grozov, good afternoon, andrei yuryevich , good afternoon, anastasia, thank you for finding time forr this interview, at the beginning of such an important year, on january 1, russia became the chairman of the cis, and what do you think, how our country’s relations with members of the organization developed over the past year and what role it now plays in the region and, of course, in the world, last year our... interaction developed systematically progressively in a difficult geopolitical situation, deterioration of the general situation in the field of international security, increasing international and regional conflict, the countries of the commonwealth were subjected to severe pressure from the collective west, seeking to prevent the deepening of integration processes in the cis space, to make constant attempts to influence our partners so that they joined illegitimate sanctions against russia and belarus and accordingly they constantly did the same. attempts to create various artificial stimuli in our relations, nevertheless, cooperation within the cis remains in demand, this