the word a fully sovereign
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state we were in contact with Chancellor Schultz we had multiple
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meetings I would not give any assessment to
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um the performance of the German government it’s up to the German voters
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to pass judgment on that soon the European Parliament elections are coming
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and we’ll see how it goes you know I’ve still have many good
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friends and Germany I’m trying not you know to to compromise them so that they
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do not have any problems I try not to maintain relations right now with them but I’ve known them for many years and I
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know that they’re reliable friends and I’ve got many of those in
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Germany and I know the uh landscape um and how things go in the
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political landscape uh the CDU is around 30%
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16% as the social Democrats s SPD uh 15%
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um alternative for Germany afd and uh
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you know the rest and this is how the voters are responding this shows the
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sentiment among German citizens I understand Germany’s indep dependence in defense in
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Security in general I’m cognizant of their dependence in information
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policy because you know whatever
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big media Outlet you look at you’ll see that the end beneficiary is some kind of
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American Foundation well I applaud those American foundations they doing a great job
40:58
because they have a tight grip on the uh media uh landscape in Germany line all
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the while it’s very hard to stand up to that I understand
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it however some very simple things in those
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things well it’s even strange that no one today at the German
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leadership is defending the German
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interests yes Germany does not have the full sovereignty but there are Germans and you need to think about their
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interests look at look at it they blew up those uh poor
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pipelines in the Baltic Sea no one is even
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um in indignant about that as if it’s the right thing to do look still we
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continue to supply gas to Europe through the Ukrainian territory we continue to
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do it don’t we but there were two pipelines two systems one of them was closed down by
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the Ukrainian side they simply turned it
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off no foundation for that decision still there was one pipeline left and
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the European consumers receive the gas through the Turk stream there’s also
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Russian natural gas coming through the Turk stream to the E European consumer and they receive
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it well they blew up one string of the nordstream pipeline but one of them is
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still um functional why doesn’t Germany want to receive gas through that system
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what’s the logic in there you can receive it through the Ukrainian territory through you can receive it
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through turkey a yes but not through the Baltic Sea what what kind of nonsense is that
42:58
there is no formal logic behind it I simply cannot grasp it if they said well
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Europe should not receive an gas from Russia well all right we’ll survive it gas prom we’ll survive
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it you don’t wanted instead you you you you buy LG
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Three Times Higher at the three times higher price what about your environmentalists don’t they know the
43:24
way LG is received uh through through fracking process you should ask the US citizens
43:32
in those regions where this this kind of gases is produced sometimes instead of water
43:39
they have some kind of a sludge uh flowing through their pipes do your
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environmentalists know about it possibly Poland took their pipeline
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yamal Europe they closed it down Germany received Natural Gas through Poland we
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didn’t close it down it was done by the poles what’s the
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result the the results the impact on the German economy of the breakdown of our ties in
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the energy sphere is known better to you than to me it is rather
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sad many major industrial companies trying to find a place to land somewhere
44:28
but not in Germany they open in up in Asia in the
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US however the economic conditions are not
44:40
competitive in that inter turn might have difficult harsh consequences for
44:46
the whole economy of Europe because German uh German economy is the driving
44:51
force behind the European economy not to offend others if it’s sick if it’s it’s
44:57
coughing and sneezing it will spread over to the rest of of the Europe and now the French economy is on the brink
45:03
of recession and everyone knows that fully well if the German economy goes
45:08
even slower then the rest of Europe will be in shock I’m not calling you to break down
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some kind of Euro Atlantic ties or anything else someone will start hyping that I
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don’t know um someone would will hear what I’m saying and say that he’s calling for the breakdown of Euro
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Atlantic solidarity no listen I think you have a false policy this is a a
45:37
major mistake at every turn and I think that the US is doing that and major mistake
45:44
is happening due to their desire to maintain leadership with the tools that
45:50
they using they’re shooting themselves in the foot but it’s even worse for Europe
45:57
they could have said yes we support you here and there but if we undermine our
46:02
own economy it’ll be a problem for everyone it should never be done it’s a taboo
46:09
please do not lay claim to that but the current
46:14
leadership is not doing that sometimes I’m mean I’m at loss where is the logic behind this these
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actions all right they tried to to undermine the Russian economy and they believe belied that it will happen
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within 3 4 6 months but everyone can see that that
46:35
did not happen last year we had we had economic growth at 3 something
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3.4% I think this year the first quarter of the current year the economic growth
46:48
of the Russian Federation stood at four
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5.4% moreover the World Bank has recalculated our growth we have set the
47:01
goal for ourselves according to the international financial
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institutions we were ranked number five on PPP purchasing parity power in the
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world we’re ranked number five and our goal was to be ranked number
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four and I think that we are following the
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calculations of our colleagues International financial institutions very recently
47:29
last week I think um the World Bank counted our GDP and came to a conclusion
47:35
that we’re um bypassing Japan according to the World Bank Russia
47:40
Today is ranked number four in the world on purchasing power
47:47
parity the our goal has been reached but it’s not what matters that’s not an end
47:53
in itself it’s important to maintain the the trend the
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impetus the move forward and we’re still maintaining that because as I told you
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the growth stood at 5.4% of GDP but I’m not saying this to boast to
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you I’m just saying that those who who are trying to be detrimental to us they
48:16
try to put a break in our development but what they’re doing is more detrimental to them than to us and
48:24
understanding that they’re supposed to draw some conclusion and to course correct for themselves for
48:30
their own sake but it’s not happening I don’t want to offend anyone
48:35
here but the level of professionalism of
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those people who are making decisions including in Germany I think leaves a lot to be
48:53
desired I think it would um make sense not not to move away from the European
48:59
topics and to give the floor to France where quite officially they’re not really now sending of a
49:06
military to Ukraine and we have Karim
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talb um editorinchief for Europe and he speaks Uh Russian very well because just
49:18
like Martin romanik he worked as a correspondent in Moscow Mr tby you have the
49:24
floor my question also regret regards
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Ukraine why still you you cannot tell us the number the loss of Russian military
49:38
servicemen in the Ukrainian during the conflict if it’s the only thing that is of interest to you I say that usually no
49:45
one talks about it and if they talk about it then generally they distort the real
49:52
figures now I can tell you with full confidence that our loss
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especially if it regards well unfortunately um irreparable losses there are many
50:06
times smaller than the Ukrainian side and I can tell you the number of
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people um and the prisoners of War our soldiers and offics that are being held
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captive 1 1,348 people I know these figures
50:25
because we’re working with every day and quite recently there was an exchange of 75 people on each
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side the Ukrainian soldiers that we are holding
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6,400 65 if we talk about IR repairable losses
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I mean the dead and I think uh it’s the same ratio one
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to5 so that’s that’s our logic
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here that is why um they they’re trying to conduct a total draft in Ukraine
51:12
because the losses on the battlefield are
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tremendous you know we think that our calculations are that the Ukrainian Army
51:24
is losing about 50,000 people per month these are uh all
51:32
casualties though I think there are 5050 ratio of irreversible irreparable
51:39
losses and um injuries the total draft that is being held right now does not
51:45
solve this issue nevertheless according to our data from different
51:52
sources about 30,000 per month is being drafted conscripted whether it’s a false draft
52:00
or not well there are not many volunteers right
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now so I think last month they have drafted about 50 55,000 but it does not
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solve the the issue why because this draft just covers the
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losses it’s all just to repair the losses
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it’s a major issue that leads to the lowering the age
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of draft now they’ve um lowered it from 27 to 25
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years and we simply know it well it’s an Open Secret it’s there
52:49
are basically no secrets there in Ukraine the administration of the US is
52:55
insisting on stage by stage lowering of the conscription age from 23 to 20 to 18 or
53:04
to 18 years straight away because right now they’re asking 17
53:12
year olds um 17-year-old males to um to be put on the military register and we
53:19
know it for sure that’s the demand by the US Administration it’s a demand to the
53:24
Ukrainian leadership if we can um think that their leadership after the
53:31
elections were cancelled I’ve recently spoken publicly about that I think when I met with press when I left usbekistan
53:39
after a visit
53:45
there and I think that the US Administration will indeed make the current Ukrainian leadership make this
53:52
decision to lower the drafting age to the 18 years the later would get rid of
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zansky first it needs to be done because this is a very difficult matter a law
54:04
must be adopted certain steps must be taken now we’re in June
54:13
