as far as i can see after your meeting in a single poor where with mr karroubi you've agreed upon to pick up the negotiation process. on the basis of the japanese declaration of nineteen fifty six so we are preoccupied or we differ with the following things how many islands will get back to zero one two three four i don't know on the other hand. russia could not understand why show cannot understand why shall we give back our i want different people actually telling us so that we you will get not a single centimeter of power. but this is about. territorial time i question something we have to. so you know. about. what if it is only confined to. the delineation of the buddhist then with that which is going to be. reached so what do you think what idea should mommy

given. all of this you know what do we need in order to prepare our relations with the new level of quality and if you'll allow me i cannot put into question. the russian side and you and have been raising the issue of security and i referred particular to the deployment of a merry can a.b.m. system in japan. as well as the potential deployment of the american troops the military infrastructure on the islands should these islands we transferred to japan go would not the expert level we have negotiations ongoing but given the fact that this fear of defense japan is almost entirely dependent on the us do you think these issues can be addressed at the bilateral level or will you have to talk directly to the united states of america which is well. below. not forgetting what

you ended your question with. that is why i like to say that security issues are very important especially when it peace treaty is concerned if you ask about the american military infrastructure in japan it already exists there on okinawa there is a huge american military base has been there for several decades now we know that when you asked for japan's. chance to participate in these decisions it was just this sort of a like to see for us if we do not understand how sovereign japan is when such decisions are. you you must understand better than the rest of us colleagues. and i know that. the governor of. michigan is against. the decisions on reinforcing the base on expanding this military base the governor is against that but he can do nothing about that and the people who live in oregon

have a role so. you don't have to go far to find that out because that's what the. that's what people say when they take to the streets they demand that this should be should be withdrawn well at least with what they are against as the reinforcement of the component of the american forces deployed. there are plans reinforcing the bays and developing it everyone is against that and yet that is happening. what happens after a peace treaty is agreed upon we don't know we do not know but without having an answer to that question it is going to be extremely difficult for us to take any radical decisions and it certainly is what is of concern to us as they plan to deploy a.b.m. system and japan. on many occasions now and i'd like to reiterate that would not think that easy defensive on pretty good. parts of the american nuclear

strategic potential that is transferred to the periphery of these systems synchronized. contention comprehensively together with offensive systems you may have no illusions as to that and we understand that full well and yet we will seek sincerely wish to have peace treaty with japan. doing this time confident but in your music as well as. she wouldn't run in this album but the current state of affairs you know she countries is not normal the most japan and russia i were interested and fully resolving the issues that with remain in our relations you know just because we want something from japan from the point of view of them means that are going to be taken on just today we. use economic development and i say aggression can we put it in if the trip to japan

there is some progress that has been an agreement. on some of the pennies markets for russian products like. there is also progress and other avenues and there is going to be progress because that is what life compels us to do but peace treaty and the resolution of difference is what we need this is a complicated issue but we are willing to work with our colleagues to move forward with just had in years that off come a british regulator. that was modest recognize there are. responsible for violating the broadcasting rules. and i saw odds he's somewhere here maybe we'll give a chance to ask a question to them good day thank you mr task of. trying russia today but i've got a question unrelated to what com has decided first i'd like to ask you about your

recent decision on facilitating the procedure for granting russian citizenship craniums your channel has been covering this issue a lot but any particular. covering the bureaucracy. but you think that you know what is the rationale behind. the most important time and if it is just to help the ukrainian city. and the east part of the country but why do that now try to afraid that you broke course he's still going to persist the red tape. but it's only going to be different from one another question. regarding what colleagues from his base have said there is this. the assassination of. cash or g q i see. the reactions are different to these events.

