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Vladimir Putin’s Full Speech: New Scandalous Threats & Warnings Rock U.S. and The West
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Watch the full speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he delivers new scandalous threats and warnings that have sent shockwaves through the U.S. and Western nations. In this compelling address, Putin discusses the geopolitical tensions, Russia’s stance on international relations, and his response to recent actions by Western countries. Don’t miss out on this crucial update on global politics
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thank you Mr President for a very interesting
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intervention I feel that they are not going more of a spe
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has been more of a discussion because what you’re saying sounds offensive to the government of the Russian Federation
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and to others as
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well you said that we’re doing something I’ve been standing here for for an hour and explaining what we’re doing now did
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you fall asleep maybe he took a nap a cat nap as they say and you didn’t hear
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what I said for an hour I was speaking about the whole program of of 10 items
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on the agenda therefore we’re not just doing something we’re
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working on a new development strategy and we have it in place and we’ve done it for more for
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more than a year not alone we’ve done it together those brains that you’ve
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mentioned entrepreneurial Community with their associations we constantly have
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meetings and conferences we didn’t do anything and behind closed
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doors and you suggest create certain structures institutions we have them in
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place that Central Bank the government Russian Federation and part of the presidential Administration in
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Russia now as for the creation on the margins or within the St Petersburg
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International economic Forum a working group that could do something on the margins of the Forum
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it is well known we know if is saying and we know who said it if you want to
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fail something you need to create a working
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group I have to admit we have so many working groups right now I don’t know
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where where to chair them there’s yet another working
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group and you need to be the head of it I said all right I will think about it
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and here on the margins yes we can do that but in the summer please because it’s so cold on the margins of St
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Petersburg
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no but you’re well known in our country not only as an economist but also as a political science scientist is a very
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outstanding person and certain dimensions of of the thought you rather
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rather robust in your ways of thinking and it’s always interesting to listen to such people and I say it without um any
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flattery besides I have to admit that sometimes I read what you write and what
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you say therefore we we’re not refusing to
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to have this discussion we’re prepared to discuss everything that would benefit the Russian economy
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very well of course I will agree with my president but with one clarification
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what kind of a model are we building do we know I I think that a perfect model for
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Russia would be an authoritarian socialist capitalism so it
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is clear where are we going because it seems that we’re going the right way and
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before that followed the liberal path I cannot really understand yes
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we’re doing something and we’re proud of what what the government is doing finally they’ve started to do it well
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incidentally when when you know when the Thunder stroke you know but before that
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nothing happened well you
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know overcome all circumstances you know every difficult
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as for the model I recently spoke during the meeting with the heads
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of news agencies from around the world we need to look at what’s happening around the
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world for example the Chinese model is believed by many expert to be
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more efficient those models that existed before including the North American or
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in the European model it is more efficient that is true that’s that is basically what you’ve just
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said it has the
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combination of planned economy and market economy the Chinese managed to do that
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in their conditions and I agree with this evaluation it is indeed so the
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figures of economic growth speak for themselves
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but that works for the Chinese society and for the Chinese
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economy I can agree with the following when you gave a characteristic of my
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colleague you mentioned that economy is is a science but to a certain extent
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it’s an art possibly
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so models when they’re rigid when it’s one size fits all for all
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countries for in different conditions different stages of its development such
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rigid schemes do not work work badly and you always need to follow the reality of
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your country and all things matter the history the culture and the the fabric of the
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society real development is crucial here look at what works efficiently in our
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society naturally they’re basic things and we always consider
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them for example talking about challenges
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but I think it was 3.6% we haven’t calculated
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it gave final evaluations but as for 4.5% growth in first quarter of this
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year is also good result of our joint work of the government of the business
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Community Central Bank and the presidential Administration to boot this
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is the result of our targeted action and as for what is the foundation
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of our model well I have I have just spoken we are creating the
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backbone and we are always making some decisions that have to do with the adjustment of our economic model
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uh the whole of Siberia I agree with you in that we need to develop the
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Eastern parts of Russia Western Siberia Eastern Siberia the Russian Far
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East we started with the things were most urgent in terms of
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preserving our territories and developing them we start with the Russian Far East because we were
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experiencing a fast depopulation and there was no way we could afford that to
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continue and we can see that a lot has been done done over the last decades the
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last 10 years to be more precise in terms of developing the Russian Far East I’m not going to dwell on that right now
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but we’ve had an extensive program to that end and the same applies to Siberia in
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general both Western Siberia and Eastern Siberia Western Siberia has been developing
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extensively starting from the Soviet times because you know it is the source of mineral resources the whole country
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utilizes still gradually the center of
