[000:00:00;00] i would also like to welcome you all to our first session, which is where our work begins, and you know, many of us have come a long way to get to sochi, so i can just congratulate us all on being here, and i am sure that the next few days will be filled with interesting discussions , our topic today is the presentation of the annual report of the altai international discussion club, it has become a certain tradition that every year valdai evaluates the state of affairs in the world, and this is not just some kind of theoretical assessment, this is an attempt to combine various threads in order to understand, respectively, where the world is now, how it has changed in the past and, accordingly, in this way we get

a feeling in which direction the world is moving, it is especially important to pay attention to last aspect. this year, i must say that it was a team effort, a whole team of analysts and intellectuals worked, which is the hallmark of the valdai club. this year's theme is multipolarity, it is a fendam issue that has been on the agenda for many, many years, but i think as will be noted at the end. now it is taking on certain shapes and becoming such a full-fledged concept. and perhaps it will soon acquire a material shell. multipolarity is certainly a leitmotiv of today, of our times. and in just a minute i will give the floor to our speakers, our presenters, the authors of this report, but before i

do that. i can say that the whole idea of ​​multipolarity, which is discussed in this report, this is a definition of a pole, what a pole of a multipolar world is, and of course, we build on the words of yevgeny primakov, who was one of the authors of the concept of multipolarity in the nineties, he was both the minister of foreign affairs and the prime minister and is certainly one of the outstanding figures. .. russia. so, let's discuss what a multipolar world is, and it must be said that in order to understand what we are talking about, i think that now we are talking about four levels of multipolarity. the first level is the one referred to definitely in the report, this is a world of nation states, and the un unites approximately 200

countries in the world as an organization. i think that. the report quite rightly notes that the state system has now matured, matured after the process of decolonization in the light of the end of the second world war, the war of liberation, but now this world state is imposing itself as a guarantor of justice and equality, as stated in the charter... un, this system has now become mature, and not a single country perceives itself as, let's say, like this subordinate to any bloc, so we can talk about the maturity of this state system, and this is happening for the first time in the history of mankind, that is , now the main form is a national state, the second type, the second level of multipolarity, these are regional blocs, not

just an aggregate. .. in north america and so on, large blocs, regional blocs, socio-economic blocs, these are important elements, plus we have security blocs, for example, nato on the one hand, soo on the other hand, and there is many other blocks. within the framework of the african union, for example, which have now become a full-fledged member of the twenty, the third level, if you like, the third level of multipolarity, these are various ideological and historical blocs, for example, the seven, which was created in order to manage the state of affairs in the world in the eighties, then the g20, which was introduced not so long ago, and of course, we can also talk about brix, which will hold its meeting in

johannesburg in august. and six more members will join brix next year, and approximately 20 different states wanted to join this bloc. which consists of russia, india, china, and now we are talking about the creation of a new development bank in shanghai, and for example, the president of brazil made such a proposal, and thus the world is changing, and we are talking about what the global south says about that the world is becoming less or less western-centric, and certainly. we hear the gnashing of teeth from those who used to dominate this world. the world is changing. and finally, the fourth level of all this is what i would call mega-alliances, some kind of, on

the one hand, this is what in russia is collectively called the west, i call it the political west, which took shape after the second world war, and i must say what this alliance has acquired. in the light of the cold war, then it began to expand, pursuing some kind of universalist ambitions, and this political west, let’s say, it has already taken place, and this is the main subject of history, the subject of history in the head with washington, and which will maintain such relations with the western capitals that also joined this bloc, on the other hand, very powerfully... it’s not just russia, china and other countries, i would say that a completely different policy is being implemented here, which is accordingly

aimed at counteracting the political west, i think that there is such a fundamental shift and non-alignment movement taking place here, there are countries that do not want to join any of the blocs, or simply... accordingly do not want to adhere to the logic of the cold war mentality of joining this or that bloc, all this is reflected in the excellent report and the last thing i want to say is that one of the major themes of the report is hierarchy, various new shapes and forms, i will talk about this in a minute, there is such a term, this term was already heard in the morning today, i really like it like. this is called heterocracy. this means various elements of hierarchical thinking. multipolarity is, in general , one of the manifestations of kiterocracy, that is, i

