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00:00:55Our army again struck at the Ukrainian Armed Forces' facilities
00:00:58in the rear. Geran worked all night in the vicinity of Kyiv,
00:01:02monitoring resources report an explosion at the Kyiv
00:01:05power substation. Drone strikes were also noted in Odesa,
00:01:09Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv,
00:01:12Kharkiv and Mykolaiv
00:01:14regions.
00:01:19And in the Dobropol direction, the fighters of the Center group of troops
00:01:22cover the sky around the clock from the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack drones. When they
00:01:25detect air targets, they coordinate actions to shoot down
00:01:29drones. Here is a report from our war correspondent
00:01:32Alexander
00:01:33Katsuba.
00:01:37Ukrainian Armed Forces' drones attack our positions at maximum
00:01:40speed.
00:01:42Machine guns work well at long
00:01:45distances when detected
00:01:47and
00:01:50in nighttime, yes, it's better with a machine gun, because there is
00:01:54a thermal imager, in which you can see the
00:01:57target better. Three machine guns at once on one installation. Fire groups of the
00:02:01center operate from masked positions in the most difficult
00:02:05sections of the flight of enemy
00:02:07drones.
00:02:11The soldiers of the 55th Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade of the
00:02:14Center group of troops fix every enemy attack bird.
00:02:18There is already a kind of connection between us, everything is
00:02:21fully configured, when these
00:02:24birds are spotted, it is transmitted along the chain, that is, they are already
00:02:28tracked by squares and... the next units, that is,
00:02:31the mortars, are already probably standing and waiting
00:02:35for them, observing the target, moving towards
00:02:38you, it was far away, I couldn't
00:02:41shoot, exactly,
00:02:44attack drones hover over the routes along which supplies
00:02:48to peaceful cities of Donbas go, this drone targets
00:02:52a truck with
00:02:52food,
00:02:56it falls, it was looking for targets.
00:03:00It monitored in the direction, and
00:03:04we had to work on it, it went into
00:03:07the forest belt, in the future, that is, with two mortars,
00:03:10our neighbor managed to shoot it down,
00:03:13a gasoline chainsaw, that's a fierce one,
00:03:17that's a snowmobile engine. Dozens of downed multi-type drones
00:03:20only in the last few days, it's easier to shoot down a
00:03:24gasoline one, because first of all, it's audible quite
00:03:28from afar and... unlike a Hornet, and as a
00:03:31rule, gasoline UAVs go in a direct
00:03:34course, while a Hornet has
00:03:37the property of changing direction, and
00:03:40quite sharply it
00:03:42changes it,
00:03:46and the whole thing is made of foam, so hitting the wings, that
00:03:49is, it doesn't cause much damage to it, so you either need to hit
00:03:52the ammunition, that is, hit it, or directly
00:03:56the engine. The 127 hit its engine, that is,
00:04:05the fire groups of the center control the sky
00:04:08everywhere. Alexander Katsub, Alexander Malyshev,
00:04:11Vesti: Dobropol direction.
00:04:12направление.
00:04:15Today in Russia is the Day of the Worker of Agriculture and
00:04:18Processing Industry. Vladimir Putin congratulated the
00:04:22industry workers and emphasized that even in difficult conditions, the domestic
00:04:26agro-industrial complex works with full dedication, thanks to which the country remains one of the...
00:04:44We celebrate it in autumn, when the
00:04:47harvest is already nearing completion.
00:04:50Special words of gratitude to the rural workers who, in
00:04:54daily, intensive mode, often without
00:04:57rest, fought for... I already
00:05:01said that you are warmly and rightfully called
00:05:04the breadwinners of Russia, this
00:05:07high title can and should be proud of,
00:05:11heartfelt thanks to everyone who works in agriculture
00:05:14at processing enterprises.
