RUSSIA24 — Vesti. Dezhurnaya chast
20260920 082200 UTC
504 transcript segments
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking
Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive.
Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record.

[00:00:00] Golden Khokhloma, how cunning merchants profit from
[00:00:04] ancient folk art and "khokhlomachiev",
[00:00:08] selling fakes, how dangerous are counterfeits made from cheap
[00:00:11] raw materials, and what a real production
[00:00:14] of masterpieces looks like. Our report from the birthplace of the famous
[00:00:17] painting: witness interrogation completed,
[00:00:21] next are closing arguments and the verdict. What the
[00:00:24] daughter of the murdered former mayor of Samara, Viktor Tarkhov, testified
[00:00:27] about in court, what the accused promised to tell...
[00:00:30] a high-profile case. The art of ensuring
[00:00:33] security: how the most beautiful battalion of the Russian Guard
[00:00:37] protects the Hermitage. Why do they need
[00:00:40] cats?
[00:00:46] The Tagansky Court of Moscow arrested Kristina Borisova, due to whose fault
[00:00:50] a motorcyclist died while driving a Bentley. The girl,
[00:00:53] who had her driver's license revoked, turned across a
[00:00:56] double solid line and left the biker no choice.
[00:01:08] Just yesterday, Kristina Borisova was driving around Moscow in a
[00:01:12] white and blue Bentley for 30 million
[00:01:15] rubles. Her new transport is of the same colors, but clearly more modest:
[00:01:19] a police paddy wagon. The girl was brought to the Tagansky District
[00:01:23] Court for a pre-trial detention hearing.
[00:01:27] Borisova did not hide her face, as often happens in such cases.
[00:01:30] She calmly entered the hall with a bottle of water in her hands. There were no
[00:01:34] tears or remorse in her eyes, because according to police data, a motorcyclist died
[00:01:38] due to her fault. The fatal accident occurred at this
[00:01:41] intersection. The motorcyclist was moving from the side of Proletarskaya Street, and Kristina
[00:01:45] Borisova blocked his way. She
[00:01:48] sharply turned across the double solid line. Here are these frames. The girl
[00:01:52] in the Bentley unexpectedly swerves into the oncoming lane. The motorcyclist, who
[00:01:55] is moving in his lane, does not have time to react and crashes
[00:01:59] into the elite foreign car.
[00:02:02] Biker Denis Gorin, general director of the investment company,
[00:02:06] died. The probable culprit of the accident did not receive
[00:02:09] serious injuries and, according to eyewitnesses, fled the scene of
[00:02:12] the accident. She got out of the car and ran off into
[00:02:15] the alley, and when the traffic police arrived, they brought her back from there.
[00:02:19] In these frames, Borisova is already sitting in a police car, looking
[00:02:23] bewildered. Her parents quickly arrived at the scene of the accident.
[00:02:26] What condition is your daughter in now?
[00:02:30] She had an accident. Their silence is understandable, because Kristina, at
[00:02:33] the time of the accident, had her driver's license revoked, and this
[00:02:37] accident was the seventh for the premium-class car in the last
[00:02:40] 6 years. The Bentley has 146 fines,
[00:02:44] almost 300,000 rubles. Most of them are for
[00:02:47] illegal parking, there are also speeding and driving in the oncoming
[00:02:50] lane violations. Kristina Borisova, by the way, has repeatedly been at the center of
[00:02:54] traffic scandals. In these frames, presumably Kristina, along with
[00:02:58] a friend, is trying to escape from a police officer. The girl was stopped
[00:03:02] allegedly because she got behind the wheel of a carsharing vehicle using
[00:03:05] a fake account. "It's a long story, he didn't give
[00:03:09] anything." In this video too,
[00:03:12] Kristina is this time covering the license plate of a car near a restaurant on
[00:03:16] Patriarch's Ponds. The girl is covering the license plate of a
[00:03:19] Bentley, the latest model. Kristina Borisova studied at Moscow State University.
[00:03:23] There is no official information about her work. However, journalists learned curious
[00:03:26] details about her travels. 20.
