Thats so warm and friendly, where the based on in many respects our interests are aligned. Its vital for both russia and turkey. That the situation in our region is stable, predictable, and peaceful and good on both. Theyve been. Its because, well thats not very clear. Russia and turkey have a lot of mutual interests in terms of trade and economic cooperation, as well as investment cooperation. It serves both moscows and ankaras interests to Work Together in 2 years from moscow. What was still you just said it yourself, that turkey was in favor of a military scenario in the south caucasus . 3 years ago. Yes. And the turkish president said that he had now you say they want peace, world peace, how could they be an advocate of world peace . Then in this case, turkey believes mistakenly, an air of u. S. Peace can be established through the use of force. In this respect, we disagree, but only a conflict that had president putin in the south a better than i had any direct contact while the ceasefire was being negotiated with him. So what kind of contact was it . There were of course contacts regarding the situation after stories, you know that as a result of the go, it was decided that a Monitoring Center would be set up. It would be located in azerbaijan, but outside of nagornokarabakh, the center will monitor how the ceasefire is observed. Near the same cease fire that on the ground is maintained in the preserved through the efforts of russian peacekeepers. The question, why was the russian government owns a controlled situation within the Expatriate Community . Between the 2 communities . I mean, the millions of armenians living in russia in several 1000000 or their buddies, also living in russia. Its obvious that there are going to be clashes based on ethnicity based. I think its another of equipment persuading you doing it, you know, but i think it with absolutely. No, its absolutely not obvious and not inevitable. And i completely disagree with you there. 1st of all, as you probably know, the number of armenians living in russia is about the same as the number of them living in armenia, sweden slightly higher than in actual armenia. Yes, of course he was. And as you also know, most of these armenians and most of these azerbaijanis are well respected members of russian society. We sure do know of our unique russian society, a society that embraces many ethnicities and faiths, and successful individuals. Both armenians and azerbaijanis illustrated during that russia is truly a land of opportunities. They are all responsible, well respected and responsible members of our society be fully understands that on russian soil they have to follow the laws of the Russian Federation was, as you know, that russia, any kind of hate fueled behavior or Something Like that towards an ethnic group is against the law. Its absolutely unacceptable in our country and our fellow citizens, both armenians and azerbaijanis know thats very well and actually behave very at the responsibly in your place of the show that sounded like a warning. No, cause im just stating facts thats its just the fact its good. They really do banks very responsibly. You know, there were some incidents very beginning of the recent tragic events. But as you know, a similar anybody just to be, we put a stop to it very fast with the computer. Lets talk about our helicopter. That was shot down by the, by john, what was the president s 1st reaction and why, or rather, how was this conflict localized over the past week . Yes, it is really awful. Its a tragedy. 2 of our men are dead. You know, of course, how painful it is for all of us, for military commanders and all our servicemen, and probably russian people in general. But in this case, it was obvious that as a budge on immediately reacted, the president of azerbaijan immediately reacted. And azerbaijan did pledge that he would conduct an independent investigation into it and punish those responsible all of that made it possible for us to accept their apology. We continue to see both question, ya know, if, as our friends at the same time, because of course, as you know, armenia and russia are partners in the region, economic or immunity. The c. S. T. , you know, weve been building our relations with armenia for centuries. Nothing in the same is true of amortized, had with azerbaijan, we value our friendship. I was shared history, both with the people of azerbaijan and the people of armenia was good, but it is this kind of approach that allowed russia to be an objective intermediary. Going to join me every 1st week on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics. Sports business, im show business. Ill see that we value our friendship with the people of belarus. Its more than just a friendship. Its like family is Alexander Lukashenko family too. Heres belorussian. So you consider him family. Of course, seriously, i dont. My distant relatives are from belarus. During the 26. 00 or 27 years of his presidency, Alexander Lukashenko consistently tried to rip off russia. He would ask us for money and then go to china. He would demand discounted gas prices and then make a deal with the americans. This is been happening throughout his whole presidency. Why do we support . Sounded like a shocker so vehemently. Its not Alexander Lukashenko, whom we support. We support the legitimate president of a nation that we consider to be our brothers. We support the rule of law in this brotherly nation. For over 10 years, russia and the russian president supported and indirectly subsidized by the russian economy. It wasnt just subsidizing and it was an indirect because the whole belorussian economy is just part of the russian economy. Exactly. And that of course is because we are the closest of allies. We are 2 nations that are like brothers. And of course we value one another. Mr. Prescott, but the same things were said about the ukrainians a few years ago. And we still think of ukraine as a nation that we have family ties with, but we are no longer brothers. You know, our relations can no longer be qualified as brotherly. Because in recent years, the countrys leadership put a lot of effort into fostering animosity towards russia in the ukrainian people. But we dont think that this will lead to a long term immunity against russia. It cant last, these antibodies will disappear, really just like the coronavirus antibodies. These are artificially implanted antibodies. The anti russian sentiment will pass the recent Regional Elections prove my point, the elections in ukraine. Yes, they show that the antibodies are not all that strong. You know what im talking about, but lets go back to bellows. We can talk about protests being ultimately unsuccessful aside. Sure. But hundreds of thousands took to the streets in a very small country. Only 6000000 people actually live there. 