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mark fegin, a figure of the russian opposition, will be working on the tv channel now. in emigration, a former state duma deputy, a well-known video blogger. glory to ukraine, mark, congratulations. glory to the heroes, i am happy to welcome all the viewers. well, nothing particularly strange happened putin crowned himself and made several extremely powerful throws. we did not feel anything positive there, but this means that the line for war will most likely continue, right? putin? in power, his politburo in power, well, they threw a man into the shoiga from the hanger, but, but, but, mark would like to ask you now to analyze the most important, most dangerous messages from putin: first of all , it should be noted that there are three new factors in connection with this very inauguration, there was nothing special about the protocol, everything was the same, a set of words, slogans, etc., but with the view of the political situation has a peculiarity: firstly, this inauguration took place during the war. that is, putin took part in such

events, continuing his power, but still not against the background of a full-scale war in eastern europe. it makes a mark. in his speech, he again spoke about the heroes of the svo, about respect for their military work, etc. and secondly, in 2020, he extended his mandate in a fake referendum. and this is the first time when he simply resets the previous term, changing the constitution to suit himself. we saw this with lukashenko... this is a transition to of the totalitarian system finally, and according to the personalist type, and such an inauguration means the final attempts to stop decorating their dictatorship. something used to be made up, now no one is making anything up, everything is too frank, and the 87 he scored for himself is an indicator of the same. and probably the third, look, this is

the first such inauguration, where the attitude towards him and the march 17 elections of representatives of western countries is determined by the silent non-recognition of his legitimacy. representatives of the french embassy were among the important ones present. because they were instructed to do it, not because they wanted it, but because they were there on behalf of the eu. among some additional features, the fourth important point is the prayer for the kingdom by the orthodox leader promov kirill. immediately after the inauguration , there was also no solemn prayer service, somehow it was a separate, special, protocol shooting. kirill addresses putin with two metropolitans and says that for the first time an orthodox person himself and so on, in fact, starts the transformation of a totalitarian system into a dynastic one on... my

point of view, dynastic - this means that the power becomes unchanged according to another principle, then you have to invent something, here they already come close to justifying why putin and his family... or those belonging to his closest circle, dignitaries, will remain in this power forever, that is, marked by god himself, practically an orthodox king, the only thing is, you know , i was surprised that he did not hold his own, his self-coronation on may 9, but there would be nothing strange, that is, they would take you understand, we have combined the prayer on may 9, shoigu on camels and spirit unger on sternberg over red square. they need to double these events to increase attention, otherwise they did it all in one day and that's it. on may 9, there will probably also be some sort of throne speech by putin, as the inaugurated first official. now they are wary of making immortal regiments,

parades, suddenly a drone will fly, but apparently it is ideologically beneficial for them to disperse these events in order to raise his status as a military leader with solemn events on may 9. the head of a country waging an aggressive war against ukraine, etc., i.e here the task is broader, so they did not combine, so as not to simplify the situation, to diversify a little. today , only the russian orthodox church is a full-fledged ideological institution in this system. in united russia, what is the ideology, cut and run, and the russian orthodox church is still an ideological institute. let's start with the fact that i generally believe that religion and ideology are one and the same. they say that god exists, this is already an ideology. catechism, some orthodox dogmas, a sufficient set for ideology. the roc justifies putin's power much more than united russia, the ruling party. what she can do justify? there is only bureaucracy, what they can invent. and the roc says that we are a

new ideology, according to which the current government has a direct entrance to god, it is a direct reflection of him: the orthodox kingdom, the russian world, the whole set that we... hear from time to time, but it cannot to form a single puzzle. and this inauguration, if it has any significance, is not so much protocol as ideological. war and the immutability of this power in a totalitarian system become the main tools, guides of this ideology: war increases, that is, we protect the homeland, although we see the quality of these defenders, if you have criminals returning from the svo zone, raping boys. the latest events, the catastrophic rate of recidivism among people participating in svo, but ideology can ignore it, completely close its eyes, because only putin needs a high justification, the rest is slag, from this point of view , taking into account all this, war and the current term, when he changed the constitution for himself,

and the prayer and the rest are indicators of some kind of renewal that is leading the country to the abyss, yet more, but for putin it creates an ideological cushion that he... well, mark, look, there is another point here that is very characteristic, that is, of all the tools or institutions of putin's legitimization, he still has what, strategic nuclear weapons and tactical nuclear weapons, and here they decided to conduct certain exercises, this is about the southern military district of the russian federation, the district that is directly involved in the war against ukraine, but if we talk, for example, about the broader palette that you talked about... yes, the russian orthodox church, putin, yes would to say, anointing is the future, well, we understand that they have to return to the concept of the so- called great patriotic war to complete the picture. the great patriotic war against napoleon in 1812, and