00:05:18Thanks to your energy and dedication to your work,
00:05:22Russia firmly holds the position of one of the leading
00:05:25producers of agricultural products in
00:05:28the world. Even in difficult current conditions,
00:05:31the domestic agro-industrial complex operates steadily and
00:05:35stably. You perform your tasks conscientiously,
00:05:39with full dedication.
00:05:42You reliably guarantee the food security
00:05:45of the country. This year, a decent
00:05:49harvest of grain will again be obtained, with a solid
00:05:52reserve, exceeding the bar of 100 million
00:05:55tons. The production of meat,
00:05:58milk, eggs, and many other types of
00:06:02products is at a good level. Recently, large
00:06:04agricultural businesses, and especially medium-sized
00:06:07companies and farms, have had to face
00:06:10a whole series of
00:06:13difficulties, which are caused by sanctions,
00:06:16infrastructural and export barriers, and rising
00:06:19costs. The state will definitely continue
00:06:23to provide the necessary assistance to farmers, to contribute
00:06:27to solving operational issues related to fuel,
00:06:30transportation, and sale of products, to providing
00:06:34planting material, and in general, we will continue
00:06:37to systematically support the agro-industrial sector,
00:06:41which faces large-scale tasks,
00:06:45among the key priorities is strengthening the technological
00:06:48capabilities of the agro-industrial complex in all areas, from
00:06:51the field of selection, genetics, seed production and
00:06:54biotechnology to the introduction of modern agricultural
00:06:58machinery, equipment and digital
00:07:01solutions. Increasing the technological level of agriculture
00:07:05is the key to its efficiency and
00:07:07competitiveness for years to come.
00:07:11Such development must, of course, rely on a system of training
00:07:15personnel, on talented young people who see
00:07:19opportunities for self-realization in the industry,
00:07:22who are ready to live and work in the countryside, to create large, strong
00:07:26families, therefore, we will continue to pay
00:07:30special attention to the arrangement of villages and
00:07:32small towns, rural areas,
00:07:36this is about comfortable housing, accessibility of education and
00:07:39healthcare, about modernization and...
00:07:48I am confident that with joint efforts we will definitely
00:07:51implement all planned plans, ensure
00:07:54quality growth of the industry.
00:07:57Once again, I congratulate all workers of the Russian
00:08:00agro-industrial complex on the holiday,
00:08:04I wish you success, good health and
00:08:06well-being to you and your
00:08:09loved ones. Now let's move to Kuban, where
00:08:13the grape harvest is in full swing. The main volume of technical grape
00:08:16varieties is grown on the Taman Peninsula in Anapa and
00:08:20Novorossiysk. But the berries from the Krymsky district are valued because
00:08:24they make the best wine. Sergey Sidorenko will tell us about all the intricacies of production, or as
00:08:28professionals say, from berry to glass.
00:08:31A good harvest is laid even
00:08:34earlier than the seedlings are planted in the vineyards, says
00:08:38winemaker Pyotr Krasnov. About 85%
00:08:41of the success is the right choice
00:08:45of land, in this case we are located at
00:08:48an altitude of 200 m above sea level, that
00:08:52is, all possible, so to speak, weather
00:08:56conditions with
00:08:59precipitation, mild winter,
00:09:02allow here, so to speak, to grow
00:09:05excellent harvests, another 15% of success is in the skilled
00:09:09hands of viticulturists, specialists monitor
00:09:12the vines, calculate when and how much fertilizer or pesticides
00:09:16need to be applied, when the harvest time approaches, they personally
00:09:20assess the ripeness of the berries. First of all, of course, we
00:09:23look at what the berry gives, what juice, its sugar, that is
00:09:27the main, so to speak, parameter, the second
00:09:30moment, there is such a concept as the aroma
00:09:33of the berry, how the seed looks, what it
00:09:36tastes like. All eight varieties of grapes that grow on this
00:09:40farm in the Krymsky district will be turned into premium wine after
00:09:43harvesting. The technology of creating an elite drink requires
00:09:47painstaking work even at the stage of harvesting berries. Here,
00:09:50harvesters are not used, which rip off all the grapes indiscriminately.
