so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only posts really and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

this is a boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm sorry on thursday in washington coming out the federal reserve leave rates unchanged as recovery even though out and congress continues to debate and stimulus and california going up for amazon in the company from over. 3 employees as the company continues to grow thanks to all my shopping we have a lot to get through to let's get started. in a new confrontation with 2 trading partners on wednesday the u.s. treasury labeled vietnam and switzerland as currency manipulators treasury secretary steven nugent called the decision a step to safeguard economic growth treasury will follow up on its findings with respect to vietnam and switzerland to work toward a limiting practices that create unfair advantages for foreign competitors well this latest move comes months after the trumpet ministration opened the investigation into the at arms trade practices the report actually dates back to

prepare times and covers activity from july of 200-1002 june of 2020 the swiss national bank denied the allegation and said its monetary policy would be unchanged and that it remains willing to intervene more strongly in the foreign exchange market vietnam has not yet responded. on wednesday the last federal reserve meeting under the trumpet ministration took place while fed chairman jerome powell reiterated his promise to help the economy until it reaches a full recovery with regard to interest rates we continue to expect it will be appropriate to maintain the current 0 to one quarter percent target range for the federal funds rate until labor market conditions to reach levels consistent. committee's assessment of maximum of climate and inflation has risen to 2 percent and is on track to moderately exceed 2 percent for some time. in addition as we noted in today's policy statement we will continue to increase our holdings of treasury securities by at least $80000000000.00 per month and agency mortgage

backed securities by at least $40000000000.00 per month until substantial further progress has been made toward our maximum point and price stability goals. powell is also urging lawmakers to pass more fiscal stimulus so for more on this let's turn to boom bust co-host christy i and. insider danielle de martino both danielle let's start with you as expected that the federal reserve held benchmark interest rates near 0 markets however they had been looking for some potential tweaks to some of its asset purchasing programs or the updates there and how is the market reacting to that. well you know i think the riskier corners of the market you know the nasdaq closed in the green today because the fed did tweak the language instead of saying that they were going to continue with their asset purchases with the quantitative easing program in the coming months which was what the prior statement had said they said that they're going to continue until they see substantial

progress on their economic metrics they didn't name or quantify what those targets were going to be and i think that that open ended commitment if you will is what was what was pleasing to markets even though some investors may have been disappointed that they didn't increase the maturity of the treasuries that they were committed to buying some were hoping that the fed might hint at something like yield curve control capping rates and some are even hoping that the fed would say that they were going to increase the size of the quantitative easing but the market got enough of what it wanted i think in the powells dovish notice at the press conference that followed the release of the statement well done and much like you said they said they're going to continue to use their all of their resources or tools they did expect them to buy more treasury securities as you mentioned obviously that would have helped rate keep keep rates lower for a longer period of time especially we're seeing the 3rd with coke in 1000 cases do

you think the fed is going to revisit this in the future meeting and could we see this change. well i think the fed right now is relieved that the january meeting is at the end of the month so there's a lot of time between now and then to see what the effect of this next relief package is going to be what effect that that's going to have on income and households ability to continue to hold up the economy with consumer spending and they're also going to be able to see between now and the end of january you know whether or not the united states manages to flatten this curve and reduce hospitalizations and get coverts a tallit is down as the vaccine is distributed more fully across demographics and across geographies in the united states so they really do want to buy this time because. for no other reason that they're starting to realize the limitations of the tools in that toolbox that you mention well christine i want to turn to the energy complex here it's under

a lot of pressures president elect biden and he's pledged to pursue some pretty aggressive emission reduction and wants to focus on a greener agenda that really aims to reduce fossil fuel dependent what does it mean for the u.s. felt producers. well all american shell producers have had a very tough 2020 with oil prices so low and having amassed so much debt over the woods and decades so now with this new incoming administration the entire industry is going to be very concerned about what these new policies entailed so by the end doesn't play into our right ban fracking but he does aim to significantly stifle it with regulation he said he'll be banning new oil and gas leases on public lands and waters and set the setting hefty fines for major corporate polluters so this isn't me a very ambitious agenda to push through because the oil and gas industry they employ about 1000000 americans and this year the industry has had to shed more than 100000 jobs as shale wells have been forced to shut down with the oil demand plummeting due to coronavirus but by crushing the shell industry even further they'll be forced to lay off even more employees further contributing and compound to the

already massive unemployment problem in the u.s. so this from a very tough thing to pass so on top of that the industry experts have also warned that reducing support for america also feel that could threaten its security by reducing its energy independence so while the u.s. still imports a significant volume of oil from other countries including saudi arabia those levels have dropped dramatically over the last 2 decades so it will be hard to get america to even take a step backwards on this independence that has been so established so i don't think the biden participants will be a death blow to the entire shale and oil industry but the industry is definitely going to be feeling some of the pressure over the next 4 years as generous subsidies are taken away and investment money becomes hard to come by well i want done i want to turn it back to the fed when they announced a really new action hurt to aid the u.s. economy are pushing for stimulus they did say now that they are projecting at rates to remain near 0 until 2023 what kind of impact are we looking at here in and you

said earlier talked about the limited resources what are some of those limited resources or tools that they can bring still. well you look now that janet yellen is is treasury secretary or one she is confirmed by the senate which shouldn't take any time at all because she's familiar and welcome by both parties on both sides of the aisle i think that the fed's tool box has the potential to get much larger. janet yellen has advocated for buying equity she's advocated for negative interest rates under the under the certain circumstances so you could see the fed's tool box expand until and if that happens and some of it depends on whether or not the senate flips to the democrats or remains in the hands of the republicans until that happens though the fed really has its hands tied because it can't can't can't put yield curve control into the market when the 10 year treasury yield can't even hit one percent it's a little hard to cap something at one percent if it can't even cross that that

barrier and as far as as increasing the maturities of the purchases there's a limited pool of longer dated treasuries that's one of the reasons that jay powell continues to pound the table and say that more fiscal stimulus spending is needed because he wants for more of the treasuries that are issued in order to fund that stimulus the new treasuries that are put into the market to have longer maturities than what he's got to to buy right now in the open market given the structure of the u.s. debt really pushing for congress as well to act on this matter salute christine i want to turn to big point here it reached the 20000 level we've been talking about that this was the 1st time in history on one day of a trade at 5.6 percent higher it's taking its year to date going to more than 180 percent what's behind this rally. oh yeah there's certainly a lot of tailwind behind this rally as we talked about last week and last week we

actually had a lot of bears who doubted that even 20000 for a year and really all evidence points to the contrary so the momentum behind point right now is. very strong propelled by institutional demand the increasing perception among investors a breakpoint is a true store of value and the fact that we have stronger network on the mentals than ever before so the c.m.e. but point futures market recently knocked $1270000000.00 an interest ranking just behind ok acts as the 2nd largest in global market so institutional investors are not investing in brooklyn with a short term strategy many of them are increasingly viewing it as a digital store of value and as an alternative to coal so the perception of coin as a hedge against inflation and a stable store of value makes it a really compelling asset for the broader financial sector so we recently had michael say micro started you declaring that point is the world's best treasury reserve asset and it is a solution to a store of value problem faced by every individual every corporation and every

government on earth and finally as we said the network fundamentals are big when they're stronger than ever as a network is now moving $500000.00 per 2nd around the globe so in other words one transfers 4 point $63000000000.00 in value per day so the network is also 10 times more secure than in the late 2017 as a hash rate and the mining difficulty both continue to hit new highs this year so now you have the combination of low selling pressure from miners and institutional increasing holding activity a growing number of whales and all those rising institutional adoption now all converging so that's only going to make 2021 even more exciting for a bit well definitely a lot of people are questioning and we were just talking about a days ago that whether or not it was going to reach 20000 by next year don't expect it to happen so soon former fed and both with co-host christi i thank you both for your time today. thank you. as a coronavirus case of 3rd throughout the nation california is being hit especially

hard while economies of big cities like new york are thufir ng officials in california are looking to pinpoint cases that amazon they're asking how effectual workers will be protected are to correspondent atocha 3 takes a look into what the company is proposing. amazon reveals it's now wanting to offer testing for employees after it was reported at least 20000 of its workers contract and code 19 during the pandemic and now california's attorney general is calling out the mega retailer for yet to comply with a subpoena issued 4 months ago regarding protection at the workplace as business continues to soar for amazon during the pandemic officials are concerned over the safety of workers now after facing pressure amazon is offering free code 19 testing for essential employees in california workers will also receive compensation for time travel wholefoods workers are also being encouraged to get tested weekly however accommodations have been slower to roll out for those employees including

part time and seasonal workers this all comes as the occupational safety and health administration in california issues new guidelines for employers amid seen a spike in chronic virus cases the new rules require the workplace to offer free testing after multiple outbreaks are reported in october amazon said at least $20000.00 workers tested positive for covert $1000.00 between march and september according to the company this is 42 percent lower than expected but california's attorney general it's a viewer basara said the online sales giant has not provided enough information on its chronic virus safety protocols and claims amazon has been quiet about the status of infections at its shipping facilities his office and a subpoena back in august and this week has asked a judge to push amazon for more specifics today amazon has failed to adequately with our woful requests for information into the company's coronavirus. but of cause and the status of overnight uses of bama zone facilities across the state but

serious office disclosed the investigation in a court filing in late july were an employee accuse the company of not doing enough to safeguard staff well safety protocols are being looked into in california the nation's biggest city is seeing a drastic reduction in residents and revenue as a result of the krona virus a new study conducted by unicast unveils roughly 70000 new york residents have left the city during the pandemic that has led to a loss in $34000000000.00 or berger new for the big apple the study shows that $3570000.00 have actually left the new york city area but another 3500000 immigrated leaving a net loss of 70000 but it's not just the number of people according to the study demographics are making a big impact those who left reportedly made an average of $140000.00 annually the new influx of residents are making closer to $82000.00 a year now this all comes as just like here in los angeles new york has also seen

a massive surge in corona virus cases the governor of new york applying a ban for now on all non-essential gatherings of any size all non-essential businesses have also been closed reported in los angeles and suites are seen. on one face southwest airlines that it expects boeing $737.00 maxed out deliveries through the end of 2021 of the shipment includes 16 least aircraft and southwest expects the jet to return to revenue service by march well this will be following active pilot training that is in a regulatory filing thought west said given the continued 3rd in coven 1000 cases and oppressed revenue environment the company continued to experience softness and leisure passenger demand and bookings for december 2020 average daily core cash burn went up to $12000000.00 in the 4th quarter that's up from the previously estimated 10. and $11000000.00 company shares fell 1.2 percent in premarket trading . time now for

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2020 was supposed to be the year that we saw trade with china decrease at least that's what we were told as we watched trade tensions rise between the world's 2 largest economy the united states and china now as we enter the last few weeks of the year the numbers are telling a different story in fact it's now clear that americans are stuck at home and there are by far more chinese goods than had been anticipated it will joining us now to discuss boom bust co-host and. juan and host of economic day author of sickness is the system professor richard wolfe thanks for joining me today but ben let's start with you what do you what do we know about the numbers here. yeah the numbers are pretty staggering and we're talking about china reporting for the month of november record high exports and we're talking about something like $75430000000.00 as

a trade surplus we're talking about 21 point one percent a surge in exports compared to the same month in 2019 now think about that creed coronavirus pandemic and we're looking that during the coronavirus a 21 percent increase in exports for china on top of that we're also talking about a 46 percent increase in goods coming to the united states that's $51000000000.00 also a record and what are these goods instead of americans going to restaurants or movies or on vacations because they're stuck at home they're buying stuff very expensive stuff very cheap stuff a whole slew of stuff and they're buying it from who else they're buying it from china that surprise you that because the more it less expensive or. it's not that surprising that people are buying it because of the pricing it's what is surprising is the fact that china has been able to deal with the issue of

exports so there was a big conversation about supply chain issues remember last year we talked about this quite a bit going into the phase one china trade deal about supply chain will the supply chain issues be broken because of coronavirus that has not happened because in the 2nd quarter the chinese reopen factories got people back to work got products made and they have plenty of products to ship around the world right professor of these numbers like ben said that they're much higher than what analysts had even predicted what does this mean going forward for the u.s. and china trade relationship what's going to happen. well i think the 1st thing to understand is something we talked about on this program then and we have which is that there's a kind of wishful thinking here in the united states that things in china are a problem things in china difficult things in china no look at you look at how do we use is like any economy what the bottom line is and correctly so is that

a yes to all of the trade war talk after all the tyrants after all it will be predictions what has happened is that the chinese economic system why did or not as to appear for entertaining though if i reached prepare for containing the damage of the global economic crash. prepare for and contain the aggressive traditions of the trumpet ministration through charleston trade wars and when i was just leaders that have the numbers that summarize and then show you that this is an extraordinarily resilient the common be able to generate economic growth in one of the old russia years when virtually every other country is showing various degrees of climate it is a game changing report in terms of coming to grips with the reality of what the

chinese have been able to it really is and china has obviously the 1st one to see the pandemic and how they handle that was obviously very different from the rest of the world the rest of. the country decided to handle it obviously a different system but ben we like you say you talk about the supply chain and many predicted that the crown of earth would cause even more disruption more issues to that and even production issues in china that didn't seem to happen that's not the case why is that. yeah i think it comes down to a very different model than china and i think professor we've just said there about like it or hate it right that is that is the key here so this is has to be a completely agnostic view of what's happening you can't talk about these issues and be passionate about them in terms of whether china is right or wrong if you look at the numbers you just have to be agnostic and say what china is doing here's why it is working whether it's right or wrong and why it works is because china has a top down system that says this is what we're going to do this is what we expect

from our people does this what we expect more factories that everyone gets in line and they do it everyone is not fighting each other in china overproduction they're not fighting each other over what's going to be made or where it's going to be made when entire factories were flipped and turned into hand sanitizer factories and then flipped back into you know creating play stations that is the kind of symmetry that only comes from a top down system again it's not about whether it's right or wrong it's about the fact that it's effective and that's why china is able to pull off the numbers it pulls off then it's not nothing really right or wrong in their own system it what worked for them or a clearly numbers are showing i mean facts are there right professor well based on these numbers though what do you believe the u.s. china relationship is going to look like in 2021 now considering how increasingly dependent the u.s. and other nations have become on china's production capabilities looking at these numbers i know we've talked about this before but with these numbers where are they

going to go. i think you're quite right to stop that the bite ministration is going to have a kind of moment of truth they're going to have to decide whether they go in that direction more or less like the trumpet ministre through a new cold war or a new set of confrontations whole being even though i don't think the evidence is there that if they pursue that kind of a policy they'll get a different result from the field of the trumpets ad which these numbers show or to go the other what to say look as we did in the previous 20 years in which the chinese economy grew but united states also had a great successful growth of its own to work out a share regime of the world economy between the 2 countries are on the ground at the end up a little better place the them with collaboration then with confrontation mr biden

is going to have to make that decision and these new numbers will be a push i think you know direction of a lot parisian stronger than what we might have seen even if these numbers had not yet come out right where thing these numbers were to are a game changer but they have gone for the chinese over attack now some other thing they're talking reports about going after them on rare earth minerals ben what's your take where are we going from here. well i will see where we go from here i think the professor's right of an ultimate lee by the ministration has to decide what it's going to do how it's going to treat trade and the relationship with china but listen just talking about these numbers this is not good for the american worker right when we look at the american worker the fact that we have so many people sitting at home unable to work in this country watching what china is doing but i don't think it has to be a 0 sum game it doesn't always have to be that our success is dependent on your failure too much too much about economics is based on that idea that in order for

us to succeed someone else has to fill i don't think it has to go that way but unfortunately unless the attitude in washington changes that believes that we continue to see comfort wealth and that the purpose once upon a time i know it's the wishful thinking here but that was what globalization was about turning to other countries working together and collaborating these numbers obviously are showing the chinese have have been able to do so they've been able to contain the virus to control obviously with a different system a different technique then but it's working for them but we will see how the united states and china the world's 2 largest economies are there and they need to somehow find a way to collaborate in one way or another bill with co-host ben swan professor richard wolfe as always it's a pleasure having both of you today. really cute. that's all for now you can catch him bust on demand on the portable t.v. app or simply check it out and portable the t.v. the next time. the a. hey

