further in our program, the military biological program of washington and ukraine is like a testing ground for facts that can no longer be hidden, that further imagine conflict situations, a certain virus is created, a very contagious virus. at the same time, a vaccine against this virus is being created in advance, but it is only on this side of the front of the digital divide. in which regions there is a lot of work to be done and how the program will be adjusted taking into account the new realities. this is a state issue, which means that the most important issue is not only economic, well and social development in the russian regions implementation. x how to apply? what benefits are there for our reporting from the leningrad region?

development of inter-parliamentary relations and bilateral cooperation valentina matviyenko held a meeting with the chairman of the mile of the mendzhelis of the republic of azerbaijan sahiba gafarova an important topic of conversation was the issues of inter-regional cooperation the chairman of the federation council noted that more than 70 russian subjects participate in it, while 18 regions have concluded a cooperation agreement with azerbaijan russian-azerbaijani relations are on the rise. they are developing in all asia and there, without exception, even after the signing of an agreement by our presidents last year. they have reached an unprecedented, high level of strategic partnership and alliance. at the same time, we understand that the main merit is the main role of the president here in our countries, which are in constant dialogue, which determine

the agenda of russian-azerbaijani cooperation and not only, and their communication is distinguished by such a high degree. confidence mutual understanding, and in our difficult geopolitical time trust er, of course hmm mutual trust is expensive hmm the relations between azerbaijan and russia are developing very dynamically. they are stable and at the same time dynamic. they are stable last year. we were celebrating our 30th anniversary and it is gratifying that it was signed last year. uh, declaration of allied cooperation. and in principle, here we are on the eve of this date in these 30 years. uh, a lot has happened, but it hasn't changed. uh, what binds us, eh binds our peoples to our countries. these are bonds. uh, invisible very often already friendship cooperation mutual understanding and uh, with

respect and understanding of the interests of each individual country. full information about the military nature of the research that has been and continues to be carried out in american biolaboratories in ukraine will be presented to the federation council on march 15, said the vice speaker in the upper house, konstantin kosachev, at the parliamentary commission to investigate these activities. laboratories there is no doubt that ukraine is actually became a testing ground for biological tests of the pentagon and these tests pose a direct threat to our country konstantin iosifovich hello so, in the federation council they called on the parliaments of the world to demand information from the us congress on the work of the biological laboratory, and the authors of the appeal believe that they should also request data on activities and on the territory of their own states. not only to the territory of ukraine what will allow this to be revealed and, uh, do you think there will be a reaction of the world community to this, an appeal to the data that is available to our parliamentary commission americans in total

equipped their biomedical laboratories. so they are called, you understand that the meaning there in most cases is different. they equipped these laboratories in about 30 and 40 countries with a total number of 300 to 400. this is what we know, although in fact, i suspect that the numbers are much higher, our country also cooperated with the americans, including in the biological laboratory, there was a program there was an international scientific and technical center on the taxpayer, it operated. u in the suburbs well obviously this was in the 90's. there at the beginning of the zero years. we quickly figured out that the americans, at least, are simply pulling out knowledge, qualifications, and, last but not least, strains that have a very specific and very high price, everything that we inherited from the soviet union. but the further we watched this american activity, it no longer on its territory. we

stopped it quite a long time ago on the territory of other former soviet republics in the former soviet space, the more we they understood that it was not only and not so much a matter of collecting information and exporting some valuable strains. eh, the thing is. carrying brand new. research studies, where these countries are used as a testing ground, the danger that is associated with the conduct of relevant developments is transferred there , because it is on these territories in these countries that, apparently, the americans are planning in some future, near or far, military operations with the participation of their military personnel . what are biological weapons components? this completely different things. it is possible with the help of certain preparations, say, to destroy crops and create problems with food. you can destroy the population of bees and thereby create enormous problems for the biodiversity of the country, you can infect the population of a hostile country with some kind of infection,

such as nineteen species, but before that having developed a vaccine. just imagine very conveniently, a conflict situation is created . uh, the virus is a highly contagious virus. at the same time, a vaccine against this virus is being created in advance, but it is only from this side of the front, now imagine that this is no longer covid-19, relatively speaking, yes, but a much more severe infection. these are the words i call what is happening, which kills does not cause any problems, but simply simply kills and that's it. this, apparently , is part of the american biomedical program, which is funded by the pentagon and which has direct military goals. so we already know all this, and many other countries where these laboratories are not even aware of this, therefore, in order to collect e, a consolidated position of the international community to achieve, firstly, from the united states the termination of these works, as well. secondly, to achieve e improvement of international mechanisms.

