United states. Regrettably the United States is doing that now. Thats why the concern should not be with russia, but the United States. We talked about that during our talks. We clarified our positions. Turning to the opposition and the citizen you mentioned. This person knew that he was breaching the laws effective in russia. He should have note that had as a person who was convicted two times. I would like to underscore that he deliberately ignored the laws. This person went abroad for treatment. And he didnt register with the authorities. And he went to hospital and recorded a Video Posting it on the internet. And then that requirement, he didnt appear, ignored the laws. He knew he was then being investigated and he came back deliberately. He did what he wanted to do. What can you say . As for people of opposition, regrettably, the chairman of the conference doesnt allow for us to get into this indepth. I am not going to say anything complicated. It will be clearly understandable. I
And in commerce, i think that was done more by russia. it did affect some of our development, but the u.s. is carrying out their task of restraining russia, but they didn t have any critical effect. that s number one. number two, this has to do with the interest of american businesses. 200 people the biggest allegation of americans, an american allegation, the delegation was at the st. petersburg economic forum. some restrictions were entered to american countries. due to that american countries have lost out. they have given up the business into hands of competitors. we talked about what for. there is no practical reason, but there are losses.
Interesting for a number of countries economically speaking. as for the concerns of militarization of americans about the arctic, they are completely unfounded. we are not doing anything that wasn t happening during the soviet union. we are establishing an infrastructure that was destroyed. we are doing that at the military level. and includes conservation. we are creating bases in order to save people in the sea if it comes to that, god for bid. and also to protect our environment. what i told our colleagues, i don t see concerns. i am firmly convinced we can and should cooperate. russia and the u.s. are one of eight members of the arctic
Based on these practices we understand that this is done and has continued to be done. it s being done by people who are getting money from abroad there are some people getting money from abroad. let s continue. one question about the arctic. you said you talked about that for a long time. the u.s. has accused russia of militarizing that. we heard from secretary blinken. what did you talk about? we talked about that in-depth and detail. that s an important and interesting question. as for the arctic, the northern passage, it s extremely
Should be cautious about it, but we are going to operate exclusively within the confines of russian law. give mr. reuben the microphone. we have heard that the american side has constantly had some rhetoric about political prisoners in russia. was that discussed with navalny, with biden. all of this started off with a crude remark by biden. what do you think? president biden spoke about human rights.