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our agenda, i'll go into detail a little bit later since we're the party that supports the incumbent president. i was 2nd objective as su, his policy to get to the best of our ability, national development goals, national projects and the priorities in his address to the federal assembly. so it is a twin mandate offline. you're putting the president's policies into action is pretty straightforward. but executing a political agenda is a more new and stefan condition this year. it was put together in an unusual way. why did we call it the people platform to the proposals from about 2000000 people? not just party members. yes, we have about 2000000 members shaped by ordinary russian people. some of them probably don't, even like united russia would least didn't vote for it. and still they had a hand in drafting this agenda. and the most essential and relevant ideas were incorporated in our campaign agenda. the 1st part of focuses on living standards
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and welfare will cover a wide range of critical areas such as health care cation, social benefits, families, people with disabilities, as well as a number of the most pressing issues among them, housing, utilities, and so on. it's not some high level blueprint. these are not just promising facilitates develop and 80. it's very granular. we need to do this, this and this. we shall bring household income up to this level where we shall by this number of buses, school children, and ambulances that i need. it's all very specific, which is why i believe this agenda is a particularly good one. it has other sections to on economic growth on government relations and lawmaking. when united, russia, once again hold a constitutional majority in the state duma, it has all been laid out in detail. the equally important is to make sure, put in practice during both the previous and the current campaign. i kept telling my fellow party members that our agenda is not just
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a bunch of slogans like it often happens in many countries, but in you when and so guess about the agenda. you knew over the previous term, we held regular meetings, so called platform commissions. every 3 months, i gathered my fellow party members and asked them about the progress on governance lawmaking, the social policy or demographics. false modesty aside, i can tell you that reservation bath and our 2016 agenda to a large extent been implemented. and that's why russians voted for united russia, despite the slight different popularity, i will. so it's clear that it's a sign of sorts. but let's be realistic. out of 225 single seat constituents, g m p 198 are united russia members and it's a remarkably good result was as for the party on the whoa, the result is lucky worse, but it's not surprising. i mean, it's been a challenging for you years. unfortunately, with the pandemic and incomes falling, as well as other issues. still our party has never shirked responsibility. we
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supported many different decisions and not all of them. people are happy about russell, but i believe that this is the main goal of the ruling party. it's not that slogan is in promises and hand shaking. it's about actually making important decisions for the benefit of our people, even if they are sometimes i'm popular. i think we've managed to find the balance previously the parties chairman used to be at the top of the national election, lays out a letter and put and has held that position you have as well. but this year, 5 other people had the less well known and bearing stand respected in their fields . but none of them have any experience in law making. denise, for example, for example, as an entirely new name and russian politics. falling and why were they chosen? what will their future in the party be? well, i already addressed this question at the party convention when we came up with the name of these 5 people. it may sound obvious, but a political party,
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not about one person or 2 people who actually it's not just vladimir putin or dmitri madrid if, why anyone else for that matter. poverty is a big team to be reckoned with. a social organism, it's like one of the main goals a party need like this. you is to be constantly on the lookout for new names. you people for politics, you people for political projects and new heavyweight school. people who are well known and respected either in politics or in their professional area. i think we did what was right for the party. the 5 leaders we have chosen are well known, even popular individuals. they are very well known in the community. also those who come to cost that balance and care about the evolution of russians political system would like to see new faces by new faces. i don't necessarily mean and timing you never seen before, where they can be young and inexperienced. of course, it could be people who have never engaged in political battles. that's who we have on the ticket. with the exception of sag
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a show you who is closely connected with the party. in fact, it was he who helped create the party 20 years ago. so he is a well known figure among the party members and supported with more with for the future within the party. it's clear that most of them will stay in that professional field will continue working in their fields. one person's my colleague and that server will work in the state duma from now on. however, none of them are going to sever that ties with the policy. they will continue to make a difference in one way or another. some will stay with the parties governing bodies . others will supervise party project with the president earlier suggested that 5 leaders could subsequently take on a project closest to that professional field. i am positive that the future in the party is going to be bright. and you know, i hear if united russia a right wing worry in last week party. do you think that a ruling party should have one dominant ideology?
