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Why aren’t you asking me about what I am holding in my hands?

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Well, it is an iPad, I assume.

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Oh! We decided to check the most popular search queries for Putin.

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Ok.

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What topics do you think our public is interested in?

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I do not know.

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Take a look.

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Ok.

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We can read it out loud.

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Ok. ”Putin biography“, ”Putin Instagram“, 

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 ”Putin Georgia“, ”Putin news conference 2019“, ”Putin young“, 

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”Putin Poland“,”Putin family and friends“, ”Putin age“, ”Putin fired generals today“,

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”Putin Nord Stream“, ”Putin Zelensky“, ”Putin lookalike proof“.

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I like the last one – “Putin lookalike proof“. Are you the real Putin?

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Yes.

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Do you have a double?

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No.

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Never had one?

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No.

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Has that topic ever popped up?

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Yes.

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And?

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I discarded the idea of any doubles.

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This was during the toughest time of our war against terrorism.

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At the beginning of the 2000s?

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Yes.

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So that a double would go to places where it was dangerous…

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Well, he would go there, be seen…

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So no double?

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No.

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All right. Let us switch to another topic.

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Digitalization and artificial intelligence.

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Why is everybody dreaming of going to Silicon Valley 

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instead of Skolkovo?

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Firstly, not everybody. The brain drain is on the decline.

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And in general …

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I can tell you what it is like.

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Ok, I do not doubt that it still exists. Because people are like fish.

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Fish like the bottom deeper and flatter,

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man also looks for what is better, as a well-known saying goes.

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What about the state?

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I will tell you about the state, too.

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But a skilled workforce, or let us put it differently –

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top-notch professionals, look for better places to employ their 

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knowledge, capabilities, and skills.

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Wherever the pay is better, that is where they go.

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It’s as simple as that.

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So, the state should create conditions to attract 

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top-ranked professionals. There are two ways of doing this.

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Ok…

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Either we isolate ourselves the way it was done in…

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You mean keep them from leaving?

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Grab hold of them and don’t let them out.

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Saddle them with some extra liabilities.

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For instance, someone who’s received a higher education cannot leave the country, 

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that individual will have to work here,

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must either do this or that or reimburse for the cost of his tuition.

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And so on and so forth.

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This is what has been proposed for the healthcare sector.

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Or a labour market…

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For oneself?

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In general, if a person studied at the government's expense,

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he has to either stay here and work or refund the tuition costs. 

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This is one of the ideas.

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And what do you think about it?

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By and large, this is a possible option. It is possible.

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If a person studies…

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Sort of serfdom.

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Why? If you pay for your tuition yourself,

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you have the right to go anywhere and work wherever you please.

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But if you study at the government's expense,

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especially if your region pays for your tuition hoping that you’ll come back…

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I agree.

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Then it is quite fair.

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If you do not want to work there or if you are unable to comply with the terms of the contract, 

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then you are expected to refund the tuition costs. 

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That’s quite fair.

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The other option is to create conditions,

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to pay better. As you know, it just seems easy.

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Civil aviation began to pay decent salaries because it needed foreign experts,

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 and this resulted in a labour market imbalance.

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It affected military pilots who eagerly began to leave the armed forces,

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flocking to work as co-pilots on civilian airlines.

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The same is happening here.

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So, we should think over this matter.

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There is a need to raise salaries,

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but how do we do this? One option is through grants.

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We have just developed a vast system of grants.

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It encompasses not only the IT segment,

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but also the high-tech industry in general. And it works well.

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I guess you have some statistics ready on how many people are leaving.

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But take a look at how many people are coming in.

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There is an influx now.

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The number of people leaving every year is exactly the same 

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as the number of those employed at Mail.ru.

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Maybe. But Mail.ru keeps making progress as well.

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You see? Yandex is thriving too.

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So it is an annual rotation…

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Listen, Yandex is developing as well.

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They did not exist in the past,

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but now they do. And they compete well with major global companies,

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including Google. This proves there is progress.

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It is impossible to keep them all here.

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Or maybe, we should not train as many people.

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It is a lose-lose situation. There are also people who return.

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And their number is not as meagre as you may think.

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I met them, the recipients of the so-called megagrants 

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and ordinary grants. They are very interesting people,

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with good professional experience both in our country and abroad.

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Many of them have a strong desire to return.

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And we are bringing many of them back,

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we are creating conditions for them and setting up laboratories,

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along with offering them special salary packages.

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You know what I found quite interesting and what made me happy? 

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Not  only do they want to work themselves,

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but they also want to bring on board our young people 

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and postgraduates, and form research,

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development and production groups with them.

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And they are doing rather well.

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They are making progress in different areas: genetics, biology,

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digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

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In other words, it is not something like ‘just let them 

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leave, and another generation will arise’.

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No, nothing like that. That is not our approach.

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But it is a long and complicated process.

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And how do you generally feel about the innovations of the last 20 years, 

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I mean electric cars, iPhones, smartphones, and the like.

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Technological progress cannot be stopped,

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nor should it be. We have no plans to do it.

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Do you feel comfortable with that? Do you use it?

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I feel comfortable because I do not use any of these devices.

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I simply have other opportunities.

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I saw you calling my namesake, the boy who was skiing at the Krasnaya Polyana resort at your invitation. 

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You were using a smartphone.

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Well, indeed, I do call…

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I did not catch the model. You were holding it in a way…

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Your friend Peskov gave it to me so that I could make a call.

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In all other situations, it is much easier for me to use a dedicated secure line to be connected to any number.