hello, international review is on air, in the studio fyodor lukyanov. today on the international review program. events of the week. chronicle, facts, comments. the skill of circumventing sanctions. amid western pressure, china and russia are looking. new way.

this has never happened, here again, political terrorism in europe, the slovak prime minister was shot at. levers of economic management, how not to overdo it with the arms race, materials from our program? the state of mind of the most unstable members of society is an indicator of the political situation.

the assassination attempts on djindjic and the pope were politically motivated. both swedish cases are more likely a manifestation of social psychopathy. slovak prime minister robert fica is only 59 years old. he is a doctor of law, a specialist in criminal law and a member of the slovak lawyers' association. after graduating from university, he served briefly in bratislava. army, from the eighty-seventh to the nineties, fica was a member of the communist party of slovakia, and even after the collapse of the soviet union and the velvet revolution, he retained his leftist views. he joined the party the democratic left, the successor of the communist party and only after its collapse, in november of ninety- nine, created its own center-left party. direction social democracy. from 94 to 2000. was slovakia's commissioner to

the european court of human rights, was twice a member of the parliament of the slovak republic and was also twice prime minister of the country. in 2012, after winning the elections, fitz formed a one-party government for the first time in the history of slovakia since independence. on the next after the 2016 elections, it became a coalition and lasted for another 2 years.

who appeared in the journalist’s investigation, but the court acquitted him. in april 2023, robert fitso again became prime minister of slovakia for the third time. as the leader of the parliamentary opposition, he stated that he wanted to stop arms supplies to ukraine. the politician also emphasized that slovakia will not support ukraine’s application for nato membership, since this is the biggest nonsense. after the elections, fitz confirmed his words, but indicated that he would... provide kiev humanitarian assistance and assistance in post-war reconstruction. he considers anti-russian sanctions to have a negative impact on the residents of slovakia. he himself visited russia several times and met with presidents putin and medvedev. let’s not multiply speculation about who benefited from getting rid of the confrontational slovak, whom western media call nothing less than ally putin. there are

examples in history when what looks like an obvious conspiracy is explained by a fatal accident or a despicable everyday occurrence. simpler explanations tend to seem like...

have reached a scale where the outcome of both will affect the entire world system. the western side is united, using opposition to the autocracies of russia and china to consolidate. the notorious autocrats are groping for the limits of interaction. the process is not without its rough edges, given the incomplete coincidence of interests, but it is progressive. china has chosen a consistent line for itself.

in the sphere of production of weapons that are most important for the north military district, apparently exceeds in total all nato countries combined, china limits, in addition to lethal weapons the supply of some other types of dual-use products and technologies, in principle, the restrictions that the chinese government imposes are limited to this, the chinese government does not... impede and rather even facilitate some attempts to establish alternative channels for certain supplies, but there will be they will not take risks for their key companies; in fact, what western countries are trying to do is to use their

threats to encourage both the government and chinese corporations, public and private, to do even more...

where did this formulation come from, it arose in january 2021, the twenty -first, when the two countries were preparing to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the russian-chinese treaty and chinese foreign minister ivan yi published an article in which he outlined new chinese approaches to russia, to the relations of our two countries, among other things, it was said about relationships in which there is no barrier ahead.

where the same thesis is replicated: since they don’t have prohibited zones, that means china is selling weapons, and if it doesn’t sell weapons, that means they are a forbidden zone and, accordingly, this formulation has no relation to reality. in china, this formulation has now really been relegated to the background; it is not used; again, the same minister wang yi was authorized in april to present the current interpretation of our bilateral relations, which are called five from beginning to end.

firstly, let's promote multipolarity or multipolarization together, let's

fight together for a new fair globalization that benefits everyone, and , importantly, the principles of russia in the conditions i quote you, and in the conditions of the world situation, when the big truth is adjacent to the big lie, russia, china, it is necessary to follow the true way, the right path, and accordingly, based on these, well, this is the principle. such a negative reaction that within about six months of the year this concept was simply withdrawn from

official circulation, but it remained in scientific circulation, something very similar is happening here, business representatives are now unanimously saying that working with china has become more complicated, before just because financial relationships are very susceptible american influence, china is extremely attentive to secondary sanctions and really does not want to... expose itself, well, in general, one can understand, but this is a serious problem, payments are not coming, can we expect a search for new forms here, now from the chinese side. may 2024 is called the most fruitful year for us anti-chinese sanctions, which began with restrictions for possible support for the russian-ukrainian conflict. the us treasury department blamed hong kong fintech.

on may 8, the united states restricted china's access to artificial intelligence software. intelligence and applications based on it , such as gpt chat, states that models that process huge amounts of information can be used on may 9 , the us department of commerce expanded the blacklist to include 37 companies and 26 enterprises from china for involvement in supplies in russia. eight more chinese companies were sanctioned for their alleged involvement in the incident with a chinese balloon that was shot down in us airspace last february. on may 14, the biden administration accused china of unfair trade practices and announced new tariffs

on chinese imports. the changes will come into force within 2 years and will affect sectors important to national security. then 25% will increase duties on lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products, quay cranes and even syringes, needles, and personal protective equipment. tariff elements for solar panels will increase to 50%, for electric cars themselves to 100%. the tariff schedule will increase by a quarter, as well as the number of mineral resources. ore from aluminum, manganese and chromium, as well as rare elements such as actinium curium have not forgotten about metals such as tin and zinc. on the one hand, for the most part, the united states is not very dependent on these goods, bloomberg notes, on the other, as reuters writes, biden’s tariff wall will face leakage through mexico and vietnam, through these countries

