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[00:00:00] enumerated
[00:00:03] of of
[00:00:04] of in of of like of family bonds or traditional culture, and the question is, can they to be bridged? well, to
[00:00:07] in discuss that I'm now joined by Cheska
[00:00:09] in Gonzales, in a Filipino
[00:00:10] of of in
[00:00:14] a of of of of entrepreneur, of pilot, advocate of female empowerment and mother of two.
[00:00:16] of Cheska, it's great to talk to
[00:00:20] of of of a you. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you of for of having of me. I
[00:00:20] me heard you say
[00:00:21] of me in another interview that your
[00:00:23] of in professional pursuit of success
[00:00:24] of in of started of with your becoming
[00:00:28] of of teenage mom, facing certain stigma and wanting to prove to your parents. that you can be
[00:00:32] of something of other of than a mom, and
[00:00:36] of in of you've been quite of successful at
[00:00:39] of of that, but I do want to start with the motherhood of part, of why a do of of you think raising another human being or two in your
[00:00:42] case not seem
[00:00:45] of of to count as life
[00:00:49] of of enough of life achievement? it is a life
[00:00:49] of of of achievement for me,
[00:00:50] of honestly if they weren't here, i wouldn't probably be here
[00:00:54] of as well, and they were really my
[00:00:56] of inspiration, you know, but mean in the
[00:00:59] of Philippines or... in the world as
[00:01:01] in well, during the time when i gave birth at 16, they were
[00:01:05] judging
[00:01:06] of of me
[00:01:07] of of so of much of to point that um they
[00:01:08] a thought of that a my of life of would of be
[00:01:13] of of this, of so my family is very supportive, but you know
[00:01:17] of of my parents were initially also a bit scared of my future because
[00:01:18] of i
[00:01:21] a of gave birth at 16 and of so when when that happened i
[00:01:23] of thought to myself, you know what, it's
[00:01:25] of
[00:01:25] in not of because of
[00:01:26] i of want to prove everyone wrong, i want to prove
[00:01:28] of myself
[00:01:28] of wrong that... "even if I am
[00:01:31] not, you
[00:01:32] of know, of
[00:01:33] of I, I gave birth at
[00:01:37] of of such of early of age, it's it will not be an hindrance to
[00:01:38] in anything,
[00:01:39] in and besides, I've been talking to lot of um, young moms as well
[00:01:43] of before, and
[00:01:44] of it of just feels
[00:01:45] a so of sad that you know, for them it feels like it's the end
[00:01:48] a of the world, and for me I
[00:01:50] of felt like it
[00:01:51] of was the
[00:01:51] of beginning of something
[00:01:53] of great, and
[00:01:53] of so of you mentioned the Philippines and I think your your country
[00:01:57] of deeper
[00:01:58] of than of
[00:01:58] of perhaps many other nations." faces this question of what
[00:02:02] life
[00:02:02] of success, of uh,
[00:02:04] of parenting, support, love truly mean, because there are lots and lots of women
[00:02:08] of who of give
[00:02:08] of birth of a fairly young age, and there are
[00:02:12] of also many
[00:02:14] of of women who have to leave their children behind and
[00:02:15] of go abroad, yes, for work, i think it's more than two
[00:02:19] of million uh who do that,
[00:02:21] of and uh, that often means leaving their kids, especially when they're
[00:02:25] of young
[00:02:25] of behind, of of
[00:02:26] of and of you know, that's that's not an easy choice, and it all...
[00:02:30] of has its
[00:02:31] in own
[00:02:34] in of of consequences, of um, what's your what are your overall feeling about this?
[00:02:38] personally,
[00:02:39] in
[00:02:40] of of of of I feel of like of it's of of a necessity of for the Philippines, because
[00:02:43] of in the Philippines the the
[00:02:46] of rate of you,
[00:02:49] me a of the of the
[00:02:51] of salaries of is of really not enough for the family,
[00:02:55] of of a especially if of you're you have a college of student or a high school student
[00:03:01] of of um of studying as kid, and It's it's really different when
[00:03:06] a of when of you're there, of when you have to decide on
[00:03:07] of should of I stay in the Philippines with my kids
[00:03:10] and
[00:03:11] of you of know we don't have anything
[00:03:12] of eat a or should I move to another country but
[00:03:16] of you know my kids are
[00:03:16] of very
[00:03:17] of okay and I think it's we cannot
[00:03:21] of judge of anybody just by
[00:03:23] of simply of absolutely of just simply
[00:03:24] of by you choosing what not to do and what to do
[00:03:28] but at the end
[00:03:29] of the day. 'know if there are we're fortunate in such a
[00:03:33] time that there are a lot of like work from
[00:03:36] of of of home jobs you of know of like of there of are a
[00:03:37] of lot of opportunities that actually
[00:03:43] of of can that of of they can stay with of their of kids
[00:03:44] in of and of of not go to other countries,
[00:03:46] in of but um being in the reality we all know that it's
[00:03:48] of really
[00:03:52] a of a different um when you it's really different when you earn dollars and when you earn pesos and it's saddens
[00:03:54] of me of a of little a of
[00:03:56] of because it's i have a I have two kids and when I'm
[00:04:02] of of out of in of the country'. "I feel like I am, I
[00:04:02] a have this mom
[00:04:03] religion, guilt, I
[00:04:04] of don't a know if um
[00:04:05] of anyone feels that, but there's a mom guilt
[00:04:11] of of wherein i should be there, but I'm currently here, but this is for my future and their
[00:04:12] of future as well,
[00:04:13] of just this is not to pass any judgments, but in the spirit of
[00:04:17] uh conversation and
[00:04:18] of dialogue, of I think you know people when they're
[00:04:22] in facing of with various choices, they have to
[00:04:28] of of be cognisant of of of of the possible consequences and society also has. pressure, so for
[00:04:30] of example, of of if society
[00:04:31] of values, being a good provider more than being
[00:04:35] a mom, which is
[00:04:37] of extremely of important, not
[00:04:38] of only of for your kid, but for the country's development, because you know your presence
[00:04:42] with them
[00:04:42] of in the early years,
[00:04:45] in of you essentially structures
[00:04:46] of their entire life's trajectory,
[00:04:50] of of so of this something like this, if that's
[00:04:51] a missed out,
[00:04:52] of it's of very difficult to
[00:04:54] of compensate a later on, so do you think the filipino
[00:04:57] society or the
[00:04:58] of modern of society? gives enough
[00:05:02] of
[00:05:03] of in of in a in appreciation to this sort of um
[00:05:04] of invisible and
[00:05:05] of of not fully enumerated aspect of human
[00:05:08] experience.
[00:05:09] of i of
[00:05:09] of think of like motherhood.
[00:05:12] of of yeah, i think it's also taken for. like when people come to other countries it's also taken for
[00:05:15] granted by some by some that when you come to the Philippines
[00:05:19] you're you're just you're like literally dollar sign probably some them
[00:05:23] the families that i know of but personally on my case i'm grateful that you know
[00:05:27] my family is very supportive and that's a different scenario and
[00:05:31] you know it's i'm just lucky that not everyone has this
[00:05:34] capacity and the ability to have a supportive family that
[00:05:38] you know even helps in nurturing my kids
[00:05:41] but "in general, in the modern society, I feel like when
[00:05:45] you come to point wherein you are the
[00:05:49] provider, it can be, it can be both basically,
[00:05:52] but you just have to intentionally make that life
[00:05:56] choice of being both as mother and as a
[00:05:59] provider, and there are a lot of ways probably
[00:06:03] you know that that you can do, and yeah, well, there's also
[00:06:07] another aspect at least of your life, apart from being a provider and
[00:06:11] being
[00:06:11] a mother, that
[00:06:12] is being..." social role model, especially in your capacity as
[00:06:16] pilot, you are trained to be a commercial pilot of
[00:06:19] Airbus A320, and I understand that's still
[00:06:23] a pretty rare occupation, not only in your part the world, but
[00:06:27] globally. what do you to that? uh, so technically until now
[00:06:31] it's 5% the entire world, um, women, um, women
[00:06:34] pilots, and I feel like I was born to
[00:06:38] represent women in such small percentages
[00:06:41] of... the industries
[00:06:43] in in the world, like basically um, i'm an air forces
[00:06:47] service as well, on the air force it's also a pretty, especially in the Philippines,
[00:06:51] there's just few percentage of women as well in blockchain and
[00:06:55] all these industries that i am in, and i feel like i was just born
[00:06:59] to be representing that and to show women
[00:07:02] you know that we can also do that, and it's not because the division of
[00:07:06] women and men, but i think it's just in society in general that they just want
[00:07:10] role model probably and... "I unintentionally did that,
[00:07:14] that I didn't know I was doing it for for
[00:07:16] people. I heard you say in another interview that when
[00:07:20] people first learn that you're associated with the aviation industry,
[00:07:24] they assume that you're a flight attendant, and there is a bit of a
[00:07:27] condessantion in that. How do you understand it, why do you think, what do you think drives
[00:07:31] it? I think because when when a woman is beautiful, it's the
[00:07:35] initial, you know, it's it's either you're beautiful and then
[00:07:39] you're you're this, they they already have that person." of
[00:07:43] you and so it's not bad that they assume that I'm a flight attendant, thank you that
[00:07:46] because flight attendants are beautiful right, but um it's
[00:07:50] also in in my case when you people were
[00:07:54] like when I was doing even a public address to to the
[00:07:57] aircraft and they weren't seeing me of course buse I'm in the cockpit and they were like
[00:08:01] oh the pilot is woman and I was like
[00:08:05] the the flight and I was like yeah and then they have
[00:08:08] it's still a stigma there's still a stigma of um this um men
[00:08:12] pilot uh because we're just few and i think just
[00:08:16] being visible and there's a lot more now uh better number
[00:08:20] than before and i think just being visible out there is
[00:08:24] having having that face that you're you're a woman
[00:08:28] pilot it just clicks on
[00:08:31] you know people that oh it's possible now speaking about
[00:08:34] the substance of those jobes because you have an experience of being a flight
[00:08:38] attended as well correct it is my understanding that um
[00:08:42] "you know, servicing people on, especially a long whole flight
[00:08:46] may take more stamina, more resilience, at times a
[00:08:49] wider skill set then
[00:08:52] you know operating technology in the cockpit. I don't want to be condescending
[00:08:56] towards pilots, but uh, my assumption is that it takes, it's
[00:09:00] it's not just about beauty to be a flight attendent, it takes a lot of work,
[00:09:04] yes, correct, so um, it's it's tiring physically, and you
[00:09:07] know, when during emergency you're gonna, you're going to to
[00:09:11] save people. right, so it's tiring physically, but on the other side,
[00:09:15] which I love about being a pilot is you
[00:09:19] bring people to to their destination, and you're you're
[00:09:22] literally holding the 180 lives
[00:09:26] out there and bringing them to their families and I feel like that's
[00:09:30] something that
[00:09:31] you know pilots and are proud of, and at the
[00:09:35] same time, so is it about the risk, the adrenaline associated
[00:09:39] with it? for me, yes, I think it's also the adrenaline and I think...
[00:09:42] it's it's because wanted to become astronaut before and
[00:09:46] probably because astronaut and being a pilot is a bit closer you know to
[00:09:50] that dream and i think it's
[00:09:52] also being a pilot you're going to study
[00:09:56] forever so i think it's more on the mental and flight attendant is more
[00:10:00] on the physical and mental so um yeah i
[00:10:04] there's there's two different worlds but i really love the aviation world is there
[00:10:08] any difference in terms of style
[00:10:11] or? of how women versus men pots do it,
[00:10:15] would you be able to sunset if you were passenger right now
[00:10:19] flying such, well i have asked other
[00:10:23] passengers, i don't person but probably in in terms the
[00:10:26] cockpit right, I mean girls have this flare right,
[00:10:30] so it's it's a bit different, and from the passenger's point of view, they
[00:10:34] said, not on my, not in my words, but from them
[00:10:37] that um, when it's a woman, they it's
[00:10:41] just it, it has different feel to it, so
[00:10:44] I personally don't know, I haven't felt it in as
[00:10:48] passenger, but definitely I feel like uh, in terms
[00:10:52] of work ethics and everything, I think there's a lot. of difference, I
[00:10:56] know that you had your break uh operating commercial jets, but you now
[00:11:00] intend to transition to piloting uh private jets, do you
[00:11:04] think there's any difference when it comes
[00:11:07] to wealthy people who can afford to have their own
[00:11:11] planes about intrusting their lives to a man versus
[00:11:15] woman pilot? I actually don't know what they think
[00:11:19] about it, but um definitely there's especially in the middle east because I be doing
[00:11:23] it in the middle east and there's smaller percentage than you can think
[00:11:26] of in in middle east, middle east, and i think they
[00:11:30] were happy that i'm i
[00:11:32] think it depends on your skills, it really doesn't matter if you're a
[00:11:34] man or woman
[00:11:35] so it really depends on your skills, but at the same time you know the
[00:11:39] reason i chose going to private jets because the schedule and i want to
[00:11:43] spend more time with my kids and i feel like that's something the diff the
[00:11:47] difference between the airline and doing private ships, but you know like when it comes
[00:11:51] to the airline the airline cannot openly tell you you know uh "I
[00:11:55] don't like or I don't trust women, so no, I'm not goingna
[00:11:58] allow you do that, but if you want to do that with private jets, if I
[00:12:02] have my own equipment, I i can refuse you for
[00:12:06] whatever reason, don't you think that you will have
[00:12:09] to deal with this stigma yet again if you
[00:12:13] if you pursue that? I think if you are are confident
[00:12:16] enough to you, that that you can do it regardless
[00:12:20] and you know God has a way of putting you where where
[00:12:24] you're at." I think that confidence and level of
[00:12:28] um um safety for you that
[00:12:32] wherever you are, you're meant to be there, so I'm really
[00:12:36] not afraid, probably because the experiences that I have, right? Okay,
[00:12:40] well we have to take a very short break right now, but we'll be back in just
[00:12:43] few moments. Stay
[00:12:44] tuned.
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[00:13:35] welcome back to world's apart with Cheska Gonzales, a Filipino
[00:13:38] entrepreneur, pilot and female empowerment
[00:13:41] advocate. Chesco, we talked lot about different sides
[00:13:45] of uh female empowerment, and this is such nuance and
[00:13:49] complicated uh concept, because I personally feel that there is
[00:13:53] lot of genuine issues.
[00:14:03] to uh encourage women to be what they don't necessarily
[00:14:07] want to be, any case uh, how do you understand
[00:14:11] that? what i
[00:14:14] my my family actually wanted me to become a doctor that alone even when you
[00:14:18] were when you your kids right, people want you to be
[00:14:22] something, people want you to become this and that. "and I
[00:14:26] believe that um, empowering females are, it's
[00:14:29] not just telling them who you become, it's asking them what they really
[00:14:33] want to become, because sometimes one person just wants to become a mother
[00:14:37] right, and becoming mother for example, it's already an
[00:14:41] achievement, and I respect that, people should respect
[00:14:44] what they really want, unless they're, well, but it's also very hard
[00:14:48] to understand what you really want when everybody tells you
[00:14:52] different things, culture wants one thing, your family." wants the other and
[00:14:56] you're too young to understand how to figure out so what i
[00:14:59] did um when when i was younger i've tried every single thing that you can
[00:15:03] think of like i feel like we have the
[00:15:07] permission to try out lot of things i always tell this to my kids that you
[00:15:11] know my my my daughter wants to become a lawyer for example and i
[00:15:14] said you must but i want to become a i want to do guitar and i
[00:15:18] want to do this and that i said just do it because sometimes you don't know
[00:15:22] if the lawyer thing is just because of... what the
[00:15:26] society is telling them or probably in in the social media or
[00:15:29] something
[00:15:30] and i tell them that
[00:15:31] you know it's it should be because you want to try it, the reason
[00:15:35] i have all these um titles is not because the titles
[00:15:38] alone, i really want it to become like, i just want to try
[00:15:42] it, is this something that i love, is this something that i want, and
[00:15:46] probably i think that's what's missing in in in some people,
[00:15:50] like they just don't want to try because they don't want to risk it. heard you say in another
[00:15:53] interview that seeing a professional barriers always gets,
[00:15:57] almost always gets you excited, and you see your life
[00:16:01] purpose to encourage others not to be discouraged, but i
[00:16:04] wonder if you ever get tired of... doing all these goals
[00:16:08] and trying to conquer the world, oh trust me, i am,
[00:16:12] like um, even when i'm especially when you're alone, when you
[00:16:16] feel like you're fighting and then you're asking for who, for why, for
[00:16:20] what, you know, so i think it's not just
[00:16:23] because i'm tired, but probably because this is
[00:16:27] much more bigger than me, think everything that do, not just becoming pilot, even
[00:16:31] for my blockchain advocacies and everything, i feel like it's not just for
[00:16:35] me, i feel like it's a responsibility that was given to me way
[00:16:38] back by by god probably and you know everything
[00:16:42] that i'm doing is much more than what i can handle and whenever i
[00:16:46] whenever i have the chance to to ask and you know
[00:16:49] pray i was like is this is
[00:16:53] this really what i want because
[00:16:55] you know or is this really my purpose cuz i feel like if i
[00:16:59] don't do this no one would and if
[00:17:02] someone would probably not in my country or not in this area the world
[00:17:06] and
[00:17:07] you know change one life at least or probably knowing
[00:17:10] someone that you change their life is already a success
[00:17:14] to me, so there a
[00:17:16] is masking and there may be major cultural differences
[00:17:19] here, but in my circle of high
[00:17:23] achieving women, I see lot of not just hunger,
[00:17:27] but longing for social non-achievement, for
[00:17:30] being able to not be efficient all the
[00:17:34] time, to slow down, not to be inspirational... model to be somebody
[00:17:38] who is uh quiet, not very remarkable,
[00:17:42] because you know, I feel like with
[00:17:45] many, with some of my friends it is as if it's not
[00:17:49] hard then they don't have a permission to to pursue it,
[00:17:53] and there are many things in life that are easily available that you don't
[00:17:57] actually need to fight for, but correct
[00:18:00] over time, it's hard for women to allow themselves to stop fighting and
[00:18:04] just enjoy it, I was I... currently actually
[00:18:08] now in that um i hope that i'm already there but you
[00:18:12] know that sometimes slow down and then i feel like there's
[00:18:16] another thing that like this congress for example like this economic um
[00:18:19] forum i wasn't planning to be here but then you know it's it's
[00:18:23] just um
[00:18:25] it it i'm representative and i'm here so i don't
[00:18:29] have a choice but to to do this in my head was like
[00:18:33] i was tasked to do this so it's it's more of like just
[00:18:37] in inspiring people unintentionally, but definitely
[00:18:41] trust me, i want to slow down, and i've been slowing down for the past years
[00:18:44] and i want to
[00:18:47] become, i want also to feel like woman, cuz
[00:18:51] i feel like being just women empowerment alone is
[00:18:55] entirely different from just go go go go, i feel like you
[00:18:59] should also slow down, and that's very important in life, even if
[00:19:03] you're a female or a male, slowing down is knowing where.
[00:19:07] really want to go, as I was preparing for this interview, I read lot of
[00:19:11] stories about about the Filipino women's experiences,
[00:19:15] especially those who go abroad or the like life stories their
[00:19:18] children, and uh that was actually
[00:19:21] very you know rich and painful subject, because you see
[00:19:25] that many them do want their children to
[00:19:28] succeed, they put their lives on the on the line
[00:19:32] and go work for many hours a foreign land hoping
[00:19:36] to save up enough for. their children's education to fund their private
[00:19:40] schools and then it turns out that many the children drop out
[00:19:44] of schools, they don't want to pursue that career, and then everybody gets
[00:19:47] disappointed, everybody was striving for some goal, but
[00:19:51] nobody really talked to one another whether they want that
[00:19:55] goal or not, so I think it's not just the filipino question, I mean for all of
[00:19:59] us, that's a very relevant question, so
[00:20:03] how do you deal with those um, how do you
[00:20:06] assign? uh priorities to the various challenges or the
[00:20:10] various tasks that you
[00:20:12] you know i treat my life, i did not know that i was treating my life this way,
[00:20:16] i'm treating my life like pilot, so um you have a checklist
[00:20:20] right, so technically when you do fly you have a checklist, did not know that i'm doing it
[00:20:24] like that, and so deal with it one a time, and now
[00:20:28] especially that i know that for example there's a technical failure an
[00:20:31] aircraft, you do that in your own life as well, so i check what
[00:20:35] is wrong and I make sure that I um attend
[00:20:39] to that, so for example, this this um past few months,
[00:20:43] I needed to be in the Philippines, I'm based in Dubai, but I needed to be in the
[00:20:47] Philippines because I want to spend more time with my kids. and my kids need more
[00:20:51] attention and so I do that because that is
[00:20:55] what's needed, so you treat your life as if like
[00:20:59] you treat it one at the time, so personally I
[00:21:02] deal with it in such a way also that you know
[00:21:05] when when you see necessary slowing down like
[00:21:09] you said help a lot in terms of seeing a bigger
[00:21:13] picture, I think you need to see it a bigger picture as well, because if you just you know
[00:21:17] you're in the problem or you're in that scenario...
