nika yankova nika greetings what other key sectors did the head of government mention? alexander greetings, well, there are actually a lot of them, but i will start by saying that my visit to mineralnye vody, and prime minister mikhail mishustin began by visiting the exhibition, which is held by minovody and expo is the first caucasian constitutional exhibition, which is dedicated to investment and tourism potential, as well as many other issues, and therefore related to the development of the north caucasus and at the beginning and the prime minister looked at the exhibition stands, including, and at the stand of south ossetia talked about the development of the project related to natural resources at the stand of the northern network, getting acquainted with the development projects of the agro-industrial complex at the stand of dagestan discussed the development of tourism infrastructure, including those related to the development of the caspian class. well , then a meeting was held on socio-economic issues of development region and the following statements were made here. just 2 years ago , economic development models were introduced in the district, which helped to synchronize. the action of the federal regional authorities and also the state corporation, thanks to this program , more than 40 billion rubles were attracted to the north caucasus. over 9,000 jobs were created with investments, and separately mikhail mishustin noted the positive dynamics of the main economic indicators of the north caucasus in 22. in general, we see a positive trend in the development of the district. a lot has been done for increasing the investment attractiveness of the regions of the north caucasus over the past year, the volume, and investments in fixed assets, but reached almost eight percent and there is growth, and in industry the volume of goods of own production has clearly increased today, and we saw it at the stands, and passing the exhibition. unemployment has already seriously decreased to approximately 10%, which is 3.6% points over the past 3 years. at the same time, the number of employed uh, in the economy by almost four and a half percent. today. this is more than four million people, tourist agricultural transport, logistics complex , there are many industries in the north caucasus where it is possible to develop even further, said deputy for the government alexandra novak , but in order for new projects to develop, they expand. to do this, of course, it is necessary to attract investments, and alexander nalogo spoke about the importance of attracting this money and about the mechanisms for implementing such a task. let's listen to the caucasus, earn money, implement projects and programs in the banking sector , housing and communal services, tourism there is a single development institute for the caucasus and the russian federation , special attention is focused on the introduction of a new tool, the significant role of which for the vykhinovich macroregion. they just said that this model of economic development is their main task to increase investment in the development of their own industries. job creation the model formation methodology was developed taking into account the analysis of the labor market and the scale of the shadow economy of available support measures. economic development and the ministry of finance are now studying the introduction of additional incentives for the exit of businesses and the shadows such a statement was made, and as part of the consecration on the socio-economic development of the north caucasus, the minister of economic development maxim reshetnikov announced this , including they will look at the practice of tax regimes that work effectively in other regions. and also maxim reshetnikov spoke separately about the importance of supporting small businesses. and, by the way, what is the dynamics of lending to enterprises? in terms of lending to smes, the district is ahead of other federal districts in last year. every fourth loan portfolio was provided with state support, and in the caucasus the highest share of lending with state support is one and a half times higher than the national one. that is, well, of course, there are some specifics here, so state support is still needed, but, while banks have begun to actively provide loans, the district is actively responding to this separately. here i would like to note the work of the sme corporation, within the framework of the national project on small business and within the framework of the north caucasus program. there are many joint tools here. on first investment exhibition of the caucasus, which these days are held in minds, and we will tell you about other statements in the next editions. thanks nika, for example , the connection from mineralnye vody was not inca. already more than 100,000 people have registered to participate in the new fifth season of the leadership competition for leaders of russia. the first place in the applications received is occupied by the central federal district. the second privolzhsky on the third northwestern until the end of the acceptance of documents, there are less than two weeks left to apply on the official website project leaders of russia point of the russian federation this was announced today by the general director of the presidential platform of russia the country of opportunities alexei komissarov at the moment we have crossed the mark of 100,000. uh, registration applications came to us from all russian regions and from 79 countries of the world . traditionally, citizens of the countries of the post-soviet space are actively registered, and a large number of applications come from european countries, and also connects to contestants from