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the. forum even the shallows. hello it's just past midday live from moscow heard out international kevin and with you this december the 17th so special news coverage coming up now i hope you stay with us for maybe the next few hours without long it'll go or maybe a couple more after that it's because the russian president has just about set to give his annual q. and a session because the pandemic this time the conference is being held by video link he says to the west of moscow. will address the most crucial national and global issues though none the less and as

a whole is there's plenty to talk about all across the session here on r.t. international we've got various correspondents the various spots where they're going to pose their questions one of the still not the question is been showing get out he goes down off reporting from putin's government residence prior to which he go had to undergo a 2 week quarantine to ensure that he was covert free so a lot of planning said to go into this a lot of precautions to he brought us this preview of the event for we catch up with him live. this is the main venue for the annual media conference of the russian president vladimir putin or rather media marathon i should say because these events they tend to stretch out for 3 sometimes 4 hours this is the chair and the table where the russian leader himself will be sitting taking questions pay attention to this figure positioned right under the table specifically so that level of putin he is everything that he's being asked to christmas tree behind me

as well a bit of a festive mood he doesn't have any smell though it's a fake one not a real one and over there you can see the chairs where journalists will be sitting us asking questions but you may have already noticed that world there aren't that many chairs and it is true that only a select few have been allowed here to ask questions in person only after a strict quarantine but it doesn't mean that the rest of the country won't have a chance to ask their question and world to lattimer political here on these plasmas you can see footage from all major russian cities where hundreds of journalists are expected to come and well talk to the president and here are the pictures from a special call center where ordinary citizens not journalists will be able well just to dial a few digits and ask them to submit their question for the president. here

we're watching i was talking to him live hey you're at the world trade center of moscow which is basically the journalists how business are precautions being taken there as well it's so far from usual nothing this year is going to plan so far is it how different this is going to be bear in mind that it should've started it with dates no 3 minutes on the button past a president. usually a little bit late we've got no idea exactly where this is going to start could be imminently could be the next 15 minutes 20 minutes i suppose what. you know with your ear on the ground the. whole kevan you are absolutely right it's completely different compared to what it was in the previous years and mr colbert is in the changing plans every time but of the disease cannot rule everything right we saw igor is going to be with the russian president he's the lucky one to be part of the teen of i believe about 15 journalists that are there that are going to be talking

to mr putin face to face and we do not know when exactly this event is going to start so kevin please interrupt me if we see them show up in front of the cameras but if you look at the pictures that we are getting from here from the world trade center behind my shoulder you can see the massive gaps in between the scenes the most important thing for the organizers are the precautions that are being undertaken at all the locations where the people are going to be waiting for their chance to ask mr putin the question but usually this scene here at the world trade center in moscow looks completely different what you can imagine is i don't know a stadium stand packed with fans and everyone is waving screaming something trying

to get the attention of i don't know a football player but in this case of course it's the russian president there waving postcards something else i can tell you that a few years ago. well actually it's happening right now so to cut you off in your stride there really let's go to the team approach to this is translated let's listen in the. present to this room growing through the coldest winter so be it because he's keep you around i'll be there in mushing regions in moscow because you work with him. so you. say the traditional. press conference yeah. but we are in a group called the. we can't have you know person this is why it's this time it's hard to really even but we have them both in person. by shelf line and all mine. but we need to listen to the journalist people

out there in the country the ball need to figure out border needs to be able. to address the she's still facing them we can improve on the decision making at the. pleasure with which you've got a ship make this process more efficient. across the last year we received hundreds of thousands of questions. and you. every question we would be would look into and there would be feedback to every question i'd like to thank my colleagues in the government. executive office you know he's got a big chamber and they all rushed the national front of volunteers some other civic institutions. but. it was done no. direct contact with those who asked questions.

she's. very often they help to bring out all night without a solution. should that we're not actually i mean we i really hope that this year. we will do. the same thing with me or you will ask what you volunteers around the all russian national front to keep it up it's a very important. for mine and on the tree. events like this and you know i'm not in a formal way but it's good that i knew it's not just a technical meeting for me but i do get. information about the country coming from many. different sources but definitely this opportunity to talk directly to you or people to the citizens of russia. if.

they will voice pressing issues they are facing and we need to figure out what we can do to make. that sits. the need i think if you go to the questions straight away and like you would for me tree. of. who's out there. he will moderate or a press conference today where you know where you got a good afternoon when i said. mr putin you know we have a wide geography. look from out there and from bloody vast russia's far east give me your name please be as brief as some possible so that we can have as many questions as possible one of our stock over to you and i. would say oh it's really a late afternoon hearing a lot of ass dark about this we need to the capital and the biggest federal

district far east me i was. a lot of media professionals here they have their own an audience and their own questions. as you can see and we have a lot of people who knew mr past cough who's the 1st. ok. can you show me the room the entire room so they can see everyone. did we have a market done. to get there. is my name is. russell you wouldn't you like to welcome. mr president and everyone present. on this conference you know it's been a challenging and yeah. hard to describe this year and give it

a definition what is a good year was the something bad or was it was there any civil lining. that well it's like. do we have bad or good weather there it's just the way it is. it was really you know it's like in life there always have something good something we're bad definitely this year. it's within a she which is really pressing which are all where all of this is because we're 19 pandemic. so aids is true for all but the countries let's put. it up but i believe. 60000000 people have been affected and it's definitely had an impact on every aspect of our lives

it means lockdowns. decline. a decline in transportation jobs are cut. incomes are down you know. at the same time but it might not work for you 1st of all. but i'll try to. get you mind it's got women with new ideas we want to see is that definitely was a wave of issues a tsunami of problems we'll talk about that that's why we've gathered it nevertheless. this tsunami has been has hit the entire world not just russia but we can safely say. we were up to scratch we rose to the challenge him in many ways better than any other country in the world but what i will going to do and many other countries in the world which you. seem to be proud of. it's just plain ability.

of their economy and health care and social security systems. but. they're proud of those systems and we've been going to better than many of those countries in a moment so here are some of the feelings. our. g.d.p. is 3.6 percent. minus 3.6 percent this is lower. across all you are p. and e.u. nations lower than in the u.s. when you. buy in some of the e.u. countries he was minus 9 percent. but i would really put its industrial output was down 3 percent. over to the largely. of the. opec plus deal.

if you were a. decline in your attraction you know this way this is an impact on just real output. that we could. but on the positive side just yesterday are now yeah but our government reported but one of them bitumen of ember refinery is 1 point one percent higher so we have we were in a positive on the ground in refining so we hope that this trend will continue going forward culture. tradition in the past year is in good shape. to get the shaft right now. plus 1.8 percent there minister what you told me that we could see. plus 2 percent of the banking sector has been in satisfactory condition. revenue this year do you

want but he's really out of the one trillion 300000000000 rubles and this means that our systems quite so sustainable. the financial system for wages. please don't get angry at me he said. it is but a sure she might not be in line with you or a sentiment you are observing these are average figures you reeling that can i hope will grow by the end of the year by 1.5 percent unfortunately real disposable income is. why do we change at least discrepancy what does it signal. but you might do so proprietors saw their incomes down which was the main reason the real disposable income will be moved to minus 3 percent of the 4 that you do unemployment it was $4.00 at the beginning of the air right now 6.3 percent. sure

will go away but we'll talk about that later on but whatever we do you got to support the economy with a better support but if it did industry which is supposed to keep the jobs right now is 6.3 percent the unemployment rate but we hope will be able to move back to the previous rate later on that some of the shit that the. trade surplus democratic and i mean we are we are in trade surplus. pretty good public debt it was just 17 little mcwillie 1000000000 us dollars. it's now 10 inches in 1000000000 less we do need borrow that's march and we are service. debt that you live with it really regularly. just. in gold reserves are up. from get it. out of the

dollar for $554000000000.00 ci you $587700000000.00. 1000000000 not that but. as for the national welfare fund we'll fund it was sent point 7 trillion. it's 13 trillion. what's been good for the economy 70 percent of the recent budget years they should be comes not from oil and it doesn't. from oil and gas it means that we've been getting off from the oil needle. as they say. if someone continues to call us the they'll be filling station and the gas station well we have figures to prove that it's no longer the case. although we're not

fully off that needle. and we are going yeah definitely source and major events action wind event and so i mean the $75.00. and in verse 3 victorien girl good to despoil you get the difficulties of the pandemic we celebrated this event we had the parade on red square mike and. we had the immortal regiment marching down it all on line streets. and i would like to thank our the people of florida. because should have been despite the challenges they really delivered that it's unity you will agree with what go under any threats. at the heart of our identity to me unity. we saw the medical professionals working 247 over. the entire society supported each other supported their

families. those who are struggling. those who wanted to go to needy. you saw that we were all to give the movement. coming together moment i believe. it is really decisive it's part of our identity part of our d.n.a. i really appreciate everyone's efforts thank you so much for taking part in these last came up. with coke i'd like to remind everyone. is the minute you know we should get those michel because the other which we need to. replace your 3 parts of the microphone we need to keep up with the hygiene brewers. who's out there.

so our biggest t.v. network. thank you so much. indeed. and a symbol of our times. at the globe misunderstand the. disease but what about the russian health care system. but i believe you but i think it's coping with the challenge. there. and. do you do any analysis. failing is you. of. the labeling of the pharmaceuticals you do with. the 2nd would they should or could i mean is there a form of the primary care unit that if the funding for it were of how will this

reform girl take into account. now. the system is. definitely we need a new. system and the world was ready. we've been analyzing what's happening around the world we can see you know it's. health care system in any country. was prepared for it but let's look at your ad. we need to describe a benchmark and we have. to do some benchmarking. compared to what we saw or any other parts of the world or us health care system that proved to be more or less efficient to talk about. shortages. we are aware of this. eventually or as we get

the questions and we understand that there are. still outstanding. when we go to the 1st signals of the pandemic from a friends in china. we respond if we believe. we. have got to. get the preparations for the big. and we have it to become so. we started to deploy. all the necessary measures and measures preventive measures that it wouldn't wait. for the need for new hospitals. it was $95.00. 1000000. dollars booked at present and only 50 percent

was ready. we have 125125000. 177. sorry 177 hospital beds champion people or 40 centers were built. by the defense ministry really quickly and by the regions and sound of the regional authorities. they're supposed to be. in the. final 2020 that's possible mr well that speaks volumes means we can respond to any and she was. doing it. here in the room when i was just. in the pandemics. so if you're unsure we didn't have enough specialist 8300 specialists

right now in terms of the doctors we have 150000. and 8000000 total of what could be 530000 medical professionals but if you knew that we were able to repurpose some of the medical colleges to 5 to be covered 90. 1 advanced training program where we did some retraining for the medical profession has different introduced. bonus payments for those who worked in the red zone. and also for the senior students in the colleges and that. we thought production. ease.

foods. and then a surreal moment to sanitize. the question of the rooms when we even masks should have do what we increased the production of masks 20 times. or a health care system that. governance in this area but you must. prove that they're ready to mobilize the resources in an efficient and fast way but if we're. going to do religion in a serious amount of medications to timeless definitely some of the regions are facing some issues and i can have i given can see this folder in front of me but i've got some information from the call center what they have coming out of there on their messages from. people usually. pharmacy is seeing a shortage. are also not all the issue of the deficit definitely

these but this is not a huge scale of viciously we faced initially. seeing right now is only just to let you look at overall our industry was. up to scratch at the beginning of the pandemic would you know to tend to identify how to treat. patients and whether we. don't i mean the vaccine. you can see the progress russian top 3 around the world and terms of testing and according to the w.h.o. . one of the ways to become the. testing. for medications we started to produce may pharmaceuticals in what the amount that's necessary vaccination. russia was the 1st country in the world. came

up with its own vaccine that started producing that. faxing. in my thanks to the government research center and the ventura center from. vaccine safety. but 95 percent to fix the rate and some specialists say it's up to $97.00. no major incidents related to side effects. and some of the foreign woman counterparts. in this area. english with the swedish company astrid's inec is ready to work with the signing of the agreements really happened that specialists at this level at the top level in the area this is a major company. that.

combines efforts with the russians or partners i'm sure of the outcome we would be really good one for russian people and for people around the world the problem what there is what i said means there are a lot of issues outstanding. there all the health care system. that didn't respond appropriately to the threats that our country was facing now in the primary j. units in the health care system and indeed we had to concentrate their resources on what i mentioned. earlier to find out i called up 19 pinned down a lot of what we had to engage volunteers in students from medical colleges to ramp up production. and they.

will definitely. reform a. primary care unit we have an. forgotten about it. it was launching. july the 1st and we will. starting from the 1st of january i will definitely use all the funding that has been allocated for the probably 500000000000 rubles. from me again in the federal budget and it's 1x5b50b. from the original budget in the coming year only $300000000000.00 would need to be allocated in it but i would be. drawn to. putting it. in terms of. call fleet. we started doing it already. cars these vehicles. are in demand right now that's what we're

doing right now that's part. of the lead that we're talking about with them that is one of the big major cometary my glove and. i believe the most important thing in developing a primary care unit will be just to make sure there is 100 percent coverage what they're well i can see there are a lot of issues they need to respond to them quickly. working on. definitely trying to more people but we need to have the right equipment that would create you know if you need issue in the book. how do we resolve the issues that are still out there and. we definitely. analyze this if you wouldn't. give us just so much information coming from the region is that we will get those

signals to them and process them and respond in an appropriate way. just our activities. the simplest conclusion is easy the numbers when you get. them the definitely need to. think that the least streamlined. logical service should have become a bit of a need to reform we really. don't know how many specialized hospital beds we need how many doctors want to do in time and especially specialized doctors we need to. know where to go. let's roll on. ok. your turn. to begin with what afternoon mr burton and ms tunnel shanika and this is. my question is as

follows we have this. on our hands but the life goes on and my question is quite a comprehensive one it has to do with the rest of our activities you know that next year there will be elections and there will be a huge campaign that each of your opinion will cause are going to be different from the previous. and you won't like it will be the political landscape given the circumstances this 2nd part of my question has to do believe all the systemic opposition when you know it and so i would like to know maybe it's time for the old opposition to. give place to young parties and to young parties have a chance we would have given the fact that the minister level they have already proven themselves to be quite capable as on the last part of my question has to do with foreign interference it is quite evident that it's impossible and we will see interference this is

a major campaign but it was so how are you going to fight these possible future interference is. ok but a moment regarding the elections to the parliament of the country in the year it's been 2021. and there will be different 1st and foremost of these differences will have to be able to fact that our constitution has been updated and that means that alone in the parliament has received more power to. a number of you. are when you are one of them being forming the government would be sure of which would like to say to. the state human our country makes the final decision not only guarding the prime minister but also regarding the. vice prime minister deputy prime ministers and minister. because president signs off on these decisions this is citizens are all the statements you make maybe not everyone is

aware of that but this certainly increases the. potence in our m.p.'s and they now bear lot more responsibility but eliminate them there is now that you're the perfect coupling between the government of the people and the m.p. . that's one thing. last me about new parties and maybe the old ones should step down. new party so it's not up to you know particle have you always decide. it's up to the people to decide who we want to see and there will be it's the people who vote for that party and our political system is developing really changing and evolving it is. more and more the party is in the national coming pains. that's true and this year i think when you do.

you would know i'm sure that i'm just going to say they'll be more parties joining the process up to 16 parties will be able to take part of the campaign that was a bit without collecting the signatures so why well the reason is simple and i'm following the existing legislation today having given representation in a number of regions and that entitles them to this very right to take a shot at. dissipating in the whole national campaign i wish the best of luck in this endeavor again these are 2 people who decide who to vote for me to produce i want to say that traditional party stablished partners and we all know the olympics have been represented in the parliament for years now and i think we should give them some credit. there. sometimes you're completely opposite opinions . sometimes the debates in the parliament are quite heated. because they discuss lots of problems that we face here that of the whole country.

