what will this day be remembered for in history ? hello on may 2, 1885 , the belgian king leopold ii announced the creation of the congo free state, a huge territory in the center of africa of almost 2.500 m². they bought from local tribes by deceit for trinkets, but the international colonial conference in berlin recognized leopold's right to the congo, the country became his personal possession. and the export of rubber from ivory. the africans brought income, they brutally exploited, maimed, killed for fun. organized a manhunt, about 10 died

there are millions of people and such assessments condemning the genocide were made by prominent public figures, including the brand vienna and arthur conan share in 1908, king leopold sold the congo to the belgian government, but the life of the congresses changed only in 1960, when the country gained independence on may 2, 1930, the construction of gorky began the plant of the giant of the soviet and russian automotive industry was founded that day the forge shop of the ussr needed motor vehicles in the country there were only 20,000 built under an agreement with ford motors difficulties there was a huge lack of people in technology, and 80% of the work was done manually, but the plant was built in 18 months. for the first five years, gas produced a passenger car and a lorry truck according to american drawings, and the new production models became almost entirely soviet andrey

lipgard and other designers assembled the famous emka model m1 during the war , gas produced military equipment . then there were volga trucks of various modifications, and today gas is modern production with new technologies, 2. 1955 2019, in moscow, the pushkin museum of fine arts opened an exhibition treasures of the dresden gallery about 500 paintings by the great masters of giordon, rubens dürer rembrandt titian, among them the sistine madonna of raphael, these paintings were saved twice during the war, the germans hid them in quarries under the city from the bombing of british and american aircraft , which turned dresden into a shrine in may 1945, soviet troops saved the masterpieces that were dying in the dungeons from dampness and mold, and saved the secondary soviet restorers. for several months , the pushkin exhibition was visited by 1 million 200,000

people, the museum. he worked seven days a week from 7:30 am to 11:00 pm, and then the priceless canvases, moreover, three times more, exhibited in moscow, were returned to dresden free of charge, leaving the gallery, they hung a sign with gratitude to the ussr for saving the picture, but then we will remove it. on may 2, 2011, american special forces eliminated osama bin laden, the leader of the terrorist organization al-qaeda 10 years earlier, with the help of hijacked airliners, he organized large-scale terrorist attacks in the united states, the number one terrorist lived in the pakistani city of abatabaze. in a well-fortified mansion, the operation was called the spear of neptune . it lasted 38 minutes, the americans flew in from afghanistan by helicopter and blew up the wall surrounding the house , burst inside and killed five people at his own son and the courier with the family of one of his twelve-year-old wife. daughter.

only the courier shot back. the rest were unarmed, the osama bodies were taken to an aircraft carrier in the persian gulf and stored at sea. the news of the death of a terrorist was greeted with jubilation in the united states, but many countries considered it a cold-blooded murder and a gross violation of international law. on may 2 , 1853, for the first time in the world, a stand for testing combat missiles with a powder charge was created in russia. this is the development of a colonel then scientist, and in the future of general konstantin konstantinov, he was the illegitimate son of the tsarevich. konstantin pavlovich brother of emperor alexander i and is considered one of the famous admirers of rocket technology konstantinov improved artillery systems with with the help of automation, he invented a device for measuring the speed of a projectile, came up with a rocket electro-ballistic pendulum that determined thrust, a powder engine

, konstantinov led the st. petersburg rocket plant and worked out the technology for the production of rockets and launchers. by the way, he served under him as officer leo tolstoy, the future writer of the crimean war, konstantinov's rockets were used in battles in the caucasus and in defense. sevastopol, the scientist himself also took part in it. this is what this day in history was like may, a memorable date in the military history of russia on may 2, 1945, berlin was taken by the troops of the first belarusian front. marshal zhukov and the first ukrainian front. marshal konev completely captured berlin after the desperate resistance of the capital of the fascist rake of the shaft under the victorious blows of the red army by 15:00. the resistance of the opponents stopped the remnants of the berlin garrison. surrendered in a stagge , the red flag was developing

