development of russia. thank you. lieutenant general buzhinsky, now a professor at the higher school of economics, you are not only an outstanding military expert. you know the russian expert community well. you were not only a high-ranking military man, but also a military diplomat, you know russian approaches to international affairs when...

speaking at one of the press conferences, senator, yes, he was a senator then, he said, i sincerely don’t understand why russia in the current conditions needs nuclear weapons, well , it seems like peace, the cold war is over, when one of the journalists asked him why the united states needs nuclear weapons, he sincerely said, but you, well, in that sense, but you said, we have a global responsibility with the united states. therefore, this is the approach of the united states, now about naivety, you know, when vladimir vladimirovich came in 2000, he was actually elected president, and even earlier in ninety -nine, when he, in fact, as prime minister, did not start, but outlined his attitude towards terrorism, campaigns all

remember his famous phrase, we will kill you there if necessary, well, in general, i won’t repeat it, it was like this, yes, at the same time, the west, as always, supported us in words, in fact, in general, did everything to complicate us the fight against chechen separatism. supported in every possible way, well, if not openly, then certainly indirectly, the president really had certain expectations associated with the west. then he communicated very closely with berlusconi, in particular, an agreement was signed, yes, an agreement was signed, the moscow start treaty or with potentials, relations with nato developed and was signed.

the minsk declaration, the rome declaration , the council of russia and nato was formed, moreover , as the president himself said, he even admitted the idea that we could become members of nato, although i must honestly say that time has already passed, i was in the ministry of defense and being responsible for this direction, we did not receive any specific... instructions to study this issue, that is , it was such a political statement, a trial balloon, to which, in general, a fairly clear answer was received that they were not waiting for us there , well, in general, when i communicated with my nato colleagues, i always said that we cannot be members of nato, because the american philosophy is that americans do not, do not join.

our period, as i say, rosy in relations with nato, when we had 26 working groups holding exercises, conferences, dealing with issues of interoperability, did not last very long, well , literally 5-6 years in the seventh year in munich , the president already outlined russia’s attitude towards happening in the world, to the role of the united states, well, then there was georgia, then there was.

an attempt at a reboot, then in the fourteenth year everything fell into place, nato finally exhaled, got rid of, so to speak, the search for its place in...

president bush sr. even said that the russian experiment with reforms, then ukraine does not need to leave composition of the soviet union, then pushing through on the more or less delicate american line in the balkans, but with the participation of russia , remember, there were negotiations on bosnia, in which russia took part.

in the election of the prime minister, and then president yanukovych, this was also presented as an opportunity to do something right for ukraine, but not a conscious struggle against russia. i don't know what you think, the company was in 2008,

or am i wrong? you know, probably yes, probably yes, this is in connection with georgia.

literally a few days later, so to speak , the georgians began their provocative actions, we did not make a decision - the location of our peacekeeping contingent, as soon as the first casualties began, a decision was made, uh, after that,

naturally, nato stood up, despite the fact that the russia-nato council was created in 1999, when the bombing began. for crisis situations, no, that's it, friendship in russia. you are aggressors and so on, and after that, after that, of course, despite all these attempts to reboot, after the eighth year, the intensity of work, of all working groups, already relationships and no illusions, which washington and most other western capitals believed ...

components: first, this is the most important thing, this is

the high consolidation of russian society, the second is the stability of the country’s financial and economic system, as it turned out, it was sustainability in finance and economics, and the third, of course, is the increase in the capabilities of our power component of the army and security agencies.

and not only the financial system, yes, it has survived, but still, first of all , our russian business, large, in fact small business, in turning our economy to the east and building different chains, obtaining the same critical imports and other things without which the economy can still work cannot, therefore the issue of sustainability is the result of the work... and the government that our banking system, it is still

quite stable, has been cleaned up, not one of the banks was, but i would note precisely the stability of russian business, our industrial enterprises , and not only the oil industry, but the metallurgical complex, the chemical complex, the construction complex, because, well, we didn’t even expect, as economists, that... the construction complex would work so actively, especially this year, and this and housing, and this is really such a positive result, because business, here is the consolidation of society, it is different, in society there should often be different views, although the topic of sovereignty and independent russia unites everyone, but it is important to work in these conditions, then there is this consolidation, it seems to me that it is very... important, it was very efficient and effective in terms of work, the president

spoke about estimating growth this year at 3.5%, we even think, maybe a little more than 3.6 or higher, but we have now really the opportunity here is not tenths, the opportunity to move on to a new era of economic and social development, because we must understand that the blockade and confrontation are, in any case, serious costs, these are costs for every family. this year , our population’s income is also estimated at five percent, but we must understand that it will still be about 2-plus percent even lower than in 1913, in fact. every family paid for sovereignty, but this is what unites us, and this kind people are ready to bear the costs, but there must be positive dynamics, and here it is very important that all these changes are long-lasting, and we need to build a long-term policy for the formation of a truly sovereign

national economy capable of independent development, and taking into account our partnership.

