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interview now. the constitution of the russian federation is precisely with his hand on the constitution, the president takes an oath during... elections of the head of state, how russia has changed over the past two decades or more, about this and more, let's talk with a person with vast political experience, we are waiting for sergei ivanov. sergei borisovich

, hello, first of all, thank you very much for finding the time for this conversation of ours, good afternoon, you are involved in issues of activity, but you have a huge political ecology, transport, environmental experience, your opinion is respected, they listen to you, elections are coming very soon president, so this interview is about what has been done in our country, about what results our country is approaching this important political event, about what we also face challenges now, including in the international arena, about politics, once again...

that i know americans, i have talked to many, the average american has very little interest in foreign policy, is indifferent to, what do you think, the majority americans know where ukraine is, i assure you that they do not, but

still there is a certain layer of thinking americans who know foreign policy well, and even for them it would be interestingly useful.

what is the general return from ukraine’s endless help? of course there is a return, because basically, assistance to ukraine consists of the work of american enterprises of the military-industrial complex, which receive money for this assistance, but still there are not only financial aspects. well, in general, i think that in any case this interview was necessary, timely and useful for the world community.

most of the leaders of european countries, i think, such a concept or such enlightenment has not yet arrived, i say this because in the past, say, in the mid-2000s, i had to communicate directly with leaders of the largest european powers, i still remember president sharak, schröder, berlusconi, you know? these are personalities , these are individuals who commanded respect,

breadth of views, knowledge of world history, culture, if you like, if we are talking about sharak, he adored russian culture and knew it well, and let’s look at the current leaders, especially the european union, well, this is a nightmare, this my personal opinion, i don’t want to criticize them, nor say bad words in their addresses, but the comparison is not...

many times more than what the president said, and tanks, and artillery shells , and much more related to conventional weapons, but over the years few people know, and i can say about this, the president personally held dozens of completely closed meetings on the avant-garde complex, which is in service, this is a unique weapon, there is no one in the world, only with one vanguard we ensure our national security for decades to come, if for

a century, but besides this there is a petrel, there is a poseidon, there is a relight, we have completely re-armed our strategic nuclear submarine fleet, a series of boreys equipped with a bulovaya, i remember how quite difficult it was. at the end of the 2000s, the beginning of the 1900s , there was a lot of criticism, ridicule, i will say , about the unsuccessful launches of the bulava, but understand, i know history, including soviet history, never a new type of space technology rocket did without, at the initial stage, without unsuccessful tests, according to - it simply cannot be otherwise, and after ten tests there, everything, so to speak, the situation was getting better and rocketry... it became good to fly accurately, and accordingly was put into service, the president

has spent these 24 years paying personal, constant attention to the development of conventional weapons, so to speak, and those promising for the future, where we are now, well, the undisputed leaders in the world, i mean new, well, one might say exotic types weapons. which guarantees our security, and this is the military-industrial complex, and the army has become different, i naturally remember well the beginning of the 2000s.

all soviet, we built grandiose multifunctional ports in the baltic, we they built them in the black sea basin on taman, a wonderful new port, the ports of the far east are developing, and of course the northern sea route, the murmansk port, this year

the new port of lavna, on the other side of murmansk, is already in full operation.

there are still many problems in transport, we need to deal with regional airports, which are not in the best condition, we need to deal with local roads, which are not in the best condition, we have made federal roads at a good level, not only toll roads, almost all federal highways are in good condition condition, why i said that the russian proverb is beginning to change a little, there is another problem in logistics, which i will allow myself to not mention publicly for the first time. occupy second and third places in the world in the import of wine to the russian federation? iwhiskey,

they have wine. they imposed an incredible, well, unique number of sanctions against us in the world. yes, a record number of sanctions. we are trying to respond with some kind of retaliatory measures, but here everything lies on the surface. eh, since wine and whiskey are imported to us from lithuania and latvia, this this means that they are imported through the baltic ports. in recent years, having built the service , we, of course, have severely cut off power to the baltic ports, which in general can only exist if there is cargo to or from russia, because cargo, actually to latvia or to estonia or lithuania, is meaningless.

were not created, or this last story , excuse me for maybe getting a little distracted, there was an assumption that the g7 countries, the collective west, wants to appoint a special representative to ukraine, yes, with the right of direct access to president zelensky, but it immediately occurred to me, yes, that it was possible that he would be appointed to this position...

i was 15 years old, i remember that there was an acute issue with security, on my street, excuse the details, in my city, in my country there was a counter-terrorism chechen operation, now the north caucasus and chechnya, in particular, are a center of attraction for tourists, who would have thought about this for 20 years, and we also know that russia’s gdp has grown during this time, in 23 years from 7 to 109

trillion rubles. russia is a completely different country, it is it’s just another country, when you live permanently, you don’t feel the changes that way, people are used to, how to say, living their own lives, and that’s right, that’s good, they care about their families and their well-being , and there’s a four-fold increase in wages. they

simply don’t notice 5%, but when you add it all up, now you add it up, you get a completely different picture, and this is actually the case, in the social sphere, in the healthcare sector, which i am not involved in, and i don’t want to comment on, because i'm not an expert in this area, but what i already tell you named, transport, defense capability and many other areas, well... i, for example, know the state corporation rusatom well, i was first involved in the serious nuclear defense complex for several years, and then the entire rosatom, the fact that we created a state corporation on the initiative of the president was the wisest thing decision, yes, we have preserved in many ways , thank god, in the nuclear sector the soviet potential is wonderful, huge, but we did not

squander it, we... put it all together, and today rosatom is a world -class company, a world leader, believe me , by the number of nuclear units that are being built abroad, inside russia and along the northern sea route, and well, in everything that rosatom does, there is practically success everywhere, it is a very strong state corporation, i know what i’m talking about, and not only in the nuclear defense complex, not only, well... others too, but in the it field, i am the chairman of the board of directors of rostelecom, but the internet has also appeared and flourished over the past 20 years, in this case, thanks to rostelecom, last year chukotka became the last russian region to got access to terrestrial, broadband , high-quality internet, i really love

the south kuril islands, i try... to visit there almost every year, and now in shakatan, where we opened the internet, in iturup, in kunashir, the internet is no worse than in moscow, and i’m proud of this, why, because the inhabitants of these islands, even if there are few of them, there are 20-30 thousand people, but why are they worse than muscovites in terms of access to benefits, the it industry, nothing, i repeat, i don’t want to draw everything pink colors, in our transport. there is still a lot in space unresolved problems, and no one glosses over them, does not obscure them, and the president also openly talks about this, we have few spacecraft in orbit, we are not improving the national economic use of space, on the other hand , glanas is working at full capacity, and 15-20 years ago, i remember it was also a lot and...