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[00:00:00] demolition of monuments, history textbooks of Romanians, not Moldovans,
[00:00:03] Romanians, yes, the ban on St. George ribbons, and this
[00:00:07] summer the authorities disgraced themselves by using a banner in mass
[00:00:10] events, a banner dedicated to the victims of Stalinism, on
[00:00:13] which Rusyn Jews were depicted, who were brought by the fascists
[00:00:17] to Auschwitz, these were photos from 1944, this
[00:00:20] direct falsification was absolutely clear to everyone,
[00:00:23] but they openly say that in principle, yes, these are victims
[00:00:27] of Stalinism, this is rewriting what is happening with... with the church, this is a completely
[00:00:31] separate story, these are all attempts to reformat their own population
[00:00:34] and move it closer to the European Union, which doesn't really
[00:00:38] need it, it's only needed as a rear zone for Ukraine, you
[00:00:41] mentioned the victims of Stalinism, I remembered the main victim
[00:00:45] of communism, Kaja Kallas, who comes from a family of absolute party
[00:00:48] functionaries, she didn't starve there, she always ate sour cream with sugar,
[00:00:52] Ruslan, how did you end up in Russia? Tell us this
[00:00:55] story. Suddenly, it dawned on me, what waters brought
[00:00:57] you here? The water of the Neman, the holy Neman
[00:01:00] of the Kaliningrad region, yes, I spent six months in prison for
[00:01:04] defending the rights of our Russians there and promoting
[00:01:07] Russian cinema, well, basically by duty and then by the call
[00:01:10] of my soul, well, listen, I spent time in prison, so you were, well, let's
[00:01:14] say this, let's articulate it, you were imprisoned
[00:01:17] for political reasons, incitement to national hatred is the article,
[00:01:21] well, Mikhail will add, it's
[00:01:23] all like in Ukraine, he called Bandera supporters Bandera supporters?
[00:01:27] как на Украине, назвал бандеровцев бандерцами?
[00:02:00] looked at all this, they thought it wasn't enough, let's
[00:02:03] annul the passport, all identification documents, and
[00:02:06] what does that mean? You can't do anything, neither get a job, nor go to a
[00:02:10] clinic, nor to a notary, nothing, deprivation of
[00:02:13] rights, something familiar, right? And they put me on the
[00:02:16] national security threat list, and that
[00:02:20] means I can't complain to anyone, even if I write, it wasn't there then,
[00:02:23] but in Brussels he says, well, he's an extremist, he's a terrorist, and we don't
[00:02:27] talk to them, complete defeat of you. They just annul
[00:02:31] you, did you escape from prison? No, I didn't escape from prison, I got out and realized
[00:02:34] it was time to run, for six months I developed an operation, I
[00:02:38] became a fisherman, went to the bank of the Neman, put on a
[00:02:41] wetsuit, swam to ours, my name is Ruslan Pangratov,
[00:02:44] I am asking for political asylum, first of all,
[00:02:47] first of all, today you are in a warm studio in a nice jacket,
[00:02:51] you can afford, afford to tell some
[00:02:55] stories, even more than us, congratulations on
[00:02:58] your catch, Mr. Fisherman. Today is September
[00:03:01] 21st, 21, 22, it will be exactly 3 years since my
[00:03:05] swim, let's applaud, let's
[00:03:08] applaud, but you only have a boat in the reeds, yes, I have a wetsuit, I keep
[00:03:12] remembering what you said, a boat, that's for
[00:03:15] Pavel. Well, I would like to say
[00:03:18] that this whole Baltic bacchanalia testifies to
[00:03:22] one thing, to the inferiority complex of all these three
[00:03:25] states at the state level, if they were full-fledged,
[00:03:28] real, sovereign... states, they would not behave like that, they would build
[00:03:32] their history on worthy heroes, not on scoundrels, excuse my expression live on
[00:03:36] air, who were servants of
[00:03:39] the fascist regime, of the Third Reich, but indeed they could
[00:03:42] demonstrate themselves as such full-fledged republics that could serve
[00:03:46] as a buffer between East and West, and earn good money
[00:03:49] in the business environment, and position themselves well, so to speak,
[00:03:52] within the political component, but they decided to go
[00:03:56] along this very bacchanalia, they already in the nineties, frankly speaking, did not give citizenship...
[00:05:44] they naively think that some America or even England will fight for them in
[00:05:48] case of anything, no one cares about them at all, European people, especially
[00:05:51] Westerners, excuse my rudeness, don't give a damn about the Baltic states,
[00:05:55] even about Poland itself and so on, so as a buffer - that's great, as
[00:05:59] a certain stick - that's great, but
[00:06:01] you know what the difference is, why there is
[00:06:05] sharpness of the moment here, unlike many other confrontations,
[00:06:09] for example, Argentina and Great Britain, yes, confrontation, confrontation?
