[000:00:00;00] all those support measures that exist in the public sphere, and those preferences, those benefits that we give for them, so our task today is to hear feedback from businesses, feedback from local authorities on how this system is being implemented, and already today at the round at the table we discussed the need to introduce additional support measures that will significantly affect the work of our business, the main risk we see today is the actions that today, unfortunately, there are risks of destruction as a result of war , are taking place in the reunified territories and today are quite holding back the development of the economy in all areas, so this is the first task, the one that we have, today we have introduced insurance for automobile cargo, but we do not yet have a working insurance system for railway

transportation, their transportation, that is, this is , where we simply have to shake up the system, again, the law provides for, for example , income tax benefits, but their application is hampered by the fact that there is no regional regulatory framework for income tax benefits, which is what we talked about today with regional authorities that they are simply obliged to speed up the adoption of the necessary regulations at the regional level as quickly as possible, this is exactly what matvienko spoke about at the first meeting of the council for the integration of new regions that our task is to help the regions adopt as harmoniously as quickly as possible a new regulatory framework and give everyone the opportunity to develop, that is, then there will be a very serious additional impetus. next on our program: implementation of a major reform of the system for handling waste, what the senators propose, what the new law will be. we are moving towards a circular economy, towards reducing the volume of landfills; these legislative

gaps are important. illegal trafficking of tobacco products, how to regulate the market? unfortunately, in our country there is a fairly high level of illegal products and the fight against this has so far been, well, conditionally effective. the russian language is our asset, our unique global advantage, our main soft power. this was stated by valentina matvienko, in the council federation held parliamentary hearings dedicated to the preservation, protection and development of the russian language. according to the head. in ukraine it is practically outlawed, although for millions of people there it is their first native language. the russian language, of course, has worldwide significance, great literary works were written in it, outstanding scientific discoveries were made, and the first word in space was also a russian word, our language

is, as you know, a working language in most international organizations, not i will list them, today he occupies fifth place among world languages ​​according to the global competitiveness index, is in second place in terms of the number of sites on the internet in russian, and is confidently in the top ten in terms of the number of native speakers. valentina matvienko emphasized the responsibility of the state and society to preserve... the russian language, and it is also necessary to restore order in the field of language policy management. according to the chairman of the federation council, it is important to strengthen the position of the russian language on the world stage. valentina matvienko also emphasized her contribution to this work of slavic universities operating in the cis countries, where 2023 has been declared the year of the russian language. in addition, the head of the upper house called for ensuring, including at the legislative level, access to russian schools at embassies, not only for children and employees of diplomatic missions, but

for everyone who loves russia and wants to give their child a quality education in russian. minister of education sergei krovtsov also spoke at the parliamentary hearings. according to him, studying the russian language at school plays a key role in matters of its preservation and development. the head of the ministry of education also said that from september 1, 2025 , a unified federal state textbook on russian language and literature will appear in russia. medical waste management is an area that requires special control. the lower house is discussing a bill aimed at creating an effective and safe system for managing these types of waste in our country. very soon it may go to the federation council for approval. among the authors of this document is senator alexander dvoinykh, and we will discuss this topic in more detail with him. alexander vladimirovich, hello, what caused the need for changes to the legislation now, what problems exist today in the medical waste management system, including? we

are located. at the stage of implementing a major reform, waste management, and we must understand that for this reform to be successfully completed, it is impossible to leave unregulated sub-sectors, we now see that we have already formed legislation regarding solid municipal waste, we see that for the first and second class waste, we also have clearly formed legislation, but there are still these legislative lacunae, such as medical waste, such as third and fourth class waste, and so that our residents feel the effect, see not just clean container areas and separate waste collection, but we understood that we are moving towards a circular economy, towards reducing the volume of landfills, these legislative ones are important. white to eliminate, as for medical waste, in our country as a whole there is solid municipal waste about 50 million tons are generated, and if we talk about medical waste, so that we

understand the volume, it is 3 million tons. and we saw that there are problems, we saw that the waste that is generated in our medical institutions often appears in unauthorized landfills, there is no the same traceability system under... the transport flow for disposal, as there is in municipal solid waste, and together with rospotrebnadzor, with the ministry of health and with deputies of the state duma, we did a lot of work, we examined all the waste of the educator, we determined what volumes are generated in which hospitals, even in the current period, which is quite tight from the point of view of the financial plan , we determined the finances that are available today in the compulsory health insurance system in order to understand at what cost this waste will be buried, here after we carried out such a large analytical work , a draft law was prepared, which has already passed the first reading in the state duma, and we are preparing to now work on amendments