[00:04:00] several more expensive cars are registered, perhaps
[00:04:03] that's why her parents so easily entrusted their beloved daughter with a powerful car
[00:04:07] that accelerates to 100 km/h in
[00:04:09] 4.5 seconds. According to experts, if the girl
[00:04:13] had followed traffic rules, the accident with the motorcyclist could
[00:04:17] have been avoided. In recent days, cases where
[00:04:20] motorcyclists are involved in accidents
[00:04:24] due to the fault of cars are becoming more frequent, because when performing certain
[00:04:27] maneuvers, especially in the evening, especially in... weather,
[00:04:30] motorists simply do not have time to see the motorcyclist
[00:04:34] moving in the opposite direction. A criminal
[00:04:37] case has been initiated regarding the high-profile accident. The prosecutor's office
[00:04:41] of the Central Administrative District is monitoring
[00:04:44] the investigation of the circumstances of the road traffic accident.
[00:04:48] Employees of the investment company, which was managed by the deceased motorcyclist
[00:04:51] Denis Gorin, as well as his close ones, are currently refraining from comments. But
[00:04:55] of course, they very much hope that this time the reckless Borisova will not escape
[00:04:59] punishment and will not be able to drive a car for a long time. By court
[00:05:03] decision, she will definitely spend the next 2 months in pre-trial detention. Yana
[00:05:06] Nalimova, Valeria Vershinina, Vesti, Duty
[00:05:09] Unit. Thousands of Russian Guard officers and police
[00:05:13] are on heightened alert these days. They are guarding polling stations,
[00:05:16] and additional patrols have been organized in the streets, at train stations, and
[00:05:20] airports. The law enforcement officers themselves
[00:05:23] were among the first to vote. Our correspondent Anton Shestakov also made his
[00:05:27] choice and saw how the
[00:05:29] security forces work. At Yaroslavsky railway station in the capital,
[00:05:33] passengers are met and escorted by armed officers of the Russian Guard and
[00:05:36] police. During the elections in Moscow, as throughout the country,
[00:05:40] security measures have been strengthened, with special attention.
[00:06:42] around the city of Moscow. We are in the very heart of the capital's main department
[00:06:46] of the Russian Guard, where an operational headquarters has been established for the duration of the elections, which
[00:06:49] includes heads of departments of the capital's main department of the Russian Guard, as well as
[00:06:52] officers of units that are under the operational
[00:06:56] command of the capital's main department during the elections. This is the 55th division and
[00:07:00] the separate special purpose division ADON. All information
[00:07:03] from the city's polling stations flows here. For example, on
[00:07:07] this screen, cameras are displayed that are located on Russian Guard
[00:07:10] officers when they... work
[00:07:13] at polling stations. Here,
[00:07:16] officers, commanders
[00:07:19] of non-departmental security units by districts, are displayed, and on the
[00:07:23] third screen, cameras of the safe city that show
[00:07:27] the general situation in the capital during the elections. While we were filming this
[00:07:31] material, alarming information was received at the headquarters about a suspicious object found
[00:07:34] near a polling station, in the area of polling station number 2910. This is
[00:07:38] school 2005
[00:07:41] of the North-Western District of Moscow. about the discovery of an unattended
[00:07:43] bag
[00:07:46] near the fence. The area has been cordoned off,
[00:07:49] measures are being taken. Here is another emergency: non-departmental security
[00:07:52] officers provided assistance to a pensioner who felt ill
[00:07:56] at the polling station. The woman was hospitalized with
[00:07:59] a heart attack.
[00:08:02] Security at polling stations is provided by employees of private
[00:08:06] security companies. Their work is also controlled by the Russian Guard, but
[00:08:09] undoubtedly, points for collecting information about the voting process
[00:08:12] are in a special zone of attention. Of course, not only the polling
[00:08:16] stations themselves are guarded, but perhaps the two most
[00:08:19] important places are the buildings of the Moscow City Electoral Commission and
[00:08:23] the Central Electoral Commission. Here, there is increased attention. Police officers
[00:08:26] stand along the perimeter, employees of non-departmental security, employees of OMON
[00:08:30] Avangard, the main directorate of the Russian Guard for the city of Moscow.
[00:08:34] The guys have standard issue weapons with them, Makarov pistols and Kalashnikov
[00:08:37] assault rifles. In case of necessity, they have the right to use them. Therefore, employees
[00:08:41] of the Russian Guard and...