00:09:54Only selected bunches fall into the picker's hands.
00:09:57The picker's task is to find the ideal grapes. The bunch
00:10:01must be large and heavy, and this
00:10:04must be done quite quickly. During a working day, which lasts
00:10:08from 6 am to 3:00 pm, one picker can
00:10:12collect up to 70 such boxes of
00:10:15grapes, which is a total of about 1000
00:10:18kg. The vineyards on this farm stretch for more than
00:10:2215 hectares. From such an area this year,
00:10:25they plan to harvest about 140 tons of berries, which is 20 tons more
00:10:29than last year's result. All these grapes will be turned into wine,
00:10:33approximately 10 thousand bottles of amber
00:10:35drink.
00:10:39We have now taken a loan for current expenses of 5 million, but
00:10:43every year we receive it with compensation for 2/3 of the refinancing
00:10:46rate, plus we
00:10:49received 10 million for the purchase
00:10:52of equipment for further supply. We plan to receive another
00:10:5615 million for new equipment. At the rate that exists in
00:10:59banks, it is simply impossible to work. New equipment
00:11:02will be installed in the winery. For example, these containers, in simple
00:11:06words, act as thermoses. The must
00:11:09remains in the containers for twenty to 30 days, after which the filtered
00:11:13wine material is sent for aging. At the discretion of the technologist, the future wine
00:11:17can be in bottles, wooden or concrete barrels for
00:11:20several years, thereby acquiring taste, aromatic and other
00:11:24qualities. for which this drink is valued throughout
00:11:27the country.
00:11:30This year, the region plans to produce more than 330
00:11:34million bottles of wine. So that everyone can feel the refined notes
00:11:37of the Kuban product, people in the workshops and fields work almost
00:11:41around the clock. To date, the region has harvested more than
00:11:44155,000 tons of amber berries, and by the end
00:11:48of the season, winemakers expect to exceed the mark of 300,000
00:11:51tons. Sergey Sidorenko, Artem Statyukha. Vesti.
00:11:56Ukraine needs a new president, this signal from the White House seems to have shocked
00:12:00Zelensky. The head of the Kyiv regime rushed to call all
00:12:04his European sponsors in search of at least some
00:12:07support. And what answer he received, Elizaveta
00:12:11Morskaya will tell us about it. This clash is called by the German Berliner
00:12:15Zeitung the most dangerous for Zelensky since the February scolding in
00:12:19the Oval Office. It seems that what he had been warned about for so long
00:12:22has happened. Trump's patience has run out.
00:12:26We told Zelensky: "Don't hit oil refineries,
00:12:29it's a global problem." And what does he
00:12:32do? He hits facilities that produce
00:12:36diesel fuel. The indignation of the head of the White House
00:12:39is understandable: the cost of diesel is rising, the people are unhappy,
00:12:42especially farmers, Trump mentioned them separately, and the Republicans
00:12:46have midterm elections coming up, the results of which are already
00:12:49undermined by the unpopular Iranian campaign. Therefore, he
00:12:52said what he thought, so that there would be no problem. Let's eliminate
00:12:56the source of the problem. I think that it's time for Ukraine to change
00:12:59its president. The media writes that after these words, Zelensky had
00:13:03a tantrum. He immediately began calling his allies. True, they told
00:13:07him nothing new, except for routine phrases like "we will continue to pressure Russia."
00:13:11Today, the Prime Minister of
00:13:13Great Britain held talks with Vladimir Zelensky.
00:13:17The Prime Minister began the conversation by acknowledging that the last
00:13:2024 hours had been difficult for Ukraine again in...
00:13:27The Western press is now vividly describing how humiliating this situation is for Kyiv.
