of these, these are interstate standards, known as gosts, a legacy of the soviet union. they have become an instrument for barrier-free trade, ensuring the quality and safety of products within the eurasian economic union. the foundation of these standards is kept up to date and changes are made to meet new technologies and market requirements. in the belarusian standardization system there are more than 5,000 state standards - these are our national developments. last year , more than 500 of these were approved. today, standards are being developed in the field of smart industry, including smart city, electric transport, unmanned vehicles, innovation management. now cutlets are already printed on a 3d printer, i’m not talking about some, say, plastic elements and so on, we are already more or less accustomed to this, but food products, in what segment, how to evaluate the quality of such a product, but there is clearly not done according to gost, today the state strictly regulates the safety of products that... circulate

on the market, and this is the responsibility of the state, and the quality characteristics are the prerogative of manufacturers, therefore, based on international requirements, application practice , and so on, of course, we are also accepting and expanding corridors for the use of some food additives and other things, and as part of the products that are produced and used. starting from february, quality issues, issues of those regulations, you will already be dealing with in the eac space.

tasks that contribute to improving living standards, and i am involved in this.

may you love like a flower in the field, like a young fruit that stands over a crayfish, like a patch the bird that is alive in the wild, may i love you, may i love you for the song that i hear. loud laughter, which is a frequent call, for clear eyes, for a young soul, may i love you, may i love you for the bright hours that you give me every now and then,

for the most intense, dear daughter, may i love you. hello, you are watching the program “say don’t be silent”, in the studio of victoria popova and tatyana shcherbina. and today we are visiting. artist of the ussr and bssr, laureate of the state prize of the republic of belarus, artistic director of the bolshoi theater of belarus valentin elizarev. good afternoon, valentin nikolaevich. nikolaevich, you celebrated your anniversary last year, there were a lot of films,

articles, interviews dedicated to you, but we waited a pause and again found ourselves on the anniversary, because if you remember that you came to minsk in 73 exactly 50 years ago. now there was another anniversary in october, i turned another birthday, so i remembered a lot of what surrounded me, who surrounded me, with whom i worked, with whom i studied, i remembered my parents, so

i was probably thinking about some intermediate results that actually happened? i , well, i’m such a bit of a prickly, sharp person, and i love to fight for a just cause, for, first of all, for my profession , i’m very lucky with my parents, who always supported my desires, aspirations, i’m very lucky with the teachers who helped me raised, i was born in a beautiful...

public, this city had a great influence on me, of course, as a child, and, of course, my parents who always tried to support me, my dad was a military man, and in general my whole family is a military man, and grandfathers, and great-grandfathers, and i’m the only one who is so defective, a military man who has been involved in art all his life, a military man in general... and a ballerina, but they called a ballerina, in general, no, in general it’s correct to call a woman a ballerina, and a man is a dancer, a dancer is correct, but no one calls it correctly among the people, well, i ’m saying this because i know about this absolutely

exactly, as it is written in literature and in the history of ballet, so let’s stick to the correct terms, i started talking about my father, my father on the ninth day of the war uh... he was a gun commander, he was seriously wounded, so he served in western ukraine, a very young boy, with the last ambulance train, he... was taken deep into the soviet union. my mother, a refugee, was from ukraine, where everyone fled from hunger, that’s where they fled, well, first of all , on this partially ukrainian-speaking environment, after her father, mother, sisters and two older brothers died of hunger and... .they picked up and took her to sochi, so she studied in a girls ’ school, then before the war all the schools were

separate, girls’ and boys’, then the war i found her in the ninth grade at a sochi school, when the german division was already very close to sochi, 30 km away, this is a beautiful place, a red meadow - the red army soldiers fought there in daylight, shot , defended, advanced, and the girls who were mobilized stood at night they were guarded by these guns with weapons, my mother said that the austro-german division was drunk. that's what they were drunk, bawling, singing on horseback,

these are mountains, there's no other way to get there, they rode up to them on horses, didn't touch any of the girls, and but, of course, it was very scary, and the memories of the father and mother about the war, of course, are very impressive, sad and also... a joyful time, because everything ended in victory, but mother and father met, father was sent to fight again after the hospital, mother and father met uh, already serving in leselidze’s nineteenth army, which protected the caucasus from southern enemies, well, then turkey was preparing to enter the war, so. but fortunately it didn’t happen, everyone remained alive, so my father continued his military career, and my mother already

