freed as a result of the exchange. russia will be presented with state awards, vladimir putin said. the president met at the airport eight russian citizens and two children who were returned to their homeland. anastasia efimova has all the details. the runway, the red carpet, the presidential regiment, a plane lands in vnukov, on board of which those whom, as the president puts it, the homeland has not forgotten for a minute. the head of state personally arrived at the airfield to meet the russians in the morning, i will return.

reserved, the same patriot about whom, the first to come down is vadim krasikov, who , apparently, is collected by vladimir putin and spoke in february in an interview with tucker carlson, whom he shook hands with and hugged today. following hand in hand are four people at once, the dultsev family, anna and artyom and their two minor children, and this, of course, is the most emotional scene of the evening. the dulceva couple were arrested in slovenia at the end of 2022, their children were sent to foster families. if it weren’t for the current exchange with their mother and father, they might not have returned, so anna’s tears and artyom’s smile are like embarrassment.

son and daughter, so easy to understand. vladislav klyushin, vadim konoshchenok, pavel rubtsov, by the way, are the only ones who go down the ladder with things. mikhail makushin, roman seleznev, eight russians detained and imprisoned in nato countries. everyone will be presented with state awards, the president emphasized, and specially thanked those involved in military service. first of all, i want to congratulate you all on your return to your homeland. now i want to address those of you who are directly related to military service, i want to thank you for your loyalty oath, your duty and the hand that has not forgotten about you for a minute, here you are, all of you will be presented.

the vilists definitely have something to tell the head of state. so, a historical event took place, an exchange of prisoners from seven countries. anton potkovenko knows all the details. indeed, a large exchange of prisoners between russia and belarus and the west was coordinated by the turkish intelligence service. this is how american evan gershkovich, along with other exchange prisoners, went to the airport in moscow before flying to turkey. here's a german.

rika krieger brings out foreign agent vladimir karamurza nearby, then gershkovich, and here is former us marine will. and this is footage from ankara airport, where planes from the countries participating in the exchange arrived. the entire world media watched the broadcast. the numerous parties involved in organizing the exchange fully complied with the agreements. this was stated by a credible source in one of the russian competent departments. so, which one of us? returned to his homeland. vadim krasikov, sentenced to life in prison by a court in berlin according to western investigators, he killed georgian citizen zelimkhan khandashvili. in august '19 he shot him in tiergarton park. this character was preparing an attack on a school in beslan. he was involved in preparing a train explosion in the moscow metro in 2004, and also participated in attacks on russian soldiers. in the interview with vladimir putin, and with

carlson this winter, they clearly talked about this, sitting in one country, in the country of an ally of the united states. a man who, for patriotic reasons, liquidated one of the european capitals of a bandit, during the events in the caucasus, do you know what he did? i don’t want to say it, but i’ll say it anyway, he laid out our captured soldiers on the road, and then the cars drove over their heads. what kind of person is this and is it a person? well, a patriot was found who liquidated one of the european capitals. the west handed over artyom and anna dultsev to russia; they got off the planes in kaleningrad. the couple were sentenced in slovenia to one year and 7

months in prison on espionage charges. they spent about the same amount of time in custody and have now been released; they were exchanged accordingly. the western press wrote about the dultsev spouses. russian spies under deep cover, allegedly posing as argentine citizens. according to slovenian media, the arrest was initiated in collaboration with foreign intelligence services. the criminal case was classified as secret, the process was closed, their children were almost sent to an orphanage. mikhail mikushin also returned, accused of espionage in norway. he worked at the arctic university of tramsø. returned, arrested in poland in the twenty-second year, a spanish journalist of russian origin, pavel. gonzalez, aka pavel rubtsov. roman seleznev, kidnapped in 2014 by american intelligence agencies in the maldives and sentenced in the united states to 27 years in prison for cyber fraud, also returned to his homeland as part of the current exchange, as did russian it entrepreneur vladislav klyushin,

detained 3 years ago in switzerland upon request washington, on suspicion of cyberattacks on american companies. vadim kanoshchenok, accused of... illegal procurement of electronics for the russian defense sector. this is how they were put on a plane in turkey. vadim krasikov was brought to the plane wearing a motorcycle helmet, these are special measures, as if for dangerous criminals. the first to board the plane were artyom and anna dultsevy with their children, who would have been sent to an orphanage a little longer if the exchange had not taken place. but now everyone is on board to finally fly home. the main thing is that our people are returning.

answer: american journalist evan gershkovich, sentenced in russia to sixteen years colony in a case of espionage, according to russian investigators, in march of twenty -three, on instructions from the cia, he collected secret information about the activities of one of the russian defense enterprises for the production and repair of military equipment. let us again recall vladimir putin’s interview with journalist tucker. he is just a journalist, yes, he is not just a journalist, i repeat again, he is a journalist who received secret information on a secret basis.