but every british to each and every of these parties but they are absolutely. they do their best. to solve the tasks that we are now set for ourselves but the methods approaches might be different but the ultimate goal is the same just adds to the well being of the country and help it prosper ok. we're going to go somewhere else you've let's go to siberia not to be risk i think it's time to give us. the ask you question your already mentioned on that note it was easy to center where one of the current 1000 books as well as been developed so let me. ask you for a moment moderate this supports you can see there is a banner saying look seen this could you please introduce yourself. you would be

like a bolt of the alto region to mr putin's i would like to know. have you already received against the. virus and what do you think about sealing year. literally all russians obligation well there's not enough vaccines in the other regions situation was quite good. and there is one more question would you do you think that we will have enough vaccines across russia given the fact that russia is now going to help other countries thank you should look. i call them on my every one of you could be very attentive to everything that the professionals that the medical professionals say you just put a mask on good you have little. gloves on great so our health care professionals say that. now publicly available that are meant for people.

certain ages. work through the people like me we're not there yet you're allowed to take a look see. you see i am a law abiding citizen and i always listen to what our healthcare professionals say they've all i haven't heard yet about. myself oh no. but i will surely do that as soon. as. it will be permitted to or that's one of the human 2nd. i get no credit for fresh no say that we need to have a certain gap between different vaccines so you're in the us take a flu shot then you do the shot against the covered 19 virus some say it should be 2 weeks with some say should be a 4 week between the chaps. but that's another thing for you to know that. actually there is something more muscular. in

other lation mass vaccination i think it should. and by the way our professionals say the same. and therefore in college share this opinion of doctors across the world. then one of the ways to overcome this pandemic has been. to. inoculate observed a mass of. this on the gateway to probably a new future that's how we will get you that herd immunity not sure works in the if you do you haven't seen a fact and it's the same news when you can so i see no reason why we should be afraid of getting shot him in the let me add something else to the actual quote was because really good. helping other groceries 1st and foremost and i've said it multiple times and i will say take i want everyone to hear me national virtue our primary task to give the vaccines to our people here in russia 2 of the most

a number of the components of the scene are. really what we're lagging the equipment the hardware to produce the necessary amount of. stimuli think someone to be them the people already got flu shots that's just one example of how the whole country could get vaccinated and the same which should be done to protect ourselves against the covered $91.00 pandemic if there were to produce oxygen we need equipment we need to pursue it. i sure will and we will be building up our capacities as we go. through and i believe that with all the plans will be implemented will deliver on what we have. planned for that you will have millions of doses next year now concerning the car peroration other countries but if we need more time to build up the capacities you can. see you have

been more in quicker in some way to produce work scenes. so nothing really stands in the way of giving to come poland so we have enough of it i'm told it's a discussion to produce them on the side or abroad. outside of russia other weeks so they will be investing their own money into expanding the pasadena for the vaccine production and that's what we found by saying we will help others but it stands it doesn't stand in the way of a shift we're going to have a vaccination it's taking place as it is needed here in russia but the quality will be high but this will be just growing in number of the stocks in asia. i think we can go on and call the tradition. mr prescott started as a present we would like to give you a mike you have been. speaking

to them i could now you have it so a little give for you. ok let's reach out to the call center now you're quite particular. yes call center. when we have a lot of questions going sort of the pandemic and the work of the health care professionals are not available until the music you know we have here a volunteer volunteer you sort of a she's a volunteer she's a medical professional she spent 5. working at a local hospitals giving consultations to dine 1000 patients about her but she was really what we're working with we have found a lot of problems people have the problem is these problems are even more than it was well the celexa to the testing people cannot book a visit of a doctor at home not enough medical supplies and sometimes they have to wait for medical care for you but. we also looked at what the doctors from the red zone

are concerned about and he is going to i would like to pinpoint the fact that you know doctors of color didn't get any bonus is for working with covered 900 patients the same happened in the city of said last week she was in the military hospital of . the previous payment came in normally in september 2 for the infectious diseases hospital. here we have received a lot of complaints from people who receive their lives just like doctors do but they do not get anything if you are for that these are technical specialist they want their privacy they cook the food and they are also part of the. world without them no red zone can function. properly so it's really not begrudging to see that these people are working for france and yet they are treated unfairly mr put in by

we have a lot of requests a lot of complaints on this issue we're due to give it to you so that you could have used the necessary structures to solve these problems mr putin and martin that you see is it possible to solve all these problems. thank you so much a little too no i think i talked with you yesterday yes yes this yesterday we talked with you yesterday. ok here. i have some papers from the call center probably you or your papers. someone wrote me go live in a small town that we don't have the mattson. we have to buy them which. are available to why do you cover 1000 patients you have to get treatment paying for it themselves when they are given those who have confirmed given teen who are new to most they are. told women to be treated for free but all the people i know they are . their own money and where is the money from the region of resign your shin of

lead him or. like to say to you and to all those who reached out to you and to mr portion of i want to say the following. 1000000 of them we have earmarked 10000000000 rubles so that even the regions of russia could respond. pro-actively to all these from issues by n.d.p. p. but preparing the health care institutions to face this challenge. the 8000000 or 5000000000 which we did actually bit more than that will be. that's how much we allocated for him pre-match seem to be handed over to people who get treatment at his home now the original resign i know for a fact that all the money has already been transferred from the state budget to the budget of the regional resign why do people there still don't have

a report in the madison they need i don't know but we will sort this out. for the procedure but you can 1st file a request to the local hospital they confirm your dad with and after that they give you here's a mattson you need a lifting up you will surely but i sure couldn't follow through on all the requests that you have received it will fit into that can a systematic matter and we will collect all other requests in complaints in order to receive them again we gave these 10000000000. all the equipment and all the mats and was there we also spent 5000000 more to help people most of the money has already been transferred to the regions that we did that already has some governess and by the way i am getting close contact with them they report they did that quite recently. everything is ok in the regions

where they need initially of course some isolated cases may be there. but given the fact that we have a lot of complaints probably. not isolated to shoot the comprehensive problem and it requires a comprehensive solution we will. take a look at. work loose on our ok let's come back to my center of international trade here in moscow and let's pass over to the south koreans to could you please introduce yourself to mr putin good afternoon again or and there were. which i thank you for that cd i would like to thank our years ago. for its good but you see i made the background of the bun demick some questions have. supporter turned out to be overlooking what see when you know the origin of this rescue is the number you see us blames china china blames the us some say it's artificially created some see it as a natural virus maybe you have instructed these officials services to know where

did this wireless come from because well. there is a lot of rumors regarding the your original d s virus and i don't want to say that. out here republican because we see no evidence to support any such claims that you mention just movement i don't think we should be doing something else we should be looking to someone else to begin the blame on we should unite or wife would still fight we spend our days would be the right thing to do the pure of that's one thing now. it is up with me but some of. you are. seeing are very humanistic in their policies inside and outside of their countries not a book for them we've got to well i think they should think about how to help others for those who find themselves in dire straits going to help them with the burden that they care so that restrictions could be lifted sanctions could

believed it against those countries who are experiencing problems these days in me especially those strengths of corporations which i listen 5 different demi about and i mean. equipment and pharmaceuticals and doctor training. should be lifted and i think others should think more about that a lot about it to try to find the culprit we have a lot of good cooperation with many countries china included in that respect and we work at the level of professionals has a region's state level but across the board. for starting the special services wellness i give them some instructions but certainly this is no place to discuss the tasks. and i'm attractive said to. the special services there was of a colleague who was most moving high school not sure whether there could be interference story i already look at that it's not because i don't want to say

anything about this issue. i just saw that there are some more and more pressing issues to focus on. no interference and easy good. general relationship and they will try to do here in our election report across the world we see a lot of interference. some countries have bases across the world and they interfere across the world and as well we are aware that this is coming our way but it was that we are prepared if you do you will be fighting for this are successfully but this will be made possible only. because. of our people will understand that this is indeed interference and that we need to fight it after. also that this is unacceptable that we hear your words will you have this right to determine our own future story that comes from within. so if you have bloggers online influences online me here. you can use these butter and sugar

to help people understand their rights and you can respect our sovereignty we are open for corporation has always liked to cooperate on this issue with our partners we are always open for service and i don't think any other country isn't as open as we are in some of the states in the us which in the scope of your post was a turn state of the us a trade bit but it was by law to see the magic have any observer at the election that could well nothing of the kind here in russia we are open. we have observers here just. like there were very easily a number of organizations. that question the civic chamber for reasons. they will be acting as observers as well because they have this monday they have this right. political processes in the country political parties and media are entitled to that. and with all the strength of our car peroration of our work it

will love in the world we see a lot of attention on our part of the goal is that our people. would be sure that the elections. transparent. and there is also are legitimate and should be respected ok now let's assume for you know stay here for one question mr president governor police you one of the most respected members of the presidential pool jodel is. thank you for these. police conferences good to know that you found time for us to have a conference so that we could tell you the truth of the review and all that the governor team but there has dealt a heavy blow to the lives of many people from the provinces people who called me up and say it's hard to live it's hard to survive it has never been dead hard in

russia. to be in poverty. is rising poor people are getting poor unemployment is soaring purchasing power is going down our currency the ruble is going down prices are soaring he won't tell if he is on the rise because i sincerely something i want to tell you view the prices are gas and they've been doing that since september or august why has it become we surely now in december we used to need to well. after the president comes here and we did minister the starting in a working as they should be it was because they didn't listen to me you say. there will be caps. so maybe there might be a program that would help russia to get through the next weeks i am here representing websites and the radio moscow of which you. solution in

some situation is difficult i said at the beginning. of. the pandemic. so what are the police would entail closing some of the facilities in manufacture decides the unemployment has been going up. and. incomes program unfortunately. contracting perhaps is not just. this is a fact and we know that indeed happening and i said that it has never been dead difficult. well actually this is not to do that you the year 2000 we had the work to do it but it didn't use 29 percent of the population living below the poverty line. almost. one in 3 people here live and should have an income although work then the minimal wage not in the end 20171 we reached. out to dinner to due to the level of

1236.3 percent of the population living. with no less than that they did not minimum wages are lower than ours 13 percent and it went up it's $20000000.00 people now it's a lot of people and we know that we have a plan. some of that but i don't know how to make it better. we put a laser focused particle in order to help people get above. poverty line by the year 2030 we plan to explode in the traps not 13.5 percent of we have now but we use it to 6.5 percent in the whole of calis 6.5 percent we believe in below the poverty line with the encompass less than the minimum wage. 6.50 not good enough but let's be real this is very ambitious but yet. a perfectly

realistic goal c m. as for prices. to the prices sometimes they go off your objectively objective reasons because for instance the pirates hardware and equipment in the us becoming more expensive because the change. is not you just completely it might be different there is a variation so that we buy equipment we pay for it in should our currency in the ruble and year sometimes this equipment needs to be might become more expensive because of the currency change range but sometimes there is no objective reason then of course there deserves to. be decisive response. but i'm going to take him back to know. but there was a lot going on without objective reasons to it. we have a. record amount of problems and i was with. maybe maybe

we'll have 130000000 tons who that's the harvest we have yet to brad price surveys going up. it's becoming more and more expensive why so what's the reason that there are but i was once told that we need to. go with so now the producer it's weak but it's wide of the brown shoe was coming to our market we need to support now why sugar produces my we did that now we almost have a deficit when you put it we don't need to said we have enough white sugar for internal consumption at the same time we see. not enough the prices went up by almost 75 percent or south lower oil 70 percent would have enough of an article our sort of an american in cahoots with the reason is that the prices in international markets went up actual. that is why russian companies started exporting more but

the prices here and russia have been adjusted to level of the prices abroad but that's not acceptable what we had quite a tough talk over this and the government. has been responding actively what is important is that they would not be overdoing their religion and we should be working based on the market mechanisms in the bill or we should have adjusted to the terrace of the country's exporting will be importing terrorists these mechanisms and i do welcome well to venting a bicycle here we'll hear that but i think the agreement has already been signed the agreement between the retail chains and the producers so the produces are. flowing the prices and the retailers would reflect that on the most essential goods the more. not in the condition of this material of course prices. issued

be under close supervision and i hope that in the next couple days or weeks the situation will change to the better i wish to more from the movement if you don't we deal with what should be done and what the. are we doing to help people out in these very difficult times who 1st and foremost for the unemployment went up we had to do it but we had 4.7 percent now we have 6.3 percent. and we responded to that by increasing substantially the unemployment benefits and you all know that somewhere. some with your rule if you go to school with force we know that he is just a family split is 2 children suffer the most and we have a whole program to help families with children if a family has a child from 0 to 1.5 years from 1.5 to 3 and from 3 to 7 years those who have children with the age of 0 to 1.5 we give them

a benefit. for every child so if their income is less than the. minimum wages we would give $1.00 benefit then we should use the old more people in this program so that if they have less than 2 minimal wages then we give that family the right to give a woman the benefit of a privilege one minimal wage quote child. average child. a family has a child from 1.5 year old. age then. you look at the income it's the income is also lower than what we give that family the same amount but that is being conducted from the maternity capital is that true and do those families who have children between 3 and 70. years lives entitled to the full benefits is the income of the family. is less than the minimum wage that

we have paid to them 0.5 of the minimum wage for each child so that decision has already been made but on the way we. eliza murray should have thought that was written the who will look at how the eagles have been responding to this situation and all the families. will experience the same problem here the shoe were very low income and starting next year generally the 1st it's just room 2 weeks we'll be paying one minimal wage for every child to families who need that help. with the q these are the measures. they usually go to precisely measures that we really need opting out of here is there been one time payments to families with children. covering all children below 16. but you. will be supporting the labor market and we will talk about that later i think. this

is one of the focal points of our work and i think i can treat myself to a little bit more child discussing that with number of the main focus. realize the potential to achieve national development goals than the national project which we creating new jobs we are working hard to ensure that you make your show across but look at your rights to the challenges we are working hard to develop our own ai technologies. i would search for adoption facilities. and a fashion that would my at the people decent income and we have a whole lot of programs to make that happen and what we are working hard to do that . you can focus not forget about the region when you get to work we haven't been there yet so yes the capital of the urals we see journalists

from the federal district of the urals. we have 69 journalists with us today and we have news that i have to tell you the thing is i colleague. of ours from here recently gave birth to her son that's why she is missing today. as for the rest as you can see you get to ask the questions. so mr pascoe fire going to choose for yourself can you show can you show those to the audience can you show us the audience the journalists. first stroller with the car it says garbage. yes please take your mask. ask your question good afternoon mr president

the town of magic met it of course. my question is about the environment and the ways disposal reforms that we know it started january last year but it all started actually 5 years ago in 2015. when the concession agreement was signed and the project was developed. but unfortunately it stalled for some time now it's finally proceeding but why is the ways disposal waste management reform stalling across the country well i'm not and i wouldn't say it's as told that much there are a lot of issues regarding the organization of this program but the reform is in progress and we have a couple of important tasks ahead of us creating an entire new industry a closed circle of. industry where waste

goes not just it's not just going to sites where garbage sides. is actually repurposed or recycled. and before 2050 we had special segments of waste and recycled accordingly. what he would usually are currently it was one of the goals that for us for those who are responsible for this work. is to. make it a shared responsibility between those who produce products and those who create the packaging and products. so that the load itself the low. the responsibility for recycling is actually moved on from the

consumers to the producers and those responsible for the packaging and this is a practice that is used worldwide and this is something that we are going to adopt as well in the car industry for example we have the disposal to some that producers have to have to pay and this should be adopted across other industries and let me tell you the government the federal government and the regions are doing that but. we are rising to the task and we have special resources allocated some money allocated for this specific purpose and it's all going according to plan and since you're from magnitogorsk actually i have a question of the. related magnitogorsk and what's.

