written in russian, he translated it into ukrainian, but he did not have such a 100% transition to the ukrainian language. i think that his most important works for him are still in the first version in the first edition, still the first in russian. we have this case uh, about which i mentioned uh, he still has the identity of a ukrainian writer , regardless of what uh, what language he works in, you don't want it in your throat, kurkova, burn me, that's why she says that i've already done it, so that i discussed when i write in russian, i see a completely different reader in front of me. do you understand the reader who i see in front of me when i write in ukrainian, for me it is completely different rooms, i understand that a ukrainian-speaking person can read my russian text, but i do not address her

ukraine russian text i am addressing it to some other person who can live there, i don’t know in tel aviv or whether in moscow he can adhere to democratic views or somewhere in tashkent he can read ukrainian in russian and i i will enter into a dialogue with this person, but when i want to enter into a dialogue with my compatriot, regardless of his native language, i know that he will understand me in ukrainian. it is true what you are saying about the time when my novel the secret was published and kharkiv folio publishing house, which published it , decided to quickly make a russian translation of this novel after the ukrainian edition to release a print edition russian language

so that my readers in the east of ukraine, let's say to someone in the east of the south of ukraine, so that they can also read this novel, but it turned out that these russian-speaking readers are both in the east and in the south , if they are my readers, they read in the ukrainian language, the ukrainian version. that's why i showed it sales immediately, when the ukrainian version was there, about 20,000 were sold in the first year, then only about 2,000 of the russian version were sold, that is, the difference was 10 times, and well, i understand that there are already some of them working here, hmm idea or set of ideas about such a writer, which is more important to read in the original language if this language is understandable and accessible to us,

if we speak, you recently expressed your opinion about what the kyiv conservatory should be called, this is a completely strange situation for me. yes, i sincerely consider pyotr tchaikovsky to be a great composer, but they will absolutely not understand why the conservatory in kyiv should be named after him, well, after all, the conservatory in tel aviv is named after beethoven, because i don't even say wagner, i say beethoven or bach - these are great composers, geniuses, but it 's just a tradition - it's to abandon jewish music, it's not related to german er culture well, it turned out so easily jews in german there actually, there is another such quite obvious thing, er, it's the name this name of pyotr tchaikovsky was given to the kyiv conservatory in 1940 and it was done as if well, not

as if it was deliberately done before the centenary of tchaikovsky well, actually speaking it was the kyiv conservatory that was shown such an honor i think not without certain e-e intervention from the side comrade stalin, who generally used this great classical russian culture as one of his political tools during virtually all the years of his stay in power . controversial in my opinion, it definitely needs to be changed, it is necessary to look for the kyiv academy of music, but still look for some outstanding,

absolutely, great musical name in ukrainian musical culture, here is tchaikovsky , tchaikovsky, this will not make him any less in return it is more important for us to mark this cultural space with some exceptionally important ukrainian names and here there are a number of possibilities that you can search for, this is all in itself, it is very interesting in my opinion the fruit is a fruitful process, not just some mechanistic provision of the next mykola lysenko, or some other such sacred name for ukrainians, and

the search for other options. a-a-a which er has definitely a top piece of music - it's shchedrik leontovichiv's shchedrik, which is known to be performed all over the world, not always eh, knowing who is eh, in fact, he is the co-author of this piece of music, yes, because another co-author is there is a people, this piece has its origins in folk folklore, so here it is. well, not only leontovych, you can look for some beautiful names in the distant past. in our

baroque music, it is remembered here i remember the name of artemy vedel or the beautiful one maksym berezovsky well, it seems to me that uh, actually, it is uh, very necessary to get out of this soviet russian uh, standard thinking, uh, from these eternal stereotypes, uh, if a poet, then pushkin, if a composer, then tchaikovsky uh... well and so on and so on, that is, if the artist is there, i don’t know shishkin, yes, but on the other hand, it’s not culture, but without culture, it’s such an unwillingness to see

an option. and see we are talking about let's say that what is the name of the kiev academy of music , the former conservatory? but for some reason we don't notice how much time has passed since the beginning of the war, we don't notice that after all our battles for renaming streets, squares and so on, we still have two oblasts with communist russian names so we still have kirovohrad and dnipropetrovsk oblasts and i do not believe that in today's verkhovna rada it is impossible to find these 300 plus one vote in order to make this name change in the constitution oblasts, so that we finally have sicheslav oblast, kropyvnytskyi oblast, or some central

ukrainian oblast, or something else. well, not kirovohrad oblast , because both comrade kirov and comrade petrovsky have not brought anything good to ukraine, and even more so to the current situation of russian aggression, well, these are absolutely absurd names, but if we talk about the real development of these processes, after all, during the war , we can say that the cultural process continues. to a certain extent, it continues due to the fact that we have our five minutes of fame on the world stage. on the world cultural stage, of course, we would like it not to be 5 minutes, but maybe a longer

