for the secretary general in suspenders, in a t-shirt, on vacation, so to speak, a normal person. tas correspondents have always worked in the hottest spots on the planet. yuri rodionov was at the correspondent's office in nigeria when the government changed there. there is a military coup. what does the correspondent do first, in the villa living separately, in the tasovskaya villa. he grabs his wife, a small child, into the car, puts them between the seats and drives to the embassy to leave them there, that they are under guard. and then what does he do, he again gets into... as a hostage of bandits in tajikistan together with employees of the un mission. on the other end of the line they asked me, have you been taken hostage , the connection was loud, i said, we were asked not to ask their questions and not to comment. we are guests. negotiations with the militants were then conducted

by the agency's general director vitaly ignatenko, all civilians were released, in 1993 during an armed confrontation in moscow, vitaly nikitich himself had to stand guard at tas, people with machine guns broke out of his office, here they practically walked into this building on my shoulders and presented me with an ultimatum that we must transmit the message by tactile, regime.

vesti nedeli. on friday , a new high-speed train with the beautiful name bely krikchet was presented at the moscow manege. so far, this is only a model, but from 2030, 43 such trains will run between moscow and st. petersburg. the trains will move at a speed of 350-400 km / h. and the route between moscow and the northern capital will take.

in the historical center, large-scale restoration, granite blocks are being re-laid on the embankments of the neva, the granite facade is being strengthened petropallovsky fortress, this is happening for the first time in its history, the restoration of the stock exchange building continues, the restoration of the dome drum of st. isaac's cathedral continues, the issue of preserving cultural heritage for st. petersburg, this is also a question of preserving its own identity, upstream there is also the noise of machinery, but here it is no longer a restoration, but... the troika is building a new bridge across the niva, a drawbridge, for the first time in 40 years, here is a beauty, our bridge, you see how intensively the construction is going, we have already entered directly into him, first they reinforced the bank, i see construction on both sides, yes, we are going on both sides, so that we can meet faster in the middle, in 40 years they haven’t forgotten how to build bridges in st. petersburg, no, we haven’t forgotten how to do anything, they are building, they are still building, if only there was money, we will build the rest, in general, there are as many as five bridges across the neva in the nearest future, this big

smolensky, and also the novoadmiralteysky arsenal, the bridge of the latitudinal highway of high-speed traffic, an integral part of the new toll road under construction, which... will save a lot of time when moving from the west to the east of the city. another bridge of the second ring road. kat-2 will take a significant share of traffic flows outside of st. petersburg. this will change the map for those who travel by car. for air passengers, the second stage of pulkovo will be built. for those traveling by rail, a high-speed highway to moscow. it is very important for me that we will soon be 2 hours from moscow, this is generally workable. st. petersburg is the best, most beautiful

city, which is growing before our eyes. to work on smolny is now trying to attract city enterprises to the new city facilities so that the money stays in st. petersburg. the tax base is growing, the budget is growing, here is the obukhov plant, known primarily as a defense enterprise, it manufactures, for example, hydraulic cylinders for bridges, and they are manufactured by robots, here is a stacker, here is a welder, they load the finished parts onto unmanned carts that constantly travel around the workshop, there is no such workshop in russia, these are robotic, completely complexes, if this were not here, then 600 people would work here, now... 90, that's all you need to know about the industry, that is, this is what gives movement forward, in another workshop they make mechanisms for laying underground tunnels, a painful issue for st. petersburg is the construction of the metro, we all look at moscow, well, what's wrong, we are a little envious, what are our

prospects here, will there be new stations and when, well, no need to envy, you just have to work, it was not us who led the metro construction into a dead end and bankruptcy, our famous metro construction, but we brought it from there... the deficit of social facilities is already necessarily with two swimming pools and liquidated, and new schools are built with dance halls, and kindergartens are also equipped with salt caves. in maternity hospitals, since august 1, newborns are given gift sets: a video nanny, a sterilizer for bottles, a heating system, an air humidifier, a development mat, this is generally such a set, it is very expensive. commercial in the store, if you buy these things, just come, then the amount will be significantly higher. maria and igor korabelnikov already have a seventh child, such families, of course, need special attention, additional payments,

benefits, and even the simple opportunity to leave older children under the supervision of a nanny when she came to the doctor, they want to spread the practice started in the tenth st. petersburg maternity hospital,

many guys did not receive state awards, departmental awards, they simply did not have time, well, let's say, the first battle was wounded and after that the hospital, hospitals and the commissariat, then a fighter comes and he is invited to the award ceremony, and the person feels support, we are recording this interview on the embankment of the

karpovka river, a new public has been created here space, water areas are being cleaned, coastal zones are being improved, 40 km of work has already been done, and more... 99% of all water management wastewater is being cleaned by our state unitary enterprise vodokanal. on one of the central embankments, the english one, in the building of the former anglican church, an ancient english organ is being recreated, the only one in russia. there will now be a musical theater here. there was a time when the city survived only due to culture, due to the fact that culture remained. now we are reviving many other things that were in the city, and the city as would have grown stronger, we can not only breathe a little, but we can.

