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00:00:43Here it is, this is not my home, Maria, they can dictate to us and tell us how we should
00:00:47do it, expect us to obey and behave as external
00:00:50expectations? You know, this is such a provocative question for me,
00:00:54because as far as I remember in that press release, which I didn't even
00:00:58read, just then the journalist...
00:09:12borrowed, there is such an opinion, and if there
00:09:15is borscht, oh God, what big
00:09:18discussions there will be, how can a restaurant of Russian cuisine serve a Ukrainian national
00:09:22dish, well, that is, it's a very difficult question, it seems to me, even practically a question
00:09:26of a Russian cuisine restaurant in Narva turning into a political question, I
00:09:29will still bring you, again not an advertisement, but there is such a cafe in Tallinn
00:09:33called Krenka, if you go there, there's a sect in line,
00:09:37there are all Estonians, but most importantly, Russians serve there, and people
00:09:40like it.
00:10:25the prefect, when asked why it's so difficult to attract
00:10:28young personnel, young personnel to
00:10:30the police, to the border guard, he will say, well, yes, indeed, the views
00:10:34of our eastern cities differ,
00:10:37plus from the usual Elva,
00:10:40Tirva, Pärnu, Haapsalu and so on, plus also
00:10:44of course the Russian language and local
00:10:47culture, and because of this, as he
00:10:49said, because of this inconvenience or feeling of discomfort,
00:10:53people need to be attracted with higher salaries, but still there is
00:10:57an opinion that our local characteristics are what
00:11:00cause a feeling of discomfort among people, especially among
00:11:03the younger generation of Estonians, look, I am here, an Estonian,
00:11:07my daughter is here, an Estonian, my granddaughter,
00:11:10an Estonian, no discomfort, okay, let's
00:11:13still look at some more examples, otherwise we've somehow
00:11:17really focused on Russian cuisine, and if
00:11:21we had to choose which sacred building
00:11:24of Narva to place on a tourist poster, what would you choose, the Resurrection
00:11:28Cathedral or the Alexander Church, for context, the Resurrection Cathedral
00:11:31is an Orthodox
00:11:32church,
00:11:35and can we, let's remember that both
00:11:38these churches were located, well, practically
00:11:41simultaneously, were located on the same street and were
00:11:44connected on the then city map and on the city
00:11:47landscape by one straight beautiful street, that is, you understand,
00:11:51I don't see a contradiction here, but I think it would be appropriate to... place
00:11:55both, exactly, and if we have to choose, because look, here again
00:11:59is the problem, why choose, because, well, conditionally speaking, let's do it differently,
00:12:03again, I'll come up with it from another angle, I apologize, if there
00:12:06is only the Resurrection Cathedral, because de facto, the majority
00:12:09of religious people in Narva are Orthodox, well, there
00:12:12aren't that many of them, but if you compare, the Protestant community is very
00:12:15small, the Orthodox is larger, choosing de facto by reality,
00:12:19what to place on the poster as the main sacred building of Narva, the
00:12:23Resurrection Cathedral is needed, but...
00:12:55said that Europe begins here, this is what was adopted in twenty-one
00:12:58years, and indeed then in twenty-one, when we were all still in the COVID
00:13:02crisis, waiting for these gates to open, it was important to emphasize
00:13:06on the one hand the border status of the city, on the other
00:13:09hand, to remind of Narva's European past, because
00:13:13here are a couple of historical facts: Narva became part
00:13:16of the European cultural and legal space already in the distant
00:13:19year 1345, when the city received Lübeck
00:13:23law, the next important step,
00:14:55I will echo the words of Murba, because they all come
00:14:59here, as a unique place, when from the wall of Narva Castle,
00:15:02from the well tower to the Russian bank,
00:15:06101 m. another location, where everything is so compact in the palm of your
00:15:10hand, no, and they come
00:15:13here, thanks to the fact that Narva has this border status,
00:15:17now the border passes very clearly, it
00:15:20has become much more tangible than it was
00:15:23even 5 years ago, like... Christian
00:17:37Cathedral and the icon room are
00:17:40open to us, by the way, with a large collection, which
00:17:43is a so-called customs confiscate, this is also
00:17:46a feature of a border town, and you know, I would like to bring us all back to
00:17:50the fact that besides our conversation here in this small
00:17:53studio, there is also a large tourist cluster in Ida-Viru County, which has
00:17:57just now written and prepared a tourism strategy
00:18:00for the next three years, and where they also, first of all, they always
00:18:04analyze the tourism market, and it is not at its best.
00:19:08what I have within me is part of me, this is Russian culture, the Russian
00:19:11language, and what I know, I know Russian literature
00:19:14and art quite well, I
00:19:17don't feel ashamed of it, but it seems to me that we
00:19:21are ashamed of it in Narva, yes, Mikhail, we are not ashamed of it, it is our
00:19:25given, but still, you know, again, even speaking, excuse me for interrupting, but
00:19:29it is written in the cluster's strategy,
00:19:32about "Venice of the North" Narva or it is written, but
00:19:36it is not that?
00:20:50Time just flies by very quickly, I still want to add one more, yes, one more
00:20:54block, don't read the comments, they write a lot of untruths there, don't
00:20:57read, we promise, we promise
00:21:00our viewers to read some
00:21:02comments when there is such an opportunity
00:21:06to read normally, this
00:21:10is called editing and censorship, we are here without censorship, look, let's still
00:21:13talk, we are talking now, you haven't really
00:21:17convinced me, but what will happen next? Who should
00:21:21continue to develop Narva and what topics in
00:21:24Narva, what identity will Narva have, what will we
00:21:28represent, he needs a scandal, nothing will change, for this there will be
00:21:31elections soon, in 30 years in
00:21:352056,
00:21:38you know, I will say that the world has changed so quickly
00:21:42recently, no one saw COVID, no one saw
00:21:45how the world moved, yes, didn't foresee, yes, didn't
00:21:49foresee and...
00:23:20Statistics speak against your
00:23:23fears, 96% of Narva's population are Russian-speaking people, even with
00:23:27Estonians, as if we are constantly blurring this,
00:23:30that is,
00:23:33no one disputes that Narva is an Estonian city, all our events, the official part
00:23:37is always in Estonian, often there is no translation into Russian, but in Estonian it is always
00:23:40there, there is some event of national cultural societies, there is an Estonian dance, an Estonian
00:23:44song, always about this, but when we say, let's have something
00:23:48Russian, echo, everyone
00:26:02is quite close, maybe not 100%, but
00:26:06about 90% shows what Narva really is, what
00:26:09stereotypes about Narva exist, and what Narva is, and
00:26:13what we, I don't know, if it were presented a little
00:26:16differently, it would be good, let's
00:26:19comment on your opinion, what does such a spread
00:26:22mean, why do still a third of people think
00:26:25that yes, this is a good, necessary slogan for
00:26:28Narva, and what would you say to these people? It's hard for me to say?
00:30:37Sociologists, observers and politicians continue to discuss the fresh rating
00:30:41of the Isamaa party. This time the focus is on the decline in support
00:30:44for the centrists among Russian-speaking
00:30:45voters.
00:30:48Four Italian servicemen were wounded during exercises at a training ground in
00:30:52Latvia as a result of so-called friendly
00:30:55fire.
00:30:57The Ministry of Internal Affairs has published in open access.