Programs at the Commonwealth Club. And i want to welcome all to this evening to talk about muppets and moscow bringing sesame street to Russian Television and into homes in russia in the 1990s. I had the privilege of being in during this time as well. And it was a really heady time. A lot of things seemed possible. And so the fact that sesame street came to russian and to russian families is really interesting and exciting story. So im glad youre all here tonight to learn about it. Before we get started, id like to ask everybody to take a moment and please turn off anything that might be bring play music so that we disturb the program. And i also want to thank everyone for joining us here tonight in person and thank everyone who is also joining us online on tonight watching livestream. We do want to hear from you. So during the program please feel free to write your questions on cards that youll find on your chairs and if watching online you can also ask questions using the youtube cha
Joe biden in asia or as us president again he disgraced himself in front of the whole world, details from Evgeny Zubkov hello, welcome to the Information Service of the ntv Television Company. This is the vladivostok program for the development of the far eastern district. Is there a clear understanding that specific projects need to be done . And you already have Passenger Transportation as a priority, gasification is one of the main tasks of creating new enterprises, as a result of jobs, several production facilities have already opened today, Vladimir Putin participated in the ceremonies via video link, and the president also visited the zvezda shipbuilding complex, where they gave exactly from two new tanks edmujilbunov reports Vladimir Putins working trip to the far east began with a visit to the countrys largest shipbuilding complex star in the city of bolshoi kamen near the capital of primorye vladivostok there the president not only saw how, thanks to automation and digitalizat
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