those killed and injured as a result of the belgor ukrainian armed forces drone attack, members of the same family, when a drone hit a private house, the wounded are in intensive care. an employee of the sputnik news agency and his wife, a university teacher. their four-year-old daughter, her elderly parents, died. report by alexander korbov. heavy equipment is working at the emergency site on the outskirts of belgorod, rescuers are clearing away the rubble. a night explosion destroyed several houses, and the resulting fire lit up an entire neighborhood. the noise of the drone is audible. well that is

there was an explosion not only in the sky but on the ground, probably, i can’t say that, there were two, one strong, the other quieter, maybe just the second one, and what hit the house, all operational personnel were brought to the scene of the emergency services, the police sealed off the area, and firefighters began extinguishing the fire. fire crews promptly extinguished the open fire; now the structure is being spilled and the rubble is being cleared; the house may still be under the rubble. almost immediately , two seriously wounded local residents were found at the scene of the incident; they were promptly taken to the hospital. later , three dead were found under the rubble of the destroyed house. the governor visited the scene of the tragedy this morning. it’s been a difficult morning for all of us; during the previous night, as a result of the fall of an unmanned aerial vehicle on a belgorod village, two residential buildings were actually destroyed and several houses were damaged.

as a result of the explosion, several cars were damaged, but most importantly, three people were killed, one of them was a small child and two people were in critical condition in intensive care. during daylight hours, the territory was once again checked by sappers, rescuers, utility services began to eliminate the consequences of the explosion, and a tour of the territory continues to record in detail the amount of damage caused. alexander korobov, evgeny krovtsovsky, vesti belgorod. the russian military destroyed warehouses of aviation equipment to defeat the ukrainian armed forces at ukrainian airfields in the poltava and dnepropetrovsk regions. this was reported to the ministry of defense. also, according to the department , six missiles from the system were intercepted by air defense systems during the day. salvo fire from khaimars. about the progress of the special operation. margarita semenyuk. the russian hera is approaching. a few seconds and the kamikaze drone accurately hits the port of izmail. odessa

region is on fire, the loading terminal and the territory of the cannery. this is not the first attack on the port of izmail ; the enemy uses the facility as one of the alternative shipping routes through romania, since the black sea waters have been blocked for this purpose and with light and heat. irina efremova, alexey pavlyuk, vesti donetsk, mariupol. and let's return to vladimir's visit putin to kyrgyzstan. there, the russian president is also meeting at this moment with the president of azerbaijan, ilham aliyev. i’m very glad to see you, we talked on the phone last time, of course, question number one, this is a situation of such karabakh that it must be said directly, but we also have another agenda, it is quite extensive, i propose to structure our work as follows : then maybe we

’ll start with the second part and give our colleagues the opportunity to speak out, talk, and then we’ll also get in touch with the people and let's talk, talk about the entire complex, including so-called sensitive issues. thank you, vladimir vladimirovich, i’m glad to see you again, as you noted, we recently talked with you and it’s very gratifying that you found time, as part of your state visit to kyrgyzstan, for a meeting; in fact , there are a lot of questions, and i believe that your the proposal is quite reasonable, my colleagues and i will talk about the bilateral agenda: especially since we have something to talk about, the results of this year are very impressive and trade turnover, industrial cooperation, cooperation in the transport sector, there are a lot of new projects, and then we will go over

the regional topic of security issues, so once again, thank you for the meeting, thank you, the intergovernmental commission of russia and saudi arabia was held the day before. there is a russia-china summit ahead with the participation of heads of state, what joint projects are a priority and how much companies from asia and the middle east are ready to invest in the economy of our country. the head of the private equity fund, kiril dmitriev , told artyom yamshchukov. kinovich, thank you thank you very much for the interview. just the day before , the intergovernmental commission between russia and saudi arabia ended. how do you evaluate its results? well, of course, relations with saudi arabia, with the middle east, with the countries of the global south are a very important direction, and investments are a very important track of this movement, because when you implement joint projects, you practically become friends, because for example, saudi arabia and we have 40 joint investments, 10 years ago there was not a single investment from saudi arabia in

