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00:00:00The last option leads the question, who will he surpass first,
00:00:03Congress, the court, or his own creators? The question is still
00:00:06open. Emil Mirsaev, news.
00:00:33First, I want to congratulate everyone, especially my guests in
00:00:37the studio. It wasn't easy, it's always a big responsibility,
00:00:41election campaigns are always very serious, especially
00:00:44when the country is at war, the country
00:00:48is winning. 3 days of voting are over, vote counting
00:00:51is underway, voter turnout at the time of closing of polling stations was
00:00:5556.66%,
00:00:58which is... very high, that is, it's more than last
00:01:02time. The campaign took place under serious external
00:01:06pressure, the Central Election Commission reported more than a thousand waves of DDoS
00:01:09attacks on the electoral infrastructure, over 100 on the system
00:01:13of remote electronic voting, they were
00:01:16repelled. At the same time, Russian regions were subjected to drone
00:01:20attacks. In the Bryansk border region alone, seven buildings
00:01:23where election commissions were located were damaged. The most
00:01:27difficult thing is that there were human casualties.
00:03:00Donbass, well, the DPR,
00:03:03LPR, you can imagine
00:03:06what these people are going through,
00:03:09when every day, just every
00:03:13day it flies, they show their
00:03:16attitude towards the authorities, towards
00:03:20you,
00:03:22because you are not just
00:03:26State Duma deputies, you are elected by the people.
00:03:30The people trust you, the people believe you,
00:03:33the people entrust you with the right
00:03:36to determine the laws by which we live. I don't believe
00:03:40that there is democracy in Europe, there isn't even a tradition
00:03:43of democracy. Who is elected directly there and
00:03:47how? What is the rating of trust? Who are those
00:03:50people who now have
00:03:53the audacity to recognize or not recognize our elections? We don't recognize
00:03:57theirs. The true...
00:04:30the number of voters in our country has increased by 6 million people. Why?
00:04:34New territories,
00:04:36citizens, and those who came and received
00:04:40passports. Therefore, when
00:04:43they tell us how much we hate Ukrainians, how we try
00:04:47to destroy them, it's a lie.
00:04:50More than anyone, what country did people from the territory
00:04:54of Ukraine, now occupied by the Nazi regime, come to?
00:04:57Russia.
00:05:00They feel best in Russia,
00:05:03they come, they vote, they actively participate in public political
00:05:07life. I want to congratulate
00:05:10all of you.
00:05:13many came to me for debates, thank you for
00:05:16trusting us,
00:05:19thank you for reaching out to people, talking about
00:05:22people.
00:05:24I hope that this convocation
00:05:26will continue the tradition,
00:05:30firstly, of unity in matters of supporting
00:05:34the front line army,
00:05:35and
00:05:39we will be able to make such breakthroughs.
00:06:12In the context of the voting that just
00:06:16finished, it is very
00:06:18important to me that we understood
00:06:22that the elections would take place under
00:06:26serious fire from
00:06:29the enemy. Why even hide it? Not
00:06:32only frontline regions, not only regions
00:06:35where the war is directly happening, but Moscow. What
00:06:39an attack was carried out,
00:06:41cyberattacks. You know, Vladimir Rudolfovich, what struck me
00:06:45was that they
00:06:48called members
00:06:51of election commissions and threatened them with criminal cases
00:06:55in Ukraine.
00:06:59Well, it's funny. The enemy took the
00:07:02goal of disrupting the institutional
00:07:05process very seriously, on the one
00:07:08hand. On the other hand, nothing
00:07:14was achieved. It's not working, it's not happening. Of course,
00:07:18tragedies occurred, people died,
00:07:21which is important to us,
00:07:25but if we look
00:07:29at the whole picture, then once again the
00:07:32enemy failed. What's
00:07:35more, the enemy achieved the opposite
00:07:39result: record turnout.
