we will take on this case, it will be... honest detective, there is a nervous atmosphere in the world, it seems that nothing major is happening on the markets, but everyone lives with the feeling of something. very

unpleasant coming in europe, for example, a report on competitiveness was published, commissioned by the european commission under the leadership of mastitov mario draghi, the former head of the european central bank. the picture is gloomy. growth in europe has been slowing down for a long time, but we did not pay attention to it. i would say that 2 years ago, we would never have started such a conversation like today, because everything was fine, globalization was good for us, unemployment was steadily falling, but now we can no longer ignore it, by all indications, we have lost our main supplier of cheap energy, russia. these are the words of the former head of the european central bank and former prime minister of italy, mario draghi, who , at the request of the european commission, presented a 400-page report on the state of affairs

in europe. the report says that the gap with the us and china in technological development is widening. in addition, 2024 - the first year in which europe cannot count on population growth, and its numbers will steadily decline. and by 2040 , 2 million workers will disappear from the labor market every year. and their productivity is very low. provided that it does not change, this will only be enough to... maintain gdp at a constant level until 2050. in addition, the drags complain, europe, for the first time since the end of world war ii, has to worry about its defense again. if europe stops providing basic values ​​- prosperity, equality, freedom, peace, democracy in a sustainable environment and guarantees for the population, it will lose its reason for existence, - the document emphasizes.

to prevent the economy from falling into a slow death throe, draghi proposes investing 800 billion euros in it, which is approximately 4.5% of the eu gdp in 2023. for comparison, investments under the marshall plan from 1948 to 1951 were equivalent to 1-2% of gdp. a massive issue of pan-european debt obligations is also proposed. from a rational point of view, draghi is right: the european union needs to turn into an economic monolith in order to make a breakthrough. politically , this is impossible, the trends across the old world are opposite, the desire to emphasize originality and the aggravation of allergy to supranational governance. this is generally the main dilemma of modern post-globalization. military and political crises are growing, tearing the world

apart, but these parts are still closely interconnected, so much so that a break in communication affects everyone, it is not beneficial to anyone, but this does not mean that it will not happen, it is already happening, possession of a particular resource is not so much a source of profit as a weapon, and the russian president recently defended it, it is time to think about limiting the export of strategically important raw materials to unfriendly countries. western countries, including the united states, continue to buy russian resources . until the end of 2022 , the main buyers of russian raw materials were the countries of the european union. however, after they introduced anti-russian sanctions, exports to europe decreased by half compared to the previous year. russia is one of the largest producers of precious metals and gemstones. it ranks fifth in the world in terms of production. gold is about 6-7%

of the world market. in terms of production of platinum group metals, russia ranks second after yur, the share here is much larger. about a quarter of all world production. moscow is also the main supplier of fuel for american nuclear power plants. the united states still buys about 20% of enriched uranium from it. the largest producer of this raw material , kazakhstan, occupies almost half of the world market. the head of kaz atomprom said recently, that it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to supply uranium to the west. all raw materials are being bought up by partners from asia. rosatom, meanwhile, has signed a contract with bolivia to build a lithium carbonate plant, its launch is scheduled for the second half of 2025, with a design capacity of up to 14 thousand tons per year. lithium carbonate is a raw material that is needed to produce lithium

batteries. russia is the world leader in non-ferrous metal ore reserves. over the past two years, western companies have bought almost... the us has so far only introduced export controls against the supplier, which do not prohibit the import of titanium from russia. the economy loves rationality, but now this is almost an unaffordable luxury. and how to live?

today we have a very dear guest, to whom we will ask this sacramental question. roman marshavin, executive director from russia at the world bank. roman, hello. i am very glad to see you, tell us for a start, the world bank has always been perceived as , in addition to all other political affairs, a very powerful analytical center, the task which here to analyze the world economy, as it is and to give some assessments, now it is possible in the current political circumstances? in principle forecasts are quite high-quality and many industry reports they are still in all leading...

