utility systems in klimovsk near moscow are coping; heat supply to 50 apartment buildings has been resumed; another 100 are promised to be connected during this day. where the best indian tea grows, how much one cup of such an elite drink can cost, our own correspondent in india went to the foothills of the himalayas. today one of the main church.

you always felt there were people next to you who, if necessary, could support, help, come to the rescue if needed, and life is complex, diverse, always there are cases and they often arise when outside support is needed, i hope that this will be the case, after the christmas service in the house church on the territory of the novo ogorev residence, vladimir putin showed his guests, the relatives of the deceased svo participants. an icon

with the face of saint elizabeth feodorovna romanova. according to the president, he brought this shrine from new york. this means that she has been elevated to the ranks of the saints of the orthodox church. it's confusing. presented by a representative of a foreign church. i brought it here and installed it at home. and to me right away.

christmas services will be held today throughout the day on the territory of the donetsk people's republic, as you can see, people are going in an endless stream to churches to light candles, for the health of loved ones, for the health of the soldiers who are now defending our donetsk people's republic. to pray for peace. those who did not make it to the morning service can come in the afternoon and evening. the ringing of bells echoes throughout all the quarters of donetsk, announcing the birth of the son of god, jesus christ. what for residents of the donetsk people's republic and russia light. on the holiday of the nativity of christ , nationalists have another reason for shelling. the day before, there was unrest in the region, militants opened fire on a number of settlements in donetsk, gorlovka, yasinovsky district and makievka. this is how

the nationalists congratulated the residents of the region on christmas eve; fire was conducted on peaceful neighborhoods using large-caliber artillery with a cluster warhead. over the past 24 hours, more than 200 rounds of ammunition were fired. a total of 19 were damaged by shelling. residential buildings and 10 civil infrastructure facilities. the building of the central city hospital number six was also damaged by rocket fire. regular shelling of the republic on the bright holiday of christmas does not force people to sit at home. they do not pray with faith in their hearts so that the next orthodox holidays will have to be celebrated under a peaceful sky and... serina shindina, victor voloshin, vesti donetsk. the investigative committee opened a criminal case due to restrictions on the supply of heat to residential buildings in podolsk. problems occurred at the boiler house 3 days ago due to a power surge. 173 residential buildings and departments of the regional

hospital were left without heat. at the moment, in the klimovsk microdistrict, where the accident occurred, a second boiler has been put into operation. this makes it possible to return heat to city apartments, he said. governor of the moscow region andrey vorobyov in his telegram channel. earlier , the head of the region said that the owner of a private company caused an accident, the circumstances of which were being investigated by law enforcement agencies. enterprises were involved in eliminating the consequences from different districts of the moscow region. a local emergency has been declared in klimovsk. the situation is still difficult, the staff here is only ordinary, we still haven’t seen the owner. as well as the general director, therefore , for operational work, storage, we need a boiler room for operation very quickly, i ask you to contact the higher authorities accordingly, and most importantly, i ask you

to consider this possibility. while emergency work is underway, temporary accommodation centers have been set up in the neighborhood. and these are the ones the details were reported by the investigative committee. on january 4, 2024, as a result of improper operation by employees of the closed joint-stock company boiler in the city of podolsk, a breakthrough occurred in heating mains. in this regard, residential premises, as well as medical, educational and preschool institutions located in the klimovsk microdistrict were left without heat supply and hot water. based on the results of the pre-investigation check, on this fact, the investigative bodies of the main investigation department of the crucian carp in the moscow region initiated a criminal case case. in the premises of the organization servicing the boiler room. searches are carried out, technical documentation is confiscated, management is interrogated, and the investigation establishes the causes and conditions that led to the accident. india is one of the main tea producers in the world after china, and the best indian tea grows in the town of darjeeling in the foothills of the himalayas. it