00:13:30The Financial Times writes: "Trump announced
00:13:34a diesel deal right during the visit of the Ukrainian delegation to
00:13:37Miami. The meeting allegedly was not even brought to an end. And this
00:13:41eloquently speaks about Washington's true attitude," comments the New York
00:13:45Times. For Kyiv and its European allies, the short
00:13:48negotiations in Miami clearly showed how American diplomacy
00:13:51has shifted to hunting for profitable deals with Russia. As
00:13:55experts note, Kyiv did not understand that for the current administration,
00:13:59the slogan America First is not an empty sound, it is the principle on which
00:14:02its political approaches are based, and this is what modern Europe
00:14:06lacks. This is how Slovak Prime Minister Robert reacted to the deal
00:14:09between the presidents of Russia and the USA.
00:14:11They care about their own national
00:14:14interests, that's what I constantly talk about, and we should care about
00:14:17ours. And what about us in the European Union? We ban everything,
00:14:20impose sanctions, embargoes, read moral teachings. Well, then we pay for
00:14:23diesel like crazy and tremble with fear, will there be enough
00:14:27of it at all? And it was not only Fico who gave such a reaction. A similar opinion
00:14:30was expressed by all European politicians who advocate
00:14:33for the protection of national interests, a strong economy and, most importantly, peace on
00:14:37the continent. Trump completely abandons Zelensky. I
00:14:41think it's time for Ukraine to have a new
00:14:44president, this is a chance for peace. As for
00:14:47the Eurobureaucrats, they are in shock. While they are waging war against Russia,
00:14:51the Russian-American president is holding negotiations, agreeing,
00:14:55how is this even possible, exclaimed the head of European diplomacy, Kaja
00:14:59Kallas. Nerd and Macron refrained from public comments
00:15:02on the deal, one is busy saving ratings, the other is trying to quell
00:15:06school riots. Ilzaet Morskaya, Alexandra Zhuchina,
00:15:09Vesti. The US may join Saudi
00:15:13Arabia's strikes against the Houthis, the White House announced. The attack on
00:15:17the international airport in Riyadh was called unacceptable by
00:15:21the American administration. During the strikes, 12 people died,
00:15:24I remind you, more than 300 were injured. According to
00:15:27the Wall Street Journal, missiles hit the third and fourth terminals.
00:15:31The air harbor is closed for receiving and sending
00:15:33flights.
00:15:36attacked a vessel in the Gulf of Oman. Footage of the strike
00:15:40is published by the US Central Command. American military personnel claim that
00:15:43a large cargo ship under the Panamanian flag attempted
00:15:47to pass through the Gulf after leaving port in
00:15:50Iran.
00:15:54Here are the latest news from the Ministry of Defense, which is coming in. So, this night
00:15:58strikes were launched at data centers, objects of Ukraine's port
00:16:00infrastructure, and also at naval vessels that are involved
00:16:04in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, the report states that
00:16:08a data center in Odesa was hit, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine use for processing,
00:16:12transmitting, and storing information. These were reports from the
00:16:15Ministry of Defense.
00:16:19Moscow is implementing the world's largest monument restoration program.
00:16:22Every year, about 150 objects are
00:16:25restored. But over the past 15 years, more than
00:16:292,500 pearls of urban
00:16:32architecture have been preserved.
00:16:46Ceramics master Andrey Savetsky, in a matter of minutes, turns shapeless
00:16:50pieces of clay into a variety of products. The product
00:16:54is made not from clay, but in conjunction
00:16:57with clay, that is, there should be a dance. You don't need to step
00:17:00on your partner's feet, you understand?
00:17:04Here you need to feel each other. If you make
00:17:10the clay happy, then it will reciprocate,
00:17:14you understand, Andrey jokingly calls himself
00:17:17an artist for life. Once he set himself the task of recreating
00:17:21the technique of creating a special type of architectural ceramics from
00:17:24tile, an exact reconstruction of something that didn't exist, we don't know
00:17:28how it was, we only have the finished
00:17:31result, maybe the remaining
00:17:34techniques and we...
