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[00:00:34] Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death in
[00:00:37] Estonia.
[00:00:40] Elections to the State Duma are taking place in Russia, voters come to
[00:00:43] the Russian Embassy in
[00:00:44] Tallinn.
[00:00:47] A series of reforms is changing the Estonian school system. Teachers are at
[00:00:51] their limit, and the opposition calls on the minister to
[00:00:53] answer.
[00:00:57] Four are in custody, one is wanted, after the murder of a young man in
[00:01:00] Kohtla-Järve, safety issues were again raised.
[00:01:02] безопасности.
[00:01:05] Aktuaalne Kaamera Plus is on air with the main news of the past week. Good
[00:01:09] evening. The indicators of cardiovascular health among
[00:01:13] Estonian residents are among the worst in the EU. According to cardiologists, it is primarily
[00:01:16] necessary to take control of the problem of overweight in
[00:01:20] children and engage in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in
[00:01:23] the population. If we talk about diseases that cause
[00:01:27] the greatest harm to health, then the first place in the world is occupied by
[00:01:31] cardiovascular diseases. In Estonia, this
[00:01:34] is also the most common cause of death, including premature death.
[00:01:38] The peculiarity of heart diseases is that we know quite well
[00:01:41] why they occur, unlike many other
[00:01:44] diseases. And we have means to intervene, but these means
[00:01:48] must be applied and done consistently. According to
[00:01:51] Elmet, to a large extent these diseases are related to lifestyle.
[00:01:55] Risks can be reduced by changing one's
[00:01:57] behavior. It is many times cheaper to prevent
[00:02:01] diseases, to not let them happen, than to treat them later, that is, to put out a fire.
[00:02:05] It is very expensive, not only for us, but also for other wealthy European countries,
[00:02:09] financially they cannot cope with this, and we are senselessly losing the health of
[00:02:12] people.
[00:02:15] If in Europe cardiovascular diseases account for a quarter
[00:02:18] of preventable deaths, then in Estonia this figure is
[00:02:22] 30%. According to cardiologist Allar Irss, to
[00:02:25] reduce the number of preventable deaths, it is necessary to act quickly
[00:02:29] in the first place.
[00:02:35] teenagers, then in 20 years every fifth teenager will already be
[00:02:39] overweight. It is also absolutely necessary to start working with
[00:02:42] people who are at risk of developing cardiovascular
[00:02:45] diseases.
[00:02:47] For example, hypertension in Estonia is the most obvious target. These
[00:02:51] people can already be identified based on available data.
[00:02:55] If we can find them, then education and treatment will help prevent a heart attack
[00:02:59] or stroke.
[00:04:06] In Russia, the three-day voting for the State Duma elections has ended, it was accompanied by complaints of
[00:04:09] violations and technical failures. In Komi, 48 ballots were found with
[00:04:13] pre-marked votes for United Russia. And in Yakutia, commission members
[00:04:17] opened sealed packages with ballots before the end of
[00:04:19] voting. In Moscow, due to a failure in the voter registration system,
[00:04:23] paper ballots were temporarily not issued. The Central Election Commission also
[00:04:26] reported attacks on the electronic voting system. The last day of
[00:04:30] the elections coincided with a massive attack by Ukrainian drones on
[00:04:34] Moscow and other Russian regions.
[00:04:37] Voting took place today outside Russia, polling stations opened in
[00:04:41] Russian diplomatic missions around the world, including the Russian Embassy
[00:04:45] in Tallinn. At the entrance to the embassy, the police checked and
[00:04:48] photographed the documents of everyone who wished to participate in
[00:04:51] the voting. Very strict checks.
[00:04:55] Is this good or bad? Well, you know
[00:04:58] with such a situation.
[00:06:47] Elections are also taking place in Germany, they are being held today in two federal
[00:06:50] states at once. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, according to the latest polls,
[00:06:54] Alternative for Germany is leading and is predicted to receive about
[00:06:57] 38% of the votes. In Berlin, the struggle is with a minimal
[00:07:00] gap. The Left is ahead of the CDU by only one percentage point.
