with kasymomelyevich to welcome the participants of the next nineteenth forum of russian-kazakh interregional cooperation. it is important that these days representatives of more than thirty regions of our two countries, heads of government bodies, legislators, representatives of ministries, departments, businesses, scientific and public circles gathered in kostan, that is, those who are engaged on a daily basis in the practical aspects of the development of everything complex of our relations in politics, economics, and the humanitarian sphere. in many ways, thanks to your active and proactive work , cooperation between the regions of our two countries continues to deepen, involve more and more new participants and be filled with specific content. at the moment, 76

russian regions of the russian federation have established direct partnerships with the kazakhstan regions. it is important that interregional exchanges of visits are regular. this year, in particular , there were very productive, as far as i know, working trips to various regions of kazakhstan, the heads of yakutia, astrakhan, chelyabinsk regions, representative kazakhstan. delegations took part in the krasnoyarsk economic forum in events marking the centenary of buryatia. the impressive legal framework for regional cooperation is constantly developing and expanding , including more than sixty agreements between the governments of the regions of the two countries. and as far as i know, a number of new agreements and memorandums have been prepared for signing based on the results of this forum.

commercial contracts totaling about $100 million, this clearly demonstrates how successfully russian-kazakh economic relations are developing. in this regard, i would like to emphasize that with the direct active participation of the regions, our mutual trade turnover with kazakhstan in 2022 increased by more than 10%. kasym dzheman kilevich said that it’s somewhere around 27 billion according to our statistics. $28.2 billion. in january-august of this year, countertrade added another 7%. at the same time , the use of national currencies in export-import transactions has noticeably expanded. russia is one of the largest investors in the kazakhstan economy, as already mentioned here. the total volume, the total volume of russian capital investments is a little less, a little more modest.

according to our statistics too, my friend and colleague kasamjaman kilevich said that this is 20, more than 20 billion, according to our estimates , somewhere a little more than 17 billion, but in principle this is a good figure and - a good trend, kazakhstani in russia according to our according to 4.6 billion dollars, there are about 6,000 businesses operating in various regions of kazakhstan structures with russian capital, and the total cost of joint projects being implemented or planned for implementation with russian participation is estimated at $36.5 billion, such an impressive figure for our economy, and of course, we see how dynamically our mutual trade and investment exchanges are growing in agricultural sector. therefore, it is quite logical that the current plenary sessions of the forum and the regions have brought up a topic that is really very important for us... through agriculture, the basis

a strong economy and you substantively and professionally consider its various aspects, such as strengthening food security and introducing innovative agricultural technologies. i think that kosami will agree with me that the development of bilateral cooperation in the agricultural sector is one of the priorities of both russian and kazakh economic policies. actually holding a specialized event dedicated specifically to agriculture. interregional forum confirms this. i note that russia is the key supplier to kazakhstan of such product groups as wheat - 98% of imports, barley the same amount, meat and poultry - 80-90%, sugar up to 70%, fermented milk products 60-70%. and in general, bilateral trade turnover of agricultural products and food in 2022 increased by

22% to $4 billion, and in the first 7 months of this year it added another 3%. and our country intends to continue to supply kazakhstan uninterruptedly. these and many other vital, necessary types of food, well, in accordance with the needs of our colleagues and friends for kazakhstan. it is important that russian relevant departments and regional authorities, together with colleagues from kazakhstan, are taking measures to integrate information systems for veterinary and phytosanitary certification in order to ensure full traceability of goods transported across the border and facilitate their... access to the market of both countries. let me mention that our country helps kazakh farmers supply basic types of fertilizers; the president of kazakhstan also just said this. in the zhembel region it operates constantly with the help of russia

one of the largest enterprises in the cis and even europe in general for the production of phosphorus-containing fertilizers. this was also discussed. a chemical complex with a production capacity of up to 1 million tons of products is under construction. together with the regional authorities of the two countries, a lot is being done in terms of optimizing the logistics of trade in agricultural products, removing the remaining infrastructure restrictions, and such work certainly needs to be continued. in this context , i would like to emphasize the great importance of the successful development of international transport... logistics corridors north-south from russia and even from our partners and friends in belarus to the coast of the indian ocean, one of the routes that can certainly pass through the territory of kazakhstan, in fact, it passes through the territory of kazakhstan, in front of us there is

a common goal of developing this corridor; large joint projects in the field of production are being implemented between the russian and kazakh regions. supplies of high-quality agricultural machinery, rosselmash and st. petersburg also spoke about this the tractor plant, which has already been mentioned, and our other machine-building enterprises not only export their products, but are engaged in localizing their assembly on kazakhstani territory. the contribution of russian regions to the training of specialized personnel for the kazakhstan agricultural industry is very significant. i mean like admitting students from kazakhstan to ours. universities, as well as the ongoing work to create specialized industry educational centers in the kazakhstan regions. i can’t help but say that strengthening interregional interaction between russia and kazakhstan in the agricultural sector is directly

