russian foreign minister sergei lavrov today spoke at a press conference on the results of the work of russian diplomacy last year, the diplomat assessed the prospects for the development of relations between our country and the west told about negotiations around the conflict in ukraine what other topics did the minister touch on varvara nevskaya us ambitions for world hegemony and hybrid war , a special military operation being conducted with the west against russia and strengthening relations with strategic partners. here are the main topics of the big annual press conference of the head minister of foreign affairs of russia sergey

lavrov, in his opening speech, the minister noted the deep-seated trends in geopolitics that have matured for more than a dozen years, which determined the actions of the west to turn ukraine into the main media and political event of the past year, and russia into the cause of all world troubles, the minister said that the events in ukraine, the result of many years of us preparations for the start of a global hybrid war with the russian federation and for this war. the west has put almost everything on this the war against russia is a lot, it's clear, because the events around ukraine have revealed latently, ripening. according to the desire of the united states, to stop trying to strengthen its position in the world by legitimate means and to switch to illegitimate methods of ensuring its dominance,

everything is destroyed, as you can see, and far from because, uh, we see in ukraine all those mechanisms have been destroyed, which the west created, led by the united states, which he considered sacred. this is a free market. it's fair competition free entrepreneurship. the inviolability of property the presumption of innocence is everything on which the western model of globalization was based collapsed overnight, lavrov commented on the likelihood of resuming the negotiation process with ukraine by the minister. he recalled that russia supported the project regulation proposed by kiev, but the party itself withdrew from the negotiations under pressure from the west, at the same time, russia is still ready to respond to any serious proposals. but so far they haven’t been voiced, and zelensky’s negotiations well, at least would, because he legally forbade

negotiating with the russian government. so, all this chatter, western, that they are ready. but we, uh, this is all from the evil one, we will be ready to respond to any serious proposals with a proposal of serious ones, for now. we do not see, we will be ready to consider them and decide to speak with the west. only in ukraine it probably makes no sense. the west is using ukraine to destroy the security system that existed in the euro-atlantic for many, many years and which was based on the principles consensus on the indivisibility of security, the solution of all issues through dialogue and cooperation was touched upon by russia's speech and interaction with numerous partners in asia, the arab

countries and latin america, and ongoing attempts. the west will destroy these historical ties, so washington is interested in creating opposing forces between russia and china in the pacific region, with which, according to the forecasts of the foreign ministry, this year should reach $ 200 billion, cooperation continues on the international arena. close coordination countries in the un in the field of combating new challenges and threats along the lines of the sco and along the lines of the brix strategy, which the united states adopts a doctrine in the field of security. the declarations between nato and the european union, which i mentioned, directly list both russia and china, er, a small nuance of us, as it were, is an immediate threat. it would be quick to get it over with, and china is considered to be a serious systemic challenge in the long-term. and with them. so, it seems that it will take longer to study, and according to western understanding

, our tv channel also asked sergey lavrov a question, and the attempts of the west to upset relations between russia and african countries, the us congress plans to pass a law that provides for punishment by the states against african states for cooperation with the russian federation. the south african foreign ministry has already sharply criticized the documents, noting the unacceptability and illegality of the colonial policy. west i have no doubt that in the depths of their souls even those who , uh, do not comment on this kind of american provocations. yes, there is still a deep conviction that this law harms primarily to africans. we are planning with africa. as you know, the second summit this year is at the end of july. uh, in st. petersburg, and we are preparing a whole series of events for it, there will also be a business forum. uh, they are preparing, and uh, documents on reconfiguring

the mechanisms of interaction in the conditions. here are those same sanctions and in the face of the threat of the entire conference. lasted more than 3 hours, the russian foreign minister answered 18 questions from russian and western journalists. varvara nevskaya valery ivanov led vetrinsky and polina onishchenko to lead. which legislative initiatives for the spring session are being prepared by the faction new people in the state duma about this directly? now let's talk with the chairman of the party alexei nechaev alexei gennadievich hello, i welcome you. well, yesterday the spring session started in the state duma, and you started it with a bill on armor for, uh, entrepreneurs, you called for the fact that hmm entrepreneurs need to be protected from mobilization. why did they start with this bill? and as you can see , entrepreneurs defend a lot in our country , but still a delay. yes, it's different because we're seeing two of these, uh, not-so- good things. first

