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00:00:00points of attraction for tourists from large megacities, in Moscow,
00:00:03for example, it is very difficult to go out now using a navigator or to
00:00:07run around somewhere. Here, everything is caught in a GPS track, nothing is jammed yet. The beaver
00:00:10dam, the tower on Mount Ryzhokha, beautiful
00:00:13lakes. We have a protected zone
00:00:17where tourists are strictly
00:00:20forbidden to be. We have a specially protected
00:00:23zone, where the
00:00:26presence of tourists is not assumed.
00:00:30It is worth turning from prohibitions and barriers to
00:00:32the documents of the Valdai Park, and there is a dark
00:00:36forest there. In the specially protected zone,
00:00:39construction is allowed.
00:00:42It can be seen near the lake from a satellite and
00:00:46with the naked eye.
00:00:50Here is the cement plant. Well, there's probably a bunker there,
00:00:54what kind, well, like a national park president,
00:00:57a cement plant on the bank, what is it doing there?
00:01:31Technically, the land is registered to the structures
00:01:34of the FSO, to the structures of Yuri Kovalchuk. Yuri
00:01:37Kovalchuk finances part of Vladimir Putin's life, if I may say so.
00:01:41Through his structure, everything related to
00:01:45the sale of children, the sale of the family in
00:01:49the broad sense of the word, is financed. In fact, the same structures,
00:01:52the FSO and Kovalchuk, are engaged in construction, and
00:01:56for the last 5-10 years, this has been especially active.
00:02:00Tom,
00:02:03this is about the lake, why is the second
00:02:06reach closed? I want to explain from the point of view
00:02:10that we had a number of criteria according to which our
00:02:13lake became closed. You're wearing headphones, go ahead,
00:02:17speak. And this is not related to
00:02:21the residence, the lake, we just have part
00:02:24of the lake now belonging to a specially protected
00:02:27zone.
00:02:30Strangely enough, but it's true, the so-called second
00:02:33reach, was very heavily
00:02:36silted up. In order to
00:02:39revive the water resources,
00:02:42we, of course, need, well, if I say such a word correctly,
00:02:45calm water, so that no one
00:02:48touches it. It seems that in this special operation, everything is not
00:02:52so unambiguous, because formally
00:02:55to close for visiting almost half
00:02:59of one of...
00:04:02No, this is a military secret, no one knows this, it's all at the last
00:04:06moment, if everyone knew when, what and so
00:04:10on,
00:04:13come on, guys, help,
00:04:17on this boat there is a device for water quality control,
00:04:21and there is our meteorological
00:04:24radar
00:04:25and
00:04:29not ours, yes.
00:04:36Vladimir Putin, somewhere at the end of July, beginning of August, makes
00:04:39a voyage on Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. Accordingly,
00:04:43the family, that is, Alina Kabaeva and their two sons
00:04:47Ivan and Vladimir. Sometimes their father joins them for a couple of days.
00:04:50They are on a large yacht, and the service
00:04:53staff is on the smallest yacht, which follows them, and
00:04:57they all gather, well, that is...
00:05:12the president's tear, when the radiometer returns to
00:05:16the pier at
00:05:17the institute,
00:05:20oh, let's take it out of the trash, so that it's not in
00:05:23the dump, the data will be processed
00:05:27by the laboratory computer, no special incidents - I'm sure
00:05:30the chief Marunich, will not
00:05:33be found either. Things for the symbol of Russia, as for the whole
00:05:37country, are quite livable, but diseases accumulate
00:05:40for years.
00:05:43"Lake Boldai was one of the cleanest lakes in the whole
00:05:46northwest, but it has deviated from the background
00:05:50quality it had 50 years
00:05:53ago. The fault for this lies not with the government, which we all
00:05:57love to scold, but predominantly with the residents themselves.
00:06:00The lake was in a rather
00:06:02catastrophic state when multi-apartment
00:06:06construction began, plus sewage
00:06:10networks began to hang, practically without..." honestly, they started dumping into
00:06:14the lake, and dying off, all this turns into these
00:06:18silty deposits, but simply removing them, after some time
00:06:22it will be again, this liquid neighborhood, here is almost
00:06:25the only connection of the head
00:06:28of state and his citizens, neither
00:06:31the FSO nor the air defense can
00:06:34break it, I would not risk it, maybe
00:06:38E. coli or something
00:06:40else will get in.
00:06:45There is such a saying that every swamp was once
00:06:48a lake, so I would not want this to apply to our
00:06:51wonderful lake, to fantasize what will happen to me in
00:06:5415 years, if the school is still standing, then I will continue to work
00:06:58at school, and if the school is no longer there, honestly,
00:07:02then I don't know what I will do. Lugansk,
00:07:05Donetsk, Mariupol, everything is transforming, here I
00:07:08am driving through the LPR, DPR, but in
00:07:11each one...
