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00:00:00from there, there is one decent candidate, if we, maybe we, we would have
00:00:04agreed with him, because all
00:00:07of them want war, and we want peace,
00:00:10but in this dictatorship of Zelensky, who does not
00:00:13hold elections, even such an anti-war person cannot win
00:00:17elections, what a horror,
00:00:20so much for all elections, well, we
00:00:24and, I think, that this is not being discussed now, I don't understand at all why we are always
00:00:28talking about elections.
00:00:31It seems to me, I know a thousand other ways to change power, if there was a desire
00:00:34in society to change it, well, the shortest and
00:00:38most incorrect and most constitutional, is simply the subjectivity of the parliament, I
00:00:41understand, but well, of course, what are we always talking about, look,
00:00:45this week there was an idea to vote for
00:00:49just an appeal to
00:00:51the president, because only the president can appoint
00:00:55those decisions with his decrees, in order to deprive
00:00:58Potap.
00:01:00rapper and singer and
00:01:03activist, of the title Honored Artist of Ukraine,
00:01:06who, in fact, in 2020, on Independence Day, he
00:01:10received this title from Zelensky's hands, and so
00:01:13the parliament voted for this, they got 219 votes,
00:01:17this is because Potap, in principle, well,
00:01:20frankly, makes fun of Ukrainians who remained here,
00:01:24and performs before Russians, earns money abroad
00:01:27and so on, and... well, 219
00:01:31votes, and this also shows, in principle, the quality of our
00:01:34parliament, how can they, please tell me, please tell
00:01:38me, if we are talking realistically, you are an honored journalist of Ukraine, you
00:01:41know, to be honest, I am not even a member of the Union of Journalists, I don't know how this happened, not
00:01:45a member of the Union of Journalists, this is something else, you could have joined the union, submitted
00:01:49an application, and in two days you would have received the title of honored by the president's
00:01:52decree, you wanted to be, I don't have any state awards, although I was in
00:01:56Yushchenko's inner circle and many people are honored journalists of Ukraine. Did you want
00:02:00to be an honored journalist of Ukraine? Well, I always
00:02:03liked Andrukhovych's gesture, who refused to receive a state award
00:02:07from Yanukovych's hands, is that right? Well, no, we are
00:02:10not talking about that. Listen, people receive
00:02:13orders, receive national cultural
00:02:16awards, we even always said that when people with
00:02:20a high
00:02:20cultural
00:02:24level and receive the Shevchenko Prize,
00:02:28they increase their own prestige.
00:03:01votes, presidents approve it, there is often a misunderstanding
00:03:05between the cultural community, the committee, between the committee and
00:03:08the president, but this is such a procedure that exists in every country, now tell me
00:03:11a country, countries, where there are titles of honored and national
00:03:15artists, well, seriously, Russia, Belarus, probably too,
00:03:19uh-huh, of course, I understand, we have
00:03:23800, I looked somewhere, there are 800, there are only
00:03:26national artists, this has been awarded since 1991.
00:03:30800 national artists since 1991,
00:03:33no civilized country in which there would be national and honored artists
00:03:37exists, and I remind you that all this
00:03:41was, hypothetically speaking,
00:03:45no Raimonds Pauls mentions that he is a national artist of the Soviet Union, he is
00:03:49a national artist of the Soviet Union, and a national artist of Latvia,
00:03:52uh-huh, no one in Latvia
00:03:55even mentions it, Karel Gott,
00:03:58excuse me, was a national artist. in the Czechoslovak Socialist
00:04:01Republic, I tell you for sure,
00:04:05no one mentions it, what difference does it make, how can you even
00:04:08mention some singer as a national
00:04:11artist
00:04:14of Czechoslovakia, it's funny, it looks
00:04:16comical,
00:04:19and we still live in Russia, in Belarus, in
00:04:23Kazakhstan, because we are still in
00:04:26the Soviet era,
00:04:28and we, instead of proposing to abolish these
00:04:32titles altogether, the parliament votes to strip them of
00:04:35their titles,
00:04:39you see, people still collect petitions so that people
00:04:43who truly defend our state, are given the title of Hero of Ukraine, instead of
00:04:46rewarding them with military orders, the title of Hero is an absolute
00:04:50Soviet Stalinist invention, it exists
00:04:54only in the Soviet space, now we have Heroes
00:04:58of Russia fighting with Heroes of Ukraine.
