and now footage from the government house. dear dear friends, we are glad to see you. council of ministers of the union state, it is very important that the integration interaction between russia and belarus continues to develop, together we consistently achieve the goals that our presidents set for us: putin and alexander lukashenko. but first of all , to strengthen direct contacts between people and companies, enterprises of our countries. today we

are at a very important stage, we are nearing completion of work on the main directions for implementing the provisions of the agreement on the creation of a union state and , accordingly, twenty-eight sectoral union programs. we also have to determine new guidelines for the 2024-2026 period. the majority, about 90% of over 900... 90 agreed upon measures have been completed, the basis has been laid for the implementation of a unified macroeconomic industrial and agricultural policy, the formation of a common transport market, competition rules, and legal space for the business of our citizens, ensuring equal opportunities for consumers, in general complexity prepared 200 regulations, of which about 140 have already been adopted

, have been put into operation: five information systems that allow tracking the movement of cars and goods, an interstate customs center has been created, which ensures seamless interaction between our specialized services in russia and belarus, almost everything is ready for the launch of a supranational tax committee, it will monitor the implementation of the agreement on the general principles of taxation for indirect taxes, and will monitor how the transfer of information... payers to integrated platform for the administration of taxes. we see concrete results from integration in the union state; the economic partnership between russia and belarus is strengthening, which is especially significant against the backdrop of the illegal sanctions imposed against our countries. in the first three quarters of this year, our mutual trade turnover , by the way, added another 8% and amounted to about 3.250 billion russian rubles; there is every reason

to believe that we will exceed last year’s record figures in our mutual trade. in the future, the total the positive effect for the belarusian economy, after the full implementation of all union programs, is estimated at 120 billion russian rubles annually, which will ensure an additional increase in the gross domestic product of the republic by approximately 2% points. let's continue to eliminate them one by one. existing barriers to mutual trade , provide favorable conditions for market access for our companies, we will pay special attention to supporting small medium-sized businesses, creating new jobs in manufacturing sectors, and what is very important, our integration solution is filled with practical content, aimed , among other things, at achieving technological independence; a year ago in november , an agreement was signed: allocating

a loan to belarus in the amount of 105 billion russian rubles for the implementation of joint investment projects. they are in demand in industry, in the energy sector, in the transport industry, in the logging industry, in microelectronics, aircraft manufacturing, and are also in demand in various information technology projects. now it is necessary prepare a regulatory framework that will lay down uniform requirements for localization when releasing. products, we are very actively cooperating in the field of energy, such a significant event took place at the beginning of the month, and on november 1, the acceptance certificate for the second unit of the belarusian nuclear power plant was signed, this is our largest common project, which is designed for a strategic perspective, it will significantly improve the environmental situation, will stimulate the further development of science-intensive industries, the station is already operating in in normal... mode, more than 20 billion kv

of energy has been generated and nuclear and radiation safety is ensured in accordance with the highest standards, and russia will continue to provide the necessary assistance in operation in fuel supplies. the solid experience gained in such a high-tech field creates a very good foundation for the further implementation of joint projects, and above all in related fields and nuclear medicine, energy storage systems, digitalization and many others. dear colleagues, the coming year - anniversary for significant events of our common history. we celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of belarus from the nazi invaders and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the treaty on the creation of a union state. our peoples are united by cultural, spiritual, moral values; we value the traditions

of our friendship. on the agenda of the meeting is the issue of providing humanitarian assistance through the union state to students and educational organizations of the donetsk republic and the lugansk people's republic. in general, we will continue to strengthen humanitarian ties, at the end of september, with the participation of our belarusian colleagues, we held a special strategic session at the government’s creation center, where we discussed this important topic in detail. russian departments have selected and presented more than thirty promising proposals for building ties in the field of science, education, culture, sports, tourism, and of course, in healthcare and the social sphere. to protect consumer rights, it is important to implement all planned plans, naturally, for the benefit of our citizens. the next significant direction is deepening interaction between our regions, i want to sincerely thank our belarusian colleagues for the attention

paid to this issue, you personally , dear roman sannovich, naturally alexander grigorvich lukashenko, but this year you visited a large number. regions, we support such an initiative, in particular in ufa, the tenth forum of regions was successfully held in june ; more than eighty russian entities already have trade and economic ties with belarus. our companies have concluded about 4,500 foreign trade agreements contracts with belarusian partners amounting to over 100 billion russian rubles. dear friends, we have a busy agenda, today we will consider ... a draft of the main directions for implementing the provisions of the treaties on the creation of a union state for the upcoming three-year period, and it includes 10 sections that cover the tasks of implementing an agreed macroeconomic tax policy, as well as industrial and

