, Vladimir Putin answers questions. Over the past 2 years, this is the first interview of the head of state with China Central television. Thats why the questions are personal at first. Journalist wang guan asks how the russian leader celebrated his birthday and how he finds time to stay in shape. Putin immediately notices sports is an area in which it is important and necessary for countries to interact. I hope our cooperation with chinese friends in the field of sports. Will also be active to develop, usho is very popular among us, i hope it will continue to be so, the popularity will continue to grow, and we would like to introduce our chinese friends to what we consider to be national sports, such as, for example, in the field of martial arts, like wrestling with ambo, thats ill go, when ill definitely talk with the chairman about this topic, ill also propose to him from both. Ill ask you to support these initiatives of young people, athletes, to develop contacts to expand contacts in the field of sports, relations between russia and china are now at the highest level, this is not the result of the current situation, Vladimir Putin emphasized. Russia ranks first in Energy Supplies to china. The parties have always listened and continue to listen to each other in the field of industrial production. They are looking in all directions, the basis has always been good will, this is how we resolved the issues of border demarcation, which until now had not been resolved for forty years, but this desire to remove everything that could interfere with us in one way or another moving Forward Together was so great on both sides. That we found all the compromises acceptable to each other, but then began to develop relations in the economic sphere, and gradually also filling those niches that once belonged to other countries in our relations, but were not as effective as our mutual cooperation in one direction or another, trade and Economic Cooperation between russia and china on. They are increasingly seeing russian products on store shelves, similarly in our country, more and more russians are switching to chinesemade cars; they have already appreciated their quality the president noted that the high level of trade turnover of 200 billion next year between countries is quite achievable. Over the previous period, our trade growth was 32 , this is very good growth, at the end of the year there is every reason to believe that we will reach the 200 billion level. In an interview, Vladimir Putin called sizenpin his friend. The leaders met 40 times and will meet again face to face within the framework of the one train one track forum. Vladimir putin is confident in the success of the upcoming negotiations both for russia and china, and for the countries participating in the eurasian economic union. Look, these are our countries of the european union, the eurasian economic union. As a result of joint work, they received 24 billion in investments. Well, whats wrong with that . And at the same time, each country itself , within the framework of bilateral or multilateral formats, chooses what is beneficial for it, what is not profitable, no one imposes anything, but this pushes and creates conditions for development. The same can be said about development of logistics and infrastructure facilities. We have recently built only two bridges across the amur river with china. Vladimir putin noted that russia and china are moving in the same direction, as are the new countries that have joined the brix, where moscow will chair. All of them support the concept of a multipolar world, the president noted. What lies behind this process of expansion . This process is based on objective reality. The multipolar world is being created on its own in fact. We can we can speed up this process, or someone can try to slow it down, and maybe they will achieve some kind of reduction in the pace of construction. World, but its creation is inevitable, it happens on its own, and it happens in connection with the growth of the potential of many countries, including, and last but not least, the growth of the potential of the chinese peoples republics. Answering a question about the prospects for resolving the ukrainian crisis, Vladimir Putin noted the importance of chinas participation in this process. We know, of course. Offers from our chinese friends, we highly value these proposals, i believe that they are quite realistic, in any case they could form the basis of peace agreements, but unfortunately, the other side does not want to conduct any negotiations. Moreover, the president of ukraine issued a decree prohibiting peace negotiations with us, everyone and himself, but so far dialogue is being prevented. Kiev russia is ready for negotiations, noted the russian leader, anastasia ivanova, to lead, to other topics, the israeli army last night launched a new attack on lebanese territory, targeting reportedly, hezbollahs targets have become, it, in turn, threatens tel aviv with the opening of a second front, we will discuss the situation with the Russian Ambassador to lebanon, alexander rudakov, he is now in direct contact with the studio, alexander nikolaevich, hello, tell me how lebanon assesses the new aggravation of Palestine Israeli conflict and how do they react to the shootings that we see in the border areas between hezbollah and the israeli army . Of course, striatal, although at the moment the situation does not look hopeless and irreversible, however, with each with a new exchange of blows, the risks of chaos increase. Everyone understands this perfectly well. Officially, beirut stands for an early end to the bloodshed around