00:07:42Well, that's amazing. What does that mean? It doesn't
00:07:45matter who people voted for, what matters is that people
00:07:49absolutely clearly understand
00:07:53that this is
00:07:55not a right, not only a right, but in such
00:07:59difficult combat conditions, it is also probably
00:08:01a civic duty, because this is
00:08:05supporting one's homeland, it is supporting
00:08:08the president, the supreme commander-in-chief, for many this
00:08:11was the main thing.
00:08:13United Russia managed to achieve a serious
00:08:17result, this is actually systematic
00:08:20work, 80
00:08:23veterans of the special military operation,
00:08:27candidates for deputies of the State Duma, in fact, other
00:08:31parties also have their
00:08:34veterans, their, I mean, they are all
00:08:38ours, but I mean, who
00:08:41chooses... other political
00:08:44forces, but the State
00:08:48Duma will be seriously strengthened
00:08:52by front-line soldiers. I know many of them personally, many are my close
00:08:54friends, and I am confident in them, but
00:08:58you know what is important, it is important
00:09:01that they have lived their whole lives by
00:09:03the principle,
00:09:06almost all of those with whom I
00:09:08am friends,
00:09:11thanks for yesterday. And today we will ask you.
00:09:15And for me, in fact, as a citizen, this is very important, because
00:09:18it is clear that a
00:09:21professional is in the first place, it is clear
00:09:25that many guys, heroes
00:09:28of Russia, serious
00:09:31people, in our dangerous life, yes,
00:09:35distinguished, highly respected, they approached the process
00:09:38so responsibly, they
00:09:41trained. They began to delve into it, to delve
00:09:44into it very seriously, yes, without any sneering, without any
00:09:48"we'll manage", and for me this is actually a guarantee that
00:09:51the parliament will work responsibly,
00:09:54well with
00:09:56the principle
00:09:59of zero populism,
00:10:03well, we don't need a State Duma that
00:10:07promises and doesn't deliver, we need a State Duma
00:10:10that... The
00:10:25constitution, it is institutionally, in fact,
00:10:28embedded in government agencies,
00:10:31the president constantly reminds, so to speak, the whole country
00:10:35about it, and deputies must report
00:10:39to their constituents, report, is the key word,
00:10:42not to flirt,
00:10:46not
00:10:47to try
00:10:50to be very good to the voters, but to truly
00:10:52report. With such an attitude, it seems to me,
00:10:56the State Duma of the ninth convocation will begin
00:10:58its work, and this is, of course, a
00:11:02representative body of power, this
00:11:05is, of course, a legislative body of power. We have
00:11:08something to work on in terms of,
00:11:11first of all, in terms of threats, in terms of the fact that, well, we continue the toughest
00:11:15confrontation, and the enemy, despite the fact that
00:11:19he breaks his teeth, breaks his teeth, breaks his
00:11:21teeth, but continues. In this sense... yes,
00:11:25our enemy is due, I mean, of course, not the Kyiv regime, the Kyiv regime is
00:11:29hands, our great enemy,
00:11:32the collective West is consistent
00:11:34and stubborn, that is, very often something doesn't work out for them, but
00:11:38they shake it off, and say, what else can we come up with? Of course,
00:11:42they will come up with something. In this
00:11:45sense, the parliament will have to
00:11:48react very quickly to changes in the situation, first
00:11:52of all, with legislative
00:11:57initiatives, with legislative work, law-making work
00:12:00in general. And the parliament, of course, will have to become
00:12:04such a serious mechanism that will ensure the effective work of
00:12:07the government in the part that depends on the State
00:12:11Duma. You have colossal powers there to
00:12:14discuss government members for appointments,
00:12:18of course, of course, there will be serious work, no, but it is important that now we need to
00:12:21do things quickly, efficiently and effectively, and you know how to... perhaps drop
00:12:25some things that previously seemed
00:12:28important to someone there,
00:12:31and at the same time the task is very complex, on the one
00:12:35hand, we must
00:12:37win,
00:12:39and the whole focus is on the warring part of the country, on
00:12:43the warring army. On the other hand, we must develop, we must
00:12:47remember that we have children growing up, they are studying,
00:12:51and they should go to decent schools, get an education, and in general we... in the country
00:13:55this is visible, the results and the fact
00:13:59that
00:14:01the voter gave most of the votes
00:14:05to the ruling party, the president's
00:14:07party, also speaks of the consolidation
00:14:11of our people around the figure of the president, and that
00:14:14is good. And again, I remind you, the toughest hostilities
00:14:18are underway,
00:14:20the country
00:14:22trusts people who
00:14:27are now members
00:14:31of United Russia, or supporters of United Russia,
00:14:34the right to determine the vector of development for
00:14:38the next 5 years. What does this mean for future deputies,
00:14:42generally for the United Russia party? This is a huge
00:14:46responsibility, yes, which needs to be met
00:14:50very seriously, to make sure
00:14:53that...