. the banner of victory. politicians don't take holidays. workers international meetings a busy schedule of events communication with electoral officials in the regions and not only topics that concern everyone legislative decisions were made promptly the big event of the week, the council of legislators and st. petersburg. dmitry oreshkin in the house ordeal, old panel house struggle for the right to a comfortable life and no result, the kazantsev family turned to the deputy and, as a result, in our heading parliamentary control. to cuba

reportage alexander loktionova may holidays elena zhelnina has the details of domestic tourism, and maria burkova studied the new law on employment of the population . what holidays. a short-term vacation for meetings by collectors of the words of state duma chairman vyacheslav volodin is more relevant than ever for politicians , indeed, there are no vacations this time , rest is also only formal, a busy work week and work in the regions and international meetings and a busy schedule of events, we will tell about everything today in our program. well, let's start with a big event in st. petersburg. the meeting of the council of legislators was attended by the president. vladimir putin congratulated everyone on the day

of russian parliamentarism, which was celebrated on april 27 in the northern capital. our film crew worked report by dmitry oreshkin . the history of russian parliamentarism began in the tauride palace more than 100 years ago. the first four state dumas of the russian empire met here . every year, within these walls, a council of legislators takes part in the event. heads of the state duma and the federation council, deputies and senators, representatives of regional parliaments. the key event was the president's speech. it is important that in the course of the elections and your daily work

, the most pressing acute issues of concern to our citizens, the priority needs and tasks of developing the national economy and strengthening the country's security, are undoubtedly manipulative priorities. today. this is exactly the way it should be, always a thorny issue and pressing problems. substantively discussed at a meeting of the council of legislators speaking about the support of the participants of the special military operation. vyacheslav volodin proposed introducing preferences for them when entering universities, for example, two points are added to volunteers. but this does not yet apply to those who served in the army or returned from the combat zone . we have that the ministry will continue , uh, contemplate it all. take and create all the conditions for the guys who went to serve in the army. do it in the country, a huge number of budget places were emphasized by the speakers, nothing prevents some of them

from being allocated for the guys who went to serve the one who went to defend the homeland, he must know the homeland. she will protect him after him. she will protect a family member. she will do everything to ensure that he gets an education and then the profession is in demand. another important issue is the quality of medical personnel training. vyacheslav volodin pointed out that the former pedagogical institutes became university ones and were opened. there is no faculty without the necessary base for training specialists, without its own clinics and departments in hospitals. this will come to us in years to come with a decline in the quality of medical care. help. it is clear how this was opened in the same way as the departments of lawyers, economists, sociologists, political scientists were opened in all universities. well, only sorry there is the price of an error. less a doctor the chairman

of the state duma drew attention to a person's life, the minister of health has updated recommendations on one more topic. the who has opened up opportunities in the west for sex reassignment therapy and surgery, even among children, and this is a dangerous prospect. more than 2,500 shift decisions have already been registered in russia. paul man gets up in the morning. and decides for himself that he is no longer a man, and a woman is not a woman, and a man goes to a paid clinic. the service costs from 30 to 60,000, a certificate is obtained, and with this certificate, the passport office goes to the registry office to change the last name, first name, patronymic, and then, as you understand , the next marriage after the key can legally occur. and don't give it yet. god will take the child has long been an instruction to the vice speaker of the state duma vladislav donkov. as soon as possible, make

a proposal to limit the possibility of gender reassignment in the documents ministry of health ministry of justice passed. the ministry of justice supports the proposal to ban discussing issues of social protection of the population , the chairman of the state thought colleagues should be more attentive to problems in nursing homes , it would be right to go to nursing homes. do you know what's the problem? the key lack of bumpers for recumbents is someone's refinement, who considered these standards? take analyze but without a meeting without a conversation. you simply will not have an objective picture, an important topic of the meeting has become the state interbudgetary relations of their use for the development of regions in the new conditions, what is most important today for the regions in terms of budgets is the stability of income, and most importantly

, the absolute predictability of these incomes so that they do not change constantly in the subjects' own incomes. in the first quarter, they grew faster than the forecasts included in the budgets. this provides a good basis for solving priority tasks, if, according to the plan of the subjects for alla, their own tax revenues were planned. uh, less than last year 97%, then in fact they go with a plus by 6%. investment projects are developing, especially actively in the far east over the past two or three years, the activity of investment projects of the federal district, ahead of the russian average. here we still have to catch up with the social conditions of life of the provision. in order to be higher than on the scale of the average russian on the parliamentary agenda, for the second year the central place is occupied by the issues of ensuring freedom of support for the defense industry and social protection of military personnel , legislative decisions were made promptly, and with the active participation

support of all duma factions of the federation council of regional parliaments. i would like to thank you for this. thank you for such a consolidated joint work, the inter-factional inter-party task is one to ensure a better life in our people, security in the country, make a competitive economy, however, not all of the new measures to support the participants in the special operation and their families have been proposed to the parliamentary working group by the work of daily work with a person . and active. means you come with to help decide. but this or that question, so that the problem does not arise in principle, they raised at a meeting of the council the important topic of prosthetics for military personnel in this matter, one cannot depend on imports, according to the speaker of the federation council valentina matvienko, today we