period of time in any in this case, ukrainian modern culture, above all, ukrainian modern culture has been in the center of attention of many cultural institutions and organizers, primarily of course, these are the countries of the civilized west, that is, north american and european that is, our artists will receive extremely many interesting invitations to participate in at some representative events, they finally received er, here is er, what was so lacking for many years, er, attention, attentive perception , interest, so er, that is, on an individual level, it somehow worked in previous years, but

today a-a with "there was a request for an understanding of ukrainian culture as a certain integrity as well as a certain amount of some phenomena a-a hmm well, what in the end is behind this russian aggression, yes, this aggression first of all , it is directed against culture, which means that this culture is certain there is something wrong with her that they are so openly and brutally trying to destroy her like this and that it is around her that this ballot violence is going on - this is a great crime against humanity eh so i think that this is very, very eh i

won't say it's an important time, we didn't dare to call it auspicious, it would be wrong and, uh, everything is somewhat exaggerated, but i will say that it's a very important time, uh, of such a breakthrough, so it can mean a breakthrough, and uh, well, if you stay in uh of consciousness in the cultural consciousness of our contemporaries eh our eh and european and generally er world colleagues who er will finally see that this is actually phenomenality. so why is this not a branch of some all-russian er cultural er plane

of cultural space why is this a separate and very interesting world and we let's answer this question. if you want, let's answer these expectations. i believe that certain people do. yes, i believe that we will not disappoint. i believe that our filmmakers, our musicians, our visual artists have long since actually reached the level where a lot could be said about them. interesting to talk about them and to argue about them and what is their art called to be actively assimilated in uh well the current world in general uh cultural world cultural diversity so that's why uh i

think what was missing was really missing some kind of external push, this push unfortunately, it turned out to be such a bloody, cruel, brutal, er, but what already exists and er, i really believe that er, we will not lose these opportunities well, although you probably know the joke about the fact that ukraine never loses a chance to lose chance that's why we can er and we must remember about such a danger, thank you, thank you, mr. yury, let me remind you that our guest today is the writer yuriy andruhovych, we talked about the challenges facing ukrainian culture today in this difficult situation, and let me remind you that for literally 10 minutes of our interactive conversation, you can ask your questions questions

on the facebook page of the tv channel on my facebook page in social networks and we will now answer these questions, so the viewer asks what i think about what is happening with explosions in belgorod is it the work of putin or is it the work of the ukrainian armed forces well, unfortunately, i do not have any uh-e data that this is the work of the ukrainian armed forces, i only have that photo in front of my eyes where the pantsev missile is definitely not point u and such there are no missiles in service with the ukrainian armed forces, can putin himself blow up the houses of russians to justify the future

general mobilization? putin can do anything. we saw it with my own eyes. among the people who lived then in the russian capital and in other russian cities, what kind of people people never knew whether they would lie down there and whether they would wake up or not, and of course it became a pretty good foundation for russia to become what it is is the foundation for the justification of the second chechen war and for the carpet bombing of the chechen capital grozny for all the horror that the russian regime has turned into for the first time during the work of vladimir putin. so this is in principle maybe i just don't think that

this is now necessary in order to justify the future general mobilization in such things could be done to rejoice the very fact of the start of the war from ukraine, this is true, but for this there was another propaganda where were you all these eight years killing the children of donbass, all this bullshit that as you remember they always propagated before attacking ukraine. to what extent, in principle, does what is happening in belgorod justify the general mobilization? well , first of all, you need to understand that for the majority of russians, this does not justify anything for one simple reason all this is happening in the border regions of russia , a very ato atomized country, if you do not live in a region that has a border with ukraine, then in principle you have nothing to do with what is happening, uh, with the country, you are not interested. it is

simple and you must understand this absolutely clearly you won't be able to understand why your husband or your brother has to go to the army. if some projectile explodes somewhere in belgorod, well, let them in belgorod figure it out, and let them decide who is supposed to. that is, it does not change public opinion all the more, i understand if putin was in such a situation as oleksandr lukashenko is in, when he knows that the majority of citizens do not support his war, the majority of citizens support putin's war, but they support it while sitting on the sofas, the people themselves do not want to be participants in this war, people do not like to fight at all. we also have a mythology that we are all as one there when the second world war began, she rushed to the military commissariat, this is also not

true. that is, it is not true. of course there were young people, especially people brought up already in the soviet union, who grew up there, who were born there after the 17th year, who were komsomol pioneers, and they really were in the first ranks of volunteers, a huge number of them died, so that none of these graduating classes they didn't stay because it was the first period of the war when people were just used as cannon fodder, you know that very well, and on the other hand, there were people who had their own calculations for the soviet government, who hated them, who were simply intimidated by the soviet regime and who could simply not perceive the soviet union as their homeland, you understand, there were millions of such people too. this is precisely what is