facilitated by the integration processes developing in the eurasian economic union. the eu member countries are working together to form common commodity trade agreements. including agricultural markets, building all-union production and technological chains, making active efforts to import substitution and digitalize mutual trade. for most agricultural products, eurozast has actually already reached the level of self-sufficiency. our association occupy a strong leading position in the world in the production and export of wheat. by the way. speaking, we also have a very good wheat harvest in russia this year, the export potential will remain at the level of 60 million tons, and we will confidently retain, certainly, first place in the world in exports, in sales

of this very important product on world markets, wheat, the same thing happens in the field of potatoes, livestock products are among the top ten... in terms of supplies of our association of barley, corn, oilseeds, frozen fish, thanks to mutual supply, the agro-industrial complexes of the five countries harmoniously complement each other, which allows us to reliably provide food not only to the population of our states, but also to supply it to foreign markets, since we have such opportunities and are growing, then of course we understand our responsibility to our partners and colleagues in other countries of the world, taking into account the trends that were just mentioned, including in the field of demography, which the president of kazakhstan spoke about. and in conclusion i would like to once again it should be noted that in the partnership between russia and kazakhstan, interregional ties play

a central role. we will continue to encourage the desire of regions to cooperate with each other, to look for new areas of interaction, and of course, we will support all your useful endeavors. dear colleagues, i would like to wish the forum participants and its organizers success in their fruitful work. in 2024, the next interregional forum will be held in russia at ufi. and we certainly invite you all to take part in it. thank you for your attention. it was straight broadcasts from kazakhstan. vladimir putin is in astana today on an official visit. the president takes part in the forum of interregional cooperation between russia and kazakhstan. the kiev regime has once again blatantly violated international humanitarian law by shelling densely populated areas of donetsk. this was stated by postprit russia. at the un vasily nebenzya at a meeting of the security council. the day before, at the initiative of russia, an urgent meeting

of the security council was held, the topic of which was the strike in the sssu on donetsk, which killed six people and 55 were injured. the kiev regime attacked civilian targets in the city center three times during the day, firing missiles from the hymers and uragan missiles. besides. residential buildings, the buildings of the department of labor and social protection of the population and a minibus were hit, here are some photographs we received from donbass from the crime scene. as a result of yesterday's attacks , six people were killed, 55 were injured, including three children. unfortunately , the doctor and emergency medical technician who came to save people, as well as an employee, died traffic police, 23 rescuers from the ministry of emergency situations were injured.

such a blow of despair on the part of the kiev regime, which has no military meaning, cannot be explained except by impotence against the backdrop of failures on the battlefield and a person of the hateful nature of the kiev regime, who does not consider their former fellow citizens in the donbass as people. in addition, the security council discussed the detonation of northern flows. the meeting was held in a closed format. post-greetings to russia once again reminded that even a year after the sabotage, nothing is known about the perpetrators, but in the meantime moscow demands an answer, western media deliberately distract attention from what happened. moreover, not everyone in the un security council is ready to conduct an open investigation. top for lunch, bargain lunch. top for lunch. king. top for

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economic news, today in moscow there is a joint meeting of the committee... on the financial market, on the agenda are the main directions of monetary policy. and today my colleague, maria kudryavtseva, is there, she is in direct communication, maria, greetings, today the central event is, of course, the speeches of elvira nabiulina, are there any forecasts on the rate? hello, darya, really reviewing the main directions of a single monetary policy is a mandatory program before the adoption of the budget in the state duma, as elvira nabiulina noted today in her report, the central bank will be satisfied. and strictly support monetary policy for several quarters in order to return inflation to the target level of 4%. well, let me remind you that according to forecasts, by the end of 2023, inflation will be in the range of 7.7.5%. according to the head of the central bank of russia, elvira nabiulina, the bank of russia now sees many parallels with the economic situation two years ago,

when the economy recovered after the pandemic and moved on to active growth, then the subsequent... rise in inflation, the ecb responded by raising the key rate, now, according to the head of the ecb, supply lags behind demand, as it is in the consumer, investment areas, and this of course affects inflation, and for further growth of the economy, it is necessary to increase labor productivity. we started raising the rate when it became obvious that the acceleration of inflation was not due to the direct or indirect effects of sanctions, but due to the obvious lag of supply opportunities from the rapid growth of demand. i want to emphasize once again that we are now in a situation where the economy has almost fully utilized available resources, this applies to both working hands and production capacity, unemployment is 3%, and in

some regions it is even less. the key rate at the beginning of 2022 was reduced quite quickly in september from 22 to 7.5%, at this moderate level it remained until july of this year, in october 2023 the key rate was increased to 15%, according to elvira nabiulina has no need or goal to maintain the ruble exchange rate in a given range; of course, the dynamics of the key rate affects inflation expectations, and therefore the exchange rate of the national currency. the middle of this year began a new stage of depreciation of the ruble, which was already going much faster , due to the fact that demand growth accelerated, including due to credit activity, the possibilities for rapid expansion of domestic production were exhausted, and the lion's share of the additional demand switched to imports. not internally

