hi there this is arts international broadcasting live from moscow around the world is just past midday now this is the in the 28th of june my name's kevin and dollars by the by because coming up big news about know for the next hour to help you enjoy it by phone by text by e-mail and our russians nationwide have been submitting their very many questions to demon opponents in prison your question answer session live to russia beyond on this channel as well the it's the time for the public basically to quiz the president directly on what matters to them and the marathon session is about to get going we're going to be taking you there live in a 2nd this tradition started back in 2001 we'll take you there next.

so as i said this tradition started back in 2001 since then he had so many questions about everything from what a small village may be in the north of russia was concentrated on. what a big public issue may be in moscow he covers all this 1500000 questions were put forward in the last month they get whittled showed us it's been longest it's been over 5 hours that he's been fielding questions the public have been listening in we've got translations for you on both sides of those questions of what president clinton has to say we're going to cover all of them we'll bring you the salient points we think you may be interested in and get some comment on as well as mugs on the boy to another correspondent who are covering this event i think the question just started let's listen it may or may not be a great importance this one will gauge it. but you really truly.

stenson usable his guys his mask if you live in moscow now but let's not forget it was a live. again you're seeing these pictures live like i was well obviously president putin is not even there yet and this thing that was a little bit fluid you're seeing the presenters preamble there now this event is televised by russia's channel one it takes place in an audience free studio you can see only people got money in the phones there. the direct line is broadcast by all of the main russian t.v. channels a number of radio stations as well it focuses mainly on domestic issues but you know people here really sit up and listen to hear what president putin has to say that dozens of local governments are in the wings they're expected to answer. directly to the president and say how they're going to solve people's problems the broader very publicly today no matter how big or how small covered everything from

wages to pensions to jobs all that stuff big. people's minds about where you live around the world these days and of course because the ongoing sanctions against russia that's caused a few problems that have had to be dealt with over the past couple of years but by all accounts russia is doing pretty well over 1500000 questions submitted so people can pose the questions during this was as well as a say looking back at the history books c m how you brief up on all this and more quite sure the longest was back in 2030 almost for almost 5 hours along with this question and so she went on for. covering this to try to explain to all of you is abroad that i'm watching this around the world the importance of this event it basically people have got a direct line to the president about stop say yes. well hello you are absolutely right in the sense that this event is very important because of the word people

there are 2 big you one a sessions on mystery of who needs a calendar every year which ones have one happens at the end of the year usually and this is an event for journalists however this time in june it is for the people to try and get in touch directly with the president and i can tell you that over the years this has evolved into a real t.v. show it's watched by people all across the country and this is when mr putin's deals with the issues that they're facing with the issues that the nation is facing live on air as you've said kevin the previous years the governors the regional officials the ministers have begun joining the show so to say it was like a big video conversation a conference call so to say when the president was given out orders directly after

he received these questions then he. i was also telling people all this was very interesting to watch so journalists are joking that june has become the toughest time for regional officials in russia so let me tell you what the russians are asking about you when. some of these questions already when. you went through some of this you know it can be absolutely anything from issues with a particular company when people are being delayed their wages the entire group of people who work for this or that company they can try and ask mr putin to help them deal with that or maybe you can find some sort of remote corner of the country where there's a road that's full of holes and it hasn't been repaired for years when the people in russia are desperate and they can no longer find a way to address this what they try and do is they try and send

a message to the leader through this direct line sometimes there are also suggestions they may be serious they may be somewhat weird suggestion from one russian a question from rome one russian this year was. why can't we make wednesday an official day off in this country so as you've said there are many different ways how the russians reach out to the president it is letters in britain form well that's a bit old fashioned obviously but there are also many other ways you can see who gets to scuttle these questions where in this year there are over one and a half 1000000 questions fielded in. e-mail text a letter if you like as you just said just now but who gets to whittle that down is putin get us into all of us and goes on honestly without i want to do that he told that are employed to there's a call center. people look through text that the people are sending their roles

there's also an on. law enforcement can also be done through social networks so it's an entire group of people a network and it all leads up to the russian president's administration and then some of them are chosen and some of them are combined and that's how they are directed at the president and also it is journalist's job to do that as well because there are people in that hall that that are perhaps journalists act like middlemen between the nation and the russian president but in the ear of instagram this is the format that's becoming more popular and more important over the years we're going to say how do you see the president how does it resonate with people in russia these days i mean the way people communicate change is old. is as popular as it was it is gone by you say you have a lot of questions if you feel that it people feel they've got a real connection to the general film well kevin what's important with these video

vests messages that are being recorded by the people is that even if they don't find the way on the air even. if you show the president putin's arrived. at all plenty to talk about of the next couple of hours less in these doing his formal. greeting. those people that are taking the calls fielding the messages. showing these place the podium on the steps to the other presenters and so this is. very many of the channels here in russia to give you a flavor to the big news event that's what we're doing that we hope you'll enjoy it to some of the stuff you may not find it relevant around the world but some of it is really good to listen to will to put it out now let's we've got this translated to think the preambles over but. let's enjoy for a minute it's to see what's said. is a phone call every phone call is recorded. by and raider almost