[00:09:23] Such preparations for the single voting day took place across the country.
[00:09:26] These are footage from Irkutsk, where Russian Guard units
[00:09:30] are lined up on the parade ground and ready to start duty. And this is
[00:09:33] Bryansk, where fully equipped fighters receive last
[00:09:36] instructions before heading out on their route. In Arkhangelsk and
[00:09:39] Ivanovo, polling stations were checked by dog handlers
[00:09:42] with dogs.
[00:09:44] Increased attention to security measures is also observed in the new territories. These are footage
[00:09:48] from the Zaporozhye region and the Donetsk People's Republic, where Russian Guard officers
[00:09:52] guard polling stations as if they were on the line
[00:09:56] of combat contact, in bulletproof vests with automatic rifles in
[00:09:59] their hands, so that everyone who came to cast their vote felt
[00:10:02] safe. Anton
[00:10:05] Chastakov, Okseniya Sorokina, Sergey Klinkov, Vesti, Duty
[00:10:08] Unit. Horned ram, all over the country.
[00:10:12] Moose are attacking motorists. This week, several high-profile
[00:10:16] accidents occurred. For example, in the Oryol
[00:10:19] region, a collision with a moose cost the driver and two of his
[00:10:23] passengers their lives.
[00:10:55] In Moscow, the accident happened around 8 pm in the dark. He jumped
[00:10:59] over the oncoming barrier right in front of
[00:11:03] our car. There was about half a second to react. The moment of the accident
[00:11:06] was captured by road cameras. Here, a moose unhurriedly crosses half
[00:11:10] of the roadway. Drivers see the animal, drive around it, and flash
[00:11:14] their hazard lights. The moose reaches the dividing barrier,
[00:11:17] jumps over it, and is immediately hit by Alexander Kazakov's car. "My
[00:11:21] eyes were in the glass." The moose died on the spot and remained lying
[00:11:25] in the middle of the roadway. At immense speed, another car crashed into it.
[00:11:28] The car overturned and flew several dozen
[00:11:32] meters.
[00:11:36] Fortunately, the participants of the accident got away with bruises and scratches.
[00:11:40] The horn tore off,
[00:11:43] and flew into the cabin. The wrecked car, along with the trophy horn, was taken
[00:11:47] on a tow truck to Kazan. Expensive repairs are ahead.
[00:11:50] This is equivalent to a collision
[00:11:53] with, for example, a motorcyclist.
[00:11:55] Even if we cannot immediately assess it without detailed inspection,
[00:11:59] in any case, it will cost more than 100,000 rubles. In the last
[00:12:02] two weeks, accidents involving moose have been recorded almost every day.
[00:12:06] This is the Oryol region. On the night from Thursday to Friday, a moose jumped
[00:12:10] onto the highway. The driver and two passengers died. In the Novgorod
[00:12:13] region, a collision with a moose cost the life of
[00:12:16] a 35-year-old car driver. Moose are currently
[00:12:19] in their rutting season. They do not feel danger and can travel
[00:12:23] more than 120 km per day. They do this to find a potential
[00:12:27] partner. They also become braver at this time,
[00:12:30] and therefore often enter cities, including cities. This is Yaroslavl
[00:12:34] Highway. A moose confidently weaves through the traffic. Another moose
[00:12:38] reached Moscow, dictating its rules at the intersection.
[00:12:42] "A moose, holy cow! And I have to turn now, and it seems
[00:12:45] he does too." In migration areas for moose, road
[00:12:49] signs for wild animals are installed. Fences
[00:12:52] installed along forest areas are supposed to prevent animals
[00:12:55] from entering federal highways, but the horned animals
[00:12:59] break through every spring and autumn. We decided to drive along
[00:13:02] Moscow region highways and check the condition of these
[00:13:05] fences. The surroundings of the M-11 highway,
[00:13:09] a toll road to St. Petersburg. We drove about
[00:13:12] three kilometers from Moscow, stopped at a random spot, and
[00:13:16] indeed, there is such a chain-link fence all along the forest perimeter.
[00:13:19] Whether it can hold back a moose weighing over 300 kg
[00:13:23] is a question. Well, we walked about 50 meters and found
[00:13:27] a hole in the fence. In this forest, there are definitely
[00:13:30] animals, and the road is about 20 meters away, and traffic on
[00:13:34] it does not subside day or night. The situation is alarming on
[00:13:37] free highways, this is M10, Leningradskoe Highway.