00:14:55uh, you know, there shouldn't be a temptation to blame something on the war,
00:14:59there shouldn't be a temptation to blame it on overstressing
00:15:03strength. No, that won't work, we'll have to report in 5
00:15:06years, we'll have to report on the people's program that was adopted, and on the work in general,
00:15:10so the end of the elections is
00:15:14just the beginning, now, further, further
00:15:17we will have to seriously consider the numbers, which are columns, they will
00:15:21change, when additional information comes in, we were told that the final
00:15:25count would not be until the 25th,
00:15:27so there may still
00:15:30be certain changes, but I think it is fundamentally
00:15:34clear that the Communist Party is in second
00:16:27the Communist
00:16:28Party.
00:18:54Please, thank you, Vladimir.
00:18:56Indeed, these elections took place in the conditions of a war that the West
00:19:00declared on our country. These elections have
00:19:03a special approach to voting.
00:19:07Voters, we had presidential elections, and there
00:19:10people really chose between candidates from political
00:19:14parties. Our party was represented by Nikolai Mikhailovich Khritonov, we took
00:19:18second place, but they voted for the supreme commander-in-chief of a warring
00:19:21country, and it was absolutely obvious, even before the start of the election
00:19:25campaign, it was clear that the party
00:19:28favored by the president, which the president created,
00:19:32would obviously be largely
00:19:35supported by the people as the president's party. And
00:19:38I don't want to offend my colleagues from United Russia, but even
00:19:42leaders in the regions told me, and
00:19:45many business people, they say: "Maybe we wouldn't vote
00:19:49for United Russia, there are questions, but we must
00:19:53support the president of the Russian Federation in conditions when
00:19:56the West declared war."
00:20:00The commander-in-chief, absolutely obviously, because
00:20:03it is absolutely correctly said, the people
00:20:05will ask, but how... as a rule, the people do not ask in
00:20:09wartime, but the Russian people unite to achieve victory.
00:20:13No wonder all political forces in the State Duma voted for
00:20:16supporting our guys, for supporting our
00:20:19foreign economic foreign policy
00:20:22initiatives, for supporting the families of fallen and wounded guys, and
00:20:25this will continue in the State Duma, obviously. But you,
00:20:29as I understand it, already have many candidates, guys,
00:20:33participants in regional legislative assemblies, somewhere in
00:20:36single-mandate electoral districts in
00:20:40the regions, this is very important. So this agenda will be present, but indeed
00:20:44each party, going to these elections, should
00:20:47have presented a program and a team. I believe that
00:20:50the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, headed by Gennady Andreyevich
00:20:53Zyuganov, managed to present the country with a program
00:20:56for victory. I want to say again, the elections are over, but I would like to
00:21:00say that we will work with this program in the State Duma, and for this
00:21:03program, even now during the election campaign, we submitted
00:21:06draft laws that are in the State Duma,
00:21:09we hope that the new convocation will consider them. This includes support for
00:21:13industry, and support for rural areas, and
00:21:16issues of medicine, healthcare,
00:22:20what was the scale in the Soviet Union, was it progressive
00:22:24or not? No, no, in the Soviet Union it was most likely a flat
00:22:27system, but there was a completely different approach from
00:22:30the sum point of view, and what were the utility
00:22:33tariffs, pennies in fact, yes, because
00:22:36the state bore the entire system itself. Now they have given it to
00:22:40private owners, and the private owner fills his pockets and does not invest anything. I'm just getting
00:22:44to the point that there are different systems, that is,
00:22:48you can, of course, follow the path... belong to the state,
00:22:52business is actively developing,
00:23:03supports business, yes, but key industries,
00:23:07in the system, if the state does not return, a collapse will occur,
00:23:11because the wear and tear of utility networks is 60-70%,
00:23:14power grids and so on, but where to get money from the population, the population can
00:23:18no longer endure it, so.