2024 and to do that all of it I think it would take a year so till spring the beginning of the
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next year he will be tolerated when zansky does it all they will wave him goodbye and will
54:30
change there I think there are several candidates
54:35
now but it has to do with tremendous losses 50,000 is is the most modest
54:41
calculations 50,000 is is what we see on the battlefield and if you take into account
54:49
that there are certain losses that well we know that they’re there but we cannot
54:54
um confirm them because they’re happening at the home front but still
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tremendous
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losses can can I allow me to ask yet another question about our Olympic
55:15
Games we used to have a a journalist Arman Surin on the 9th of May 2003 died
55:22
in in Ukraine we think that he died after the um drone strike as we
55:30
think the France is conducting an
55:38
investigation and and they’re saying that the drone that killed him came from Russia well
55:45
that’s not my question but the ministry of justice of France would like to conduct
55:52
investigation would like to conduct investigation okay is Russia prepared to
56:02
cooperate with France so you you would know what truly
56:08
happened it it was a major tragedy for us for our agency because um you know he
56:14
was survived by a family he was 32 Raman Selen was 32 years old so
56:20
we would like to have some closure some kind of serious investigative work done
56:25
to know what happened uh would Russia take part in that you know we’ve we’ve never refused
56:32
to take part in in investigations do you know um how many journalists died in the war zone do you remember
56:42
mmri at least 30 journalists died our journalists died there and no one has given us an
56:49
opportunity to investigate what happen to them that’s number one
56:56
number two if we talk about what’s happening in Ukraine there in jail in prison of the
57:04
KF regime an American journalist was tortured to death but unlike you the United States
57:13
are not even asking what happened to to him he was an American citizen a journalist he was captured at the border
57:20
dragged into jail and he died there he was tortured to death in
57:27
the that’s what happened it’s not a figure of speech but
57:32
no one asked what truly happened to him despite that we’re prepared to
57:40
organize this investigation I don’t quite know how to put it into practice because if a person
57:46
died in a war zone then well still we can do everything in our power
57:52
for that thank you very much Mr be and I’d like to give the floor to our Iranian
58:00
colleague director General on the information energy agency Ina Mr Ali
58:06
nadri we appreciate that Mr nadri that despite the recent tragedy and died death of President RAC in the continued
58:13
election campaign in your country still found time to travel out to St Petersburg please allow me to express to
58:20
you to the Iranian colleagues and Iranian Nation our deepest condolences please you have the floor floor thank
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you Mr President I would like to speak with my own language so I speak
58:41
[Music] Persian indeed
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we’re mourning the death of our foreign minister and uh the president a number
58:53
of people for administration and you in your letter
58:58
mentioned indeed there was a development of relations during the time of
59:04
President r that is one of the great Services of our
59:10
president he also pointed out the role played by President R in the development
59:15
of bilateral relations and the regional
59:20
relations and the question that I wanted to ask you
59:27
is that there will be continued development of relations with Iran what kind of
59:33
program is planned where there some agreements
59:39
achieved with presid fry what is the outlook for Iran and Russia in the future thank
59:49
you we are developing the relations between
59:54
Russia and Iran and State fashion making good Headway across many Avenues both
1:00:01
Russia and Iran happen to be under sanctions different sanctions regimes
1:00:07
you know I was surprised when we um learned recently
1:00:14
some of the levels of technological achievements in Iran we were surprised
1:00:19
uh how our Iranian friends had managed to preserve such a high level of uh
1:00:28
production industrial production and certain Technologies despite the sanctions that had been enforced for
1:00:35
many years we were presently surprised but our trade and economic ties are
1:00:41
developing we’ve got many joint projects we would like to take additional efforts
1:00:48
aimed at developing high tech certainly taking into account the restrictions
1:00:54
this is going to be difficult but still it can be done and this is something we are going to
1:01:00
do now as for president RI
1:01:06
who was killed in this tragedy I would like to say that we had very good
1:01:13
reliable business-like relations with him he was a very interesting person he
1:01:18
was a serious politician a reliable
1:01:23
partner he was uh possess of a great sense of irony and
1:01:31
humor and it was a very interesting person to talk to
1:01:36
to communicate with not just interesting but also useful and I would like to say
1:01:42
that if we achieved agreement with him on something then one could be 100% sure
1:01:49
that this issue would not be lost sight of that’s doesn’t mean that all issues
1:01:55
had been resolve because it’s not just up to the leaders
1:02:01
that these issues depend on but we were working together to improve and enhance
1:02:08
our relations and it was under pres Ry that Iran joined both bricks and
1:02:15
the which is testimony to the fact that we were moving together in the right
1:02:24
direction in particular in the direction of setting up a multi-polar world order and
1:02:29
Iran has continued to play a significant role in that regard there’s one thing I would
1:02:37
like to say concluding my answer to your question I would like to say that we are
1:02:45
hopeful that everything that had been achieved by President RI
1:02:52
and Russia Iran relations is going to be picked up and continued and I have no
1:03:00
doubts that this is exactly what’s going to happen because everything we’re doing meets the mutual interests of Russia and
1:03:07
Iran we know that the Iranian statehood is very
1:03:12
stable we are aware how
1:03:18
the executive U and the power system in Iran are organized we know that it’s not
1:03:25
just the president and his uh uh colleagues who work on foreign policies
1:03:33
the supreme leader is also playing a significant role in that regard so we’re waiting for the elections of the next
1:03:41
pres to happen and I look forward to meeting the new president of Iran at
1:03:47
different international events uh including the shanhai cooperation organization and the
1:03:53
bricks events I’m confident that we will find common ground and will follow up on
1:04:01
all the projects that whose foundations were laid by um the blate president R
1:04:08
the next speaker is a great friend of tax
1:04:17
agencies Ed in Chief of shinka agency Mr luang he speaks perfect Russian he loves
1:04:25
Russian songs in Russian Cinema everything you please Mr
1:04:31
President recently you have conducted a state visit to
1:04:37
China you have quite close relations with China this can be
1:04:45
cited as a model for building relations
1:04:50
between major Powers what’s your take on the current state of Cor between Russia
1:04:56
and China as far as our bilateral
1:05:03
relations go I would like to tell you that they are not short-term
1:05:13
relations they are based upon fundamental principles for 15 years
1:05:20
China has been our major trade partner so we started to build our
1:05:26
relations and we propelled it to the current level not pursuing some
1:05:32
shortterm fleeting goals that come and go day in day out we decided to pursue
1:05:39
this relationship based on Mutual interests we were acting in a calm
1:05:46
gradual fashion and I can tell you that we are making huge Headway currently our
1:05:52
bilateral trade has exceeded our expectations it’s $240 billion US according to the
1:05:58
Chinese statistics we assess that number at 230 billion according to our
1:06:04
statisticians but it’s not just about our trade our trade is being Diversified
1:06:10
and quite successfully to boot and it’s not just about hydrocarbons hydr power
1:06:16
there’s also supplies of oil and coal and energy we’re also building nuclear
1:06:23
power plants in the People’s Republic of China and doing that quite successfully all of that is happening
1:06:30
but we’re also cooperating in Hightech we’ve got very good prospects I refer in particular to Aviation to AI you know we
1:06:40
happy we celebrate China’s successes in different domains in
1:06:48
particular in space exploration these are some unique
1:06:53
achievements we’re talking about and the uh Communist Party of China is the
1:06:59
leading political force in China everything that’s done ever there is done under the guidance of the Communist
1:07:06
party with China there’s uh something I’d like to draw your attention to I
1:07:11
said that I don’t know whether I said that in this format and whether that’s going to be
1:07:17
interesting to you but there are some experts in Russia very good economists
1:07:23
uh quite young people will be already very experienced they say that the analysis
1:07:31
of what’s happening in China’s economy and the analysis of what’s happening in other economies across the world
1:07:38
including the legion economies such as the US show that China has succeeded in
1:07:48
building a efficient or be peculiar economic model that might be more efficient than
1:07:57
the one of the US and judging by the results the economy of China is
1:08:03
demonstrating this is something we can agree on yes there might be some
1:08:10
discussion some Western partners of ours say that China’s economy is not entirely
1:08:17
based on Market there are regulations uh by the party but you know the outcome is
1:08:24
out there for everyone see and it shows us that this model is
1:08:30
more efficient and no one would dare accuse China of that whether
1:08:38
that’s Market based or not it’s one and a half billion people and the Chinese
1:08:43
leadership needs to think about every citizen each and every citizen and not all of them leave on the same level as
1:08:51
an average European or American citizen so it’s up to the leadership of China to
1:08:56
take the decisions that will allow them to see to the needs vital needs of
1:09:02
Chinese citizens and all of that is done thanks to a good friend of mine and the
1:09:08
leader of China president shiin ping they achieving great successes doing
1:09:13
that reliably and steadily and we can only be happy for
1:09:21
them we’re aware of um everything that’s happening in the
1:09:26
world’s leading economies including China’s economy China’s economy is uh
1:09:32
generally very reliable and it’s becoming increasingly based on high
1:09:37
technology and I think it’s a huge mistake on the part of the us and a
1:09:44
number of European countries that are trying to somehow sty or bring down the pace of the
1:09:52
Chinese economy because I think in order for them to be successful they would
1:09:57
need to fit those processes to integrate them rather than trying to obstruct them
1:10:05
some very smart people say that China is overproducing cars and
1:10:14
also over producing electric cars who is saying such
1:10:21
things it’s those who believe themselves to be proponents of the
1:10:28
market don’t they know who decides whether there is an over production or
1:10:33
not it’s up to the market to decide if China produces a certain number of cars
1:10:40
and all of that is consumed and absorbed by the market what kind of an production are we talking about it’s just
1:10:48
nonsense is it possible to call that na production no that’s not called that that’s not what it’s called it’s CAU an
1:10:55
attempt at stying the growth through non markets means and that is harmful in
1:11:02
particular to the US economy and why is that because you know you’re not taking
1:11:08
goods from China these Goods or those goods what would it result in Will It
1:11:15
result in themselves producing something no it’ll produce in uh having to buy
1:11:20
from elsewhere and this is going to be more expensive this will result in high inflation rate and the higher inflation
1:11:27
rate is going to have a nefarious impact upon the economic structure of the
1:11:34
country that is doing such things and it’s going to be harmful and this particular case to the economy of the US
1:11:41
it’s an an error a mistake yet another one yet another mistake of the current
1:11:48
administration of the us as for China
1:12:00
yes they have a very professional guidance by President XI
1:12:09
and the are moving ahead at a very good Pace there are other fields I’ve always
1:12:18
spoken about them and I can tell you that our Corporation in the international Arena arena is a
1:12:25
a moderation factor and also source of stability you know we uh conducted
1:12:33
exercises and we are going to continue conducting exercises including military
1:12:38
exercises we’re also engaged in Military and Technical cooperation and we’ve got a lot to offer to our Chinese
1:12:47
friends and there’s an interest on China
1:12:52
side and this kind of cooperation but our coroporation is not confined
1:13:00
either to economy or to military technical coroporation or to international corporation this year
1:13:07
we’ve proclaimed cross years of culture and our moderator you know said
1:13:15
that you know Russian songs you speak Russian and I think this
1:13:22
is just as important as as the rest that I’ve just spoken about because that lays
1:13:28
the foundations of relationships between the peoples it creates a favorable
1:13:33
environment for pursuing relations across all other sectors and this is something we’ll strive to stick
1:13:40
to hence forth and I am hopeful that we will be able to meet with President Chi
1:13:46
and speak about all of these issues and well I hope we’ll be able to meet within the framework of the SEO and