[00:21:20] you cannot think straight, so you need to really you know put it a such
[00:21:24] a bigger picture that when you see what's wrong then
[00:21:28] you focus on that, so if you if your kids need attention, you do
[00:21:31] that, if your career needs attention then you do that. i think
[00:21:35] it's just matter of um putting it in such a way that
[00:21:39] it's um uh the priority itself as well
[00:21:42] and um compartimentalizing the the the
[00:21:46] problems. heard you say before that learning to
[00:21:50] has taught you how to be fully present in everything that you do, and I wonder
[00:21:54] if you have any life hacks or advice for all of us,
[00:21:58] because you know, being present is not easy, it's actually
[00:22:02] very hard-wornd skill. 100%, like imagine if you have a
[00:22:06] problem and you're flying a plane, like you cannot, you cannot do
[00:22:09] anything, you cannot think about it at all, right? so
[00:22:13] I made it in such a way that when I come to the, if I
[00:22:17] come to the office, if I want, if I needed to fly, I
[00:22:21] that you
[00:22:21] forget everything know that's bothering my everything, mentally, physically,
[00:22:24] etc., just forget about everything else, and
[00:22:28] think to yourself, there's only like eight hours,
[00:22:32] eight hours is not going to kill anybody, right? just just be there,
[00:22:36] just be present, or probably you need to take a a
[00:22:39] walk. 10 minutes of slowing down won't won't hurt you. i think it's
[00:22:43] just a small things every day, or probably going to the gym, right?
[00:22:47] going to the gym is not because of just your... your health, but it's
[00:22:51] because you remove everything, you don't go to the gym and you text and you you do all these
[00:22:54] things, you do things one a time just so you
[00:22:58] don't get overwhelmed, because I was overwhelmed, I'm telling you this because it's
[00:23:02] not because I already mastered it, but I think it's because the experience that
[00:23:06] I had, and you know it's it's just
[00:23:09] literally um not being present for the past years of
[00:23:13] my life, and I think just being present makes you
[00:23:17] fully understand what life
[00:23:19] is and... what um you really need to be to do to be doing and your
[00:23:23] purpose as well, so slowing down is the key to to everything. well, before
[00:23:27] we fully slow down, do want to ask you a couple of questions about your current
[00:23:31] occupation, and you are the founder the Philippine blockchain week, a
[00:23:35] large event that brings creators uh from across the
[00:23:39] field and from across the global, suppose, what drew your
[00:23:43] interest to that? so during the pandemic lost my job
[00:23:46] and um, lost my job as pilot cuz no one's flying right, and
[00:23:50] learned and earned crypto and because learned and earned crypto
[00:23:53] i said to myself what
[00:23:54] is this um industry so i'm i'm very very curious on what that
[00:23:58] industry was like so i went to dubai to to this conference
[00:24:02] and met lot of people and i've been um asked to do
[00:24:05] blockchain women empowerment talks and everything and i was
[00:24:09] like what i going to do with all of my contacts and bridge them all
[00:24:13] together so what i did is i started philippine blockchain week
[00:24:17] um in the philippines it's the largest um blockchain even in the
[00:24:20] Philippines
[00:24:21] and you know I bridge, since I live in another country, I bridge
[00:24:25] all the um countries all together and bring businesses to the Philippines and
[00:24:29] back. now we talked about the difficult economic
[00:24:32] situation in the Philippines or rather the challenging, and it's
[00:24:36] not just the Philippines, I mean the entire world is facing uh
[00:24:40] lot of hardship, but there is a large gap between high birth rates
[00:24:44] and uh, well-paying jobs in your
[00:24:47] country, and that's one the reasons why... people have to go
[00:24:50] abroad, um, do you think the blockchain or the tech
[00:24:54] industry have uh any possibility of
[00:24:58] perhaps changing or augmenting some of that? 100%. I feel
[00:25:02] like the reason I also started this is because I saw the
[00:25:05] potential of when I bring companies, international companies to the Philippines, they hire
[00:25:09] Filipinos, so when they hire Filipinos, this filipinos get a
[00:25:13] larger pay and a larger salary, and this salary can
[00:25:17] make them stay in the Philippines and that is... such huge,
[00:25:20] huge help to this filipino, to the country, right?
[00:25:24] and the the moment I saw that, and
[00:25:27] you know, more entrepreneurs are being born like just
[00:25:30] because they meet people elsewhere, and then they said to
[00:25:34] theirself like you, I can also do it, and so um, I think
[00:25:37] just making their lives, um, people
[00:25:41] who cannot fly in or who cannot go to this conferences,
[00:25:45] um, can have that chance just by going to to that conference,
[00:25:49] like just...
[00:25:50] him all together and finally, I know that you had to partner
[00:25:54] with the Filipino government
[00:25:56] for for for this event, and successive filipino governments said that
[00:26:00] they do want to create more jobs at home. but at the same time your
[00:26:04] economy is heavily reliant on foreign
[00:26:07] remittances, so the government is a bit of bind, they
[00:26:10] want people to, especially mothers to stay home, but they also
[00:26:14] benefit them from going away, and I wonder how you think
[00:26:18] that could be changed, I mean would that require only economic measures or
[00:26:21] perhaps the culture needs needs to change as well,
[00:26:25] something, something's going to give, because you cannot have both at the same
[00:26:29] time, correct? I think the culture also understands that... um,
[00:26:33] mean it's very easy now to understand what's happening,
[00:26:37] so so the philippinos are very talented and very um wise,
[00:26:41] so they they do understand that we are hustlers as well, so we we know
[00:26:44] what to do, but in terms of
[00:26:47] you know the the the salary probably and the high birth
[00:26:51] rate and everything else, i think it's
[00:26:55] really do um bridging private sector and the public
[00:26:58] sector, because if you just rely on the public sector of course i "we all
[00:27:02] know that it's it's different right, they have their own priorities and everything
[00:27:06] else, and they usually touch the the class that
[00:27:10] are um, not not everyone, like not everyone,
[00:27:14] they cannot handle everyone, so what um, i think we are
[00:27:17] actually doing right, is that the private sector, which
[00:27:21] is us, is helping all the classes, um,
[00:27:24] families to to know and to know more
[00:27:28] opportunities outside, and maintain the money inside
[00:27:31] the..." the Philippines and so the economy also
[00:27:35] booms, so I think it's really the bridging of private and public
[00:27:39] sector locally just so you can
[00:27:42] um, first of all they will hear you, they they can hear like for example the
[00:27:46] blockchain bills right, we don't they don't care about blockchain for the
[00:27:50] past five years and after five years now it's all becoming
[00:27:53] mainstream, you have blockchain bills all over and everything else so it's really the bridging
[00:27:57] of public and private sector that will help the economy
[00:28:01] boom so... Well Cheska, this is all we have time for,
[00:28:04] thank you very much for this truly inspiring conversation, thank you, thank you so much
[00:28:08] for having me, thank you, and thank you for watching, hope to see you again
[00:28:12] on world's apart next
[00:28:13] week.
[00:28:37] "there's no end in sight over how you're going to continue to destroy the earth is the case
[00:28:41] the madness the people. i tried
[00:28:43] to go to the gym but i'm certainly not ready to fight russia. this is all so absurd.
[00:28:47] this is third world lunacy, brainwashing.
[00:28:50] as pus to say, we have the tools. why we
[00:28:54] just start with stability and business deal to work, planet
[00:28:58] living on man. we have very good propaganda in our press here in
[00:29:01] Europe." I think we don't know the aftermath. Anytime that you're not allowed to
[00:29:05] ask questions, you should ask all the questions. The more questions asked, the
[00:29:09] better the answers will
[00:29:10] be.
[00:29:18] Towards the end the 18th century, wave of decolonizations caused the
[00:29:22] colonizers to focus their attention on Africa, a period marked by the brutal
[00:29:26] legacy of European imperialism and the systematic
[00:29:30] exploitation of African peoples and resources. Many of our
[00:29:33] nations remain caught in the grip of
[00:29:37] new-colonial systems. Africans must be the
[00:29:41] lords their own land, the masters their
[00:29:44] own resources.
[00:29:46] It is time to leave Africa and other developing countries
[00:29:49] alone, the west needs to stop with the foreign
[00:29:52] interference. They know that divided
[00:29:55] Africa is a weak Africa. Let us challenge the
[00:29:59] poisonous tongs that seek to divide us. and build
[00:30:03] bridges of understanding instead. Today that
[00:30:06] opportunity lies in cooperation with nations across the global
[00:30:10] south and with allies like
[00:30:12] Russia.
[00:30:26] Russia's first parliamentary elections since the beginning the
[00:30:30] Ukraine conflict have wrapped up. And the counting the
[00:30:33] votes has commenced. There's still a lot to see and discuss as the
[00:30:37] final figures won't be officially confirmed until next Friday.
[00:30:41] We're bringing you our special coverage as the world's geographically biggest
[00:30:45] country has its democratic say. And
[00:30:49] with the first preliminary results coming in, the ruling United
[00:30:53] Russia party is firmly top with solid majority. The
[00:30:56] runner-up is the Communist Party with almost 14% and
[00:31:00] the Liberal Democratic Party. is in third with a little over
[00:31:04] 9%. Moscow
[00:31:08] says Kiev tried to undermine the elections with a massive
[00:31:11] attack. There's almost 2,00 drones and missile. were
[00:31:15] intercepted a single day, the targeted assault on the Russian
[00:31:19] capital left several people dead,
[00:31:23] and that is my vote, one of tens of
[00:31:26] millions being cast around the donbas, but with
[00:31:30] every vote cast in the Dumbas, the people
[00:31:34] the Dumbas show that those threats don't
[00:31:37] scare them, Russians cast their ballots despite
[00:31:41] threats and daily shelling from Ukraine, that says the key.
[00:31:45] regime insists elections cannot be held during wartime.
[00:31:49] Nevertheless, Russians ventured out to the polls, including near the front
[00:31:52] lines and in other border regions.
[00:31:56] Generally speaking, it is very difficult to intimidate me, it's just not in
[00:32:00] my nature. Firstly, I don't recognize the landscate at all, and I don't
[00:32:04] watch him on TV. As for scammers, they've already left me alone.
[00:32:08] We have lived too long to be
[00:32:09] intimidated.
[00:32:18] A warm welcome to you. This is RT International. As always, it's great
[00:32:22] to have you with us. Well, this has been the third and final day of
[00:32:25] voting in Russia's parliamentary elections. Polls have closed
[00:32:29] across the country's 11 time zones and the preliminary
[00:32:33] results are already coming in. RT has been keeping close tap
[00:32:37] on the developments, bringing you all the latest updates as part of our
[00:32:40] special
[00:32:41] coverage.
[00:32:53] Well even though the polls have closed, there's still a lot to see, counter and
[00:32:57] discuss as the final figures won't be officially confirmed until next
[00:33:01] Friday, currently there are here are the preliminary results
[00:33:04] after about 37% the ballots have been tallied, the
[00:33:08] ruling United Russia party is firmly in the lead with solid
[00:33:12] majority, the runner-up is the Communist Part. with about
[00:33:15] 14%. in third place is the liberal democratic party
[00:33:19] with a little over 9%. let's get
[00:33:23] more details. let's cross to our correspondent artist
[00:33:26] Anastasiana joining us from our studio just outside the kremlin.
[00:33:30] Anastasia, good to see you. so we know the polls are closed, the votes are being
[00:33:34] counted. what else can you tell us about
[00:33:36] the latest developments?
[00:33:40] good evening there Nikki. well, it's just few minutes past
[00:33:43] midnight and the polling... stations across one the largest,
[00:33:47] well the largest nation in the world have officially closed, the
[00:33:51] turnout uh has surpassed and exceeded
[00:33:54] 56% and it's generally been a very
[00:33:58] busy weekend and to be precise, very busy three days for
[00:34:02] those uh who took part in organizing the uh
[00:34:06] election and uh so far but um of course a
[00:34:10] more busy night awaits us all ahead as the votes are
[00:34:13] currently being count and for that of course I have my
[00:34:17] colleague who is joining me right here in
[00:34:21] the uh very heart the Russian capital who has just returned
[00:34:25] from the uh central election committee what can you tell
[00:34:29] us about maybe the atmosphere there and what do we know about
[00:34:33] the results so far? well enough
[00:34:35] to see indeed polling stations have now closed nationwide and the
[00:34:39] voter turnout across the country surpassed um
[00:34:42] 56 percent that is 56.66% to
[00:34:46] be exact um now so far
[00:34:49] 36.87% the votes have been
[00:34:52] counted and the preliminary results they are officially
[00:34:56] in, so let me just give you a quick breakdown the five
[00:35:00] leading parties. we start with the all Russian political
[00:35:03] party, United Russia, which got the most votes, that is over
[00:35:07] 57% in total. um, the communist party
[00:35:11] the Russian Federation is second, that is CPRF
[00:35:15] short uh they got the second highest number of votes as I said and that
[00:35:18] is over 13%. uh then we also have the liberal
[00:35:22] democratic party of Russia that is LDPR with over
[00:35:26] 9% of votes and the new people political party in fourth
[00:35:30] place with over 8% of votes uh now in fifth place
[00:35:34] is the socialist political party uh adjust Russia with
[00:35:38] over 5% of votes there so uh now as
[00:35:41] well the leading three candidates for each individual.
[00:35:45] constituency have also been announced and uh
[00:35:49] just to um mention this very quickly, there are
[00:35:52] 225 individual constituencies in
[00:35:56] Russia and 16 in the Russian capital
[00:35:59] alone, so one candidate will be elected per constituency
[00:36:03] there. So we've heard lot about the uh the results, everyone is
[00:36:07] of course um waiting for the official results once
[00:36:11] all the votes are counted down, but can you actually take us through the actual?
[00:36:15] uh voting system and how the seats in parliament uh are
[00:36:18] distributed uh, well out the 450
[00:36:22] deputies being elected, half are elected through party lists and the
[00:36:26] other half,
[00:36:27] so the...
[00:36:27] the uh 225 are elected in single mandate
[00:36:31] constituencies uh so in casting their vote for a specific
[00:36:35] candidate to represent the area in the state Duma, Russian citizens
[00:36:39] chose from between um around seven eight candidates
[00:36:43] per area and the total number of candidates uh making the federal
[00:36:46] lists across the country uh this time around is
[00:36:50] around 1,700 people. now some of those
[00:36:54] candidates making the federal lists are independent and
[00:36:57] importantly in this election, federalists also included
[00:37:01] veterans the special military operation. now we
[00:37:05] had more than 90,000 polling stations open across the
[00:37:08] country in this time, that is over the past three days
[00:37:12] and the total number of registered voters in Moscow is
[00:37:16] over 7 million 800 thousand people, while
[00:37:19] nationwide that number is at
[00:37:22] 111 million. now in the course of this
[00:37:26] election, people have been able. to cast their vote a variety of ways that is of
[00:37:30] course uh in person uh or they they have also been able to
[00:37:33] cast the ballot online as well uh that was uh well
[00:37:37] online voting that was available uh in numerous Russian
[00:37:40] regions those unable to vote in person have been able to vote from
[00:37:44] home uh so there were many ways really for people to take part
[00:37:48] in uh these elections and it's worth noting uh that when it
[00:37:52] comes to polling stations almost 400 thousand observers were
[00:37:56] present at these elections now with the polls um officially
[00:38:00] closed, the preliminary results, as we know are in, we are now
[00:38:03] awaiting the final results and those will be announced by the central
[00:38:07] election commission by the 5th of October, so we're waiting on that for sure, so you've
[00:38:11] just mentioned that how um people across Russia were able to vote online,
[00:38:15] and this is actually what I did personally myself, and we know that Russia is an
[00:38:19] enormous country, stretching over 11 time zones and this year
[00:38:23] for the first time uh four new regions also took part.
[00:38:27] the voting, so the Donietsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's
[00:38:31] Republic, Hirson and Zaparojie regions and we
[00:38:34] know that the key of regime, because these elections are actually the first day
[00:38:38] dumer elections since the start the uh special military
[00:38:41] operation that um started back in February of
[00:38:44] 2022 and we know that Zelensky um and
[00:38:48] his um team there Ukrainians um have carried out an
[00:38:52] unprecedented attack using drones um not just targeting the
[00:38:56] regions but specifically the Moscow region according to Sergei
[00:39:00] Sabanian, the mayor, around over 1,600
[00:39:04] drones were intercepted overnight and 450 them were
[00:39:08] actually heading moscow's way, and to you this attack, I
[00:39:12] think it's really important to have listen what the defense ministry had to say, let's take a
[00:39:16] listen to that. In an effort to undermine the democratic will
[00:39:20] the citizens the Russian Federation, as expressed in the elections
[00:39:24] to the state Duma the Federal assembly the Russian federal. The
[00:39:28] KV regime launched a massive attack on the territory the Russian
[00:39:31] Federation on September 19th and 20th of this
[00:39:35] year, using UAVs and Flamingo cruise
[00:39:38] missiles. In response to the Kiev regime's attacks on civilian
[00:39:42] targets on Russian territory, the armed forces the Russian
[00:39:45] Federation will intensify their strikes with high precision
[00:39:48] weapons against military targets in
[00:39:51] Kiev. Unfortunately, we do know about
[00:39:54] casualties, according to reports, three children. have been wounded
[00:39:58] and two people unfortunately have died uh due to the
[00:40:02] attack uh, but um, what I want to ask you is
[00:40:05] this, so we know lot um, and it's been talked about recently about the
[00:40:09] Ukrainian drone attack, but do we know about any other types of
[00:40:13] attacks so far um during these state duma elections? well,
[00:40:17] let me pre-phase by saying when it comes to the elections themselves, they went
[00:40:21] smoothly, they were of course held in full compliance with the law,
[00:40:25] we saw a high voter turnout and as well, which is just, well, it serves -
[00:40:29] proof of that fact, and there hasn't been a single successful attack
[00:40:33] on the elections that we saw in the past three
[00:40:36] days, but there have however been multiple attempts of course,
[00:40:40] and we've seen continued intimidation of election commission
[00:40:44] members over this time period, and as we know uh, today two
[00:40:48] people were killed in a drone attack a civilian bus in the
[00:40:51] Hirson region. one the victims was indeed member the
[00:40:54] pressing electoral commission. in the Hirson
[00:40:58] region and this person was involved in the conducting of
[00:41:02] early voting in one of its electoral districts and this was
[00:41:06] reported by the central election commission head Ella
[00:41:09] Pinfilova and she also spoke on cyber attacks actually
[00:41:13] that is over 100 million potential dangers that were thwarted
[00:41:17] in this
[00:41:18] time
[00:41:22] over the past period more than waves of ddos attacks were recorded
[00:41:25] against infrastructure in the Russian. Federation that is specifically involved in the
[00:41:29] electoral process. Thankfully, there were no successful attacks
[00:41:33] despite their intensity and power. At the same time, the level of impact
[00:41:37] is assessed as very high. attacks were carried out by highly
[00:41:41] professional, well coordinated groups using artificial intelligence
[00:41:45] tools. The attacks were launched primarily from abroad. Where did
[00:41:49] they come from? The United Kingdom, Ukraine, Brazil, Indonesia,
[00:41:53] and even India. Thank God, all the attacks were successfully
[00:41:56] repelled.
[00:42:01] Well, what we're seeing as well is essentially fake news being spread about the
[00:42:05] fairness these elections, such as reports on
[00:42:09] observers being. uh well barred from uh entering into
[00:42:12] polling stations, and we do know that in fact only 23
[00:42:16] complaints have been received in regards to difficulties in
[00:42:20] exercising the rights of observers, three which were received
[00:42:24] earlier today. now the central election commission
[00:42:27] it is worth noting deals with these complaints
[00:42:30] immediately. so with the elections now concluded, we
[00:42:34] can certainly say that uh, well indeed there have been attempts
[00:42:37] to uh undermine the electoral process to disrupt
[00:42:41] it, however they have produced an opposite effect,
[00:42:44] and what we've seen is that uh, well people were even more active
[00:42:48] in casting their votes over these past three
[00:42:51] days. thank you very much Aila for bringing us up to
[00:42:55] speed. well, Nikki, that's all from me and
[00:42:59] Aila so far, so passing over to you, but we'll make sure to keep you
[00:43:03] updated. we appreciate that. many thanks to both of you for
[00:43:07] the updates and uh let's uh discuss now. how our correspondent
[00:43:11] egos donov is reporting from one the headquarters
[00:43:14] of United Russia is the country's ruling party, as we can see is
[00:43:18] firmly leading the race. the atmosphere certainly has
[00:43:22] been cheerful here, there's other word for it, and after all, if you look
[00:43:26] at the caliber of people that United Russia can show
[00:43:29] its roaster, well it certainly can't complain in that
[00:43:33] department, here we've spoken to heroes of Russia, to
[00:43:36] decorated officers, veterans the special military.