00:05:02The president of the country cannot have any right to declare someone
00:05:05a hero, only the people can do that. The people should
00:05:09not collect a petition,
00:05:11appealing to the ruler,
00:05:15like in a feudal country, so that the ruler grants the title
00:05:19of hero. There is a clear procedure for awarding
00:05:22military awards in civilized countries, by the way, a very high,
00:05:25serious procedure, even in the Soviet Union,
00:05:29surprisingly, people who were full holders of the Order
00:05:32of Glory,
00:05:35because to get the first, second, third degree, you had to do some real
00:05:38things, serious ones.
00:05:42They were valued in military circles more than Heroes of the Soviet
00:05:45Union, because a hero could be obtained on his
00:05:48birthday, well, after the war, but
00:05:52the Order of Glory could not,
00:05:55you had to do a specific thing.
00:05:57thing.
00:06:01And with all this, I would say, cargo
00:06:05of the Soviet legacy, we continue to live, as with
00:06:08our own, and again, Zelensky in 2019
00:06:12came to power, a young man, as it were, should have canceled
00:06:15all this, no, he continued to distribute these titles
00:06:19to his circle, why should Potap be
00:06:23an honored artist of Ukraine, can you explain to me?
00:06:25When,
00:06:27when in the Soviet Union they gave these
00:06:30titles, it was explained by quite simple
00:06:33things: firstly, all this culture was completely under
00:06:36the authorities, and all these people were completely dependent on
00:06:40the authorities, and there was no other culture.
00:06:53"if you are not given the title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union, it means you are not
00:06:56such a person, why are they not giving it to you, maybe you are not trustworthy, why
00:07:00have you not received the title of People's Artist of the Soviet
00:07:04Union for so many years, well, and bonuses and access to various, by the way, people of Jewish
00:07:08origin received these titles there at 70-75
00:07:11years old, uh-huh.
00:07:14and their peers, let's say,
00:07:18of Slavic origin at 55 for the same merits,
00:07:21there was a wonderful story that there were separate
00:07:24people who received the title Hero of Socialist Labor, this was
00:07:28a huge thing, and I will forever remember the wonderful story about
00:07:31how the outstanding artist Mark Prudkin was not given the title Hero
00:07:35of Socialist Labor at 85 years old, they said in the Central Committee of the party that they would give it at
00:07:3890,
00:07:41and he lived. at 90 and they again did not want to give it to him, because he had
00:07:45the wrong nationality in his questionnaire, and then the entire
00:07:48party committee came to the CPSU Central Committee and began to say: "You
00:07:52promised, comrades," and he became a Hero of Socialist Labor at
00:07:5690 years old, crying with joy,
00:07:58but seriously, this was still a
00:08:02concert rate, you know that, well, yes, well, if you became
00:08:06an Honored Artist of the Republic, a People's Artist of the Republic, and
00:08:10a People's Artist of the Soviet Union, you had a higher
00:08:13concert rate, they paid you more for performances, for plays,
00:08:17for films, yes, a People's
00:08:19Artist of the Soviet Union was given more money than
00:08:23a People's Artist of Ukraine, it was such an
00:08:26uneven distribution
00:08:29of meanness, because generally this country was
00:08:32quite poor in terms of any real material
00:08:35opportunities, but a People's Artist of the Soviet Union could
00:08:39do more than a People's Artist of the Republic, and...
00:08:42people fought for these titles to get these concert rates, because
00:08:46if I am, hypothetically, I don't know, Iosif Kobzon,
00:08:49I become a People's Artist
00:08:52of the Soviet Union, I will simply receive more official money for concerts,
00:08:56so, by the way, but that's why Kobzon, you know, he was a People's
00:09:00Artist, I don't remember if of Dagestan or of Chechnya, he agreed that his
00:09:04comrades would be given the title of People's Artist in some autonomous republic,
00:09:07because that was also a concert
00:09:10rate.