months, and here in the forecast for russia that the conflict ends in the next few years it is written that the conflict will last for many years, therefore russia's growth rates will be low, and ukraine's high, we call the teams, we explain to them that this is clearly a failure.

a blatant phenomenon on the american side, that the data needs to be tweaked, there is no need to raise russia like that and promote it. as for europe, the european economy, the bank makes a very modest forecast for this year of about 0.7% growth, but again the situation varies by country, by many large economies, this is germany.

and dresden. the plants are going to be moved to the usa. the main problem is unjustified high production costs compared to competitors. other german auto giants have similar problems. loading of production capacities of daimler plants, mercedes-benz and smart currently make up 58%. and porsche is also going to announce a production cut. its plant in zufenhau.

and volkswagen, porsche and audi by 20%. however, it is not only automakers that have problems. recently, the country has reduced the squall. 70 years, such companies often worked with minimal profitability, and now it has become very difficult for them, well... in general , it turns out, well, it is guided by these forecasts, let's say, the world

bank can instill optimism? such global ones are valuable analytical industry reports, for example, we had a good report this year on how middle -income countries stimulate their economic growth, that there is such a term as the middle-income country trap, when a country gets out of poverty, and then the growth rate slows down. there are very good recipes formulated there, before that there was a report on migration, on trends in the world, in which regions the population is growing, in which there is a labor shortage, what to do about it, that is, there are such applied, interesting research, useful, and as for macro forecasts, here, probably, they are still more guided by the imf, although we also have so-called outlooks twice a year, where the bank also forecasts growth rates for... all countries. tell me, please, mentioning europe, well, europe has always

been considered a very prosperous zone, unlike many others. now, for, well, an outsider, the feeling is that it’s just the opposite, problem countries, problems remain, but they are developing, they are solving them, and europe seems to be either stagnating, or even turns into a source of problems. here in the work of international organizations, this is somehow recorded, i'm not even talking about specific problems of europe, but the fact that the world palette has changed dramatically, of course, is recorded, and the bank warns in its reports about the risks associated with the debt crisis, well, everyone knows that the level of public debt in europe, it is already off the charts in almost all countries over 100% of gdp, this is of course a threat to the entire world economy, due to the large size of the european market, if there are problems in europe, naturally, they are honored. in other regions, we remember the same asian financial crisis of the nineties or

the global finance of 2008, when european banks or companies begin to suffer losses in their markets and begin to withdraw profits from other regions of the world, where in principle everything is fine, yes, then problems begin there too, there is much talk about the fact that military spending is growing in europe now, and because of this, spending is being cut. to help development, but as even unofficial european colleagues admit to me, no one with this can't do anything, nobody listens to them, the question that is very acute here for obvious reasons, will there be an alternative to those payment systems that have a monopoly, the dollar, in the world in the foreseeable future? politically it is clear that sooner or later this will happen, well, as if the trend has already... been determined, from an economic point of view, when can we expect real

changes, because there is a lot of talk, but for now it is of course extremely difficult to shake the dollar, well, we see that changes are already happening, and many countries, saudi arabia, others, openly announce the transition to settlements in yuan and other currencies, and russia had to do this, so i think this is the future, because. countries see that it is too risky to rely on the dollar, your assets can be confiscated at any moment, i think our chairmanship in brics will contribute to these processes, because the dollar is. frankly speaking, it is very convenient, if you distract yourself from political risks, the system worked well, well , it was convenient, everything worked, but everyone began hostages of this system, i think, having seen what happened to our assets, other countries do not want to repeat this experience, as a representative of russia, do you feel,

i don’t know, obstruction, isolation, some kind of bad personal attitude, i’m not talking about the professional sphere now, in march of the twenty -second year, accordingly, all western shareholders began to speak out with condemnation of our actions, despite the fact that the bank has a charter ban on any political discussions at all, we must discuss only the economy, and this worked for 70 years, no other conflicts, no wars that the us unleashed in other regions, they were never discussed, but here there is... naturally, when russia needed to be criticized, everyone forgot about these statutory documents, despite the fact that we constantly referred to them, and the first months, western colleagues, well, everyone probably remembers, they tried to do the same at the un in other forums, during our spring session

