to do this at all, is this question relevant? is it still possible to negotiate even under these conditions? but uh, the situation is really tricky. and uh, we all know. uh, how it develops. but uh, i think i've been trying to negotiate, uh, always in particular. as for the geneva international platform, we have a disarmament conference here, which, er, started its work this week. and this is one where should be discussed. uh, issues and disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and everything related to maintaining such a global stability. but, unfortunately, i must state that the beginning of this forum, it confirmed that our fears that, unfortunately, the united states

and its closest allies, until u are ready to conduct, uh, constructive uh, dialogue and uh, their task is to use this a forum and a conference on destruction solely in their own geopolitical interests, and putting pressure on regimes that they dislike in the first place, of course. from this point of view of russia, this is why the discussions at the conference on disarmament are difficult. eh, unfortunately discussions are politicized and uh by our uh partners the united states and their colleagues, they are mainly focused on the ukrainian crisis and the role. russia on accusations of russia of aggression and so on are well-known clichés and clichés, which we naturally at this forum, but we brush aside and

call on to deal with those issues that are directly included in the mandate of the conference on disarmament. and gennady mikhailovich , very often lately there have been questions about the possible use of nuclear weapons - this is the topic is exciting. to what extent are the participants of the conference ready to discuss this topic, because after all, we are well aware that the escalation of the conflict in ukraine is not over yet. on the contrary, it also increases in these conditions. uh, anything can happen, how is it discussed or is it? i must say that this topic is one of the key topics that the conference on disarmament is called upon to deal with, namely, nuclear disarmament , prevention of nuclear war, and, uh, this is indeed a topical topic, but, unfortunately, here again we see attempts, but americans and their allies. uh, use

this topic to accuse russia of allegedly intending to use nuclear weapons. uh, and that this is russia's responsibility. we are, of course, uh, talking about the fact that no official statements have ever been made by our leaders that we russia is ready to use radial weapons. all this comes from a political game around this hmm, during which the americans are trying to convince their allies. that's what is to blame for all the troubles, including those relating to the threat of nuclear war, russia, but i will say frankly that the majority of statesmen are very concerned about this. eh, everyone is skeptical.

and that the conference is being used precisely for such purposes to denigrate russia's policy in the field of arms control and disarmament, including in matters of preventing nuclear war. therefore, our partners, most of our partners, they, uh, to this accusations. not taken seriously. mikhalych is it possible to speak at all about some kind of control over strategic arms in these conditions, and a few days ago there were reproaches in our direction that we were supposedly preventing this control, and the americans, as always in all white, what can be said to this? well, you know now such a general unfavorable, geostrategic situation. ah, and we have repeatedly proposed to start a dialogue with the americans on all issues related to control and with uh prospects, in general in general. e of maintaining global stability, but,

unfortunately, we have not yet found an adequate response to our proposal from the american e, our e, knees, and their allies, so now this question is not so directly raised. but we cannot ignore the general situation here, so uh, when uh, the americans and their allies will show real political will. and uh, the readiness to discuss not only those topics and issues that concern them about, which also concern us eh, then uh, the general situation may change, and then, probably, it will. uh, create a more favorable environment for discussing these topics, including control. well, gennady mikhailovich actually now answered my next question. and you have previously stated that, despite all this, this is possible. uh, after all, the solution to these problems is the problems

of control over strategic, but arms. but this optimism is still built on your general optimism, or there are some indirect signs, at least in any case, that allow you to make such conclusions. well, i wouldn't say it's optimism, so to speak. uh anyway, my view of the real situation. hey, that 's the point here. i believe that without the western participants correcting their behavior. uh, without their willingness to partly be constructive, and without a return to let's say responsible behavior. uh, including at the disarmament conference, it is difficult now to count on any progress on their part, and uh, of course , we will act on our part

, try to act constructively and show it in every possible way. uh, our in our good will and willingness to dialogue. but i repeat again. here, of course, one must take into account the general political context, and everything that is connected with the current development of the situation, then we are ready to continue negotiations on start. yes, so as not to complete this process. but uh, this question does not directly apply to me. this is not a question, uh, of a disarmament conference site, and it seems to me that quite specifically, uh, it was answered yesterday in an interview by deputy foreign minister sergei ryabkov, who spoke in detail about our vision of the situation with the naf, the extension of this treaty and all e questions that are e connected with this topic. we're doing more here at the

conference site. e disarmament e others a few questions. uh, with uh prevention, yes, nuclear war, uh, prevention of an arms race in outer space, and , well, all sorts of other issues related to international a and clearance. these are the questions in the framework. there is a forum that exists in geneva and genna mikhailovich here you mentioned space and now everyone already knows starlink how it helps ukrainian troops to fight and so on, but someone says, let's shoot down satellites, we have such american hotheads. what do you think, in general, this arms control in space, and if there are already some mechanisms that allow you to control the spread of weapons in this area, or do they just need to be developed?