, justice is very important in russia, for example, there are 2.5 million officials in russia. and as he said, the minister of defense mobilized 1,700 officials. this is 0.7%. yes, less than one tenth of andrew entrepreneurs. in russia, it is considered a little less than 6 million. of these, those who made the enterprise are two and a half millions, and those who are entrepreneurs in detail are 3.5 and a little more than a million. that is, this is 6 million, the community of entrepreneurs of them is also mobilized according to the minister of defense 27.000 is almost half a percent. it turns out that there is a sixfold difference between the need for officials at the front and the need for entrepreneurs. but this, of course, hurts people, because, well, justice is a very delicate moment in russia historically and the second thing. we introduce the bill not all entrepreneurs. yes, not all six million people should be given a reservation, but those who

employ five or more people, because i also see now, and we are receiving signals both to the committee on small and medium enterprises and just at meetings with voters, what do they say, well, a man was taken away, and he has several employees and they are where they are without him, so he is both a director and an owner. there the family can't pick up. well, that is, jobs are important to us, it is important for us that people have jobs and freedom. and when there is nowhere to work, well, how can i say, this is not great, so the bill is divided into two categories of people - entrepreneurs who have 5 employees or more, and also, so that you know there were no frauds, we said. that within six months you have already had these five employees worked? this is also just a fuse not now, quickly once again, probably finished drawing and the second thing the second option is the category - these are those who have farms, it doesn’t matter. are you the only one working there or employees, because this very sensitive farmers are also people who

are few in russia, and they keep a lot of them. there is a large share of ours. e-e food, yes, food products are created by agroholdings, but farmers go through the most difficult, most such thankless work, and now they are removed. and there are also mechanics there, so rather actively take away agricultural regions. these are 2 sensitive categories. they will bring more benefits to us. uh, creating jobs , creating taxes, allowing production, a at the front. well, what about them? well, yes, well, so far this is an initiative. how are you? what response did you hear from the deputies to this idea. what do you think, when it can become familiar, first, and ourselves. yesterday, for example, i said in my speech that there are still several categories. it is very sensitive, for example, it people in the modern world of it technologies are digital, it looks like there are 100 years back there were engineers. this

is what the industry is based on now. this is the core of the economy. generally. so engineers are the core of the industry. if it doesn't work, the equipment won't do anything. well, apparently there is another second thing, for example, there are not enough at the front, for example, digital battle control systems. yes , how modern, uh, which we didn’t put in ukraine, how much they are modern with us. yes, we won’t comment there yet, but there is something to do there, so we have a figure and before the start, we didn’t have enough, approximately millionth vacancies to enter the industry were not filled. can you imagine, and correctly, the ministry of digitalism is fighting to give reservations to it specialists, but there is still an electronic industry, and at the front, too, it is necessary that people not sit there in the trenches, but here they create smart shells, create an electronic warfare system so that we land strangers . there are these drones, thank god now there in sevastopol , for example, but they have already intercepted them. there are more than twenty of these drones that flew, but this is all required by modern brains

modern hands, and the third category. that is, we say it people, radio electronics engineers, that yes, over 100 years , engineers have changed a lot, and all technologists are based on them, because many processes there are chemistry in the same beer of technology. take away. well , the quality can go that way. maybe, god forbid, he will send you to someone. there's something else that's very sensitive. this is also awaiting its introduction. well, you need to eat the elephant in parts , you need to act step by step, and here we are, including in the controversy. so from other factions we see support and e from the liberal democratic party and not so thoughtful in a colleague, rightly in russia there is united russia, so this should be discussed at a committee at the council of the duma, we are campaigning. how to say we justify it, we weigh where the benefits are greater, of course. eh, this is in what sense of the word , too, people say? and why don't these ones go, and these ones go there, they have their own, too, such delicate moments. this should be discussed if the society decides that they are more useful here and

you say jobs are money entrepreneurs, so they will support, but this is a big discussion. it already started yesterday. well yes, the controversy was really serious there . here vyacheslav volodin said that, in fact, everyone should serve, and that there are even ideas not to let them go to public service. for those who did not serve in the army, how do you feel about this, by the way ? well, as i said, for now, for example, from the civil service. i say six times fewer people were mobilized to understand something, so here it is necessary, firstly, in the words of vyacheslav volodin, as a check. there is such a deep rationale, yes, that is, it is not in an empty place the idea that he says, do you want to serve in the public service. serve in army. there is logic in this, but there are many unanswered questions, probably, there are answers, but they also do not require public discussion. well, for example, women to go to public services . almost half of the civil servants are a woman there, a little less, to go to public service, a woman must also serve in the army, as in israel, for example, or like switzerland or