00:18:08We met the restorers at the Fifth Moscow International Exhibition dedicated to
00:18:11the preservation of cultural heritage sites. And how to
00:18:15save all the best that our generation has created?
00:18:18Perhaps this is one of the main questions that contemporaries should ask
00:18:22themselves, because otherwise our descendants will
00:18:25restore methodologies,
00:18:27technologies, processes, which is essentially what modern
00:18:31restorers are doing now, they are saving and restoring
00:18:34what was possibly lost or forgotten many
00:18:38So, the industry event about restoration united
00:18:42the best specialists who are right here right now guarding,
00:18:45no less, historical justice.
00:18:48The language of rare techniques and talents
00:18:50is what restorers pass on to each other, from masters
00:18:53to apprentices. Meeting at this venue is a special occasion
00:18:57for each participant. Here there is already such an interaction
00:19:00of generations, from the young generation to
00:19:03our most experienced professionals who pass on
00:19:07their skills and abilities
00:19:10to the guys right away. You know, restorers don't generally
00:19:14like to share their secrets, do they?
00:19:17Yes, well, but here they have to, and here
00:19:21they have to, yes, in this regard, this exhibition is an opening
00:19:24of the restorers' souls, because each of them on their
00:19:28stand truly shares their unique secrets
00:19:31of craftsmanship. Bogdan Lavrinenko, a hereditary
00:19:35artist who gained wide
00:19:38recognition among mosaic restorers, reveals one of the secrets. In front of
00:19:41you is a glass-ceramic
00:19:45panel, this is a very rare technique that in the 1970s
00:19:49Zuralka Papanadze invented together with his team.
00:19:52It is neither mosaic nor painting, and it is
00:19:56not enamel either, it is something in between all of this.
00:19:59Glass-ceramics is such a multi-component baked
00:20:02panel, and like any craft, the techniques of the best
00:20:06specialists temper it.
00:20:37Roofers create a small fragment of a metal
00:20:41historical roof. Preserving
00:20:44heritage is a special mission for Moscow. That is why the city
00:20:47takes a comprehensive approach to solving restoration
00:20:50tasks. The most important thing, of course, is
00:20:53personnel. Today's restoration is
00:20:57a whole range of activities, so in Moscow alone there are more than ten
00:21:01educational institutions, both higher
00:21:04and secondary vocational education, training
00:21:07specialists. This includes the Russian Academy of Painting
00:21:11and Public Arts, the Moscow State
00:21:14University of Civil Engineering, if we are talking
00:21:17about higher educational institutions. If
00:21:21we are talking about secondary specialized institutions, then this is our College Twenty-Sixth
00:21:24Frame. College Twenty-Sixth Frame,
00:21:27a special place where the best traditions and practices are transmitted. Graduates
00:21:31of this educational institution are especially valued. I really
00:21:34wanted a creative profession, but at the same time I was very interested
00:21:37in architecture, so I was looking for how to combine these two
00:21:41professions, then the name "reengineering" came up, which
00:21:43interested me, I delved deeper and found the College of the First Frame, it just
00:21:47enters the top five best colleges, so... I decided to apply
00:21:51there. For young specialists and not only, a heritage
00:21:54forum is held in Moscow. Its main goal is to spread knowledge about preserving
00:21:58cultural heritage and integrating historical monuments into
00:22:02the life of modern cities. At the forum, we have
00:22:05a fairly wide range of guys from different
00:22:08universities. And it's very good that we have a new
00:22:11direction for landscape designers, because
00:22:14as was presented, an object has a territory
00:22:18that needs to be worked on.
00:22:20Thanks to a comprehensive approach, over the past 15 years, more than 2,500
00:22:24cultural heritage sites have been put in order in the city. Moreover, restorers are,
00:22:27as a rule, set the most difficult tasks, for example, to bring
00:22:31the Ostankino estate into historical compliance, an Italian
00:22:34pavilion recently opened there, in the days of coronation
00:22:37celebrations, Alexander II stayed there.