00:09:13until he was given the title of Honored Artist of Russia,
00:09:15imagine,
00:09:18people, well, we should have moved away from all this,
00:09:21why are we still living in this, I would say,
00:09:25horror, well, first of all, in state
00:09:28theaters,
00:09:31very often the official salary, I
00:09:34find such a word offensive,
00:09:37is calculated, among other things, taking into account all those regalia and
00:09:40titles, you have such a salary scale, if you work in a state
00:09:44structure, and I worked as a manager at NSTU,
00:09:47the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, and
00:09:50you, for example, cannot pay more and cannot pay
00:09:53less, which is important for a person, it does not matter how they work, because they have guaranteed
00:09:57this money from the state, and regarding Potap, he will theoretically
00:10:01receive, when he retires, 20, plus 20% of
00:10:05the official salary accruals to the pension, that's
00:10:08it, I don't know what his official salary is,
00:10:11I have no idea.
00:10:25And I don't know how Laima Vaikule, who is probably theoretically in
00:10:29Jūrmala, announced it, maybe she announces it like that, honored artist, Laima Vaikule is in Latvia,
00:10:33no one remembers that she is a national artist of Latvia, none of this exists
00:10:37there,
00:10:40in the Baltic countries these titles do not exist, so she could not
00:10:44announce him like that, it does not
00:10:45exist there,
00:10:51so it is certainly sad that we cannot
00:10:54overcome this... Soviet past for 35 years, it would seem that this
00:10:57system itself no longer works, because we have an unplanned
00:11:01economy, it should have been, at least unplanned,
00:11:04it would seem that we simply had to get rid of those rudiments as
00:11:08some kind of slavish brand, but no, it lives in
00:11:11people, and I see, I know, no, well, it's just that, you see, if
00:11:15people, people consider someone a great artist, it has long been
00:11:19noticed, whether in Soviet times, post-Soviet times, it absolutely does
00:11:22not matter whether he is called a national artist or not. If a person
00:11:26is no artist, disappears, you can give him the title 45 thousand times.
00:11:29It will only be written on his tombstone.
00:11:32I had
00:11:35a dialogue with, I think, several presidents
00:11:39of Ukraine, who said that I needed to be given
00:11:43the title of honored journalist of Ukraine, because I am such an honored journalist. Do you know what I
00:11:46replied?
00:11:50I asked them to give me the title of national
00:11:52artist. I said that. I don't want to be an honored
00:11:56journalist of Ukraine, I want to be a national artist
00:11:58of Ukraine, and they asked me how, what kind of artist I am, I
00:12:02told them, what's the problem, in the Soviet Union, television
00:12:05announcers, Igor Kirillov, there, Valentina Leontieva, I don't
00:12:09know who, here, Tatyana Tsymbal, they were
00:12:13national artists of the Soviet Union, national artists of Ukraine, no one
00:12:16doubts that they are national artists, how are we, Mr. Andriy,
00:12:20worse than television announcers, here we are sitting on air,
00:12:24talking, well, you didn't read, we don't even read from a piece of paper, we are talking
00:12:27to you, why can't we be national artists, and
00:12:31immediately these respected state figures
00:12:35moved away from me, how to say it,
00:12:38with their proposals, because they saw all this, how to say it, I
00:12:42illustrated to them all the idiocy of the situation,
00:12:44yes, that is, they somehow realized that if I
00:12:48became a national artist, it would look
00:12:50wild,
00:12:53but they did not realize that giving a person the title of honored journalist is
00:12:57some kind of absolute savagery, exactly the same, but
00:13:00either you received recognition from the system, or listen, for some reason,
00:13:04for me it is also a big secret, that
00:13:07there were some Soviet republics in which it was considered that
00:13:11literature is a people's дело, and
00:13:14there were republics where it was considered that literature is such a serious
00:13:17art, it cannot be, there are no national
00:13:20writers in Russia, yes,
00:13:24strangely enough. and there are no national writers in Ukraine, we don't have