different. ways that your air is being polluted so i had a question about that. and i know that's magnitogorsk will in your recent years has changed a lot to reduce the emissions it's going to been suffering. but according to the data that i have the emissions were actually. being decreased but could you tell us what's happening with the emissions are there in magnitogorsk but . you know as a patriot i work at a newspaper with one of the factories we have special. facilities is used to clean and to prevent. harmful emissions. but. don't want that but if you have i think that many people may not like what i

am going to say but a lot of people in our countries in our region see the fog. in some of the factories because there's a lot of forget there's a lot of water there people see the fog and they believe that this is the smog the emissions the polluted air well it's not really that bad. and the smell that some people are talking about is not also something that's coming from the factories people in social media are exaggerating things well it's not just social media i had actually a message from one of the people living in magnitogorsk well i mean there are people that have something to say well yes that's why i asked that i know that the factory you're working in. actually contributed a lot and invested a lot much more than in other regions and other producers of metal products

much more and to reduce the emissions the amount of the missions and it has been reduced it has fallen so i was really surprised to see this letter this message from a person complaining. it would be actually we're doing a lot to create a system of. for to do what you call a. sensory. data words pick up where there is you're good at but it's polluted or not and this is going to be paid for by the producers but i think that the same will be done in a magnet or a school and the region around it so we'll be paying more attention to that as well i think you actually had a question before. for you. there was a question about. teachers you. were in the agricultural regions

so they have your work load of shit. as the surrogate a bunch and is writing as so with the workload of 15 hours a day almost a teacher gets as much money as a janitor in the same school at the same school so this question is what would make it from a collection of. messages of letters that i received. the same character and the same nature. why is this happening well we actually decided that the minimum wage would be lower than the subsistence wage. this is something that we changed and to this threshold has been moved so this is

why what you wrote about actually happened so minimum wage cannot be lower than the subsistence wage so basically the payment of the wages received by the janitor were actually increased to reach the minimum wage but the same should be done to reduce the subsistence wage but the same wasn't done. for the teachers it has to be done. and i would like to point out to the government that this is not acceptable this is not normal this should be changed ok let's go to the center of international trade and we can give the floor to the most prominent journalists here but let's give awards to the rookie here so again. can he get the mike. good afternoon mr president and i'm surrogate

schnoor of r t v i. will now illinois so i'm not going to ask you the question about in the valley i'm going to leave that to my colleagues so i'm going to go light on you. since my channel deals with international matters my question is about the russian hackers why were the russian hackers able to. get reelected this time have they all moved to the silicon valley of the of russia did you say russian people never betray their own so how can we support how you're going to give trump a little asylum if he asks for it like mr snowden did before him and now it's. a question from a personal level which was how can an ordinary russian person or an ordinary russian citizen like most of us. how can we we're doing in that how can he

described his life without using you know offensive words as they say. well let's me 1st address the latter part of your question. please address classical russian movies. when something heavy falls on your leg you should just say shucks or something like that you know the russian language is. quite. you know. it's something that can provide words and phrases for any situation and thank you for not using any slurs or offensive words when asking your question thanks for that which we thank you for being polite. as for the russian hackers and why this time they did haven't helped. trying to get

reelected i don't think this is a question this is a provocation on your part russian hackers have never told any american president gets elected never have never interfered in the domestic affairs of. this great nation that is the usa this these allegations are all that used to be to the issue of pocket to make relations between our 2 nations where suge illegitimate is the presidency of the nucleus of the outgoing president of the us. and in this way us russian relations are now hostage to american domestic affairs i think this is what this is worse for americans themselves i mean really because we believe that the current elected president when you're the president elect actually of the united states you. will realize

what's happening she is inexperienced in spirit and politician. has experience in both domestic and foreign affairs and i hope that the new administration will help us resolve some of the issues that still persist between our 2 countries but she put it in that i don't think that there is not there is any need for mr trump to. seek asylum with russia because he has been. has support of 50 percent of american population his has a huge base of support and he's not going to exit america's political life here ok let's go back to the kremlin to novel. can you show us the presidential pull their way here he did life ok live. life to the. you have the floor. that's right there are you know it's a good afternoon mr president it's from that i'd like to take the advice of these

rookie journalists as you said these several days ago we've seen a number of interesting investigation for example about your alleged daughter about mr about other people allegedly close to you and this week there was this investigation about mr novelle name why is there still no criminal case initiated so with respect about his poisoning. now well. speaking about all these allegations on these we had investigations they will always we will always see them this is a nation of growth. we've seen this information warfare before we remember the events in the caucasus the fight against international terrorism and how yours truly only pretty used to be presented. the way i was talked about in the press.

of during those years and i remember very well the way they depicted me but i always do what i think is best for our country. that we really are not doing it to look good for anyone richard i'm doing it for the betterment of our country. the 2nd part of your question. about. those close to me really skulking around i couldn't even bring myself to read this i just skimmed. through the pages i couldn't even finish it because well one thing that i saw there it says where do all the time they used to say that there was my son in law this book about my son in law then at the very end they said a legend son is lost son in law well. now they also said that he was going to put in prohibited. the elites from having property see you know

abroad well i never actually did that what i did was what i did state servants and politicians etc from having property or as something something else of broad now about people actually allegedly receiving them the stock. of some company well wisher management there were programs to we should give bonuses to. management and the person you spoke about actually received this bonus according to the rules that are in place and there were other people who received this different bonuses and that. most importantly.

we heard a question from mr schneider of about russian hackers and. museums in the. and i mean what they remember what they told us what they wrote at the very start that this was an anonymous person pursuing some anonymous goals and then we see. this person actually was and because it says that it was the same as in 2016. when criminal russian hackers associated with russian military intelligence leaks something to the american democratic party e-mails and legal information about remember who called these hackers criminals associated with the russian military intelligence it was the americans it was that. it was something that

they commissioned. so they're behind this again in the state department etc and you know what the goal is of this publication the co is range and attempts to influence public opinion in our country. in order to a way interfere in our domestic life and it's very evident to me and i think it is no evidence to most of the readers especially if you take into account everything that i've just said and explained to you another thing i'd like to say with us back to that because as i'd like to address those who commissioned these publications not those who wrote it i mean they're just as you know they just those who make stuff but those who commission it those who are older it's. not they're not guided . by revenge or some other

dark feelings but they should be actually guided by principles of mutual trust and respect and international law only if we do that only if we all respect these principles then we will have progress across many different areas now. i'm sorry your question about the patient and the berlin clinic are now i will let you comment i've commented on that multiple occasions and i can only say that again but you are actually mr colfer just reported to me yesterday about his she is thought to be on what our intelligence has to say about that when you my name to it and we understand very well what's going on both the previous time and this time but this is not an investigation this is not attempt to legitimize the. materials provided by american intelligence services

everyone knows this very well all intelligence officers know that. all intelligence officials intelligence officers use their photos without concealing their identity but actually. the patient at the berlin clinic is actually supported by american intelligence he receives support from them and they've it would look unusual if so then in relation to it well i mean of course he is followed by other intelligence services but even if it is followed by russian services or other services it doesn't mean that he should be poisoned i mean when they ask to get him out of russia to germany to get treated we gave them permission immediately. i mean another thing that the public doesn't notice is that

when the. with the human the idea is that this people follow. him and those who are prominent who are called famous and. this people actually like to criticize those who are above them and accuse those who are above them of well this case poisoning them this is a. technique used by these people to try to raise their profile. this is just a technique a way for them to gain approval of the people to tell them well i'm just as important as this person who tried to attack me. but you can only achieve. a new respect by having not sure results or having an actual program for change. if you're

a politician so i call on all the political powers in the country to be guided not by their ambition than by the personal desires it is going to but by the interests of the citizens is a good. they should always provide a positive agenda for change to resolve issues that we have and we have a lot of them. now let's move on to rostov on don. good afternoon mr president colleagues on. the. technical federal technical university. specialists for the leading factories and industry is. of the region but today we have all kinds of specialists here let's give the floor and i do. want them to. the person in the 4th row in

a jackets. well you have the floor good afternoon thank you for giving me this opportunity to ask the question most of. my question is variant on by traditional not about. the donbass. it's that and ever rather than to question. my name is. dawn some 24 hour news agency. so the question is what what are the prospects for reaching peaceful settlement in the republican. what are the prospects for the relations and the further development of the relations between russia and ukraine well speaking about relations between russia and ukraine that's up to the ukrainian leadership not just ukraine or ukrainian people pacifically ukrainian leadership with all their previous heads of state that you and the

current president mr selenski all came to power holding a better that they want to and conflict they don't want to end violence in donbass and reunite the country. and also for them they wanted to restore relations with russia but they never succeeded and that we should do it differently because the majority of the electorate going to georgia of the people who come to vote actually for that they are for peace before relations with their neighbors is the but when these brand new presidents come to power they see people around them and they don't have it as they want it the will the political will or maybe the courage to actually carry out what they promised what i wanted to do when i met my counterparts. during the meetings of the normandy format

we've reached quite a lot and we were able to exchange prisoners and agree on some things which i think nothing has been done has been done to remove the obstacles towards the development of the social and economic fears of social relations he will and officials unclear on many occasions have publicly stated they do not want that they are not intent to carry out the means. and they want to change the key principles of the mainstream and i'd like to know to you that these minsk agreements are actually supported by the un they are actually the same they have the status of international law. so if there was unfortunately what they can they cannot expect anything to be changed you know laterally both. but.

you know. i believe that peaceful settlement is inevitable the question is when you look again this is very much depends on the current ukrainian leadership. but differ with them russia has always supported the donbass people and we will continue to do so we will expand our support for them in fact but usually you and the same goes for supporting their industries resolving their national infrastructure issues social issues etc but will work steadily along these lines when you were to when you went. if we could do it you can rest assured that the situation that we currently see in the. you can again only not just in terms of humanitarian matters but in terms of direct cooperation this is something there that we have you very much interested in and this is our

priority you know ok let's now go to nizhni novgorod. good afternoon mr president we will of course. mr peskov this is nizhny novgorod we have over 70 journalists in the studio with us today. as a moderator let me choose one of these people. as if mr best golf allows me to do so yes yes of course yes ok let's go to our colleague who has a banner saying online since this is a man line conference listen traduce yourself good afternoon mr president my name is aleck us down of the newspaper. my question is about online education and this is a question that is discussed a lot since bringing this year our universities and our schools started online teaching so my question is. did the

hours of school and university systems manage that. how successful was that and another question is it something that is with us to stay here to stay with this new online system of education. and could this lead to a. to some problems with the education that is now a bit of the call that we have to separate online education in schools and online education at universities and other higher education institutions across the country. we have $39900.00 schools only 2 percent of them are actually operating completely online a part of them has both online and offline education and most of the schools

actually have only offline education well as for the higher school's. education institutions they are recommended to have online education as for schools now i have some data about the technological issues and preparedness of our institutions. and i'm going to go into detail about that later but of course we have issues with women it has to do with the basics of hardware because not everyone has computers internet and axis not yes yes we do have problems with that in small towns and villages now what we're going to do about that in 2021 schools and the russian federation we'll receive them high speed internet connection by 2021 years in 22 on some of the schools are already equipped with that in $20.00 to $1.00 by the end of the year it's going to be all of the

schools. now. speaking about high schools. 2 times in july and also we supported our educational institutions. providing them with. financial tools to. help them continue their services now. they expanded quickly they will have to use. them when they will expand the scope of the services that they can provide on line you know about the quality of education length of course but with what music online education will never. replace you know reacts to face to face contact between the student and the teacher when you. were in to see that happening with little or

a lot of time i guess when you move on the stand why you don't want to go into detail but high over. with a system where we have online education both schools and in higher education and the college and universities will definitely continue to develop this system i talked to some of the professionals use to do going forward with. high class professional can all always be present in multiple places so the same time and sometimes they're busy doing very search they can do it in person but they can do it if it's online and we have to use that opportunity. and you know that the serious school. has used that

opportunity in it and that's it. we're being used increasingly more often in other schools and colleges and universities we should be afraid it but we shouldn't exaggerate these are. not full life. so mass online education will not remain the only option. well you definitely would like to hint that the quality is not the same now as i said in person education can never be replaced by online did. you it's really great to be able to hear some famous and scientists. in day to day activities definitely online education. and usually have some. negative sides to dispense to deliver $100.00 education there is another area

and students. pay attention to this particular aspects and some even filed a lawsuit that we paid for in person education and the quality of online education is not the best but i understand i can relate to with what this saying and that kind of shared thier attitude where it there is the other side of the coin. so you have a lecture or reading lectures for an hour it's the same reading that amount of lectures offline or online should we pay that person unless. you. get a fever would you take the. breakdown of the costs up to 70 percent. of the costs. or is

the wage bill. that's the. salaries look at their wish but with them and they. doing really have any leeway any space to cut. their costs otherwise would have to shut down some of the colleges that if there is some specialist believe there are too many universities particularly in big cities that gets a concert a day them you know education specialists have raised that issue several times. but if we would like to be very cautious you. know. there's an opportunity if there's an option for some of the university is to. lower. the price

then basically they should do it if it's mainly medications mainly down in line as i said the government allocated funds twice to support universities we are ready to provide further support if necessary because. we have our camera man in toulouse showing a woman saying i'm pregnant because americans were brought over to you. but you know. the bridge in that in that image i think something to be glad about income tax on the cloud. cover that you guys i'm from resign. we're a lot 'd of reports are of poor officials corrupt officials but there are really great examples when officials are ready to sacrifice their charm and effort to. do whatever they can for the interests of the people on europe. you know we had

a fire a military depot awesome. 46000 tons of ammunition. on fire and people were panicky they were like in hell everything was on fire debris were flying around to pieces of shells were everywhere. and many people could not leave their homes. on their own and one of the officials. rescued 7 people who 1st rescued 2 elderly you he go wounded but then he came back. a. woman and her 2 children 8 years and 5 months old and then. the people you know she didn't. and we signed

a petition to watch team with the title of the hero of russia he's name is eager to get off. well. and she is the emergencies ministry of misters in chief was on sides and he saw everything we see no noise do you think ego deserves. to be rewarded with a title. if and if it's. just civilian lives that he. not in a. not in time of war well how is it related to the fact that your a pregnant or the 31st one god well some background info for you i visited your a press conference last time and it was 2 weeks before. the birth and i didn't have a chance to ask a question but this time i was lucky i thought if i have been that

that sign somehow you would notice us ok you fooled us. ok don't worry mr grech of indeed made a. courageous efforts he. went to risk his life was definitely he deserves the state award will think which award in particular but thank you for pointing it out thank you for raising this issue on xandra you might get it means that you are calling hearted person. and i'm sure that your children will grow up in a very good and kind hearted friendly environment will definitely look into this case think you think you. think you must approach than those which make them god and we're supposed to have the. national you must. want to

conference. and my colleague was supposed to send a video. to that. forum but somehow that feature was leeds and he's now being attacked and persecuted online so maybe you could think of somehow protecting our job as journalists why was he why is he being harassed why is he being unwise why did his. line well he raised an issue with the nobody's. thermal power plant. but there is some monopoly you know and someone leaks that it's a video that it was only my colleague and the executive committee of the national front who had that but then it was leaked and then mr carr all of that.

you know and other journalists to started accusing my colleague and we had other media. reports. at the moment we have a volunteer right right now i'm sorry mr peskov please don't interfere. with them it's the novel. combined. heat and power plant. he's right here please give him the 4. song of what his own chief editor of the sixty's. i was getting put in together in v.g. reports related to the nobody can buy. something

planned. and it was leaked. and as my colleague said being bullied sick used to saying that i'm a corrupt. corrupt why i don't really understand. where i'm really. are you fighting for the interests of the people who accuses you of of. being. corrupt you didn't kill anyone you didn't poison anyone but i. didn't kill poison or anyone. why you career up to a cold corrupt well very good leave that. this criticism he's on the fair. will. get you should understand that your job involves certain risks on the contrary the fact that you have such an uproar. and the uproar

that is being paid by someone should convince you that you're on the right track and asked for this number is a. plant material. well i'll ask my colleagues to look into it but only you would i want to get in but only what i would i was at the bottom of it at the chance that it's a private firm. just not been you that's a private company that leases and capacity from. the city of. ok lost competent authorities to look into it thank you so much for raising this issue. you just need to hold the fords but if nothing particularly you know nothing strange going on that's life you know people writing stuff about me too. you have to carry on. you go to mass for you go to. who is he

by profession what kind of job what kind of position. alexander can we get alexander back on line. who we. know he's a vice governor vice governor. of the rise and region why have another paper i gotta think you have another paper. from the leningrad region valar savant with the village of allah so you can add totally to the heart of. look. here that's the kind of. conversation he had with some of the officials but he came with an issue and the official asked him when he did yeah you promised you that i did put him promise you that i didn't promise you that and so

here's the question from that guy from why you think you do we have such officials why do they behave that way. you could just like to point out to you that we have different officials. like grech of god and we have bad guys the ones the you are referring to. good and bad people everywhere. but. it's likely that anything we definitely there's a black sheep will be in every flock and we will. definitely i'd ask the governor to sort of sort of the issue in the glass of wine with. you but you just it will go to the thirty's with many with welcome to st petersburg we have the. northwestern federal district. you can see you we have calm and quiet no one's having brash flashy.

