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[00:02:09] By the way, October 12th is a significant date, it was on this day, in
[00:02:13] 1492, Christopher Columbus's expedition reached
[00:02:16] the island of San Salvador, so this day
[00:02:19] is considered the official date of the discovery
[00:02:22] of America. Wow, how many holidays we have on this day, but we
[00:02:26] won't discover America by saying that in 3 minutes we have another news broadcast.
[00:02:30] Nikolay Loshchin will open America for us, because only he
[00:02:34] knows what will be in the issue. Good morning. Good morning, what will the
[00:02:37] announcement be like? What's in the issue today? Good
[00:02:40] morning. Today, Madise will take office as President of Estonia.
[00:02:44] Trade unions and employers will hold negotiations on the minimum wage.
[00:02:47] The police found more illegal migrants in the Nõmme district of the capital.
[00:02:51] There will be other news. We are waiting for the issue.
[00:02:54] In the meantime, let's tell you what topics we will cover in our broadcast after the current
[00:02:58] camera, that is, in the next half hour.
[00:03:03] Before starting home renovations, it is worth finding out what work the law
[00:03:06] requires to be documented, otherwise problems may arise many years
[00:03:10] later.
[00:03:15] The day after tomorrow, the parliament will consider in the second reading a bill that
[00:03:19] provides for new requirements for animal
[00:03:22] shelters.
[00:03:27] Well, up next we have a review. This project is a so-called newspaper from
[00:03:31] October 12, 1931,
[00:03:34] and exactly 95 years ago, the newspaper Vesti Dnya wrote that
[00:03:38] the Estonian Union of Temperance Societies was celebrating its
[00:03:41] twenty-fifth anniversary. On this occasion, a large celebration was held in the large assembly hall
[00:03:44] of Tartu University, which was attended by several ministers. In the 1920s
[00:03:48] and 1930s of the last century,
[00:03:52] the temperance union was a fairly large public organization in
[00:03:55] Estonia. Its headquarters were located in Tallinn, and there were a total of
[00:03:58] 14,000 members
[00:04:05] across the country. The Estonian Union was a member of international anti-alcohol
[00:04:08] organizations and in 1926
[00:04:11] hosted the World Congress against Alcoholism.
[00:04:15] 95 years ago, there was also an article about a meeting between representatives
[00:04:19] of the Ministry of Public Education and Social Security and
[00:04:22] employees of the Tallinn Department for the Affairs of the Poor. At the
[00:04:26] meeting, issues of combating unemployment and providing assistance were discussed.
[00:04:30] First
[00:04:33] of all, it was about a new directive on providing the unemployed with
[00:04:36] bread from state grain reserves, and special
[00:04:39] attention should be paid to large families of the unemployed when distributing
[00:04:43] bread. At this meeting, the
[00:04:47] issue of organizing vocational courses for
[00:04:49] the unemployed was discussed. Let's pay attention to another note from
[00:04:53] October 12, 1931.
[00:04:56] Vesti dnya also reported on the successful
[00:05:00] concerts of the Czech violin virtuoso named Vasya
[00:05:03] Prigoda. He was not just a visiting foreign performer, but
[00:05:07] truly an international star. Vasya Prigoda
[00:05:11] became famous for his unusual virtuosic technique, especially
[00:05:15] his performance of Paganini's music. At that time, he toured extensively in the USA and
[00:05:18] Europe, and now he reached Tallinn for the first time, where he gave
[00:05:22] two concerts. Tickets were by no means cheap, but both
[00:05:26] concerts were completely sold out and the audience was delighted.
[00:05:42] Good morning, news is on air. Today Ulya Madise will take
[00:05:45] office as President of Estonia. First, the elected
[00:05:49] president and her spouse will arrive at Kadriorg, where they will be met by President
[00:05:53] Alar Karis and Sirje Karis. Then they will proceed together to the square
[00:05:57] in front of the parliament building. President Alar Karis
[00:06:00] will greet the honor guard, after which both presidents will proceed to Toompea
[00:06:04] Castle. At 3:00 PM, Alar Karis
[00:06:07] will deliver a speech, then Jüri Madise will take
[00:06:09] the presidential oath and deliver his first address as head of
[00:06:13] state. The ceremony will be broadcast, including by
[00:06:16] ETV.
[00:06:19] The central unions of trade unions and employers will begin negotiations today
[00:06:22] on the amount of the minimum wage for the twenty- seventh year. According to the head of
[00:06:26] the Central Union of Trade Unions, Kaeva, trade unions will advocate
[00:06:29] in negotiations for the decent payment of full-time workers.