we are not closed to negotiations, moreover, these negotiations are ongoing, i hope that you will let me out, thank you very much, mr. president, i would also like him to leave, i would also like him to go home, in the end, i am speaking completely sincerely, well, i repeat, a dialogue is underway, another convict in russia has returned to the states for espionage, an american, former marine paul willan, according to the state prosecution, a career intelligence officer was detained in moscow after receiving it at a hotel. metropol flash drives with personal data of employees of one of the operational units of the fsb, and he also tried to recruit employees of the ministry of defense. a citizen of germany, rika krieger, who was imprisoned in belarus, he was charged with six counts from terrorism of mercenaries to participation in an extremist group, was sentenced to death,

was recently pardoned, and is now released and extradited as part of the current prisoner exchange. also on the list of exchanged foreigners is patrick, accused of smuggling. as well as russian and german citizen kevin lickg, who collaborated with the intelligence services of nato countries. agents and extremists from all over the world also went to the west. citizen russian uk agent. murza, sentenced to 25 years in prison for treason. former deputy of the krasnoselsky district of moscow, foreign agent ilya yashin. who else is on the list? a journalist of the tatar-bashkir service convicted of fakes about the armed forces for radio liberty agent alsu kurmasheva, foreign agent oleg orlov, chairman of the board of memorial liquidated by the supreme court, foreign agent andrei pevovarov, ksenia fodeeva included in the list of extremists, as well as liliya chanysheva, hermann moizhes, sasha . skochelenko, dimury voronin, vadim ostanin. behind each of these names are criminal cases and corresponding

biographies. we exchanged, according to the fsb's formulation, a group of individuals who acted in the interests of foreign states to the detriment of russia's security. we returned our 10 compatriots to their homeland. this exchange is the largest in the history of our country since the cold war. in total, 26 people were on the lists. figure skater vladislav tarasenko, starting in the fall of twenty-two, has been performing combat missions here in the zaporozhye direction. we're all the same here we do the same work, the same tasks. deadlift, my record is 285. i couldn't sit because i was in normal shape. well, salamati, one by one, it happened that they recognized you, what was the reaction? come on, well, yes. the first time i arrived, i was there for 5-6 days, i was eager to leave, it will soon be 2

years.

humanity has lived on earth for 8 million years, all this time the world around us is constantly changing, regimes are born and die. states appear and disappear, currencies are introduced , currencies depreciate, but there is also something that never will change, this is gold, they say it is highly liquid, this means that no matter what happens, gold will always be expensive, liquid from the latin word liquid flowing, for hundreds and thousands of years it is gold, the most plastic metal, that flows through the arteries of our world, protecting us from the most various troubles,

you are in the largest trading floor in our entire country and in europe in general, transactions with financial instruments are made here, everything that the bank enters into on the markets, be it gold, securities, currencies, stocks, bonds, in general, everything, that it is traded, it is traded here, we make several tens and even hundreds of thousands of transactions a day, accordingly, all this is happening right now, but... unlike volko from wall street, we have those technologies at a completely different level. previously , there was a shumgam on the floor about 10 years ago, when it was necessary to communicate online with buyers and sellers of some assets of the same gold, and at the same time it was necessary to communicate with both of them and speak into one handset, put the second on stub on the contrary, switch all the time. now

, of course, there is no such need, because automated communication with the client is the conclusion of transactions. that is, exchange transactions, in principle, take place in a mode that does not require telephony and technology has come very, very far, as you can see, we have terabytes of data that are collected from all markets, on average we receive market information about all assets , which are traded in russia on our exchanges 20 times per second, 20 times per second we write all this information and this data influences on what pricing. we show for our clients that for many years the cost of gold has not actually changed, just imagine, a troy ounce in the thirty -third-thirty-four cost 35 dollars, a troy ounce is 31.5 g. 40 years later, almost 40 years, in the early

seventies it cost approximately the same money, then...

there were noticeably more private participants in the stock market in russia, the number of individuals is growing, on the one hand, brokerage accounts openly say 30 million, but i think that god forbid, there are three million real users, yes, we are developing, and yes, after the twenty- second year this development even began, probably faster, because in many ways people’s funds have become locked inside more... or will remain inside the russian federation, that is, these are the ways to invest in any other way, they just disappeared for various reasons, gold is not needed as long as everything is fine, but since we are developing very quickly, we

always run into various growing pains, we always run into growth crises when... yes , we are developing too fast, we eat too far ahead, the world we built begins to crumble around us, it needs to be rebuilt, this is where gold comes out like a treasure, algorithms work that are determined for education for different platforms, and for different channels, and if... nothing lights up red , it means that everything is fine and the price formation is working normally, just as before the guys’ eyes are the positions that the bank now has in gold, the quality of a trader is not to be a gambler, to analyze with a very cold mind those risks that arise and those trends in

the market that exist, well, of course, the key skill is to learn to make decisions in a situation with incomplete information, which is why we have so many monitors and... news and so many tapes in order to somehow to compensate for this incompleteness, but still, of course, you don’t know everything, and the guys working here, every day they make tens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of decisions, of which for a good trader, naturally, most of them are correct, correct, and affect the price of gold a huge number of factors, therefore, traders and analysts have to analyze virtually a huge amount of information online. which influences this market, the exchange rate changes, the exchange rate of gold in rubles immediately changes, there is a strike somewhere in one of the mines, this influences, introduces new duties, this influences, introduces new ones. regulation affects whether there is a national holiday in india or chinese new year, this also affects, because these are some of the countries of the largest consumers of gold, factors that can