of governors during the speech of the russian representative, seven or eight western ministers... it does not enjoy support, after that people stopped running out, in principle the attitude and this position on isolating russia in criticism, towards us has become more respectful, i personally do not feel attacks, well, except for representatives of the usa and canada, they generally do not greet us and avoid

any even visual contacts, if they come towards us in the corridor, they look away... i don’t know what they are afraid of, we were able to unite representatives of the global majority, the global south, that is, if earlier developing countries spoke rather disparately, there was no common positions, and the westerners, on the contrary, coordinate weekly on all items on the agenda, issue joint statements, we were able to consolidate this group, it is called group 11, but it represents more than 120 countries, and now... we have weekly meetings where we coordinate positions, in principle we have already managed to even out the balance of interests, i think that in the future, control over these institutions will definitely pass to the global south, simply due to demographic trends in the gdp ratio, so we are not dramatizing the situation, already as

i said that such violent attacks have ceased because at the beginning of the twenty -second year...

nicolas maduro's victory in the recent presidential elections is not recognized by either western powers or, more importantly, latin american neighbors. karakos is no

stranger to external pressure, but the confrontation is given with increasing creaking. the population is tired, sketches from venezuelan life from eugenia to madrid. they say that a time of crisis is a time of great opportunities, and indeed. businesses and enterprises, as well as thieves, swindlers and fraudsters. after the introduction of american sanctions, the country was on the brink of economic disaster, many survived thanks to money transfers from abroad, but years later venezuela more or less established supplies with the help of friendly countries such as china and iran. prices stopped rising, there was even a... "i am waiting for my clients, who are now writing a statement to the prosecutor's office

about fraud on a large scale, this swindler's name is count von luxburg. it seems that he pretended to be a german count and deceived hundreds of citizens with the help of a financial pyramid venezuela. john arbiyan has been involved in supporting foreign investors in venezuela for the last year, his daily routine is similar to each other." practice: we install spare parts, they break down, it happens that the same week the client can't even start the car, well then we go to his aid, to at least

help him save money on evacuation. the prices for spare parts are sky-high, and if the client wants a guarantee, then this is a separate service, it costs about 30% of the price of the goods for electronic spare parts, in general, a guarantee sounds like a mockery from 24 to 48 hours. that the gasoline is of terrible quality, the whole city is smoky, they sell diluted oil, sometimes you look, it seems like you recently filled the oil, the indicators are normal, but it still disappeared somewhere, and smoke comes out of the car. john r. considers himself one of those who was able to honestly monetize this disgrace. yes, he earns money by helping clients, but at the same time he restores justice, those who really cause his indignation are those who profit from their own neighbors, for example, sew on consumer goods and ...

that i will probably hide my mobile in a safe place, if suddenly thieves enter the bus, i will give them my bag and empty wallet. unfortunately,

almost every second venezuelan can now share an empty wallet with street thugs, as the citizens of the country themselves say, the rich continue to get richer, while the poor only get poorer. especially for the program international review evgenia do madrid, caracos, venezuela. joseph biden has been forgotten, meanwhile he is said to be ready to make a decision that could hardly be not his main expiring presidency. strikes with long-range western weapons on russian targets far from the combat zone could, as vladimir putin said, change the nature of this conflict. biden is traditionally cautious, his escalation ladder consists of many.

fresh impressions from a new land where they know how to build our escalation steps will be shared, so see you in a week, watch the international review.

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over the past week, the russian military has carried out 39 group strikes with high-precision weapons and drones on ukrainian oil and gas and energy facilities that supported the operation of defense industry enterprises . the defense ministry also reported that gunpowder and missile component manufacturing plants and military airfield infrastructure were hit. air defense systems shot down nine atacoms missiles and 25 hymer rockets made in the united states, as well as 433 aircraft-type drones.