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2024 to which is to conclude soon we'll have a hybrid format of the phone in and the press conference please be respectful of your colleagues when I direct a question to a media representative and uh please be succinct and clear while asking so the president can answer as many questions as possible the co- moderators of today's program are Alexander Sor and Mitri K who are who have done a great deal of effort who have sifted through tens of thousands of questions and petitions from president they know the public sentiment they will work with president today

and they will help help president outline the topics that are high on the agenda so please over to you a very good Morning we are on air the outcomes of the year with Vladimir Putin you could have asked your question in several ways and you can still do so till the end of the program can we keep receiving and processing messages uh uh you can ask By Phone 8 80044 you can send an SMS or an MMS message 04040 you can ask questions via social media of contact and there's a website mosa Dp. you you

can also ask a question via that site now we have more than 2.2 million questions 1 point to uh come from phone calls 4 three uh SMS messages and uh 140 people ask their question on a we on the website and the number keeps growing as we seen real time there are some very curious numbers with respect to this format previously we had a separate phone in a separate press conference and this hybrid format has been held for the Third time um first of all it started during covid and then it continued in 2023 and

2024 this hybrid format allows both media representatives and common people ask their questions with respect to statistics the maximum number of questions in 2015 was 2 million 2 milon 250,000 questions now the number is lower but you know uh this is probably due to the fact that there are some Regional phoning and governors cover Part of the regional agenda it's noteworthy that if we sum up all the time that Mr President took to respond to questions there would be more than 64 hours in total phone in from the regions we've had them since the outs

and since 2001 and today we will have some of them over the time span of the phone in and the the press conference we've seen a lot of activity on the part of people sending questions letters and requests and words of gratitude also and Now it's 19th of December probably wishes warm wishes with respect to the forthcoming New Year are sent we have selected some of the questions most of them are on welfare and social matters on the special military operation and there is a a set of international topics also so we begin president of

the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin please welcome so it's the third year while preparing This program and processing the questions the volunteers of the all Russian People's Front have been participating in that and now the veterans of the special military operation have also joined in throughout the 10 days s since the phone calls have been received they also have participated but today People's Front work is not finished after the broadcast they will continue Processing the uh questions and petitions so that no one is Left Behind and let me note that while preparing for the outcomes of

the Year program we have been able to resolve part of the issues by the volunteers together with the regional and and local and federal authorities there is one more feature typical of this year a gig chat AI software from sparbank and and you know already got to know that yes so Giga chat is a Technology that helps decipher and convert um sound to text and uh definitely single out the main part of the and the gist of of the petitions and the questions and you'll be able to see the main topics in this screen and

this virtual assist assistant will help us in the course of the program but before we start asking the questions from the people and uh the mass media just a general question on my part to begin with we think we feel that The world has either gone crazy or is going mad the conflict potential is soaring the global economy is in a difficult uh D situation how is Russia managing to keep a float and keep growing you know when everything is calm and tranquil and stable we're board well it's uh well stagnation we want some we

want some commotion as soon as some commotion starts and uh we see bullets whistling And time flying rapidly we get scared do wits well it's horrible it's a a great deal of horror but you know it's actually not it's all about the economy and we start with the economy despite your provocative [Music] question economy underlies everything it's the main Foundation um prescribing and determining the living standards of our People and the stability and the defensive capability everything is based on on on the economy and the economic situation in this country by and large is normal

is stable we keep advancing against all Lords despite external threats and attempts to impact us last year the economic growth was was at 3.6% in annualized terms and this year it's going to be at 3 .9 or even four% we'll have to double check that Because at the end of the year uh well we will see some numbers and we will recap in in the first quarter 2025 and probably the level will even be 4% meaning that over the four years the economic growth amounted to about 8% according to experts with whom I have exchanged

opinions this morning some over the past years the figure us as I said it was 5.6% in the US and 0% in the EU in the leading European Economy the economic growth amounts to zero and it is estimated to be so in the Comon Year too International financial institutions Economic Institutions plac thr number one in Europe in terms of purchasing power parity and it ranks number four in the world China the US India are ahead of us and we are ahead of Germany we were ahead of Germany in the past here too and this Year

where I heard of Japan but you know it is not something that we should take for granted that we should relax everything is in the motion everything is moving forward and advancing if uh the European while the European Zone the Euro zone is falling asleep it doesn't mean that there are no other economic centers that are emerging in the United States the situation is evolving so we have to keep this ratio we have to change the quality of our Economy and there are other figures and indicators which are satisfactory to put it mildly one of

most serious figures and indicators for all economies of the world is the unemployment level and it is at the record low in our country at 2.3% it is unseen it hasn't been seen before it is number one point two there is a growth in some Industrial in some Industries the industrial growth amounts to 4.4% and processing industry is growing At a ratio of 8.1% % in some Industries some branches the growth is even higher inflation rate is an alarming signal while I Was preparing for today's press conference I spoke to the governor of Central Bank

according to miss nabul inflation is now at 9.3 9.9 but the the the income of the population has grown Too so on the whole the situation is stable we have some problems with inflation the economy is a bit overheated the government and central bank has put themselves the goal set themselves the goal of decreasing ratio and according to various estimates it is expected to be at two or 2.3% in order to preserve the macroeconomic indicators it is something we should seek to achieve and we are going to Discuss it in more detail during today's press

conference but on the whole the situation is stable there is one clarify question if you allow you cited Germany and Japan as an example I would like to speak about Germany you said the economic growth is at 0% but it was a previously a center of economic growth does it have to do with the politics and the sovereignty because recently at the Russia calling Forum you said that when you celebrated the G Sher's anniversary all songs were sung in English and there were no German songs yes they were it was a long time ago M

Sher celebrated his anniversary and he invited me and I attended there was a small concert and um everyone spoke uh sang songs in English and I said even a core of girls from Hanover presented songs in English but there was one troop that sang songs in German It was the Cuban kazak kak core it was unexpected for me I asked them how they learned this song and they said out of respect to the Germans out of respect to the hosts we learned this uh song during our travel and we presented it in German later I

was approached by many guests I'm telling you how it was and many people told me we are ashamed we are ashamed that only Russian kxs sang in German and I said it to my colleague who was present at that Forum I told him sovereignty is an important thing it should be deep in your heart and I believe in the postwar era the German people no longer feel their sovereignty who are Europeans they are proud of being Europeans but above all they are French German Italian Spanish and only after that they are Europeans but instead they

tried to polish things and in the end you see it impacting everything including economy I mentioned the economic growth in our country and largely it is a result of strengthening of our sovereignty that is projected on the economic situation some many producers lost our Market where does it bring us our industrialists started producing these same Products it necessitated various research so we involved various institutions including development institutions and on the whole it translated into the transl of our technological sovereignty there might be different sovereignty in the fields of Education industry military it is important for

our country and for our country it is of particular importance because if we lose Sovereignty we lose our statehood that's crucial and strengthening the sovereignty is also a result of economic growth Mr President now I suggest that we we move on to questions from our citizens you mentioned the economic growth indeed if we look at the economic figures they look all right most of Russian plants are working tight but um the payments are below the inflation uh we have made a rating of Regions in which citizens asked most questions about price growth was in kamat

in sahalin region and in the most uh western region of our country in kinr obl and the price growth was a relevant question in Aus I will add some more figures our gig chat provides us with some statistics must popular questions um how to deal with priz growes of briad fish and butter they also ask about growing fuel prices and those are just a few question Category that we have seen and according to Ros start the Russian statistics body we see that fruit and vegetable prices have grown by 3.4% over the past week in particular

cucumbers got 10% higher and by the price grew by 43% over the past 10 months since November this all following our work via internet may know that when I spoke about the Economic growthy price growth and high inflation rate but apart from the there is income growth and the growth of um salaries well we have a vast country and some people might say how can we speak about the welfare grows but at the same time some people would say that the income was reduced but I'm speaking about the average figures when we plan something we

have to base on something and we cannot base on anything else but Average figures as far the price grows there are objective things and subjective things objective things are the first following and most crucially the supply on the market should be in line with the purchasing power of the citizens and it should be also in line with the volumes of pro produced products but production growth was Higher in our country then the income growth let me give you an example a food production is growing constantly in our country if we have some questions in agriculture

we might go into detail but I'll tell you already now plus 3% annually in terms of meat production we completely cover our demand it is a good figure but um why is it so meat consumption Pro year is at about 80 kilos per person While it is 42 kilos in the world is an average in the world it would seem that it is enough but at the same time the meat consumption has doubled over the recent time doubled as for milk annually the milk production is growing but milk consumption is growing too it is not

enough in order to produce butter and I know that um the grow grow of B prices amounts to 33 34% in some Regions and it might be even higher in other regions the consumption has grown faster than the production there is a second objective reason yes and we have to change the situation in the industry there is another objective reason that is a growth of prices of certain products in the world and there are sanctions and restrictions they are not playing a decisive role but they have their impact because they make Logistics more expensive and

through objective reasons to like some experts believe that the Central Bank could be more effective and efficient and it could have started using certain instruments not related to the Joseph interest trade a bit early yeah central banks started doing so in summer but according to some experts it should have been and could have been done a bit earlier there are lots of reasons and I'm going to list all of them and bore our audience with all these considerations related to various ways of regulations by the central bank as for the government it is working efficiently

I'm quite satisfied with its performance and it is doing a lot when it looks into the future we always should look into the future even in the hardest in the most severe times of the Great Patriotic War we know such Examples people were looking into the future and it was the right thing to do as it turned out later that's what our government is doing it sets out National development goals national projects and so on that's great but it would be not bad to work with the industries to think about the development of certain industries

of product in and such products or for which there is a broad demand probably There will be questions related to specific Industries And Timely decisions have to be taken it is an unpleasant thing to say and it is is bad Tri show say something bad but I hope that on the whole while preserving the macroeconomic figures we'll be able to tackle this as well Mr President we have a mixed format today's a direct line of the press conference and I suggest that we now give the floor and uh we see that the Audience is willing

to ask questions yes indeed Mr pesov well if we do what you propose it will mean disrespect back to the authors what's your name please alen the 15th region north oia in today's realities the human rights potential is very important issue in North caucuses there are many educational institutions preparing military experts particularly the North cuses Military Institute it is a legendary institution seven Lumes are heroes of the Soviet Union some of them are heroes of Russia they continue to perform military tasks of our country anat kulikov is one of alam and one of the most

recent alumni is Seri hinov he became hero of Russian during the special military operation is it possible to revive this military institution that is so relevant and so important not only in the north cauas Russia thank you Alina for this question this is a um a very good question please don't be cross with Alina why because North oia has always been at the Forefront for Russia in this Regard in the caucuses and throughout the times it Prov it's it's proven to be useful in performing this High Duty and we know how the citizens of the

Republic treat their motherland and their Homeland they have always def defended the motherland They have always performed this function and nobly and with great success you spoke about the decrease of the number of military vocational institutions it's not about um just closing it down in AIA it's a think that the network for military colleges in general as the military Specialists and the defense Ministry thought it was out of proportion there was no need for such a number of specialist for such an army as the Russian army as it used to be now We have where

increasing the Army in the numbers as well as a number of um other institutions up to 1.5 million people I cannot say that we will do that tomorrow but we will work on it that I can promise thank you working with the audience let's go back to the center uh idor Tas please you have the floor the mic please to the Center thank you Mikel p Tas um editor-in Chief before asking the question Mr President I would like to Thank you this year Tas is celebrating 12 120 years we the oldest information agency of the

country this year in August you have signed a decree to award the order of honorable labor to our um to our institution and I would like to thank you for this this is a high evaluation of our work thank you as for the a question I think it concerns everyone today I Guess when during the Great Patriotic War Tas were relaying the information from the front I think it happened the same way as our guys are now working in the special military operation Zone they're also worried about that what is your take on on the

course of the special military operation that's um that's been going on through years now is the victory any closer now naturally I've expected such questions there are many of Them as for the incoming questions that were coming in the past days and moreover I would like to thank you for this it gives us a chance to show what we're doing there what's happening and what our guys are doing at the line of Engagement you know the serviceman that I whom I talk to regularly they're giving some souvenirs to me they're giving me their um shoulder

Patches and so on there sometimes weapons as a souvenir and quite recently the serviceman of 155th Marine Brigade gave me a copy of the military flag a banner and would like to ask can can we ask someone to help could you could you please come up here yes yes please please and someone on this side as well so I have a I have a request for You please stand over there and you over here and please unfold the banner on um the other way around the Marines of the Pacific Fleet I took it with me

for a reason number one I wanted to thank the guys for for this gift second let's think that this is 10050 um Marine Brigade represent all military banners of our guys fighting right now for Russia for the motherland Throughout the line of Engagement I have to say that the situation is changing drastically you know it very well I just wanted to confirm that we see movement all along the front line every day and as I have already said it's not about moving 100 or 200 or 300 M ahead head our military men are regaining the

territory by square kilometers every day that's what I wanted to highlight why is it Happening first and foremost throughout the last year and this is a a classic scenario of of military Warfare first the enemy is going at you he's been defeated he incurs losses in in personnel and equipment and then we start moving forward that that's what's happening Warfare is complicated therefore it's hard to think ahead and to foretell the future but we are moving forward and as I said we're getting closer to solving our primary tasks that We have outlined at the beginning

of the special military operation as for our men and women in uniform and I I will continue repeating that I have every reason to say that they're acting as Heroes the capacity of our armed forces are increasing right now we see the banner of 150 Thief Brigade it's fighting in the Kur region and pushing the enemy away from our territory they're not Alone 810th Pacific Fleet Brigade 76 and uh 106th division of um paratroopers the shooting Regiment of the north Caucasus the modernized Brigade everyone is working there as a Heroes right now they're fighting and

let's wish all of them everyone who is fighting in the K region all along the line of Engagement with wish them good luck Victory and for them to return home Safely Mr President I just came back from the Cur region those units and brigades that you've mentioned right now are doing their sacred Duty freeing our territory we've worked with them for several weeks at the front line we um shot um a video 155th Brigade liberated several settlements and we showed in our video that when the adversary has been pushed out of the settlement he starts

to Shell that will Artillery fire that very settlement we travel to bori sagos and lubimova liberated settlement you can see that on the map first the the houses have been intact and now they're being destroyed and people from the border regions have nowhere to return to they have no homes they're trying to rebuild their home but now I'd like I suggest we call taana zova she's forced to leave during temporary settlement do you hear us um Tatiana Your question to the president please Mr President good afternoon I I'm from the kusk region from B sadki

region I have a question from all citizens of the krisk region when our region will be liberated when the Ukrainian Army will be pushed far enough so they wouldn't even dare show their face to us even look um towards us when can we go back to our houses or somewhere so we can live in Our own homes one more question will small um Villages be rebuilt that the village that have been destroyed will the infrastructure be rebuilt there and now the question from Bala sski municipality will our citizens be put on the list of housing

certificates because they are not issued to us right now because the AR the Ukrainian Army did not go there so we're not listed as qualifying for for the Housing certificate Madame zeber no question here I don't even want to to name the specific date when the adversary will be pushed out right now at this very minute the fight is ongoing the fighting is is quite serious it's not quite clear it makes no military sense to enter of the Kus region by I mean the Ukrainian armed forces or to keep on staying there sending as Canon