gas. This, in turn, should have a calming effect on the lebaneseisraeli direction. What do you think, how ready is hezbal today to fully engage in the palestinianisraeli conflict and what is called opening a second front . Indeed, i think that all this depends on the situation around what will happen around the gas sector. Second the front, which is not very good at the moment, is now beneficial and necessary, so that the second front would be quite dangerous in this situation, but nevertheless, hezbollah, as you well understand, is one of the Political Forces and movements of lebanese society. Everything is quite complicated and contradictory, a big crisis and now the opening of a second front would not be the right time, however, nevertheless, if the bloodshed around the gas ground operation continues, then of course in these conditions khysbole, well, like others actors who. Say, have a bad attitude towards israel, do not perceive it sufficiently as a good neighbor, a good neighborly state, it would be difficult not to go for the opening of a second front, everything will certainly depend on the situation around the gas sector, and how it will go or whether it will there is a ground operation there, alexander nikolaevich, and uh, what decisions can we expect from official beirut and in general, what are the relations between. The lebanese society, many ministers are members, are appointed from the khazbala party, the government that now exists, in parliament there is a whole bloc from the khazbola party, which accordingly influences the lebanese legislative body. And a large representation, 15 members, 15 deputies, so this is enough out of 128 deputies 15 deputies from hezb, another 15 from the amon movement, so of course, the influence of khazvala is quite large, here within the state, but nevertheless, they take the official one, well as the majority of Political Parties now, the levanese ones declare to reduce tensions and carry out deconquest, what is absolutely necessary is an early ceasefire and a cessation of Israeli Military operations in the gaza strip and the opening of humanitarian corridors, and this, in turn, would certainly influence decisionmaking on the part of hazbalah and the lebanese state in general. Alexan nikolaevich, a question, well, maybe you will not be fully ready to answer, but nevertheless, if so to speak, you will give an answer, it would be interesting, what are the Lebanese Armed forces, how dependent are they on political , so to speak, moments, which, among other things, are now being propagated by hezbollah and which are now active in lebanese society, i think , including the Lebanese Armed forces this is the Lebanese Army, which, in general, exists in lebanese society, there is a commander, there is minister, of course there are units of the security services, infantry and so on, but if we take, say, historical retrospect, then look at how the Lebanese Armed forces acted in the last lebanonisraeli war, this is 2006, well, there are a lot issues, of course, hezbollah differs from this from the Lebanese Armed forces, or the Lebanese Army, in that it is more independently able to resist the israeli occupation, because it is still known that part of the lebanese territory is under the lebanese occupation, and hazbalah took upon itself the courage and responsibility to represent the Resistance Movement against the israeli occupation, in fact, this is the difference between the Lebanese Army and hazbalah, but nevertheless, the Lebanese Army is also on the line of contact with its southern neighbor and together with unifil, they certainly provide the necessary assistance and desire to deescalate the situation, but on the southern border of lebanon, that is, in other words, if the conflict acquires large proportions, then the army may also be involved in it , do you think, based on the constitution and the tasks of the army, of course, it should be involved in order to protect the civilian population of lebanon, because this is generally understandable and clear that this is the task of any army in the world, first of all, protection their civilian population and preventing aggression or attack from another state, so i would like to believe that it is precisely these tasks that they face on a daily basis that they will. Carry out, alexander nikolavich, and how do they react to military Political Support for israel from the united states, which , as we know, sent to the region, even its Aircraft Carrier . Well, of course, at the national level, in general, the deployment of, uh, American Naval forces here is quite bad, poorly perceived, since there is a sad experience, the arrival of being here previously, uh. The Us Naval Forces and what they did in lebanon in the former in the second half of the 20th century. Nevertheless, the question certainly arises why are these goals, forces coming here , for what purpose, against whom will they act, and is this a force, a force of deterrence or, conversely, intimidation . Therefore the attitude is ambiguous, but in general. In lebanese society, of course, there are no such captivating moods that now we will open a second front or we will be there resist, no, of course, because , as i already said, lebanon is in a very difficult politicaleconomic situation, the crisis has been going on since 1919, it is a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and the political crisis has already lasted more than a year, so now to open, to take any actions in relations. Militarypolitical steps would be enough, well, lets say, uh, bad, but as for the attitude towards us support, the actions of israel, then of course, the