would say that this is not verticalism, it is horizontalism, when the state, let’s say, exists on its own, is formed husks, again, this is what the french philosophers talked about, that is, let's say, this is when a plant does not stretch upward, it rather spreads along the ground, and thus we can say that this is a very useful approach approach to what exists in our world, and what will allow us to unite 200 different countries and organizations on an early basis, i will stop there. and i will give the floor to the authors of this report. this was a broadcast of the valdai club meeting in sochi. in the lpr, law enforcement agencies detained a local resident who transmitted to the ukrainian side data on the locations and movements of forces, people's

militia and armed forces. this was reported to the fsb in the region. a criminal case has been opened under the article "espionage". this morning and night sirens sounded again in ukraine. air raid alert. announced in kiev and several other regions, in the chernigov, cherkassy, ​​sumy, poltava and dnepropetrovsk regions it lasted about 40 minutes, a series of powerful explosions occurred in kharkov and kiev-controlled kherson. city authorities report damage to critical facilities infrastructure. the air raid warning had not previously been announced over the weekend. explosions thundered throughout the country. in the southern donetsk direction, the russian military stopped the attacks of nine enemy assault groups. the artillery , in turn, disrupted the rotation of the ukrainian armed forces near urozhainy and makarovka. aviation carried out strikes on the militants' manpower and equipment. the successes were described in detail in the press service of the vostok group. a unit of

the vostok group in the southern donetsk direction stopped the offensive actions of nine groups enemy infantry in the direction of priyutnoye. artillery fire suppressed attempts to rotate units of the ukrainian armed forces in the areas of urozhainy and makarovka. automobile equipment carrying the nationalists was destroyed, attempts to transport ammunition to positions in the urozhainy area were stopped, a field ammunition depot, automobile equipment, crews with ammunition and manpower were destroyed. ukraine should be grateful. poland has sheltered millions of ukrainian refugees. this was stated by prime minister matteusz morowiecki. he also called on kiev not to trust germany, as according to him, the country will always try to reach an agreement with russia. the western allies really don't like this. now to trading on the moscow exchange. this morning the american currency is growing, its value is already above 98 rubles. and the euro today is trading above

104 rubles and 40 kopecks. yuan costs a little less than 13.5 rubles. the moscow exchange index at the opening of trading was 3.144 points, and the rts index was 1008 points. a number of innovations have been introduced in russia since october. many of them relate to finance, in particular social benefits, salaries of employees of the public sector and banking sector. artyom yamshchikov will tell you all the details. october brought a number of innovations to our country, firstly, the indexation of salaries and pensions for employees of law enforcement agencies, internal affairs bodies , police, as well as bailiffs, the national guard, customs, the penal system, the federal fire service, their salaries increased by 10 .5%, military pensions have been increased by the same percentage, there are more in the ministry of defense, which means... administrative and economic services - 10%,

specialists, scientific and technical workers 15%. medical staff 20%. here, bonuses will be paid for length of service and especially difficult and harmful working conditions, and additional responsibilities, but also for employees of government agencies who are not civil servants, indexation will increase by 5.5%. and among the employees... of government agencies who are not civil servants, commandants, cashiers, accountants, drivers, security guards, and so on. more on the topic of salary growth, there will be 3% indexed payments for russian railways employees, in addition to employees who are employed directly servicing railways, the salaries of specialists from various institutions controlled by russian railways, including educational and medical ones, will increase. and also, since october , a new... ruble support measure began to be applied to a wide range of goods;

now there is an export duty tied to the exchange rate, the ministry of economic development reported. this month , the duty rate will be the maximum possible 7%, and for fertilizers 10. the new push duties apply to all exports, in addition to oil, gas, grain and timber. due to of this initiative, the government expects to collect about 50 billion rubles per month, according to the explanatory note to the draft federal budget; let me remind you that the purpose of export duties is to stabilize the exchange rate of the national currency. our exporters are trying to extract some additional profit for themselves from the weakening of the ruble, to force them to sell foreign currency on the domestic market is almost impossible at present , which is exactly why they came up with this mechanism, or guys, you yourself will think about what and what the ruble exchange rate is and what more profitable for you, well

or you will simply pay increased customs duties, thereby compensating for the non-return of foreign currency earnings back to russia. as for other changes, there is news for those who are planning to take out a mortgage. from now on, banks will be required to apply higher premiums when approving housing loans with low down payments. if previously it was 150%, now it is all 900. in other words, the bank will now have to increase its reserves not by one and a half, but by nine times. the maximum surcharge will apply when shared construction and down payment less than 10%. all this is in order to improve the so-called quality of borrowers. you need to make sure that a person knows how to save, has financial literacy , discipline, ae, an understanding of how this is done, and after