we have been raising the question of preventing an arms race in outer space for a long time. e, more than 10 years back in 2008 , together with chinese e partners, we proposed to conclude legally binding documents on this issue, and we just proposed to consider. uh, this is the question of concluding this document, and on space to prevent an arms race in space in within the framework of the conference. uh, on disarmament, it must be said that many members of the disarmament conference share this point, because they believe that this is a very topical issue that could really put a damper on the spread of an arms race in space and on the use of uh, uh force uh outer space. for the use of force against certain states,

so this question is very natural, but uh, again, i will say that so far we do not find adequate reactions from the americans and other western partners who are trying to talk only about the so-called responsible behavior in space. what is behind this? what are the criteria for responsible behaviour? we are still. uh, we can’t understand this, so here are these vague e formulations about their responsible behavior in space. of course, they can in no way replace our proposal to conclude a legally binding document on the prevention of an arms race in outer space. ah yes, excuse me, please. i want to say that last year the un general assembly adopted a resolution where it created a group

of experts who will deal with just these issues. uh, next session. yes, it will take place this year. rather, the first session will take place this year. and i hope that within the framework of this group of governmental experts. these issues will be discussed in more detail already. i just wanted to, uh, say my line about, uh, responsible behaviour. really. here , uh, provide. intelligence, data from civilian satellites. is this responsible behavior in space or not this is such a question for backfilling. what is called or what? why, count the civilian satellites that do this. you can shoot them down, you can’t shoot them down, not the military. well, if you understand. yes, no one is discussing this. now there is another topic of distribution. illegal weapons, which are supplied in huge quantities to ukraine , this topic is discussed at the conference. no, this

topic is not discussed at the conference. eh, and those questions that you raised about satellites. yes, they certainly require more detailed discussion and answers, that's why we say that a legally binding document on prevention is needed. uh, arms races in space and the use of force in space. eh, these are all the answers all all the questions will require. e answers. i think that, as i have already said, they will be considered by this group of government experts, which were created by mikhailovich. well, understandable. experts can prepare the site, can prepare the criteria, can well, the entire infrastructure for the implementation of all these agreements. how experts, diplomats, and so on, but it’s needed, because it’s called political will. i understand what we’re actually talking about, that the west doesn’t have this political

will to really negotiate with us, so, of course, your work is now extremely difficult. they are in the position of the state in the sense that you are trying to convey our position, but they are not really trying to listen to you, and yet. that doesn't mean it doesn't need to do the job. but what do you think, this is your great work. he won't go to waste. well i would like hope not. in any case , i can say that in this we feel, uh, support and understanding from a whole circle of states that do not share, uh, the approaches of the americans and their allies. about the politicization of the uh, disarmament conference venues about the discussion. e, the topics that only concern them, and first of all, this is their vision of the ukrainian crisis, and the condemnation of russia and so on

, a number of countries uh, should deal with this the disarmament conference has a different mandate and take the discussion away from these uh, those that i know relates to the conference, they consider it wrong, but uh, unfortunately, that's how i already said at the beginning the first days, which consisted of general discussion at a conference on destruction. they show that while westerners. uh, western camps. uh, collective they are not ready. and to this they will , uh, continue, uh, draw this line, as far as we feel from the situation at the disarmament conference during the discussion. uh, all other issues that will be uh, put to the conference.

uh, i'm mikhalych, you know, i have such parallels, maybe they are not entirely correct, but it seems to me that now, uh, western americans, first of all, do what they did in world war ii. they don't open a second front. although they were our allies , they sent stew. colleagues, have they filmed a lot of things? damn, lisa helped us a lot. eh, definitely. they are true. now they say that only because of this a we won, but this, of course, is nonsense. complete this is understandable, but nonetheless. and when they saw that the war, uh, was going in our favor, that we were already about to actually reach the border in the forty-fourth year of europe, they began to move along it. they immediately opened the second front, that is, they began to negotiate with us. let's go, damn well, in a narrow conference then, yalta under the ladies. here is a new yalta under the ladies, and the impossible in our time. well , this is a serious question, of course. uh for discussion, but uh for now uh how i

tried to tell what we don't see with co side, uh, americans and their, uh, partners. e desire to take into account our interests, and in this situation it is difficult to say that there is a prospect of somehow reaching a mutual understanding on some serious global issues, but uh, you know everything will depend on how it will develop further, uh situation. e, and. if the situation goes well, according to the scenario, what they will take into account after all. uh, our interests, then maybe there will be, uh, prospects and opportunities, uh, start negotiating with them, including on global strategic, huh? questions, but for now i want to emphasize again. we don't feel that desire on their part. uh, consider our interests and, uh, look for some points