[00:07:04] These elections are also important for federal politics. After the recent success of
[00:07:07] AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, pressure on Chancellor Friedrich Merz
[00:07:11] has increased, especially in...
[00:07:21] And let's return to local news. The Estonian Open Air Museum celebrated Bread
[00:07:25] Day. Visitors were able to see how rye was grown in ancient times,
[00:07:29] grain was milled, bread was baked, and also real butter was churned.
[00:07:33] One of the most popular places at
[00:07:37] the festival was the Kutsari Haa farm, where guests were introduced
[00:07:40] to ancient methods of making homemade
[00:07:43] butter. We have such a good powerful
[00:07:47] butter churn here that all the cream that we pour in here already starts
[00:07:51] to acquire the desired consistency, the cream slowly turns into
[00:07:55] butter. Guests said, I have never tasted such butter
[00:07:58] in my life. How delicious it is, simply finger-licking
[00:08:02] good. I also make butter, but with the help of
[00:08:05] a slightly older device. Cream is also
[00:08:08] poured here, and if I now move this handle back and forth.
[00:09:12] in the autumn session of parliament, they gathered at the building of the Riigikogu for a demonstration with
[00:09:16] the demand to significantly increase the salaries of public
[00:09:19] sector employees. New ministers took office,
[00:09:22] the post of Minister of Economy and Industry was taken by Liina Vahtros, Martin Herrim became Minister
[00:09:26] of Defense, Erki Kelda moved from the post of Minister
[00:09:29] of Economy to the post of Minister of Energy and Environment.
[00:09:32] In Tallinn, about 200 primary school graduates have not
[00:09:36] yet found a place for further education. More than half of them are
[00:09:40] young people for whom their native language...
[00:10:25] Sergey Mikhailov will continue.
[00:10:27] Starting this academic year, an extended educational obligation is in force
[00:10:30] in Estonia. After primary school, young people must continue
[00:10:34] their education until the age of 18 in a gymnasium, vocational
[00:10:37] school, or preparatory training. But the first year of the new
[00:10:40] system immediately revealed several problems. At the end of summer, hundreds of primary
[00:10:44] school graduates still had no place to continue their studies. Additional
[00:10:48] difficulties arose due to the new admission system SAIS.
[00:10:52] Of course, it was necessary to create a sufficient number. Kristina
[00:11:25] Kallos and demands her resignation. The latter disagrees with this assessment. According
[00:11:29] to her, the new system did not create the problem, it made it
[00:11:32] visible. The fact that students after the ninth grade must continue
[00:11:35] their studies, I understand the stress of the centrists, because
[00:11:38] suddenly the king was naked, that is, they saw that
[00:11:42] in reality, the fact that they study for 9 years in an Estonian school, but do not speak Estonian upon
[00:11:46] graduation, cannot enter anywhere, this has finally been
[00:11:50] revealed in our society, because in
[00:11:52] previous years these children simply were...
[00:12:14] but if the problem with study places manifested itself in the first year of the new system, then a broader question concerns several reforms simultaneously. For the ministry, these are different reforms, but for schools everything happens at the same time, new requirements, new teachers, new schedules, the question is whether the system will have enough resources to cope with all these changes
[00:12:18] at once. Leina Kersna says that several major reforms are taking place in education
[00:12:22] simultaneously. According to her, the problems are not necessarily
[00:12:26] in the changes themselves, but in the system's ability to implement them simultaneously.
[00:12:30] When approximately eight different reforms are carried out
[00:12:33] simultaneously in the field of education, it is quite understandable that the ministry is not
[00:12:36] able to prepare them sufficiently in detail. The field itself, on the other
[00:12:40] hand, is not able to sufficiently accept all these
[00:12:43] reforms, because it simply does not have the resources to master so
[00:12:47] many changes simultaneously, so indeed, I believe, scientific
[00:12:51] data confirms that launching so many reforms at once...