[00:13:41] Next to it is a fence with holes of different types and sizes. In some
[00:13:45] places, the net is stretched as if just for show. Well,
[00:13:47] like here, the mesh is tied
[00:13:51] to a pole with thin wires. Most likely, this hole is the work of
[00:13:55] humans, a path leads to the forest... and if you walk another
[00:13:59] ten meters, then there is another
[00:14:03] hole in the fence. Here, the mesh is bent towards the
[00:14:06] road, as if some animal broke through it at a run
[00:14:10] and went towards the roadway. Road workers assure that almost all
[00:14:13] the holes in the fence are the work of humans. The mesh is cut by
[00:14:17] mushroom pickers and lovers of forest walks. All this is inspected
[00:14:20] daily by road masters. Inspected.
[00:14:24] Accepted.
[00:14:29] This is all restored weekly. Part of the problem of animals appearing on busy highways could be
[00:14:33] solved by ecoducts, which are bridges for animal migration, built over
[00:14:37] highways. Instead of asphalt, there is earth and vegetation, a complete
[00:14:40] imitation of a natural environment. But wild animals take a very
[00:14:43] long time to get used to new structures and are not always willing to use
[00:14:47] them. It's easier for a moose to rush across the highway,
[00:14:51] cutting off the traffic flow.
[00:14:55] Wild animals are state
[00:14:57] property. In case of an accident, the motorist will have to pay compensation to the treasury:
[00:15:01] 80,000 rubles if a moose was injured in the accident.
[00:15:04] For a wild boar, they will be forced to reimburse 30,000, and 40,000 for a
[00:15:07] roe deer. For a dead wolf or fox, they will have to pay
[00:15:11] 200 rubles per animal. If an accident occurred,
[00:15:14] you cannot leave the scene of the accident. You need to call the police and report
[00:15:18] the incident to the hunting inspectors. By OSAGO, you can get
[00:15:22] compensation, meaning the insurance company
[00:15:25] will pay the state 80,000 rubles. But he will still be left with a broken
[00:15:29] car that needs repairs. Often, accidents involving moose lead to
[00:15:33] human fatalities. An animal on thin legs weighing up to
[00:15:36] half a ton. The center of gravity is just at the level
[00:15:39] of the windshield. In accidents, the carcass often ends up in
[00:15:42] the cabin. The hero of our report, Alexander Kozakov, was lucky. He
[00:15:46] managed to steer away and hit the moose tangentially, but now
[00:15:50] he is afraid to drive in the dark. In the dark, we currently have a very
[00:15:54] big phobia of driving. Alexander Kozakov, as required,
[00:15:58] called the traffic police and game wardens. They took the carcass and registered the death
[00:16:01] of the moose. No fines have been reported yet, but Alexander claims
[00:16:05] that the accident was unavoidable.
[00:16:16] Ekaterina Maksimova, Ekaterina Chuyko, Alexander Peshkov, Azat Otagonov, Vesti Duty
[00:16:19] Unit. The reprisal against the former mayor of Samara, Viktor
[00:16:23] Tarkhov, and his wife was a contract killing, so believes their daughter Lyudmila
[00:16:26] Tarkhova, who herself is in prison for extortion. This week, she
[00:16:30] testified in court regarding the case of her daughter
[00:16:34] Ekaterina, accused of double murder.
[00:16:37] The act of the defendant Tarkhova is vile, cowardly,
[00:16:41] and inhuman. During her testimony in court,
[00:16:44] Lyudmila Tarkhova, recognized as a victim, periodically
[00:16:47] looked at a previously prepared text. Her daughter
[00:16:50] Ekaterina listened dispassionately. It was she, as investigators
[00:16:53] established, who dealt with her own grandmother and
[00:16:57] grandfather, allegedly poisoning them with drugs
[00:17:00] beforehand, then together with accomplices, froze
[00:17:03] the bodies, dismembered them, and scattered them in garbage bins.