and here we say goodbye, all the best and see you next sunday, a little later, sunday evening with vladimir solovyov, right now, moscow, the kremlin, putin.

relations with the united states are historically at their lowest point, especially now, when the american elites are gripped by election fever, but in any case, as vladimir putin said, they will have to find points of... contact with us, they will have to reckon with us. hello, the west has played with fire during the ukrainian crisis, and of course, in the few weeks left before the us presidential election, the situation could become even more complicated. biden, who is going into historical oblivion, has been destroying russian-american relations to the ground for all four years. we now have an exclusive interview with peskov with previously unknown details about the negotiations between putin and biden, as well as with...

about the latest events, they reached the breaking point, which was probably approaching inexorably, russia's patience was overflowing, the cumulative effect of the steps of the united states on... trampling on the interests of our country, it has exceeded the permissible limits, this is actually several decades, when the united states consistently attacked our interests, consistently put pressure on russia, making freudian slips, reboot, overload, and just the period of mr. biden's presidency, it became the culmination of all these processes from the point of view of the fate of bilateral relations, they are really now historically, probably, at the lowest point, prospects

so far, to reach the growth trajectory, none, the united states, despite many statements to the contrary, are directly involved in the conflict around ukraine, they are demonstrating a tendency to increase the degree of involvement in this conflict, their own, this is an undisguised enemy. they said that the united states seized part of mexico's territory at the time, they would have encouraged mexico to fight for the return of its territory, this is what you did not want to think about, when the united states is increasingly personally drawn into this conflict, they are drawn in, this is an obvious thing, and let no one say that they have nothing to do with it, we believe that they do. during biden's presidency, which

will soon expire, relations between russia and the united states have deteriorated as never before in history, of course, they were bad. and 4 years ago, the entire presidential campaign, then between biden and trump, took place with the invisible but constant presence of putin. biden called trump - quote, putin's puppy. what can we say, is this a manifestation of the level of political culture, or absence thereof. despite the already sparkling statement, russia's position before the start of the new administration in the united states is, as always, correct. moscow expects, at the very least, a constructive approach. we will work with any future president of the united states, with the person whom the american people trust. with biden, how do you think your relations will be built? i don't know, it largely depends on the new administration. and the first signals from biden seem to be quite constructive. he called president putin with the intention of discussing our desire to extend start-3 for 5

years. the treaty has been extended, but soon things are starting to happen. very rich in double meanings of words and so on, tried to understand this, there were even such awkward attempts from the white house administration to launch this version, that supposedly this word can have other shades and so on, but everything was clearly stated there, it was a bad start in this regard, when you and your colleagues told the president of russia about this, what was his reaction? you know, the president

putin, he is always extremely careful in his statements about his colleagues, he never allows himself... not to mention rudeness, impoliteness towards the heads of other states, and of course, it is incomprehensible to him when the heads of other states, especially the head of the united states of america, use such words in their lexicon when talking about his colleague, and what would i answer him, i would tell him, be healthy, i wish him health. putin makes an unexpected and extraordinary move, offers biden, who has moved on to insults in tv interview. talk face to face, but on condition that we do it actually live, as they say, online, we could talk about bilateral relations, but i repeat once again, on condition that it is a direct honest conversation, essentially live, at any time, as if the american country, well, i would not put it off for long, many then considered these shots,

taken on those same days and flying around the world, as biden's peculiar response. the new stage in russian-american relations began with a very rude statements addressed to you, was it possible to explain this somehow? we all know these statements, after that president biden called me, we explained ourselves, i was satisfied with these explanations, he suggested that we meet, these are his initiatives, we met about who is guilty of what and where, who is the killer, look, here on the street. american cities , someone is killed every day, there you don’t have time to say a word, they are already shooting either in the chest or in the back. well, okay, these are criminal things. let’s take afghanistan, there with one blow 120 people were killed, weddings were destroyed, once and twice, let's say it's a mistake, this also happens, but the drones were investigated, clearly civilians in iraq, what is this? who is responsible for this, who is the killer?

