the west has already come to an understanding that it is impossible to inflict a strategic defeat on russia; it will fight for its interests to the end. vladimir putin told american journalist tucker carlson about this. the interview caused a stir; in the very first hours the number of views on social networks exceeded 60 million. the president shared his opinion on the situation in ukraine, its origins and settlement, as well as relations with the west and other important topics. i listened to the conversation. not a talk show, but

a conversation, which vladimir putin and tucker carlson immediately designate as serious, and it is clearly aimed at an audience that has little idea of ​​what connected russia and ukraine over the centuries, and what led the entire region to its current state of affairs. the detailed story amazes with the amount of detail of the tv presenter, a historian by education, and covers a huge period from bogdan khmelnitsky to lenin and stalin, from the so-called...

instead of the promised non-expansion of nato to the east , it is also a deception, despite this russia proposed creating a joint us and europe and a missile defense system defense, came from washington refusal. and when our country, together with the states , was fighting international terrorism, the americans openly supported the bandits in the north caucasus, calling the militants the opposition. i once raised this question with my colleague, also the president of the united states, and he said: well, it can’t be, you have proof, yes. i was ready for this conversation, and i gave him this proof, he looked, and you know what he said, but i apologize, yes, but that’s how it was, i’ll quote, he says, well, i’ll kick their ass, we waited, waited for an answer , there was no answer, american style deception has been adopted in europe in modern times; the german chancellor and the french president, who sat kiev at the negotiating table on donbass, admitted after the start of the special military operation that they did not expect that ukraine would comply with the minsk agreements.

from kiev, now another step is expected from moscow, an exchange for journal correspondent evan gershkovich, who is being tried for espionage and although, vladimir putin reminds, they are not meeting us halfway, russia is discussing. the future of the reporter is at the intelligence service level, we are not closed to negotiations, moreover, these negotiations are underway, and there were many cases when we agreed, we can still agree, but we just need to negotiate, i hope that you will release him, thank you very much, mr. president, i would also like him to go home in the end, i i say this sincerely and completely.

which was initialed by the head of the ukrainian delegation, his signature is there, well, on an excerpt from this agreement, not on everything, on an excerpt, he put his signature, and then he said, we were ready to sign, the war would have ended a year and a half ago ago, but mr. johnson came, talked us out of it, and we missed this chance, but we missed it, we made a mistake, let us return to this, that’s all. this will take time, but one day, vladimir putin is sure, relations between russians and ukrainians will be restored. i’ll give you some unusual examples. ukrainian soldiers were surrounded. this is a concrete

example from the life of combat operations. our soldiers shout to them: there is no chance, give up, get out, you will be alive, give up.

no, but sooner or later we will agree, vladimir putin summarizes, on the topic of ukraine, but in in general, only a united world can be stable and safe, in which security is shared, and not designed for the golden billion. elizaveta khramtsova, news. the conversation between tucker karalsin and vladimir putin is one of the most discussed topics in the western press and social networks. the british guardian believes that this is, quote, a new level of shame for an american journalist. and the editor of the mirror newspaper decided that everyone involved in the recording was enemies of the west. new york times reviewers, in turn, focused on the content of the dialogue. they write that words the russian leader is underscored by his tactical confidence at a time when support for ukraine is rapidly dwindling.

us presidential candidate robert kennedy jr. came to tucker carlson's defense. in his opinion, the journalist simply did his job. he noted. that americans should make their own decisions, even if they differ from the position of the mainstream media. well, i ’ll add a replay of the full version of vladimir putin’s interview with takir carlson, watch it on our channel at 12:00 moscow time. in uzbekistan in the near future there should be a branch of the russian medical will appear.

him as a diplomat, and moving directly to the topic of our conversation, probably immediately from the aspects of bilateral relations between russia and uzbekistan, since october of twenty-three . russia exports gas to uzbekistan under a two-year contract within this framework, and please tell us what expectations you have for this year regarding the relationship between moscow and tashkent in an economic sense, first of all, what could be the most obvious accents, prospects and priorities here? gas went, and this is quite a significant contribution to stabilizing the economy. and the social life of uzbekistan, last year it was a little cold and frosty here, this year they passed

without problems, now negotiations are underway on concluding a long-term contract for a longer period with a certain increase in gas supplies here, in general it must be said that - economic relations between uzbekistan and the russian federation are not limited to gas.

this is not the limit, uh, and russia is the country that purchases the most uzbek goods, our cooperation is very diverse, this is not only energy, that is, the gas sector, but it is really assistance in the development of energy systems, assistance in the development of networks, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, and pharmaceuticals, cooperation in light industry has been developing very well recently , we are all already accustomed in russia, as you know, to

agricultural goods from uzbekistan, now special agrological train complexes are being launched that will deliver these products much faster in order to it reached our market and our consumers without problems, so our prospects are very good, we are waiting for our sellers, our buyers here for you... the film industry in april, we are waiting for uzbek manufacturers of goods at our exhibitions, so here we have we have great prospects. oleg sergeevich, i would like to touch upon the topic of the eurasian economic union, the eurasian economic union, as you previously mentioned in an interview, it repeatedly remains one of the main export directions for uzbekistan, respectively, and this is what the full membership of this country in accordingly, this organization could remove the restriction.

