i say ivanovich i ask you thank you very much alexander aleksandrovich dear participants and guests of the forum, changes in the global economy and energy, how its foundations are gaining more and more momentum and our forum is acquiring special significance from the point of view view of the analysis of ongoing changes. i am glad to welcome the participants in our discussion today in the face of unprecedented sanctions , we do not want to name all of our partners in the hall. how is this done in law enforcement agencies? it's a joke. nevertheless , i'm joking again at the request not to direct the cameras into the hall. if you want, we can call our session the secret evenings, taking into account the time for the morning, so i want to start with the words of special thanks. to all participants in western civilization prosperity, which was ensured through tools such as colonization, slavery, the inquisition, up to the use of nuclear weapons against civilians in the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki, which claimed the lives of more than half a million people , showed that the main method