00:07:42fate is probably
00:07:46written
00:07:50like this,
00:08:01you come out of this forest and you see this
00:08:04hulk,
00:08:09our station in all, so to speak, information...
00:08:12publics was called a dangerous station of Chernobyl
00:08:16type. There is always
00:08:20danger, for example, the fifth
00:08:22column.
00:08:24If God forbid day X comes, you can
00:08:28gather, take cover and so
00:08:30on.
00:09:07will see her only on Judgment Day. Abandon your
00:09:11hopes. She
00:09:15is no longer in this world. It's hard for me to believe that Sitaru was
00:09:18killed. I don't believe this
00:09:22person's words at all. It's been 5 years since she last
00:09:25spoke to her daughter, who
00:09:28went to Syria in 2015.
00:09:55Such a project of a network memorial
00:09:59arose, which consists of such small plaques, each of which
00:10:02is dedicated to one specific person. It
00:10:06will be hung on the wall of the house that became his
00:10:09last address, that is, the house from which he was taken.
00:10:55you want to say, yes, I want to say something
00:10:58good, I want to say something good, because,
00:11:02because people started returning these
00:11:05plaques. First, let's see
00:11:09how it happened when the plaques
00:11:12were twisted off. Here are a few photos I
00:11:15prepared, let's see how vandals
00:11:19tried to tape all sorts of things,
00:11:23here.
00:11:36this is a homemade plaque, it
00:11:39is made of cardboard, people are returning
00:11:43names, if you are the very person who
00:11:46restores plaques, write to me, and I
00:11:50want to tell about you, it's clear that
00:11:52anonymously,
00:12:05a teacher who tells
00:12:08children at school about what is good, what is
00:12:12bad
00:12:12and
00:12:17that war, you cowards, I'm talking to you behind the TV,
00:12:19telling
00:12:23these stories. Thank you, the topic
00:12:26will go away.
00:12:32My husband's name is Zhenya, he is 42, in autumn
00:12:352023 he started making cardboard plaques, copies of those
00:12:39that the Last Address project installs on houses. At first, he
00:12:43didn't tell me anything, and I noticed traces of his
00:12:46work on the table: cardboard, paint, finished plaques.
00:12:50I thought, what nonsense, what childishness, cardboard,
00:12:53St. Petersburg weather with them...
00:13:07he also got ready as if for the last time, no,
00:13:10well, what does "also" mean? At some point, I definitely felt that
00:13:13they would arrest me. I packed a bag. I
00:13:17still have a packed bag for the case
00:13:19of arrest. I found a lawyer in advance and discussed
00:13:23all our actions with him.
00:13:25I went with a plaque, she told me that I needed to have bags with me, in the bag there should be
00:13:29paper, cash, well, in general,
00:13:32she made me a list of what I needed to take with me, I carefully folded it all,
00:13:36hung the bag on my shoulder and went to stand like this with the plaque.
00:13:40Zhenya did not want to reveal his identity to journalists, he was afraid that
00:13:43they would come for him before we could leave. When I resolved the misunderstanding
00:13:47due to his excessive measures of secrecy, he
00:13:50always had a handful of examples in reserve of how people
00:13:53accused of similar things receive real sentences in...
00:14:25generally ideal for trade, for sales, for the service sector. Secondly,
00:14:29I have a high level of creativity, all this
00:14:31combined in me. Empathy for the fact that I understand
00:14:35that we are not going the right way. Our whole country
00:14:38is turning into Iran and North Korea simultaneously. That is, all
00:14:42the best achievements of North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran, they all come to the Russian
00:14:45Federation. Toothpaste made in
00:14:48Germany,
00:14:51now you probably can't buy such a thing in a store. I'm imagining.
00:14:55Public relations manager, lawyer and translator
00:14:59from English, Zhenya an art critic, I work in PR
00:15:02and marketing, Zhenya skillfully sells cars and
00:15:04real estate, made it clear that it needed
00:15:07to be removed. There are no confirmations of this,
00:15:11most likely it is just an initiative of the local
00:15:13housing and communal services.
00:15:16We met Zhenya at the station when in November 2010 I
00:15:20spontaneously moved from Yekat to St. Petersburg. I got off the train,
00:15:24saw him for the first time on the platform, we went to his place and never
00:15:27parted. He was also from Yekaterinburg, he rented
00:15:30an apartment that had a free room for me for
00:15:33a week. We celebrated our first anniversary with our son, now we have.