production, for import. well, after the key rate was raised, the return of cash to russian banks began. after all, rates have become much more attractive, that is, interest in the ruble as a store of value is growing. daria, you have the floor. maria, thank you, maria kudryavtseva was on direct line from the state duma. well, now we’ll discuss the middle east crisis; we’ll talk about the view from paris live with the russian ambassador to france alexei mishkov. he has connections with the studio, alexey yuevich. hello. hello. france is now calling for immediate truce in the zone. the palestinian-israeli conflict and ensuring humanitarian access to the gaza strip. today, the capital of the fifth republic will host an international humanitarian conference on the gas sector. but this is on the one hand, on the other hand, we have the next france with its western partners voting against the russian draft resolution on an immediate ceasefire. is it possible to understand what position france takes on this issue and what card

paris may be trying to play now? well you see, france takes a position that, well, first of all, responds to the internal sentiments in the country; it is very significant that at the beginning of the crisis, immediately after october 7, france took the initiative to create an international military coalition against hamas - similar to the one that was created - against isis. but when the french saw how the mood in the world was transforming, and in... the country itself, they immediately turned to various seemingly peaceful initiatives, despite the fact that

it is not at all surprising that this is a transformation, again of voting, of paris into the un, first participates in vetoing the russian humanitarian resolution, and then votes... for the resolution, again humanitarian , of the un general assembly, what will come out of today’s undertaking is difficult to predict, because, as we say, it was thrown together on its knees, yet yesterday, our contacts from those countries that will take part in today’s conference, in general, did not really understand what would be discussed there, how it would be discussed, then it is very remarkable how humanitarian issues in the gas sector can be discussed when

there, let's say, russia is excluded from the list of participants, yes, which does not make loud statements, but methodically provides humanitarian assistance. well, how are they going to negotiate without israel? yes, a conversation with israel would be very difficult, but israel will not participate in this conference either, so we’ll see. yeah, can we tell you that this conference will be organized, today france is actually following the mood of its voters? well, of course, first of all, he follows the mood of his voter, but in modern france is characterized by such a flurry

of various kinds of initiatives that are put forward, called summits, then it turns into conferences at the work level, as a result it is often zilch, so for the french it is fundamentally important to put forward an initiative, but how will it go further, is this secondary? let us assume that one of the truly fundamental issues for france is still the question of refugees, what to do with palestinian refugees who may come to the european union, and here it is clear that the french, of course, do not want to welcome refugees, given the difficult situation with migration policy. from your point of view, what policy can france take here? well, here is the issue with palestinian refugees, it is much more multifaceted and complex, because, uh, residents of the gaza strip, knowing about the fate of the palestinians, who over the past 50 years have been forced to uh

move to refugee camps in neighboring countries, do not want to repeat their fate, in in general, no one wants some kind of ethnic cleansing to happen in the gaza strip, therefore, the question of, uh, palestinian refugees, in the european context, is not yet serious, as for france, that france, having already encountered other waves of refugees from the same middle east, is not at all interested in the appearance of a new wave on its territory refugees. on the contrary, today in the french parliament the issues of tightening immigration legislation are being discussed

, well, as a small example , for example, yesterday in the paris metro rabin was attacked by a young man, as it turned out, a syrian refugee, it is clear that not a refugee, and... who support the policies of the syrian leadership, that is , more and more extremists are coming to french territory and the french want to get rid of them. yeah, well, here are the statistics, here’s the latest one, that there are more than a thousand acts of anti-semitism in the last few months alone, this is already twice as many as in the whole of 2022, last year, but here’s another interesting detail, today in paris, the prime minister of greece and as local media report, emmanuel macron actually wants to discuss with the greek prime minister, again, the reception of refugees, they want greece hosted 100,000 people, how

likely is this and is it possible? greece, to make such a deal, well, it’s hard for me to speak for the greek government, it’s absolutely clear that now we need to do something else, we need to achieve an immediate ceasefire and correct the humanitarian situation in the region, all these discussions about hundreds of thousands of refugees, this is in in general... drives the problem deeper, but indeed, in france, we must not forget that 6 million muslims live here at the initial stage, when the government banned pro-palestinian demonstrations, this caused a fairly harsh reaction

in public opinion and in fact... without lifting the ban on demonstrations, the government does not interfere with their holding, but there is naturally another part of france that opposes any manifestations anti-semitism, for this sunday, on the initiative of the leaders of the french parliament, such a large manifestation is being prepared, which, again, however, has already begun to cause internal political speculation about which parties should be allowed to attend the demonstration, which ones should not be allowed in, yeah, well, well, i’d like to discuss with you one more question about frozen russian assets, france has frozen russian assets totaling more than a billion euros, this does not count the funds of the central bank, but has france’s policy

in this direction been determined and is it possible should we now go for some alternative option? well, one thing is clear, that the current course of the french government is russophobic, and here , unfortunately, we have nothing to add to this, as far as assets are concerned, but the french should listen... read the decree that the president of the russian federation, putin , signed yesterday regarding the exchange of assets, let them read and understand, is there already a reaction to this decree signed the day before? no, no, there is no reaction, but the french remember well what the amount of direct french investment in the russian economy in previous years,

let it be. they look, they consider, yes, they consider and decide what is more profitable for them, alexey yuevich, thank you very much for the interview, but i will remind you that the russian ambassador to france, alexey mishkov, was in direct contact with us. thank you to you.

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