[00:43:40] operation of in Ukraine, it's acting senators, acting
[00:43:44] MPs, you name it, they all have gathered here to
[00:43:47] together find out the outcome of this election
[00:43:51] and well to finally find themselves
[00:43:54] victorious in this race, it has been a long, rather
[00:43:58] long race, after all people have been voting for three days
[00:44:02] and and well again the turnout has been quite
[00:44:05] significant, it has been larger than uh five years ago
[00:44:09] and they
[00:44:10] you know the people uh the people of this party of United Russia uh
[00:44:14] its members
[00:44:15] they have spoken openly about how happy they are that people
[00:44:19] chose to go and vote that they utilized these
[00:44:22] uh you know all the electronic uh
[00:44:26] methods that have been there available for the general population for the low
[00:44:30] mobility people in hospitals and so to to
[00:44:33] vote without having to go to the polling
[00:44:37] station without having you know without having to physically appear at the polling
[00:44:41] booths, and especially they have talked about how
[00:44:45] people in the new regions of Russia, people in the border regions of Russia, and
[00:44:49] I'm talking about the border regions, the ones that border with Ukraine, of course, that
[00:44:53] they were unphazed by the threats, they were unfaced by the
[00:44:56] constant threats of drones, of missile attacks and they went
[00:45:00] and voted and voted unmass. After all, if you look at the
[00:45:04] turnout in the Lugansk People's Republic in the Donetsk People's Republic, those
[00:45:08] turnouts, they have been quite... spectacular, well above the
[00:45:12] average across the country, and in fact I asked the
[00:45:15] senator representing the Lugansk people's republic. I asked
[00:45:19] her, darial Lantratova, I asked her uh, what she thinks
[00:45:23] about it, what she thinks about the people who still in
[00:45:27] her hometown, in her home region, they went and they
[00:45:30] decided to participate in this first election
[00:45:34] that they that they could really take part in as part of Russia,
[00:45:38] and here's what she had
[00:45:39] to say, Indeed, the turnout is
[00:45:42] unprecedentedly high in the Dunetsk and Lugansk Republics at about
[00:45:46] 80%. For the people, this is indeed very important event,
[00:45:50] another step on the path of integration with Russia, because the residents the
[00:45:54] reunited historical regions are electing their representatives and parliament
[00:45:57] members for the first time. Indeed, there were many provocations and
[00:46:01] dangers. We have once again been convinced that our people cannot be
[00:46:04] intimidated, they steadfastly withstood these trials. Our
[00:46:08] adversary targeted energy. civil infrastructure with attacks intended to
[00:46:12] intimidate our people, to force them not to go to the polling stations, to
[00:46:16] jeopardizing the entire voting process.
[00:46:20] and well, the threat, it was as real as it gets, after all, at
[00:46:23] least one member the electoral committee was killed in the Ukrainian
[00:46:27] strike in the Zaparogia region of Russia, and so
[00:46:31] really people, they did risk literally risk their lives to
[00:46:34] go and have a have a go a democratic say that they
[00:46:38] have now as part of... Russia, but they weren't the only ones
[00:46:42] uh, taking this risk. Moscow uh was targeted by
[00:46:46] Ukrainian uh long-ranged uh attack uh
[00:46:49] over the past over the past three days really. "there was several waves
[00:46:53] these attacks and - you had also international
[00:46:57] observers working at the polling stations and they
[00:47:00] took note of Russia's you know of how Russia has
[00:47:04] digitalized the voting process and they were quite impressed they some
[00:47:08] uh some uh delegates some uh well some the
[00:47:11] representatives the uh African of some African nations they
[00:47:15] well they said that they might seek to adopt
[00:47:19] some of that technology and you know bring them to bring..." this
[00:47:22] technology to their home country. I asked an acting
[00:47:26] MP, Peter stoy as to what he thinks about th this
[00:47:30] representation when it comes to international observers and the
[00:47:34] general digitalization the vote here in Russia,
[00:47:38] what he, here's what he had to say. You know, we have a
[00:47:42] large team of international observers working in these elections and not just in
[00:47:45] Moscow. Everyone has noted how far Russia has advanced in terms of
[00:47:49] technology for organizing the electoral process. This is... transparent
[00:47:53] and verificable for voters. It is easy to understand and most importantly
[00:47:57] convenient for people to use. For us, it absolutely does not matter
[00:48:01] whether our former western partners recognize the elections or not, every
[00:48:04] day they tell stories about how bad we are, what monsters we are, and this
[00:48:08] entire wave of russophobia, I'm sure, will also spill over into the
[00:48:12] finalization the election results. For us, the most important thing is that the
[00:48:16] elections are recognized as fair and objective by our citizens, by our
[00:48:19] Russian voters. Our legitimacy lies.
[00:48:28] now there's still there is going to be few days that the Russian
[00:48:32] electoral committee will take to finalize the counter of
[00:48:36] all the votes, but it is already pretty clear that United Russia it
[00:48:40] is quite comfortably in the lead, well over
[00:48:42] 50% the public support, they have
[00:48:46] it, and so it's leader Dimitri Midved has already said
[00:48:49] addressing people here in uh... in the people's in the
[00:48:53] public support HQ the United Russia party, he has
[00:48:57] said that now that they know that they have this public
[00:49:01] support, well they now United Russia can be more
[00:49:04] ambitious and it can really pursue everything that
[00:49:08] it stands for and uh really try and
[00:49:12] put forward their vision, bring closer their
[00:49:16] vision of success for Russia.
[00:49:20] Let's take this discussion further with George. senior research fellow
[00:49:24] at the global policy institute in Budapest, thank you so much for joining us on the
[00:49:28] program this evening, as we know, Russia's parliamentary elections have
[00:49:31] wrapped up, what's your overall impression of how things
[00:49:34] went? well, it's pretty, the results are pretty much as
[00:49:38] we had expected them to be. um, now
[00:49:41] naturally uh, the western media will not accept the
[00:49:45] result, uh, however, um, they wouldn't have
[00:49:49] accepted there any result at all unless was
[00:49:53] a uh defeat for uh President Putin's
[00:49:56] party uh, in which case they would have celebrated this as the
[00:50:00] Russian people have spoken, um, the, but what I think
[00:50:03] is quite striking was the uh
[00:50:07] huge drone and missile
[00:50:11] attack on Moscow today from
[00:50:14] Ukraine, this was obviously sponsored by NATO and it was
[00:50:18] this, this was the NATO Ukraine opinion of...
[00:50:22] the Russian people, the the same Russian people that they claim that they
[00:50:26] love, love, love so much, um, this is what they did, this
[00:50:30] isn't an attack on the Russian government, this isn't an attack on president
[00:50:34] Putin, this is attack on the Russian people, and that is
[00:50:37] shows the NATO and Ukraine contempt for
[00:50:40] democracy, yeah, we'll come back to this, I want to just um go back
[00:50:44] to the results that we're seeing so far, because we're showing that the United
[00:50:48] Russia party will probably still hold the majority in the Russian um
[00:50:52] lower house of parliament, although probably no longer a super majority,
[00:50:56] so what do you think about this and what conclusions do you think foreign observers
[00:51:00] could draw from this? well, I think it was still a
[00:51:03] pretty good result for the United Russia
[00:51:07] party, because remember the uh, there had been an
[00:51:11] expectation that uh, even few months ago that
[00:51:15] they would fall well short of
[00:51:18] 50%, so once you get it get up to 50%, then that's
[00:51:22] a... pretty decent result, but you have to also keep in
[00:51:26] mind that among the opposition parties,
[00:51:30] they still nonetheless support um
[00:51:33] the the the policy the government, so I think this is a
[00:51:37] pretty pretty decent result, it was certainly that's not
[00:51:41] how it looked earlier in the summer and were very die prediction,
[00:51:44] particularly given the condition the economy that this would turn out to
[00:51:48] be poor result, but if you take this election to be
[00:51:53] referendum on the performance the government,
[00:51:56] and I think the government would have every reason to be reasonably
[00:51:59] satisfied with these results. Yeah, this election was being
[00:52:03] called historic because. included the voices the new Russian
[00:52:07] regions, while the worst has become accustom to hearing Zelensky and
[00:52:11] Ukrainian officials say that a time of war, no elections can be held,
[00:52:15] but Russia is shown now that it was able to do it.
[00:52:18] might this change the western perspective on whether the Kiev
[00:52:22] regime can refuse to hold an election? no, I don't
[00:52:26] think it
[00:52:27] it there'll be any change at all, because the last thing that the western
[00:52:31] governments want is to allow the Ukrainian people to have a...
[00:52:35] say in how their country is governed and
[00:52:39] particular uh whether they want to continue fighting
[00:52:43] this hopeless, horrific, dreadful war, and I think this is
[00:52:46] very, very important to keep in mind that
[00:52:49] Ukraine was supposed to have held elections two and
[00:52:53] a half years ago, not only are no elections
[00:52:57] in the offing, but it's been made
[00:53:01] clear by the western powers that they intend this war to...
[00:53:05] continue ad infinitum, and given the
[00:53:08] logic under which they operate that, well we can't have elections during
[00:53:12] wartime, and
[00:53:14] you obviously want this
[00:53:15] war to go
[00:53:16] at infinitum, that means you don't foresee any elections at
[00:53:20] all uh for the forceable future, and that is the
[00:53:23] current official western position, over the course the
[00:53:27] weekend, as you noted, Ukraine launched about 2,
[00:53:30] drones and missiles um at at Russia, well...
[00:53:35] Previously Kiyev had called for the Russian people to put pressure on their
[00:53:38] government, so the question is why then try to disrupt the elections which
[00:53:42] could actually change Russian politics if the Russian people can go out and
[00:53:46] safely vote, well I think it was just simply
[00:53:49] um attempt to just
[00:53:53] disrupt, to insult, to show a
[00:53:57] uh the contem for the Russians, for the Russian government, for the
[00:54:01] Russian electoral process, um, it was...
[00:54:05] entirely attempt at sabotage and of
[00:54:08] course there's likelihood
[00:54:11] of a substantial response coming from
[00:54:15] Russia against the Ukraine in the coming days in
[00:54:18] retaliation for what is really quite an act
[00:54:22] of insolence um but of course that's
[00:54:26] what you how Ukraine operates they want to provoke
[00:54:29] these um Russian attacks they want to do this because they
[00:54:33] want to um ' uh, you know, hope obviously
[00:54:37] hope that the western uh powers will weigh will go to war
[00:54:41] against Russia. One interesting aspect of this is of course
[00:54:44] that uh Ukraine attacked uh
[00:54:48] refineries again after having been told by President
[00:54:52] Trump not to do this, this is a really a bad
[00:54:55] idea given the uh the world oil
[00:54:58] markets at the moment, yet Zelensky went ahead and did
[00:55:02] it, um, the stock that he's going to meet... Trump in
[00:55:06] uh New York, I don't know whether this is that this is going
[00:55:10] to go down very well with the uh American
[00:55:12] administration, changing the topic slightly, some
[00:55:16] interesting election results in Germany today, which dealt heavy
[00:55:20] blows to parties aligned with the EU leadership in Brussels, what do
[00:55:24] you think about those losses, and is there emerging trend that we're seeing
[00:55:27] here against the current political establishment in
[00:55:30] Europe? well there obviously is, in particular,
[00:55:35] the um absolutely humiliating result for
[00:55:39] um Chancellor Merts's CDU party, they
[00:55:43] barely, as as last time I checked, barely reached
[00:55:46] 5% threshhold in in order to get into the
[00:55:50] uh parliament, so I think they will at least have some representation, if the
[00:55:54] if they'd gone a little bit below that, it would have been the most humiliating result
[00:55:58] in the CDU's history, but this is
[00:56:00] now um
[00:56:03] a pattern of... disastrous defeats
[00:56:07] for Chancelor Mels who has only been in power
[00:56:11] really for very short period of time, he's the the
[00:56:15] most unpopularuh leader in German
[00:56:18] history, and and he has no ideas at all of how
[00:56:22] to get himself out of this mess, because the policies that he
[00:56:26] advocates, which is the cuts in welfare in order to
[00:56:30] pay for more support for Ukraine, in order to pay
[00:56:33] for uh... a bigger military are absolutely
[00:56:37] hated by the German people, so he's now had two
[00:56:41] absolutely catastrophic results uh, and
[00:56:45] of course even in the third result in Berlin, which wasn't quite so catastrophic, it
[00:56:49] was still nonetheless humiliating defeat, they've lost power in
[00:56:53] Berlin, so that's really uh, Mertz himself said
[00:56:57] these results were disaster, that's a little bit of an
[00:57:00] understatement, thank you so much for joining us on the program, always good to
[00:57:04] hear your thoughts, senior research fellow at the global policy institute in
[00:57:07] Budapest, thank you, thank you. multiple
[00:57:11] polling stations were open in Russian embassies in many locations for
[00:57:15] citizens abroad, and these were some the... scenes of voting locations
[00:57:19] around the world from Armenia to the UAE, Russians
[00:57:23] also actively cast their ballots in European countries. Some of
[00:57:26] those expatriates stress that it's important to express their position
[00:57:30] issues, even if they live outside their
[00:57:32] homeland. We must always express our
[00:57:36] civic stance, regardless the situation in the world or in our
[00:57:40] country, but right now, in 2026, it seems to me that the
[00:57:44] world is on the brink of very significant changes and Russia. has a duty
[00:57:48] to face them with dignity, that's why everyone should
[00:57:50] vote. we've lived here for very long time, and
[00:57:54] our families are here, that's all, but my heart and soul and my
[00:57:58] homeland are there, and i travel to Russia every year, so it's very
[00:58:02] important. i came here to support Russia, and our
[00:58:06] choice matters too, even for those of us living abroad, so that relations between
[00:58:09] Russia and France can be restored and improve. well, we're hoping for confirmation
[00:58:13] the Russian government's actions, which I believe most of us view as positive. a
[00:58:17] very complicated international geopolitical situation and the Russian
[00:58:21] government isn't doing a bad job at
[00:58:23] all. I believe in friendship. I want
[00:58:27] the two nations to be friends. My wife, for example, is German and I'm
[00:58:31] Russian. Why are there so many Russians here? 9 million
[00:58:34] Russian speakers, because our families are mixed. I believe we
[00:58:38] all can live in harmony. The crucial vote is also
[00:58:42] taking place in territories that are coming under daily attack, but
[00:58:46] despite the threat. by Ukraine, people say they're determined that
[00:58:50] their voices will be heard. The head the Donies Republic has cast his
[00:58:54] vote a local polling station, noting that he met quite a few people
[00:58:58] who wanted to vote in their first state dumer election.
[00:59:01] Artismour Gazdier reports on how the vote is being held under
[00:59:05] wartime conditions. Across two
[00:59:08] continents and 11 time zones, under ceaseless
[00:59:12] threat of attack, Russians vote for their new
[00:59:16] parliament.
[00:59:27] In their millions, despite constant threats from
[00:59:31] Ukraine, threats of prosecution and
[00:59:34] persecution just for vooting, attacks on
[00:59:38] pouling stations, fakes and Ukrainian
[00:59:41] propaganda. Yesterday and the day before,
[00:59:45] leaflets were dropped by drones across most. of our region,
[00:59:48] containing calls to block the electoral process and urging
[00:59:52] people not to participate in the elections. every day we are
[00:59:56] seeing a steady stream of two or three disinformation campaigns coming
[01:00:00] from the Ukrainian side, along with deep fakes and forged
[01:00:03] administrative documents. yet few are
[01:00:06] afraid, people are used to drones and
[01:00:10] missiles, verbal threats no longer carry
[01:00:14] the same weight. tell me, have you been intimidated?
[01:00:17] did Zelensky threaten you saying you shouldn't go to these
[01:00:20] elections, no way, he can't do
[01:00:23] anything, of course not, generally speaking it
[01:00:27] is very difficult to intimidate me, it's just not in my
[01:00:30] nature. God forbid, firstly, I don't recognize the
[01:00:34] landscate all, and I don't watch him on TV, as for scammers,
[01:00:38] they've already left me alone, we have lived too long to be
[01:00:41] intimidated, and that
[01:00:45] is my vote, one of tens of me. being cast
[01:00:49] around the donbus an environment where people are
[01:00:53] actively being threatened, where electoral
[01:00:56] officials are receiving death threats, their families, their
[01:00:59] children, but with every vote cast in the don
[01:01:03] bass, the people the Dumbas show
[01:01:07] that those threats don't scare them, not
[01:01:10] even strongly worded statements and
[01:01:13] condemnation could stop these elections and
[01:01:17] Today's meeting, the Central Electoral Commission adopted resolution declaring that
[01:01:21] the organization and conduct of elections for deputies to the state Duma the
[01:01:25] Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine are
[01:01:29] illegitimate. It is, of course, ironic that
[01:01:32] Ukraine forbids Ukrainians from voting in these
[01:01:36] Russian elections, because neither does it allow
[01:01:40] Ukrainians themselves any elections. They're too
[01:01:43] dangerous, says the former president of Ukraine.
[01:01:48] Elections as such are huge risk, elections right now are a tsunami
[01:01:52] which could split Ukraine, again the irony: Ukraine
[01:01:56] professes to be fighting for freedom and democracy, but
[01:02:00] says elections are too dangerous. Russia, which
[01:02:04] kier accuses of aggression and tyranny holds elections
[01:02:07] even in war. He's holding elections in
[01:02:11] September, he needs a united society that will support his united
[01:02:14] Russia. Zelensky on the other hand. doesn't need
[01:02:18] his society's support, his term expired two years
[01:02:22] ago and no one can do anything about
[01:02:26] it, he already controls all Ukrainian media.
[01:02:30] all newspapers and online publications, full
[01:02:33] spectrum propaganda, anyone who criticizes
[01:02:37] him can be sanctioned Ukrainian or otherwise,
[01:02:41] else sent a one way trip to the front
[01:02:44] lines, so elections, you want elections, ready to do it
[01:02:48] tomorrow, but if we have the war, it's you can't do
[01:02:52] it, what elections, how to make election with the 9 million people who
[01:02:56] are abroad, and what to do with the people who are
[01:03:00] temporary or live in temporary occupied
[01:03:04] territories. Europe, of course, will bend over backwards
[01:03:07] to accommodate Zelensky. Kaya Calas, the
[01:03:11] EU's diplomatic figure head, is never one to
[01:03:15] overthink it. Simple and cliche is her
[01:03:18] style. Putin hasn't had elections or Russia hasn't had
[01:03:22] elections in 25 years. Zelensky is
[01:03:26] elected leader, elected in the free and fair elections.
[01:03:30] "and of course, during a wartime, you can't have elections, Zelensky's
[01:03:34] corrupt ministers, his army heads simply
[01:03:37] don't mind, so long as the EU supports
[01:03:41] Zelensky, the aid money pours in,
[01:03:45] and it can be divided up and shared around
[01:03:48] between friends. The only concern is the people of
[01:03:52] Ukraine, forced brutally to fight a war,
[01:03:56] they don't want to fight in, by a president, they don't."
[01:04:00] want blasted by propaganda, they don't agree with,
[01:04:04] and there's nothing they can do about it, but day
[01:04:08] dream. We must find a legal, safe and realistic mechanism that will
[01:04:12] allow Ukraine to restore a full-fledged democratic process even
[01:04:16] under the conditions of a prolonged war. This is difficult, we must
[01:04:20] guarantee the right to vote for our military, for millions of Ukrainians
[01:04:23] abroad, and for those in the frontline regions. We must ensure the
[01:04:27] security the electoral process, independ.
[01:04:29] the and trust in the
[01:04:33] of institutions results. If Russia could do it, then so could Ukraine, and the
[01:04:36] only thing stopping elections in Ukraine is the former
[01:04:40] president, one Zelensky,
[01:04:44] just doesn't want to
[01:04:45] leave.
[01:04:52] Let's bring
[01:04:52] you the latest update on the preliminary results, remember the
[01:04:56] final figures won't be officially confirmed until next Friday.
[01:05:00] day: the current numbers after about 42% the ballots have been
[01:05:04] tallied are as follows: the ruling united
[01:05:08] Russia party is firmly in the lead with solid majority, the
[01:05:12] runner-up is the communist party with about 14%,
[01:05:15] and in third place is the liberal democratic party with a little
[01:05:19] over 9%. even though the road ting has wrapped up,
[01:05:23] there's still a lot to see, count and of course discuss. make sure you stay with
[01:05:27] us here on ART international for all the latest... Updates, we'll be back at
[01:05:31] the top the hour. See you
[01:05:32] then.
[01:06:25] Gentlemen, I confess myself increasingly disconcerted by the Russians
[01:06:28] rather alarming advance. is in Asia,
[01:06:31] indeed, word has reached us that they have of late dispatched
[01:06:35] their first steam ship to Bombay.
[01:06:39] India must remain
[01:06:41] hours.
[01:06:48] Their fews came true, the Russians really did come to
[01:06:51] India, but not as colonizers and we quickly
[01:06:55] found a common language.