[00:06:33] In 2023, an agreement of good
[00:06:36] will was reached between trade unions and employers,
[00:06:40] according to which the minimum
[00:06:43] wage should gradually reach 50% of the average
[00:06:46] gross salary in Estonia. According to data for the second quarter of the twenty-sixth year,
[00:06:49] the average gross salary in Estonia was 2,243
[00:06:53] euros per month. The minimum wage since April 2006
[00:06:57] is 946 euros, or about 42% of the
[00:07:00] average salary, notes
[00:07:02] Rooser. In the third quarter of this year, the number
[00:07:06] of registered unemployed in Estonia decreased to
[00:07:08] 38,000. According to the Unemployment Insurance Fund, such a low
[00:07:12] number of unemployed was last seen at the beginning of the year 2000. At the same time,
[00:07:16] the number of vacancies increased by more than a quarter over the year and amounted to
[00:07:20] 5,250. Most of the new offers
[00:07:23] appeared in manufacturing, trade, and
[00:07:26] construction. Competition for jobs also decreased.
[00:07:29] If last year there were 11 registered
[00:07:33] unemployed people per vacancy on average, this year there are
[00:07:36] seven. The board of the Unemployment Insurance Fund noted that
[00:07:39] the possibility of finding a job still depends on skills,
[00:07:42] the field in which one seeks
[00:07:44] employment. The police again detained 10 Sudanese citizens
[00:07:48] in the Tallinn district of Nõmme who were illegally in Estonia.
[00:07:52] Around 1:38 PM, the police received a report of two men on Valdeku
[00:07:56] Street. It turned out that they were in Estonia
[00:07:59] illegally. Other illegal immigrants were hiding nearby.
[00:08:02] Law enforcement officers began searching with the help of police dogs and
[00:08:06] drones. Eight more men were found in the nearby forest,
[00:08:09] who were trying to hide. One of them resorted.
[00:08:26] for staying in Estonia, only one had an identity document. As a result of
[00:08:27] the recent
[00:08:31] Russian air strikes on Ukrainian cities, six civilians were killed. A grocery store was attacked in Kharkiv, killing three people and injuring
[00:08:35] 20 more, including two children. In addition,
[00:08:39] a thermal power plant was attacked.
[00:08:41] The strikes came against the backdrop of statements by US President Donald
[00:08:45] Trump about an energy truce between Russia and
[00:08:47] Ukraine.
[00:08:50] Iran has released a video allegedly showing the
[00:08:53] destruction of a large oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. According to
[00:08:57] Iran, this is a supertanker 313 meters
[00:08:59] long, which is capable of carrying 2.5 million
[00:09:03] barrels of oil at a time. According to
[00:09:06] the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the tanker was destroyed by a sea
[00:09:10] mine after it attempted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz without
[00:09:14] Iran's permission and with its navigation system switched off. Iran
[00:09:17] again threatened to destroy all tankers that attempt
[00:09:21] to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in the same
[00:09:23] way.
[00:09:25] Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels against
[00:09:28] the European Union's climate policy. According to police estimates,
[00:09:32] 45,000 people participated
[00:09:34] in the action. Organizers speak of 60,000. Participants
[00:09:38] in the action put forward five demands, including raising taxes for
[00:09:41] fuel companies and stopping the subsidization of fossil
[00:09:44] fuels. They also demanded a just transition to an environmentally
[00:09:48] sustainable society and more active international
[00:09:51] cooperation in the fight against climate
[00:09:53] change. At the end of the broadcast, the weather forecast:
[00:09:57] it will be cloudy during the day, it will rain, in the morning there may be thunderstorms in places, the wind
[00:10:01] is variable at 1.7 m/s. On the northern coast, gusts up to
[00:10:04] 18 m/s. Air temperature from 8 to 13°
[00:10:08] Celsius. That's the news for this minute, see you in half an hour.
[00:10:22] October 12th.
[00:10:55] Estonia, who will work in her team, our colleague
[00:11:55] or change the heating, before you tackle all this, it's worth finding out
[00:11:59] which works the law requires to be documented, otherwise problems
[00:12:03] may arise years later when selling housing or in an insurance case. And
[00:12:07] in our studio is sworn attorney of Lidl Pilf Law Office, Oleg
[00:12:10] Matveev. Good morning, good morning, good morning, where is this line drawn,
[00:12:14] is there a clear definition of what is considered cosmetic repair and
[00:12:17] minor alterations, and what really requires
[00:12:21] a new project and approvals? Well, let's say so, yes, indeed.