stop the volume of production, especially in in terms of cataclysms, they can be large, that is , the flood in brazil can have a very strong impact, because it is a fine on the gold mining company, and sometimes there are tens of billions of dollars, that is... large macro events of this exact format that can radically change the volume of supply by market? i just belong to the category of people who believe that, first of all, gold has value as an investment instrument. i know, of course, that no one has canceled jewelry making about industrial applications in microelectronics, but for me gold is first and foremost a sacred metal. we need to remember the moment of the emergence of cryptocurrencies. bitcoin was popularized very quickly, and again they began to say that the same financial asset had appeared that would not only displace currencies, fiat

currencies, but would also displace gold, but to date not a single cryptocurrency has succeeded in this, moreover , the same bitcoin is very often called digital gold, yes, drawing some analogy between gold and bitcoin. and talk about the same digital currencies, cryptocurrencies will be able to somehow displace gold, i think that this will not happen, that is, this monetary function of gold is preserved, maybe humanity has really been living in conditions of gold for too long, and probably this is already somewhere on some intuitive level he perceives... as the very asset without which the economy, human life is impossible, so perhaps the very rarity of gold plays a role. why do i smile

at bitcoin? i still can’t, to be honest, understand why and what it is for. costs 40,000 dollars, this is probably just for those people who cannot reach gold, well, or it is such a speculative instrument, but in fact the role is that ... wallets, when you cannot use , say, dollars there, but you can buy an equivalent amount through some wallet, your counterparty will receive this money, which is what many people are doing now, but gold

has a fundamental value, cryptocurrency does not have it, when we don’t know what we are doing, when we don’t know of what is happening to us, in this situation the level uncertainty is at its maximum, when you have the maximum level of uncertainty, you need insurance. gold is the best insurance against the unknown, that's why we accumulate gold, this market breathes all the time, it changes all the time, trading starts on monday morning and ends on friday night, and even we have shifts, how we transfer control of our portfolios, management quotes, that is, we actually work 24/7.

a trader, he must understand how and where gold is produced, in what quantity, up to how the calculations take place, where the storage takes place, how the logistics take place, it is very important, yes, by planes, by cars, in what number of departments it is distributed, where, what quantity. lies and is stored, where it goes, in what condition, since the times of the soviet union we have had this culture of investing in precious metals, it was interrupted, after the collapse of the soviet union no one cared about gold, no time for investments, because the us dollar appeared, everyone saw the dollar with, let's say, salvation, it was also a way investments, saving savings, accumulating savings, well, probably these echoes persist to this day in any

situation of instability. the population, as they say, lines up in exchange offices, this is just another habit from the nineties that has been preserved, although in fact in the financial system there is such a stable expression: and gold is a protective asset in any unstable situation in the economy, in politics and in general, when some turbulent situations occur in a person’s life. investments are made specifically in gold, gold is a protective asset, it protects its owner from inflation, because if you take the horizon of several decades, or, say, the last century, then gold prices have increased multiple, that is, more than tenfold, if you bought gold, well in this case, i mean,

of course, impersonal gold. in paper form , relatively speaking, then you need to constantly monitor its value, this is the twentieth year, when the coronavirus pandemic developed at the beginning of this year, that is, the first working days, i i don’t remember, it was january 9 or 10, 2020, a gram of gold cost 3,000 something , about 3.45 rubles, about the same as the coronavirus pandemic began, as soon as the ruble began to fall, as soon as... stock market volatility increased sharply market, the price of gold began to rise, by the beginning of november of the same year, 2020 grams of gold already cost 4.886 rubles with kopecks, then from the dollar gold increased in price by about 65%, there is little that you can earn on so quickly, but you need to buy on time and sell on time in order to become...

a gold holder, an investor in gold, it is often enough to go to your internet bank, open an account, buy gold, that’s it, you don’t need anything else, but if the value is, well, for you, as a consumer, the value of gold in physical form is to come to the branch and buy it exactly the same way, the so -called standard bars, this is what you and i are used to seeing on tv, like this: huge bricks of gold, the weight goes from several kilograms to several tens of kilograms, well, relatively speaking 10-12 kg is the average size of such an ingot, this is the country’s gold reserve, it is stored in standard ingots, there is a type of ingot for the population, these are the so-called measured ingots, they just go from 1 g to a kilogram. these are

investment bars, according to the requirements, this is a certain area, thickness, the range varies slightly, the weight range, and this is a certain location of the information that is in the bar, that is, this is russia, the country of origin is the weight, this is the material, this is the purity, then we have this four nines, but also the manufacturer's logo. we produce stamped ingots here. automation has been added here, allowing you to work uninterruptedly for days. that is, the line does not work on an even schedule. last year we made 2 tons 600 kg. so you

understand, this is about 200 thousand pieces, this is quite a large figure, it is connected with the fact that vat on investment bars was abolished, for comparison, the year before last, this is the twenty-first year, we produced only 300 kg, that is, you can understand immediately at 10 since we increased our volumes, and the abolition of vat increased this demand.