00:13:27such a title, imagine how many people could have received the title
00:13:31of national writer in Ukraine. Tychyna,
00:13:35Bazhan, Rylsky, I don't know,
00:13:38Gonchar, there was a struggle
00:13:41for this title, but we don't have such a title, and we somehow live and don't even
00:13:45imagine that the state can make a decision to
00:13:49grant such a title, national writer
00:13:50of Belarus
00:13:53exists, and Lukashenka still grants titles, we just
00:13:57don't know who these charming people are, but in Soviet
00:14:00times they were, there were national writers everywhere, except Russia and
00:14:04Ukraine, that is, somehow it passed us by
00:14:07for unknown reasons,
00:14:10we were able to stand on par with Russians, who understood that they could not
00:14:14grant titles of national to their great writers, so to
00:14:16speak, all others, here is a wonderful
00:14:20example for you, of a title not existing with us, but existing in other
00:14:23republics. former Soviet ones, and they proudly say this,
00:14:27when they mention their writers, national writer of Belarus Yakub
00:14:31Kolas, or Maksim Tank, these are all people who received titles of national writers
00:14:35from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, by the way, for us it sounds wild,
00:14:39right, but it's an interesting point that these titles were still given
00:14:42even in the Soviet Union, but formally, but the Presidium
00:14:46of the Supreme Soviet, and now it's just a presidential decree, so we even
00:14:49bypassed, yes, the presidium was a collective body, that's true, but even
00:14:53bypassed this, at least... nominal, but, but,
00:14:56but, but some parliamentary,
00:15:00at least a pretext for parliamentarism, and now we just
00:15:03have the president who wanted to give, who wanted not to give, that's it,
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00:19:22This is the Saturday Political Club and now to a topic that for a long time
00:19:26seemed like something out of fantasy, it seemed
00:19:30impossible, and yet it happened, Congress,
00:19:33Senate, and now Trump's signature
00:19:36and... the so-called hellish sanctions
00:19:39of the late Graham and God grant him health,
00:19:42Blumenthal, two Republican senators
00:19:45and a Democrat have been adopted and now it
00:19:48is officially a law that must come into force, there, well,
00:19:52I will briefly remind you, countries that will actively continue
00:19:56to buy oil from the Russian
00:19:58Federation, will be subject to
00:20:02a 100% duty under attack, banks,
00:20:05defense industry, energy, or not. fleet, in short, the main
00:20:08treasury of the Kremlin, will these sanctions work, how to
00:20:12evaluate this decision, will it be a breakthrough and why, in
00:20:15principle, the Americans went for it, and Trump signed
00:20:18this law. I think it's precisely because nothing
00:20:22will really change in American-Russian relations and in the relations of the United
00:20:26States with those countries that buy oil from Russia
00:20:29until Trump decides to actually apply
00:20:33this law. By the way,
00:20:36you might have noticed that... that Trump always signs important
00:20:39fundamental laws in front of
00:20:42television cameras, remember, these tariff
00:20:45laws that imposed duties against many
00:20:49countries. He signed it in
00:20:52the White House Rose Garden,
00:20:55triumphantly Trump was with some
00:20:57plaque,
00:20:59here the White House simply announced that Trump signed this law,
00:21:03dryly, without any ceremony, without any
00:21:06words from Trump, he didn't talk about it, didn't tell
00:21:10journalists at a meeting that took place just before
00:21:12the signing about the importance of this law, although he himself
00:21:16insisted that this
00:21:19law... should also include sanctions against Iran? Well, let's
00:21:23look at it realistically, when Lindsey Graham and
00:21:26Blumenthal proposed this law, it
00:21:29provided for a fairly simple
00:21:31procedure: the President of the United States
00:21:35addresses the President of the Russian Federation
00:21:39with a demand to, I think, within 15 or 30 days, I don't
00:21:42remember how many versions there were, to cease
00:21:46fire on the Russian-Ukrainian front.
