from the point of view of washington, the united states is absolutely unacceptable for others. it was. big game, see you on the air next week, well, i started as a captain, then i was a major, as people would remember, and then i became a colonel, senior investigator znamensky, senior criminal investigation inspector tomin, forensic expert.

we will tell you what leonid konevsky and his main character actually have in common. if he feels indifference and lack of professionalism, then this of course pisses him off. why is the most iconic role almost became fatal for the actor. i was included in this list, do not recommend, i was not recommended. and you are letting me down big time. what is leonid konevsky ready to do today in his old age for the sake of work? he's hooked.

fell behind the tiles, he hadn’t gotten up yet, he told me, i have a performance in 3 days, and i said that we can handle it, and what an actor is like in the circle of those closest to him, this is a man who lifts dumbbells every morning, he’s got enough strength, obviously. "hello, please take a seat, yes, we have a fireplace in the background, this is a movie device, this is the so-called backstage, that is, what usually hidden from the viewer's eyes, in the frame the preparation of an interview with leonid konevsky. 10 years ago we already shot a film for leonid semyonovich’s anniversary, followed on his heels in moscow, flew to his second homeland in israel and found out everything about there.”

about 800 filmings in different objects, well, how could it be? this is the secret of the actor’s youth, that he is in constant motion, works a lot, shame on you, he says: oh, who would tell the messiah, who is waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, that’s the story, so what, yes,

someone guides through life, of course, a film...

there was misha daneko, wonderful, there was boris mudrov, such a detective legend who never used a weapon, although he always had a pistol, in general, i wanted to show this on the screen the kind of people

we met, we’ll sniff here, look for accomplices, tomin’s gesture was also taken from real life, this very click.

sometimes they remember that i would have had such hairstyles, which means i had sideburns, and the back of my head could have been trimmed, well, excuse me, some other time. tv series consequences conducted by experts, it came out on television in the early seventies and immediately became super popular, with the leading actors almost becoming national heroes. we had such a theater of a small armored brigade, they were experts, martynyuk and konevsky. your humble servant and two more actors from our theater, and that means we had such a brigade, and for several years we traveled all over russia from side to side, we were constantly met by the police of the highest ranks, wherever we were , in which cities, that is, they considered it their duty, what they seemed

they would come. the beneficial effect of the role of major tomin was felt by everyone who surrounded kanevsky, and once by director anatoly efros, with whom the actor worked for many years in the theater. the very fact of meeting konevsky helped out a lot, he once told me a wonderful story, i took advantage of your authority, i say, what? i was stopped by a policeman, a traffic cop, documents, and i understand that it’s just something, i violated, he says, i say, you know, i’m the director of what artist, he says, and he says, no, you don’t know, he says , i said, here you go konevsko, who is playing, the facility is being conducted by tomin’s experts, he said, yes, he has the documents for him, so i’ll use your authority, pasha, what are you going to do? yes, i thought, this is not necessary, when in one of

the episodes the public’s favorite major tomin received a fatal bandit bullet, bags of letters with threats rained down on central television, if you don’t revive tomin, we’ll break the tv, such a guy was killed, the authors of the series had to resurrect the hero konevsky , they seem to be all equal. and the chief investigator, well, she’s a woman, beautiful, he should be a little in the shadows, he comes out first, and for the life of me, everyone remembers most of all, of course, i’m flying to the taiga, and i’m going to kurga, and life finds new questions, temperament, energy, often unconventional actions, was too positive, such a person with a poster-like texture when they painted.

let's say, in a play, if an actor can be undressed, he is handsome, then he needs to be undressed and shown his

body, the actor volunteered to play half naked, although at mosfilm they sewed a pretentious shiny suit for his character, putting on the suit, but not sitting, such crooked braids, but all i i’m leaving, girl, it’s impossible, look, yes, it’s not good,

with such and such a face, she will play minor roles of all sorts of swindlers and scoundrels. true, he had a great chance to become a permanent actor.