, excess cheap chinese products will still end up on the american market, right. tariffs have not changed radically since 2019, since the time of donald trump’s protective duties, which unleashed a trade war with the middle kingdom. if china demonstrates to the whole world that it is subject to completely illegitimate sanctions from the united states, then for the countries of the global south, this will be an indication that if a similar situation arises.

china is investing in its future. oliver schopf from austria on top of the american sanctions wall. a man like biden's attempt to stop chinese electric cars is monumental. a well-tempered piano or well-coordinated playing of an instrument, drawing by the german burchardomor. two people from

russia and china play the piano, it is written on it. europe. the silk road or the new red carpet. cartoon by markus grolick from germany. visits paris. two people who look like macron and ursula vonderleen tell him: “welcome to europe.” michael ramirez from america cannot shake off spy suspicions around tiktok. a person similar to shizon personally monitors all the videos in chinese. vladimir putin spoke very highly of the chinese peace plan in an interview before the visit, calling it, in fact, a possible starting point for a further peace process, and in general, china is now very active, demonstrating its diplomatic interest,

but it is, perhaps, very difficult for me, as an outsider, to imagine. that china, such as it is, will begin to engage in peacekeeping, as we imagine it, shuttle diplomacy, persuasion of the parties, search for compromises, and so on, well , somehow we don’t know china from this side until now, at least to the extent that this can be expected, or in their understanding, generally speaking, peacekeeping is something else, it is not peacekeeping, in the sense that, as you just asked, for china it is something, it is a certain set of ideas and ideals. and the peace plan for ukraine is a derivative of a derivative. i will now explain what we are talking about. the key for china now is to promote the idea of ​​a community of human destiny. as was officially announced last year, thanks to the efforts of china, the efforts of xidingping, the community of human destiny has turned, and i quote

roughly verbatim, has turned from a chinese initiatives into global consensus.

community of the fate of humanity, so if this is translated into a practical plane, in fact, i do not have a clear idea of ​​what tools china has to convince the west to abandon the cold war mentality, the desire for hegemony, there, civilizational superiority, and so on further, that is, i would rather perceive this initiative as a certain set of guidelines, using which this problem can be solved.

any chinese representative, at least some, this is a recognition in general the importance of china, that it is its participation that legitimizes the process, but china has not yet spoken out, in the context that you described, what could be china’s calculation in relation to this conference, it is necessary to take into account this specific understanding of foreign policy in modern china, this is diplomacy the first person, that is, no one...

it’s clear, well, well, i don’t think we’ll see the west receding behind us any time soon, so we’ll probably put it off for now, thank you very much, alexander lomanov was our guest. shortly before putin's visit to china there a remarkable pseudo-scientific discussion ensued. a fairly well-known specialist on

russia, feng yun, published a commentary in the british magazine economist, the gist of which is: china, of course, does not support the russian campaign in ukraine, does not believe in russia’s success and connects its future with relations with the west. london editors. the text was edited to suit its propaganda style, but nothing is known about the author’s objections. a succinct answer came from the famous chinese commentator guosunmin. it is naive to believe, he writes, that chinese-russian the relationship can supposedly be changed at will, determined by the post-cold war international political structure. it does not depend on the desire of a person, until there are fundamental objective changes, there will be no fundamental changes in chinese-russian relations or in relations between china and russia, the united states and the west.

he still considers them not only within the context that he has a struggle somewhere, but in the fact that these relationships need to be maintained and developed, because their value is very high. we once tried explain everything only by historical patterns and went too far. now the other extreme is to reduce everything to a confrontation of specific wills. it’s even difficult to communicate with some regions across the sea, for example, one of these traditional... historical, by the way, traditional partners there for thousands of years, this is persian, yes, iranian, not even just a country, just like civilization, and let’s say, the most understandable, the most important historical route is the land route route to iran, especially since in the middle east, especially transport routes, especially now we see yes, for example, the confrontation between the houthis of yemen and the united states of america with israel, and we

see that ships. and instrument making to fuel catalysts, the largest holder of subsoil is china, which makes the rest very nervous. lithium is not a rare earth, but it is another area of ​​competition; china also has considerable reserves here, and beijing also competes fiercely for deposits in africa and latin america, and the united states is seeking internal reserves. report by dmitry vershinin. this is a so

-called mud pit, a geyser, a thermal spring, a place where gases and steam, heated by heat from the center of the earth, found their way out, the smell of rotten eggs, hydrogen sulfide in the air, a couple of hundred meters away is a geothermal energy processing plant using heat from the core planet, it heats water and supplies it for heating, in this part of california, the kachela valley, there are dozens of such plants... and this natural phenomenon will form the basis for production lithium. we have one of the largest lithium deposits in the world. we can manufacture and supply batteries for electric vehicles that will enable us to move into a future without internal combustion engines. this place was called lithium valley; element number three in the menderev table itself was called white gold. giant deposits of heavy metal were discovered at a depth of 2.5 km under the salty salton lake. extraction is planned

using geothermal. energy is a new technology on paper without harming the environment. lithium mining may become a driving force for the economy of the entire region. high-paying jobs, especially given the drought that could lead to fewer farms in the area. taxes from this mining could help rebuild the region from the environmental disaster of the past, helping california transition to a carbon-free economy around the world. frank ruiz is an environmentalist working to restore the region. lake salton. site of the largest environmental disaster in us history. 120 years ago, engineers changed the course of the colorado river and built a network of canals to provide farmers with water. the excess of this water turned into a lake. in the middle of the last century , the hollywood elite was restored at local resorts. the lake became a magnet for luxury hotels and yachts, but the boom quickly ended. north shore town.