[00:13:55] somewhere, somewhere, in some places, it is necessary to save, it increases,
[00:13:58] tensions appear, I think that these are not the most
[00:14:01] successful reforms, precisely in the sense that additional
[00:14:05] funding was not allocated. At the school level, one
[00:14:09] of the main resources remains people. Kristina Kallos says that before the transition
[00:14:13] to Estonian-language education in schools and kindergartens, there were about 1800
[00:14:16] employees who did not meet the requirements for Estonian language proficiency.
[00:14:20] Now, according to local self-government data, there are just over
[00:14:23] 100 such teachers left, but the former minister.
[00:14:45] Such a measure really helps develop knowledge of the Estonian
[00:14:48] language, but it certainly does not contribute
[00:14:52] to improving the quality of teaching the subjects themselves. I
[00:14:55] believe that first you need to make sure that you have a foundation, teachers,
[00:14:59] educational materials, support, teacher assistants, so that all this does not
[00:15:02] ultimately lead to a situation where a student who is not coping in school due to language
[00:15:06] receives the status of a child with
[00:15:09] create social inequality, but if we can
[00:15:12] guarantee all this help, then such a method of immersion in cold water
[00:15:16] can suit many students, indeed, many. At
[00:15:20] the school level, the consequences of numerous changes are also seen by the director of the Tallinn
[00:15:24] Methodology Center.
[00:15:37] the teachers who work, how much more they can endure, because indeed our
[00:15:41] teachers work with a huge workload all the time, it all falls
[00:15:45] on their shoulders, so I'm still a little afraid for
[00:15:48] the teachers, how many of them are left, for how long will they
[00:15:52] be enough, because there are really too many reforms, the
[00:15:55] transition to Estonian as the language of instruction is called the right step by experts, and Kristina
[00:15:59] Kallos notes that she did not start the reform, but the first results are already
[00:16:03] showing. As of today, at least according to the
[00:16:06] registration provided by the local self-government, we have 144
[00:16:10] teachers left who still do not meet the requirement of Estonian language,
[00:16:14] that is, in 2 years, we have reached a situation with the reform where a teacher stands in front of
[00:16:18] the class who speaks Estonian, who can
[00:16:21] teach in Estonian, because he speaks this language, the children's
[00:16:25] Estonian language is improving, that is,
[00:16:28] what are the real claims, while the former
[00:16:31] minister Yaveksa also draws attention to another level of responsibility,
[00:16:35] the school itself, what does politics have to do with it? What does
[00:16:38] the minister have to do with it when the most important person
[00:16:42] is the teacher and the school director, they can't cope with such
[00:16:46] simple things as guaranteeing the quality of
[00:16:50] graduates, I think that there is the most serious problem, unfortunately,
[00:16:53] another question is how thoroughly the state should
[00:16:57] regulate school life? Maili Streps believes that schools and teachers need
[00:17:00] to be given more autonomy and reduce the number of bureaucratic
[00:17:04] requirements. Let's trust schools again. The course that
[00:17:08] is currently taken, from the beginning of the school day to any management decisions,
[00:17:12] this desire for strict centralization, is absolutely wrong. Our
[00:17:15] peculiarity, our strength, has always been in trust at
[00:17:18] the local level. One specific teacher in the classroom decides everything, we need to
[00:17:21] reduce bureaucracy, because look, when you issue an order from top
[00:17:25] to bottom, how do you control it? You don't go to school yourself, you ask
[00:17:29] for a report, and the more directives from above, the more the teacher fills out all sorts of
[00:17:32] meaningless papers, and the more time is wasted instead of
[00:17:36] doing. the degree of
[00:17:39] control
[00:17:47] by the state, and the Minister of Education insists, the main
[00:17:50] changes are necessary, and their first results are already
[00:17:53] visible.
[00:17:56] The police continue to investigate the circumstances of the death of a young man in
[00:17:59] Kohtla-Järve, four suspects have been taken into custody, another one,
[00:18:03] Roman Vazamaägi, is wanted. The investigation believes that he played
[00:18:06] a key role in the conflict, the high-profile incident again
[00:18:10] raised questions about safety in the city. Dmitry Fedotkin
[00:18:13] visited the scene of the events.
