that i don’t know what the visitors come up with, we come up with it, and then we convince the visitors, because with cats, cats appeared in history, there were always two or three cats, but the time has come , relatively speaking, post-soviet perestroika there, when the first thing they do is people , when it’s hard, they throw out pets, so people suddenly began to pick up abandoned kittens on the street, bring vermetage to try to save them somewhere here, then they began to ask me for permission, can we slightly increase the population of cats, this...

in the museum, all the clocks are running, the workers of the watch restoration laboratory are walking, winding them , because they need to be wound, they are all striking the museum, this is very important, in fact, there is a special person who is responsible for not a special person, there is a manager walking there, we have an amazing watch restoration workshop, which yagu created in my period of my directorship, by the way, they received a state prize, these are absolutely brilliant craftsmen, they wind these watches, they monitor them so that they work, so they hit. the clock is exactly the same in my

office, they also come and are wound when they are taken off, it’s true that this is pyotr ilvichaikovsky’s watch, chikkovsky’s watch, firstly, there were several chekovsky watches, i don’t find out which ones, i don’t check at all, there are things that are legends , that don’t need to be checked, because i’ll only ruin my mood, the watch belonged to tchaikovsky, everyone can read to petr ilic, modest, anyone, what time do you usually come home, well, it varies, but in general i usually... i come home around 9-10, like this is this evening at home as usual? well, in different ways, now there was covid, so we live outside the city for most of the time, so when we come and walk, well, then we need to read the news, make a program for the next day, you have repeatedly talked about such a mystical connection with your father, you have conversations with him in general, you have something like that, dad, this is how it went for me or not, mysticism is what i

said mysticism, but mysticism is a concept that mysticism does not include conversations, yes, mysticism includes, there is, of course, there were mystics, when they record conversations there with god, there with saint teresa, well, the conversation can be non-verbal, however, i can see this, so to speak, i have communication, but if i sit, it’s true, now i i had already moved to the other side of the office in the same chair where my father was sitting all around and i , essentially everything that we have done over these 30 years is that we have completed everything that he... started, we created, the main headquarters, front storage, everything else, a large international armitage, so i feel this connection, i feel his agreement and disagreement, but it is so completely non-verbal , so to speak, well, this is life, you know, in the armitage, unlike many other buildings, here in st. petersburg, the buildings stand for the buildings and the people live, everyone who lived there, so we don’t really have ghosts there, because everyone who was there, they live within these walls, they all communicate with us, not only

my father, yes, i think, we also have the empress communicating with us, as the founder, our previous generations employees, they are all time somewhere there live in this very influence , of course on everything, but how this happens, well , how this is mysticism, it cannot be described in words, you know, when, for example, well , eastern mysticism is usually explained , and eastern mystical poets who it seems they always wrote everything about them...

and others in 1997 , the international astronomical union named esteroid in honor of you and your father, but how do you generally feel about this tradition? well , first of all, do you know how nice it is when a steroid is named after you? it's nice, that's it there is a planet, especially since they recently sent me another one, there are kind people who are studying all this, they sent me a whole passport, this is where this planet is located, this asteroid, how small it is, everything else seems to be, but it’s interesting, well, by the way, when there was an idea to name it after me and my father, then they called the asteroid armitage, one of the asteroids, and then i asked to name the second louvre, and nobly sasha.

you are an armenian, that’s how you feel this caucasian armenian blood, there is such a thing in the caucasus that changes you, makes, firstly, i am half armenian, and in the second half i am pole and russian, so, that’s why i have three bloods, respectively, three religions behind my back, and catholic , orthodox and armenian-gregorian, and i am also a hereditary russian nobleman. means it removes all the differences between these internal national ones, because this is actually not very simple in a period when all our lives are complex and different from the situation, then in general it is difficult to be both at the same time others and others, and my armenian blood

rages when in armenia they speak badly about russians and it rages when in russia they speak badly about armenians, with the poles it is more difficult, so you need to find how...