$400000.00 texts and then a mess of messages but this year russians are using a very special ask. you to ask their questions and you can even record a video called send a text message it's very simple for us to record the on the limit is you only have one limit and then you're pressed send it back to the program with us not just your message will be a pro says here. we will receive it certainly and you've got a problem in the of course there is no advantage to a radio call you can actually show what kind of problem you have like or like a road or maybe a lens of well or maybe a leaky roof. like. topical interesting question is will you really answering today another way to contact us to live

for me here you might even. go along with every call every mass. is not left on a tentative it's we process everything and when we record data and after we finish they will continue working with these calls and messages follow mr putin shall we begin warning sure. in the last few days we had several reports of how you've been preparing for the direct of the mine you have been speaking with heaps of papers and looking at your laptop so what kind of the urgent questions we have now. well i need to be aware of what's happening. i know what are the most pressing issues for people and in any case when we get prepared for the direct. we just see one of the most prominent.

right now it's no secret it's the living standards income health care. and what i just heard. landfills. garbage and recycling. and what yes we've had a lot of questions concerning these topics here's another thing. as far as i understand our national project aimed at resolving these issues. officials always talk about them but judging by the questions people don't really understand what this national project sire ballots are they're going to help to assure you of this supposed to help and thank you for this q this is what we focus on.

we're definitely our biggest focus of people but in order to. improve our economy you know to help our people we decided to stay here for the channel our experience is international projects and the ultimate goal is to transform our economy to make it a high tech one to boost labor productivity and then based on this improve living standards and provide security for russia for the long term. this is why we split all of our activities not just by the people of level of importance that we're. just in terms of subject matter in terms of how resources are distributed we work hard to do that. and we 1st we needed to identify. sources of financing for the activities. of what is the. source of

financing by the government and and the one of the ways was to increase the v.a. t. tax from 20 percent to 0 with whom we need to build infrastructure who's going to build railroads you must be more of bridges. or highways that's the job of the government. to electricity. and access to the power grid so what you can do that is with that the government. then with that we did other calculations we wanted to give a boost to certain industries and we will. but if the incomes of the people this is why we had to do that we had to rely on them had to resort to these not very popular measures. but just the overall the

government and the central bank have proved right but inflation was for 6 months it means that the central bank had to hike the key policy rate industrial production was a little bit down but we now see that the fax has faded and inflation is down just got the day. before yesterday below 5 percent. industrial output on the rise and think of it as are on the rise. for the time being but when you look at the way we planned it. there actually works. with. mr pearson so let's continue the income is falling we've all witnessed it we have so many questions sent out as i'm just going to ask you a few from different regions this is when it's live going to improve. we only have

10000 of rubbles of income this is from some why are more not towns die young people are leaving so many questions and i know that before we've been gone. we had a video call please call center the floor is yours well people are struggling they have no money to buy basic needs and assess its necessities food clothes and people struggling the most are teachers and doctors if you are a highly. good specialist from out all the she's getting a salary of $10000.00 roubles and teachers soon as the regions are getting $15000.20. and here's a video call from stanislav told he's

a fire worker. hello. mr putin. i am from. the region. please tell me when is our salary going. through right now what we get monthly is from 12213000 roubles and i am the head of my division so i am getting 16000 rubles well it's impossible to live getting this money and we have to work 23 jobs and our families are falling apart we only have 23 people on duty and you can see what is happening in our country country houses are burning forests so when is it going to change. your question on change 1000 roubles we need to look into it. for the 1st time in

history. susan bring the minimum wage but i. want it. 211000 rubles actually 11280 rubles. but. it's actually not possible to pay a person less well $10000.00 that's the basic salary and the rest of bonuses. and some people say that regional authorities made those decisions well but we need someone to look into it you know people who monitor the situation the regulators need to look into it so maybe they work just half the time flextime. talking about amber calm but. indeed the situation is not the best one you have with the officer is.

i mean. you're an officer you would say you were supposed to get $43000.00 roubles and the rest. are not officers who would get 16013000 words in the past months we've been talking with the minister of emergencies of putting it there with them that we have decided . to earmark 4300000000 rubles to raise. for the trick of the release of the workers of the emergency ministry to about 24000 rubles. just. within the next year so we've. really and. he's supposed to grow to 32 roubles. ok and the other question from the call center do we have any more calls that you yes of course. and also to do really. over. and 5000000.

