Their latest statements of their leaders only confirms this. Translated on-screen subtitles for videos. Starting from this year, we will begin a big project for modernization of our utilities and we are investing about 4.3 billion rubles into this. In certain countries, the ruling elites voluntarily agree to do this, voluntarily agree to become vassals; others are bribed or intimidated. In the third and fourth quarter, we saw a growth. WATCH: Putins speech revealed no signs that he is planning to escalate the war in Ukraine, according to UCLs Aglaya Snetkov. These figures are provided by them. We need to provide guarantees for employees and we are talking about the social benefits and also salaries. After the military coup in 2014, we decided to conduct a special military operation. People are supporting their military and they cannot be just standing aside. Guarantees of security and stability of the country. A few words about whats going on around us: Dear colleagues, Id like to highlight another area. In this relation, I would like to emphasize that local elections in autumn this year, and also president election in 2024, will be conducted according to the law, following constitutional procedures. They try to break commercial connections with our companies, they try to restrict our expert. We were patient in our negotiations to come out of this horrible conflict. We have never agreed to and will never agree to such political nationalism and racism. Because in this case, were talking about existence of our country. They are trying to destabilize our society from inside, but their attempts were not justified and were not successful. Thank you. That means they want to end with Russia. They have brought up very distant defenders just like our ancestors were defending Donbas. Republican's Remarks About Putin Stun CPAC 2023 Starting from 2014, Donbas has been fighting to defend its right to live on its territory and speak its own language. At the end of 2022, the GDP is reduced. At the beginning of February this year, there was a statement of North Atlantic Union with the actual requirement to Russia, as they say, to come back to the strategic weapons including inspections to our nuclear facilities. I would like to remind you that in 1930s, Western countries opened the path for Nazi Germany to develop. In 1991, the West thought that Russia would never rise after such shocks and would fall to pieces on its own. Following battlefield setbacks over recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered on Wednesday a national address about the ongoing war in Ukraine. The family of every member of the special military operation needs to be surrounded with care and attention and we need to respond to their needs very, very quickly. In 2021, growth was 11.7% and now 14%. Kievs current authorities should respect this free expression of the peoples will; there is no other way. Theyre giving their own figures. (01:13:49) Here in Novorossiya, [Pyotr] Rumyantsev, [Alexander] Suvorov and [Fyodor] Ushakov fought their battles, and Catherine the Great and [Grigory] Potemkin founded new cities. Among volunteers who are on the frontline, there are members of State Duma and regional parliaments, representatives of various power levels, representatives of municipalities, all parliamentary parties, all of them participating in creating the support for the frontline. Section 107, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov: People say that the allies didnt help us. Decisions were taken very, very quickly. And the situation has changed for the better. Let us vow to stop where we are and return to friendship and mutual cooperation. The Russian agriculture sector harvested a record crop of 150 million ton of wheat. Thank you. Some people want to live until the end of their life in an arrested palace with arrested account somewhere abroad. And you should not try lie to everyone. We have to rely in these steps, on our real military experience. Our domestic banks are stable, and theyve got In 2023, we saw that the financing of corporate sector has grown, has grown, and we had some doubts about this. It was the so-called West that trampled on the principle of the inviolability of borders, and now it is deciding, at its own discretion, who has the right to self-determination and who does not, who is unworthy of it. Our relationships have deteriorated, and this was the initiative of the United States. They have hundreds, hundreds of military bases around the world. (01:15:15) There is only one way to stop this madness!. Here are some excerpts. (25:59) While we we are proud that in the 20th century our country led the anti-colonial movement, which opened up opportunities for many peoples around the world to make progress, reduce poverty and inequality, and defeat hunger and disease. Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? Offices and sergeants who demonstrates on themselves to be decisive and clever and brave, they should be forwarded to the military academies and they should become a very powerful training reserve. Thanks to our strong balance, we do not have to ask for money abroad. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have achieved visible results here. The greater the range of these systems, the further away we will be forced to move the threat from our borders. Theyre telling their citizens that its the Russians who are to blame and theyve used different tools. President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. (52:22) And we said that were not fighting in Ukraine. The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible. Step-by-step we will continue to resolve the objectives that before us. (19:07) (08:09) Your decision, Mr. President, to give the Soviet Union an interest-free credit of $1 billion in the form of materiel supplies and raw materials has been accepted by the Soviet government with heartfelt gratitude as urgent aid to the Soviet Union in its enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy bloodthirsty Hitlerism, Stalin wrote to Roosevelt. Id like to reiterate that we adopted the same approach for Crimea and Sevastopol. We know that numbers have dropped significantly in this area, and we need that We know that this area needs to be developed. We know that the West is directly linked to the attempts