whether they raise it or they won’t raise it or there is no need for it, the government doesn’t see it, so far, forgive me, this is an important answer for all businesses. and now i will give you the floor. but first, i would like to bring to the audience so that they understand several interesting facts about laos. i think this is important. the first diplomatic relations between the ussr and laos were established in 1960 on october 7. we found another reason to celebrate this day. yes, uh, we’ll celebrate together , we agreed, and since 2011, russia strategic partnership in the asia-pacific region is the second fact that found laos a country that suffered the largest bombing in the world, more than 200 million bombs or dropped by the us on the wha during the war and 350,000 died during these

bombings. third , the lao people's revolutionary party remains faithful to the ideas of socialism. fourth, there is a pioneer movement in laos. to be honest, i didn’t know anything about this, when i was preparing for the session i learned the fifth in laos. they still love baguettes and white bread. this is so good on uh, inheritance from france is left and ah, laotian coffee is considered one of the best in the world. if i read correctly, well, the last thing is important for us and for russians, that you can stay for 30 days without a visa, so welcome to laos and you, welcome here to the podium, please. over to you, madam vice president.

thank you very much for participating. wood, well, plus we have a lot of tourist tourist attractive places, as for what russia means for laos,

and what our relations mean, and the ussr begins with russia, we supported traditional strong relationships later. they have reached the level of strategic partnership in the field of security in the asia-pacific region. we cooperate in many areas in the economy within the framework of tourism development with information from many other areas representing. cooperation between laos and russia also support each other

assist each other we we build our cooperation on the basis of mutual interest and at the same time. this is a developing country and therefore our government attaches great importance socio-economic development, for this we involve our country. and investments from many other countries, including from russia , our countries. we received russian support in the demining process, this assistance was not conditional on anything. we are still suffering from

unexploded mines and these ammunition. uh, the unexploded negativity affects the lives of our people, with the help of russia, with the support of russia, we were able to clear the mines. more than 20,000 of our territory and after clearing the mines we these 20,000 hectares of demined areas were returned to the people living in our country in this way. here we are eliminating this danger - the danger that comes from unexploded ordnance.

thank you polovozski, this will be a hit, vladimir vladimirovich, and then i will ask you the same question about the nineties. we have ceased to be a friend there and to support many other states, for example, cuba or laos. and how difficult do you think it is now for us to restore these relations. and you can bring them to the same level that was during the soviet union in the nineties . we have purchased a lot. i mean, first of all, emancipation, freedom a lot and lost. unfortunately, the prospectors thoughtlessly or squandered what had been accumulated over the previous ten decades during the existence of the soviet union. well, you know, among those peoples

with whom we communicated, in which you often helped their development, people preserved it on new principles. uh, it’s not difficult for us to stop in relationships, because people in these countries want uh, this also applies to laos. we see there are many friends there. this applies to the asia-pacific region as a whole. this concerns. eh, i just recently passed through the same africa, russia africa. you know , to be honest, i was once again surprised by the openness of africans by their desire to work with us; you already understand that it’s not just that we did something for africa and helped. uh, people there will gain freedom and independence to fight colonialism. although this is very important. they remember everything, but they also remember something else, you understand, a look, why in what the main thing is that we have never been? nowhere

has our cooperation always been built on an equal basis or with a desire to help and support. and those, uh, that means the countries that are trying to compete with us, even now they were pursuing a completely different policy. and this is hmm and when people compare, what happened uh, it means in the old days in cooperation with russia the soviet union, as it was then called from other countries, of course, everything turns out in favor of russia, of course we today we must take this into account. well, look at the same thing, if you also look at africa, yes, uh, our cooperation. yes, we helped. and what did the former colonialists do back in 1950? they showed me the photographs. recently, yes, but to european