and right now we have a retired person calling from moscow. that it is here we don't you know yet. we are receiving a radio call as soon as we have the question we'll get back to you ok as for declining income. which are in the last few days we've seen thousands of questions and messages so ever about people getting less money and. coming from everyone the people who consider themselves middle class or well off or even poorer this is more about perception really. they say that life has become harder when it's going to be easier. it's a pressing issue it's one of our priorities. several years ago when we

faced several shocks. not just external shocks related to the so-called sanctions all the external restrictions but again we faced action against our traditional exports natural gas hydrocarbons in general metals. fertilizers chemical products but this is why. our economy went down and people's incomes went down real because you think. the biggest drop was in 2006 on the scene. we see that income is recovering. components real disposable income and wages with well real disposal income and we have the. is. this income

is folding so you have a household because that revenue and you have household expenditure with them you have one big component that. servicing your loans. is going to school and i was going to have any money and so the central bank needs to look into these risky loans. these threshold these 40 percent of the pay of the people. or people who have to pay a lot of money into service in this did some of their also have about $100000.00 people who went out of the shadow economy and that shadow economy the peril market shrank and that also had an impact on real income it. also adds to the downward trend now let's look at wages we do have growth both the

nominal and real terms in nominal terms it was this follows in 2017 when the nominal they was 33 he said this is your 1000 and this year. it's almost sort of $44000.00 rubles with the latest. 5000. well those who are online and those who watching television and i don't want them to blame me or to get angry at me if they say that they don't have such a. i'm talking about average pay. why do we use the average figure because we have such a big divide between the industries and between regions. 2 years ago some of the.

take moscow the war in good shape of the oil industry financial sector machinery transport. these are all different sects is a level is difference but again we can't talk about each industry about each for 3 hours so we're pretty limited in time this is why the government has to deal with the average figures but these are average figures indicate a certain trend so what the trend is all about so we have 33000 roubles now is. 445000 real wages we look at growth in 2018 growth was 8.5 percent and this year 2 and in may the latest figures are 2.8 so why did we have high growth point 5 1st of all it's kind of

a rebalance it is a recovery and all the levels of the government pushed hard to comply with the may 2012 decrees and they started to add a lot of bonus sees the end of the year with the. show if we hadn't had the made 2012 degrees then it wouldn't have pushed the authorities to achieve a certain outcome that. 3rd as i said we increase the minimum wage. people in the 1st. actually aid help to 44000000 people so that's increase but the made life better for 44000000 people and again. we increased the minimum wage and that was covered about

$3700000.00 were all. will adjust military allowance for the military and this fewer. retirement benefits i'm sure we're going to have questions on pensions but i want to talk about it straight away the whoredom. retirees need to have a decent. with a decent income. and we will keep track of it this year we made an adjustment. 70.5 percent while inflation last year was. 4.3 percent. but we. were also just. state pensions and social pensions. by 2 percent. in april and starting from october we will adjust pensions for the military.

by 4.3 just minto for a military report from retirees and also just to be rich. for. the military stuff which so it will be easier right. and we mentioned national projects probably i'm. really it's not government injections into certain industries but it's not the ideal way you students boost labor productivity to transform our economy and this will be the foundation. this would pave the way for higher living standards this is the ideal way forward. is. supportive measures where do we take the money up only from the economy. mr pugh san let's move on to health care. everyone's talking about. progress there a new opening there new medical centers opening up this. some local clinics are

closing or like wallace c. well there are some questions there from. so we sent our t.v. crews here to 3 places where we've received questions. we have chill lab and screen region and smolensk region. in a small. region. has a new scheme. of regional. cancer treatment facility. i am at the maternity ward. well again as i said we are in.

the center of district of population 50000 people there are 2 hospitals for children and for our dogs and we had a complaint from a young mother here 3 and a half months ago she had a baby so certainly what's the name of your baby. well maxime is quiets farts his mother has something to say please tell us what kind of problems have you encountered after moving to moscow. well in moscow after. i 1st took my baby to the doctor we were given a list of certain procedures that we had to go through in the 1st 3 months of my baby's life so after we moved here we

realized it's actually. regardless of whether or not you make an appointment there is still alive q and the 1st time i came here i had to sit in the queue for 2 hours and there's a lot lack of specialists so they have no doctors for us to go through we go to boarding to those lists that i got so where do you go to see those doctors well we haven't we haven't gone anywhere yet so we we might go to somalia. the center of our region but it takes us to our suit get there by bus and with a little child it's very difficult to do that. situation is clear so we'd like to see it here at different points of view we came here without announcing our visit so let's go talk to the doctor.

here we have. to go with him this little window where you would get slips to see specialists but today is the day because let's ask for a little hello this is the direct line q. and a session with 2 soon we're live on air so are there any queues in front of some doctors cabinets offices what's your name. marina please tell us about the queues. well you know we make appointments by phone via go slow get platform or personally. asked for a children's surgeon for example or what day is the doctor available. you can look in you know. well.