a woman, such as a man, only a radian can, but women can in any case, that's how the historian still thinks about it. we ask here in general a woman question, as they say, in principle, should a woman serve in the army? yes, and let them answer this question, the second second big point. we have, for example, disabled people. yes, we have people, a few people in the state duma are very people, but good people are substantial. they are someone in a wheelchair there. yes, someone is also there, uh, and they are all huge. well, it brings benefits, it doesn’t matter where united russia comes from, because people, uh, know the problems, for example, people with disabilities. we have several million of them in the country. that is, this is a huge category of our uh people. therefore, in the army there is no volodin, i don’t think he thinks so, if we make exceptions, that is , these are still questions, but in the end there is the constitution the constitution gives both active

voting rights the right to elect, and passive the right to be elected by all citizens, so a person, if let him determine his attitude to the constitution already, of course, before his colleagues voted. uh, last season. yes, in the past with mature, there are many questions. this decision killed. everybody is here requires, of course, a detailed discussion. you probably already mentioned that deferment for entrepreneurs is one way to support the economy saving the economy jobs, right? well, you also talked about the fact that here we are, now the parties realized the return, says, here we are, we will take into politics 200,000 municipal deputies in russia and several tens of thousands of legislative assemblies of the regions. there the state duma is, and she is at the front. there are now several hundred thousand people, that is, you can’t send all the politicians you need. they not even some jobs. if interested, we will pick up entrepreneurs. where will people return to? where will they work, right? you also voiced such an interesting idea.

what about a special economic operation? what is it? what could it be ? it has two uh, two sounding first idea in this economic operation. this is what the government has already partially done, including with the support of the state duma, these are urgent measures that open up some bottlenecks, not all bottlenecks mistakes, but a significant part of the first wave of such response to sanctions. the west has already been done, which means that the second strategic thing is such a static line. you know that the word industrial policy in russia was actually banned in the 1990s, when we gave our markets to the west by a foreign manufacturer, it was not very popular in the 2000s, it could still be used, but nothing has been done and only since 2014 industrial policy began in one of the areas in the russian economy, where it is very important that not some state players, but

private players began to help. yes, removing, firstly, some excessive regulation restrictions, and secondly, give a subsidy. giving long-term loans is not very expensive. although they also began to invest not cheap, we see how in more than 8 years. yes, with the active participation of dmitry nikolayevich, who, of course, put his reputation on the line. yes , first as the head of the russian agricultural bank, then as a minister well, other powerful colleagues worked to represent the government, we see how it is industries. it became one of such locomotives for the development of russia in tsarist russia was bread, but it went abroad, and the peasants were starving. maybe you remember such an expression not then in russia there was a famine, when the grain was born to him? yes , he had bread. and when the swan, it seems, was not born. yes, that’s how it was in soviet times, no matter how much collective farms poured into these state-owned ones, we bought grain in america and so on. now we sell grain for export. and this is very important. this industrial policy is called and when

we are not in a state-owned company swell money. and when we give them to the private sector, as a support feeder to private money. we give the state at this moment development begins, and here, a native of the industries , recently her exchange informant conducted an experiment, supported them with 500 million rubles. for advertising, yes for consumer goods. so it is not enough to compete with the price, even if the quality is the same, that is, it is professionally lower, which means less profit, less taxes you pay. support for subsidized advertising and it turned out that the channels that now they receive 40 billion. tv channels of money directly from the budget and other media outlets account for a ruble of budget funds per ruble of expenses. the same money works once, in the case of this experiment, money works twice , a ruble of state money comes in. another ruble of private money and it seemed that it was not 100 rubles. yes, 200. it's much more efficient. that is, you spend less government money on this and the special economic operation is to help our