[00:06:42] it was for communists that the first concentration camp Dachau was
[00:06:45] opened, applause to you,
[00:06:53] What strategy is the US implementing in Venezuela's oil sector after
[00:06:57] the capture and arrest of President Nicolas Maduro? Can
[00:07:00] Caracas leave OPEC under Washington's pressure, and how
[00:07:04] do Americans achieve expanded access for their companies
[00:07:07] to the gold and resources of the Bolivarian Republic? Olga
[00:07:10] Kuznetsova investigated.
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[00:11:35] Open air with you. Western media report that Venezuela is
[00:11:39] seriously considering the possibility of withdrawing from OPEC under
[00:11:42] pressure exclusively in the interests of the United States. At the same time, Chevron
[00:11:46] confirmed plans to expand operations in the country. This happened
[00:11:50] after US Energy Secretary Chris Reid visited Caracas last week.
[00:11:53] Olga Kuznetsova will continue the topic, we invite her to the chair,
[00:11:57] let's watch the material.
[00:12:00] The American oil and gas company Chevron recently announced
[00:12:04] that it had obtained rights to develop additional areas in the Orinoco
[00:12:07] Belt, the world's largest super-heavy
[00:12:11] oil field. Among other things, talks continue that
[00:12:14] the company's management plans to invest more than $7 billion
[00:12:18] over the next 5 years, with the goal of more than
[00:12:21] doubling current production volumes, bringing them to approximately
[00:12:25] 600,000 barrels per day. At the same time, Donald Trump
[00:12:28] promises meetings with Delcy Rodriguez, the acting
[00:12:31] president of Venezuela, is negotiating
[00:12:34] access for American companies to other Venezuelan
[00:12:37] minerals, plans to flood the US market
[00:12:41] with oil, hinting at Venezuela's withdrawal from OPEC.
[00:12:44] However, both in August and now, in mid-
[00:12:47] September, the American expert community is, to put it mildly,
[00:12:51] skeptical about what is happening. Firstly, lawyers referred.
[00:14:55] separate elements of this puzzle, now you listen to us, Venezuela
[00:14:58] has no opportunity to play an independent
[00:15:01] game in this configuration. Well, practically, as long as
[00:15:04] there is a strong military bloc represented by Diosdado Cabello,
[00:15:08] some local stories are still possible at the moment, because
[00:15:12] the US has not yet fully entered Venezuela, because for this
[00:15:16] they need to clear most of the country of any illegal
[00:15:20] or illegal formations, which to a greater extent are engaged in
[00:15:23] oil production there.
[00:17:37] in words, nationally belonging to the same European Union, Repsol,
[00:17:41] for example, in words it is Spanish, but in fact the controlling stake belongs to
[00:17:44] BlackRock, which now everything in Europe
[00:17:47] belongs, it seems, to BlackRock, even Mercedes, just dig a little and
[00:17:51] it's BlackRock, yes, Alexey, please, well, the United Arab Emirates withdrew,
[00:17:55] announced their withdrawal and nothing happened, the market didn't collapse,
[00:17:58] you know, I want to play the devil's advocate a bit now, first of all,
[00:18:02] I understand Chevron, and Donald Trump has
[00:18:06] some.
[00:18:37] otherwise it's again, today they changed it, tomorrow again, and
[00:18:40] the money is invested, all that, so I think that
[00:18:44] Chevron is just fooling Donald Trump, and I state this with
[00:18:48] full responsibility, well, I think American experts should not
[00:18:52] underestimate the activities of their administration in their backyard, they write:
[00:18:56] the authoritarian regime has not changed, it is not reliable, they did not aim to
[00:18:59] change the regime, having learned the lessons of Iraq, no debasification,
[00:19:03] it is enough to put people whose personal interests outweigh previous
[00:19:06] ideological...
[00:20:07] on the American administration, because in principle, OPEC, OPEC
[00:20:11] quotas did not limit Venezuela, their production is lower
[00:20:14] than these quotas, so Venezuela had no problems with OPEC at all,
[00:20:18] the Americans are interested in Venezuelan
[00:20:21] oil, as in the good old pre-OPEC days,
[00:20:24] falling into the sphere of influence of major American companies, this is
[00:20:27] the logic of Maga politics, no more than that. Olga, briefly, how do you
[00:20:31] think the situation might develop? At the moment, this
[00:20:34] situation reminds me very much of Mexico, where... about 20 years ago,
[00:20:38] the states entered there under the banner of the Free Trade Agreement,
[00:20:41] the USA, Canada, and Mexico. New armed
[00:20:45] groups were created, which in short periods of time, within 5-6 years, cleared
[00:20:49] huge territories. The simple local population either had their land bought out, or
[00:20:52] they were expelled as illegal immigrants, or forced to become illegal immigrants,
[00:20:56] they seized the country's largest oil and gas fields, which partly
[00:20:59] became the property of the Mexican state company again, and partly
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[00:21:12] the gates of tears, how the Houthis turned the Bab el-Mandeb
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[00:21:23] the power of the fleet and aviation from the West is practically powerless to do
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[00:25:51] too, today Farhad is somehow calmer than usual, yes, not
[00:25:54] a single Macron suffered during the entire broadcast, not a single
[00:25:57] Kyla, yes, I have a guess why, because
[00:26:01] it's heavy.