are faced with the fact that not friendly countries, or, uh, refuse stand or delay the execution of contracts to give hands more than months in the relevant department entrusted. to urgently establish the production of our own products in the required volumes, it is very important that we today provided such a shivka of federal laws. er measures, in their support of the regional and municipal level, the leaders of france believe that the entire vertical legislature must work in sync if the federal er assembly er regularly adopts laws. it is aimed at protecting our beast to uphold the tasks set by the president, then, of course , the regional legislators should not follow the council of legislators that we are holding today, they should answer the main question , the question of how to ensure victory in conditions

when the anglos declared a big hybrid war against our civilization of the russian world, which has already grown into a hot one and is booming nuclear, another priority in working with legislators is the full integration of the four russian regions. this is the donetsk and luhansk people's republics of the zaporozhye and kherson regions, the president in his speech stressed that this work must be carried out systematically. people should feel belonging to a single, economic , educational and cultural space of our country, they must do everything to defend and protect them. night choice to return to russia for the lugansk people 's republic as already a full-fledged subject of the russian federation to represent the interests of the inhabitants of the lugansk republic number and all those problems that concern our residents and broadcast at the federal level. well, this is a certain dream that

is becoming a reality today. it is important that the entire system of labor and social guarantees fully work in the new regions. people could receive quality medical care. education today. we already 67 were registered, and 20 draft laws were adopted, which are aimed primarily at integrating our republic into the legal field of russia. as for international relations, russia has set a course for equal partnership with the friendly countries of eurasia, africa and latin america , each side, each people. as much as you like , the small should be a separate policy as a force of influence in the architecture of the new century, at the present time , parliamentary diplomacy is gaining additional significance , vladimir putin emphasized the intensity international contacts, including through our parliament , not only is this not decreasing, but even growing, this is a very good

and correct indicative trend and the deputies are implementing the president’s message immediately after the council of legislators, the state duma delegation headed by vyacheslav volodin went on an official visit to cuba where the first meeting will be held commission on cooperation between the state duma and the national assembly of people's power of the republic for a little over a year - this is the second visit of the speaker of the state duma to the island of freedom, in turn and club representatives. recently , we have repeatedly met with deputies. the first shots of the visit from havana are in the report of our film crew. yes, the flight from moscow to the island of freedom took more than 20 hours at noon local time, the plane with the delegation of the state duma landed at the airport of havana, cubes meets 30-degree heat. at the trail , vyacheslav volodin was met by diplomats , colleagues in parliament and the military. havana airport wears precisely the national hero hasem morty, the revolutionary leader of

the cuban liberation movement from spain in his country vyacheslav volodin is called the apostle of independence to the monument to the cuban revolutionary vyacheslav volodin came immediately from the air harbor. russia, imposed by western sanctions, is especially close in spirit to the cuban people, who have been living in a blockade for more than 60 years , the speaker of the state duma discussed the strengthening of friendship between countries with the president of the republic, miguel, where eskanel bermuddes. first of all, let me convey to you the words of greeting from our president vladimir vladimirovich putin and, from him, to the highest wish of the head of state, they set the dynamics of development relations between russia and cuba stressed vyacheslav volodin mp, in turn , intend to intensify bilateral cooperation in a number of areas. our task is to have colleagues from the cuban parliament. they will do everything to ensure the legislative support of the decision taken by our president, taking into account the historical

nature of strategic relations and our friendship. she is a special challenge-tested. it would be right for us to make it tough so that within the framework of the parliamentary dimension. we were able to get to new information cooperation meeting with the president was an hour and a half and immediately to the cuban parliament. viacheslav volodin is warmly welcomed by his colleague, chairman of the national assembly of people's power and the state council of the republic of cuba, esteban lasa. and now the majestic capitol, the island of freedom sounds the anthem of russia, which were laid in the most difficult time for cuba and the soviet

union, then supported by those who believed in the purity of these relations, disinterestedness, understanding the responsibility to their peoples citizens of the countries, viacheslav volodin congratulated the clubs from st. petersburg on the successful holding of parliamentary elections and re-election to the post of head of parliament , in turn expressed support for russia and condemned western sanctions imposed against our country. we are well aware of how the american government is acting, the true culprits in this matter are the heads of relevant committees of the state duma and representatives of the ministry and one of the main points of the meeting of the commission on cooperation between the state duma and parliament. parliaments with their the parties did everything possible not only to ensure the legislative support of the adopted decisions, but also through new formats

