well, we explain that we are like tourists , tourists, vacationing, celebrating, he said , you know, i get into the car, i will take you out of this area and you have a map, well , naturally there were no navigators , no gadgets, i i repeat, this is ninety -three, the coming ninety-four, naturally there were paper maps and he , right there from that car of ours on this map... marked areas that we, white people , do not need to go to, well, that is, in general it is categorically impossible if we value our health and life, that’s how i learned about the existence of racism, so he wrote it out in great detail on the map, in which areas we should not appear at all, in which areas we can appear during the day, in which areas we can drive through, but it is advisable not to even stop at...

with such eyes, that is, it was generally such a discovery, later i found out that all major cities have this kind of zones, and here i must explain to you that miami, what we call miami, is actually several districts miami beach islands where... representatives of our bohemia live, all the famous actors have apartments there in these huge condominiums, by the way, the american elite, including the hollywood elite, who of course have real estate in may, they never live in these they don’t live in people’s houses, they buy some small ones there on the canal... which

, by the way, cost the same as an apartment in a penthouse, this price category is the same, that is, it’s not about money here, but about traditions, as it were and habits, that’s miami itself - that’s enough a big city that looks like a modern one, well, chertanovo in moscow, and that is , this is an alternation of some khrushchev-era buildings, well, not khrushchev-era buildings, of course, i mean these, like, five-story buildings, small buildings. and some high-rise new buildings, in principle this place is inexpensive, this is actually miami, the ex-prime minister of latvia and the current head of mit krisjanis karinsh, and he doesn’t feel sorry for anything for the people, no ice in winter, no grass in summer, he sings songs about this, problems in the economy, in public finances, everything is getting worse and worse. he just gobbled it up

account for personal comfort and well-being 600,000 euros from the latvian budget. take the trouble to learn our national language. we are talking about the public deliberate humiliation of latvian russians, who are forced to retake the exam. there will be deportation. i think this will affect at least a thousand people. he came to the territory of the us embassy in riga every single day. he was preparing the country for war. that's what they did. this is such an american look. karizh must choose.

year i’m talking about my personal experience, this is a podcast chronicling the end of times, because in fact, every time a year ends, a new one begins, the same thing with... times, some times end, others begin, we come to the second episode with handcuffs, because for the second time i also found myself in handcuffs in the same city , but not in miami beach, not on the ocean, but since we had such a format of traveling for the sun on this very cadillac, because it is quite cloudy in winter, the water there is very warm 25-2, but because in summer it is generally impossible there, very summer it’s hot and humid, and in winter it’s just comfortable, but it’s cloudy, and we just, being in one place or another, saw that there was sunshine here or there somewhere, that is, there was a blue sky, we

sat down - in this very kodilak and rushed there in search of ultraviolet light, because the demidovs came to us for a short time, and why not for long? i’m here because of the search, because lena demidova, in fact, is a very gifted producer, this person on television was very, very authoritative, that is, she was like that, she went shooting with bandits, because well, this is the nineties, she came up with the shark pen program, it was a very popular program, from which a lot of modern... journalists came out , moreover, it was invented by her, she was the producer of such a portzone project, it was very, very in the mid-nineties, such a fashionable project, and it was such a disco and it was there that the career of, say, gosha

kutsenko began, yes, he started as a tv presenter, and he became famous precisely as the host of the party zone, he had a girl as a partner... who had previously been a backup dancer and singer for sorukhanov , from someone else, and lera, yes, this lera kudryavtseva, here they are together, gosha kutsenko and lera kudryavtseva started under the leadership of lena demidova, in short, they had a lot of plans, both demidovs, and they came to us, in my opinion, for everything, well, for these very new year's vacation , that is, for 10 days, so these were rushing after the sun, because during these 10 days, in general, i wanted not only to drink, eat, but swim and , uh, sunbathe, so, during another such trip, we were brought into