of contact, including at the site of the disarmament conference, and genna mikhailovich a. was the question raised or uh? hmm, maybe it's worth it, when m-m to include it? this is a question of bio, the weapons that we uncovered in ukraine, these facts are very unpleasant, for biological laboratories in which the pentagon has participated and is still participating, and so on. we all understand perfectly well that belovo's weapon is being developed not just there it is stored kat plague. there is something else being earned , new types, a lot of talk about the fact that the coronavirus is a particularly prominent weapon, and so on. we will not discuss this now. i just want to ask if there is any point in joining this conference, or maybe joining a future conference, because it is not necessary to drop rockets, bombs and everything else. enough to run the virus. can it be considered together? i want to say that this topic is certainly

raised by us last year. that's literally uh a review conference was held at the end of last year. e on the implementation of the convention on the prohibition of biological and toxin weapons, and this topic. e topic biolaboratory e, located in ukraine in ukraine and not only in ukraine in general along the perimeter. we actively discussed the borders of the russian federation, we raised specific questions before the americans about the use of the biolaboratory for the purposes, er, of the research conducted there. as they say, uh, study and so on, but because we have uh, serious and enough. uh, hard facts. the fact that these laboratories are used for military purposes by this question. we

put everything in front of them. uh, and uh, specifically within the framework of the conference, uh was specifically at a meeting of the un security council on this topic, where we also raised these issues. but what we heard from the americans were sheer excuses, they said that this is all russian propaganda, that this is not true, but in essence, they had nothing to say about the questions posed, so we will continue to raise these questions and achieve that , to they nevertheless clarified and gave specific answers to, uh, these questions that we raised in relation to. uh, biolaboratories and activities there. this is because there are serious facts and documents indicating that these bio.

laboratories are operating for military purposes in the interests of the us military department. thank you very much. good luck in your hard work, and she remembers, we spoke with the permanent representative of russia at the conference on the destruction of geneva, gennady . vnukovo suffered, the crash of the mi-8 helicopter is reported by interfax, citing its sources in emergency services, according to preliminary data during landing. he covered up the earth with his mouths, the number of victims is not reported. now the rescuers of the russian foreign ministry have expressed deep condolences to the azerbaijani side in connection with the attack on the embassy in tehran , the department expects that all the perpetrators will be held accountable as a result of an armed attack on the building of the diplomatic mission. the head of security died, two

security personnel, injured, suspected, detainees being questioned by police, law enforcers said, the attackers attributed motives to family problems, according to the media, the man believed that his wife was being held in depression iranian media condemned the attack, reported that the authorities were investigating the case as a priority president of azerbaijan or khamaliev called the incident a terrorist attack. e in the azerbaijani media said that they were evacuating the staff of the embassy, ​​the department noted that attempts had already been made before. threats against azerbaijani embassies in iran and baku warned tehran about the need to strengthen the security of the mission in russia they remember the defenders and residents of the besieged leningrad exactly 79 years ago, the red army liberated the city from the blockade leningrad exposed, but more than a million people became one of the worst victims of the blockade in its history , and commemorative events dmitry akimov is one of the main celebrations

on this day. of course, the laying of flowers here at the piskarevsky memorial cemetery began exactly at 11:00. and several thousand people gathered here. these are representatives of various public organizations. military politicians, of course, blockade runners, about whom volunteers helped to come here, of course, wreaths of memory were laid by the president of russia from the federation council, valentina ivanovna matvienko laid a wreath as well as a separate wine, like the ministry of defense. and in general, all this is an assignment. every year gets like this, well , really folk people bring flowers here all day, besides. petersburg, as well as throughout the country, several dozens of different events, for example, at the museum of the defense of the city in st. petersburg at 9 solyannaya lane, today a monument to the besieged physician will be opened and this is already becoming a good tradition, because last year, and next to this place, a monument to the besieged teacher was also opened by tradition to all petersburgers. yes, and

the governor of the city alexander beglov addressed all russians today in our hearts the memory of all the dead soldiers and residents of besieged leningrad about those whose names the streets are named and avenues and those who lie nameless in mass graves. today , our warriors are brothers fathers and husbands sons defend russia among them are leningraders, petersburgers are direct heirs of the generation of defenders and winners and not ours pride and glory low bow to all veterans and blockade survivors of peace and goodness to all victory to our fatherland the ordinary life of a resident of besieged leningrad of those times today is modern it is generally impossible for a resident of st. petersburg to imagine that this year the winter is very mild, and in the forty-second year frosts, stood under -30 and at the same time heating.