is called the champagne of teas and sells for $1.0 per kilogram. and this is the same famous tea in the soviet union. but, which everyone drank, but about which there was little known. vgtrk's own correspondent in india, dmitry melnikov, talks about indian tea. india is the second largest tea producer in the world after china, and the best indian tea grows, of course, here, in the town of darjeeling in the foothills of the himalayas. it is called the champagne of teas and sells for a thousand dollars per kilogram. and this is also the very famous indian tea with elephant in the soviet union, which everyone drank, but which is not enough. what was known was india with dmitry melnikov, and today we are talking about indian tea. only here on the indian border with nepal and bhutan, where humid and hot air from the bay of bengal meets

cold currents from the himalayas, at an altitude of 800 m above sea level, this unique mountain subtropical climate is formed, ideal for growing the most elite tea. not only in india, but all over the world, singing about a young guy who dreams of marrying his neighbor, women, with a basket on their back, deftly move along the critical slope of thousands of hectares of tea plantations, it is believed that only women’s fingers can collect the most young, still tender and bright green, the top three leaves, i collect approximately.

a sanatorium for british troops suffering from the heat of the indian plains. it was the local climate, and of course, the picturesque views that became the reason for choosing darjeeling. first, for rest and recuperation of the colonial officers. administration, and then to grow bushes of the camellia sinensis plant brought from china or tea, which became one of the main colonial goods. lovely. as strange as it may sound today, before the arrival of the british, tea was not drunk in india. at all, the leaves were used, but as one of many components of traditional medicine. ayurveda, which means that the tonic and other beneficial properties of tea have been known in india

since ancient times, but the fabulous profits of the first exports of tea from china to europe also sealed the fate of dorjeeling. in a matter of years, the british east indian company turned this remote village into one of the main tea outposts in india. thousands of local residents were involved in growing and harvesting tea, and they appeared invisible on the mountain slopes. and railway. the british colonials still had steam engines in these places and the authorities built a narrow gauge railway on these inaccessible slopes of the dargeling . it began operating in 1881 and by the beginning of the 20th century it was already transporting up to 40 thousand tons of tea per year. today this is the only railway line in the world where 13-year-old coal-fired steam locomotives operate on a regular route. they, of course, no longer transport tea, but local residents are still from...

a unique method of drying and fermenting tea leaves collected on the plantations of the upper the leaves, called flushes, are first withered and laid out on special racks, where hot and cold air alternately passes through them. here we have primary drying, during which the fresh leaf loses up to 60% of its moisture. to produce one kilogram of the famous tea, approximately 22 thousand of these flushes are required; after withering, fermentation takes place... in a steam room. at this stage, the tea juice is oxidized, which subsequently gives the famous thick taste

and aroma. in russia, the culture of tea drinking came at the beginning of the 16th century, but not from india, but from china. together with a special device, which we later began to call a samovar. chinese grass, as tea was called then in russia, was available only to wealthy noble merchants and cost 10 times more than black caviar. it was the beginning of tea supplies from india in the second half of the 19th century. lowered prices and made tea a drink accessible to everyone. our first close acquaintance with dajilin tea is believed to have occurred during the great patriotic war. when the ussr and great britain entered into an agreement on supplies, credit and payment procedures, it was no longer enough who knows that under this agreement not only weapons and ammunition were received, but also tea. in 1941 , the first soviet trading agent arrived in india, then still a colony of great britain, in 1943 in calcutta, the tea capital. the ussr trade agency appeared in the country, which was also involved in organizing the supply of tea,

primarily from darjeeling, and this tea was supplied to the needs of the red army, including to the hospital for the wounded. having gained independence from great britain in 1947, india had to build an independent economy, and tea became then a real salvation for the country. and the british were replaced by the ussr as the main consumer of indian tea. grain flowed from the union to fraternal india. cars and, in general, everything that was possible, tea was brought from india to the ussr. having fallen out with china, moscow stopped importing chinese tea, and here begins the story of the famous indian elephant tea, which in 1967 began to be produced at the irkutsk tea factory by mixing one part of indian darjeeling with two parts of tea grown in georgia. tea with an elephant immediately became king among soviet teas, including due to its higher content. caffeine why did people in the ussr love our tea? as far as i understand,

