the twenty-fifth meeting of the russian-mongolian intergovernmental commission was held in ulanbat, the parties agreed on the implementation of joint energy and infrastructure projects, and signed a number of agreements in the field of trade. we’ll talk more about this with the russian ambassador to mongolia alexey evsikov. alexey nikolaevich, good afternoon, good afternoon, alexey nikolaevich, how do you assess the results of this meeting of the intergovernmental commission in the context of trade and economic science. i believe that

the anniversary twenty-fifth meeting of the commission passed quite successfully, the final protocol recorded important agreements, outlined the direction in which the parties would like to move together in the foreseeable future, including new topics, for example, the mongolian side is extremely concerned about the topic: the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers to the promotion of their goods to the russian market, including to mitigate the serious imbalance in mutual trade. in foreign trade now 96% are russian exports. for this we agreed - to move in the direction concluding a temporary agreement on a free trade zone between the eac and mongolia for a certain range of goods. also

, before the meeting, we handed over an intergovernmental memorandum on promoting trade and economic cooperation, where we plan to include the maximum number of topics. by the way, evidence of the growing interest of our departments of our business in mongolia is evidenced by the unusually large number of participants, experts who arrived in lanbater, this despite the fact that from moscow to you have to travel to balanbater by train, because there are still no direct flights between the capitals of the two states. the heads of the republics of buryatia, altai, the governors of the irkutsk region and the trans-baikal territory took part in the meeting and held meetings of interests on its margins. alexey nikolaevich, you have already spoken about trade, there is a question in this regard, the parties have agreed. simplify trade,

in which areas, can you give more details here? well, this applies primarily to non-raw materials, uh, traditional mongolian goods exports, this is wool, including cashmere, uh, leather and leather goods, meat and meat products, in this context, to the extent that russia and mongolia have moved away from payments in the currencies of unfriendly countries, there is an understanding that we are already arriving at payments in national currencies specific or not? you know, the mongolian banking system is very dependent on international financial institutions and after the westerners imposed sanctions on us, the mongols are extremely cautious and now in mutual settlements - use the american dollar or euro, for example, extremely difficult, which is why our business is increasingly using payment schemes.

and also, russia and mongolia returned to discussing the issue of the release of russian bank cards, the world payment system, and their territory, this issue is important for the development of mutual tourism, whether this issue was discussed or not, the issue was discussed, we once again reminded of the desirability , looking for ways to ensure that world maps are accepted in mongolia, but for now mongolian friends have taken a break. once again they are thinking about this, when they make a final decision, it is extremely difficult to say, as for tourism, yes, then payments with our bank cards , of course, would be very convenient, because, well, for example, i took with me the largest mongolian banknote, 2000 tugriks, apparently , probably yes, so this largest banknote is a little more than 500 rubles, so in order to... purchase you need

to carry a whole cutlet of this money with you, this is extremely inconvenient, yeah, but by the way, regarding air travel, you also mentioned here there is progress, that is, if we are talking about tourism, and about the use of the world payment system on the territory of mongolia, this makes it easier to stay there, and also to relax, then of course, first of all, you need to pay attention to the transport accessibility system, how can a tourist get to mongolia, well as you can see, mongolian airlines believe that mongolia is a russian destination, that is, flights to moscow, they are not very profitable for them, because before, the mongols flew to europe via moscow, but now they have such an opportunity there are none, and they offer to fly to aeroflot or some other russian ... his company, whose planes are not leased from western companies, but the mongols themselves have one or two clean planes, so not so many, that is, they are afraid, the impact of the same western countries on their aviation industry. well, okay, this concerns tourism,

then what about the expansion of trade turnover, on the mongolian side, does russia somehow plan to help with transport infrastructure, development too, or what? you know, here we are talking... we are talking about helping, for example, the ulonbatovskaya railway, 50% belongs to the russian side, 50% to the mongolian side, so if we talk about the fact that we will modernize this road, and accordingly we will invest funds equally in equal shares, by the way, now there is a new calculation of promising cargo flows until the thirtieth, until the fiftieth year, and based on the results of these calculations, a conclusion will be drawn about what investments the parties will have to make in modernization, our largest joint venture and the largest employer in mongolia. alexey nikolayevich , probably one of the important issues of the legal commission that was touched upon is, after all , cooperation in the energy sector, it is also of no small importance between our states. what specific projects and what deadlines are agreed upon for their