1:13:58
Mr President you know I interviewed you three times first time it happened in 20
1:14:08
2002 so it happened a long time ago the interviews took place in Moscow and
1:14:16
Beijing this is the fourth interview and it’s in the city you were born in and
1:14:21
I’m very grateful to you for that I wish you all the best thank you Mr next over to Spain F news
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agency januel Sate director of international relations of f news agency
1:14:37
is a very professional experienced journalist and also an outstanding expert on philosophy and history an
1:14:44
expert on European integration sir
1:14:53
every thank you Mr President for this opportunity to meet
1:14:59
you I do not speak Russian but I have read Russian
1:15:06
authors I am aware of Russia’s great contribution to literature science and
1:15:16
art I think it’s a Pity that we’re currently going through such a difficult
1:15:21
phase in international relations so I have a very delicate question you know starting from tomorrow
1:15:28
and until Sunday 25 countries European countries are
1:15:34
conducting elections and you know that analysts
1:15:42
experts as well as officials of European countries say that
1:15:48
Russia is uh guilty of spreading misinformation
1:15:55
with a view to destabilizing the Electoral presses across Europe what’s your comment on
1:16:06
that do you think the Russian government is behind this misinformation campaign
1:16:11
thank you well listen we’ve just had a conversation with your colleague from
1:16:21
Germany among other things we have SP about the economic situation in European
1:16:33
countries it’s you know the social politics is a
1:16:42
function of the economic situation it’s a function of the income of your
1:16:50
citizens it’s also a function of new jobs being created in
1:16:58
economy or a function of consumption on the whole European
1:17:05
countries are well-to-do
1:17:11
states and the major preoccupation of citizens is their material
1:17:19
well-being however as a result of policies pursued by the overwhelming
1:17:25
majority of Western countries in particular European countries this well-being people have grown
1:17:33
accustomed to over the recent decades
1:17:39
is fading well if it’s not fading at least it’s currently come under risk and
1:17:45
threat people feel that and they understand that and I think this is the
1:17:52
main reason why traditional politic iCal parties and the parliamentary democracy
1:18:00
at large are going through some rough
1:18:07
patch and if there’s someone in
1:18:13
Europe who doesn’t want to analyze the mistakes they had
1:18:19
made and they’re trying to shift the blame on some external factors then
1:18:25
it’ll constitute yet another mistake that will prevent them from drawing the right conclusions and understanding full
1:18:31
well what is really happening that’s the first part of my answer to your question and the second goes
1:18:37
is as follows our media in terms of their volume the
1:18:45
scope Their audience and their capacity of exerting their influence of uh Their
1:18:52
audience well they
1:18:58
are no match for the Western media the press or Internet media I
1:19:07
would hate to give you the wrong figures my colleagues going to give you the figures but whenever and wherever our
1:19:16
journalists are trying to do their work they run into obstacles they are employees are
1:19:23
threatened they accounts bank accounts are shut down their transport is
1:19:30
seized the list goes on is that what freedom of speech is certainly
1:19:40
not the only thing our media are doing our Russian journalists are
1:19:47
doing is presenting the Russian view on the developments in our country and
1:19:53
across Europe as well as across the globe our views differ but isn’t that
1:20:04
the the idea is the goal of media to service the needs
1:20:12
of the government well even if it’s the point of view of the Russian government
1:20:19
does not it deserve to be communicated to the audience in our country and in
1:20:24
other countries isn’t this what free flow of information is all about whether
1:20:30
you like that information or not what are we supposed to do if you
1:20:36
don’t like some kind of information of if someone thinks that it’s biased well you need to present another point of
1:20:42
view and you have to do that in a more convincing manner than the information you don’t like is been communicated in
1:20:50
rather than shutting down media in this particular case Russian media that are current were constantly harassed in
1:20:56
Europe and in the US and there so few of them just one or
1:21:02
two and they all being strangled and um closed down and they’re still
1:21:09
referencing the fact that we are having some kind of influence on the public
1:21:14
opinion in the Western countries if you simply take a look at
1:21:21
the volume would we’re prepared to provide as a content in the information
1:21:27
Market of the Western countries is simply laughable it’s not a matter of someone
1:21:33
conducting some kind of a nefarious policy against the European Union in this
1:21:38
case it’s a matter of the fact that what um the leadership of European
1:21:46
of major European countries have brought their economies to what kind of state and what what kind of policy they
1:21:52
conducting on International Arena and whether there people like it or not and I’ll repeat with what I’ve started
1:21:59
you shouldn’t shift blame elsewhere you need to take stock of your own actions
1:22:04
and hold yourself accountable that would allow you to draw some right conclusions
1:22:10
and possibly course correct if
1:22:16
necessary thank you uh Mr mot was that enough yes okay and next is Kazakhstan director
1:22:24
General of kin Forum news agency Oscar please you have the
1:22:33
floor Mr President could you please tell us about the future of relations between
1:22:39
Kazakhstan and Russia as neighboring
1:22:45
countries it’s it’s very good no other way to put
1:22:51
it we had where we have very very close well not just close we have Ally and
1:22:57
strategic partnership cooperation that fully applies to Russia
1:23:05
and Kazakhstan and their relations this applies to trade and economic ties they
1:23:10
they showing sustained growth each
1:23:15
year and the level of our trade also speaks about that the growing volume
1:23:21
trade we have many dimensions of our
1:23:28
Corporation it’s it’s impossible even to list them all energy Industrial
1:23:38
Corporation outer space a lot of
1:23:43
them we have a tremendous land border and people connect to each other
1:23:50
76 regions of the Russian Federation have direct relations with Kazakhstan
1:23:57
with the territories in in Kazakhstan direct
1:24:02
ties and they’re possibly even more efficient and they work even better because people are directly talking to
1:24:08
each other they know each other and trust each
1:24:14
other with Mr Takay we’re always in
1:24:19
touch we have very good relations based on trust
1:24:28
and now if we talk about energy you know that we’re going to sell
1:24:34
gas not only to usbekistan but to Kazakhstan as well to the northern
1:24:39
northern Kazakhstan they acquire energy yes Kazakhstan is itself a producer of
1:24:44
energy still there are some regions of Kazakhstan that require gas supply and it’s easier
1:24:53
and cheaper to receive it from us than to uh build new routs that would cost
1:24:58
billions of
1:25:04
dollars honestly I don’t see a single
1:25:11
issue that would be of dispute and would complicate our
1:25:16
relations in any way we spoke about cooperation with
1:25:22
China 90% of our trade is done in na in National
1:25:29
currencies with People’s Republic of China and the same is happening in our
1:25:35
relations with Kazakhstan I think we’re about almost
1:25:43
100% as for the United States well and I’ll be naturally there’ll be the same
1:25:49
kind of questions later at the plenary session in is why of the greatest
1:25:55
mistakes of the United States is there prohibiting from using dollar as an in
1:26:01
international payments and using it as a tool and they’re simply undermining the trust towards dollar is
1:26:08
ridiculous they should have taken care of the dollar and to preserve it and to raise its profile and it’s standing
1:26:16
they’re simply killing it off with their own hands but that stimulates us to move
1:26:24
move towards National currencies it turns
1:26:30
out it doesn’t stand in a way of developing our relations on the contrary it helps us strengthen our national
1:26:37
currencies humanitarian sphere and education sphere also a matter of our cooperation so we have a very active
1:26:46
joint work in in all spheres and also thanks to president Tov because
1:26:52
he’s he’s continuing our cooperation in all these
1:26:58
spheres soon we’re going to meet in AA for the shanhai cooperation
1:27:05
organization Summit and so on um naturally I have the invitation I will make use of
1:27:11
it thank you now moving on to the next
1:27:17
participant um Deputy head of answer agency stefana poly Mr py just like um
1:27:24
samul from reuter has tremendous experience of working in hotpots and in
1:27:29
general nansa Italian agency never missed a meeting with you and their our
1:27:34
permanent guests Mr paully you have the
1:27:43
floor thank you good evening Mr President thank you for organizing this
1:27:48
meeting I’d like to ask you a question about the latest events in Ukraine
1:27:54
Secretary General of NATO Mr Stenberg suggested that there will be that
1:28:00
Ukraine be given an opportunity to strike the Russian territory using the
1:28:05
weapons procured from the from Europe some European countries agreed with this
1:28:11
notion including the United States not all of them but the United
1:28:17
States are also close to it still some countries are holding discussions about
1:28:22
sending military instr instructors and counselors I’d like to ask you to
1:28:28
comment on these two decisions what will be Russian response to that thank
1:28:33
you as for counselors and instructors and their presence there there is
1:28:39
nothing new they already present on the Ukrainian territory unfortunately for them they’re
1:28:45
incurring losses I know that for sure it’s not
1:28:51
done is it targetedly but um it just happens but the European countries and
1:28:57
the United States prefer to keep that
1:29:03
silent secondly as for high Precision long range
1:29:13
weapons I think we need to uh break this topic down into two first conventional
1:29:21
arms multiple launch rocket systems of 70 kilm range as so they have been used for a very long
1:29:31
time indeed the Ukrainian servicemen can do that on their
1:29:40
own now as for Hightech modern High Precision
1:29:46
Precision guided long range weapons such as sorum
1:29:52
shadow of UK or at camps of of the US or
1:29:57
the French missiles as well well and it Bears repeating since
1:30:04
well since I’ve said it before when I traveled to Central Asian countries at camps 300 kilm
1:30:12
range how are they used how are they transferred well they’ve transferred the missile system um it was given by
1:30:20
Pentagon by the US how’s it is used the Ukrainian
1:30:26
servicemen cannot independently uh conduct a strike with this missile they’re technologically
1:30:33
incapable of doing it for that they require satellite
1:30:39
reconnaissance intelligence and based on that intelligence data uh This Is Us
1:30:46
satellite intelligence they need to uh put in the flight task the flight
1:30:52
mission of the missile and later put it into the missile
1:30:59
system and the serviceman standing next to the missile
1:31:05
is doing that simply automatically he’s just pushing the buttons him mustn’t even know what
1:31:11
happens
1:31:16
next what could be the participation of the Ukrainian servicemen not those who are typing the
1:31:23
buttons but higher they can choose the target they can say what’s the priority
1:31:30
Target for them but they do not
1:31:36
decide whether to strike this target or not because yet again the flight mission
1:31:43
of the missile is basically typed in only by those who are providing the
1:31:49
weapons if it’s at a camps it’s done by pentagon Storm Shadow is done by the
1:32:02
UK it’s even simpler sometimes because the flight mission is typed in
1:32:07
automatically without uh the serviceman on the ground is done automatically by
1:32:12
the UK then that’s it and when the bundes fair officers
1:32:21
were thinking whether to strike the Crimean Bridge or any other facilities well they were thinking for
1:32:30
themselves right it wasn’t done for them that’s what they were going to do and the same applies to the French
1:32:38
Specialists so it is done by the Western Specialists therefore we Foster No
1:32:44
Illusion about
1:32:49
that well how are we to respond
1:32:55
naturally will improve our anti- missile defense systems air defense systems
1:33:04
will destroy these incoming
1:33:09
missiles second we’re thinking that if someone believes it possible to provide
1:33:15
such weapons to the military to to the war zone in order to conduct strikes
1:33:20
against our territory and to create issues for us then why don’t we have um
1:33:27
an opportunity to provide the same class of weapons to those regions of the world
1:33:32
where the strikes will be conducted against sensitive facilities of those countries who are doing that against
1:33:39
Russia therefore the response might be asymmetrical and we will think about
1:33:45
that number three such
1:33:52
actions well the they’ve deteriorated um they’ve um changed the situation for the
1:33:58
worse and they will continue to deteriorate the international situation and undermine International Security in
1:34:05
the end if we see that such countries are engaged in the war against the
1:34:10
Russian Federation and that is a direct participation in the war against the Russian Federation we leave ourselves
1:34:16
the right to respond the same way it’s a path towards very serious
1:34:22
issues I think that’s it if you have any other follow-up questions I think that
1:34:29
um I’m unlikely to add something else any other questions Mr Paulie or you’ve heard everything you
1:34:44
wanted I have yet another question but I don’t know whether it’s it’s the right moment to ask it there won’t be any