your climate is very cold, and russians prefer stronger tea. they also prefer stronger alcohol - vodka. strong tea has an effect similar to alcohol. the name elephant tea is purely a folk invention. the packaging design was developed at the moscow tea-lime factory on yellow packs weighing from 50 to 125 g, with an elephant and a shoulder strap sitting on it depicted against the backdrop of an eastern city. in a shawl with a long beard. among the people a legend has appeared that the only real indian tea is the one where the elephant's trunk faces upward. if the trunk is down, there is no need to take it. about what great luck for... how about this soviet brand itself, elephants here are part of the local fauna, they walk through the fields and destroy the crops. there are elephant trails through our tea plantations, but we don't disturb them, they pass through the tada plantations, but they don't eat the tea leaves because they find them bitter.

the era of the ussr was also golden for darjeeling tea plantations, about 80%. total the tea grown here went to the soviet union, and this is almost 14 million kilograms of first-class tea per year. the early nineties in russia almost destroyed the darjeeling tea industry. after 1991 , the export of dorjelin tea to russia almost ceased. and the next 3-4 years were difficult periods, since almost all exported tea went into one ussr basket. in the period from 1991 to...

also finished products. the check is carried out according to several parameters: the content of polyphenols, tannins, caffeine content, other parameters necessary for quality tea. but besides chemical indicators, the main thing is taste. professional tasters, who taste tea and assign a rating from zero to ten, drink up to 120 cups of tea a day, or rather, they don’t drink it, they just taste it. to drink tea. with milk, lemon, sugar is wrong, tea should be pure - says professional taster shif saria. first, we look at the dry tea, try it for smell, aroma, then you need to pour boiling water over it and look at the tea leaves to see if there are any leaves of foreign flowers, only then take a sip of the brewed tea, but it must be sucked in with air so that the flavor and aroma are fully revealed. this has been made with i

prefer the first and second flushes, that is, the topmost leaves of the tea bush, they are collected in the fall. they give better taste. the highest price for collectible tea, which depends on time, place of origin, quality, and so on, can reach thousands of dollars per kilogram. but this tea is not for the wide market, it is made to order. for example, dorgelin tea is still served on the table of the queen in great britain and many heads of state. states another blow to indian tea was the coronavirus pandemic. the halt in exports and strict quarantine reduced tea production in darjeeling and india's second main tea state by almost a third. and at some point, world tea prices soared by 40%. now factories are gradually beginning to resume work, although only half of the staff is still working on plantations and assembly lines. we were forced to stop production for several weeks, now we are operating on the edge of profitability and living only on what

were able to collect and sell. during the lockdown , we sold tea at the local market, but this is not comparable to the income we received. from the export of our tea. today tea is the main drink for india itself, however, they drink it here in a special way. on the streets of cities there are sellers of masala tea, brewed with milk with the addition of a mixture of spices, sugar and ginger; in mountainous areas they prefer tea with yak butter and even with dried chicken powder. i pour water into a saucepan, bring it to a boil and add milk and put tea leaves in it. this simple tea. but many, primarily buddhists, who live here, ask to add oil and even salt, this is called soy cha, but ordinary people don’t drink tea like that. the current volumes of indian tea supplies to russia cannot be compared with the period of soviet-indian friendship. today , only a third of all tea imported into our country comes from india. darjeelingo tea growers

remember the golden times and hope that russians will again taste local tea and sigh sadly. references to tea bags, which today are sold under our brand name darjeeling. now on our air is a christmas interview with patriarch kirill of moscow and all russia. your holiness, thank you very much once again for this traditional opportunity to speak with you. on christmas, on the holiday of christmas, i congratulate you, thank you heartily, for me it is always such a special event, to meet on the eve of the holiday, to communicate with you, but through this

communication still have some kind of conversation with our people. your lordship, this year will be the year of the fifteenth anniversary of enthronement yours, i remember very well how even earlier, then, 15 years ago, you were already talking... about traditional values, at a time when many politicians were still wincing so demonstrably, what traditional values, if for the people’s well-being, for well-being of the state, we have the institution of human rights, we have democracy, this is enough, you said already then, this year we can already say that traditional values ​​have become part of the institution of law, and yet you still continue to talk about traditional values, that is, do you think that this is for now...