lived with him the life of a military wife, and you know, like the military, where they will send, where the order is, well , they sent my father to baku, uh, in the year forty-six my sister was born, the eldest, who lived very briefly, then i was born with... in the forty-seventh i and 10 years later another sister was born to me, so my sister and i are alive, happy, love each other very much, we still have this connection, this is the only relative i have, this is my sister, the first sura from the koran, peace to those who enter the city yours,

now i can even show you the balcony where my mother’s office was, you see, i must say that i’m in in a sense, the darling of fate, since childhood i knew what i wanted, i was very passionate about choreography, at first it manifested itself - in my, well, understanding of folk dance, i went to a folk studio. i studied, i studied seriously, i was generally

such a street hooligan, i was always, well, well , the leader of the pack, so everyone who was friends with me, everyone went too, because i went, so, the first basics, of course, i received it in baku, at the choreographic school, where i started. there is a very nice yard here, there were a lot of games and sports there were sites, in general it was organized very well for that time, i was worried. character , well, you were often out of reach on the street, my mother called for water there, yes , she came out and screamed, but what did she call you, by the way, she called me roller, yes, it changed here too, there were other sites , miracles, in my opinion, it was somewhere in ninety-three, ninety-four,

i then worked in turkey, so i conducted a lot there. orchestras, and they approached me with a request to invite one of the best ballet companies, and then i met valentin nikolaevich ilizariev. temperament is the blood that flows in your veins. the breadth of valentin nikolaevich lies not only in the fact that he was born here, he understands the nuances of the east, he knows perfectly well the restraint of the north, its greatness, that is.

who are exquisite prime minister figures who act as princes and so on, that is, you were accepted into leningrad even , well, in general, in such a strong body, yes, i never thought about the career of a prince, and it was enough for me that i did to educational an institution that gave me a lot of

academic knowledge, so i studied and entered on purpose. at school at the leningrad conservatory to the great teachers, how everything in life is balanced, you know, good and evil, good and bad and so on, but i love this city, it’s a very beautiful street, from chevorosi, and the conservatory is located on the theater square opposite malinsky theater, so these are my native places. here the height of the houses is equal to the width of the street, it is in perfect condition, here is the entrance to the russian ballet academy. i got a good basic

education is probably the best. for the years that could be obtained in the soviet union, i began to bet while i was still preparing to become an artist, on my classmates, on children younger than me, this fascinated me very much, after graduating from college i entered the conservatory with the teachers i wanted to enter, these were igor belsky, pyotr gusev, and many others, this was the elite then.

they don’t live with the people, with the public, and i have never artificially supported my performances, but you know that in the theater there is, well, commercial success. since my performances were in demand, that’s why they lived such a long life, this is how i imagine it. well, after baku, childhood in baku, studying in leningrad, you

once admitted that the belarusian capital did not make much of an impression on you, but now your view, your attitude towards minsk has somehow changed? well, you know, i think that st. petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, so it was possible to compare st. petersburg and minsk in those years. this kind of glossy appearance of a metropolitan city has appeared, but it’s all happening in

in my eyes and i am very glad that minsk is still developing, it is also a very beautiful, very warm city, very soulful, which i appreciate very much, have you fallen in love with any place in minsk, if we have already talked about love? your mutual relationship with the stage, with the big theater , something else besides the big one, where you like to be, and maybe with your family, and even with your grandchildren, my two favorite places are the theater, the big theater, our cozy little apartment , i probably appreciate minsk because it played a very important role in my career, in minsk i... survived how, and developed as an artist, after all , i was given great opportunities, i was given a large theater, i had

the opportunity to form a troupe, create performances, and this costs a lot, so no one before or after, it seems to me, valentin nikolaevich at 26 years old they won’t trust the theater, this was around the time, when i was studying at the conservatory. classical ballet and was officially invited to the city of minsk, from then on, this is my fate, it was 1973, connected with

belarus, i knew nothing about belarus, i came, looked at the stage, i really liked it, and i promised myself that i would stage several performances here, and how my fate would turn out... god's will, what will happen to me next, well , it turned out that i met with interesting artists, who i started with , they were young people then, so i had to - well , experience a feeling of joy, a feeling of creativity, a feeling of co-creation, because ballet is co-creation, it is a synthetic art, in which there are many components. both music and dance, scenography, costume design, and so on and so forth, everything must come together in order to make a performance. let's hear how

nikolai tsyskaritsa remembered your production of carmina burana? i remember carmina burana, i remember this premiere, i remember this excitement, because after all, such a topic in the soviet union, it was not very good.

