The president s total budget request for next year 4. 1 trillion. Live coverage here on cspan3. This hearing will come to order. This morning the committee, once again, welcomes secretary of state john kerry to consider the departments budget request. When secretary kerry last appeared before us, he was presenting the Obama Administrations Nuclear Agreement with iran. In the seven months since, the administration got its agreement and the middle east has been transformed and not for the better. Now, with access to 100 billion in unfrozen assets and sanctions wiped away, iran has instantly become the dominant country in the region. The revolutionary guards, already irans most powerful economic actor in the words of the treasury department, will only grow more powerful with international investment. The committee has deep concerns about the way the Obama Administration and apparent indefinite rei indeference to it tehran has chose on it ignore a bipartisan law ending visa travel for thos
Representatives that is well known. I may representative of a wellknown radio but it seems to me when our editorinchief is asked why putin needs you to broadcast, there are several reasons. First, they should get some use from the source. It is a good source. The second reason is that we need a showcase if some person from the west comes to moscow and asks where is the freedom of the broadcasting they can answer the. And the third reason it seems to me thats very important is radio has no meaning as a source of propaganda when there are elections in russia you can see the people who will be our politics on any channel but if you listen there are also people from opposition, and they do not have enough audience to get their voices for voting. It would have enough true if i say there is no freedom of media in russia. There is freedom of media that sometimes they have a very narrow audience because there are some internet media as the Daily Journal now that are now forbidden and there was
Are lucky to have him here. A russian liberal journalist, tv host, and filmmaker. He is editor in chief of multimedia projects around the world. He is the host of a monthly talkshow, a roundtable. Chief of the National Geographic travelers, russian edition. He received a number of professional awards. This was not shown on russian tv. 2002 through 2004, he was host of the 25th hour, which was suspended eventually. Political advisor to mikael prokhorov. , he serves as a member of the president ial council for Civil Society and human rights. Last, but not least, nikolai zlobin, the founder of cgi in 2012. Advisor to president gorbachev and boris yeltsin. He has been associated with a variety of top institutions and has served as the gobetween between the american policy and Economic Community focused on russia. Wellpublished in english and russian. Most importantly, he serves as an interpreter of russian culture. With that, i will turn it over to nikolai and he can begin the conversation
Piece of an asset that we are given and use it to our great advantage. Mick so glad to meet you. Nice to met you. So im sure its too early, really, to answer this, but do you have any sense how much of voa audience and can you take a little bit about the implications of Digital First . Yeah, im afraid i cant give you a precise answer to the first question. I know its something thats being counted in our services around the building and needs to be counted much more robustly because its what we need to know. I think you can safe i will say if you look at the projections of the way people will be assessing not only news but information commerce, you know, all kinds of things, conversation around the world, it is going to be its going to skip over all the intermediate steps and go right to districtal, largely probably digital on future phones, not smart phones because thats the way the inexpensive way spreading throughout the less developed world. Its a thing that we absolutely need to be
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, adam, and thank you everyone for coming here. I look out in the audience and see all kinds of friends and colleagues out here. I so appreciate you coming, im going to sippingle out one person from the voice of america, alan high, who is great history from voice of america kept me from making an error in the speech im about to make. I need to thank him right now. Second, id like to acknowledge my predecessor as the director of the voice of america, david ensor, who has been as helpful and warm to me as any human being can be in helping prepare me for this big job. Please to acknowledge david ensor, who is now at the atlantic council. [ applause ] so as adam says, if you want to know my biography, just flip the page over and read it yourselves, but id like to tell you a couple things you might not know. Im of an age that i was part of a movement that cheap airfares and curiosity about the world sent all of us out around the globe. You know, migration