they kept the drugs very safely. there is no doubt that they conducted clinical trials on unsuspecting people. african swine fever is back in sumy. cholera in ukrainian nikolaev. new cases of batulism. there are biological research facilities in ukraine. people began to realize how insincere and deceitful the us government was. with the support of washington , a unique public health laboratory operates in tbilisi. the laboratory workers who lived here, four of them fell ill, two died. no one is trying to track the movement and spread of dangerous viruses in the world. then they will simply sell vaccines and medicines for these diseases, which they themselves brought here.

every day our regions tell stories about their successes and plans for the future. today the season has come for the belgorod, kursk and oryol regions. the homeland begins with her, under this motto the day of the belgorod region navadenha started. guests of the stand are told about and shown, of course, how diverse and amazing it is. well, i presented it native land governor vyacheslav glodkov. today this region is a leader in many social indicators. economic

development, including agriculture and metallurgy. the region collects about 2.5 million tons of grain annually, in 2023 the record of all previous years was broken, 60 centners were collected per hectare, and there were colossal successes in industry. all nuclear power plants, both russian and foreign, are built from belgorod pipelines and power equipment, and in addition, 40% of the metal structures of the famous crimean... despite the difficult situation, we lived, we live, we continue to develop, our main priorities, priority projects are being implemented, we do not stop in the dynamics, we, as we were, remain one of the cleanest, most comfortable, most beautiful regions of our country, certainly a decoration of our region is:

the region calls its achievement the creation of the third pole special economic zone and the construction of technology parks. some residents have already started working, and when the sites are fully loaded, potential investments will be more than 80 million rubles. well, today, at the exhibition in the russian forum , a signing of social programs took place

, uh... uh, there was no construction, the alley named after varichev, which today, already during the new year holidays, uh, was actively used by the townspeople, this is a bilateral agreement, which implies the responsibilities of the kursk region, responsibilities metalloinvest describes the plans that we will implement in 2024. the green rings of russia, a rich literary heritage, a park with bison, folk crafts, that’s all. oryol region, this region is also a center of literary tourism. my colleague anastasia ponko met more stately people in the region. nastya, i greet you and tell me. hello, artyom,

indeed, the oryol region is the literary capital of russia, the place where such writers as bunin, turgenev, liskov, andreev were born. stand of the oryol region. differs from other stands, as its representatives told us, it is essentially an island of calm without despair, lectures are certainly held there, master classes, some activities, but they are different than at other stands , they are mainly dedicated to the literary side of this region, where you can sit in a chair, pick up a book, read, relax a little, and of course continue traveling by water.

but to see it, we have unique places that every person who will say that he knows russia should visit. i sincerely want to invite all our guests to visit the oryol region. traditionally, on theme days there are always a lot of regions visitors, everyone wants to see what the stent has prepared for them specifically on their day, there are a lot of guests at the exhibition, namely those who have never visited before. did not come to this or that region, and of course, there are many visitors who were born and raised themselves, for example, from the oryol region, and now remember this region with warmth, and the famous police is my homeland, my village, not i just remember with pleasure,

it fuels me every day, i am proud that i am an honorary citizen of my hometown, and of course, since... russia is after all, an exhibition of achievements , at the stand of the oryol region you can see what the region is proud of today, and in general the oryol region is really an actively developing region, and today another step was taken in this direction by the sberbank and the government of the oryol region entered into a cooperation agreement in the field of security, digital technologies, the bank will help the region improve the security of sports facilities, enterprises, and transport.

well, uh, i’m sure that in the near future we will have new projects, joint projects, which we will also participate together , i would like to take a moment to thank sber, because today for the ardovo region sber is the structure that lends a helping hand in many areas, this is the solution to our problematic issues, this is participation in innovation and development, public safety issues . in russia special attention is paid. sber is constantly developing the latest technologies and solutions, including those based on artificial intelligence, which will raise the level of safety in the country. artyom. nastya,

thank you for the achievements with which russia came to the exhibition, the oryol region, my colleague anastasia panko said. and we continue. the all-russian professional forum is taking place at vdnkh. agency of strategic initiatives called cool country. more than 600 people took part in it. today the results of the all-russian axis program for the development of children's and youth education are being summed up here. tourism, and also reward the winners of the competition of children's creative projects, and honor regional authors who we developed the best educational travel programs, and selected the finalists based on the results of an expert assessment. the nominations were very different, including history and patriotism , culture, sports, healthy lifestyle, science, the most interesting - the routes were presented today as part of the cool country forum, but in fact there are many more of them, and 103 new

routes were developed by 22 regional teams , and i want to point out once again that it is important that they will be available there this year, next year. that's all, already we'll sum up today's results at 19:00, wait. and now it’s time for economic news: sales of new passenger cars in russia will grow by 15% this year to 1,300,000 units. this forecast is given by the association of european businesses. as for electric vehicles, sales are expected to reach 20 thousand, which is about 2% of the car market. let me remind you that last year in russia they sold 1.127. passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. the russian budget deficit at the end of the year exceeded. rub 3,200 billion this is 1.9% of gdp - it is said on the ministry of finance website. total to the treasury