but either he was too young or something, in general, he didn’t make it, in fact, leonid konevsky was not going to play bandits, he was a boy from an intelligent family, he studied well, he obeyed his mom and dad, his older brother shurik, he didn’t even think about the big stage, dreamed of being a teacher, in general, i grew up as a homely and rather plump boy, when we sat down at the table, two they were terrible gluttons. that means gradually all the food, all the booze came to us, we were called a mass grave, all this disappeared, in the yard the plump boy was often bullied by local hooligans, but leonid did not endure the bullying for long, he went to sign up for a sports club, hunting, i have an approach to the enemy, cross- series, he went to play

sports, there was wrestling, barbells, these kinds of things. leonid konevsky has remained this way since childhood , no matter where the actor is, he always finds time to take care of his body. here, for example, his favorite sports grounds in israel, where he visits, but about physical education. still doesn’t forget, i work out in israel and here in moscow, yeah, sorry, i’m wearing a jacket - it’s awkward, you have to be in shape in the gym, but i have a performance today, so i just don’t have time to work out today, i just came get inspired before the performance. i

usually start with bicycles, and then gradually move on to equipment. so what to drive? come on! oh, this is a great pleasure, i’ll tell you, this is the gym, physical fitness konevsky is the envy of many colleagues. there’s a period like this, there ’s a pause in the theatre, there’s a break in the cinema for a year or two or not, and some of my colleagues are falling apart, and that’s the same... when it comes, suddenly a proposal arises, and you ’ve fallen apart, so you have to be prepared for the occasion. leonid konevsky monitors not only his muscles, but also his nutrition, constantly on a strict diet, and of all the delicacies he allows himself only healthy things. sugar it up.

alexander konevsky is aware of all the details of his younger brother’s life, including his personal life, because it is thanks to him that this personal life once upon a time it turned out quite happily. big bully. at one time, alexander kanevsky worked with the legendary pop duo shtepsel and tarapunka. i took it and tore it up.

just think, serpentine. look, this is a photograph of the most famous artists, trapunka. i talked about them, this. i won’t let you out of the family, i ’ll give it to your brother. lenya has arrived, i say, let’s go, i won’t be the place to meet you, i introduced you. konevsky fell in love immediately, but

was embarrassed to start courting the girl. anya was only 18, and he was 28. she is a beautiful daughter the famous plug throughout the country, lives like cheese in butter, and he, not only is not alain delon, but has not a penny to his name, lived in a hostel, there were no unknown theater roles or films. but the feelings turned out to be stronger than all the fears. ceremony, inauguration of president of the russian federation vladimir putin. live stream. may 7 at 12:00 moscow time. kidnapping is the original abduction of children. i simply lost faith in

humanity with every publication my mood deteriorated, at one time i was kidnapped our wonderful leonid arkaevich yakubovich. as experts say, there are many such cases, the public does not know about them. i have already mentioned that i myself became a victim of kidnapping, i didn’t know that this is... a kidnapping, fake kidnappings are also a separate story, very often it becomes the plot of the same tv series and films, i did this for myself the discovery that mostly relatives are involved in child abductions, if we don’t react to these things, then the real end of times will simply come, but this is not i would like a podcast of llamas today on the first. konevsky began to carefully look after anechka, traveled to her from moscow to kiev regularly, took her to all his premieres,

including the diamond hand, and was aware of all the events in her personal life. it was a very long process of conquest, because we met and for some time we were just friends, talked, i kept my finger on the pulse. “she also had her finger on the pulse, knew about all my trips, about everyone in treatment, and uh, we met in moscow, then in kiev. such the courtship lasted more than eight years; leonid konevsky decided to propose only after he received a cooperative one-room apartment, and after the whole country saw the investigation.

it means we talked, that’s all, i say that we are going, really, let’s go, let’s submit documents to the legislative office, she is so confused, she says, well, yes, let’s go, let’s go and submit it really, what is it really, that’s because we’ve been taking so long walked towards each other, both before the wedding and after the wedding, to today, which we very much understand each other, and we try not to upset, not to mention hide in ourselves, but at least somehow , together, solve some things that might be difficult for one, this is really some kind of cosmic gift of theirs, and

accept each other and see each other's shortcomings and be very happy - for each other for any victories and achievements, in general, always be supported in acceptance. in the family of lionid konevsky. we’ll rent a corner for you, it was such a long room in a small communal apartment, where there were 11 rooms and 50 neighbors. at

