[000:00:00;00] new wars and who continues to finance terrorists on and on, see mcdonald's company closed more than 850 of its restaurants, saying that business in russia does not correspond to their values, and later began to sell restaurants to local buyers willing to purchase a profitable business, even without a globally known letter m turned out to be quite a lot, and within a few months , a russian fast food restaurant was opened at mcdonald's locations . several differences in may last year, starbucks announced its withdrawal from the russian market, the network was dug up by russian entrepreneurs, among whom was repertimati, and renamed starkoff, they took a mermaid in her place, put an aunt in a kokoshnikov

, the german industrial giant siemens worked in russia for almost 170 years at the beginning of a full-scale war russia in ukraine , the company suspended new international deliveries to the russian federation and belarus, on may 12, 2022, it announced that it was leaving russia. more than a thousand foreign companies are winding down their business; the companies decided to continue working with terrorists . 1,240 companies from the french company bonduelle were scandalized because of the greetings of the russian military who attacked ukraine by sending them canned food

. brands such as lacoste leroy merlin nestlé avon akhmat montele from international in ukraine even created a list of international sponsors of the war, it included 5 greek companies , four french, three chinese, three american , two italian, one each from austria, belgium , estonia, germany and great britain, for example , the company leroy merlin decided to close its office in ukraine and increase supplies to russia and also continue to serve russian customers by properly paying taxes, decree of ukraine, the aggressor, numerous goods proctor gambul is everything that can be found on the shelves of russian stores. the company continues to make money from terrorists, finance the war, and auchan and metro continue. by the way , they are trying to sit on two chairs and are in no hurry to close down their business either in russia or in ukraine, in particular, the french auchan not only continues to work in russia, but also directly

helps the occupiers, the thai saiomi corporation has generally become the leader in sales of smartphones and other equipment in russia, although now the saiomi corporation has topped the list of international sponsors of the war, because the chinese companies are worried about the fact that they will have to pay for the reputation of the millions earned in blood businessmen from the heavenly council are occupying the market places vacated by their western colleagues goods have flooded the russian market trade between the two countries will increase by a third to 190 billion dollars in 2022 the most noticeable shift occurred in the russian car market with of the 14 remaining brands, 11 are chinese, and if in february 22, only 9% of russians chose chinese cars, then in february 23, 38% chose them. supply of chinese

of goods to russia in 2022, it increased by 13%, it is 76 billion dollars, so from the point of view of imports , russia is second only to north korea, dependent on china. well, in fact, it’s a funny story about how the russians are now trying to rename, replace, and so on and invent something new instead of these companies that are running european american companies that are now running in the russian market , but please explain, there are those companies that they just changed their shoes. let's say it officially left the russian market, but they just changed their name and continue to work . how many such companies are there, what are the sectors, etc. well, what is happening in russia with import substitution now?

the wave of the empire of substitution began in russia in the 14th and 15th years. when there was the first such a sensational wave against russia , it was applied now. in fact, this is a deeper import of substitution, that is, the current sanctions are much more powerful than they were in 14-15 years . well, china, as well as other countries, for example, turkey or partially israel, they continue to perform the role of such native sanctions habibs which help russia circumvent sanctions well, if we look at the dynamics of imports into russia , that is why we do not see such a very deep drop in the supply of imported goods, that is , russia's exports fell much more than

the fall in imports, which, by the way, was reflected in the that is, trade flips in russia, which were positive in previous years and formed due to this, russia formed its bare reserves, that is, the excess of exports, one portal, this is a positive flip flip, it began to decrease significantly this year, and this, in turn, was reflected in the exchange rate of the ruble at that time we saw the devaluation of the ruble, it was connected with the fact that this is a positive trade balance . i can’t tell russia that everything is like this in a clear phase because the first wave is worth replacing, it practically did not help russia to create the entire line of goods that they now consume, especially this applies to high-tech goods. well, in principle , with the help of such mechanisms as parallel

import and that is imports through third countries , russia, for example, there is a sanction regarding semiconductors or semi-conductors and the problems that arose there a year ago significantly simplifying the supply of chips and semiconductors in taiwan they are now actually replacing these products with chinese goods, but to the first question, oleksiy, is it profitable for companies to change their shoes now? let’s say that they call themselves another name and continue to work. they take these risks, you know, in principle, if you take western companies that are these european countries and the united states of america, there are much fewer such companies, and how well , if we take the number, then it supposedly means that this part of the company continues to remain on

