we continue our interview with deputy chairman of the federation council konstantin kotsachev. konstantin iosifovich, let's talk about an organization that very often lately puts in opposition to the unipolar world, this is brix, i know you recently returned from the summit... next year

is remarkable for brix, as many as six countries, in addition, become members of brix, respectively it turns out to be 11 countries, and it is also remarkable from the point of view that russia will chair this organization, do you think there is some kind of historical mission of russia, because in fact, for the first time, russia will chair an organization that will... consist of 11 countries, that is, well , about half of the population of our planet, well , 45%, maybe accurate, this is very close to half, but there are other factors that predetermine the significance of the brix unification in the modern world, already now the current five brix in terms of gdp recalculated by purchasing power parity exceeds seven, already five, there will be 11 of us,

this gap will only increase, already on a scale 11 countries, we will produce 36% of the gross domestic product, the gross national product of the entire world economy, this is a powerful indicator. russia really has a historical mission with its chairmanship in 2024, you quite rightly noted, it is connected with launching brix on a qualitatively new basis and here... we are not even talking about the number of countries, but about the number of positions, interests, so the diversity that we have learned to overcome, to successfully overcome within the framework of the five, which we have yet to learn to overcome within the framework of eleven countries, maybe in the future within the framework of twenty or thirty countries, because let me remind you that at least twenty countries, in addition to the current six new ones, are showing interest in either joining brix or establishing a relationship with it unification of more

, closer relations, therefore, probably, the first task is to preserve a completely unique culture of interaction, really strong states, strong participants in the international community with different interests, with different aspirations, with different an understanding of what should happen in the future, but nevertheless not by concentrating on differences, but by bringing positions closer together where they can be brought closer together. this is a culture that is completely unknown, relatively speaking, to the north atlantic alliance, the european union, the g7 , where unanimity is forcibly imposed and the principle is professed that whoever is not with us is against us, brix by definition is an inclusive construct, that is, it includes yourself of all potential participants who are ready to work together, this is the first and main mission that the russian

... federation has to implement within the framework of its chairmanship, i am sure that it will be implemented successfully, we have a very ambitious chairmanship plan, there are more than 200 events, including parliamentary ones, by the way , but this is also the philosophy that we have offered to the modern world in all recent years and decades in our concept of a multipolar world order, and brix, in general, turns out to be just like this, you know, the global cradle where this multipolarity is taking... its real shape, in the end, i am sure, it will become the practical model of the world order that people are waiting for, and which will ultimately be much more effective than all previous models. next in our program: a guarantee of strict fulfillment of all social obligations and conditions for sustainable development. what will the federal budget be for the next 3 years? we have to solve the important task set by the president, to ensure the transition to

a supply-side economy and an economy of high wages. farm products and forms of sales, how to help small farms gain access to large retail chains. a farmer should have the right to sell products under the farm brand, which are in demand by people, and actually avoid such difficult competition with large manufacturers. how support for farms works and whether sanctions hinder them, our report. and i immediately want to ask how much milk a cow gives. each of these cows on the farm produces about 40 liters of milk per day. guarantee of strict implementation of all social obligations to citizens, including support for families with children, as well as the indexation of payments for the minimum wage, the most important component of the country’s main financial document. valentina matvienko stated this at parliamentary hearings on the parameters of the draft federal budget for the next 3 years. according to the chairman of the federation council, full assistance should be provided to participants and veterans of the military forces, members of their families, and

the needs of the armed forces should be financed. also, the head of the upper house emphasized that russia's economy has recovered, and now it is important to create conditions for further stable and long-term development. what the russian authorities managed to do when faced with such, well, total sanctions pressure will definitely be included in all textbooks of economic theory, i have no doubt about it. positive dynamics are noted in the field of industrial production, in investments, in fixed capital, consumer demand and a number of other indicators are confidently growing. gdp growth at the end of the year is projected to be above 2%. on this fundamentally, we have to solve the important task set by the president, to ensure the transition to a supply-side economy and an economy of high wages. and

