Putin will talk about the Russian economy and the situation in the world

According to the Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, the agenda of the head of state this Friday is full because after his speech he will answer questions from the participants in the event and then hold various business meetings, including with his counterparts from Armenia and Kazakhstan. .

At the end of the working day, he said, the president will hold a meeting with directors of Russian media and war correspondents in Donbass.

In an interview with the TASS news agency, Peskov announced that Putin will indicate in his speech the impact of sanctions against Russia, an increase in energy prices, and the onset of the world food crisis.

The head of the Kremlin press service explained that 2022 saw a “complete systemic storm”, in which the economy became a “hostage of politics”.

He stressed that politicians in many countries made a large number of mistakes during the Covid-19 pandemic, which was exacerbated by the economic war waged by a group of countries hostile to Russia.

Adviser to the President Yury Ushakov also said that the Russian president, according to him, will assess the current state of the world economy and politics and will indicate unfair competition between countries, trade and financial wars, sanctions and restrictions.

“The president will share his assessment on the formation of a multipolar economic model and will assess the opportunities and perspectives that this process provides to participants in the entire global market,” he added.

According to Ushakov, the president will devote an important part of his speech to the challenges facing Russia and its priorities, among which are ensuring greater economic development, stimulating commercial activity, creating conditions for comfortable doing business, strengthening trade relations and investment abroad. .

Kazakh President Kassym Zumart Tokayev will be with Putin in the plenary session of the forum and, like his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, will intervene via video link. A video message from Chinese President Xi Jinping will also be shown.

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