because well, the lifestyles are different, but it has taken root, she is now very st. petersburg, what were the difficulties that she had to overcome and change in herself? well, i won’t say that there were such great difficulties, you know, that’s how it really is, but there were difficulties in work, too, which means that at our

institute, where we have academic calm reasoning on calm topics, she was an economist from the east, dealt with oil problems , all sorts of things, moscow life is so fast, impetuous, st. petersburg is calm, reasonable, and it’s annoying, yes, a person who is used to solving everything quickly, she is also a person by nature, who needs everything faster than immediately , she is a capricorn, so, here everything is somehow calm, but then it turns out that things are quite dynamic here, and the children turned out to be muscovites or grandchildren from st. petersburg, it turns out difficult, because yes , of course, they are st. petersburg residents. but my daughter masha , she moved to moscow and began to work, she first worked in kiev here, she is also an orientalist, she worked in st. petersburg, then in leningrad, st. petersburg, then in moscow, now in moscow, so she, but still she has a st. petersburg temperament, let’s say, but her son

boris grew up in st. petersburg, so also in st. petersburg, in general, they are all st. petersburgers, we are still a st. petersburg family with such st. petersburg places. you have one granddaughter, and one granddaughter, you communicate, don’t see each other often, we communicate, but not often, because in moscow, then there are all sorts of moves, illnesses, all sorts of things, in general we communicate, but... now everything after covid started, we all communicate more and more by phone. this is a podcast of top officials, my guest is the director of the state hermitage, mikhail borisovich pyatrovsky. are you discussing the museum at home? well, yes, of course, your loved ones and relatives criticize you, does this happen? well, how can i say , there’s a little bit here, of course, they criticize me on all counts and the museum, not the museum and... i got my hair cut, i didn’t get my hair cut, everything else, so no, we discuss everything so calmly,

but in fact there are special things with the armitage, of course it was when i was growing up in our family, just like our own home, it is a home for everyone, although no one there i was not going to work in the hermitage , but we have always had this, so for all of us the hermitage is also part of the house, part of life, discussions, they are natural , of course, we discuss most of all, when something is difficult, then you want to share it. discuss, but in general - when other people criticize, when others criticize people, i’m used to this, it’s just that, and uh, ira, don’t worry, when you weren’t worried at first, you said, my job descriptions are included, throw mud as much as you want, it doesn’t matter, you even have a birthday with armitage almost in one day, but with a difference, no, it’s not with armitage, our armitage is december 7, my birthday is december 9, well, well, it’s close, yes. but december 7th - we came up with the day of st. catherine, because the hermitage does not have any

birthday, we celebrate it on the birthday of the armitage, the sixty-fourth year, when ekaterina bought the first collections of gotskovsky, and there is no unknown date, so everyone has a birthday, we don’t , so adimovich matveev, the late deputy, and i thought about how we could find something like this, let’s figure it out, that’s when, what do you think , when to the gotskovsky collection... why are you doing this in general? indeed, i am, in fact, an arabist and i am

still an arabist and an arabist, this is very important, the director of a museum, such as armitage, must be a playing coach, acting scientists, i am a university professor , academician of the russian academy of sciences, i publish books all the time, i head the islamic program, all-russian, i am the dean of the faculty of oriental studies, all this is a profession, without which it is impossible to be the director of the ermeter, the director of the museum must be a scientist, an active scientist, this. .. absolutely exactly, but what do you have to endure, that is, what is patience for you? well

, first of all, clarification, the fact that i am citing wonderful patience is, in general, a saying that sounds a little differently in the koran, excellent patience is mentioned there , there are all sorts of nuances, i’m saying just in case , maybe i’m also a philologist , the nuances are very important here, but this is really a very good expression, in which there is a lot of pride, this is sabrul jamil, sabra is an ancient arabic such a term in former arabic poetry, it is not just patience.

