russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is in minsk today, he met with his belarusian counterpart, as well as with president of the republic alexander lukashenko what issues were discussed and what statements were made we learn from our special correspondent elizaveta khramtsova, she is live in the facts elizaveta hello, we are waiting for you details. good afternoon, natalya, relations between moscow and minsk have not been affected by even the most complex cataclysms of international relations for decades, but now even the weather has warmly welcomed the russian delegation. here is a plus four and green grass instead of epiphany frosts, i note that the events that are taking place today in the capital of belarus are organized in parallel with the military exercises that started here in the republic on the sixteenth, and it is important to note that the strengthening of the joint grouping and coordination of the forces of the russian aerospace forces and the air force of the republic of belarus this

is primarily the strengthening of the western borders of the union state. in addition, moscow and minsk are united on the issue of the tasks of the special military operation and on what led russia to this difficult decision. show the west the ability to protect their interests and their security. uh, these people are absolutely, burrowing, these are people who put their indefatigable political ambitions in an attempt to realize their sense of their own superiority of their colonial and non-colonial dreams and illusions. above the interests of their own peoples. i hope that sobering will come, at least, and we will do everything to ours. colleagues from nato and the european union, but rather sobered up well, it

started today, the working day at the palace of independence of sergei lavrov received alexander lukashenko, i would like to note that we should gradually move away from imports and produce more and more of our own goods to increase trade. this is the course that was chosen many years ago by moscow and minsk and as a result of the trade turnover last year. e exceeded a record 50 billion dollars, and the sanctions with which the west tried to strangle our countries, the economy of our two countries, only confirmed that this course was chosen correctly to dry and russia of belarus today actually failed. we will definitely stand. moreover, this is a difficult year. e in that in terms of what we have determined the direction in which we must move in order to preserve our sovereignty in all respects russia and belarus, uh, we are very actively moving forward in the economy on import substitution, you know the intention of our

western neighbors, not only ukraine uh, they are trying and use ukraine against belarus well, what amazes me and pleasantly surprises me about ukraine is still holding on. she does not go to provocations against belarus. although our western neighbors are actively pushing it. sergey lavrov held a meeting today tete-a-tete and with his belarusian colleague sergei oleinik. well, after that, two diplomats chaired a meeting of the collegium of the foreign ministries of the two countries. i would like to note that not only diplomats who are responsible for strengthening relations between the two friendly countries, but also those deputies, for example, the minister of foreign affairs of russia who are responsible, among other things, for work with the countries of north america and international organizations of its purpose of this meeting - this is to develop a common approach. how to defend its position in those structures that in recent years, instead of international law, are guided by the

interests of those states that consider themselves elected, this is also observed in the position. well, it goes without saying that the european union councils of europe have already gone down this path and there are many problems. accumulates from the head of the agenda along with the cooperation of a staunch organization. where is it important for us to prevent? uh, privatization is a secret, this is also what the west is trying to do, and every action on the so -called human rights is especially important. i advise you to on human rights, there are other mechanisms where they try to politicize the discussions, which should go on the basis of the existing norms of the international level. minsk today confirmed that belarus and russia will coordinate their efforts in the osce, and integration will continue in other formats, including the sco. and already this summer,

belarusian experts will join the work of the format. uh, the russia-africa summit, which is scheduled for the summer, and about how the peoples of the two now independent people are still close to truly native states combine your forces. today the exhibition opened at the ministry of foreign affairs of belarus was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the victory in the patriotic war of 1812 natalia yes elizaveta thank you from minsk was my colleague elizaveta khramtsova. mikhail mishustin arrived on a working visit to ashgabat the head of government began his agenda and trip to the capital of turkmenistan with a visit to a joint turkmen russian comprehensive school named after pushkin, which is taught according to russian standards. well, then he spoke at the plenary session of the russian turkmen business forum, where he said that russia is coping with new challenges and fulfilling its social obligations to citizens in full, and that’s it. this,

despite the fact that the russian economy is under pressure. undoubtedly, we see the interest of turkmenistan in studying cooperation in the eurasian economic union. the eurasian economic community has proved its stability and effectiveness in the most difficult conditions from the global economic crises to the coronavirus pandemic. connecting turkmenistan to the integration processes. it will have a positive impact on the country's economy and will be useful for all countries of the five will allow the implementation of many important projects for the citizens of our states i am convinced that the traditionally friendly relations between russia and turkmenistan , strategic partnership based on trust, mutual respect and consideration of each other's interests will serve as a guarantee of a qualitative increase in trade -economic ties and for the