[00:18:37] According to experts, there is a rise in counterfeit products
[00:18:41] of the famous decorative painting known worldwide. Dishonest
[00:18:44] merchants sell cheap
[00:18:47] imitations as folk art
[00:18:50] products. Well, these spoons with a bright
[00:18:53] ornament in a combination of golden and red colors on a dark
[00:18:56] background, we purchased in a souvenir shop as part of a journalistic
[00:19:00] experiment. Well, it looks attractive, although
[00:19:03] in fact it's a fake. How to distinguish
[00:19:06] a fake. And who are they, the true guardians of the tradition
[00:19:10] in the homeland of Khokhloma in the Nizhny Novgorod region, our
[00:19:13] correspondent Daniil
[00:19:15] Sukhoruchka found out.
[00:19:19] Matryoshka dolls, plates, ladles, and other wooden
[00:19:22] items with the famous Khokhloma painting begin their journey
[00:19:26] in the turning shop, where future masterpieces
[00:19:28] are born.
[00:19:32] Then the blanks are distributed throughout the enterprise, where they will be covered
[00:19:35] with paint, varnish, and many more
[00:19:37] stages. Artists manually apply the world-famous Khokhloma
[00:19:40] ornaments. For most of them, this is not just
[00:19:44] a job, but a calling. Luiza Malysheva came to the factory when she
[00:19:47] was 15. In almost 40 years in the profession, she has never regretted
[00:19:51] dedicating her life to folk crafts. I like Khokhloma,
[00:19:55] especially these, when we plant birds,
[00:19:58] fish, and so on, the whole composition
[00:20:02] curls, that's what I like. For our program,
[00:20:06] Luiza conducted a master class. Look,
[00:20:10] we hold the brush with three fingers, like this,
[00:20:18] vertically, the brush points to
[00:20:21] the ceiling. The factory is located in the small town of Semyonov
[00:20:25] in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This is one of two enterprises whose products have
[00:20:28] the right to be called real Khokhloma. The history of this famous craft began
[00:20:32] in the 14th century, when local craftsmen came up with a way to paint
[00:20:36] wooden dishes using precious metals. And in the
[00:20:39] 20th century, a school opened in Semyonov where Khokhloma painting was taught.
[00:20:43] Later, its students founded an artel that
[00:20:46] grew into a factory. Here you can see by period: the
[00:20:50] 20s, the 50s, the
[00:20:53] 60s, the 70s, in the 70s
[00:20:57] there was a consolidation of ornaments. In the homeland of the famous Khokhloma,
[00:21:01] traditions are carefully preserved, but they are forced to compete and fight
[00:21:05] with manufacturers of fakes that have flooded the shelves of souvenir
[00:21:08] shops. Unscrupulous craftsmen copy unique patterns and
[00:21:12] ornaments, or as they say in these parts, "podkhokhlomuchivayut" (faking Khokhloma).
[00:21:15] Such consumer goods are often made from raw materials dangerous to human health,
[00:21:19] violating technology. Quality Khokhloma
[00:21:22] products are impossible without industrial
[00:21:26] production, that is, it must be a precise temperature-time
[00:21:29] regime, without hardening in ovens, without proper
[00:21:32] technology, it is impossible. At the factory, they showed
[00:21:35] us how to distinguish original products from
[00:21:38] fakes. For example, on large items with Khokhloma painting,
[00:21:41] there will always be the artist's signature. It is also worth paying attention
[00:21:45] to the drawing itself. Inaccuracies and unevenness are reasons to
[00:21:48] doubt. And if we take these spoons, you feel
[00:21:52] a lot of grit there, here you won't even notice
[00:21:55] a hair, you won't see it, but there are just
[00:21:58] a lot of some strange specks, fragments, well,
[00:22:02] it's not smooth here. Armed with the knowledge gained,
[00:22:06] we went to the main tourist street of Nizhny
[00:22:09] Novgorod to check the local souvenir shops. In the very first one, we
[00:22:12] found a suspicious spoon with painting. For original goods, businessmen should
[00:22:16] have a special certificate, but the seller, upon hearing a question about documents...
[00:22:20] decided to close the store. So you won't sell? Well, my cash register is not
[00:22:24] working, I can't give you a receipt. In the next shop,
[00:22:27] we found a whole shelf of probable fakes. As part of a journalistic
[00:22:30] experiment, we bought the goods, and then called the police to the scene.