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economic development is moving eastwards and northwards you know you you know who said that that
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Russia is going to grow through Siberia right now we can say that Russia is going to be gr through the Arctic as
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well because the bulk of mineral resources is located over there in the
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north yes it’s expensive and difficult to develop those resources but still
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it’s a promising Avenue to pursue and this is precisely what we’re doing I have just spoken about the development
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of the Eastern polygon the railroad we started this work a long
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time ago you know when the TR Siberian Mainland was constructed before the
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Russian Japanese war and then uh you know the Bal Amor Mainland during the Soviet times and right now in the uh new
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history of Russia we uh set the goal for the development of this Avenue yes we
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had some Miss miscalculation we didn’t think it would be as much in demand
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that’s what the government had thought so it is a prolonged the development of
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the Eastern polygon but still this development is moving for it is happening not to the scale
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initially planned but we will be doing that it just that under the current circumstances we can’t afford to do it
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in the way that it was done during the Soviet time or even during the reforms of Stalin all he had to do is to hand
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out land why the major means of production back then was land right now the major means of production is human
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brains we need to develop Technologies we need to build universities and train
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and educate proper people for that and that’s what we’re focused on as well um
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during my speech I mentioned student campuses in 40 universities that are to
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be created I talked about development of Science and education I talked about the
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necessity of use of robotization
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AI to large degree all of it will be happening in
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Siberia this is our approach and this is where we’re going to move
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our biggest companies
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unfortunately you can’t do it purely through the administrative effort I already mentioned uh some
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companies that operate in Siberia anyway specifically Rus Hydra this is one of the largest if not the largest uh Hydra
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Power Company in the world and the manager of this company when I appointed him I told him there is one you have to
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move over to Siberia this is where the headquarters would be and he agreed will the family go with you he said it would
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and clearly it’s not just about uh building a a house you have to hire
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people there and this particular manager was ready to go to Siberia straight away but hiring the right people there it’s
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no easy story some people are ready to relocate some are not some you can’t afford to lose this is a process and
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this process has to evolve organically but undoubtedly this is the goal we have
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I fully agree with you on that and we have to pursue it very consistently because the the centers of the world
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development is there and we have to be closer to those centers Peter the Great was breaking the window building the
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window to Europe because the center of development was in Europe back then uh
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the centers of the world development right now are shifting towards Asia there is no doubt about it and we have
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to be closer those senders you’re
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right I would like to have a quick followup question that I’ve been preparing for a long
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time well Peter the Great is renowned for establishing closed eyes between
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Russia and Europe opening up Russia to Europe back then that was the most promising
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Market why don’t we create the third capital in Russia so that stand on three
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pillars somewhere around one of the largest cities this is where young talented people would be ready to
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relocate that are truly energetic uh this is where we would
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create new Elite uh based on your order we could move some Ministries there and
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you’ve just said it yourself administrative resource alone can’t do all of it but still it can do much and
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many companies would be forced to relocate to follow High salaries if you decide so
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don’t you want to repeat the uh great deed of Peter the Great he did it well
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well Peter the Great is a truly historic figure and he was the saw of Russia and
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then Russian Emperor and the conditions there were entirely
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different the state of the society was entirely
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different uh the process of goal setting back then was entirely
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different in today’s world we need to use those means that would be effective
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today and no matter how close we are mentally to taking fast decisions and
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act through administrative resource I still believe it is crucial to think carefully how successful can we be
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if we simply try to issue instructions and orders to the society I believe we
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need to act differently first and foremost we need to get Society interested in making progress you need
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to get the society excited and if we create the right conditions for development then the centers of economic
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activity would be automatically shifting there on their own just aside their example of the Far East many years
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ago I visited the ship building Enterprise there it was close to Vlad
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Volo and uh back then it was in a dire condition and this is when I said
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that here we are not just going to recover what we used to have but we’re going to establish new competences we’re
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going to buildt new sheeps there you should have seen people standing around me back then those were regular workers
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and Engineers they looked very skeptical and I have to tell you it took
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massive effort to build the cluster that is being
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created there right now it’s not just about money that would be constantly
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owled and unfortunately I have to acknowledge that we Tred to approach this project several times twice or even
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three times and the current leader of rosin has put his hands on that and
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created large ship construction and ship building Enterprise there and it took
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massive effort it’s not an easy thing but what
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I’m trying to say is that we finally have the right Talent there since the salaries are high people are ready to
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move and the level of salaries went up the level of technological culture is
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not much more advanced there is a cooperation with the neighboring countries in the region and
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right now the uh leadership of ship building industry is all around VB bank and Mr
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ctin who is seated here in the front row I am really pleased to see that he’s
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very much engaged into this business it looks like as if he has never been in finance and he would dedicate all of his