benefit and prosperity of our countries. russian pakistani intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation began its work in islam the russian delegation is headed by the head of the ministry of energy nikolai shulginov. he has already met with the prime minister of the country and now dmitry moroka is joining us from bada islam. dimitri welcomes. what issues were discussed at the meeting and in what directions will cooperation develop? yes natalia we welcome the restoration of trade and the implementation of joint projects, including in the energy sector. here are just some of the areas of cooperation between our countries, it must be said that pakistan is now one of the most promising and interesting partners for russia in southeast asia, and if until now the main item of our trade has been agricultural products,

now islamabad, for example, is directly interested in purchasing russian oil. but and actually, why not, because the energy crisis has intensified in the republic this year, and russia is just actively redirecting the export of energy resources, and to the east, eastern countries, and, for example, india neighboring pakistan last year brought purchases of russian oil to record historical values. well, there are no obstacles for oil supplies to pakistan either. no considers. uh, the head of the ministry of energy nikolai shulginov, it remains only to agree on the details. for example, how the price of future contracts, as well as exactly how mutual settlements will be made under the sanctions. uh, it can be, for example, a barter mechanism or mutual settlements in national currencies. oh, and also, uh, we need to resolve issues with logistics, because, uh, there is no direct pipeline between our countries, and apparently, we can talk about deliveries. e,

parties, by sea, and also on the agenda of e is an important joint project. this is a pakistani gas pipeline, which in the future should pass through the territory of pakistan from the port of karacha in the south to the city of lahore in the north of the country, and, it is supposed to be built by russian specialists, also in the future russia can take over the management of this promising project. uh, well, these topics were discussed today, in particular, imagine at the meetings. teley e business circles here islamabad. they were mostly held behind closed doors, but, and the main decisions can be made tomorrow at the main meeting at the meeting of the intergovernmental commission of russia pakistan , uh, the time in the word base is 2 hours ahead of moscow . morning natalia yes

, thank you, dmitry, our correspondent dmitry morocco has been in direct contact with pakistan now economic news briefly russia's external debt has decreased by 20% or 100 by the end of the year billion dollars such data is published by the central bank public debt includes the debt of russian government agencies in the central and commercial banks. to non-residents. it also includes household companies. now the country's external debt is estimated at almost 382 billion dollars, the last time such figures were recorded in 2008 , the tax system of russia and belarus will work according to general rules , the treaty on indirect taxes has become a key document. today the signature was put by alexander lukashenko the russian side did it before the agreement affects, including such important fees as vat, it will now be easier for countries to conduct mutual trade, as well as to combat tax evasion. sberbank is recognized as

the strongest financial brand in the world among banks, and in russia it is also the most expensive brand data from the annual rating of the finance global 500 brand, under the brand strength they mean investments in marketing, equity capital and business efficiency, according to the fines report. bir, demonstrates strong financial results, which allows it to remain in the top of the world's most valuable brands, even in the current situation, international rankings of companies continue to recognize the high unique position of the russian sberbank in terms of the strength of its brand. e, the indicator, as you know, is formed from the trust of customers in the quality of products and services and the work of the brand with its audience . you have processed almost 190 billion rubles for future pensioners. profitability from pfr clients' funds reached 9.7% at the end of the year. this is a record high since 2016. now the state corporation manages savings. 38 million

people in 20 years she managed to earn more than one and a half trillion rubles, this was news of the economy in a nutshell. russian troops continue their offensive in the south-donetsk direction over the past 24 hours, they have occupied more advantageous lines about it today, the ministry of defense reported fresh data on the course of the special operation collected by stanislav vasilchenko contact, 152 caliber does not allow the neo-nazis to attack, maneuver, destroys their fortified areas and weapons. infantry requests for support, the artillerymen instantly react and send three such high-explosive fragmentation shells at the enemy at once. our military is called gifts trying to work out as quickly as possible, respectively. it takes about 2 minutes at once three gifts of the goal a lot. basically. these are nomadic mortars of the rszo personnel

of the enemy, that is, infantry, and the fortified areas are a large area. this is a job for the city. with one gulp. such a machine covers 14 hectares. this is about 20 football fields, calculations use the tactics of a nomadic gun strikes from different firing positions. this is how we manage to orient the enemy and buy time to advance our forces. the artillery infantry saves coffee. therefore, we try to keep our comrades infantry under the constant cover of the artillery of the russian army as quickly as possible, successfully defending positions and advancing. in all directions , over 30 neo-nazis were destroyed in the region of novoselovsky and ivanovka in 24 hours. combat armored vehicle and two self-propelled howitzers acacia more than 30 ukrainian servicemen two combat armored vehicles and three pickup trucks were eliminated in the south-donetsk direction in the krasnaya