russia, and we were able to build a dialogue, the opportunity to work with saudi partners in such a way that they entrusted their money, including russia, and recently we opened a duplicate of tuzovsky prospekt, the saudi partners took part, invested, the pension fund of the gas fund also participates there, and the saudi partners. accordingly, here is the investment track - this is very important, because not only do we have good relations with saudi arabia in the energy sector, and not only in stabilizing markets, but there are investments in equipment for energy sector and many joint projects, but of course , investments in infrastructure, technology, together with saudi partners are extremely promising, including many... russian companies want to enter the saudi market and see the saudi market as a platform for all development in the middle east, therefore, there is certainly a constructive bilateral movement between saudi arabia and russia, this is extremely important and extremely promising. we are recording our interview, on the eve of the russia china summit, the fund is working

with chinese colleagues for more than 10 years, this is probably not enough to sum up the results, taking into account our strategic, so to speak, prospects and... but nevertheless , we can already talk about something, this is how you assess the intermediate, so to speak the results of ten years of work of the russian direct investment fund with chinese colleagues, of course, we have very good results, we have invested with chinese partners in more than 40 companies, and every third rfpi project is an investment, including with chinese co-investors, in total we invested 750 billion rubles in russia, this is a very significant amount, this money went into the sector, that is , a large number of sectors, here is an important figure, for example, 25 million russians, every year use the element of infrastructure that we created together with chinese investors include airports

, ports, railways, including toll roads, so this is a very important foundation that it shows that russia and china can make many profitable, high-quality investments in various areas. leverage meaningful synergies between us, our economies, now we see enormous prospects for increasing the number and volume of investments by several times due to investments in national currencies, so i think that we have come, i recently said about the golden age of investments from china to russia, from russia to china, because that it is an investment in national currencies that will allow us to multiply the already existing successful investments between our countries, well, in part you have already said about large... investments in the road network in russia, what other interests do you feel the chinese have? colleagues in terms of projects, well, of course, there is a very big interest in the agricultural sector, and we will announce investments together with the largest agricultural holding in china next week, which

will invest in the processing of agricultural products in the far east, in port infrastructure in the far east, so there will certainly be interaction in the agricultural sector - this is extremely important for the future, and for us, the chinese market is also very promising in terms of the supply of agricultural products to the chinese market. we have already touched on infrastructure. another example is me i wanted to bring this up, of course. the bridge between russia and china, where rfp invested and together with chinese partners we invested 70%, we own 70% of the bridge between russia and china, through which 2.5 million tons of cargo have already passed, this interaction, logistics interaction, infrastructure, is also certainly extremely important, and also technological interaction, we are partners with a leading chinese holding company in the russian market in the field of e-commerce and there are very great prospects in technology, because

we see that russia is actively developing the technology sector, including artificial intelligence, china is actively developing it, so technology is also an extremely promising vector , we have a technology fund with china, and , accordingly, a common fund with china, and we will even announce the fund next week in the aviation industry with china, which will also invest in rubles in yuan in joint projects, so we have a very wide range of tools, with china and a wide range of industries where these investments will come, you have already partly mentioned, that mutual settlements with china are carried out in national currencies, are there estimates, they definitely exist , what are these estimates of mutual investments in national currencies in yuan, i think we can say, yes, well, we see that the percentage of settlements is increasing sharply, i think that again, it will be absolutely dominant this year, these are settlements in national currencies, and even if. for trade turnover, it somehow sounds a little short in dollars: 120 billion

dollars, but it’s a trillion yuan. accordingly, we have a trillion yuan of trade turnover between our countries, accordingly, trillion is also in yuan those projects that are being discussed at the intergovernmental commission on investments between russia and china, this is 50% more than last year, these are in fact the largest projects in russia that... for investment with china, and rfp, together with our chinese partners, we head this business part, the investment part of this council, which helps select the most promising projects between russia and china, so of course, here is a trillion yuan, a trillion joint projects, these are those ambitious and the correct numbers, which will continue to increase in the future, sound impressive, beautiful, there are probably some peculiarities among chinese investors, because there is a lot of talk about the fact that the chinese are very cautious people, yes, maybe some kind of signal should be given to our colleagues , investors, how to work with