[01:07:18] Hey everybody, welcome back to Moscow, welcome back to the Moscow Mules, I'm Shay Bows,
[01:07:22] joined by Oggy who's back in the hot seat uh directing
[01:07:25] operations on behalf the FS, excuse me the
[01:07:29] producer. Uh, and where are we going to start this week? Well, we've noticed a little
[01:07:33] trend, we've noticed the trend that uh, sometimes you need
[01:07:36] a big machine, a big movement to make any kind of change, and we think there's been
[01:07:40] a big, big movement. change in Germany, now we don't really
[01:07:44] care what you think about the AFD, what you think about the Global
[01:07:48] Homer, what you think, we don't really care, but we like to see democracy action
[01:07:52] right, cuz that's what's going to happen in Russia this week cuz there's a big election going on, but
[01:07:56] democracy is on the move as well in Germany, but the problem is it's
[01:08:00] not the kind of democracy that the democrats like or the liberals like, the
[01:08:04] liberals only like democracy when their guy wins, when the
[01:08:07] people decide they want change and they've had enough the global
[01:08:11] homo, they kind of... have a meltdown and in Germany they have really
[01:08:14] deployed the heavy troops now to try and stop the alternative for
[01:08:18] deutschland yes uh who are anti- war uh
[01:08:21] anti-eu and probably anti NATO uh they're probably pro
[01:08:25] common sense which is the most dangerous thing you can be and as I say
[01:08:29] when that happens oggy you got to roll out uh the big
[01:08:33] dogs literally check out this anti-Afd protest in
[01:08:37] Germany this is actually the best pro AFD
[01:08:40] advertisement I've ever seen in my life, run
[01:08:44] the video, it's the cream the crop
[01:08:48] the global homer, guess
[01:08:49] i
[01:08:58] like the part that they're actually trying to do the who, i've only got one thing
[01:09:02] to say, mine got in himel, now of course just
[01:09:06] like the rest the planet, everything is ass over
[01:09:09] tit, you know, everything's back to... front
[01:09:13] uh, the boys are the girls, the girls are the boys, the good guys are the bad guys, the bad guys
[01:09:17] are actually the good guys now, and in Germany uh, the
[01:09:21] left tirds, the libtards are all up in arms about AFD,
[01:09:25] of course, that's because the AFD are the nazis
[01:09:28] right, absolutely correct, actually have a question for you, riddle me
[01:09:32] this, how would you, if you're a
[01:09:34] european uh democratic elite, how would you call
[01:09:38] guys who want peace, prosperity and trade with?
[01:09:43] peace, prosperity, trade with Russia and everybody to be able to do what they
[01:09:46] want to do in private, well that's a nazi, of course, absolutely
[01:09:50] correct, now second question, how would you call guys
[01:09:54] who are supporting bandera worshipping literal
[01:09:58] nazis in Ukraine and want to drug
[01:10:01] everyone into world war i
[01:10:03] grinder,
[01:10:08] oh they're the heroes the liberty, democracy, freedom
[01:10:12] and...
[01:10:17] Correct, so you guys kind of
[01:10:19] get it right, upside down, ass overtate, let's have listen
[01:10:22] to the libtired lefties protesting against the
[01:10:25] AFD because they dare to get elected by the majority the
[01:10:29] people, how very dare you,
[01:10:33] release
[01:10:35] the cragon, check, check our haircut, dear comrades, take a look back at
[01:10:39] what has happened over the last three months, thinking
[01:10:42] about
[01:10:43] the words of this,
[01:10:47] long this hasn't been time, are an no
[01:10:47] a longer election campaign we just for simple party, we are a goddamn
[01:10:51] movement, now staying in the neighborhood, germany uh, one
[01:10:55] of its greatest neighbors and their best of friends now right, the
[01:10:58] German, the German franco friendship act, yeah, these
[01:11:02] dudes spent much the last two centuries
[01:11:06] murdering each other, right, the French and the Germans, they've
[01:11:09] been back and forth like the neighbors from literally,
[01:11:13] okay?
[01:11:23] but now you can carry distinguish foreign policy in Europe at
[01:11:26] all from Germany uh, you know, there's no great
[01:11:30] statesman,
[01:11:31] there is no great uh Jack Shirac, uh helmet
[01:11:35] Cole, they're all,
[01:11:36] you know, remnants from the past, much like uh,
[01:11:40] France's uh popularity. ratings for Mr.
[01:11:44] Macron, which are now remnants in the past, he's now down at what,
[01:11:47] uggy, the record low,
[01:11:49] what is he now? That's right, Chron's rating is now at
[01:11:52] 16%, meaning much most the country hates him,
[01:11:56] 16%, and merces is I think a
[01:11:59] 12% now, I mean what, and they're complaining about the
[01:12:03] elections in Russia right, because Putin's on like 75% or something, they
[01:12:07] just can't deal with this stuff. Now, of course, talking about
[01:12:11] Putin, this
[01:12:12] is the go. to think to discuss when you're you know popularities are like
[01:12:16] 16% or 12% basically lower than Napoleon's
[01:12:20] ankles right, you just got to talk about the Russians okay, it's the
[01:12:23] Russians, it's the Russians, now you've dog up very interesting
[01:12:26] video of uh Russian influence in
[01:12:30] Lyon right, this is the Russians fault right, and it's obvious for
[01:12:34] everybody to see that what's happening in Lyon in France is
[01:12:37] Russia's fault, merch's collapse of his economy, Russia's
[01:12:41] fault, Volkswagen. shutting down uh you know french
[01:12:44] uh show society, it's all Russia's fault and you can see
[01:12:48] that from this video, I i promise you can see it's written everywhere, run
[01:12:52] a
[01:12:54] uggy let's go uh was macht der typ hier look closer
[01:12:57] guys,
[01:13:02] heilige scheiße, ja
[01:13:04] leute, very
[01:13:07] russian, that's just the russian
[01:13:11] fault, it has to be rus, and of course it doesn't
[01:13:14] end, there's also a
[01:13:17] staging post for the russian invasion the united
[01:13:21] kingdom, panicking about, the russians are coming, get some canned food and
[01:13:25] bottle water and batteries for your torch, we've actually got some video
[01:13:29] of this Russian invasion preparation zone right, the the
[01:13:32] debarkm, the place where they're going to attack from, check this,
[01:13:36] run
[01:13:42] ugs, you see those three guys clearly russian, yeah, it's all
[01:13:46] russian,
[01:13:53] that's how the Russians. get into Europe, right? you saw it, my dear
[01:13:57] friends?
[01:13:58] yeah,
[01:14:17] yeah, it's completely playing for any objective observer to
[01:14:20] see. Putin's fingerprints are all over this stuff, of course. now, heading to
[01:14:24] you. train there is something that
[01:14:26] you know we can't deny is Russia's fault, they bombed the train
[01:14:30] that Bojo the butcher was on cuz you
[01:14:33] know they bond the train that you know Boris Johnson was on, because
[01:14:37] why? because why shouldn't they bond the train he's on? he's in Ukraine, he
[01:14:41] says it's a war zone, he says civilians are being targeted, which is all bull of
[01:14:45] course, he goes there, the train he was on, he wasn't on the train
[01:14:49] at the time that the Russians hit it, he freaks out about that, what
[01:14:52] an earth. possessed Putin to hit the
[01:14:56] train, well what the it's a war on, you, but
[01:14:59] the, they're bombing, we bomb, and you're complaining about it parts and by the way, it wouldn't be
[01:15:03] a warn at all if it wasn't for you, you snowy haired halfwait,
[01:15:07] anyway,
[01:16:28] Now of course being in Ukraine for this uh element the show,
[01:16:32] we can't leave Auggie right without you know allowing the
[01:16:36] Narco Fure to make some absolutely retarded
[01:16:40] nonsensical statement and he came up with beute this uh week
[01:16:44] which was when he said that the Ukrainian people and the American
[01:16:48] people should become one yeah
[01:16:51] cockhold I'm a cockhold that's great i
[01:16:55] idea: well,
[01:16:55] you know, considering that the Americans have paid for everything, including your toilet
[01:16:59] paper, your cocaine and your villa in Italy, uh,
[01:17:03] why not just go all the way and and get the marriage done? yeah, I'm
[01:17:07] sure most Americans watching this show will be
[01:17:10] absolutely delighted, right?
[01:17:13] yeah, but we wanted to have independent country, we
[01:17:17] have it, so we have to trust each
[01:17:20] other, Ukraine and Americans, and America
[01:17:24] has to... to defend democracies, if the
[01:17:28] democracy is asking, it's about the
[01:17:32] world, it's about the normal
[01:17:35] rules, it's like one people, some big nation has
[01:17:39] to defend small nations, so big nations need
[01:17:43] to defend small nations right, just like
[01:17:46] say the independent sort of uh territory of crimea, the
[01:17:50] voted to join russia when the Russian soldiers went there to make sure that the nazis in Kiev
[01:17:54] didn't. arrive or maybe lugansk people's
[01:17:57] republic uh donvas donjetzk who were declared
[01:18:01] independence like the Americans declared independence from the British etc
[01:18:05] etc uh so... "the Americans are are the
[01:18:09] Russians are doing exactly what Mr. Zelensky asked them to do, right? no problem there,
[01:18:13] right? yeah, but that's different. that's different. now, talking about
[01:18:17] big nations defending small ones, remember that Ukraine was
[01:18:20] essentially created by the Soviet Union, but the Soviets, right?
[01:18:24] back in the 1930s, the country of Ukraine didn't exist, its language, its culture
[01:18:28] didn't really exist, there was Ukrainization, yeah, for real,
[01:18:32] check it out, okay, so the Russians and the Soviets kind of made
[01:18:36] this whole thing up." and what they did was they actively invested in the
[01:18:40] Ukrainian language and schools, culture, national dress,
[01:18:44] etc. etc. they really did this, this was what happened, they created this frankenstein
[01:18:48] right, and that of course uggy has completely continued in
[01:18:52] free Ukraine post collapse the Soviet Union, they've been doing nothing but
[01:18:56] build bridges, schools, hospitals and massive infrastructure projects in
[01:19:00] Ukraine, particularly in education, right, absolutely correct, the
[01:19:03] education in Ukraine has been flowering, but
[01:19:07] for the global homo, because turns out, according to the new
[01:19:10] statistics, half the Ukrainian kids can't
[01:19:14] read, can't analyze complex texts or even draw
[01:19:18] simple conclusions, the education in Ukraine has completely
[01:19:22] collapsed, but what's on the rice are the nazi
[01:19:25] organizations that teach the kids to hate Russia? wow,
[01:19:28] wow, so this is like a absolute like the basics
[01:19:32] like algebra and adding practically reading and writing history,
[01:19:36] geography, the basics of education have been completely neglected, but the sort
[01:19:40] of uh nazi madras, these sort of
[01:19:43] ideology schools where you're creating super soldiers to go kill
[01:19:47] russians are getting all the cash, and guess what, we've got a
[01:19:51] little video to prove it, mean that's how average
[01:19:55] day in school looks like
[01:19:56] now,
[01:20:07] that's a Bavarian beer drinking song or something, very
[01:21:27] the team of Mr. Zelenski, promised to end the war, promised to end corruption,
[01:21:31] this actor, this fresh- faced dancer who danced for
[01:21:34] Vladimir Putin, who made all his money in Russia, of course uh Jewish
[01:21:38] kid who
[01:21:39] you know wanted everyone to be able to do whatever they want in the new free Ukraine
[01:21:43] yeah it all turned out perfectly well yeah Julia Mendel it
[01:21:47] was his poor person his spokes person and she knows
[01:21:51] him better than anybody anybody knows him I'd
[01:21:55] imagine spending days and days and weeks and weeks with him watching him
[01:21:58] uh she's a lot to say about him uh and we're very interested in what she
[01:22:02] has to say but the European parliament aren't they bard her from speaking
[01:22:06] there yeah I wonder why, I wonder
[01:22:09] why, I can't think, run the
[01:22:12] video, I ask God for forgiveness for helping this scum
[01:22:15] come to power, to be in power, that is why I simply
[01:22:19] cannot remain silent, because it seems to me that if I stay silent, I will never
[01:22:23] forgive myself, the scum is Zelensky, it is
[01:22:26] Zelensky, and how exactly did you participate in helping him become
[01:22:30] president? Well, when he came to power, well he couldn't even speak, he was
[01:22:34] afraid the media, so well, like I... organized the first
[01:22:38] interviews, i trained him, i explained how to do it, yes,
[01:22:41] mean, better late than never, right, she another russian
[01:22:45] stuge, another russian stuge, so as Mr.
[01:22:48] Zelensky's closest advisor and confidant, well, that's not in
[01:22:52] prison like Yermack, or
[01:22:54] the rest them uh, comes out and calls them scum, you got to look
[01:22:57] across the pond at the United States of America, at who the people are who are
[01:23:01] voting constantly to send this scum, Mr. Zelensky, according to
[01:23:05] his PR person uh, billions and billions of dollars, no
[01:23:09] questions asked, he's a hero, right? who are these people? the finest minds
[01:23:13] among us, huggy, right? the freshest, most dynamic bunch of
[01:23:17] people you could possibly find. yes, and what? better example than
[01:23:21] Mr. Mitch McConnell. Let's have look at him in the full
[01:23:24] springing dynamism of all health.
[01:23:28] These are the people in charge and these are the people making the laws in the
[01:23:32] United States of America. God help us.
[01:23:36] We're
[01:24:03] defended by big countries and democracy and freedom and all his boss in a country that
[01:24:06] hasn't had an election since 2019 run by dictator thief head of a crime
[01:24:10] syndicate yeah we've also seen the people in the United States of America who are in
[01:24:14] charge of taking your tax dollars stealing them and sending them down the golden
[01:24:18] toilet and let's have look at what happens in these countries that
[01:24:22] get the uh you know freed out them let's say that's probably the way
[01:24:26] to look at this right crap out of a country and this is what
[01:24:51] 'well, but sadly that isn't the reality in Syria after
[01:24:55] Hillary Clintonization, a bit of Libya, a bit of -
[01:24:59] you know, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, you know the story,
[01:25:03] here's what it really looks like now after that horrible man Assad had to
[01:25:07] flee, yeah,
[01:25:08] run, look, there's
[01:25:12] fires everywhere, it's as if Syrians are
[01:25:16] unhappy with their new democracy'.
[01:25:22] yeah, who would have thought that people in Syria might get upset because
[01:25:26] diesel costs like 50 bucks a gallon or something?
[01:25:30] how dare they? you know, it's not like uh, you
[01:25:33] know, oil products and it's got so much natural
[01:25:37] resources there, like oh yeah, it does.
[01:25:41] next, that brings the end of yet another episode the show. we
[01:25:45] love making it, we love you joining us and joining us on social media, please keep talking
[01:25:49] to us, we love. to hear what you got to say. now what we noticed this week
[01:25:53] is that the democrats and the people who are obsessed with freedom,
[01:25:56] democracy, liberty, uh, and war, are just that,
[01:26:00] they're only really obsessed with you doing what they
[01:26:04] say. if you dare to do what they don't say, which is be
[01:26:08] against war, uh, war with Russia, uh,
[01:26:12] constantly floating money into a dictatorship in Ukraine, they don't
[01:26:16] like that kind of democracy, just like the AFD in Germany, so we believe there is...
[01:26:20] there is hope that when people stand up get together and say enough of this
[01:26:24] b uh things can change and it looks like things are going to be
[01:26:27] changing pretty quickly in germany and we're going to be here same time
[01:26:31] same place to narrated along with you
[01:26:34] we got your back you got ours everything's going to be just fine and
[01:26:37] dandy we see you same time same place next week until then look
[01:26:41] after each other and look after
[01:26:44] yours
[01:27:01] Since World War II, the United States has
[01:27:05] fostered extremist anti-Russian prejudices
[01:27:08] and hatreds among the Ukrainian diaspora in
[01:27:12] at least Canada, uh, the United States and
[01:27:16] countries in Eastern Europe, probably everywhere in the world.
[01:28:25] In 1918, the countries the west won the final
[01:28:28] victory over the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan's government.
[01:28:32] capitulated to the entante and signed the humiliating
[01:28:36] armistice of Mudros. Great
[01:28:40] Britain, France, and Italy wanted not only to destroy the
[01:28:44] Ottoman Empire, but also to divide the primordially
[01:28:48] Turkish lands among themselves. In 1919,
[01:28:51] their armies began to land on Turkish territory, but the
[01:28:55] West decided to choose Greece as the main striking force,
[01:28:59] seeking to make others realize its aggressive.
[01:29:04] plans, foreign intervention provoked mass indignation among the Turkish
[01:29:08] people. The National Liberation struggle was led
[01:29:11] by the experienced general Mustafa Kamal
[01:29:14] Atatur. In order to bear down the enemy, he
[01:29:18] banked on the mobilization the nation and the alliance with
[01:29:22] Russia, which acted as a united front with Turkish
[01:29:25] Patriots. At the end of August 1922,
[01:29:29] Ataturk's army won decisive victory over the... invaders
[01:29:33] in the battle of Dumelepinar and within a
[01:29:36] month liberated all Asia minor from them. The
[01:29:40] impressive success the Turkish Army forced the west to
[01:29:44] make concessions. In 1923, the
[01:29:47] lasan peace treaty was signed. Turkey, one
[01:29:51] the first countries in Asia, managed to defeat the colonial
[01:29:55] empires and defend its independence, becoming an
[01:29:59] example for millions the oppressed on the planet.
[01:30:25] Russia's first parliamentary elections since the beginning the Ukraine
[01:30:29] conflict have wrapped up and the counting the votes has.
[01:30:32] commenced. There's still a lot to see and discuss as the final figures won't be
[01:30:36] officially confirmed until next Friday. We're bringing you our
[01:30:40] special coverage as the world's geographically biggest country, as
[01:30:44] his democratics say. With the
[01:30:48] first preliminary results coming in, the Ruling United Russia party is
[01:30:52] firmly top with solid majority. The runner-up is the communist
[01:30:56] party with almost 14%, and the Liberal Democratic
[01:30:59] Party is in third with close to nine.
[01:31:02] percent. Moscow says Kiev tried to undermine
[01:31:06] the elections with a massive attack. There's almost 200 drones and
[01:31:10] missiles were intercepted a single day. The targeted assault on the
[01:31:14] Russian capital left several people
[01:31:16] dead.
[01:31:25] A warm welcome to you, this is ART International. As always, it's great to
[01:31:29] have you with us. Well, this has been the third and final. day of
[01:31:32] voting in Russia's parliamentary elections, polls have closed
[01:31:36] across the country's 11 time zones and the preliminary
[01:31:40] results are already coming in. RT has been keeping close tap on
[01:31:44] the developments and bringing you all the latest updates as part of our special
[01:31:48] coverage.
[01:31:59] well, even though the polls have closed, there's still a lot to see. count and discuss
[01:32:03] as the final figures won't be officially confirmed until next
[01:32:07] Friday. Currently here are the preliminary
[01:32:10] results after about 47% the ballots have been tallied.
[01:32:14] The ruling United Russia party is firmly in the lead with solid
[01:32:18] majority. The runner-up is the communist party with about
[01:32:22] 14%. In third place is the Liberal Democratic
[01:32:25] Party with close to 9%. Well for more
[01:32:29] details on the elections, let's bring in our corresp'.
[01:32:34] joining us from our studio just outside the kremlin, nasty, good
[01:32:38] to see you, so we know the votes are still being counted, what
[01:32:42] else can you tell us about the latest
[01:32:44] developments? well,
[01:32:48] Nikki, it's past 1 am here in the Russian Capital, we do in
[01:32:52] fact have the most beautiful spot for this special
[01:32:55] coverage, as we know the the vote counting is currently in
[01:32:59] full swing, we also know that the turnout had exceeded
[01:33:03] 56% and um busy three days for
[01:33:07] everyone taking part in the organization process, but a more
[01:33:11] busy night awates ahead those who are counting those
[01:33:14] votes. um, nevertheless, russian security council uh
[01:33:18] deputy chair and the leader the United
[01:33:22] Russia party Dmitri Medved received a mandate from the
[01:33:25] electorate and stated that new chapter is ahead.
[01:33:29] Let's take a listen to that. This
[01:33:33] is a real result, but at the same time it marks the start of a great deal of
[01:33:37] work. We must now put into practice the president's decisions and
[01:33:41] the policy set out by our leader, vladimir.
[01:33:45] receiv such a mandate from the electorate, we must now set about
[01:33:48] implementing our national program and those programs that will be adopted
[01:33:52] in the regions. this is huge task, but at the same
[01:33:56] time
[01:33:56] i have no doubt whatsoever that our party as responsible political
[01:34:00] force and the country's leading political force will rise to the
[01:34:04] challenge, just as our entire country will rise to the challenge it now
[01:34:08] faces. we will prevail. there is no doubt about
[01:34:11] that.
[01:34:16] My colleague
[01:34:17] Aila Kudrava is joining me right here in our beautiful studio in
[01:34:21] the central Moscow and Aila so you've just
[01:34:25] returned from the uh central election committee uh
[01:34:29] what has it been like and what do we know so far about the results that
[01:34:33] are coming in? well of course the polling stations have
[01:34:36] closed nationwide and the preliminary results are
[01:34:40] now in now the voter turnout across the country reached
[01:34:44] 56 .66% and so
[01:34:47] far 47.72% of
[01:34:51] votes have been accounted. now let me just give you a quick
[01:34:55] breakdown the leading five parties. we begin with
[01:34:59] the all-russian political party United Russia which got the
[01:35:02] most votes that is over 57%.