f their Best storm brigades and units still this is happening it is for sure that we'll get rid of them but as for the specific date I I cannot name you the the specific date but there are certain plans I so I know the date it is reported to me regularly but say that by this very date it's it would not be correct because our servicemen can hear us right now if I just name the date in a day or two they will try To deliver on that without regard for their own lives a day

or two would not have as great significance but it is for sure that the adversary will be pushed out of there and number number two will um evaluate the detriment and number three everything will be rebuilt there is no shadow of a doubt about it we'll rebuilt everything the road Network communal infrastructure social oriented Facilities schools kindergartens will rebuild Social Clubs and naturally housing we'll provide certificates to rebuild housing those who want to move there will will help them out right now we have allocated all already I think about 108 billion rubles the first Tren

has already been delivered the administration will be working throughout all of the Holidays it'll be meeting with people and solving the questions Also regarding the housing certificates there is nothing good about what's happening to you people are suffering they they have losses and tremendous inconveniences especially with children and so on but we'll do everything please do not doubt Madame Z will rebuild everything and everyone who requires housing to be rebuilt they'll be Covered everyone will receive everything that they're bound to receive and I truly expect that the the new head of the region who has

been appointed to the K region he's an experienced person who knows how how to work with people directly that's why I appointed him there he's been working at the state Duma for quite a while he knows how to work with voters he's good at it and I'm sure that it will happen he will work Individually Case by case Mr President our servicemen who right now are liberating the cision do not have the status of the participant of the special military operation why because they participants of the counterterrorism operation it has an impact on the payments

that they receive we received several appeals mainly by the wives of the servicemen my man my husband is serving at insult Brigade in C region and He's taking F he received 42,000 rubles in November though he is at the front line some servicemen do not receive payments for 3 months already since they're in the counter terrorism Zone not in the special military operation Zone yet another appeal Chris region servicemen receive 25,000 per month not 210,000 rues as promised by the defense Ministry contract can it be amended yes it it can and it must be this

is my Shortcoming this is um this is unexpected for me I know what what is sad here our servicemen who used to fight at different parts of the front line there are participants of the military action and if they have been moved to the Cris GD and they're bound to receive them I think I'll check it possibly there used to be a category that was not at the line of of of Engagement and then then they landed in the Cru reg and possibly they were not certified as the category of participants of the special military

operation honestly I didn't even think about it so my apologies all of that is going to be corrected it's a Pity that the defense Ministry overlooked that because it's their responsibility but we're going to sort this out and everyone is going to Get everything they're entitled to and the military who are performing their duty at the line of Engagement will get everything and we will recalculate everything retroactively there should be no doubt about that yes I know personally military who are waiting for that I want them to hear me rest assured and your families rest

assured that everything is going to be recalculated everything that you're entitled to everything you'll get Mr President you said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are basically sending their brigades as Canon F to the KK region and we can see see that we see so many bodies of their military they have abandoned and there's a lot of NATO military equipment left there leopards and Abrams and uh Bradley so basically course cran serves as the concentration like a graveyard the biggest in the world for NATO military Equipment that very well may be the case because the

amount of military equipment and C region is almost the same as the military equipment uh of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that had been destroyed over all of the last year u in the territory of Ukraine so I would also like to ask you whether they will get reward for the military equipment that they have managed to destroy are there any problems with that well yes the Situation is grave yes I know that the defense Ministry is list to this press conference everything is going to be done and no one should have any doubt as

to that maybe we'll move to the room to the audience very well since we're talking about the mil sphere let's go to zda TV channel Constantin koveshnikov zda TV channel I have to ask you about the statements we've been hearing from you over the last several weeks uh you spoke about the first military test of oresnik it seems as if it is a perfect weapon even though in the west it's still dabbed as a modification of a not Soviet missile saying that the air defense system can bringing doubt even at the moment of launch can

you comment on on that and what about the sense behind the name of this oresnik because there are different Theories as to why it received this name first whether that is an old weapon or new Weaponry it's a Cutting Edge type of weapon of course anything that has been done anywhere is based upon previous achievements and then we make a step forward and the same thing applies to ARR yes there were certain developments in the past some of them dating back to the new Russian history and based on that groundwork our researchers and scientists have

been Thinking what else they can do they talked to the client namely the defense Ministry and it was even brought up to my level and I wait in on the final decision on whether this new missile has to be produced and in what volume this is a new Weaponry short rain and intermediate range missile you said that several experts in the west believe that it can be easily intercepted and destroyed especially at the moment of Launch what can I say to these experts the thing is there are different types of a defense systems because you

you should know that there are Patriot air defense systems which uh there are also uh th a systems I don't know whether they have those in Ukraine maybe if Americans want they can supply those systems let them it's similar to our S400 whereas a patriot is more or less like S3 ped whereas um the new one uh high altitude Uh air defense system is uh more or less like S400 let them do that and we'll ask our guys in Ukraine to find some good Solutions well uh when I say Al guys I say that without

irony because there are those we can talk to in in Ukraine because there are many people in Ukraine who are dreaming of riding their country of this Neo-Nazi Regime but the thing is th a is basically an anti-missile system and for many years before we had been asking the Americans not to deploy those systems otherwise we would have to find systems that would allow us to penetrate those systems you know we had to come up with uh the Vanguard system which is kind of a cruise missile which follows the uh landscape without going too high

so basically all of that is only Leading to new expenses especially for American taxpayers without giving anything in return that said this system has been developed and deployed there are two positions in Romania and in Poland and there are 24 anti- missiles deployed there I think they called standard three in Romania it's the one B modification with a 300 Km range and it can intercept missiles at 80 to 250 km of altitude in Poland there is a new modification it can intercept as uh far as 1,000 km and at the altitude of up to 500

kilomet whereas oresnik is an intermediate range missile and it's uh 1,000 up to 500 5,500 kilm that's the range of arnik now just imagine our system is deployed 2,000 km Away even if the anti-missile is deployed in Poland it's not going to be able to intercept they say that the missile is very vulnerable at the launching stage but they won't be able to intercept those missiles so far moreover the launching sites are protected moreover it takes time for the anti-missile to get to the missile but it takes several seconds and then it's too late to

catch or to intercept it so There is yeah before the separation so there is no chance that the missile is going to be brought down by the anti missiles so if the experts and the West think so well let them come up with a proposal to us and to the us they can suggest kind of a technological experiment kind of a high-tech fighting Duel of the 21st century they can designate a Target say in Kiev they can concentrate all of their air defense and anti-missile Defense there and we will strike it with a Resnik and

and we'll see what's going to happen we're willing to conduct such an experiment what about the other side are they ready well we we understand all of the anti-missile and anti-air defense systems are on high alert they're ready but you know what what I've just told you is what I have learned from our Engineers from our Scientists and of course the American political leadership also get their information from the experts so let's conduct this duel and look at the outcome it's going to be interesting because it's going to be useful both to us and to

the American side and what about the name honestly no idea no clue well let's ask some questions from the audience Yes rosis gazetta maybe you'll ask something about the peace Gaza Mr President you have recently signed the amendments to the nuclear Doctrine do you think the signal has been received and understood in the west I don't know uh you should ask them I know what the amendments are the doctrine is not new but the amendments are somewhat new I'll tell you about the key changes we talk about the new emerging military threats that Can turn

into military threats like the emergence of anti-missile systems and several other factors and they're all named in the doct Trine we also speak about raising the responsibility of nonnuclear states that might participate in an aggression against the Russian Federation together with those countries that are in possession of nuclear weapons and if this countries just like their allies create any threat to Russia Sovereignty or to the very existence of Russia then we believe we have the right to use our nuclear weapons against them and there is another component which is also related to managing our military

Arsenal the fourth thing we have make made an announcement we've made an announcement that if similar threats are created to our allies to the member of the union state of Russia and Belarus to Belarus namely then Russia is going to view That and the same light as creating similar threats to Russia so we're going to do everything in our power to ensure belarus's security this is something we're doing in coordination and with a consent in coordination with and with the consent of the president of Bellos Alexander lenko and I think this is a very important

component of Russia's updated nuclear Doctrine another question from the audience well we have agreed not to Shout out let's show some respect for one another yes but uh before that let's give the floor uh to the one who to to to the lady who wants to ask about the Daria Shia Republic newspaper thank you for getting Ros gin back to us to our region and he started working right away he's a very good leader yes he is very sensible very reliable and very consistent and I hope that he's going to succeed thank you for sending

him to us my question then in the Russian high North and the Russian Far East and the Republic of Ki there are many settlements with a population of under 2,000 citizens but unfortunately they are not entitled they're not uh entitled to this program of uh a building Cinema and we know that people some people want to stay in these settlements but unfortunately there's not many opportunity for spending pleasure time maybe some changes some amendments could Be made to the federal program so that the settlements of uh the Russian high north of under 200 people could

still be entitled to this program and I know that as a student you you worked there somewhere in in the north and you know how efficient it is but unfortunately these student brigades uh uh could be used again maybe amendments could be made to federal law 44 so that uh when uh construction sites are Organized uh based on Municipal budget then at least 15 or 20% of that could be carried out by students because it provides students with very good experience and it's also a huge help for Russian regions it helps building social facilities 10%

of 15% so yes uh 10% of money allocated for construction could be funneled to that well I'll talk to Mar hn it that's possible we're trying to revive this Program I think this very movement has been revived right now and this uh Finance funding mechanism could be used it's already in use but I'll check it and I'll talk to m Hing thank you yes uh gyms and Cinemas yes that's great you know it's quite unaccepted with respect to the Arctic Zone first of all we have the Ben preferential rate for mortgage at 2% as well

as well as in the Far East the mortgage uh interest rate is at 2% it's beneficial and people Have been using that and um for new territories we also have this rate at 2% for mortgage lending uh besides in that zone we have an entire brand new program for for small uh towns with 25 cities and towns participating well if if it's about numerically small settlements they may not become part of that um program of 25 cities and we will try to figure out what we can do additionally for those Small settlements in the Arctic

Zone because most of them have a few residents but we actually assumed that uh broadband internet was the main need but you know uh when it comes to a mo to movie theats and movie Hall the atmosphere is different and now we have lots of Russian patriotic high quality films and movies yes it's a a a separate topic to cover and many of the film manufacturers and producers have left us Which prompts us to uh boost our own uh Cinema production and giving this uh rise in society enthusiasm in society that we are now having

all our historical Tal um I need to be promoted and I often uh watch those with my with my junior family members and we'll try to respond that positively okay dear friends when you ask two questions in a row you deprive some some of your colleagues Uh the opportunity to ask a question let's go that way let's move that way well uh let's see Kar probably the city of krar good day yv Channel no of k Mr President you have called kras to be the center of Russia now we are getting ready I just apologize

for interrupting it wasn't me who called it's the geographic center of Russia kras where getting ready to Mark our 4 100th Anniversary in 2028 and using the opportunity would like to invite you to visit the anniversary but my question is now Rus Hydro headquarters is moving to Kar at your behest and probably this it will be coherent to prompt other statr and private companies to move to the region uh which would give new tax revenues and opportunities do you contemplate and entertain such opportunities well first of all I believe it is a proper way to

do and Some Pro Poss some of the federal authorities should migrate to to different uh regions that would prompt and boost the development of um of of our government we're trying to concentrate all the judicial power in St Petersburg and um that kind of separates uh uh the judicial branch of power from the presidential branch of power making the former one more independent and some of the Functions of of of the capital city are transferred to St Petersburg and other um big centers of our country like crosner y also need more attention having more revenue

and uh companies paying taxes on site and that would encourage the company the Region's development and you have mentioned Rus Hydro indeed when I blessed the future uh CEO ummarin I I just asked him will you be ready to move to Krishna yes and your Wife she would agree but that takes time you know one needs to move the man power there and people don't want to leave Moscow not not because they're lazy but you know they they are ingrained in Moscow with schools and kindergartens and um you need to train staff on the ground

and the still Rous Hydro will be moving and we will uh prompt more big companies and uh governmental bodies to move to other parts of Russia we have The the biggest land mass in the world and uh major manufacturing companies should be spread evenly across the country as well as governmental bodies but you know there are some limitations like president and the government should be next to each other to interact properly yes thank and thank you for the invitation to visit K some of the businessmen U suggested moving the capital to kras yes or ir

and Peter the Great want to wanted to have a capital the capital in the South to move the capital in the South he had two options either St Petersburg or a city in the south in tagen Rog well originally he wanted to install the cap the Empire's capital in taganrog I can see Andre rudenko a military correspondent of ours from danet I I I can't but give the floor to him Mr President I've I've been around in Donbas since 2014 and I had uh State TV company donet and my question is quite serious in D

across donbas and her son and the paria region a great deal of reconstruction is in progress but still uh war is waged and there is a lot of fighting and the enemy has been destroying our settlements will we have enough capabilities and funds to fully restore the historical lands that we have returned no doubt without a doubt we Will have the necessary capabilities and resources we have a huge program in place to restore these territory uh this program is valid until 2030 and work is underway on a number of spheres like the road Network reconstruction

the housing reconstruction and construction Public Utilities reconstruction cultural and social sites also with respect to Roads in three years we uh plan to bring all the roads there to the to the National Russian standards and please have a seat um and you know that this is ongoing and um there's an undertaking that is being implemented already we want to we are planning to build a circular ring Road around the azov sea which is now an inland sea of the Russian Federation and it will be similar to torida trunk cod in in the Crimea of Fall

a with all the advantages of such a highspeed road the first segment has been built from tan Rock to Maro a segment of 40 kilm a short one but we actually plan a road around the a of sea another road connecting marup and donet which is 197 km long also is in the pipeline and uh all the road network will be restored And all the necessary funds have been envisaged and some of the welfare and social facilities have been put into operation in dones the perinatal world class perinatal Center has been commissioned in marup Medical

