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[00:00:00] The last option leads the question, who will he surpass first,
[00:00:03] Congress, the court, or his own creators? The question is still
[00:00:06] open. Emil Mirsaev, news.
[00:00:33] First, I want to congratulate everyone, especially my guests in
[00:00:37] the studio. It wasn't easy, it's always a big responsibility,
[00:00:41] election campaigns are always very serious, especially
[00:00:44] when the country is at war, the country
[00:00:48] is winning. 3 days of voting are over, vote counting
[00:00:51] is underway, voter turnout at the time of closing of polling stations was
[00:00:55] 56.66%,
[00:00:58] which is... very high, that is, it's more than last
[00:01:02] time. The campaign took place under serious external
[00:01:06] pressure, the Central Election Commission reported more than a thousand waves of DDoS
[00:01:09] attacks on the electoral infrastructure, over 100 on the system
[00:01:13] of remote electronic voting, they were
[00:01:16] repelled. At the same time, Russian regions were subjected to drone
[00:01:20] attacks. In the Bryansk border region alone, seven buildings
[00:01:23] where election commissions were located were damaged. The most
[00:01:27] difficult thing is that there were human casualties.
[00:03:00] Donbass, well, the DPR,
[00:03:03] LPR, you can imagine
[00:03:06] what these people are going through,
[00:03:09] when every day, just every
[00:03:13] day it flies, they show their
[00:03:16] attitude towards the authorities, towards
[00:03:20] you,
[00:03:22] because you are not just
[00:03:26] State Duma deputies, you are elected by the people.
[00:03:30] The people trust you, the people believe you,
[00:03:33] the people entrust you with the right
[00:03:36] to determine the laws by which we live. I don't believe
[00:03:40] that there is democracy in Europe, there isn't even a tradition
[00:03:43] of democracy. Who is elected directly there and
[00:03:47] how? What is the rating of trust? Who are those
[00:03:50] people who now have
[00:03:53] the audacity to recognize or not recognize our elections? We don't recognize
[00:03:57] theirs. The true...
[00:04:30] the number of voters in our country has increased by 6 million people. Why?
[00:04:34] New territories,
[00:04:36] citizens, and those who came and received
[00:04:40] passports. Therefore, when
[00:04:43] they tell us how much we hate Ukrainians, how we try
[00:04:47] to destroy them, it's a lie.
[00:04:50] More than anyone, what country did people from the territory
[00:04:54] of Ukraine, now occupied by the Nazi regime, come to?
[00:04:57] Russia.
[00:05:00] They feel best in Russia,
[00:05:03] they come, they vote, they actively participate in public political
[00:05:07] life. I want to congratulate
[00:05:10] all of you.
[00:05:13] many came to me for debates, thank you for
[00:05:16] trusting us,
[00:05:19] thank you for reaching out to people, talking about
[00:05:22] people.
[00:05:24] I hope that this convocation
[00:05:26] will continue the tradition,
[00:05:30] firstly, of unity in matters of supporting
[00:05:34] the front line army,
[00:05:35] and
[00:05:39] we will be able to make such breakthroughs.
[00:06:12] In the context of the voting that just
[00:06:16] finished, it is very
[00:06:18] important to me that we understood
[00:06:22] that the elections would take place under
[00:06:26] serious fire from
[00:06:29] the enemy. Why even hide it? Not
[00:06:32] only frontline regions, not only regions
[00:06:35] where the war is directly happening, but Moscow. What
[00:06:39] an attack was carried out,
[00:06:41] cyberattacks. You know, Vladimir Rudolfovich, what struck me
[00:06:45] was that they
[00:06:48] called members
[00:06:51] of election commissions and threatened them with criminal cases
[00:06:55] in Ukraine.
[00:06:59] Well, it's funny. The enemy took the
[00:07:02] goal of disrupting the institutional
[00:07:05] process very seriously, on the one
[00:07:08] hand. On the other hand, nothing
[00:07:14] was achieved. It's not working, it's not happening. Of course,
[00:07:18] tragedies occurred, people died,
[00:07:21] which is important to us,
[00:07:25] but if we look
[00:07:29] at the whole picture, then once again the
[00:07:32] enemy failed. What's
[00:07:35] more, the enemy achieved the opposite
[00:07:39] result: record turnout.