implementation, again with the support of the russian side on the territory of mongolia. well , indeed, the issue of energy cooperation is a very important issue. for example, we meet the needs in mongolia for gasoline, kerosene and diesel fuel from 80 to 90%. rosneft expresses its intention to create a joint venture with the mongols to supply fuel to the new ulaanbaatar changezkhan airport. we continue to supply stable electricity to mongolia. the topic of reconstruction remains on the agenda. energy facilities that were built during the soviet period, in particular, now we are talking about the modernization of one of the large power plants in the capital of mongolia in alandbater, unfortunately, the parties have not yet agreed on the financial parameters

of this project, but i hope that there is hope there is still one, but was it possible to find a compromise on the construction of a hydroelectric power station on the egein river in the largest tributary of the se... there, as far as we know from history, the mongolian project can cause significant damage to our baikal? well, you know, it may or may not cause harm, my mongolian friends and i agreed to act in this way, the priority, the absolute priority for both sides, is to ensure the environmental safety of lake baikal and the surrounding areas, so we will try as much as possible to bring up this topic . from public discussion in the media, because it is not very productive, tighten the expert dialogue between relevant departments within the framework of a working group specially created for this. alexey nikolavich, after all , as a diplomat, you could answer this

question: does western influence affect the bilateral relations between russia and mongolia? you know, our relations with mongolia, they are long-lasting, it is unlikely that westerners can somehow influence our practical cooperation, i don’t think we should look back on this, i can give you the following example, that according to surveys conducted annually in mongolia , about 70% of mongolians, consistently in recent years, consider russia to be the optimal partner, they trust it most of all, this is many times more than they gain... any other countries, well, as for the influence of the west and their sanctions , then of course, i already spoke about the financial and economic sphere, financial and banking, or more precisely, calculations are complicated because of this, planes do not fly directly, as they could fly. i honestly can’t think of any other negative examples right off the bat.

i'll remember. well, another partner like russia, also has neighborly relations, of course, china, here is trilateral cooperation, russia, mongolia and china in this. if anything, can you explain, well, these issues were discussed, of course, and they were discussed at meetings of uh, heads of state, in beijing, in early october, and uh, meetings in bishkek with our prime ministers, first of all, this is the use of the transit potential of mongolia, this is the central railway corridor, which belongs to the ulanbad railway, this is the prospect of creating the eastern railway corridor, which will go from solovyovsk in the trans-baikal territory through chaibalsan and further east towards the chinese border. in the future, the western, western railway corridor, which plans... from the tv side through the west of mongolia towards china, well, there are two

road routes, we have asian highways, the so-called h3, this is from kyakhta to irlyan and es-4, from altai through western mongolia to china. and with the gas pipeline, at what stage is the situation? well you you know, the drivers say that everything is going according to plan, i know that the wiring has been completed and the technological parameters have all been verified, as soon as the purchase and sale agreement is concluded between the russian seller and the chinese buyer, i think this project will be launched soon, i expect , which may happen next year, although it is difficult to say how long the commercial negotiations will take, still... the project is very very large, very large, and speaking of trilateral projects, i can say that

new topics are also emerging, for example , the russian company sibagra, in the central aimag of mongolia, is creating a large pig-breeding complex, products that will be supplied not only to mongolia, but to the people's republic of china, there are also such trilateral projects, yes alexey nikolavich, and how is it supposed, for example, to expand humanitarian cooperation, for example, today what is the situation in mongolia with the study of the russian language, the desire to study at russian universities, for example, i can say that, of course, over the past 30 years the position of the russian language, they have weakened a little, but they remain quite strong, for example, in september of this year we opened and enrolled in the first grade of a new school, which will be the third school in a row that will teach in russian. standards in russian in allanbater, there is such a school in ordenet, this is also one of the large cities of mongolia,

the possibility of creating a whole network of russian-mongolian schools in the northern regions of mongolia, which is adjacent to the russian-mongolian border, is being considered, i can say that the prospects for humanitarian cooperation huge and, by the way, mongolian needs for such cooperation are also great, this is how my contacts with motgolian friends show, well, what are some examples? cymatography and recently the topic of circus, museum cooperation, sports exchanges, and not only traditional types, wrestling, for example, with delight, the mongols remember the demonstration performances of russian figure skaters, which took place in alonbater in may, they ask us to hold an exhibition match between continental teams hockey league in alonbater, here and hold... a friendly match with the mongolian hockey

