he talks about cats, it was a very long time ago, well, cats, that’s how they are, and what and what, and what, well, how they live there on the roof, cats, he says, you’re being stupid, i say, cats appear, he he says, sometimes in some informative layer you can snatch something, but for this you need to be a very talented person, with a kind of open mind, and my father definitely had some kind of ray, but you know, an understanding of what that you... came up with something, came up with it, sort of composed it, well, like a direction, and then the fact that it starts to become overgrown with matter, and the fact that this then turns into a play or a film, from an idea, is born, then i got it, the path of an artist, well, also in some kind of magic. of course,

absolute, absolute magic. then the question is why after killing the dragon there was no new on-screen magic. he wanted to film, he wanted to film, they persuaded him and even hung a sign on the mos film, there were even some ideas about a modern girl, a boy, and even once he said that maybe it was you, but his friends, various directors, say: i have...

i was invited, and i am very grateful to you for remembering my father, because how much mark anatoly did in his life, and uh, he taught at the gitez, raised several generations, and what he did in general, i it seems that not a single director has succeeded , thank you, you don’t even remember, but that he is still present in this life, and his films continue to live, mm... thank you, thank you, this was a podcast of ezenstein’s witnesses and its hosts film historians natalya ryabchikova and stanislav didinsky. today we had a special program dedicated to the ninetieth birthday of mark anatelevich zakharov, our guest was alexandra zakharova.

this is the easy money podcast, i’m its host , mikhail khanov, and today we’ll talk about a topic that worries everyone: rising food prices for the so-called food basket. how true is the thesis that we all began to work only for the refrigerator, the chairman of the council of the chamber of commerce and industry of the russian federation for the development of consumer markets helps us deal with this complex issue, alexander borisov, hello, alexander, hello, mikhail, let's start - you know, how you and i, people of the older generation, remember such a soviet satirist, who in one of his enterprises said that all the salary. goes to the toilet, whether this is true or not, that now with rising prices, with inflation, what is the situation, specifically in 23, not all salaries go to the toilet, expert research suggests that in different segments, social, expenses for

the diet is different, the rich part of the population is approximately 24%, the middle... class is 37, and among the poor 50%. let's take the middle class - how much is this, what is the monthly income per household? the middle class is a very vague explanation, and you can say from 100 to 300 thousand and what percentage goes there again? 38 38, and 50 goes to those who earn, 49.9 to those who earn. there is around 50,000 a month, but is that 50,000 - is it poverty or what is it? look, our minimum wage now is 16,000 , including rubles and kopecks. everything below

can be considered to be beyond level of poverty we live in today, according to official statistics. e 9% of the population, this is a very low figure compared to previous years, but it is 13 million people. let's immediately reassure our audience, or vice versa, what are the prospects for the harvest in 2023? the harvest is good, good, it is not as big as the previous one, because it was a record one, there are 158 million tons of grain there, and here it will be about 100. 45 approximately, that is, the main criterion for assessing the grain harvest, grain crops, including there wheat, corn and so on, this is the basis of everything that we consume, if we talk about the quality of the food basket, on

which the notorious 30 and a penny percent or 50% is spent, then when we talk about these statistics, what is included in it the minimum set by which... all the main parameters of the growth chart are calculated, it includes milk, meat, cereals, bread, of course, salt, sugar and so on, recently they have even included small cultural expenses, communication expenses in the consumer basket because it's earlier was not taken into account, so in principle now this is a fairly ... objective picture, but you still need to work on it, because living conditions change, people change, their needs change, you said in 2022 that prices would rise quickly, at a fairly rapid pace,

compared to previous years, these forecasts of yours came true or came true, yes, it’s easy to make this forecast, but the fact is that there is inflation. this is inherent in economic development, development, uh, process, because due to inflation, according to in essence, all innovations and investments are clarified, because if there is no such artificial expansion, many processes will slow down, one will be surprised that inflation is a normal thing under the capitalist method of production. but we still have capitalism, or it’s more my personal opinion, we have not yet stepped into real capitalism, we are still in a transition period, because there are a lot of incoming circumstances that prevent the completion of this process,

yeah, yours council of the chamber of commerce and industry for consumer markets, that is, for those that we are discussing, what inflation is expected at the end of the year, based on the results of the year twenty-three. in forecasts, if a month ago the forecast was somewhere around 6 , 6.5, now the forecast is 7, this is cumulative based on the results of the year, yes, based on the results of the year, that’s it, but i don’t rule out that it could be higher next year , the central bank promises that by the end of the year by 4.5%, we will reach it in the twenty-fourth year, but that is , inflation will decrease by half, yes, but...

the geopolitical situation may change, let’s explain to our audience, that is, there will be presidential elections in russia and the united states in november, a lot of elections in europe, that is, in fact, these factors, which are now purely speculative, as each country approaches this milestone, completely unexpected decisions may appear there, but after all, this is a reduction in inflation to...

understand this situation, why food products are becoming more expensive, because we are talking about the fact that we are switching to domestic technologies, that is, the agricultural industry is developing at a fairly high rate, the agricultural sector is growing... the theory says that there are four types of inflation, or inflation factors, all four operate in our country, the first is demand inflation, this is when the population has free money, the right goods, right now.. no, for example, cars

, the market has shrunk sharply, but there is a desire to buy cars, prices are immediate, well, yes, it’s hundreds of percent, the most striking example, the second factor is imported inflation, here it’s also quite easy to explain, because it’s enough to name fluctuations. ruble exchange rate, yeah, we import a lot, that is , it doesn’t depend on our economy, but depends on the macroeconomic situation, the situation, then we have a large number of goods, pricing is actually not internal, but it is exchange, global, please explain, rice, yeah, grain, that’s all, prices on the domestic market, they depend on world prices, which are determined at exchange trading, and you know how... the question of many of us is simply to set prices, because if we are

listeners, viewers: why can’t we produce in large quantities , harvest like you have already said, yes, it corresponds to the levels that we need to consume normal food. i understand that this is a deletant question, but i’m just asking it specifically so that it would be clear to our audience why it cannot be regulated well. as an explanation , i can simply say the following: pricing is a very delicate, delicate thing, it depends on a huge number of factors, seasonality, productivity, non -natural disasters, natural disasters, which are happening more and more often - they cause very serious damage, well, factors can be throw in a huge amount, remember when... a steamer appeared in the soviet canal and prices for logistics

services instantly jumped up. all this cannot be foreseen. therefore, as soon as you set some kind of price level, it turns out that these prices do not cover your production costs. this means that you either close down or move to another market segment, and this product ceases to exist at all. and thus increases even more, absolutely true, this is possible under socialist conditions dictatorship, and even then not for long, as it turned out.