the russian market, but if we take the volumes, then there is already a completely different picture and there is a significant reduction. it is precisely such powerful powerful companies that were previously present on the russian market that we can say that all western companies will sooner or later leave russia, the only problem here is that they are now the exit of western investments from of the russian market, it is partially blocked, that is, for example, parent companies can sell their subsidiaries in russia, but they cannot withdraw the funds they receive from these companies, and we see here a mechanism of some kind of sanctions clearing, when, for example, certain sanctions are relaxed against russian ones and, instead, russia allows foreign companies to exit, as was the case with a british company that participated in the sakhalin 2 project, i.e. oil and gas production, and this company was allowed to withdraw from this project and withdraw approximately such a moment, 80 billion rubles instead of one of the russian

oligarchs, they knew several a-a accusations in the london court, that is, such a sanction clearing, if you can call it that, takes place between e-e russia and certain western of course, sooner or later all western companies, in principle , they have already made this decision. that is, it already works even more than sanctions, it is a kind of self-censorship, that is, investors understand that it is very harmful for their reputation to be on the russian market but the company is chinese and in some asian countries, some turkish companies continue to stay in the russian year. well, chinese companies are there , in my opinion, so the question is not that they are going to go somewhere, tell me, eh china is capable in all positions of replacing european or american brands on the russian market that are still working. well , as for the chinese company

, the situation there was actually quite contradictory . are very careful about the e-e russian market because they have certain reservations that it can harm chinese companies and harm their operations on the european american market, therefore in china it actually creates such duplicates structures, that is, one part of the company works exclusively on the markets of western countries , there in europe, from poland, in the united states of america, the other part of the company works in russia, so as not to expose itself to sanctions, the leading ones there, well , let's say this, the company's leaders, the industry leaders they have, and that's why china is also here pursues such a rather cautious policy, but the russian market is actually interesting for china, but from the point of view of solvency, it cannot replace the traditional sales markets for chinese goods in

europe, the united states of america comparison in the united states of america, china sells its goods for approximately 500 billion dollars. that is, it is 6-7 times more than what china sells in russia . well, it exports approximately the same amount from europe, that is, european american markets for china, they are more than 10 times more profitable than the russian market. and from the point of view of perspective, vitai perfectly understands that the photographic capacity of the american market and the european market will grow, while the russian market will, in principle , be, well, it will be a kind of stagnation from the point of view in terms of photo capability, therefore, to knead for the hands and the russian market, he can’t knead for chinese companies uh, european uh, and american sales markets, well, oleksia

, at the beginning of the conversation, you mentioned exactly this balance, more import and export, interesting material published the day before by the reuters agency, they claim that the number of billionaires in the russian federation during the full-scale invasion of ukraine increased by as many as 22 people, that is, 22 billionaires plus and several surnames are called, for example melnychenko or according to tanin and these are people who are engaged in such things, this is not some kind of consumer segment . melnychenko, for example, is engaged in fertilizers. and the question is, he is engaged in the production of palladium and refined nickel. that is, it actually means that the price of positions continues, well , huge trade, so when people become billionaires. well, of course moreover , russia is now implementing powerful programs of fiscal stimulation and monetary

stimulation, they are actually rebooting their basic economic model. was an exporter marketed and based on observations. now they are trying to launch a model where the key role will be played by revenues that are not related to the oil and gas sector . to create something like the iranian model, which has been built there for the past several dozen years in the context of sanctions, and russia is studying the effects of sanctions from the perspective of how the economy can function. well, if look now at the russian statistics, we can see that , for example, the industry is growing. although it is not very powerful, but it is very strong. a jump in the production of so-called investment goods. this should be alarming in our country, because the growth of 15% in russia in the 23rd year of production

of investment goods, this actually means huge investments of military-industrial complexes, that is, russia is sending just such astronomical sums to its nuclear power plant and, in fact , most likely, it is preparing to start a war, perhaps on more aggressive aggressive arbitrator that's why it should be included in our strategic plans, that is, how to counteract it well, of course, the new economic model in russia will give birth to new billionaires, that is, who will earn already on the new economic model, that is, old billionaires who made their fortunes on oil and gas, they will gradually move there to the second, third plan, and the other billionaires who will earn from the military-industrial complex on the export of some satisfying e-e shortage of raw materials. with sanctions, they will appear and, uh, there will be new surnames and old surnames

