Regional gasification issues and will consider aspects of legal regulation of methanol production and circulation to establish an effective state control system. He will discuss the monitoring of electoral processes and the participation of the Federation Council in countering external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. The topic of preventing corporate conflicts and legal regulation of foreign participation in the authorized capital of Russian Companies will be touched upon. See you in a week. See you on the senate program. Hello, friday evening, im alexander karievsky, time to sum up the main political results of the week. This week the anniversary took place. Which the president spoke. The main thing in my opinion is what Vladimir Putin said we are building a new world. All our actions in the International Arena in recent years have been dedicated to this task. This concerns both Global Politics and the global economy. One of the topics that was actively discussed at the valdai forum was changing the rules of the game in Global Energy markets. It is clear that this topic is extreme. For us, due to the structure of our economy, it still remains dependent on the cost of raw materials, of course, not as much as it was some time ago, but nevertheless, still enough, which is why the oil and gas industry, along with the financial sector, was the main sanctions of the west have been sent, but ours have nothing former partners did not work out, Russian Companies found new buyers, although it must be admitted that this did not happen without losses. Moreover, attempts to squeeze us out of World Energy Markets are already having a Global Impact on them, that is, they can lead to the collapse of the Single Energy market. We talked about this with a participant in the daya forum, general director of the National Energy security fund, konstantin simonov. Konstantin vasilyevich, hello, thank you for finding time for us, of course, extremely important the topic that was discussed at the valdai forum is a new paradigm for the existence of the World Economy and politics in general , but the topic of Energy Markets is extremely important for us, and of course the situation is changing, you recently stated that the Global Market is collapsing, and what is it so, what should we do about it . Well, you know , in fact, the situation here is quite curious, why, because by the destruction of the Global Market, i meant those absolutely barbaric measures that were applied against russia, oil exports and gas exports, and well, we all remember very well, this is an embargo, a price ceiling, and it really seemed that something irreparable could happen, they are trying to rudely throw russia out of the oil market, the gas market, but russia is too noticeable a player, and a fight with russia would really mean total chaos in these markets, but. Still fortunate for us , because, well, we probably could observe this collapse from the outside, but this would also affect our income, so this observation would be sensitive for us and painful, therefore, to great happiness for us, but in fact not only for us , which i also spoke about at the aldai club, because we met there for several days, and the Energy Section was, aleksandrovich nolovok was our guest and not only yesterday we discussed this topic with vladim vladimovich. So, in fact, i tried to explain to our friends from the global south, of whom there were many on the forum, that in fact russia, of course, was fighting for its income. In fact, it played a huge role for them, for india, for others asian states, what is their role . The fact is that we managed to preserve the market, because otherwise collapse would have meant prices of 120150 dollars per barrel, so there is still some hope for preserving the markets , why, because we succeeded in this market, yes, we were thrown out from the european market, its rough, but we found new buyers, we know this story about conquering the indian market, where we now have 40 of imports. This is russia, those western bloomberg agencies that predicted in december a total collapse of the russian oil industry, a drop in 2030 , just read bloomberg, he writes with surprise, wow, three tankers from murmansk left and sailed to brazil, like this or wow, a tanker from murmansk left and is sailing to ghana, that is, bloomberg records that the ceiling is not. Yes, they wrote just the other day that it should be canceled just like that, and this is the wording, we are ashamed, its unpleasant to talk about it, but it needs to be canceled, it doesnt work, but most importantly, they are surprised to discover that russia finds new markets, but in reality this is really salvation still a functioning mechanism, because well, imagine what its like for india, the price there is 120 or 150 dollars per barrel, so they treat us rudely, harshly, absolutely barbarically, but we find new logistics options, new insurance options, new options trading, new buyers, in some ways we are saving this market, but it is really possible, which we also discussed at the valdai club, it is possible that two separate markets will be formed, which, of course, will not be separated by some kind of wall, there is in i see the market, well lets call it the buzzword of the global south or asia, that is, where there will be. The main suppliers, buyers, that is, lets say , a pool of buyers and sellers will be formed, there is russia, the countries of the persian market and our own, and in the future, what is important , indeed, they must move, this contour, move on to saying, and then let us ourselves, ourselves, establish what the trading system will be, how the price will be determined, and naturally, what, yes, what will be traded