i was free there as well although the us is quite strict. on legacy from the big food. anyway there is an editorial policy and undoubtedly this policy is subject to discussion but this is not a matter of freedom because making television and. being creative. are being going to dangerous places taking risks is something that only free people are capable of. i believe that a degree of freedom all name one can judge what would be. without any freedom at all we wouldn't have the t.v. we have today who what about you wouldn't you are going to well i believe that. freedom is restricted on t.v. or television. it's on the restricted by law it's restricted by

concepts of morality and worth you're restricted by the way we cooperate with authorities. and public structures. from by our own subjectivists are not only heads of the channel mugs the number of people who make television i understand why the questions these questions are asked in but. a television that's not limited by detention if you think they do censorship i think in that sense modern russian t.v. is equally free as the televisions of other democratic countries. i think the degree of freedom always cars constitute the historical period that a country is going through. the spirit of the time. will i believe that. you stood out the moment when you were going through possibly the freest periods in the

history of our television i have something to compare to i worked and saw that i worked on t.v. and in one thousand. state television companies let me tell you both about a certain example. and if you leave your dignity. in sudan over wasn't able to wasn't allowed on t.v. for years. earlier periods i'm not talking about small politics politicians. many cultural borchers outstanding people were banned from doing the most liberal times. say the writer solzhenitsyn or his wife because with i'm not trying to say anything bad about the ninety's as compared to now because the authority was like. an olive branch the wind was strong it was possible to own away entirely what we have to

face up to the truth and he talked about. there are two key points i think you are the first aspect is the people of georgia this is who provides humor and information from hot spots from skin valley to baghdad globally to the to me and the other aspect is defeat among all the viewer this is quite important to me when all of us use the channel your news was brought in from russia ten years ago russia twenty four year old they like to directly left channels and we're going to have twenty more channels and several years as you said this gives us a telling the degree of freedom he has so like i said it will be the level of freedom corresponds to the spirit of the time and for our times i believe the usual . well we all read newspapers and we've all heard what will save t.v.

i consider some of these. well a bit snobbish with me who do so because it's hard work. and sometimes i feel hurt for the people. who do this work who take risks. well now that i have provoked such a discussion among you i'd like to see a few words myself well i believe of course all of you are right and at the same time these are your personal positions and each person has he's own understanding of freedom recently i spoke in st petersburg and said. we can consider ourselves a developed democracy if every person can say that he or she is free or if we have people who think they're not free we can out with one couple and speak well of far with political achievements. freedom is really a subjective thing but at the same time. there are some objective laws

there are so. laws and they work everywhere not just in russia and you're right about that but what we shouldn't have is seeing of gap flamingo between the us so to say russian a list of important events that happened in real life and the list of vents that will we see on the air and you can have different opinions about that some people say that and we kill leaks is the number of want to vent and to some the most important thing is icicles through it and for some the new start treaty is the most important needs up to the channels to decide what is more important what is less important sometimes i hear people say why didn't they report this news right away it's a matter of tauriel policy what you think its right to do but in the last steal

the list of the most important news say in the one would be that unlike you should not be in the middle radically different from what we read on the internet in the other media that he was but right now this is the situation this is what happens today so all right we can now go back to our regular procedure if you ask and i answered will go to the right so a conversation doesn't have a gap a question about defense minister sergei called in to the us he was like you just scared humor right now i think. a lot has been done this year to refurbish the army but of lucian spends over one point five one hundred fifty percent of last year's amount and this cuts. some things that since the

full account understand that things can ask whether the ministry is asking well acting strange like they stopped accepting new students and city and military education facilities are common. you know i'll make some serious come and make a serious come to baghdad i think the ministry for does a lot of work like any other ministry they make mistakes sometimes but in general on the whole i'm very i'm pursuing the policy because it was provided by the supreme commander in chief that is myself and my task my goal is to you have an effective orany our army is still this is a soviet type army from the from the bill to the grid extent and i'm not saying anything bad about the soviet army but the time has changed and we need to reduce the number of soldiers the number of officers and already clearly increase the level of salaries move any army because that would essentially.