chinese investors, what is important to them when they discuss investments in russia? yes, well, of course, in any country we very deeply understand the culture of this country, because it is very important how chinese culture has been formed over thousands of years, and accordingly, what lies at the core, at the core is really a kind of unhurriedness, thoughtfulness, and this allows them to make more... correct long-term decisions, they have a long-term planning horizon, so we always build very friendly and comradely relations with our chinese partners, this is for us it helps a lot, because for example, when the coronavirus epidemic began, our friends from bgii, this is the largest genetic holding in china, they warned us that they are in wuhan, they see this epidemic, it’s really necessary we are very actively involved in this, this became the impetus for the rfpi to invest in diagnostic tests and drugs.

for the treatment of coronavirus and the sputnik vaccine, which has become a key tool, so building friendly camaraderie with all investors, but especially with investors from china, is certainly important, understanding respect for a culture that plans for 20, 30, 40 years ahead, and thinks accordingly very long-term and thinks very strategically, but we’ll talk about pharmaceuticals a little later later, for now the topic is china and through china... i want to talk about another topic, the broader topic of brix, taking into account the expansion, in general, how the partnership with the brix countries is developing, and what is the role of china here, and in order in order to reach other countries with these joint investments, well, of course, brix is ​​the most important association, we see simply the most powerful interest in this association from all the global countries of the south and it is no coincidence that a number of new members, such as the united arab emirates, saudi arabia joined brix this year and there will be many more countries that want to join

brix and brix will accept them. china is undoubtedly the most important partner, russia initially came up with the idea of ​​​​the brix countries of this association, and accordingly it has shown its success, including in resolving issues not biased, in planning various systems, including payment systems between our countries, in resolving strategic issues, like the climate agenda. and here russia, china, and other brix countries have very similar approaches: let's work together to solve global problems in a friendly , positive atmosphere, and we believe that russia's chairmanship... in brix next year, this will not only give such a powerful impetus to increasing investment between the brix countries, not only will it provide the opportunity to implement a lot joint projects like the brix payment system, brix arbitration, and we proposed these tools several years ago, when we headed the finance group in the brix association, but this is definitely a climate agenda, because

we all know that climate is something that worries the whole world, russia is the lungs of the planet, we, they actually absorb the bulk of carbon dioxide throughout the world, so blix climate projects, investments in blix climate projects, this is what is extremely important and russia can play a leading role as chairman next year. what does the rfp portfolio look like today and how do you see its changes over time, taking into account what you literally just said? the portfolio shows very good profitability, we have invested in more than 100 different companies in russia. the turnover of our companies is about 7% of russian gdp, that is, these are significant companies in virtually all significant sectors of the russian economy, and accordingly, what is very important, is both investments in infrastructure, investments in technology, and investments in social infrastructure , that is, investments aimed at people’s lives, while we

also see more and more interest in investing with russian co-investors, here we mainly previously invested in only with foreign co-investors, literally this year we have already invested more than 80 billion rubles only with russian co-investors, in leading companies in the agricultural industry, a pipe manufacturer, in many other projects, including technological ones, so we also see an opportunity for those russian funds that were previously placed abroad are now returning to the country is to invest with us in various projects with good returns in key sectors of the economy, large... projects are certainly important, but i would also like to draw attention to the fact that investments are also going into cultural classes , into tourism clusters, and of course, and briefly about this , several cultural clusters are actually being created in the far east, in kalining, and we will invest in infrastructure, including hotels for tourists around this, again this is an example

of rfpi investment in social infrastructure. what is the volume of investment by russian investors today? well, we've invested literally since the beginning of this year, together with them , 80 billion rubles. we are now finalizing projects worth about 300 billion rubles together with russian co-investors, so these are certainly significant amounts of funds that will be allocated to very important promising projects, and we see that russia is showing good results in terms of macroeconomics, this is growth gdp, these are correspondingly good macroeconomic indicators, and growth in many industries, this growth, it certainly gives investors confidence in good profitability, in understanding the fact that by investing in russia, you get good returns, but you also invest at home, invest in promising areas that are growing and developing, not all foreign companies have left, and of course they are working, in connection with this the question is, what other besides the already discussed international