what russia has lost or could lose, like relations with the west, we will talk about what russia has gained, a complete blackout, having done nasty things with their own hands, they began to blame russian specialists, like kiev staged a cynical provocation at the zaporozhye nuclear power plant, i would i wanted to draw attention to... the date is another peak in discussions about the financing of the ukrainian project and the courage of russian women with insults, as well as the steppe eagle in the sights of feycodile. antifake, premiere, tomorrow on the first. old barrel cognac, a product

of the stellar group. what are they for? it’s already been 3 hours under the spotlights, here it’s +40 no less. how it itches, there was no need to put it on a naked body, we are royal or imperial, attention to the question, colleagues are not related to her, motor, camera, the crowd went, it’s more fun to keep the penguin gait, attention to the praguns we got ready, we started, we finally realized that our life is a game, the extraordinary adventures of experts in the winter series of games. on sunday on the first. there's a big game on the air. we continue our conversation about president putin's direct line. and now i would like to talk about what the president said about relations with china. let's listen. our

level of interaction with the people's republic of china is unprecedentedly high. we are strongly developing our economic ties, and in a variety of areas, which makes me happy, this diversification of our relations, we are developing relations in the field of infrastructure, and we are building bridges, roads, we are working in high-tech areas together, and we will continue to do so, a significant impetus in the development of our relations, gentlemen, we agreed that we will develop relations in eight main directions, the relevant documents have been signed, work is underway and...

military-political blocs in the region, in the economic, in the humanitarian, but we are not heating up the situation, we are not creating new blocs, our friendship is not aimed at against third countries, it is aimed at benefiting ourselves, but not against anyone else, that’s what we see from the west. there they are all trying to be friends against someone, we are watching this closely and will jointly respond in a timely and effective manner.

a young correspondent for the xinhua agency, his name is hehuan, i have not met him personally yet, but if i meet him, i will definitely compliment his good russian language. we have all heard this, in general, the senhu agency has historically had a very good school of russian studies, and i think it will continue to be so. as for the chinese section in the speeches of our president, you know, there is something fundamentally new in them, the absence of this very sensationalism, in my opinion, is a very positive phenomenon, because in this case we are talking, firstly, about established trends, and secondly, about sustainable assessments of these trends, to which i would pay special attention, everything, literally everything, on trade... in a broader sense on economic cooperation, political it also didn’t work out right away. take, for example, the topic of nato, what

the president said about how nato is trying to expand its sphere of responsibility to the asia-pacific region, and that this causes not only dissatisfaction, but rejection from our side and from the chinese side. you know, in my fresh, relatively fresh memory there are several more. years ago, when during inter-ministry of foreign affairs consultations, and we have them, it’s so somewhat academic, it was far from us, this is your problem, somewhere in europe, we don’t have this problem here, now, if listen to the statements of chinese diplomats, and even chinese leaders on this topic, their assessments do not differ in any way from ours, they just felt in china... felt that this was a threat, the coincidence of the assessments of our and chinese partners, this, in my opinion, is a process a completely natural, deeply positive trend-setting,

at least for the foreseeable future. the political year in our relations has not yet ended; we still have very serious plans for contacts for the remaining couple of weeks there until the end of december. in next.

i’ll tell you more that our cooperation with china is developing very dynamically and not only in terms of increasing the number of events, this also matters, the intensity of joint events, exercises, conferences, but we have already moved on - we are doing great they understood that the chinese had practically nothing in this hundred-kilometer zone. and in our hundred-kilometer zone all our fortified areas had everything at that time, but nevertheless our leadership agreed to this for the sake of improving relations with china, which

for... a very long time we were not in very good condition, and so, starting from that time, we began, so to speak, modestly, indeed, then on a bilateral basis, we began to advise them, conduct seminars on missile defense, and now we have already reached, firstly , high-tech cooperation, we have begun to supply them with plans for military-technical cooperation, whereas previously we supplied them with, well... let’s be honest , these, well, outdated models, they expressed dissatisfaction, such as the s-400, and su-35, that is everything, all that equipment, remind you that these s400s are the most, most advanced, most effective air defense system in the world, the americans don’t even argue with that, the su-35 aircraft, a multi-role fighter,

bomber. generation 4+, well, everyone says that according to the onometers this is a fifth generation aircraft, and we are delivering this generation - this is the most modern, the most modern, yes, this is the su-fifty-seventh, here we have this f-35, american, we started , that is , f16 is ahead, f16 is the seventies , eighties, this is not, but f16 - let's say so, this is not even... yesterday, but here we are from bombers in the waters of the chinese east china sea, the taiwan strait, that is, in those places that, in general, are quite sensitive both for china and for - so to speak, ours former partners, if 3 years ago it was

such a one-time event, now it is...