will not have a lot of celery that is really comparable to those in the developed countries with developed economies with ella tennant will soon receive fifty thousand rubles a month but the union and unit commanders will receive one hundred fifty thousand rubles one hundred eighty thousand rubles. this is comparable to what officers make in the most developed countries now are. plenty of housing. frankly speaking we never had dealt with these problem in the past officer. it's had a good series i remember when i was a college student i thought if we could somebody said above well you could maybe you should join your army and you'll have to run in fifty rubles because yes salary was good but what about the living conditions what about housing you're doing the

work of me you will never have your own place. is that i'm couple who we are and have now built with almost one hundred thousand abortions for our officers before that and. we will provide housing and yet for all our officers karen klee in the army but of course this is a difficult process because we're reducing the number is that we'll have less units we want to make them more effective life and that was because of the ability we want our army to be effective by. which we think that's why you can we have this pause and in military cademy is what we produce too many officers in our military schools colleges and again to me is and eventually they would be on employed order of a usual routine they would just spend time for the for nothing and then let you know they were released from the army will eventually recently had

a meeting with military officers. and they said we were. frankly room we only kept those who are really prepared for plan and those who were just there by accident they all got three least but we all have benefits they all have portman's with the gets retraining programs that's why we need this pause two years . will produce no new officers and next two years dan would after that we will start with the next step to the new cat it's in military academy but with on the number it will be last let's just based on how many officers we need for our army and what kind of army we need to consider guard population or territory we can the mentioned wiki leaks international sell a vision press made wiki leaks to made to quicken the main informational brand of

the past year how do you feel about that. i don't really know what to say because something slick surprising some scared event no why should i be afraid but yes it was that it wasn't of state who needs to be afraid and even if i were afraid of what people write about me i would never go on the internet or watch television with him when he occupies such a position you have to realize that if you want with here a kind word about yourself your and really should be this way because the authorities should be objective they should work so i'm really not afraid of reading anything about myself as for consequences you know i'm not in the middle or habs for their relationship between the u.s. and other countries you can this may have an effect but for our relationship with the us this will have no effect because we know really who says or writes what about as and usually those sources are what newspapers sent television sources with

low open sources. presented in another war. words so there is nothing new about it you know i remember it something that happened during the soviet period with one sub diplomat he became an ambassador in a european cancer and he had in the audience with him on the with which he did and then when they was his turn hero to keeble the queen when you asked me about dissidents when i came out i knew i had to rebuke her. and this is about the same situation this just demonstrates how we are in how we can how we run the whole world how can we rebuke people all over the world even though it's quite obvious like i said earlier and with all there are objective laws. and. every person and believe that every person has

the right to say something if you are including diplomats bench and day was forest fires in the summer but it was really a global market a really big catastrophe we haven't had anything like this for forty years what has the authorities learned from it you know there are several lessons that we have learned first of all whatever happens you have to help people you know people are innocent people suffered from it and many lost their relatives lost their families so in this situation i believe the authorities did a lot to deal with what you want the authorities you did what perhaps other countries done to. we supplied practically all those people with new houses and the we're talking about thousands of people and frankly speaking you know these yacht new houses are much better than what they had in the past them and we also will be paid benefits so we're rebuilding schools as well then at the latics facility is

a little bit so the first lesson is we need to respond quickly lesson number two how do you respond and we have a problem with that we don't have the mechanisms that would allow was to make decisions quick enough i mean decisions concerning benefits apart from those that comes directly from the from the budget but actually throughout the world it works in a different way the with that on there with conflicts property should be insured and the whole when you can then you don't use the budget is that when you use the insurance funds and we have to consider this seriously and i stuck to the government to look at the situation and we'll consider now what to do next because we realize that getting more heat waves that will happen we can have wildfires and it'll keep your calm city get lesson number three all kinds of authorities and regional authorities local authorities should be responsible even