00:21:50to establish peace,
00:21:53if the President of the Russian Federation
00:21:55refuses
00:21:58to do so, the President of the United States
00:22:01is obliged
00:22:03to impose a 500% duty on
00:22:07products from Russia and
00:22:09countries that buy Russian oil.
00:22:13Well, a serious decision.
00:22:16Then Lindsey Graham began to coordinate this law with Trump. A year and a half.
00:22:20He coordinated it for a year, coordinated, coordinated, coordinated,
00:22:23coordinated, coordinated,
00:22:24died,
00:22:28at the moment when he hadn't fully coordinated it, but was already
00:22:30close, what was the result,
00:22:34that the President of the United States
00:22:37of America,
00:22:39has the right, if he wishes,
00:22:43to impose duties of up
00:22:46to 100%
00:22:49against
00:22:51the five main
00:22:53countries that buy oil from the Russian Federation by
00:22:56volume,
00:23:00or not to impose them,
00:23:03this absolutely depends on the president's decision, why is
00:23:07this important? because
00:23:10the president,
00:23:12according to American law, does not have the right to impose
00:23:16duties on products from other countries without the consent of...
00:23:21And that is precisely why the Supreme Court of the United States forbade
00:23:24Trump to impose duties for the whole
00:23:27world. Trump lost the tariff war. Thanks
00:23:30to the decision of his Supreme Court. And now
00:23:34Congress, by this decision, allows Trump to impose
00:23:38duties on products from other countries, but only
00:23:40those first five,
00:23:44that buy energy resources from the Russian
00:23:48Federation. That is why a huge number of Democrats did not
00:23:51vote for this law, because they believed that Trump could manipulate
00:23:55it to continue his trade
00:23:58wars. So, here the
00:24:01question arises:
00:24:05what are these first five countries that buy energy resources from the Russian
00:24:08Federation? These are the People's Republic of China and India,
00:24:12first of all. The amount
00:24:16of energy resources that other countries receive, even from the top five, is insignificant.
00:24:21And among these countries there are allies of the United States and Ukraine,
00:24:25for example, Turkey. Uh-huh.
00:24:27Now, now the main
00:24:30question.
00:24:33How ready will Trump be to impose 100% duties
00:24:37on the People's Republic of China, because we already perfectly understand that the current
00:24:40situation in it.
00:24:43Trump has already tried to impose duties against
00:24:45China. He got burned by that.
00:24:50It turned out that the American economy, and its strategic
00:24:53sector, has such a serious dependence on the People's Republic of China,
00:24:56республіки,
00:24:59that imposing any duty on Chinese goods is shooting
00:25:03oneself in the foot. Trump lost the tariff war
00:25:06with China, he will not start it again.
00:25:09India. India is more sensitive
00:25:13to Chinese tariffs. But they have already
00:25:16emphasized that they will continue to buy Russian oil even if
00:25:20duties are imposed,
00:25:21why?
00:25:24When India started buying Russian oil, it was
00:25:28a premium commodity for the Indian
00:25:30economy, that is, India
00:25:33bought Russian oil for
00:25:36rupees, which it is not yet known how it paid
00:25:39to the Russians,
00:25:41and then converted this oil into petroleum products
00:25:45and sold them on the world market for dollars, an excellent business
00:25:49for everyone. until the beginning of Russia's great war against
00:25:53Ukraine, India did not buy Russian oil at all, because it was
00:25:56expensive, and it did not create any great profit
00:25:59for India, but now the situation has changed
00:26:03fundamentally. Due to the blockade of oil routes in the Strait of Hormuz
00:26:06and the prospect of such a blockade in Bab el-Mandeb,
00:26:10India simply needs Russian oil no longer just as a premium
00:26:13product, but as a way to somehow close the gaps that
00:26:17are created in India's oil refining complex due to
00:26:20the lack of oil and due to the depletion of
00:26:24strategic reserves. I always say that the real crisis and the real
00:26:28catastrophe will not begin when the blockade
00:26:31of the Romanian... is continued, but when the countries of the world exhaust their strategic oil reserves,
00:26:35then we will be in big trouble, we will reach this point,
00:26:38if the issue of Hormuz is not resolved
00:26:41for some time, simply because a lot of oil has been accumulated in the world, but
00:26:45now it is, due to the fact that this ground
00:26:49pipeline of Saudi Arabia is already being blocked, it is approaching this
00:26:52point of no return, so we will face
00:26:55an energy crisis of unprecedented scale. We will certainly
00:26:58find ourselves in such a situation. India understands this, and
00:27:01after all, it's a country with a billion population. It is trying to do something to
00:27:05prevent this. Trump himself
00:27:08accuses us of increasing the price of diesel with our strikes on Russia.