to this law, and what specific innovations, are the amendments provided for in the legislation and how will this affect the environment? out of 3 million tons of waste, 2 million generated in medical institutions, this is actually... municipal waste, that is, this is office waste ; today it is not removed by regional operators who equip their cars with gps systems, sort this waste, there is a limit on disposal , is introduced simply by unlicensed organizations, and we see that they can often get to the container site, they can get to an unauthorized place, and we believe that it is the waste of class a medical that the regional operator should deal with, the ministry of natural resources supported it, and in fact our regional operator, who removes household waste from container sites, will remove this waste from the hospital, waste of the geditsin class is especially hazardous waste, they will be dealt with by the same operators according to the draft of our law

who deal with waste of the first and second class, that is, especially hazardous waste, those who have this infrastructure, b - this is waste that must be neutralized in hospitals. today, separate organizations will be involved, but at the same time there will be a clear register, a clear availability of equipment, a clear availability of competencies, most importantly, concluded agreements for the disposal of this waste, that is, we can do this here without attracting additional funds from the budget, without burdening the budgets of hospitals or the federal budget, create a system that will be more transparent and comprehensive, and which will allow... to reduce the number of unauthorized dumps, will provide clear guarantees that used syringes, medical drugs will not appear at landfills, or even more so at

waste storage sites, and now the waste management system is experiencing a shortage of sites for temporary waste storage and also landfills, will something change in this regard? yes, in a number of regions we are recording... we have lagging behind, but this does not mean that we have some kind of critical situation with the fact that there is nowhere to bury waste today, and moreover, we still understand that sometimes this waste is already ended up at our processing complexes waste, so the adoption of this law will not lead to such deficits, we, the ministry of natural resources, and ppk reo have identified regions that need help today, it needs both financial and methodological, in general, our committee is faced with the task of a major audit of what is happening today, identification of problematic issues, assistance to the regions , we have already diagnosed a number of problematic issues, and today, together with the ministry of natural resources, we are determining

how we will solve them, this includes a shortage of container sites, it exists, our task is to eliminate it quickly enough, there is a shortage of equipment, waste..." companies have a shortage of about 2,500 cars, our task is to ensure that this shortage is eliminated, so that waste removal is timely, but we see one serious problem that we also plan to eliminate, this is the number of people responsible for container sites, we believe that the principle should work, one container site, one responsible operator, we also believe that in order to bring order to the garbage reform, it is very important to regulate, as i said, the third, fourth class, this and construction waste and waste that we generate during renovations, construction of private houses, often... they also end up on container sites and also create

a feeling of lack of order and a properly functioning system, so our task is to solve all these issues in a comprehensive manner and you know, so it’s enough to go through smoothly , because during the reform you have to change a lot of approaches, but in the last session we just approved a law related to extended producer responsibility, that is , this is... a system that will motivate our manufacturers use less packaging, dispose of it less, and the most important thing is that we already have the results of such good demonstration waste processing complexes in the russian federation, we recently held an off-site meeting of the committee at one of the complexes near moscow, you know, this is a good example that can compete with any european western site in waste management, from

a point of view, if we talk about landfills in general, how acute is the problem of their elimination and what is being done about it direction today? this problem exists, which is why a large federal program was opened, a clean country, under which more than 190 sites have already been eliminated, such an accumulation. harm and there a very important principle has always been used, that is, the criteria for selecting such sites for elimination and the important criterion was precisely the number of residents who live nearby, but with the implementation of this program, more than 2 million residents of our country actually improved their living conditions in environmental terms, felt these ones changes, a new program

is now starting, more than 20 billion rubles have been allocated for it this year, it is very important that such programs are unlikely to end before the liquidation of the last accumulated object, because we feel the request is very serious from the regions, i want to say again that there is momentum , we should not be complacent in this matter in terms of scale and volume, once again, it requires more funding, but our task is not to eliminate those landfills that have remained, let’s say, a legacy. our task is not allow the formation of new ones, that’s it, this big reform that is underway, which we discussed today, is aimed at this. the agricultural sector this year is demonstrating record harvests of grain and many other crops. the volumes obtained will be enough for both domestic consumption and export. this was influenced not only by favorable weather conditions. according to experts, government support from... among the regions with good results in the agro-industrial complex is the chechen

republic. local farmers are provided with everything necessary, from modern technology to seed material. there are also a lot of greenhouse complexes in the republic, so much so that it is completely self-sufficient in vegetables. report by oksana podturkina. cucumber is a tropical plant, so it loves warmth and high humidity; all these conditions are met in the greenhouse complex. now the temperature here is about 27°, eighty percent humidity and even a fog system is working. in just 20 days the first harvest will be harvested here; in a year, only in this block they grow over 2,000 tons of cucumbers. in total, cucumber plantations occupy more than 8 hectares of the greenhouse complex and only about a hectare is allocated to seedlings. here the hybrids undergo variety testing for better yield. in particular, the cybork hybrid is a hybrid of domestic selection. these plants were sown 2 days ago, we can look inside.