[00:07:42] Well, that's amazing. What does that mean? It doesn't
[00:07:45] matter who people voted for, what matters is that people
[00:07:49] absolutely clearly understand
[00:07:53] that this is
[00:07:55] not a right, not only a right, but in such
[00:07:59] difficult combat conditions, it is also probably
[00:08:01] a civic duty, because this is
[00:08:05] supporting one's homeland, it is supporting
[00:08:08] the president, the supreme commander-in-chief, for many this
[00:08:11] was the main thing.
[00:08:13] United Russia managed to achieve a serious
[00:08:17] result, this is actually systematic
[00:08:20] work, 80
[00:08:23] veterans of the special military operation,
[00:08:27] candidates for deputies of the State Duma, in fact, other
[00:08:31] parties also have their
[00:08:34] veterans, their, I mean, they are all
[00:08:38] ours, but I mean, who
[00:08:41] chooses... other political
[00:08:44] forces, but the State
[00:08:48] Duma will be seriously strengthened
[00:08:52] by front-line soldiers. I know many of them personally, many are my close
[00:08:54] friends, and I am confident in them, but
[00:08:58] you know what is important, it is important
[00:09:01] that they have lived their whole lives by
[00:09:03] the principle,
[00:09:06] almost all of those with whom I
[00:09:08] am friends,
[00:09:11] thanks for yesterday. And today we will ask you.
[00:09:15] And for me, in fact, as a citizen, this is very important, because
[00:09:18] it is clear that a
[00:09:21] professional is in the first place, it is clear
[00:09:25] that many guys, heroes
[00:09:28] of Russia, serious
[00:09:31] people, in our dangerous life, yes,
[00:09:35] distinguished, highly respected, they approached the process
[00:09:38] so responsibly, they
[00:09:41] trained. They began to delve into it, to delve
[00:09:44] into it very seriously, yes, without any sneering, without any
[00:09:48] "we'll manage", and for me this is actually a guarantee that
[00:09:51] the parliament will work responsibly,
[00:09:54] well with
[00:09:56] the principle
[00:09:59] of zero populism,
[00:10:03] well, we don't need a State Duma that
[00:10:07] promises and doesn't deliver, we need a State Duma
[00:10:10] that... The
[00:10:25] constitution, it is institutionally, in fact,
[00:10:28] embedded in government agencies,
[00:10:31] the president constantly reminds, so to speak, the whole country
[00:10:35] about it, and deputies must report
[00:10:39] to their constituents, report, is the key word,
[00:10:42] not to flirt,
[00:10:46] not
[00:10:47] to try
[00:10:50] to be very good to the voters, but to truly
[00:10:52] report. With such an attitude, it seems to me,
[00:10:56] the State Duma of the ninth convocation will begin
[00:10:58] its work, and this is, of course, a
[00:11:02] representative body of power, this
[00:11:05] is, of course, a legislative body of power. We have
[00:11:08] something to work on in terms of,
[00:11:11] first of all, in terms of threats, in terms of the fact that, well, we continue the toughest
[00:11:15] confrontation, and the enemy, despite the fact that
[00:11:19] he breaks his teeth, breaks his teeth, breaks his
[00:11:21] teeth, but continues. In this sense... yes,
[00:11:25] our enemy is due, I mean, of course, not the Kyiv regime, the Kyiv regime is
[00:11:29] hands, our great enemy,
[00:11:32] the collective West is consistent
[00:11:34] and stubborn, that is, very often something doesn't work out for them, but
[00:11:38] they shake it off, and say, what else can we come up with? Of course,
[00:11:42] they will come up with something. In this
[00:11:45] sense, the parliament will have to
[00:11:48] react very quickly to changes in the situation, first
[00:11:52] of all, with legislative
[00:11:57] initiatives, with legislative work, law-making work
[00:12:00] in general. And the parliament, of course, will have to become
[00:12:04] such a serious mechanism that will ensure the effective work of
[00:12:07] the government in the part that depends on the State
[00:12:11] Duma. You have colossal powers there to
[00:12:14] discuss government members for appointments,
[00:12:18] of course, of course, there will be serious work, no, but it is important that now we need to
[00:12:21] do things quickly, efficiently and effectively, and you know how to... perhaps drop
[00:12:25] some things that previously seemed
[00:12:28] important to someone there,
[00:12:31] and at the same time the task is very complex, on the one
[00:12:35] hand, we must
[00:12:37] win,
[00:12:39] and the whole focus is on the warring part of the country, on
[00:12:43] the warring army. On the other hand, we must develop, we must
[00:12:47] remember that we have children growing up, they are studying,
[00:12:51] and they should go to decent schools, get an education, and in general we... in the country
[00:13:55] this is visible, the results and the fact
[00:13:59] that
[00:14:01] the voter gave most of the votes
[00:14:05] to the ruling party, the president's
[00:14:07] party, also speaks of the consolidation
[00:14:11] of our people around the figure of the president, and that
[00:14:14] is good. And again, I remind you, the toughest hostilities
[00:14:18] are underway,
[00:14:20] the country
[00:14:22] trusts people who
[00:14:27] are now members
[00:14:31] of United Russia, or supporters of United Russia,
[00:14:34] the right to determine the vector of development for
[00:14:38] the next 5 years. What does this mean for future deputies,
[00:14:42] generally for the United Russia party? This is a huge
[00:14:46] responsibility, yes, which needs to be met
[00:14:50] very seriously, to make sure
[00:14:53] that...