the future federal budget, as we all understand, is not just an accounting document, but first of all an instrument for the country’s development, of course, should be aimed at solving these problems. the senators prepared more than eighty proposals to formulate the concept of the federal budget. according to valentin matvienko , an increase in budget allocations for construction and reconstruction of children's hospitals, and funds were allocated for the construction of prefabricated buildings in children's camps. these projects are being implemented with the support of the federation council. in turn , finance minister anton silanov noted that despite all the difficulties, the volume of expenses for the next 3 years. first of all, this is to meet the needs of the army to achieve the goals of a special military operation and the needs

of the defense industry. this is our top priority. the second priority is technological development and infrastructure development. third - fulfillment of all obligations of the state to citizens. fourth, full integration of regions, and of course, support for the constituent entities of the russian federation in terms of infrastructure, modernization and economic development. the minister also said that the three -year budget provides for funding for activities aimed at supporting families with children, measures to combat cardiovascular and cancer diseases, and will also continue to finance such national projects as demography, safe, high-quality roads, healthcare, education. the country's main financial document also provides for much more funds compared to the previous period for economic development and maintaining key industries. this was stated by deputy chairman of the federation council nikolai zhurovlev. we are satisfied

with the work that we, together as senators and parliamentarians, have done with key government departments, with the government as a whole, in preparing this budget. as you know, back in april, compared to those figures, which we saw in april, then in july, in august and even at the very beginning of september , the fact that now we see the budget submitted to the state duma cannot but please us, because budget expenditure obligations have grown greatly, and we are more, much more we will spend money on economic development, maintaining key industries, and providing social support to our citizens. for sectors of the national economy and, most importantly, for defense and security, for supporting families, participants in a special military operation, for all these directions will be significant, more funds have been allocated than planned just a few months ago, the total

budget expenditure obligations are 36.6 trillion rubles, this is almost 7 trillion more than in the previous three-year plan, twenty-third, 25., which we adopted a year ago , this is very important, it means that the money that will be directed, among other things, to the development of the infrastructure of our regions. the number of farmers in russia is growing. which produces environmentally friendly products in stores farmer islands are increasingly appearing, as special counters or departments are called, where they can place their goods even in small batches. senator ry svettenko spoke with sellers and buyers of the farm products fair in the center of moscow on tverskaya square. according to her, in the regions at the federal level, including at the legislative level, everything is now being done to ensure that as many farm products as possible reach large retail chains. due to the fact that the volumes are small, retail groups are ready to consider

opportunities for small batches in these islands, this was the main idea, so that farmers, to the extent possible, as they organize a small batch there, could place their products at any time in chain stores, and we see that in moscow, no matter what this is a district, the central part of moscow or... those districts that are located further from the center, nevertheless, they still have farm corners, in these farm corners there are always farm products, farms and agricultural cooperatives today produce more half of domestic farm products, so supporting them by helping organize supplies by searching for intermediaries is strategically important, says senator alexander dvoinykh. alexander vladimirovich, tell us what else they help with besides direct sales. and farmers ' fairs, like the one taking place these days in moscow. well, we are not just at a fair, this is a fair combined with a purchasing

session, that is, this is a place where russian farmers from all regions of our country come, present their products, have the opportunity not only to sell it here, but to immediately enter into an agreement with the largest retail chain, so that their products appear on all federal shelves, everything , of course, depends on the volumes that the farmer produces, somewhere this is... local, regional sales products, but today there are farmers and small businesses that have already outgrown the production volumes of their region, so they are interested in working on a national scale. regarding the work of our committee, we are actually running two pilot projects that are held in the tula region in the lipetsk region, we are just identifying the problems that prevent farmers from getting to large trade counters, we have found solutions that will help our farmers, who, as you rightly said,