directions, so to speak, are you considering for yourself where you would like to go, so to speak, to a greater extent in the future? yes, well, firstly, this is certainly a partnership with the countries of the middle east, asia, latin america, latin america is extremely promising, again, it is important that we started doing this not yesterday, but 10 years ago, from the very beginning of the founding of the rfpi, we focused on those promising countries that actually did not invest in russia at that time, and we created institutional platforms that allow them to invest profitably and successfully, so interaction with these geographies, africa is growing, russian investments in africa will also grow, so this is a geographic direction, and of course technology, we see how technology is changing the world, already about 35% of rfpi investments are technology, rfpi also manages a russian venture capital company that has invested in literally 40 different technology companies in russia, so we believe in

technology, we believe in our very smart promising engineers, programmers who create... cool products , which, by the way, should also enter the middle east, asian markets, latin american markets, it is very important that our companies can grow in those markets too. companion and the topic of covid, i remember that you were one of those volunteers who were among the first to administer this vaccine. this is the experience we gained while developing this drug, and how much it helps us, our investors, today. enter the pharmaceutical market? yes, of course, satellite is the most important product, one of such a great success story of russian pharmaceuticals, it was the most exported product in russia in the entire history of russian pharmaceuticals and certainly saved the lives of 10 million people around the world, these are relations with many countries, which we

saved, they are certainly the key to further cooperation, just yesterday the vice president of venezuela thanked us very much at the energy forum, because we actually saved venezula with the sputnik vaccine and many other countries are experiencing the same feelings, so we now continue to work with largest russian pharmaceutical companies in order to export russian drugs to our friendly countries, most of which have registered satellite, we certainly now understand very well the whole the process from publication in international journals to registration, we understand all the barriers that large western companies deliberately put in the way of russian drugs, they put them in an attempt to crush competitors, and we help russian companies enter foreign markets, we will now invest in several joint productions pharmaceutical products in friendly countries, and we certainly believe that russian pharmaceuticals have extremely great prospects, and also interaction with friendly countries to import some

of their drugs is also very important, we are also working with a number of friendly countries on joint drugs, these drugs are from friendly countries, they show results that are in many ways better than some western drugs, so of course pharma, interaction with friendly countries, based on the successful experience of sputnik, this is extremely important for russia. in the context of work on sputnik, how do you assess how open latin america is to our pharmaceuticals today? i think everyone remembers, here footage of a sobbing flight attendant when she delivered the sputnik vaccine to argentina, and of course, we have created a unique relationship with latin america, they remember everything, they love sputnik, very positive, emotional people live there, so with brazil, with argentina with other countries . we now have very warm relations there, and of course, we see a very important prospect of working with latin america, within the framework of brix, argentina joined brix and brazil brix

within other approaches, but latin america and russia are certainly friends, and we see only the most positive prospects for interaction. this monday there was a forum in sochi , biomedtech, at which deputy prime minister denis mantrov spoke, and i was just leading... a round table with his participation, he talked about the production strategy in pharma, uh, please tell me how russian today are investors, and foreign ones, actively investing in this sector of the economy? well, we really believe that the ministry of industry and trade has created a very powerful, correct base in russian pharma, and it is no coincidence that russian companies managed to so quickly increase the production of vaccines, and in fact create a lot of successful, important drugs, so... this foundation that mintrum has created in the pharmaceutical industry is certainly the most important foundation for the future and investors are certainly comfortable investing because they have created

there are a lot of tools to support pharmaceutical companies, there is an understanding that this is promising, it is profitable, so the money really comes from the pharmaceutical sector, it comes from many investors. there is interest from the chinese, there are interests from the chinese, and from the indians and from many countries, because they really understand the power of our pharmaceutical industry. i wish you success at the russia-china summit and look forward to new investments and news. thank you artyom. thank you. the future of the two countries is mutually beneficial cooperation. vladimir putin in bishke. the main thing.