00:15:37boys, listen, if honestly, I'm most afraid of
00:15:41God, in principle there is nothing else that I
00:15:44would be afraid of, well, I wouldn't want to be arrested
00:15:46today, because there is still a desire to hang
00:15:50more plaques,
00:15:52copies of plaques,
00:15:54this is the first thing, I don't want to at all, the camera is not
00:15:58our home, this is no-mans, sang long
00:16:02ago,
00:16:04fuel, it was long overdue
00:16:07to leave the union in those times, no,
00:16:11from Russia, like Russia, now like
00:16:14the union in Stalin's
00:16:15time.
00:16:23You understand, I am not a lawyer, I cannot tell you which article, but I am sure that even Sasha
00:16:27Skachilenko, when she changed price tags in the store, she certainly did not know
00:16:31what article it was, she certainly believed that there was no crime
00:16:34in this, she certainly believed that... communicating
00:16:37information to people is not a crime, I have exactly the same
00:16:41thoughts, but in the end 7.5 years, her price tags are
00:16:44a one-time action, they are smaller than a palm all together,
00:16:48it turns out that I did it more thoroughly, because our plaques are larger
00:16:51than a palm, and I have already installed about 55
00:16:55of them. Even if at this very minute, today I am not arrested, yes, but
00:16:59I am sure that I will be arrested in a month, in two, in 5
00:17:02months, that is 100%, I have no
00:17:05doubts at all. Everything's okay, give me
00:17:08the plaque.
00:17:13I do this, of course, for the purpose of having
00:17:17a plaque hanging. The plaque disappeared, people talked about its disappearance, that's all
00:17:20that ended. The main thing is that when people see a cardboard plaque, they
00:17:24again think, "Wow, there was a plaque hanging here, it
00:17:27was returned." And maybe it's not by chance? And who is this
00:17:30person? And why is he hanging here? And how can it be for a political
00:17:34crime? And he told an anecdote, and for that they
00:17:37shot him? How can that be? It's absolutely perfect that he had the desire
00:17:41to understand why this person is hanging here, why he
00:17:44is a terrorist, why there are terrorists in our country
00:17:47now. Now a person comes and asks, "What are you doing
00:17:51here, sir?" Well, some impromptu, well, there were similar
00:17:54cases, everything is normal, I told people, it was coordinated with the administration of the Vyborg
00:17:58district
00:18:00and the grandmother starts telling me, "Yes, well done, good, it's right that you're returning them,
00:18:04the administration approved it, everything is correct, well done, let's go, that's all."
00:18:08Perhaps the person will start to wonder why these terrorists are in prison, perhaps he
00:18:12will find out that they are not terrorists at all, perhaps he will take some
00:18:15actions that are in his, in his, perhaps he will go and
00:18:19make such a plaque himself and hang it, perhaps he will apply for a plaque for
00:18:22some relative at the Last Address, perhaps he
00:18:26will start voting in elections not the way our authorities
00:18:38Zhenya lost his job a couple of weeks before the start of the war, he is sure
00:18:42that it was because of his active political position. After February
00:18:4524th, he couldn't bring himself to go to work, he didn't want to pay
00:18:49taxes that would go to kill people. He was very upset,
00:18:52constantly followed the news, even when most people had resigned themselves and
00:18:56gotten used to it. He kept thinking about what he could do to express his
00:19:00protest, and how to give our family a chance for a safe, happy
00:19:03future. We lived on minimum wages, on my small
00:19:06salary and money from selling a car and parking,
00:19:21some elements of actionism are certainly present here, because, well, it's not
00:19:24public, I try to do all this as
00:19:27incognito as possible, hiding myself, of course, this is a political
00:19:31protest, that is, if you hang original plaques, well, conditionally made of
00:19:35metal, yes, then... well, for that I need to have some kind of
00:19:38metal production, and so on and so forth, but let's assume I have all of that, like all sorts of
00:19:42cutting machines, grinding machines,
00:19:46yes, it turns out that the Last Address takes and
00:19:50hangs plaques, but the Last Address is a memorial and all that
00:19:53and they can be held accountable for it, but this way no one
00:19:56can hold them accountable, because these are not plaques
00:20:00of the Last Address, these are plaques made by an unknown person, they are
00:20:03handwritten. Initially, of course, that was exactly the idea, that these are ordinary... citizens
00:20:08and these ordinary citizens are simply concerned about the situation that
00:20:12we have this memorial, a foreign agent, he is an enemy, and this enemy here
00:20:15spreads his propaganda. And then, in general, I learned that there is