agricultural, expanding cooperation in the customs sphere, creating a common financial market and united energy markets, increasing interaction in many other sectors. well, ultimately, such work should help improve the quality of life of citizens and open up additional opportunities for entrepreneurs in our countries. today we will also consider the priorities within the framework of the strategy of scientific and technological development of the union state. one of the current topics is improving the training of specialists in the field of innovation. today ravan sanovich and i discussed this in detail at a personal meeting. possible programs in this area. this is a prerequisite for strengthening our technological sovereignty, providing our economies with highly qualified personnel, and of course, we need to determine joint actions on this track. dear colleagues, the most important decisions that we

will discuss today will be presented to the president of the russian federation and the republic of belarus, vladimirovich putin and alexander grigorovich lukashenko. i am absolutely confident that the results of our work. will give impetus to integration construction, will to promote the further development of multifaceted cooperation between our fraternal peoples, i respectfully give the floor to roman sanovich, please, thank you, dear mikhail vladimirovich, dear dmitry fedorovich, participants of the meeting. the holding of the second meeting of the council of ministers of the union state in person this year clearly indicates the intensification of belarusian-russian integration and it is already obvious to us that external attempts to disorganize union construction have failed, like many others, belarus and russia has united and is confidently moving

along the creative course set by the leaders of our countries. macroeconomic indicators of russia and belarus confirm that the two countries are on the trajectory. all branches of the vertical power of the two countries are aimed at expanding belarusian-russian strategic cooperation. under the leadership of the government, systematic interaction between industry bodies, joint programs are being implemented, mikhail vladimirovich said, integration and investment projects are being implemented, which has already approved 23 passports of such projects, a mechanism for mutual confirmation of the implementation of technological operations and their verification is being developed , measures are being implemented aimed at stimulating the development of production and sales, only this year there is a new joint assembly production: production of agricultural machinery created in the krasnodar territory, in the novosibirsk region, in tatarstan.

a new plant for the production of grain drying complexes has been opened in bashkartastan with the participation of a belarusian manufacturer. in krasnodar in the region, the assembly of combines and grain trucks began on the basis of the minsk automobile plant. the construction of a multi-brand trade and service center belarus has begun for the sale, maintenance and repair of belarusian equipment, and the chain of stores selling belarusian equipment in russia is expanding. clothes, shoes, furniture, food and so on. the presence of russian business in belarus is growing at an equally active pace. in addition to traditional exhibitions, more and more new platforms are being used for communication between business circles. among the most recent examples are the international investment forum on import substitution, called made in russia, held in mogilev in october and the recently completed international business week in ufa. in the first half of the year, the volume of russian investments in the real sector of the belarusian economy increased by a third compared to

last year and amounted to more than 60% of all foreign investments. in the context of import substitution programs, russian companies are actively placing orders for the production of components, assemblies, assemblies and final products. products at belarusian enterprises. and this, dear mikhail vladimirovich, is just some of the results of our joint and interested work, which covers the entire territory of the russian federation. so already this year, i will literally give a couple of figures to the thesis that you have already outlined. so, this year 87 delegations of various levels from russian regions visited belarus, 34 of them under the leadership of the heads of russian regions. and in turn , 96 belarusian official delegations and 136 business delegations. including, as you probably noted, i personally visited 11 regions of the russian federation, some of them twice, so dear mikhailovich,

i propose to follow my example, all of us belarusian regions will be happy to receive you personally and members of the russian government, thank you, i also note the effectiveness of the negotiation format through our deputy prime ministers, alexey lognavich overchuk, nikolai gennavich snopkov, as well as the high-level group of the council of ministers of the union states. this year the group is of a high level. considered more than 40 issues of belarusian-russian relations and became a kind of headquarters for taking operational measures to develop our economies and strengthen relations. the union council of ministers did not slow down either. this year we have adopted more than forty new legal acts. i believe dmitry fedorovich will report on this in more detail. the measures taken made it possible to replace the loss of belarus's shortfall in exports to unfriendly countries by more than 80%. mutual trade you said mikhailovich, i

i think that by the end of the year, we will certainly exceed the indicators of the previous record year, but we cannot stop there now; it is necessary to complete the groundwork for the year of the future, and i believe that with such work as now, we will be able to update the historical maximums of 28 union programs every year, which were also mentioned, i consider them... their implementation, thanks to hard work, not only confirms their strategic feasibility, but also brings very specific, down-to-earth economic results, a single rule of access to government procurement, a single rule of competition, counteracting unfair practices, free movement of goods, works and services has been ensured , working conditions have been created in the transport and communications markets, work has been completed on the integration of information systems for transport control, veterinary and phytosanitary control,