for projects, well, we tolerate it, they tell you, we won’t give it , we tolerate it, we go again and again patiently, we go and demand money, the corpses of the enemy float by? past you, a wonderful story, no, the corpses of enemies are not they float, they don’t float, they somehow the enemies themselves disappear, it’s there, it’s there, by the way, i can’t resist the stakovologist, because now we constantly explain that this expression does not belong to either confucius, or lidza, in general is not chinese wisdom, it was invented, you often

say from the hadith of the prophet muhammad, allah loves beauty, that now the beauty is... now in this time, the beauty is always in what the museum teaches, the beauty is in diversity, because the world exists different situations, there are different people, different faces, different skins, different clothes, different customs, different events, even when there are very difficult events, then somewhere nearby there may be other events, after them there will be other events, this is this the beauty of the world in which we live, but as for the prophet muhammad, you also already quote me, i will say that i quote, my quote always happens:

but as for, well, seriously, then of course, you need to diversify your experience all the time , you have to read, watch, see, make exhibitions, try in different ways all the time show armitage collections, then nothing will become blurry, of course, if you just sit there and don’t change anything, everything will become blurred and cease to be perceived, but you need to constantly cheer yourself up, all the time , with this variety, but wait, because now the hermitage has changed its image life, because the hermitage is still...

russia, this is already for everyone today, not everyone is interested in it anymore, which means we need to build a little differently, yes, we have given the world a lot, now we are in a blockade, but first of all, it is not complete, and secondly, we know the experience of the blockade when you blockade, the fact that you are doing this, you need everyone to see it, so our second stage of the big armitage project, which we have been living by these years, is armitage in the sky or armitage in

the clouds, we create products that are visible in the clouds, visible regardless the fact that you can’t come to us and... we ’re not going anywhere in particular, although we go to the east, then everyone sees us, as you know, you mean that some kind of virtual, virtual, virtual hermetage, we are very we developed this a lot during covid, well, then there’s more to come let's see, when you look from the windows of the hermetage onto the palace square, is this what you would like to warn the today's world of your contemporaries? we all know that history doesn’t teach anything, people don’t learn from history lessons, but...

broadcast on february 29 at 12:00 moscow time. hello, the vremya program is on air, ekaterina berezovskaya is in the studio. here are the main topics. consolidating success. avdeevskoe direction. what was reported to the minister of defense? and what historical parallels does the collapse of the counteroffensive create? the highest authority is gone vyacheslav lebedev, chairman of the supreme

court and reformer of the domestic legal system. from heart to heart, letters, drawings, video messages to the front from the wards of the circle of good foundation, each of them has their own battle. stop macron, angry farmers. from the french president, clashes at the agricultural exhibition in paris did not subside after his departure. russian caliber - three centuries of artillery, from unicorns to geocinths. unique exhibits in the new building of the museum of military history. theaters of two capitals. festival of the bolshoi and mariinsky theater for the 180th anniversary roman korsykov at the conductor's stand valery gergiev. new attacks by our army on ukrainian positions within 24 hours in the kupinsky, south donetsk and kherson directions; the total enemy losses there are over 200 people, a lot of equipment, including

four american m-777 howitzers. the fact that the russian military is faced with the entire industrial potential of nato was discussed during an inspection that sergei shaigu conducted in one of the military groupings. the volume of western assistance and the effect of it lead experts to large-scale comparisons with. because has already happened in history. sergey ponomarev about everything in order. the minister of defense studies reports on the operational situation in his zone on the way to the headquarters of the center group. in the avdeevsky direction we managed to push the enemy back 10 km. the commander of the group, andrei mordvechev, reported this to the minister at the meeting. aviation, artillery, and our drones did an excellent job. sergei shaiguzhe reported that the troops will soon begin supplying uavs with artificial intelligence. there is no need to control this joystick, it will simplify, it is efficient application, training, with us then there may be many