signs. that saint. when will the borders open finally is that a question i'm sorry. you seem to be just because diary. and day and when will we see the borders. being opened as you know produce burke was recognized. as a world class destination in the studios and leaving behind. new york rome. strong competitive. getting the borders open is really important for the. top. we know that. their communications could be open soon we have some surprise countries. it's got let me see what countries where few

russians ever being and we have their communication with them. but. tourist industry is really struggling can you bring enough taxes to the city budget to stand the pandemic easing image plays a major role is there still a chance that the borders will be opened soon. thank you. kerry we both love st petersburg in which to put that i'm sure everyone loves him put his work i'm sure that the vast majority of all people. love. him when you boil this city to. you know it it's one of the best world capitals. and that's been a magnet for tourists we've been helping. in every possible way this year in terms of roma those who come to st petersburg look at the ferries

that will be cool to try to create favorable conditions for the tourist industry. elsewhere across russia and i would like to congratulate in pittsburgh for scooping that award winning. that truly that city deserves that award. a world class. you know when we meet with. them really. and all that shit with them with 2 top notch detects even that of the current contemporaries think british is 60. in every way and then we have new york urban environment. new infrastructure. cropping up the. only new facilities sports facilities gasper. cultural facilities

you might be putting in st petersburg them with. top class of in the. world competitions them if you can you should be getting money because definitely attracts a lot of attention to st petersburg which living well definitely the borders are closed not because someone wants to it would be quicker. do something to ship st petersburg juneau what's the incidence trains think of it 19 in st petersburg by at the most up and going and yes it's high even given the average nationwide figures this is why we definitely have the restriction was pleasing for new year holidays. yes you're right hospitals are really busy so in terms of the. hospital. beds it's 85 percent across the country and in st petersburg the occupancy rate for hospital beds is even higher than 85 percent this is why we have

so much concern if the doctors go the lights we open the borders. we definitely want our people it. was more than 2. chances to travel to simplest burke to. used to measure tourist opportunities. but definitely everyone is welcome to st petersburg and we do need to open the borders for that and we put it once that's possible we'll do that. at the p.t. will ski definitely airflight it with them is one of the english were sedate industries and we definitely need to. allow fly it's going to be in and out to support that industry but it is a 1000000 actually $32000000.00 russians it is up to him that is the going to flow that's what we have but you know that's broadly out of the $35000000000.00 us

dollars but look that's how much they spend brought. if we re divert some of that funding some of those funds because you are a cities to our villages they'll be great in st petersburg deserves that and i'm sure it will rise to the challenge ones we can open the borders we'll do that so you can. no longer can he show the journalists that. you know we can now you have a channel one was. to stick to shipping. you can have one look at the computer cancer channel one we're going to open the let's go back to january and february before. but you were not forced into my manual

micro-management said you were the government and you were speaking about the breakthrough saying the. government was supposed to spearhead the breakthroughs at what we know there's been even the national goals were put off until 2030 years of people but of. aleksey kudrin rights that the national projects were not able to help in achieving the national goals by 2024 or is it the pandemic and i 2nd question is what about the government. and what is it coping. there is what could have been reshuffled had been in the governments are we supposed to expect new ones and what about the breakthrough that's my. first question. our strategic long term goals will remain in place and we have to adjust to the realities of the call. ok we were just listening there to president

putin doing during his q. and a session is on your session and we'll come back to that shortly but 1st we want to bring you some breaking news because the french president has tested positive for cope with 19 official say that a man who will self isolate and continue to work remotely the president took a test after suffering a number of coronavirus symptoms so that's the breaking news i keep across that this afternoon too but let's return now to some of the k. points that are being made during this q. and a session from vladimir putin and to help us do that i think we can go to. right now who is down there at the conference hall where it's all happening. we know this has been going on for just under 2 hours now what have been the key points that have been raised. here drew. good afternoon well we've been listening to a lot of our putin's answers to questions from all across russia are you absolutely right it's been happening for just under 2 hours and

a number of highlights i can already go through for you because there is quite a few points to digest and to look through for example 1st of all the issue that matters most perhaps not only in russia but globally is of course the pandemic its consequences and ways to deal with it and the whole world is counting on the development of vaccines and we do remember that one of the 1st of the vaccines globally was developed here in this country the so-called sputnik v. and we also understand that the general public usually looks at the rich and powerful they want to see whether the most senior officials or moguls if they go for the vaccine if they go for the jabs to make their own decisions on whether they should get vaccinated so one of the questions for the russian president was

straightforward did he take the vaccine and what is his advice for the general public and this is what the russian leader responded to that. russia was the 1st country in the world came up for that soon vax and started producing mass faxing. so mr putin went on to say how much he was joint work by the firm which is how the british have swedish astra zeneca and russia's institute that developed the 1st vaccine in russia this joint work began i believe only a couple of weeks ago and we. we understand how important that is to join the efforts of such powerful research groups another question to vladimir putin was about to the quantity the number of the vaccine doses that are to be

produced in the future mr putin believes that in the next few weeks russians will be able to receive millions of vaccines but we understand that the country is much bigger and that's why one of the questions was if russia cooperates with other countries will there be enough doses for the citizens of this country to which mr putin spoke about how much moscow while comes cooperation with different countries on production but mr putin believes that the vaccine could be produced abroad using the resources of foreign countries which does not require any kind of access to usage of resources here in this country so ultimately according to the russian leader there will be enough doses for all the russian partners and the citizens of this country here in russia now just moving on with the part of the

press conference that perhaps began to sound a bit more heated it was after a question from. talking there so we lost the connection and let's return now to the press conference through the q. and a session this being held by president putin it is g probably to go on for another hour yet so let's listen back in we have shootouts here in moscow suitably. memory of them and it wasn't happening elsewhere was he arrived in front. of these buildings right on the streets and the constitution. was adopted it meets the bill you. situation i mean those facilities the constitution in the deed. stabilizing role to play. helped create the certain political bases to help the

country move forward a bit but but a different situation. on the line with this situation we had to change the the main law as we call it you could. introduce amendments to the constitution. we would all be able to do certain things early in getting take these social guarantees of social security's guarantees to. perpetuate the adjustment of pensions would it be possible to do that it would have been possible to do that in the 93 years later people didn't get retirement benefits or salaries for or allowances for 6 months. it's a different situation now. current heads of companies and future heads of commons would have to do these adjustments they have to adjust the pension benefits to inflation and that we now have the fundamental

economic conditions that help us to do that here that some of the colleagues raise the issue of how difficult a struggling. we are people are but definitely in with our salaries need to be higher than the minimum wage set in the. middle or. these adjustments are set forth in the constitution it could be other. issues. but. you know we adjust the salaries for some of the work is. some of the other professions. paid right now but the government would have to do it the minimum wage cannot. lower than the minimum steps to subsistence level and definitely they would

have to take action. but if you. put it like and the amendment has also. asserted the priority of russia's legal system over international ones or theme viability of our territory with we'll take the state of the russian army was in in 1903 we were able to do that no you wouldn't use a nuclear bomb for every incident and the conventional forces were in disarray and they were the army was in taxes 50000 but we needed an army of 50000 to fight the terrorists in the caucuses and we were unable to do that the army by back then was 1000000 but we couldn't find 50000 capable soldiers and right now our army is smaller but it's one of the most efficient armies around the world

it's smaller but it's more efficient. we're strong we can put it on paper only make it as part of the constitution we did it on time it would approach the problem by the way you know how many. of the suggestions we had a situation with thousands of a gay man so i'd like to thank our people for what they were dead it was a normal russian vote and many people that came in. and cheese what they wanted to see in a constitution that was basically a referendum so the people are the author of these amendments to the constitution but you know it was necessary it was timely and i would like to thank the people of russia for doing that for supporting these amendments thank you when you're ready but we haven't yet. i heard anything from star ripple from the region of star

republic. this is terrible the south of russia. but it's you i think we are even more to the south than the last of one because well get across the pond on might be the saudis and religion but graphically speaking caucasus is the 7 point on our territory here we have a lot of journalists and they are willing to ask you a question if you get into the mind let's start right ahead when you. ask oh if i may i would be the moderator here yes of course. so let's ask someone from reaching the floor. that should be a lady i think ladies 1st you know if. someone in the center 123 you please could you please stand up. thank you. very nature chair so my name is. lonnie and then you know. i can only say

that we. are living through this. 19. severe blow to our lives health care system has been undermined. ok we were just listening there to our president. but let's go back to every stablished the link with him earlier we were talking about the key point that he raised over the last few hours just continue when you were mentioning about. what are the issues to you have been brought up. yes andrew hour was talking about the vaccine just to remind you the information that we got from lot of our poll is that russia is ready to produce at least several 1000000 doses of its own vaccine that it's called we also found out that vladimir putin has so far not been vaccinated but that is only because for now it's only safety use the

vaccine on a certain age group but whenever the doctors allow him to do that mr putin says that he will definitely go forward so clearly that's a signal for citizens of russia and if you want the rest of the world that the russian vaccine is safe and it is ready to use for a certain age group the russian leader put it now besides this i can tell you that there is a joint project by the firm astra zeneca which is how swedish british and also the russian institute which is the creator of the russian v. jab and these 2 have begun working together and that is also something that is welcomed here. in the kremlin and mr putin was also asked about the geopolitical slide of the covert pandemic to which the russian leader

responded by calling on the some of the members of the international community by calling to lift the sanctions from the countries that are most of them vulnerable to the so-called economic and social side effects of the pandemic that is also something else that we heard from the russian leader but when finally other issues began to be brought up during this press conference. press secretary gave the floor to a musician turned journalist is actually a russian rock star who is known as the surrogate. and this was the man who really decided to stir things up a little bit the way he worded. his question was the following why did mr trump lose what happened to the russian hackers or did they all of

a sudden move to the silicon valley to which the russian leader responded by saying that it was devore the case of russian hackers winning the election for donald trump and so this is what he went on to say about the u.s. election in 2020. 3 the russian hackers have never actually. had an american president elect said never never interfere in the domestic affairs of get their wish this great nation back is the usa see this if these allegations are wrong we choose to. use to issue a call to make relations between our 2 nations worse soused to legitimize the presidency of the. the outgoing president of the us system. and this way to us russian relations. hostage to

american domestic affairs. so this was the point of the q. and a session after which the issue with opposition activist alexei vali was brought up and also in particular the reports that have come out online and also in some western media organizations about a potential 2nd poisoning or ballots an alleged team of russian secret service operatives that were following a like say no volley again these are just allegations that were put forward and these reports that mr polk replied that he's absolutely confident that the kremlin critic is supported by u.s. intelligence and this explains why he could be followed by russian agents agents of

the russian secret service and also he mentioned that this is absolutely not a reason for him to be poisoned and here is you know how mr putin reacted to these claims so let's listen to the full segment of mr putin's answer to that. but the patient at the berlin clinic is actually supported by american intelligence who receive support from them if so then of course he is followed by other intelligence services but even if he is followed by russian services soul or other services it doesn't mean that he should be poisoned. was with you so andrew i look at my watch and i can see that it's 9 minutes past 2 moscow. which means that a lot of our putin has been talking for more than 2 hours already we know that

usually such kind of press conferences even though this year it's a different format using the video conference usually they last for about 4 hours or so or more than halfway through let's listen in to some other questions and i guess some other topics will be brought up as well definitely by our correspondent who was together in one room with vladimir putin one of the few lucky journalists that are there and the times of pandemic so we are looking forward to eager squash and. really i'm told we've got a couple more minutes with. we've got time to go through a bit more but if you say we do expect him to at least for another hour or so are there any other a she did you expect him to talk about i mean he's gone through a whole gamut hasn't he but is there anything else you expect him to talk about. definitely for at least 40 minutes i believe so mr prove has been talking

about the consequences of the pandemic he has been mentioning the way russia has been trying to deal with it and in fact he believes that the forecasts for the decline in economy that were made for the country were much worse than the actual situation at the end of the year that the government is looking at this point so he is very proud of the performance that the government has done thanks to the efforts that were made during the pandemic so perhaps he will be asked a few more questions about these. these stories that still have to do with the pandemic because it's by far not over but surely regional issues in countries that

are neighboring to russia like. the conflict that is now all but. again there but he was talking about what else is to come let's find out ourself shopping go back to that q. and. putting it down to pressure on the e.u. and surprisingly so good morning europe germany in particular are pushing back against those pressure so if you would be needed what other prospects will we build with what will be completed the construction of an arc of well carpet a ball not carved. you could partner negotiations but i'm not passing the judgement on anyone here all these people are highly professional and exceptionally well prepared for any talks or any actions they are laser focused to achieve the tasks which they have. set for themselves for their country the means of achieving these goals might be given them. there are no bad or good

politicians there only interests of your country it's the same with me and i don't say that this position is good and this one is bad i work with everyone because my goal is to. get as much as i can for my country for russia to get to congress sometimes you have to reach compromise sometimes you have to insist that our interest should take priority but that's how it works all the rest is counterproductive. you mentioned some of the countries putting on us well actually it's good that. you forgot china. so for those you know china our interest in are quite similar on many. would it maybe they saw for you the militia maybe some chemistry at the personal level as helping us to build a very good of business relationship and also

a personal relationship with the head of china painter it would and that helps a lot of you actually. right now or we might be different on some we shoes is going to more than the president. was going to sometimes but you're probably we are worlds apart. because he's a person who always deliver us he's a real gentleman. he never should desert and if indeed never walks back from a promise and he does everything to do good. for his country and it's easy to you know forecast what his next step will be and being predictable is a really good quality it's good for me because i know what to expect from him or other such as you mentioned in order to him to project. them out and out of the absolutely. clear that it is

a win win for everyone it's a huge huge win for the e.u. for germany in particular there is a different option for them because by more expensive. resorts liquefied gas from that estate it's price. 20 percent higher than the pipeline guess that we supplied us to with your money because that will make the economy of germany less competitive and the prices for households would actually skyrocket that's all pretty simple it's cut and dry you don't need to be a professional to notice things. because the left this project reflects national interests of germany and the e.u. economy in which you look by the way we have a lot of people who we deem our friends in germany. i'm not exaggerating anything so the leadership that it's unusual in germany does not interfere in this because this is a purely business project and the moment you know which is the project and they are

quite open about their position they supposedly approach you wholeheartedly i think what is needed is to complete the construction of 160 kilometers that's 4 pipelines it's 165 maybe if i remember it right so it's almost finished. i think it will be completed and i hope that they new administration of the united states would but. its allies would respect. not be trying to. but you particularly force them into neglecting their own national interests and i hope that the new station will work the following the principle of a fair competition. but i hope this project will be completed. i think we should go back to the call center. we thought you had

forgotten about us we have lots of questions and they are growing in number let me remind you that you can ask your question for our website put in or the application you can record a video or sound a text message so now let's. see what our volunteers have you're going to such a teaching again he processed over 900000 requests from the russians some of them had to do with delivering the math into people could you please share what have you been doing it's still a lot of question that i received after deal with the benefits social benefits support especially so. questions from other people want to know whether there will be additional benefits because right now in some of the regions like in the region of our only and i was. in many regions on the news now people still don't know what what they are entitled to and where to go to get the benefits in moscow people say

that the multi-functional centers do not work as they should they are closed and they can't get the money which. the service doesn't work automatically through the website of the state services and people are worried and concerned they don't know ultimately to ask for this benefit so the main question mr put in the main question is as follows next year will you be giving additional benefits to channel children because most often. these help is just like it is very much needed and the help which is being given right now is the only kind of help people can get through ok. benefits. for. children i already described we started doing their families with children between the 0 and 1.5 we were in 3. point 53 between 3 and 3 categories. of people are saying that they don't

understand where to. to get this benefit it seems that there are some problems with information supported i think to you cry thinking of what to do in addition to what we have already done we need to use to do give them a complete what we've been doing already and we have a lot of the target support measures for regions especially for regions with really much a different kind of. graphical situation before making any steps further we need to achieve maximum performance on what we have been doing already people put them in prison i will discuss this issue with the governor sent the presidential envoy so we will look into this issue but usually this issue can be solved through the father or the multi-functional center if they are close due to comment 19 but they make it ok we will sort this one out and thank you for pointing my attention in that direction and it's good to know that people know where to go for to pursue

issue to voice their concerns thank you so much as well volunteers have been doing a lot of work and it's important because we talk personally or rather forward with the people who have these concerns so thank you for your honesty somebody when it was with you i'm really surprised to hear that i'm actually quite. alarmed now to know that people cannot get the benefits which they are entitle to us i can assure you i can assure those who need these help road or call you up that we will look into these cases with you let me say something else a lot of questions have to do with the health care system. in europe for example the region of altai. he has central hospital has been closed. and the person who wrote about this natalie. because bob the cover.