[01:35:06] in second place is the communist party the Russian federation that is
[01:35:10] CPRF for short uh got the second highest number of votes
[01:35:14] of over 13%. Then we have the
[01:35:18] Liberal Democratic Party of Russia or LDPR with
[01:35:22] over 8% of votes and the new people political party in
[01:35:26] fourth place with over 7%. uh, in fifth
[01:35:30] place is the Socialist political party adjust Russia with
[01:35:34] over 5% of votes. Now the leading three candidates for
[01:35:38] each individual constituency have now also been
[01:35:41] announced uh and importantly there are 200 and
[01:35:45] 25 individual constituencies in Russia and of
[01:35:49] course uh 16 in Moscow alone, now one candidate will
[01:35:53] be elected per constituency. so we've heard lot about
[01:35:57] how the votes are being counted uh and everything, but
[01:36:00] um, can you actually break it down for us and give us more
[01:36:04] details about how it actually like this voting system
[01:36:08] actually works? of course, so out the
[01:36:11] 450 deputies being elected half.
[01:36:15] of those deputies are elected through party lists and the other half that is
[01:36:19] 225 deputies are elected in single
[01:36:23] member constituencies. now in casting their vote for a specific
[01:36:26] candidate to represent the area in the state Duma,
[01:36:30] Russian citizens choose from uh well between around seven
[01:36:34] eight candidates per area and the total number of
[01:36:37] candidates making the federal lists um across Russia in
[01:36:41] these elections is around 1,7
[01:36:45] 100
[01:36:46] people now some of those candidates making the federal lists are
[01:36:49] independent uh and importantly in these
[01:36:52] elections, some the candidates making the federal lists are veterans
[01:36:56] the special military operation. now in those
[01:37:00] three days the election we had more than uh
[01:37:04] 90,000 polling stations open across the
[01:37:07] country uh and the total number of registered voters
[01:37:11] in Moscow is over 7,800 thousand people.
[01:37:15] nationwide uh the number is more than
[01:37:18] 111 million. now in the course
[01:37:21] of this election, people have been able to cast their vote both in
[01:37:25] person and online, really being able to vote in various ways and
[01:37:29] those that have not been able to uh vote in person have
[01:37:33] been able to vote from home, so there were indeed many ways for Russian
[01:37:37] citizens to participate in the elections here, and it is
[01:37:40] worth noting that uh almost 400,00
[01:37:44] observers were present at these elections nationwide
[01:37:48] now with the polls now closed and of course the the
[01:37:52] preliminary results now in we are waiting the final
[01:37:55] results of this election which will be announced by the central
[01:37:59] election commission uh before the 5th of October so you've just
[01:38:03] mentioned that uh how there were many different ways in
[01:38:07] which uh voters could have cast their ballots and you've mentioned the online
[01:38:11] version this is actually the one that I used myself uh but you know um I want to
[01:38:15] take this further because we know that Russia is an enormous country
[01:38:18] stretching over 11 time zones and for the first time in uh
[01:38:22] Russia's modern history um the four new regions are
[01:38:26] taking part and have taken part in this stateum elections and this is the
[01:38:30] Doniesk people's republic the Lugansk People's Republic Zaparoji and
[01:38:33] Hirson region and of course in light of all of this the
[01:38:37] Kief um has ramped up their attacks on uh Russian
[01:38:41] territories uh including Moscow uh specifically just
[01:38:45] Overnight, according to the mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sabanyan,
[01:38:49] uh, over 100, 1,600 drones have been
[01:38:52] shot down and 450 them
[01:38:55] uh were actually heading uh Moscow's way, and to that
[01:38:59] unprecedented attack, I think it's very important to have a lesson to what
[01:39:03] the Russian defense ministry had to say. For to
[01:39:07] undermine the democratic will the citizens the Russian Federation, as
[01:39:10] expressed in the elections to the state Duma the Federal Assembly
[01:39:14] the Russian Federation. The Kiev regime launched a massive
[01:39:18] attack on the territory the Russian Federation on September
[01:39:21] 19th and 20th of this year, using UAVs and
[01:39:25] Flamingo cruise missiles. In response to the Kiev regime's
[01:39:29] attacks on civilian targets on Russian territory, the armed forces the
[01:39:33] Russian Federation will intensify their strikes with high precision
[01:39:37] weapons against military targets in
[01:39:39] Kiev. Something that
[01:39:42] unfortunately cannot go unnoticed are of course the
[01:39:46] casualties. We know that um two children, three
[01:39:49] children have been wounded and two people have unfortunately been killed
[01:39:53] in Moscow region due to the attacks and ...
[01:39:57] I want to take this further and actually ask you a question regarding
[01:40:01] the um the general keys attacks and attempts to disrupt
[01:40:05] the uh election process um have there been any other
[01:40:09] attempts that we know of now when it comes to the
[01:40:12] elections themselves everything went smoothly the
[01:40:16] elections were held in a full compliance with the law we of
[01:40:20] course saw a high voter turnout as well which just serves
[01:40:24] as proof of that fact and there hasn't been a
[01:40:27] successful attack on the elections, however, of
[01:40:31] course, there have been attempts um, as you said there, of
[01:40:35] course, over 1,600 drones have been shot
[01:40:39] down over the Russian capital and Moscow region
[01:40:42] overnight, and Russian Security Council deputy
[01:40:46] chair and leader the leading
[01:40:49] United Russia party, Dimitrie Midved said that those
[01:40:53] attacks had the opposite effect to one initially in.
[01:41:00] Over the past few days, the opponent has made titanic, colossal
[01:41:04] efforts to undermine the outcome the elections, but as has
[01:41:08] rightly been said, this has only served to unite the voters, to
[01:41:12] unite our people. This is, I suppose, the most important outcome of
[01:41:15] this
[01:41:16] election.
[01:41:20] Now, we of course also seen continued intimidation
[01:41:24] of election commission members and as we know,
[01:41:27] today uh, earlier today, two people were killed in a drone attack
[01:41:31] a civilian bus in the Hirson region. One the
[01:41:35] victims uh was member the Precinct Electoral Commission
[01:41:39] in the Hirson region who was involved in conducting um in in the
[01:41:43] conducting of early voting in one of its
[01:41:47] electoral districts. Now this was reported by the central
[01:41:50] election commission Chief Ella Pomfilova who also
[01:41:54] spoke of course on cyber attacks that is over
[01:42:05] Over the past period, more than waves of ddos attacks were recorded
[01:42:09] against infrastructure in the Russian Federation that is specifically involved in the
[01:42:12] electoral process. Thankfully, there were no successful
[01:42:16] attacks despite their intensity and power. At the same time, the
[01:42:20] level of impact is assessed as very high. The attacks were carried
[01:42:24] out by highly professional, well coordinated groups using artificial.
[01:42:27] intelligence tools, the attacks were launched primarily from
[01:42:31] abroad, where did they come from? the United Kingdom, Ukraine,
[01:42:35] Brazil, Indonesia, and even India. Thank God, all the
[01:42:38] attacks were successfully
[01:42:40] repelled.
[01:42:45] What we're seeing of course as well, is essentially fake news being
[01:42:48] spread about the fairness these elections here in Russia, such as reports
[01:42:52] of observers being refused entry into polling
[01:42:55] stations, but of course we do. know that only 23 complaints have been
[01:42:59] received in regards to difficulties in exercising the rights of
[01:43:03] observers, three of which were received in the last day of
[01:43:06] elections. now the central election commission deals with these
[01:43:10] complaints immediately, and that is an important fact to
[01:43:14] mention. now with the elections concluded, we can certainly say that
[01:43:18] indeed there have been attempts to undermine the electoral
[01:43:22] process here in Russia. however, in the words of
[01:43:25] Dmitri Midved, they have produced an opposite effect where
[01:43:29] people have become more active in casting their votes over
[01:43:32] these past few days. you it's heartbreaking to
[01:43:36] see how Ukraine and the Kiev regime are trying will have tried to
[01:43:40] disrupt these elections uh a democratic country
[01:43:44] that some people of which headed to
[01:43:47] uh the uh headed to cast their votes and generally
[01:43:51] especially when it comes in light of um Zelensky's refusal to
[01:43:55] hold presidential election in his own country, citing martial law,
[01:43:59] citing the 9 million Ukrainians aboard, so
[01:44:03] but nevertheless once again, um, Russians have voted,
[01:44:06] we are um keeping very close eye as the as the
[01:44:10] votes are currently being counted and thank you for bringing us the
[01:44:13] details. so that's all from us for now, Nikki
[01:44:17] and over to you. many thanks to both of you for keeping us fully
[01:44:21] updated. earlier we spoke with a professor at Russia's academy of
[01:44:25] labor and social relations who said that Moscow has proven that
[01:44:29] elections can be held under wartime
[01:44:31] conditions. there is no doubt that these are unique
[01:44:35] elections in the history of modern Russia, because in the literal sense the
[01:44:38] word, they are taking place. during a state of conflict. On Sunday,
[01:44:42] the Ukrainian terrorist regime launched attack on Moscow. In terms
[01:44:46] the number of drones involved, it was unprecedented. Nevertheless, we
[01:44:50] must pay tribute to the staff of all polling station committees, not
[01:44:54] only in the capital, but throughout the country, particularly in the so-called
[01:44:58] new or historic constituent entities the Russian
[01:45:01] Federation. They have withstood with honor the pressure, the risks and all
[01:45:05] the difficulties that have fallen upon their shoulders. They have ensured the legality
[01:45:09] the electtor. process, they've ensured transparency.
[01:45:12] I know just how extensive this work was. Many thanks to all those
[01:45:16] people thanks to whom our parliament will be legitimate and will continue to
[01:45:20] function. Russia is demonstrating to the whole world that conducting military
[01:45:24] operations is no obstacle to establishing legitimate
[01:45:27] authorities. Yes, there is undoubtedly a threat to security. We have
[01:45:31] even lost the chair of local electoral commission in the Zaparoji
[01:45:35] region. Nevertheless, this is task of national importance.
[01:45:38] It is no less closely. to ensuring national security than say the
[01:45:42] work the army or the air defense forces. we need legitimate
[01:45:46] state doomer because it is responsible for passing laws and it was
[01:45:50] essential to elect the members of this state doomer even in such
[01:45:54] difficult and challenging times. further more, the very fact that these elections
[01:45:57] are taking place reveals one indisputable truth: Ukraine
[01:46:01] is deliberately refusing to hold its own parliamentary and presidential
[01:46:05] elections, simply because its political elite fears losing power and
[01:46:09] is using marshall law as a pretext which suits them very
[01:46:12] well, we on the other hand, are demonstrating that even in areas where
[01:46:16] marshall law is currently inforce where gunfire can be heard and drones
[01:46:20] are flying, it is technically possible to hold elections. all that is
[01:46:24] needed is the political will, and our leadership has
[01:46:27] it. our correspondent egos danov is
[01:46:31] reporting from one the headquarters of United Russia, as the
[01:46:35] country's ruling party is firmly leading the race. the
[01:46:39] atmosphere. certainly has been cheerful here, there's other word for it, and after
[01:46:43] all, if you look at the caliber of people that United Russia
[01:46:47] can show on its roaster, well, it certainly can't
[01:46:50] complain in that department, here we've spoken to heroes of Russia, to
[01:46:54] decorated officers, veterans the special military
[01:46:58] operation of in Ukraine, it's acting senators, acting
[01:47:02] MPs, you name it, they all have gathered here to
[01:47:06] together find out the outcome of this election,
[01:47:10] and well to finally find themselves victorious in
[01:47:14] this race, it has been a long, rather long race,
[01:47:18] after all people have been voting for three days and and well again
[01:47:21] the turnout has been quite significant, it has been
[01:47:25] larger than five years ago, and they
[01:47:29] you know the people, the people of this party of United Russia,
[01:47:33] its members, they have spoken openly about how happy
[01:47:37] they are that people chose to go and vote. that they
[01:47:40] utilized these uh, you know, all the electronic uh
[01:47:43] methods that have been there available for the general population,
[01:47:47] for the low mobility people in hospitals and so to
[01:47:51] to vote without having to go to the polling
[01:47:55] station, without having you know without having to physically appear at
[01:47:58] the polling booths, and especially they have talked about
[01:48:02] how people in the new regions of Russia, people in the border regions of
[01:48:06] Russia, and I'm talking about the border regions
[01:48:09] the ones that border. with Ukraine of course that they were unfaced
[01:48:13] by the threats, they were unphazed by the constant threats of drones, of
[01:48:17] missile attacks, and they went and voted and voted on
[01:48:21] mass. after all, if you look at the turnout in the Lugansk People's Republican, in the
[01:48:25] Dunetsk People's Republic, those turnouts, they have been quite
[01:48:28] spectacular, well above the average across the
[01:48:31] country, and in fact I asked the senator representing the
[01:48:35] Lugansk people's republic, I asked her, darial Lantratova, I
[01:48:39] asked her, what she thinks about it, what she thinks about the
[01:48:43] people who still in her hometown, in her home
[01:48:47] region, they went and they decided to participate in
[01:48:51] this first election that they that they could really take part in
[01:48:55] as part of Russia, and here's what she had to
[01:48:57] say, indeed the turnout is
[01:49:00] unprecedentedly high in the Dunetsk and Lugansk Republics at
[01:49:04] about 80%. For the people, this is indeed very important
[01:49:07] event, another step on the path of...
[01:49:11] Russia because the residts the reunited historical regions are electing their
[01:49:14] representatives and parliament members
[01:49:16] for the first time. Indeed, there were many provocations and dangers.
[01:49:20] We have once again been convinced that our people. cannot be intimidated, they
[01:49:24] steadfastly withstood these trials. our adversary targeted
[01:49:27] energy and civil infrastructure with attacks intended to intimidate our
[01:49:31] people, to force them not to go to the polling stations to jeopardizing the
[01:49:35] entire voting process. and well the
[01:49:39] threat, it was as real as it gets, after all, at least one member
[01:49:42] the electoral committee was killed in the Ukrainian strike in the
[01:49:46] zapora region of Russia, and so really people,
[01:49:50] they did risk literally risk their... lives to go
[01:49:53] and have a have a go a democratic say that they have
[01:49:57] now as part of Russia, but they weren't the only ones uh you know taking
[01:50:01] this risk. Moscow uh was targeted by Ukrainian
[01:50:05] uh long-ranged uh attack uh over the
[01:50:08] past over the past three days really there was several waves these attacks
[01:50:12] and you had also international observers working
[01:50:16] at the polling stations and they took note of
[01:50:20] Russia's you know how Russia has digitalized the voting
[01:50:24] process and they were quite impressed, they some uh some uh
[01:50:27] delegates, some uh, well some the representatives the
[01:50:31] African, of some African nations, they well, they said that they
[01:50:34] might seek to adopt some of that
[01:50:38] technology,
[01:50:39] and you bring them to, bring this technology to their home
[01:50:43] country. I asked an acting MP, Peter stoy as to
[01:50:46] what he thinks about th this representation when it comes to
[01:50:50] international observers, and uh, the general, you know,
[01:50:53] digitalization the vote here in Russia, what he, here's what he had to
[01:50:57] say. We have a large team of international
[01:51:01] observers working in these elections and not just in Moscow. Everyone has
[01:51:05] noted how far Russia has advanced in terms of technology for organizing the
[01:51:09] electoral process. This is transparent and verificable for
[01:51:12] voters.
[01:51:13] It is easy to understand and most importantly convenient for people to use. For
[01:51:17] us, it absolutely does not matter whether our former western partners
[01:51:21] recognize the elections or not. every day they tell stories about how
[01:51:24] bad we are, what monsters we are, and this entire wave of russophobia, I'm
[01:51:28] sure, will also spill over into the finalization the election
[01:51:32] results. For us, the most important thing is that the elections are recognized as fair and
[01:51:36] objective by our citizens, by our Russian voters. Our
[01:51:39] legitimacy lies in the citizens of Russia and their voice, the trust the people is a
[01:51:43] politician's greatest asset. Now, there's
[01:51:47] still, there is going to be few days that the Russian electoral committee will
[01:51:51] take to... finalize the counter of all the votes, but it
[01:51:55] is already pretty clear that United Russia it is
[01:51:59] quite comfortably in the lead, well over 50% the
[01:52:02] public support, they have it, and so this leader
[01:52:06] Dimitri Metvedev has already said addressing people here
[01:52:10] in in the people's in the public support HQ the United
[01:52:14] Russia party, he has said that now that they know that they
[01:52:18] have this public support, well they now United Russia
[01:52:22] can be... more ambitious and it can really pursue
[01:52:25] everything that it stands for and uh
[01:52:28] really try and put forward their
[01:52:32] vision, bring closer their vision of success for
[01:52:36] Russia. multiple polling stations were open
[01:52:40] in Russian embassies in many locations for citizens abroad.
[01:52:44] these are some the scenes at voting stations around the world from
[01:52:47] Armenia to the UAE. Russians also actively cast their
[01:52:51] ballots in Europe. countries, some of those expatriates stress
[01:52:55] that it's important to express their position issues, even if they live
[01:52:59] outside their homeland. We
[01:53:02] must always express our civic stance, regardless the situation
[01:53:06] in the world or in our country, but right now, in 2026, it
[01:53:10] seems to me that the world is on the brink of very significant changes, and
[01:53:14] Russia has a duty to face them with dignity. That's why everyone should
[01:53:18] vote.
[01:53:22] families are here, that's all, but my heart and soul and my homeland are
[01:53:26] there, and I travel to Russia every year, so it's very
[01:53:29] important, I came here to support Russia, and our
[01:53:33] choice matters too, even for those of us living abroad, so that relations between
[01:53:37] Russia and France can be restored and improved. Well, we're hoping for confirmation
[01:53:41] the Russian government's actions, which I believe most of us view as positive a
[01:53:45] very complicated, international geopolitical situation, and the Russian
[01:53:49] government isn't doing a bad job at all.
[01:53:53] I believe in friendship. I want the two nations to be friends. My wife, for
[01:53:57] example, is German, and I'm Russian. Why are there so many Russians
[01:54:01] here? 9 million Russian speakers, because our families are
[01:54:04] mixed. I believe we all can live in harmony. And these
[01:54:08] images were from several countries in southeast Asia
[01:54:12] where Russian citizens were able to vote. In particular, these were the
[01:54:16] scenes at polling stations in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines
[01:54:19] and Laos as well as Singapore and
[01:54:35] and we uh from my point of view every russian
[01:54:39] citizen should vote uh for their
[01:54:42] future. i think it's really important to take part in this
[01:54:45] election because like uh we need
[01:54:49] to express our uh opinion and
[01:54:53] yeah this is really important for as a first time
[01:54:57] like voting here.
[01:54:58] it is really important for Russian people abroad to take part
[01:55:02] in these elections. uh as it is
[01:55:05] very but to express
[01:55:09] fair will, a political will uh so that
[01:55:13] community in Russia, Russia people and international
[01:55:17] community would know our political
[01:55:20] will, our uh willing to
[01:55:23] participate into political
[01:55:25] life in our
[01:55:28] country. I believe that this assembly of state
[01:55:32] Duma deputies is very important for our country.
[01:55:41] to vote because I
[01:55:43] I came believe every citizen has a duty to express their opinion and in my view every
[01:55:47] vote counts. So let's bring you up to speed
[01:55:50] on the latest update on the preliminary results, remember the final
[01:55:54] figures won't be officially confirmed until next Friday. Right
[01:55:58] now with over half of all federal ballots tallied, here's the
[01:56:02] standing so far, the ruling united. Russia party is
[01:56:06] firmly in the lead with solid majority, the runner up is the communist
[01:56:10] party with about 14% of votes counted, and in third
[01:56:14] place is the liberal democratic party with close to
[01:56:17] 9%. Even though the voting has wrapped up, the still a lot to
[01:56:21] see, count and discuss, so you got to make sure you stay with us here on
[01:56:24] RT international for all the latest updates. We're back at the top the
[01:56:28] hour.
[01:56:54] Take a fresh look around at life, colydoscopic, isn't
[01:56:57] it? A shattered reality distorted by
[01:57:01] power, tired vision with no. real
[01:57:05] opinions, pictures designed to
[01:57:09] simplify or confuse, who really wants a
[01:57:12] better world, and is it just for the chosen
[01:57:15] few? fractured images presented as
[01:57:19] fact, can you see through their illusions? going
[01:57:23] underground,
[01:57:23] can?
[01:57:37] There was a time indeed when we were quite accustomed
[01:57:41] to having half the globe dance to our
[01:57:44] tune.
[01:57:48] Who could possibly have imagined that in the 21st
[01:57:51] century? I would find myself being obliged to
[01:57:55] dance.
[01:58:03] We taught India to speak.
[01:58:29] failed to prevent genocide in Gaza, the UN continues its impotance when
[01:58:33] it comes to wars in Europe and on Iran, how is it possible that
[01:58:36] India is not on the UN security council when a US vassel like
[01:58:40] Britain can veto resolutions amist billions feeling the price pain
[01:58:44] from the straight of Homus and Babel Mandeb. I'm afshan ratanzi, welcome to
[01:58:48] new
[01:58:48] order.