1:34:51
other moment we’ll just uh leave now so you should
1:34:57
ask I wanted to ask you a question about IL if I
1:35:03
may Italy supports Ukraine politically and
1:35:09
militarily but it also makes statements that Italy is not in the state of war
1:35:16
with Russia if you could please comment on the um position of the Italian
1:35:21
leadership we see the position of the Italian government is more moderate than
1:35:26
the policy of some many other European countries and we pay attention to it and
1:35:35
we give it the necessary evaluation then we see that there is no caveman
1:35:41
russophobia being spurred on in Italy and we keep that in mind as well
1:35:54
we expect that in Italy maybe after the
1:36:00
situation would be turning forur the better in the Ukrainian in the Ukrainian region well
1:36:08
maybe our relations will bounce back and possibly even faster than with any other
1:36:13
European country thank you Mr poly next we have Korea digital
1:36:19
development executive director Mr Park son hun
1:36:29
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1:36:38
Russia is cooperating with North Korea in development of the Far
1:36:44
East and in a great fashion
1:36:54
when you were when
1:37:00
the the South Korean Ambassador provided you with his
1:37:06
credentials you said that there could be development of relations what are what is the outlook for that you know just
1:37:12
like in our relations with Italy we see
1:37:19
that there is no russophobic sentiment in the work of the
1:37:26
leadership of the Republic of Korea there are no direct supplies of
1:37:34
munition to the conflict Zone and we highly appreciate that but we can also
1:37:40
see that there are certain attempts of sales to the US companies to further
1:37:50
re repurposed for the Ukrainian region and we are closely following
1:37:59
that however we truly hope that Russian South Korean relations will not
1:38:06
deteriorate considering our interest in the development of biolateral relations in terms of the Korean peninsula in
1:38:16
general unfortunately everything that’s happening has a negative impact on trade
1:38:23
and econom IC ties but we truly hope that the
1:38:28
foundation laid in the previous decades the level of our
1:38:34
relations will be maintained at least partially in order to have the chance to rebuild it in the
1:38:42
future today unfortunately many spheres of our
1:38:48
cooperation have been discontinued by the Republic of Korea they have created certain issues and we’re truly
1:38:57
sorry we’re working with other countries though we could have continued to work with the Republic of Korea but
1:39:03
it’s not our choice it’s the choice of the Korean
1:39:09
leadership but as for us um our door is open we’re prepared for
1:39:17
it thank you very much Mr park for your question Mr Putin if you would allow me
1:39:23
I ask the question on behalf of TS news agency yes please go ahead I would like us to go back to the Russian economy you
1:39:30
know this is just like um as people say um please keep talking about it you
1:39:37
spoke about the current state of economy but there were if you remember there were um people who said that um the
1:39:42
Russian economy is in tatters and then there were sanctioned
1:39:48
multiple times hundreds of sanctions now it’s 3 years of the special military operation
1:39:54
what’s the future outlook for Russian economy is it just as wonderful as the current state what do you
1:40:00
think some of our ill wishers believe that those multiple sanctions 16 or 17
1:40:08
thousands it’s unprecedented there’s no other country of the world against which
1:40:14
as many sanctions would have been slapped certainly these sanctions are an
1:40:22
impediment but the those ill wishers estimate that in the midterm this will
1:40:29
have a delorious effect in the Russian economy in this or that way and there
1:40:35
are grounds to that claim and those who believe that have
1:40:41
grounds for that especially as far as uh
1:40:48
high-tech and other domains are concerned micro Electronics AI everyone
1:40:54
knows you know the problematic domains as it were but there is a butt
1:41:03
coming you know even during the best years of our relations with the
1:41:08
so-called Collective West some of the cocom sanctions were
1:41:14
never analed or cancelled so restrictions remained in
1:41:19
place and I have every reason to
1:41:25
believe that you know expecting close cooperation in the most sensitive issues
1:41:32
is not something that would have happened we shouldn’t have expected that to happen in the first
1:41:39
place of course issues do come up but strange as it may sound even to us we
1:41:48
rise up to the task and overcome we used to you buy many things
1:41:55
from abroad but then we run into an obstacle we can no longer
1:42:02
buy some things we’ve got to think to use our brains we have
1:42:09
to look and turn to our producers our
1:42:15
designers and they are not simply replacing those who have with drawn from
1:42:24
our Market I’m talking about the Western producers but they
1:42:30
are picking that up taking the relay as it were and replace them with their
1:42:36
production this is the effect our ill wishers did not expect nor did we expect
1:42:42
that ourselves you know I’m not going to say what domain it is but you know there
1:42:48
was uh something they bought from France
1:42:56
like a cist or something uh the metal work was uh quite
1:43:02
complicated then the supplies stopped I asked what did you do they set up a
1:43:07
production facility in n and they replaced that and now it’s three times
1:43:13
uh cheaper and it used to be when it was imported from France and this is a real
1:43:20
life example and it happen it happens across many Industries hence the growth
1:43:25
we’re experiencing the growth of
1:43:31
3.4% in our GDP of course this growth will run into
1:43:38
certain limits these new niches currently occupied by Russian producers
1:43:46
and the subsequent steps in developing the niches the European and Western
1:43:53
producers have uh left all of that is going to run into limits into
1:44:00
certain restrictions So currently we’ve set some
1:44:06
strategic objectives and one of the objectives we have set forth is
1:44:13
technological Independence we used to pursue this path in the past and we are going to continue along this path we
1:44:19
will invest resources so that we can catch up and maybe take a leap
1:44:26
forward you know maybe jump forward in
1:44:34
technological matters whether we’ll succeed I cannot tell you right now but we’re optimistic I think we will be
1:44:43
successful and especially if everything changes and we you know if we
1:44:50
get cheap Hightech Goods then maybe the
1:44:56
economic actors will switch back to Western producers that
1:45:02
provide Goods at a good price and of high quality but if it does not happen
1:45:09
we will have to do that on our
1:45:14
own maybe we’ll have to revise our
1:45:21
forecasts first F into the future you know there’s one example I
1:45:27
always site there is the MS 21 aircraft we’re producing and there is a
1:45:36
airwing it’s not just metal but also some
1:45:43
reinforcement uh the US Administration has slapped some sanctions on that saying that there are some dual use
1:45:50
materials involved but um you know there’s no dual use it’s just uh a
1:45:56
competitor for boying uh 737 it’s a midr
1:46:01
uh meat Hall aircraft and we’ve managed to replace
1:46:09
those reinforcements we used to get from the US it’s taken us two years longer
1:46:16
but still I do not doubt that we will succeed but it’s all about the time that it’s going to take us of course
1:46:23
the deadlines are important because uh there is competition we are fully cognizant of that we’ll try to stay
1:46:32
ahead but I wouldn’t say there are some
1:46:38
critical difficulties involved in overcoming the sanctions and I do hope that that will be going the uh that’s
1:46:45
going to be the case going forward and it’s only logical to give the floor to
1:46:51
representative of the country that leading in terms of slapping sanctions there are three and a half thousand
1:46:57
sanctions u in we have uh news director for Europe
1:47:02
and Africa at the Associated Press James Jordan over to you sir thank you very much thank you
1:47:10
President Putin for this opportunity to address you directly um over two years ago you sent
1:47:17
Russian troops into Ukraine as you say to protect Russians and Russian speakers
1:47:23
in the donbass uh region and to keep NATO from your country’s eastern border
1:47:29
since then thousands have died on both sides uh and the fighting has even come
1:47:35
to some regions of Russia in the last few hours it’s been confirmed to the
1:47:41
Associated Press uh by a western official that Ukraine has used Us weapons on Russian soil in the last few
1:47:49
days do you see this as a further provocation to follow on from my colleague from an’s uh
1:47:56
question could you sum up for us what you feel Moscow has achieved in the last two
1:48:02
years and how does the fighting
1:48:13
stop the first thing we did was to perform our duty to the the first
1:48:21
thing we did was to perform our duty to the people
1:48:27
that had been suffering of the
1:48:32
kud and the ensuing hostilities unfolding in the southeast
1:48:39
part of Ukraine we recognized the rights of the
1:48:47
people leaving in these living in these territories to protect their interest to
1:48:53
protect their lives and the lives of their children and in my view this is the most
1:49:00
important thing we have also demonstrated both to
1:49:06
ourselves and To The World At Large that we’re not just talking about protecting
1:49:12
our interest but also walking the walk and we will continue to do that regardless of what happens and everyone
1:49:19
will have to take that into account
1:49:25
as far as the second part of your question is concerned what needs to be done for the fighting to stop in Ukraine
1:49:32
as a representative of the US I can tell you something I once told President
1:49:40
Biden some time ago he sent a letter to me and I sent a letter to him in
1:49:46
response I said if you want the fighting in Ukraine to stop stop providing
1:49:51
weapons and you know it’s going to take us two maximum three months for the
1:49:57
fighting to stop that’s the first thing
1:50:03
secondly we call on everyone not
1:50:09
to hamper the peace process distinguished Mr Jordan I have
1:50:16
to remind you of what was happening at the end of 2022
1:50:22
we did reach an agreement with
1:50:28
Ukraine we were willing to sign an agreement with them
1:50:35
which responded to a number of important issues the first issue was ensuring the
1:50:43
security of Ukraine and in the draft agreement
1:50:48
Ukraine entered such a formula that that said that Ukraine was
1:50:54
not a NATO member that it was a natural state but the security guarantees were
1:51:00
formulated in such a way that it was very close to the formulas used in the
1:51:07
Washington treaty um you know article four Article 5 I do not think there’s
1:51:13
any need for me to go into detail but that basically meant that all of those
1:51:20
who signed the signaries uh assumed the responsibility to provide assistance to
1:51:27
Ukraine it was a difficult decision for us I said we had to give it some thought
1:51:33
but I said we were willing to contemplate that and the same applied to
1:51:38
the Russian interest because the neutral states of Ukraine met the interests of
1:51:44
Russia you know the non uh block block free Status some restrictions on weapons
1:51:50
and this is something Russia is is interested in moreover you know we spoke about
1:51:58
dentifying Ukraine and I was very surprised when
1:52:05
the question started coming on what dentifying actually meant the naify
1:52:14
involves a legal ban on Nazi propaganda
1:52:20
strange as it may sound we managed to find Common Ground here too just as we
1:52:27
managed to find common ground with a view to finding a peaceful resolution to
1:52:32
this crisis situation and if the head of the
1:52:39
negotiating team from
1:52:45
Ukraine you know he he put his signature to the agreement he initialed the doent
1:52:53
and that probably means that Ukraine on the whole was okay with that draft
1:53:00
agreement and if we gave our consent to that that meant that we were okay with
1:53:07
that agreement as well I would hate to put you on the spot but a rhetorical
1:53:12
question nonetheless why did Mr Johnson come to
1:53:18
KF why did he recommend throwing that draft agreement to the dust bin why did
1:53:27
he put the go before the Ukrainian counterparts to seek a victory in the
1:53:35
battlefield to seek a strategic defeat of Russia Ukraine and its officials have
1:53:41
publicly stated that had they signed the
1:53:46
agreement the war would have been over at the end of 2022 it’s not we who are
1:53:51
saying that that it’s the words of the Ukrainian officials in KF and they say
1:53:58
that publicly so a rhetorical question why did someone need to prevent
1:54:05
us from signing this peace treaty with Ukraine I can only
1:54:12
speculate someone wanted to secure some
1:54:17
additional objectives they set forth for themselves on their
1:54:23
Russian foreign policy track they wanted to push Russia towards collapse they
1:54:29
wanted to secure Russia’s strategic defeat no matter the price so you ask
1:54:36
the question I do hope that I’ve given you a comprehensive
1:54:41
answer and when you have the opportunity to talk to the leadership with your country do ask them this question why
1:54:49
did you prevent the peace treaty between Russia and
1:54:55
Ukraine from being signed I’ve only shared my speculations with you maybe
1:55:01
there’s another answer may maybe there is an official comprehensive answer to that
1:55:06
question I cannot speak for my colleagues in the
1:55:13
UK or the us but Mr Johnson did come and
1:55:18
maybe he did come not just of his own valtion he did that with the support of
1:55:24
the US Administration and I do not doubt that this is what happened thank you Mr President with
1:55:30
your permission may I ask a very brief other question away from Ukraine
1:55:35
