My inspiration was the idea that i wanted to explain how totalitarianism happens. We do know the story of the cold war. We know that the documents we have seen the archives and described relationships between roosevelt, stalin and truman and we know the main events from our point of view. What i wanted to do was show from a different angle, from the ground up, what did it feel like to be one of the people who were subjected to this system and how did people make choices in that system and how did they react . Its interesting that one of the things that has happened since 1989 is the regional used to call at Eastern Europe has become very differentiated. These countries no longer have much in common with one another except the common memory of communist occupation. Russian president Vladimir Putin this week gave his first eight of the nation speech since being reelected. His nationwide address is a little less than an hour and a half. Translator of the Federation Council just a few months ago and my election articles and in my march represented our plan for short and midterm, covering all the areas of our work, of our life. The economy, social issues, domestic politics, international affairs, security. In those documents, we presented a detailed picture with figures and facts explaining our plans and we have already started to implement some of those plans like decreasing teacher salaries and some other things. All the other issues we have provided necessary laws and regulations. We have started this work and i can assure you that we will continue doing that and we will implement everything we have planned. We have set up a special convention to oversee this work. Of course today, as i present in my first state of the nation address after the president ial election, i will not go back to those plans and make some adjustment to those plans. Today i would like to talk about some fundamental issues related to our move forward. They are fundamental in the long run for russias development. These are fund the mission of fundamental issues that relate to each one of us. Over the first 12 years we have [inaudible] it was a very important speech. Now we need to set up a wealthy russia. And i want you all to understand that the next two years will be extremely important, not only to us but actually for the whole world. The world is entering a new stage of cardinal genius perhaps of up evils. Global development is uneven around as new conflicts emerge. There is a competition for resources and i can assure you colleagues, its not only competition for metal and resources but. [inaudible] will become outsiders and it depends on the will of every nation. Capabilities to move on in developing countries. Their populations are accustomed to growing Living Standards and new opportunities. In order to provide sustainable we need to achieve a new technological order. This is where many parts of the world have problems. It will become an outsider as the share of the global pie and its businesses and its people will be much much less than the leading countries. If you look at the way that wealth is distributed between those countries who produce intellectual property and other countries, who just produce and manufactures the final product, its 50 to 85 ratio. In the 21st century, with a new balance of civilizatcivilizat ion of military forces, russia should be an influential country and we should preserve our National Identity. We should not lose ourselves as a nation. We should remain russia. [applause] after 70 years of rule the russian people have pastorek National Stage and restoring their and this is perfectly normal but working for yourself has a limit. There is a boundary. You cannot achieve wealth with outside of your house you have disorder and insecurity. You cannot live all by yourself without helping those who are weaker and caring for others outside your family or outside of your business. More and more people come to this realization today and become more and more involved in civil activism. They are caring for other people around them, for their nation in general, for the interest of the state. Today is december the 12th, constitution day. And i would like to mention some values that we have represented in our constitution. Universal responsibility for our model and is the fundamental principle of the russian state. Responsibility and patriotism, these things are what i think is a Strong Foundation for our politics per well it does not just mean to respect your history although this is important. Primarily it means serving your nation, and patriotism is then natural sentiment if a society has not learned much responsibility and especially a multiethnic country cannot exist if there is no sense of general responsibility for a nation. And what you need is not just people need to see that it is transparetranspare nt in the authorities are working hard for the nation, for the town, for the region. The authorities should not be a nice elated group of people. Society cant have Strong Development we need a nationally oriented mentality. What does it mean for us to be a sovereign country in the 21st century. We often discuss this today. First of all we need sufficient resources for our country not just to manufacture everything within the country. Nobody lives this way in the world anymore and i dont think anybody ever will. Russia should be geopolitically sustainable and by its neighbors and this is important to us. This helps our economy, education, culture and their diplomacy, especially in terms of collective efforts on the International Arena and of course this also applies to our military strength which guarantees our security and independence. With all all the difficult processes taking place in the world, russia requires we take excessive actions going forward, looking to the future. Colleagues, in the 20th century alone russia passed through two world wars and the civil war and took a stereo evolution. Twice we went through the crisis of disintegration. Our country had several drastic changes of our entire lifestyle. As a result of the