antonina bronislavna had such a long room with my mistress, i entered on the left there was a sofa, and then there was a curtain where she lived, but i lived here at this entrance, here was the sofa , here was the chair, that’s all. so, i lived four happy years, being a student at the shchukin theater school, now i’m driving along gogolevsky boulevard, i say a historical place. during his years of study, konevsky was like all students. dreamed of heroic, positive characters, but very quickly realized that with his appearance he could play such roles don't count. the first character he was offered to play on screen was, to put it mildly, specific. i was offered the role of an episode, a short episode, of the head of a general store in a belarusian village. i was a little confused and said, knight knight was the director. how do you imagine

a manager? but after the tiny role of the head of the general store, konevsky immediately came to another role: a very noticeable character from a children's fairy tale. today we will arrest all those who lisp and whisper, we will find the criminal, sir guillem. it was a city of craftsmen. volodya bochkov shot this film, it’s wonderful, i adored this film and this fairy tale. and, characteristically, he played the chief of the secret police there. “i don’t

trust people or ears, i only believe denunciations, denunciations, denunciations, i don’t know if it was after this role, but it’s just probably, judging by my personality, they began to offer me mostly negative roles, i’m good, yes, how easy it is to understand , he is not schwarzenegger, he is not a muscleman, with a huge two-meter figure, with bulging muscles, he does not have, as they say now, a macho face, nothing something like that, well, here he just appears, here he just appears, i already want to talk to him, i’m already starting to smile, i want to say, lyonka, hello, how good it is that i met you completely sincerely, even if we hadn’t been so much familiar, prepared, but in relationships with the female sex, the actor’s specific appearance did not interfere at all.

i don’t know that i’m going to argue with him, he knows better from the outside, i don’t know, all the women were crazy about him. it’s interesting that konevsky was invited to play the role of the goalkeeper banasier. in the midst of filming the legendary series , the investigation is being conducted by experts; the director was not stopped by the fact that for several years now the whole country has been perceiving konevsky as nothing other than a positive hero, major tomin. moreover, leonid was already on the list of artists at that time. whom the film bosses categorically did not recommend filming in negative roles, they told me that on the hot council, too, that means young helkevich, a wonderful director, legal, and he says, you know, i don’t recommend, konevsky, bons, what is it, tomi, he says but he told me i need it, it suits me, well, at your discretion, and i was filming the three musketeers, i am in complete admiration for your eminence.

if i were a director, i wouldn’t trust him with a negative role, because he evokes such sympathy that even if he plays a killer, the viewer will feel somehow awkward, because it’s very... during filming the series about the connoisseurs, konevsky was not afraid to play another negative character. in 1984 , in a duet with leonid yarmolnik, he played a swindler in the children's film "pappy long" dude." where there are no dogs, only a small castle. you got it, i got it, no riddles, no mistakes. but still , it was difficult to interrupt the beloved image of major tomin on the screen, it’s very difficult to jump out because of your role, and why should they do this if it

works, why change it, why change the salad recipe if it already works, they will still eat olivier, why? but in the theater kitchen, leonid’s choice was not limited to olivier, the actor did not have a bright brand of one role . , everyone plays here, on konevsky, in linkom and in the theater on malaya bronnaya, where he served, had many typical characters, sometimes it got ridiculous, so in the play the indictment, experts, konevsky and martanyuk got the roles of prisoners. at first, the audience couldn’t understand anything at all. after the heroes appeared on stage, there was wild laughter in the hall for several minutes. i also took part in this play, which means, yes, mortonik and i played just one role in turn, so we this thing took place in a prison there and so on, well, yes, it caused a strong reaction from the viewer, of course, in general, of course it was for them

it got in the way a little, well, lenya was also saved by the fact that he is like that, he has such a specific appearance, he is a sharp-willed actor, so after all, there were some for him... the roles in the series are being investigated by experts, leonid konevsky starred from 1971 to 2003 years, well , i started as a captain, then i was a major, since people would remember, and then i became a colonel, already as colonels for 10 years... i went to lyon, there was such a story with goldfish, which lasted 20-something... then years. many actors who are recognized by one role they complain about this, but we must pay tribute

to konevsky, neither during filming nor after, arthur never disowned his tomin, even today he has a famous melody on his cell phone from experts. when in the early 2000s, director vladimir khotinenko invited konevsky to star in the continuation of the legendary film, he agreed without hesitation. good afternoon, colonel tomin. according to the new version, tomin

is already a deeply married man, has a son, serves with the rank of colonel in interpol and permanently lives in france in the city of leon. the legendary znamensky remained a child. but instead of the charming little girl kibrit , a new female image appeared in the cinema. hello, gentlemen officers. tatyana aleksandrovna kitayeva, alexander nikolaevich tomin. legendary tomin? according to dinaida yanovna, i can say that i am her student. actress lydia velizheva took this place, because a few months before...