regarding uh the American reporter Evan gersich who’s been in custody for more than a year now uh there’s been no
1:55:43
evidence made public about uh what crimes he may have committed can you
1:55:48
give us the latest on any talks that might be happening uh with the us as regards his release and when we might
1:55:54
expect to see
1:56:00
him you know he you think he is um not guil guilty of anything the Russian law
1:56:07
enforcement agencies and the Russian special services believe that he
1:56:12
committed an illegal act of Espionage I’m not going to go into detail right
1:56:18
now I’m aware that the US Administration is truly
1:56:26
undertaking energetic steps to secure his Liberation but these
1:56:33
matters are not addressed through the media
1:56:40
Outlets they prefer to be addressed in a very calm professional manner through
1:56:46
the dialogue between the special services and of course they have to be
1:56:51
addressed on the basis of reciprocity inclusively and the competent bodies of Russia and
1:56:57
the US are in contact on this
1:57:02
matter thank you Mr Jordan and next over to Turkey deputy director General Editor
1:57:10
in Chief of and news agency Yousef Osan over to you Mr Osan your your question
1:57:16
thank you so much for having us today here Mr President actually I’d like to ask a question if all of
1:57:22
question on uh the question that I paed three years ago again during the
1:57:28
anniversary of the uh economic Forum it was over Zoom it’s happy to see you in
1:57:33
face to face uh it is about the Gaza war in Gaza right now um millions of people
1:57:41
around the world are opposing the attacks against the Gaza people which is
1:57:47
amount to the level of genocide right now and um
1:57:53
what Russia uh has uh or is intend to play a role in the solution of the
1:58:01
situation uh right now in Gaza and do you have any intention to also get the
1:58:06
security Council in motion uh because the people not only the gazan people but
1:58:12
the Palestinian people in general and the people of uh different Origins religion
1:58:19
ethnicity free from any identity uh U backgrounds the the people of world are
1:58:27
actually asking for the big powers to uh finish what is happening right now on
1:58:33
the ground in Gaza thank
1:58:41
you the first thing I would like to point out is
1:58:46
that we are certainly against terrorism and all its forms any manifestations we
1:58:53
are against attacks against civilians whenever and wherever that happens in any no matter what country it
1:59:02
happens but what’s currently happening in Gaza in response to the terrorist
1:59:08
attack in Israel well it doesn’t resemble a war very much it’s total
1:59:14
extermination of Civilian population I can only reiterate Russia’s
1:59:21
official position on this issue we believe this is the outcome of the US
1:59:32
policy because the US has monopolized the Israeli Palestinian
1:59:37
settlement pushing all the previously established
1:59:43
mechanisms aside discarding those mechanisms
1:59:50
Collective mechanisms which were set are precisely for the purpose of finding a solution to this issue maybe some in the
1:59:57
administration believed that the fewer opinions were put forth the quicker it’s
2:00:03
going to be to secure an agreement but the practice has disproved that point
2:00:10
secondly addressing this matter through some uh material
2:00:16
handouts is not going to yield the result that’s required
2:00:22
we’ve spoken about that we doubt that the resolution of political issues
2:00:31
related to the future of a Palestinian Nation can be replaced by economic
2:00:41
benefits there should be the right conditions in order to solve certain
2:00:46
issues still they need to be solved in their essence you need to solve the political
2:00:52
matters what is the main one of them is that creation of the two states as
2:00:57
stipulated initially when the
2:01:04
UN decided to to create two states on that territory the Palestine State and
2:01:10
the state of Israel therefore without solving the key
2:01:16
issues as it seems to me it would be impossible the matter in
2:01:23
the in its Ence it would be hardly possible I have to say that the Russian
2:01:30
position is a principled one in this regard it does not change with time or
2:01:36
the situation we have long recognized the Palestine State as such during the
2:01:43
Soviet times in this sense um our position remains unchanged we know that president
2:01:49
erdogan is very active in order to find a solution to this
2:01:56
longstanding issue a very pressing issue and
2:02:02
considering the standing of President Eran in the region in the world and in
2:02:07
in the Islamic world we truly hope that he would make a significant contribution
2:02:13
as for us we prepared to do everything now with power in order to solve this
2:02:19
situation by that I mean our relations that we’ve built with the state of
2:02:24
Israel throughout the past
2:02:31
decades Mr oan do you have a second question oh while you have the the
2:02:36
chance yeah I can follow up on that I mean thanks for your answer sorry also
2:02:41
another question would be regarding the turkey and Russia relations um you’ve been uh in in
2:02:50
negotiations or over the course of 10 last 10 years uh and uh the one of the
2:02:56
mega projects that turkey and Russia have uh achieved together was the
2:03:01
building of the nuclear power plant in Aku so for the future uh now uh is there
2:03:08
any development on Russian side regarding the U uh regarding
2:03:16
the production or the construction project of the gas Center that was being
2:03:22
discussed in the recent years is there any news from the Russian side about that or are there any other uh future
2:03:31
project that is being discussed between the two countries thank
2:03:36
you as for auyu everything is going going according to the plan it’s all
2:03:41
going according to the timeline we seen the deadlines executed
2:03:47
a lot of people are working and the the the constr construction the workers are
2:03:54
being engaged from Turkey because there is a lot of construction work being done our
2:03:59
specialist are working in Turkey we’re thankful to the Turkish government for
2:04:05
the conditions that were provided for this work the first unit is being
2:04:10
finalized however it’s all going according to the plan on all units as
2:04:15
for hydrocarbons and I’m I can repeat actually instead L
2:04:21
we’re not just building the station the the power plant we’re also building
2:04:28
Talent we’re prepared to take over the spent fuel we creating the whole
2:04:35
system it’s a new sphere of economy and energy of of turkey and president erogan
2:04:42
has made a strategic choice and I think it’s quite a right one it helps uh get
2:04:47
rid of the hydrocarbon dependency as well
2:04:53
we have a reliable partnership we doing now we work as for the gas Hub the gas Center
2:05:00
yes we’re working on it we’re thinking about it with gas prom with bodas and with
2:05:08
other partners but I’ll try to explain it’s not just a gas um storage gas
2:05:15
holder it’s a platform it’s an operator to trade in gas for Europe primarily but
2:05:21
I wanted to point the following thing out we’ve seen
2:05:26
well we’re guarding blue stream that leads to um turkey through the Black Sea
2:05:33
and that provides turkey with gas as well as Turk
2:05:39
stream that provides gas to Europe as well but we have to guard all of this
2:05:45
both of these pipelines that go down the bottom of the Black Sea because the
2:05:51
Ukrainian armed forces and making attempts to strike them and to destroy them at least the ships that are
2:05:58
guarding them have been constantly attacked and quite recently the latest
2:06:05
thing that happened I think seven or eight days
2:06:12
ago Ukrainian drones made an attempt to attack
2:06:21
at a gas pumping station situated on the shore of the Black Sea that is pumping
2:06:27
gas to Turkey incidentally we’d like to point
2:06:32
it out to you we have turkey has some cooperation with Ukraine at the same time ukraini is
2:06:39
trying to strike the gas pipelines providing gas to Turkey this is not a joke not an exaggeration two drones were
2:06:47
jammed by the uh Russian electronic Warfare um troops and
2:06:53
they were trying to strike the gas pumping station on the black Shore um
2:06:59
I’m not inventing something here that’s what happened please inform our friend president erdogan that
2:07:07
what’s happening in reality and the ships that are guarding this gas
2:07:12
transportation system that is at the bottom of the
2:07:18
Black Sea are constantly attacked by the
2:07:23
drones by the um water drones that are procured by the European
2:07:31
countries to Ukraine incidentally and they’re attacking our boats that are
2:07:36
guarding these two pipeline systems I think we need to speak to be
2:07:44
more vocal about it and to be more clear but as for propaganda that our um
2:07:49
Spanish friend complained so much about we’re not always succeeding that but that’s what really happening all the
2:07:59
time but bilaterally relations are developing rather successfully and our trade is
2:08:06
growing however I’m taking look at what what’s
2:08:14
happening and it seems to me that the economic part of the government of
2:08:20
Turkey recently have been focusing in receiving Investments and
2:08:27
Loans receiving
2:08:33
grants from the Western financial institutions possibly it’s um it’s all
2:08:40
right maybe all right but if it had if it will have um
2:08:46
limit limitations on trade and economic ties with Russia then I think that the loss for
2:08:53
the uh Turkish economy will be greater than the gain and I think there is such
2:08:58
a a possibility but it’s a um a sensitive matter maybe it requires a
2:09:06
separate uh discussion we’re just simply looking at the figures at the macroeconomic
2:09:17
indicators they require special attention from the Turkish government right now but I don’t want to go into
2:09:23
detail on that though I know them very well I’m very well read on that I know
2:09:30
what’s happening there thank you very much Mr
2:09:36
aan President Putin you’ve traveled for three days to usbekistan and you’ve mentioned that this visit was a very
2:09:42
fruitful one a very successful one and now you have a guest from TSH Kant who
2:09:48
came here Mr Kimo director of the national news agency usbekistan
2:09:54
Mr Kima you have the floor thank you Mr Putin during the recent negotiations in
2:10:01
Tash count you with um Mr MV you have exchanged opinions on the relevant
2:10:08
international issues for us in usbekistan it’s very important that we have peace and
2:10:15
stability in the neighboring country of Afghanistan unfortunately we see the
2:10:21
matters of Ukraine have completely substituted Afghanistan though it’s not
2:10:27
less pressing though there is an objective need to build interaction with the new
2:10:34
authorities of Afghanistan and to help solve them social and economic issues of
2:10:39
the longsuffering Afghan Nation moreover we
2:10:45
can see the strive of the new authorities that is Taliban to establish
2:10:50
peace in their country and to constructively cooperate with all
2:10:56
states therefore um here comes my question how important it is for the
2:11:01
Russian Federation to support ties with Afghanistan is the
2:11:07
Afghanistan playing an important role in Russian politics and policy and what’s your um
2:11:14
take on the situation in that country first I’d like to confirm that my visit
2:11:20
to usbekistan was indeed very thoroughly prepared and
2:11:26
very successful and effective yielded great results and I don’t think that it
2:11:31
has been paralleled yet upon the initiative of President mov
2:11:37
where we did not only travel to usbekistan upon the
2:11:43
invitation of the president with a great governmental delegation but we were also
2:11:50
simultaneously holding a meeting of the heads of regions it just happened so that half of
2:11:56
the Russian government traveled out to Tashan and a tremendous number of heads
2:12:01
of regions of the Russian Federation as well some leaders of the Russian regions
2:12:09
were happy to talk to the uh to the new members of the government of the Russian
2:12:15
Federation in Tash Kant as well they were working together
2:12:22
in wonderful lock tap and it was quite a surprise for me as well we were discussing the matters of
2:12:29
the issue of Ukraine and naturally president mizio is very actively promoting a peaceful settlement of the
2:12:35
Ukrainian crisis he spoke multiple times about the
2:12:41
concerns of usbekistan due to what’s happening in
2:12:46
Ukraine we’re thankful to the president
2:12:52
for the fact that the usbekistan policy is a very neutral in its nature very
2:12:58
well balanced as for Afghan Afghanistan we also spoke about
2:13:06
that the issue that usbekistan is facing is the matter of um finding an entry to
2:13:16
the global o to to the world ocean to the Sea so it’s a matter of logistics
2:13:21
through the territory of Afghanistan as well um pipeline Transportation railroad
2:13:26
Transportation car um transportation
2:13:31
providing energy and and electric power and so
2:13:38
on naturally for usbekistan and for us it’s very important that there is
2:13:43
stability in Afghanistan we have always believed that
2:13:49
we need to follow the
2:13:56
reality Taliban control the power are in power in Afghanistan
2:14:03
and naturally we need to strive to achieve
2:14:09
all agreements at the level of the United Nations to be implemented so there will
2:14:15
be inclusive power including all ethnic groups of Afghanistan it’s it’s a very
2:14:21
delicate matter very important one but we need to build relations with with the government
2:14:28
of Taliban in general we have contacts and I know
2:14:34
that usbekistan is doing it as well well we have to move forward we need to build
2:14:39
relations with the neighboring country especially since usbekistan has a very lengthy border with that country and you
2:14:46
need to ensure security as well and to develop Logistics we have agreed that we’ll work on that
2:14:53
together and we’ll study the opportunities there thank you very much thank you Mr
2:14:59
Kimo and our Far Eastern neighbor executive director of Kyoto
2:15:05
news agency doitsu saai Mr saai is a very seasoned International journalist