00:20:19this portal also from social networks. On this
00:20:22portal, I learned that there is a certain, some Alexander S., who
00:20:26complained about the plaque. While looking through this site, I at some point
00:20:29saw that these people are not just one Alexander
00:20:32S., there is a whole row of them. These people write
00:20:36complaints only... about plaques. I have a stable feeling that this is
00:20:40not a struggle of ordinary people, it is a struggle of people
00:20:42invested with power, Lesnoy Prospekt, house
00:20:4561, house of specialists, built
00:20:48in the 30s. Here
00:20:57people lived distinguished
00:21:01and therefore on the house there are 34
00:21:04plaques of the last address. Zhenya really
00:21:07loves history, especially he resonates with what is connected with the period
00:21:11of Stalin's repressions and the Second World War. He would really like
00:21:14people to know and remember these pages of Soviet history,
00:21:17especially now, when it seems that we... live in this terrible spiral
00:21:21turn, so he supported the Last Address so much and
00:21:24worried that the plaques were being torn off, considering the victims
00:21:27criminals, and Stalin a hero, the project itself,
00:21:30casting a shadow on Putin's government, iron
00:21:34cardboard, company secret, look,
00:21:37engineer, engineer, engineer, engineer,
00:21:41engineer, engineer, engineer,
00:21:44process engineer, this is an employee, an employee,
00:21:47philosopher, economist, railway engineer,
00:21:51electrical engineer, that is, people
00:21:53with an engineer, historian
00:21:57of philosophy
00:21:58Bukhanov,
00:22:04I, in principle, well, what, I would gladly stay in Russia, yes, I said, well,
00:22:08they will arrest me, I will sit, I treat this normally,
00:22:11but only my relatives will suffer from this, that's
00:22:15the point,
00:22:17this is the first part, the second part I... I don't see my
00:22:21children at all,
00:22:24you talked to Andrey about his views, how can he live in such a country,
00:22:28well, I'm afraid for the children, if there were no three boys, if there were no three
00:22:32boys, we wouldn't even have this conversation, that's the point.
00:22:35I was afraid that the plaques could attract
00:22:39attention to our family, then there would be another dozen
00:22:42reasons to make our children orphans. I knew for sure that by
00:22:46the time our eldest son came of age, we would have to leave the country. I
00:22:50had nightmares about him being drafted into the army and sent on a combat mission
00:22:54into the thick of it. It seems that, like the
00:22:57Afghan War, this war will drag on for decades.
00:23:00I thought we could still live quietly for a few more years, not expressing our
00:23:04views. During this time, I would find a job in Europe, and so we
00:23:07would move, or if it didn't work out with work, the children would enter
00:23:11foreign universities, in Europe or
00:23:13the USA.
00:23:17And you tell your classmates anything? No, no,
00:23:20because they might write a denunciation against him, we already have
00:23:23two propaganda lessons, these are
00:23:27"Conversations about the Important" and ODNK, there
00:23:30what is ODNK - Fundamentals of Spiritual and Moral Culture
00:23:33of Russia, there they pretend to talk about some
00:23:37development of Russia, in fact there is only propaganda,
00:23:40they absolutely certainly form a generation of people who will happily die for
00:23:44Putin, who will be glad that they are shown photographs
00:23:48of destroyed Donetsk.
00:24:07My children came home from school and told me, these "Important Lessons" had just started for them. On October
00:24:1017, 2022, Andrey,
00:24:14who was then, at that time
00:24:16a fourth-grader, Leo Tolstoy.
00:24:20In 1854 he fought in the Crimean War,
00:24:23defended Crimea, he is a true patriot, this
00:24:27is proof that Crimea is ours,
00:24:31that is, the child is 10 years old. October 20, 2022
00:24:34literary reading they discussed Yuri Alyosha,
00:24:38this is in Andrey's class, fourth grade, and of course
00:24:41they discussed the writer's origin
00:24:44Alyosha, that he is from Ukraine and that now the authorities there
00:24:47have been seized by enemies. April 10, 2
00:25:20lived with the idea that, here, here, the Soviet economy will collapse
00:25:23now, the economy that listen, well, Lena suggested
00:25:27staying, and forgetting everything and going to work and being a happy
00:25:30person, the first option, the second option, "Let me find a job," Lena says,
00:25:34"Let's go abroad to work," but for 2 years she's been looking, something's not working out yet,
00:25:38"Let's get divorced," Lena told me, "Let's get divorced, you don't want to live with us, you
00:25:42want your America, let's get divorced." At
00:25:44the present moment, the situation is such that the American
00:25:47government provides an opportunity to legally cross.
