that these sanctions are only aimed at the domestic audience it's just a trick before the elections to show that pressure is being put on russia but now the measures are in place and russia finds itself in a position a very tricky one that technically it doesn't have the capabilities to finish the pipeline project so what does that say about how much moscow is able to come up with a plan b. plan c. etc well there was there was already extensive comments there that were coming from president bush who missed the course of a mutual friend in jail and what i would like to attract your attention to is the problem of the. sanctions coming from the united states and its you know big problem for the water as a whole it's being named as a problem not only from own slaves but already from the europeans say it just recently for example we had to go into

a commission was friends who were discussing was brutally murdered the amused when the me and france and friends of friends. and he was telling me he was telling this publicly that these type of action from the united states. and acceptable so maybe that we should talk more about that story which is you know supporting the overall global situation and you know will that be global that was this here we can see in store 9 and this is one of the reasons one of the key deals behind that is that you know you know little actions which are hitting the global trade. and in this particular case are you saying that russia does have let's put it this way friends in europe that can become in some way mediators or those who can send a message across the atlantic for them to a lot of measures were already by the way or european friends of the united states in the recent months so there is nothing to it so once again it is december 29th

being and economic punishment against russia is back in the headlines so this time around what is the biggest threat for the russian economy is it once again sanctions or uncertainty or volatility in the commodity market what can you say well of course there is a number of negative trends that are coming from the global economy would change impacting russian economy as i've said this year is the weakest here in terms of economic growth seen stolen that is of course impacting the peace of god also for our exports in real terms in the in the terms of those who are being hit by the lower commodity prices some on the different come what is starting from oil metals call and so on so force of course this impacts those fish and the good thing is that because of the introduction of school rule for inflation targeting flexible exchange rate we're much more protected from the civil liberties you but of course

with this having a negative impact on the us mr rushton let me bring up something else the trade agreement between washington and beijing how much of a sigh of relief is it really for russia and the rest of the world but of course if it were just a little bit and they could see if. trends that we during the whole year you can see it once again in commodity prices there is more chance global trade will show where the performance going forward but clearly when the naming the. deal is important because what we believe in that the problems with him united states and shane that are very long term in the church so we see more conflicts not only in 28 here but they can happen in many other areas within the next several years maybe the next year especially the 1st gulf war with movie. we should be of course positive for the global economy and for russia as the particle of the global

economy but once again this is more a longer term story and we see more disputes coming from those 2 countries and impacting the global story in the coming years can we talk about a long term story when we do realize that once again we are coming into the new election cycle in the us well of course the elections they are forcing the kind of the means 3 ssion to find solutions in different ages because what kind of the mutation of one sees economy to continue to grow what can the station once the stock market you know will that. place tweeting about the new highs that we can see on the u.s. market of course he wants this trend to continue it will into the next year so different that this will be good to reminding the parties in different areas of actions over the years administration and of course on the other side the congress

which is controlled by the democratic party will be using all the parties to spoil the game because you know they're competing they will be competing meet mr trump in the elections in november of next year so they still fighting forces will get their mind how the u.s. will be actually and yes one of the 2 largest to call them is global with those this will be impacting the overall picture in the global economy sharp. let me bring up the loan that russia received earlier this month the $500000000.00 loan for. the beijing bad based asian infrastructure investment bank what kind of signal is that and why is russia getting this low will this is this loan is thought to be links to infrastructure projects that are being released. in russia you know will the number 3 shareholder in the. bank for infrastructure development so

it means that we are playing is all other in the bank you know the story of developing the infrastructure will that there is little free sources local for the vestments infrastructure globally and this bank was created to try to at least get the closed up so we're working with the bank it's a normal project for the bank it's the 1st deal in the russian so you know part of the global story here but if we take. in particular we do remember that during the russia africa summit billions of dollars worth of debt have been written off for african countries and here we have a sum of $500000000.00 so what is this just a matter of prestige a matter of testing well as it will be a deal in the least and so we are working so this is the deal that is using this over embellish it but we will be working with company