00:22:40Alexander II stayed
00:22:43there
00:22:48in the Italian region. The Italian pavilion has just
00:22:51opened, it's incredibly beautiful here, the parquet is made of five types of
00:22:55wood. The gilding was painstakingly restored, using sturgeon
00:22:58glue according to ancient technology, and wallpaper in the 16th century
00:23:02was not just expensive, it was indecently expensive, but Sheremetev did not
00:23:06economize on the palace, he ordered it from Paris. The Ostankino estate
00:23:10presents, in fact, a very wide variety
00:23:13of techniques for interior
00:23:16decoration, including wallpaper, wallpaper is generally unique.
00:23:50the central core, actually, of the theatrical palace,
00:23:54I hope that in the next 2 years this
00:23:57unique, painstaking work will be completed,
00:24:01I wanted to thank everyone who cares
00:24:04about the revival of this unique
00:24:07place. Sheremetev demonstrated an enlightened
00:24:10taste, with which his masterpiece is being restored even today.
00:24:14Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev would be delighted
00:24:17with the love
00:24:20and tact with which one of his
00:24:24beloved creations is being recreated. Moscow in recent times, it
00:24:27is indeed an example of how
00:24:31respectfully one should treat those
00:24:34monuments that we inherited from those
00:24:37who lived and worked, created for
00:24:40us. In restoration, there are no trifles,
00:24:43or rather, all the grandeur rests precisely on these
00:24:46trifles, and Moscow fully provides its masters
00:24:50with everything necessary. Today, Moscow's restoration industry
00:24:54is fully supplied with all
00:24:57restoration materials, domestic
00:25:01materials are used in Moscow's cultural
00:25:04heritage sites in the widest range, from
00:25:08facade work to interior,
00:25:11for example, if it concerns facade work, it's
00:25:14paints, it's dry terrazzo plasters, it's
00:25:18waterproofing materials, it's window
00:25:22and door fillings, both restoration and manufacturing, it's
00:25:26ceramic tiles and much, much
00:25:29more. For example, these restorers have been working
00:25:32on lighting fixtures for over 30 years, they have
00:25:36projects in the Bolshoi Theater, GUM, and the Historical Museum, now they
00:25:39are participating in the grand reconstruction of
00:25:42VDNKh. We are currently
00:25:45next to one of the decorative elements
00:25:49of the Golden Ear Pavilion, these are recreated grilles,
00:25:53recreated from not very good surviving
00:25:57photographs, a lot of literature was sifted through
00:26:00in order to settle on
00:26:04a certain decor. In addition to this,
00:26:07in the Golden Ear Pavilion, we are recreating
00:26:10large lighting fixtures, among them six chandeliers with
00:26:13cobalt glass, many sconces, many
00:26:17lamps. Many elements have to be
00:26:20recreated literally from scratch,
00:26:23of course the mold
00:26:26goes through a technological cycle, you can't
00:26:29pour metal into a cold
00:26:32mold, it will crack, in the technological
00:26:36chain there are a number of certain steps,
00:26:40such as annealing furnaces and so
00:26:42on. I would like to demonstrate what
00:26:46happens after pouring
00:26:49metal into this
00:26:51mold.
00:26:54The variety of tasks facing the masters can be seen in the example
00:26:57of the historical buildings of the former Borets compressor plant.
00:27:00Here they will create modern public spaces, while trying
00:27:04to preserve the spirit of the late 19th century, for this
00:27:07they had to move the building. We carried out
00:27:10the relocation of three historical objects, this is
00:27:13the water tower, this is the model workshop,
00:27:17the assembly shop, then we the idea was born
00:27:20to create some cool project, a public-business one,
00:27:24directly, where we would fit in, combine
00:27:28history with modernity. At that moment
00:27:31we held several architectural competitions - we really
00:27:34liked one of the concepts.