2:15:14
with great experience throughout his time he worked as a correspondent in different parts of the world for example
2:15:19
in Kenya Thailand Pakistan the US Mr saai please you have the
2:15:33
floor thank you so much Mr President that you have given me a valuable
2:15:38
opportunity to ask you a
2:15:44
question right now in the Far Eastern region there are many matters
2:15:51
that are of concern for Japan first and foremost that’s the territorial dispute
2:15:57
with Russia second military cooperation between Russia and the North Korea that
2:16:03
is being strengthened right now these two issues that we’re facing in Japan as
2:16:09
for territorial disputes and the territorial issues my question is the following in
2:16:17
karov this year you said that you will
2:16:24
absolutely travel to these four disputed curial Islands do you have any specific
2:16:30
plans um um a timeline for that
2:16:38
visit what do you think the situation right now is that
2:16:44
the negotiations are put on hold and if you visit these territories then our
2:16:51
bilateral relations um will be harmed yet
2:16:58
again if you could please share uh what what are your plans in that
2:17:06
regard as for Russian Japanese talks and their
2:17:13
reestablishment during the time of of the special military operation in
2:17:19
Ukraine these negoti were
2:17:25
discontinued and since then the descendants of the former C citizens of
2:17:32
that of those islands cannot go back uh to visit the graves of their
2:17:42
forefathers our relations with Japan were developing rather sustained manner
2:17:51
of course there were many issues especially the ones that regarded
2:17:59
the key issue in our relations that is the peace
2:18:07
treaty understandably this peace treaty could not have been achieved
2:18:14
without solving the issues that had to do with a kural island
2:18:21
we were fully aware of that back in the 50s and you and I know it very well that
2:18:26
the Soviet government made a decision I think it was done in 1956 a declaration was signed that the Soviet Union is
2:18:34
prepared to transfer two out of these Isles out of the chain of
2:18:41
islands but uh the Bas the basis for that wasn’t mentioned the reasoning for
2:18:48
that and U the sovereignty was also not mentioned and some other conditions um
2:18:56
possibly the payments were not mentioned however the very idea of a transfer was stipulated in that
2:19:03
declaration moreover it was ratified by the Supreme Council of the
2:19:13
USSR for some reason the Japanese side refused to implement these
2:19:19
agreements hence the Soviet Union also uh der ratified
2:19:26
that per request of the Japanese side we went back to the review of of these
2:19:31
matters it was a complex dialogue but still it took
2:19:41
place now you mentioned several issues visiting the
2:19:47
aisles the Russian Federation believes that this is is a part of the Sovereign territory of
2:19:53
Russia therefore I don’t see why I should sh shy away from visiting one of the territories of the Russian
2:20:01
Federation number one so second why do we believe that because
2:20:06
there were relevant documents that were signed um in the in the United States as
2:20:14
well by two delegations of the two countries it was one of the results of the second World War
2:20:22
and the results of the second world war are not to be revised it doesn’t mean that they were
2:20:28
no opportunities to agree this is a very delicate
2:20:36
matter however it’s not a black and white issue it’s much more
2:20:43
complex but we’re not shy to engage in a dialogue on this matter so first I I see
2:20:51
no grounds for me that would prevent me from visiting the a but to be honest so far I have not had that in my plans
2:20:59
because currently I’m looking into other matters but you have
2:21:05
just said that my visit there would
2:21:12
entail difficulties in drafting a peace
2:21:19
treaty sir what about Japan’s declaration that it is
2:21:28
joining the attempts at securing Russia’s
2:21:36
strategic defeat what of it does it constitute a barrier in the way of
2:21:43
negotiations on a peace treaty Japan has joined the calls to
2:21:52
to carry out a strategic defeat against Russia do you think that is a good
2:21:58
strategy to pursue when striving for a peace
2:22:03
treaty do you think my hypothetical intention to visit the
2:22:11
aisles is more serious than Japan’s the Japanese
2:22:18
government’s declaration of its intent to secure Russia strategic defeat in the battlefield I do
2:22:25
understand that this is not your personal question it’s been dictated by the editorial policy of your news agency
2:22:32
but I think you should ask your leadership that
2:22:38
question moreover we see that Japan is biased as far as the
2:22:45
Ukrainian crisis is concerned as of now currently there are no conditions in
2:22:51
place for Russia and Japan to continue their Dialogue on a peace treaty we do
2:22:56
not refuse to engage and such a dialogue but only once the requisite conditions
2:23:02
have been created especially from the Japanese side we’re not doing anything
2:23:08
in our bilateral relations that would complicate our dialogue with Japan not a
2:23:13
single thing everything that has been done has been done by Japan now moving on to
2:23:21
Russia’s relations with the
2:23:27
uh uh with North Korea with the dprk there can be different views in
2:23:35
that regard I think the dprk has on multiple occasions demonstrated its
2:23:40
willingness to achieve an agreement in particular
2:23:45
with the US and I think it’s precisely this willingness that
2:23:51
served as the impetus for the meeting between former US president Donald Trump
2:23:56
and uh uh Kim J moreover the Americans and
2:24:03
the North Koreans agreed that the latter were not going to carry out
2:24:11
nuclear tests U there was an agreement on shutting down the nuclear testing
2:24:18
site and that had to be reciprocated by some steps by the US in the banking
2:24:23
sector but it was not just an agreement this agreement was implemented but what it happened as a result the US
2:24:31
unilaterally violated these agreements doing that
2:24:36
directly we and
2:24:43
overtly so what would prevent us from developing relations with a country with
2:24:49
which we we have a contigous Buddha you know there are some things
2:24:58
that make me ask questions in the past we
2:25:03
supported some measures with regard to North Korea in particular and the field
2:25:09
of Labor migration you know you all work in the information field you are
2:25:15
immersed in this material as it were well versed in this field so why did we
2:25:21
support those measures what about Labor migrants what kind of a threat do they
2:25:29
pose we allegedly care about the environment some birds some sea
2:25:36
animals and what about people dying of hunger not because they are Bellos or
2:25:43
belligan it’s civilians peaceful citizens of the country we’re talking
2:25:49
about but we prevent them from getting a job limit
2:25:55
their opportunities in terms of securing a job to uh feed their families that’s just
2:26:03
bizarre well I’m just currently speaking in an
2:26:11
abstract fashion not in any relation to what is currently happening I think this is
2:26:17
what’s going to keep happening across the world if any one is threatened someone is threatened and they have to
2:26:23
respond had there been no threat in the first place then uh the difficulties
2:26:29
wouldn’t simply not arise I think the nuclear issue is a response to these
2:26:37
constant threats now as for our relations with North Korea I can tell
2:26:42
you that we will pursue this relationship because they are our neighbors whether others like that or
2:26:50
not thank you Mr
2:26:56
President uh Samy a from Reuters asks uh uh for the floor yes hi I have a I have
2:27:02
two questions I have a followup question on Gaza you know the war has been going on for eight months uh prime minister
2:27:09
Netanyahu said he won’t stop until he eradicates Hamas uh yet you know it’s still there so how do you see the
2:27:15
scenario how do you see this conflict unfolding and given your diplom IC you
2:27:21
know relations and cloud with the Palestinian Authority with Hamas even with the Israeli I know now it’s a bit
2:27:28
train but with Gulf Arab countries do you think of playing a leading role in
2:27:34
uh in uh mediating an end to the conflict uh based on a two State solution as the Madrid conference and we
2:27:41
really believe that there is hope for a Palestinian State this is one and then I’ll follow
2:27:47
thank [Music] I think there is
2:27:56
hope in particular due to the fact that both in the US and in Israel there are
2:28:03
people who Advocate a two-state solution there are people there who
2:28:11
believe this is precisely the path to pursue namely to set up two sovereign
2:28:18
states and there are people who believe that this path is going to lead us to
2:28:23
peace this is what will allow finding the peace
2:28:29
formula as for Russia playing a legion role I don’t think we we we need to do
2:28:34
that because there are many players who are involved in that conflict and who have a great deal of influence with the
2:28:42
uh developments but making a contribution to finding a solution is
2:28:49
something with could do given the relationships we have fostered over the
2:28:54
recent decades with Israel and also given the relations we have traditionally had
2:29:02
with the Islamic world with the Arab world these relations are based on trust but I think the main contribution needs
2:29:08
to come from the countries of the region and also the regional organizations such
2:29:13
as the organization for Islamic cooperation the Arab League the
2:29:20
neighboring countries such as Egypt Saudi Arabia the gulf countries
2:29:28
turkey as one of the leading players in the Islamic world and certainly the
2:29:37
us we are not holding on to some extremist position According to which
2:29:44
the US has to be excluded from the settlement that’s just impossible and Israel has to play a role as well
2:29:51
but the golden mean needs to be found and I reiterate this can be done
2:29:58
given the sentiments in the American society in Israeli
2:30:04
society and given the sentiment in the Arab world and in the Islamic
2:30:12
world we are trying to do what we can providing in particular humanitarian
2:30:19
assist as you’re aware we played a certain role in securing the release of several
2:30:25
hostages with Russian of Russian Origins and we continue to work pursuing this
2:30:31
Avenue working with our partners you are apt and saying that we’ve got good relations uh based on trust and we’ve
2:30:38
been fering those relations for decades but we need to work together rather than trying to monopolize the peace process
2:30:45
that would be harmful because monopolizing could be a good thing if uh the one
2:30:53
monopolize doing the monopolizing stuck to a neutral position but the
2:30:58
monopolizer is incapable of pursuing the neutral position sooner or later it
2:31:05
sides with one of the sides and it all falls apart resulting in the traged is like the one we are currently
2:31:12
witnessing that’s it so about the scenario how do you see
2:31:17
this conflict now the war in Gaza unfolding and one last
2:31:24
question sure we have come up with a number of initiatives of the UN Security Council
2:31:31
calling for a ceasefire the US has blocked that vetoing those
2:31:38
initiatives had we been working in solidarity trying to secure an agreement
2:31:43
that would be the positive scenario but so far it has not succeeded we directly call for ceasefire
2:31:52
this initiative and that initiative you know if we had not been involved in
2:32:00
reciprocal vetos uh rather trying to find a solution working together then
2:32:06
that would probably be the path towards finding a solution to this problem and another question you wanted to ask uh
2:32:13
just my question is that going back to Ukraine what would trigger a nuclear war and how close are we to that risk
2:32:24
[Music]
2:32:30
you know there are always accusations uh flung at us that we are uh nuclear cyber
2:32:38
redling but am I the one asking the question about the possible nuclear war you were the one to ask the question you
2:32:44
are pushing me towards this question and then you’ll say that I’ve been you know brandishing the nuclear
2:32:56
Tron you know this is a very grave
2:33:02
subject the US is the only country to have used nuclear weapons during the
2:33:08
second world war Hiroshima Nagasaki 20
2:33:14
kilotons our tactical nuclear weapons is 70 75
2:33:21
kilotons just the nuclear the tactical nuclear weapons so let’s not push the
2:33:28
situation towards the point when even a threat is involved let alone the use of
2:33:35
nuclear weapons for some reason the West believes that Russia is never going to resort to that but we’ve got the nuclear
2:33:42
Doctrine in place have a look at it what does it say it says that someone else’s
2:33:50
actions threaten our sovereignty or territorial Integrity then we believe we
2:33:56
have the right to use all the uh tools at our
2:34:06
disposal and no one should take that lightly or
2:34:12
superficially there needs to be a professional view of that and I am hopeful fool that everyone
2:34:21
across the world is going to perceive
2:34:26
that in this fashion when addressing such issues thank you
2:34:32
Samir thank you madam nul uh next uh inner
2:34:37
agency um Mr NAD is asking for the opportunity to ask another question go
2:34:43
ahead please God help us it’s the third hour
2:34:51
that we are continuing our conversation in your statements you
2:34:56
spoke about sanctions you have also spoke about
2:35:02
Iran’s accession to the shanhai cooperation organization as well as to the bricks
2:35:08
association with a view to achieving a multi-polar world my question is as
2:35:14
follows what’s your view of the future world order
2:35:19
given the uh desires and will of different independent countries do you
2:35:25
think Monopoly is going to be preserved as well as a multi a unipolar
2:35:34
world you know we have spoken about that on many occasions and
2:35:40
you know that better than anyone the US the the USSR collapsed well it was
2:35:46