countries, let’s say. they are already running around bringing people from africa in cages. it’s impossible to watch without tears , the children are sitting in cages, they were put on display. this was an exhibition and they set it up in the village , and they brought people in cages and showed them and put them on display. so, in that including social families and individual children. they kept me in cages. well, how can you forget this? yes? no one in africa will forget this. and now they are still trying to command and carry out their own policy there, in general, they have not injected their policies, but they have burdened all the countries of africa, they owe a trillion there in dollar terms, that is, they have created such a uh, that means a loan for the financial system with african strange ones within a framework that african countries cannot by definition , not a credit relationship at all, like

some kind of attribution. you see, with us it’s completely there have been other approaches and this gives us certain advantages in e. v. e working with our uh partners with whom we had special relationships back in soviet times and with those with whom we are building relationships anew now. uh, our friends feel it too. uh, that’s why i don’t see any big difficulties here, including uh, restoring the restoration of our previous positions. we also touched on these topics. can i ask this question? but what about those who do not think so, then, for example, russia this is strange, the baltic states are the czech republic, this is hungary, about which they say that russia behaved like colonialists when it introduced, for example,

tanks there were also absenteeism or something, but they recognized long ago that this was part of the policy of the soviet union and silt it’s just that you can’t do anything about the tension in your relationship. uh, in the sphere of foreign policy, so that it goes, uh, in obvious contradiction with the interests of other nations. that 's all, but it is precisely this rake, if you are talking about the rake, the leading country of the west is advancing today and, above all, the united thank you states, they are putting pressure on their allies and such so-called partners. they have no friends. they only have interests. this is a continuation of the well-known british formula of cooperation with russia and, for example, why you

decided that the study of the russian language is being resumed in los, it is not because the president says. as mr. president has already rightly noted, the people's democratic republic maintained very good and reliable relations between the ussr and the eu of the russian federation, we intend to use this successful fruitful cooperation that existed in the past in order to move on, this certainly applies to the humanitarian assistance that we receive, this is the growth that we see in the trade turnover between countries

, a certain increase in investment, and we also count on the growth of the turbo flow from russia, of course . we really appreciate all these benefits that we get from this relationship and of course. this is one of the most important achievements, which is worth noting separately , this cooperation that we had during times of the soviet union in the field of human resources. and as you correctly noted, many of the leaders who headed the lava republic were educated in one way or another in the soviet union, uh, and at the moment , relations between russia and laos. as you may know, we have built the chinese railway and it should be noted that this is a strategic project that we would like to use, among other things, to expand this further on the road in the future up to australia as we believe that such

this kind of expansion of the railway into the territory of the russian federation can be extremely useful for the development of trade and investment between the two countries. and, of course, this will facilitate passenger transportation from the democratic people's republic of laos, and through the territory of russia to china, and this is an issue that we would like to discuss in more detail in order to use it to promote trade and investment relations between our two countries. and i really hope that our country will be able to explore this opportunity and it will bring specific result, they remembered the pioneers who function as an organization in the es, but now, uh, madam vice president was in our children's camp, ocean, and

noted with pleasure that children from laos are vacationing there and there are very good conditions and uh, excellent relations. established with russian peers. but i can add to this that children from laos do not only relax in the ocean. uh, there's an ocean in the children's camp. they are still studying at the suvorov schools of the russian federation , i can say that these are military schools for children. there the guys study and felt very comfortable gradually. rebuilding our relationships with our friends.

uh, it’s great about logistics, if i started talking, uh , the chinese belt and road project celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. we had a project and it still remains a big eurasian partnership, but here, after the g20, it was immediately announced i listed i’ll list the countries usa european union sadovskaya arabia united arab emirates israel jordan and india completed work on the historic, as announced, agreement on a new economic corridor for india near east europe and russia is not there, china is not there, in your opinion, how will this initiative affect the implementation of both the chinese and our project. and what does this even mean for us? i believe that this will benefit us; it will only help develop logistics, firstly, well, firstly, this project has been discussed for a long time, for, in my opinion, several years, although the americans were the last to jump on this train moment, but for them i