team, i think there are prospects for cooperation in the field of spreading bandy hockey in mongolia, especially since, as far as i know, the president of the national sword hockey association is gurakcha, a hero of the soviet union, hero of mongolia, the only cosmonaut in mongolia so far, uh, a consistent supporter of the development of russian-mongolian ties, only so far there are thoughts and discussions or there are actually some facts that have a basis for the application of this humanitarian cooperation? no, but there is an expansion, for example, every year our government allocates 620 quotas for mongolian students to study at our universities, and i can say that the quota is covered, these are people who know the russian language well enough, in general... our the simplest task is to ensure that this quota is filled, this quota

is filled, uh, so of course, there are some problems, for example, now the most important thing is to provide support for mongolian teachers of the russian language, not only in schools in ulaanbaater, but in the regions, because russian is still in the seventh to ninth grades in mongolian schools, mongolian schools are compulsory, so it is necessary to ensure their regular internship in russia in the direction of modern textbooks and teaching aids, and maybe start developing line of school textbooks on the russian language, focused exclusively on - the ministry of defense were no longer published? you know, our ministry of education actively supports all these initiatives and the ministry of education, the ministry of education, is in constant contact with mongolian colleagues, in particular, within the framework of the intergovernmental commission we have a special working group on education issues. therefore, we have to

achieve these goals step by step, right? yes, thank you very much, the russian ambassador to mongolia, alexey evsikov, was in touch with us. the west has provoked an acute crisis in europe and is now seeking to spread it to the asia-pacific region. the head of the russian ministry of defense, sergei shaigu, announced this at the tenth senchan forum in beijing. according to him, the actions of nato and the west are strikingly different from the principle indivisibility of security promoted by russia and china. our own correspondent in china, alexander baletsky, is monitoring the progress of the minister of defense’s trip. the chinese honorary king only has time to move from hall to hall; it’s not every day that there are so many generals per square meter. the senshan forum, considered one of the most authoritative platforms for discussing security issues, is bringing together military personnel from more than 90 countries this year for the first time since the pandemic. the sainshine forum this year marks the tenth anniversary of its traditional emphasis on situation in the asia-pacific region. but this year the list

of threats and risks has expanded significantly. therefore, the focus is on the middle east and the system of pan-european collective security and russia’s participation in this discussion, of course, is in no way, here is the western press, russian minister shaigu has already written, the chief guest at the forum. having barely entered the hall, russian defense minister sergei shaigu even manages to exchange opinions before his speech, as they say in such cases on their feet with colleagues from belarus and azerbaijan, tajikistan and mongolia, many other countries. the hosts of the forum present the floor to the russian minister, the first of the foreign guests, and shaigu speaks about washington’s destruction of the foundations of all international security and why russia existed. forced to answer. the west has openly set a course to inflict strategic defeat on russia in the hybrid war unleashed against us. ukraine has been cynically chosen for quality and is assigned the role of only a consumable material. at the same time , the line of the west towards a steady escalation

conflict with russia carries the threat of a direct military clash between nuclear powers, which is fraught with danger. the usa and nato, shaigu assures, continue to seriously hope that they will be able to undermine the security of russia, but these plans are unpromising , whether the americans understood this is unclear , although their delegation to beijing was also invited, they defiantly drank coffee in the company of british officers, and then they spent a long time looking for their place in the hall, you are trying to find a place, but it’s not surprising, after all, they were waiting in peking for someone who hosts at least some solutions, i would say this to the head of the pentagon, mr. austin. if you really have a desire to establish high-level contact with the chinese military, it's a shame you didn't come and make your own request. examples of effective military cooperation are precisely demonstrated: china and russia, immediately after the speech, shaigu goes to negotiations with the central military council of the prc, again a company of honor guard and a military band. and

a detailed conversation with the deputy head of the council, dzhan yusia. in china they see how states are increasing activity in asia, approaching taiwan. china's core interests lie in the taiwan issue: and the one-china principle is the general consensus of the international community. no matter who tries to separate taiwan from china in any form, the chinese military will never allow this to happen. china and russia advocate a new security architecture in asia and europe. russia’s position, as well as its fears, were generally shared by many in the room. we know that the root cause of this is nato's expansion to the east, because. what we are saying is that there is a very important principle in the field of security that the security of one country cannot influence the security of other countries. i personally believe that this kind of continuous supply of weapons to ukraine with the united states is also an important reason for the current impasse in the situation. beijing and russia consider it necessary to strengthen the influence of the sco and brix, and these are not blocs, but partnerships where