a wonderful work, and i managed to make it the first in the soviet union, so they came from the music, valentina, of course, i always go from the music, from the theme, i work deeply every performance, i try to ensure that i always have several titles in my creative portfolio, and that is the most mature one, it goes out to the public, is your wife creative?

you turn to her in terms of some knowledge to ask for advice, what does this mean? quite often, can you call her your main critic? well, yes, probably yes, i still have several, well, proposals that i must implement before the end of my life. this is great, but with this we will end with your creative plans, you know, darling

journalistic question, it sounds at the end. interview, let's take a break for a moment, i remind you that we have a telegram channel, say don't be silent, subscribe, ask questions and suggest guests, we are in touch, the program say don't be silent is on air again, and today our guest is the people's artist of the ussr and the bssr, laureate state prize of the republic of belarus. artistic director of the bolshoi theater of belarus valentin elizariev. valentin nikolaevich, well, this is a question that, i think, worries many people in our time. how to, uh, keep young people interested today for opera, ballet, productions. only quality, only the quality of performances. so, and, uh, it seems to me that interest is maintained, there are always a lot of

young people in the audience. that i am pleased with the different categories, dressed differently, speaking differently, and discussing issues, i think that the fact that they are not indifferent to the theater, this is rolling out on the internet, and it seems to me that it is my youth that we are trying to get to attend our theater, because it doesn't always work out. still souls, these are not always well-developed characters, still, let’s do it let's say that musical theater and choreographic, let's say, if we are talking about ballet, then ballet, probably dance, is the heart, yes, and music connects us with god, the best examples of music, so it is necessary

that... art, theater , to make a person better , you see, perhaps you will not agree with me, i believe that ballet, opera, yes, you need to attend the same production at different ages, that is, several times without fail, because it often happens that a young a person who had not yet formed a personality there, came at the age of 16, in 15 to the opera house, listen to an opera or watch a ballet, but didn’t like it, and

after 10 years, by natural death, simply, or there is no one to sing, or there are no good performers, or for some other reason, it ’s difficult to say which performance, how long will he live, and what in art, for you, do you consider honesty or sublimity more important, of course, sublimity, but in general, i would call it another word, not just sublimity, but spirituality, you know? now, if there is spirituality in a person in a performance, in life, then this is a special world, to which we should all strive for, there should always be a deep thought in the performance, that is , in your opinion, the performance should inspire, give hope to a person, otherwise art

is meaningless in your understanding, in my opinion yes, it seems to me that on a stage like ours they should to raise eternal themes, not everyday ones, but do you think it’s possible with the help of ballet? well, let’s say, force everyone to be highly moral and highly spiritual, i generally believe that art should be highly spiritual. i remember in one of the interviews, you said when there was a period of your life, when you haven’t been to the theater for 9 years, yes, that your performances are treated like stepson, they need to be rehearsed, the choreographer, choreographer needs to be present at the rehearsal, in general everything is very easy.

it’s just the last time that spartak goes on all the trips, well, there are other performances that we have that are worthy of trips, it still depends on the inviting party, yes, but i think that the repertoire of the theater is both in opera and ballet, so now, well, quite interesting and there may be other names. i don’t know, i don’t associate it with any events, precisely that spartak was invited to the last two trips, the next ones may include other performances, it all depends on the inviting party, what they want to see, i know that

the problems of the theater are part of the issues that you would like to discuss with us today, in particular, well, all the corpses are experiencing staff shortages, what do you attribute this to, we have only one theater in our country. a magnificent theater, a magnificent building, well, the problems that have accumulated, of course, exist, and above all, the problem of retaining personnel, the pension problem, earlier in soviet times people they retired based on length of service, now they haven’t paid a pension based on length of service for more than two decades, people are going nowhere. they try to get a job in sports or as teachers in a school or amateur performance teachers and so on, but such hard work, which in general, according to, say, the studies

of many european doctors and psychologists, is equated in severity to the work of a miner, and of course the wear and tear on the body is very high , very... heavy loads, physical, and people go nowhere, we still need to return to the old system, which used by all generations of the soviet union and even tsarist russia, when there is length of service , due to which some kind of pension is still paid, this is a serious problem, and if we don’t solve it somehow, then we will have a personnel shortage ...