cubes, seedlings are already pecking, the soil in the greenhouse replaces the rock wool substrate, which is obtained as a result of heat treatment of basalt, this material holds the nutrient solution well, and, by the way, it is supplied to each plant through a dropper and provides it with a weekly growth of half a meter, so only 36 days pass from sowing to the first harvest , there is a hybrid here, called björ and size 12-13 cm, weight... 100 g, it is tuberous, very tasty, with a thin peel, yes, exactly attractive, now this hybrid occupies, in general, the leading position in russia ... sticky traps are used to monitor pests, yellow for whiteflies, blue for thrips, non-chemical treatment helps fight them plants, special mites, if you look closely, you can see how green santars run along the leaves, they are released every week, thus an environmentally friendly product arrives on store shelves,

we release 15-18 tons to the local market every day, the rest is exported outside the republic, working with us... counterparties in moscow, st. petersburg, krasnodar, rostov, pyatigorsk. the greenhouse plant is an investment project implemented in 2018. in addition to this, in agriculture there are about 6,000 enterprises in the chechen republic; various support measures are not in place for them in the region. as part of the implementation of the program of the chechen republic, the development of agriculture and regulation of the market for agricultural products, raw materials and food, farmers can receive subsidies or grants of various forms, residents of our republic are quite actively involved in these grants, receive subsidies, that is, anyone who is suitable under the criteria of a grant or subsidy, can receive these subsidies and thereby increase the production capacity of your enterprise.

there are poultry farms for meat and eggs in the republic , and naturally, sheep breeding is established in the mountainous regions, and calves also graze in the fertile alpine meadows. in the mountainous regions, we are given the kolmydian breed, because the breed is more adapted to our conditions in our region, and plus this breed is the only breed that protects its body from the wolf, that there is no wolf-killer, the breed quickly matures and marbled meat. in the region dairy production is actively developing. 30 tons of milk daily and 10,000 tons per year are produced by cows of the black-and-white holstein breed, which are kept... on this farm in the gudrme region, it is designed for 1,200 milking cows and 800 young ones, which are raised here, small, just like our children , well, yes, it’s interesting to watch from the moment of birth how it grows into a full-fledged cow, so to speak, this is the fruit of our labors.

there are about 300 calves in this hangar, these are only a few months old, within two weeks they will be transferred to the paddock opposite to the older calves, they will join the mature hammerhead garden in winter. and in about a year they will begin to produce milk. all livestock are entered into a computer database, and a sensor is attached next to the hooves of each animal with which you can track the condition of the cow. for example, if she is anxious, this is a signal for a more thorough examination to rule out health problems. information from the sensor is sent to the server, where it also tracks how much milk each cow produces. optimal milk yield about 40 liters per day. every day, milk from the farm is sent to the local plant, as well as to kobordino balkario in nalchik. if we talk about the total amount produced in the republic, then this year this figure is about 250,000 tons. oksana poturkina, yuri belov and andrey litvin. senate program from the chechen republic. what awaits the market for the circulation of tobacco products in russia, is it necessary to transfer part of the revenue from excise taxes on tobacco to regional budgets, and how can the state more effectively counteract the illegal market? these

questions are the subject of lively discussions between legislators, as well as regulatory agencies. we will learn more from senator alexei sinitsin. alexey vladimirovich, hello. hello, let’s talk about excise taxes on tobacco, it is known that previously there were very active discussions on the topic of directing part of the revenues and excise taxes to regional budgets, that is, in essence , forming another significant source of income for the regions, and what is preventing this initiative from being realized now? stage of discussion now? actually, the issue of transferring part of the excise taxes, with powers to the regions, is not a question rather of fees - increasing the budget revenues of the constituent entities, it is a question of implementing standards for compliance with control over the sale of illegal tobacco. unfortunately, in our country there is a fairly high level of illegal products and the fight against this so far has been of a conditionally effective nature, because the reason for this phenomenon