[00:14:55] uh, you know, there shouldn't be a temptation to blame something on the war,
[00:14:59] there shouldn't be a temptation to blame it on overstressing
[00:15:03] strength. No, that won't work, we'll have to report in 5
[00:15:06] years, we'll have to report on the people's program that was adopted, and on the work in general,
[00:15:10] so the end of the elections is
[00:15:14] just the beginning, now, further, further
[00:15:17] we will have to seriously consider the numbers, which are columns, they will
[00:15:21] change, when additional information comes in, we were told that the final
[00:15:25] count would not be until the 25th,
[00:15:27] so there may still
[00:15:30] be certain changes, but I think it is fundamentally
[00:15:34] clear that the Communist Party is in second
[00:16:27] the Communist
[00:16:28] Party.
[00:18:54] Please, thank you, Vladimir.
[00:18:56] Indeed, these elections took place in the conditions of a war that the West
[00:19:00] declared on our country. These elections have
[00:19:03] a special approach to voting.
[00:19:07] Voters, we had presidential elections, and there
[00:19:10] people really chose between candidates from political
[00:19:14] parties. Our party was represented by Nikolai Mikhailovich Khritonov, we took
[00:19:18] second place, but they voted for the supreme commander-in-chief of a warring
[00:19:21] country, and it was absolutely obvious, even before the start of the election
[00:19:25] campaign, it was clear that the party
[00:19:28] favored by the president, which the president created,
[00:19:32] would obviously be largely
[00:19:35] supported by the people as the president's party. And
[00:19:38] I don't want to offend my colleagues from United Russia, but even
[00:19:42] leaders in the regions told me, and
[00:19:45] many business people, they say: "Maybe we wouldn't vote
[00:19:49] for United Russia, there are questions, but we must
[00:19:53] support the president of the Russian Federation in conditions when
[00:19:56] the West declared war."
[00:20:00] The commander-in-chief, absolutely obviously, because
[00:20:03] it is absolutely correctly said, the people
[00:20:05] will ask, but how... as a rule, the people do not ask in
[00:20:09] wartime, but the Russian people unite to achieve victory.
[00:20:13] No wonder all political forces in the State Duma voted for
[00:20:16] supporting our guys, for supporting our
[00:20:19] foreign economic foreign policy
[00:20:22] initiatives, for supporting the families of fallen and wounded guys, and
[00:20:25] this will continue in the State Duma, obviously. But you,
[00:20:29] as I understand it, already have many candidates, guys,
[00:20:33] participants in regional legislative assemblies, somewhere in
[00:20:36] single-mandate electoral districts in
[00:20:40] the regions, this is very important. So this agenda will be present, but indeed
[00:20:44] each party, going to these elections, should
[00:20:47] have presented a program and a team. I believe that
[00:20:50] the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, headed by Gennady Andreyevich
[00:20:53] Zyuganov, managed to present the country with a program
[00:20:56] for victory. I want to say again, the elections are over, but I would like to
[00:21:00] say that we will work with this program in the State Duma, and for this
[00:21:03] program, even now during the election campaign, we submitted
[00:21:06] draft laws that are in the State Duma,
[00:21:09] we hope that the new convocation will consider them. This includes support for
[00:21:13] industry, and support for rural areas, and
[00:21:16] issues of medicine, healthcare,
[00:22:20] what was the scale in the Soviet Union, was it progressive
[00:22:24] or not? No, no, in the Soviet Union it was most likely a flat
[00:22:27] system, but there was a completely different approach from
[00:22:30] the sum point of view, and what were the utility
[00:22:33] tariffs, pennies in fact, yes, because
[00:22:36] the state bore the entire system itself. Now they have given it to
[00:22:40] private owners, and the private owner fills his pockets and does not invest anything. I'm just getting
[00:22:44] to the point that there are different systems, that is,
[00:22:48] you can, of course, follow the path... belong to the state,
[00:22:52] business is actively developing,
[00:23:03] supports business, yes, but key industries,
[00:23:07] in the system, if the state does not return, a collapse will occur,
[00:23:11] because the wear and tear of utility networks is 60-70%,
[00:23:14] power grids and so on, but where to get money from the population, the population can
[00:23:18] no longer endure it, so.