more than 29 trillion rubles in income were received. costs are estimated at more than 32 trillion. the final estimate of the deficit turned out to be slightly higher than the authorities' forecasts. in december , finance minister anton silunov expected a value of 1.5% of gdp. in the twenty-third year, russians took out loans for 16.800 billion rubles. this is one and a half times more than a year earlier, frank rg calculated. almost half of the loans were mortgages, despite rising rates. the share of cash loans exceeded 40%. separately, analysts note car lending, it almost doubled to one and a half trillion rubles. and norway is increasing geological exploration. in the twenty-fourth year , local oil and gas companies plan to drill from 40 to 50 wells. last year , for comparison, 34 were drilled. bloomberg writes about this. according to the agency, the country plans to maintain its leading position in the european

energy market. it is norway that remains the main one in the matter of replacing russian energy resources. total investments in exploration are expected to reach $7.5 billion by the end of the year. it was news economy. short. avtovas has produced a record number of cars over the past 10 years. the company failed. results of last year and spoke about plans for 2024, but she does not plan to increase car prices in the near future. taras kucharenko has all the details. every third car purchased last year was produced by avtovaz; the company has never occupied 35% of the market before. in the twenty-third year , about 375 thousand cars were produced from the assembly line, almost all of them were sold, and this was despite great competition with chinese manufacturers who...

although 2022 was one of the most difficult years in the history of avtovaz, numerous sanctions were intended by unfriendly countries to bury the domestic manufacturer. like any company that produces cars, he ordered some of the components abroad; he had to adapt to new conditions quickly; already in the twenty-third the assembly line did not stand idle for a second. localization of some models exceeded 90%. 1,200, to be more precise or to detail this component base,

over the period of the twenty-third year we managed localized according to the models of our product range, and a large number of parts were, as we say, relocated, that is , brought into a zone safe for production, we look confidently into the future, presented in the twenty-third. year, in addition to the new generation vesta, there are a number of our new products on the market, among the new products and lada aura, their release on... will begin fully this year, sales of the company’s most expensive car lada vesta sportline, worth about 2.5 million rubles, have also begun. avtovaz plans to quadruple exports among the priority areas are the republic of belarus, azerbaijan, iran and egypt. the model range that is presented here,

some of it is still painted over as not being produced, although some of it could already be discovered. from under the covers, well , first of all, i mean the elargus and aura cars, they are already known to our potential clients, here is the appearance of the iskra car and those cars that will be produced at our st. petersburg site, i think that we will present them in very soon. in that the company plans to produce about 5,000 cars this year. and promises that their prices will not increase in the near future, and if there is an increase, it will depend only on inflation. taras kucharenko, dmitry korsakov, dmitry nabokov, news. the presidential fund for cultural initiatives announced the start of accepting applications for a grant competition to support projects in the field of culture, art and

creative industries. what criteria must applications meet and what topics are given priority? this year i figured it out. svetlana, i greet you, tell me, what is the main advice that can be given to the authors of cultural projects who are applying for a presidential grant? the foundation's experts say that this is not the time to doubt, offer your project to the competition, you can offer your project to the competition today, the application submission algorithm is simple and transparent, you just need to go to website fondkulnykhiniciativ.rf, they can participate in the competition. not state non-profit organizations, commercial and municipal organizations, except for state-owned ones, as well as individual entrepreneurs. projects must correspond to nine thematic directions. nation creators, the great russian word, i am proud, a place of power, a cultural code, young leaders, the focus this year is ideas aimed at integrating new russian regions into the cultural life

of the country. there is a category, well, such professional ones. i definitely passed the selection, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the documents and training materials, they are on the foundation’s website, where you can also listen to a whole series of video lectures called, in short, grants and a series of podcasts. i always pay attention to how

corresponds generally to our entire situation in the country. situations in certain industries, areas of art and culture, proposals, projects, if people really sincerely want to help in solving a particular task and problem, this is one of the points. as part of the foundation's work, a charitable program was created to support cultural sports institutions in new regions. this is how a flexible and effective tool emerged. solving problems that were impossible to delay any longer, for example, lack of repairs for 40 years or lack of musical instruments , the giver, that is, music, accordion player, received the accordion 50 years after he came to the rural recreation center, that is, for him it was

of course a great joy, well, a large number of institutions, more than 200... sports cultural institutions we received such support, very different, in some cases it was ongoing repairs because the roof was broken, for example, by a shell, in others it was changing window openings. let me remind you that the fund itself for supporting projects in the field of culture and art was created on the initiative of the president. in 2 and a half years over 7.00 projects received assistance. today , their authors stage plays, give concerts, restore ancient crafts, and hold festivals. the president visited the studio during a working trip to khabarovsk. literally 3 hours ago ,