cuban district, it was already getting dark, we realized that we couldn’t find the sun and we decided to slow down and sit down at a restaurant in kubinsky, there was live music, this is the same restaurant. these are the cubans who sang something to us, the miami cubans are a completely separate category, that is, these are people who hate and, well, hated, let’s say, fidel castro, these are people who fled from liberty island, and they had a corresponding attitude to the soviets, well, that is, to the russian-speaking people, because the russians were soviet, and we could not understand why there was some kind of... there was a feeling of ill will, but because we were russians, that is, we were associated with the very communist regime from which these people fled, and naturally the matter ended in a fight, and

again ivan ivanovich somehow, i don’t know why, at that moment he either went somewhere - in short, i found myself in handcuffs again, the only one from this whole company, but... this time, by the way, it didn’t work out, that is , something like some kind of protocol was drawn up, and then i had to go to some kind of course or something after dimidov’s departure, in general several times i went somewhere and became imbued with responsibility and norms of behavior in society in miami, by the way, speaking of laws about everything else, there would still be one nuance, because when we talked and invited the demidovs, van said, that i should definitely watch all the new year’s programs, well, the blue light , in general, well, be in the know, i said, of course, it’s not

a question, we’ll put a plate in our yard and so to speak, everything is there, because i ’ll remind you again, the internet there wasn't, but there were these here are the television dishes. it was possible to receive a signal, and it so happened that i deceived my friends, because i could not install this plate, it turned out that in america, according to the law, here is life in this ... association, i owe the meeting that will be there - well, i don’t know, they were held there once a month, fill out some kind of application, what i want to do in my yard, i’ll repeat, that is, put a plate in my backyard and either get permission or receive an unmotivated refusal, that is, a myth about capitalist society collapsed instantly. like, there’s money there, you solve everything for money, it was capitalism we were building then, it’s exactly according

to these patterns, you have money, you solve problems for this money, put plates, spoons, forks, tables there, there, where you think it’s necessary, if you have enough money for it, in america it turned out that it doesn’t work, that is, i bought this plate, and called a master, and the master installed it for me, but just... the neighbors immediately knocked , and there, in principle, unlike us, there is this culture of denunciation, in in a good way, because in fact the legal system is built on this, that neighbors watch each other, and if they notice something wrong, they are right there, they don’t sort things out with their neighbors, they immediately knock on the police, for example, there according to the laws of that time, i don’t know how it is now, it was impossible to leave a child under... 14 years old alone at home, that is, we have five-year-olds and first-graders there -

they went home with a key around their neck, this child must have been there before that age a nurse if the neighbors noticed that they left such a child behind, they didn’t conduct educational conversations with the parents or didn’t offer their services, they just knocked stupidly, in principle, this is a working system ... this is a good help to law enforcement agencies, i say this without any banter, because well, this is in soviet times, we had druzheniki who patrolled there with armbands, but here a significant part of the population found themselves in the druzheniki , such voluntary police assistants, i had a neighbor with whom we were friends there, because they are so very friendly everyone, the americans are very friendly in these.

space, if he bothers me with these things, it’s easier to just go into

privacy, that is, a violation of this by the police, and the police will already settle these issues, that is, these things are me, and of course, of course, i dealt with issues as a journalist corruption and was amazed that in america there was monstrous corruption, that is, on a scale in which it was not only not there in the soviet union, nor in new russia, but at the everyday level, here... this petty corruption, its was significantly less than ours, i’m now bringing the conversation to my third arrest, when i found myself in handcuffs for the third time, there are local officers there, that is, highway patrol, they don’t take bribes, that is , the head of the police can take bribes there for a decision of some kind question, i mean the performers of ordinary officers. they don’t take bribes, which was also a discovery for me and not the most pleasant, because it was much later, when we

