i am glad to see andrei arkadyevich klimov, senator of the russian federation, deputy chairman of therogram. fs of the russian federation for international affairs, andrey arkadyevich, glad to see you, thank you for spending your time with us. hello, hello, it's always a pleasure to communicate with you. well, my first question sounds like this: as part of his european tour, chairman xi, whom you know well, personally, out of three stops, made two in the capitals of countries that, on many issues, refuse to follow the course of washington and brussels and maintain good relations. with russia, in addition to slapping the decliner, as you call the western elite, do you see this as a friendly gesture towards the russian federation? well, of course, i would like to consider this as a friendly gesture, but in this particular in this case, the chairman of the council of europe, as a leader of geopolitical scale, he , first of all, of course, always proceeded from the national interests of china, and this, by the way, is good, because that’s... the brix alliance that we have formed, where we