first of all, conventions on the prohibition of biological weapons. we need a consolidated position of the international community. and for the sake of this, we appeal to our colleagues, parliamentarians of the countries of the world, so that they already find out from their governments the real information, do they have such laboratories or not? what developments are being carried out there, to what extent these developments are understandable and transparent for the authorities of the host country, to what extent these developments can contain the military component that we observe in the activities of american biological laboratories in ukraine well, then, based on this new expanded information, consolidate the positions of the international community on all international platforms, starting from the united nations well , of course, at all the regular review conferences on the convention on the prohibition of taking weapons, there is one more topic. i would like to be with you to discuss, rather than the topic of statements by the secretary general. nato ian stoltenberg stated that he acknowledged that the alliance had been preparing for the conflict in ukraine since 2014, and then began to

build up the war of forces. what do you think? could this mean that this is an indirect recognition of nato's involvement in the current conflict, and this is stoltenberg's statement, but did he carelessly or intentionally, if intentionally for what? uh, the first thing i do not agree with mr. stoltenberg is that they began to prepare for the conflict in the fourteenth year. they started cooking conflict in 1991, when the cold war ended, when there were no grounds for conflicts, when, let’s say , the warsaw pact organization was disbanded on our part and, logically , the north atlantic alliance should have been disbanded , firstly, it was preserved. although there were no threats. after all, it was created under the soviet cargo, calling a thing by its proper name has not been since the ninety-first year. from the soviet threat , there was no bloc that opposed the nato bloc, and the north atlantic alliance survived this once. he uh, signing with our country is enough. er, specific documents on

the non-expansion and non-deployment of significant armed forces and weapons on the territory of new member states violated all of these obligations by the alliance e, created a program to involve them in its ranks. possibly more new members. at first it was called so that partnership for the sake of peace is not visible, but then it turned into a completely frank nato expansion program, and of course. this is an advance for thousands of kilometers, closer to the russian borders and all. this. naturally, from their point of view, it was a preparation for a possible conflict, but from our point of view. it was a direct provocation of the conflict in 2007, the speech of our president at the munich conference, which in fact is such an ideological platform for nato with a proposal to nato to stop confrontation and start cooperation, was ignored by nato in 2008 themselves. in bucharest, where ukraine and georgia are being generously offered to also start planning

for joining the alliance. i remind you that the bucharest summit is april 2008 only 4 months and already saakashvili 's brain is taken out from this prospect, and he attacks south ossetia with this direct connection with what the nato members were doing in relation to new potential members. in this case with georgia, well, the fourteenth year has already taken out the brain of uh, first the streets of maidan, and then the new ukrainian leadership, which , of course, feeling the worldwide support of nato, went to suppress its own population and provoke tension with russia that continues so far, so uh, maybe stoltenberg and let it slip in some way, but the most important thing is that he admitted that nato is an aggressive organization that is imprisoned for a conflict that provokes it and which, through its supposedly before in any conflict, will expand endlessly in ukraine nato

stopped military development of the territory ukraine naturally protected people who were in the conflict zone, and e. i am sure that even if nato believed that their expansion policy would be endless, these people are forever in the past. and another one. subject statement i would like to discuss with you the american embassy in moscow calls on, uh, its own citizens to leave our country, meanwhile calls on france and canada. actually their citizens to leave the territory of belarus a. are these two appeals connected and what is behind these appeals? as you think, you have no doubt that the connection is direct, because our opponents are not doing anything right now. before not agreeing with each other and, in fact, their goals. they often try to achieve, well , uniting in some kind of coalition coalition good versus evil coalition defense coalition. serial against the coalition of those who encroach on her e on her freedom. well, and so on, you understand,

these are all elements of the political struggle of the struggle in the international arena - these are elements. uh, processing public opinion. this is an indication of a certain criticality of the situation , which, in turn, should push the government of those countries that have not yet decided on the degree of their military support to ukraine, to supply or not to supply tanks, to supply or not to supply fighter jets, to do this as quickly as possible, otherwise already. that's all the earth will be unleashed, citizens of all countries will be in danger on the territory of russia on the territory of belarus of course, on the territory of ukraine, all this is necessary immediately. uh, draw some line and put an end to it by increasing military support for ukraine current problems all current threats both for the inhabitants of ukraine and for residents of those regions that

