welcome to the first meeting for radical life extension!
This is the first meeting for immortality, the first meeting for radical life extension, and I'm glad that finally, in 2011 it happend.
We can see old Moscow, old buildings, old technologies, old people around us,
people who do not know that the world is changing, that the world is already new.
Because after this day, the day we came here to speak loudly and openly about our right to life extension,
about our right to immortality, and about our desire to use this right,
our statement will never become silent, and will never be canceled.
 And the world focused on the generational change and focused on everyone's death is ephemeral.
 Today we'll tell you, why the right to life and life extension is the inalienable right of every person.
We know that the right to life is right #1 in Russian Constitution and in Declaration of Human Rights.
Somehow we do not use this right, we forget that all of us, including our parents and grandparents have this right too
and no one can take it away from them, even when they are 70, 80 or 90 years old.
We will require that every person on the planet can take advantage of modern technologies,
of biotechnology, medicine, genetic engineering.
Today, and we know it for sure, life extension is already possible.
And we know how to make it work. That's why we can finally demand it.
Today we're going to talk about things which are already done, and we'll tell you what our members do
to give people the right to immortality and the ability to use this right,
because here you can see doctors and scientists among us.
This people introduce advanced technologies, which gives the ability to grow organs
and to keep sick people alive, even in serious condition.
There are people who want to know how to stop human aging,
, how to make it slower, to help anyone to be young and healthy forever.
Here you can see people who started to fight for this idea 30 years ago,
when it was impossible to talk about it openly and loud, as it's possible now,
because the society was even more inert and foolish then today.
Today the whole world is talking about immortality.
Politicans, public figures, artists talk about life extension.
They say that people need to change and to stop being mortal.
We're lucky to live in a new world, where everyone has a real chance to live up to immortality.
Everyone who came here on foot have enough health to live up to the moment of our immortality.
Every day 20000 people die. This horrible tragedy should be stopped.
Russia is a country where the idea of immortality is really strong today.
We know Vernandsky, Nikolai Fedoroff, and other great russian philosophers.
They started to talk about the ability to be immortal more than 100 years ago.
Our history is based on space projects, on improving people, on trying to give unlimited abilities to everyone.
There are no such great ideas like ideas of immortalism and life extension.
In a few years this ideas will become even stronger.
And this ideas will no longer be ignored or treated like a dream.
Today people talk a lot about scientific and technical progress, we can't see a lot of real projects based on it.
The project of human life extension is a very important project.
Everyone in our state, old and young, deserves life extension, rejuvenation, unlimited life and unlimited happiness.
We will make this dream come true.
I'd like to introduce the first rapporteur, a man who spent 10 years developing the idea of immortalism.
This is Michael Batin.
He used to be a politician and a businessman, but he decided to change his life, and live to develop immortality.
Well, I think he can tell as all this himself. Michael, welcome!