putin made these statements after his first and only personal meeting with president biden, themselves. russia and the united states shake hands and immediately head to negotiations. we follow them. the excitement is off the charts, journalists are rushing into the room where the leaders are. and the american organizers in response shout so loudly that they interfere with the presidents, they cannot get organized, start talking. they ask journalists to leave the room already, because the presidents must start, of course , negotiations, they have been waiting for a very long time,

well, you see that american journalists are trying, for them this is of course the only opportunity to ask questions, avoids a joint press conference,

if we take what would be dangerous and unacceptable for the state, the deployment of our missiles in cuba, the flight time to washington, 15 minutes, is this a red line for the us or not, but for us, but someone should talk about this think, think about how we should react to what is essentially being proposed and discussed, our historical territories with a population of russian speakers...

from peace, calm, prosperity and trust, well, what's wrong with that, not to deploy strike systems near our borders, it seems that we didn't even raise these issues, they were simply bypassed, we see political cliches and proposals on some secondary issues, they took such a completely categorical position regarding ukraine's membership in nato, that's your opinion look, why, they couldn't, they don't understand, they understand perfectly well that this is an extremely sensitive... topic for russia, now we can say for sure, i am deeply convinced of this, america is a country that is very pragmatic, they had a project ukraine, they developed this project until

2014, they invested money, they implemented the project, they staged a coup, they handed out pies there, then they went along the path of implementing this project, and this project envisaged sucking ukraine into a military nato infrastructure, into political into military infrastructure, they followed this scenario exactly, what is happening now, the tension that is developing in europe, it is their fault. at every step, russia was forced to respond somehow. at every step, the situation was constantly getting worse, worse, worse, degraded and degraded. and now we are in a situation where we are forced to decide something. well, is this not clear to anyone? it should be clear. in parallel with this , they organized unscheduled exercises in the black sea. it seems that we are not allowed to relax, but let them know that we are not relaxing, they will arm and push extremists from a neighboring state against russia, including certain regions of the russian federation, what do they think, we do not see these

threats, or do they think that we will weakly watch the threats created for russia? our concerns and warnings about nato expansion to the east were simply completely ignored, now let's see where the military infrastructure of the nato bloc is, right near our borders. apparently. the latest attempt to reach an agreement was this teleconference between putin and biden, the russian president is heading to a historic summit, which is currently attracting the attention of the entire world, of course, we are following this event, i greet you, mr. president, good afternoon, such an atmosphere at the beginning of the negotiations gave many hope, but then the doors closed, it is clear that you ... can talk about the nuances, despite the fact that it seems that western countries have long ago made it so that the canons of diplomacy do not work, everyone is leaking everything, everyone they tell everything, many secrets are revealed

right there, but this does not mean that we should imitate them. but nevertheless , what was the atmosphere like during that conversation, how categorically did the us make it clear in that conversation that they were not going to take our concerns about ukraine into account in nato at all? it was a tough conversation on both sides, an uncompromising conversation on both sides, on the american side there was an absolute lack of readiness to continue the dialogue, that is , we then understood that we had to talk further , by and large. by the way, i told him then, i won't go into detail, i never do that, but i told him then, i think you're making a huge mistake of historical proportions by supporting everything that 's happening in ukraine, pushing russia away, nato's further movement to the east is unacceptable, but what's not clear about that, not a single inch to the east, they told us in the nineties, so what, they cheated us, they just brazenly deceived us, five waves,

eating up everything in a row, our original russian, the lawlessness has intensified in recent months, the us and the eu countries subordinate to them are supplying ukraine is increasingly powerful weapons for mutual russian-ukrainian murders. many people already have the feeling that comrades abroad have gone completely crazy, because every day we now hear completely unimaginable conversations, they discuss there what kind of weapon to use to strike russia, how deep to strike russia, the eu foreign minister publicly stated that many countries share the opinion that attacking the kursk region is normal and correct, well, let's be correct in this case, firstly, it is not comrades for border, and the comrades in the west, because the west is not the world majority, in the west , indeed, you said it right, well , the minister of foreign affairs of europe, he is already behaving like the minister of defense, and he is behaving

like... the european countries, led by the united states, are in ecstasy, this confrontational one, they are playing the role that washington has assigned them in this whole story, to the detriment of their own interests, to the detriment of the wallets of their taxpayers, and of course, all this will have profound consequences for them, they inevitable, during the coming decade, we will witness these negative consequences. haven't they already played with fire too much, because, for example, in the situation with donbass, russia called for a constructive approach for a long time, or rather constantly, but in the end responded in a way that many did not like, they are playing too much, they are playing too much, but knowing the determination of our president, knowing our potential of our country, which turned out to be even greater than us...