All right, Alexander. Let's talk about Putin's State of the Nation address, and it was a long one.

I think it was the longest address that he has ever made, two hours and like 20 minutes, focused mostly on domestic issues.

But he also talked a lot about foreign affairs and policy and

multipolar world and all of these things, which I'm sure we're going to actually talk about

more in this video. But let's talk about what Putin said and how the collective West is reacting

to what Putin has said at the State of the Nation address.

Let's just begin briefly with one, maybe not so briefly, but anyway, discuss the first, the domestic points that he made, because they were interesting, actually, and they were important. And the big takeaway I came away from it is that he's now confident that the situation in the Russian economy is stable, that he's got a strong, firm footing, and he's therefore able to plan ahead. And when I say

he, Putin, I mean, obviously the entirety of the Russian government. So we were looking at very,

very long-term plans, reaching all the way up to 2030, emphasis, obviously, in the economy on re-industrialization.

In fact, we've had some economic figures for what's been going on in January,

and it looks as if industrial manufacturing production, the increase there, is continuing.

I mean, we've not seen any significant fallback in the

economy, which many people thought it would. There would be. But overwhelmingly, the emphasis

was on social issues, specifically education and support for families.

And the last is really very important.

It devoted a huge section to this.

And when I say he was talking about families, I mean, there was a whole list of things,

that, you know, tax supports and financial supports for families, for young families, for mothers sometimes specifically, to try to help families have more children to improve the birth rate and the general demographic situation

in Russia. And a point he did make, and it's what he made, two important points, which, again,

people are overlooking, is that there was actually an increase in the birth rate in Russia

some years ago in the sort of middle period of Putin's time. And there's actually

quite a large cohort of young people now going through school and university and about to hit

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