for 3 years, he has been participating in all events that are carried out by the eu, and he is not just sitting as an observer, observing, he is actively contributing, making proposals, which are then jointly implemented, but it must be said that recently a working group has been operating between structures of the eec and uzbekistan that are involved. ae the development of a draft reform of legislation, procedures and other material aspects in order

to enter fully, taking into account all specifics that currently exist in uzbekistan. and i think that in the near future this issue will also be accelerated. uzbekistan is simultaneously working to join the wto, and here it is necessary to agree on the conditions for joining the wto and... the eurasian economic community, but this goal has not been removed, it is still on our joint agenda, including and russian-uzbek relations, that's it. just a week ago, prime minister of uzbekistan aripov was in almaat at the corresponding meeting of the eurasian, the eurasian council and the economic council, and there he made a fairly large set of proposals to facilitate the movement of goods, to improve logistics procedures,

possible procedures, and so on, so here we have a process underway, but how long it will take is difficult to say, because...

you know that at the eastern economic forum a concept and even a program for the socio-cultural adaptation of migrants was proposed and several of our regions joined in the implementation of this program, we will wait for the result at the beginning and at the end january there was a large delegation from russian departments led by the head

of rost-trud mikhail yuryevich ivankov and they continue to work, this is not the first meeting to promote the launch of the organizational recruitment project, in order to already determine what procedures migrants can undergo, potential migrants are here , that they will have to take place in russia, where they will take qualifying exams, tests, and so on, but it must be said that here we have had certain difficulties with the fact that... after the decrease in the exchange rate russian, the salaries of migrants have decreased accordingly, so we must not forget that uzbekistan is developing very quickly, there is about 60 percent growth in gdp, construction and development of other industries are underway, in principle, salaries here

are also growing, so in order to be competitive, we need here...

from afghanistan, one of the sources of drugs, including for the entire eurasian region and for russia in particular, a mutual understanding has been found along all lines regarding the fight against e radicalism, with extremism, then here too we have joint developments with a common understanding and mutual assistance, we... understand, yes, we know that penetration here now, this ideology is also going on quite intensively, and the extradition of criminals, but in 2 years it was issued for...

includes this on the one hand, on the other hand i want to understand whether it is planned to build schools in uzbekistan with instruction in russian according to our russian programs. well, the question here is much broader. after all, uzbekistan is one of those countries who retained her education, including in russian. now, out of about 10 thousand schools in uzbekistan, about a thousand, that is, 10% , are schools.

site, here we are implementing a comprehensive project that is associated with training for teachers, with attracting students to participate in various competitions, olympiads, competitions, during the summer holidays in the russian federation, we...

russian schools that would work in, including including russian programs, but now we have prepared a line of textbooks, which are transferred to schools in uzbekistan, and as i already he said, the main thing now is to preserve what we have, that is, to make mass teaching of the russian language and preserve those schools that exist, and on this basis we will continue to see whether it is necessary to create two, three, five schools, this project is still... .is still at the discussion stage. you mentioned higher school when developing this topic. 14 branches and representative offices of russian higher educational institutions operate in uzbekistan. 800

budget places have been prepared this year, such data is available in our universities for students from uzbekistan, please tell me how popular are these steps? it has always been in demand and it is in demand now. 14 branches, and that's not... affairs at all, and these are some of the best universities here in uzbekistan. i visit these higher educational institutions quite often, i see at what level the teaching is conducted, this is truly a global, global level, specialists are in demand, but suffice it to say that suppose a branch of the moscow institute of steel from alloys provides the basis for all metallurgical and mining industries of uzbekistan, and gubkin institute of oil and gas, it

supplies personnel for the oil and gas industry, now we are waiting for the mendeleev university of chemical technology when it graduates its first students, moscow state university and mgimo are working well, and a number of other universities, i guess, well, plekhanovsky, i hope that i will not offend anyone if not everyone is there... the potential for the development of the country, all 800 places that study in russia, this is also a large selection, but in our country there are more students studying than state employees, every year two or three cycles, let's say so exhibitions.

even starting from history, because very often over the centuries, both afghanistan and uzbekistan, they exchanged, part of the territories of one and the other country were included in one or another khanate, but this is the first, second, and in recent years, of course, afghanistan, which dropped out of such international development poses quite a big threat to uzbekistan. including from the point of view of terrorist groups, from the point of view of the ideology of extremism from the point of view of drug trafficking, so when did they leave from there? americans, who for 20 years have actually done nothing to restore the country, and new authorities have come who are not recognized by the international community, which uzbekistan does not officially recognize as...

a full-fledged government, but they certainly maintain ties, and based on that , that now there are no other, real authorities in this country, it is necessary to develop relations with them, relations primarily economically, because if there is a stable situation, then it will be possible to gradually solve the problems that are proposed the new authorities of afghanistan will decide this and... the fight against drug trafficking means suppressing the activities of terrorists, and creating inclusive governments to pay more attention to respecting the rights of women, girls and so on, they are, in principle, ready to do this, but they are also waiting for some... then counter steps, so uzbekistan is among those countries, together with russia, that believe that the involvement of afghanistan in

the economy. into various projects, this will contribute to the development of this region, this state, but also strengthen stability in in general in central asia, then in the eurasian region in general. they are now thinking about starting to implement the southern transport corridor project, which will also include a railway, a railway from... termez to pakistani ports through afghanistan, possible other logistics routes, they supply goods, including petroleum products and electricity, they host afghans in their secondary schools and give them

education, both girls and... boys, so that they can find a place in life, that is this is all going on, we are interacting quite closely with them, our positions are very close or almost identical, so i think that here we have quite a lot, a lot of great prospects, thank you very much, oleg sergeevich for the extensive conversation, thank you, thank you.