Center uh was opened in the south in the zapia region a children's clinical hospital is planned and it was the behest of the local residents and the governor also supported that and the Design is already launched and so have um a lot of work planned till till 2030 and now we have already uh reconstructed 21,000 facilities 11,000 facilities were were constructed with the help of the federal funds and 10,000 installations uh were done with the funding of the patron regions from across the Russian Federation and I'd Like to thank in the leadership and the residents

of those Patron regions while we are in the air and we are to reconstruct 20,000 facilities more in the near future and all that will be accomplished and Mr President with respect to lugansk People's Republic during the rule of Ukraine they never had good roads now they have perfect roads AC all across that Republic and people are wholeheartedly Grateful these are the basic most necessary things and we'll do more we'll go beyond that and as regards the new regions I'd like to address the the residents and all other Russian Nationals while we have the live

broadcast that these regions have a very good potential to unlock and and potential and prospective tax revenue news might be huge and lugans region has seen a 97% Growth in uh in tax revenues collected in donbas the growth is at 69% I mean the revenues collection in zapan Heron the growth is is Ed by hundreds of percent although the base uh the base Figures were much lower still they have grown by 200% in each of the regions so they the tax basis is good and solid and uh they are restoring at a at a quick

pace and they are becoming self-sufficient we Definitely need to uh prop them up and back them and support them and we will keep doing so the entire country will do so until they are fully uh not no djy but def facto economically and socially integrated you are now speaking about taxes is about tax collection yes it's about tax collection in these regions I might uh be a bit mistaken in figures but in with respect to donk the growth has been at 79% in lugans they increased the tax revenues by 90 something per and in Kon

and Zaria regions the growth of tax revenue collection was at 2,000 was around 2,000% and uh the the the base levels were lower but still they are growing faster with respect to the new regions lots of questions are coming from them including uh on pension calculations and Reckoning the labor track record uh during the Ukrainian Period is not taken into account and they don't have the documents and now a video address from a pensioner shepilov I am shepilov Le nikolich a pensioner from K Lian I have the the work track record the labor track record

of 45 years and now I live in donet with my daughter and CH Lans is in hostilities and um my house got burnt and uh my track uh my labor track record Register also got burnt and the only document I have is the certificate 5p okay this in July this year I submitted it to the pension fund of of the kalinin District of the donet region please I still received no answer please help me sort it out Leon need nikolich these are actually uh daytoday real problems of uh uh people you need to confirm your

your job track Record but uh not long ago it was a law was passed that all the all the time and employment years a work a work record will be taken into account so the law is on your side even if uh you have no documents at hand Witnesses may come in handy as well as Decisions by original commissions Also may be made and I'd like to ask the authorities of the uh region to assist uh resolving such questions such issues without uh without any red Tape not long ago I talked with Mr pushilin head

of the People's Republic of donet and he told me how he received a delegation from Africa and we were happy to receive our guests and friends and um he's going to go to Africa also which is good we have to support the relations but I would like to remind you that there isas is also Leon nikolich whom you need to involve as well and I hope that intergovernmental commissions or Inter Regional commissions inter agency commissions will be operating efficiently again there is now a federal law that was adopted a short time ago there are lots

of addresses about law documents it's not about pensions also about educations and rights for property but I would like I already mentioned these issues are governed by decisions of inter agency commissions and so-called witness records it's not about A Judicial proceeding but it's about obtaining authentic information from Neighbors and so on housing is another important issue and there are lots of calls and questions from Marble from those who expected to receive a housing as compensation I'll quiet some of them marup needs assistance for housing construction it was an SMS with such a text next houses

were constructed in Spring but we cannot move in Until today and there are lots of similar questions well marup is in the focus of our attention and it is right so it is a big city before the beginning of hostilities it officially had had about 430,000 residents according to local authorities even more uh residents lived there over 470,000 people about 3,000 family houses block Houses were constructed about 170 um about 1,700 houses uh were destroyed but the Reconstruction Is On The Way new houses are constructed too those where that cannot be reconstructed were demolished and

this land was given to the developers the construction companies and there is a mortgage program of 2% which can be applied to those new Houses so there is a construction boom of a sort in these territories in marup for example according to our estimates about 300,000 people have returned to their uh homes and the population is growing at a high rate isue roads schools social infrastructures in the focus of Highway attention there is a medical center that was constructed recently we deal with educational institutions and we'll Continue to do so in future but as for

housing I'll rate there are houses that uh were handed over to Developers but citizens the residents have the right to receive a housing at least close to the neighborhood they used to leave before if a new Block House was blocked by a developer was constructed by a developer in this neighborhood the person should receive an apartment close to the Neighborhood where he or she was there are about 5,000 unattended apartments in the house and they have to be redistributed among the citizens of course some people are returning but uh we have to regulated and resolve

these issues but I can say for sure all those who are entitled for compensation all of them will receive it if it's not the case please appeal to Regional Authorities are centers for decision making they were established if I'm not mistaken it located in marata Street Mr President speaking of southern region I would like to mention the environmental situation of as a crush of two Tangers after storm in the carage straight oil products were leaked near an NAA and it Is now moving and migrating towards Gallen situation is deteriorating emergency employees of emergency servces and

common residents and now trying to provide assistance and I invite you to watch this short video NAA has never seen such a devastated environmental catastrophe before about 45 kilomet distance is affected birds are affected they are new and New Waves bringing all products Again and again it all has affected the sand and the resorts of our region we cannot improve situation alone Mr President those are horrible footages from our Resorts I know you have already in given instructions to mitigate the situation what else can be done while it is an environmental disaster to sub this

law enforcement Agencies are dealing with the situation according to the reports that I have received captains of the vessels violated some rules as the weather conditions deteriorated they should have anchored their vessels but they didn't do so but it is up to the Ministry of Transport and law enforcement agencies to look into this situation next point I don't know what's happening Right now but yesterday the storm was ongoing and the working conditions were complicated but apart from that well by Saturday we expect the sea will come down and we'll be able to proceed with the

work I said it is a great catastrophe because about 40% of the fuel leaked is obvious some tankers are close to the shore sum are bit further away and we have to deal With them two different services like the ministry of Natural Resources the Ministry of Transport the amcom the ministry of emergency situations are involved these Works should be coordinated and instruct the government to organize the working group it is headed by Mr s vice president in charge for transport issues and all services are involved regularly I receive reports with Updates we have to look

into the situation we have to assess the condition of the tankers and we'll have to think of what to do with them in the next future this problem should be the works have be have to be conducted on several stages first we have to localize the leaked fuel at the next stage we need to remove the fuel that we see on the shore yesterday or the day yesterday Governor Krav told me he established a group of about 4,000 people and according to him no further efforts are needed but if needed they will be ready to

deploy an additional team from the ministry of emergencies the fuel the oil fuel has uh certain properties under specific temp under certain temperatures it is solid material and it should be removed from The shores as such but in May parts of this material but parts of this material have sun already and when the temperatures grow and this fuel can Surface up so already now we have to be prepared for the temperature rise in the water and already now do we have to think about what o we do in future in Spring and uh we'll have

to think of Bringing the tankers up to the surface we have to organize this work it will take time and effort and we'll have to devise a project for removing these tankers with the fuel the government is involved and I hope that we'll lose no time let's take some questions from the audience Mr President if you don't mind I see and you as journalist you have the floor please NBC just in the Middle of the sector e e would you please Retreat your journalist where did he go missing where was he missing what happened exactly

to him e I see please take your seat Well Frankly Speaking Frankly Speaking I haven't seen president assard Yet after he came to Moscow but I plan to do so and I will have a conversation with him we adults we understand 12 years ago a person went missing in Syria 12 years ago we understand what situation was in place 12 years ago active hostilities were ongoing from both parts from both sides does President aard himself know what happened to that US citizen to the journalist who performed his journalist duties in the combat Area but nonetheless

I do promise that I will ask this question to him which can ask the same question to those people who are control in the situation on the ground in Syria today you asked what we can offer or I can offer to the to the president-elect Trump when we meet I do not know when we are going to meet because he he does not speak about that I haven't spoken to him for more Than four years now I am prepared for that conversation at any time I will be prepared to hold a meeting as well if

he so desires you said that this conversation will take place where I'll be in a weakened State dear colleague well well I'm saying dear and distinguished colleague because though despite all persecutions of our media Russian media you are allowed to work here freely isn't that Good already to you and to the people who who pay your salary in the United States we'd really like for Russia to be in a weakened state I'm of a different opinion I think that Russia became much stronger over the past two or three years why because we are becoming a

truly sovereign country we're largely independent of any country we're prepared to stand our own in terms of economy as for the economic Growth rate I have already spoken we're strengthening our defense capacity our combat Readiness of the Armed Forces today and I'm speaking very confidently here is at the highest is ranked the highest in the world the same applies to our defense industry we're increasing the uction of everything that's necessary for the Army and the fleet both for today and for tomorrow We're doing that very confidently actively the same cannot be said about our adversaries

we already spoke about the success of our our forces this happens largely due to the to increase in production of Defense industry in the output of Defense industry of Russia as I have said we're doing that Confidently and in a streamlined fashion I spoke about the movement forward of our army at the line of Engagement how is this achieved it is achieved by the presence of equipment that I have already mentioned yes indeed almost all of NATO countries have fighting against us we spoke about our inflation rate but what's happening over there one shell of

one um 155 mm it used to CAU a year ago about 2,000 now it Cost 8,000 the price has increased fourfold if if the hostilities continue continue at the same tempo not only 2% of the budget for def defense which was always done the insistence of the president-elect Trump will be enough for Native countries even 3% won't be enough the training combat Readiness the morale of the Russian Army is at such point right now that is unparalleled by any army in the world therefore I believe that to a great extent Russia Today is in such

a state that we have been trying to achieve it has become stronger it has become a truly sovereign country and will make decisions without taking anyone's opinion into account will follow only our national interests you mentioned Syria well you and those who pay your salary Would like to present everything that's happening in Syria as a shortcoming or a defeat of Russia I'd like to assure assure you that is not so and I'll tell you why we have come to Syria 10 years ago so in order to prevent the creation of a terroristic Enclave the likes

of which we've seen in in the other countries for example in Afghanistan in general we have achieved our goal even those groups that used to fight with the With the aid regime with a governmental forces they have evolved as well it is for a reason that today many European countries and the United States would like to establish relations with them if they are a terrorist organization how come you're trying to do that then that means that they have changed that means that to a certain extent our goal has been achieved we did not have ground

troops in Syria they simply were not there we Have two military bases there an air base and a naval base the ground operation consisted of the troops of the Syria itself and of some and and it's it's an Open Secret of certain pro-iranian paramilitary forces we have um un non um returned the troops of the Special Operation Forces we have withdrawn them from from there but what was happening at the time when The groups of armed opposition came close to Aleppo Aleppo was defended about by about 30,000 people 350 Fighters entered the city the governmental

troops as well as Pro so-called Pro Iranian units have left the city without fighting they've blown up their positions and just left the same happened with some exemptions there were some hostilities there but the same happened all around Syria previously our Iranian friends used to ask us to to provide transportation for their units in Syria now they've asked to withdraw their units we have transported out 4,000 Iranian fighters to tan from kamam base part of so-called pro-iranian units left without fighting to Lebanon part of them to Iraq today the situation is quite complicated if we're

talking about Syria we expect and hope that the peace and calm will come there we we have established relations with all groups that control the situation on the ground and with all countries in the region and the majority of them are telling us that they have an interest for our military bases in Syria to remain in place we need to think about it because we need to decide for ourselves what will be the relations our relations with those forces that are Controlling the situation right now and who are going to control it in the future

our interest should coincide if we are to stay there we must be doing something in the interest of the side who's who's doing there what would be such interest what could we do for them this is a question that requires accurate and painstaking working through but now even now we can do something using these bases as well and we have proposed that to our partners already Those Partners who are on the territory of Syria and in the neighboring countries we have proposed that we we can use the air base of Kim to deliver humanitarian Aid

to Syria this was accepted with an understanding and with desire to organize this joint work the same applies to the Tartus Naval Base whoever would like to present Russia as a weakened And as you're an American I would like to remind you of a of a well-known writer and a person who said at certain time the rumors of my death are um much exaggerated and if we hold a meeting at some time with the president-elect Trump I'm sure we'll have something to discuss Mr President one more uh question about the the the death the assassination

of General kurilov yes the assassination of the general you said that an attempt at assassination and I am Thankful to you for this because you have um acknowledged indirectly that this is a terrorist attack why because this is a murder committed by means that are dangerous to others Kiev has conducted such terrorist acts and crimes against many citizens of the Russian Federation right now in kurk when they're shooting civilians I mean the the Kursk region and done at the territory in other regions your Colleagues were killed terrorist attacks against journalists were conducted as well I

don't mean you um personally right now but I mean the Western journalist in general we've never heard condemnations of such terrorist attacks so I'm thankful to you right now that at the very least you have remembered that let's work with the audience as well because we have tremendous interest I see Tarara and bricks and oh I'm I'm Sorry I would like to address our American colleague do you hear me do you have any other questions if you have any go ahead and ask them are we going back to Kazan or not uh if you would

think about them if you can formulate them then we we'll go back to you then and we we'll talk to tartars then to Americans yes sorry that I've missed this part of your question this is a very important part of your Question the politics is the art of compromise and we have always said that we're prepared for negotiations and compromises but the other side the adversary the other side has refused to hold negotiations but we're always prepared for that and the result of such negotiations is always a compromise we have achieved an agreement in essence

in Istanbul at the end of 2022 and I'm saying it for the hundredth Time now the Ukrainian side has initial the document that means that were in general they were in agreement with it but while they B they went back on their position well it's clear why they did it because your ally Mr President prime minister Johnson with a great hair a person with great hair traveled there and he said that they need to fight to the last Ukrainian that's what they're doing now they're running out of ukrainians who would like to fight I I

Don't think there are any left we're prepared but the other side must be prepared as well to negotiate and to compromise thank you go to Kazan so we're done with the with the yes let's talk to tarar now thank you for this possibility to ask questions tatarian form bricks after cin Summit has reached a an unparalleled level it's hard for me to remember such a gathering in Moscow Dozens of heads of state Narendra Modi shiin p and so on so your expectations about sending off to the Western World Order um have they been fulfilled fully

and a follow-up question you responded to my question let year and you said that Taran is a Showcase of peaceful coexistence of Nations religions and peoples the same can be said about bricks because this is a combination of very different countries hence the Question do you see an opportunity to create the headquarters of bricks in Kazan maybe of Russian part or of the organization in general Arthur you said that Moscow hasn't seen such a gathering of leaders of different countries you're quite right yes but they gathered in Kazan so thanks to Kazan for giving us

such a platform this is number one now number two as for headquarters we were not planning to create any well there's Several tools that we're creating that working in the interest of the whole organization naturally we'll use all opportunities of the capital of Taran that were created there over the past decades Kazan made a tremendous quanton leap in their development without an exaggeration this is one of the best cities of Europe and I say that with great pleasure we're proud of Moscow this is one of the largest and the best Megapolises of the world Kazan

is also developing very fast and and very successfully I remember Mr M we we traveled with him to to the outskirts of Kazan and people used to live in in Dugout um houses it was just a a pit but I have to say right now that it's all so clean and wonderful and nice and beautiful and right now the city is all but transformed It's a Wonderful City it has built a subway system I spoke to The previous leader about that and the new leader has taken up the Baton working very actively kazang is home

to talented people there are people of different ethnic groups have different backgrounds who live in peace and in accord with one another having respect for the traditions of one another visiting one another during religious festivities you're doing a great job I can only congratulate you on that but there is another thing I'd like To draw your attention to you said that bricks is developing as an instrument to counter the West which is not the case you are mistaken it's not an instrument to counter the West we're not working against anyone we are working for in

favor of our interests in the interests of the organizations members we're not trying to build any kind of adversarial narrative or agenda within the organization the organization however is developing very rapid ly it's expanded Its membership has become bigger and there is a great number of countries who are showing interest in developing bricks as an organization because our work within bricks is based on respect for the interests of one another all issues are decided by consensus which is of the utmost importance there are no small or big countries with bricks no countries that Are more

or less developed this is an association that BRS brings countries together who have only one interest that is their National development we are using the existing tools and creating new ones to achieve better economic growth to reconfigure our economic structure to make sure that bricks is at the helm of this forward movement and will do everything now now to make sure that it stays so in future let's give our colleagues within the Audience a chance to ask their questions I have I see new uh media it's very popular even though it's unconventional it's called read

OFA Maxim doov R OFA Edition Mr President for many countries of the world the issue of aging and depopulation is a burn an issue Russia has not been spared this fate many measures have been put into practice in order to boost our birth rates recently you have signed into law The establishment of the Council on family policy and on demographic policy but what happens if these measures do not prove to be sufficient will enhance them will improve on them please sit down this is a question of utmost import and it's a key issue not just

for Russia but for the rest of the world because many countries across the world are facing the same problem as we are during the Soviet times the birth rate stood at around 2% The birth rate is basically the number of children per one woman during the Soviet times there was a 2% growth at a certain point in time sometime in the past several years ago we managed to reach 1.7% or so but unfortunately right now it stands at 1.44% which is very little but unfortunately many other countries are facing the same problem neighboring countries like