beginning of the 21st century we face to demographic and overall catastrophe, serious crisis and if a nation is unable to reproduce itself in preserve itself and if it loses its values and ideals, you dont even need an outward enemy because everything will disintegrate by itself. I havent often referred i have many times mention that for russia to be strong we need more people and we need better people in terms of competence, skills, work,. Between 21 to 40 years of age we are one of the most populated countries in the world but in 20 years the population may be reduced by 50 and unless we do something this tendency will continue. We need to provide interest in new jobs, opportunities to create business, build families and have many children and be happy in their own country. Unless we do that in a few decades russia will become a more old country and a direct sense of the word, unable to preserve its integrity and even its territory. The demographic problem we have had in the past decade, the population has stabilized and is growing. This era population grew by more than 200,000 people. For the first time in our recent history, we saw a natural increase of the population. [applause] five months, backtoback. The birthrate is finally over the rate. Life expectancy has grown by two and a half years and this is very good. It has exceeded 70 years. But, the mortality rate is still quite high, especially among middleaged men. We need to overcome this irresponsible attitude that our society has towards a healthy lifestyle. We need to pay more attention to preserving health. Of course this doesnt mean that we will pay less attention now to medical care. No, but medicine alone is not enough. The government should introduce food programs for dangerous jobs and take measures to improve traffic safety. Smoking alone, alcoholism, drug addiction claim hundreds of thousands of lives annually. It is important to. [inaudible] for people to engage in sports, make it something prestigious. This is why we organize major Sports Events in our country. But, this work of making sports popular, this cannot be achieved by international Sports Events elan and even by increasing the number of pe classes in school. We need comprehensive and all kinds of things especially for children of a young age, early age, because this is the age where you develop your habits for the rest of your life. I also think it is important to create collegiate sports associations. This will be a social elevator for talented and gifted young people. [applause] at the same time, i believe it is important that such organizations should be outside of politics whatsoever. It should unite young people of various political affiliations. We have a policy of providing socalled motherhood capital to families that give birth to the second children. It will be in effect until the end of the year 2016, and we will definitely meet all of our commitments in regards to this policy. To its full extent. I would like to emphasize once again that this policy is in effect until 2016, and so all families who deliver a second child will receive a preference and this socalled mother capital. Now i want to encourage women on purpose to give earth to children for money but i want them to know that the government will be there behind there. Starting in 2013 we will start paying additional bonuses to families who deliver a third child in regions where the demographic situation is worse than the average across the country. [applause] there are quite a few significant parts of the federation in russia. Over 50, most of them in central russia, and the region and in russias far east. Besides i would like to remind all the heads of russia that they need to pursue their own regional Demographic Development policies and progress in their respective regions. Demographic experts note that once one delivers his second child this is to their readiness and willingness to deliver a third and im convinced that the normal in russia should be a family with three children. [applause] but, to that end, we need to do a lot. We need to provide an environment for women in the first place so that they will not worry that delivering a second and more children would bar their way to a good career, to a good job and would confine them to being a housekeeper, to being a homemaker. We need to have Education Programs for retraining for females and employment support policies. This will definitely affect the familys choice whether to have more children. We will definitely need to work with preschools in kindergarten sand we need to support the establishment of private ones. The government has already done away with many obstacles to that and i request you finish that work in the first half of next year. I request regions to use their own opportunities. We need to open a small size kindergartens and extended day groups at schools in every single region and the city of russia. We need to provide families with an opportunity to put their children in kindergartens without wasting [inaudible] we need another longstanding problem of russia to resolve and that is the housing issue. This is something that the federal government as well as the Regional Government should address. Thanks to our housing agenda, we have managed to increase the housing credits, which grow at the pace of 20 a year. But we know that Housing Loans are something that many people with medium and high taxes use, not the rest. And we need to make loans available to broader sections of Russian Society including technical experts, the academics and so on. We need to make Economy ClassHousing Available as well as renting opportunities for russias population. Several regions of russia which practice support for rental housing markets. I would like to emphasize in 2014 will fully meet our commitments on providing housing to military personnel. We also need to finish our programs in replacing outdated and shabby housing with new ones. We still have a large number of russian citizens who are waiting in queues to be relocated to new apartments. We have put ourselves a goal to