no, people put potbelly stoves in the rooms, which were heated with furniture. and there is no light on the parquet either, and the day in st. petersburg at this time is very short, so many got lost and froze to death in the cold but familiar streets. and, of course, the main problem is no, there is no bread, food, all leningraders remember such a sweet expression. land the fact is that in the first days of the blockade , the nazis absolutely deliberately bombed the badaev warehouses, the place where 3,000 tons, flour and 2.500 tons of sugar. and so people came to the ruins of these warehouses in winter and hollowed out the ground, which was soaked with molasses, and there are dozens of such examples. if not hundreds today , it is absolutely known that hitler was not going to accept the surrender of the city, wanting to simply kill all its inhabitants, of course. it was a real genocide of the soviet population

of the soviet people leningrad in the forty-second year. this is almost 2.5 million people, and in 1944 it was already a little more than 500,000 people, of course, many were able to leave for evacuation, but today it is precisely calculated that at least 1,93,000 people became victims of the blockade of leningrad, and nevertheless, the city survived, this is a personal feat of every resident of leningrad, of course, every soldier. well, every firefighter doctor teacher of all those who just did their job, in spite of everything and every day with superhuman efforts, first brought this day closer to the day of the complete liberation of leningrad from the fascist blockade, and then the great victory day and of course, it is the heart of the great city blockade forever left a scar, but the heart is beating and today we we remember all the defenders of leningrad, because as it is written here at the entrance to

the piskarevskoe memorial cemetery. nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten dmitry kimov and andrey kupaev in a message from st. petersburg and today the world celebrates holocaust remembrance day , the date is timed to coincide with the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp in poland by soviet soldiers , according to historians. about one and a half million people died there, the vast majority of them were jews. victim from the holocaust. today they remember in russia the main event in moscow will tell about them zinaida kurbatova an anthem or song of the jewish partisans is played, flowers are laid at the foot of the monument dedicated to the heroes of the resistance in the ghettos and constitutional camps. this monument is located in the courtyard of the jewish museum and tolerance center, those present put flowers and always small rounded pebbles, as it should be in the jewish tradition , when they come and put such pebbles on the graves of relatives of loved ones as

a symbol of eternity, they carry red roses to the monument, famous people. diplomats representatives of different nationalities and denominations flowers. tatyana moskalkova, the commissioners for human rights, also entrusted it. in russia, international holocaust remembrance day was established in 2005 by six countries, among which was russia, the day was not chosen by chance on january 27, 1945 . the red army liberated one of the largest constitutional camps. auschwitz killed 6 million jews in the holocaust. the nazis who participated in hostilities did not spare even babies, remember the holocaust, first of all, it is to give memory to those victims who died without guilt, who uh weren't any part of the combatant, and they were killed simply because they were jews. it was a genocide on a national basis. this is a terrible precedent in the whole history of the world, which

must never again be remembered. about that tragedy - this is an attempt to increase the strength of the world this year. russia , the descendants of those who saved the prisoners of concentration camps were not invited to poland, where they celebrate the day of liberation from the crown, an unheard-of distortion of the historical facts of mankind , even but remember that one day. in the 20th century a whole nation had to be destroyed and destroyed was 6 million. simply because they were jews for their national origin and people should understand that this is madness - this is monstrous madness. it turned out to be possible in real life to include iconic works in the music program. the concert opens with trio number two by dmitri shostakovich famous for his phrase for anti-semites. i am a jew,

the trio was first performed in 1944 in leningrad by sigmund shulgi. he died in the terezin state concentration camp. there he wrote the work of two hasidic dance composers. hedon klein also died in auschwitz after the concert, chief rabbi of russia berzar read a memorial prayer. this is not only the moment when we pray for those who died on first of all, this is the time when we need to learn a lesson thinks what is expected of us today is the time when this is the time when we make an oath to ourselves to do everything possible so that this horror is no longer repeated. i remember a little about my childhood. i grew up in communities where every second survivor of the holocaust lit memorial

candles zinaida kurbatova yuri gonchar and vadim samsonov lead. yesterday vladimir putin met with the chief rabbi of russia, beron lazar, and the president of the federation of jewish communities of russia, rabbi alexander boroda. the head of state declared that most of the jews exterminated by the nazis were soviet citizens. and this is a common tragedy. the president also said that our country will continue to reveal the crime of the nazis during the great patriotic war and jewish organizations around the world - this is never supported by people. today in st. petersburg. chairman of the federation council valentina matvienko visited. uh, a big chorale synagogue. she took part in an event dedicated to the jews who died during the great patriotic war valentina matvienko lit candles in memory of those who died during the siege of laziness.