then, of course, we move on to stalin, who, let me remind you, in the 41st year, so to speak, addressed the soviet citizens with an appeal to brothers and...sisters, well, accordingly, i i'm waiting for everything, maybe not this week, maybe in a month, in general, yes, with regard to nuclear weapons, this is definitely the cornerstone of the ideology, nuclear weapons, the possession of them, these six hundred warheads, becomes the main instrument of russia's foreign policy, because they exploit this nuclear rhetoric all the time, constantly threatening, conducting training in the western district, involving lukashenka in this, this is the main... threat to the west, but it is also an ideological threat . we will get our way using the nuclear theme. to what extent they are ready to use nuclear weapons is an open question for now, because it is a one-way street. after using nuclear weapons, there will be no turning back, and the opposite effect will result. but

they use this nuclear rhetoric to intimidate. first of all, the event. there is no point in intimidating ukrainians, they are not afraid. but they called. the british and french ambassadors, because of their statement that the means supplied to ukraine, in particular missiles, can be used for any purpose for shelling the territory of russia or not. no, it is decided by ukraine, not by france or great britain. they absolve themselves of responsibility, they supply weapons, and now the weapons are ukrainian, not french and not british, because it is stupid, it would remain so if the french and the british themselves carried out strikes with the help of scalp or storm shadow, but this does not happen, it is done by ukraine, what difference does it make, what do they use, moscow uses shaheds of iran, and what? therefore, the meaning is that... this is essentially an attempt to influence the position of these countries, taking into account what france says

constantly, in the person of president macron, starting from february 26, that the french military contingent can be sent to the territory of ukraine on the condition that if there will be breakthrough of the front, or if zelenskyi asks for it, the government of zelenskyi, kyiv will make a request, invite these contingents. maybe it will be the french foreign legion or something else, i don't know how exactly it is decided in the relevant ones. jurisdictions in the respective european countries, they can appear on the territory of ukraine, which is at war, so this is an attempt to use nuclear blackmail threats to make france and london abandon these plans. so far, the determination to use these nuclear weapons is not visible behind this, but the statement zakharova that the answer will be strikes if great britain does not refuse the supply of weapons and does not cancel the position on lifting restrictions on the use of these missiles. about strikes on the territory of russia, as she said, there will be strikes on the territory of ukraine and outside its

borders, on british facilities. of course, this cannot be connected with statements about nuclear exercises that moscow is going to conduct and about the possibility of using nuclear weapons. of course, this is an attempt at blackmail, an attempt to take a punt. so far it is. what will this lead to? we'll see, but i definitely know the recipe for how to react. if we show weakness, if... we go further on the offensive from the point of view of political and other offensives on europe , increasing and increasing the demands, but if they say, and we will also conduct nuclear exercises, we will consider the issue of placing nuclear weapons, tactical, other on the territory of romania , poland, which, by the way, poland is asking for and romania is asking for, this is where moscow will press... on the brakes and play back, say: well, we are not in that sense, we are not going

to go to a nuclear war. concerning national war and quasi -patriotic rhetoric, which the kremlin can use to prolong the situation with the war, which has already been going on for 2.5 years, it is necessary to somehow explain to the people why we are fighting, we are fighting, there is no end in sight, and now after ukraine has received aid approved by the congress usa, 61 billion, that's... a lot, but it's something, not nothing. this obviously affects the continuation of the war, at least until november. and how will the american elections end? they may end in such a way that it will not give ukraine the opportunity to receive additional, new aid help, etc. and that is why the rhetoric of the national war and the like, we know how it was exploited by stalin. brothers and sisters, he actually created the russian orthodox church anew with sergius stargorodskyi. this is a well-known story. stalin's church, which... it is stalin's church that operates to this day, he created it by his graces. moreover, he had plans

to go to constantinople after the war, to free him is a well-known story. such plans were made in the headquarters. yes, they will develop some concept, because putin said in his inaugural speech: to achieve all goals. and still no one knows what your goals are. we know these goals: to destroy ukraine, end its sovereignty and transform it. on its component part, and we do not see any other goals, they are clear, but he cannot pronounce it in this form? and why, mark, well , he could have simply said: we will fight to destruction, so to speak, as they started aggression against ukraine in general, well , it is about a full-scale invasion, you understand, denazification and so on, well, in putin's version, that's all we know, well, these are stalin's versions, and you know. really, perhaps he will come to the point where he will say: the territory is completely the territory of russia, we