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life to ship building right now we thinking where else we could create one more Enterprise of a kind and we also
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see that it could be somewhere on the Coastline or close to the
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coastline and through that kind of
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natural and I’m sorry I’m really worried I may traumatize your Imperial mindset
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but we’re trying to pursue that through the market ways and Market
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approaches and this is a good promise for success of course this work is
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complicated but it would be really really substantial and when I mentioned Stalin yes back then it was all about
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strict orders and commands and we all remember the tough measures that were imposed up to extreme and death
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sentences but back then it was uh economically feasible and meaningful to
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act in this particular manner you provide people with a major means of production you provide them with land
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you provide them with the right conditions and then it would work right now giving orders and commands is not
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enough I guess the approach that I’m suggesting is much more substantial and this is where we are very likely to
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succeed but otherwise you’re right of course we need to focus on this particular
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area well this is no longer an imperialist idea well I’m not sure that they would
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be ready to recognize this kind of system look BR Wood’s system is long dead in
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1976 and it was replaced by a Jamaica system but at the same time brenwood
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system was largely based on the gold equivalent in
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1976 around this date a number of other decisions were being made and back then the United States decided to step away
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from the gold equivalent and this is how uh Jamaica system was established and
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this system decided to detach US dollar from gold equivalent
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and what is the foundation for this Jama system this is still in force up until
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now this one is based on trust towards US economy what is happening right now in
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reality there is no other promise no other collateral rather than trust
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towards US economy there is nothing else to support that in the world financial system and
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right now the United States are exploiting and abusing their dominant
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position on the world financial market and this exploitation is
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generating them a lot of money according to the data that we have publicly
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available the United States own the world economy about
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54.3 trillion us do this is the level of their debt what is this number comprised
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of uh this is 12.6 trillion us this is what uh individuals hold on
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their bank accounts or literally in their pockets or under mattresses as we say it in Russia outside of the borders
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of the United States plus 10 more trillion
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is Borrowed by the US companies so this is
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22 and6 trillion of US dollars that are
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not backed by anything rather than trust towards US economy and belief in the US
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economy and the remaining uh 54.3 is What the residents of other
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countries decided to invest into US companies and that kind of investment in the US company is backed by reliability
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and valuation of those companies but of course their security
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and reliability is strongly dependent on the US economy and US system as well so
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what is happening in the world in this regard the US economy shrinking in size
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and the foundation the major pillars of the economy are no longer that strong there are cracks on them I’m not only
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talking about the state Deb that is massive but they are not always coping with the goals they set themselves in
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terms of inflation targeting they have Target on inflation of 2% but as we’ve seen it lately during the pandemic they
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go well above 7.8% which is undermining trust towards
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US economy well what is backing US economy if it is still shrinking well there’s nothing to back it and this is a
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problem undoubtedly this is a problem for all holders of uh US Dollars and uh
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US money base and assets so the fact that the US economy is shrinking it
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share in the global economy is being reduced and it is entirely
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natural this is our shift towards multipolarity in the world economy and
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World
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Finance we could definitely come up with alternative systems but the importance the role of a given
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currency strongly dependent on the economy where it’s circulating
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so what we do right now is that together with our bricks Partners we are designing this work
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together and the role of Russia in this regard can be quite meaningful we have established the new
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development Bank we have established our own currency
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tools a large part of the participants of economic activity are switching over
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to settlement in National currencies take example of China
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90% of our trade is settled in renman B and Russian
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rubbles if you look at the territory of post Soviet countries the share of Russian Rubble is also getting close to
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70% so our role in this regard is quite meaningful but we have to do it together
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that would make it all more substantial what the US Financial authorities are
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doing right now we’ve been discussing it yesterday with some of our colleagues until late yesterday we’ve been discussing the
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composition of our today’s session and the potential topics and we came to conclude that the US authorities just
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like what was happening in the UK they’ve been intentionally breaking the equipment the hardware they’ve been
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using themselves that kind of sabotage and this is what exactly the US authorities are doing themselves they
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are destroying and breaking down the me ISM of ensuring their dominance and their Supremacy and US dollar is a
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mechanism of us Supremacy today and with their own hands they are fostering the
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road to step away from the use of US dollar and that would be happening
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anyway due to the shrinking US economy but through those actions they only accelerating this process and it’s only
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logical that new payment mechanism are emerging let’s say Financial instr of the central banks that we’re talking
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about within the breaks format there are also some other thoughts on that for
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example right now our colleague from Zimbabwe mentioned the importance of attracting investment yes that can be
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done and should be done and not just for Zimbabwe but also for other African countries
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and countries south and Southern Asia in
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particular and all developing countries but we need to create the right instruments that would provide