i must say that, well, our cooperation is no different in essence from the cooperation that exists between the participants of the north atlantic alliance. thank you, andrei nikolaevich, president putin spoke about very impressive results of russian-chinese trade and figures, on the other hand there were a lot of warnings, especially... in the united states, that in general, china would not go far enough to meet russia in circumventing sanctions in order to provide russia has the most advanced technologies, and providing things that could have dual uses, peacefully and militarily, will help sanctioned banks in russia, banks

that... are under sanctions, because chinese banks want to work internationally and they don’t need problems with the american financial system, this is how this russian-chinese trade cooperation is developing, which on the one hand is very impressive, but on the other hand what to do, and this is not even a topic of trade, which really demonstrates good...

already railway border crossings, because trade volumes are growing, which means that for this it is necessary to create a new logistics system, there are topics, right? quite sensitive, this is how much we can cooperate, we have interaction with china, iran and other countries, it is clear that at the same time, chinese companies, they should look at banks, at the possibility of applying secondary sanctions, moreover, some of them were already subject to certain american sanctions, such as huawei, as a telecommunications giant and... we we understand ours, i really hope that we will eventually formulate such a project, well, a set of projects that would not just ensure an increase in trade, but

would simply transfer our economic relations to a different quality format, we have been pursuing for many years negotiations with the chinese on, for example, the participation of chinese companies and banks in the construction of a high-speed highway in russia. that at the beginning we are starting a project between moscow and st. petersburg, and i hope that after we ourselves start doing something real, the question of partnership with chinese e- companies and banks will arise, because the project there is quite expensive big, there is one and a half, there it is more likely even higher than trillions, we will need resources here. will need the competencies that china has, which these years, if i understand correctly, i built more than 40,000 kilometers, so as the president said, we are open to partnerships with everyone, including our

european american former partners, maybe the time will come when they will return to this, when they european states and companies will have the opportunity not only to increase trade, namely...

the states of our country, so then it seemed more than logical. relations between our two countries were in a deep freeze, but believe me, this was also to a large extent some kind of peculiar, external phenomenon, i first came to work exactly 50 years ago,

in the fall of seventy-three, i got into practice, not study, there was no study then, there were no exchanges, a trade mission, where in general i was engaged in a variety of business, what such a student can do... here is a student, including going somewhere for translations and so on, and i will tell you this, that our trade relations with china are separate from political contacts. developed generally normally, there were no such very, well, let’s say, hostile manifestations towards each other, i honestly was glad that, as they say, i found a gap in the relationship between the base and the superstructure, but this was reality at that time, and so it was later in subsequent years, and began to improve, but before...

after the events, the tragic events in tianyanmen square in may 1989, the west imposed a strict embargo on china in the military field, he categorically objected, absolutely right, yes, because he simply foresaw that this , you know, it's possible to introduce, but it is very difficult, as in the famous song in general, so to speak, it is quite difficult to get out of the sanctions tailspin, as we see, in all situations.

neutral status, look what

is happening from the point of view of denazification, during the negotiation process, which had a certain stage after the preparation of the draft of a possible agreement, which was recently mentioned, in general they did not agree that some kind of denazification was needed, and they said that...

they made all sorts of laughs about it this is the name given to these people by mobiki , i remember it all very well , the guys fight great, just great, 14 heroes of the russian federation from among those mobilized, 14 heroes of russia, i’m not even talking about other medals of the order of a different denomination, after that we started a fairly wide campaign to attract people to...

does not reduce 1,500 daily throughout the country, so that together the divisions sign a contract for two for 3 years, and... the so-called volunteers, although all are essentially heroes and warriors of the fatherland, but they simply there for a year a shorter period, but all together there will be about half a million people, by the end of this year, well, why do we need mobilization, evgeniy petrovich, this is also one very

important topic, the ability to learn before they are thrown into the meat grinder, and after.. everything he says, vladimir vladimirovich.