[01:58:59] There'll be no Putin at the UN general assembly, but his friends Shijin Ping and
[01:59:03] Modi will be in the USA. Shigin. said to beat Trump on
[01:59:06] Thursday and he does so when for the first time in around 150 years China
[01:59:10] has a bigger economy than the USA by PPP. Did
[01:59:14] Trump see Modi hold hands with Iran's president Pegeshkin at the Bricks
[01:59:18] meeting in Delhi, will Trump tell him off or is India like
[01:59:21] China just too powerful now to order around and what
[01:59:25] role does diminish Western Europe have to play now? It is been all but
[01:59:29] bankrupted by its financial backing for corrupt Kiev. We're still a
[01:59:33] world where a USA are mired in Epsteen Carnage, can
[01:59:37] openly assassinate or kidnap world leaders at will, but who has the courage
[01:59:41] to do anything about it? from New Delhi to New York, the question is no
[01:59:44] longer now who has the most power, but to gets to
[01:59:48] shape what comes next? new order Zara khan will be on later to
[01:59:52] answer your questions posted on social media. first on new order. i'm joined from washington
[01:59:56] dc by professor anatole leven, director the eurasia program at the Quinty
[02:00:00] institute. professor anatole levan, welcome to new
[02:00:03] order. so uh, people talking about the UN general
[02:00:06] assembly. mean, do you think it has been weakened in some
[02:00:10] ways? given that we had the Delhi bricks uh
[02:00:13] summit, and um, i think you've said that any...
[02:00:17] us china conflict would uh lead to the end the
[02:00:21] UN? yes, I mean, the decline the UN
[02:00:25] has been one the saddest spectacles, I think uh,
[02:00:29] over the past generation, and that has really very much
[02:00:32] been the work of Washington, um, both
[02:00:35] under, above all under republican, but also under democratic
[02:00:39] administrations, which really have set out to to cripple and
[02:00:42] sideline the UN, because of course,
[02:00:45] the UN is... one place that the US
[02:00:49] cannot fully control, it can veto
[02:00:53] uh, but um, repeatedly on the subject
[02:00:57] of Israel, most notably, you have had huge majorities in the general
[02:01:00] assembly, voting against the US, the US has been and
[02:01:04] Israel have been almost completely isolated,
[02:01:07] obviously the United Nations has opposed
[02:01:11] series of American military operations,
[02:01:15] and um, so I think... wasting set out to
[02:01:18] render the UN irrelevant um
[02:01:22] and has to a great extent succeeded, though I must say even
[02:01:26] so I'm surprised for example by how completely
[02:01:29] absent uh Gutierres, the present UN sec
[02:01:33] secretary general has been from the Ukraine conflict,
[02:01:37] where I think there was a possibility the UN
[02:01:40] playing very useful role, which it is not even tried to
[02:01:44] do. Yeah, I think
[02:01:46] I mean he did condemn. uh for what it was worth the uh
[02:01:49] attacks on Iran by the Trump uh Netanyahu
[02:01:53] coalition, but I suppose it didn't really matter much
[02:01:57] either way, interesting that India want to place on the security
[02:02:01] council and there has been at last some kind of India,
[02:02:05] China reproschm that uh we witnessed in um
[02:02:08] in Delhi, well I mean that is the only
[02:02:12] path for India to membership of uh the UN
[02:02:16] security council is if china would drop its objections, because I
[02:02:19] don't think you would see the Americans, the British, the French, all the Russians
[02:02:23] of course, um, opposing it, it is China that is the big
[02:02:27] problem, and there, yes, I
[02:02:31] mean, above all due to the
[02:02:35] um, the US Israeli attack on Iran and its
[02:02:37] consequences for India and for Asia in
[02:02:40] general, we certainly do, as as the Brick Summit
[02:02:43] demonstrated, see a considerable warming of relations between in.
[02:02:47] in China um, but there is still this
[02:02:51] damnable issue the contested frontier or
[02:02:54] frontiers in the Himalayas, um, and if that can't be solved
[02:02:58] and it given present positions it looks
[02:03:01] insoluble, there will always be
[02:03:04] a kind of
[02:03:07] ultimate barrier to full cooperation between China and it's
[02:03:11] in the interest the United States to stoke that off, I mean they're no false
[02:03:15] flags, but I mean no...
[02:03:17] or any false flags, but there certainly the people the CIA
[02:03:21] would be thinking, it would be nice if India and China were fighting
[02:03:24] there, certainly, but then
[02:03:27] again, um, obviously, I mean one the reasons why
[02:03:31] India
[02:03:32] is is moving towards China is that under
[02:03:35] Trump,
[02:03:36] the the US and Israel, you Israel also having
[02:03:39] become close partner of Narendra Modi's
[02:03:43] India, have shown total contempt for Indian
[02:03:47] interests. Uh, Indians have always stressed to me that uh, secure
[02:03:50] energy exports from the Gulf, and including
[02:03:54] from Iran, are vital
[02:03:57] interest of India, because of India's dependence on these
[02:04:00] imports. There is no evidence that Trump and Netanyahu when they
[02:04:04] launched this war, paid a second's notice, I mean, not
[02:04:08] just the interest of India, of course, the interests of um, anywhere else
[02:04:11] either, but clearly, I mean, for Delhi to have been treated
[02:04:15] with such ostentatious... contempt by
[02:04:19] Washington and Tel Aviv is going to have consequences for Indian behavior and
[02:04:23] attitudes. You think the Trump administration even
[02:04:26] understand the importance to India of Chabaha port in Iran which
[02:04:30] has been bombed uh they're repairing it as far as I understand
[02:04:34] it, but you believe that that will further improve relations
[02:04:38] between India and
[02:04:41] uh uh well India and Iran, let alone India, Russia and
[02:04:44] China. Well, I think it's bound. to
[02:04:48] um, I mean, I, I didn't suppose
[02:04:51] Trump, never heard
[02:04:55] of, the ignorance of Trump and some of his talk
[02:04:59] and people, company. simply
[02:04:59] Hegs cannot be exaggerated, and the rest the
[02:05:03] American establishment either just salutes and falls into
[02:05:07] line, um, or is so
[02:05:10] tied to Israeli interests that they don't give a damn, I
[02:05:14] mean,
[02:05:15] you know, what this has demonstrated is
[02:05:19] that um, and this by the way is not as true of India, it's true of
[02:05:22] Europe, it's true of Britain, um, compared to
[02:05:26] Israel, other country is
[02:05:29] in the end of much serious concern to a large part the
[02:05:33] Washington establishment, that is beginning to change because
[02:05:37] Israel, has made itself so unpopular, especially it's beginning to
[02:05:41] change in the democratic party, but it hasn't changed at the top the
[02:05:45] republican party yet, there are republican dissidents like Tucker
[02:05:49] Carlson, yes, but not the um, not the
[02:05:53] the Republican mainstream, yeah, people can watch our interview Carlson
[02:05:56] on going underground, negotiations of course are off.
[02:06:00] table as regards uh
[02:06:03] Ukraine, Russia appears to be saying,
[02:06:06] so uh, India, importing Russian energy at record
[02:06:09] levels, the the US sanction threat, I mean it doesn't matter
[02:06:13] what the United States threaten about sanctions, it doesn't matter at all,
[02:06:17] um, Europe of course, and Britain, um, I don't know how long
[02:06:20] they they can cope without Russian energy,
[02:06:24] well, and of course Trump had to beg the Ukrainians
[02:06:28] to stop attacking Russian. diesel production uh
[02:06:31] because um diesel prices in the United States are
[02:06:35] are surging um and it's when of course
[02:06:39] Americans start to suffer from an international
[02:06:43] crisis that the American government begins to pay notice
[02:06:47] and clearly this could have critical effect in losing the
[02:06:50] Republicans the um the midterm congressional elections
[02:06:54] in November uh I mean an
[02:06:57] interesting question is whether... the Europeans will go
[02:07:01] on or intensify seazures of Russians,
[02:07:05] Russia's so-called shadow fleet, um, they would of course
[02:07:09] be insane to do so with uh the given what's happening in the
[02:07:13] Gulf and now the Red Sea and the threat, I mean they are secretly
[02:07:17] importing Russian oil anyway, these western European powers and Britain,
[02:07:21] of course they are, and there's just been an an exception for for Greece to
[02:07:25] be allowed to transport Russian oil, I mean there there is utter hypocrisy in
[02:07:29] the European. position um
[02:07:32] and therefore I think that probably the seizures the the
[02:07:36] shadow fleet will remain um
[02:07:39] symbolic uh, I certainly hope so, because I mean there have been
[02:07:43] some very blood curdling Russian threats of how Russia will
[02:07:47] respond if um if these seisures continue. Yeah, having
[02:07:50] said that, Russia didn't really respond to
[02:07:54] many the provocations, do you think the
[02:07:58] Russian leadership? think that uh that's what those
[02:08:02] western European powers desire them, therefore they're not going to give it to
[02:08:06] them uh, because time and time again, we haven't seen the Russian
[02:08:10] response that, well many in Russia
[02:08:13] increasingly uh oppose Putin want
[02:08:17] to happen, yes, I mean, well, I
[02:08:21] mean, what is clear is that Putin is not aiming
[02:08:25] at and really does not want a direct
[02:08:28] clash with the west. "I mean,
[02:08:31] these threats blustering by Russia have been
[02:08:34] intended to deter the west from or
[02:08:38] NATO from intervening in in Ukraine, they haven't been, the prelue to a
[02:08:42] Russian attack on on
[02:08:45] NATO, um, but there is always the the the
[02:08:48] risk of course um of uh some
[02:08:52] disastrous accident, um, you
[02:08:56] know, the Russians, I think may have..."
[02:09:00] um uh assuming it wasn't a
[02:09:03] Ukrainian false flag operation um you know fired a missile
[02:09:07] a train in in Ukraine that wasn't
[02:09:11] carrying you know western representatives so as to
[02:09:15] sender message or warning uh but
[02:09:18] missiles go astray and for example I mean the
[02:09:22] other way around uh Russians have said to me you
[02:09:26] remember what happened on the first day the US attack on Iran
[02:09:30] wasn't intentional, but a misdirected US missile hit a
[02:09:34] school and killed, what was it, 120
[02:09:38] school children? Russians say if a Ukrainian
[02:09:41] missile, especially one, guided by western
[02:09:45] intelligence, goes astray and hits a school in
[02:09:49] Moscow or Petersburg, Putin would have no choice politically but to
[02:09:53] react directly um against NATO, and then of course we
[02:09:57] are a, well then we're a...
[02:10:02] I understand you've said the EU should get rid them, oh
[02:10:06] absolutely, I mean calas in particular is
[02:10:09] nightmare and you see the problem is if you go to
[02:10:13] European foreign ministries, as I have, they will say to
[02:10:17] you, don't worry, yes we know Callis is mad,
[02:10:21] Callous, hates the Russians, but she doesn't represent our foreign
[02:10:25] policy, she doesn't represent French or German or even British, well
[02:10:29] obviously Britain's not in the EU, but we we are much more more
[02:10:32] sensible, all right, but how do you
[02:10:36] expect the Russians to know that when
[02:10:39] the, the foreign policy representative of... European
[02:10:43] Union is saying all these insane things and
[02:10:46] Russians will pay attention and there's no
[02:10:50] prospect of it yet so we can just expect as we move into
[02:10:53] winter even more uh even more
[02:10:57] war like talk and and lower gas reserves then in in
[02:11:01] Europe as Europe declines in the new order well
[02:11:05] yes and of course terrible winter for ordinary
[02:11:09] ordinary Ukrainians which is why Putin is willing to go
[02:11:13] on fighting um until next
[02:11:16] year uh in the hope obviously of gaining the whole the
[02:11:20] donbass which he thinks he needs to be able to declare victory,
[02:11:24] but also just so that Ukraine is so weakened that it
[02:11:27] will make a deal on Russia's terms. now that
[02:11:31] said, you always have to remember that
[02:11:35] barring a complete Ukraine collapse, which doesn't look
[02:11:38] likely, um, whatever Russia gets out of this war will be
[02:11:41] far... far less than what Putin was aiming at when
[02:11:45] he launched the war, he was planning to turn the whole of Ukraine into a
[02:11:49] Russian client state, that simply isn't going to happen. um, the
[02:11:53] second, the plan B was to annex huge areas the east
[02:11:57] and south of Ukraine, that hasn't happened, and in my view is very
[02:12:01] unlikely to happen, so if Ukraine can come out of
[02:12:05] this war with 75% of its
[02:12:07] territory, um, minus areas that were never really
[02:12:11] part of Ukraine any... way um, ethnically
[02:12:15] speaking, and the possibility of joining the
[02:12:19] European Union and with a strongly consolidated
[02:12:22] national spirit, then despite all the
[02:12:26] terrible suffering that Ukraine is experienced, that I think historically
[02:12:30] will still be seen as a Ukrainian
[02:12:33] victory, professor leven will continue after the
[02:12:37] break, keep watching, new
[02:12:38] order.
[02:13:50] You're watching New Order. Professor Anatol Leven he was saying that
[02:13:54] Ukraine could uh forge some kind of victory despite all the
[02:13:58] odds uh any settlement. But isn't the point that Putin
[02:14:01] didn't really want all the land of
[02:14:04] Ukraine. He wanted uh and realize that there has to
[02:14:08] be new order. The title of this is
[02:14:11] the very show. "and the entire global
[02:14:14] south, global east has
[02:14:18] changed after 2022, and that's really
[02:14:22] the prize, the end of us and Germany.
[02:14:25] Well, Russia cannot end US to Germany its
[02:14:29] own, it's not remotely strong, it doesn't need
[02:14:32] to, and well no, I mean, well, but that's
[02:14:36] it, you know,
[02:14:37] as has often been said about the Chinese, and the Chinese say themselves in
[02:14:41] private." 'we don't need to do anything, trump is is doing a
[02:14:45] wonderful job of destroying you know America's
[02:14:48] global position without us having to do anything, which is
[02:14:52] why you know the um one reason why the Chinese are pursuing
[02:14:56] such very cautious and and prudent
[02:14:59] policy um,
[02:15:02] but uh, I mean cautious and
[02:15:05] prudent you, I understand you were in China uh earlier
[02:15:09] this year, I mean is it your'. understanding China are
[02:15:13] supplying weapons to Iran at the moment, they
[02:15:17] they are supplying certain kinds of technology, although
[02:15:21] they obviously in public they deny it uh, but
[02:15:25] 'um, they are not supplying large quantities of
[02:15:28] actual weapons, no, as far as I can see, and
[02:15:32] as one Chinese interlocutor said to me,
[02:15:36] you know, we're not allies of of Iran despite what many
[02:15:40] Americans say, and America should be very grateful that we're
[02:15:43] not, because if we were allies of Iran a large part the American Navy would be at
[02:15:47] the bottom the Indian ocean by now, um, just as if we were
[02:15:51] allies of Russia, Russia would have won the war in Ukraine, because
[02:15:55] real Chinese military supplies, look, I mean, America
[02:15:59] has exhausted its um, it its stocks of
[02:16:03] anti of air defense systems, just by fighting the
[02:16:07] the Iranians. Imagine if the Chinese came in as well with
[02:16:10] really large scale supplies, the American position
[02:16:14] would be impossible. Now, of course the Chinese really don't want to do that, because
[02:16:18] they understand the terrible risks involved, and I think
[02:16:22] also they, well, certainly if you read the Chinese media. they believe that
[02:16:26] um history is on their side, time is on their side, the west
[02:16:29] is declining pretty steeply now, and it makes much more sense,
[02:16:33] yeah, but you're saying it's caution, you're saying it's caution, and of
[02:16:36] course, one could equally say the same about India uh, that it's playing
[02:16:40] cautious game while being in the quad, but at the same time backing chaba upward in
[02:16:44] Iran and continuing to support the war
[02:16:47] on against NATO through Ukraine by
[02:16:51] buying Russian oil, but China's bond holdings of U.S.
[02:16:55] treasuries, which is the big news all around the world as uh
[02:16:58] NATO nation economies arguably collapse. It is
[02:17:02] shocking how uh they have declined the
[02:17:06] uh the way China has uh not buying us debt
[02:17:10] anymore and um obviously it has to be very careful
[02:17:13] unwinding it, but it really is uh
[02:17:17] increasing the uh averting itself from the dollar
[02:17:21] system. well, after what happened to Russian holdings,
[02:17:25] uh in the west uh, a country which thinks
[02:17:29] it might get into a deep crisis with America would be
[02:17:32] insane to keep most of its foreign holdings in in dollars
[02:17:36] that could be seized by America, obviously, I mean, not just China, other
[02:17:40] countries also are gradually drawing it down, not too
[02:17:44] fast of course, because to really draw them down quickly would risk
[02:17:47] collapsing first the US economy and then the world economy as a
[02:17:51] whole, but the general trend is very clear.
[02:17:55] so a sense that's that may well be the
[02:17:59] uh the kill switch some might say I
[02:18:01] mean in the past few days Brazil's top diplomats also
[02:18:05] Almarim ally of Lula who I have spoken to in
[02:18:09] the past Lula has been very critical obviously of us policy but has to be equally
[02:18:12] cautious been talking with Wang this week there
[02:18:16] was some Brazil China friends for peace Ukraine
[02:18:19] initiative um clear that China has
[02:18:23] benefited from the proxy war in Russia through
[02:18:26] Ukraine in many
[02:18:28] ways? Well, discounted Russian
[02:18:32] oil of course? Yes, to a
[02:18:36] degree, and Russia has become more dependent on China, but
[02:18:40] then of course on the other hand um, well the Chinese did not
[02:18:44] expect the Iran war top of that, but in the first
[02:18:48] place of course,
[02:18:48] you know, China is still dependent on global energy imports and
[02:18:52] anything that seriously disrupt. that is a threat to
[02:18:56] although around the time you were in China professor was when they
[02:19:00] were increasing stocks massively as if in preparation they seemed
[02:19:04] remarkably insulated I don't what you were telling them
[02:19:08] I don't what you were telling them professor yeah but
[02:19:12] now you see according to the latest news the Chinese stocks are beginning to run
[02:19:15] out and that is bad news not just for China
[02:19:19] but really for for all the Asian economies because it has been
[02:19:23] the the the Chinese release these reserves,
[02:19:27] which to a great extent has compensated the whole of Asia
[02:19:30] for the
[02:19:31] the the loss of oil from the Persian
[02:19:34] Gulf. If China if Chinese reserves run
[02:19:38] out completely, then the
[02:19:42] economic consequences could be dire, and of course
[02:19:45] an interesting question to which I don't have the answer is at that point will China
[02:19:49] try to become much much more directly involved
[02:19:52] in uh in the Middle East. and
[02:19:55] basically tell the Americans,
[02:19:58] you know, stop this war, or else, um, what
[02:20:02] or else would be, I, I don't know, but I wonder just
[02:20:06] how long China can afford, or India for that matter, can afford for this war to
[02:20:09] go on, so if I was giving a
[02:20:12] scorecard, let alone the war on
[02:20:15] Iran, has have bricks powers, Shanghai
[02:20:19] cooperation organization powers successfully used
[02:20:23] the war in Europe, ' as best they could
[02:20:26] to destroy Washington consensus power or could they
[02:20:30] have done a bit more faster um, I mean
[02:20:33] hopefully the war in Europe may be coming to an end in the next.
[02:20:37] months, have they done as best as they could or could they have done better as
[02:20:41] regards dedollarization, trade ties, throwing the
[02:20:45] IMF and world bank out, as such, well I don't think,
[02:20:49] I mean a lot of countries like India um, but
[02:20:53] even Brazil, um, or I think
[02:20:56] even China to
[02:20:59] a degree do not want to destroy
[02:21:02] America's, power, certainly not quickly,
[02:21:05] certainly. not avawedly as
[02:21:08] made clear, but but I think it's, I mean, I was at the
[02:21:12] Bricks academic council um last year,
[02:21:16] and
[02:21:17] there was a clear division there between uh, Russia,
[02:21:21] China and South Africa on the one hand,
[02:21:25] much more anti-american, and India and Brazil on the other, much
[02:21:29] more, well, India, much, much less anti-American, and
[02:21:32] Brazil sort of trying to say how right everybody was and maintain
[02:21:36] a... a middle position in fairness to Lula, he had been in
[02:21:40] prison, yes, now India has shifted
[02:21:44] undoubtedly as result the Iran war, but I would still
[02:21:48] describe Indian policy as more like a phrase that
[02:21:52] you very often hear from the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia,
[02:21:56] which is a multi-vector policy. In other words, you
[02:21:59] know, we are not going to, well, they they mean, we we're
[02:22:03] not going to simply go with with Russia, but equally we are not going.