[00:22:34] We bought spoons from you,
[00:22:37] please show us the documents for them. The sellers could not show documents,
[00:22:41] promising that the manager would do it later. We returned the next
[00:22:44] day, but they still didn't show us any certificates. Aren't you ashamed
[00:22:48] of yourselves? I don't have that information.
[00:22:52] What information? We don't have anything under Khokhloma. While we were talking to
[00:22:55] the manager, our spoons bought in this shop disappeared from
[00:22:59] the counter. "Girls, my spoons were here, where did you put them?" Only when
[00:23:02] we said we would call the police because of theft, the spoons were found.
[00:23:06] "Why did you take them? What were they even doing here?" The store moved
[00:23:10] the spoons here, they probably wanted to simply hide what they were selling.
[00:23:14] What is being sold to tourists under the guise of Khokhloma will now be investigated
[00:23:17] by the police. A report on this fact... was received by the police,
[00:23:21] an investigation is underway. Even more fakes of original
[00:23:24] Khokhloma can be found on marketplaces. As part of a journalistic
[00:23:28] experiment, we ordered a couple of spoons, supposedly with original
[00:23:31] Khokhloma painting, and showed them to an expert. The spoons turned
[00:23:35] out to be fakes, covered with low-quality paints and varnish, making them dangerous
[00:23:39] to eat with. Why is counterfeit production dangerous?
[00:23:42] Because it not only violates
[00:23:45] rights, but it creates problems for the consumer, it carries
[00:23:49] a risk... Representatives of marketplaces explained to us that they
[00:23:52] do not have separate tools to combat the sale of fake folk art
[00:23:56] products. For rights holders, we have a brand
[00:23:59] office. This is a tool that allows you to track products under your
[00:24:03] brand and promptly file complaints. Original products are
[00:24:06] fully functional. Dishes can be used as intended.
[00:24:10] Paints and varnish are made at the enterprise itself, they are safe
[00:24:13] in contact with food. So-called artisans also inflict financial
[00:24:17] damage on real Khokhloma manufacturers. Factories
[00:24:20] underreceive profits, so now the Nizhny Novgorod region has actively taken up the fight against
[00:24:24] unscrupulous merchants, and there are already many court decisions in favor
[00:24:28] of the rights holder. It is important for us that every guest of our
[00:24:31] country, every resident of our country who has a
[00:24:35] Khokhloma item at home, be confident that it is the real
[00:24:38] Khokhloma. We are currently conducting preventive work. Those who
[00:24:42] are related to Khokhloma, those who sell
[00:24:45] products not from the factory, please remove
[00:24:49] them from your shelves. We showed the spoons bought in souvenir shops to
[00:24:52] the Minister of Tourism and Crafts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and he
[00:24:55] confirmed that they have no relation to original Khokhloma
[00:24:59] whatsoever. Look, I honestly want to cry.
[00:25:02] They disfigured, disfigured our
[00:25:06] little strawberry, this little
[00:25:09] tail. Well, this is just a disaster.
[00:25:12] The work to protect the ancient Russian craft will continue,
[00:25:16] and it is quite possible that the rights holders will be able to clear the market.
[00:25:50] Based on the results of last year and the first
[00:25:53] half of the current year, our claims for a total
[00:25:57] amount of more than 3 trillion rubles have been
[00:26:00] satisfied in favor of the treasury. Thousands of houses,
[00:26:04] apartments, other real estate, vehicles,
[00:26:07] financial assets, production complexes
[00:26:11] and related business structures, acquired
[00:26:14] using corrupt resources and corrupt
[00:26:18] schemes, have been seized. In Minsk, Alexander Gutsan also held
[00:26:21] several important meetings and negotiations with foreign colleagues. Welcoming
[00:26:25] the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus Dmitry Guru, he noted the
[00:26:29] stable practical nature of bilateral relations.
[00:27:16] performers gathered stadiums and gave three concerts a
[00:27:19] day.
[00:27:27] The founder and producer of the group, Alexander Shushenin, was murdered in March
[00:27:31] 1999.