a slave question of always other companies to find more. interesting story to finance them with the finding coming from the asian bank who put in for structure development so once again it's only the beginning of the long term work to finance more infrastructure projects than rush the many trips that you completed in 2019 we saw you together with president vladimir putin in different corners of the world in terms of the fruits that russia could bear from all these trips and we talk specifically. of what you were in charge which ones were the most important ones and what did you take away from them will each trip is very important because you know that plague of said russia has picked a few though russia is the part of the global economy so joint projects was different and countries across the globe. explained trade trade in goods

trade and services investments trying to get a little trickle approach and so in every country we can find what is russia can do together with that country and of course among the most important i would say the brics i mean that the recently happened in brazil the receipt through them to arab emirates the visits to china so you know japan all major markets are definitely important and you know having proper discussion of the economic agenda is the way the war but the success of the russian economy when we take breaks and the shanghai cooperation organization we know that russia's taken over in terms of hosting the summits. what will russia bring in this time around if we take cooperation with these groups well in the breaks for example next year we will have a break cement happening in sync because

a book in the middle of summer and we will be proposing we have already proposed to have a new economic strategy for the next 5 years we were conducting this same story 5 years ago in this summit that was happening in russia 5 years ago so we want to do you know the 6 of them instead the general do of course that is the full support of all the brakes. on the global trade situation on the joint development of the project so we want to highlight those areas and. even . more work but it was what was already achieved. in the last 5 year cycle for example one of the stories that was achieved so of course creating all the bricks development being that this already finding the project soul goes the brics countries including russia so those instruments that are created during the bust cycle they all radio so we need to make

a step forward so this is what will be discussed as a book to highlight those areas and you know push them to bring. results. larger. and. my limbs drome are going. to die in prison by the expiration love my life. case to grab some media attention. and a 16 year old's 16th birthday party. so i think the police tell a lot of pressure to. close the case.

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mr rushton let me stick to integration but a very different one between russia and belarus and can you please help explain our western audience mainly because they don't know much about it what is going on why do high profile officials from both countries meet so often right now what's going on in general will the goal of all questions is pretty simple they want to have to so in the countries in the one single market with them so what we're discussing we have indeed in the some quarters so what extensive work in the lazing the difference in approach is from different markets different regulation so we were

highlighting what can be changed what can be adjusted and actually the stories that we're trying to take the best from the belorussian experience they are trying to take best promote experience through these discussions that through these you know grecian of single market to become stronger together and. stronger each country on its own does the west have to watch out for anything that's going on between moscow and minsk there's not discussions again some someone this is the this is discussion helping. us to become stronger so there's nothing to be afraid of here now moving on from to europe we keep coming back to a comment by yourself when you bring up that you were an ace aunts in terms of how russia is again trying to get along with europe and vice versa this year how far

have we gotten we'll as you may see that in this year with sore more extensive contacts between russia and europe not to me on the business 8 which was at the high level of this is becoming even stronger but those on the political level there is one this thing with europeans say the problems that were brought. externally to europe from the united states with the same story now with the trade wars and so on so force so having more closer contact having discussions finding joint solutions we're much more close to that ping was where we were standing a year ago. we understand after the elections in the u.k. that brights it will finally happen. you never know but at least as boris johnson put it said he's got to go and he was already pushing you know some of the broken so. just offer you the seat in the chair reliques in the which.

so have you been watching has russia been watching does this send any message to moscow are you looking for have no other problems the mystic believe in you know or international clinic relations which were considered way to go in trying to find solutions and is a very good story you know already it kind of you know serial which lists for rebels so we just wishing you know just checking the headlines which what has happened these things on their own so that's that's that's about it let me bring up what's going on with the world trade organization we learned that the w t o appellate body stopped functioning what's going on with the reforms there and also how will trade disputes the result from now on well 1st of all 'd what i would like to lay that is a very important institute for the global economy and actually for russia because.