[00:13:25] For example, people often demolish a wall between rooms, creating a studio.
[00:13:29] Sometimes you can see people moving the kitchen to
[00:13:32] the living room, and turning the kitchen into an additional
[00:13:36] bedroom or another room. In such cases,
[00:13:39] how difficult is it to do all this, what needs
[00:13:42] to be documented, because often load-bearing walls must
[00:13:46] remain? Yes, indeed, this is a very important question. The law clearly states that if it's 0 to 20
[00:13:50] square meters of space,
[00:13:53] well, a house, conditionally speaking, apartment associations naturally
[00:13:57] do not fall under this, because they are automatically more than 0.20 square meters. Yes,
[00:14:00] indeed, you need to submit in 11 cases a notice, that is, a construction
[00:14:04] permit is 100% necessary to formally contact construction specialists,
[00:14:08] construction bureaus that deal with all this documentation. Yes, we
[00:14:11] know that in real life, I apologize, very often
[00:14:15] no one complies with any requirements or procedures, but if, conditionally speaking, you
[00:14:18] actually add a toilet, make it wider, for example, include
[00:14:22] a bathtub, then here formally, theoretically,
[00:14:25] they could find fault, but we know that they don't always find fault. Well, what difficulties
[00:14:29] can arise here when selling or in an insurance case, because a person
[00:14:32] rebuilt it, lives there himself, he is happy with everything, it is precisely when selling that
[00:14:36] there can indeed be 100% difficulties, because
[00:14:38] even the questions that banks asked, yes, that is,
[00:14:42] an appraisal is usually conducted, that is, an expert, conditionally speaking,
[00:14:45] an appraiser with the necessary certified category
[00:14:48] comes and appraises it. He looks to see if there were building permits, or if there were no building permits.
[00:14:52] If the appraisal report states that there were no
[00:14:56] building permits, that everything was done without complying with the rules, then
[00:15:00] indeed, banks may impose
[00:15:02] stricter requirements for obtaining a loan. Whether they will give it or not is another
[00:15:06] question, and I also have a personal story on this topic,
[00:15:09] that is, let's say, here there is really a lot of responsibility
[00:15:13] on the buyer himself and the seller himself, if they agree,
[00:15:17] if, conditionally speaking, the buyer has money to pay
[00:15:20] immediately, then no problems arise, but if the buyer needs, conditionally
[00:15:23] speaking, tens of thousands of euros in credit, yes, which he doesn't have, then
[00:15:27] indeed, these can be very serious problems. And let's take another situation, a person had
[00:15:31] a spacious studio, and he decided to put up partitions, walls,
[00:15:35] to make it into a two-room apartment. For example, he did not touch
[00:15:38] any load-bearing structures, on the contrary, he added structures
[00:15:41] there, and what in this case also requires these long
[00:15:45] approvals? Well, you know, I think that still 100% here,
[00:15:49] it's clear that I can't say yes or no unambiguously, but I would still 100%
[00:15:52] recommend contacting construction specialists in this regard,
[00:15:56] I would still consult with them just in case, I would agree
[00:16:00] with the city, I would call the administrations, where there is a whole
[00:16:03] construction department, and I would clarify these issues, because, well, as it were, yes, that is,
[00:16:06] you can do it on a whim, that is, on the one hand, you don't really
[00:16:10] destroy the walls that were there, but on the other
[00:16:13] hand, there are a lot of nuances that, as
[00:16:16] it were, you can, conditionally speaking, get very seriously lost in these topics. Well,
[00:16:20] there are also nuances that concern, for example, another situation, when
[00:16:23] apartments are combined, a wall is demolished and larger
[00:16:27] apartments are made by people.
[00:16:30] How should this be done, what should be kept in mind? Well, if a wall is demolished,
[00:16:33] then definitely, I repeat, there must be a project.