the interests of each side are taken into account, and therefore spoke at the forum against bloc thinking and mentality... of the cold war. alexander balsky, nikolai petrov, news from beijing, china. the head of the investigative committee of russia personally monitors the progress of the investigation into the criminal case of riots at the makhachkala airport. alexander bastrykin instructed the leadership of the investigative directorate for dagestan to establish all the circumstances of the crime, its participants and organizers. a criminal case has been opened under the article of mass riots. the maximum penalty for those found guilty is up to 15 years in prison. an operational headquarters was created in dagestan, its headed by the head of the republic sergei melikov, he stated that the actions of those gathered at the makhachkala airport, a gross violation of the law, would be assessed by law enforcement officers. russian troops thwarted attempts to rotate the ukrainian armed forces in the south donetsk direction. this was reported by representatives of the vostok group. in addition, aviation, missile forces and artillery attacked

enemy positions. in the southern donetsk direction, units of the vostok troops group , with the support of artillery, thwarted attempts to rotate units of the armed forces of ukraine in the areas productive, staromayersky and north of shelter. destroy automobile equipment and manpower. during the counter-battery fight , the enemy lost a d-20 artillery gun and a mortar crew. operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery inflicted fire on places where manpower and equipment were concentrated, a unit of the seventy-second mechanized, seventy-ninth airborne assault, fifty-eighth motorized infantry brigades of the 128th and 129th territorial defense brigades of the ukrainian armed forces in the regions novomikhailovka, konstantinovka, vodyana, ugledar, prichistovka, novodonetskaya, staromayorskaya, urozhaynaya and makarovka,

donetsk people's republic. enemy losses amounted to up to 130 militants and ukrainian armed forces vehicles. three people were wounded during the shelling of yasenovataya, city authorities reported. another wounded in gorlovka. donetsk and makiyevka also came under shelling today. in addition to artillery. use drones with explosives to attack the dpr. vadim topalov will tell you more about the situation in the republic. in the avdeevsky direction intense fighting continues. the roar of the cannonade echoes virtually throughout donetsk all this morning. russian troops are destroying the positions of ukrainian militants, from which they have actually been shelling peaceful cities in donbass for nine years, killing women, old people and children. po no. according to official data , the kiev regime, understanding the prospects of what is happening, has already withdrawn the command from avdeevka. from the place where we are, this is the donetsk embankment to avdeevsky

koksakhim, about 17 km, unfortunately, it still reaches here, like soviet artillery, so nato, but after the settlement is liberated, the residents of yasenovat and certain areas of donetsk will be able to finally breathe easy, the enemy is snapping back, in response to failure at the front, he is simply hitting civilians, all weekend and today our anti-aircraft defense, shooting down missiles of ukrainian terrorists fired at civilian targets, so in gorlovka on shusharina street several apartment buildings were damaged, in yasenovataya on skrypnyka street a man of the forty-first was wounded year of birth, as well as two women born in the forty-second and fifty-first years in donetsk, and on vaikeris street the day before , as many as five addresses in the private sector were damaged. i’m on that corridor, here we had a veranda

, it blew up, i’m on the corridor, my son climbed onto the roof, like such an explosion, but because the fragments from there only flew into our hall, and the doors were all closed, why is this i'm so freaked out, i don't know what to do or how to sew anymore, employees of the investigative committee of russia promptly went to the scene of the incident to record the fact of what happened , following the inspection, fragments, fragments from a projectile, presumably from a 150mm artillery shell, were found , all fragments and fragments will be flawed for proper examination for a specific type of relationship. ukrainian militants attacked the kuibyshevsky district of the city from the desired settlement, another 10 km beyond avdeevka, and used... american m777 howitzers, shelling continues under the fire of kiev militants, petrovsky district, we continue to monitor