00:27:38Until 1917, steam engines,
00:27:41pumps, steam coal-hoisting machines were produced here. During
00:27:45the Great Patriotic War, ammunition was cast and
00:27:48compressors were produced for the needs of the navy.
00:27:51These walls remember a lot. Here we can
00:27:54see two different bricks. What does this
00:27:57mean? This brick is a special restoration
00:28:01brick, which... is specially made
00:28:05to create a historical look, as it was in
00:28:08Tsarist Russia, this brick is an old one
00:28:11from 1897, which we
00:28:15will complete and restore,
00:28:18and this is one of the boldest development projects
00:28:21of our time, houses on stilts that hang over the Taras
00:28:24Shevchenko embankment, and beneath them, or rather behind them,
00:28:27are the historical buildings of the Badaevsky Brewery, which are
00:28:31The historical buildings are
00:28:34the heart of the Badaevsky complex. The authors
00:28:38of the project, and in general the developer, considered
00:28:40the historical buildings as an advantage of the territory,
00:28:44and partly the idea of raising new construction on
00:28:47thirty-five-meter columns is dictated by the desire to preserve
00:28:51the view of those very historical buildings of the former brewery.
00:28:54Restoration totals
00:28:58more than 35 thousand km, the most difficult
00:29:02from the point of view.
00:29:11eight stories high, and restoration,
00:29:14structural, and engineering
00:29:17works are being carried out there simultaneously. In Moscow, in recent years, restoration
00:29:21has ceased to be just work with the past; today it is also
00:29:24a precise science and high art, a bold
00:29:27engineering challenge that preserves the city's
00:29:30historical appearance.
00:30:33so you can shoot down this aerostat with a machine gun, it won't
00:30:36catch fire, it won't explode, that is, it will hang
00:30:39there until it loses positive buoyancy in the
00:30:43air.
00:33:54is being presented on the stage of the Stavropol Drama Theater. The performances
00:33:57are held as part of the "Big Tours" project with the support
00:34:00of the Ministry of Culture. By the end of the year, the production will also be seen in
00:34:03Novosibirsk, Penza and St. Petersburg. How the play
00:34:07is received in the North Caucasus, this is Daria
00:34:10Yuryeva. To one of the oldest Russian
00:34:13drama theaters in the North Caucasus, spectators hurry
00:34:17in excited anticipation of the master's play, where there are no accidental
00:34:20decorations or empty lines, everything in it is not for nothing. While
00:34:24the guests are seating themselves in the hall, they involuntarily pay attention to the epigraph
00:34:27written on the screen covering the stage. This is an invitation
00:34:31to the viewer not just to follow the course of the trial
00:34:34and seek a legal solution, but to delve
00:34:37deeper into the story, to reflect on it. About freedom, compassion and
00:34:41personal responsibility. 12 jurors in a school gym
00:34:45decide the fate of a Chechen youth who killed his adoptive father, a Russian
00:34:48officer. 11 men are ready to quickly convict the guy
00:34:52and go home, but one votes against. He won't get
00:34:56out of there, ever,
00:34:59right? How else? What, are we sending him to a resort in Thailand
00:35:03or something?
00:35:06I know the work of Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov and I have incredible
00:35:10respect and reverence for him, I fully
00:35:14receive that...
00:35:25creates the illusion of a fourth wall, the viewer becomes the thirteenth
00:35:28juror, peeking into the deeply personal process of someone else's drama,
00:35:32listening to the poignant monologue of each character,
00:35:35asking himself questions, watching how the
00:35:39guilty/not guilty votes are distributed. All the questions that
00:35:41are raised in the play... They are generally
00:35:45eternal,
00:35:47how much a person is willing to spend their time, connections,
00:35:51strength on another person, what makes him universal, that
00:35:54we have the opportunity...