don’t see much point at all. e is in this project. well, just maybe, uh purely uh, from a business point of view, like uh between uh, meanwhile, the additional movement of goods according to this code is, in fact, an addition to our north-south project, we don’t see anything here. uh, something that could uh hinder us, we go out using this code on hmm to the russian gulf, that means there to india if there is another route, we also go through israel there. in my opinion, it’s involved. uh, we can mean, through uh, black walk to the sea, then to the mediterranean and use this corridor. uh, so i don’t know colleagues who uh this project. uh, they presented it, they should,

of course, look carefully. this is just a peace memorandum yeah, yeah, well, we need to look at the economics of this project because first uh, by rail. uh, the goods must reach the cargo must reach the sea. transshipment from the railway to sea vessels then arrives, which means to the shore there or the united arab emirates or to saudi arabia. and once again we need to reload from the ships to the railway. and this is a double overload. it has implications for the economics of the entire project. this should be considered uh-huh. here supervisor. our uh, the leader of our leading company russian railways, valentinovich belozerov

, nods his head. apparently i've come to the right place. eh, such an economic substance. there you need to carefully read the economics of the project, in terms of time it will be, if we talk from northern europe from st. petersburg to let's say it will be in time, approximately the same e as e, we are planning a north-south route yeah, but i don’t know about the economics, i repeat, we have to calculate. it seems to me that our route will be more efficient, but they won’t go anywhere or anywhere it won't go away. interest in using the suez canal. i think that those who believe that this is somehow causing damage to the soviet channel. i doubt it. in my opinion this will not happen. and finally, the last thing. ah, the volume of traffic is growing and increasing every year, and in my

opinion, the more of these routes, the better. thank you, uh, now a few questions let’s go back inside the country, we are in vladivostok in a city where there are a lot of right-hand drive cars. now i’ll explain why i’m asking and the room will probably be divided into two equal ones. or unequal parts. some are probably already thinking about what to do. what to do, while others think. well, it’s good that this will pass us by , i’ll tell you right away that you’re lucky you have an aurus. e, niva and volga but many russian officials were not lucky. probably because you said that you will need to switch to domestic cars in the nineties. such an attempt failed. where is the guarantee that everything will work out now? and what cars should they change to? you know, then there was no car, but now there is. yes they might be somehow look more modest than, uh, generally mercedes

or audio, which in the nineties began to be purchased in huge quantities. well , nothing, i think we need to take an example in this sense from many of our partners, for example, from our partners in india, yes. so uh they basically focus on the production and use of motor vehicles made in india. here uh, the prime minister of fashion is absolutely. it seems to me that he is doing the right thing in that he is promoting ideas, uh, business and in india it is correct. she, so we have this transport, uh and uh. we need it use. eh, that's completely normal. this does not violate any of our obligations under. the wto does not violate this government procurement at all. uh, but you need to build a certain uh, that means a chain of who is entitled to what and drive in the country, uh cars and yes, you probably know there were proposals. eh, that means continuing

these purchases. it’s not difficult to do this; logistics, established by foreign machines, means, well, yes, to continue this practice, to put it mildly, the president shot this chain. let him drive when we see him. i say i don't know when will it start now, uh, about chinese cars, i’ll also ask, the import of chinese cars this year increased by 500-403%. according to forecasts , almost half a million chinese cars will be imported into our country this year. we are not afraid that they will sweep away all our cars, and we will now become dependent on the chinese automobile industry. no, we are developing

this work together. here's a great walt car. she started it. where in this? where are you near moscow , there was hawala in tula yes, the governor presented it to me. well, what a good car. we are developing our own auto industry. and thank god that we are developing everything more and more on our own base. we are increasing the level of localization. and moskvich will be produced recently, not only the mayor of moscow, he reported on how things are going there, and okay, it will develop, we need to do it. you understand this on your own basis. of course, when our manufacturers produced cars almost 100%, that means assembling cars from foreign spare parts. well, here's the localization. we'll raise the time. well, this is