00:26:02United States, it allows
00:26:06you to work, allows you to send children to school, get
00:26:09free medical insurance, even for adults, there is an opportunity
00:26:13to earn, uh,
00:26:15there is a community,
00:26:18Russian-speaking, which does everything to
00:26:22end the war, and I want to participate in this,
00:26:25and for this, the excellent way is to create your own
00:26:28business that will become profitable, and spend money on charity, including
00:26:32helping those who are changing our
00:26:35country. I am talking about some opposition members, and independent
00:26:38journalists, help me
00:26:42guys, but help me, how
00:26:45can you sit abroad and happily argue that you owe everything yourselves, people
00:26:49don't have, first of all, the desire, and secondly, the opportunities, we have so many National Guardsmen
00:26:53in the country that any protest they will simply
00:26:57crush, even if several thousand people come out, but they will come. from
00:27:00neighboring regions, they will cram into their
00:27:03paddy wagons, and it will look like a black currant,
00:27:06with a small, small crowd of protesters in it.
00:27:09Even agreeing to
00:27:13the USA, I didn't believe in it at all and continued
00:27:16to cling to the legal option with my job, understanding that the departure
00:27:19was imminent, and I wanted to go to Kurgan. This was
00:27:23my condition, I wouldn't go anywhere without seeing my relatives. Zhenya
00:27:27was in a hurry to leave for the USA, because of their internal
00:27:30political processes, because of
00:27:33the increasingly difficult situation at the border, because of
00:27:37the fact that Russians were turned away everywhere at airports, and I kept
00:27:40delaying and hoping that something
00:27:43would happen in the world, in Russia, in our family,
00:27:47and we wouldn't leave, for now,
00:27:5014:54 in Moscow, we begin our emergency
00:27:54broadcast dedicated to the news of Alexei Navalny's death.
00:27:57The news of Alexei Navalny's death occupies the front pages of all
00:28:01Western publications. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a colony.
00:28:19I was then mentally prepared for the fact that I would fly there with Andrey
00:28:23alone, that's it, the existence of our family would end. Now
00:28:26there is still a chance that our whole family will move
00:28:30and you understand, this is terrible? But the main reason for this is the murder
00:28:34of Navalny, that is, if
00:28:36Alexei
00:28:38was alive and well, it is quite possible that I would be nervous
00:28:42now, but Alexei's death, it strongly
00:28:46pushed Lena, then people gathered on the Resurrection
00:28:49embankment at these symbolic
00:28:53Scythian figures opposite the crosses, and I remember, we
00:28:56laid flowers, it was an amazing state, because
00:28:59people just stood and were silent. No one said
00:29:02anything, no one called anyone, no one chanted anything, people just stood and
00:29:06were silent, there was not a single policeman, there was just a mountain
00:29:09of flowers, there were several photographs
00:29:13of Alexei, Lena was crying and
00:29:17crying all this time, I don't even know, she weighs 50 kg, she probably cried out 200 kg
00:29:21of tears, where did she get all this from? As long as
00:29:24Alexei Navalny was here, even in prison, he remained
00:29:28a beacon of hope for me that we would have a beautiful Russia of the future.
00:29:32The one he saw, I thought, how can I leave when
00:29:36so many wonderful, important people for me remain in the country,
00:29:39such as Yevgeny Roizman, Dmitry Muratov, Yuri Shevchuk,
00:29:43when so many political prisoners are in prisons, when I can still do
00:29:47something, the murder of Alexei was a powerful blow for me,
00:29:50because it killed hope. I was afraid to admit to my relatives that we
00:29:54would leave, I was afraid to hurt them, admitting it is almost as difficult as
00:29:58making the decision to leave.
00:30:00It's clear that it's all hard for her. She's fighting, she doesn't
00:30:04want to leave her family, in principle, nothing else holds her here,
00:30:07only her family and close ones,
00:30:10and that's it. They absolutely certainly
00:30:13consider me a traitor
00:30:14and
00:30:18I have been threatened more than once with a police report against me, my
00:30:21mother first, all
00:30:24the others after her, father, dad genuinely doesn't understand why I still
00:30:27haven't gone to the military enlistment office and signed up as a volunteer.
00:30:31So mom and dad, they don't know that we are leaving, I am sure that if
00:30:35they find out, then with a high degree of probability, damn it, they don't know,
00:30:38they will report us to the police, they will turn us back somewhere
00:30:41at the airport, we are flying from
00:30:45Russia, we have a tourist ticket,
00:30:48a tourist flight to Varadero, which is in
00:30:51Cuba, we will stay there for some time, then we will try to go to
00:30:55Mexico, in Mexico we will try to cross
00:30:58the Mexican-American.