connected with the political phenomenon of general vlasov, who created the roa russian liberation army and is such a tragic figure in the history of russia, absolutely tragically it is connected on the one hand with the hatred of the bolshevik regime of a huge number of people who, including, fought in the soviet army, and on the other hand with the fact that this hatred sprang up through cooperation with by the nazis, there were many such tragic stories in the history of russia and other countries that were occupied by russia, you need to understand this. the question: why did

israel just now cancel the restrictions on the entry of ukrainian citizens into the country? what should we have waited for ? i want to say that the decision that citizens of ukraine. it was a very strange decision after the start of the war should receive some kind of electronic permit to enter israel was adopted by the minister of foreign affairs israel a has an led shaket just after the start of the war between russia and ukraine at that time and the citizens of russia and belarus continued to enter israel without any restrictions and the minister of voters believed that

it somehow limits the number of possible refugees and so on and no appeal to the minister internal affairs were not perceived by the government, does the city really have the full right to make such a decision within its competence, and the government was a coalition and its members could not influence the minister because they would be representatives of others parties, if this is a one-party panel, let's say, then of course it was possible to change this decision there through such a consolidation of the efforts of government officials, but it did not happen. and this decision was canceled by the highest court of justice of israel, that is, the judicial system, and that is why it took so much time, and the court itself did not just cancel it decision, he also said that the state should pay all the funds that went to the organization of this process because this process was unnecessary because the minister of internal affairs

exaggerated her powers and violated the visa-free agreement between ukraine and the state of israel. so this is a victory for justice, it is a very good example for us, a minister who believes that he has the right to make some decisions that do not comply with the laws and agreements, but there is always an independent court that will say the minister is sorry, you violated the law, a citizen can anyone can go to court to file a complaint against their own government. by the way, this law office filed such a complaint at the request of our embassy in israel . now citizens of ukraine will be able to enter the state of israel for three months from this very day without any need to submit any

special request. and this is once again a great lesson for us that the court is still of decisive importance when it comes to such legal truths for us it is also necessary that we have a fair trial, the entire judicial system. by the way, this is a significant part of our path to the european union. i will stop here because now they have time to broadcast to my colleagues from franz 24, who are preparing a report for us already about this war and you, dear friends, i sincerely thank those who watched, those who asked questions, stay with us , stay with the espresso channels and we will inform you about the events of this

difficult period of ukrainian history. in kyiv , 700 houses were destroyed as a result of the attack of the russian troops, since the occupiers retreated in april, the local authorities managed to clear only part of the rubble and analyze the damage for two or three weeks, and they destroyed not only our buildings and so many human lives today borodyanka is ready for reconstruction, but we need materials for reconstruction and labor we want our people who evacuated to return to the city, but unfortunately for them there is still nowhere to return to those who return to the

city but have nowhere to stay mobile homes provided by the polish government were recently built, they provide the necessary shelter two weeks ago, anna finally came to her husband , for which we are very grateful to the polish government. and to all to those who care especially volunteers this shelter can accommodate up to 350 people many people like anna will have to stay here for months or even years please go through the task of rebuilding the city is extremely large look this was our house we lived on the fourth floor this was our balcony you can see that there were stairs there, and in the next photo they have already fallen down,

there is nothing left of our room, and the shelling destroyed the center of boredanka, coming here you can really feel the scale of the destruction caused to ukraine and the scale of the necessary restoration, the residents of kyiv region are taking matters into their own hands . i have neither money nor work, but i really want to do something for my country, how can i

do it, clean up debris in such places , all the neighbors help as a group, one of the residents oleg shows the ruins of his apartment and destroyed just a few days after he and his family evacuated in this room we have two hits fired from a tank you can see here was the bedroom of our little daughter sleeping through a hit through the house owners pooled their funds so that self-made materials and tools for urgent repairs so that we are not flooded by rain or snow, since state funding will come only next year, if at all, because the war is still ongoing, unfortunately, the regional authorities are coordinating the work where they can

5 new buildings are being built on the way down and 15 more will appear here soon. the builders use bricks and wood donated by local businesses, but they need more resources . this is basically an impossible question. now, where and how to get money for this and how to get funds for this , huge funds are needed for the reconstruction of ukraine , almost 24,000 km of roads have been damaged and blown up about 300 bridges ukraine is looking for investment and help from international partners, excluding

europe, but also wants russia to pay for the losses caused, the total estimates, which are growing daily, amount to more than 100 billion dollars, it is impossible to rebuild ukraine from scratch without external help, and of course we would like russia to pay for it because they came to our country damaged our infrastructure destroyed our cities they have to pay for it however forcing russia to pay war reparations and confiscate its assets can be legally long and a complicated procedure and not even enough to raise ukraine from the ruins