we are only still preparing for such a challenge as holding a regional or even continental summit, but we will be ready to do it. i believe that in the future, well, for example, now there is a russia-africa summit, there is a china-africa summit. there is a summit, spain, africa. and it seems to me. in the future

, zimbabwe should hold a russia summit, when we will host the russian federation, or, for example, china itself, zimbabwe, where we will host china. we know we can do it. therefore, it is important to concentrate here. yes, we external support is needed. this is extremely important for us as a state. but we must also ensure that we have developed and used all available internal resources. and fill in some gaps. build what we lack. we focus on this, we are proud that we have created such infrastructure, such institutions.

so i'm waiting for the day when we hold the summit, zimbabwe russia, and my brother will come to us and attend the summit in zimbabwe, with all the premises, because i 'm looking now, this is what you've built, we're ready build new and better infrastructure.

to find the right direction of its development, already signals to me that we must complete it, i have a lot of questions, but nevertheless i feel, that’s when i had a lot of interesting questions, but if so, then the last one.

friends from africa and latin america will be happy if we begin to turn st. petersburg into the center of world culture, like paris was. is slowly fading away, new york has become different, maybe we’ll make st. petersburg, the center of world culture, not vysyuki, everything is already here built, here we just need to create several festivals and several, excuse the anglicism of happenings, events that will attract a huge number of people, it will be beneficial for st. petersburg residents, and... for everyone, in the global frenzy, in the europe we are leaving , will be useful. can? yes, that means, regarding the possible loss of some elements

of european culture and, say, culture, or genes of european culture in russia due to the fact that we are somehow turning towards the east.

only persist, but accelerate, intensify, bearing in mind the rate of economic growth today in the near future, this is an inevitable, inevitable course of events, no one can do anything about it, that’s what would n’t happen, this trend will continue, and of course...

what concerns the elements of european culture, we are not losing it, we are not losing them, these elements and genes of european culture, in that part of europe called western, where is this european culture, it will soon not remain there at all, only architectural monuments, but culture is , first of all, the consciousness of people, it is poisoned by today's global liberalists, who...

who, if you look a little deeper into the centuries, are based even for non-believers, in general, based, of course, primarily on christian culture, for us , for russia, for a multi-confessional country, you said, i don’t know who the author of these words is, that this means, first of all, the military machine of the russian people, no matter who said it, i don’t agree with this, because russia was originally developed as a multi-religious state. let's remember the instructions of the same catherine and our other leaders, as they would say today, kings and emperors,

when they acquired new territories, they always said to respect the local population, their traditions and their beliefs. this is how russia developed. and, of course, a significant part. russian culture is european culture, and we become carriers of this culture, it is being killed in european countries, although now it is understood. it is many europeans who strive to - to develop further precisely on the basis of their traditional values, whether they succeed or not, we will see based on the results of the elections to the european parliament, but what exactly can and should be done is, of course, it is necessary to develop our country on those historical traditions on which it developed as multi -national and multi-confessional. state, you spoke about the role of st. petersburg, and

i agree with this, we are doing so, we are developing here all these cultural activities of ours in many areas, in including with our friends and partners all over the world, from europe, asia, latin america, africa. eh, here i am now, you said about st. petersburg, i’m looking at the picture on the left, the picture on the right. look, in the center of this picture on the right to my right is isaac's cathedral, even to the right is the building of the senate and synod, here to the left is the admiralty, this is the view from the side of the university where i studied, from the side of the colleges, this is the first government of russia, here to the right is the menshiko palace, here on this side, this is the vasilievsky arrow islands, columns, the exchange building, again isaac, this is the view from the side of the hermitage, but if

we go to this side and look in the opposite direction, that is, at the building of the twelve colleges or at the armitage, it will be also beautiful, but why? and why? because it's all done. based on the most important principle and law called harmony. so we will build our policy precisely on these foundations, harmoniously, and russia, of course, will be part of this, this multipolar, harmonious world, and naturally, it is natural for us that to a large extent we will rely on european principles, on european ones. culture, since its bearer is undoubtedly the russian people, but we will treat

the culture and traditions of other peoples of the russian federation with no less respect; our strength lies in this unity. thank you, thank you, thank you very much, thank you very much, dear friends, colleagues, it was a very interesting, vibrant intellectual and political event, i hope that our audience was interested. thank you, gentlemen , president, i want to thank our guests