producers by pursuing an industrial policy, first, and second, what is industrial policy. it is always protectionism the whole west england germany france the usa all rose on protectionism. they've been defending their markets for hundreds of years. moreover, they're happy to defend all this talk about free markets. look at the us china trade wars us europe friendly, as it were, us trade wars, what they have now done with entire russian industries, they have banned the supply of steel there. well, here they banned many of our products, both branded and non-branded, from standing in front of them. and we are all we drag it here, ah, along those pistons that the wto used to give us more than ten years ago is no longer so active. yes, because if you know certain restrictions almost the same way. yes, i would look at the balance. uh, export import. we have not greatly reduced the import of goods, including yes, yes, yes, there is a share,

but this is all the main flow comes from the west and the duties have remained the same five percent, 10%, 15, which were once imposed in the house. uh-huh, at the same time, our unfriendly country is better. she simply raised the duties to 35. otherwise, they simply removed the whole industry. and we still live according to wto rules under this burden. why do you need it? let's reset. let's enter the minimum. mirror duties, we will raise to 35%, because that's even one small industry. leading, there in six countries, five anglo-saxon countries and poland of increased duty. already the budget will be 4 billion rubles. and more this year they can be spent on supporting the industry, because in order to support the industry, this is exactly the place where you can take this money and send half to support of our social sphere, and half the support of the industry. i think this is a very good move and i saw it. i saw yesterday that all parties have great support for this idea. yes, yesterday we also talked about the

budget. uh, the budget deficit last year, but it turned out to be much larger than planned. clearly two trillion. yes, objective reasons. and what, in your opinion, will happen with this adopted budget for 2023, what awaits it? i went here tagged back in early december. treasury you thought you had a deficit will be 1.3 million rubles. one comma three tenths of a trillion rubles, it turned out to be 3:33. all gone in a month. honestly. it turned out to be. that was a very short period of time when the budget was adopted in november, for example, a year ago, when this budget was adopted 22 years ago. i said it won't. they are planning, that is, there will be no excess budget for a trillion colleagues. yes, and we see, now it’s really more than three trillion, when this budget was adopted, 23 years, they say, let’s reduce costs, we won’t have that surplus of that the deficit, which is planned for the twenty- third year, it will be larger, because the price

of oil was calculated at 75-80 dollars per barrel, we see now the price is 40 there, god forbid, if therefore incomes will be lower, so there are two options, either borrow more, how i do the ussr yes, at the end of the eighties, everything can be done there anyway, that we will lose the country. and you can cut costs. yes, as it were, a hat for senka, yes, and so on, and i am a supporter of both borrowing, but limited and reducing costs. for example, we still have there are subsidies in the budget to support automakers according to the euro-4 standard. in principle, we have a relationship with the automotive industry. you know, yes, i know, here, and then there's euro-4. we want to support it, but it would be said somewhere game, like a cop already. yes, this is not only the pre-war budget. it's kind of a deco budget. we continue with new construction. yes, those lines that started the road. yes, there the building needs to be completed. do you want that in russia there is this

unfinished? let's finish building what we started well, we want to start building a new one. here now we want to make a road from yekaterinburg to tyumen, maybe we'll wait, we're building, well , i'll tell you straight, we're building new houses in new territories. where did they get hurt? yes , they told me one house. it's just that 300 million built a house, ukrainian missiles flew in, there is no home. no, there are millions of rubles. uh-huh , it's good that no one was hurt by the inhabitants, but why, but nevertheless, first everything, then we will build. well, seriously speaking, well, ah, there is still such a thing as economic mobilization. it is clear that they have designated, yes money, in in principle, it is not enough and here and there, yes, but does this mobilization economy really need it, what does it mean, what should one pay attention to here? and not friendly countries need it for ukraine. now, if we now make

the economy from peaceful flights to a mobilization flight, russia will transfer this best gift to our opponents. so i thought, people who are here, but i will explain. yes, we have two parts of the economy, the state is such a state-owned company and such classics are state-owned companies. there is a market economy, and in these two halves. better than half - it means thanks, and we just withstood this onslaught of sanctions that the west gave us in the spring of last year. if now we are from what we are now a chocolate factory. let's translate that she will make cartridges, and this offers the immigration economy. i don't know what i'll be good. if someone that sew clothes for people, we'll live only we don't need so many military uniforms. we need a military uniform. even we weren't mobilized there naked, but we don't need that many hundreds thousands, it makes no sense to transfer the entire industry to a military footing. it does n't make any sense. the more market economy remains. yes, with protectionist