and what is the time period during which these values ​​are transmitted? by answering these questions, we will immediately understand what we are talking about, we are talking about eternal values, about those values ​​that are inherent in the very nature of man by god, and the implementation of these values ​​enriches a person with what is archivally important, non-perishable. in many ways defining such an important concept as human happiness, therefore there is nothing archaic here, but here is evidence of something,

what even goes beyond the boundaries of our experience, how can one imagine a value that has always existed and which has passed from generation to generation, from culture to culture, so the attitude towards traditional values ​​should be, but very attentive. and the most important thing is that traditional values ​​are not identified only with the past, and that young people understand this. traditional value is what belonged to history, what belongs to history, and what will go into the future. these values ​​will apparently accompany humanity until the end of the whole world. your holiness, last year, there were a lot... many such signs, it seems to me, good, but i want to know your attitude towards them, well, of course, this is the return of the icon of the trinity , the authorship of the rev. andrei rublev, the cancer

of prince alexander neevsky, it has now been installed on a historical site in st. petersburg, you have found the revered icon of the kazan mother of god, now you can venerate it in the kazan cathedral, so it seems to me that these are good signs, in your opinion, and is there any secret meaning in this? well, these the events are so significant that of course it is important to try to understand, firstly, why this happened now, but why could it not have happened earlier? why did the patriarch, constantly passing by this icon, not ask himself the question that this is not a poster, this is not a copy, it is that this is an icon, but the face is so ancient that this icon cannot be made. now, but i was passing by, but how and what happened at some point, you were passing by, just as you were passing by before, and what happened, i’m passing here, looking at the icon,

and i think how they learned to counterfeit antiques, not realizing that this is the original, i take this icon in my hands, turn it around and understand that this is an ancient icon, so maybe no one stole it, but simply hid it, that was the time, they hid it the image, and the fact that it ended up in the patriarchal sacristy

is also not accidental, but where? to carry this image, so that after all, it would not be found anywhere for a long time, and it would not be handed over to any museum, it would be handed over to my predecessors, in all likelihood, it was patriarch alexy ii, so the image was in the patriarchal sacristy, so this is how my contact with this shrine happened, but i am also very glad that it happened not only in a keel manner, and this image... did not remain only in the place where the patriarch prays, but that the opportunity arose to return him to the historical place where he was located, on red square, but these are clearly some kind of signs, or are we so-so elites, yes, this is a good question, for the church, for the people, for the state, this is a very good question , there is such a text from the holy scriptures:

wisdom will not enter into an artful soul. has gained material, intellectual, scientific, military strength, a lot of strength, but russia has undoubtedly gained spiritual strength, it has become the support of orthodoxy throughout the world, our church does not just play some kind of cultural role, it is located outside the fields of public life, there on the periphery, serving pensioners, she is at the center of people's lives, that's when all these wonderful

changes in our lives... took place, and so the mother of god appeared, and not an evil soul, into the open soul of our people, to open hearts, to receive this grace , that's why everything is connected very closely and the state of people, the level of their faith, spirituality, readiness to perceive the shrine, and the miracles that the lord performs, i will say again, an evil soul,

in the area of ​​the operation, so in the border areas, we will get it, but people continue to die, and warriors, and my colleagues, journalists, and ordinary ordinary people, townspeople, and as in the absolute inevitability of victory, it will be, here’s how to help them, how to reassure them, how to give hope, an answer, a question that...

you need to raise the most high level therefore, i think that there cannot be such a single answer, but i would like to say this: the lord does not send the people trials that they are not able to endure. even the great patriotic war, which was accompanied by enormous human suffering, was not capable of destroying the lives of our people. these are the trials that befall us today, they, of course, hurt , but they are not capable of killing, they are not capable of shaking us as a people, they are not capable of crushing our worldview, which directly includes love for the homeland and its readiness protect, so it seems to me that every...