were going to orlando to meet our friends, the demidovs had already left, we were late, and i exceeded the speed limit, well, quite seriously , he just whistled past a patrol car, because it was not a classic police car with flashing lights, but just like this... a jeep made to look like wood, these cars were generally popular in america, naturally, there was something written on board and there was a flashing light inside the cabin. but when i whistled past, i naturally didn’t see it, but he immediately turned on the flashing light, caught up with us, i stopped here, i made the first mistake, i tried, well, like in the soviet union it was accepted that if you are stopped by a traffic cop, he is waiting for you in the car as the master of the situation, you run out, run to him there with

something, well, with documents or something. you can also add, so i tried to get out of the car, a gun was immediately pointed at me, and they told me to stay in the car, i was like yes, yes, yes , there are no questions at all, i put the seat back, the officer said that i should keep your hands on the steering wheel, so i took out the so-called registreation, that is, here are the documents for the car, i put 100 dollars in there, that’s with a charming smile, as it seemed to me then , and my wife also tried to sit on the assault seat, which means he was smiling, i say, you know, we’re going to pick up friends, we’re late for the airport, it’s our fault, please forgive me, he means he’s looking, he’s lying there a stollar piece of paper, and he clarifies, this is for me, i’m like

, well, of course, i say, who else, this is for you , i immediately found myself pulled out of the car, hands on the hood, handcuffed for the third time, because this is a bribe to an official, and it’s good that i was with my wife, because that way they would have taken me away everything, and there is such a system that when you get detained, they can bel, it’s called, then ransom you, but you can’t ransom yourself, even if you had a suitcase of money with you, someone has to do it then another, any other person, he can come to the police station, pay this bail, why is this done, because they release you, if you run away, then this bail remains with the state, no matter how the state loses, it’s good that in general, i repeat, i was with my wife, who followed for this patrol car, at the station , they opened a case, our guests were waiting for us at

the airport, because my wife did not dare to leave me, there was a trial, then, well, uh, the point here is that the numerousness and severity of american laws , you know, like according to salatykov shchedrin, he said that the severity of russian laws, it is compensated for, softened by the optionality of their implementation, there, in general, a lot remains at the discretion of the judge, i remember that i was then given a court date, i arrived to the court, and - also there is a judge there somehow... imbued with it, that is, here we are naturally talking about no bribes there, i don’t mean that there is an uncorrupted system, there the judicial system is also corrupt, but not about such a bakery trifle as, uh, me and my case are talking, but also a judge, in general, having listened to me, understanding that i simply explained

that this is our good russian tradition, in general, the employee - there of the state traffic inspectorate, means, somehow to encourage, well, in general, in short , this matter did not end with any punishment, well, except certainly lost time and frayed nerves, we continue our conversation about welcoming the new year, i tell about my personal experience, this is a podcast chronicling the end of times, three times in my life i was in handcuffs. i hope that this will not happen to me a fourth time under any circumstances, even under such relatively innocent ones, because i believe that drinking champagne on the shore on new year’s day is, in general, not such a serious crime under any laws, but these are not the only ridiculous cases, not only around america, in general, we had a conversation, there was

another episode with the new year's eve, which i am for... the most exotic, she says, i know, this is just a bomb, just such an exotic that you will like so much, because i took canadians there too, and...

it was chopped, that is, they were always trying to decorate it somehow, they were peppering some berries there, that is, well, it seemed to them, well, somehow they could just take and bring just

chopped pineapple, this is so banal and somehow so stupid, but i will repeat that the most obvious analogue is this shredded cabbage, am i saying that everyone has different ideas about what it is?

this is already the wife of a drummer from a famous band in her eighth month, but we had with us, that is, it was natural , champagne and some kind of snack, finding the thirty-first master in the evening turned out to be a very, very difficult task, that is, the new year we we we met in the elevator, memories of this situation in general

are not always external circumstances, they reflect the essence. once again i want to repeat the saying that i love very much, where are you i was born there and came in handy ; it’s always better to celebrate holidays, any, be it new year or any other, at home, with friends and family. of course, when you are a young student, it is better to celebrate with friends, but in spirit this is a holiday. for the family , that is, for the last 500 years, let’s say, i ’ve been celebrating this holiday with my family, but i just