Finland I Think it's even less in Norway it's the same in Spain the birth rate is even lower than that and many other countries are facing birth rates lower than that even though some countries developing developed countries like Japan or South Korea have very low birth rates it's uh 7% in uh South Korea we so we are in a better position somewhere but in order to make sure our population is replenished we have to raise it to 2.1% and in order to make sure that our population keeps gring we have to secure a 2.3% birth

rate I spoke at length about what had been happening in the previous decades we had a trough during the second world war in 4344 and then after the collapse of the Soviet Union we had a similar plunge and the birth rates I'll spend 2 minutes to uh speak about that so when a small generation Reaches the age of uh giving birth to Children it also gives birth to children to a smaller generation and unfortunately these Trends in Russia have overlapped the the the tra after the second world war and then The Plunge at the top

after the disintegration of the Soviet Union so it's kind of a uh Seline and unfortunately we had a 30% plant of women who are capable of given birth who who are in this age and we Need more girls more women what are we doing to rectify this situation we have put forth a whole program dedicated to this issue we are improving the instruments enhancing them all the time you're in year out there are certain tweaks and changes we have the allowance to families with children which is an efficient instrument we are paying this allowance starting

from the pregnancy and by the time the children reach eight the age of majority that is 18 years and more than 10 million children are getting this allance and around 320,000 pregnant women secondly we have a unique instrument we have come up with which is uh unique in the world that is the maternity Capital which we are always refunding and rebuilding we're also keeping the instrument of Family Mortgage at 6% we will talk about mortgage I think later we'll talk about construction but this family mortgage as A family we are keeping active we are also

paying for 50,000 rubles to every family with a third child to make sure they are capable of paying back that mortgage we also improving everything Healthcare that is related to and education that is related to maternity to Childhood and we're also going to continue doing that I'll take this opportunity to address all the leaders of the Russian Regions this says where you should start in the morning and finish in the evening because it's a challenge for many countries across the world and for Russia in particular because the people population is the backbone of a country

territory is good but it has to be populated with citizens though I think we're doing a lot but apparently it's not sufficient and we can say that we're doing some useful things but we will only have succeeded once we have reached The objectives that I've just enumerated actually we're getting many messages from uh families with many children there is this problem there is this single allowance but once the uh mean salary is superior to the minimum level is established at the region then they are not getting that allowance and unfortunately even if the discrepancy is

very small they're not getting the money we are giving the Floor to Anna from Sur good she's got five children Anna have to you hello Mr President my name is Anna alaka I was born in surood I live in surood in hany man autonomous District I've got five children one of them has a disability starting from July 2023 I've been applying for an allowance every month but I'm denied that allowance because uh my salary is a little more than the minimum wage one once it was 400 rubles so when I get a mention for the

child Who has a disability is that considered as part of my Revenue why is it taken into account you know my spouse is is getting an official salary and when they take into account all of my Revenue they are calculating that based on our Revenue before tax but the thing is we're paying taxes so we're getting less money than what they are calculating and another problem the thing is we we we Have to go on vacation somewhere just as any other family but just the day before yesterday we looked at the tickets one we ticket

costs 140,000 rubles or so per one person so what can we do about that Hanna you've got five children right my congratulations that's great you're a happy person that's for sure and many people in our audience should con congratulate you and should also emulate you and your family Secondly the thing is when the income is calculated they take into account everything based on your income the previous year because you know U I've just cited our figures for the economic growth but the thing is this is just conjecture so they can only do that based on

your income the previous year we could think about that I'll ask Tatiana goik as well as our ministry of labor and Social Security but this is not the most important thing The thing is there are other reasons that might explain the problem that you are facing when your income is a little bit more than your minimum wage and once there is this uh discrepancy then you are not got to going to get the allowance this is a very formal approach we were thinking about how to avoid this similar situation the one your family is facing

and we have a solution we have to recalculate the income tax and then We have to give at least a 7% tax rebate B based on the tax your family has paid I think this will be able to compensate the money you're not getting due to the fact that you're not uh entitled to the allowance we we'll have a look at that we'll see how it works the government believes that this will be able to give you back the money you are not getting normally due to the fact that they're denying you the allowance this

is a recent decision we are going to look Look at how it's been implemented secondly you you spoke about travel and going on vacation we know about the problem I've spoken to the leaders and to the heads of the industry you know our aviation industry is very stable last year it was5 million passengers this year it's going to be 111 million passengers they that have used uh Air transport so we are coming up with a solution they're going to be benefits Provided to children with uh to families with many children there has to be a

five 50% discount or so but the thing is air companies are giving their own benefits but this is not a standard tariff and it's just a little lower than the normal tariff and the kind of circumventing the rule this practice needs to be stopped I fully agree with you a full discount has to be provided so I would like to ask the government to resolve it Before January the 14th next year and as uh for this uh 7% tax rebate on income tax this is a solution we're going to look into and see how it

works thank you I think there's another followup question about demographics somewhere in the room yes please where are you V church and Republic Mr President you are talking about demographic growth how important it is and you are cting the example of The Chan Republic yes not just the chesan Republic but also the Republic of TAA because these two regions are very good in terms of demographics probably we should provide some special program to the regions that are most efficient in addressing the demographic Challenge and secondly you adopted the three stage strategy for a highspeed road

uh last year the third stage is Moscow Adler and many experts believe that if gry and mahaj kala are Included into this uh road then this direction is going to be more efficient thank you for the question well you have mentioned the fact that chna is doing well with respect to Dem demographics it is true both CH and Tua are doing well in this respect two regions of the in the Federation do we need to take any additional steps or measures shall we thank you and the rest should take as a role model probably With

respect to Regions that have lower birth rates uh that are below 1.41 uh fact they need a special program to support both rates there are 35 such regions and a separate uh program to the tune of 75 billion rubles for the next fourth coming years is planed and as as regards Moscow Adler gr Mahala highp speed road we have several uh issues to resolve we need to uh resolve the black the Black Sea passage and the entrance to sui the exit Exit to sui from that road and eliminate the traffic congestion uh in the V

of Adler during the high tourist season people spend hours in those traffic jams and first of all they uh built an alternate near SOI and the existing road is a bottleneck and then the two traffic flows merge uh in front of Adler and we need to resolve this bottleneck widen that bottleneck to avoid Traffic jams so either there or during on this on the spot next to Adler chatan construction companies will be working as regards gr and Mah kala it is probably a a proper thing to do a good thing to do a good idea

we'll think of it later next next stage ch main roads you had this similar question I I just don't want want to Offend people Hamad Chen State TV and radio company gry yes this was uh part part of our question thank you but you gave an assessment to the city of Kazan while talking to my tataa uh colleague uh and mentioned the bricks Summit and uh you also visited Gren is it a beautiful City a wonderful and marvelous City it is uh a contemporary Russian Marvel you know I flew over groy in those hard dire

years of fight Against International terrorism it was in De and uh with gun uh machine gun firing and many people thought of moving the original capital to GES but the first president and the uh the incumbent president said no because groy is um the traditional capital for the church and people and we will restore it so the results since then are marvelous And this is uh the Merit uh of the incumbent president and the the entire ch people is credited also their hardworking character uh and and look at the mosque spectacular architectural edifices and forms

we take pride we cannot but take pride in what has been done in chne and gry over the past years congratulations on that thank you Mr President I I Recall your words when you were at the um MOS talking to the matin you said that the Islam and the Orthodox Christianity all the conventional faiths have one single root moral root and let me ask a question about the Russian special uh troops University it now has your name it's named after the Commander in Chief do you what is your take on that uh on on that

University on that visit well I Think it is it is very useful very instrumental and Russian guard forces have been using that and um uh fighters from across the country are trained there and some of the fighters that are now in the in the conflict Zone from chn from many other regions they were trained in in that Center which plays a pivotal role in enhancing the defensive capability of the entire nation okay I can see our Chinese friends from singua agency Wishing to ask a question M Mr President good day my name is Juan I

I represent singan news agency so glad to ask a question today to be able to ask a question I have two questions the first one what is your take on the current state of the development of the Chinese Russian relations will it tell us about the main outcomes of the cooperation between our countries and my second question last next year China and Russia will Mark a anniversary of the victory in in World War II and 80th anniversary since the United Nations were founded according to your opinion what is the role of inter Direction and coordination

between China and Russia in maintaining Global strategic stability and international Justice thank you very much well we we speak a lot about the bilateral interaction of uh China and Russia next year will March 17 5th anniversary since the Diplomatic ties were established over the past years A lot happened and we've gone through a lot together and in the recent decades the level and the standards the quality of our relations uh have reached an unprecedented level we never never seen in our history before I'll mention the economic component but uh this is built on Mutual trust

and Confidence uh all that we doing the way we Act is built upon of full trust and confidence on both sides we do nothing that would run counter to our interests and we have been acting in the interests of the Chinese people and the Russian people and as regards economic interaction well we have 220 230 or even 40 according to the Chinese statistics of billion USD of mutual trade which is Very good over the past year despite the high base we've still have seen a moderate base of growth of about 3% and my second point

is about Investments we have around 600 projects of mutual Investments to the tune of $200 billion so which means that our future interaction is safeguarded and uh another important component is cultural and humanitarian Interaction we hold dual years of culture and youth exchanges that are very important for specific cohorts of our population and this is the foundation for economic and political interaction also our original interaction is is is of significance heads of regions speak to one another and Malta and vka is on the table but you know they know the happy Medium they don't Overkill

so they have some personal chemist to I mean I mean the the residents of the regions neighboring regions and student and University exchanges also take place then mentioning the Great Patriotic War Russia and China were the countries that suffered most during the second world war but still gained a victory so the casualties were colossal we lost 25 or to 27 million people and China lost even more around 30 million people in casualties so uh the things that the Japanese militarists did on Chinese land are horrendous were horrendous and the Chinese people went through that or

deal and we stood side by side then and we stand side by side now which is a most important factor of global stability and originally the United Nations was established for the sake of His stability and the permanent Security Council Members include Russia and China and we almost always coordinate our approaches on International Arena and definitely this is a very important pillar of international Affairs so we'll keep acting in this vein uh please convey my best wishes to the leader of the People's Republic of China person whom I believe to be my personal friend Presidency

so please I I call on everybody to ask no more than one question and Bic synct Kuban region in the in central sector please ask yours good afternoon Kadar region the lights of Cuban newspaper Marina SM noova the question is as follows nowadays the talks arrive about the migration issue ways to resolve it are entertained the kradam territory is a big region and cohesive one still we have the issue of migration we have restriction Restrictions in place uh only the construction sector allows patents and what is your take on on these restrictions and we lack

man power and what is the way out so this is a very sensitive and acute each year not only for this country for Europe also and for even more acute for Europe so we lack Manpower yes this is true we we have unemployment at 2.3% which means It's almost inexistent well our businesses and Ministries have been telling me that uh there's a shortage in the construction sector and uh manufacturing it's hundreds of thousands of workers this is a hard fact what the way out might be you ask so first in order to reduce the number

of the labor migrants one needs to enhance the the labor productivity using New technological solutions that do not require lots of low skilled workers and hence you should focus on on Hightech sectors so there will be no need to to bring in more L killed migrants second if it still it's inevitable we need to act together with our partners like in in some of the countries like Central Asian countries in order to prepare people in those republics in Advance they should get to know the Russian language learn the Russian language and and Russian language studies

centers should be established and and the prospective migrants should be knowledgeable of the Russian legislation and definitely and requirements for those already on our soil must be tightened they should respect the environment they live and work in and this is the responsibility of of the law enforcement bod so there Are two components here the economic and the law enforcement ones and they should merge there should be Synergy between them we had lots of debates about establishing a separate body or just leaving it as a division within the interior Ministry but I believe still that it

should stay inside the interior and uh actually a powerful uh heavy duty Center should be established that should um be in in constant touch with the economic Agencies and Ministries and regions definitely to resolve those issues and keep track of things and there's a great deal of regulation on the regional level and that must be governed from a a single Center and later on uh as the situation gets mature and they acquire new competences in that Center a brand new agency may be established in future but it should have the law enforcement component and the

economic one certain steps in this direction have Already been taken or have adopted a law the stadium has passed a law about the right not to accept children of migrants who don't don't speak the Russian language well it's understandable how can you possibly teach a child at school if he or she doesn't speak Russian then he or she that child needs to receive Russian classes and who's going to pay for that so we need to make sure that the rights of those who come into our Country don't are not infringed we need to provide health

services and social services but it shouldn't become a burden for the local population and the comfort of those people should not be affected and impacted so the government should pay more attention to this problem and I've just mentioned how we are going to address it first within the ministry of interior and then if the situation required so we could think of Establishing a separate body that would involve representatives of law enforcement agencies and the economic bodies Mr President we have monitored the situation with migrants it is indeed a very accurate and complex question and issue

but we've received many questions from those who travel into our country and not only those who come to earn money in many cases those of Russian people who want to become to return to their Homeland Receive a Russian passport and become a full-fledged citizens of the Russian Federation we received such letters from Ukraine from Belarus there are many Russian people in those countries we received equal questions from Germany for example Le zel who left to Germany in 1990 and returned to Tusa in 2006 had a similar question he stayed for many years in Russia but

he cannot receive the Russian citizens citizenship according to the explanations given to Him only President Putin can give you grant your citizenship because we don't have um sufficient legislation only after he left wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin he was told what documents are required um so it looks like the sitation is on its way of being resolved but we would like to see successful end to it well you need indeed citizenship is granted by Presidential decrees but it is a formal act that has to be prepared on the local ground on the Local level

but you raised some issues that um fall into the category of work with compatriots that is those people who feel themselves to be part of Russia they speak Russian language they consider themselves to be part of our culture part of the Russian World and as a rule they are highly qualified experts and professionals and we are interested in attracting High qualified experts to Russia we have established a specialized Program for those purposes probably it's not efficient yet we have to improve those mechanisms you mentioned ukrainians I believe there are lots of ukrainians living in Russia

maybe no less than in Ukraine and it's not a joke I'm talking about those people living in U territories in Crimea those are millions of people and I believe we have as many ukrainians living in Russia as they are living in Ukraine we can Only welcome it those are people of our culture they are part of our people those mechanisms as I've mentioned need to be improved there's no doubt about it we are interested in seeing more highly qualified people coming to our country and those people who are the carriers of our Traditional Values well

it's difficult to Define but uh in order to make this work effective and efficient we have to Continue our efforts and uh please uh give me the specifics of the person you've mentioned will provide him any assistance right in the beginning we said that we have artificial intelligence at our disposal and it assist Us in choosing the most relevant questions uh housing is one of the most accurate topics and if you look on the monitor you see that uh this topic Ry number one now we are going to show you A video question from a

young people from Cross Mr President for 3 months we haven't been able to receive a family mortgage whether the banks are out of limits or they increase the initial payment from 20 to 50% what's the future of Family Mortgage because right now it's very difficult to obtain it and apart from Family Mortgage it is almost impossible to receive an it Or usual mortgage Banks run out of limits and they don't want to approve claims and since recent time banks have introduced a combo mortgage program when they add their interest and as a result the interest

uh increases from 6 to 133% so they simply don't want to provide mortgage loans under the family mortgage program thank you very much for raising this question well it's a shame it's Outrageous it shouldn't be the case and we've already discussed it with the government I was promised and I'm going to check whether This Promise has been fulfilled this would be no additional interest rates because it is a subsidy from the government and Banks should be only interested in receiving the 6% from those who use the family mortgage loans and the difference between the the

bank Interest rate and those 6% is compensated by the government or it should be compensated by the government so there are no limits on the part of the government so the difference settles down in the banks it means a significant income for them if they deny it means deny um an application it means that the government doesn't send a subsidy to the banks I'm going to check on it but we agreed there will be no limits that's my First point second Point as for the 3% family mortgage loans and as for the usual mortgage loans

the ratio is um 3% for the usual for the rural mortgage loans and 3% for the family mortgage loans last year we constructed 110 million square meters of new housing it is a record in Soviet times 50 percent were individual houses and Most of them were built in rural areas um people aged about 4 40 years take these mortgage loans they move into rural areas settle down there they build families and these morgage loan programs should have no limits about several billion rubles are allocated from budget for these purposes and it should be preserved same

for it experts mortgage loans it is about at about 5 or 6% it is preferential rate and it applies To not so many people some experts suggested that it should be this program should be closed but I think it doesn't make any sense and I ask the government to provide the necessary subsidies and uh it also applies to the Far East regions yes 2% for the far 2% for the new regions yeah yes and now I suggest that we move on to another accurate topic that is phone frauds every day We appeal to our audience

on TV yes I mentioned 110 millions of square meters they were constructed last year this year the figure will be at about 105 million square met it is equally a very good figure yes a phone fraud how topical this problem is we can see from the amount of money that was stolen from the citizens by criminals criminals pretend to be representatives Of the central bank or Federal Security Service and they move citizens to take loans or give their money to the criminals I suggest to hear a video address from one of the victims good afternoon