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new bozeman. no, i don't think so. it's my deep conviction. there are some well known theories and political science that prove my point. so does the russian constitution, modern russia doesn't have a national ideology. the way it did in the past was trying in the 1977 constitution . article 6 today parties are focused on just one thing, the supporting the wellbeing of the people, helping the country grow into apologies on the political spectrum, the right wing left most interesting proclaim this is their ultimate goal. in reality, we'll see that the key goal for any party, a basically the same. we all want to have a good life. we all want our country to grow. we all want to drive away poverty and make our health care strong and deficient. we will want to have the best education for our kids. this is what all parties have on their agenda, and the only difference here is in the methods to achieve these goals. and selection of methods is not necessarily dictated by the parties. place on the
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political spectrum division into rights and left wing political ideologies will still be there. but look how blurred these lines are between them and other countries in today we no longer have a wide ideological gap between the platforms of various political parties in russia . way it was back in the early 20th century, the party again, it boils down to the methods each party chooses to achieve the results in the country need. there are significant differences. united, russia, as motto, it goes through, by the way, is the party of real action. we do our best to deliver on everything we have put on the paper. if you want to set an example for others. of course, some things come out well, but sometimes we fail and people would criticize harshly every time we do. but it's easy to monitor out performance anyway and see where we succeed and where we fail a person in the same time. we understand that each party has a base that is important for we punch to grow. it's as much as possible. this is
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exactly why we chose have no party ideology, because if a party says ok, we're a party for the prototype area. it will only get the votes of those people who identify themselves or feel related to the pro terry it's and so on. so for a party, for large business, it just doesn't work the same way anymore. used to in the early 20th century. filled. where does united russia belong on the political spectrum? but i would call it a conservative and central party and you feel completely wisdom last week. what do you think about the current state of competition and russian politics? critic say it is waning. the number of parties with a chance to run has shrunk by over 50 percent from 74 in 2016 to 32 in 2021. out of $47.00 parties that are no longer active. 43 were de sold by the supreme court, not by themselves. do you see the problem here?
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nathan, dancing lets you know, its neither a problem. no, a particularly good thing, just to find them. i would like to remind you about the amendments. introduce during my presidency back in 2012 or allowed for more pets units for political parties. prior to that, we only had a limited number of parties, and after that, the number grew in the work quite a lot of them. this, however, didn't necessarily mean that they all came to stay on that some of them simply failed to win. persevere on the competition games trying to failed to raise the funds or failed to secure a vote to base some failed to comply with the law. and the supreme court issued a routing case, spam them. so i don't see this as much of a problem. you parties can emerge as well, but they need to meet the criteria stipulation by law with them. they need to have the support in the cities than in the regions. they want to compete on the nationwide level. they need to have extensive support throughout the country with
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sure that you should prosper up up. let me also ask you about online voting and not, not as there has been a mixed response to. it was nice as we know, the communist party didn't accept the results in moscow wants to find an online vote count was announced. what's your tape is everything fine myself? well, online voting is a fresh trend. i am strongly convinced that sooner or later the entire world will be voting on line. it's inevitable media. there's only one issue here, verifying the outcome. there is still some work out standing here. the government must provide the right conditions. people need to trust the outcome of the online procedure. it is beyond any doubt that online voting is the future at the same time those and i believe that in the short term, russian citizens should have both options the traditional voting procedure and online voting. do you think, mr. vindictive did a good job as the head of the observers during the selection you watched online voting, and he took some lead online. mostly, well,
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everybody take some heat on line. so there is no surprise that just missed of any dictum of is no exception. i think it all worked out pretty well. i mentioned this before, but you need to verify the outcome of credit, but there's also another points. it's also about convenience. the last time the leaders of the political parties and factions meant mr. you're an ascii, said that voting has to be a duty rather than rights. that should be a penalty failing to vote many countries or habits, by the way, in some it is punishable with a fine. in others, it is a criminal offense. i don't think we'll want to criminalize non voting some countries do, but i think that use a convenience becomes ever so important world today was level to follow him out to become a couple more questions about the election. this time there was no live video feed from the polling stations available to everyone. party members and authorized individuals had access, but not the general public. and another,
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novelty was that devoted self lasted 3 days. no one can do that. how did all this affect the public perception of the election? ideally, i believe a 3 day vote is a must, these days can no longer be done any other way. as long as we have to deal with the demick prolonged vote, a 3 day vote for example, is unavoidable. and there's nothing wrong with it. whether it'll stay this way later on when we, when the global fight against cove at 19, as i hope we will. i can't say for sure, but in any case it seems to be a practical and convenient option. we take some advanced democracies like the united states where voting takes months. annual everyone's k with a split the under the circumstances 3 days are necessary and ad obviously for the broadcasts, it's in fact very expensive and have all the cameras working 247 to go up jacked. it here is not to satisfy someone's curiosity. stay from that's done for the sake of verifying the outcome for the sake of integrity at each and every polling
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station. that's why we need the recordings, me all 3 days. the cameras were recording the vote from the very beginning to the very end. and they should have been down and we can look it up if need be. take us to court recordings will be stored for 12 months by the the is your media a reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? tycer lation community. are you going the right way or are you being that somewhere? which direction? what is true? what is faith?