dissolved whether it was uh destroyed or not that’s up for speculation but it
2:35:53
happened and only one superpower remained and it thought that it could
2:36:00
rest on its Laurels at the Helm of the whole world dictating their will to
2:36:06
everyone but the world is a complex system it’s developing rapidly
2:36:13
with new power poles emerging one of the
2:36:18
western European politicians and it it was not me I want everyone to understand
2:36:25
that he said all European countries are small
2:36:30
countries but not all of them have come to realize that
2:36:36
yet look at Asia and its development China one and a half billion people
2:36:43
India has probably overtaken that in terms of population other Asian countries are
2:36:50
developing at Breakneck space in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh Pakistan
2:37:00
Indonesia the pace of development is enormous the population is
2:37:09
growing and judging by
2:37:15
that the trend points to a shift in developmental patterns towards Asia
2:37:23
currently there are several processes at food and that part of the world they are
2:37:29
catching up in terms of economic growth are also catching up in the standards of
2:37:35
leaving this will inevitably result in the shifts in the world configuration
2:37:43
right now it’s impossible to talk about any kind of Monopoly Monopoly is no longer there
2:37:51
without a doubt the world can only exist in its
2:37:58
diversity if complete Monopoly is achieved it’s going to be terrible just
2:38:03
as in nature in politics the world needs to be a diverse place I do not know whether
2:38:11
that’s a good thing for the US I mean such a monopoly that emerged after the collapse
2:38:18
of the US Sr because that required additional efforts on the part of the
2:38:25
us just have a look at the
2:38:30
statistics totally the US defense
2:38:36
expenditure is superior to that of all other countries defense
2:38:42
expenditure combined so you can sum up all the defense expenses of all countries across
2:38:49
the world it’s still going to be inferior to the defense expenditure of the US because loads of money are
2:38:57
funneled into supporting foreign bases very often I get the question how
2:39:06
can you uh support the establishment of such uh modern Weaponry such as the
2:39:12
gliding blocks of the avanguard system the thing is we are concentrating our
2:39:17
financial and administ resources in key areas whereas the US
2:39:24
needs to spend a whole load of money on supporting it’s already expansive Armed
2:39:30
Forces across the world the foreign bases you know corruption is uh flaring
2:39:37
the expenses are great I I’m not accusing anyone we’ve got a lot of corruption to your countries too but uh
2:39:44
there is also a lot of corruption in the US because a lot of money can be stolen uh when it’s allocated for supporting
2:39:52
what’s there a lot of money a lot of resources are funneled into supporting
2:39:59
the Imperial status of the US does it benefit the American citizens I don’t think
2:40:05
so on the country it pushes the us down the ladder and the
2:40:14
experts in the US know that and they say and point that out publicly I read
2:40:22
them the question is how fast that is happening how fast the us is going to be
2:40:31
dethroned if they were smart people then they would read with their experts right and they they were correct course and
2:40:39
they would have stayed on the Olympus for longer however the current leadership
2:40:45
would like to hold on to this Imperial standing at any cost and that is only
2:40:50
detrimental to themselves still the changes are taking place they’re unavoidable they’re already underway
2:40:57
there is no unipolar world
2:41:04
anymore I think that the task for all of
2:41:11
us the United States Russia Europe
2:41:16
Asia so that would have an understanding of all of it but would not come to an extreme what our colleague from the UK
2:41:23
spoke about and for us to understand that and to moderate our ambition and
2:41:30
not to um try and agree with each other and not to try and make someone abandon
2:41:35
agreements then the world will change but without the possible
2:41:42
catastrophes that are so scary for everyone sorry um
2:41:51
[Music] today well I had yet another
2:41:58
question that
2:42:03
IAA issued a document against the Islamic Republic of Iran considering that right now
2:42:14
Iran considering that the US stepped out of the nuclear deal um with five
2:42:21
participants and that deal was adopted yet
2:42:27
again and I think a certain agency or a certain body should be used that would
2:42:32
be more professional and competent to possibly use it as as a
2:42:41
weapon what do you think this situation has to do with I don’t think I quite
2:42:46
understood your question no
2:42:53
however Iran fully executed its obligations under the
2:42:59
well-known deal that you’ve just mentioned there could be no grievances
2:43:04
against Iran in this regard the United States unilaterally
2:43:09
decided to withdraw from that deal and the Europeans continue to demand that
2:43:15
Iran execute fully its obligations well please forgive me but this is some
2:43:22
um garbage and absurd the Iran did not step out well
2:43:29
former president Trump decided to withdraw from the deal and the Europeans said oh yes that’s not quite right that
2:43:35
the that the US stepped out but you Iranians You observe it all why would
2:43:41
they do that well it’s just sounds little crude in Russian but if the key
2:43:47
actor stepped out of the deal why should Iran bear such a burden of the of
2:43:54
observing the demands we um asked Iran and we try to
2:43:59
convince Iran not to take any um sudden moves not not to step out of the deal
2:44:05
not to exacerbate relations with the EU well it’s this is an Open Secret but
2:44:10
I’ll reveal it to you we we also asking the rain leadership to keep calm it will
2:44:15
be even better for you to observe the agreement but I was thinking to myself
2:44:20
why should Ron observe it if everyone is um leaving the
2:44:26
deal but in general some kind of mechan mechanism should be found that would be
2:44:35
stable it’s clear to everyone today they sign the deal tomorrow they leave it how
2:44:42
can we work with that we’re always being told that trust is so important but
2:44:47
where is the trust in here um it cannot come from nowhere one
2:44:53
Administration left and the other came in and all of the previous obligations
2:44:58
are thrown out of the window just like today everyone is is
2:45:04
thinking about their own topics and I’m thinking about mine our colleague from the United States ask about possible
2:45:11
agreements with Ukraine well yes we have come to almost to to sign an
2:45:19
agreement with Ukraine well at the beest of the US and
2:45:25
the UK it was all thrown out and how can we agree
2:45:30
today how we can negotiate today the current leadership of Ukraine decided not to be elected now it’s a it’s a big
2:45:39
question now there is article 103 of the Ukrainian Constitution and it says that
2:45:45
the president is elected for 5 years only there was article 83 of the
2:45:50
Ukrainian Constitution and it stipulates that during the martial law the Mandate of the
2:45:58
parliament is extended as for the extension of the
2:46:03
presidential mandate well nothing is sad
2:46:09
nothing there is a law that explains the
2:46:16
status of the martial law
2:46:21
and it says that the Mandate of the is
2:46:28
transferred to the Parliament and that the elections of the president during the martial law are not being
2:46:36
held the the presidential elections are not being held but it doesn’t mean that
2:46:42
the results are extended see it’s not written there what
2:46:48
written is that the elections are not held the presidential elections are not held but their mandate is not extended
2:46:57
it’s not mentioned if it’s not written on paper it doesn’t exist on the contrary there is a article 109 of the
2:47:05
penal code of the Ukraine and it stipulates that it’s called a seizure of power who do we sign an agreement
2:47:15
with nevertheless it all can be solved we can negotiate on everything if the
2:47:22
authority is being transferred to the speaker of parliament well it’s just a matter of Goodwill of signing the the
2:47:27
treaty we’ll find someone to sign it with it’s not a problem as for Iran I
2:47:32
agree with you we would need some kind of a tool it seems it needs to be
2:47:38
elaborated a new that would be IL legitimate
2:47:44
one and reliable so that all participants of this process
2:47:49
wouldn’t feel in danger of of the fact that all previous conditions will be
2:47:56
destroyed tomorrow and one of the parties of Contracting parties will bear
2:48:01
the full responsibility of not observing something that was never
2:48:11
violated yes as for the current actions of the IAA and Publishing resolution about this
2:48:19
Republic of Iran if he could please uh comment on that I haven’t seen that yet I need to take a look at it um we have
2:48:27
been sitting here for half half a day now so show it to me please and I can
2:48:33
comment I’ll try to give you an opinion I I cannot as of now I haven’t seen it
2:48:40
yet thank you Mr NRI we’re we’re talking for 3 hours now shall shall we wrap it
2:48:47
up now yes please please is there anything that you believe important that
2:48:53
we haven’t yet uh mentioned Germany please you have the
2:49:04
floor Mr President in the last hours we’ve been
2:49:10
discussing the the issues and we we’ve discussed what do you think needs to be
2:49:15
done to solve these issues minister
2:49:20
the last two times with Minister lavro while we spoke with him and during
2:49:28
the G20 meeting in Brazil this year it’s been taken over by Brazil have
2:49:34
you made a decision that you will travel to India to take part in G20
2:49:49
first and foremost I need to the demands of today as you
2:49:57
understand there are many issues um today in Russia as well
2:50:03
maybe I will travel well maybe not well we all know well what kind of world we live in um I’ll speak
2:50:13
frankly it will depend on the situation in the country in in the
2:50:19
in the Ukraine and it will depend on the situation in the world in general to travel there to listen
2:50:26
to to smearing against Russia by Partners who believe that Russia is an aggressor well though they’re such
2:50:33
themselves well it’s not so nice and to create some issues for our India and France as well well we’ve been working
2:50:40
in G20 and we’ll continue to do that do I need to appear there personally I do not know yet we’ll leave and see as we
2:50:47
say in Russia um Mr n France press two short questions
2:50:53
the first question the US peoples have an interest in in asking Will T Carlson
2:50:59
will be a moderator on Friday on the at the plenary session here in C Carlson I
2:51:04
don’t even know who will be moderating I really don’t know Mr pesov hasn’t
2:51:10
reported that to me yet who moderated there you don’t know well he’ll report separately okay
2:51:18
yeah we haven’t agreed on that with Mr Carlson second question it’s already
2:51:23
getting dark but there are free Flags behind you flag of Russia flag of the
2:51:29
Soviet Union and of the Russian Empire the flag of Russian Empire is the
2:51:34
tallest one no no no they’re all equal in
2:51:40
height which one do you like the best the official flag of the Russian
2:51:45
Federation the three-colored flag it’s a an official flag of
2:51:51
Russia and second it’s it’s not a political decision of our administration of the of
2:52:00
the authorities it’s a gas prom decision well Miller Mr Miller sad to me that he
2:52:06
intends to do that but I can retell you the whole discussion well it’s it’s an
2:52:12
Open Secret and asked why I said that we have a state flag he said well it’s all
2:52:17
a part of our history
2:52:23
Nicholas II established the Imperial
2:52:29
flag he decided it should be black um yellow and
2:52:35
white because these are the colors of the Russian code of
2:52:43
arms back in the day in the 19th century that was the reasoning Peter the Great
2:52:48
established the state flag of the three colors the flag of the Soviet Union
2:52:54
especially since the victory over Nazism is connected to it it also has the right to exist in our history and in our
2:53:02
public Consciousness so I did not stand in the way I said please you you can do that it
2:53:10
has a the logic behind it a certain reason you shouldn’t look for something that it’s not
2:53:16
there you shouldn’t look for a certain subtext or something
2:53:22
else you shouldn’t look for our Imperial ambition there are none they are
2:53:28
non-existent because the world is changing so fast listen usbekistan do
2:53:33
you know how what’s the population of usbekistan you don’t what’s the population of France
2:53:40
right now a lot okay 60 million 65 million usbekistan has 37 million
2:53:48
and now pay attention look look at the screen so to speak they add another
2:53:54
million of population every year a million growth of population in usbekistan with such raid they will
2:54:01
bypass France very soon if you get rid of the the migrants
2:54:07
well soon usbekistan will be on par with France in terms of population and I’ll
2:54:14
explain to you why if someone suspects that we have some Imperial ambition
2:54:19
please imagine we’ll bring back the Soviet Union and we’ll have
2:54:26
a prevailing Islamic population did it ever come into your
2:54:33
mind you shouldn’t invent anything um that’s that’s not
2:54:39
there we’re not against the increase in the Islamic population we’re rather happy that it happens in the Russian
2:54:45
Federation now some of our predominantly Islamic
2:54:52
republics we have a very good birth rate and we are very happy about it but
2:54:58
what’s past is past the page has been turned and we’re looking into the future
2:55:04
based on the reality of today the flags that you see right now is part of our history you should not invent
2:55:13
anything and use these contemplations to to shape your opinion about Russia you
2:55:20
should not make an enemy out of Russia you’re only harming yourself with
2:55:27
that you imagine that Russia wants to um attack NATO are you dumb who invented
2:55:34
that this is garbage nonsense and nothing