[00:17:07] and if it suddenly turns out that the official data does not
[00:17:10] correspond, from the same register does not correspond
[00:17:14] to reality, then theoretically, of course, the buyer can make
[00:17:18] a claim, but again to the seller, but again, this will not always
[00:17:21] bear fruit, because you need to clearly prove the damage, what damage
[00:17:25] was caused, what damage was not caused. If the alteration happened many years ago, can
[00:17:29] it be legalized retroactively? A very important
[00:17:32] question. The law clearly states the deadlines. If it happened, conditionally
[00:17:35] speaking, before mid-2015, then
[00:17:39] it is assumed that everything is more or less legal, everything will be much more
[00:17:42] simplified. It even specifies that if
[00:17:46] it was theoretically done before 1999, there it's generally, conditionally speaking, almost
[00:17:49] automatic. But if it was done, for example, in 2020, in 2021,
[00:17:53] that is, as it were, you, conditionally speaking, fall under these... Why exactly 2015
[00:17:57] is the year, the law, the legislator decided so,
[00:18:00] yes, that is, conditionally speaking, they decided so, well, probably they decided that, conditionally speaking, conditional
[00:18:04] limitation periods, conditionally reasonable periods like that. Someone did
[00:18:08] something, decided to legalize it now, and it turns out that many
[00:18:11] violations occurred during this alteration, what consequences could force him
[00:18:15] to return everything to its original state? Well, theoretically, they can indeed force
[00:18:18] him to return it to its original state, but again, here it's a matter of negotiation, that is, I don't believe
[00:18:22] that, conditionally speaking, sometimes it will be necessary to demolish everything again, sometimes they
[00:18:26] themselves give time requirements, that is, some specialists are invited, but
[00:18:30] again, here it really depends a lot on the local self-government, one local self-government
[00:18:33] will say one thing, another local self-government will say another. Legal disputes... Well,
[00:18:37] we were just talking about what can happen inside
[00:18:50] a house or apartment, but if we take, again, some multi-apartment
[00:18:54] buildings, then we know that there are many
[00:18:57] forbidden things, for example, glazing a
[00:19:00] balcony is not allowed, that all balconies must be
[00:19:03] alike. At one's discretion, make some kind of.
[00:19:37] general meeting, that is, you need to look at the charter, that is, a person
[00:19:41] must ask for permission from the apartment association, here yes,
[00:19:45] here yes, and the residents must give their consent, yes, in certain cases
[00:19:49] indeed sometimes all residents must give their consent, in certain
[00:19:52] cases, that is, simply, conditionally speaking, the majority that
[00:19:55] voted, but as it were, conditionally
[00:19:58] speaking, that is, yes, here too there is a very different story, well, again,
[00:20:02] if this glazing of the balcony was done
[00:20:05] a long time ago, and it stands now in this form, then it has
[00:20:09] the right to exist, it turns out so, well, in real life, simply
[00:20:13] speaking, yes. Oleg Matveev was with us today, sworn attorney
[00:24:01] The day after tomorrow, Riigikogu will consider in the second reading a bill
[00:24:05] introducing new requirements for animal
[00:24:08] shelters. In particular, it is about mandatory
[00:24:11] operating permits and new rules for keeping
[00:24:14] animals. Well, we keep this animal, the authors of the changes
[00:24:18] expect to improve conditions in shelters, but some organizations
[00:24:21] fear that they will not be able to meet the new
[00:24:25] requirements. In our studio,
[00:24:28] who has already been with us, as well as the founder of the Kaselo shelter, Alena Meer,
[00:24:31] and volunteer of this shelter, Kristina Pritsik, good morning, good morning,
[00:24:35] good morning, let's talk about what concerns you most, what will
[00:24:39] change? We are concerned that they want to introduce
[00:24:42] conditions that cats should be kept in groups of six,
[00:24:46] with one litter box for each adult cat.
[00:24:50] If you explain it visually,
[00:24:53] you take six cats, put them in 9 square meters,
[00:24:56] put six litter boxes, we won't be able to put
[00:24:59] houses, a running wheel, they will just
[00:25:03] sit there as if in litter boxes, well, you could say so,
[00:25:06] yes. And tell us how your life in the shelter is organized now.
[00:25:09] Now, life in the shelter is such that it is close to
[00:25:12] home, that is, there are sofas, there are
[00:25:16] beds, you can walk on windowsills, you can jump on...
[00:25:20] wardrobes, there are houses everywhere, that is, when a cat
[00:25:23] gets home, it knows where to
[00:25:26] hide, where it can walk,
[00:25:29] and how it generally
[00:25:32] exists in the wild, that is, in a large
[00:25:34] room. Well, it looks like a good
[00:25:37] intention, yes, that cats have their own litter boxes,
[00:25:41] that they can only be kept in groups of six.
[00:25:44] Why are you not in agreement with
[00:25:47] providing them a good life? Is it precisely because
[00:25:51] there won't be enough space to put
[00:25:55] litter boxes and other accessories? That's
[00:25:59] also true, yes, but still, cats are meant to be...