[00:18:16] This is a garage cooperative on Endla Street in Kohtla-Järve. It was on its
[00:18:20] territory on the evening of September 13 that a clash occurred between two
[00:18:24] groups, as a result of which a 21-year-old man died. During the day
[00:18:27] it is usually not crowded here, some garages are abandoned and not used, there is a lot
[00:18:31] of household waste on the territory. We
[00:18:34] know that it all started in one of the entertainment venues. Later,
[00:18:38] the parties agreed to meet and sort things out. This is the information
[00:18:41] we have at the moment. We are currently considering
[00:18:45] and verifying several versions. Now
[00:18:48] the police are trying to reconstruct the events literally minute by minute, who came
[00:18:51] to the scene, what started the conflict, and what happened in those few minutes that
[00:18:55] ended in the death of a 21-year-old man. Investigators continue
[00:18:59] to interview witnesses. There were about 30
[00:19:02] people present at the scene. They are also determining what objects could have been used during
[00:19:06] the conflict as weapons.
[00:20:15] a group of teenagers who climbed into abandoned buildings, no,
[00:20:19] this is very rare, when something happens here,
[00:20:23] maybe 10 years ago, there was something like that, a car was stolen, the police
[00:20:26] came here and everything was quiet, only now this
[00:20:30] commotion is going on in the city, there behind the garages
[00:20:33] is a dump, but sometimes teenagers hang out there, we will
[00:20:36] gather.
[00:20:50] I think that in Kokjarve generally this has been going on for quite
[00:20:54] a long time, it was all there in my youth, and it still is,
[00:20:58] and I think it will happen again, it's just that this time
[00:21:01] it happened that someone died, so everyone
[00:21:05] knows about it, but in reality, what happens here at night, on Friday,
[00:21:09] for example, and on Saturday, about that, well, the story is silent, not everyone talks about it,
[00:21:12] but those who live here, they know everything, despite the resonant
[00:21:16] incident, the police talk about a general trend towards a decrease in the number
[00:21:20] of such calls, including those related to fights and violations
[00:21:23] of public order. The number of calls related
[00:21:27] to crimes against individuals is also decreasing. At the same time, we take into
[00:21:30] account the existing risks and direct police work
[00:21:33] to where it is most needed. It is clear that weekends
[00:21:37] are a more tense time, people have more free time, alcohol is consumed
[00:21:41] more often, and in many cases it is precisely this that becomes one
[00:21:44] of the causes of such conflicts. At different
[00:21:47] times of the day I am on the street.
[00:21:51] I have no bad experiences with the streets
[00:21:54] of Kohtla-Järve parks, fortunately, today we have
[00:21:58] a concrete plan on our table, we are
[00:22:01] considering installing additional
[00:22:04] cameras that will be more qualitative, more
[00:22:07] modern, and there will be many more of them than now, of course. According
[00:22:11] to the police, it is important to report conflicts before the situation
[00:22:15] escalates into a serious incident. We assess
[00:22:18] risks, communicate with participants.
[00:22:24] After that, further measures are taken, so I urge you to report such cases.
[00:22:36] Let's change the subject. The autumn season has started in Estonian theaters.
[00:22:40] The previous one was generally rather successful for them. During this time,
[00:22:43] theaters sold almost 1.3 million tickets and played
[00:22:46] more than 700 performances. In total, there were 700
[00:22:50] productions in the repertoire, 238 of them new. Compared to
[00:22:53] the previous season, the number of visits increased by almost
[00:22:56] 20,000, and 11 more performances were played.
[00:23:00] The most visited theaters in Estonia are the Vanemuine in Tartu.
[00:23:04] It was visited by 144 thousand spectators. It is followed by
[00:23:07] the National Opera - almost 129 thousand. And the Estonian
[00:23:11] Drama Theater - 128 thousand. The most
[00:23:14] popular productions are Money Land. This performance
[00:23:17] was attended by 22 thousand spectators. Next is
[00:23:20] Green Meadows - almost 17,000 and the musical Kinky
[00:23:23] Boots (15,000 spectators). The theater of old Baskins
[00:23:27] gained the most spectators, plus 10,000 spectators per
[00:23:30] season, a growth of 205%. It is followed by
[00:23:33] the Nuutrum theater, also plus 10,000 spectators.