if i got the surname right people are panicking that the hospital is closed well i will take a look at my new number issue in a minute we're going to move i'm saying this so that the governor of the region and the envoy from the region could hear that sometimes it happens. that health care facilities or would you question the facilities close down the great and small settlements because well it would be profitable but if people have nowhere to go except this one hospital or school that we should keep it open for the material russia's future and we shouldn't be doing any such things. ok let's stay here for a moment andrea kolesnik of police. good afternoon this is thomas sun newspaper mr putin. valentina teary scar.

it would have put forward initiative to say that the presidential terms can be zeroed out as we say means that when. i say person pacing they're just answering a few questions during his annual q. and a let's go back to. just to talk about some of the key issues that have been raised over the last couple of hours a day when i spake we talked about. president putin is also being asked a lot about international relations hasn't it sure well in particular a lot of our putin was asked about foreign leaders that he cooperate with the ones that he's more confortable dealing with and others that are perhaps less friendly and how they get along with the russian president and in particular mr putin mentioned the chinese leader xi jinping has someone who is his friend but then he

went on to talk about the turkish prised entire period one and specifically he did that to point out how a country that has disagreements with moscow could still deal with russia and make progress on a lot of issues and speaking of mr the one of a lot of our putin said this we often disagree but is a man of his word which is predictable very important for the russian government and also that is a factor that makes it easy for russia to work on some of the most difficult regional and international issues here and this is what really helps so that's what we heard from the russian president on that mr putin also had something to say about the north stream to pipeline project now this is a project that has been in trouble for quite

a while now. as of the american sanctions originally it was meant to be a new pipeline to ensure we direct natural gas deliveries through the baltic sea from russia to europe in particular the final destination at the 1st stage was supposed to be northern germany. or right now whole let me just interrupt myself for a 2nd and something important to say let's listen in. and well that's how it is. if it happens we are ready to go with him where would you support him. ok story would be whether it was it worth. putting forward that amendment to the constitution or not i have one in us a rule that. answering that question you should understand one thing we. will what we do help the country or not if it is not going to help our country we

should do it if it will help we should do it for me i haven't decided yet i don't know whether i will be running again in 2024 that is for stable growth and development of russia that's the ultimate goal for. formally speaking of the people supported this amendment i will let you consider it the people are the options now soprano's. open source. it to open sources it's up for the prosecution to establish the truth and he's not being tried before he's sure noised activities. so that's the whole point. was really not because of professional activities we should really start a dissident shown always fighting the authorities and he's be punished for that

input. in the for that it's not like that only reason charges are no way connected to he's a professional work as a journalist of them this has to do with something else we've been working with an . advisor or deputy to or a god. when he was part of the garment and he already moved to the russian space agency and he had nothing to do with sure knowledge of it you say he might have made a mistake well mistakes happen. but we can't pardon him of this well yes we can we should take a look at how dangerous he's activities might be. did he do any damage. he's charged with espionage actually not high treason but the biggest sin that we can commit treason. for not giving information sensitive information to 4 in secret services is to reason. with them which would i

know i know and i understand. it doesn't really sound good to those who trust him and. trusted him or trust him to tell now and i really feel for you but on them we're human and i can say that i actually feel for him he made that mistake he'd been collecting the information for days and weeks and fitted this information to foreign secret services for a premium for some money that shows that he's that kind of person let me say it again it's up to the court to decide whether he is dangerous to. society to the country or not it can be part of the march towards well that's stage 2 we are at stage one it's too early to say. ok let's continue here maybe we should have a question about sport match t.v.

. thank you so much. mr putin when it was all good match t.v. so foremost i would like to thank you but we have to thank you for. breaking our 5th anniversary so sending your greetings was a great pleasure to us thank you for your very high opinion about our work and our team so my question what it has to do with sports to some degree actually this issue is broader than that situation i'm referring to is stuff that happened to march of 8 i know that he's personally now been intimately it was leaked. and there was a huge uproar. like you know almost every media platform covered this problem with actually scandal some to express solidarity some the the i'm still here the opposite thing but let's remember that he didn't do it on his own those who are

hackers i think they well help to go online so those were some very decent people who did that this question is not really related to sports only now that we see their fleet. but all of them maybe it will be someone else after that who will face the same kind of scandal so don't you think that the situation shouldn't be actually affecting professional activities of a person in a fleet already other professional. well i think the answer is quite clear it should be affecting your work it's up to him personally to decide whether. he was doing there should be no we do feel in the game personal matters it's desire this is for someone or for the whole of society to discuss such issues publicly he's a public person who. sooner or later was coming and what he got well he

got there because for public people. it's always a problem to keep your internal personal affairs closed to you. so don't forget that there are some rules you have to abide by. really should. or should that fact your professional activities the series of course not. in that context. but like you say that do i did you see that we did you we should. actually mr putin i think the whole country. ok what a moment. just shows that the broad range of questions that president putin gets at the sort of q. and a sessions. before we were talking about we talked about international relations and you were also talking about russia's relations with turkey. and then moved on

andrew to talk about the nord stream to pipeline project which is in hot water after the pressure that's been coming from the u.s. authorities when it comes to that particular pipeline just to remind you again this is a way to deliver russian natural gas directly from this country to europe and this is a joint project by a number of european countries mainly germany and russia's gas but again it's been increasingly under pressure from the donald trump administration and it looks like nothing's going to change or not much is going to change joe biden so mr putin once again reminded everyone that this is a project that's very important for the economy of europe and this is something that is. that's good for both russia. and for the

countries in the e.u. and he really hopes that finally the us is going to somehow come back to the rules of fair competition because apparently what the u.s. administration has been up to and what they're planning to keep going isn't something that reminds us of fair competition now just to remind you of what was said at the beginning of the press conference surely the matter that worries everyone around the world is the pandemic or the so-called 2nd wave we are experiencing log downs in different parts of the world and the remedy for all of that should be the vaccine and we understand that several types of vaccines have already been registered and. implementation has been begun

in different parts of the world and this is the case in which the ordinary person what happens with him or her they would probably watch out for the decisions being made by the rich and powerful and this was the case one the russian president received a direct question from someone in the audience and one of the russian regions whether he has taken the vaccine bottom or putin said that for now he hasn't but this is only because of some age restrictions at this point but surely he will do it when he last to do so and vaccines are a good thing so listen to what exactly president putin said about other matter of covert and vaccines. with. russia was the 1st country in the world came up with that soon vaccine that started producing bass faxing skewed vaccine safe for 95 percent to fix some specialists. up to

97. major incidents related to side effects and some of the foreign counterparts already to cooperate in this area astra zeneca is ready to work with us i'm really happy that specialists at this level of the top level and the area this is a major company you know it will astra zeneca if you know combine those efforts with the russian i'm sure the outcome will be a really good one for russian people around for people around the world. the head of the russian government when talk on to talk about the nations that are not only suffering from the effects of the pandemic but also from sanctions and mr putin in this regard believes that this is the time to lift some of the sanctions against these countries to make sure of that they can go through these difficult

times and this is something to ensure that the people in these countries don't suffer so here's a message from the russian leader to the rest of the international community now moving on to some of the other aspects that were brought believe in the last 10 minutes or so mr putin was asked about whether he's already made up his mind about the russian election in 2024 whether mr putin is ready to go for the next term and this is something that's been allowed by the amendments to the russian constitution to which the russian president responded that whatever the russian government is doing is to make sure that this is done for the benefit of the russian people and he just reminded that the majority of washroom russians voted in favor of these amendments for the constitution that means they supported

that that means. that that option to run for another term is open for him but mr putin says that he has not made up his mind because there are still at least 3 and a half years till the next election in russia which is a long period of time and clearly at this point he is not ready to answer that question now going back to the 1st part of the quote a press conference something important that was a voice in a bit of a provocative way by a musician a singer turned politician and journalist nor off i just want to kind of tell you give you the impression of the manner in which that person asked his question. was. it was a question not a joke a serious matters but the way he did it was why did donald trump

a lose why did the washington hackers what happened to them did they all move to the silicon valley and what is donald trump going to be up to in the near future this is what mr putin responded to all that which is the. russian hackers have never actually. had the american president elect said never never interfere in the domestic. work that get their wish this great nation back is the usa see this these allegations are only refused to use to issue a call to make relations between our 2 nations worse to legitimize the presidency of the. of the outgoing president of the u.s. . and. russian relations. to american domestic affairs. well moving on

with more issues that were brought up during the press conference i can tell you that. the next question or maybe. in several questions mr putin was asked about the recent reports that came out in the western media and also online about the way like same the volley opposition activists the ways he was poisoned here in russia and to that mr putin replied by saying that. these kind of situations. isn't something that is out of the ordinary in the sense that the russian government believes that mr is being supported by western intelligence and this is how he explained why he could have been followed by agents

of the russian secret services that was something that was mentioned in the report that came out on a like save the volley on our own you tube channel and here's what else he said about that when that question was brought up. but the patient at the berlin clinic is actually supported by american intelligence who receive support from them if so course she's followed by other intelligence services but even if she is followed by russian services or other services it doesn't mean that she should be poisoned. with. the so in this particular situation the message from the russian leader was that these reports that come to light in the western media and online are only

a reflection of. some kind of story that was prepared by western intelligence or western secret services he's mentioning the u.s. intelligence in particular and all these reports in the western media. labeled as attempts to legitimize that story so this is what. this was his reaction to the mostly a latest developments in that regard. now moving on to the possible things that mr putin could talk about we can definitely remember the stories that were in the headlines lately that have to do with russian neighbors for example the protests in belarus and also the conflict in the caucasus the one between armenia and azerbaijan and i can also remind you that

mr putin is over there in his residence but he's not alone even though he's not received the vaccine yet a number of journalists have to be quarantined for more than 2 weeks to be able to sit next to vladimir putin face to face and he. is also there and actually i did get a tip off from him on what he wanted to ask and that question was about the tensions that have to do with religion and that's something that we've been hearing about lately from europe mostly because of some violent terrorist attacks that did have to do with islamic extremism in particular in france so let's hope that he gets to ask this question because surely we are looking forward. to mr

putin to hearing mr putin's thoughts on that so yeah let's see whether that happens or not absolutely and i would say that it's very unpredictable isn't it considering he has the whole country many members of the public from all over the country gets a phone in as well because it is a feint and we should remind our viewers as well as that that you get to rush their questions. i want to talk to you about ukraine to you because president putin did say something positive in his opinion in that he thought that peace is inevitable in ukraine but what else they say about the situation. to be honest with you andrew i believe he was talking about ukraine i was talking to you so that particular bit i did listen to but clearly that issue is still very important because the covert pandemic was definitely something that took its toll on the

peace negotiations that began between ukraine's well mr zelinsky no longer a new president but back in the days when he rose to be when he took that presidency in ukraine where remember there were high hopes for renewed peace talks between vladimir putin and bloomers olinsky we know that there's such a thing that is called the normandy format when the leaders of germany france ukraine and russia meet up in that meeting did happen exactly one year ago in december but because of the cold bit and because of some irregularities in that peace process because of violations the cease fire and other there were also other reasons for that these peace talks were put on hold and the stalled and still though vladimir putin as we've been hearing from him is expressing hope that some of that can be revived and let's hope for that but now let's go back to

that. press conference because being told mr putin is talking about something important. to take from the political system in. germany their political system has evolved over decades and even centuries in the parliamentary forum it was built over 3 centuries but it's. a resilient political platform. he's clear to everyone with the. certain base what about the serious countries do we have these traditions you know this is a resolve the results are not of what we see today. we have to treat everyone with respect the a looking they're searching for their own identity for their own path. from a political will to some that we are in a phase and the president of i wish all the best and wish the success.

she represents when you put it represents a political force she believes her statement is not something new to us in the representatives of different western countries have called on the withdrawal of peacekeepers but if you. present to moldova where she's also a. citizen of roumania. ok we heard the calls from foreign countries to withdraw their peacekeepers yes we are in favor of that one so we have the right environment once we have direct normal dialogue between the trans needs to a region and we. ones we are in a reconsolidation and peace face we are in favor of that. and we were close to that so with a previous president of iran in. the representatives of the western countries push team and the last minute we said ok we will do it he made

a step back. and. the resolution of the settlement of the trans needs to conflict was put off for an uncertain time why i ask you counterparts why did you do that they said well ok well you know we did that. that's the way turned out i don't want to go into detail but this issue has to be resolved. have a certain point now take. i made multiple statements on that. but it's the people themselves need to. sort out those issues and i come where the president made a statement about that spoke multiple times i agree with him that it needs to be done in a carbon environment in a safe environment initiated. amendments to the constitution well let's wait and see. what. the only thing we really wanted to

achieve here is that no interference from the outside in the domestic affairs of ucas there's interference at this point as information and support from abroad this financial support for certain parties coming from abroad and there's never leads to anything good i can see through the mask that you're smiling but this is critically important. you know why because it is difficult you are. so you know what you're when there should be change within the society it has to be grounded in some things that has been developing for a long time within the country not thrown a note from the outside like a grenade blowing up. all you have to do is actually be patient wait

for all the domestic political forces with you not to start a conflict but to engage in dialogue. towards protecting people's interests but that's how it should go actually that soon we're going to have a c.i.s. event in the oil years and i think this is going to be a timely thing to do by the end of the year but we're going to discuss with our colleagues the top priorities for us to address now let's go to the borg. you know the people in the urals are very serious they're not shouting but we have many signs many more actually during the start of the press conference now let's give the floor to these to the young woman in this 2nd row that huge deal and now like a. channel 4 and the name is you could say you know it's again my sign read the

word locked which is a staple of of all our languages at this point. unfortunately the coronavirus epidemic our region very hard and i could see that many other regions and countries are war region didn't receive a 1000000. rubles that it should have received many jobs are lost many companies have to fire the staff. and the federal and regional budget has been trying to help these companies as well as families with children interpreters etc but the situation is still very difficult so my question is what are your prospects for our economy to. gets out of this crisis period how how soon could it happen. and could this the pace

at which we can do this has something to do with the fact that you didn't introduce new lock downs in september. well yes thank you and this is a very timely question and very appropriate question especially coming from your tour in bourke which is a is the urals are in fact a very important of important critical industrial center of a country and anything. and they call this pandemic of course had a very serious effects on the region and on its output but little more to them and the lives of people there i mean but let me. get into detail with respect to this specific question so the industries which are most. affected because if you force transportation especially air transportation it

rail trail railroad transportation especially traffic. and of course. that's. sales and services and of course that's the fitness center that's retail the trust strong cafes etc so we want. to have we done what has the government done and i've said that over the year the government of thing working very working very intensively. to support both the citizens and the economy still and so on the whole. not. just named outlined so are all industries so what has to be done. so we have postponed all that were payments except for the.

