I again want to say here - it depends only on one person - Putin! Does he want to change something? Do we see anything today? No. Are there mechanisms for the Europeans to force him to make some positive changes? Trade sanctions - yes, they create some problems for Russia. But, on the other hand, they force Russia to engage in energy-substituting technologies. It is really so. If I can not buy somewhere in the world, in Europe, then I have to think something with my brains. And in Russia there are brains, as we well understand
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Do you know what are the main contradictions between us and Russia? We say, let's execute the first items on the Normandy protocol and according to the Minsk protocol: declare a complete "silence regime", withdraw Russian troops there, withdraw all types of heavy weapons, exchange prisoners "all for all." And they say - no, it's all secondary, let's hold elections, choose power, and then we will do the rest. Tell me that it is possible to hold elections practically in the occupied territory, when there is at least a forty-thousand grouping of illegal formations, when there are so many heavy weapons, more than our army, when cars and "humanitarian groups" of Russian weapons constantly go there, and those On the other side do not experience any problems with this type of weapons?
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You understand perfectly well when Mrs. Merkel is trying to do something cardinal in herself, everyone grabs her by the hand, including Mr. Schroeder. And where does he work and how much does he earn per year from the largest German firms that work in the Russian market? What is Ukraine for them? In Ukraine, they are not. There is no Germany, no France, no USA, no one, we are practically ourselves.
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I am convinced that Russia wants to have another frozen conflict on the territory of Ukraine. But this is worse than Transnistria, because Russia has no border there, and here the border
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We forgot about the economy, we are falling apart! We do not have a high-tech industry. There is no rocket-space industry, no aviation. Let's ask how the Academy of Sciences is funded and what we're taking from there.
We become a raw material appendage. At us metallurgy remained, chemistry, agriculture. There are practically no high technological processes. Where are we going?
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We rejoice in free trade with Europe. What do we trade with Europe? Look at the statistics. Wheat. In addition to agriculture, virtually nothing else. Quoting is tough. For the first quarter, we have almost all the quotas chosen. And now you see how the Europeans put us on their knees - "let's cut down the forest and bring it to us." Where is any concrete assistance to Ukraine, so that we will stand on our feet ?! If we are poor, like today, we do not need anyone!
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