are still in what is called a conflict zone, including new regions of the russian federation and for residents of all of russia, belarus, all those who, one way or another, find themselves in this conflict. one of the most important tasks facing the state is to provide the population with communications , a mobile network, broadband internet, all this has long become an integral part of life in large cities, but our country is very large and there are still many territories that, due to remoteness and gigantic distances, have limited access. to these technologies. to solve these problems, the program to eliminate the digital divide should discuss how it is being implemented in the new conditions, we will discuss the program to eliminate the digital divide by senator konstantin dolgov konstantin konstantinovich. has been working since the age of fourteen. it's been almost 10 years now. tell us what success. e, it was possible to achieve and what work remains to be done. i would probably like to start answering your questions with this, maybe somewhat banal, but

uh, an important statement for our country with its vast expanses and territory with a large number of hard-to-reach areas, and sparsely populated areas. uh, good stable connection. it is not just a factor of economic development. not just a factor of social development. it is very often a matter of life and death for people. we are talking about these regions , the arctic, the far east to siberia, of course, they need to be given special attention, given the extremely difficult conditions in which our citizens live and work there. uh now about what he managed to do he managed to do a lot. you know what, if we're talking about high-speed internet, then by next year, uh, uh, uh, households in our country should have access to, uh, high-speed broadband internet . this task is being solved, it will

undoubtedly be solved, yes, uh, and, of course, there is very serious progress here, including progress in mobile communications. we have a large number of e, in a country of small, populated areas in cities, all these issues are resolved more simply . well, there is also a commercial benefit. for operators. naturally. but if we are talking about rural areas , and in sparsely populated areas, installing a mobile tower in the majority, of course, but here it is very important to understand that this task is a national one and the most important issue once again emphasized not only economic, but also social development. e question. e. well, if you like, the well-being of the people we have in the second phase of the program to bridge the digital divide. e the main attention was paid to e, that settlement, e, which is from 250 to 500 inhabitants. uh, and 14,000 such uh points fell uh into this program and now the task is to

the thirtieth year , the ministry of figures reports to us about this. uh hmm hold secure mobile connections and uh, high speed internet. uh, there are about 24,000 settlements. e, small settlements, where from 100 inhabitants, that is, this is 100. now, if 250,500 were there more now, here are 100-250, but in them, in these, uh, settlements, about three million of our fellow citizens live. this is a fairly significant number of people, even if this number were less than everything. equally the importance of the task from this would not decrease. er, we asked a question. uh, min numbers set. i would say task. why wait until 2030 anyway? this is a good question. yes, it's long enough. eh, our colleagues answer us, well, they are ready, of course, they understand the importance of being ready early, but the federal

budget funds allocated there will take about 100 years. 100 million is not a small amount, but it is not an unbearable amount for our budget, especially if it is scattered so distributed over years, we need to decide on this. we drew the attention of colleagues, and they are really in the government, and the attention of the hmm operators , to the fact that now, with the active assistance of this federation , the possibilities for using public-private partnership mechanisms are expanding. here we adopted it legally and promoted it very actively together with fellow senators. at the end of last year, a law was adopted that removes obstacles to the development of a system of state partnerships and concession agreements. e in the it industry, that is, the industry and information to us. they are there small or green items, including, so to speak, uh, can be developed, that is, you can attract. uh, private equity opportunity regulatory opportunity for this

is there and they have decided. we are constantly working on this. that is, these are the same 100 billion. yes , they can be strengthened and supplemented, but with private capital. quite right. uh, maybe there's a replacement somewhere. possibly yes federal funds with private capital since. this is a task. well, she really is. uh, so the common nationality, let's say social, you remember, yes, just a couple of years ago. uh, a well-known case in the omsk region, when a student was studying, and yes, he was lying there, he was studying somewhere on a birch. there he prepared for the exams. well, unfortunately, these are our realities . well, students took off from a birch to go far, students took off from a birch. yes , but the problem needs to be solved. well, why go far for examples? we are leaving there 100 km from moscow, we are moving from the moscow region, there conditionally to one of our neighboring regions. i don't want to

