the head of state had the opportunity to communicate directly with citizens. in the end, questions from journalists are also not a personal wish at all, they are often a formalized, voiced problem of the audience of a particular publication that the journalist represents. and from this point of view, of course, the opportunity for such direct dialogue is priceless. if, let's try to divide today's format into two parts, talk about them separately, since they work in their own way, and the mechanics.

for the rest, journalists seem to bet do on the content of their question, on the possibility of asking it in this way to attract the attention of the head of state, i remind you that vladimir putin often personally draws attention to this or that issue, despite the fact that he moderates a large press conference, the press secretary of the head of state dmitry peskov, however, of course always appeals to the head of state, and they often do this. very successfully, let's see how easy it will be to do this without such obvious means of expression, then a huge amount questions are coming in, so we showed footage taken by our colleague pavel zarubin, which, in fact, shows how many requests are being received, of course, they are moderated in advance. what is important to understand here? it is important to understand that such a request must reflect the interests of a group of citizens, not a single private person, although , as experience shows, sometimes the question...

including with employees of the presidential administration, this is also, by the way, a fairly traditional form, because the president prefers have completeness information, and the latest information at the moment, in order to go out to people absolutely prepared, in order to have fresh data for every question, perhaps those that have never been voiced in the public field, and of course, the work process continues , he never stops for a minute. the head of state

is focusing specifically on preparing for today’s conversation. what will the president, journalists, and, of course, citizens ask about today? well, dmitry peskov talked about that, of course, the topic of a special military operation should be considered first of all, because the current format of the year’s results is the first after the start of a special military operation. last year, i remind you, neither a big press conference nor a direct line with vladimir putin was held, when at the end of last year in december, as part of the final final state council, journalists asked the president why he explained that events were happening, replacing each other with such speed that the ability to analyze them and fully voice to sum up some interim results, at least for these 12 months of 2023, apparently. after all, the president sees for himself

, for sure, of course, a special military operation to support the participants of the north military district, members of their families, heroes who died at the front, of course, all of these are now here and can verify this for themselves, whether they will tell the truth on the ground, i’m not sure, but we will obviously have the opportunity to evaluate, look and analyze this a little later, so returning to the question: a social theme, of course, the topic is very important, communal

problems, the opportunity to raise children, receive benefits, and in general the opportunity to take advantage of the support measures offered by the state, and let me remind you that this is a very wide range.

name yourself, name your media, and speak up. the microphone will be held by my colleagues who are helping you. i would be grateful if you would put all your phones on silent . thanks in advance please. thank you, dmitry sergeevich, for exactly 2 weeks we received questions from all over the country, no. the appeal is truly colossal, speaks honestly and frankly. and so are you. a colossal number of requests, ekaterina and i also delved into it in as much detail as possible, looked through thousands of pages with your questions, watched many videos, and in general, in the past 2 weeks, probably the largest all-russian sociological survey took place, and pavel and i felt like not

only journalists, but in general, sociologists too, it is clear that all millions of questions can be answered simply by payments, identification, supplies, today we will definitely talk.

well, this year, already at the stage of collecting questions, the all-russian people 's front got involved, there is no doubt that all appeals will be processed, they will not remain unanswered. onf activists have a whole year to do this, but the brightest, most interesting and relevant ones were written by on the moscow website putin has a question about not being paid his salary, but it arrived in the evening, many problems in general were solved even preventively, but how many unresolved ones are the most... the main thing is that we all now live in a completely different world, and of course, people don’t care only social issues. yes in general, when better than now, 2 weeks before the new year, to sum up the actual results of the year, december is always traditionally rich in events for us, for the position of president. in this

regard, the question is, what tasks within the country and abroad are most important to you? i have spoken about this many times already, but... it’s no sin to repeat myself; for a country like russia, the existence, the simple existence of our country, without sovereignty is impossible. it simply won’t exist, at least the concept of strengthening sovereignty, well, external, so to speak, this means strengthening the country’s defense capability, security along the external contour, this is the strengthening of public sovereignty, we mean ensuring, unconditionally ensuring the rights and freedoms of the country's citizens, the development of our political system, parliamentarism, and finally, this is ensuring. security now, answering your question , there is no need to disclose all these areas, but i am sure that the audience here

, and the whole country understands perfectly well, that russia cannot exist without this, but financial, economic, economic, technological sovereignty, this is the future of every country, including russia, so these are the main, if we say conceptually, directions, just projectors, but... they do not hide the goal that we need to be crushed, pinned down, with just these words they say what kind of the russian economy has a margin of safety sufficient to not only feel confident, but also move forward , and this margin of safety, we have also talked about this many times, but i repeat, is provided by several components, the first, second is sustainability . financial and economic system of the country, as it turned out, it was a surprise for our so-called

partners, to be honest for many of us, that over the previous decades russia has accumulated this margin of strength and stability in finance and economics, well, the third, of course, is the increase in the capabilities of our - what we can to be proud, yes, you know, as i usually do, i brought... at the end of the year, 3.5% is expected, this is a percent, if this year there is plus 3.5, then it means they have won back the fall.

3.6% are confident, but what is especially pleasing is the manufacturing industry is growing , it will be 7.5% per year, we haven’t had this for a long time, we haven’t had this for a long time, but what especially puts us in such a positive mood is obvious in industry gdp, plus 10% in fixed capital investment, which is what says that there will be guaranteed... sustainable development for the medium term, money is being invested, production will expand

, jobs will be created, unemployment, i will also say, enterprise profits amounted to plus 24%, not to mention banks, in their country as a whole they will say, well, the banks are fattening and so on, this is all understandable, but for those people who keep money in russian bank accounts, this is good news for them. with the fact that we had a historical, historical minimum of 3%, yesterday my colleagues and i

were preparing for our meeting today, for today’s conversation, it was already 2.9, well, when i talked about increasing real incomes, i should mention, of course, that from january 1 we will have an immediate increase of 18%, we haven’t done this often, which means it’s government the external debt is being reduced, which also speaks of macroeconomic stability, financial stability, the public debt has decreased with co-payments...

or we will agree, we will pre-militarize, we will agree on certain parameters, by the way, during the negotiations in istanbul, we agreed on them, we just asked for it later these agreements are in the oven, well, this is what we will strive for, a short question, but one that worries many, will there be a second wave of mobilization? i understand that this is such a sensitive issue, look, we have passed partial mobilization and then we called up 300,000 people, by the way, at first there was a lot of irony, all sorts of giggles about this, they stuck the name on these people, mobiks, i am one of the mobilized, 14 heroes of russia, i’m not even talking about other medals order of a different dignity, which means, well, now , in my opinion, 244 thousand are located directly in

the combat zone, well, in the north military district zone. regiments for equipment maintenance were formed, because among them there are many good specialists, 44, 41, in my opinion, a thousand, were fired due to reaching the age limit for health and so on, after that we began a fairly broad campaign to attract people on a voluntary basis to enter into contracts with...