question here will be conclude that why, for what purposes, the Us Naval Forces will enter these waters, us action, and by the way , there is a peacekeeping mission in lebanon, but it was reported that it called for an urgent ceasefire in the south of the country after the attack the death of one of them on journalists, in your opinion, does anything depend on the peacekeepers spitting today . Peacekeepers have existed here since 1978 and 1975, and of course , it would be incorrect to belittle their role; in this case, peacekeepers do a lot in order to reduce the intensity of the situation between the two sides , it would be wrong for them to play such a role that they could prevent all this, since they are not omnipotent and one can hardly hope that their actions will lead to deescalation, because this has all happened before , there were constant skirmishes, of course it was all possible to occupy, but nevertheless, again, in retrospect , the war happened in 2006, here the peacekeepers did everything they could, but nevertheless the war happened, now the same thing is happening, their. Interaction with both sides is very high and, as i have said repeatedly at meetings with your channels, that we support this mission in lebanon and certainly believe that it is fulfilling the right and necessary task. Alexan nikolavich, can the aggravation of the situation in the region affect bilateral cooperation between russia and lebanon, and on humanitarian assistance to lebanon. And in continuation, ill ask right away, western countries recommend that their citizens refrain from traveling to lebanon for safety reasons. See are you some kind of threat to our fellow citizens in the country . Well, of course, if some kind of military operation or , say, military action between two countries suddenly begins, this will certainly affect the humanitarian situation, in this case, it will reduce the assistance that many lebanese countries provide in these conditions, as well very difficult conditions for lebanon, as for our bilateral relations, well , we hope that, firstly, the position of our leadership on the palestinianisraeli conflict was very well received here, is highly and highly appreciated at all levels, and we believe that, in principle , we have the field to further continue to build up our bilateral cooperation, and as for refraining from trips here by the embassy or government of western countries, then of course, you yourself understand , that when the situation escalates, tensions escalate, some strikes, military strikes on border territories, without any reason, this does not give reason for any optimism, and if we assume that we could say, in this case, our citizens who are going to go to lebanon, then they need to think several times and, if possible, postpone any trips currently planned to lebanon, postpone them to a later date, because lebanon is a wonderful country where you can spend a very good time, but maybe now is not the time for some kind of tourist trips here, but as for those citizens who permanently reside here, we have contact with them, we are in constant touch with. Our drivers fraternities, communities, alumni and other organizations, so we certainly keep this issue under control, we always recommend to all our citizens who, if they are afraid of something or are afraid of something, then now is the time to take advantage of the Still Available a normal opportunity to leave lebanon through the airport beirut, all these. Hubs that fly through which you can get to russia, this is such, such an opportunity still exists, alexander nikolaevich, yes, i thank you for your comment, thank you its great that we took part in the live broadcast and answered questions; let me remind you that we spoke with the Russian Ambassador livani alexander rudakov. And now footage from the government house. Good morning, dear colleagues, the government is expanding the coverage of the program. Support for small medium enterprises. Now organizations that conduct socially significant projects in new regions of our country will be able to apply for participation in it. Lugansk, peoples republics, as well as in zaporozhye and kherson regions. Funds up to Companies Operating in the fields of education, medicine, social services, culture, sports, and hospitality will receive 3,000 rubles. A Competition Commission will select applicants. Assistance from the state will be provided on the terms of cofinancing, its own resources, and a grant will be received. The total investment must be at least 5 . And grants can be used for renting and repairing nonresidential premises, reequipping cars for transporting people with limited mobility, disabled people, for purchasing Raw Materials and consumables for production. Such a measure will make it possible to provide Additional Support to small medium sized businesses and make it easier for them to launch the implementation of existing projects, and therefore. More actively solve problems that are important to people, which will have a positive impact on the standard of living in these constituent entities of the russian federation. The next question concerns the development of the supplyside economy, which the president spoke about we will help Technology Parks that specialize in the production of electronics to reduce infrastructure costs. In the next 3 years for these over 2,200 million rubles will be allocated for the purpose. Relevant. Signed, the applicants went through first regional, then federal selection, and four russian entities will receive resources, the largest volume of 900 million rubles is the vladimir region, and funds will also be sent to the Nizhny