can college graduates create our future premiers and ballerinas who would grace the scene in the coming years?

you know how to let go, we spend 8 years preparing an artist for state money, the artist comes for 2-3 years, he gets some, we continue to work with him, we improve it, we give him the repertoire that he will need, so he immediately looks for a place where he can earn money outside of our theater, at first... it starts with short-term tours, uh, then it lasts for six months, a year, so people ask for time off, ask to leave, earn extra money then, given that there is no pension, and some savings need to be made in order to start a family, uh, buy a home, this is a big problem, of course, and we are always just preparing someone, we have prepared them. and people left, the person receives an invitation,

says thank you to us, leaves with a new everything is under contract, and we do not have the right to detain him if he has fulfilled the term of the contract, as an artistic director, you certainly have your own truth, valentin nikolaevich, this is a tiring situation, warming up artists before big tours, victoria has already mentioned that he was in the period in your life when you were separated from the theater for 9 years. what helped you to survive and not break down and return to your favorite stage? i didn’t go out or sit at home for these 9 years, i worked a lot during this period of setting up business abroad, i had constant work with students whom i trained as teachers and choreographers at our conservatory, that’s a lot. i read , i prepared a lot for some new ones, my own

productions, it was not a pause, just a pause, not an easy one, it was still self-improvement, so, probably, there should have been such a period, and you have favorite students, there are some favorites, of course. let's now look at a fragment of the rehearsal, valentin nikolaevich, you can say whether you and your favorites are rehearsing or not, a kiss, a kiss, you can close up, this is the most important thing in life, sometimes, who is marina vizh, probably, yes, well, marina, fortunately , works for us, but...

i haven’t seen these shots, this tear, valentin nikolaevich, she is amazing, remember this moment, why did you cry, for joy , probably these are tears, now something can move you to tears, maybe, of course, i’m a living person, very vulnerable, but what moments, from the last one, that you can remember? that i’m crying, yes, how could something like this doesn’t

happen, it’s just one tear, maybe a tear of happiness or something, but it’s very difficult for me make you cry, well, actually, i remembered that i cried just recently at the coffin of lyudmila brzhizovskaya, that was it, we recently lost a very big loss, as you know, i’m very soft with women, but in general i’m very strong.

in the anniversary film he said that the stage you then, not only did you love the stage, but it accepted you, that is, the place accepted you, that’s why you have such a long romance with this scene, you must agree, well, this is the truth, it’s clear that yes, for love needs to be fought, and i’m probably happy that this fight for... art is the love of theater, i dedicated his whole life to this. nikolayevich , what to do, you say, now the state finances the theater by 60%, everything else is like a commercial component, but the theater itself must earn this amount,

could this affect the repertoire for the worse, i’m very afraid, that this will be so , therefore we especially now must try to do it efficiently. performance, this is all it should be, high-quality artists, high-quality productions, high-quality music performance, in general our level should increase, that’s it. in order for a queue to form at the ticket office, and now we will take a short break, after a short pause, we will return to this studio again, for now subscribe to... the channel, that’s what it ’s called, say don’t be silent, look for all our episodes on the youtube channel belarus 1. on the air again, don’t be silent, our guest is people’s

artist of the ussr, pssr, laureate of the state prize of belarus, as well as artistic director of the bolshoi theater of belarus valentin ilyazarev. nikolaevich, what will you never tolerate on the academic stage? theater, which should not happen, well, i love professionals, so that every professional does his own thing, you can’t even imagine, we have such a word as a craftsman, i take this word seriously, i believe that a good craftsman is better , why not a professional, well , talented people are born very rarely. in the theater the main talent should be the talent of the creators of the performances there, conductors, directors, choreographers, artists, this should be a dictatorship of talent, probably the theater is a sacred place, just like the church, so