[00:26:33] did not affect international shipping, only Saudi
[00:26:36] ships. Farhad Ibragimov will continue the topic, Farhad, applause to
[00:26:39] you, we invite you to the center,
[00:26:41] let's watch.
[00:26:44] Yemeni Houthis showed that the absence of large ships can
[00:26:47] be compensated by a good geography, missiles and
[00:26:50] drones. A reason to remember this appeared in early
[00:26:53] September. The forces of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement advanced
[00:26:57] along the western coast of Yemen, captured the port of Mocha, and
[00:27:01] then the island of Mayun. It is located directly in
[00:27:04] the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and divides it into two passages.
[00:27:07] The name Bab el-Mandeb is usually translated from Arabic as the Gate
[00:27:11] of Tears. The strait connects the Gulf of Aden and the Indian
[00:27:15] Ocean with the Red Sea. Further, the route leads to the Suez
[00:27:18] Canal and the Mediterranean. For
[00:27:21] trade between Asia and Europe, this is one link. If
[00:27:24] the southern entrance to the Red Sea is unsafe, the possibility of passage through
[00:27:28] Suez loses its meaning. An alternative
[00:27:31] exists. This is the route around the Cape of Good Hope, but it
[00:27:35] adds thousands of nautical miles to the voyage. The vessel spends more
[00:27:38] fuel, freight and insurance costs increase, and this
[00:27:42] increase is ultimately paid by the buyer of the goods. Today,
[00:27:46] Tel Aviv's decision to recognize the independence of Somaliland at the end
[00:27:49] of last year is perceived quite differently:
[00:27:53] Israel became the first state to take
[00:27:56] a risky step. At the time, such a decision might have seemed
[00:27:59] primarily a diplomatic gesture. Now in it... a strategic
[00:28:02] calculation for the future is becoming
[00:28:05] clearer. The very possibility of using the territory of Somaliland
[00:28:09] for reconnaissance, logistics or technical support
[00:28:13] acquires new meaning against the backdrop of the Houthis' advance towards
[00:28:16] Bab el-Mandeb. Tel Aviv established relations in advance with
[00:28:19] a partner located on the other side of the Gulf of Aden.
[00:28:23] Today, this political step, if necessary, can receive
[00:28:27] practical continuation. The Houthis, in turn, do
[00:28:30] not necessarily have to bring the situation to.
[00:28:45] The US, Israel, and Iran warned that in case of anything, they would join
[00:28:49] this campaign and close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Now,
[00:28:53] why was this moment chosen? You see, Victoria, the thing is that the Iranians
[00:28:57] restrained their allies, I won't say proxies, because in fact
[00:29:00] proxies are people who are under...
[00:29:32] Iran has already squeezed all the juice out of the Strait of Hormuz, it needs to move to
[00:29:36] other geographical coordinates to continue bargaining with
[00:29:40] the Americans on the issue of its security. Therefore, in this case,
[00:29:43] the Houthis are now taking very serious strategic steps, in particular they
[00:29:47] are capturing islands that are, let's say, very
[00:29:50] significant from a security point of view for Saudi Arabia, and which somehow
[00:29:54] control the situation in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, that is, if
[00:29:57] earlier Saudi Arabia expected that it could still claim something
[00:30:01] in Bab el-Mandeb, but now the Houthis have made it clear to everyone in
[00:30:04] the region in general that this will not work for them, and
[00:30:08] in general it must be said that the Houthis' relations have long been planned by the Americans in 2020,
[00:30:12] they struck at them, but basically achieved nothing, they are small
[00:30:15] groups, these Houthis, that is, they
[00:30:19] are one, one, let's say,
[00:30:22] a fighter of the Ansar Allah group can defeat 10 to 12
[00:30:26] Saudi Arabian soldiers, because the combat experience of this movement is very,
[00:30:30] very serious, unlike Saudi Arabia. Well, here's the strategic task, we know that
[00:30:34] Saudi Arabia has this East-West pipeline,
[00:30:37] which they used, there were strikes on it, here
[00:30:40] the Saudis were prevented with Bab el-Mandeb, they have to go through
[00:30:43] the Suez Canal, logistics are somehow broken, is this task to
[00:30:47] prevent the emergence of alternative routes, so that Iran is essentially
[00:30:50] taken by the throat, otherwise it uses its lever with Hormuz.