Mr President my name is H I'm a pensioner recently I became a victim of criminals they hacked my account at gugi account and now I have a debt of a great debt and I simply cannot pay it off how is it possible that Banks approve such IL legal loans while I Receive very small pension and Banks don't request any information at the same time they approve such loans they prove loans that are much greater than my monthly income there are lots of pensioners who fell victims of criminals shouldn't we ask Banks to better control the

activities of their offices and better check the applications from pensioners thank you I can only agree with you yena you're quite Right there are not more comments to be made indeed Banks can issue loans very quickly momentarily but they have to they must check the ability of a person to pay and there is a regulation According to which if more than 50% of person's income should be paid to serve the loan in that case such loans Are more expensive for the banks and the pressure on the bank Capital increases there is a relevant regulation of

the central bank but what's happening now is a source of great alarm because the volumes the scale of these fraudin activities is outrageous recently at AAR meeting Mr graph head of this bear Bank told me that in the whole banking system from the territory of Ukraine alone where this criminal fraudulent Activities almost happen as part of a state policy it is conducted under the supervision of the special security Special Forces of Ukraine only from Ukraine alone did the criminals uh deceive our people for 20 250 billion rubles it is almost the scale of what the

Hitler Germany did they simply printed money and spread it in order to Undermine the economy of the UK almost same is now happening in Ukraine and of course we have to supervise the situation we should keep it in focus of our attention the loans of up to 50,000 rubles should and can be issued online but starting from 50,000 people and up to 200,000 people is a sum that requires special checks by the people people should be given more time to double check their Decision and approve it additionally and when it comes to the loans for

more than 200,000 rubles then people should be given extra time to double check their intentions and we need to take the relevant regulations by the central bank and the banks need to be regulated those who those Banks who issue such loans that are uncovered and there is another problem of which governor of the Central Bank and the ministry of interior have reported Me we find out that there are people who are not involved seem not to be involved in those criminal activities but when people become victims and this um money are first transferred to the

third party accounts and then criminals receive the money from those third party accounts and those third people seem not to be involved when they open their accounts in the banks so it is a suggestion to increase not only control but also the responsibility of those who people who Are in reality involved in these criminal activities these intermediaries understand why the cards are opened in their name so there is a proposal for criminal liability for such activities I'm not saying that it is a solution but still that's a possible Avenue for moving forward do you know

anyone who suffered from um Telephone fraud no I don't know such people personally but though there are people And those I know they reported to me they they get calls they used to get calls and will'll call we'll get calls I guess yes possibly but when they hear a non unknown voice and any offers that have to do with that end up with certain actions they put down the telephone or disconnect the call and I suggest that all citizens of the country do the same Mr President quite often such unknown voices call from call centers

that are Situated in Ukraine we've noticed that after strikes against energy infrastructure of Ukraine the number of fraud calls are decreasing simply they're cut off from from the power yes they maybe we could put those um phone centers as one of priority goals no a priority targets for us are military infrastructure and military industrial complex facilities also possibly decision-making centers however phone call centers we are not to waste our Munition on that we need to make the necessary decisions domestically through the necessary institutions at the central bank at the Russian government and the ministry of

the Interior Mr pesov is looking nefariously at us now let's get back to the audience you've mentioned Ukraine and I see um the banner the other Ukraine could you give the mic to them please Mr President Galina merula I'm Deputy head Of the media resources of the international social movement the other Ukraine we represented the interests of millions of Ukrainian citizens in the Ukraine itself unfortunately still under the control of the KB regime as well as in Russia European countries we have opened 55 branches of our organization our movement believes that that Ukraine believes that

the only way to save ukrainians from the criminal Illegitimate regime of zilinsky which has zered the executive the legislative and the Judiciary authorities is to unite the the two peoples the Russian and the Ukrainian what are the conditions for you to begin the negotiations with KF if not with zansky then with whom one more important aspect right now Ukraine sees the persecution not only of the of the Orthodox Church of the Russian Orthodox Church is basically eliminated what do you think about that do you think that the position of the um Russian Orthodox church has

been undermined yes okay now first and foremost about please sit down about the illegitimacy of the regime I have already spoken on the topic as I understand the inspirator of this movement is this an organization or the Other Ukraine it's a movement okay it's a movement inspired by Victor medich chuk yes yes we um don't see each other but I know that he also thinks that why is the regime illegitimate and I'll repeat myself once again the constitution of Ukraine does not have an indication of possibility of the extension of the Mandate of the president

even during the martial Law there is just one Authority that is the representative the council that is r the Parliament and there mandate can be extended during the martial law um if necessary without elections and I understand that you know it the thing is that the government the whole governance is in Ukraine is built around president who appoints um the downward um Executives and authorities that is the Le the leadership of all intelligence and army institutions so if the first if if a president loses legitimacy the same happens downwards so whatever they do when they

execute his orders he becomes uh they become the accomplices of in his illegitimate actions that's first thing now as for The preconditions for negotiations we don't have any we're prepared to hold the dialogue without preconditions however on the basis of what we have already agreed upon and I have said it 100 times what we have agreed on during the negotiation process in Istanbul at the end of 2022 Also regarding the reality on the ground right now we have presented the position of the Russian Federation that was Presented also during the June statement at the Russian

foreign Ministry I don't want to repeat myself it's all has has already been presented if not with the head of the regime if it's if he's legimate then with whom you know if someone runs an through an election campaign and proves his legitimacy we're prepared to talk to anyone even with zalinsky but right now if the Ukraine truly wants to go through a peace settlement they're capable of doing that They can organize this process in any way they want but we can sign an agreement only with a legitimate person and Rada and the chairman of

Rada are legitimate are the only legitimate people but they're completely in under control of the head of the state but it's a formal issue they can organize it in any way they want but we we need to sign this document only with a legitimate Representative of legitimate Authority in the Ukraine there was a question about the Russian Orthodox Church as well yes you know what's happening with a with an orthodox church that's unparalleled this is a blatant violation an outrageous violation of Human Rights rights of Believers the church is being tortured this is akin to

being slaughtered and everyone in the world Prefers not to notice that and I think that those who are doing that will will get a boomerang if effect from that they're tearing the church apart but they're not even atheists atheists are also people who believe something they believe that there is no God but this is their belief their their conviction and these are not a atheists these are people without any Beliefs Godless people they're ethnic Jews but has has anyone seen them in a synagogue I don't think so they're not Orthodox as well because they they're

not never present at a church and for sure they don't follow Islam because we don't see them at the mosque these are people without kin or memory with no roots they have they don't cherish what We cherish and the majority of the Ukrainian people cherish as well they will they won't go to church they will go to the beach and I think it's their choice and I think that at some point in time they'll remember this and the people in the Ukraine and the majority of people in the Ukraine are well have something to do

with the Orthodox Church they will evaluate their actions two or three questions to the audience I cannot help but give the Floor to purga radio or the blizzard radio blizzard radio chotka region Anastasia laa thank you for this opportunity I looking at the screens and they're assuring the the relevance of topics for the regions and I get confirmation that my question is truly relevant and concerns many citizens of my region it's about the internet and Communications we in chotka have highspeed Internet only at the capital of our region just one city other Citizens of the

region do not have such benefits of of the internet no um entertainment no banking services no gosuslugi app they're unavailable to the majority of the people of chotka could you please help us with this with the bridging of the digital Gap if possible thank you I don't think there is a lot to say about that because we have an high-speed internet development program and Communications Program um our satellite constellation and so on especially about constellation that has to do with Communications it will be done for sure sure these this data is widely known the the

the rate of of work that is being done on that the necessary resources have been allocated there'll be no shortcomings here we'll move according to the plan and I hope truly that the far away region such as chotka will Reap the full benefits of the modern civilization it is extremely important for such country as ours because more and more people are working remotely there receiving education remotely and here highe internet is of utmost importance we'll do that for sure no doubt now Alexander gamov the front row one of the oldest Russian journalist thank you very

much Comm M provda website And a newspaper I'm um here with girls with Marina Putin team Representatives we haven't spoken about that but I wanted to congratulate all of us and you Mr President I think this is the 20th press conference though colleagues trying to to correct me here and saying that it's 21st press conference this format is unparalleled in the world and I hope we'll have even more additions of that To come my question is contrary to the skeptic's prognosis the presidential program time for Heroes did not become just a a single use program

just a rubber stand program what were your personal hopes for this program were they fulfilled what kind of expectations do you have now and just a last moment question why don't we cherish and protect enough I mean Our Heroes I mean Not only the death of General kirov he was mentioned as an aside today but there were plenty of cases when our participants of the special military operations were offended or later the law enforcement interfere but there were many cases now more to the time for her the program I represent the heroic newspaper kamol Pravda

during the Great Patriotic War this was a a newspaper with Frontline correspondence and right Now since 2014 we have been producing a newspaper in donet and Don Bas and luhansk as well from the front lines next year we're celebrating 100 years on the 24th of May my colleagues asked me to give you the invitation for you to come to us we have Mikel Petrov here and he he spoke how we celebrated 120 years of toss and they received an order we're waiting for you on the 24th of May um at 12: a.m. sharp will you

come I will Try thank you very much for the invitation Comal prda newspaper is part of love life please sit down this is a part of life of many generations of our citizens people wake up with this newspaper that was a morning routine for many they read read it throughout the day is becoming more and more modern mass media it works in all information spheres this is a load Stone and objective media and I like to Congratulate you with the results of your work thank you for the invitation now as for the time of Heroes

platform I spoke that I came up with this idea after meeting students and also participants of the special military operation in St Petersburg I sat there and it occurred to me that I had in front of me the uh people who were the future of the country and that's when it occurred to me me to build this platform I won't hide it I Came up back to Moscow I spoke to my colleagues I asked the administration to work this through and they came up with the name the time of Heros and I think it's very

apt 43,000 applications came in during the first stage and of course uh we uh went forward with a very rigorous selecting process just 80 three applications went through to the next stage we need to make sure that they've Got the education they fit the parameters because they will have to work and the government and big companies and municipalities ministers Ministries and agencies I spoke about this uh during my meeting with United Russia but I have to say all of them every one of our people fighting for our country and the special military operation are worthy

but we have to make sure that they fit the field they want to work in because they need some Experience education because it's one thing fighting for your country and another working with people you have to have a certain predisposition as well as a talent because these activities are somewhat different and we have to choose the people who are willing and capable of working there and so far there hasn't been a single hiccup all of them have fit perfectly right now we've launched the second Stage 15,000 applications have already been filed the period for applications

has been extended until mid January mid-February or something like that and um this process will keep going as far as the first batch as concerned many of them are working some of them have been appointed as heads of Russian regions many of them have found themselves in business in entrepreneurship in the government of all levels Federal Municipal Regional Levels working in big companies as well and I would like to retweet something that I spoke about during the United Russia convention I've recently visited a rehabilitation center There Are Soldiers with uh trauma with injuries some have

missing limbs but I can see a spark in their eyes because they are willing to uh to work and they're capable of doing that because more Rehabilitation techniques Allow that they can work in a fully fledged manner without any health restrictions the only thing they need is a helping hand you know I remember the face of one of those guys he he said yes I understand I do not have the education I have neither education or experience but I want to do that and these are precisely the people we need those who are willing to

work who want to work and all they need is little Help you know when I was still doing Judo our coach rling said uh do as many pullups as you can and some of them did a lot more than I did and and you know we we asked him many years after you decided to take in some of us who didn't make as many pullups as others but he said you know you went to the end your hands were trembling your arms were spasming as well but you made as many pull-ups as possible whereas the

others did as many Pull-ups as they required and they didn't fight so you were willing to go all the way and these men are just like this and they need some help oh yes that's a very important question I understand yes you're right first these attempts are not the the first ones we we are aware of what the adversary is searching seeking to do and these tanks are not just targeting our military I SP that uh when I talked to Your American colleague there are you know assassinations like that of mam dugina which was terrible

there are attacks on journalists on civil leaders these are terrorist actions perpetrated by the current key regime and that means that our law enforcement agencies as well as our special services are missing these strikes what can I Say I can say that we need to improve our work and make sure such things never occur again you know the right part of the central sector I saw a very popular blogger right there yes he just stood up well this is an unconventional guest what do you mean unconventional Mr President my name is Vlad bumaga I'm a

video blogger I've got more than 80 million subscribers mostly young people and as We know young people spend much time on the internet every day from 5 to 8 hours and half of that time is spent watching video content and just as many other content creators we're actively pursuing the development of our Russian platforms such as VK video yes these platforms are not yet great but they're growing steadily and they provide a high quality service which brings me to the question why block YouTube when our platforms are doing Quite well on their own because they're

competitive and they provide good conditions good terms for authors and Conta creators and we can post content there and broadcast our ideas our narratives to a wider audience than the Russian speaking audience and on another uh matter as I said almost all children know me and watch me almost all children in our country and this year I became a father as well my congratulations and my Congratulations to your wife because first and foremost she's the one to be credited with yes I'll do that so I am a person who creates v v content which many

children are growing on so what are the values I have to broadcast and is there anything that I shouldn't do and what are the values and the narratives that I have and we all have to broadcast to the younger Generation what are your instructions well starting with the uh slowing down of YouTube indeed there are more issues on YouTube side in order I'm sorry Vlad bumaga is that your pseudoname is it your pen name no it's my real surname oh great bua because you know it's the Russian for paper and we know That paper is

stronger than Stone you said 80 million people which is unparalleled that means that the content you're creating is in line with the expectations of these 80 million people who are following you this is the fruit of your creativity and I would like to offer my congratulations to you on that secondly you know Google is the one uh in YouTube when Google was creating its Network in Russia they set up Subsidiaries the legal entities that created those services and they had to to be maintained so Google was working through these subsidiaries once the West started slapping