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guarantees for this investment and their Returns what else can we use other than gold when it can be guarantee through
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the quality of the investment projects if we are to provide for high
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quality of the investment project then we have to do that together quality and stability of political
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regimes well this is that can allow us to establish settlement system that would be entirely protected from
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volatility and inflation it can be done and we’ve been discussing it with my friend and
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colleague presiden C during my visit to China we are going to discuss it in the
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90s we simply did not spend away we destroyed all of that capacity I know
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that fully well I remember it because I used to work here in St Petersburg 70%
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of the city’s economy was made up by the military and defense
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industry almost all of it was destroyed to the ground naturally from the beginning of
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2000s we had to start working on rebuilding that a lot was done already
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on up up toate industrial basis but we always believe that we
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would need to think about the conversion not simply about conversion
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we need to think about the development of these Productions in a modern way
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what do I mean by that because around the world those who produce special
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equipment and and military equipment they also produce Civ civilian oriented products
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and that has tremendous Synergy in not only raising investment but also
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attracting High Technologies and we quite successful we have a
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plan it is always in place and always been executed for example take last
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year defense industry
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produced 25% of Civilian production about 25.1% or maybe
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2% that was 2022 and last year that civilian production stood at 29
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something per. almost 30 therefore this process is always taking
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place we also must think about our military expenditure and
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that they are in line with the needs of today and the level of development of our economy because we cannot parasitize
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on anything as it is for example being done in the United States
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balance of payments deficit their tra trade balance is at about 1 trillion US
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dollar per year try to imagine that everyone here in the audience can
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really understand what that is this is neoc colonialism in its
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modern issue using the Monopoly of
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dollar the United States are consuming
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by one trillion per year more than they produce pumping out the resources from
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other countries we were thinking back to the pandemic and the times of
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the pandemic what was done back then I don’t remember how much they how much money they printed I think about five
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and something trillion dollars and Europe printed about 3.4
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trillion Eur what was done next they
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distributed this paper around their country later they started to buy up
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food Goods like a vacuum cleaner they cleaned out the whole
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world and for the first time for many years they did not they weren’t they
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were not exporters importers of food
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right away the food inflation skyrocketed around the world but we cannot behave this way we don’t have
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this Monopoly on on the world currency as the US does and we’ve never behaved
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ourselves as colonialists or neoc colonal here we need to use the capacity of the
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economy and to have a realistic evaluation of it that is precisely what we do and we try to balance out the
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situation in the IND the real sector of economy and for the future naturally we’re thinking about diversification
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that is how we work thank you
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wonderful yet another question about economy because I know that this question is very important for a major
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part of the audience I’m not as bothered by it but still I can feel the
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vibe we’re conducting partial nationalization
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some say that it is being done to amend those terrible mistakes or whatever that
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was during the round of privatization those reforms indeed were
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rather dumb now we have a matter of um private
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property and that was the reason for tremendous corruption because there was a matter of corruption
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organized crime well now we we have a reverse correction of privatization but
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where is the limit where is the limit for that deprivatization can we Define them
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finally because if we say that we correct those mistakes that were done
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back in the ’90s then all mistakes were made because everything that we did was
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illegal it was done illegal with violations
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I had to deal with those economic processes because science did not give me any wages and I had to family up so I
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know what was happening back in the day so everyone needs to be
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deprioritized right now but that would undermine the
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foundation for our success we saw the way private Capital including in our
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complex more conditions is very flexibly finding
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and filling new niches and gives us a much more flexible
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economy if it was purely State based should we stop
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somewhere maybe we can say that the mineral resources are being taken away by the state we prohibit the outflow of
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capital and we declare private property sacred after a certain extent in the
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of governance and all leadership would be based on the
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level of Defense of private property as for mineral
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resources they even right now they’re the property of the
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state that is the way it works sometimes they
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least to be managed by the company still it’s a property of the state
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second thing you spoke about criminal or wrongful privatization of the ’90s you
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know however hurtful it might be for many in the [Music]
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country still I would not use such terms I would not call it illegal or
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criminal I don’t think that it was done deliberately for criminal ads but it was
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largely erroneous it was based on the opinion of the economists with
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world-renowned names also with Russian Bank ground they said that everything needs
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to be privatized as soon as possible even if it cost $1 most importantly that
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it lands in the hands of effective managers and this estate
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cannot be a successful manager life has proven to us that in our country in the
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conditions before and now that’s not quite the correct approach put itely to receive top result