i, partly because of this, maybe i feel this way about this picture, you know, the train has left, these are such heroes standing and waving their trail, then it was already

this loss became for konevsky personal grief, the same as the losses of other people, who for all of us were brilliant artists, and for him, first of all, close friends, so it’s very difficult for him to talk about it, let’s not discuss it, this is pain, this is grief, which means there are no irreplaceable , you know, it’s nonsense, they say, oh, there are no irreplaceable people, this is bullshit. how can mironov be replaced, how can papanov be replaced, how can shirvint be replaced, how are those who are replaceable , these people coming out, these are holes in the soul, in the souls in the hearts, from the moment of christmas we see the greatest tragedy, his, one might say, even amazing loneliness, christ did not find a place in this world from his very birth. nazareth was a completely inconspicuous village, so the most likely reaction. the fact that jesus is a man from nazareth could not be, how can it be, from

such a dubious place, but where is it? jerusalem is the capital, it is the city that was chosen by god's providence so that the salvation of man would take place there. it is there that you understand that this is not a legend, that he was there, that he walked there, he preached there, he sat in the garden of gethsemane, that's absolutely true. when people decided to get rid of god and his word, one might say the greatest tragedy occurred. the history of all mankind, that is, people killed god. the way of christ. may 4 on the first. i will reign or perish. the foreigner, who had no legal rights to the throne, accompanied by the orlovs, arrived at the barracks of the izmailovsky regiment, where she was declared an autocratic empress. during the 34 years of his reign. catherine gained fame as a wise, fair ruler. she

radically changed the country and, like peter, was the first to receive the epithet “great”. she fought victorious wars and annexed new lands to the empire, wrote laws and carried out reforms. he is 34. she is 10 years older. soon they won't talk about the darkness. as the most influential person in russia, but even relying on male help, the empress always reserved the final decisions for herself. empire, catherine ii. may 4, on the first. potemkin was preparing the main surprise for the woman he loved. the sevastopol harbor appeared before the eyes of those present. to israel in the early

nineties, at the invitation of his ex compatriot, director eugene arnier, konevsky rushed already, having the glory of success behind him. i was on this stage for a total of 17 years. yes, he was far from young, 50-odd, but he was not afraid. start all over again, i even decided to learn ivit, the israeli gesher theater was bilingual, one day the performance was performed in russian, the next in ivit, my friend, a wonderful artist, grisha lampa, he was like that in the small armor, then he also went, we we went to the gesher theater, once we played the life of mr. demaliers, we and...

for a long time, i’m gone, of course, yes, the voice came from the heart, no, thank god they didn’t throw it out of the heart. here was my box, but this is no longer my box, i wouldn’t hang up these photographs with all due respect to these artists, this is my box, he locked it like that, imagine, now

the lack of an offer is hindering me, because if there was would... show its bright texture. he demonstrated another facet of his talent in 2005, starring in pavel lungin’s film, poor relatives. well, you must admit, i could not to say anything to anyone, to calmly complete the matter, to take your money, he could have, he could have, but he didn’t. i am actually an altruist,

you see, i have been kind to all of you. i will drown if you have done anything good in your life god will take care of you. “i can’t do anything else for you, there’s no need, it was clear that this is his role, that it’s him playing a very funny jewish mafioso who combines a terrible love for his mother with the code of mafia honor and with a whole series of other such... then incredible incompatible, and character trait and lenya, of course, he is not only a very subtle psychological actor, as we have seen." he is a theater director, but he is an amazing eccentric actor, he can be very funny, while maintaining seriousness, here your ear is needed, very much, there was a small company, and we

went to a wonderful balaklava to eat red mullet, we were walking along balaklava street and suddenly a police car stops, gets out there... that means two policemen who notice leonite semenovich recognize him, naturally, so to speak, what destinies, we say, we are making a movie in the crimea, we have a day off, we want to eat red mullet, they say, come with us, they brought us to a gorgeous place, just a huge veranda, right above the sea, above the black sea, here we are we sat all day, we had a great snack, rested, told stories, some...