have been detained within months of been another reaction there is also never asked for the financial director of her way. publicly said but she's just gone in the street war was china so you know questions have been raised as to whether we'll see a new practice in russia when foreign citizens are going to be detained under a farfetched pretext in order to exchange them for someone to issue let me start with the last part of your question i mean i would hate to comment. i mean i'm going to get in on what is happening in the u.s. china relations who detains the east room and response to what action that is a very delicate delicate feel to it and is less veiled we're not going to. look under the principles that. i'm

a rapper. as. i for a night or two three to say. yes the principle laid. but we have to act very cautiously. and then conform with the reality and say there are people who are not valid russian legislation regardless of nationality way again to help them accountable but we're not going to detain any innocent people in order to extreme. anyway as for the fate of the future of citizens when i was indifferent to that last for this and trying to make confess something i don't know what in the face is nice but she can confess she has not been acting on the any guidance. any free from the russian authorities whatever she says. because of these threads because of intimidation. and this pressure on.

the prospect of sitting for twelve years in a prison i do not know why she has been put in prison with your new foundations for that but everyone wants to. emerge from that with a reputation intact i mean in the american justice systems but of course we're not indifferent to future weight gain to monitor the police approached as far as we can that's what this cripple affair is nothing from which to comment on. has been assassination that is evident everyone has. communion with has. recognized as for scrapes well that's another matter entirely so one thing as lead. story of sanctions on the other to complete silence that these politicized were supposed to give a press that is yet another pretext in order to. yet another attack on russia if

they had been in the script then they would have come up with something else there is only one goal i see behind it and that is to constrain russia to prevent it from developing because we are seen as a rival now moving on to the next part of your question the bureaucracy the red tape involved and acquiring citizenship. while bureaucracy is eternal one cannot become madness. nor can one live without. but even the price of emotional about it is this some have to be said but in your forces we know certain procedures for decision making as for granting the russian citizenship this just doesn't have to do with what is happening in the east of ukraine when all you're just doing it would be for those people who live in those territories if we do that in every way facilitate the procedure now the government is preparing the amendments to the law

on citizenship and the acquisition of citizenship now tell your wife it has been done to me it is being done in order to demonstrate to everyone that we do not seek nor are we going to support of. a. splitting separating the russian people from the ukrainian people is that what you are. creating authorities doing what are they trying to achieve using this research for a few of them and they say that almost publicly they trying to do these people's partially russian people in the ukrainian people feel that is what they seek to do and that is why everything is forgiven to them. they are calling from the ukrainian media. has mentioned tribulations school the people of dunbar certainly who hands squidge and are going through the level of life is very

low but what about the rest of ukraine who the standard of life as almost. as and they don't buy. it is getting worse at the hostilities and they have these tensions everything is forgiven to the authorities within the country and without russia because they get money for that again to get yet another tranche from li i.m.f. or another. optimal bulk of money but this is only going. be enough to pay the pensions and other social benefits and it's the future generations will have to pay for this but in the hell the situation there is not that good an economic sphere in the social sphere. but east internal politics our two peoples are very close we have historical roots going deep i may going to do everything in order to support this. right now the amendments being repaired

and to this isn't shape law and these amendments are going to be very. early next year maybe regional media i see the castle newspaper very small. you visit some of them could you speak a little bit louder please mr president i'm from here cass here newspaper and i would like to raise the issue of the present regional elections. secret and that in several regions the elections have been very emotional very tense sometimes they just taken a lot to. complete the elections and. they have only ever now cast it into two months to. actually after this is protest opposition charges arrived and our castle where we've got

a counted from the communist party and carried by. agents from village pro-democratic. and that begs the question is the floor why do you think this is happening. but you. and secondly. this is why this season to me just by the tradition that you previously have you have not yet met with the needy leaders and how. do you build relations with the regions where opposite. touches have arrived in power there is a fear that the federal centers gain to deprive these regions from financing so and so forth please do not worry about that because it's very strange that this question arises at all as for the meeting. you station elections and live also have just been completed and that is why the meetings have not yet happened i think they

