International first meeting, and we, of course, will not let you down in this regard. Thank you very much, russias active, consistent efforts to develop and strengthen our partnership are more important today than ever. In general, everyone present will talk about speed. Any initiatives must be implemented faster, even between each other, or with external players, specific solutions on priority tasks. For example, the ias has already begun to mutually recognize scientists. Degree this happened in early may to increase the mobility of highly qualified personnel. An important part of the overall story, speaking, everyone will Pay Attention on may 9, tomorrow alexander lukashenko, along with other invitees , will be at the victory parade on red square, all this time preparations are underway for him to lay flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier. The seventyninth anniversary of the victory is significant for our countries, absolutely, because this victory was given to us as nations are
Thank you. In many of the countries where our News Organization operates, this doesnt resonate because the notion of independence doesnt exist in a lot of countries around the world. You know, and particularly for news agencies. I think the standard definition of the news agency in most countries is something that is tied government. And the type of agency that ap and reuters are is sometimes hard for people to comprehend. When i was based in asia, i often had to explain that ap didnt stand for american press. I think intellectual, it is the difference between government and independent but there are countries in which every entity is controlled bit government and whether it is industry for education or media. Thank you. Andrew humphrey, wdiv if detroit michigan and founder of the Journalism Task force. Thank you for being here. My question is, and for all of the panelists, what other loop holes exist now in the law that you can enlighten us on. For example, from the patriot act, is it
Starling is. If were just talking about the nsa, there are so many of them. And they are so technical, that i would be really surprised if the highlevel people know the details of more than a small number of the most major programs. I think you would be wrong about that. Yeah . I think so. Many could not perhaps describe the engineering details, but i would be surprised if there are more than a handful of programs that are not youre right, but there are i mean, impossible to count how many programs there are in the nsa. We can talk thousands, and probably more than thousands. And i just imagine its beyond the capacity of any individual to have significant knowledge about more than a handful of these thousands of programs. But i agree with bob dietz, and i agree with you. But the answer is, work the low level, the mid level, and the top, if you can. And youre going to get a total universe portrait. Anybody else we have a couple of minutes here before theres a coffee and martini break. M
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