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[00:00:43] Here it is, this is not my home, Maria, they can dictate to us and tell us how we should
[00:00:47] do it, expect us to obey and behave as external
[00:00:50] expectations? You know, this is such a provocative question for me,
[00:00:54] because as far as I remember in that press release, which I didn't even
[00:00:58] read, just then the journalist...
[00:09:12] borrowed, there is such an opinion, and if there
[00:09:15] is borscht, oh God, what big
[00:09:18] discussions there will be, how can a restaurant of Russian cuisine serve a Ukrainian national
[00:09:22] dish, well, that is, it's a very difficult question, it seems to me, even practically a question
[00:09:26] of a Russian cuisine restaurant in Narva turning into a political question, I
[00:09:29] will still bring you, again not an advertisement, but there is such a cafe in Tallinn
[00:09:33] called Krenka, if you go there, there's a sect in line,
[00:09:37] there are all Estonians, but most importantly, Russians serve there, and people
[00:09:40] like it.
[00:10:25] the prefect, when asked why it's so difficult to attract
[00:10:28] young personnel, young personnel to
[00:10:30] the police, to the border guard, he will say, well, yes, indeed, the views
[00:10:34] of our eastern cities differ,
[00:10:37] plus from the usual Elva,
[00:10:40] Tirva, Pärnu, Haapsalu and so on, plus also
[00:10:44] of course the Russian language and local
[00:10:47] culture, and because of this, as he
[00:10:49] said, because of this inconvenience or feeling of discomfort,
[00:10:53] people need to be attracted with higher salaries, but still there is
[00:10:57] an opinion that our local characteristics are what
[00:11:00] cause a feeling of discomfort among people, especially among
[00:11:03] the younger generation of Estonians, look, I am here, an Estonian,
[00:11:07] my daughter is here, an Estonian, my granddaughter,
[00:11:10] an Estonian, no discomfort, okay, let's
[00:11:13] still look at some more examples, otherwise we've somehow
[00:11:17] really focused on Russian cuisine, and if
[00:11:21] we had to choose which sacred building
[00:11:24] of Narva to place on a tourist poster, what would you choose, the Resurrection
[00:11:28] Cathedral or the Alexander Church, for context, the Resurrection Cathedral
[00:11:31] is an Orthodox
[00:11:32] church,
[00:11:35] and can we, let's remember that both
[00:11:38] these churches were located, well, practically
[00:11:41] simultaneously, were located on the same street and were
[00:11:44] connected on the then city map and on the city
[00:11:47] landscape by one straight beautiful street, that is, you understand,
[00:11:51] I don't see a contradiction here, but I think it would be appropriate to... place
[00:11:55] both, exactly, and if we have to choose, because look, here again
[00:11:59] is the problem, why choose, because, well, conditionally speaking, let's do it differently,
[00:12:03] again, I'll come up with it from another angle, I apologize, if there
[00:12:06] is only the Resurrection Cathedral, because de facto, the majority
[00:12:09] of religious people in Narva are Orthodox, well, there
[00:12:12] aren't that many of them, but if you compare, the Protestant community is very
[00:12:15] small, the Orthodox is larger, choosing de facto by reality,
[00:12:19] what to place on the poster as the main sacred building of Narva, the
[00:12:23] Resurrection Cathedral is needed, but...