3000000 live outside. Hundreds continue to protest in different cities. Minsk, they continue to come out to protest against president lukashenko, in one of the opposition leaders have ever expressed any anti russian views, unlike president lukashenko. So why do we keep supporting . Look at shanker, maybe it would make more sense to look elsewhere. Im sure youve heard my statements regarding this. I have answered questions about bella ruse asked by journalists. And it was not just one statement or a couple of statements. And im convinced that i have nothing to add to those statements, but mr. Bischoff no, i have nothing to add to my explanations with us. You can easily look them up. Of course, we can look them up, but russians are very sensitive to these situations. They see it on t. V. And they are concerned different people with different views are concerned, but all these people are against Alexander Lukashenko. Some think that belarus is our territory. Russias border is near breast, and thats where we should position our intermediate range and short range missiles. Others think that it should be a free country, independent from russia, and definitely not under shanker and there is a 3rd group. They see Alexander Lukashenko with an empty machine gun. No, i mean nation, his son walking alongside through an empty square dressed in military uniform. And this image bothers them. Dont you think that this friendship is not doing any good to our image and ratings . People may have completely different views. The key principle for us is legitimacy. Under International Law, whatever happens has to be in line with the law. It is the people of belair roosts who have to ensure legitimacy that should be no outside interference. You mentioned International Law, but most countries have not recognized the outcome of the election bellows. Also, the russian president signed into law a bill on the supremacy of Domestic Legislation and the russian constitution over the socalled International Law. So why do we always harp on about International Law . I am referring to the provisions that do not run counter to the russian constitution. Why do we always make references to International Law if it, thats the most essential point of reference . True, a country may not recognize the election outcome. However, no country has the mandate provided by International Law to demonise lection, legitimate or illegitimate, no country, no. The e. U. , not germany, france, poland, and so on. They simply do not have the mandate. Does it mean that only Alexander Lukashenko has this mandate . Well, they have the central election commission. He has the sole position to exercise this mandate. Let us not go into detail. Ive shared with you our key principle virus. Lets go back to item number one of the agenda. The covered 1000 pandemic. The exact number of cases in russia is unknown. Moscow mayor, sergei civilian recently admitted that of 25 percent of searching cases. Basically in a couple of weeks time would push health care in moscow to peak capacity. Well, if thats the situation moscow, we also know that was happening across russian regions. Take the own screeching. For example, when an ambulance was not able to have patients admitted to a clinic and drove them to the buildings of the regional administration, it is disgrace for the regional authorities that no lessons were learned. How did the crime and learn about the pandemic . Whose expert judgment do you take into account and whats next . You had the disease yourself along with your wife and you had antibodies. You portrayed a fair picture, but it is a gloomy picture. If you got to tell the audience about the monumental effort by our government in the past 6 months, about the mortality rate, which is far better than in other countries about the medications. You were supposed to say that you should have mentioned it. I will definitely now that you brought up medication, moscow is seeing a shortage, but it is true or ok, heres my comment. Indeed, the pressure on the Health Care System is enormous. In some regions. Its beyond their capacity after the 1st outbreak in the spring, which slowly continued into the summer. It was extremely difficult. It was extremely difficult. It was a time when we had to scramble for brand new treatments and protocols and to test them. We had to add new equipment to reequip, hospital beds, and so on. We spent the summer creating a backstop buffer to make sure we can handle any repeat of the surges. We now have this buffer. We have extra hospitals, extra beds, well equipped, including with oxygen, with procured extra ventilators. There is no shortage of p. P. Anymore. It is not in this year. I am referring to the gear for the doctors. Yes, people know where people stands for. Right. You say there are no medications, indeed some places and questions here on this one. Absolutely, it is only appropriate that you, im concerned about us as a nation. Whenever i put out another film, people start dogging me with messages their only show the fairyland of moscow and life outside moscow is completely different. Story must go is different. Thats true. Moscow is definitely several steps ahead of the rest of