[00:28:02] received royalties for every publicly performed song. For
[00:28:06] me, this is a very important court decision, because for many
[00:28:10] years composer Vitaly Okorokov claimed authorship of texts
[00:28:13] that my dad wrote. The agreement between Gem
[00:28:17] company and Okorokov was declared null and void,
[00:28:20] which is equivalent to Okorokov not having the rights
[00:28:24] to transfer them to Gem company. Gem publishing house
[00:28:27] has repeatedly been at the center of scandals. Its general director, Andrey
[00:28:31] Cherkasov, became a defendant in a fraud case. Recently, his pre-trial detention
[00:28:34] was extended until November 20. Vitaly
[00:28:38] Okrokov, composer of the band Combination, who previously
[00:28:41] worked with Gem, specially for the final issue of our
[00:28:44] program, commented on the decision of the arbitration court
[00:28:48] to terminate the contract with the music publisher. We recorded
[00:28:51] this interview with him at the Saratov Regional Philharmonic, where
[00:28:54] he, together with Alexander Shishinin, once created the group
[00:28:58] Combination. Formally, the authorship remains with
[00:29:03] Shishinin, because they are legally registered with RAO,
[00:29:06] but in fact, witnesses testified in court,
[00:29:10] everyone said that Shishinin did not write a single letter,
[00:29:13] not even a word, in the text of Combination. This
[00:29:17] was my fateful mistake 40 years ago when a friend
[00:29:21] asked me to make him a co-author. Well, he wanted
[00:29:24] this glory, you understand. I went along with it, and now
[00:29:28] after so many years, I have to sort all this out. While disputes over
[00:29:32] the rights to songs by the band Combination, which have long become popular,
[00:29:35] are ongoing, they still do not lose popularity, this is a fragment
[00:29:38] of a performance by a choir from the city of Kopeysk. You
[00:29:41] told me fairy tales,
[00:29:45] but I didn't believe you.
[00:29:48] It's obvious that the battle for the hits of the Combination will continue. As we already
[00:29:52] reported, earlier police officers opened a criminal case for copyright infringement
[00:29:55] of song lyrics by the legendary band Combination. The daughter of the founder
[00:29:59] of the musical group was recognized
[00:30:02] as a victim.
[00:30:06] Against the backdrop of reports of a series of high-profile thefts from European museums, our values are under
[00:30:09] reliable protection. For example, order within the walls of the State
[00:30:13] Hermitage is monitored by female officers
[00:30:15] of the unique female battalion of the Russian Guard.
[00:30:18] The treasure house of world culture is in their beautiful
[00:30:22] hands. Here are more than 3
[00:30:25] million works of art, paintings of the Renaissance era, the only
[00:30:29] sculpture by Michelangelo in Russia.
[00:30:40] These two Madonnas with child, genuine beauty, the Hermitage, according to its general director Mikhail Piotrovsky,
[00:30:43] preserves not only the artworks themselves, but also history.
[00:30:47] About why this is especially valuable today from St. Petersburg. My
[00:30:51] colleague, Alina Skachkova.
[00:30:54] These girls always take a pistol
[00:30:56] with them to the museum.
[00:30:58] And also a helmet and a baton. This is how every morning begins for the officers of the most
[00:31:03] beautiful battalion of the Russian Guard in the Hermitage. The ladies go not to look at
[00:31:06] masterpieces, but to guard them. This year, the battalion celebrates a round
[00:31:10] date. For 10 years now, the female officers, who are predominantly
[00:31:13] women, have been providing
[00:31:26] security. Maintaining order in such a significant place is also a kind of
[00:31:30] art. The female officers are trained in this during special
[00:31:33] briefings. The Hermitage is visited by 4 million people a
[00:31:36] year, and not all of them behave culturally. Therefore, the female officers
[00:31:40] practice capture techniques, they can elegantly detain an intruder,
[00:31:44] even in heels.
[00:31:47] The female officers of the Russian Guard greet visitors from all over the world at the entrance to
[00:31:51] the Hermitage, they know several languages, for example, they speak
[00:31:54] Chinese to tourists from China.
[00:31:57] Put all metal objects out. It is important to ensure that museum guests do not
[00:32:01] carry explosives, poisons or weapons with them. An inspection
[00:32:05] module is installed in the arch of the main gates of the Winter Palace, where visitors'
[00:32:08] belongings are checked with X-rays. Knives were found in the bags of several
[00:32:11] people. Why bring a knife?