produce more than half of all gross output, feel comfortable on the shelves, during -first, we saw that a protected concept of farm products is necessary; today we see that many large enterprises quite unfairly use the brand of farm products, thereby not only introducing consumer confusion, but at the same time they create unfair... competition for small forms, so the law decided to define what farm products are, secondly, these experiments showed that there is often a difference between what happens to the farmer and what the consumer wants to see a fairly serious difference on the shelf of the federal counter, farmers need help in processing, packaging, sorting, this is why we are conducting an experiment, so we are now legislatively doing everything to ensure that this the work... was not only comfortable for farmers, but also profitable for residents

of the capital region and, in general, all regions of our country, and for farmers who plan to supply their goods here. you are one of the authors of the bill for the development of infrastructure and the sale of farm products, which is already under consideration in the state duma. it assumes the start of work next year across the country, the so-called agro-aggregators, who themselves purchase products from farmers. next, tell us more about how it is will be? this law, when adopted, will actually give the regions powers to create such agro-aggregators, support agricultural cooperatives or support networks that want to create agro-aggregators on the basis of their own, so a lot here will depend on the activity of the regions, but we are already recording such activity and we see that farmers , in such an alliance with regional authorities, are looking for a form of this sale, because farming

is not only an important agrarian factor, it is an important social factor, it is people who live in the countryside are people who maintain a traditional way of life, and one of our important tasks is to preserve the rural population, secondly, i say again, farmers will receive such a competitive advantage, for example, today they have started working very efficiently and effectively law on environmental protection and only companies that produce environmentally friendly products can use the eco, bio, organic brand, we see the same thing from the point of view of marketing farm products, the farmer must have the right to sell products under a farm brand, which is in demand by people and in fact avoids such difficult competition with large producers, so the law is not a solution yet, but it creates a very serious basis for regions and regional producers and farmers to have the opportunity

to sell their products with high quality. are farmers themselves satisfied with government support measures? are they coping with the increased workload under sanctions? our correspondent oksana potorkina visited two large farms in the moscow region. approximately at 100 km from moscow in the kolomna district there is a farm where they produce so much milk every day that they can feed a small city, with a fat content of 4:00, in the summer there are slight differences - 3.9, 3.8, but why? this is probably influenced by the heat, the weather, and the cow starts drinking a lot of water. milking begins. early in the morning and lasts approximately 6 hours, depending on the total number of cows. now there are 100 of them in the milking parlor, they will be replaced by the same number, and so on 15 times. from the milking parlor, milk enters the milk receiver, where it undergoes filtration, then it is cooled to 4° and goes into a thermos, immediately after that 48 tons of fresh milk will be sent to a dairy plant, where it will be used to make products, including baby

food. in total, the farm contains 1,600 cows of the holstein breed, which is also called a miracle of selection for its high quality milk and record productivity. and i immediately want to ask how much milk a cow gives, from each of these cows on the farm they get about 40 liters of milk per day, such indicators are achieved by comfortable conditions in the barn, high-quality care, and of course or a balanced diet. the daily ration of each cow is about 50 kg of feed, which is filled with micro and macroelements. we prepare silage, we prepare haylage, straw, we have our own grain. we make combines from it there, barley, wheat, these are our feeds, the main, main feeds are all ours, beet pulp, soybean meal, rapeseed cake and other cow delicacies are picked up by a self-propelled feed dispenser, so that then each cow receives a portion of fresh feed. all feed components are displayed in a special a computer program where the data is transferred automatically, any changes in

the number of livestock are recorded and taken into account during distribution, and the fact that on farms they say antibiotics are added to the feed. this is nothing more than a myth. if an antibiotic gets here, this milk will be returned from the factory. it is unacceptable. here. before we send the milk tanker to the factory, we check the milk for antibiotics. only sick cows receive medicine, and their milk is immediately disposed of. by the way, untreated hooves can cause the disease. the cow needs a pedicure, they joke on the farm. if the hooves are not kept on time, various diseases will arise. well, limbs, well, firstly, secondly, well, the amount of milk in a cow is decreasing, well, how is this interconnected, well, animals move less, approach feed less, this year more than 5 billion were allocated from the federal and regional budgets to support moscow region agricultural producers rubles, the farm management took advantage of subsidies to stimulate milk production, the development