russian. Some aspects, it is several steps ahead of europe. The hospitals moscow built here in the spring, the mobile hospitals in particular are on precedented. Absolutely. Even germany has nothing like the cobra 1000 hospital that was built in moscow last spring. Thanks to moscow, mayor sabbaton, and is that the rock of his efforts, where we all look at the rest of the country, they all had the same money and the same possibilities. The president said many times they can use money from any fund in order to fight the pandemic. And on the less we see that russias regions are experiencing huge problems with medical care. Now, there was a tragic incident recently in the region. There is an absolutely unacceptable situation all straight now in our people see this. Yes, its true that there have been problems with medical care in some regions. Some of them critical and indeed unacceptable. Its impossible to hide things like that these days. The federal authorities have been responding to such cases in a timely manner. The Military Hospital was deployed in cassio within 48 hours since the incident on president s orders. You know that the government has put together a special mobile corps of medical professionals. Several hundreds of them travel across the country to provide help on site, both with advice and protocols, and by stepping in, they dress our challenges and help solve problems. The thing is that this pandemic has been such a huge and unprecedented challenge, but some problems are just inevitable. When did we realize the scope of the challenge . I think the entire world realized it more or less at the same time. When the president realizes clearly, well, the president , im sure you sort yourself. But since last spring, the president has been working almost 247. He had meetings every day and all that. And he crisis measures were developed to help our economy to mitigate the losses that have been inevitable because of the pandemic. But im sure he realized it all immediately. Its a different thing now though, there was this sort of hope that it wont get as bad as it was last spring. Of course i wasnt sure there would be any 2nd wave, and now we see that its getting even tougher than it was in spring. So getting back to the president. So where did this idea of developing a vaccine in russia come from . Who pushed it . The gamma layer Research Institute. I see. So director gainsbourg approached you or did he approach the president . How did it all happen . We know 1st of all, quite a number of Research Centers and laboratories began working on Vaccine Development on the president s orders to start with. They did it because its their job. And yes, the government ordered it to because it was clear from the very start through the input from epidemiologists that we cant take on the pandemic without successful vaccination. So Relevant Research began from the very start. And some of these labs made a breakthrough. The 1st vaccine that was ready was the one you know, as v. By the going to a Research Institute. Yes indeed. Thats how we got it. And its indeed a very good vaccine that we hope we didnt try it on yourself. I didnt because unfortunately i got to try the natural form of corona virus on myself. How are you feeling . By the way . Not great. Can you tell us more . I was sick. What were the 7 times the symptoms are like you have some strange flu . We had all experienced the flu before. This is an unusual kind of what was unusual about it. You have a headache, but it isnt unusual. Headache, muscle pain also feels different. And then you get all these strange sensations in the lungs. Its difficult to breathe in pneumonia that is not really pneumonia. It is basically thrombosis, pulmonary from bosis, you know, everything. Of course, i think, at this point, the average russian is like a medical School Graduate when it comes to viral logy. I hope not. Otherwise, we will definitely not get qualified doctors who can treat us, but in cases long information from both sides are not on buses. Yes. So you fell short of breath. Yes and losing the sense of smell and taste completely was a very unique sensation. Your wifes symptoms werent as severe, right . She was only sick for about 3 days. She also lost the sense of smell and taste, but for 5 or 7 days. This lasted longer in my case, but as far as feeling sick, it was only about 3 days for her. Weve heard and the president come from several times, there is daughter got this vaccine. And she had something to do with the development of the family, a vaccine. Is that true . Of course not. I mean, his daughter chose the vaccine after we mean chose that she have options like a storage. No, it was during phase 2 of the Clinical Trials. They were looking for volunteers and she volunteered. Yes, of course. Now after face to russia claims, and the president said that we registered this vaccine. Do you think that maybe was premature since we didnt exactly follow the guidelines and then wait until the 3rd phase . Of course, expedited registration is allowed if the government makes that decision. It is possible to register a vaccine based on the results of the 1st 2 phases, but phase 3 must still be completed, and that is whats happening now with the gamma layer vaccine. There are certain procedures in place for these situations and such procedures exist in many countries. And many countries are also using the expedited registration mechanism. Nevertheless, phase 3 of the Clinical Trials for an american vaccine concluded yesterday, the expedited, the 3rd phase. But in expect a, the registration of the vaccine. It will happen in a few days. So there is really no difference. Its basically the same. Do understand how effective the vaccine is. Does the crime have the understanding . Do you believe in what you were told . 1st of all the kremlin . Cant be the judge of the vaccines effectiveness. So you believe what the experts tell you right . Yes, we absolutely trust russian viral exists. Experts at the gamma layer Research Institute w