the president left our office, our studio, within an hour he was visiting us, here is the banner that is behind me, behind me, you see, maybe there is a painting of our president there, since october we've been producing a full-length film for months, today we're like once again they immersed us in the intricacies of the production of this film of our president. as part of this meeting, i thanked him for creating such a support institute, the presidential fund accepts applications until february 20, but it’s still better not to wait until the last minute, as experts say, in a hurry there are many errors in design and interesting projects have to be rejected apparently, the participants listened to the advice; in the first hours of the competition , more than 500 applications were submitted. the fifth stage of the russian cup has started in the republic of tatarstan in cross-country skiing. the competition is being hosted by the ski biathlon complex in the village of mirny for the first time. about the results of the starting day of the tournament

in the material of alexander abramov. sports kazan. usually these are hockey akbars, basketball unix and football rubin, water sports and gymnastics. now kazan is also a city of cross-country skiing. the mirny ski and biathlon complex was opened in the past. athletes run and no one bothers them,

those who warm up are gorgeous, i hope that in the near future there will be another hotel here, and if it appears here, it will be, well , probably tyumen and kazan, these will be two of the world's real ski resorts. on the first day of the fifth stage of the russian cup, freestyle racing with time trial. the leader of the season is veronica stepanova, i’m sure. won the 10 km race, these are two laps around the stadium, the distance was completed in 25 minutes and 18 seconds, no chance for her rivals, 39 seconds of advantage over her closest competitor, for stepanova this is already the eighth victory of the season at the russian cup, in total the girls have start 81 the best skier in the country, including two olympic champions, in addition to veronica stepanova, is tatyana sorina. we did not prepare for this start.

in this competition, 111 people took to the start; there were no surprises; alexander bolshenov won with a 47-second advantage over his closest pursuer, artyom maltsev. three-time olympic champion bolshunov is on a unique winning streak. this was the thirteenth victory in thirteen races of the current season as part of the russian cup. on the track bolshinov in the yellow jersey of the leader, on award ceremony in the absence of the leader's yellow hat. today the weather conditions are difficult, cold, frost, snow.

open more such complexes in your country. the fifth stage of the russian cup will continue on saturday with sprint races. alexander abramov, stanislav petrov, nikolai portnykh and karen melikyan. news: kazan. the development of tourism was discussed in irkutsk today. the round table was organized by the popular front. the angara region is rich in tourist routes and interesting locations, and also has great potential in this area. but we need to decide issues of improvement of areas and their access. for those who want to relax there. natalia babiy has all the details. most flights arrive at irkutsk airport in the morning, so

the terminal building is crowded. almost 4 million people were served here in 2023, which is 44% more than in 2022, because new destinations have appeared and the frequency of existing flights has increased. not enough sediment is very difficult, and of course the parking lot is very small. in december, the president’s direct line received questions about the reconstruction of the airport. this and served as the reason for the visit of our part-time expert colleague to irkutsk.

the process is not fast; in parallel, they will reconstruct the current runway and build another one. the process of transferring the air hub and surrounding territory to the federal level is now being completed. we are preparing all the documents, in principle everything is clear, everything has already been discussed with the president in advance, all this is transferred to the rostec company. rostec, a corporatized enterprise, has 25% of the shares, and 75% will be the investor. his task build. runway, taxiways, parking areas, highway. according to the head of the region, it may be possible to get away from the fact that planes land and take off through the city, the airport within the boundaries of irkutsk. the pre-project also provides for the construction of another terminal for arriving passengers; its commissioning will separate the flows and relieve congestion at the existing airport. an important point in the working travel itinerary of our colleague, a popular front expert.

then we can start developing design and estimate documentation, listvyanka will soon change, the requirements for existing buildings and new facilities have already been written down in detail, design codes and color solutions have been developed, some ideas are planned to be implemented by the start of the current tourist season, to build something, but what spoils the impression , get rid of. the market in listvyanka is perhaps one of the most colorful objects. visitors are welcome here at any time of the year,

despite the fact that they have to work. morning to evening in a refreshing -30, like this, we get dressed, boots, pants, jacket, well, this is ours work, what kind of fish do you have, what do tourists most often take? tourists take mostly dried, pressed and cold smoked, since it has a long shelf life, it can be transported far, they eat hot, as a rule, they have eaten everything here, but this one flies, floats, goes anywhere, and not only in russia, but abroad, by the way, the winter season on baikal begins... at the end of february, when the thickness of the ice allows, the largest skating rink in the world will open here. natalia babiy, evgeny shakhov, alexey bondarenko, vesti irkutsk.

the development of the far east became the main topic of vladimir putin’s meeting with entrepreneurs in khabarovsk. the program, according to the president, has already borne fruit. a lot has been done over the past 10 years. these are special benefits, the opening of new enterprises, job creation and increased investment. the approach, as the head of state emphasized, must be maintained and strengthened. anastasia will tell you about the key statements made in khabarovsk. the movement has become noticeable and this is very pleasing, the remark with which vladimir putin opened the meeting with entrepreneurs at pacific state university. khabarovsk is the second point on the itinerary of the president’s working visit to this part of the country; the trip actually kicks off the tenth year of the far east development program. how it began, the head of state today recalled the mood of many at first.