so says the lighthouse.

the eastern economic forum has finished its work, it has attracted great interest.

thus, showing that russia has already, one might say, turned to the asian-pacific region, moreover, as the president stated, russia has defined the development of the far east as a priority for the entire 21st century. we discussed this topic in more detail today with the minister for the development of the far east and the arctic, alexey chikunkov. alexey olegovich, hello, thank you for finding the time, a wonderful view of vladivostok and the forum is already on...

russian foreign investments do not stop, they increase, despite the high key rate, despite the geopolitical difficulties, the far east remains an increasingly investment-attractive region of russia. by the way, many were worried about the rate, that the mortgage, the rate will be changed, after all, these are long-term loans, and as i understand it, the issue has been resolved here, this is perhaps the most joyful. news for residents of the far east and the arctic. our president put an end to the question of how much the far eastern arctic mortgage will cost up until the thirtieth year. 2%. period. and no other parameters for receiving this loan will be changed. the decision to keep the original parameters for the far eastern mortgage on the same terms to launch the arctic mortgage has already been made by the president earlier. this is 20%. contribution, moreover, it is constantly

expanding to an increasing number of groups, categories that can receive it, this is, of course, in addition to young families, participants in a special military operation, teachers, doctors, workers in the military-industrial complex, therefore the far eastern arctic mortgage remains a powerful incentive to attract new retention of existing residents in the far east in the arctic, we will stand firm. so that the conditions of the far eastern arctic mortgage do not change for the worse, what else is supposed to be done to make the region attractive so that people move to work in such beauty? rapid economic growth, rapid creation of new enterprises, certainly create a number of problems, such as a shortage of electricity, such as the load on infrastructure, rising prices, we discussed these questions on the circumstances... east, it will be

developed by 2050, but the decision. on increasing reliability and on creating new power plants in the next five years should be made by march 1, we discussed air accessibility, especially for small hard-to-reach regions, issues of creating a light aircraft, and of course, an extensive agenda of social development, i would highlight the president's decision to allocate an additional 100 billion rubles for the implementation of master plans, we were pioneers in the master plan program that the president announced in... this year the first 70 facilities will be commissioned, and we will try to remain, to be at the forefront of this work, to make sure that every year the residents

of the far east see qualitative improvements in their cities. we talked about plans to change the situation in the electric power industry, but is there any? understanding of how this will be done specifically, is it possible to build nuclear power plants, this was also discussed at the forum , as the president directly pointed out, and here we certainly have a consolidated position with the rusatom corporation, that the nuclear energy is, firstly, one of the most environmentally friendly, long-term, reliable sources of energy, of course, in the power supply base of the far east should be... such sources as hydroelectric power, traditionally coal power on modern environmentally friendly fuels, modern environmentally friendly, excuse me, technologies, but nuclear energy can be considered as one of the sources in the base, and as a balancing source, the sun, the wind, as you

can see behind me, the far east, this is one of the sunniest regions it would be a sin for russia not to create new solar and wind power plants here. all technical solutions will be verified and presented to the president by march 1 , 2025, well, it seems like it is really known from geography that vladivostok is located at the latitude of sochi, if my memory serves me right from school geography, in my opinion, it is at the longitude of magadan, that's it, yes, these are the features that they create, i 'm talking about vladivostok, yes, i understand, yes, i understand that these are the geographical features, and as the president said, this is outpost of our advancement to... to this region economically, as i understand it, these grandiose plans, and they are all provided with financial resources, otherwise they will remain just plans? well, believe me, as an economist, a bad plan is one that is 100% provided with financial resources, it means it is

not ambitious enough, but we see from the history of the progressive increasing development of the far east that plans are coming true, so we are making the same bold plans. issues of floods, rivers overflowing their banks, monsoons, the climate features of this region, here what measures will be taken to minimize their consequences? this question is related to the question of electric power, since hydroelectric power plants play

another important role in addition to the production of electricity, they serve as balancing anti-spring structures, therefore... will take into account the need to counter this misfortune, which, unfortunately, along with forest fires, is a traditional creation of hydroelectric power plants, including a problem in the far east, it will be solved within the framework of the energy development plan, and there is another issue, it is the development of tourism, and accordingly, well , it is a long way from central russia to fly to the east, tickets are expensive, measures are being taken, there are various discount programs and so on. maybe this problem can be expanded somehow, solved so that people can move between regions more calmly, more easily? well , today the fare for a ticket between moscow and the capitals of the far east is about 11 thousand rubles one way, i would not