correct from the point of view of the development of automotive strength in the country own database. we're not going to close completely here on hmm on our knees to do something. well, growth they did it, they did it, but how much does it cost? yes, it costs, because it produces little, it will go to syria for real, and it’s half the price, everything will be, but it takes time. well, it will be our own development. this is, uh, this is the acquisition of equipment, the restoration of these competencies, these are taxes. eh, these are jobs within the country hmm well, what can i say? everyone understands that uh, there are so many components here, but at the same time, we intentionally cooperate with those who want to work with us? ah, i’ll ask, well, the officials here should definitely drive fancy cars. a topic related to cars

is fuel prices. and you took this cash control, however, the latest data diesel is already more than 61 rubles. gasoline is also becoming more expensive for many. eh, i already see in my eyes the question of what’s going on, and i also see this in all sorts of smoke chats, where people started discussing fuel prices. why is this happening and will we correct this situation? of course, the government is engaged, but connected, i think that the producers here are ours. uh, those who produce. uh, that means petroleum products they are right by the government. it would have been necessary to react in a timely manner; the decisions taken in this regard, as we know, are not so. in order to maintain parity between prices on the foreign market and the domestic market, these mechanisms were later

abolished. er, that means, well, the government did not react in a timely manner to these changes in the world market due to growth. uh, oil prices. um, well, it's adjustable. uh, position we just talked to warm sechenov yesterday. he has his own position there. uh, well, in general, manufacturers and uh, the government have agreed among themselves how they will act in the near future. yes. it is very important for us to provide agricultural producers with diesel, which means we are worried, but there is simply not enough of it physically. it's physical now. it came up as a regulatory issue. the prices were many mechanisms. in 2009, when i would say the pros of the russian federation , a thick decision like this was made folio uh, that means our interaction with

companies. uh, the fuel and energy complex of the country and the government and that’s it. it was described in detail there. uh, it's working now. by the way, this is a resolution, but not not, but other instruments are not applied. the so-called damper. i have already said, what is its meaning, uh, a balance between external and valuable internal ones, but uh, that means they caught him there and he didn’t work so effectively. and how this tool worked before, there are known agreements. i hope this will be reflected in reality position e in the quality calculation tent ask november last year remains without a leader. what is the reason? was alexey leonidovich kudrin there? the only good thing is that they can’t find a replacement for him, and why then did they let him go to yandex in the first place,

logically he didn’t work for us in construction. he wants and wanted to go to work in business. we can't force him to stay there. although he was, of course, in his place, he was also a good finance minister. eh, well, the chamber is working , something is working efficiently. you have already thousands of checks, checks are being carried out there, i don’t remember, they, in my opinion , identified a violation for one and six tenths of a trillion rubles. that is, yes, there is an acting one there . well, this does not affect the quality of work. i think that when the situation matures, this parliament will select an appropriate candidate. well, uh, and the government, this personnel issue will be resolved. he is not something that prevents you from working. and yandex mentioned it for a reason. uh, recently the official website of arkady volozh was created, and the following is written there, i ’ll specifically read the israeli quote

entrepreneur, born in kazakhstan , co-founders of one of europe's largest internet companies. yandex, i’ll remind you that loshara was born in 1964, when kazakhstan was part of the soviet union , but now there is no mention of the soviet union in his biography. we also have other businessmen who publicly express their position, including their position in relation to special military operation for you is a line that cannot be crossed. where is she located and uh, even this line cannot be crossed by who, for example, created a national treasure. just listen to yandex, this is not mine. this line should be in the consciousness, and well, should remain on the conscience of those people who make certain statements. well. as a rule, as a rule, i want to emphasize this is connected. this is due to the desire of these people to maintain their

business. save your assets. moreover, if people moved and decided to connect their lives, on the other hand. well, he lives in israel and i can imagine that, in order live there uh, well, at a good level and have good relations with the authorities. well, he is forced to make certain statements; he sat silent for a long time, then decided to make a statement. well, god bless him. may he live well there. to be honest, it doesn’t really bother us at all. eh , well, in general, if you look, well, if a person, as it were, grew up on this basis, yes, he got an education, remained successful in something. well, there should be a sense of conscience in relationships, that is, in the country that gave him everything. from him already i mean, he’s a talented man, he created a really good company and didn’t select the team