occupy it because it is historical justice, he also says so periodically, but then, if you enter from such a premise, he will drive you into a dead end corner of the west, but i want it this way, these are my lands, if the west accepts this, the entire international security system will collapse, it will cease to exist even nominally, it is barely holding on anyway, but if someone can... say: i claim, therefore that these are our historical territories, and this is after the 1991 recognition of the borders of ukraine and everything else, how is it, you recognized them and white? agreements, then there was the almaty declaration, now it was remembered in time, after all, there was the almaty declaration, when the cis was created, and all countries, including russia, recognized ukraine within its borders, it was the agreement that was signed that yes, we recognize ukraine precisely within its borders borders with crimea and the rest, then why do we need an international security system, who

needs all these agreements, the un and the like, if putin decides that the right of force is higher than the right. norms of international law, or swallows it, and russia immediately has claims on the baltic countries, it will also say russian territories, it will also say on poland that these are historical lands, the crowns of the russian empire, we are restoring them and so on, because if this principle is implemented once, then it will always work, that's all. see, we didn't mention nad. an extremely important point, or rather the absence of one extremely important character, well, xijin ping, he worked very technically, that is, he drew for himself an extremely important in his opinion, and i think not only in his opinion, a visit to the european continent, and did not come to putin for the inauguration or the parade on

may 9, but xi jinping talked to macron, so this is a certain démarche, i think he made it clear to putin that ... so to speak, all the signals, which could actually be sent by beijing to moscow, so to speak, were not heard in moscow. i think china's position, albeit imperceptibly, though not quickly, is adjusting a little. i will not say that it changes. moscow remains an ally. but it is changing in the sense that beijing seeks to remove responsibility for what moscow does, remove as much as possible, because when you are her ally, you see the difference between iran and beijing, they are both in a certain way. understanding words are moscow's allies, but iran is a military ally and is definitely responsible for moscow's actions in ukraine. after all, ukrainians are killed with their weapons. moreover, it is not the same thing that supplies london and paris, because moscow is embargoed as an aggressor country. sorry, there are no restrictions on the supply of arms to ukraine yet, none, because it is

a victim country that defends itself under international law. beijing actually makes... a choice in foreign policy about domestic , let's not say, in favor of observing international law, it is more profitable for them to adhere to these principles, and by the way, on the anniversary in february 2023 and the beijing declaration regarding the 12- point settlement, so there the first point was compliance with international law and recognition of the internationally recognized sovereignty and borders of ukraine. it seems to me that this is how the process of beijing's rapprochement with europe began, why? the first visit to beijing was brilliant macron, and now the return visit of tsydzen pin to paris, a mutual interest, they are afraid of the arrival of trump. trump is fiercely anti-chinese. if he wins the elections in november, then in europe, which also expects eccentric actions from trump, in relation to nato, in relation to us obligations, in relation to europe,

they are trying to look for alternative allies, to play on the balance. all of europe is represented by france, because france is an outsider. the political department of the entire european union, it is responsible for politics, and germany for the economy in the eu. so it has always been traditional. moreover, when great britain left the eu, this role in the eu is performed by paris. today, of course, they are trying to agree on economic, investment, geopolitical strategies with beijing. but an important language on the part of europe, france, in particular, in relation to beijing is to influence moscow. europe in the eastern part of which he steals. war is an unacceptable situation for the economy, for cooperation, for interaction between beijing and paris and brussels. absolutely unacceptable. the war must be stopped absolutely if we want from neither beijing nor europe tolerated the policies of trump's upcoming four-year administration. and i think beijing heard this signal. see for yourself, beijing after blinken's visit,

despite the fact that the visit was generally cool, and the state department made a public statement. that it is necessary to adhere to the sanctions against moscow, to join the sanctions against beijing, both legally and in fact, in fact, something has already begun to be implemented. for example, russian companies, which felt free, made transactions through chinese financial institutions, now these opportunities are deprived, or very seriously limited, and these are gray schemes for the supply of military and dual purpose products, that is, beijing is slowly, perhaps reluctantly, losing financially, but agrees to ... limit moscow in its use, economic and otherwise, of beijing for waging war. and we see that beijing all the time wants to be an observer, like the swiss conference on the formula we. and not the representative of moscow in this case. these are different

qualities. we represent moscow, well, we should conduct negotiations with moscow through us. no, we are observers and not responsible for moscow. we will try to influence some issues, we will convince, but please do not make us representatives of moscow. and suddenly moscow will really resort to steps for... it will have to answer, for example, it will use tactical nuclear weapons, why would beijing do this, in order to then rake up the consequences for moscow, and in this sense, beijing is clearly increasing its distance from moscow's plans for ukraine and europe and western world, because economic interest, because the threat of the arrival of trump, which will collapse the investment and technological interaction that is already taking place between beijing and washington, what then, where to get the technological resource? and others beijing is diversifying the situation and focusing on europe, and, in particular, at the time of macron's visit to beijing , agreements were made that airbus would be built in