agree that with such a long flight it was an expensive fare, of course the task is to develop connecting flights. interregional intraregional aviation, this was discussed in great detail at the meeting with the president on infrastructure, in addition, there was a very interesting meeting between the president and the moderators of the key sessions:

we are flying, fog, not fog, and so on , maybe we can somehow resolve issues here, firstly, of course, the loss of life is a tragedy, especially it is a tragedy when people fly in to relax, to get a positive impression, and it is too early to draw conclusions about the most recent tragedy that occurred in kamchatka, let the competent authorities do it, but still i agree that the far eastern arctic tourism makes... increased demands on the qualifications of all participants, on the preparation of both the tourists themselves, and of course

the tour operators, on the proper instructions, the proper even psychological portrait, the mood of those guides, pilots, everyone who was involved in providing the tourist service, you are right, we will work with the industry with the regulator, in order to prevent the repetition of such tragedies in the future. alexey. and now the topic geopolitics, economics, after all , the prime minister of malaysia, the deputy chairman of the prc, this is a very significant representation, they really said, 75 countries, a lot, and even from unfriendly ones there were quite a lot of businessmen, although for them it is dangerous to some extent, it was a visit, nevertheless, what is here with international cooperation a little more in detail, are there any breakthrough moments or in general they discussed the terms of cooperation. at the ninth eastern economic forum, international agreements were signed agreements for more than 120 billion

rubles, this is three times more than at the last wef, i literally met with the ambassador of india to russia today, we saw how representative delegations arrived for the ninth wef, and we see a very practical interest in the widest range of issues, it is especially gratifying that business interest goes absolutely hand in hand with cultural interest, in russian culture, in russian geography, in our places, in the far east, the prime minister of malaysia admitted that he is not really in russia, let alone in the far east it was the first time, the impressions that foreign guests of the forum share with us are exclusively positive, well, as you can see behind my back, this is a beautiful place, and the whole far east is like that, not only its man-made objects, such as the bridge over the golden rob buktu, but the stunning nature, and most importantly: friendly, interesting, brave people who live in the far east in the arctic, i am sure that our intercountry

contacts, intercultural contacts will rapidly develop and deepen, thanks to such events as the kvf. and what as for natural beauty, nature is changing, and the northern sea route may become year-round, so are there any changes in the plans for its development, what is expected? one of the agreements that made a very significant contribution to this record figure of 5 trillion rubles was precisely the agreement on the mega-project on the northern sea route, i will not disclose the name of the project for certain reasons, but it weighs more than 3 trillion rubles, and such mega-projects are created precisely in order to russia was becoming stronger.

these are the real goals that we must achieve, those whirlwinds that will bring trillions of rubles in new taxes, and therefore well-being and comfort to the lives of people living in the russian north and in the russian far east, well, as i understand it, the northern sea route will facilitate not only international trade, but also the development of the region's economy, and as i understand it, a lot was discussed at the nsr about specific plans for... the construction of industrial facilities, not only industrial, for the development of the arctic and all cities that ensure the development of the northern sea route, master plans for 16 strongholds of the russian arctic have already been prepared for the report to the president, they will soon be reported and will be implemented in the same way as is already happening with 22

far eastern master plans, modern construction technologies, transport... elections at various levels are taking place in russia, in most regions they are held over 3 days, including in the capital, where the new composition of the moscow city duma is determined. the president has already made his choice. vladimir putin voted in an online format.

september 8 in russia. a single voting day, based on its results , government bodies of different levels will be formed, this is always of great importance for political stability in the country, and today it is especially important. in total, about 400

election campaigns will be held in 83 regions, citizens will have to...

grandiose plans for the development of our city have been outlined, i am sure that with the support of st. petersburg residents, they will all be implemented.