restrictions on uh Google started diminishing its uh funding and it also reduced the supply of equipment thereby creating problems for itself Moreover Google needs to be in compliance with our legislation they have to avoid any type of wrongdoing they shouldn't abuse the internet Network to secure foreign policy gos of respective governments see when you are watching for some topic for music for culture and all of a sudden your search result gives you links that have no relation whatsoever to culture or music rather these links lead you to some propaganda Of a political platform or something

like that or they are trying to take out of circulation the names of our artists our bloggers or political leaders which is all something that constitutes a violation of righteous legislation and hence the Grievances the Ross comar has with them that is the organization that is in responsible for the control and the supervision of uh the internet if they're in compliance of our legislation they can come under some restrictions in Their respective countries but if they want to work in Russia they have to comply with our law and you know you you say that nature

abhs vacuum so rbe telegram VK all of that is growing rapidly and if YouTube understands that and tries to reconfigure its presence in Russia then they will have no problems here whatsoever now as for the material we need to use to rear our Children I'm confident vad that given such type of advice is basically pointless because people like you especially now that you have become a father now that you have a child you you feel this weight of growing responsibility you feel responsibility towards your child and towards the future of the child as well as

to the country your child is going to live in and this sense of responsibility is Going to serve as a beacon for you and it's got to be even better than any instructions or advice I might provide to you with regard to what I think is useful for the future of our children or what is perilous andaras for our children and which is something you have to fight not because this is what I instruct you to do but because your heart tells you to do that unfortunately I uh skipped TV3 I'm sorry since we're talking

about children we've got uh Young girl a young lady there duping families with children maybe the allowance well I'm going to tell you my name is yova Mr President I'm from tatan yes tat once again an online newspaper first thank you for choosing Kang as the venue for uh bricks Summit but my question is not related to that there is a group of frosters who have duped hundreds of families in kazen who were dreaming to have of having a children of their own They drew out a mortgage with government support but they houses have never

been built so I'd like to ask you whether they will get any help as uh you in the past provided help to those who paid for their housing before the houses were build because right now these families have to pay back their mortgages so when will people get support rather than the banks well uh please uh uh stay there please with a mic the thing is we have set up a system For Esco account if a person draws out a mortgage then the money is channeled to an Esco account and this money is frozen until

the house has been built I'm talking about individual houses not uh apartment houses the thing is individual houses uh are in compliance with this program it's the same it's 3% and you know we build 105 million square meters last year and 50% of that was accounted for by individual houses but the money was supposed to stay in the Esco accounts where did the money go I do not understand what you talking about well this is what we had in tan hundreds of families ended up in this situation where did the money go can tell me

I I I'm I don't know the details what's your name Lena yeah Lena those Details Matter a lot let's get to grips with it wasn't about his Crow accounts Lena it may the probably the case when people are Hoodwinked and their money is taken from their accounts and uh probably we should compare contrast it with other cases of similar kind and we should prevent such cases so we need more detailed information because I'm not in the know because these are very important Things and we should Rectify such flaws actually uh we have some of the

housing still under the construction and the money resting and registered with this Crow account can stit at around 7 trillion rubles in totality more than 65% of or what is uh uh needed to complete the construction of of uh of the of the purchased uh houses and this this will be so that is Constructed in 2025 and no one will be left without the purchased flats and the money on the accounts are protected and hedged and in short if you if you if you know about some practi practices at our office Co counts please give

us let us know TV3 or turkey turkey we will come back to you Later dollar agenc Alura Mr President Israel has been breaching the international law killing tens of thousands of people including children in Palestine and Lebanon currently Israel has been capitalizing on the situation in that region to occupy Syria breaching its sovereignty how can you comment on the acttion Of Israel in that region have you had a conversation with President erdogan thank you please have a seat we are in constant touch with President erdogan well I I cannot uh remember the exact date when

we talked last time but we definitely also talked the situation in the region in the Middle East and the attitude of president Iran and turkey to the Middle East developments is well known and our position on Lebanon and and Palestine also is common Knowledge our stance is not subject to political expedience situation and we believe that the resolution of Palestine issue can be attained only with the help of removing the the root causes so the security Council back in the past opted in favor of a two State solution Israel and Palestine Israel was established palestin

is yet to be established this is the issue this is the problem and Israel has been continuing its unlawful Settlement activities today I'm not sure what goals Israel pursues in Gaza but you know this Merit only condemnation and we did that on on many occasions at all levels including the uh the public and civil level and uh expressing our position in the security Council of the United Nations nothing to add here same refers to Lebanon as regards Syria I believe Frankly Speaking turkey Has been trying to safeguard its safety on its Southern Frontiers and create

conditions for the return of the refugees back home from its own territory to the Syrian land um and those territories are are now under uh more or less control of actually turkey probably they want to move away the Kurdish troops from the border probably those might be the the Goals and uh the outcomes and may be attained but the main beneficiary of this Syrian development I believe is Israel it's my personal belief you may you may have any sort of attitude to what Israel has been doing Russia has been condemning the seizure of uh any

part of Syrian territory but Israel has been trying to resolve its security Issues and uh you know the Golan Heights line is well known and Israel has uh moved 64 to 60 62 to 64 uh kilometers on the front line uh inserting around 25 kilm into the the the other territory the the adversarial territory it's similar to The Mao uh line from the 20th century history and real Fortifications formid fortifications and solid ones uh have been built and we hope that what sooner or later Israel with Will withdraw but now they have been pulling in

troops right like several thousands several thousand of troops and they want they're going to reinforce uh the contingent there I think and and local people have bued and called called on Israel to include those Territories into Israeli State and if it's all boils down to disintegration of Syria this will be decided by the UN in line with the UN Charter and the self-determination rights uh Nations have this is a very um convoluted complex issue not for today's uh phoning and you know turkey has had problems with the Kurdish working party for decades I hope there

will not be A an aggravation but you know some of the European leaders told me that after World War One Kurds were promised their own State and then were duped and deceived and Kurds reside in Iran Iraq and turkey and Syria you know how how many of them live there around 30 to 35 million Kurds and this is uh the Kurdish issues is uh uh major one and the Kurds are formidable Fighters and uh and the the Kurdish the Kurdish issue should be resolved and it should have been done under President Assad and it should

be done with dealing with the current authorities in control of Syrian soil and turkey also needs to uh to ensure its security this is not for today's event you know but there will be lots of issues to resolve but we uh we abide by the abide by the international law and we want we believe That uh All Nations all stakeholders interest should be uh safeguarded including the current uh Syrian authorities in this in this uh in this issue on this issue we are on their side and we are in touch with all the major groups

that control situation in Syria TV3 uh military correspondent Alexander M malich just in a natural the fighters asked to convey words of gratitude uh last week you met with Human Rights Council Members and and supported the idea of creating a the Museum of U special military operation this will be our media oresnik so to say and uh and and our legendary Leningrad regiment has been rendered the name of uh God's regimen so gratitude for that so and what is your assessment of the fund on a on a scale of 10 points and what the what

are the main goals for the uh foundation for next year and the main Criterion of the Efficiency of the foundation for have a seat with respect to the uh work of the foundation Defenders of the Fatherland that was established in June this Foundation was established you know after my meeting with the mothers of the special military operation but disant with the widows and uh I figure that the regular Support methods to back our uh servicemen and support the families of the uh of the fallen heroes are insufficient and we need a special arrangement to be

established including for those who get out of touch with the with the army so the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation was established for this sake when they leave the military service They still need the um attention and Care from the government and it should not be formal it should be targeted individual to each family to each so this is the uh statutory goal of the foundation it it has to resolve social and Welfare issues like allowances payouts receipt prosis and artificial limbs supply for those who need that and uh and uh and they procure the

entire service not just the the the [Music] limb and uh it is uh um they have been carefully pre- selecting the processis types and uh and um post operation care also is part of what they work on still some of the patients have to travel far and wide across the country and they have to resolve that I talked with Anil who has told me that Now the requests start coming from the fighters with respect to uh future employment which is very important and also about practicing Sports and participating in cultural events and this is so

good so it means that we are seeing a change for the better which is very good but you know future employment is the overarching objective of ours Cuz those those servicemen and ex- servicemen are so enthusiastic and they want to be trained for uh peaceful life or sometimes they can stay with the military and uh uh work at the draft commission offices and they may uh move to the it uh industry or work in sports in military or civil Sports there's a great deal of there's a great number of opportunities given the level of Technological

advancement and individual individual wishes and overall they have been [Music] successful there are still some issues and uh some issues remaining but some of the people working there were directly related to the military operation those might also be widows of the of the Fallen Fighters or mothers of those who still are on the battlefield so these Are caring non different people and um uh the servicemen that came back from the front line also work in that Foundation this is why it is efficient in its operations I didn't want to to allow the director of the

foundation over to become part of the defense Ministry but I see it to the proposal of bellow of the defense minist who said that I he beli that for the sake of a semless process that is Needed because part of the servicemen will will will be under the defense Ministry uh some of them are on the front line and others have left the army so when you they see seamless me mechanism if I'm not mistaken it was in summer when we established a special social Center on the ministry of Defense together with the defend of

Fatherland Foundation they work and a single window system where people those who remain in The ministry of defense and those who have left the pyram of the ministry get United and work on the two tracks on the hill there are lots of problems but we try to find you in this work as you know they also adopted they participated in the elaboration and development of decisions uh previously everyone received 3 Millions for small injuries even for small scratches and those who were severely Injured Ina a disability also received the same amount of compensation and Fighters

themselves requested that the system might be changed and we started paying those uh severely injured 4 million Rubles but when I was receiving these reports I saw that those soldiers who were severely injured and got disabled previously got three million people and After that the changes were made u meaning that those who had been injured before were not were underpaid and we find in the situation the system and uh those who were injured previously and before earlier received 1 million more I see that raises her hand Mr President soak you touched upon a very important

topic the topic of single window and the capabilities of the ministry of Defense I would like to offer different perspective to this question we stars of the show business journalists and those who are in different Implement various projects in particular for more than two years we've been involved in a large scale project offering assistance to those people from belr and cor regions our compet and co-citizens who were affected by the attacks of the Armed Forces of uh Ukraine we have provided assistance to Hundreds of people and I believe that from many people who are indifferent

what do you think how could we provide assistance to those people and establish a single window in order to bring together the Civil public initiatives and the state work of the state structures and bodies that already exist I'm talking about voluntary work that could be provided via a single window system on all tracks because we Face difficulties with employment in new regions problems with receiving places in the kindergartens and other problems that families with children are pH when they relocate would it be possible to establish a single window system for civil initiatives thank you well

first of all thank you very much for all your efforts it is it tremendously important think when we provide assistance to very specific persons second when volunteers provide Such assistance and I would like to thank all volunteers without any exception they risk their lives there are losses among volunteers unfortunately but when they work they reach out to a specific person and they have a bit better feeling of where the government succeeds and where something fails so I already mentioned with regards to the qu region there is a program aimed at restoration of the qu region

and Funds have already been allocated and same happens in other borderline regions in the belgar rod and Bron regions no one be left unintended but you probably have have a better feeling for that and I'll think about um how to proceed on myself and I'll request our bodies the ministry of defense and the governor I'll ask them how we can pull these efforts we could establish a single Windows system or think of a different instrument in order to coordinate the efforts thank you CIA I don't have an answer right now but I agree with the

problem that you've raised the topic of special military operation I suggest that uh we continue taking questions about the support measures for the family members of those Fighters there have been requests for assistance in finding those people who Are missing now uh people with with whom any connection was lost or with those people who according to the information received by their relatives when prisoned would you give an instruction to collect information about those people could we find you find tun this system for informing the families of servants military servants it is a very sensitive issue

for many people it's one thing when a person is Fighting on the battlefield God save him there are various types of payments we are talking about big amounts of money there are so-called travel expenses for those servant who were sent to the borderline regions to the regions of the special military operation before the hist broke out there so they were paid the So-Cal travel expenses since they receive Allowances for participation in the hostilities on the front line and there are small differences in this allowances but as a person disappears then we should provide assistance and

support to their families Ministry of defense is aware of this problem and at least two things need to be done in this track first what we need is to reduce the time for taking final Decisions when there is no information when fam and families no longer receive the payments and the allowances because there is no person uh he doesn't participate in defensive or offensive campaigns and doesn't receive the respective allowances so the family doesn't receive the financial support and together with the government the ministry of Defense have to take a different decision what Could be

done in order to provide at least some of an um assistance to those families maybe some payments for children and we should take the decision regarding the temporary measures and we also need to accelerate the decision- making process the process of making the final decision I'm not going to go deep into details but the ministry of defense is aware of this problem we've been working for more than three hours there are lots Of questions shall we try with a small Blitz yes we'll start with the following question when you conduct meetings sometimes officials are ask

your instruction to initiate some work well don't be angry with the officials the decision-making process is a complicated one and uh when they reach out to me then normally it is about the problems or questions to which through are different Attitudes some colleagues believe that it should be addressed from one perspective others offer a different perspective and um instructions are needed in order to see which way to choose when there is a difference in opinions then colleagues come to me and at a meeting they ask me to take the final decision and they ask instruction

to make sure that nothing is forgotten that a clear final decision has been formulated And uh you know there are some bureaucratic tricks when everyone inrees it needs to be enshrined on paper to make sure it is a regulatory document a second question with whom of those who have passed away already or those who still live today you would like to have a cup of tea while from those living today I would like to have more time to spend with my relatives with members of my family and my friends I would like like to have

more opportunities to drink a cup of tea with them as for the world leaders who have passed away already I've had contacts not so close contacts but nonetheless for quite a long time I had contacts to Mr Cole the German Chancellor he was a wild scale figure not only due to the fact that he was a cul Corpulent man but also thanks to his beliefs after my very first meeting with him back in 1993 and for a long period of time after he no longer was German Chancellor he sometimes regularly not quite frequently but regularly

came to visit me and it was my distinct pleasure to talk to him he was a an important figure of his time he had done a lot for his homeland for the German people and he was a real world leader and I still have Warm memories of many of our conversations there were useful for me and it is no exaggeration they were useful he was a very a president of France shirro was a very interesting personality he has encyclopedic knowledge he he knew everything whatever you asked him and he had his own opinion on anything

that he sticked to his opinion he was a very gallant and polite man and I learned a lot of from Him I learned a lot from uh coland from shro to his manners in particular a bit different sort of personality but nonetheless a very warm a person was belone just as shirro he accomplished a lot for development of Russ Italian relations regardless of what's happening right now we feel some Affinity to Russia among the Italian population just as we feel the same Affinity to Italians They've all made a large contribution to the development of our

bilateral relations and the world policy and it was interesting to talk to them they were true personalities they had their own opinion and they were focused on achieving best possible results for their own countries and strengthening the sovereignty of their countries even now I have many friends in Asia I've mentioned the friendly relation With China and India and have warm relations with prime minister of India so I have um people to talk to but just as any human being those are my family members who are most important to me and I have some friends from

my childhood I have a semi question or um request for advice do you have any um banking Investments if so um I I used to have u a deposit inbank but when Bank of Russia fell under sanctions that was the first Financial institution I transferred my money there as a as an demonstrative act and I put my salary there so did alir nabina tell about the interest rate tomorrow I think it's interesting not only for Valerie simonov who wrote from scoff region no she does not tell me the interest rate she possibly does not know

herself because they're discussing it at a meeting of board of directors their own party meeting and during the discussion they Take the final decision however I hope that will be a well balanced decision that will be in line with the challenges of today the for forecast of Vladimir xowski for the situation in Middle East and the caucuses are coming true will other forecasts of Mr zerovski come true naturally I knew Mr zerovski very closely he was not a fortune teller but he was a person that was larger than Life and he did it remarkably he

was a polymath he was well trained he was a actually um a specialist trade in Middle Eastern studies he was a true expert so what he said is indeed coming true because he said it based on analysis of what was happening in our country in the world so he was forecasting this the situation it is indeed coming true however this is a Forecast based on true knowledge and the experience that he had as a specialist I suggest we go back to the to the uh Q&A question yes we we can do that forever and we

have 200,000 question I don't see what's written on on your paper but you've been raising your hand for a while now a man in mask okay you'll be the next okay okay may I yes please NOA NOA region we are an agrarian And Industrial region we create value added product product products we export goods but we have an acute lack of talent especially young people despite the agricultural mortgage and development of agricultural lands we lack people what measures should be taken in order to preserve those who already living in the village and to attract new

generations there that is a very important Question agriculture is one of key industries of Russian economy as I have already mentioned it shows good growth rate of 3% annually we are very happy with what is happening in the in the agricultural sector I have already given the example if I'm not mixing anything up I can tell you that in 1986 the Soviet Union bought 35 million tons of grain this Year no let last year we have exported 66 million tons in 2000 we have already started to export grain however it stood at about 1.2 or