that takes out a loan, already having the skill - such - such a life when you save something, something... you do it, but nevertheless, you solve your housing issues. another innovation concerns the insurance of bank cards, so the owner of the plastic card is now protected not only from damage or loss of the card, but also against fraudulent debits, also from this month, all financial companies when processing internal transfers must... use only domestic swift for such transactions is now illegal, it will remain only for international transactions. in addition, central bank specialists now have access to information about all participants in the chain of money transfers that fall under the definition of fraudulent. the central bank is now monitoring closely and will closely monitor cases of simultaneous entry into internet banking from different cities or regions, as well as applying for a loan through a banking application, which

was blocked shortly before. also, all financial institutions will now be required to send information about atypical devices upon entry to the central bank. there is news for non-professional investors. starting this month, the regulator has determined a list of securities that are available for such operations. this category will allow these categories to purchase securities of friendly countries that are not taken into account through unfriendly infrastructure, as well as foreign securities whose issuers operate primarily in russia and eurasia. economic union, well, to summarize, analysts assure that all these developments are collectively aimed at stabilizing the russian economy in the long term. the results of early parliamentary elections are being summed up in slovakia. the party, which actively opposes military

aid to kiev, won an unconditional victory. in addition, its head robert fitzica calls for blocking ukraine’s application to join nato. second in voting finished. progressive slovakia. among the election promises there, on the contrary, were close cooperation with brussels and expansion of military support for ukraine. the european commission has already stated that progressive slovakia was allegedly subjected to disinformation during the elections. at the site of the terrorist attack in inkar, about 10 kg of explosives, small arms and a grenade were found. this was reported by the turkish ministry of internal affairs. the identity of one of the attackers also became known; he turned out to be a member of the kurdistan workers' party, which in turkey... is considered terrorist. by according to authorities, criminals killed a local resident in order to steal his car. let me remind you that two terrorists tried to carry out terrorist attacks near the building of the ministry of internal affairs, one of them blew himself up, the other was neutralized by the police. a satellite entered radio orbit in lebanon.

you can listen to our international agency's broadcasts without interruption. broadcasting 24 hours a day, the editorial office is located in beirut. the satellite took over the purity that had previously been broadcast by the british bbc arabic. but she left in january due to lack of money. the hosts were well-known arab journalists in the middle east. also on the broadcast schedule will be programs from cairo and moscow on a variety of topics. the priority is information and analytics on hot international topics, as well as on issues affecting lebanese residents. now you can listen to us both in this country and in neighboring syria, including damascus in iraq. even at the stage of implementation of this large project, a lot of people came to us. people, journalists, media persons who watched with great interest our work, indicated that this is an extremely important project at the present time , in the current conditions, in this region, since it will allow us to more clearly and accurately and correctly convey the position of our country to the arab

audience, to balance the media space and move it away from some unipolarity, 7 days a week... 24.7 information and analytical radio on the former bbc wave. by the way, when we met here with local journalists, those who were interviewed for our team, or just talked with local journalists, many people said that they have a certain hunger for information, they lack information, high-quality information radio stations, and that they lack... an alternative opinion, because the middle east has been captured by anglo-saxon propaganda, it is very difficult for another

opinion to break through. now footage from the government house. good afternoon, dear colleagues, on friday, in accordance with the law, the government introduced the state... the draft federal budget, we discussed it in detail at a meeting of the cabinet of ministers, this is the main the country's financial document, it is balanced and... fulfilling social obligations to people, and of course, it contains funds for economic development, proposals,

expansion of infrastructure, support for regions, priority is increasing the availability of medical services for residents of all russian regions, construction and renovation of clinics, outpatient clinics, medical centers, assistance to citizens with diabetes, oncology, and over the next 3 years we will allocate more than 1 trillion rubles for drug provision. including patients with socially significant diseases and children with serious, rare ailments. we will pay special attention to families with children; significant funds will be used for maternity capital , subsidizing interest rates on mortgages and one-time payments to parents with many children for partial repayment, as well as a single benefit for needy pregnant women and parents who are raising children under 17 years of age. next year, the creation of new places in general education institutions will continue; resources for this are defined in the three-year