of livestock breeding, the purchase of breeding stock, the farm was also reimbursed for part of the costs of equipment, which... was mostly imported , so the sanctions had a slight impact on its work, but now the warehouse always has a supply of the most vulnerable parts, and at the poultry complex in the norofama district of the moscow region, western restrictions were ready. i don’t want to say that they did much harm to us in our work, because our enterprise has long been aimed at import substitution, we switched to russian equipment, but the equipment that is imported, as for turning around, in terms of processing, we very honestly interact with all production cycles for raising poultry from receiving our own hatching eggs to selling products. broilers grow for 38 days, then go to processing, including deep processing, where semi-finished products are produced. breaded fillets, chicken tenders, wings and barbecue sausages come off the assembly line.

each package contains five interconnected sausages. now i'll try to put them in the tray. of course, i still need to practice. here for experienced workers, this process takes only a few seconds. highly processed products make up a tenth of the total production volume. by the way, the first semi-finished chicken products in russia came off the conveyors of this poultry factory. some positions are already more than twenty years old, yes, uh, something left the market, something came again. trends change, as they say, and we adapt to it. we are developing new types of products on an ongoing basis and now is the very next... time we are planning a launch, well, a launch new products, a new line in new packaging, one of the first enterprises to begin the production of chilled products, which, thanks to modern technology, can be stored for up to a day, this is a complex technological chain, when a chicken goes to slaughter and after certain operations it just needs to be sharply cooled immediately, let’s say , in icy water, this is

the temperature of the water on the verge of freezing, in total the enterprise produces more than 100 types of products, which are presented in large retail chains. on the assembly line chicken balls are the best seller, every day the company produces up to 30 tons of this product, that is, today about... such boxes will hit the shelves. oksana podturkina, egor gerasimov, mikhail chuprasov and nikita vasiliev senate program. let's talk about training qualified personnel for the agricultural industry with senator sergei mitin. sergei gerasimovich, scientific and educational institutions play the main role in training specialists. what gaps exist in teaching methods, since the head of state emphasized that today it is necessary to change approaches. why? well, we should say the specifics of agricultural higher education. it even lies in the fact that 43 agricultural universities are under the jurisdiction of the ministry of agriculture, 11 universities are under the jurisdiction of the ministry of science and

education, and there are different conditions for admission to these universities, and this , of course, makes a certain complexity in the general approach to educational course, but one of the most important points is the technical support of these institutions scientific from the point of view of the presence of modern mechanisms, modern technologies, and practical training for students, as a rule, because these higher educational institutions are located in large cities, and here two factors influence, firstly, during these difficult nineties, most of these universities lost their agricultural areas, which gave students the opportunity to do internships without going somewhere far, and secondly, the very presence of these universities in large cities leads to

a kind of vacuum cleaner happening, a young man leaves the countryside, goes to a big city, very often he does not return to it, this is the motivation today and the relevance of the educational process , one of the main aspects that should be present in these educational institutions today, we looked very carefully at parliamentary hearings on these issues, there are certain comments to the ministry of agriculture to the ministry of science on the content of educational programs on how the material and technical support of these programs allows the student to gain modern knowledge that he can apply in modern agriculture . in the face of new challenges, the country is faced with the task of ensuring food security, which is ensured primarily, of course, by agricultural specialists, but there is a problem of a shortage of highly qualified

personnel; some changes in legislation may be needed to attract young people or work out some then support measures, you know, we are very often at parliamentary at the hearings, there were calls to make it mandatory to assign a young person after graduating from a higher educational institution to one or another organization, but this is not always the case, of course, today it coincides with the general principles of the state structure, there are many such proposals, including for doctors, for teachers, this does not work today, after all, probably one of the best options is when a direct agricultural enterprise sends a young man there and guarantees him normal conditions upon the return of labor. wages, living conditions, then this person comes, probably, we need to place more emphasis on this, the experience of such large companies, their interaction with universities, uh,