1.3 million tons and now we have 66 million tons It seems impossible but it's true look we are ranking as one of three major exporters of good of food in the world and as for wheat we are number one last year we had a a record crop of 148 million this year we we have 130 million tons for the past decade we've we've had more than 100 million tons we have tremendous export capacity we are fully sufficient in meat and we're exporting meat we have issues indeed with fruits fruit fruit and vegetable and milk though

we have an a special development program but we see growth everywhere one of the most important questions Is social issues in rural areas that is culture education housing we have a Social and economic development program for rural areas it has already funds earmarked for that possibly that is not enough but most importantly is to improve the level of Life the standard of living for people in rural areas and their income that will solve all other questions I'm sure we'll move towards that Goal as for talent indeed one of key issues traditionally even back in in

so Soviet times we've dedicated great attention to human resources and now the work in rural areas is already a business and it's very interesting it requires highly trained professionals at different levels in biology chem chemistry agronom and so on geneticists for example as for genetics it is very important Science but now is developing in the interests of Agri produce and showing greatest growth I think it's very interesting and we should talk about not only at at such events once a year but we need to talk about all the time and to create conditions for young

talent to go into those in those sectors of the economy as for the state it will do everything that's needed to engage new Students and the producers should also do what's being done in other Industries to create conditions to create um especially targeted programs for new students to find the pool of talent to ensure they work at at the production and to engage them in Hands-On on internships all that together will help we promise to to the journalist in The Mask I have already taken my mask off I Travel by Subway andreaz arguments of of

the week from usbekistan here as a volunteer and had of the studio of young students and bloggers the world of the young Moscow 45 years is the time I've spent in journalism I've started in usbekistan and now here I see that paper journalism is dying out maybe such bloggers as Vlad paper can help newspapers that are independent they don't depend on the state or businesses they depend on Readers only what do you think should be done for the um weekly press not to go extinct because bloggers are not always smart they're not always good it's

a short question now another question that asks to many authorities including Madame zakara spokesperson of MFA and she told me to go to U Vladimir Putin and direct line that's why I'm asking questions here many of our scientists and many people who see the Future are telling us that within 10 or 12 years the countries of Europe Japan the US the US and and Beyond the continent of America might land under water let me submer in water and they will try to ask to resettle into our country but they're against us maybe we should tell

them ahead of time it is a hypothetical situation but there is such forecast I read a lot of newspapers not some telegram channels and those liars and Everything that's my question I don't know whether I should say it or not but I'll tell you the story you know a famous joke a family sitting around the table and a small boy is saying they're doing the cross wordss a word of three letters and his mom hits him on on the head with a spoon why the the word is a house and the father says yes you

you need to think about the House so you were talking about some continent going on the water and you they need to think what what would happen to them but you need to think about home not about I was listening to you so attentively you're so energetic but let me finish please thank you why am I saying that is those forecasts that you've mentioned they not just emous calculations these are done by serious scientists they're saying that the Permafrost will defrost and that's a tremendous Hazard to the environment there will be greater emissions of carbon

more than all cars around the world and if permafrost melts that means that the coastal regions of Russian Federation might be jized as well we have Villages and settlements that are being on stilts put in permafrost it's already melting we need to think about that as for our coastal cities including St Petersburg Keep that in mind yes we've built the dam there that was the dream since the times of Peter the first but we need to think ahead what will happen to coal regions we need to think about our home first and foremost what about

paper yes hold on a second please if someone is going to resettle here we have 2.3% unemployment basically no unemployment we have Labor migration and issues in connection with that we need to think about that as well if we have a Tremendous inflow we need to consider that where to settle people we are the largest country in the world in in terms of territory however beyond the eurs do you know how many people we have there 12 million that's not enough we have territory to resettle people but we need to think about the social and

other types of infrastructure about the rules this is not just a idle question you're presented with Great pump but the indeed the question is there but we need to think about our domestic issues first and foremost as for paper journalism and help from Vlad paper I'm sure that such people will support you because they're talking about paper journalism I have a feeling that paper journalism would also find a place in the ecosystem and in changing landscape just like a paper Book you still have well you can leave through a gadget you have um um better

fonts for example sometimes I use it myself however taking a book a paper book in your hands not just because you have pictures there it's also interesting this is also a piece of art quite often this is a a piece of art in your hands so paper journalism sometimes taking a paper isva newspaper or Comal PR newspaper if you just leave through It there is also a certain pleasure in that and I hope that those who do that will keep in mind and I'm sure that there is there is interest from the public towards paper

journals but most important thing is the content whatever the vehicle whatever the media but as Vlad the paper said most important is the content and if a paper has decent and interesting content compared to some internet Phone let's talk about health this is one of the topics that's of great interest for Russians it's ranking number two lack of doctors in clinics lack of drugs and so on I suggest we connect to Inova from n noar your question Mr President good afternoon my name is OVA I'm from n offg city I have an appeal to you

please take a look at our medicine that is free of Charge our healthc care I would like to thank you for the renovated uh facilities of the clinics thank God they're being improved however the clinics are lacking specialist as well as GPS doctors are leaving for um commercial clinics what are we to do we pensioners I cannot uh sign up my father for a visit to cardiologist the doctor receives Patients only once a week there is no electronic queue because the doctor is not fully employed at the clinic you have to start standing in queue

at 5:00 a.m. to get um to to sign up for the visit and the queue is standing outside till 7:00 a.m. many elderly people cannot send up to the test of that we hope that you'll be able to look into that and sort this out thank you Arena Cova Madame Cova the issues of Health Care are something we have to look at in a broader context it ranks second in terms of importance and the same goes for any country for developed nations in particular because there this issue sometimes is even more relevant but we shouldn't

think about them we should think about ourselves about home so thank You for pointing out that the clinics have been r inovated it's a good sign it means that something good is happening we have a whole program dedicated to this matter but the most important thing you with the Specialists with the Personnel is related to the first stage of our health care System you know we've got the hospitals and there the problem with uh doctors is almost non-existent whereas in the first St age The the the clinics working with patients directly are a weak link

and the most important thing is to organize health care across different regions of Russia if we look at the use of uh beds in hospitals we see that they are not filled throughout all the year whereas the first stage of the Health Care System the first stage has this problem the Uh thing is how we reallocate the burden and uh how we make sure that it's spread out evenly throughout the year the healthcare Ministry is trying to attract as many new graduates as possible to hospitals in rural areas in smaller towns and sett Ms we

giving an additional 50 or 29,000 rubles as a premium to those young people who are willing to relocate to smaller towns and we have seen 177,000 175,000 influx of new Specialists to rural areas and we we we have to continue working on that and we have to move at a higher Pace than we are doing right now colleagues will probably help me we will jot all of that down and we'll help you with your father of course let's keep on medicine we have a smaller number of questions as compared to last year related to deficit

of drugs but there are problems for A drugs uh on prescription uh a pensioner from K is uh writing that she needs drugs against cancer but unfortunately drugs drug stores cannot provide her with that because uh they simply not there in ourselves and she has to pay from her own pocket and there is also a lack of sine solution so people who've got diabetes they are facing challenges with the supply of insulin Rashida EA writes to us that in neans she cannot get insulin From hospital nor can she B from a pharmacy from Sarat of

uh region a person writes that he has problems with insulin and also blood sugar test strips so uh Mr President what do you think of the current stages of our pharmaceutical industry and how do we provide our patients with the medical care they need in particular the drugs they need this is a question of the utmost importance just as the supply of uh Medical Specialists Pharmaceutical industry is one of the most important Avenues we're pursuing when I was the chairman of the Russian government that was back in 2008 back then we embarked on the path

of building our own pharmaceutical industry back in 2008 we started talking about that we drafted programs dedicated to the subject in 2009 the first programs were set forth they bore different names but the substance has always remained the same and that Substance is is building our own pharmaceutical industry I do not remember how much money we allocated back then pharmaceutical industry was being developed thanks to the government support to a large extent uh using the money earmarked from the federal budget whereas currently our pharmaceutical companies for the first time in history of the several last

years have started channeling their own money into to research and development to the tune of Dozens of billions of rubles I think 40 billion rubles or so they've got their own development programs they are using their own formulas to create new medications they are creating new chemical substances which uh is uh a first in our history we've come up with our own medications against cancers St Petersburg is one of the leaders in that field and the same goes for insulin as far as the blood Sugar test strips are concerned this is just a malfunction this

is a shortcoming on the part of the local organizations because the money for all of these medications is allocated on a timely manner so the procurement process has to go through smoothly I'm going to talk to the leadership of the Russian regions everything has to be done on Time and of course you need to take into account the requirements of the market we have a special program dedicated to the development of the pharmaceutical industry which is currently part and parcel of the technological leadership program there's a special subsection within that project related to essential medications

by 2030 we need to supply 90% of our own medications and as far as medical equpment is concerned the uh figure is 40% so we are making good Headway but of course uh with got all of this big work cut out for us and malfunctions do happen I know that you have spoken about deficit of insulin well actually we have enough of insulin the same goes for sine solution I'm aware of that I'm trying to follow all of that as far as sine is concerned it's not about sine it's about packaging it has to be

supplied on time to Ministries the ministry of Healthcare and the ministry Of trade and Industry did not take the timely decision on the price of the packaging and it the price was not competitive for the producer so they had to buy some of the packaging from abroad right now the decision has been made and I'm hopeful that these malfunctions will not happen in the future but we'll have a look at all of that in future uh Mr pesc over to you yes let's move back to the audience you know we won't get far This way

well let's let's not do it like this you know we'll be plunged into chaos and we won't be able to deal with that I'm sorry Axona SP TV channel Channel you know there's a person whom you have uh great respect for that is the uh spiritual father uh father nostrin he said that we need to Prohibit abortions uh full letter words and we also have to bury Lenin's body the first think the patriarch has said that abortions have to be prohibited because they only mutilate the bodies of our uh people secondly you have uh spoken

about uh for little words you said that it's basically invoking dark Forces and I would like to ask you about dark Forces because right now Russia is plunged into Renaissance of cism uh readily available Pornography and people spend more money on uh uh pornographic websites and EXT and extra sense uh and spiritual list than on anything else and the third component is bearing Lenin I'm not talking about the assessment of his activities but uh about respecting the will of his family because you know an embalmed body in osim is a Godless uh tradition what prevents

us from burying the body of Vladimir Lenin well I am confident That these are not the questions for the big press conference these questions are very sensitive as far as abortions are concerned of course we have to think about respecting religious convictions they have to be protected of course on the one hand on the other hand we have to address the demographic issues but we also have to think about the level of welfare of Russian families with children we have to think about their Future and we also have to think about the right of women

to uh make these decisions this is a very sensitive matter we cannot address during the press conference nor can we address the issue of pornographic websites you know there are some people who are not happy with the fact that YouTube is being slowed down I think uh por porn websites are visited all across the the world it's as easy as ordering you know a beef steak On the internet I think it's an issue not just for us but also for everyone what can our response be you know there can be bans and prohibitions but you

always have to come up with an alternative we have to come up with something which is more interesting than a porn side like you so that you go for an alternative because you know you've been to a porn side and now you have to go for Something more interesting more uh passionate uh something that causes great greater interest but in Russia in particular we shouldn't make um any step that would drive a wedge in our society this is what I think but IIA is correct of course I love uh I like him and he told

me that and I listen to what he has to say let's move to the other sector you know there's Kolesnikov yes Andre good afternoon Andre kesn of commant newspaper good afternoon Mr President it's been almost three years since the beginning of uh War we've all changed profoundly the war has changed each and every one of us but what has changed inside you have you come to understand something about yourself and another question if you don't mind maybe no one is going to ask that question no one is Asking it some time ago Joe Biden US

president pardoned his son Hunter Biden who had been convicted for perjury and the course of uh buying weapons everyone has expressed their opinion on this uh subject whereas you chose to keep M so what do you think about that can you comment on it sometimes you know silence is go that's what they say sometimes it's better not to say anything anything thank you for the question Incidentally as for the pardon Joe Biden gave to his son even though he had promised not to do that you know this is a very delicate subject we've got examples

in our country's history we know this famous painting Ivan Terrible and his son we know about this painting maybe that's a legend or maybe it's not as is probably uh what happened to Peter the Great's son Alexi what happened to him maybe he A legend maybe it's not or what happened to Stalin this was not a legend when Stalin refused to swap his son yov for the German Marshall pows he said he would not swap a soldier for a field Marshall and uh back then even surrendering into captivity was considered a Treason and uh you

know the nation was on the verge of uh not a defeat but a total Annihilation I would say of the entire nation so it was a matter of life and death of survival of the nation and uh the measures and policies taken to win were rigid tough and sometimes cruel and given that uh sentiment that was supported by uh Stalin he could not he wasn't able to save his son he said what he said and he Did what he did and his son was executed in a concentration camp and field Marshal Pals was used uh

during the nerur trial and no one expected to see him when he entered the courtroom with respect to Biden you know he's a politician so and uh so whether you have more a politician or a human always is a an important question It turned out that Biden had more than of a human being so I wouldn't condemn him for that and there was also part number one what whether you have changed over the past three years you know we all keep changing every day every hour all the visitors of this room all the streamers we

are in a flux and those two something years have been uh well a tribulation For for everybody for the entire country and for myself and we keep joking despite that it has been a trial and I I I you know I almost SE laughing and I now joke much less and there is also one more circumstance I started improving the the skills that I have in the search of key points and issues and uh and um my Concentration capability to resolve them the opposite sector I can see RBC news Outlet will pass the mic PBC

is a follow up on the question you said that you now laugh and smile less could could return to February 2022 would have changed your mind well it is a hypothetical question had we had a chance to go back looking with hindsight Knowing what is happening now I would have thought probably back in 2022 I would have thought that the decision made in in early 2022 to have been taken before earlier this is number one and number two well we ought to have started getting ready for those developments and the special military operation before and