china, in particular. beijing is forced to choose priorities, either europe, and to some extent america or moscow. but the merchandise is not comparable. trade with russia is 200-210 billion dollars a year, and with europe it is almost 800, 750, 770. so what is more important? and with america somewhere like 750-780. that is, it shows that the potential is incomparable, and moscow will continue to lose, and beijing will increase the distance with moscow and at the same time get closer to europe in these issues. i completely agree with you, mark, and i would just like to give such an allegory, perhaps somewhat unpretentious, that is, you understand, a mad angry bull terrier that starts jumping, biting passers-by, and everyone understands who his plus-minus authority is. yes, well, the key story here is who will give it first, let's say a bull terrier with a shovel in the face, you understand, well the owner, so to speak, tries to pretend

that this is not his bull terrier, but when he is told, listen, we, we specifically, dear peking comrades, will write a specific fine for your bull terrier if you do not take it away , and putin also feels this matter, and what is he doing, he is now trying to go to beijing, to bully him... i didn't believe it, but beijing has a strong argument in the conversation with putin, who will soon pay a visit to beijing. the war has been going on for more than two years, and you planned much less, counting on a blitzkrieg, on the accelerated end of the war, the settlement of the conflict, it doesn't matter, on capitulation terms, on negotiations, this does not happen. now the war is becoming a burden for everyone. and also for beijing, which definitely does not want to be a representative of moscow in any way, as i said, because what dividend will you get, on the contrary, beijing is interested in

moscow coming out of the war as weakened as possible, so that it does not disappear, let putin stay, but to be weakened as much as possible, so that it would be easier to increase this dependence on beijing, if the way is to the west will be closed to moscow, and it will most likely be closed for a decade, taking into account us... the help of the us congress to ukraine, it was clear how moscow was inspired by the possibility of future victory. the malones were making plans for an offensive on kharkiv, but when this is not the case, as soon as a new situation arises with a dopo with a different balance in terms of ammunition, by the means that ukraine is restoring with the help that has already left from the usa, the political situation immediately changes,

they noticed how easy it is is changing, european politicians are immediately inspired and emboldened, and china should not lag behind must put forward conditions, moscow must decide how long it is going to fight, to wage a full-scale war, i think such a question will be raised in beijing, and how long are you going to? beijing is very afraid of the discussed nuclear rhetoric and all the exercises and deployment of nuclear missiles on the territory of belarus. why? because i totally assume so. with beijing , there is also such a variant of the development of the situation, under which , in addition to china and north korea, other players in southeast asia will have nuclear weapons. japan, it is very easy to get nuclear weapons, they have their own nuclear materials, laboratory. there is no need to talk about technologies. taiwan may have nuclear weapons, why not? it can appear in north korea, but not in taiwan.

nuclear weapons may appear in south korea. that this will help beijing in its plans to integrate taiwan into mainland china, will harm it very much, therefore, in beijing, this issue causes a terrible bitterness in relation to moscow. most likely, these two issues will be discussed: the first is to stop the nuclear rhetoric. moscow should be a responsible partner, a member of the un security council with the right of veto cannot behave like this, because he is the guarantor of international security, non- use of nuclear weapons, non-violation of conventions. which oblige, for example, not to conduct nuclear tests, not to transfer weapons to third countries. the convention on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, which, however, is happening in relation to belarus, etc. and the second question - the terms of the end of the war. let's decide on a deadline: how much longer do you want to fight. if you cannot conquer ukraine and advance beyond 20% of the occupied territories, increase them to 30, 40, 50, 100%, then you need

to finish. war and accept the conditions on which the west is ready to somehow influence kyiv and come to some kind of peace plan acceptable to all sides, not just moscow. if beijing's vegs tilt to the west, moscow may have virtually no significant allies left on this issue, and then something may shift. thank you very much, mark, for this extremely interesting and informative conversation, i want to remind our viewers that mark fegin, a figure of the russian opposition, was currently working on espresso on emigration a former member of the state duma, well -known video blogger. thanks mark. thank you, anton, thank you to all viewers. the time of our program has run out, stay with the espresso tv channel. my colleagues will inform you about all the most important events of this day. take care of yourself and your loved ones. see you on air. a night of boxing that will go down in

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it's 2 p.m. in ukraine, to your attention a news release on the espresso tv channel. in the studio of iryna koval. i welcome all the viewers and now to the most important events. the enemy continues to use infantry and that. equipment in the direction of the villages of liptsi and vovchansk, said the spokesman of the khortytsia military group, nazar voloshyn. according to him, fighting continues in the area of ​​settlements that were in the gray zone. we are talking about pilna, streleche, borysivka and oliynykovo district. also, the ukrainian military command plans to strengthen our brigades in the kharkiv region as reserves.