limansky district of the nevsky silverfish of another water type during the day the enemy lost more than 60 military personnel an armored personnel carrier three pickup trucks and a d-20 howitzer in the odoevsky direction of the unit of the southern military district continued successful offensive operations and inflicted fire defeat the enemy in the areas of settlements. hallucin in krasnodarovka. and the nevelsk donetsk people's republic destroyed up to eighty ukrainian military personnel two armored fighting vehicles four vehicles three french self-propelled artillery mounts caesar atheist m-77 system of american production self-propelled artist installation carnation. acacia self-propelled artillery installations from the air are always covered by aircraft destroying camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles completely deprive the enemy of strategic reserves, destroying his storage facilities with weapons , russian aces and superiority in air combat, the past day in the sky above poltava dnr shot down an enemy su-25 stanislav

vasilchenko. will russia be able to achieve technological sovereignty under the sanctions, how is the import substitution of foreign software going and what problems will the digital economy face, in the new year, these topics were discussed today by deputy prime minister dmitry chernyshenko and the head of the ministry of digital development maksushadaev, the details of diamondarova.

this has already increased by almost 20 five times, and we help and find specialists individually issued for 53 billion rubles. mortgage loans. this is a large number of it people. uh received such support, as well as the deferment from the army is actively taking place and import substitution of foreign software, including the industrial government, expects revenue

from the sale of domestic software of 190 billion rubles. until 2025, its high export potential is noted. there is also a transition to state information systems on state tech, this platform is called the basis and technological independence of our country in the twenty-third year we have, the transition is planned 24 e state information systems. but it is also important that regional information systems are also being transferred to tech and about 11 subjects that are now leaders are piloting. they, too, next year, uh, will move uh. well, we generally expect new territories. uh, where 's the um digital transformation. now emerges in public. uh, we will have the opportunity, just architecturally, to build a new completely impeccable, uh, digital architecture for the information infrastructure of

russia, our country is among the best in the world among the leaders. due to the ease of access to the network, the connection to the internet continues and in the new territories of the kherson zaporozhye regions, by the end of 2022, 200 socially significant objects were connected to the internet. of these, 175 schools also residents of new regions get access to the public services portal, which is generally actively developing, according to the head of medicine shadayev, it is used by 2/3 of the country's population, the number of available services that can be obtained without leaving home since 2019 has grown there 10 once. now there are about 500 18 million are in great demand. services are consumed per month 200 million per year, according to the minister of services development, it will continue. it is very important that the service portal has become not only a channel for receiving orders for services, but also, in general , very powerful feedback channels. and it is clear that state bodies are forced to respond to the appeal of citizens, it is clear that they should file an appeal. this means that such an appeal is now possible through the service portal. we had about 180,000 requests submitted in

december through the service portal, which means that, uh, filing is just convenient, but most importantly, that we see that the time for consideration of such appeals is several times less than for those appeals that are tried by e -mail or through separate websites of state bodies, the head of the min figures emphasized the priority of this year to go start-ups and further progressive development. to do this, it is necessary to ensure the attraction of private financing, as well as the demand for interesting solutions from these startups, including from large companies azarov igor kuznetsov andrey nikolaev act. the west assigned ukraine the role of the kamikaze state in which they introduced zelensky's presidential dictatorship regime at will, stifle objectionable shifts without precedent pressure, and the church voiced such an opinion today in moscow at a round table of the expert institute for social research discussed issues related to ukraine

send them to the front line as cannon fodder, thereby utilizing people who are unnecessary to zelensky, and, in addition, russian speakers. e. unfortunately, i can continue this gloomy list. for quite a long time, but i emphasize every time when we receive a signal from there, people historically, everything is being transferred. speakers of the state duma may ban the use of vapes in russia vyacheslav volodin instructed the committees of the house of health on youth education to study the situation with vapes as a matter of priority and make a proposal on the possibility of banning them . the vice speaker was entrusted with coordinating this work. state duma, peter tolstoy emphasizes that this issue should not go into a discussion of profit. explore these questions, and in priority order and make a proposal.

you will talk to teachers about the possibility of banning vapes, they will tell you that they always have selected students on their desks. and what our colleagues are saying here is quite obvious. the norms that we previously adopted, giving the regions the right to regulate these issues, do not work. it is worth restricting us, advertising of cigarettes is also prohibited, they are in our stores, but under the closed part of the floor. uh, you also need to do and strengthen your own customs control in terms of not allowing counterfeit goods here. that is, he does not need to check with his colleagues from customs when he discusses what additional measures must be taken here to solve this problem as well. and, of course, the last thing, in addition to the restriction between the children of the youth