, too. that is, this is a sign of the reboot of the economic model in russia. before this material , here is another interesting figure. i said that there are 22 billionaires plus in the russian federation, but if in monetary terms equivalently, troiter claims that this is a plus of 152 billion dollars. that is, all the billionaires of the russian federation today accumulate money for 505 billion us dollars, here are two questions, er, where is this money accumulated, in which currency is it, in principle , is it all inside russia or is it somewhere outside of it, and the second question, with a certain irony, is the report of the ukrainian government on the losses literally two days ago, on the losses of the ukrainian economy, it responded to the large-scale invasion, the number is practically identical, they called 153 there, and here they got richer by 152 billion , well, that’s it, if you want emotionally you can comment well, i think that most likely it's just a coincidence because we understand that

here, well, the relationship is quite conditional, and of course, well, where do they keep assets, well , first of all, russia has significantly in recent years switched to various alternative financial instruments , gradually getting rid of us dollars or british pounds or euros that they had in reserves, and russia, for example, quite substantially increased operations in cryptocurrency, that is, russia is somewhere in the top three or n there are a few countries where cryptocurrencies are the most developed . in recent years, they have paid a lot of attention to this. well, in fact, now part of the payments for oil, by the way, circumvent sanctions with the use of cryptocurrencies, that is, here part of the funds are included, and through these operations, russia forms the so-called black war fund, as i once wrote an article

according to my calculations, in fact, over the last year or so, russia has accumulated more than 100 billion dollars photo in this black war fund for whose account is then financed by private military companies and other special operations, and gold is also used . well, the yuan is becoming the same as for russia. it is such a base currency in principle, and uh, russian billionaires . they are also reorienting themselves to chinese banks open accounts there, that is, they keep their assets in yuan and buy villas or palaces on the island of hainan instead of, for example, london or some of the elite quarters of the united states of america, that is, there is such a reorientation of russia towards china. and from the point of view of not only the opening of its market and from the point of view of preserving its assets. by the way, there are also some interesting news about banks now, in particular, the fact that volodymyr zelenskyi

has now imposed sanctions on the national security council in relation to sanctions against the breakup, this is the first but it is clear that russia can ignore it, but this is our important point. hmm, poland and the baltic countries propose to disconnect gazprombank from the swift system . how much money is left in the country, because it is clear that this is an important sector in the export and import of goods and the like. it is painful for them that other countries, and in particular ukraine, impose sanctions specifically against the heads of banks and, in general, banking of this system. well, unfortunately, they have increased sanctions against russian banks a little recently . that is, at the beginning of the war, they saw such a rapid start

of sanctions against russian banks, and there was even such a kind of flash mob at that time regarding the disconnection of russian banks from the system swift, when this topic was raised on twitter and on facebook, it was the subject of such a massive, one can say, campaign of such clitoris curtains conducted by ukrainian e-e subscribers voice of ukraine ukrainian e-e participants of twitter and that's why public opinion is not only public opinion, and it's such a peculiar, rather active position of ukrainians at that time also influenced europeans and americans from the point of view that, in this context, that russian banks should be disconnected from the world system, we saw the first disconnections, then, unfortunately, this the sanctions wave will slow it down a bit. that is, we are now

, well, most russian banks are still connected to the swift system. in my opinion, i have been writing about this for a long time, i already wrote at the beginning of the full-scale war in march of last year, about the fact that it is necessary to strengthen actions regarding the inclusion of russia in the black list, a fact, and i will remind you that the fact is such a s- international an organization that fights against the laundering of funds obtained through criminal means and against the financing of terrorism . well, accordingly, all of these russian private military companies are actually analogues of such terrorist organizations and, by the way, they are all financed using of the russian banking system well, in principle, including russia in the black list of passports and excluding russian organizations , it may even have a greater impact than disconnecting russian banks from swift , because swift is just a payment system that

ensures transactions, but we perfectly understand that technically it is possible to use other systems to make payments, and russia will be included in the black list, so who then will its banks begin to close correspondent accounts for the russian bank? only in europe or the usa, but also in asia, in latin latin america, that is, even chinese banks, like all those who , in order to preserve their correspondent accounts in dollars and euros, will be forced to disconnect russian banks from correspondent relations oleksiy kushchyk, an economist and financial analyst, was in direct contact with us. well , there is another interesting topic: no more suvorov streets or pushkin avenues. president volodymyr zelensky signed the law on

geographic names, it provides for the decolonization of toponyms in ukraine, i.e., now there cannot be any name that symbolizes or glorifies russia , names related to memorable places, historical figures, political figures, dates, events in russian history are also prohibited , the law will enter into force three months after within six months, all russian symbols will need to be removed from public access , populated areas will be renamed, and images or other monuments will be transferred to the oleksandr al museum fyorovets is a historian, a researcher at the institute of the history of ukraine of the national academy of sciences and an officer of the armed forces of ukraine. greetings to you, mr. oleksandr. good night . good night. good health. well, it is obvious that we will have a lot of work for these six months . how much? do we have a list of what it is necessary to rename, take away, hide, redo, and so on, what number are we talking about now and

are these lists already collected, ready, a very relevant question, because we remember how we slightly missed the recitation that ended in fact, very recently, even in the capital of our ukraine, these lists are undoubtedly objects that are placed on the balance sheet, if we are talking about memorial plaques, monuments , memorial signs, if we are talking about the street, then these lists in the queue began to be formed well, for ukraine as a whole, this is june july of last year, and i want to note that many cities have already undergone this de-imperialization , a process that today counts as colonization . well, for example, in kyiv, in our capital , more than 300 objects have already been renamed i mean the boulevard, the walking street, and in principle