two new ones have been formed body of the union state, mikhailach said about this, the supranational tax committee and the interstate center for coordination, work on customs risk management, a number of significant belarusian-russian agreements were signed, including an agreement on cooperation in the customs sector, an agreement on general principles of indirect taxation and a number of important intergovernmental ones. agreements that again relate to absolutely subject areas, technological operations, road transport, microelectronics, machine tool industry, bank guarantees, and so on. and of course, one of the most significant results of the joint projects implemented this year is the introduction of operation of the second power unit of the belarusian nuclear power plant and the entire plant as a whole, which mikhail vladimirovich spoke about in detail, i can only support the thesis that the construction of the nuclear power plant was carried out using the most modern

safety system technologies, and we are very pleased with the results of this implementation. project , we look with confidence into the implementation of future projects in partnership with the state corporation rosatom. the list of mutual achievements could go on for a long time, so i’ll probably do emphasis on still promising tasks. experts have prepared a draft of new main directions for implementing the provisions of the agreement on the creation of a union state for the coming 3 years. it is an organic continuation of the current integration package of documents. with union programs is aimed at further bringing together the legal framework of the parties, ensuring the functioning of united energy markets and the united transport system of the union state, pursuing a unified industrial policy, coordinated agricultural policy, coordinated tax policy, the formation of a unified scientific and technological, common information space, as well as

ensuring equal rights of citizens of the union state in the social sphere. and it is necessary to ensure real tangible integration of the industrial policies of the two parties as quickly as possible, and to completely make mutual access to procurement and subsidies barrier-free, to agree on uniform measures to protect the internal market of the union state, which will ensure the rapid expansion of cooperation ties and further growth release of joint products with a high share of localization of production. in this work... we can set ambitious goals, the most difficult stages, considering that we have already passed, passed with dignity, then it is necessary to take systematic measures to increase technological independence, to create our own technologies that would be superior to foreign ones. in connection with this , it is necessary to solve a set of tasks to create a unified it landscape of the union state, prioritize the use of its own scientific and technical developments and promote

domestic software. mikhailovich is not only a great enthusiast, as i know, in this area, well, probably the main locomotive, i am ready to fully identify with him in this work, because i think this is one of the cornerstones, and technological, in general, security of the union state, mutual recognition of electronic digital signatures will give a powerful impetus to the creation of a single digital space, i am confident that by the end of this year we will be able to sign the corresponding international... agreement, the government's field of vision and long-term plans to cover million-plus cities in russia and the capital of belarus with direct flights, i am confident that the implementation of this project will contribute not only to an increase in tourist flow, but also to the development of business contacts in various areas. improving the standard of living of our citizens cannot be achieved without an adequate level

of food security. in this regard, it is necessary to intensify the formation of the legal field. for the implementation of an effective, coordinated agricultural policy on territory of the union state. dear friends, today’s meeting reflects the desire of the governments of our countries to comprehensively strengthen and develop the union state. the agenda of the meeting is very relevant. i am confident that the agreements reached today and the decisions made will be supported by subsequent concrete actions by the governments of the two countries and implemented in full. thank you for your attention. this. footage of the meeting of the council of ministers of the union state. the ministry of culture is working on extending national project culture until 2030, olga lyubimova stated this while speaking at the government hour in the state duma. the minister spoke about the main directions of work of her department, we will learn all the details from varvar nevskaya, she is in direct contact with us from the state duma. varvara,

good afternoon, how was olga’s beloved parliamentarian’s report received and accordingly it was. alexander, good afternoon, as olga lyubimova herself said, at the end of the government hour there were no topics that would not have been discussed and issues that would not have been given. today, at okhotny ryad, the minister of culture of the russian federation presented to the deputies a report on the state of culture in the country and the progress of the implementation of state cultural policy. the minister expressed gratitude to the deputies for their support of this most important area, especially emphasizing that culture today is not only a sphere of spiritual improvement, but also a resource for the socio-economic development of the country, which fully reflects the national... moral values ​​that are embedded in our cultural code, and the minister said that russian budget expenditures on supporting culture are increasing from year to year, over the past decades they

have increased more than 20 times. funding for cultural projects from extrabudgetary sources has also increased significantly. the minister noted that the fifth year of implementation of the national project culture is coming to an end , the level of its box office performance, which she assessed as one of the highest. i will allow myself to name the main results of the implementation of the national project in 2020. it's almost 200 buildings of children's art schools. and in less than twenty-three years, their number has increased by another 80. these are 300 art schools equipped with musical instruments and educational materials. and this year there are another 300. we have built, reconstructed and overhauled 336 rural cultural centers. regions, this year will be completed, the same number more, 80 car clubs delivered to 23 regions, this year another 62 went to other 26 regions,