00:26:01they 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
00:26:05enemies of the country who fell under criminal charges, then
00:26:09please, come and vote. That is, we
00:26:11organize this, we give them the opportunity, their votes
00:26:15are counted. Of course, you must vote, this is the
00:26:18manifestation, all those who came to vote
00:26:21are people who made a choice for the future development
00:26:25of the country. For example, I wanted today, taking advantage of the opportunity, your
00:26:28broadcast, many of our activists watched closely for...
00:27:32in Khabarovsk University polling station,
00:27:35students, the CPRF even outstripped United Russia twice. I
00:27:38traveled a lot around the regions, to Chelyabinsk, I arrive, a full hall,
00:27:42a third of the hall, young guys and they ask, what was it like in Soviet times, and
00:27:45why is there no free housing now, and why is medicine
00:27:49so expensive, why are there problems with entering universities, even
00:27:52on a paid basis with the Unified State Exam and so on, a huge number of
00:27:55questions. What year were you born? Seventy-seventh, so you were not an Octobrist,
00:27:59you were an Octobrist, a pioneer, a chairman.
00:29:32you cleanse yourselves under Stalin, to swim further into
00:29:35the revolution, in the classics, it was said under Lenin,
00:29:38but we, well, in essence,
00:29:42because in the Great War our people won, when
00:29:45the Supreme Commander-in-Chief was
00:29:47Generalissimo Stalin, right? Now, just
00:29:51look with Stalin's eyes at many of
00:29:54your ask the question, who among them would have survived
00:29:58Stalin's time with what they say, how they say it during
00:30:01the war? On some initiatives, which, well, just be
00:30:05consistent. I'll tell you, I'll tell you honestly, I have greatly changed my
00:30:08attitude towards Kasyanovitch, when the war began, I started to understand him
00:30:12very well, Vladimir. Oh, how I started to understand Stalin. I
00:30:16often recall my first visit to your
00:30:19studio in 2011, remember
00:30:22then Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov, there was a whole
00:30:25story before those debates, I remember how when I
00:30:28defended Stalin, our opponent...
00:31:02Today we are talking about voting. Today I
00:31:05voted in my hometown, the Hero City of Tula, and I am proud that
00:31:09I grew up and took my first political steps there. In my pocket
00:31:12is still a Tula Tokarev, excuse me. Based
00:33:02on the need for victory, and at the same time not violating
00:33:05people's rights, and at
00:33:06the same time
00:33:11not falling into the usual tragic rut.
00:34:15The West is waging war in Ukraine. We are not fighting
00:34:18Ukraine. Indeed, we are fighting
00:34:21NATO, and all its vassal
00:34:25states, which they broke and forced to pump up
00:34:28Ukraine. Already, according to
00:34:31statistics,
00:34:33tens of times more aid has been provided than even during Lend-Lease. Of course, most of it has been stolen by the Ukrainian
00:34:37narco-regime, but nevertheless, we have not yet realized how serious
00:34:41the threat was to our
00:34:45future. Therefore, what happened in
00:34:49these elections is the answer of the Russian
00:34:52people. Evgeny rightly said that
00:34:55before us, the deputies of the ninth convocation, lies a huge
00:34:59responsibility. In these difficult times, together with
00:35:03colleagues from different parties, despite different convictions, we can criticize
00:35:06the communists for a long time for taking Navalnists, they
00:35:10will figure it out, we can also talk about...
00:35:13and we criticize the party in power where we deem it
00:35:17necessary, but we are a
00:35:20party of constructive opposition. For us, the most
00:35:24important thing, first of all, is our victory, second -
00:35:27is that Russia develops.