another one of them went out. wildfire starts far away and you should be prepared and you should have special. specialist troops. surrounding your villages your at the pretty little towns in some cases on local authorities did nothing because frankly speaking this demonstrated how weak our local authorities are in the finally in the last lesson we need to invest in equipment to provide emergencies and disasters of course our emergencies ministry is quite effective but considering that we have this kind of situations very often in our countries and abroad i'm with a look at what happened in israel recently he'd been just want to see if the people were killed and they could do nothing with the muslim you're picking. but it comes before we sent them airplanes with that you know they have very good police very

effective police but you know what they don't have the equipment to find just yesterday so we need to invest in our infrastructure for fighting disasters because russia is a big country which is well the first go be changing of course we are now preparing a new version of the code. with the list of presidents on. the drought he's dealt a c.b.r. blow to our agriculture and farmers that they just recovered perhaps at the genetic level from the college to the sation and everything the soviet union did to them and there they are against it struck with a global disaster and what will our pharmacists remain intact and the whole complex . well you know i feel terribly sorrier for our agriculture but when i worked in the government my feelings towards. every culture changed

a lot i had to deal with it which you know i'm a city boy myself but i had to deal with so i recommend to you. riba you should have this kind of experience at some point in your life you should spend some time working in the countryside so we could invest a lot of money and we created wonderful conditions for our agricultural sector we provided loans and everything and because of this heat wave we lost one third in the. harvest season for the book the bill and now we have to intervene in the n.c. just recently we added some grain and put some grain on the market we held a twenty five thousand from forms of the little billy who provided them with the billions of rubles so we did support but i still feel terribly sorry because we had a very good dynamics you know sometimes i travel in the helicopter say in belgarath region you're get really brod when you look at it from

a helicopter which because they have one form next to another of their old lean new mortar looks very cool and that we cannot we have one third of our people living in the countryside and with them so we won't lose it deal with the no but we should keep caring about them and this is not just a matter of the from the heat waves we should not relax we should not think that they can get by themselves in every country the government always monitors the situation in the rural areas which are returning to something that will definitely be remembered as something that happened two thousand and ten minutes we're going to get a lot of a little bit of regional governments have been changed. you will not believe. because you know who the boss of the president of tatarstan bush protest song. who will be there asked of region report i work for you they have resigned fifty they

have ruled their regions for four decades so i'm a girl. and i think you're emotional for the thing that cause you to host a public. resignation of moscow mayor yury luzhkov and if we discuss it now what do you think this resignation the issue of them what led to it was it his vacation. at the time when moscow was clouded both spoke or his wife's with extensive business activity now that some time has passed if you can can you tell us your perspective on scoff sacking now when you must carry his care from moscow. you know you really should do your work instead of promoting yourself and some political intrigues but

with the direct responsibility of any governor is to watch after he's region because we all love moscow everybody who lives in moscow who comes here who visits and we all know that this city has a lot of problems corruption on the spirit of corruption. even a four in ten million says city. traffic jams actually you collapse terrible situation with traffic and not just because it's the president or the prime minister when i could go on all sorts of buildings built all around the place with no plan. petition it's impossible. to get anywhere because there is no competition all dangers old bids are won by whom the show and by the people whom i can expose

who because no proved through clearing remarks if you know his or her business tell us the right to deal with bill and the most talented muscular business men and business women like the former mayor used to say but we all know how those decisions are made of actually ok so we had to put an end to all that and i hope that the new mayor will work in a different way than i would have possibly he says very effective professional he doesn't feel like a rock star he's not promoting himself no advertising himself you should really do your work and he should work. and that's that was the reason why i made this decision. or said it it wasn't will not easy for you to find new heads of regions new governments he's the new governors. the easier to go back to natural

selection again to stage regional elections and see who eats whom from the poll i agree it's always fun to watch but you don't know if with this will be a natural selection or on natural selection i'm sure for the most the problem is this you know we talked a lot about democracy not all democratic methods always work fine just like you said that sometimes public up being nice used for destructive purposes to harm national interests and sometimes democratic institutions can be used destructively implement what you would with another saw the system that we have no for appointing governors is very proper id for russia right now because russia is a complex country it's a federal different country we have. when you have an ethnic based. federation and frankly speaking we almost fell apart and let's be frank about it and sometimes because of the selfishness of regional authorities i don't want to

