well, yes, i already said, i recently recalled faust, yes, stop for a moment - this is wonderful, this is generally not our method, we must constantly strive to achieve new goals, everything is never good, but in general , the russian economy is certainly developing steadily, if last year we were happy that our gdp growth was what? 3.4%, yes, 3.4%, so, in the first half of this year, yesterday my colleagues and i discussed what we will talk about today, i said, well, 4% for me, mr. oreshkin corrected me, in in the first half of the year 4.6% growth, well, of course, this is a good indicator for our economy, i think that there will be a correction by the end of the year, but, but in general we can count on,

as... it happens, here in malaysia we have 2% inflation, but there is, as i said, in total, everything is fine not for us, unfortunately, more, it has reached, we have a target indicator of about four, and it has reached more than 9 percent recently, 2, 9.2, however, now it has a downward trend, already less than nine. eight and nine is how much, and the downward trend, and this is - this is good that concerning the fact that we physically lack, well yes, here is another fold, on which mr. prime minister recalled - that is, he spoke about the fact that the main task of the state is to save the people, we need of course to solve demographic problems, take care of families with children and so on. but the labor market

is really in a unique position, that is two with a little percent 2.4 in my opinion, this has never happened in our history, this is connected with the needs of real production, how can this issue be solved, well first of all, of course, i repeat, it is necessary take care of the population, increase the birth rate, create conditions for people to start large families, so that it is fashionable and...

that means robotization, we need to study biology, genetics, especially in agriculture, we have something to do, we will move in all these directions, and i will move, and personnel, yes, excuse me, please, and personnel, of course we need to train personnel, that means, this is the most important task of the state, that is why a new national project has appeared, is appearing, so called personnel, well, and i will move on to further economic issues, we

are meeting here a week before the next meeting of the central bank, at the previous one it was decided that the rate would be 18%, by the way, here is andrei lenevich kostin sitting in the front row, already talking about the fact that behind the scenes the form, that he expects the 18% rate to be maintained this time, while over the past year banks have increased consumer lending with unsecured mortgages by 3.5 trillion rubles, and the monthly growth rates here are becoming very high, and corporate lending also grew by 2.3% in july. this is the central bank citing data, so how can you explain this contradiction, the contradiction between the high rate that is now in place, and at the same time lending is at a very good pace, this is how experts believe that this is largely due to two things, the first is that consumer lending, it remains at a high level, because individuals... they are not

very sensitive to the key rate first, second, as for corporate lending, then firstly, the plans are defined. enterprises are drawn up, they, nevertheless, despite the increase in the key rate, continue to receive loans, we still made a decision, according to which - support measures are implemented for individual sectors of the economy, there are state instruments related to support, in fact, subsidizing certain rates for industries and for large projects, so i think that this is what explains it. said that there are no risks to financial stability, but at the same time noted that the scale of overheating of the economy in the first half of the year was the highest in the last 16 years, so what do you think, are there any risks to stability today and how do you plan to cool the situation, if it needs to be done, well, that's how they cool it

by raising the key rate, canceling preferential mortgages, it now supports , that is... finances for budget balance, and speaking about investments, we have already noted the figures that are in the far east, but at the same time, the main capital in the twenty-third year, according to rosstat, investment growth amounted to about 9.8%, and this is after

the rise that was in the twenty-second year, the trend continues today, so what do you think, will the same rate of investment continue in the future and what can prevent it? it will not be easy to maintain the same rate of investment, given the circumstances that we just talked about, but we need to strive for this, for this purpose those special support instruments are being invented that i talked about, but well , i repeat, it will not be easy to maintain investments at the same level, but the government should. think about where in what areas to support business so that there is no noticeable, serious, harmful failure for the economy as a whole. now another topic that is not directly related to what we are discussing here today, not with

the russian economy, not the far eastern one, this is the topic of the pre-election race in the usa, i can't help but ask, you said before that you have, perhaps, you can name your favorite in it, but he dropped out of the race, who is new and... in november, when the results of this will be known races, will you call and congratulate the new head of state or not? well, we haven't called representatives of some european countries and the united states for a long time, although we haven't refused these contacts, they are the ones who limit them, although of course certain information can be exchanged on and off through various channels, primarily through the channels of the meade, and as for the favorites, it's not for us to determine that, it's still the choice of the american people, and well, i told you, for us, the favorite, if i may say so, was the current president, mr. biden, well, here he is, he was removed from the race, but he

recommended to all his, that is, supporters to support ms. harris, so we will do the same, we will support her, this, firstly, what does this mean that she is doing well, and if she is doing well, then it means that this trump, he led the number, the number of all kinds of sanctions restrictions against russia, as for him , the president.

i will also immediately supplement this same question: in an interview with tas, the ambassador of our country to the united states, anatoly antonov, noted that more than sixty more russians remain imprisoned in us prisons, do they have a chance to return to their homeland? we always.

for which we are also grateful to him, since this ultimately led to the return of our citizens to their homeland, well, and the president of turkey, mr. erdogan, provided a turkish platform for the final resolution of these issues, as well as some other countries, from the arab world, from some. hall, applause, thank you. sir,

let's return to the topic of our meeting today, let's talk about the prospects for growth in trade turnover with russia. you already noted the day before at a meeting with vladimir vladimirovich that there are prospects and it is necessary to do this. at the same time, according to the ministry of economy, today we have a free trade agreement in force between the eu, which includes russia, with iran, vietnam and serbia. and it has already been decided that the same. agreement will be signed with mongolia, there are also negotiations with indonesia, a number of other countries, does malaysia have similar ideas? we believe in free trade, there are no restrictions, and i assured the president putin yesterday that we will continue to do this, we have good relations with iran and with many other countries.