being part of that will be to help russia to access a lot of markets. on the producer of mine terms it helps us to protect our rights global you know you witnessed weaning one by another because that we're hitting the w 2 and. the point of course which is very important that russia is now playing one of the important roles in terms of theatre of mining coal the global trade systems will be breaking for the years to come the problem that you've mentioned was a playboy you of course you know it's a way big problem for functioning of the deborah to organization the position that is being taken by the united states in my opinion is definitely in the proper rate expose the overall situation so it means that within the next at least one year i believe what exactly are you talking about just because they are blocking. the

actually the decisions that they're made in the. heading as the direct result of the book working not functioning played by the way and you know having a body is the crucial part of the process of settlement within the charities ation and of course this doesn't help us because this doesn't help because you know that once again. we see all those problems because you know finding solutions in the disputes but taking years and this is also not acceptable we should change precede us you know too fast from them and so on so forth but you know blocking it doesn't help build the whole picture and once again we were discussing already today the problems that we're facing with the global trade was the global economy and one of the one of the reasons behind it it's. not functioning properly. so is it going to resemble brags it anyhow pace will of the w t

o to some extent it's the same story but like with bricks it here we're trying to play a more important role we are trying to help to find this solution which will be you definitely not easy but you know pushing towards a solution of this so it will be working on needing next year let's move on. what's happening in russia we've seen an inflation slowdown interest rates are steadily being cut last year you promise me that the ruble will get stronger and it is getting stronger in detail how much more room for optimism is still there well i wouldn't say that such as thing seen ruble is an optimism because because it's a sign of the weak you money in the domestic economy along with the way low inflation brings that we're witnessing. because you know. the ruble is a very good when it comes from the growing productivity of fast growing

productivity but when it comes from the weak demand it shows that we achieving results weaker that we can achieve just simply having a strong argument here them if you could so. let's say their bank like you've mentioned is already cutting rates this will be eventually translating in some voices to. the. i hope so the government is also working with some solutions to help the. next year so taking together all those measures should allow us to get back to the. 4 percent targets on the inflation say it strong to month stronger girls you know most people will. the world bank kids predicting a 1.6 percent of g.d.p. growth for russia next year does that tie with the expectations that you have when we have the forecast of $1.00 so all the market expects softly in the same girls figures because there are some. that might bring these if you get

a lower and little bit trying to do was to have a few good strong for them. but it's always happening like that how much are you satisfied with your old predictions that you once came up with for 2019 well you should tell me because it's not me who should lead the way how we're forecasting but you know the good thing is that the forecasts for example in goals that we've published a belief in the august of next year we were changing and throughout the year there were criticisms that it's too high and it was too little when so and so forth during the whole year the critics who own the bulls say it's but eventually we're getting to the figures we should close to what we're forecasting with the good sign that we have a propane this painting of what is happening within the quantum indeed this year there have been good signs in many aspects but let me just talk about how much foreign investors should be keen to invest in this country because there were bad

signs a well including the well known calvary case what about the investment climate and investment figures this year india is growing you know will this $36.00 but like always telling you in the asking that question that for us it's more important not the quantity of doing flow but quality of hitting the floor and some of the cases might be not to be. coming to russia's economy but when you technology or human jail approaches so that. he's of much more importance competing with just simple money we've just discussed strengthening so it means that if somebody is throwing balance of payments which we are facing these here and. payments we do not need to cover a new gaps on the balance of payments say so it means in terms of. having acknowledges smith in jail approaches all these stuff it's much more important than

just simply having a stronger employ in terms of quantity over the flows. but like i've said this here we're getting more if india is the total sum was increasing but i would just pay less attention on that and more attention on the quality sorry but just to finish up my question has russia a better place to invest this year will the legit stand yes we are not getting the final figures and that also for investment activity but we expect that it will be a multi-year high and that was up in the basement to g.d.p. ratio in russia if you look at the ratings. you will find that russia is steadily progressing in the. global business of doing business by the world and so on so forth of course that has a lot of problems you know a number of big reforms that are underway these days for example the forms supervisory and the getting which is getting the regulations all that are good

lucian's that we still have and so on so course we're trying to do. you know a lot of stuff which will be making the environment even better mr ashton we know that you are a keen sports fan given all the latest headlines that have to do with the russian sport in the recent past how much are you worried about russian athletes will you know will that the you know active life time that. the heading on the global scene is way short so having such as toys of course make it painful for you to particular person because you know that cleaning car at getting your childhood so you can your use here is and then you have to wait it short period of time i can show way to hide is also on the global agenda when the going the on the global every minute and of course. cept for

those people which will not be able to do so so why use the clean athletes should be able to be present on the globe already because it will be fair for them . mr rush can thank you for covering so many stories for us and happy new year thank you happy new year. join me every 1st day on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. my name is sucking on the social media mr jack see what i don't see it's a. good order. and now

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