prayed for by art, it’s not in vain that the public comes to the theater, they come in order to... become better, so artists should make every effort to do this, so they need to take artists seriously, artists should take the audience very seriously, that’s it this is the silence that is born when something very significant happens between the stage and the auditorium, a single beat. hearts, empathy, i repeat the word catharsis, so everyone should leave the theater, a person who has experienced, fallen in love with an actor, experienced a drama or tragedy or comedy,

well, but art must penetrate the human soul, that’s why theater exists, don’t you be upset that before... going to the big theater, in general to the opera, or to the ballet, was perceived by people as a holiday, and the audience dressed accordingly in outfits evening ones, that is, everyone was very solemn, now you can often see jeans and a sweater there, the time is different, i even saw people come in short pants and so on, well, you can’t kick a person out, although there should be a dress code for the theater, we are talking about democracy, but it is also some kind of within the framework... there must be places where you need to dress up, but there are, well, places to visit freely, but what do you expect from a modern viewer? so that their expectations are not deceived, do you support the creative freedom of the team, ballet corpses? well, i

generally support dictatorships in art , the dictatorship of talent, you said, yes, the dictatorship of talent, dictatorship, but the personality, the creator, without this nothing will happen, here is confusion, vacillation, democracy, everyone puts a meaning into this word... very different , everything should be subordinated to the creation of the final product , so the more talented this product is, the easier it is for the theater to show it, but there are talents, talents can be very capricious and it is very difficult to drive them into some kind of framework, about what kind of dictatorship can then, you need to be able to self-discipline, and you know how much mine...

you had to part with a talented, but not hardworking person, that is, he was talented, but everything in this life was, you did it with sadness, or

sometimes your heart easily bled, that such a person wants to go somewhere - something else profession, there is simply no way to detain him, well , he decided i won’t do anything with him, and on your initiative you refused someone, in fact i don’t even remember who i refused with external ruff. ballet dancers say that valentin nikolaevich is a very caring artistic director, he feels very sorry for the artists and says, irina eromkina told me what you say, how did you stand for so long in pointe shoes, what is happening to your legs and so on, that is, you are sick for each of them with my heart, therefore of course, parting every time is very painful , i feel very sorry for women - in the sense that , of course, well... they give so much, so they often receive very unpleasant things,

illnesses, injuries, dancing on pointe shoes - these are worn out feet until they bleed, that's what , that they don’t see behind the external lightness, beauty, what effort it takes, nikolaevich, your sister is an architect, we know, but you know everything, you read a lot, right? but you know, i just wanted to ask about literature, i know that you are inspired by music, you come from music, today you always told us in your productions, and literature, it matters to you, of course, of course, i read a lot , so it seems to me that the more i read, the more i don’t know, so the more questions i ask myself, me, to be honest, must... the material must become my own, lie on my heart, so that i can speak out, if it is alien to me, i try not

to spoil this material’s reputation and move away, this is how it is for life, you they said that belarusian legends, well, in general , are considered promising, but for productions, but it’s impossible not to remember now the passions that you also staged in the nineties.

organic, there is, there is, now here is a very good new couple, this is hitogo, the white-tailed one, just a wonderful couple, and parts of your life with your grandchildren, what kind of grandfather you are, grandfather, i love them madly, they are probably somewhat similar to me, the appearance is not very good, but in

their actions they are such real men. everyone is studying, two are in school, one is in kindergarten. are there any significant projects that you would like to talk about? well it will be a significant project for me, for the first time in my life i will be staging a ballet about cinderella, so i hope that i will succeed, in any case, i have already composed a performance in my head, now it remains. pass it on to the artists, cinderella is a fairy tale within a fairy tale , and it’s also about hope, and in general fairy tales are so very wise, you know, both russian and belarusian and french, which i will now do, they have a lot of subtext, just like from cinderella become a princess, come in the spring,

valentin nikolaevich, thank you very much for took the time to tell us, came to tell us, not only the front part of the theater, but about the problems of the institution in which you have been working as artistic directors for many years, and we are sure that your hearts ache for it to have only the best, because how you once told me personally that ballet is the most convertible art form in our country, and it remains so. tatyana shcherbina, victoria popova, we say goodbye to you for today, goodbye, goodbye, she’s speaking now. dear belarusians, dear colleagues, dear friends, here’s to a new year of happiness, health, prosperity to every belarusian family, we are artists, we love you, come to us, we will share our most intimate,

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