more operators there, because we have come to this, and this is becoming a rather serious and effective organization. the minister of defense awarded the commanders who distinguished themselves during the liberation of the city with personalized weapons, how painful the defeat of the ukrainian troops by the podteevka was can be judged at least by the number of prisoners, according to andrei mordvechev, the count is already in the hundreds. somewhere right now we have already brought out about 200 prisoners after the cleansing, and we estimate, based on the information received from local residents, that we have more than a hundred more the coming days were forged. well, you heard that what the supreme commander said was humane, as it always was, because of the ukrainian artillery strike on the colony in yelenovka a year and a half ago, when more than fifty nationalists died, now the prisoners are being kept in basements.

under the onslaught of our troops, they abandoned nato equipment, for example, this m-113 armored vehicle made in the usa, but it was left unharmed. the disadvantage of this car is not poor cross-country ability, this applies to all cars, practically european ones in our conditions. if we analyze the entire series, which stands, it turns out that we are confronted in full with the entire military industrial potential. today the head of the dpr, denis pushilin, visited avdeevka. there is a lot of demining work in the city, but in the meantime we need to help civilians.

published a review article in taz with an analysis of how the much-advertised ukrainian counter-offensive took place, and what historical parallels it created? more than 45% of the personal military expert konstantin sevkov today of the total composition of the group and more than 75% of the strategic reserve passed training according to nato standards. in other words, our troops were opposed by the nature of their training precisely by nato personnel. the russian army prepared thoroughly to repel this offensive. measures have been taken to create a defense along the entire front line more than 1.00 km long. a deep and chaotic defense system was created, based on a developed system of fortifications, minefields and an integrated fire system, in attempts to break through which the enemy had to suffer heavy losses in a prepared personnel and military equipment, having largely lost the combat effectiveness of its strategic group in eastern ukraine. in this regard, the actions of our

troops are reminiscent of the kurdish strategic... defensive operation of the soviet army in the summer campaign of 1943; as a result, the events of the summer of forty-three on the kursk bulge were strategically repeated in 2023 in the south-east of ukraine. in favor of this analogy , according to the author of the article, is the composition of the groupings of 2,540 tanks, self-propelled guns and 10,000 guns among the nazis in 1943 and 2,100 tanks, armored vehicles and 960 guns before the start of the counter-offensive at the ukrainian armed forces. the coincidence is not perfect, but the wehrmacht did not have hymers , grads and... armored missiles, so adjusted for the difference in firepower of equipment from the last century of modern times, a comparison arises, as in what results the enemy was trying to achieve then and now, if you look at the targets , tasks, methods of action, composition of groups , what was available on the territory of ukraine at the moment when they began their offensive on june 4, 2023, then according to these

indicators coincide... this week the american air defense system patriot, its tractor on the road was discovered by our drone. the car led to the warehouse where the rest of the complex was hidden. the target was hit by our precision weapons, two hits. then the video is interrupted, but judging by the scale of the destruction, the ammunition stored here also detonated. presumably military personnel arrive at the warehouses and, under the piles of rubble, there is an american launcher for anti-aircraft missiles. during the week, two

mig-29 aircraft and dozens of armored vehicles were also destroyed. edge of the city, a reconnaissance group under the command of the artist entered the central square area almost without a fight. we no longer encountered desperate resistance and advanced calmly house by house. then the idea arose to fly a russian tricolor onto the building, they reported to the headquarters and the command decided to deliver the flag to the scouts using a copter. they flew up from mavik and threw a flag into our jars. the enemy was still trying to snarl at the artillery. several explosions thundered very close, the artist recalls, but ours could not be stopped. grandfather

i also fought in '45, and i probably had similar feelings, that a liberated city, such a taste of victory, you know, so very bright, the artist was among the fighters who, in the midst of a special operation to liberate the city, made their way underground through a drainpipe, suddenly struck behind enemy lines, these are unique shots taken by the scouts themselves, how many kilometers have we walked, yes, i think, somewhere around, about a kilometer, we probably walk for about two hours and a pretty penny, the length of the pipe is about. ..