for the situation of the capital of the donetsk people's republic, vadim topalov, victor voloshin, vesti donetsk. today the un security council will hold an emergency meeting on the issue of confrontation between israel and palestine. the main goal is to achieve an immediate ceasefire. tsahal continues. expand ground operations in the gas sector. in recent days , the israeli army has struck more than 600 military targets, including weapons depots, dozens of anti-tank missile launchers, and hamas militant hideouts, the idf press service reported. besides, the israeli army claims to have killed dozens of radicals hiding in buildings and underground tunnels. the country's air force also continues to hit targets in syria and lebanon. at least. to homes in the gaza strip, the ministry of internal affairs stated, in addition, according to information from the charity organization save the

children, since 7, more than 3,000 children have died due to shelling. iran's isna agency reports that the israeli military is demanding that all international media employees leave the north immediately gas sector due to the expanded scale of the military operation. the alkuz red crescent hospital was also called for evacuations. the facility houses about 400 patients and 12,000 people who are sheltering from bombing. government. will forgive citizens and companies from friendly countries doing business in russia. mikhail mishustin spoke about this today. he noted that such a decision will improve the interaction of business communities, states, and partners. creating more comfortable conditions for foreign enterprises and entrepreneurs. an important part systemic government activities to achieve financial sovereignty as part of the implementation of national goals set by our president.

the signed order defines countries, citizens and legal entities that will be able to open accounts and deposits in russian banks in a simplified manner; this opportunity will appear in belarus , kazakhstan, brazil, india, china, saudi arabia, turkey and some other states. to do this, foreign citizens will need to provide a package necessary documents to a credit institution that is located in their country even before entering russia, upon arrival they will already be able to make payments in our banks. megafon and tele2 are canceling fees from subscribers for distributing the internet from devices, this was confirmed by the federal antimonopoly service in their telegram channel. megafon has already canceled the fee for distributing internet traffic on all tariffs; from november 22, tele-2 will take this step for new subscribers, and from december 19 it will cancel the fee for the rest of its clients. and here

mts company stated. that charging for the distribution of internet traffic does not infringe on the interests of its subscribers. the professional holiday is celebrated by surface sailors; the russian pacific fleet alone includes dozens of ships. frigates, minesweepers, anti-submarine and missile boats. everyone regularly performs combat training tasks and always excels. report from primorye by ksenia kolchina. the glorious ships lined up side by side at the thirty-third pier of vladivostok. pacific fleet, today at 8 a.m. sharp flags of dawn were raised on them, today is one of the main holidays in the fleet, the day of the surface sailor. the crew of the frigate marshal shaposhnikov lined up on the helipad . this is one of the most modern equipped ships of the pacific fleet, which has undergone deep modernization. serving on it is not easy work , but the sailors have enough time for poetry, when how could not today remember the construction projects of the writer leonid

sobolev, a cheerful and brave red navy soul, ready for sometimes desperate acts, unfamiliar with panic and despondency. senior lieutenant ilya konevets has been serving on the frigate for 3 and a half years; reading is a hobby. ilya is the commander of a combat communications unit group. his office does not tolerate the disclosure of details. every day we solve very important problems for our country, our defense. that is, i cannot tell you specifically what i did or completed any specific tasks, but. believe me, everyone's contribution on this ship is priceless. ships do not stay at the pier for long, but now the bod admiral tributs and admiral pantileev are on a long sea voyage. they visited indonesia on a business visit to strengthen friendly ties in the asia-pacific region; sailors of the two countries conducted joint communications and maneuvering exercises. a holiday, including a reason to take stock. the ships of the pacific fleet, as always

, demonstrate excellent results. ships. formations have taken and are taking part in long-distance campaigns, in combat services, took part in a host of events related to intensive international activities, joint russian-chinese exercises, maneuvering and so on. the russian-chinese exercises have become one of the key events of the past year. the crews of the ships practiced anti-submarine missions and naval combat, carried out sea and air convoys of ships and carried out joint artillery firing. now the navy detachment is preparing for a new important stage: the first joint exercise with the myanmar navy is coming. ksenia kolchina, denis hyunak, dmitry popkov, ilya kolesnikov, far eastern bureau of news vladivostok. a volcano erupts in kamchatka klyuchevskoy. the fountain of hot lava rises up to half a kilometer in height. in the last 24 hours alone, the mountain has ejected ash four times. rescuers warn of a threat to aviation. operational services have been placed on high alert and

are located in populated areas. not far from klyuchevskoye with uniform