single out anyone there. yes, but we are dealing with it. mobile phones disappear, that is, along the roads and and not only it is not necessary to climb into the forest to do this. why? because they explain to us that these are the towers that the moscow region is no longer finishing off. here are those, uh, that are there in the neighboring region. yes, to say so. yes , they are not enough, they still do not take, so we move smoothly to the second task, and the second task, so that there are more higher. to develop telecommunications infrastructure. we are well aware that we live in the conditions of sanctions. i just wanted to ask you how much the sanctions that introduced against our state affect the development of the digital network. they influence and this influence. it's kind of double. eh, the first ones. uh, of course, uh, certain difficulties. eh, they create these sanctions, because we still have. unfortunately, there are no domestic base sanctions. and we need a lot of them, and

now, together with the government, we are very actively supporting in terms of subsidizing producers from the point of view. uh, supply planning demand planning for and the demand is very large for such basic stations in general for the products of our manufacturers in the field of telecom. we stimulate the production of such countries. we were talking about this just now, we were given assurances that these stations, that these stations literally from next year. they will go en masse to domestic stations and go to the market. e, it means that the landmark is such, uh, the approved landmark that in the twenty-eighth year, starting from the year 28, all base stations in the country must be domestic, well, it is clear that this is a serious task, but to complete the task, because we have excellent technological developments. we have, uh, good good bases for this. hmm, the question

is to rebuild as much as possible now, this is a serious step technological base, again we are talking about this. yes, that is, it is necessary . patriotic yes. eh, some of the components are still the same. yes, those that are not there, we cannot provide right now in the required quantity. e. well, uh, through import channels. uh, naturally, they will go on for a while, but we must be guided by the fact that all critically important technology components must be domestic. we can not depend on the matter not only in the sanctions uh, the case and the volatility in world markets. you see that the world markets are still in a fever there, let's say relatively speaking semiconductors, and the sanctions add to the severity of this problem, but the problem was born earlier and we cannot afford to be dependent. there are very serious support mechanisms here as well . industrial development fund. in particular. there are very good preferential loans for fairly cheap long-term money.

we say yes who are important to manufacturers on the one hand, and on the other hand it is very important to them. uh, predictable sales, because it affects the price. and we talked about additional support measures , not only federal measures, but also regional measures to support operators so that they do not raise tariffs, so sanctions affect they create problems. they sharpen the additional need to build up the national potential of our domestic industrial potential, and in these conditions additional opportunities are created for e for our economic development in order to ensure technological sovereignty, the social gasification program , within which private houses are connected , will become indefinite from this year, the government has made appropriate changes to the rules for connecting to gas distribution networks on how it works, as well as on other gasification programs operating in the leningrad region. areas. we'll talk to the governor.

alexander drozdenko alexander yuryevich what is the current level of gasification of the region and what are the plans for 2023, according to the program social gasification today, the level of gasification in the leningrad region is slightly more than seventy percent, these are not the highest rates in the country, but it must be borne in mind that even 10 years ago in the leningrad region the level of gasification was slightly more than 50%, in general, we set ourselves together with pjsc gazprom, it is a task to achieve the level of gasification in the leningrad region up to 85%. in principle, this figure is achievable plans. we have very serious investments in the northwest. we are the number one partner of gazprom under the gasification program and before gasification only this year. we will build three gas outlet pipelines. these are gds stations of 25 gas pipelines, but if you imagine in kilometers, this is more than 360 km of gas pipeline networks will be built in the leningrad region. 25

new settlements will be infected and 16,000 households will be gasified . in particular, compensation for the cost of supplying gas directly to the house. tell us who can count on social support and what subsidies are provided. well, perhaps our most important achievement is that any resident of the leningrad region, who has property and households and is registered there, in fact , can apply for a subsidy for pre-gasification for at least a year. moreover, the subsidy is quite large just for residents of the leningrad region. here are the usual, any resident, any family, who lives for at least one year, can receive compensation of 180,000 rubles. and beneficiaries 200,000 rubles. and beneficiaries like us we are talking of a high category, these are veterans , participants in the great patriotic war , residents of besieged leningrad, heroes of the soviet union