those the Crimean developments were SP were kind of off the cuff off hand Impromptu and the 2022 also we started because we could not tolerate that anymore and wait for the situation to deteriorate further and the cave authorities stated directly in so many words that they would not Implement and fulfill the Minsk set of measures and they claimed to obtain the wmd and we we figured out that we had been deceived with respect to the Minsk uh arrangements and Massacre had lasted for8 years and uh they just they just Dropped it aside and we we

saw that that the military stationing of those territories began and the annihilation of all things related to Russia began and we could not carry on like that anymore they compelled and forced us had we known in advance what would happen we would have prepared in a systemic real serious way this is what I would have Thought dear friends we've been uh working for more than 4 hours we've exceeded the 4 hours duration let's allow these colleagues Ur daughter you will will you please stand up lady pass the mic thank you Mr presidenta lazaru news agency

you have um mentioned some of the European leaders so I I would uh know ask the following 2025 Russia will Mark 80th anniversary since the victory in the Great Patriotic War and you start inviting International leaders well if we recall the uh this year France uh celebrated the the the Normandy Day the the Normandy Landing day and they didn't um invite us and the aitz anniversary Liberation anniversary also was celebrated you were not invited but have you submitted invitations to the former anti-hitler Coalition representatives to to attend this future Forthcoming anniversary is it important for

you to see us France and Great Britain represented with as regards inviting us to events we do not seeking anything like that we are finding at home and we should uh strengthen ourselves and and and this is the the rearching policy of ours and second we will never forget the sacrifice suffered by our nation and brought to the altar of the victory we will never forget that and other Countries naturally today are trying to to pass that into believe and this is part of their anti-russian campaigning but this is up to them we will be

glad to see everybody wishing to attend this glorious uh red letter anniversary well I do subscribe some invitations but it's principally the responsibility of foreign Ministry my position is that we'll be open to Anyone wishing to attend we'll be glad to see everybody included the anti-hitler Coalition members who back then contributed considerably to the victory over the Nazi Germany the United States and and Great Britain with their Northern convoys and uh there were very me many Feats and heroes there and and some of the veterans have survived to date and the British Sailors Were Heroes

and when they disembarked in France in the north of France the Americans also acted in heroic ways but their their casualties and their participation their contribution is not comparable to to to ours and the Soviet Union lost 27 million United States 500,000 people only the United Kingdom less than 4 100,000 people in the first world war they lost 1.5 [Music] Million conversely so uh the contribution had different weights but uh but uh their their participation was important and but when I when I became president we repaid everything uh you know the land Le debt also

the Americans recovered that from us in full and we have repaid that despite so many years but we appreciate the the contribution of the of the allies and we'll be glad to share the the the joy of Victory with Them we have lots of questions still let's ask someone in in in in the room please don't make that much noise otherwise I will conclude yal yal I can see yal wishing to take the floor Mr President good day yal media J and Western countries have imposed more than 20 40 40 oh even 40 well I

I stopped counting but you know impos 40,000 restrictions against us but you know our Progressive development in the Arctic is Something that they have a grudge against and they actually say that they their goal is to do away with l& projects in the Arctic what do they fear so much why are they so much afraid uh will they be able to hinder our pace of development in the Arctic well they they fear competition actually this is why they use politics for unfair competition noch is a well-known company that is Not a global leader other other

companies countries produce more Vy but ours keeps growing and they want to impede that growth this is kind of unfair ways to uh restrain competitors and this is bad for them if they fight competition like this with non-economic means that they will lose their competitiveness one day not it may not happen tomorrow but that will happen for sure if they continue in This vein um have they been impeding us yes they have they have been putting handicap on us will they will will they be able to kill it off completely no they will do damage

to us but you know we will find a way out supplying energy given the fact that the demand for energy uh will keep growing in the global economy as it develops this is the data of the global Economic Institutions and their opinion so this product will be will enjoy demand in the global markets and we will keep advancing our projects and increasing our share in the LG market and with respect to pipeline gas supplies Ukraine has declined to to extend the transit contract it was Ukraine not us you know Ukraine declined to extend the gas

Transit contract despite the fact that they received 7 to 800 million per anom for gas Transit now the question is what is to be done about that but this is not our problem Ukraine has cut off our gas supplies to European uh customer and consumers they've been eating from the hands of the West CU they uh they are not self-sufficient they can live and wage this war only with the Western help but at the same time the ukrainians create problems for the westerners cutting off gas supplies this contract Will cease to exist okay we can

live with that and Gus prom can live with that and not longer our special services reported to me that um sabotage actors were detained in Slovakia and Maps were found uh on them um with uh energy facilities and installations spotted on their map so I received information just yesterday so I would ask why the special channels um to find out why so and what Was happening and because they wanted to commit terrorist attacks in in Europe CU they've been fed by they live off the west and now they kind of start perpetrating terrorist attacks in

Europe but our option is to cooperate and we will attain our goals so space spaceus and BBC I also see BBC you will be able to attack us shortly you you keep uh attacking us and we and and we just defend ourselves thank you I Represent the Chinese television but you look very much the Chinese people of ours i i f i feel that but we I'm a Russian citizen despite the fact that I'm considered a foreign journalist let me start with a question from this State television of China cgtn thanks to them I'm employed

and so the question is uh the program is titled outcomes of the year and in the course of that year you kept saying that the Chinese peaceful and peace building Initiatives are I I don't remember the exact quote that you said that they're more workable and feasible than all other things by other intermediaries if if we cast everything aside the West has um exhausted the limit of trust and Russia was deceived and duped by European leaders but if we speak in uh specific concrete terms and if Mr Trump and his uh Aid Mr Kellog keep

saying that one can put an end to this war even before The inauguration on the 20th of January but actually we're not now saying about exceeding to Nato or not just just seiz the fire in an instant is that possible is Russia ready to make this important steps if the European partners and American Partners would manage to persuade K because the world the entire world is died of the Ukrainian crisis and people in this country also want peace and this would be a simple step no One risks anything just in an instant stop where where

things are if someone fails to implement that would not keep their word one this can resume no one would lose anything just uh put it uh at a Hal and my second question so it is a hybrid format I live in corov uh in the suburbs of Moscow so I'd like you to hear the the biggest um scientific town in Russia so they now at the hhip center the National Space Center is being built and the residents of the town of corov just a quarter million people just um are bewildered and they they do not

know whether we maintain this space Capital status cuz actually we need to have a special probably economic zone on the territory of the house building plant because we should um reinstate corov as the historical um space exploration capital of our country and we need a third entrance to our city because we Have huge of congestion four hours we spend in those traffic jams so we need to fly over and bridges and we have some issues about democracy I apologize just you know I'm just winding down and saying everything so you you can buy two you're

wearing two hats that of a citizen and that of an international journalist third entry into corov it is an acur problem you probably know that we need it we Cannot spend so much time in the traffic jams and I believe that the whole population of C love is applauding me right now if you are able to resolve it we will be just happy I'm sorry for having taken so much time while your employer wouldn't thank you for the second part of your question it's not what he sent you here for but you got my message

correctly you should think about your home well actually we raised the issue Of the entry into Coral of I remember it I know it from our previous debates on the development of coral love as a space capital of Russia in Moscow we are already constructing an important center it is important for the development of the space industry but the town of corov is a recognized Center of space industry I'm not going to go into detail but corov as a scientific Town undoubtedly deserves its due attention I'll Necessarily raise this issue with my colleagues with those

who deal with Aviation and w space there are different plans and the idea of establishing a special economic zones does have its justification and its Reasons I'm not going to pronounce the final judgment but it is something we have to think about and indeed we should think of using the potential of the city you absolutely right in this regard now turning to the peace initiatives of the CH People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of Brazil the South African Rep Republic of South Africa why we find it important it's because it is a sincere

attempt to find a solution from our point of view this attempt is a balanced one and it is not imposing anything on any of the parties neither on Russia nor on Ukraine and it has been done by neutral countries that don't interfere into the conflict like Western states do that the fight against us with the hands of ukrainians so what they are proposing is something that we should think several times about because they are a party to the conflict too well about the proposal regarding the ceasefire well you know what's happening on the ground is

um a tuition of the military equipment munitions And most importantly the troops on the part of Ukrainian Armed Forces we see the attrition that's what happening really on the battlefield our army is advancing the adversary cannot get a foothold on and can entrench on the positions that it has left they leave the areas and even if they take over some areas they cannot entrench in these regions if We declare a seire for a week it will give our adversary the opportunity to entrench themselves to receive Munitions which is very important and something that is equally

important from the point of view of training the troops well right now they are simply recruiting people on the streets they simply catch sty dogs them like stray dogs but stray dogs are at least put into special centers and here they Simply catch people in the streets and send them to the front line that's what we see on the front line in the battlefield they are not trained properly it's not um how people soldiers were trained during the Soviet times even those who received trainings in the Western countries cannot be compared to those who had

been trained in Soviet times because they are prepared and trained by those who have never been on the battlefield so how can they train Others so a long C relatively long this5 period we'll give an adversary the time for training and retraining of Personnel in the Battalion they have 35% of the troops the necessary troop numbers so they'll receive time to requip their divisions what we need is not a this far instead we need a lost in peace with guarantees for the Russian Federation it is a complicated question how we can ensure these Guarantees but

we could think about it as for short-term ceasefires it was a proposal by the prime minister of Hungary Mr Orbin that's what he said I Pro I hope Victor will not be angry with me if I reveal at least one part of our conversation he said what would it cost to you if you announce the declare fire for at least a day too it could be a Christmas 6 F the adversary will not be able to accomplish Anything with this this two or three days and I said yes probably you are right but what you

first talk to the Ukrainian side at least three times did we agree to similar actions when it came to the navigation in the Black Sea when it came to the energy infrastructure and so on and so forth erdogan prep made proposals of your president he was a mediator and as a mediator he made a proposal I said I need time to think About it next day I called him and I said okay we agree but next day head of the Ukrainian regime I said no sisire no talks I call later on erdogan and he says

well those are our part and now I asked Orin he suggested a Christmas C fire and he also proposed a pron exchange I didn't say no I said well we'll have to think about it in principle but go and ask them he went to ask them next day head of the regime said there would be no CF no prisoners Exchange that's the answer to your question we've been on Earth for more in 4 and a half hours we are going to an end now what is the BBC they promise to attack us well they do

so without any promises that's what they receive money for exemp 25 years ago Boris yelon retired resigned office and he handed over the power to you and he told you stay on guard 25 years later what do you say you have succeeded in It because uh from our part we see significant losses during the so-called special military operation that you have declared we see Ukraine soldiers in the cor region you criticize the NATO expansion and enlargement but there is now a great native Presence at the Russian borderline I mean mean Sweden and Finland we have

demographic and economic problems what do you think have you succeeded yes I believe I have I believe We have moved away from the uh drink of a NE because what happened to Russia before that and after that was leading us to a complete and total loss of our sovereignty and without sovereignty Russia cannot exist as an independent state I would like to draw the attention to what you said about Boris yelton it looked good one petted him on his shoulder one preferred not to notice when he drank a bit more than he should and he

was Warmly received in all Western circles but when he raised his voice to protect Yugoslavia when he said that it contradicted international law in the UN Charter as soon as he said that it was unaccept in modern Europe to attack Belgrade the capital of a European State without any sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council immediately was he persecuted and immediately one started Criticizing him don't you remember it and I've done my utmost to make sure Russia is a sovereign an independent power that is capable of taking decisions in its interest and not in the

interest of those states that tapped on the shoulder in order to use it for their own purposes it's where where I could stop my answer I understand that you provided many arguments to substantiate your Point of view you mentioned inflation yes we have inflation we are going to fight against it but we have good economic growth we rank number four worldwide in terms of purchasing power parity please share it with your audience we rank number one in Europe we have left the UK behind but we are ready to work with the UK If the UK

wants to work with us but if it's not the case we can do without it we can do without our former Allies in the anti- Hitler Coalition Mr President there are many questions from the Russian citizens so I suggest that we move on to the bit format do you have a personal dream of course I do but it is a personal dream may I please keep it to myself a question from social networks Alexandra okova asks are you a happy person do you think it is a question for a blitz shall I say yes or

no well how can I put it yes or no it's a well-known fact that I was born in a regular workingclass family as from my forefathers they used to uh um cross the Dan brether and I have a document that says that one of my forefathers was awarded the St George's cross for that later all of my relatives and on my mother's side on my father's side fought in a Great Patriotic War every second of Them died my father was invalided out of the great Great Patriotic War I used to serve in foreign intelligence service

so my my work has always been connected to serving the motherland the fact that Russian citizens the people have entrusted me with leading the Russian state is a tremendous honor and tremendous responsibility in essence I I could say I'm happy with that and thank You however but I should be more God-fearing saying what else should you expect what more can you wish however the happiness will not be complete until all of our guys return from the front line until they meet their mothers and and wives until their children hug them until our young people girls

and boys create the necessary number of Families necessary for Russ for Russia and have children I really want our scientists and and cultural figures and so on I hope they can fulfill themselves and then I can say that I'm happy there was a question from St Petersburg why are you being called different names by the foreigners and you don't you don't respond in it depends on the level of of class as I said Before they they call the names due to their impotence why should we show our impotence then we have enough arguments to clearly

present our position an SMS from starver psky region do you have a task that you hate no if people have trusted me enough to perform the function of the president of the country there are certain responsibilities so I approach it in the way that I must perform them in full Giving it my all but I know if I start hating something or not loving something that's part of my duties then I will not achieve the necessary result therefore I have created a mentality for myself that I need to do everything with pleasure Novar region whose

portrait do you have in your uh office I have I don't have a portrait I have an icon in one of my working offices in another One I have a a bust sculpture of Lanos of would you give political Refuge to zilinsky because he will need it very soon I don't think he will need it it is quite possible well I don't know how he will act but quite possible just just like some people from the Supreme leadership of Ukraine they have traveled abroad and quite possibly he will do so people whose interest he's serving

right now will take care of him but if He appeared out of somewhere you know like a jacket from box well Russia does not um refuse anyone the question from Tana costena what is Russia for you this is a comprehensive question Russia is a map just like any country it's a tremendous territory it's not only territory this is history culture our customs and Traditions all of it is Russia however the most important thing is people you know some sometimes I find myself well I don't often watch TV I don't have quite enough time I I'm

not on the internet a lot but when I look at the success and achievements of our people we there was a World Championship uh World Swimming championship I saw guys working out huge guys very Confident performing World Championship Champions and beautiful girls I was looking at boys and girls who are achieving great success at at the Olympic Games I'm looking at my young scientists whom I met quite recently honestly well I look at that I'm and I'm so happy about it I Rejoice at that as if they were my family members and rejoice as if

they're my loved ones therefore I'm Looking at Russia as at a family we've been working more than 4 and a half hours we have answered many questions millions of viewers we have many questions ahead of us is there anything that you would like to tell to the citizens of our country I talked right now about that I treat Russia as my family therefore this is what I wanted to say we're working we're talking on the eve of festive holidays New Year and Christmas I speak to many Representatives of different religions and they're saying that we

all celebrate Christmas just like our neighbors celebrate K alra and so or PESA and so on you know when I meet with representatives of different religions I ask them when you talk to people just a regular conversation what do people tell you What what do they regret it's not naturally the The Secret of convention but you know what people regret they did not spend enough time with children or did not dedicate enough attention to children on the eve of the new year which is a family holiday and especially Christmas I would like to wish everyone

to dedicate more attention to your loved Ones I would wish to to all of you success and well-being and health thank you