of Kyiv regime to attack our strategic aviation basis. And Im requesting the government and the committee on social affairs together with regions to resolve all organizational aspects of this within the shortest possible time. Today this is just nonsense. The Best Speech-to-Text Solution for Your Business Learn how Rev fits into your businesses workflow. So they started the vaccine murders and now the Russia Ukraine war. The ceremony to inaugurate Vladimir Putin as President of Russia is taking place at the Kremlin in the Grand Kremlin Palace, which symbolizes the continuity of the traditions of Russian statehood. This is Vladimir Putins second term in office. More than 71 percent of voters who took part in the election gave him their votes on March 14. Yesterday that information was published and I remember they were saying that our economy will drop 20, 25% and I was saying 2.9 and then later we were saying GDP reduced by 2.2%. And we saw them exit fundamental agreements on limiting rockets of medium to long range. The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. Hence, the deployment and maintenance of hundreds of military bases in all corners of the world, NATO expansion, and attempts to cobble together new military alliances, such as AUKUS and the like. And so we will continue working with our partners with the objective to creating a stable currency environment. Were working to restore it. The objective of it is to clean the water in industrial areas and significantly reduce the harmful discharges in the industrial areas. And what I just said is no less so: you cant feed anyone with paper you need food; and you cant heat anyones home with these inflated capitalisations you need energy. And we will react in an appropriate way. Russia will never give up annexed regions. Our proposed to double this figure when we talk about investing in private pension funds to the tune of 2.8 million rubles. In Western academies and training centers they were training nationalists units and supplying weapons. President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, This year, the international community celebrates two, without exaggeration, historic anniversaries: the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and establishment of the United Nations. We will restore and develop industrial enterprises, factories, infrastructure, as well as the social security, pension, healthcare and education systems. That is why the choice of the people in Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson makes them so furiously angry. All of them failed. An official Russian version in English can be found here. And we see that those in power choose to close their eyes on this. And theyre trying to delete this from the memory of people. For an analysis of his remarks, click here. All participants of the special military operation especially, and including the volunteers, they need to have 14 days of rest every year, in addition to the travel time. As a matter of fact, this was actually the case until recently. Elites are going crazy and this cannot be cured it seems. And we had no doubt that by February 2022, everything was prepared for a punitive action in Donbas, where Kyiv regime provided artillery and aviation and other weapons to attack Donbas back in 2014. Id like to emphasize that all sanctions are just a means, but the objective, as the West says, and I say directly, to force our citizens to suffer. Our policy is based on freedom of choice for all to determine their own future and that of their children. They dont care. And everything needs to be done for the victory. The attempts to contain Russia in this regard demonstrated that Russians were able to adapt very quickly and each initiative that is supporting Russia has to have to have support from the government, and in this regard, its important to come back to reviewing some of the criminal code which relates to economic crime. Please join me in a minute of silence to honour their memory. We have scientific teams, engineering teams, and we have more and more of younger people, qualified people in these teams and we have very long traditions of weapon production and weapon manufacturing. The so-called childrens budget has grown not just by certain percentages, its grown several times. So the money for national projects that were reserved in the federal budget for 2024 will be available right now. Full Transcript: Why Is Russia Invading Ukraine? Putin Speech We were proposing to our partners this idea, and in response we were getting dishonest answers. As a service, CN provides here the English text of the speech. We are confident in our power. And that means they want to use anything. And this would be three to 4% interest, five to seven years. And theyre creating that image of enemy within their own countries in order to divert attention from corruption scandals within their own countries. What that means is from the moment this program started working all over Russia. Whats important is that citizens of Russia have to give them a moral valuation. Its power will only grow with time. Here, we are proposing the following: First, we need to come back to the traditional basic training in the field of higher education with The course length would be from four to six years. The preservation of this annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. Putin And our objective is to create a mass production of these weapons using our own industrial and scientific base using state contracts and involving small and medium enterprise. It sounds like nonsense. Of decades, they were destroying Ukrainian industry and robbing the country. We were very open and we were sincerely open for a dialogue with the West, and we were insisting on Europe and the rest of the world to have an equal system of defense and ecosystem of security. This is something we discussed with the government. Whats very important is a long-term savings of Russian citizens, and we have to stimulate that flow of that money into the investment sector, and Id like to ask the government to look at launching a special government program from April this year to create additional conditions for citizens to invest within the country, and to make money within the country, and also to guarantee the contributions to investment companies.