budget, as well as for the overhaul of schools, provision of hot meals to primary school students for payments for classroom management, also provision is made for the construction of world-class campuses, which we talked about, and the construction competitions that were held. the key task set by the president is to achieve technological sovereignty; to maintain the sustainability of industries , it is necessary to ensure a high degree of independence in the creation of engineering solutions, master the production of all critical products, for this we will direct resources to industrial development, including aircraft manufacturing, and unmanned aircraft systems, machine tools and shipbuilding, radio electronics, and modernization of the country's infrastructure, including road and transport. dear colleagues. a lot has already been done; i would like to separately thank the representatives of the state duma and the federation council, who took an active

part in the so-called zero reading of the draft of the country’s main financial document. constructive proposals that were made at the government meeting commissions were taken into account in its preparation for a three-year period. now, together with deputies and senators, we have to carry out large-scale work to consider the draft budget in parliament, i ask you to ensure and monitor the personal participation of the heads of supervised federal ministries and departments in meetings of relevant committees that will discuss, actively discuss the main financial documents of the country, as well as meetings of the state duma committee on budget taxes for the application of state programs. discussion of the budget package is already underway, maxim gennadnikov presented it to the council.

the main directions of the forecast of socio-economic development, it is very important to discuss with senators the financial support of key development priorities, our common task is to ensure that all programs, events, significant projects in the regions are as accessible and understandable as possible, told to people so that they do not just we heard the numbers and saw specific support measures aimed at improving the quality of life, taking into account feedback from them, which the president always talks about. the government apparatus has been instructed to assist colleagues from the ministry of departments in matters of cooperation with the state duma and the federation council in working on the draft budget. dmitry yuryevich, i ask you to keep this under control. now to another topic, to the decision made to support our agro-industrial complex. one of its key tools is preferential benefits. our agricultural producers at a rate of 5% about the need for timely financing of farmers - the head of state spoke for

in this regard, the government provides subsidies from the federal budget to russian credit organizations and the state development corporation, which allows enterprises to raise considerable funds over the past 3 years, about 1 trillion rubles annually. these are short-term loans for seasonal agricultural work, a passive, harvesting company for 1 year. and financing of investment projects in the agricultural industry for a period from two to 15 years; at the end of last year alone, more than 28,000 loan agreements were concluded on such terms. in the same time due to the increase in the key rate for russian banks to 13%, the issuance of these loans was suspended. in order to resume accepting applications for preferential loans as soon as possible, we will provide additional support to the agricultural sector. on the past. during the government meeting, we have already allocated 45 billion rubles and another order has been prepared to allocate 10 billion rubles for these

purposes. thus, in total this will be 55 billion rubles, which will allow subsidizing at least 40,000 preferential loans this year. the decisions made will help not only to service the existing obligations of farmers, but also to implement new projects, increase production volumes, agricultural raw materials, food, and preserve a wide selection of high-quality russian products for our citizens. the next question: the government continues to develop systematically. northern sea route. as the president emphasized, this is certainly one of our obvious strategic priorities. an important transport corridor that connects vladivostok and arkhanelsk, asia, and europe, and is located in russian territorial waters, an exclusive economic zone, which allows cargo owners to choose the western or eastern direction of supply depending on their needs; this is especially in demand

now, when logistics chains are dynamically being restructured, and is crucial for the security of our country. on behalf of the head of state, a year ago a plan was developed for the development of the seev way, which is expected to last until the middle of the next decade. and now a roadmap has been prepared to strengthen the key arkhanelsky activity transport hub. last year , over 6.5 million tons of various cargoes were handled through it. these include processed wood products, oil and everything necessary for northern delivery. the comprehensive plan provides for the development of a deep-water area and a terminal for lead-zinc concentrate, improvement of gas and electricity supplies, expansion of shipping routes on the dvina and pechora rivers, introductory approaches to enterprises and railways, renewal of the creation of new scientific centers and vocational

educational institutions. uninterrupted navigation digitalization will ensure the construction of a new diesel icebreaker. all this will significantly strengthen the transport framework in the north-west of russia and we expect that by the end of the next decade, transportation through the arkhanel port will at least triple. this will allow the implementation of a number of large industrial projects, which will create new jobs throughout the country, hundreds of enterprises that will be involved in the creation of new transshipment and production facilities. capacity, this was footage of mikhail mishusin’s meeting with the deputy prime minister, now let's check for a couple of minutes, and then we will continue to talk about the main topics of this

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