policies supported by it, the more jobs we have, the more income and people. but at the same time, people will get less work and less freedom, and they want to cause this, of course, there will be no toilet paper. she will not sausage, of course, this will lead to riots. uh-huh, therefore, only either people are narrow-minded, or people. well, that is, poorly educated or external distant distant from the economy, so to speak, they want to arrange an investment economy in russia, or it is an adversary. well, it turns out here, after all, there must be some kind of balance, yes, not a mobilization economy, but nevertheless, an economy defined with nuances, taking into account the situation, a dream has two psychological meanings. here people are mobilized. they are collected. they are collected. they are active in this sense, psychologically one must be mobilized, of course. you don’t have to be relaxed there, you know how emelya is sitting on the stove there. no need to be. of course it is necessary being collected in this sense, turquoise is

good, but they also have a transition to military rails. here, this is superfluous we do not need so much, but so those enterprises that make ammunition. the weapons are there ensuring that they work like three shifts. i say, there is no need for a cigarette factory to change. they work, but nevertheless, gaps remain here and the president himself says about this that gaps in components are people who know how to work with us. we have good equipment. it's just hard for us with accessories from what you still drive 100 bakers per factory. but no, they did not come, some details. you will not make more equipment and more weapons, so here the bottleneck in the supply of logistics is in spare parts, and not in the number of jobs . there are also questions, but this is not the bottleneck. yes alex means, thank you very much for your comments. thanks for coming to our studio. let me remind you that in our

studio there was the chairman of the new people party alekseynov with the work of an economic economic operation. everything will be special. a. well, we continue sberbank starts work in the crimea offices. the bank will be opened gradually throughout the year, however, the team has already been formed, the authorities of the republic believe that the arrival of such a major player will allow and so to continue to increase the availability of the quality of banking services for the population . new outlets will appear on the sberbank map the bank is starting to operate in crimea , the first atms have already appeared, so far only in the major cities of the peninsula, but within a few months the device will be all over on the territory of the region, the next step is the opening of offices, we have formed a team and are starting to work on the peninsula, in crimea the first sberbank atms have already been installed, and during the year all these service devices will work throughout the peninsula, gradually over the

course of 23 years, bank offices will be opened and the first of them will start working in major cities. in the first half of the year then during the year. we will begin to provide all the necessary services and services of sberbank to crimeans. now the regional network of sberbank operates in 83 subjects of the country. these are 11 large territorial banks and more than 13.5 thousand units with the advent of a new large entity. their number will further increase and the bank will consolidate its status as a market leader last year. the number of retail customers increased by almost 3 million and reached 160 million. the number of corporate customers exceeded 3 million, an increase of 100,000. and the number of monthly mobile application users exceeded 78.5 million according to the latest official data, more than 2 million people live in crimea, of which about a million - this is the working-age population, that is, potential active banking users. in the tourist season, experts believe the figure. maybe two or three times more. moreover, many

active people invest in real estate on the peninsula. the bank of russia is the largest bank serving individuals, so it is logical to expect that sberbank will start covering the population in crimea as the first number, you need to understand that the population of crimea is, well, understandable. what are those who live. here and there, it is disparate in volume, those who rest there stay on rest in the moment. uh, the population of crimea always prevails in physical numbers, yes. according to analysts, the arrival of sberbank in crimea will have a positive impact on all key sectors of the economy and will have an impact on the financial and investment climate. there are now several smaller and larger players operating in the region. this is the bank of russia chbr genebank. and rnkb. in april, promsvyazbank began work on the peninsula; it actively occupied the niche of lending to large businesses to work on the basis of the rncb. vtb is planning as rnkb is expected to join the group already this year, sberbank can increase

competition and thereby expand the product line, according to analysts, the bank can also occupy a niche in the service for small and medium-sized businesses last year, sberbank's corporate loan portfolio grew by 12.5% ​​and amounted to almost 19 trillion rubles, taking into account the large number of infrastructure projects in the region, sberbank services in this sector will be in demand on the peninsula. crimea is primarily an agricultural tourist region, and of course it is important, so that, first of all, this industry develops, but do not forget that construction can help more than loans. he can participate in project financing if it is a residential property construction, uh, and uh implement a financing scheme with cheats that get money.