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have the most efficiency it turns out that the state can also
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be an effective owner can show it in multiple situations especially in major
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industries that require tremendous Investments because back in the
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day no one had something to invest therefore come the frauders with
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their schemes and during this false privatization which is basically
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pillaging of State Property money was borrowed from the state
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bags they took it for half a penny for the asset after it fulfilled its goal
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they returned the asset or returned the loan so basically that’s
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now maybe it was economically incorrect but still legal solutions that have to
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do with privatization I would not revise that the prosecutor’s officers Deals
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Only with matters that criminal in terms of privatization
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of state owned property but you’re quite correct the sense that there should be
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some healthy limit lines and we speak about that with the
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business community and I’m a proponent proponent of making a decision not at
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the level of a presidential decree or a governmental decree but as a law right now we are thinking about that
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with a business Community I’m sure that we will find a
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solution yes it is so as um yoseph
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Stalin said but I don’t have anything else anybody else for you when he spoke about the writers in the
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USSR when yet another time bar came over and said that he’s dissatisfied with
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Soviet writers and he well Stalin said no substitutes for
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you and we’ll need to achieve such agreements and such conditions that would be a in line with our interest and
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B Be reliable you’re quite right that it’s very hard to agree with such people
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they’re always deceiving you they say one thing and do another thing that is quite
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sad armed conflicts and with certain peace
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agreement one of the leaders of major European countries said that such
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agreements can be based on a military defeat or um a victory
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naturally we will achieve a victory that is
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clear the matter of legitimacy of the status of those who we have to agree with yes indeed there are
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some issues because it seems that they incumbent authorities if if you take a a quick
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look at the legislation of the Ukraine it seems that the executive authorities of Ukraine have lost their legitimacy
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article 103 of the Ukrainian Constitution states that the election is done for only 5
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years and article 83 of the Ukrainian Constitution says that during the martial
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law the Mandate of the verada the parliament may be extended may be
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extended of the and nothing is said about the
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extension of the Mandate of the president now there is also a law about the martial law and the
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way it works it is sad that during the martial
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law the elections of the presidential elections are not being held but it is
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not sad that they’re extended I’ve graduated from St Petersburg University as a legal
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professional and that is very important if is not mentioned in the law it does not exist
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the penal code has the relevant article about the uration of the power and it
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seems that it is indeed the case still you can
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negotiate because I think that according with the article 110 or 10 or 11 or n the Mandate is
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transferred to the speaker of the kada the parliament therefore if there is
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will we can find someone to negotiate with but I can repeat that only on those
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conditions that we have agreed on when we started those negotiations in
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Minsk and later in Istanbul and not just some
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Notions so if we take as a basis those East agreements we still need to proceed
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from the reality of today that’s the just major brush Strokes
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as far as nuclear escalation is concerned we never were the ones to
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start this retoric I do not remember who was that lady f it was the former UK
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prime minister when uh she became the Prime Minister she she said she said she was
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willing to push the nuclear button we never said we were we only said that we
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have to treat this matter very seriously and we did that everyone was accusing us
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of saber rattling using the nuclear weaponry we we’re not doing that now as far as the
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use or nonuse of nuclear weapons is concerned we’ve got the nuclear Doctrine which says it all just the day before
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yesterday I spoke to the heads of news agencies and I explained this to them I
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said we’ve got the nuclear Doctrine which says that we can only use the
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nuclear weapons in emergency cases when our sovereignty and
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territorial Integrity are threatened I do not think we’re there I see no need for
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that but the nuclear Doctrine is a leaving document and we are carefully
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following what is currently happening across the world and around us and we do
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not rule out the possibility of making amendments to the doctrine now moving on
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to the nuclear tests in the past we signed the treaty and
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ratified it whereas the US did sign the treaty
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but didn’t ratify so that’s why we withdrew the ratification if need be we
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can conduct the nuclear tests but so far there is no need for that because we’ve got the computers and the information
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systems that allow us to do that
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very now now you spoke about the speed the
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outcomes you said that incumbent upon me is great responsibility that’s true can
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we speed up the decision- making processes yes we can
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but it will accordingly bring up the possible losses and that’s why I take
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into account what the proposals from the general staff are saying speed is
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important but the most important thing is to care for the lives and for the safety of our guys who are fighting at
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the front lines that is why the military are doing
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their work starting from this beginning of this year 47
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settlements have been liberated around 880 square kilometers we are pushing the
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adversary from the territory of donbas and the adjacent territories the general
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staff and the ministry of Defense have the requisite plans for us to achieve all our plans all the goals who have set
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forth and I’m confident that all of these plans will be
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implemented well you’ll bring out the heat I think everyone has got scared
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already well you’ve spoken about the European they can be different types of