there in dollars or, of course it is illogical to trade in some other currencies, in fact, this old western circuit, it will remain, the key supplier there will be the United States, canada, norway, there is also someone to supply there, so these will be european countries, well, perhaps japan, in this in terms of plan, it turns out that, uh, well, this is a hypothesis for now, yes, that maybe, maybe a single, Single Market , because of these actions, will ultimately turn into two, well, in some ways, of course, connecting, completely separating. This is impossible, just like our oil, by the way, cannot be removed from the european market, because europe can say whatever it wants, but it understands perfectly well that the diesel it buys in turkey is russian diesel, which turkey or india produces from our oil, this, by the way, is not a violation of sanctions , these are not underground sales, these are completely legal supplies within the framework of those sanctions regimes, but the europeans introduced them so that there would not be a drop of russian oil there, they understand perfectly well that it remained there, so such flows will continue, but globally i. But we feel comfortable today in the asian market and the most important thing is to really move on to forming our own rules of the game, this is the most difficult thing for us, because well, you know, it was always comfortable when you were told to extract oil, deliver it to the port there in primorye or novossiysk , and then a greek carrier, a swiss trader, a london insurer, an insurer will come to you, and thats it, dont think about anything further. Dont worry, in general, yes, there may be some kind of possessiveness, but in in general, you will earn something, well, actually, you yourself, dear western partners, you yourself are breaking this mechanism, but accordingly, then dont be upset that its really russian, chinese, Indian Companies that are engaged in insurance there, whats the problem, well, insurance this is not a flight to mars, you just need money and some basic rules, well, in general, this is a Pretty Simple thing. Kostandin vasilievich, why do you think our former partners did this, in order , in order to punish us, it seems, yes, this is understandable, but they really couldnt calculate such things as youre talking about, or they have no one there to count, well, apparently they couldnt, i think that what would come to this, it seems to me, is not included in their equation included, and why . Well, listen, the same thing can be asked, but what germany didnt understand is that by refusing russian gas, it puts its. Economy at risk, these are obvious things, by the way, and yet, nevertheless, when germany i just started doing this, there were a lot of predictions that it will be extremely difficult for europe without our gas, come on. Its hard to look at things so soberly, its hard, there is, but not catastrophically, their volumes have fallen, yes, their construction there has completely frozen in germany, the latest data came there, the lowest indicators of the construction sector in the last decade, but they stopped some of the factories, but they exist without our gas, unfortunately for us, well, alexander , lets do this, i have never made predictions that europe will freeze or the economy is not a complaint to you, because i immediately. In autumn spoke, and this fall, he said, there is no need to give false expectations, europe, of course, will not freeze, but to say that they exist calmly and comfortably, but this is also a strong attraction, in europe gas consumption has decreased, not russian, all gas decreased by 20 , thats a lot, thats a lot, another thing is that if you take a guy from brussels and show him this figure, hell say, thats good, we re killing the economy thats not interesting to us, were not interested in it we will take you into our beautiful green world, but i think so too. A strategic mistake of the europeans, they consider this an excellent course, they will say, well, great, we are going this way, i am convinced that in the end they will be very disappointed in this path, because this is a big strategic mistake, but this is also happening now deindustrialization , which in brussels is perceived as a radical rejection of those sectors of the economy that are not interesting to them, well, we are interested in them, for example, and i think that this is their choice once again, but the processes that are taking place in the european economy are very dramatic, but of course not its worth exaggerating, because it seems to me that we are also becoming victims of such forecasts that, well, just a little more , almost there, europe will really fall apart , bend, freeze, absolutely, absolutely, just like them, by the way, absolutely just as false perceived our reality, thinking that our oil industry and gas industry would soon collapse there, russia would not receive income, so they also looked with surprise, how so, and why . Everyone is making money, we thought it was already there, theyve been bent for a long time, yet, and were still here, even president obama said that we were torn apart, but here, as it were, something isnt torn, konstantin vasilyovich, and another very important topic that also helped us to solve some of the issues, this is our cooperation within opec plus and the ability to control the markets with our arab partners, this information is not verified, this is possibly false stuff from the same bloomberg. Supposedly bidens misars came to the prince of saudi arabia and discussed some kind of secret deal. In general our ability to control this situation , it is clear that this was most likely some kind of stuffing, but nevertheless, here is our