voted in the throne room of the cathedral of christ the savior, a representative of the russian orthodox churches dropped a paper ballot into the ballot box, but there is an opportunity to vote remotely in 26 regions, in six time zones, and about a million people have already submitted such applications, in total , over 55 million voters can make their choice this year, that is... every third resident of our country, not a single vote will be lost, each one will be counted and taken into account. the 72 -hour information center is the platform where you can receive

data on the progress of the vote, almost constantly, on these monitors you can see how the whole country is voting, and here you can see how these the data is expressed in numbers, the turnout is updated constantly, each region on a separate monitor is the highest now, where they started voting early, 170,000 observers from the candidates' party and of course civil society will be able to monitor the work of the polling stations and... elections. i want to say thank you to everyone who is going to the polls today, to those who are not, have not yet decided whether to go or not, i kindly ask you to come and express your position, and i want to thank all the observers who are working at the elections both from our party and from others, because of course, well, it is very important that there is transparency. the expert center of independent public monitoring is already in touch with all the regions where elections are taking place, only. more than 17 messages have been received in one day, anyone can leave them, sharing their opinion on the voting process. there is no international observation this year, the elections are municipal, but guests from

different countries have nevertheless arrived. those who organize the elections of the south african republic, jur, mexico, i hope that in the coming days, dear colleagues, you will see everything that interests you, because the election campaign is in full swing, which is why we invited you to this time, traditionally the high interest in the elections is also indicated by the number of accredited representatives of the press this year more than 800 journalists will tell about how russia votes in their reports. natalia solovieva, anton musyakyan, alexey podstrelnov, vladislava musatova, irina zaborskaya, vesti. russian troops took control of seven settlements in the donetsk people's republic over the past week republic, the defense ministry reported. in addition, the military department commented on the group missile strikes on

ukrainian facilities. from august 31 to september 6, the russian armed forces carried out 17 group strikes with long-range precision weapons, including kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles. as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles, which resulted in the destruction of assembly plants of the rocket and space aviation industry of ukraine, critically important energy facilities, missile and artillery weapons, fuel and logistics depots. in addition, unmanned aerial vehicle assembly shops, unmanned boat storage facilities, and temporary deployment points for units of the ukrainian armed forces and nationalist foreign mercenary formations were hit. the russian military promises to carry out regular high-precision strikes on deployment points for servicemen in the ssu of foreign

mercenaries, as well as on military facilities in ukraine. this was reported by the information agency, citing a high-ranking military source. he recalled that this week alone, strikes were carried out on a training center in poltava, where about 500 specialists were killed or wounded. including mercenaries from france and germany, a strike on a workshop for the production of ammunition in the dnipropetrovsk region, a strike on a dry cargo ship with weapons for the armed forces of ukraine. a strike on a hotel in zaporizhia, where up to 50 ukrainian servicemen were killed, including 19 british mercenaries. a strike on foreign deployment points in krivoy rog, where more than 250 were killed military personnel, including about 70 french and romanian operators, drones and air defense. well, a strike on... the deployment point in kostyantynivka, where about 50 french mercenaries were killed. in addition, from august 28 to september 5 , about 50 ukrainian unmanned boats were destroyed.

hungary has not provided and will not provide ukraine with any weapons, said foreign minister peter szijjarta. hungary remains the only eu and nato member that is categorically against pumping kiev with weapons. meanwhile, today representatives european countries gathered at the ramstein air base to discuss further expansion of military aid to the kiev regime. about how this meeting of the contact group took place. and how to refrain from showy effects, in the german sky, where nothing threatens, it was covered in the most dense formation by luftwaffe fighters. it is no less symbolic that the meeting is being organized at the largest american military base in europe, located on german soil, in a word, here are those who make decisions and who will implement them, but first they still listen

requests.

create a replacement for the s-300 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as the r-27 air-to-air missile. together with the heads of large defense companies, we are creating a base to meet ukraine's needs and support it in the future, but to ensure long-term security, ukraine must continue to increase its own defense production. who will stand at the machine tool if men are being caught and sent to the front in ukraine, and washington is demanding that the draft age be lowered? it is unclear. zelensky is the last one to think about losses, because aventuruz.

zelensky will certainly not leave empty-handed, he will receive another package of weapons from the us for 250 million dollars, from great britain 650 light multi-purpose missiles, a completely new development, called martlet, named after the mythical bird, which, as they say, never sits on a perch symbolizes a fanatical movement. in ramstej they calculated that in 2 years... ukraine received weapons from the support group members for an astronomical 106 billion dollars, but there is no result, unless kiev demands everything more. alexander khristenko, news!