the word we have provided special financial. grants and subsidies we have provided 0 percent loans we have provided in some companies with. loans. with the guarantee that the loan will be written of if the company could ledges. and maintain 90 percent of their personnel or. writing off 80 percent if they actually managed to keep 80 percent of their personnel now we also need to create a new payments for rent of your state property and for small and medium enterprises we have reduced payments social payments from 30 percent to 15 percent and this is something that is here to stay this is permanent so this

is the package of measures that have generally supported the affected areas and industries apart from that we have also worked with representatives of systemic industries such as the car industry the car industry. aircraft construction. ship building industry agriculture and of course construction which are. not so good i was speaking about. the car industry we had a very active program for example. yesterday which was you know we had the p.d. 14 russian and it used in 21.

new products and this this is also an achievement of our car engineers aircraft engineers and we've had a good new modifications over new cars. but it will not ship building has seen an 30 percent increase despite all the problems associated with the pandemic some good as for construction yes this year but. if you were buildings have been build but we have maintained the industry at a very good level. especially in part thanks to the subsidies in mortgage for example the 6 percent mortgage provided to a lot of people and a lot of other subsidies and measures tasked with helping people. that

they have been worth it for. 3 trillion rubles which is over 4 percent of the g.d.p. of the russian should it be allocated. to support russian people and russian companies that are mia so this is an entire package of measures of the board can develop it. and initiated specifically and formalized what. they were to effectively help population. we're thinking about further steps of course once the crisis is over what happens how do we. get out of this crisis now that depends on how. fast we can deal with the virus how fast we can proceed to. nations. how soon we can lift all the restrictions and i

expect that. they're over the next 6 months i think the situation will improve to the. general and asked for our economy according to different asked amounts by the end of the 2021 or maybe 1st quarter of 2022. we'll have overcome all of these issues and next year already next year we expect to see the 2 of g.d.p. growth. and you know but we to do that to achieve that we have to contribute to that all of us that we all have to work to resolve these problems. now let's go back to the call center. we cannot hear you. we cannot hear you right now.

could you please. say your question again so you know it is possible that many parents ask more we are going to be new payments for children in the next year. please could you repeat your question. we received a message from a loser to start over from. november and december she didn't receive payments for her 9 month old. child and this is actually a lifeline to her family survive the going to be new payments for the payments and the next year. ok let's break for a couple of minutes and go to sleep or trying care earlier president putin coming

up to 3 have now i think the longest 4 hours 40 minutes so it could be some time to go yet but look over the last few minutes he talks about better races you should jested but then the final question there was again about reading that really has been a dominating topic hasn't it here. truly andrew well we're definitely half way but there's still more to go and still we have not heard from our correspondent igor hopefully we'll get to that at some point and also go through the covert issue a bit later but 1st let's just start with bell roof something that you mentioned we do remember that the country still engulfed with protests every weekend this is the 2 asians that began in august after yet another victory in the. presidential election by president alexander. so a lot of our putin was asked to. but foreign interference and of the and next steps

that can be made by the. government to this mr putin reminded of the changes in the constitution that have been announced by the leadership in minnesota and pointed out that decisions in the country are only up to the russian people mr putin suggested that the international observers and surely the people inside the russians themselves should wait for these changes these reforms political reforms in the 1st place to take effect and then make up their mind but mr putin's most important message was. the interference from outside he. so far east threats russia has always condemned to all terrorist acts and continues to do so specifically terrorist acts taking place in

europe for example this year which were a reaction to the publication of the prophet muhammad in one of the newspapers or one of the publications russia does not support the publications where do you believe the threshold between. human rights and material offensive to believe is. and what can russia do to prevent the european type of scenario so where's the border where's the threshold well there's nothing i can tell you about that and what do you mean. a border between a threshold where one rights and one rights one freedom and other freedom where does one people one person's freedom and and other person's freedom begin i mean some very. things. we're talking about here those people who brazenly

try to offend. people's religious views people's religious feelings they must understand that this will have a negative reaction to blow back but on the other hand this kind of reaction should be an aggressive one a violent one and all global religions in christianity in. just quoted some state some. lines from the bible from the koran and cetera all global religions and all world religions there is nothing but about aggression there's nothing that asks you to be aggressive or infringe on people's rights. and so the reaction should never be. to. particularly if you're a mood. to murder people it always goes against the

idea of all world religions god give you your law gave you your life and he is the only one who can take it away and so how are you do we treat this problem and russia what can we do to prevent that from happening in this european scenario and what you see from the very start russia has been a year and a nation of multiple religions and multiple views we have different ethnicities different peoples but this is a legacy that is from our ancestors given to us by our ancestors. during our history with very very. we have a multiple. very dark and violent pages for example the departed peoples after the great patriotic war we. try not to raise this this story this this this part of

our history i'm not going to make. my personal assessment of what happened but. the people the representatives of the people who were affected who suffered during those times but. on the other hand. and these. people there were people among those who suffered that were actual traitors to the motherland who actually welcomed the the not see forces coming to russia on the other hand there were other people among these a theist who actually fought to their last breath to protect their homeland really you also what the thing i'm coming to is that if there were no repressions based on religious belief of course there was. there was a certain persecution all for christians but this was the overall idea that

christians were a christian belief was unacceptable at some point in the soviet state but there was no specific persecution based on specific beliefs. and so we've had these tolerance. forged in russia over hundreds of years. so we do not accept when people are offensive towards other people's beliefs i ask you to never do that but this is something that could destroy our country from the inside we cannot allow that. as for what's happening in european nations well you see. the problem is in some european nations. representatives of islam are. well 10 percent of the population. but these are usually immigrants

or 2nd also 3rd generation immigrants. but in russia representatives of different beliefs and faiths have been living here for hundreds of years and this is a very critical difference that we have between us and europe and this is what. defined the way we. talk to each other as you know the project of multiculturalism and europe failed. and many people who called for this project for carrying out this project had to actually admit that they failed. but in russia aids happens organically over hundreds of years and we value that.

i think we all really look at the larger media i think we should give them the floor now. veronique. we have been really discussing the international relations so i would like to ask you about one such issue i would break it down into 3 that question this is a good 1st in your opinion of why the conflict in the golden occur. went up in flames and now. even if it did it quite quickly wasn't some objective reason or maybe there is one side one or imparted to blame maybe someone incited a scarf. my 2nd question. how did. acted like it was now that we know now that ankara supported have really. been monitoring center the most is another. issue here ankara says that it has

a lot of oil interests are vested in this region was all russia's interests in this region. do these interests overlap with the collide. and the last but not the least aspect what is the situation over godhra could be in your opinion how high is the risk that this situation isn't because my happened there the cease fire would be violated again and again and what will russia do that leaving such violations that persist. is it possible that the number of the peacekeeping forces will be increased so you. think about god through the term given the ongoing discussion this is only or are some tensions remaining because of the fact that the warring parties have different interpretations of the 4th clause in the agreement which says that russian peacekeepers actually but i mean are

deployed in peril i mean the that would draw lot of the mania the forces but cool sees it interprets. the army and forces leaving the border choreographing for a while year of while it insists that it says that they should be leaving that era series which are now will be given to israel by john as per the agreement. i mean if you're medians think that they should leave the territories which is less now will be given to. anything that i may ask you i mean of course issues will draw completely from nagorno-karabakh. so the question of course that is. softer as the course importance of this agreement signed by 3 parties i leave could you explain what do you mean by that particular clause in the agreement because

there has been a very long question will be sitting here or you are. pretty good let's go to the chase why. did happen. which was because the situation spiraled out of control. in a pretty good view with me particularly when you can tell since have been around for many years and you do too but i don't think it happened because our one interfered incited this conflict were. there with nick over many times it happens. there were certain. well fred scheer in there. if you will still it's easy now at all rather to get into a car that russia has been consistent in its position or without any bloodshed we go to shoot and we are in agreement on this issue that's how we. have structured

our work within the means group says for chaired by russia the united states and france removed for many years let me again say and for many. years and what our position has been that anybody journalists should be recouped turned 7. by here to surround the no go to carry bar some stuff and the very status of the border. should be on them to remain unchanged. and that we should be. stopped at a later stage is going to work you know they're pretty absurd themselves then you that's what we were seeking of course some kind of people should be given about you to maintain connections so nagorno-karabakh and i mean it shouldn't be connected and in order to achieve that the so-called large she needs to be a corridor. which will or she was in there where the reason is that the region where this already runs this road where you look for it connects the 2. territories

. it's all pretty simple. made and by the way it was said. likely that turkey defended her even though it was about a q if there were a charge and it's right to you. you were occupied doing the hostilities which took place in the ninety's is not. jealous of international law i said it too that with these territories and in part i was there by john. but to assure us and let me say this again armenia. independent of and even that back which our mission in terms of international law is a part of his or by chose. from my opinion situation as a way more complicated then look at these things that we just. told you it's more

complicated than the international law and the actual fact is. when the car folks started to me went on to you know. both sides are right to certain degree because people of the nagorno-karabakh they come in the bathroom it grows up. with arms in their hand to protect themselves and now we see what happens this year with the good news. as it's known. we agreed and side a trilateral agreement to cease the hostilities and here is what is important and we agreed that the sides would be dear stubs of the positions which they currently were at the moment of study of the agreement that's was live for everyone to stand steal. their connection there is quite

a number of technicalities and modalities involved which have to do with the infrastructure plan by the way. to cease the hostilities. but it's very important because it's. people would no longer kill shipping to debts of ultimate goal all the other leagues are secondary to the lives of people who take priority. because when we should and we solve this problem now people are not dying. the forces stood still. still there rob problems related to infrastructure problems are there from below you. know armenia this issue should be settled through negotiation of. these joint statements and when you see a platform for say. look what it says is really after the cease fire is installed

the next stage should be normalizing relations in doing. opening up the infrastructure and economic potential of all sides that it also covers a real road because. you are in vehicle road transportation and. enough of there meaning here it covers everything. and these. sporadic most violation by the way there was only one. boiled them remain an isolated case it will be to go and the sides will sit at the negotiating table and reach agreement but arranging it when you are mediating this and the means group will be mediating these 2 but we need to start this process and this process needs to go and successfully. we do hope. it's not only possible that the

international mediators deal will start delivering. because they've been saying a lot of things by they haven't been doing enough rope and we need to help people to come back if you g.'s the displaced people so far it's only russian public on those helping to send the literary and can avoid. the communitarian of these asians union you know school at the foot of the ization to chip in and do their part. bilaterally. but those who want to support people in the car for example they should do that. mr weeks' time to start doing things not just saying that we're now turning to the possibility with the number of peacekeepers it's possible but on the eve of all agreement if we get the consent of everyone including those headed by. national may happen before we establish the

number of peacekeepers we coordinate and harmonize this figure. and by the way when you we should work through everyone was pretty sober minded about disagreement it's a technicality with everyone agrees that we need more peacekeepers we will send more but if you we will not increase the number from sort of the about peacekeepers to see him 2 years our emergency response teams are also there. and the d f s b border protection units they are also standing guard we need in order now. the walls are bush would be working for all of. the colors of the banners have changed which is have been in the questions themselves people have been doing their best to attract your attention the public have a suggestion to make those cards i'm a journalist and i want to give the floor to everyone each of them but we are

limited we are pressed for time therefore you can probably take a look at these banners saying that we all there india and you can choose a question you can pick a question on the road could you. give your. pensions pensions in plans. it's that could you please introduce yourself. to good afternoon but it was you that you is my little editor in chief of moderately good in its newspaper mr. dictionary should mention 70. 5 years ago it was suspended that's what was said. ok let's get a recap then and what's been said over the last 3 hours to say with a deeper trend he's been following it for a sim moscow just recap then some of the key points that are being made because as

we say he's been talking fielding questions for about 3 as 15 minutes. while andrew promises are being kept of course i am not to the president of russia but some of the things that both of us in fact have predicted are actually happening and vladimir putin over the last half an hour or so house been bringing up issues that are. in place in countries like. russia as western neighbor where protests are. pretty much every weekend and that's been going on since august he's just touched appalling a very difficult bloody conflict between armenia and azerbaijan and also finally our correspondent. my colleague got to ask the russian president a question and it was about the religious difficulties in europe following some

of the violent attacks that we saw in recent months in france so let me just begin with that with the issue that was brought up by my colleague. putin's answer was pretty much that he could not. he couldn't actually figure out where someone's freedom begins and where someone else's freedom. but what mr putin warned of and explained once again that is something that putin was talking about for many times before was when someone brazenly offends the religious feelings of others that would definitely lead to quansah quinces that's the opinion of the head of the russian government although according to mr putin that kind of response to these offenses should never be aggressive

violent or radical but an overall message from mr putin was that the idea of the so-called projects that is the way he put it of multi cultural ism in europe has failed and mr putin believes that at this point we are seeing evidence of that now let me move on to the conflict in nagorno-karabakh that has been settled thanks to efforts by russia and by mr putin personally who was in touch with leaders of armenia and azerbaijan and announced a complete ceasefire i believe that happened on november 9th and ever since then the russian peacekeepers were ensuring that no more guns are being fired in the region and in fact like mr putin said there was only one

serious violation of the cease fire since the peace agreement was brokered mr putin reminded of the fact that this initial agreement is only a platform for further action and for further peace negotiations which are going to be difficult of course according to the worst leader and definitely. lengthy but it's something that needs to be done and there was also a message from mr putin to important international players and international organizations as well. and believes that they should switch from words to action and in fact he called on some u.n. organization including organizations sorry including the u.n. food program to get involved and to chip in and start helping with the humanitarian

situation there the region has been devastated by war and this is something that should proceed further development and further peace talks and this is something that russia has been calling for from the onset now these were the issues that were brought up during the press conference the final part of it i believe that a soon we're going to be coming to the end of it but let me move on to the very beginning of. this was. this was the part that was all about cove it all about the pandemic and ways to deal with the vaccines which is easy to understand because this is something that the whole world is worried about at this point or putin's was asked a number of straightforward questions you know of course the russian people want to find out whether they should follow or not follow his example in being

vaccinated so the question was a lot of our putin did you take that vaccine this is what the russian president replied. it was the 1st country in the world came up for that soon vaccines that started producing mass faxing vaccine safe fish into of 95 percent to fix some especially ses up to $97.00. major incidents are related to side effects and some of the foreign counterparts are ready to cooperate in this area is really to work with us i'm really happy that specialists at this level of the top level and the area this is a major company. astra zeneca now combine those efforts with the russian and i'm sure the outcome will be a really good one for russian people and for people around the world. andrew i'm

sorry i was expecting to hear a straightforward answer from mr putin to whether he got vaccinated or i wasn't in this particular video mr putin said that he has not taken the vaccine just yet because according to fight from the doctors he has beyond that age group that can safely take the vaccine at this point but clearly when he gets that were commendation. right now there is a question from the british media to vladimir putin that's important so let's go back to the press conference for now on what machine you more and more of. the we phrase cold war is used to describe relations between russia and the west and we hear a lot russia blaming foreign powers america. nato.

for we use your who will you be responsible. making these relations seem like a cold war but don't you think that over these years over the last years. of the responsibility for making these relations seem like a cold war for example the use of chemical weapons and souls very well or are you going to say that. russia's thought it is nothing. that we are nothing to blame for or for example have you read the belling toward the investigation saying that it is russian it is the russian state that's responsible for the poisoning of. well speaking of the. to take the life of a famous blogger of ours like i said before ready to

investigate anything if you have specific data the use of specific chemical weapons like the novacek everyone's talking about police to providers with the information we are ready to send our specialists to germany to france and wherever and there. with our colleagues we can address the problem more but you can please come to us. biological material and at least provide us with the official statement of the official results why is it that despite the multiple. the multiple times that our investigative committee has addressed european nations to provide us with this data nothing has been given to us for example. citing the

germany for example the opposite w presumably if you did not suggest any information citing germany that prohibited them from disclosing anything why is it happening can you specify that so you're asking me yes i'm asking you. i'm a journalist i'm asking you a question. i apologize so i will continue to. your question. we should just see that this question that i asked also requires answering. now saying the trash is. all good and. there's nothing that we have to blame for well if you let me say that i believe that i'm personally responsible for the well being of the russian people and i will do everything and anything in my power to protect the interests and well being of my people for example look at what happened in crimea

i see what i did because the russian people decide that this through democratic means let's say let's see what happened in kosovo before that i remember that nobody in the west opposed that decision. despite it not being very democratic so should we accept these types of activities or not should there should be no double standards now these sanctions you imposed against the crimea and the crimean people. because of the annexation well how are these people responsible for that if it is not because of the annexation and then what have other people to blame for you should leave them alone and not impose sanctions on them and as for russia being peaceful and all good yes exactly that we are peaceful and we are good. at it indeed.