, according to this law, about a hundred more new objects will be added. other well, our data was renamed to kramatorsk, a not so big city there, but 300 streets were demolished , so you understand, that is, here you can have a reserve of this soviet totalitarian symbolism because of the name, because of the monuments and of course, the further east on the territory of ukraine, the more processes decommunization and durifification took place much more slowly, and it is clear that the further west in ukraine, the more you can really be surprised there , dudayeva street, korolya danyla street , well, that is, such processes took place in heterogeneous waves , and it is safe that today we are talking about the fact that kyiv demonstrates a sufficiently good position and as a goal of the expert commission about changing the names of the street network in kyiv, i will say that, well, there is an understanding of the deputy corps everywhere. if earlier we managed to rename 10-15

streets in kyiv with activists that already had such names, well, not at all the names are, let's say, occupying. literally, in this year of work, less than a year of work , our commission planned more than 300 streets. and although i noted here that everything always depends on the representatives of the authorities on the ground, if they have a desire, then it is there. i will remind you that seven years ago for example, we did not want to rename the street mykola mikhnovsky , for example, friendship of peoples, and it is a boulevard, and we did not want to just do the opposite. well, if we also say that we only renamed moskovskiy street in september, that is why these processes always depend on taking place today the public has a very good time, this is the window when you can reject all these means of psychological influence on people across the street with foreign heroes, that is, today we are talking about changing the markers of the russian stupid biological identity in general

, which are just scattered streets, well, think for yourself now, eh the occupiers go with the eastern territories, they went to the south in that year to the east to go deeper and that they walk through the streets of all the possible there, chapayev , harsh, agarin, smagarin, kapustyatin, and maybe smerdyak, and they feel like at home, because on these streets. this is kamyansk for some. yes, what for some in our city ? the same streets, the same monuments to lenin. okay , in the courtyards, how did they later restore these monuments in melitopol, berdyansk? well, you know, these are paintings. bossheyno nima bosk, who depicted this vividly, and now the orphan mother is just like at home. well, except that the toilets about those are sent home eh, even more acutely , i will ask a little question to the shchors monument, in your

opinion, all because the story drags on long enough for a long time with such an annotation, so that this monument has historical, that is, cultural value, because it is a work of certain art, and in relation to stolypin's grave, if possible, which is still in the lavra, and they carry roses there, they always lie there, or carnations i just know, i would like everyone who is talking about the shchors monument and talking about culture to go to the city of izyum slava to see what they have done to the cultural monuments and the occupiers, so that they can see what kharkiv is like that they saw when the houses were being destroyed at the end of august 19, 19th century and then the question

of what will it fall away will fall away because there are no occupiers of any culture. nalosypkami cars more than our old dubshchyna and i don't know who this monument is, the monument to the occupier, where is the artistic value in kona , i'm sorry. it is not culture do you understand. this horse is so good, kravchuk was made with shchors, what's next, well, this is actually bullying in this monument of culture, less than the aggression of the russian federation through this same monument, a monument that carries a narrative that carries a mental mental murder for ukraine and stolypin stolypin is a great hero of the russian era , russians have questions about him

, we have a lot of questions because we know what stolypin's reforms are when people were simply taken and resettled what putin is doing today when he resettles our ukrainians somewhere in the settlement the settlement of wrangel and 9,000 km away, the parking lot is buried. there is really only one thing. you know, let’s not be tsarist, because in the days of the union of seville, the slab of this grave was simply tightened and that’s it, the issue is still closed from somewhere now , the democratization of society sometimes leads to certain chaos. he was buried, well, they buried him in the cemetery, if it was true that he was killed in kyiv, eh, i don’t know why this statesman, whom everyone brags about, was killed and killed, but eh, it’s indisputable, because for what, respectively, well, we didn’t bury him, did we? the barbarians reburied him on a grave or in a cemetery in his place. and every person who will consider this orthodox to be an approach to the temple is all the more so. i will say that now these are national

reserves. there is nothing to do. collected more than 25,000 in relation to renaming the russian federation to moscow. you also commented on this issue, but in these two months or these two months, did the discussion of this issue change because well, in fact, then the president instructed the prime minister to investigate in detail whether it is possible to do it according to certain international norms and whether we can do it within the state so that it is not the russian federation but muscovy to what extent during this time we know more or you know more about this issue is it possible and is it necessary in your opinion first of all, no one has informed me whether populists