mention any names you'll know what i'm referring to you did a movie once i said maybe in a hundred years maybe it will change then well maybe not hundred years but only for right now and we'll should have the centralized government to review when everybody is in this chain of command the president to rejoin the leaders of course within the municipal self-government is something different but it still should be included in the system that's the reason that in my experience of working as president i change one third of all governors and i think that's ok that's objective we should have new people coming in the house and we have a lot of good talented people in each governor should realize that they have to give or for three terms of the most muscle to demonstrate on which they can really

help people they can really change them. there are living standards and people should relist they get out and occupy the same position endlessly at some point they should take some rest and. let somebody else work and you should consider what people think about you the fact that we governors are now and pointed this not mean that people governess should forget about people they should be going to talk to people and when the decision is made to keep a governor or to dismiss a governor and who i'd like to mention once again that i made fire some governors in the future and nobody should be coupled with the quick dilution bout this this will really work is so if the governor doesn't talk to people this will affect his popularity rating and this will be considered when making a decision if a governor has

a low popularity rating or negative but then with him out of popularity rating he will not be reprinted so this isn't works it's not perfect i'm staying on but it works and the party helps in this matter in offers new people you can't it was. a balls it was. a no no pause. to ask you here. a bud here and there how you feel to japan's reaction to your visit to the carolina lintz when you thought what about me or you and i didn't have a reaction nothing changed with me no more. but it is the japanese who got very tense about it when they recalled their ambassador and well i'm very sorry that it is possible but i actually. caused leave his political career to stop for a time i don't know what he's going to do next but this was not our purpose. i would like to remind you that all the curial and some of our russian territory. and

the president can visit them with the fact that no other president and not has visited them in the past it's just because they're remote but we need to provide them with decent living conditions for people living there i promise. and i sent you all of there he went there and met with people again people but this doesn't mean that we're not willing to work with their japanese colleagues we can implement some joint economic projects and we're ready to consider some historic facts concerning your allowance we are ready to work with them. that doesn't mean that we should abandon the crew and send forth with them as our land in our partners should realize that will so why was their reaction so strong to the knees of maybe get upset about. falling in love with a sushi and sucking and

a big geishas maybe they decided to quit well the fact that the japanese culture is very popular in russia and colluding japanese q zeen japanese poetry i think our japanese friends should the rejoice over that they become popular and they because of this generates extra profits for them i think the really need to change their mindset in how they view russia in the q reliable and since the specifically what brings you closer is joint economic projects so we could consider creating a common economic zone a free trade zone everybody will be making money there they'll have special microclimate there there will be people working there japanese citizens working there visiting historical places and were making their peace i think is the right way and this is what i told my colleague in the japanese prime minister of kano when i invited him to the russian federation where i mean you know if you listen to it if your memory is selective and people rarely remembered who. what what some

events looked like this and sounded like but i know there's one event that i'll remember that happened this year by the way it sounded and we really were looked like an earlier one of them were through with argue and it's taken crash of the. airplane you're suppose champlain to smolensk how how did you respond to it you will get here at this was a difficult day i was in st petersburg this was saturday. but i had some plans to have some rest. look in the bush and in the morning my aide came to me and told me about this incident of course i was shocked think that could happen with you every time with hear news like that you're shocked and you feel sorry for people who were killed here in addition to the fact that many people were killed and this was the entire political elite in all that the whole and before and

in this place again it's just a mystical i could not deliver any meaning but of course this was true with little and then after that we had in the flow difficult period with poland are. they really shoes were complex but now it's has become better and i have made an official visit to poland and we had a lot of talk of course we have to complete this investigation without borders sizing it without blame each other we should listen to all the opinions and will make some conclusions and conclusions should be made by international institutions and our investigators in europe and how did you feel about the polish prime minister don't saying the commission's investigations results for unacceptable. you know i still hope that emotions so.