filling them with specific content did everything to strengthen the friendship and increase trade turnover. we have every opportunity for this. the deputies of the two countries discussed in detail the issues of legislative support. in areas such as energy , health, education , agriculture and tourism, in order to deepen cooperation in areas that are related to the development of animal husbandry and plant growing. there are issues that need to be resolved quickly, because now the wheat stocks are running out and the second direction of the sanktik is building a rest for the future, but with delivery and tourists. so far , it’s not just that there is something to work here, and it flies three times a week, so, of course, the volume of russian tourists has been preserved. twice this year. now more than three hundred cuban students are studying, and annually the program

is designed for 100 state-funded places, and we have now agreed that this program is needed expand strengthen in terms of development , including programs of additional vocational education and professional translation training, the deputies of the two countries agreed to strengthen cooperation noted first deputy chairman of the state duma ivan melnikov those committees of the working groups that are established in the areas. about once every 2 months they will communicate with each other via videoconference to hold a joint meeting in this mode to analyze how the agreements and plans that they have reached are being implemented. chairman of the state duma invited his cuban colleagues to take part in the large international parliamentary conference russia of latin america, which will be held in moscow in the fall, esteban lasa hernandez accepted the invitation. before leaving the island of liberty, vyacheslav volodin goes to the monument to soviet soldiers -internationalists in the early sixties during

the acute phase of the caribbean crisis. they defended our country far from home, saving the world from nuclear war tarasenko maksim konin parliamentary hour. development of interaction between the state duma and legislative bodies of friendly countries this week, vyacheslav volodin ruled meetings with colleagues from the parliaments of kyrgyzstan and mozambique, all the details in the report of my colleagues , russia bishkek arrived in moscow on an official visit. we are always for relations to be built on the principles of mutual respect.

friendship, cooperation and non-interference business with the jewelry state, the dynamics of the development of russian kyrgyz relations are set by the heads of state, stressed vyacheslav volodin, deputies within the framework of the inter-parliamentary commission and interaction of relevant committees should make their contribution to this work more actively , the speaker of the state duma emphasized when it comes to the development of relations between our countries this is largely due to our presidents and their constant communications, which are already being implemented in our parliaments, but we it is necessary to make a contribution so that the parliamentary dimension benefits our countries in our peoples such visits always give impetus to cooperation, we can discuss any issues. at the same time, without leaving sharp corners, russia, one of the main economic partners of kyrgyzstan, noted nurlanbek, shakiev, according to the results of last year , the trade turnover between the countries increased by a third, and in mutual settlements, the share of the russian ruble

was 70%. i want to note that between our parties and the month of full mutual understanding, allowing to develop fruitful saturn of the kyrgyz republic has always been and remains a reliable partner of russia based on trust. the lips of friendship and mutual trust of many years are sure that today's meeting is an additional impetus for strengthening inter-parliamentary ties between our countries. new formats of inter-parliamentary interaction will be developed with the countries of the african continent. in particular mozambique. the topic became the main one at the meeting of vyacheslav volodin with the speaker of the assembly of the republic of espirans beige, and mozambique is a reliable and partner of russia on the african continent for last year uh, progress made. e v. uh issues of foreign economic activity about 20% growth. uh, trade between

our countries. all this suggests that we have great opportunities for the development of relations. vyacheslav volodin proposed the creation of an inter-parliamentary commission between the state duma and the assembly and zombies, as well as intensifying contacts between relevant committees and deputy friends of friendship, we will appreciate your support, and our initiatives of the united nations potential for economic cooperation espe said a lot. if you knock down, according to her , parliaments need to work on laws that will help strengthen ties in this area to the cord. there we believe that relations between mozambique and russia should be constantly strengthened. these relations date back to the period when mozambique fought for its independence. we managed to defend it after that russia has always been next to our country of russians. sobyou invited vyacheslav

volodin to pay an official visit to the republic, in turn, a delegation from mozambique waiting for the next inter-parliamentary conference russia-africa bilateral relations we will build up ahead think that the joint meeting of the kinship committees. including the foreign affairs committees of both parliaments, let's start with the conduct of competition. so the meeting with the british delegation is definitely history alexander ekaterina shevchenko maxim kul nikita karaskin parliamentary hour

we will take up this matter. it will be the honest detective.