lies in the harmonization of excise tax rates with our neighboring countries eurasian-asian cooperation. it is from there that it emerges. in fact, 2/3 of illegal tobacco enters our country. this work on harmonizing rates is certainly underway, but unfortunately it is not fast, because this is not national legislation. it is necessary , as part of our work in the eurasian commission, to regulate not only the indicative price, but also deviations from this price, which currently amount to 40%, according to - are still an incentive to import illegal counterfeit tobacco into our country. broadcast excise taxes to the regions is a measure that will allow the regions to be more intensively involved in identifying points of sale of illegal tobacco, and this measure worked very effectively when it came to illegal alcohol, of course, we are not talking about the fact that you just need to give money: regions, we are talking about the need to find a mechanism in which the region will receive both money and authority in order to implement this, there are regions that are ready and willing, within the framework

of their powers, to solve the problem with illegal tobacco, understanding that they have will financial incentives to deal with this, just as there are now in alcohol, when part of the excise taxes from the sale of alcohol goes to regional budgets, creating incentives for regional authorities to deal with this problem, the federation council has been talking about this for 10 years, probably, that this needs to be done, but no decision has been made on this matter yet, although almost all participants, including many federal executive authorities , support this idea, including the newly created rosalkogol-tobacco control, in our country previously, such a body was rosalkogol-regulation, now it is called rusalkogol-so-control , which has also acquired control functions and will also be subject to the need to fulfill, well, standards for whitewashing the market, so let’s conditionally call the performance indicators of this body, and of course, they understand that all measures must be taken

to ensure that illegal tobacco is not on the shelves. another important issue that i would like to discuss is excise taxes on liquid for vep, to what extent is this area currently is it regulated by the state, are there any changes planned, are there any initiatives in this area. yes, well , unfortunately, control over this sphere is more difficult than over the production sphere. and if we say that tobacco has about 14-15% of the share of illegal products, then when we talk about liquids for electronic nicotine delivery systems, then 3/4 of the market is illegal products, only a quarter is legal. overall, last year there was a lot of discussion about what fair excise taxes on this type of production should be, and the year showed that this area has begun to grow in abundance, but the state duma... has a federal law that proposes doubling excise taxes on liquids for

electronic nicotine delivery systems by 110%. this will clearly lead to us losing the white part of the sales market and manufacturers who are now selling legally will leave this market, because there will be a colossal gap between legal products and illegal ones, that is, this will not be an increase in cost, a corresponding decrease in availability, but simply an increase gray market. the cost of the legal sector will lead to the fact that these products will become completely uncompetitive, people will simply stop buying them and manufacturers, realizing this , realizing that they will not have sales, have already decided that they will stop the production and sale of this, these types products on the territory of the russian federation. this is no longer a fiscal issue; the white part of sales does not bring in such huge amounts of income as this. issue of health protection, because when will we have only illegal products with

formed behavior of people, accustomed to consumption, we will understand that they will consume exclusively illegal products, even those who would like to buy legal products at an expensive price will not have such an opportunity, if the task is to remove the completely legal market, then it will be implemented in in the very near future, the question arises of how effectively we will be able to eliminate the illegal market, well, the new rosalkogol-so-control service will hopefully take effective measures to solve this problem, one of such measures, as we have already discussed, may include the active involvement of regions with the transfer of powers to them, respectively, of part of the excise taxes. as for the import of tobacco and raw materials into our country, under sanctions pressure, our country does not produce it. are there any difficulties with the import of tobacco and how are they resolved? yes, we buy all the raw materials, it should be noted that in the twenty-second year, due to changes in supply chains, domestic production fell, but in the twenty-third

year it recovered, but at the level of twenty the first year, it remains quite stable, raw materials are actually imported to us, well, again, during the event that took place in our committee, we identified a serious problem with photosanitary control of imported raw materials, again, we are not in favor of people smoking, but we are for there to be a legal market, for those who already smoke to make such a choice, have the opportunity to buy quality products, unfortunately, any barriers to the import of legal raw materials can undermine the legal market, so we v we will now appeal on behalf of the committee to resolve this issue and look for ways to help our manufacturers establish legal production. next week, senators will touch upon the work of support mechanisms for russian companies operating in the information technology and electronics industries. as part of parliamentary hearings, he will discuss measures of state support for the automotive industry. they will consider current issues of protecting

rulers and ways to solve them. see you in a week. see you on the senate program. the history of democracy in russia goes back to ancient times. the national meeting of residents of the veche made decisions on all significant issues and played a key role in the formation of russian statehood. by the 16th century, a new institution of class representation had emerged. cathedrals of the earth. they ensured legitimacy and continuity of power and established a new electoral tradition. catherine ii included elements of election to solve a number of state problems. for the first time they laid the foundation of suffrage in relation to cities and urban populations. thanks to the reforms of alexander ii

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