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[Music] logic but God forbid it should come to
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some kind of strike everyone needs to understand that we have the early
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warning system for missile attacks the same system is something the US has no
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one else has such a well-developed system Europe has no such early warning
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system so in that sense they are more or less defenseless second the power the might
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of the strikes our tactical nukes are three or four
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times more powerful than the bombs the Americans used against Hiroshima and
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Nagasaki three or four times and as far as their number goes we’ve
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got dozens of times more of those on the European continent even if the Americans
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to bring theirs over to Europe from the US we still have
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more so God forbid it happens I do hope it never happens a sign of the Coss for that but
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you say it’ll help save lives but you know it might on the contrary lead
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to numerous numberless loses
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and you know if the Americans were to get involved in that exchange of strikes
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using their strategic weapons well I I don’t think they would get involved and
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the Europeans have to think about that as well but be that as it may I am hopeful
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that it will never come to that point and there is no need on our part for that to happen because our
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military are gaining experience raising their efficiency our defense
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industry is performing
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admirably I’ve spoken about that extensively we have raised the
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production of Munitions 20 times which is many times as much as our
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adversary is capable of in terms of aircraft in terms
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of armed vehicles and so on and so forth we’re Superior so there is no need for us even
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to contemplate such a possibility so please I would like to address everyone do not mention such things
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idly my decisions and decisions of my colleagues I’m working
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with on these
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matters do not involve any hesitation there is no room for hesitation and
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there is none in reality all of our decisions are based upon the objective
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and biased analysis of the current developments and this is how we are moving
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forward or at least we shouldn’t be saying that out loud as far as aircraft
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carriers are concerned you said they’re useless no they’re
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not they are useless in a global conflict from the Strategic point of
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view but as far as geopolitical tasks are concerned as a tool of geopolitics
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you know to move them closer to territories where Americans or the
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French or the British want to fight or to force someone to do something yes
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carriers can be useful especially but of course given the fact
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that China and Russia have their disposal prec gu Hypersonic weapons yes the sense of aircraft carriers is
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disappearing you say uh they shouldn’t spend money of that but let them let them spend money on aircraft
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carriers I’m addressing our friends in India and China they are also spending
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money well I said that might be some geopolitical rationale
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involved of course they are no longer useful as a strategic weapons but they
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still have other uses and as far as other countries are concerned let them spend money on those aircraft
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carriers now on to weapon suppliers we’re not doing that
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yet but Reserve we do reserve the right to do that to provide weapons to countries or
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legal structures who are experiencing certain pressure
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including military pressure from the countries that are providing weapons to Ukraine uh are calling for these weapons
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to be used against Russia and against the Russian territory if they provide
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such weapons to the battlefield and if they call for these weapons to be used
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against us why don’t we have the right to mirror that to act in kind and do the
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same but I wouldn’t go as far as to say that we’re going to do that tomorrow
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because any such supplies would involve a number of
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factors that in this or that way would have a bearing on certain regions of the world
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and we have to give it a lot of thought well if we were to follow the
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recommendations coming from you if we were to follow as fast as poss if you were to go forward as fast as possible
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then the current uh level of troops wouldn’t be enough but we are following
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a different rationale we are pushing the adversary out of the regions that have to come under our control and that means
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there is no need for us to have any mobilization and we have no plans for that the mobilization cycle we had when
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we CAU up to 300,000 people it happened
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but last year without any mobilization on a volary basis our men two patriots of the country
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volunteered to the draft centers and the
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number of those people stood at more than 300 thousand people those who volunteered
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last year this year starting from the beginning of the
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year the draft centers have seen an influx of more than 160,000
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people on a daily basis there is another thousand volunteers coming to the draft
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centers and signing the contracts we see what the Russian character is
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what’s the character the spirit of a Russian citizen involves when we fully
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understand that when we see it then we see that we do not
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need have any need for nuclear weapons to achieve final Victory and I can
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add we’re currently witnessing the force full mobilization in
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Ukraine I am confident that they’re going to bring down the draft age down we have accurate data from the
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Ukrainian sources that the Americans are conditioning their support on this
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lowering of draft age to 23 years to 21 maybe to 18 years maybe and one go to 18
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years maybe gradually then the leadership of Ukraine is going to be replaced this is something I spoke about
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before but what’s important they’re only drafting uh 30 or 50,000 uh people last
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month it was around 70,000 people and there’s going to be a lowering of that
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number and it means everything they’re drafting everyone they’re drafting is only going
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to be enough to replenish their losses there’s going to be a slight
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increase you can uh have different types of calculations I’m not going to cite
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the figures even though we have those but you know it’s different in Russia
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we’ve got volunteers who come of their own accord of their own valtion to draft centers