[00:26:02] a colony. We, in our case, if we look at the trend, our cats, they
[00:26:06] can lie in a pile of 10 pieces,
[00:26:09] purring to each other, communicating. Here, we will simply have
[00:26:13] to choose, say, six cats from our room, place them in
[00:26:16] these conditions, and most likely conflicts
[00:26:19] will begin, because there will be less space, less opportunity
[00:26:23] to hide, to leave, and this, of course,
[00:26:26] will be a great stress for them. Well, what will you do if the law
[00:26:30] is passed? What then?
[00:26:34] Stop your activities, reorient somehow, what
[00:26:37] to do? If it's just about rooms, then
[00:26:41] of course we will have to make all these
[00:26:44] partitions and place
[00:26:47] the cats like that, but that's better than what they propose, which is to keep animals
[00:26:51] in cages. You can keep them in
[00:26:54] groups of six or in cages, but life in cages is
[00:26:57] completely not life, they still need to move and
[00:27:01] walk and... if
[00:27:03] we have to do it, although we really don't want to, then we
[00:27:07] are very afraid that the cats may simply die from such
[00:27:10] stress. And how many shelters do we have in
[00:27:13] Estonia that potentially may not comply with these new
[00:27:17] requirements, and what does this mean for them? Closure
[00:27:20] or can these shelters, say, take
[00:27:24] fewer cats? Every non-profit
[00:27:28] organization, because everyone has rooms.
[00:27:30] Most of our shelters are like that,
[00:27:34] all of us, the big, large shelters, we ask to be
[00:27:38] heard, we all understand that this could be
[00:27:41] the end of this story that we
[00:27:43] are doing,
[00:27:45] and also taking in new cats, as we
[00:27:48] are doing now, catching colonies, catching colonies for a couple
[00:27:52] of months, of course we will not succeed in this, and
[00:27:56] it is very important that if we go and we
[00:27:59] see that there is a colony, we catch every single one.
[00:28:03] So that there is no longer that colony there. Well, what then if
[00:28:06] we imagine a black scenario, shelters start closing en masse
[00:28:10] because they cannot comply with new requirements? What will happen to these
[00:28:13] animals? Release them into the wild to breed stray cats or will they be
[00:28:17] euthanized? What to do? Well, most likely yes, they will
[00:28:20] then multiply there, so
[00:28:22] that colonies will grow, and if they
[00:28:26] call, other shelters will certainly come, those who will have the opportunity
[00:28:30] to keep animals, but they also have their own rules. 14 days
[00:28:34] for euthanasia, because we all know that
[00:28:37] cats, most of them, are unhealthy from the street,
[00:28:40] it all requires a lot of resources, a lot of
[00:28:44] time. So, if many cats arrive at once,
[00:28:47] where will they put them all? Now this is distributed
[00:28:51] among all non-profit organizations and
[00:28:54] we are coping, yes, that is, for one shelter it will be
[00:28:58] too much, they simply won't cope. And do we have
[00:29:02] many stray cats in general? Because if we walk around
[00:29:05] the city, we very rarely see
[00:29:08] stray cats now, unlike in other countries where we
[00:29:12] go and see that there are indeed many of them. Absolutely
[00:29:16] right, but unfortunately, if we go outside the
[00:29:18] city, there are people who
[00:29:22] take them, for example, to the dacha for the summer,
[00:29:25] I don't know why, in fact, cats don't need to walk,
[00:29:28] nor do they smell the air through...
[00:29:32] but that's enough for them, they unfortunately leave them there, many
[00:29:36] are not spayed or neutered, and if several
[00:29:39] of them are brought there, then a colony starts to appear,
[00:29:43] the colony grows, grows, grows,
[00:29:46] and it can all end very badly. Well, the
[00:29:49] bill, if it is adopted and becomes law,
[00:29:53] provides for a transitional period until January 1, 2028,
[00:29:56] to bring everything into compliance with the requirements, is this realistic,
[00:29:59] no? Firstly, it will be...
[00:30:03] too short a period, there is no
[00:30:06] financial capacity for non-profit
[00:30:08] organizations, this all
[00:30:12] costs money.
[00:30:15] I don't know, there's another point about
[00:30:18] the veterinary point, yes, that we should always have
[00:30:22] a veterinarian on site, but unfortunately, for
[00:30:24] donations, for the fact that the shelter even lives, volunteers
[00:30:28] don't get a penny, the founder doesn't...
[00:30:31] that's how it turns out, well, we have clinics
[00:30:45] with whom we work
[00:30:48] and it's 7-10 minutes drive from us,
[00:30:52] if we see that the cat needs some help or some new examination, they
[00:30:55] accept us immediately, that is, to have.