, is necessary, and the reduction is to conduct an information campaign. yes, you can say so, the idea of ​​the power of it. russia supported the initiative we fully support the proposal. ban vaping and electronic cigarettes, except for the rack nicotine addiction - this product is capable of causing a heart attack, a stroke and potency , bronchitis, pneumonia, as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. flavors and dyes that make vapes so attractive to children and adolescents, creating a false illusion of their harmlessness. in fact, it is extremely dangerous for the respiratory system. and they can explode in the hands and in the mouth. well, the state duma also adopted in the third reading a law that unscheduledly increases excise taxes on cigarettes in russia from march 1 by 2%, according to the current tax code, the excise tax on cigarettes and cigarettes is 2.552 rubles. for 1.000 pieces. first of spring. it will be 2.603

rubles. at the same time, it is planned to refuse to levy excise taxes on electronic nicotine delivery systems, that is, electronic cigarettes. but stocks with liquid tobacco for vapes will grow by 11%. the attitude of the government of different countries to vaping and nicotine differs in more than 40 countries there is one or another type of ban, either on possession of use, or on sale, or on import, or at all various combinations of bans, for example, uruguay introduced a total ban on vaping back in 2009, according to the world health organization, at that time it had not yet been proven that you were helping to cope with you. dependency, and it was also reported that liquids may contain toxic gases in india since 2020, there is a total ban on the import of any type of electronic cigarettes. regardless of the principles of their action and the content of nicotine. importing the sale and advertising

of vapes in india is punishable by fines in china, vaping is allowed in almost all public places, the country is a leader in the production of electronic cigarettes and e- liquids. in some regions of the european part of russia, the weather for epiphany turned out to be record warm. we will talk more about this with the leading specialist of the phobos center alina katelevskaya. alina hello , where was the weather most surprising. good afternoon. well, there will be heat records at the end of the day, apparently , quite a lot of weather statistics have been updated in the morning in the north-west of russia in st. petersburg, epiphany became the warmest in the history of meteorological observations by half past ten in the morning. the temperature has risen to a record high of plus five on spring metamorphoses react nature sparrows bathe in puddles, melt water and winter snowdrops make their way. in smolensk, meanwhile, there is already so much melt water that it became impossible to block roads along prospekt stroiteley due to

deep puddles, one of them stalled, a passenger car, employees of the ministry of emergency situations pump out water in lipetsk in the morning at a temperature of -2 rain, the city turned into one big skating rink, but quickly process roads and sidewalks with such ice on such a scale, of course, was not realistic. pedestrians glided today in the morning and in the moscow region a video with the consequences of supercooled precipitation during the day was posted. in particular, residents of sergiev posad experienced freezing rains per day over a vast territory from voronezh in the south to the arkhangelsk region in the north in the spring warmth and in the south, epiphany bathing in yalta took place under fairly comfortable temperature conditions. here, even before dawn, it kept at plus eight plus 10. peak warming on the russian plain will have tomorrow warm air will be able to break far to the north and in the zone. the thaw will be partial, the arkhangelsk region, komi, and even in naryan-mar, thermometer readings will approach zero above plus five

in the west, while the chernozem region will get colder in the northwest on the kola peninsula. tomorrow it will be below -10°, in karelia already -5, and zero isotherms will come close to the northern capital, the opposition of anticyclones in the east and atlantic eddies in the west will continue to disperse the wind. tomorrow zone windy weather will stretch in a wide strip, and black to the barents and kara seas gusts of more than 15 m / s are predicted in the south along the caucasus mountains from the caspian sea to azov and on the arctic coast. a small but active whirlwind on friday will rush from belarus to the arkhangelsk region along the way, covering the pskov novgorod partial leningrad and vologda regions with snow for this. snowdrifts. here they can grow by 10-15 cm, but at the same time in the warm sector of this cyclone. most of the central region will turn out, where precipitation will go mainly in the form of rain, and in the vladimir ivanovo yaroslavl kostroma and nizhny novgorod regions,

perhaps freezing rain? a cold snap has begun in st. petersburg, the maximum temperature today fell in the first half of the day by this hour, the temperature has already dropped to +2 °. by morning it will get cold to zero and tomorrow afternoon. all the same zero, and starting from saturday in the region. it becomes negative temperature at night, it will freeze up to -4 ° six, and during the day about -2 -3. in moscow, warming reaches its peak epiphany night was the warmest in the last 10 years, the minimum temperature was only minus 0.2. tomorrow afternoon, the thermometers can rise to plus four, and starting from saturday, the anticyclone will again begin to strengthen its position. atmospheric pressure will rise, and the temperature will drop on saturday. it is unlikely to overcome the zero mark on sunday, the cooling will continue during the day -2, and with the onset of a new week of frost, the purulent hours of -4 will intensify on monday, but the long-awaited sun will appear in the sky. these are the forecasts for this

minute. yes thank you. alina kotelevskaya spoke about the weather at epiphany and after it in the european part of the country.

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