00:35:30We are always ready to put forward our initiatives and
00:35:33accept and support those initiatives
00:35:36that meet one main criterion:
00:35:40the criterion is that Russia
00:35:43truly...
00:36:27that the most important wealth of our country is our Russian
00:36:30people, a multinational Russian people in
00:36:34spirit, not by blood, and we must do everything so that people
00:36:38living on our beautiful
00:36:40land understand that they truly live not only in the largest
00:36:44country,
00:36:46and are truly proud of it, but so that
00:36:50their standard of living corresponds to our
00:36:53size, our capabilities.
00:36:55Unfortunately, we see that... as a
00:36:58result of distortions and
00:37:02experiments, we overcooled our
00:37:05economy. Now we need to
00:37:07solve the problem so that we can restart it, but
00:37:11we will not be able to restart it until
00:37:14we also solve the problem of raising the standard of living
00:37:18of the population. We are not talking about having to give away
00:37:22or take something from someone and divide it, no, let's create
00:37:25conditions so that our private businesses and
00:37:29individual entrepreneurs can not just
00:37:31breathe a sigh of relief, but with their energy, their
00:37:35creativity, create that additional
00:37:38value that would allow the entire country to
00:37:42rise up. But for now, it's terribly
00:37:45unprofitable to do business in our country. We say that
00:37:49with such interest rates, to develop
00:37:51production, I don't know what kind of
00:37:55business would allow
00:37:57such an interest rate as is currently required for entrepreneurs to take out a bank
00:38:01loan and do something. How can we compete with
00:38:05Chinese comrades? How can we
00:38:08compete with Indians, if our
00:38:11entrepreneur is already in unequal
00:38:15positions? And we have huge opportunities, it's not just a resource
00:38:18base. Look, we have now long
00:38:22become a country that has long
00:38:24gotten off the oil needle. Yes, our
00:38:28oil revenues are no more than
00:38:2920-22%.
00:38:32This is a colossal breakthrough. Look how much we have done to ensure not
00:38:36only our own food security, but
00:38:39have also become the largest suppliers of food
00:38:42to the world. And we are now the largest supplier
00:38:46of security, especially to African countries.
00:38:50Look
00:38:52at what has been done
00:38:55in our megacities, in
00:38:57Moscow, in the capitals of other cities. They have changed
00:39:01so much that when I returned in 2022, it was a shock to me, yes,
00:39:05I really thought that I had ended up in the country of the future,
00:39:09which I could not even dream of. Our task now as a party,
00:39:12when we say that Russia is not only
00:39:15Moscow, this standard, is to make sure that it is
00:39:18available everywhere, in small towns. What does it
00:39:22require? A lot, but if we, together with
00:39:25colleagues from all political
00:39:28parties, unite and first
00:39:32of all ensure that our armed forces have everything
00:39:36for victory, so that our veterans,
00:39:38who have returned
00:39:41from the battlefields, receive everything they
00:39:44need without delay, without bureaucracy, so that all
00:39:48our soldiers who need rehabilitation also
00:39:52receive everything, so that the families of the fallen, especially our
00:39:55heroes, never stand in lines and do not
00:39:58encounter the callousness of officials, yes,
00:40:02then, probably, we will do it all
00:40:05together. Another
00:40:09remark, I think that democracy has already,
00:40:12probably, especially with us, turned into some kind of swear word,
00:40:16and we should, in general,
00:40:19call a spade a spade, and indeed say that we do not have
00:40:22democracy, we have our Russian
00:40:25people's power. In which the level
00:40:29of political culture, I follow
00:40:32in detail what is happening in the USA, in Europe,
00:40:36almost daily. I can say that even, let's
00:40:40say, the terminology,
00:40:43and how the debates are going, well, everything is
00:40:46serious with us, civilized,
00:40:49no one calls anyone incomprehensible
00:40:53words, yes, they don't say who has what kind of hands, ears, noses,
00:40:57they refer to some other vulgarities, you see,
00:41:00all Western democracy has not only turned into vulgarity, it has turned into a circus.