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in the world corrupted, you need to this end. ah. so join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. ah. if he questions about the election in the context of international relations, rushes ministry of foreign affairs has summon john sullivan, the us investor to moscow, over launched election interference by american tech giant. we all remember how the 2016 us presidential election resulted in the american political establishment, launching the 3 year investigation into russian madly. do you think something similar could be initiated in russia now against u. s. companies, for example? and what would be the impact of such a prone new lonely i don't really know. i stick to the well known latin formula for quit pro, quote. oh, cool, a favor for a favor. quote unquote. since they did
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a favor, why wouldn't we reciprocate? i think we could look into launch probes remembering this is the job for the law enforcement wasn't, is now a central election commissioner in the ministry of foreign affairs. if there is enough evidence to prove their interference, why not? according to the data we have during the 3 day voting essential election commission servers were under contract, an attack, the ministry of digital developments, or port that's around half came from the united states. that's reason enough fights right. i was on your home and you mentioned the attack on the central election commission servers. i mean, we've also registered cases when google directly interfered in the russian election by placing banners and video ads and chrome and unused to have created by a legacy in the valid this team. they contained adverse publicity aimed at united russia. the candidate is russia planning to introduce any restriction or harnish in any way, the american 10 giants for hearing in the election in this way. is it possible to
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put pressure on companies like google, besides issuing political? steve mentioned, slapping them with fine, google. it is possible and necessary because the way i see it for everyone sick and tired of big tech, including the united states, even biden's administration, which at some point seemed to have an advantage of a trumps to in the digital space is now considering legislation that would limit these companies wish big tech plays by its own corporate rules. they made the most amount. that's how they decide things. they let some of the hook, but give others the chop. they blocked the former us president everywhere. he had 851900 1000000 followers. by, by why we don't like him. we didn't like something. he said, we should be with these decisions. we don't based on us law on an applicable ruling american court. they were based on the internal corporate rulings. they have some serious power. now with some specially you mentioned that activities during our
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election. it isn't that hopefully unacceptable until have basically interfered with russians politics. yes, they complied with our talk telecom watchdog eventually and hope to these activities. but when exactly, on the day of the vote before that this whole machine was going full speed. promoting video is created by a person who is serving a prison sentence for criminal offense will say they were showing videos of criminal to advance their political agenda on foreign soil. this is outrageous and we have to react. of course, we could react in various ways. for example, we could apply the law that we already have in place, and it allows us to restrict block slow down the activities of majors, social media platforms at all. we can also find them. so this is not just a slap on the wrist, must be a high cost finding them in russia altogether than under the new legislation. taking effect from january. the 1st 2020 to all digital platforms with over 500000 register uses have to open office in russia. this measure will help us to have
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a say on the policies of these companies operating in this country. and they will have to abide by these regulations. and so i can relate it to myself. i have about 4500000 follow twitter. and when i checked which recommendations on who to follow, of course, the 1st per who comes up. this isn't a valid and he was serving a criminal center. this isn't this interference in the affairs of a foreign country. it's blatant interference. company open and private i, as you mentioned, a possible then in western platforms. this is a major statement and there are many active rushing years of youtube. for example. do you think this decision might have some negative consequence or i didn't say that we should. bam, the platform, as i said, we should have options to have a say on their operations. even the u. s. government of his work. now these regulation, these won't be just corporate rules. we see the same trend, the euro. they realized that digital media can be used to influence foreign
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election and preferences and they are concerned. we should also have all the options to regulate the tech. it doesn't mean they should be banned. on the contrary, if they follow all the rules, that's great. i'm a social media user myself, convenience and fun bottle. just play by the rules abide by the laws of the country the way you operate. and that is exactly why they need to have a registered office in the country is nothing special that you are a digital platform that has tens of millions uses in the country. where would it be so crazy to have an office then you make money that after all the muscle we talked about fine. of course, we could mention that kevin sentra probably what you make money by operating in a foreign states and ignore the law that states people will not tolerate that. so i am sure that this legislation will eventually be passed in every country. some western leaders have called the russian election, illegitimate, and politicians from some neighboring countries refused to recognize the results in
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crimea at the same time. and we mentioned it's getting harder and harder to question election results in the united states, but will know what happened to trump supporters to give him chicago so they didn't enjoy nice, right? that's showing you. some of them are in jail, and most of them have thrown out of all social media platforms, one the personal chest before our interview. we got the news about need tubes of data policy. we will delete all content claiming falsification on the us presidential election and recent parliamentary vote in germany. when you doesn't say anything about an hour later, i know nothing about our election yet much. that sounds like them. i would be very original, but these are classic double standard policies. what was your question again, semester, on immigration movies, and we see that elections in western countries can be challenged at all while a vote in russia is questioned even before it starts. so what's your response?
