and-and the work of determining the guilty degree of their guilt punishment continues for people, mostly young people who could succumb to temptation. well , persuading threats. here are people who have not previously been seen in illegal actions. no , they did not have a criminal record with such participants in the january events. they are being extremely loyal. yes , there are cases when there were illegal actions of law enforcement agencies against some participants, but each case, i repeat, that it is now being analyzed in detail is no less important to establish the affiliation of a and to terrorist organizations of the international level, as well as their family ties on the territory of our country. how they were financed, how these cash flows went. what were the costs? well, it's natural to find out. what may have belonged to them today or at that time belonged, and business structures that could be used for funding. ah, destructive

cells, so there is no reason to rush, since a thorough investigation will make it possible to make an adequate decision in the first place in order to in order to prevent a similar future after these riots, it was in the authorities of kazakhstan that economic reforms were announced. we talked about them in the context of the referendum. what other innovations are waiting for the country and how business and investors feel about this is an interesting question. well ta want to say that the purpose of the government's new economic policy is to develop e, a full-fledged sustainable market economy social orientation. well , probably there is nothing special, each country and similar plans are a different matter. as only achieves this and among the priority tasks. uh, we have to diversify the economy through the development of the manufacturing industry, support fair economic competition and de-bureaucratization in the state apparatus, and

the president instructed state regulatory authorities to take systemic measures to reduce the repressive nature of their activities, ensure the strictest control over the prevention of facts of illegal conduct of supervisory and especially investigative actions against over the past five months, the rights of about 100,000 entrepreneurs have been protected by business entities - this is about the same number as for the entire year of 2021, and the president spoke quite unambiguously about the state's measures aimed at support. e from the development of small medium business. well, i gave the corresponding instructions, as i said, to all state bodies , moreover, for example, to local executive authorities. uh, then he told the heads of the regions that their activities would be evaluated largely by those the conditions they create for business development. everyone, taking into account global trends, will

continue to work to attract investment in the manufacturing industry with a high value added agro-industrial complex, pharmaceuticals , transport and logistics infrastructure. this is a very important point, because today we see the logistics comes out on top positions. well, and other industries to further increase the investment attractiveness of kazakhstan by the government. we have developed a new concept of investment policy until 2026. what the position of the authorities of kazakhstan is taken on the special military operation of russia in ukraine, and what public sentiments do you observe inside the country? well, regarding the position of our country here. i'll repeat. uh, what was expressed by our president and the leadership of our country. we are watching with particular concern in kazakhstan the dramatic development of events, while in ukraine the military conflict has led to human casualties on

both sides, including among the civilian population. well, further escalation threatens destruction. uh, the whole system of regional and international security and large-scale humanitarian consequences, therefore our country adheres to the position of non-alternative peaceful solution of international problems. well, on the basis of international law and the principles of the charter of the united nations, in this regard, we welcome any steps towards the start of the negotiation process. we call on the parties involved in the military conflict to show good will. cease hostilities, and the new community and international organizations worldwide to promote a diplomatic solution to this situation. wanted i would like these solutions to be found. proposals are coming from both sides. and i would like this negotiation process to be resumed in the near future. we know that it sort of ceased, that e was renewed. here is the mode that

we saw at the beginning. eh, all these events. we reaffirm our readiness to render any assistance returning the situation to the mainstream of peace negotiations. and if the parties are interested. we, like a number of other countries, have expressed our readiness. e act for this appropriate negotiation platform. russia kazakhstan is closely connected economically. how sanctions pressure affects the country, are there any trends in the economy now and do you feel pressure from other players, for example, the united states. well, our economies are so closely interconnected there, so the sanctions, of course, the west and they hit us as a result. we are now seeing an increase in inflation. there is a ban on the export of certain goods , we also predict a decrease in the reduction in economic growth rates, there are various estimates. eh, well, somewhere it is considered that if we previously

said that economic growth would be around 4%, well, 3.9, in my opinion, now we are reducing the pace. uh, we are talking about what can achieve this, well, up to 2.1 different estimates, someone lower, someone a little higher. uh, the government is working on this, we have appropriate anti-crisis measures. and these are the measures that we are taking, we do not join the station pressure on the russian federation and do not take steps that infringe on any interests of russia and could be contrary to the spirit of our partnership. we think that sanctions, uh, they are in essence. here is the application of any economic or political sanctions. as experience shows, e is not the most effective way to resolve international disputes and conflicts. pokai suggested paying special attention to creating comfortable conditions for the relocation of foreign companies, taking into account

the sanctions context, and expanding economic cooperation with third countries and integration associations. all this is done taking into account the fact that the current geopolitical the situation will be, and long-term, as full members of the eurasian economic union and the world trade organization, kazakhstan will continue to develop trade relations with russia and other countries. in general, the isolation of the russian economy is one of the largest in the world. e in the long run. naturally, the development of the entire global economy is detrimental in the light of recent events , and cooperation within the eaeu and about the cst is growing more and more actively. what importance do the authorities attach to kazakhstan participation in these organizations, kazakhstan uh appreciates cooperation within the framework of, uh, the collective security treaty organization is ready to continue working together to develop the organization and strengthen the collective

security system this year. uh, our relationship organization mean why? because we are participants, all members, therefore, we can rightfully say that our organization is celebrating 30 years of signing the treaty, and collective security and the 20th anniversary of the organization itself over these 30 years, the accident has established itself as an effective mechanism for multilateral cooperation with serious potential for further development, the member states have accumulated a very large experience of practical interaction in the field of ensuring collective security and foreign policy cooperation, effective forms, uh, and methods of dealing with modern challenges and threats have been established. it was at this anniversary summit that our president spoke about the need to strengthen the potential of the peacekeeping forces, but about the cst. we need to set the task of connecting the utkb to peacekeeping