are already scheduled next week we're going to have a session of the state council and i have given these struction to the administration there's going to be a separate meeting with the newly elected. regions the the territories that you have mentioned in particular we had to wait for the outcome of the election in a flood event that's the first thing secondly this is not the first time when we see opposition party candidates arrive in power during the you know that. the liberal democratic party candidate is the head of smolensk region and i think there is an opposition party in other regions that are right communists in power and they are working very well you know i was a member of any party are you was one of the founders of united russia party but nobody apart from this country what matters most and told me is that. the people. should feel it's a life changing for the country once the decided to support posts

of yours always a lot of representing a lot of russia policy it's up to them to decide and i will help any of elected heads of regional support if you notice them but the point is that. this person elected should be up to the toss can be able to deliver on his electoral pledges to people. ok gluts continued ria novosti the wall for. yes tosca question. was to muse why a good day i have a poster representing mushroomed and bad. as my colleagues have said for a number of years what. a great deal of sanctions. we get confused and sometimes even. protagonists are subject to sanctions they want to impose

strict sanctions like the american law makers are getting ready for that russia. brace. brace brace itself for the new round of sanctions and because the government has a plan to minimize the. effects for the economy and what may the after effects be a bit and oh well we mentioned these sanctions on many occasions if you want to repeat that ok in the course of our history with the russian federation russia has lived with restrictions and sanctions throughout all our history let's go back to the nineteenth century in the twelve century it's all the same. just leave through the diplomatic correspondent of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it's all the same diplomats. called to bring caucasus

toward that why so. i said that before and i hope you understand most of you understand it is because of. the power of the russian federation it has been rising the competitiveness is on the rise there is a new take it to be reckoned with many people many people many parties don't want that. it seemed a while ago that this country was. a mood. existence but you know we do have the population of one hundred sixty million people and we have been upholding the interests of all people. with reserve and restraint with common peace with you look at what you did and we will keep doing that and the screwball case was cited. on the other g. once again. it has no sense just additional measures to contain the russian

federation our economy. always pick them up when you seem a very has been adjusting itself into these new restrictions i mentioned at the outset of today's press conference that it will create is that but after the. global downturn our g.d.p. fell off it was by seven point eight percent as reported reasonable without any sanctions and while after the sanctions were imposed and twenty. two point five percent totally silly you asked me how we assess the office effects. all war. no the assessment from italy for from our own perspective. that. it is one thing but let's look at how the poem is about was assessed the sanctions like the way the treasury department or the s. believes that these two point five percent fall in twenty fifteen is related only

by one third to sanctions and the two thirds is because of this fall is because of the slump in the of the prices i think the share of sanctions is less than bombs. and. that backfires on those who impose the sanctions like. you call them a lot of five hundred billion euro as a result of these sanctions imposed. and they have not been able to supply as many goods and items as before and they have not been able to import as many things as before and the number of jobs has waned which is quite sensitive all of them in many european countries the unemployment rates are like in spain. at around fifteen percent. here we have in this country at four point eight in spain they have a fifteen percent unemployment in the global trade with from the development really

you know that went down by fourteen something billion dollars. it's also it off to the predictable on the sanctions. and it's detrimental to everybody always been adopting you into that north it has adjusted itself to sanctions despite some negative. but the. most. definitely some of the positive things like we have started. thinking and using our own no mushrooms and and using our own resources there with that with it but its share of our own domestic. manufacturing industries into seventy percent or seventy five percent for some of the groups over the coals and. you start a technical devices last year and lease here we spend six hundred million rubles on

import substitution. and the federal budget shows one hundred twenty five billion really last very great cultural sector has benefits. and i'm with unfortunately there was a short term price hike in them. inside this country but the prices have stabilized and the agriculture has leapt forward a lot no one could think of that in the past. the. cultural experts who. increased sixteen times in the past years and so the russian robotics and some of the same time they would like the global economy to develop. without any shocks or legitimate traction or external. constraints for the benefit of the global economy ok this time this and this flank original the original media chalabi risk ok but you know i see. i see the k.g.b.