thanks to this, the enemy’s defense began crumble. the cleanup is currently ongoing. the armed forces of ukraine have equipped firing points in almost every house, with abandoned ammunition and bodies of ukrainian militants everywhere. and these shots give an idea. local residents did not leave their basements, as it became quieter, they began to appear on the streets, our soldiers help, bring water, share dry rations. we lived for 10 years without looking these people in the eyes who were coming towards us, we always tried to either turn away or remain silent, because we speak russian, and they demanded ukrainian from us, now we we speak russian with you. that we are talking to you in russian, the residents say that the militants did not consider them to be people, they killed several people, for no reason, just for fun, they took a rifle with a note, made attacks , fooled around, killed, bastards,

damn them , and we will pray for you guys, god bless you, this married couple refused to leave for ukraine, they made their choice in favor of russia, we will either be in russia or in the grave, but we are in ukraine. we won’t go with banderas, ukraine is completely different, it’s bandera. now the enemy is trying to gain a foothold to the west of avdievka, but ours continue to put pressure on the enemy. olek shishkin, vladimir grinevich, andrey stoyko, natalya moshtakova, first channel donetsk people's republic. the flight from avdiivka and the collapse of the ukrainian counter-offensive intensified the tendency for the west to lose its status as the arbiter of the destinies of the world. kyiv needs new injections. anti-russian sanctions have had the opposite effect, and this is recognized. western analysts, mikhail leontyev, studied everything and after the author’s commentary we are back on the air with the news.

however, hello, ukraine is celebrating the second anniversary of the start of the northern military district with a second freshness. prime minister of italy meloni and canada arrived in kiev on a visit. johnson and four us congressmen led by senate majority leader chuck schumer. it is easy to see that these are clearly demonstrative second persons. this is very different from celebrating winners, more like a tortured psychotherapy session. starting a special operation 2 years ago. faced not with nato, not even, but with the entire collective west, that plus japan, south korea, australia, all former european neutrals. never has the west been so united, one might say, built to the hilt, resisting its inevitable

departure from its old pedestal, and never has the rest of the non-western world been so stubborn and united in its refusal to share its existential problems with the west. i am ready to share your grief. but point by point, the world changed 2 years ago, in fact the world has changed quite a bit, except for the fall of europe, which lost its competitiveness due to a voluntarily forced break with russia, we have changed the most, we we have learned so many things about ourselves, and we will continue to change, this is just the beginning, where will we go, the main thing is that we remembered how resilient we are. russia is by no means driven into a framework,

the newspaper quotes cold war historian michael kemerage. putin is not constrained either economically or diplomatically and he is delivering his message about war. unfortunately, russia has built a kind of alternative supply chain. obama, who argues that putin has prepared his country for an onslaught of sanctions, and he has come up with enough options to maintain its war machine and leverage on the world stage. practice has corrected our then understanding of reality. but practice has proven that this decision was in no way an adventure, because it was.

their decent people, and this is the main prerequisite for our survival. however, goodbye. this. there was an author's commentary by mikhail leontyev. we continue. the sad news was the death of vyacheslav lebedev, the permanent chairman of the supreme court of russia. vladimir putin expressed deep condolences in his telegram. higher lebedev headed the country's judicial body for 3 and a half decades. in the early nineties, he actually created the legal system anew. but at all times the principle of law guarding the rights of citizens remained the main thing for him. fundamentally. positions to make our

legislation truly humane, humane in content. this short phrase, said several years ago in an interview with channel one, perhaps contained, without exaggeration, the mission of vyacheslav lebedev. this is how he saw her and walked towards his goal from the first day until the last. permanent chairman of the supreme court for more than three decades. actually, the judicial system of modern russia was created and developed. with his direct participation, trials with jury participation also appeared, the supreme arbitration court was merged with the supreme court, all this under the sign of the very humanization of law, but what does this mean in practice? here is an example from an interview in 2019. as of january 1 , 1999, we had 1.60 thousand people in prison. as of march 1 of this year he is being held in correctional facilities colonies. this is a significant result, right?

