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Even in. Blows to the russian economy, and apparently they were calculated that the country would simply fall apart, the economy would fall apart, and the country, russia will collapse, we not only overcame all the difficulties of last year, but came away with a plus, Economic Growth is at 3 , which means unemployment is 3 , debts are being reduced, which means we have significantly reduced external debt, all our companies are servicing all their debt obligations. Yes, we have there are problems, we see them, nonreturn of proceeds, there is, uh, that means a weakening of the national currency, we see this, and the central bank, and the government is reacting to this, i am sure that the steps are correct, and there will be good results, but , but, but, as for brix, what we now need is not to create a single currency, we need to establish a settlement system, create financial logistics in order to ensure settlements between our states, and switch to settlements in national currencies. Wh
Thank you, as for energy, right . Energy supplies, we have never supplied gas from russia to central asia , everything was different there in soviet times, central asia was supplied through two pipeline systems, but now, taking into account the growing needs, the growth of our economy friends in central asia, they raised the question for us, and Climate Change changes, this year in kazakhstan. No one ever remembers, its simply incredible, but it happened , which means it can happen again, so we were asked to think about implementing, starting the supply of russian gas to these countries, without which, without these supplies it is difficult, we understand, here we are we worked on this together, our stan friends got involved and implemented a plan to restore their part of the pipeline system, the same thing was done was on the territory of uzbekistan and gazprom had to do this on the territory of the Russian Federation , including reconfiguring, reconfiguring some of our technical capa
Conflicts, thank you for that. Yes, energy supplies, we have never supplied gas from russia to central asia , there in soviet times, everything was different, from central asia it was supplied through two pipeline systems, but now, taking into account the growing needs, the growth of our economy friends in central asia, they raised the question for us, and climate change, this year. In kazakhstan in tashkent it was generally minus 21, minus 24 , in my opinion, no one ever remembers this, its simply incredible, but it happened, which means it can happen again, so we were asked to think about implementing, starting supply, russian gas to these countries, without which it is difficult without these supplies, we understand, we have worked on this together. And our kazakh friends got busy and implemented a plan for restoration of its part of the pipeline system, the same thing was done on the territory of uzbekistan and gazprom should have done this on the territory of the russian federatio
I wont make judgments about her history, her future, its none of our business, this is a matter for the french people themselves, but i know that there are many people with the views that you represent, and true friends in france, friends of russia, and their number is growing, will this situation worsen further from the point of view of the situation in the world taking into account the fact that, as you said, this kind of ideological confrontation will continue, but it will never end , this is obvious, these different movements, no matter what guise they take, they will of course always fight among themselves, this is obvious, but in my opinion, still awareness of the importance, the enduring significance of national values, traditions, it will gradually Gain Momentum in european countries, and in the states themselves, and in this sense, i think that the ideological confrontation will continue, but still the future belongs to nationally oriented forces in the world, and about the ba