2:55:40
else but it would have been just pure garbage if they didn’t
2:55:46
try to dup their population that they should cry wolf and say that Russia um
2:55:51
is trying to attack us and we need to arm ourselves and to send all our weapons to Ukraine why is it being done
2:55:59
to maintain their own Imperial domination and
2:56:04
greatness hence the the the threats and the scary stories for um for bourjois in
2:56:12
Germany and other parts of Europe there is no such threat and it could never be
2:56:18
defending ourselves in Ukraine where are the United States over the ocean and we’re here right now imagine we would do
2:56:25
that in Canada right now what the US is doing at our threshold right here in the
2:56:31
Ukraine or in Mexico or we we could say right now the
2:56:36
United States um now well back in the day they took part of the Mexican
2:56:43
territory and right now they could fight for the return of the territory that’s what the Western countries are trying to
2:56:49
do in terms of Russian Ukrainian crisis um have you ever considered that
2:56:55
you should look at the flags you shouldn’t look into the cruxs of the matter we have no Imperial ambition
2:57:02
believe me this is nonsense just like the threat
2:57:09
of of Russia to Nato and European countries look at the potential of the
2:57:14
NATO and Russian potential did you decide that we’re um
2:57:24
crazy the palace and the flag of of The Last of The Last Emperor of of France
2:57:31
the flag of Republic of the flag of Napoleon but here please forgive me when you’re
2:57:38
here I didn’t see all three right over there there they’re well they’re just here
2:57:45
this is a private initiative Mr Miller and he has an interest in in Russian and
2:57:51
history I can repeat it to you once again it’s not connected with anything
2:57:56
except for the with history and paying our dues to the generation who lived
2:58:03
with these flags and Banners and achieved great success in
2:58:09
the development of our state thank you another short question
2:58:16
from e well we can sit here till um early hours of the morning
2:58:22
then maybe we can um speak later
2:58:27
tomorrow we need to go to Pushkin then no no no no so okay okay
2:58:35
let’s let’s take the last one I’ll be very short tomorrow we’re
2:58:42
going to celebrate the 80th anniversary of um of the dday
2:58:52
of the US um French
2:58:58
soldiers they fought together with Russian soldiers with Soviet soldiers do do you can
2:59:05
you can you rule out that right now Russians French and the US can work
2:59:11
together and be partners no we cannot rule that out
2:59:19
it’s the US and Europeans who are ruling that out we’re all for it we did not
2:59:25
introduce any sanctions against Europe we did not um discontinue providing
2:59:31
energy to Europe to Germany we are being sanctioned here you said that tomorrow
2:59:38
they’re going to celebrate 80y year anniversary of the dday of the dis
2:59:43
arment in in the in Normandy we have always held our allies
2:59:51
in greatest esteem both Americans and the British the
3:00:01
French incidentally do they know in France that it was Stalin who insisted
3:00:10
on France’s presence and not just presence but also on Fran’s signing
3:00:18
the capitulation pact with Germany both the US and the UK were against that it
3:00:26
was Stalin who insisted on France’s being there as a victory uh country when
3:00:35
the PCT on unconditional surrender was signed with Germany the French do not
3:00:40
remember maybe they do not want that or maybe they do not think mat of it but it’s a historical fact something we’ve
3:00:47
preserved in our archives we’ve always had great respect for
3:00:56
the France that was fighting in resisting despite German troops marching
3:01:01
from Paris we supported the m and also
3:01:08
the uh Normandy neon Pilots our opens our doors are
3:01:14
always open to talks to negotiations and discussions
3:01:21
you have just mentioned that but it’s as if we are not welcome at that holiday as
3:01:29
it were how many uh Americans did die uh in the second world war 50
3:01:36
60,000 and even fewer British citizens died uh the
3:01:42
number is lower than that of of those who died during the first world war you know the biggest sacrifice on the order
3:01:49
of this Victory were made by the Soviet Union according to the latest calculation around uh 27 million people
3:01:57
out of them around 70% from Russia the uh uh Russian socialist feder of Soviet
3:02:05
Republic Russia accounts for 70% of those losses you’re asking whether we
3:02:12
are willing or not willing but no one has invited us
3:02:19
the biggest contribution to defeating
3:02:24
Nazism and it’s evident you have uh all you simply have to read Churchill you
3:02:31
know the biggest contribution comes from the Soviet Union the biggest contribution to the
3:02:37
shared victory over Marxism and everyone knows that only uh the most dishonest people are trying to distort these
3:02:44
historical facts okay let them be let them celebrate without
3:02:49
us we you
3:02:55
know it’s not going to uh do as much damage but uh they’re saying that the
3:03:02
current leadership of Ukraine is going to be there right now but just listen how can you celebrate such an important
3:03:08
anniversary and the fight against Nazism together with those who are putting the
3:03:15
neo-nazis onto a pedestal making national heroes out of them the current
3:03:20
symbol of Ukrainian statehood is Bandera who was one of the major
3:03:29
henchmen of Hitler in the territory of the Eastern Europe and it was through the hands of banderites that thousands
3:03:36
of uh Russians and Po and Jews were shot dead he was the closest accomplice of
3:03:44
Hitler yes at the end of the war he sniffed on the wind that victory was
3:03:51
escaping from the clut of Hitler and he started to search
3:03:56
for new allies to the west and uh the Germans took note of that but he was the
3:04:03
main collaborationist and you know he threw a hand salute
3:04:11
welcoming the Nazis and he was directly collaborating with them
3:04:20
the then you know back then he was still legitimate and the head of uh Ukraine
3:04:29
applauded standing a NE for Nai at the Canadian
3:04:34
Parliament do you know about that of course everyone knows about that but the media of the West Europe
3:04:43
the US and Canada were trying to keep it
3:04:49
even though it was a person who fought against the allies during the second world war and everyone stood up and
3:04:56
applauded the person who as they said had fought against Russia and who did
3:05:01
fight against Russia during the second world war it was Hitler and his allies so the man who got that stand in evation
3:05:08
was a former SS Soldier and tomorrow this very same people are going to celebrate the
3:05:16
dday what are we to make of that especially given the fact that Russia is
3:05:22
the successor state of the USS that suffered such heavy losses well they’re
3:05:27
ashamed to invite that okay we’ll survive that but you know that answers
3:05:32
your question about who is interested in rebuilding relations and who is not we are all in favor okay the last question
3:05:40
if you don’t mind yes go ahead okay
3:05:48
well who else go ahead then and I’ll ask the last
3:05:56
question you spoke about Nazism you’re aware that there
3:06:03
is a party in Germany that is a source of certain
3:06:11
preoccupation among the public and other parties it’s a party that’s uncritical
3:06:19
about this period of our history and this party is called alternative for
3:06:27
Germany and many of their members many families are currently under
3:06:33
constitutional surveillance due to their rhetoric and their actions the co-chair
3:06:40
of that party visited Moscow in 2020 if my memory says me right
3:06:49
he was invited to the Russian Embassy in Berlin as far as I’m aware so what do you make
3:06:58
of afd party and what’s your relation and attitude of
3:07:06
Russia towards this party and vice versa of this party towards Russia yes you’ve mentioned him the the leader of the
3:07:13
party he has been to Moscow and I think I’ve met some of the leaders ship of the party but we do not have any systemic
3:07:21
relations with these with this party but currently what we see is that
3:07:31
any alternative to the mainstream position in Germany is viewed as
3:07:37
extremist and everyone is all of a sudden dubbed as the kremlin’s agents if
3:07:42
there is a political force that is criticizing the current leadership then in a Democratic Society I think there
3:07:49
are no grounds to all of a sudden declare that political force as an anti-
3:07:56
State Force trying to shut it down you know when Hitler was thrown into prison
3:08:04
after a failed pch in Bavaria if I remember correctly his
3:08:10
popularity sword he was on the
3:08:16
ascendant before that he had not been considered as a national politician but
3:08:21
after his arrest he turned into one but we see no signs of neo-nazism
3:08:30
and the activities of the alternative for Germany party if there is someone
3:08:37
who Advocates normal relations with our country we can only support that but it’s not up to
3:08:45
us to decide whether that political force is acting under the German
3:08:53
Constitution but let me reiterate we see no signs that would that we would be
3:09:01
concerned about if the current leadership of Germany sees a thread to
3:09:06
itself in The Stance of uh the afd
3:09:18
then you know as they say
3:09:27
it’s not a cup of tea well it’s uh it doesn’t concern us
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as it were but let me get back to what I’ve just said aft is
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allegedly suspected of some Neo-Nazi views
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and what about people who
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collaborated with the Nazi regime in Ukraine they are not viewed in the same
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light and this is precisely what we call double standards both in internal politics and in foreign politics we’re
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going to cooperate with anyone who wants to work with Russia
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and we’re not given any political assessment to what’s happening inside Germany it’s up to the political
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authorities in Germany and it’s up to the Constitutional Court of Germany to
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pass that judgment but you know I cited the example of
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Hitler those who resort to and political means in political fight fail in
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achieving their political goals Mr President you’re probably aware or maybe not that the west Western uh
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media well a very passionate about you they are painting you as a villain or oh
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yes let them do that let them fear me what about those pictures uh does Mr
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pesov show them to you no he does not he’s trying you know to preserve
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my mental state and peace of mind I know that from time to time when there is a
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flare up of tensions between countries there are attempts at
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intimidating the rank and file citizens there’s nothing no novel about
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that and honestly I don’t have time for
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that I don’t have time to you know follow this
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propaganda I prefer to work on the the substance of our
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relations with our partners the partners of today with potential partners with
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former partners with a view to building and fostering normal relations
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which will help us secure the goals of our national development Mr President a
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huge thank you for this Frank conversation on behalf of Tas agency and on behalf of our colleagues uh patience
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to you good health and God’s help yes I would like to thank you for coming
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here maybe you were instructed to do so or maybe there was no instruction but
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you had the courage to come thank you for your interest and what’s happening in Russia and what’s happening in our
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relations with other countries amid very difficult
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conditions well we’re not going to dwell on the origins of the situation everyone
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knows about them but still a huge thank you for your interest I would like to
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say my words of thank you and I do hope that you will cover all of that in as
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impartial manner as possible performing your mission your
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duty trying to do that in a very correct
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fashion and I do hope that our meeting today and your work in
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future will be aimed at
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repairing and stabilizing our bilateral relations and uh improving the situation
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across the world so that we move towards solving the crisis rather than fueling
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them thank you
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thank you
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I’m going

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