Novgorod region, the republic of bashkartastan and tatarstan. State support will allow Management Companies to partially reimburse costs for the design, construction and modernization of industrial facilities, as well as for the purchase of equipment and technological connection to utility networks, and now about the decision that was made to improve the efficiency of managing russias Water Resources. Their condition directly affects the economy and the quality of life of our citizens. Last week we discussed in detail the need for systematic work in this direction at a meeting with the head of the federal Water Resources agency, and i want to say that the government is launching an experiment to create a single. Information resource, it will have to include the most detailed and reliable information about rivers, lakes, and groundwater, which will allow us to develop common approaches for caring for our supplies, especially Drinking Water sources. Lets start with three pilot regions, these are the tula region, the Stavropol Territory and the chechen republic, victoria valeryevna, i would like you to report in more detail on how this work will be organized, please give me the floor. Thank you, dear mikhail vladimovich, dear colleagues, i would like to remind you that in terms of fresh water reserves russia ranks second in the world after brazil, climate change, the intensive development of industry, agriculture, and the concentration of the bulk of the planets population in waterscarce regions have made clean fresh water a strategic natural resource. Issues of fair water allocation on transboundary rivers are the most pressing for most countries. So, the participants who passed in march are current. Years, the un water conference reaffirmed that water is humanitys most valuable global good, and the human right to safe Drinking Water must be accessible to all for effective systematic measures are needed to manage our countrys Water Resources. In particular , you need to start with determining the reserves of pressed water, taking into account its quantity and quality in the context of various sources. Currently, at the federal level, there is no unified register of data on drinking and household sources. Water supply, so in terms of underground sources, data is collected and updated by rosnedra, in terms of groundbased sources, rosvodresursy, and the source of data on Water Quality is rospotrebnadzor. This leads to the lack of a holistic picture of the state of water bodies and inconsistent actions when making decisions about the use of Water Resources. Both at the federal and regional levels. Thanks to your support, mihai vladimi, accepted. Decision on comprehensive aggregation of all data in a single registry of input objects. The creation of such a resource will begin with an experiment, as you already said, in three pilot regions, these are the Stavropol Territory, the chechen republic and the tula region, from october of this year to october 2024. The choice of these subjects is dictated by the need to develop approaches to integration and Analysis Data for areas with different water supply conditions. And the readiness of the regions themselves to digitize data, for example, in the tula region , mainly groundwater is used for water supply; in the Stavropol Territory, surface water is used; in the chechen republic, mixed water supply is used. In addition, a significant part of the territory of the Stavropol Territory is classified as waterscarce regions, which requires the development of a set of measures to organize Sustainable Water supply. A unified register of water bodies will allow, firstly, to increase environmental wellbeing. Thanks to the resource , comprehensive monitoring of the condition of water bodies used as sources of drinking and Domestic Water supply will be provided. Secondly, solve the problems of waterscarce regions. By increasing the efficiency of water use and launching new wells, we will be able to increase the growth of groundwater reserves and reduce water shortages. Third ensure control over the use of water bodies. Registry data should form the basis for decisions about submission Water Resources in use. I will briefly report on the preparations. Rosnedra and rosvodresursy have already created a model of a digital register using the example of the tula region, which has loaded information on almost 500 sources of drinking and Domestic Water supply. By november next year, based on the results of the experiment, we plan to establish areas of illegal withdrawal of water for drinking and household purposes, areas where the withdrawal is carried out in violation of the law. Provide. All reserved water supply sources, to identify sources for water supply to settlements where there is still no Drinking Water, to ensure accounting of water wells that produce both drinking and mineral water, to identify new sources of Drinking Water supply for waterscarce areas that can be involved in economic circulation. In november next year, the results of the experiment will be summed up and proposals for scaling will be prepared. To all regions of our country. The report is finished. Thank you for attention. Thank you, victoria valerievna. Creation of a unified information resource, of course, an important step, which will first of all help strengthen monitoring of the condition of water bodies. It will provide additional tools for more quickly identifying all possible violations in the environmental sphere. Please keep these issues under your personal control. This was footage of mikhail mishustins meeting with deputy prime ministers, now. Long pause and we will continue, do not switch