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no, that's just ignores the as the saying goes, you know, dogs bark is often worse than it is bytes. we couldn't care less about these allegations live, but we are a large independent conduit that has sovereignty over its entire territory. and we have our own laws and they can say whatever they want, it won't matter to us wonderful food and eat them. when russia suggested cutting a number of ways observer is due to co, we'd related restriction. he decided not to send any tax for it to the russian parliamentary election. don't you think this looks like an attempt to undermine the credibility of the russian election from the start? and actually, if you go, that is exactly what it is. this is obviously an attempt to credit the russian election beforehand with an all day. she is shameless brazen attempts are slow and they said they would send 500 experts from the office for democratic institutions and human rights because of cove. it, we said, hey guys,
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that's too many people. you sent 30 observers to the united states. you sent 50 on average, and why do you want to bring 500 this time? let's cut this number 2 more, standard size, and then you are welcome to come observe. they said no, caesar or ne hill, all or nothing. either caesar or no one else, you know, one, it is then literally obviously there was some hidden agenda from the very beginning, much they decided by default at the election, illegitimate. some people say, perhaps it would have been worth it just to do as the asked and to allow, as many observers as they wanted to avoid such allocations. well, just like, well, to start with, we couldn't care less about all that noise, to be honest with you. secondly, the 2008 election when i ran the presidency, also generated a lot of noise today. there were also claims made about
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a lack of observers that it change anything, but you know, it didn't switch and you know, it's no good when international organizations i exploited by a group of certain countries to influence the others. what is the mission of the e originally? you don't remembrance, but back in the 19 seventy's, it's started as a conference on security and cooperation in europe and not the organization the way it's called today. and its purpose was to provide a platform for all members to be able to work out mutually acceptable decisions on all kinds of issues. when an international organization is used to put pressure on us whenever our policy differs, it, in fact, runs counter to the very essence of such an organization. that's the problem. in some cases, only mutual agreement is the only way forward. let's say, why does the un charter include a veto power? put the put many criticise saying it needs to be dropped. what it has a genuine value for. international politics is applied in situations when one un
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member or a group of members do not support the motion. if someone disagrees, they won't comply. so what's the use of such motions? even if they are pass will, they will only generate more attention, more bickering, more discord. i believe the value of such organizations, including observe emissions, is defined by the principle of mutual agreement. i said in my final question, before the election, there was a lot of speculation about your future seamless and you will be 2nd to be the next speaker of state duma. i guess the speaker was dormant. wow, that's some way to put it. i will be succumbed, it will things pretty. so why didn't side not to run post us with what i see live. well, since you are released, i'd say it's a personal question, but i'll tell you if you know that the state duma, or is the most important legislative agency we have in our country and it passes laws working, there is extremely interesting and rewarding when i was young and worked as a lawyer in petersburg in the late 19 eighties and early ninety's. that's when we
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already have the state duma established. i was thinking about my future employments . with enough experience, i thought i could make it to the say do more and work on the laws show. it's actually very interesting, but it all worked out in a different way for me to professionally. it's so happened that i became a state and then i was appointed head of government post i held longer than anyone else in recent years at least. and this has brought a drastic change to my career, of course secures. you see there are not many job options for an ex president way for me ahead of states. in some countries, ex presidents are not allowed to hold public off as a tool. they give lectures or moderate forums, etc. in russia, we don't have this rule. however, there is a clear understanding of what jobs are acceptable for an ex presidents. at present . i am deputy chairman of russia security council when the russian president, is it the chairman, i deal with exciting and important issues of rushes, national security and defense abilities and was appointed largely due to the
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experience i had accumulated interruption in the capacity of president and prime minister, as for my experience in the state duma, and i have to say it was all very delicate what you have to coordinate. a lot of things in your juggle interests and political will always trying to find a compromise between various factions. it's a very delicate and artful, painstaking job that you have to do day in and day out. your previous experience and your track record has nothing to do with. it wasn't that you do it just because it just happened this way. you were elected to the state duma and the past, and i can tell you how i feel about this now. i believe it's not how ex presidents fates need to be decided if this is not right for obvious reasons to fill. i want to say once again, love the job of m. p is very interesting. in many of my colleagues, think of better experience in the duma is the combination of the professional career law career. not everyone is a lawyer,
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but it's still about glue making. and it's a really exciting job by music. thank you very much for sitting down with us by silicon. thank you for having liberal and all the best to you and all your viewers will come all ah, the lack of universal healthcare makes america the country of every man for himself . we have a retirement crisis in this country and we have a health care crisis for seniors in this country as well. so private business has come up with a special mechanism for that. it's called the live settlement market. we are a life settlement provider, which means that we buy life insurance policies from primarily seniors throughout the united states who no longer want or can afford their life insurance policies. if you are sick and for want to live a few more years, you can sell your life insurance. that way you get more money right away and the
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company collects your insurance payment off your debt. and there's a group of people out there, i guess, hoping that people die soon. what kind of motivation is i give them when i start crying about them dying? that's usually what it's about. it's just the sheer unfairness of it. all i would need to work is a little boy, a little girl and made up because i don't want the cause the choice of insurance underwood you contribute. it's
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