[02:22:07] commit ourselves to the United States, we want
[02:22:11] you know to keep open relations with with
[02:22:15] everybody, and I think for the moment um, that
[02:22:18] is what most the global south wishes, yeah,
[02:22:22] the problem is lot of people are going to think that's very naive, because Washington wants a
[02:22:26] choice, it doesn't give, it doesn't, it doesn't give nations that
[02:22:30] choice, oh absolutely, but the question now is is
[02:22:33] Washington in the past, Washington could simply have thumped the table and
[02:22:37] ordered them to submit, but is Washington powerful enough to
[02:22:41] do that anymore? I don't think so. Um, obviously China
[02:22:45] is now much bigger economic player outside the
[02:22:49] financial area in Asia than the United States
[02:22:52] is. So, America's power to coerce people is just
[02:22:56] much less. But
[02:22:58] on the other hand, I think the Indians are still worry
[02:23:02] that if they really push both to weaken the US
[02:23:06] and to institutionalized. bricks at the
[02:23:09] moment, China
[02:23:11] is still so much more powerful that this will be a Chinese dominated
[02:23:15] bricks, possibly a Chinese dominated world, that is
[02:23:19] something that the Indians still worry about, that is why, as they've
[02:23:22] told me, you know the they are not going to commit themselves completely,
[02:23:26] certainly not to the US, but not to an anti-US position either,
[02:23:30] the ghosts of divide and rule, imperial divide and
[02:23:33] rule kind of alive when it comes to - destroying '
[02:23:38] forever. I just got to - ask about western Europe, one last
[02:23:42] question.
[02:23:42] I mean, how long you think Britain and France are going to be on the United Nations
[02:23:46] Security Council, let alone whether India will be on
[02:23:49] it? Um, can they remain on the UN security council for much
[02:23:53] longer? Well, I think they can remain on the
[02:23:57] UN security council forever. Um,
[02:24:01] the question is whether the United, whether the UN itself and the
[02:24:04] Security Council will mean anything. 50 years from now,
[02:24:08] let alone a hundred. I mean, I always remember the
[02:24:12] the the mogal emperor, long, long after he he had become
[02:24:16] bas basically an old-age pensioner the British, was
[02:24:20] still issuing ferman's orders
[02:24:23] appointing kings and governors across
[02:24:26] India, total nonsense of course, but nobody wanted to tell the
[02:24:30] poor fellow that it was all over, so um, yes, they
[02:24:34] can still sit there, but it won't mean anything. Professor Anatol
[02:24:38] Levan, thank
[02:24:39] you.
[02:24:45] Questions from you, the viewers through social media, through Zara Khan. Now, professor Anatol
[02:24:49] Leiven, not going to
[02:24:50] get a job as Antonio Guteres a speech writer anytime soon after what he said about
[02:24:54] the UN, but more importantly, the questions from our audience
[02:24:58] on X. Old Pretender has asked, are the US and European markets broke and maxed out
[02:25:02] on debt? We've been talking for years about US debt and it didn't really matter because
[02:25:06] everyone recycled. dollar, that's the way the dollar system works, 40
[02:25:10] trillion us debt to debt to GDP ratio of 125%.
[02:25:14] It does matter now, that's why Trump is going, we need AI, I don't care whether
[02:25:18] AI means armagedden and AI is used by Yemen to attack Saudi Arabia, we need
[02:25:22] AI, because otherwise the whole the United States is gna uh
[02:25:25] self-combust, if you look at Europe, Greece, Italy, France,
[02:25:29] Spain, all debt ratios that are higher than what they produce, so in others
[02:25:33] they are essentially bankrupt, it hasn't mattered before,
[02:25:37] but after 2022 in Ukraine, it does matter because it's
[02:25:41] bricks and the new order, the new order will not allow countries
[02:25:45] to run debts like this,
[02:25:48] 2022, because has asked, what happens if the sanctions become
[02:25:52] increasingly frequent? sanctions, I presume Tomka
[02:25:55] means uh US sanctions, NATO Nation sanctions, it doesn't
[02:25:59] matter to India clearly, India says, we don't care about sanctions on
[02:26:03] Russian energy, as we said on this program before, 38 million have been
[02:26:07] killed in 152 countries around the world by
[02:26:11] Americans sanctions between 1971 and 2021, according to the
[02:26:14] lancert, I think the global south now remembers the slaughter
[02:26:18] caused by United States sanctions. NATO nation sanctions, they don't care
[02:26:22] anymore, and people can use crypto anyway to evade all sanctions,
[02:26:26] although of course we're not advising it, and finally Paul Champion
[02:26:30] says, if Trump is leaving NATO, but American troops aren't leaving Europe, does that
[02:26:33] make the American occupation official? You know, Paul Champaine has
[02:26:37] point there, it's difficult to remember how many troops are in
[02:26:41] western Europe, thousands and thousands of troops, just
[02:26:45] recently in RAF, Lake and Heath in Suffock in Britain, the United
[02:26:49] States just trans. 20 B-61 12 tactical nuclear
[02:26:53] uh weapons, um, zero response from Russia.
[02:26:57] Uh, why does Europe allow all these US occupying powers? Because Europe has never
[02:27:01] since 1945 been independent, its arts, institutions, its
[02:27:04] universities, its schools, it's entire societies of
[02:27:08] Western Europe have been vassals that have been condemned to be
[02:27:12] - part the military industrial complex. Thank you for those answers
[02:27:16] oftion. We'll be back with more next week. Thanks, sir, and...
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[02:30:24] Russia's first parliamentary elections since the start the Ukraine conflict
[02:30:28] have wrapped up and the vote counting is underway. There's
[02:30:32] still a lot to see and discuss as the final figures won't be officially confirmed until
[02:30:36] next Friday. We're bringing you our special coverage as the
[02:30:39] world's geographically biggest country has its democratic
[02:30:43] say. With the first preliminary results
[02:30:47] coming in, the ruling United Russia party is for. top with solid
[02:30:51] majority, the runner up is the communist party with almost
[02:30:54] 14%, and the Liberal Democratic Party is in third with
[02:30:58] close to 9%. And...
[02:31:02] Moscow says Kiev tried to undermine the elections with a
[02:31:06] massive attack as almost 2,000 drones and missiles
[02:31:10] were intercepted a single day. The targeted assault on the Russian
[02:31:13] capital killed several
[02:31:15] people.
[02:31:24] You're watching RT International Live in Moscow. I'm Rachel
[02:31:27] Rubel. The third and final day of voting in
[02:31:31] Russia's parliamentary elections. has come to an end, polls have closed
[02:31:35] across the country's 11 time zones and the preliminary results are
[02:31:39] already coming in. our RT is keeping close tab on the developments,
[02:31:42] bringing you all the latest updates as part of our special
[02:31:45] coverage.
[02:31:57] well, even though the polls have closed, there's still a lot to see, count
[02:32:01] and discuss. says the final figures won't be officially confirmed
[02:32:05] until next Friday. Currently here are the preliminary
[02:32:08] results. After about 47% the ballots have been
[02:32:12] tallyed. The ruling United Russia party is firmly in the
[02:32:16] lead with solid majority. The runner up is the communist party
[02:32:20] with about 14%. In third place is the
[02:32:23] Liberal Democratic Party with close to
[02:32:25] 9%. All right, well for more on the
[02:32:29] elections, let's bring in our correspondent. party's Anastasia
[02:32:33] Valadana joining us from our studio just outside the Kramlin Nasty. The polls are
[02:32:37] closed, the votes are being counted. What else can you tell us about the latest
[02:32:40] developments? Hi there,
[02:32:44] Rachel. Well, it's just past 2 am here in the Russian Capital and I
[02:32:48] think we do have the most beautiful spot to uh do our
[02:32:52] special coverage on the stateuma elections. We know that the
[02:32:55] polls have closed, the vote counting is currently in full
[02:32:59] swing and the vote turnout has. needed
[02:33:02] 56% uh, but um, of course, busy
[02:33:06] three days for those taking part in the voting
[02:33:09] and for those who who were organizing the process, but
[02:33:13] also a very busy night ahead for those who are counting
[02:33:17] down the votes.
[02:33:19] we know that nevertheless that the votes are still being counted, the
[02:33:23] Russian uh security council deputy chairman and
[02:33:26] also the leader the United Russia, also known as
[02:33:30] y has actually
[02:33:34] received a mandate from the electorate and
[02:33:38] also commented on the results stating that now new
[02:33:42] chapter is a waiting ahead. let's
[02:33:44] listen. this is a real
[02:33:47] result, but at the same time it marks the start of a great deal of
[02:33:51] work. we must now put into practice the president's decisions and
[02:33:55] the policy set
[02:33:56] out by our leader vladimir. having received such a mandate from
[02:34:00] the electorate, we must now set about. our national
[02:34:04] program and those programs that will be adopted in the regions. this is
[02:34:07] huge task, but at the same time
[02:34:10] i have no doubt whatsoever that our party as a responsible political
[02:34:14] force and the country's leading political force will rise to the
[02:34:18] challenge, just as our entire country will rise to the challenge it now
[02:34:21] faces, we will prevail. there is no doubt about
[02:34:25] that.
[02:34:30] wasn't the only one the elections, we also
[02:34:34] heard from Ginaidi Zugan the leader the second largest
[02:34:38] party, CPRF, also known as the communist party the Russian
[02:34:41] Federation, and that's actually the only party which received a
[02:34:45] double digits in this election, and well he also commented
[02:34:49] on the preliminary results, let's take a listen to what he had to say
[02:34:53] about that. We fully understood that
[02:34:57] elections held during wartime are fundamentally different, requiring
[02:35:01] maximum unity. personal responsibility and very thor
[02:35:04] work with the citizens the country. They are demanding a shift towards
[02:35:08] a new policy, insisting that prices must not rise
[02:35:12] exoberantly, that utility costs do not burden them, and
[02:35:16] they are looking into our program. I want emphasize once
[02:35:19] again that we fulfilled the tasks we said ourselves during the
[02:35:23] electoral campaign. We did everything to present our program to all
[02:35:27] voters and understandable
[02:35:29] an accessible way.
[02:35:42] is joining me right here in our beautiful studio in central
[02:35:45] moscow thank you very much for finding the time and
[02:35:49] um having a you here is special because you've
[02:35:53] been to the central election committee yourself this evening can you tell
[02:35:57] us a little bit more about uh what the atmosphere was there
[02:36:01] like and just give us a little more details about the uh the
[02:36:04] current um um election results that we know so
[02:36:07] far, well
[02:36:08] of course the polling stations have closed nationwide now
[02:36:12] and the preliminary results are now in, so the voter turnout
[02:36:16] across the country reached
[02:36:17] 56.66%. uh
[02:36:21] at this point in time 52.27% of
[02:36:24] votes have been counted so far, so that is of course over
[02:36:28] half the total votes and let me just give you a quick breakdown
[02:36:32] the five leading parties. now we begin with the all Russian
[02:36:36] political party, United Russia, which got the most votes so far,
[02:36:40] that is over 57%. uh, then in
[02:36:43] second place is the communist party the Russian Federation or
[02:36:47] CPRF for short uh with over 13%
[02:36:51] the votes, then we have the Liberal Democratic Party of
[02:36:55] Russia or LDPR with over 8% of votes, in fourth
[02:36:59] place we have the new people political party with over
[02:37:02] 7% of votes and uh in fifth
[02:37:05] place the Socialist political party adjust
[02:37:09] Russia with over 5% of votes. Now the leading
[02:37:13] three candidates for each individual. constituency have now also
[02:37:16] been announced and just to let you know there are
[02:37:19] 225 individual constituencies in Russia
[02:37:23] and 16 in Moscow alone and now of course one candidate will be
[02:37:26] elected per per constituency. so the system, the voting
[02:37:30] system um might seem rather difficult for of us
[02:37:34] to understand. can you just break it down for us and tell us how
[02:37:38] it actually works? of course, so out the 450
[02:37:42] deputies being elected, half are elected. through party lists
[02:37:46] and
[02:37:46] the other half that is 225 deputies are elected
[02:37:50] in single member constituencies. now in casting their vote for a
[02:37:54] specific candidate to represent their area in the state dumo,
[02:37:57] russian citizens uh chose from between around seven
[02:38:01] eight candidates per area. now when it comes to the total
[02:38:05] number of candidates nationwide uh that number is around
[02:38:08] 1,700 people uh some of those
[02:38:12] candidates making the federal lists are in... pendent and
[02:38:15] importantly in this election, the federal lists also include
[02:38:19] veterans the special military operation. now we
[02:38:23] had also more than uh 90,000 polling
[02:38:27] stations open nationwide over the past
[02:38:30] three days and the total number of registered voters in
[02:38:34] Moscow in the Russian capital is over 7,800
[02:38:38] thousand people and nationwide that number is over
[02:38:42] 111 million. now in the... course the
[02:38:45] election, people have been able to participate to cast the vote
[02:38:49] a variety of different ways, so that is of course
[02:38:52] online, as online electronic voting is well was available
[02:38:56] in numerous Russian regions and of course in person casting their
[02:39:00] ballots at polling stations uh so many ways
[02:39:04] for people to vote really with some actually having voted from home as well
[02:39:08] as they were unable to come to the polling station themselves uh it is also
[02:39:12] worth noting that almost 40000
[02:39:15] observers were present at these elections
[02:39:18] nationwide and well with the polls now closed and with
[02:39:21] the preliminary results of course in, we
[02:39:24] are awaiting the final results which will be announced by the central
[02:39:28] election commission by
[02:39:29] the 5th of October. you've mentioned there the um online voting, this is
[02:39:33] actually the one I used when I um when I voted just on the
[02:39:37] first day the voting, and that was actually very, very convenient. um, I
[02:39:41] just want to take this further and and say that for the first time...
[02:39:45] uh four new regions uh have voted and cast their ballots
[02:39:49] during these elections and we know that uh four that
[02:39:53] just adds up to 4 million new Russian citizens
[02:39:56] in Danietsk Lugansk People's Republics the Hirsons
[02:40:00] Zaparogia regions and um despite all
[02:40:04] that the key of regime its behalf um has ramped up
[02:40:08] its attacks we know um from what the um Moscow Mais
[02:40:12] Sabanian had to say just um earlier today that um, there has
[02:40:16] been an enormous drone attack, um, over
[02:40:19] 1,600 drones were heading Moscow's way, Moscow, Moscow
[02:40:23] Region, and particularly 450 them were
[02:40:26] heading directly um Moscow's way, and of course this
[02:40:30] is an unprecedented attack, and I think it's very important to have
[02:40:34] listen to what um Russian Defense Ministry had to say about it. Let's take a
[02:40:38] listen. In an effort to undermine the democratic will the
[02:40:42] citizens the Russian Federation, as expressed, In the elections to the
[02:40:46] state Duma the Federal Assembly the Russian Federation. The
[02:40:49] Kiev regime launched a massive attack on the territory the Russian
[02:40:53] Federation on September 19th and 20th of this
[02:40:56] year, using UAVs and Flamingo cruise
[02:40:59] missiles. In response to the Kiev regime's attacks on civilian
[02:41:03] targets on Russian territory, the armed forces the Russian
[02:41:06] Federation will intensify their strikes with high precision
[02:41:10] weapons against military targets in Kieve.
[02:41:14] Unfortunately. there have been casualties, we do know that in Moscow
[02:41:17] region three children had been wounded and two people unfortunately had
[02:41:21] been killed, so um ala, we know about these
[02:41:25] attacks that were carried out by the... kief regime um using
[02:41:29] drones um etc. but do we know about any
[02:41:33] other attacks coming um from Kief regarding the
[02:41:36] elections? well of course um I would like to mention that when it comes
[02:41:40] to the actual election process everything went smoothly so the
[02:41:43] elections were of course held in full compliance with the law we saw a high
[02:41:47] voter turn out uh as I said before over
[02:41:50] 56% uh nationwide so that is proof
[02:41:54] of that really and there hasn't been a single successful. attack
[02:41:58] on the elections, however, of course, there have indeed
[02:42:02] been attempts and as you said, over
[02:42:04] 1,600 drones have been shot down over the Russian
[02:42:08] capital and Moscow region overnight, now Russian uh
[02:42:12] Security Council deputy chair and leader the
[02:42:16] leading United Russia party, Mitri Medved,
[02:42:20] said that those attempts had the opposite effect to one that was originally
[02:42:24] intended. Let's take a listen now.
[02:42:28] Over the past few days, the opponent has made titanic, colossal
[02:42:32] efforts to undermine the outcome the elections, but as has
[02:42:36] rightly been said, this has only served to unite the voters, to
[02:42:40] unite our people. This is, I suppose, the most important outcome of
[02:42:43] this
[02:42:44] election.
[02:42:48] And, we've also seen continued intimidation of
[02:42:51] election commission members, as we know
[02:42:55] earlier, yesterday, two people. were killed in a drone
[02:42:58] attack a civilian bus in the Hirson region and one
[02:43:02] the victims was member the presyct electoral commission
[02:43:06] there who was involved in the conducting of early voting in one of
[02:43:10] its districts and this was of course reported by the central
[02:43:14] election commission head Ella Pomfilova who also
[02:43:18] spoke on cyber attacks and that is over
[02:43:21] 100 million danger well uh well
[02:43:25] danger is really thwarted let's take a look at
[02:43:31] Over the past period, more than waves of dedos attacks were recorded
[02:43:35] against infrastructure in the Russian Federation that is specifically involved in the
[02:43:39] electoral process. Thankfully, there were no successful
[02:43:42] attacks, despite their intensity and power. At the same time, the
[02:43:46] level of impact is assessed as very high. The attacks were carried
[02:43:50] out by highly professional, well coordinated groups using artificial
[02:43:54] intelligence tools. The attacks were launched primarily. from
[02:43:57] abroad, where did they come from? the United Kingdom, Ukraine,
[02:44:01] Brazil, Indonesia, and even India. Thank God, all the
[02:44:05] attacks were successfully
[02:44:06] repelled.
[02:44:10] And what we're seeing as well is, of course, what can only be
[02:44:14] referred to as fake news about the fairness
[02:44:18] these elections in Russia, such as reports of observers being
[02:44:21] refused entry into polling stations across the country, but we do
[02:44:25] know that importantly only. 23 complaints have actually
[02:44:29] been received in regards to difficulties in
[02:44:33] exercising the rights of observers, three of which were received
[02:44:37] of course on the last day of elections and it is very
[02:44:40] important to mention that the central election commission deals with
[02:44:44] these complaints immediately, there's really no
[02:44:48] tolerance policy there, so well with the elections now
[02:44:51] concluded, we can certainly say that yes indeed there have been
[02:44:55] attempts to undermine this, electoral process
[02:44:58] here, but well, of course, as Michev
[02:45:02] said, they have produced an opposite effect, where
[02:45:06] people have been even more active in casting their votes, going to
[02:45:10] the polling stations, being proactive in this over these past three
[02:45:13] days. thanks, and I just want to add here that it's absolutely
[02:45:17] heartbreaking, I think you would agree with me on this, um, that the key
[02:45:21] of regime um carried out these attacks at the time when Russia as a
[02:45:24] democratic nation went to the polling stations to... vote uh for
[02:45:28] the uh state doomer um elections um when at the
[02:45:32] same time in Ukraine itself Zelensky refuses to hold
[02:45:36] presidential elections since the time his term expired uh back in
[02:45:40] May of 2024. He continues to site the martial
[02:45:43] law and how just recently the 9 million Ukrainians are
[02:45:47] somehow abroad and won't be able to vote and we know that Russians were
[02:45:51] able to vote abroad because the polling stations were opened
[02:45:54] in um if you get if I I'm not mistaken, in
[02:45:58] around 150 countries, so um, thanks very
[02:46:02] much for bringing us up to speed, and hopefully we'll
[02:46:06] see the results very soon. That's all for me and Aila
[02:46:10] for now, and I'm passing over to you Rachel. All right, thank you to the both of you,
[02:46:14] Nastia and Aila. RIT correspondent
[02:46:17] eagdanov is reporting from one the headquarters of United Russia as
[02:46:21] the country's ruling party is firmly leading the
[02:46:24] race. The atmosphere certainly has.
[02:46:27] has been cheerful here, there's other word for it, and after all, if you look at
[02:46:31] the caliber of people that United Russia can show its
[02:46:35] roaster, well, it certainly can't complain in that department, here
[02:46:39] we've spoke. to heroes of Russia, to decorated officers,
[02:46:43] veterans the special military operation of in
[02:46:46] Ukraine, it's acting senators, acting MPs, you name it,
[02:46:50] they all have gathered here to together find out
[02:46:54] the outcomeuh of this election and well to
[02:46:58] finally find themselves victorious in this race, it
[02:47:02] has been a long, rather long race, after all people
[02:47:06] have been voting for three days and and well again the turnout.