, our presenter, thank you, thank you very much, well, it was certainly a very interesting, informative and sometimes tense discussion, clearly divided into different thematic blocks, and of course, which requires a much more careful analysis than the cursory one allows, which i am going to do in the next few minutes, however there are several statements by the president, which of course i would like to focus on. in his speech at the plenary session of the st. petersburg international economic forum, vladimir putin focused

primarily on issues of the domestic agenda, economic agenda. the only mention of the external contour is the statement that today all the states of the world are de facto trying to strengthen their sovereignty, to quote vladimir putin: by hook or by crook. we see how the countries have mapped out. a real race to strengthen their sovereignty, and at three key levels: state, value-cultural and economic, while countries that until recently... were the leaders of global development are trying with all their might, by hook or by crook, to preserve their the elusive role of hegemons, in general there is nothing unusual here when a country or a person in their life tries to maintain their positions, strengthen them, but by crook is bad, by crook is good, by crook

is no good. russia has proven a high level of readiness and receptivity to technological transformations, we... see how our financial sector, e-commerce, transport services, public administration system have already changed, similar processes are beginning to unfold in the armed forces, where we also need a high rate of technological renewal, this is the most important, defining issue for our country. in fact, one of the theses that will be voiced within the framework. session became obvious even before it began. vladimir putin met with the governor of st. petersburg, and alexander beglov conveyed the request that social workers voiced to him at meetings, in fact, here in the northern capital. and this request concerned the possibility of indexing pensions for working pensioners. the head of state agreed that

the initiative was fair and timely; in fact, he announced it as already ready. i propose to resume indexation of pensions for working pensioners starting next year. from february 1, 2025 onwards, pensions will be increased annually not only for those who have already retired, but also for those who

continue to work. it will be really fair.

in abandoned areas there are garbage dumps, as a rule, they are ownerless, and municipalities do not have the money to eliminate them, i propose the following solution: if an entrepreneur is ready to liquidate such a landfill at his own expense, then you can think about transferring the corresponding land plot to him for free for use or ownership, you need to work out all the details here and, of course, avoid bureaucratic barriers, avoid abuse or ...

the state today proposed to make an addition to it, which specifically concerns small families and concerns the family mortgage program, the head of cities, we will definitely talk about this later, of course we will tell you on our broadcast, like many other, many other proposals that were voiced today by the president, but for now i give the floor to my colleague natalya litovko and her guest, the mayor of moscow, yes, anastasia, thank you, indeed, we are continuing our live broadcast , our visiting studio at the st. petersburg international economic forum and right now in our studio.

mainly at the expense of the business itself, because in moscow business is very active, competitive, and of course, it’s easy to help such a business, it’s not like dragging a hippopotamus out of the swamp, as they say, and especially now, you know, during such a sanctions blockade that they are trying to arrange for us, they still believed that all business, on the contrary, would run away, investments would... disappear in russia, in fact, the opposite is happening, business activity has increased over due to the fact that he began to occupy the niche of those that were freed from

western producers and exporters, and investors who had previously pumped significant resources to the west returned to us, this all gave such synergy, movement, not only in moscow, but throughout the country, so now... it is very important not to sleep through this opportunity, to create the most comfortable conditions for business so that it invests and develops. to do this, we need not only benefits, but also simplify administration as much as possible, bureaucratic arbitrariness there, provide production sites, unlock this potential for business, provide opportunities for investment. for this, first of all, of course, we need to develop infrastructure, something we are constantly doing. at the same time, transport, healthcare, education, professional training and so on, that is, the city must be ready for these investments and the more ready it is, the more