[00:32:16] Why? I'm from the train. But sometimes such
[00:32:19] situations end in commotion. In spring, a visitor
[00:32:22] climbed over the rope barrier, climbed onto the great imperial throne
[00:32:26] and began to deliver a speech, waving a knife: for me, the
[00:32:29] result is important, not this stool. When a security officer of the
[00:32:33] museum tried to stop the troublemaker, he almost hit him with
[00:32:36] a knife. Russian Guard fighters came to the rescue, they tied up
[00:32:40] the armed man. The Hermitage is one of the largest museums in the world, its
[00:32:43] collections number about 3 million works of art. Here
[00:32:47] are ancient artifacts, antique sculptures, works by great
[00:32:50] European artists and objects of Eastern art. In the halls,
[00:32:54] the female officers of the Russian Guard cautiously stride past masterpieces by
[00:32:57] Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian. Travelers from
[00:33:01] China come more and more often to see the famous paintings. The female officers of the battalion,
[00:33:04] in the tourists' native language, give warnings not to get close to the
[00:33:08] paintings, otherwise the
[00:33:10] alarm will go off.
[00:33:13] Hello, be careful.
[00:33:16] Okay, okay, thank you! Fluffy guardians, cats, help the ladies in
[00:33:19] uniform carry out their duties. They settled in the Hermitage back in the
[00:33:22] 18th century. They hunted mice that spoiled the imperial
[00:33:26] furniture, but rodents are, of course, the least of the problems. Most often
[00:33:29] you have to deal with the fact that people don't understand why they are being searched. Many
[00:33:33] people come in an intoxicated state. Very rarely do we call one or two, as we currently have
[00:33:37] a dialogue, as we should be psychologists a little. But sometimes persuasion does not
[00:33:41] help. Recently, the Russian Guard officers had to remove two roofers
[00:33:44] from the roof of the Winter Palace, and also detain a citizen who so
[00:33:48] badly wanted to touch the beautiful that he broke the finger of the statue of Empress
[00:33:51] Alexandra Fyodorovna. The hooligan was quickly identified by cameras and handed over
[00:33:55] to the police. Thanks, in part, to such an operational response, there have been no high-profile thefts
[00:33:59] or property damage at the Hermitage for a long time. This is the
[00:34:03] main indicator of the work of the Russian Guard officers. One of the serious
[00:34:06] incidents occurred more than 40 years ago. A strange visitor approached
[00:34:10] Rembrandt's painting Danaë, poured sulfuric acid on the painting
[00:34:14] and cut it with a knife. The vandal was promptly detained by an officer
[00:34:17] of the departmental security Ivan Zhasan. After that, the troublemaker
[00:34:20] was sent for compulsory treatment, and the damaged canvas for
[00:34:23] restoration for a long 12 years. Now the canvas is under protective
[00:34:27] glass. To prevent such situations, the Russian Guard officers
[00:34:30] regularly train: first, they hone their shooting skills at
[00:34:33] the shooting range, then practice combat techniques on
[00:34:37] mats. In these frames, officers of the Russian Guard's departmental security and
[00:34:41] OMON fighters storm the Hermitage at night. According to the exercise legend.
[00:35:01] ours consists of women,
[00:35:04] who pass, or rather first
[00:35:08] selection, and then special training, including
[00:35:11] fire, tactical training, first aid... comfort
[00:35:45] is one of the most difficult tasks. And so, another day in
[00:35:48] the imperial interiors has come to an end, but even after the museum closes,
[00:35:51] the Russian Guard officers continue to serve, so that
[00:35:55] tomorrow the Hermitage will open its doors again. Alyona Skachkova, Alexey
[00:35:58] Gorshkov and Roman Sladkov, Vesti Duty
[00:36:01] Unit. All investigations and reports of the program on
[00:36:05] the channels Vesti Duty Unit Eduard Petrov on the Max
[00:36:08] platform. Here are also current news and topics that are important to
[00:36:11] know. Join now, you can do this by... code
[00:36:15] they regularly appear on the screen. Scan them with your smartphone
[00:36:18] and go to the official accounts
[00:36:21] of the program. That's all from me, thank you for your attention,
[00:36:25] stay with Russia 24.