ability to control the markets, but the oil and Energy Markets, they, does it exist . No, well, remember the situation last year, at the beginning the price rushed up, and in the second half of the year it began to decline and we. Entered the twentythird year with fairly low oil prices, then we again entered into another agreement with saudi arabia, from may let me remind you, there were selfrestraints, then there were additional selfrestrictions, let me remind you, we also have obligations , minus 500,000 production in relation to february, plus 300,000 export restrictions in relation to summer levels, the saudis have an additional obligation of a Million Barrels per day, this is very, well, even realistic there it turns out. Obligations for may and another million in addition, that is, realistically , one and a half million, the saudis have a million, this is a lot, and of course, this immediately affected the price, it rushed up, now yes, there has been a certain correction, quite decent, but we see that the physical oil market cannot be ignored, in this regard , the actions that we take with the saudis certainly affect the price of oil, and as for attempts to quarrel between us and the saudis, well, this. This can be seen throughout the twenty for the third year now there have been constant discussions on the topic of a crack there, the saudis accusing russia of not doing it, sometimes not doing it, well, it s just that for the entire twentythird year ive been reading various stories about how bad everything is in opec, how everything is about to happen its going to collapse like its about to collapse, well, including stories about what there are some secret agreements now around israel and so on, so on, so on , the most important thing is that the saudis need expensive oil, they have this format that for several years now allows them to manage prices, you remember , we had periods of difficult relationships, especially during the covid year, when we left the deal, then we were forced to quickly return to it, this is also a lesson for us, we also realized that we are actually more comfortable together and, in general, we show what is our influence on prices there is, it is not the only one, because there is a factor of speculation and this too should not be forgotten. This is a speculative story, because of course we understand that the administration. The United States does not want to enter the elections at a price, yes , at a price at the gas station of more than 4 dollars per head, and does not want to do this, so of course speculators will also play, accordingly, this is a fight, this is a fight for prices, a fight for the market, konstantin vasilyevich, thank you very much, very interesting topic, i think that we will continue to discuss them, all the best, european authorities this week brainstormed to understand what they should do in the current situation, what they should do in the event of a possible curtailment of American Military assistance to ukraine . But its not just that , it seems that our lessthanpartners in europe are beginning to realize that severing ties with russia will bring more harm to them than to us. In any case, the Election Results in slovakia indicate that this process of awareness begins from below, but from above, the european authorities are still talking about continuing comprehensive assistance to kiev, and even. Organizing the production of weapons in ukraine, but the hot lithuanian guys are essentially calling for a third world war. In any case, this is how one can interpret the statement of the minister of Foreign Affairs of lithuania, in which he calls on nato troops to enter into the conflict in ukraine. We talked about this with the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council committee on defense and security , vladimir chezhov. Vladimir alekseevich, i welcome you, thank you for finding time for us. Of course, events in europe require clarifications, at least from you as a specialist in europe, and the main question, probably, is why suddenly the heads of the foreign ministry, and the head of state, suddenly began to meet so often, kiev, granada, what is the need for these meetings , they seem to be not formal, well, the format is actually an idea of emmanuel macron last year, after the start of our special military operation, he wanted to create some kind of vague format, no, no one directly tied to the European Union, which would give the opportunity, well a kind of discussion club, they passed thats it then. In may last year, pashinyan signed a wellknown agreement with the fate of karabakh, there was a second, it was in chisinau, now there is a third, which means the recent past, as former president of the United States barack obama spoke about the russian economy, that it is torn to shreds, thats the word english shambles, i saw today in the headline of a wellknown politicians media, a report about an event in granadel in granada, and so on. Finds out that this such a megameeting of european leaders ended with a whimper, and well, as you understand, for good reason such formulations, and the organizers of this event, well, why in granada, its understandable, because spain has now been presiding over the council of the European Union for these six months, and so on. Well, now, in principle , its not cold in western europe yet, but well, they wanted they discussed something about how, first of all, europe could live with the decision of the American Congress to cut off funding for ukraine, but they didnt come up with anything. Barel was forced to admit that well, it was a kind of cry for help addressed to washington, that we cant cope without you, but the European Union is not will be able to fill the niche