since then, the number of prisoners has further decreased; according to the ministry of justice, in the fall of twenty-three there were less than 3,000 people behind bars, a visible result of the activities of the supreme court, which has long secured its status as the very last resort where millions of citizens find true protection of their interests. the field is extremely wide, from children's rights to explanations of payments and repair periods for poosag. last year the court celebrated its centenary anniversary, and it was preceded by the eightieth anniversary of on his birthday, he received from the hands of the president the highest award of the state, the order of st. andrew the first-called apostle. our country is going through a very difficult path of its development, very difficult, and the strengthening of the judicial system, and in general the judicial system, the legal system of the country, is certainly the basis for not only development but for the existence of russian statehood, so i have every reason. i want to say that you and i must

say that over many years of work as chairman of the supreme court of the russian federation, you have done a lot precisely to strengthen the russian state, i want to thank you for this , i present it with pleasure. by decree of the president of the russian federation for outstanding services in the development of the domestic judicial system, strengthening law and order, the order of the saint.

11 billion 11 billion. that is, the population, citizens are actively taking advantage of this opportunity. vyacheslav lebedev presented impressive data to the president quite recently, on february 6, along with a report on new legislative initiatives aimed at the same humanization of legislation, and the main thing is law enforcement practice, including in the so-called entrepreneurial processes. there was such uncertainty, sometimes crimes were classified.

despite a serious illness, the battle with which, colleagues say, he worked every day, unlike the daily struggle for the triumph of the law, was beyond his strength. let's return briefly to the western leaders in kiev, whom mikhail leontyev mentioned today. they came to the g7 virtual summit, convened at the initiative of italy, and as they write... newspapers at the insistence of biden. in emmanuel macron is not participating in the videoconference. he has protests. at the opening of the largest agricultural exhibition in paris, farmers, dissatisfied with falling incomes and growing agricultural exports from ukraine, burst into the pavilion where macron was, shouting demands for his resignation. the protests have been going on for weeks.

during the existence of the presidential grants fund, 4,300 social projects of non-profit organizations received state support, this is discussed at the exhibition.

support for socially oriented non-profit organizations is allocated only from the federal budget is more than 70 billion rubles, but the most important figure is probably the number of people who received help thanks to this, this turns out to be more than 15 million people. and again about those at the front, about our soldiers. the whole country is with them. and warm, sincere words, from heart to heart, fly to them from very strong, persistent guys, wards of the foundation.

has changed everything radically, now masha has something to spread through the foundation, a circle of goodness , life and energy in her so much that adults, as expected, can barely keep up, masha to mom suggested, let the children who are also sick, also fighters and also heroes, write to our heroes on... the defenders will be supported by their circle, i don’t know, an infinity of goodness. those who know how important support is, responded instantly, the guys from the circle of kindness picked up the idea, sent response messages under the post, and drew and recorded videos. they need support because there is no one nearby from their relatives. lisa wrote one of the first, she

knows how the soldiers are waiting for news, her older brother is at the front. lisa is fighting for her life daily, the strictest self-discipline and a strict diet. short bowel syndrome, up to 8 years of age, food through a drip, i was able to be like this with the help of a drug, it was invented recently, thanks to the foundation, she takes it every day at home, and not in the hospital. the whole family said hello to the fighters. words of support, just even the attention of strangers, they invigorate them very much, they give them hope that everything will be fine. zhenya, like all boys his age, rarely writes accurately, but today he tries, the story turns out to be long, about what? doesn't say much, letter to the fighters: you won’t be able to climb the wall, but with your comrades you can, help is very important, because without it they will have less chance.