business ideas, and production, and economy will come to it, this is of course very important, and this is important not only for moscow, for the whole country, because we, well, what a sin, you can call it our own, but a warring country, for a warring country it is very important. the economy is strong, so of course we have a huge responsibility. you have already mentioned sanctions pressure, of course, the west sleeps and sees, but to weaken our economy, thank god, this is not working yet, but what is the recipe here that you could give to other russian regions, which are now, of course , also interested in attracting investments, thank god we have partners who are also interested in this, from countries with which we are now building more active cooperation. in fact, the recipe is the same, this is the development of infrastructure, even, you know, but of course, everything can be spent on

current expenses, in moscow you can too, that’s it’s not difficult, it’s very popular, give everything away and sit and say how popular i am, everyone is happy, thank god, no, you still need to compress current expenses as much as possible, free them up for investment, and use investment to develop infrastructure. opportunities as a result, as if the region and the economy begins to degrade, so that this does not happen, but whatever happens to concentrate resources on development, this is

the main thing, we talked once on your channel, we have addressed this topic more than once, there have already been many crises ten years passed there, in the fourteenth year, when the first sanctions war took place, the pandemic is now the main recipe, when everything gets bad, on the contrary, move forward. that everything is normal, everything is developing, and we can also invest, this is 80-90% of any crisis, this is psychology, this psychology must

be broken, and the state can definitely do this. in a good sense of the word, well, yes, that’s it for now, as they say, and we are getting out of the situation in which we found ourselves, i looked at your agenda on the forum, you have a huge number of meetings with representatives of other regions, signing an agreement, cooperation, it is clear that the exchange of experience, it is clear that , of course, the regions are focusing on moscow, but i also learned today that you reported that moscow is in fourth place in the world in terms of purchasing power, and probably with this as well.

for this, moscow, in fact, moscow has everything, most importantly, a large number of talented people who want to build, develop, invent, implement these inventions, this is potential, but it seems to me that this is one of the best potentials in the world, of course, you can, excuse me, raise money from half the world and say, well, we are so cool, but this is not enough, in fact, not enough, in

fact, there is potential. creative, efficient, talented, supporting patriots, rooting for their city, for their country, this is very important, well, the authorities should help them develop, people and personnel, and also, as our president again says, well, there should be such synergy, people must have the opportunity and desires, and the state or city must create conditions for this, this does not mean that there are spoons. feed everyone, the rules should be created like this, the infrastructure should be such that it would be easy to work, the simplest example, why suddenly in moscow there are several times more street cafes, well , the city is the same, the streets are the same, people also eat the same, as before, they don’t eat anymore, where will they do it, it’s just that before, in order to open a cafe, you had to go through the torments of hell, bypass a bunch of officials, now...

you just have to say in a notification procedure, i’m opening a cafe, i have these rules, i comply with city rules, that's it, open the work, no one is stopping you, if you want to block it on the street, then please, then separately, and so please, and just a multiple increase in the businesses that are engaged in this, on the one hand, on the other hand, the number of people, who come and give money to small businesses, trade, tourism, and so on, and the economy... yes, such an important mechanism of economic development. another very important topic at the forum this year is , of course, the development of the domestic russian automobile industry. moscow is definitely in i’m interested in this, because in moscow we have taxis, korsherenko and public transport, but in moscow there is moskvich, yes, which is now produced by the chinese automobile industry, in nizhny novgorod they recently presented a new lada, but it is also made from chinese components

, about that here ... mikhail mishustin drew attention when he visited there, do you think we have the potential to switch to domestic components in the automotive industry, what needs to be done for this? well, look, transport mechanical engineering, where the customer city is, we have already switched to 100% domestic transport, we have our own commuter trains and ultra-modern ones, metro trains. ours and ultra-modern, our trams and ultra-modern, buses, our electric buses and ultra-modern, as for cars, well, of course, there is a lot of market influence there, and the competition in this market is enormous, in order to have your own, your own car manufacturers, you actually need engage in this market for...