[00:23:37] The Estonian Drama Theater closes the top three leaders, plus
[00:23:40] 6,500 spectators per season. But there are also theaters
[00:23:44] that failed to retain their former audience. The Sodalina Theater
[00:23:48] lost the most spectators. 13,500 or
[00:23:51] 20%, or the National Opera, it
[00:23:54] lost 800 spectators. At the Sodalina Theater
[00:23:58] last season, the most spectators were gathered by Kabiria,
[00:24:01] Dubrovsky clowns flying to Mars. The numbers you see on
[00:24:05] the screen. And in general, a lot has changed at the Sodalina
[00:24:08] Theater over the past year. New name, reduced funding from
[00:24:12] the state, changes in the repertoire. The management admits mistakes in
[00:24:15] communication with the audience and hopes to regain audience trust. How
[00:24:19] will the theater return the audience and what will it surprise them with in the new
[00:24:23] season, Alexandra
[00:24:25] Manart will tell you.
[00:24:27] Along with the renaming last year, the Sodalina Theater lost part of
[00:24:30] its budget, and as recent statistics showed, many
[00:24:33] spectators. The budget cut
[00:24:36] inevitably led to a reduction in administrative
[00:24:39] staff, our actors, but in the end we
[00:24:42] played 30 fewer performances, and this is also a financial
[00:24:45] indicator, it's clear why there are fewer spectators.
[00:25:04] is not as dramatic as Ostrovsky's, and the future of the theater is in the hands of its people, with their ideas,
[00:25:08] inspiration and hard work, as well as the choices that
[00:25:11] the management has to make. Anna Lepyaev admits that during the last difficult
[00:25:15] season with renaming, dismissal of artists, part of the audience
[00:25:19] turned away from.
[00:26:32] Where is the theater going? Last year, the most successful performances were
[00:26:36] Kabiria, Dubrovsky clowns fly to Mars. Also, many
[00:26:39] spectators and income were brought by the rise of the gods, to a greater extent the Estonian
[00:26:43] version, My Fair Lady and Figaro, that is, mainly
[00:26:46] classics, light and musical performances. Of Dmitry
[00:26:50] Petrenko's works, the theater is currently playing Fathers and Children in the small hall
[00:26:53] Diva. His "Much Sun" was removed from the repertoire a year
[00:26:56] after its premiere, the audience did not accept the production. From my
[00:27:00] point of view, a theater that is in
[00:27:03] a period of transformation, in a period of change, it
[00:27:07] is always difficult, it is always difficult for the theater and for the audience
[00:27:10] to understand where the theater is moving, the theater becomes
[00:27:14] somewhere sharper, somewhere
[00:27:15] more unusual,
[00:27:18] perhaps not very familiar, and
[00:27:21] the repertoire and perhaps some visual solutions for the viewer,
[00:27:24] who is perhaps accustomed to something more traditional, what to
[00:27:28] do if the majority of the audience wants one thing, and the management another?
[00:27:32] in the correctly chosen course, the artistic director does not doubt,
[00:27:35] the last thing we want to do or
[00:27:39] should do is to reproach the audience for not knowing or not
[00:27:42] understanding something, and no actor, believe me, on the one hand does not
[00:27:46] want to be unloved, on the other hand no one wants to engage
[00:27:49] in obsequiousness here, just
[00:27:52] do it because the audience wants it that way, but we are still talking about
[00:27:55] art, and a consumerist attitude towards the theater,
[00:27:59] that the client is always right, but that's not about us at all and...
[00:28:32] yes, and half a boot, these are also, in my opinion, some names
[00:28:36] that speak for themselves. Without a dowry by director Dana Ershova,
[00:28:40] a classic with almost surreal decorations, costumes, the theater already
[00:28:44] played this Friday, and in another two weeks a new premiere,
[00:28:48] The Last Knight by Johanna Elm with Elmoga in the main