always talk in this podcast about my personal experience and my personal passions, i don’t advise anyone, i don’t wish anything, except, of course, happiness and prosperity. i don’t know about you, in general everyone has it new year's signs, for example, i cannot celebrate the new year if i don’t have a christmas tree somewhere before december 19, because i’m used to birthdays since childhood, so i definitely need a new toy for the christmas tree, that’s our tradition. probably not only me, well, in general, in short, over the years i have already collected a suitcase of these christmas tree decorations, and if you consider

that i inherited some of the pre-revolutionary ones, then i don’t know, two suitcases, but every time i i’m tormented about what to hang, what to leave, the choice is huge, my santa claus only one year younger than me, well , you can imagine, i don’t have such variety, although new year is also a holiday, of course, a family holiday, in our country it is probably the most beloved, the most popular holiday, but strangely enough, so it would be...

everyone celebrates the new year on the night from december 31 to january 1, but in general, of course, if we talk specifically about the new year, yes, there is quite a bit of diversity here, because the orthodox have their own new year, the so -called slavic new year, it's september 14, so the jews celebrate somewhere in september or october, it falls , so to speak, on the new moon, muslims are also very quiet, they are also connected with the moon with... and so on, that is, well, everyone celebrates at their own discretion, but at the same time, naturally, there is a new year, the generally accepted new year, such a new year's marathon, because it all begins, christmas, we manage to celebrate both catholic christmas and the new year, the old new year, that is, in general it goes on for quite a long time, such a new year's marathon turns out, yes, to which our people already

i’m used to it, attempts... sometimes to reduce it , which such initiatives arose, are generally met with clearly no approval, in our country even by the number of traffic jams one can judge that until january 13 people certainly continue to rest , only after that they gradually return to working order , yes, to argue whose calendar is in general about chronology, but in my opinion the matter is completely hopeless, if we say take the buddhist calendar, it turns out that in thailand it is two... 1566, because they count from the moment when buddha passed away in nirvan, in china, the year is 4720, because they count from the beginning of the reign of huangdi, this is the legendary founder of daasism and the first emperor of china, so, well, if we talk about my favorites, so to speak, may and ostekov, then

they generally begin counting from ... there are researchers arguing about this, the difference is 300 years, but this is about 3300 bc, one can imagine, but it turns out that well, i don’t know, but for us some kind of rome is ancient rome, and the chinese for them is ancient rome, let's go to the calculations, they just they laugh, they mock, and may and the osteks simply laugh at such a chronicle.

recently, with all my humanitarian education, i tried to get into the lectures of stephen hawking, and so it turns out that if he writes there that three directions of space and one of imaginary time form space-time, closed in itself without a boundary of edges, but if we proceed from this, then it turns out that the vikings in general are closest, so to speak, to modern ideas about cosmology, physics and everything in general. if we are talking about the calendar, then the question arises: why january 1st? in general, the romans first began to celebrate this date in 153 bc, since from this day the roman consuls took office, that is, this is just from ancient rome, in the forty-sixth year bc, guy julius caesar finally approved this date, using various astrological forecasts, kept the new julian calendar, from january 1 of the forty-fifth

year bc, finally the beginning of the year... in the history of the phenomenon, peter i changed everything, in fact, with peter i we begin the celebration of january 1, and it’s interesting that we almost everything starts with peter i, yes, yes, all modern traditions, we will talk about this today, it’s interesting how the decree

on celebrating the new year sounded, it was written with such humor, the great sovereign became aware of it not only in many european christian countries, but among the slovenian peoples, and his great sovereign himself , given to cherkassy, ​​all the greeks counted in those years and now the year 1699 has reached the nativity of christ, and next january, from the first day , the new year 1700 will begin, that’s how it goes, well yes, that’s how it went, in fact, that’s why 1699 became the shortest year in our history, it... only 4 months, the same thing with new year’s fireworks began with peter i, now you can imagine what happened when we had in russia chinese firecrackers have spread with all their charms and dangers, but in fact we read in the same decree of peter