[00:12:55] said that Europe begins here, this is what was adopted in twenty-one
[00:12:58] years, and indeed then in twenty-one, when we were all still in the COVID
[00:13:02] crisis, waiting for these gates to open, it was important to emphasize
[00:13:06] on the one hand the border status of the city, on the other
[00:13:09] hand, to remind of Narva's European past, because
[00:13:13] here are a couple of historical facts: Narva became part
[00:13:16] of the European cultural and legal space already in the distant
[00:13:19] year 1345, when the city received Lübeck
[00:13:23] law, the next important step,
[00:14:55] I will echo the words of Murba, because they all come
[00:14:59] here, as a unique place, when from the wall of Narva Castle,
[00:15:02] from the well tower to the Russian bank,
[00:15:06] 101 m. another location, where everything is so compact in the palm of your
[00:15:10] hand, no, and they come
[00:15:13] here, thanks to the fact that Narva has this border status,
[00:15:17] now the border passes very clearly, it
[00:15:20] has become much more tangible than it was
[00:15:23] even 5 years ago, like... Christian
[00:17:37] Cathedral and the icon room are
[00:17:40] open to us, by the way, with a large collection, which
[00:17:43] is a so-called customs confiscate, this is also
[00:17:46] a feature of a border town, and you know, I would like to bring us all back to
[00:17:50] the fact that besides our conversation here in this small
[00:17:53] studio, there is also a large tourist cluster in Ida-Viru County, which has
[00:17:57] just now written and prepared a tourism strategy
[00:18:00] for the next three years, and where they also, first of all, they always
[00:18:04] analyze the tourism market, and it is not at its best.
[00:19:08] what I have within me is part of me, this is Russian culture, the Russian
[00:19:11] language, and what I know, I know Russian literature
[00:19:14] and art quite well, I
[00:19:17] don't feel ashamed of it, but it seems to me that we
[00:19:21] are ashamed of it in Narva, yes, Mikhail, we are not ashamed of it, it is our
[00:19:25] given, but still, you know, again, even speaking, excuse me for interrupting, but
[00:19:29] it is written in the cluster's strategy,
[00:19:32] about "Venice of the North" Narva or it is written, but
[00:19:36] it is not that?
[00:20:50] Time just flies by very quickly, I still want to add one more, yes, one more
[00:20:54] block, don't read the comments, they write a lot of untruths there, don't
[00:20:57] read, we promise, we promise
[00:21:00] our viewers to read some
[00:21:02] comments when there is such an opportunity
[00:21:06] to read normally, this
[00:21:10] is called editing and censorship, we are here without censorship, look, let's still
[00:21:13] talk, we are talking now, you haven't really
[00:21:17] convinced me, but what will happen next? Who should
[00:21:21] continue to develop Narva and what topics in
[00:21:24] Narva, what identity will Narva have, what will we
[00:21:28] represent, he needs a scandal, nothing will change, for this there will be
[00:21:31] elections soon, in 30 years in
[00:21:35] 2056,
[00:21:38] you know, I will say that the world has changed so quickly
[00:21:42] recently, no one saw COVID, no one saw
[00:21:45] how the world moved, yes, didn't foresee, yes, didn't
[00:21:49] foresee and...
[00:23:20] Statistics speak against your
[00:23:23] fears, 96% of Narva's population are Russian-speaking people, even with
[00:23:27] Estonians, as if we are constantly blurring this,
[00:23:30] that is,
[00:23:33] no one disputes that Narva is an Estonian city, all our events, the official part
[00:23:37] is always in Estonian, often there is no translation into Russian, but in Estonian it is always
[00:23:40] there, there is some event of national cultural societies, there is an Estonian dance, an Estonian
[00:23:44] song, always about this, but when we say, let's have something
[00:23:48] Russian, echo, everyone
[00:26:02] is quite close, maybe not 100%, but
[00:26:06] about 90% shows what Narva really is, what
[00:26:09] stereotypes about Narva exist, and what Narva is, and
[00:26:13] what we, I don't know, if it were presented a little
[00:26:16] differently, it would be good, let's
[00:26:19] comment on your opinion, what does such a spread
[00:26:22] mean, why do still a third of people think
[00:26:25] that yes, this is a good, necessary slogan for
[00:26:28] Narva, and what would you say to these people? It's hard for me to say?
[00:30:37] Sociologists, observers and politicians continue to discuss the fresh rating
[00:30:41] of the Isamaa party. This time the focus is on the decline in support
[00:30:44] for the centrists among Russian-speaking
[00:30:45] voters.
[00:30:48] Four Italian servicemen were wounded during exercises at a training ground in
[00:30:52] Latvia as a result of so-called friendly
[00:30:55] fire.
[00:30:57] The Ministry of Internal Affairs has published in open access.