somehow in terms of mentality, attitude, understanding. fit right away and therefore we were extremely pleased with such a coincidence and , in general, an accurate fit into the image of such a jewish pope. son, you can’t do that, dad, i know that it’s impossible, it’s you who raised me, but it’s also impossible, sorry for the toftology, this is tuftology, i understand that this is tuftology, but in a sense, mine. yes , i’m just saying that don’t argue with your father, he is very bright, firstly, he was endowed by nature, his parents endowed him with a wonderful appearance, a very bright, memorable appearance, and he, by the way, practically does not change over the years, of course, such the actors

are bright, they can make even a small tiny episode so that it will be remembered by all viewers, but why do you need to throw a hammer, i don’t i understand, why is it necessary? even we are on vacation for some time and no one calls, they don’t offer anything, of course his mood is spoiled, because his... that’s his happiness, he is very efficient, and for him, everyone says, he gets tired, yes, he he gets tired,

but he can’t live without it, this is his life, he worries mainly, well, when of course we are sick, he can’t stand it, when he has some pauses in work, the blessed fire is born right here, the holy of holies temple on marble. exactly from here, a special hole in the wall, he goes into the world, through this fire we connect with god himself, with his divine love, and we receive grace from the holy sepulcher. many believe that the hole under the altar remains from the cross. in fact, the cross stood a meter further away; now there is a crucifix there. god became a man and came into the world when people decided to get rid of god and get rid of his word. this happened. the greatest tragedy in the history of all mankind. there are 33 steps from golgotha ​​to the holy sepulcher. this is the way. from the crucifixion to the kingdom

god's. church of the holy sepulcher, may 4. on the first. these are miracles. blessed matrona. i always carry an icon with me. here i have petals, matrona’s petals. a lot of people are being healed, we came precisely for this, so that she could help us in our personal lives, those who protected her and took care of her came up with the idea that she was from a very poor family, this is not true, those who have pain make this request, i don’t know what’s right, i treat it the best i can, the matron was not born in a large family, because at the time the matron appeared in the nikonov family, there was only one child, the girl was 10 years old, i can’t say that i’m just like that...

there won’t be a mark, and after living for 96.5 years, she now i realized that i was namatrona, she was jealous her mother was jealous of me, all her life for about 50 years, before going on stage i always go to... the stage to check the props, how everything is, what, is everything in order, so that there are no surprises, well, tell the truth, tell

the truth, yes, not everything is fine, everything is fine, hello, oh-oh, great, oh, what a team, how you are all in place, right. like these ones little things, even how to turn this handle to make it easier to take, this is also a prop, this is not, yes, he walks, checked, comes, grumbles, grumbles something, he fits into the role, grumbles, walks, grumbles, his eyebrows , yes, he checked, he walks, the door is opened, he will call someone, that something needs to be fixed, something needs to be done, yes, this is every time, he can come, he always comes in advance, that’s all, and of course,

to check, where is everything, and mrs. helpe, she looks out of her door every time i leave to go to the bank, we recently we even chatted a little with her about walking in the rain, oh, i’m afraid. you chatted with her shadow, she’s been gone for more than 5 months, that ’s how, i believe in omens, probably all actors believe, but in the black eye, that’s what i believe, god forbid, yes, there are, unfortunately, a couple real-life examples of a situation where there was an evil eye, an evil eye, an evil eye, so, probably, someone from above is leading us, but you won’t tell us what the story is, when it seemed to you, what? stared, well, we were in odessa once with natasha, natasha was little, at sea,

we're swimming, that's it, we're sunbathing, it's wonderful, it's evening. we go to visit one house, natasha is cheerful, energetic, and some lady there says, oh what a girl she’s like, well, it doesn’t matter, in general, she says, we’re going back to the hotel, natasha has a temperature of 40, from zero, the next one one day the temperature is high again, and after a day everything goes away, what did you analyze? situation of utterance and so you have to spit, tfu-tfu-tfu! natalya is the only daughter of leonid konevsky. for dad, she is not only a light in the window, but also a colleague. natasha is a costume designer and fashion designer who has worked with her father in various productions on film sets, and he is very proud of her. he constantly conveys greetings to me from colleagues, artists who worked with me,