103 cinema halls were modernized in settlements with a population of up to 500,000 people in 50 regions of russia, restoration of monuments and cultural heritage sites is being actively carried out, new cultural centers and libraries are opening throughout our country. the department also does a lot of work to support national cinema. thus, 60 feature films, 10 children's and youth films, 74 animation projects and 105 non-fiction documentaries received subsidies. as for the preferences of russian moviegoers, as olga lyubimova said, the most popular genres, according to estimates from the ministry of culture among russians are animated, family and adventure films. during her speech, lyubimy paid special attention to the issue of the hybrid war that the west has unleashed and is actively waging on the cultural front. it is obvious that unfriendly countries

have unleashed a hybrid information and, one might say, cultural war against us. the campaign is aimed at destroying basic moral cultural norms, religious foundations, the institution of marriage, family values; this is an attempt to fully undermine cultural sovereignty. russia. in this situation we a truly comprehensive, strategic approach is needed, and this work is impossible without solving problems related to improving the industry infrastructure. much work on the part of the ministry of culture is aimed at integrating four new regions into the cultural space of the russian federation, as well as at developing a patriotic direction in the cultural sphere. as olga lyubimova stated, today the department is working on extending the national project. tour until 2030, this year the group still counts on support parliamentarians. alexander, varvara, thank you,

varvara nevskaya spoke about the work of the state duma today. pennsylvania, arizona and other american states received $27 billion to produce additional weapons for ukraine. the reiter agency reports this; dmitry morocco will tell you more about who benefits from the conflict. dmitry , greetings, it is obvious that these are primarily american contractors, of course, yes, alexander, indeed, greetings to such defense giants as lookhit martin, general dynamics, have significantly increased their budgets over the past 2 years. the us military-industrial complex is thriving against the backdrop of the ukrainian conflict; individual american states have received billions of dollars this year for the production of weapons and ammunition, reports rator. according to the agency, the most significant amount of additional funding was allocated to pennsylvania - $2 billion 300 million. arizona also received more than 2 billion. texas received almost one and a half, despite the fact that the majority of representatives of the republican party there

voted against aid to ukraine. it is worth noting that pennsylvania and arizona are so-called swing states; the outcome of the upcoming elections may depend on their opinions. therefore, it is critical for the biden administration to pour money there. we send ukraine weapons that are in our warehouses, when we use the money allocated by congress, it goes to replenish them, the weapons that protect america are made in america, patriot systems are made in arizona, artillery shells are produced in 12 states across the country, pennsylvania, ohio, texas and many others, today, as in the second world war, patriotic american workers are working to create an arsenal of democracy. in continuation of the ukrainian one. american military contractors are extremely interested in the conflict. in the first half of the year, they spent an astronomical sum of $66 million on lobbying their interests in the government.

the company allocated the most for these purposes. and lock martin, general dynamics and nortrop gruman, while the income of these government contractors, which is measured not in millions, but in billions, continue to grow steadily. the weapons that are produced and supplied to ukraine are, in general, supplied, including in the form of credit. ukraine does not see this money, this money goes directly to the accounts of american corporations that produce weapons, but ukraine must already repay the loan with interest for this money, we see how the shares of the largest military corporations in america react violently in terms of growth, the same lockheed martin or general dynamics or rtx and others, while

the issue of allocating money to ukraine itself remains up in the air, he promised to approve a new package in congress... by the end of december, but more and more representatives of both parties are opposed, pointing out that the united states has already allocated a huge amount, almost $111 billion, to support kiev, of which 101 billion have already been spent, and now we also have to allocate funds to help israel. financial assistance to ukraine is in such a limbo, that is , they cannot be accepted in congress - to say, something like this a decision that will suit, let’s say... so representatives of the leading parties, in total, as expected, 61 billion dollars will be allocated to ukraine, which greatly exceeds the assistance, for example, to israel next year, the allocation of all these here are the planned amounts, it is very doubtful, yes, in the conditions of political confrontation, in the conditions of a serious economic crisis that is approaching the united states. ukraine,

completely dependent on western aid , needs ever larger amounts financing. the draft budget signed by president zelski calls for a huge deficit of more than $43 billion next year. in kiev they do not hide the fact that they plan to cover it through foreign subsidies. meanwhile, assistance from the european union is also late. the head of eurosov admitted this week that there is no agreement between eu countries yet on the allocation of an additional 50 billion euros to finance kiev. we watch to know everything about russia, the best historical series, we watch, we watch, in app or website.

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