activities. this step, in our opinion. will strengthen the right of the subjectivity of the organization of the collective security treaty to ensure the practice of participation of the organization in international peacekeeping operations . in general, kazakhstan maintains the current level of cooperation with allies in the csd cooperation in the format of this regional organization and will continue to be among the priorities of kazakhs. foreign policy with regard to the eurasian economic union, recently during the eurasian economic forum in bishkek , the president of our country said that the republic remains a supporter of eurasian integration for 7 years of work, the eurasian economic union has opened up new opportunities provided the necessary conditions for the development of the economy of all participating countries has shown its effectiveness, including the most difficult geopolitical conditions, has established itself as a viable regional organization

that works on economic integration. here the union, in fact, was created with the aim of improving the conditions for free trade. and we believe that e copes with this task in years activities of the eu here is the mutual trade of kazakhstan increased by 33%, and exports by 55. that is. uh, there are more than 15,000 joint ventures from the countries of the union operating in kazakhstan today, their number continues to grow. well, i must say this is a gratifying phenomenon, these indicators testify to the success of this integration association. one side. integration on the other hand. you noted that the current geopolitical trends, most likely, are long-term, leaving russia for foreign business, the usual logistics chains, as we said, are being destroyed, how kazakhstan will build economic interaction with russia in the current conditions. as you can see, in the current conditions, this inter-industrial cooperation, our president literally

recently, again at the eu meeting, i'm returning to bishkek. he ordered the creation of a most favorable regime. e, instructed the relevant interested state body in kazakhstan to create the most favorable regime. for more than 200 entrepreneurs, on whom we now clearly see ours from russia which are located on the basis of the international financial center. astana in a nutshell this is what we call the mfc. the head of our state also called a very interesting initiative by russian president vladimir vladimirovich putin and a very interesting project on the greater eurasia project, if you look at it carefully, that is, this is a rational proposal to involve other interested countries in the integration process. uh, here we can talk about the people 's republic of china project. one way one train, especially since e is already part of this project. she is

implemented in practice. uh, the road is appropriate. that is, as if the system has been built, and about other countries that today are really expressing their interest in joining the integration processes in the eurasian space. now a decision has been made to start negotiations with indonesia and india and iran vietnam there free trade zones. that is, the more countries will be under the process of discussing integration free trade zones, the better our organization will be. i think not far off, probably there will be a day when the number of members of our organization will increase several times. if we talk about russian companies as investors in our economy, today it should be emphasized that russia is one of the five largest investors. the total amount of investments is 17.7 billion dollars. and

this is what we now see in reality according to our past statistics. only last year , about $2 billion was attracted to kazakhstan, and russian investments, in turn. kazakh investments reached almost 5 billion dollars is, if counted from 2005, quarters of which have been invested in recent years. russia is the undisputed leader in terms of the number of enterprises with foreign participation with foreign capital in kazakhstan, they talked about industrial cooperation production cooperation. here it is the locomotive of our cooperation, since it allows us to produce products with high added value, kazakhstan, uh, has never participated and will not participate in geopolitical games. at the heart of, uh, our politics. always lie the national interests of our country strengthening. ah, the welfare of our citizens. well, the development of the economy. we work exclusively on a

parity basis with all external entities, and above all with the russian federation, which under any circumstances remains for us. eh, a close neighbor and strategic partner, of course, difficulties arise, but they don’t exist, only those who do nothing. all problems are solvable. uh, their occurrence - this is evidence that our cooperation is developing. and at a fast pace one important topic of education. if i am not mistaken in your working career, in the early eighties you started as a history teacher in one of the almaty schools. but then, of course, it was the soviet school and teaching. and they spoke russian in it; now the trends in education are completely different. there are fewer and fewer schools where they teach russian, more and more in schools, where they teach only in kazakh, of course. russia supports kazakhstan's desire to learn its native language and respects it, but on the other hand. in our country expresses fears that russian is actually becoming a foreign language. why is

such a full-fledged bilingualism not supported, because, in fact, the peoples are really close neighbors, and this is probably the beginning of the rapprochement of our countries. let me answer this question. separately , i want to say clearly and frankly right away that nothing threatens the russian language in kazakhstan. this is not a completely correct interpretation of what is happening in kazakhstan today. some individual moments stick out on the basis of their formation, uh, agenda day, which does not meet the interests of our two countries this time. well, let's start with the fact that yes, indeed, i worked as a teacher at school. i was a student. that is, the head teacher of our school called me and asked me to work a little as a century and work for 3 years. being a student of ours at school. really. i finished yes, that is, i went , er, to plant in russian, i graduated from school at a russian university. look, there were

about one million inhabitants in almaty at that time. well, almost all schools were in russian the language was, in my opinion, only 2 or 3 schools. he is kazakh. that is, i want to say that e russian language. nothing threatens kazakhstan. we do not have the problem of the russian language, as such, which is practically spoken by the entire population of kazakhstan, that is, 90%, they speak it fluently, i repeat the problem with the kazakh language. that is, e is the result of certain distortions in educational policy during the soviet union, if you display statistics, you speak today to a school with russian language very few. let me give you the numbers, according to the data of the ministry of science and education in kazakhstan , there are now 6,942 public schools. of these, 1121 schools - this is 16% in russian 2075 schools - this is over 30%, with mixed languages ​​of instruction in kazakh and russian, that is, more than 1 million

people study in russian, based on the national composition of the population of our country, then i think that this is a very good indicator. i would like to wish you success in those projects that have already begun. thank you very much for interview. thanks, see you.

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