vladimir mikhailovich dzhabarov, you have the floor. thank you very much. colleagues, there are many senators in this hall, including your humble servant, who clearly remembers the day of september 21 2011, when the new member of the federation council from st. petersburg, valentina ivanovna matviyenko, was elected chairperson of the federation council for the first time by secret ballot, almost unanimously. at that time, we did not yet fully understand that the upper chamber of the federal assembly was headed by a statesman, a politician of the highest level, who devoted his entire adult life to serving the fatherland. having headed our chamber, valentina ivanna matviyenko managed to consolidate and organize the effective work of the entire senatorial corps, but in this she was first and foremost demanding of herself. it was under her that the federation council truly became a chamber of regions, the heads of regions, republics, and legislative assemblies regularly meet with the chairman of the federation council, report on their problems, ask for help and

mikhailovich, thank you very much for... i remember we talked with vladimir dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the federation council committeeinternational affairs, and i'll remind you again, tomorrow he starts his work, it will be interesting to discuss, but for now vladimir mikhailovich reminded us about the elections, yes, there were other interesting ones the bundestag elections, there was certainly an interesting thing there, the headlines. is the situation being assessed correctly? on the one hand, it seems like the sdp won formally, but without scholz, scholz was not shown, the local leader was trying to distance himself from mr. scholz, who is personally extremely unpopular, it should be recalled that he lives in this territory, i am saying this for our tv viewers, that is, this is his... like a place where he should be extremely popular, but for some reason they don't like him there. evgeny, why is this happening, tell us, how do you see the election results, is it as your own newspapers, the main ones, write? yes, indeed, on the weekend on sunday there were significant elections, in the third land, the eastern land