he always has such pride. and he watches that i release some new collections, that female actresses wear my dresses, in general, it seems to me that, of course, everything, everything connected with the family, is big, big for him joy and support are a support, but the greatest joy for konevsky is his grandchildren, amalia and michael. well, amalia has become more mature, she is already practically an adult, she teaches her grandfather. tells him how to behave correctly on social networks, she tells him that he does everything wrong, watches the wrong programs, doesn’t know any fashion bloggers, but amalia learns something from her grandfather, for example, to cook, he makes it delicious glacomule, maybe i don’t recognize it from glacamole, but it’s a mexican thing made from avocado, there’s like avocado, tomatoes,

a little onion and spices, it’s very tasty, and amalia is also crazy about her grandfather’s main accessory, an elegant tie, i took it from my grandfather, i really like it, i asked if it was there, it was there, they found it there, and there were so many ties, i was choosing, and i also took a tie with these little dogs and flowers, so, well , this is my favorite tie , this is the only voice. which i wear. amalia appeared in the light of day in israel. on the promised earth, childbirth is a family affair, so all family members are nearby when the baby is born and can see him in the first seconds of life. but when leonid semyonovich was allowed to hold the newborn, his face changed. of course, he saw amalia right on the same day she was born and was terribly

upset. and he said that she was somehow ugly, somehow strange, frankly. i almost got scared, everyone around them laughed and said, you just saw babies before who were already a month old there at best, and this is, uh, a child who is one day old, the youngest grandson of the konevskys, michael, in somalia they have a difference of a little over three years old, they behave with their grandfather as if they were born on the same day, especially when they play board games games. we are both taurus, we both don’t know how to lose, when someone loses... “no, it was the wrong move, we always look at our female team and are surprised, that’s what’s not clear, who should give in to whom, who behaves more like a child, dad or mika, here they are, they are absolutely the same, they get angry, they quarrel, they argue about something, they disagree and a minute later they forget about it again they chat beautifully, miki is 8 years old, he says, i’m self-taught, that is, somehow let’s have

a circle with '. internet, computer, lenya, why do i need it, i'm self-taught, really, he unique, i understand, he’s been around since he was 3 years old, the internet is for him, the computer is for him, it’s his wife calling him at home, miki asks what to do, what to do, turn this on, press this button, so, no, no, no , click this one, like this, that’s it, that’s it, everything works, thank you very much, thank you, thank you for your patience! leonid konevsky can safely say: life was a success, and bright roles, fame and success, he had and still has all this, and most importantly, he has family and friends nearby, his rear, and these roles of father, brother , husband, grandfather, friend, for konevsky the most valuable.

greetings, friends, this is a podcast about the chronicle of indian times, and i, evgeniy dodolev, will remind you that in this podcast i talk about my own. partner's experience and about all sorts of stories that happened precisely during the period of the so -called end of times, during perestroika and the beginning of the nineties, and today i will tell you about kidnapping.

kidnapping is, in the original, the abduction of children, because kid is a child in english, but in principle, kidnapping simply refers to the kidnapping of people for ransom or for the purpose of extracting certain things, let’s say. pleasures, eh, i took up this topic at one time not at all because i myself was a victim of kidnapping at the age of five, moreover, when this happened to me, at the age of five, i did not know what it was called, i 10 years later i didn’t know for years, 20 years later i didn’t know, all my knowledge about this type of crime was based on my acquaintance with the film by leonid gaidai. which was called business people, is a film adaptation of three short stories about henry, one of the three short stories told about two american swindlers who a wealthy city dweller had a child kidnapped, and

this child turned out to be such a tomboy, as a result they were ready to return him, first for free, and then they even wrote something out of their money to the father so that he could keep the child until they had time... let me remind you, in the soviet union it was impossible to be a tuniyan, that is, it was impossible not to work, and i was already out of work there in the early eighties in the mid-eighties, for about

six months, and i was already threatened with an article, and my mother-in-law and long-time friend got me a job at the newspaper, since i came so unencumbered , firstly, we will provide professional education. and secondly, with the wealth of knowledge about all the taboos and prohibitions, i began to write on topics that had not been written about before, and it so happened that i was the first to write about the first in the soviet press to write about soviet prostitution, about child abduction, because for for me , kidnapping has always been the kidnapping of children, although we will talk about the fact that adults are also kidnapped there; i recently met with...