that the United States occupied in terms of supporting ukraine materially, not only with weapons, but also economically, ill interrupt you right away, but what do you think, this is the kind of vopol, as you said, barel, this is reality, or its just that europe doesnt want to pay the extra money, or its true that its not just that they wont find that much money, that europe doesnt have extra money, the Economic Situation of most countries, the European Union, is now, well, if not shambles, as obama put it, then in in general in crisis, and even the largest economy in europe, foreign this is germany, it there is a forecast for a reduction in gdp, the same in other countries, there are many factors, including the energy impasse into which they have driven themselves by abandoning cheap Energy Resources from russia and so on, but the matter now is not only about this, which means, having confirmed their inability to shoulder everything, they tried once again to wedge themselves into the situation with armeniaazerbaijan. But president aliyev, as you know, did not go to granada, including including because, as the media write, because he did not go there the president of turkey, erdogan, who was called, but he declared himself sick, and aliyev, without erdogan, sat at the table with the openly pro armenian macron, scholz and the yesovites, obviously no, it was out of hand, then we tried another track, belgradepristina, it wasnt even kurti who came from pristina, but the president , osmani, who came, who said that for now she was against him, meaning, calling on the government of the European Union countries to announce sanctions against azerbaijan, but neither neither one nor the other works, so in a sniff, this is probably what they say, that objective assessment of what happened in granada, look, you said, its very important. It is very important that this, i dont know, this word, medical impotence, which the european authorities now have, meanwhile we hear a statement from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and lets join ukraine to nato in the form, today it was, in the form of the fact that, accordingly, under the protection of nato, well , nato, firstly, is fighting in ukraine, this first and second, these attempts are constant, and in such a team, this is probably not a unique situation, when, as they say , the senior heavyweights argue and cannot agree, so the small partners fall into hysterics, a statement about deep attacks on russia that nato can the troops have the right when new missiles are supplied to them, how can one treat these statements . Well, this is a statement to the public, first of all, of course, to the ukrainian public, secondly to our own, it is clear that to the russian such attempts do not work for public opinion, which means that as for the position of those who determine this policy, i mean the americans, regardless of the decision of the congress, the americans really, they obviously somehow, so to speak, threatened kiev with their finger that here weapons produced in the United States, or in western european countries, they are against , they should not, so to speak, the wreckage should not be found on the territory of russia, and well , naturally, in their view of the russian territory, therefore, it is possible in donetsk its impossible to hit belgorod, well, to what extent, firstly, they will hold back the rabid ukrainian nazis, this is still a debatable question, and secondly, sooner or later they, the ammunition and weapons of the soviet and russian model, and the ukrainian model, will only run out of dance with west, but then the situation can obviously turn the other way, well, i wanted, i wanted to say two more words regarding gronada, as they say, its not evening yet, because we talked to you about the event of this european political community, but today in friday, theres an informal summit in granada. Thats where they will deal with their issues, determine the future strategy, then what we havent talked about yet will come to the fore, namely the problem of migration and those developments that caused great discord, between countries, members of the European Union, what to do with migrants, who pays for whom, vladimirovich, after all , if we talk about weapons and europe and the United States, can the states still quietly dump all these weapons matters on europe so that she forked out and started producing weapons on a larger scale at home, and you know, here i have two, and so to speak , twolayer doubts, firstly, if they even wanted to, then the physical capabilities of the european militaryindustrial complex are completely will not allow replacing american supplies, the second thing is that the strategic goal of the United States in this conflict, and i think, is not to give them an impetus for the development of the european militaryindustrial complex, but to ensure that it remains in its current form reduced form, and so that the potentials of european armies are filled, the arsenals of european armies are filled with american weapons, this, i believe, is one of the deepest. Motives for what is happening in ukraine, that is , ukraine as a political arena for the struggle with russia , and as a landfill for processing waste, well, firstly, soviet reserves, of which there are quite a lot, and not only in europe, lets not forget about other continents, but also european ones. At the beginning of this year she said that here we are in the twentythird year lets supply a million artillery shells, it sounded nice, but there isnt and wont be a million, because the factories are european, yes, some are now switching to, as they say , twoshift work, some. Are being mothballed, but still they are not yet capable of even