[02:47:10] has been quite significant, it has been larger than uh
[02:47:14] five years ago
[02:47:15] and they
[02:47:16] you know the people uh the people of this party of United Russia uh
[02:47:20] its members they have spoken openly about how happy they
[02:47:24] are that people chose to go and vote that they utilized
[02:47:28] these uh you know all the electronic uh methods that have
[02:47:31] been there available for the general population for the low mobility people
[02:47:35] in hospitals and so to uh to vote without having
[02:47:40] to go uh to the polling station without having you know
[02:47:43] without having to physically appear at the polling booths and
[02:47:47] especially they have talked about how people in the new
[02:47:51] regions of Russia, people in the border regions of Russia, and I'm talking about the border
[02:47:55] regions
[02:47:56] the ones that border with Ukraine of course that they were
[02:47:59] unphazed by the threats, they were unphazed by the constant threats
[02:48:03] of drones of missile attacks and they went and
[02:48:06] voted and voted on mass after all, if you look at turnout in
[02:48:10] the Lugansk People's Republic, in the Dunetsk People's Republic, those turnouts,
[02:48:14] they have been quite spectacular, well above the average
[02:48:18] across the country, and in fact I asked the senator
[02:48:21] representing the Lugansk people's republic, I asked her uh darial
[02:48:25] Lantratova, I asked her uh what she thinks about it, what she
[02:48:29] thinks about the people who still in her hometown in
[02:48:33] her home region, they went and they decided to
[02:48:36] participate in this first election that that they
[02:48:40] could really take part in as part of Russia, and here's what she had to
[02:48:44] say, indeed, the turnout is
[02:48:48] unprecedentedly high in the Dunetsk and Lugansk Republics at about
[02:48:51] 80%. For the people, this is indeed very important event,
[02:48:55] another step on the path of integration with Russia, because the residents the
[02:48:59] reunited historical regions are electing their representatives and parliament
[02:49:03] members for the first time. Indeed, there were many provocations and
[02:49:06] dangers. We have once again been convinced that our people cannot.
[02:49:10] intimidated, they steadfastly withstood these trials, our
[02:49:13] adversary targeted energy and civil infrastructure with attacks intended to
[02:49:17] intimidate our people to force them not to go to the polling stations,
[02:49:21] to jeopadizing
[02:49:22] the entire voting process. And well, the
[02:49:26] threat, it was as real as it gets after all, at least one member
[02:49:29] the electoral committee was killed in the Ukrainian strike in the
[02:49:33] Zaparogia region of Russia, and so really people,
[02:49:37] they did risk literally risk their lives. to go
[02:49:40] and have a have a go a democratic say that they have
[02:49:44] now as part of Russia, but they weren't the only ones uh you know taking
[02:49:48] this risk. Moscow uh was targeted by a Ukrainian uh you
[02:49:52] know long-ranged uh attack uh over the past
[02:49:56] over the past three days really there was several waves these attacks
[02:49:59] and you had also international observers working at
[02:50:03] the polling stations and they took note of
[02:50:07] Russia's you know of how Russia has did digitalized the voting
[02:50:11] process and they were quite impressed, they some some delegates,
[02:50:15] some uh, well some the representatives the African of some
[02:50:19] African nations, they well, they said that they might seek
[02:50:23] to adopt some of that technology and you bring
[02:50:27] them to, bring this technology to their home country. I
[02:50:30] asked an acting MPtoy as to what he
[02:50:34] thinks about th this representation when it comes to international
[02:50:38] observers, and the general...
[02:50:40] digitalization the vote here in Russia, what he, here's what he had to
[02:50:44] say, we have a large team of international
[02:50:48] observers working in these elections and not just in Moscow. Everyone has
[02:50:52] noted how far Russia has advanced in terms of technology for organizing the
[02:50:56] electoral process. This is transparent and verificable for
[02:50:59] voters.
[02:51:00] It is easy to understand and most importantly convenient for people to use. For
[02:51:04] us, it absolutely does not matter whether our former western partners
[02:51:08] recognize the elections or not. every day they tell stories about how
[02:51:11] bad we are, what monsters we are, and this entire wave of russophobia,
[02:51:15] I'm sure, will also spill over into the finalization the election
[02:51:19] results. For us, the most important thing is that the elections are recognized as fair and
[02:51:23] objective by our citizens, by our Russian voters. Our
[02:51:26] legitimacy lies in the citizens of Russia and their voice, the trust the people is
[02:51:30] a politician's greatest asset. Now, there's
[02:51:34] still, there is going to be few days that the Russian electoral committee
[02:51:38] will take to final. the counter of all the votes, but
[02:51:42] it is already pretty clear that United Russia it is
[02:51:46] quite comfortably in the lead, well over 50% the
[02:51:49] public support, they have it, and so it's leader
[02:51:53] Dimitri Midved has already said addressing people here
[02:51:57] in in the people's in the public support HQ the United
[02:52:01] Russia party, he has said that now that they know that they
[02:52:05] have this public support, well they now United Russia
[02:52:09] can be more ambitious and it can really pursue
[02:52:12] everything that it stands for and uh
[02:52:15] really try and put forward their
[02:52:19] vision, bring closer their vision of... success for
[02:52:23] Russia. A multiple polling stations were open in
[02:52:27] Russian embassies in many locations for citizens abroad. These
[02:52:31] were some the scenes at voting locations around the world from
[02:52:34] Armenia to the UAE. Russians also actively
[02:52:38] cast their ballots in European countries. Well some of those ex-patriots
[02:52:42] stress that it's important to express their position issues even if they live
[02:52:46] outside their
[02:52:47] homeland.
[02:52:52] the situation in the world or in our country, but right now in
[02:52:56] 2026, it seems to me that the world is on the brink of very
[02:53:00] significant changes, and Russia has a duty to face them with dignity,
[02:53:04] that's why everyone should vote. We've lived here for
[02:53:07] very long time, and our families are here, that's all, but my heart and
[02:53:11] soul and my homeland are there, and I travel to Russia every
[02:53:15] year, so it's very important. I came here to
[02:53:19] support Russia, and our choice matters too, even for those of us. living abroad
[02:53:23] so that relations between Russia and France can be restored and improved, well we're hoping
[02:53:27] for confirmation the Russian government's actions, which I believe most of us view
[02:53:30] as positive a very complicated international geopolitical
[02:53:34] situation, and the Russian government isn't doing a bad job at
[02:53:37] all. I believe in friendship. I want
[02:53:41] the two nations to be friends. My wife, for example, is German and I'm
[02:53:45] Russian. Why are there so many Russians here? 9 million
[02:53:49] Russian speakers, because our families are mixed. believe we all
[02:53:53] can live in harmony. These images were from several
[02:53:57] countries in Southeast Asia where Russian citizens were also
[02:54:01] able to vote. In particular, these are the scenes at polling stations in
[02:54:04] Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Laos, as well as Singapore and
[02:54:08] Cambodia. Voters explained why they wanted to exercise their
[02:54:12] democratic rights despite being thousands of kilometers away from
[02:54:16] home. For me, this day is very
[02:54:19] important for our country and we... uh, from my
[02:54:23] point of view, every Russian citizen should vote
[02:54:27] uh, for their future. I think it's really important to
[02:54:31] take part in this election, because like
[02:54:33] uh, we need to express our uh
[02:54:37] opinion, and yeah, this
[02:54:40] is really important for as a first time, like voting
[02:54:44] here. It is really important for Russian people abroad to
[02:54:48] take part in these elections, uh, as it is very...
[02:55:28] I came to vote because I believe every citizen has a duty to express their
[02:55:31] opinion, and in my view, every vote
[02:55:34] counts. The crucial vote is also taking place
[02:55:37] in territory that are coming under daily attack, but
[02:55:41] despite the threat posed by Ukraine, people say they are determined that their
[02:55:45] voices will be heard. The head the Danetsk Republic has cast his
[02:55:49] vote a local polling station, noting that he met quite a few people. people
[02:55:53] who wanted
[02:55:53] to vote in their first state
[02:55:55] duma election. our gazd reports and how the vote has been held under
[02:55:59] wartime conditions. across two
[02:56:02] continents and 11 time zones under ceaseless threat
[02:56:06] of attack, russians vote for their new
[02:56:09] parliament.
[02:56:21] in their millions. despite constant threats from
[02:56:24] Ukraine, threats of prosecution and
[02:56:28] persecution, just for booting, attacks on
[02:56:32] pouling stations, fakes and Ukrainian
[02:56:35] propaganda. Yesterday and the day before,
[02:56:38] leaflets were dropped by drones across most of our region,
[02:56:42] containing calls to block the electoral process and urging
[02:56:46] people not to participate in the elections. Every day we are
[02:56:49] seeing a steady stream of two or three disin.
[02:57:05] double threats no longer carry the same
[02:57:08] weight. tell me, have you been in intimidated? did
[02:57:11] Zelensky threaten you saying you shouldn't go to these
[02:57:14] elections? in no way, he can't do
[02:57:17] anything. of course not. generally speaking it is
[02:57:21] very difficult to intimidate me, it's just not in my nature.
[02:57:25] god forbid. firstly, i don't recognize the landscate all, and i
[02:57:29] don't watch him on tv. as for scammers, they've already left me
[02:57:32] alone. we have lived too long to be.
[02:57:35] intimidated, and that is
[02:57:39] my vote, one of tens of millions being cast
[02:57:42] around the donbus, an environment where people are
[02:57:46] actively being threatened, where electoral
[02:57:49] officials are receiving death threats, their families, their
[02:57:53] children, but with every vote cast in the don
[02:57:57] bass, the people the Dumbas show,
[02:58:01] that those threats don't scare them, not even
[02:58:05] strongly worded statements and condemnation could
[02:58:09] stop these elections. At today's meeting, the central electoral
[02:58:12] commission adopted resolution declaring that the organization and conduct of
[02:58:16] elections for deputies to the state duma the Russian Federation in the
[02:58:20] temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine are illegitimate. It
[02:58:24] is, of course, ironic that Ukraine forbids
[02:58:27] Ukrainians from voting in these Russian elections,
[02:58:31] because neither does it allow Ukrainians themselves.
[02:58:35] any elections, they're too dangerous, says the former
[02:58:39] president of Ukraine. elections as such are
[02:58:43] huge risk, elections right now are a tsunami which could split
[02:58:47] Ukraine. again, the irony, Ukraine
[02:58:50] professes to be fighting for freedom and democracy, but says
[02:58:54] elections are too dangerous. Russia, which kier
[02:58:58] accuses of aggression and
[02:59:02] war. he's holding elections in. remember, he needs a
[02:59:06] united society that will support his united Russia.
[02:59:09] Zelensky, on the other hand, doesn't need his society
[02:59:13] support, his term expired two years ago,
[02:59:17] and no one can do anything about it. He already
[02:59:21] controls all Ukrainian media, all newspapers
[02:59:24] and online publications, full spectrum
[02:59:28] propaganda. Anyone who criticizes him can be
[02:59:32] sanctioned, Ukrainian or otherwise.
[02:59:35] sent a one way trip to the front lines,
[02:59:39] so elections, you want elections as soon as
[02:59:42] to do it tomorrow, but if we have the war, it's you can't
[02:59:46] do it, what elections, how to make elections with the 9 million people
[02:59:50] who are abroad, and what to do with the people who are
[02:59:53] temporary or live in temporary occupied
[02:59:57] territories, europe of course will bend over backwards
[03:00:01] to accommodate Zelensky, kaya calas,
[03:00:05] the EU's diplomatic figure head is never one to
[03:00:08] overthink it, simple and cliche is her
[03:00:12] style. Putin hasn't had elections or Russia hasn't had
[03:00:16] elections in 25 years. Zelensky is
[03:00:19] elected leader, elected in
[03:00:22] the free and fair elections, and of course during the wartime you
[03:00:25] can't have elections. Zelensky's corrupt ministers, his
[03:00:29] army heads simply don't mind, so long
[03:00:33] as the EU supports... Zelensky, the aid money
[03:00:37] pours in and it can be divided up and shared
[03:00:41] around between friends. The only concern
[03:00:45] is the people of Ukraine, forced brutally to
[03:00:49] fight a war, they don't want to fight in, by a
[03:00:52] president they don't want, blasted by
[03:00:55] propaganda, they don't agree with, and there's
[03:00:59] nothing they can do about it, but
[03:01:01] daydream, we must find a legal, safe and real. mechanism
[03:01:05] that will allow Ukraine to restore a full-fledged democratic process
[03:01:09] even under the conditions of a prolonged war. This is
[03:01:12] difficult. We must guarantee the right to vote for our military, for millions of
[03:01:16] Ukrainians abroad, and for those in the frontline regions. We
[03:01:20] must ensure the security the electoral process, the independence of
[03:01:24] institutions, and trust in the results. If Russia could do
[03:01:27] it, then so could Ukraine, and the only thing
[03:01:31] stopping elections in Ukraine is the former president.
[03:01:35] one Zelensky who just doesn't want
[03:01:39] to leave. Murad Gazdiv, ART from
[03:01:43] Danetzk. Stay with us here on RT International. I'll be back
[03:01:47] with all the latest updates on the Russian elections and much more in just about half an hour. I'll
[03:01:50] see you then.
[03:01:51] Bye-bye.
[03:02:02] Hello and welcome to Crosstock Bullhorns here. We discuss some
[03:02:06] realnims.
[03:02:40] Мы находимся в городе Северодонецке, в здании
[03:02:44] одной из сект, которая называется:
[03:03:12] Срочно остановите
[03:03:15] противостояние, иначе мы...
[03:05:17] народу мого, ты святы дух народу
[03:05:20] мого, мы видим, что это имитация некой царковной
[03:05:24] службе, здесь на столе стоит портрет
[03:05:28] Селенка, в шестьдесят четвёртом году он основал как раз рунвиру и до
[03:05:31] сегодняшнего дня ему поклоняются практически как святому,
[03:05:35] культ достаточно примитивный, то есть ну сиренко
[03:05:39] обожествляется после смерти, до володаря нашого даж
[03:05:43] бога помолимося, слава
[03:05:46] да
[03:05:47] слава да... Runvira's modern pagans claim their
[03:05:50] religion is at least 11,00 years old, in fact it's closer
[03:05:54] to 50 years, it was created on the east coast of America, not
[03:05:58] on the banks the
[03:06:00] river.
[03:06:06] Ranvira religion has meetings and
[03:06:09] members the Ukrainian diaspora living in
[03:06:13] Canada, United States,
[03:06:16] Poland.
[03:07:17] their goal in eastern Europe. They have come to power as the commissars. The role
[03:07:21] the Jews in the tragic history the Bolshevic socialist country is very
[03:07:25] well-known, and when the time comes, Ukraine will hold them accountable for
[03:07:28] it.
[03:09:10] This strange Ukrainian religion appeared as part the classified
[03:09:14] CIA Prolog project, it aimed to stir up
[03:09:18] separatis and nationalist sentiment in Soviet
[03:09:20] Ukraine,
[03:09:23] and therefore I think the United States almost certainly bear
[03:09:27] some the blame for this. nazi like
[03:09:31] religion. While studying declassified
[03:09:34] CIA documents, Jeff Young a House of Representatives candidate
[03:09:38] often found facts indicating US intelligence collaborated with
[03:09:42] radical quasi religious organizations. It's
[03:09:45] a religious sect or cult that
[03:09:49] stresses the superiority the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian
[03:09:53] nationalism denigrates ethnic
[03:09:56] Russians, everything Russian.
[03:10:00] In just few years during the 1960s, Runvira chapters were
[03:10:04] opened across the United States and
[03:10:06] Canada.
[03:10:11] It doesn't matter what these groups say or
[03:10:14] do, it will support them, if it if the
[03:10:17] groups are causing hatred and chaos within the target
[03:10:21] country. Even on his death bed, Selenco remained
[03:10:25] silent about who was behind establishing his cult and who had been
[03:10:28] funding it for decades.
[03:10:40] United States has fostered extremist
[03:10:43] anti-Russian prejudices and hatreds among the
[03:10:47] Ukrainian diaspora in at least Canada, the
[03:10:50] United States and countries in eastern Europe, probably
[03:10:54] everywhere in the world. It's possible that the CIA
[03:10:58] funded Runvira.
[03:14:44] Modern paganism and the fight against Russian orthodoxy emerged in
[03:14:48] Ukraine almost immediately after the Soviet Union's
[03:14:51] collapse. In
[03:14:54] just few years Ukraine became a world center for the
[03:14:58] spiritual chaos actively supported by the US and
[03:15:01] Europe.
[03:15:05] Today I must be
[03:15:08] pastor.
[03:15:16] I've spent years in conversations beyond
[03:15:19] borders, some were formal,
[03:15:23] some tense, some
[03:15:25] difficult, but all them
[03:15:29] mattered, they chartered India's
[03:15:33] path and how the world
[03:15:36] responded, foreign policy isn't theory,
[03:15:40] it is lived. in arguments, in
[03:15:44] decisions and in their consequences.
[03:15:47] It's not an interview, it's a
[03:15:50] conversation. Let's
[03:15:53] talk.
[03:16:04] This is confirmed by documents found at the
[03:16:06] premises.
[03:16:19] Церковь США, сюда приезжало очень много фур с
[03:16:23] иностранными номерами, очень много людей здесь
[03:16:25] собиралось, что-то выгружали, что-то получали,
[03:16:29] очень часто приезжали, да в неделю по два раза,
[03:16:33] где бы мы не находили какого рода документы, журналы, доказательство фотографии
[03:16:37] везде стоит США, они
[03:16:39] спонсировали всё это. именно
[03:16:42] финансовый, мы видим
[03:16:45] проект детского дома, который спонсировался кураторами из
[03:16:49] США, если путинские войска, если бандиты будут
[03:16:53] продолжать убивать людей на моей земле, я, наверное, позвоню в
[03:16:57] один день епископу, попрошу снять меня с меня пасторский сан
[03:17:01] позволить мне пойти
[03:17:02] и стать рядом с моими пацанами защищать мою
[03:17:05] землю,
[03:17:11] такие подразделения как...
[03:17:42] без проблем, но если меня
[03:17:46] выгонят из
[03:17:47] церкви,
[03:17:53] это будет самая.
[03:21:00] few months earlier he opened a US senate meeting with a
[03:21:03] prayer, oh lord of creation,
[03:21:06] acknowledge your lordship today, your sovereignty, love
[03:21:10] and power, us authorities
[03:21:14] reverence towards the man who built Ukraine's largest financial
[03:21:18] pyramid and was also implicated in mobsterism and sexual
[03:21:21] crimes is quite understandable at larger and his has helped
[03:21:25] pro-american candidate Victor Jushenka become President of
[03:21:29] Ukraine.
[03:21:36] During the 2004 protest, the embassy of God leader marshalled
[03:21:40] thousands of his church's followers to the streets to support
[03:21:44] Yushenka. These protests became known as the orange
[03:21:47] revolution.
[03:24:37] рунвира они со своим флагом стояли под
[03:24:41] главштабом, который тогда находился непосредственно на
[03:24:44] евромайдане в центре города Киева, также были
[03:24:48] представлены инсталляции в виде Дидуха, это такое соломенное
[03:24:51] сооружение, которое выступает своего рода оберегом, и которое ну
[03:24:55] собственно было установлено в центре
[03:24:58] Евромайдана.
[03:25:02] Oddly, almost all instigators Ukrainean protests
[03:25:06] director.
[03:26:37] the word of life Baptist Church in
[03:26:39] Kieve.
[03:26:51] The entire war in Ukraine, which I believe started
[03:26:54] 2014, not in 2022,
[03:26:58] was an effort to kill Russians and
[03:27:01] destabilize if they could the Russian
[03:27:03] government and overthrow Vladimir.
[03:27:08] so the CIA uses anyone and anything, if there's
[03:27:23] ever since Ukraine became an independent state, the Russian
[03:27:27] Orthodox church the Moscow Patriarch has been under
[03:27:31] continual pressure. In
[03:27:35] 2023, with the blessing of European and US
[03:27:38] human rights organizations,
[03:27:41] the pressure turned to outright religious
[03:27:45] war.
[03:27:52] In the last 12 months alone, there have been hundreds of attacks on
[03:27:56] Ukrainian orthodox priests, dozens
[03:27:59] of whom have been imprisoned. On live TV and
[03:28:03] without hesitation, Ukraine's nationalist ideologists call
[03:28:07] on their...
[03:28:11] Так само можна палити і оці от курятники, які вони
[03:28:14] називають
[03:28:15] церквами.
[03:28:50] sees churches fall into the hands the newly formed Ukrainian
[03:28:53] churches, arunvira obelisk, with nationalist runes
[03:28:57] inscribed lev Silenko, the sex founder is
[03:29:00] installed at the entrance to captured Kive Paciesca
[03:29:04] Lavra. The inscription says,
[03:29:07] "Silenko lid the sacred fire the Ukrainian spiritual
[03:29:11] revolution, fire that has already destroyed many,
[03:29:14] many lives and continues to
[03:29:17] rage".
[03:30:23] Russia's first parliamentary elections since the start the Ukraine conflict
[03:30:27] have wrapped up and the vote counting is underway. There's still
[03:30:31] a lot to see and discuss as the final figures won't be officially confirmed until next
[03:30:34] Friday, we're bringing you our special coverage as the world's
[03:30:38] geographically biggest country has its democratic
[03:30:41] say. With the first
[03:30:45] preliminary results coming in, the ruling United Russia party is firmly
[03:30:48] top with solid. majority, the runner-up is the communist
[03:30:52] party with almost 14%, and the Liberal Democratic
[03:30:56] Party is in third with close to 9%.