00:27:12So what claims can be made against
00:27:15India or China?
00:27:19Thus, these articles of the law are simply
00:27:22illogical from the perspective of real
00:27:24possibilities.
00:27:28Because it is unknown, even if duties are imposed on
00:27:31India for its products going to the states,
00:27:34it's unknown what would be more profitable for India:
00:27:38to agree not to buy oil from Russia to avoid these
00:27:42duties, or to put up with these duties, reduce its
00:27:45trade with the United States, but continue to buy oil, because if there's no oil,
00:27:49who knows what could happen in India itself, in terms of
00:27:52social standards, in terms
00:27:55of fuel prices and so on. India, to the United
00:27:58States, people there might react differently.
00:28:04So, it seems to me that all these expectations regarding this law are not
00:28:08just exaggerated, but all of this generally has nothing to do with
00:28:11reality. I'm just looking with wide
00:28:14open eyes at the reaction of many people, and there are people
00:28:18whom I deeply respect, in the American, Ukrainian
00:28:21diaspora, who write about this law as a
00:28:24huge achievement, as if they don't notice that
00:28:28the real law on aid to Ukraine, the Ukraine Support Act,
00:28:31which provides for financial
00:28:34injections into the Ukrainian budget, multi-billion dollar military aid,
00:28:38new orders for American military
00:28:42enterprises, which was previously under
00:28:44Biden, that this act, which has already
00:28:47been passed by the House of Representatives,
00:28:51is sitting in the Senate and no one is even going to vote on it, and even if you
00:28:55imagine that the senators somehow voted for it, I am sure that there was
00:28:58a majority in the Senate, it's just that the Republican leader of the
00:29:02majority in the Senate, Senator Thune, is not putting it to a vote, and it's impossible to bypass him
00:29:06there, it's not the House of Representatives. So, I am sure that Trump would never
00:29:10have signed such a law. Unlike this law, which does not cause
00:29:14him any problems.
00:29:16No problems. So, this is a purely
00:29:20decorative pre-election story that will not affect the
00:29:23Russian-Ukrainian war in any way. Call
00:29:26it hellish sanctions or not.
00:29:27називай.
00:29:30Senator Graham himself agreed to gut this
00:29:32law,
00:29:35and so, if we're just talking about the memory of Senator Graham, it will also
00:29:38be such a memory of a person who had
00:29:41principles, but who was ready to compromise them
00:29:45for the sake of understanding with Trump,
00:29:47to replace real
00:29:50weapons with a plastic
00:29:53model of a rifle,
00:29:56so as not to quarrel with the American president. Now
00:30:00the question is, are there any positive aspects in this law?
00:30:03Yes, they also need to be noted:
00:30:06firstly, no President of the United States can
00:30:09now, without the consent of Congress, cancel sanctions imposed
00:30:13against Russia by the administrations of Barack
00:30:15Obama, Donald Trump, and Joseph
00:30:19Biden. That is, even if Trump, after his
00:30:23signature, wanted to ease sanctions against the Russian Federation, he
00:30:26can no longer do so, which, of course,
00:30:29creates a deadlock in any of his relationships with
00:30:33Putin, if he wanted to ease
00:30:35sanctions in response to some concessions from
00:30:39Putin in the Russian-Ukrainian war,
00:30:42meaning Congress can only agree to these sanctions when it deems that
00:30:46these concessions are sufficient for that...