i: yes, on the first day of january, as a sign of fun, congratulating each other on the new year and the centennial century, to do this when the great red square is on fire fun will be lit, there will be shooting, then at the nobles courtyards, boyars and noble people , each in his own courtyard from small cannons... if anyone has several muskets and other small guns, fire three times , fire several rockets, how many will happen to each, and where are the small courtyards, whoever wants on posts put one, two, three thin tar barrels filled with straw or light them with brushwood, that is, this is also a tradition from peter the great, but this tradition of seven-day festivities there on the occasion of the new year, it was interrupted after peter the great, again, like many things created under peter, there was no continuation and... was revived again only under catherine ii, and the holiday remained purely secular and purely courtly, the church continued to celebrate the beginning of the new year according to the julian calendar , september 1, well, in general continues

, but orthodox people, of course, go to church and celebrate the next new year, but if we talk about the people in general, then of course they celebrate this, and they celebrate this, but... new year's holidays in general are probably the most beloved, since peter i everyone’s favorite christmas tree has also begun, we read the decree again. as a sign of that good beginning of the new hundred-year century in the reigning city of moscow, along the large and well-traveled noble streets, noble people at houses of deliberate spiritual and secular rank, in front of the gates, make some decorations from trees and branches of pine, spruce and juniper, this is the flow of the new year tree, but the new year tree itself is a very recent tradition, this is the 19th century. initially , the german tradition came to us from germany. this tradition dates back to the first quarter of the 19th century, when the wife of grand duke nikolai pavlovich, the future emperor nicholas i, alexandra feodorovna, gradually introduced this custom at the imperial court. alexandra feodorovna

absorbed this tradition in germany itself; in russia, since then, there has also been a court tradition of decorating new year trees, lighting candles on them, and so on. by the way, personally. you can watch the russian empresses in the podcast that we have already hosted, the podcast of russia, the west on the swing of history, dedicated to the wives of russian emperors. you can watch this podcast on the website 1tv.ru, the website of channel one. i just i can’t imagine how children were, even before the christmas tree, well, listen, there weren’t so few, there weren’t so many holidays, especially some kind of children’s holidays. and here, well, the christmas tree , light up, everything in general, the children were simply deprived, deprived, and moreover, you are directly pointing out the problem, because initially only

noble children were endowed with this, so we know exactly when this is all began, in 1817, this empress alexandra feodorovna herself was received into the royal family, she was received warmly, but not quite warmly. because she really missed to her brothers, she even wrote that i saw off my brother wilhelm with sadness, i felt a new surge of melancholy over the separation from my father and brothers and sisters, it was a terrible moment. besides, it happened to her.

worked against christmas trees and the new year's holiday after the start of the first world war there were such attempts to cancel all these celebrations very vigorously the captured germans celebrated the new year very vigorously in hospitals and so on this irritated the patriotic public the patriotic society decided then that this is all western, not ours , absolutely not necessary, in general they wrote. a lot about this, well, what can i say

, they wrote in vain, and the imperial reading itself spoke out against the abolition of this holiday, of course, of course, well, such things in general, again about children, how can you deprive children of such holidays, well, at least a nut on the christmas tree, so to speak, which used to be hung in gilding in such a way, well, i must say that this is a tradition about christmas, nuts in gilding on the christmas tree, lit candles on... just like that and to this day, accordingly, the number of fires on new year is a separate problem for fire services - it is not a time of rest, but rather a time of the most intense painstaking work. it was basically a tradition of celebrating christmas, namely christmas, since 1817, as this tradition began, it continued at the imperial court, christmas trees were arranged for the imperial children, the retinue was invited, it was already a family holiday, at first just an imperial one holiday, and each family member had his own... a larger christmas tree for adults, a smaller one for children, standing next to it