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and there is no need for mobilization well we’re not writing off any ideas or any arguments we do take them all into
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account thank you for your recommendations and now I’d like to move
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over to question we’re getting back to the agenda of the world economy and this is
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the matter that you addressed
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earlier both you and I have experienced communist ideology so this is probably
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not where we’re willing to get back to but nonetheless a true great state cannot do
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without National ideology or a grand idea and those state those countries
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that were losing this National idea or national ideology would be inevitably falling apart and the world could be
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considered a graveyard full of Shadows of that kind of countries and by the way our country experienced it twice first
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we lost our belief in the Russian saw and our motherland and second time when
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we lost our faith in communism and now we are trying to oppose to introduction
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of a rigid State ideology clearly uh the ideology could be shaped and
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phrased easily you’ve done it yourself partially in your speeches uh maybe that kind of ideology
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does not have to be mandatory but maybe it has to be mandatory at least for
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those people who want to be leaders of this country who want to be elite of this country uh this is the code of
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owner and this code of honor could be written easily because we know it and by
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by the way we are working on it it is very close to the confu idea of an
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honorable man and we’ve been discussing it with religious leaders uh both from
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Orthodox church and Muslim leaders they all agree that this kind of code of honor could be created and written down
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not for everyone if people want to lead ordinary lives let them live that’s all
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right but if you want to lead if you want to succeed in the society then you
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absolutely need to stick to clear rules and those rules have to be made clear
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I’m not going to to name them just in order not to waste time those are pretty obvious but I’m
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still wondering while we are hiding away there is no need to make amendments to
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the Constitution why not introduce a single state ideology that is mandatory
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for everyone who is willing and ready to serve the country and Society well we are not afraid of
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anything we are not uh shying away we we are not afraid of anything just that
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there is Constitution that you mentioned yourself and the Constitution stated that there should be no ideology we used
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to have a state ideology you mentioned yourself the time of the Soviet Union but availability of that kind of
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dominant nating ideology didn’t stop the Soviet Union from collapsing
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so the idea that would unite a multinational country should be there is
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needed but you said it yourself that at first we lost our faith in the zor and
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our motherland but later in communism well we’ve lost our faith in the Russian Zar but we definitely haven’t lost our
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faith in this country in our motherland just that those types of beliefs were
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different and those were different assessments of what is good or what is bad for our motherland and this is
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different question in this regard we need ideas as for our faith in communism it was lost but not by everyone
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otherwise would not be having the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and it has a lot of supporters that’s a fact and I believe
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we need to treat it with respect but you’re right in saying that we need ideas that would unite us and that kind
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of uniting idea and the events of today are showing
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it could be the true patriotism the true
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genuine patriotism and those people who voluntarily go to the front line are
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ready to suffer their lives their health is the best confirmation of this fact this is the actual true patriotism but
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you have to approach it in a very reasonable manner you need to present it
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properly reasonably in a really beautiful manner please help us with that that would be my pleasure and I
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agree it has to be done and I’d like to assure
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you that I remember the time when the Communist ideology was dying out I
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wasn’t sorry about it but because of the death of the Communist ideology uh that
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country back then died and uh that is because vacuum emerged and there must be
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no vacuum we need to fill it with clear things give us an order and we’ll act on
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it but then we need to present it to the society to the elite to make it more or
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less mandatory and then it would work by the way they way the Communist
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ideology worked that was mandatory for everyone and for a very long time for
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many years there were many beautiful things about it and it was helping our country to move forward it helped us win
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in a dramatic War so we do need ideology you know what I suggest we do
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not go any deep into this discussion we do not make it any more extreme I’m happy to discuss it with you but it’s
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not just there communist ideology although it played an important role in
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our victory in the second world war but if that would be the only thing uniting this multinational country well yeah it
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could be but then my question is why would that be the case that people would
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be uh carrying uh icons on aircrafts above Moscow to give it protection why
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church was brought back uh to this country well just as like we hear it
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today out there in the battlefield there are no soldiers who do not believe in
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God and the same happened back then uh of course ideology played a role people
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were go to the front line for their motherland for Stalin but motherland would always come first we must not
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forget about
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it well I have nothing to object to that you’re right although as for the
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possibility exciting people from Afghanistan coming to our country well we have to think about it right now
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there is a number of exciting personalities coming from other countries Russia but you’re
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right you’re right that kind of reasonable well thought through policy
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is not yet available we used to have one Agency for that but it was later merged
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with the ministry of internal affairs due to security reservations we’ve had whether this is a problem or not is a
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question we are discussing it with our colleagues and I said a go to the Russian government and the security
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Council it is important to revisit this matter and as soon as
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possible we cannot pretend that the problem does not exist it is there this is importance of engaging uh
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labor workers migrant workers with a virtually zero