create 25 million jobs by the year 2020. It is a difficult task that we can accomplish it. We can help people find new and interesting jobs. Quality occupations and quality jobs will be a locomotive for better wages and for an increase in the quality of life in russia. We need to restore our engineering vocational schools in preparation of qualified labor force. I request the government to develop a program of restoring Vocational Training and education in russia. Public employees have earned themselves quite a dismissive attitude in russia back in the 90s but at the same time these people are the backbone of our economy. They are professionals and they are also heart of the socalled creative class. What was earlier called intelligentsia. Medics, teachers, people who work in the area of culture and entertainment. There are people like that in every township and village and city in russia but their wages and salaries do not meet the average in russia. Therefore, they are tonight relevance and opportunities to enjoy life as they should. The government used to underpay its employees in the past. In the first place because we had other issues to address. Much more more acute ones such as increasing pension payments. They were in an even more dire situation in russia, meaning they were living in poverty. But nowadays, we can deliver cardinal changes in russias social sphere and have laid out my initiatives and my decrees in my treaty election article. We have provided increasing salary wages for every Public Employee and request those regional and federal employees to mobilize all of the resources to meet these ends not just because these are my election promises, even though it is necessary to deliver on your promises, but its not just that. We believe that if we meet these commitments, we will resolve a number of key issues. First of all, we will have a crucial increase in the quality of medicine and education because we will have new professionals coming into their jobs and the existing professionals will have an opportunity to make full use of their occupations and give up their parttime jobs that they hold to earn more money and to make a living. We will also managed to deal with problems such as lowlevel corruption and indifference on all of those. We will have a 25 increase in the number of russian citizens who will have the Economic Opportunities of the middleclass, middle class, especially in russias regions. [applause] it will soon give a revival to socalled provincial intelligentsia. The people who are professionals and the moral backbone of russia at all times. Certainly we will give more incentives to professional associations and medics, educators, cultural workers. Such communities must become the backbone of an active Civil Society. It is important that this society must be capable of evaluating the quality of science and education. I request the government to establish a system of public monitoring of education and medicine by next year. We need to attract professionals to this activity and we need to look at International Best practices. I would like to stress that it would be a mistake to see the program of Job Development or professional development as the sheer policy of increasing salaries. We need to look into the professional qualities of each and every worker in every sphere and every industry that needs to have their own policy or program for replenishing their personnel and attracting new professionals. We all talk of the need to restructure various industries, but as soon as restructuring starts, the whole of russia starts complaining. Dont change this, dont touch that. We need to give up this kind of attitude. We need to do away with it. If we realize something should be done that needs to be done and we need to do it. At the same time we need to be rational and careful in our approach. Those who believe that such activities require permanent dialogue with the professional community. We need to explain our policies to them and i request the heads of media up maybe ill does, the leading journalists to pay special attention to reforms in these areas. A part of national development. Im convinced that increasing the quality of payment and the quality of life will attract more promising legal professionals. We already can see an increase in the number of medical School Graduates compared to economist and law schools. We are to have more students enrolling in education departments at universities, choosing a vocation of an educator. Dear colleagues, we see the results of what is happening in russia in its government, in its society, in the past 15 years. We are seeing it now in various cities and townships across russia. And its understandable. Back then, 15 years ago, the outdated mindset of the soviet era was discarded but at the same time together with those outdated ideas and ideology we also shown some moral values and today it backfires in our readiness to abide with corruption, extremism and offensive behavior. And very often this all becomes ugly and takes aggressive forms and provides a longstanding threat to russias security and its mere existence. Dear colleagues, its painful to say this though it pains me to say this but i have to. Today the Russian Society has a dire lack of spiritual ties and spiritual backbone. Mutual help and assistance. There is a lack of something that used to make us stronger and more firm and all the historical periods of russia. We need to support the institutions that carry the traditional values and have proved in history their capability to pass on these ideals and values from generation to generation. We must protect these values. We cannot instill them if we cant establish them. Trying to impose that with total tape tett totalitarianism, not of prohibition but of strengthening the societies spiritual foundations. And that is why in issues of education, culture and increased significance nowadays and that is important for bringing up and educating a responsible [applause] the schools influence over the has been reduced over the years. Now with the internet and the Elec