a table with a christmas tree for gifts, the appendages were quite modest at that time, there were some small toys and sweets, nicholas i was afraid of these lit christmas trees when in december 1937 there was a fire in the winter palace, the first thing nicholas thought about was that it was the children playing with lit candles on the christmas trees, that’s why everything happened. seryozha, well, it turns out that in those days, strictly speaking, it was new year. there was a side issue, the main thing was christmas, they celebrated christmas in the near future, and new year, well, to follow up, gifts were distributed at christmas, of course, christmas gifts, christmas gifts, and this whole christmas tradition, it didn’t immediately take root, as i said, at first only the nobility, but even among the nobility among famous people, some this caused irritation, for example , among savelomphiles close to them, for example, ivan goncharov, the famous one, wrote about the christmas tree: a clumsy invention, german and not... witty, take a wet dirty tree from the forest,

stick agarkov, and tie walnuts with threads, placing gifts around, unnatural. and the church also objected to this, believing that these celebrations around the tree are demonic games, until the eighties of the 19th century, the church was skeptical about the christmas tree, as alien, this borrowed german, not russian, non-orthodox tradition. two holidays of the elite, the nobility and

, so to speak, the middle strata, the urban strata, first of all, the working peasants did not know all this, and could not give their children, like what you were talking about, but such a holiday, christmas seemed to expose social inequality, well, the most famous of dostoevsky , the story of the boy at christ on the christmas tree, anderson ’s about a living story, the girl with matches, the girl with matches, of course, leonid andreev also has a tragic story on this topic, but in soviet times... all children became equal and, accordingly , everyone had equal access to a decorated christmas tree, the first such approved christmas tree was a forest school in sokolniki, a holiday that took place with the participation of leni, and what’s interesting is that

there was a transition, well, christmas trees, so to speak , yes, from christmas to the new year , this is what is fundamental for the soviet government, it was a transition, naturally, although after lenin’s death , they tried to ban the christmas tree and new year’s tree, both of them; in the twenty-sixth year, by a resolution of the central committee of the all-russian communist party of belarus , this very custom was named anti-soviet and not national, de year during...

a period with such an echo of the old world in the early thirties, but in the thirty-fifth year, when, as comrade stalin said, life became better, life became more fun, the second, second five-year plan for industrialization, stalin decided that the people needed to return the christmas tree , there should be a holiday, after all, that marks the turn of the year, and the komsomol members, who had just fought against the custom of putting up new year trees, were suddenly obliged to organize christmas trees in december of 1935. for children, uh, in tsum the sale of new year 's gifts was opened, for the new year people began to buy cakes, tangerines, uh, and even in the thirty- seventh year a new attribute of the new year already appeared, this is soviet champagne, which began to be mass-produced right then, then another symbol appeared new year, now many viewers will probably

be surprised, uh, santa claus, he appeared in russia in soviet times in 1935, although... the basis, of course, was taken from slavic folklore, there was such a thing, frost or studenets, treskunets, then moroska , who personified winter, with whom , who was such a rather tough character, he could freeze, he could do some harm, but with him you could establish some kind of trusting relationship, that was the folk tale, man and frost, yes yes, well there is a lot fairy tales, here, in which, accordingly , the crops were frozen. a man goes to him to sort things out, and as a result , frost, in order to atone for his guilt, gives him a tablecloth , everyone knows the fairy tale about the stepdaughter, the good stepdaughter and her evil sisters, yes , who were frozen by the frost, the soviet santa claus turned out to be much kinder, they survived in the west, you know , rather unpleasant personalities, they generally go out on

holidays, it’s also generally very difficult there , in fact, as far as westerners are concerned. these events from december to january are separated here who is christmas, who is new year's, who is new year's fast, because in some countries they very actively celebrate the gift of the magi, and this is a completely separate holiday, so these characters , they migrate for all these gatherings for children, they begin. from christmas, then it comes to this meeting of the magi, well, for example, there is such a character, well, we have the snow maiden, the assistant of santa claus, and there they help santi, well, i would say such.