[00:26:01] they ended up abroad because they got a little scared, but they weren't deprived of voting rights, they were given the opportunity to come and vote, which is very important. That is, we show that if you are not
[00:26:05] enemies of the country who fell under criminal charges, then
[00:26:09] please, come and vote. That is, we
[00:26:11] organize this, we give them the opportunity, their votes
[00:26:15] are counted. Of course, you must vote, this is the
[00:26:18] manifestation, all those who came to vote
[00:26:21] are people who made a choice for the future development
[00:26:25] of the country. For example, I wanted today, taking advantage of the opportunity, your
[00:26:28] broadcast, many of our activists watched closely for...
[00:27:32] in Khabarovsk University polling station,
[00:27:35] students, the CPRF even outstripped United Russia twice. I
[00:27:38] traveled a lot around the regions, to Chelyabinsk, I arrive, a full hall,
[00:27:42] a third of the hall, young guys and they ask, what was it like in Soviet times, and
[00:27:45] why is there no free housing now, and why is medicine
[00:27:49] so expensive, why are there problems with entering universities, even
[00:27:52] on a paid basis with the Unified State Exam and so on, a huge number of
[00:27:55] questions. What year were you born? Seventy-seventh, so you were not an Octobrist,
[00:27:59] you were an Octobrist, a pioneer, a chairman.
[00:29:32] you cleanse yourselves under Stalin, to swim further into
[00:29:35] the revolution, in the classics, it was said under Lenin,
[00:29:38] but we, well, in essence,
[00:29:42] because in the Great War our people won, when
[00:29:45] the Supreme Commander-in-Chief was
[00:29:47] Generalissimo Stalin, right? Now, just
[00:29:51] look with Stalin's eyes at many of
[00:29:54] your ask the question, who among them would have survived
[00:29:58] Stalin's time with what they say, how they say it during
[00:30:01] the war? On some initiatives, which, well, just be
[00:30:05] consistent. I'll tell you, I'll tell you honestly, I have greatly changed my
[00:30:08] attitude towards Kasyanovitch, when the war began, I started to understand him
[00:30:12] very well, Vladimir. Oh, how I started to understand Stalin. I
[00:30:16] often recall my first visit to your
[00:30:19] studio in 2011, remember
[00:30:22] then Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov, there was a whole
[00:30:25] story before those debates, I remember how when I
[00:30:28] defended Stalin, our opponent...
[00:31:02] Today we are talking about voting. Today I
[00:31:05] voted in my hometown, the Hero City of Tula, and I am proud that
[00:31:09] I grew up and took my first political steps there. In my pocket
[00:31:12] is still a Tula Tokarev, excuse me. Based
[00:33:02] on the need for victory, and at the same time not violating
[00:33:05] people's rights, and at
[00:33:06] the same time
[00:33:11] not falling into the usual tragic rut.
[00:34:15] The West is waging war in Ukraine. We are not fighting
[00:34:18] Ukraine. Indeed, we are fighting
[00:34:21] NATO, and all its vassal
[00:34:25] states, which they broke and forced to pump up
[00:34:28] Ukraine. Already, according to
[00:34:31] statistics,
[00:34:33] tens of times more aid has been provided than even during Lend-Lease. Of course, most of it has been stolen by the Ukrainian
[00:34:37] narco-regime, but nevertheless, we have not yet realized how serious
[00:34:41] the threat was to our
[00:34:45] future. Therefore, what happened in
[00:34:49] these elections is the answer of the Russian
[00:34:52] people. Evgeny rightly said that
[00:34:55] before us, the deputies of the ninth convocation, lies a huge
[00:34:59] responsibility. In these difficult times, together with
[00:35:03] colleagues from different parties, despite different convictions, we can criticize
[00:35:06] the communists for a long time for taking Navalnists, they
[00:35:10] will figure it out, we can also talk about...
[00:35:13] and we criticize the party in power where we deem it
[00:35:17] necessary, but we are a
[00:35:20] party of constructive opposition. For us, the most
[00:35:24] important thing, first of all, is our victory, second -
[00:35:27] is that Russia develops.