, orders of military glory, uh, home front workers , prisoners of fascist camps, and a number of other categories can claim compensation of 300,000 rubles. in the leningrad region, a large-scale gasification program is being implemented even before gasification, the region has rapidly become a leader among the constituent entities of russia in providing subsidies for the supply of natural fuel to private homes, how and who can become a participant in the program, reportage svetlana timerlatova, this is how we put firewood, we heat the house of galina shipina, it was always heated with a stove, therefore , such an expense item as the purchase of firewood was taken into account in the family budget, one car 12,000 rubles. we cooked here on an electric stove, as a result of large payments for electricity at the beginning of the year, gas was brought into the house. we used to have stove heating all our lives. we heated firewood with firewood, we bought firewood, every year we harvested a stove, because this is here, of course, for the first time like this. yes, of course, the house of galina shipina is being prepared conveniently, as well as

more than 1,300 apartment households in the leningrad region. this year, we connected it to the gas supply networks under the long-term investment program. this large social program makes it possible for 200 gas free of charge to the borders of the land plot, work on the site is already carried out at the expense of the owner. however , a subsidy is provided to compensate for part of the costs; in order to become a participant in the program, you must submit an application. uh, the center where these applications are accepted is passed on. uh, all the papers are consulting them. how do it? that's right, people were heated, uh, earlier with wood, electric stoves. it is many times more expensive. than now natural gases. this is four to five times reduced the cost of heating. natural fuel is being phased out in the leningrad region and boiler houses in the boksitogorsk vyborgsky and priozersky districts have built

gas pipelines and installed equipment to gasify heat supply facilities. this is the village of zaporozhye, 90 km from st. petersburg. population nearly 3,000 people formerly teplov houses and other facilities received from the old coal boiler boiler coal e, per day during the heating season. e, in manual mode in the operator processed up to 15 tons manually there were constant accidents, since the equipment has high wear and low efficiency now, the village heats the new boiler house three boilers operate in automatic mode with the transmission of signals to the dispatcher path such an intelligent system does not require the constant presence of specialists at the facility, therefore, the natural gas pipeline first enters the burner here it is mixed with air and then burns in this large cutlet, thereby heating the water in the pipes. and after that, the heat is already supplied to the houses and social facilities of the village, so it was so, the advantages of switching from coal to gas became

obvious, in addition to the fact that it is economical and energy efficient. it is also environmentally friendly , no soot and dirt. only white snow and clean air when burning gas. this produces water vapor and carbon dioxide. when burning coal. this is soot carbon dioxide and so on. that is some harmful impurities in the form of some heavy residues that we constantly see on the snow. there are no new gas boilers in this gas boiler house instead of the old coal heating and kindergarten. previously, they were saved here by a heater. now the guys have changed their wool sweaters to a short-sleeved t-shirt. the children were out of cold hands. as if, well, woolen socks were worn, so that they would be warm, they would sleep in pajamas. now there are already children who sleep already and without pajamas, good circulation, as they say, well, it has become warm and comfortable gasification involves the construction of gas infrastructure and the supply of gas to

residential buildings, social facilities and enterprises, in accordance with the program, first a gas pipeline must be brought to the settlement. it is called the inter-settlement pipeline, just now such a gas pipeline is being built under the program for the development of gas supply to the gasification of the leningrad region for 2025. in this heated tent, polyethylene pipes are welded, which allows them to be quickly and efficiently laid in a trench in the field. yes, it will connect and provide gas to the gas pipeline eight settlements in the leningrad region, which is more than a thousand individual residential buildings ; workers paved 15 km. the gas pipeline and the planned thirty pipes are used by domestic production; work is proceeding clearly according to plan, even ahead of schedule, both in this section and in the whole region

gasification programs do not affect. we currently use only domestic equipment and materials for the construction of gas networks and connecting households. everything that is needed for e -gasification is currently produced in russia and import substitution, which was already started about 10 years ago. yes, the present moment has yielded results this year , the construction of twenty-three inter-site facilities, as well as 80 gas distribution pipelines, is planned. we are even higher than in the previous video viktor fedotov nikita vasiliev program senate from the leningrad region next week, senators will take part in a meeting of the expert council on tax policy under the committee on budget and financial markets, they will touch upon the taxation of independent oil companies, and discuss the prospects for developing the innovative potential of the regions in the social sphere.