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unemployment rate right now and shortage of workers is an important limiting
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factor to the economic growth and you’re right in saying that it’s not just that we need
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uh labor migrants but we need people of a certain qualification and training
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command of Russian language and understanding of Russian culture and my colleagues are very well understanded
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our colleagues from the countries where most of Migrant workers are coming to Russia and together we are discussing
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what is the best way to facilitate this work and how to train and educate those
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migrant workers in terms of the command of Russian language and being aware of the Russian legislation so that the
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migrant workers are feeling comfortable and most importantly local population is not experiencing difficulties be that in
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the labor market or in their daily lives because where most migrant workers are settling is whenever there is economic
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life is happening this is Moscow Moscow region here in St Petersburg in some cities of Siberia where the salaries are
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higher we definitely need to do a lot in this area I fully agree with
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you now as for the possible loss of certain elements of European culture or
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genes as as as you mentioned the genes of European culture due to the fact that we’re
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turning towards East and
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Asia first of all we are not turning around due
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to shortterm Notions of today this turn is happening around the
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world in general due to rise of new centers of Economic
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Development we have started this work long before the tragic events of today
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in Ukraine I have said it at the very
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beginning the economy is shrinking and the impact on the global economy is shrinking of the previously um standing
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economic centers the overall GDP of bricks countries is higher than
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accumulated GDP of the so-called
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G7 and these Trends are not only present but they’re
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speeding up they’re accelerating I mean the economic growth for today and for the
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nearest
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Future this is unavoidable unavoidable phenomenon and nothing can
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be done about it no one can do anything about it whatever happens this trend
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will continue and just like before we as we
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have discussed it Peter the first opened a window into Europe because this was
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the the promise of the future markets
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Technologies he um put some boots um as it would used as it was done in the
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Netherlands before it was an example but the world is becoming more diverse and
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we try to respond to that as for the elements of European culture we’re not losing them the
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elements and the European genes and the culture but that part of Europe that is
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called the Western Europe where is that European culture it will soon be gone it will be
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just architectural monuments but the culture first and foremost is the
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consciousness of people today it is being poisoned by global
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liberalists they are prioritizing not the interest of their own Nations and their cultural code National
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code and some Notions far removed from reality
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something about global liberalism liberalism I think this this is key by
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definition to a certain extent we’re becoming a center of traditional European culture and traditional
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European values and if we think back and look
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into the history even to those who are non-believers is first and foremost
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based on the on the Christian culture for us for Russia with many
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religions I I don’t know who was the author of the
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words you said that first and foremost this is the military machine for for for
1:05:04
the Russian Nation whoever said it I don’t agree with that because initially
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Russia was coming together as a nation with multiple religions think back to
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the orders of Katherine the Great or other other leaders as they would have
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call them Zars and Emperors when they acquired new territor they always told to respect the local
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population their traditions and their beliefs that’s how Russia came together
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naturally a major part of Russian culture is European
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culture and we become the carriers of that culture while is being killed off in the
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European States today being aware of that many
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Europeans tried to develop using their own Traditional Values whether they
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succeed or not we will see as the results of the election to the European Parliament the
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EU Parliament what needs to be done is to develop our country using
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those historical traditions of the past that brought it
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together as a multinational multi-confessional State you spoke about the RO role of St
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Petersburg it is indeed what we are doing right now all our cultural activities are been
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developed in many dimensions including with our friends and partners from around the world
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from all continents Latin America Africa Asia and so on you mentioned St
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Petersburg and I’m looking at the picture to the left to the right look in the center of this picture
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well to to my right is St Isaac’s Cathedral even more to the righted Senate and
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sin the Admiral this is the view from the University where I used to study from
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the 12 colleges building the first government of Russia to the right the mikov palace and
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over here this is the spit of um s Bas of Basil’s Island rustal columns St
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Isaac’s Cathedral the stock market this is the view from from The Hermitage but if we cross over and look back to the 12
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colleges building or the Hermitage it will be just as beautiful
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why why because all of it was built the most
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important principle and the law which is called Harmony
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and we will build our policy on this on
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Harmony and Russia of course will be a part of this multi-polar harmonious
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world it is quite natural for us it will
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be following to a major extent the European culture because Russian nation
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is part of that but we’ll treat with the same respect culture and traditions of other nations of the Russian Federation
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and we’re powerful through this Unity
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thank you very much thank
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you thank you colleagues friends this was a very interesting intellectual and
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political event and I hope that it was interesting for our audience thank you very much Mr
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President I would like to thank our guests and our moderator thank you
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