showed well, i recommended, recently a meeting of the presidim of the state council was held in veliky novgorod and the president spoke about this, by the way, a very good example in this regard is already given by the novgorod region, where universities have concluded agreements no longer... directly with companies that already send applicants to university and after that provide him with his workplace with appropriate pay corresponding to living conditions, this is a good example, which, in our opinion , is more reasonable to apply today than any legislative measures that allow leaving a teacher there for a certain period or leave the doctor or leave her a few days ago in our country for the first time they celebrated a new memorable date - the day of reunification of the republics of donbass

and kherson. zaporozhye regions with russia. residents of these regions have defended for many years their right to speak their native language, their history, faith, culture. and now the day they returned home, september 30, will forever remain in people's memory. we will discuss this topic with senator natalia nikonorova, who represents the donetsk people's republic in the federation council. natalya yurievna, hello. good afternoon, what is danchanka’s attitude towards this date, and how important do you think it was to include this day in the calendar? memorable dates, danchan's feelings are quite predictable, for us this is a big holiday, for us it is more than a holiday, for us it is a symbol of our victory, the victory of our faith, our spirit, that for many years we have been moving towards this moment, towards reunification with our great homeland, so for us it is , of course, even more than a holiday date, the feeling of donetsk on this day

, were the most fantastic, the most festive , the most rosy, full of all kinds of expectations of how the process of further integration will proceed, this is a holiday date, for us it is very important, for us it is like a sign of support that this holiday is generally for of the entire large country, and a week before the day of reunification, the inauguration of the first head of the dpr as part of russia , denis pushillin, took place , you noted in your telegram channel that the leadership of the region now faces even more tasks, what these tasks are and which of them require interaction with you personally, as a senator from the republic? of course, there are more tasks in the sense that, for example, before we did not have local governments, we had local administrations in both republics, in donetsk and in the lugansk people's republics, now we have already fully formed the vertical of power, that is, we have elected bodies, elected people's councils , local legislative assemblies, we have elected heads, we have fully

formed local government bodies, now we are faced with the task of further integration in all spheres of the new four returned four subjects to the russian federation, in social, legal, economic, cultural, scientific, and all other spheres, that is, these tasks it is necessary to complete, as the head noted at the meeting with valentina ivanovna matvienko, that we would like, of course, all residents of the donetsk people's republic, we would like this to be planned, and we are striving for this, and as for the integration process, september is generally very it was a busy month in terms of such pleasant positive events for the residents of the dpr, for example, a new bus service was organized along the gorlovko rostov-on route, the troika card began to operate in donetsk, please tell us more about this in

in general about how the process of integration of the republic into the social sphere of the country is going on, the process is proceeding at an accelerated pace, as we have already noted, but yes, the troika card is also a significant achievement for all residents of the republic, it is currently open, it is valid on four routes, seven points have been opened, 7,000 cards have already been received, that is, this indicates the great interest of residents, and indeed new routes are opening , roads are being restored and construction of restoration and housing is proceeding at a tremendous pace, social facilities, that is, the ilichovets sports complex in mariupol, and the state university in mariupol, and the local history museum in the volnovsky district, that is, there are a lot of such facilities, cinemas are being built, cinemas are opening, it is clear that so far they are mostly open and operating in the rear regions of the republic, but nevertheless this process is underway, now we are talking, in particular, about the cultural sphere, but this process is happening in all areas,

... mfcs are opening, schools, kindergartens are being renovated, and every resident of the republic notices changes in his everyday life, in his life in the life of his locality, district with the social sphere, as for this process, pensions are recalculated, all necessary payments are processed, maternity capital is registered, so everything happens here very quickly, but however, there is still a lot of work to do. this includes work on appropriate registration, for example, real estate registration, re-registration of documents, and recalculation of pensions is still underway, because the volume is indeed very large, but nevertheless less everyone works tirelessly and makes every possible effort. next week, senators will hold a meeting of the council on gasification of the regions. they will consider aspects of the legal regulation of

methanol production and circulation, establishing an effective system