and children today is the twentieth of december which is the cage we used to be we are watching the annual q. and a session with russian president vladimir putin on the media where we're well into the second hour in our home the range of questions have been posed to the russian president everything from domestic affairs to topics in the international sphere some more intriguing than others our correspondents have been keeping across all the latest so don't worry if you've missed anything we're going to bring you up to speed of our galaxy of joins us live now from central moscow you've been listening and mirage bring us up to speed on some of their major point so far what we're just an hour and twenty odd minutes in but there have been questions and all sorts of things on the economy on social problems on foreign policy on conflict and war as is tradition in these last few years we've had ukrainian journalist

present among the record number of journalists there one thousand seven hundred journalists packed the one thing to ask. their questions and the ukrainians again as is tradition a very anti putin zealously nationalist with questions to match who. tried to do i just wanted to ask you how much money do you spend on done by people are starving there. and they've turned into slaves of russia frankly speaking as a way to be sure where you mean i'm going to puzzles the door and they will just tell me this who set the blockade between don bass and the rest of ukraine was it russia know it was done by ukrainian authorities they haven't forced a full economic blockade of the territory that they consider their own they shoot at those people whom they consider their own citizens almost every day civilians

die there and we provide humanitarian support to those living. not to let those people starve to death. the other interesting question was about nukes about. nuclear war to me a putin replied that there is there is this danger and it is growing greater the global security system is falling apart when a neutral mutually assured destruction balance balance between various nations various powers is going it is gone and we're entering now a new global arms race. the us is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it is hard to imagine the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security with some concrete steps and let them know that we are trying to get an advantage we're not

trying to get an advantage merely to secure the balance to ensure our security and . there's another just now interesting question about sanctions like the mayor putin was asked about that about you know where things are going and he said he said an interesting thing that russia has always throughout its history lived under sanctions or there variants whenever it gets powerful whenever it starts to develop other nations rivals competitors is less than friendly nations always try to contain it to constrain it using any excuse me a putin here mention the script. poisoning incident he said if it hadn't been that it would have been another reason any sort of reason to justify sanctioning russia to justify punishing it's looking to contain and constrain it but he said russia's

always survive and russia will survive this time we're adapting which changes are coming more efficient to live. the new conditions these punishing sergeants nevertheless there's plenty more to go just to remind you lied to me. longest q. and a session with journalists was five hours and you know plenty more ahead and i'm sure they'll be interesting to you moron thank you for bringing it as the main takeaway so far as you said you could be there all alone a while longer maybe a couple of hours longer but thank you for bringing us the latest for now and will be back with you throughout the day let's go to our guests now pm on your time on an expert in geopolitics service to month for joining us on the program president putin so far hasn't minced his words on commenting on some of these quite challenging topics he's been presented this year there was a question about the recent coach incidents and whether it was a successful provocation by ukraine i believe that question came from

a ukrainian journalist two how do you think the president handled that war. first of all or i think your vis interview is very impressive because it touches to mattick from the national economy of russia to world security and it reminds us but russia is as a center of the geopolitical game up in the world when you look at him up russia which is part of europe but also part of asia and because of the central position in eurasia touch easily all the security problems sun conflicts and russia is obliged to secure its borders and to be implicated in order to mattick geo economic and geopolitical problems of the world there is no escape from it and regarding it was security situation we are

no we're in a new paradigm mind the world of global geopolitical competition where the united states as these are. targeted to russia and china as the geopolitical. completely toss and the software is a risk of escalation. we are witnessing now. see of russia trying to stop the lies of a situation and b you look at them up when you actually have a difference between the united states on russia is very important russia actually protects its own territory and try to balance. the poor he sees of nato and united states all around eurasia because v.

object of the united states that that would. to incite her to eurasia and to frogman eurasia in order to russia and china doesn't become too powerful enough and tool to still be. the first power or a global leader and this is why you russia tries to. talk to the every party see of for preventing a vicious and psycho raiment of eurasia and and trying to balance your offensive posture of united system nato for example of this is very united states who with who first the rift from the a.b.m. treaty that treaty in two thousand and one and then the i.n.f. treaty saw a vision.