[00:35:30] We are always ready to put forward our initiatives and
[00:35:33] accept and support those initiatives
[00:35:36] that meet one main criterion:
[00:35:40] the criterion is that Russia
[00:35:43] truly...
[00:36:27] that the most important wealth of our country is our Russian
[00:36:30] people, a multinational Russian people in
[00:36:34] spirit, not by blood, and we must do everything so that people
[00:36:38] living on our beautiful
[00:36:40] land understand that they truly live not only in the largest
[00:36:44] country,
[00:36:46] and are truly proud of it, but so that
[00:36:50] their standard of living corresponds to our
[00:36:53] size, our capabilities.
[00:36:55] Unfortunately, we see that... as a
[00:36:58] result of distortions and
[00:37:02] experiments, we overcooled our
[00:37:05] economy. Now we need to
[00:37:07] solve the problem so that we can restart it, but
[00:37:11] we will not be able to restart it until
[00:37:14] we also solve the problem of raising the standard of living
[00:37:18] of the population. We are not talking about having to give away
[00:37:22] or take something from someone and divide it, no, let's create
[00:37:25] conditions so that our private businesses and
[00:37:29] individual entrepreneurs can not just
[00:37:31] breathe a sigh of relief, but with their energy, their
[00:37:35] creativity, create that additional
[00:37:38] value that would allow the entire country to
[00:37:42] rise up. But for now, it's terribly
[00:37:45] unprofitable to do business in our country. We say that
[00:37:49] with such interest rates, to develop
[00:37:51] production, I don't know what kind of
[00:37:55] business would allow
[00:37:57] such an interest rate as is currently required for entrepreneurs to take out a bank
[00:38:01] loan and do something. How can we compete with
[00:38:05] Chinese comrades? How can we
[00:38:08] compete with Indians, if our
[00:38:11] entrepreneur is already in unequal
[00:38:15] positions? And we have huge opportunities, it's not just a resource
[00:38:18] base. Look, we have now long
[00:38:22] become a country that has long
[00:38:24] gotten off the oil needle. Yes, our
[00:38:28] oil revenues are no more than
[00:38:29] 20-22%.
[00:38:32] This is a colossal breakthrough. Look how much we have done to ensure not
[00:38:36] only our own food security, but
[00:38:39] have also become the largest suppliers of food
[00:38:42] to the world. And we are now the largest supplier
[00:38:46] of security, especially to African countries.
[00:38:50] Look
[00:38:52] at what has been done
[00:38:55] in our megacities, in
[00:38:57] Moscow, in the capitals of other cities. They have changed
[00:39:01] so much that when I returned in 2022, it was a shock to me, yes,
[00:39:05] I really thought that I had ended up in the country of the future,
[00:39:09] which I could not even dream of. Our task now as a party,
[00:39:12] when we say that Russia is not only
[00:39:15] Moscow, this standard, is to make sure that it is
[00:39:18] available everywhere, in small towns. What does it
[00:39:22] require? A lot, but if we, together with
[00:39:25] colleagues from all political
[00:39:28] parties, unite and first
[00:39:32] of all ensure that our armed forces have everything
[00:39:36] for victory, so that our veterans,
[00:39:38] who have returned
[00:39:41] from the battlefields, receive everything they
[00:39:44] need without delay, without bureaucracy, so that all
[00:39:48] our soldiers who need rehabilitation also
[00:39:52] receive everything, so that the families of the fallen, especially our
[00:39:55] heroes, never stand in lines and do not
[00:39:58] encounter the callousness of officials, yes,
[00:40:02] then, probably, we will do it all
[00:40:05] together. Another
[00:40:09] remark, I think that democracy has already,
[00:40:12] probably, especially with us, turned into some kind of swear word,
[00:40:16] and we should, in general,
[00:40:19] call a spade a spade, and indeed say that we do not have
[00:40:22] democracy, we have our Russian
[00:40:25] people's power. In which the level
[00:40:29] of political culture, I follow
[00:40:32] in detail what is happening in the USA, in Europe,
[00:40:36] almost daily. I can say that even, let's
[00:40:40] say, the terminology,
[00:40:43] and how the debates are going, well, everything is
[00:40:46] serious with us, civilized,
[00:40:49] no one calls anyone incomprehensible
[00:40:53] words, yes, they don't say who has what kind of hands, ears, noses,
[00:40:57] they refer to some other vulgarities, you see,
[00:41:00] all Western democracy has not only turned into vulgarity, it has turned into a circus.