we. heard there was statements from nato that it's not going to move eastwards is not going to expand its tours yes those were all statements not written statements but we were betrayed and there was a wave of expansion and nato military infrastructure is getting closer to our borders and to supposed to react to that was it us to. withdrew. from the missile defense treaties and. so as a result we have to create systems to defend ourselves and wish. of the i.n.f. treaty for example was it us who withdrew from the either treaty no it wasn't us it was the us. when you wouldn't believe the word ok we said we're not

going to produce or place such weaponry in russia as long as the u.s. . doesn't do that as well i'm sure we were interest do we received no response then they are in the open skies which treaty what can we say about that the u.s. withdrew from the treaty and what i mean what can we do about it are we just supposed to allow you to send your planes and american planes flying in our skies and you. not react to that in any way you know which you would under do realize that we are smart people we're not idiots we understand these basic things we understand in a basic things that's happening in the world but it was the word nationalism which there are certain other issues that raise our concerns and we have to react to them it would just. because you know they go well that's their work you know for example

. the new start treaty is going to expire soon when it expires there's going to be nothing left of the infrastructure that used to prevent the world from engaging into a new arms race. we propose to the americans to expire and to. prolong the new start treaty for at least one year because we understand that this is important. and we know that now russia has a new weapon systems supersonic weapon systems which are something that no other nation has. the a unique and still we see no reaction we see. no other country talking to us about that we know that the similar systems are being developed in europe in the u.s. in the u.k.

and nobody is trying to talk to us about that which it could be so the question is who really is peaceful. and who is aggressive. we have. the basis our military bases and killed a star and. project it and that and to take a stand. and in syria yes. these are important areas and. bases they're used to protect us from the terrorist threat but look at the u.s. they have an entire they have a huge network of military bases. you know our military budget how big it is 46000000000. really look at the u.k. it's much bigger than that people in the us with them in the u.s. it's 770000000000 russia is 6 country in the world. in

terms of how much money was spent on the military france germany japan the u.s. everyone else is ahead of us. who used the violence one here is the peaceful one here i think we can clearly say that is. certainly. very good manners and polite and we. want to work towards this. diplomatic resolution of conflicts so quoting one of the famous russian cartoon characters let's all be friendly here. ok let's go to start up but before that there's an important look at the question i have been waiting for it to be announced but there was a question from small and. because she's asking about.

the heart of the villages of the village of. small and screech and. they are writing to me. ok let's go back to. listening to all of that with this if we break there just to hear that question from the baby thing correspond peyton a very interesting one it was an interesting answer all a bad should russia bear some responsibility for the so-called new cold war. well clearly this was perhaps the toughest set of questions for the russian president so till the very end i believe one of the most exciting parts of that q. and a session something that we were just hearing so a lot of are putin began to respond to the question of alexina volley that is

something that had already been brought up and to that mr putin's kept talking about the lack of cooperation from european partners that's how mr putin usually put said mainly germany where the opposition activist is being treated mr putin is the requests that the european countries are getting from moscow for when it comes to the results of their tests of their research that has been undertaken with. the biological material that was taken from alexei volley all once according to the head of the russian government which are these results and specific data that russia needs to start working on this case and without this kind of cooperation again as the russian leader put said moscow cannot proceed

with the investigation and mr putin is questioning this lack of effort and he's also wondering why there is no response why the european side cannot provide all this to russia there was even a funny moment when mr putin asked this question directly but this was a. british journalist. affording that question to vladimir putin so pretty much it was the case when he couldn't give an answer because he's someone from germany where like i said quite a critic mr. is being treated but then there was a section. which. was giving

a long answer to the general state of relations between the western community of nato countries and russia vladimir putin brought up the number of military bases. right now please let's go back to vladimir putin something else we should listen and you can russia to see to prevent. being written to maintain them preserved historical memory. well. if we want to prevent people from rewriting history then we have to be self-sufficient and strong in all respects economic power full in all respects and primarily powerful in terms of our economy. and we have to develop our political system so that we feel comfortable at home in our own country so that our people our citizens know where the country's going you know we have to develop their

relations with our partners based on our interests on of course taken into account their interests as well and surely we must remember the great feat. by our good. grades because it really did grandfathers and grandfathers who protected our country in the past century. for specific historical information we have been opening up archives and. collecting information we have special a special body is entrusted with preserving historical data. for rewriting history as i told you. it is done. by people who are pursuing their own political goals you actually might and they are we'll but then surely ultimately. will be worse off because of

that and as you know there was a decision made just days ago. by the un so sure that really condemned the glorification of naziism and there were only 2 countries that oppose this decision that was the us and ukraine and this certainly doesn't help these countries reputation i mean these are fundamental things that everyone understands religion. this has nothing to do with the specific political circumstances of the present moment. but we are very proud of our forefathers of our grandfathers of our great grandfathers and great grandmothers who helped us and we will do everything to protect this legacy in a city born to further generations that you know are you ok there was this

sign saying. war with chechnya can you. can you say something like you know my name is but. i know thank you much good afternoon mr president 1st of all i would like to you asked who's on my words of thanks and gratitude from the people across. the church and republic. as we. know the chechen republic is one of the most. regions in the country and one of the most safe regions in the country and it is was in part to the. mystical tour of for the father of the current leader of the region your efforts your collective efforts and unfortunately we are facing some collective. threats. sound coming from

from the west from the u.s. for example mystic a tour of himself has been subject to all the foreign sanctions as well as his relatives you know that and so mr putin. what is the goal that the west is trying to achieve why are they coming up with sanctions against mr carter of steam. i don't think that there are pretty only one these 2 faces sanctions and all sorts of things i think russia is the main target. what with the shit amazon could do of it he is defending the interests of. the people. russia as a whole so he is why all the targets for our so-called opponents.

there is nothing special about that. nothing unusual. i know that. others are critical of mr dear office quite philosophical about it cause them trouble to see it with you i have friends i have colleagues. who are offended because they have no sanctions imposed on them they say and how come. there is a what is humiliating for it makes me think that i might have you wish the british than you were not enough of this to have sanctions imposed on me. them but if you were to me that's what they say regarding our partners so there is nothing to worry about we are self-sufficient country church and people are

self-sufficient too. nice growing this cause. because there were all remember what happened in the 90s the country's growing fast thanks to the new and yon the vibrant team. you know. what you and i know mr cardew of personally i know him very well his whole life but who. is going to do kiddie case himself to the chechen people and to chechnya so i wish all you too only the best now i'm sure they. will be soon look like the cause need us afraid i will have another opportunity that spoiled like to ask another question . maybe maybe we should be doing that you quoted koran there and he always support the muslims so in your opinion is it important to be closer to the arab world. and maybe i was unclear and has

a role to play here well the arab world. mr could do it but i think mr could do of place just same role as the other heads of regions. have. recorded the ministry of foreign affairs is in charge of our foreign policy but of course. contributes a lot with to the work of the foreign ministry on the peace track and as for the arab world the islamic world traditionally our relations have been very good with the countries of the arab world and the organizations. by the way we have to have a service to a number of international refutable so you set up a communal. traditionally relations with the arab world for russia and for the soviet union have always been very important we had no books and we

have ties which go deep into history and these ties are strong and vibrant so today we are expanding our relations in the soviet times. there was ideology now we. get national thought that we have such a scope and magnitude of cooperation with the arab world with the islamic world that we can say it's way more than much we had during the soviet time so we will continue working hard to make it better with russian direct investment fund co-operates was almost every sovereign investment fund in the world with every one of them. used for them you know you can have with some of the. we have a unique relationship we trust the rest of the fund so much that they automatically i certainly automatically call finance all the projects you bring that the rushes can rest on the funding carries out that shows how much trust is there. ok

let's go back to the. venue where we are right now the center for global trade. good afternoon your honor some song interfax going to let me start with a question about the economy. and me against the background of the ongoing undemocratic hasn't tapped into the russian wealth. almost because we've been mostly doing borings to top up our budget does that mean that we are preparing for some more sharks may be in the commodity market and those who wanted to get investments from the welfare fund should forget about getting any another clue fixation if i may lately. we've been hearing from some people that maybe the outcomes of the privatisation might be cancelled so

may i ask is the government content with our economy as it is now or maybe there should be. some more control over the assets which have gone out of the reach of the government ok and again because everywhere so i would like to know you. opinion about international certificates for those people who. decide to get the vaccine. can you please say it again people who will you get the shots i mean some say that there should be some international ideas of passports for those who get the vaccine could you elaborate well it's supposed to let people travel freely so that these people who get the vaccine can go anywhere maybe russia can initiate. these processes and help to establish that special id that will boost the sales of

vaccine that would help people to start traveling people won't have to quarantined themselves when going anywhere like the united states. ok because. the group of. these international certificates i.d.'s for those who got the vaccine . may be maybe it's a good idea but we know very well and. it's no secret that people who get the vaccine they can be the carious of the virus which you don't forget about that. should i think it's has already been disturbed that there is some particular type of antibodies that it was which you could show is that a person. does not carry this is useful law on them the immune system response so fiercely that these virus. is dealt with quickly but if there is it

deserves more research as for any such a difficult well we need to discuss it. the idea is to care about your health personally. what you think of course that is a barrier of sorts of plutonium when you we need to get ahead immunity for him now today in the national world fair fight. i think we can discuss it on that's worth it soon that the amount of the fund is going up. and it went up by 70 percent of the shoes in the rubble equivalent schools overdoses it has to do with the exchange rates for some works down to the point that's our safety net which would be good it's not that we're preparing for suffering for some sharks going forward it's a safety net and we must have one at the same time and. we have

a lot of thought which says correct it that we can and the money. from this part to a surety if it exceeds the threshold of 7 percent g.d.p. we are now reaching the level of 7 point one percent of the g.d.p. that's how big our. welfare fund is. it has for liquidity it's 8 trillion rubles couldn't it use what do i mean by that. that's how much we have with them. that's the budget and this year alone we leave we'll be investing in the former development of the town say bierria and. highways and they'll road with the networks have really done that you can as some of the value comes from the welfare fund it also will use it to give social benefits to people families with children doctors and students

with the privilege those who study to become doctors and nurses but also use that money to support the sectors of the car who would suffered the most group. we use that money to help the larger companies so the overall amount of money that we are taking from the fund is going to be 350000000000 rubles or 21 to. 250 has already been used up with 3 this year is wouldn't be flying become so i mean it's so quick it's so to me speedy today i think that we will. spend the rest 100000000 quite soon so we do use the welfare fund or but we do it carefully. on the most brutal when i really sat that next year we'll have over 7 trillion rubles which is good but the minister

of finance always says he would. look sad for 3 years given the exchange rates and everything from the economy's growing and there are some you know events happening outside of country all those things are taken into account. year we do. everything that is that we can to allow the budget to be stable we of course take the money the same time we use the welfare fund when needed are going to ok let's reach out to st petersburg i can hear you thank you for coming back to us in the midst of a level of from up above we look like a chess board. interior is great it's e.-l. since. library who's going to do the next move there is a lady over there she's been sitting very modestly way to you for an opportunity to

ask a question so i think she deserves such an opportunity good afternoon it's a regional t.v. channel and my question is education we are small readership and we really want to see more younger people coming to us to get their education we been doing a lot to make that happen we'll address it over 1000000000 rubles into our colleges vacation institutions people coming to us from 24 regions of russia to study but there is a new problem now we don't have enough dormitories to house all these students maybe you can think of a federal program to help us upgrade the existing premises and maybe construct new dormitories for students that's a common problem for all situations and the colleges are occasional solutions we are doing our best to provide targeted help. usually we use the budget money but

mostly this problem is so awful should be sold. for life right let's return to training now he's been listening to all of this for the last 3 hours and 50 taking in it. over the last few minutes president putin is talking about domestic issues there about the economy and now about education but when i spoke last was one major geo political question was put forward by b.b.c. correspondent and that was should russia bear some responsibility for the poor relations that russia has with the west just go through his answer why android didn't realize it was that close to 4 hours so we're edging closer towards the record but we're not there yet thank you for reminding me what exactly i was talking about because it is indeed quite difficult to. to digest all the information that is being brought up within these 4 hours so yes 1st of all let me

go back to the question from the b.b.c. journalist he was asking about russia's responsibility for the do to relation of relations with the west but putin's usually when he answers this kind of question and he didn't change that this time keeps reminding us he keeps giving us a bit of a history lesson. what about what happened after the collapse of the soviet union russia in his view point trusted the west in terms of the expansion of nato and in terms of other types of pressure on the country but that the western alliance could cost according to mr putin nato countries never kept their promise about the expansion of that oil law and towards the borders of russia and then he went on to talk about the number of military bases. that are being operated by the u.s.

and other nato members and also went on to talk about massive army budgets. that russia is definitely a country that could not keep up with for example mr putin mentioned that russia is only 6th in the world for when it comes to military spending and amounts of it then besides this mr putin mentioned the international agreements that have to do with the nuclear arms that have to do with nonproliferation the question that came from the russian leader was whether it was moscow that was abandoning all these treaties and so. making the world a less. safe apply. so this is something that mr putin this is the message at least trying to bring across and he also went on to

ask whether this makes russia the dresser whether this makes washer aggressive or sharp these are the exact words the exact how directives that we heard from the washing leader so let me rewind back a little bit or actually let me go to the very beginning of the q. and a session in which mr putin was asked a straight forward question whether he got vaccinated because this is something important for russian citizens to hear perhaps the rest of the world as well because they are ordinary citizens usually follow the example of the rich and powerful 'd whether they're ready to do that to that mr putin said that he has not taken the job just yet because he's in a different age group in the age group that is currently safe for a vaccination according to the doctors but still mr putin believes that taking the

vaccine is a good thing and this is the only way forward to combat the pandemic in general so here is what else mr putin said about covert a hole and the vaccine the remedy from this disaster that fell upon our planet in 2020. 3 russia was the 1st country in the world came up with it soon vaccines started producing mass faxing skewed vaccine safe fish into a 95 percent to fix some specialists to $97.00. major incidents related to side effects and some of the foreign. counterparts already in this area. i'm really happy that specialists at the level

of the top level and the area this is a major company you know it will astra zeneca know combined his efforts with the russian i'm sure the outcome will be a really good one for russian people and for people around the world. now that joe biden has officially been named president so perhaps it was asking the question leader about his impressions of the presidential campaign but the person who brought up that issue he's actually a singer a very popular musician in russia now he's become a journalist any politician as well he decided to go for. somewhat of an outstanding way to ask a question he was like why did trump lose where did the washington hackers go did they all go to the silicon valley did they move there or something and to that u.s.

troops who replied that again in 2020 just like in 2006 it wasn't the russian hackers that shows and that decided the outcome of the u.s. election he once again reminded of that and said that again like many times before us why should toys are hostage to the internal politics in america here's why with more on that. because of a number of issues. the american president. said never never interfere in the domestic. work that get their wish list with great nations that is the usa see this if these allegations are true and we choose to use these 2 issue of a. to make relations between our 2 nations the worst suited to legitimize the presidency of the. the i would go if you become president of the us system if the

iraqis can become sick you this way to complete russian relations. to the american domestic affairs. we were expecting something very important to be brought up during that press conference we remember of the extremist terrorist attacks in europe namely in france that struck the european union and in recent months like i said they were of extremists nature and they led to in france in particular to some very harsh rhetoric being used by the president and many all macron which led to a backlash in the muslim community this is something that can actually be called a truly burning issue in europe and call.