industrial delegation and what is important, we will see invite delegations from banks and from faster changes, more positive changes in terms of trade, as well as exchange between russia and malaysia, and we hope that we can achieve this as soon as possible. vladimirevich, in your speech you spoke about the way to solve the problem of the projected

electricity deficit in the far east, well, if we talk about the country as a whole, are there enough electricity generation volumes today? well, it depends on the regions, in siberia, for example, there is excess generation, in the far east there is a deficit and it will, unfortunately, increase if the necessary measures are not taken in a timely manner, in the european part, there we also need to think about timely. not only repairs, but also deep modernization, well, therefore there are plans, they are being developed, some, some have already been approved, the main thing is to implement everything in a timely manner, to establish such economically, well, justified work in this area in a timely manner make decisions, but speaking about energy, another question, though already connected, probably with external markets at the end of this... year, the agreement on the supply of russian gas in transit through ukraine to the eu will expire. the head of the kiev regime has already

stated that he is not going to extend the contract. in general, what do you think are the energy prospects of europe? are the voices of those who will suffer heard at all? well , the head of gazprom, on the contrary, is also in the front row, as is vtb, and i will also contact germanov soon. all here, here, but this is good, because everyone is showing interest in developing their business in the far east, but, but... and as for ukraine, we are not giving up this transit, strange as it may seem, why? because we intend, and the gazprom company, to fulfill all its obligations to our clients, with whom there are long-term contracts, but one of the mandatory components of this

joint work is transit, there is a transit contract, which... ends, ends on december 31, yes alexey, this years, that means, but if ukraine refuses this transit, well, we can’t force them, our main consumers in europe apparently don’t want to do this, yes, although they provide comprehensive assistance, support, both military and financial, whatever ukraine wants, but ukraine refuses our transit, that means, those volumes of gas that... go to europe, that means, they will be reduced, they will go along other routes, in particular through the turkish stream, maybe partly through the blue stream to turkey too, well, although this is for domestic consumption, but nevertheless, they will create this to help energy stability in europe, but it is their choice, how will this affect them, well, i don’t

know to the end, we are dealing with our own issues, and let them deal with theirs, you know, then i just don’t even know how to characterize this attitude towards their allies and partners, which many people demonstrate in the united states, and in the same ukraine, it is very strange, it is simply incomprehensible to me, but they took and blew up this gas pipeline along the bottom of the baltic sea, the northern flow, they blew up both one and one thread of nord stream 2, by the way, one. exists, it is in working order, what prevents the same german government from pressing the button, agreeing with us and turning it on, how much is 25 billion m on one thread, 27.5 billion meters of gas would immediately go to europe, to germany. why they don't do this, i don't

understand, they can receive through ukraine, receive through turkish stream, and... management, the project is good, that means for deliveries to the people's republic of china, next year we will reach the design capacity of 38 billion m, plus from the far east from here, sakhalin-vladivostok, also to the people's republic of china, plus another 10 billion m. we are studying other routes,

i repeat, this is not connected in any way with the events , these are simply agreements that were reached many years ago, we are implementing all of this, plus we will, plus we will develop, that means, gas liquefaction, and here they are trying to create problems for us, but mr. mikhelson knows about this better than anyone else, but all the same it is developing, and russia's share in supplies to the world market liquefied natural gas is gradually increasing, it is not as big as we would like, but we will still... despite any difficulties that they are trying to create for us, we will still do it, because what is the problem here, it means, no matter who and how they try to close our energy, it is impossible, because production is at the limit in accordance with the needs of the world market, this is impossible, you just understand, it is impossible, you can achieve,

just imagine, imagine that tomorrow they took everything. they closed our gas, oil and so on further, but the world economy will not withstand such a closure, prices will simply skyrocket anyway, they will still buy, it is impossible without this, that is the whole point, because when our ill-wishers and those who introduce illegal restrictions, which the deputy chairman of the people's republic of china spoke about, do this, they do not do it from the bottom of their hearts,

they compare, that is, or how many percent there is by 50, probably by 60 more than ours, ours costs energy, gas, gas, i mean first of all, well, of course, the economy of europe, including germany, which is based on our energy resources , is going through very serious trials, many industries are simply closing, that's the whole point, but it's not our choice, we are ready, please,

there will be a certain reduction in income for us, but nothing more, about gasification, i'll clarify a little bit about, by the way, gazprom, alexey borisevich named the volume that went along the branches of the nord stream, what do you think, taking into account now those projects that are in the implementation stage both in central asia and with iran china.

last year, this has never happened before in history, probably, well, of course, they need it, but we have such resources, we will coordinate our actions with

turkmenistan, of course, but iran has been asking us for supplies for a long time, well, this is also a very convenient place for us, the deposits are nearby, we are now thinking, i believe, that these are quite feasible projects, bearing in mind that the markets are huge and... we need to unite, gazprom has such plans, to unite, the european part of the far eastern transport system,

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