[000:00:00;00] there will be not only masha hessen, but also margaret edwood, a well-known canadian writer, she is known first of all for her work, the diary of a casual girl, the story of a maid. well, there will be nala . and there is also a fairly well-known canadian journalist. so what is the question, because you know from one thing on the other hand, some may say that it is cool when one of the most famous ukrainian writers in the world, who knows how to convey his point of view very well, will speak and broadcast the ukrainian point of view together with his own on another platform you see in such a prestigious but not because ah-ah we can now mentally transfer to the grass, will you remember that within the month 2 happened around the american pen - this is such a famous literary organization and the festival they held in new york, they

invited three ukrainian two writers together with the writer artem chekh, artem chapai, iryna, they all went to new york to perform there. and they told the organizers of the previous one , telling them that we have such a position, we will not perform on the same platform with the russians told them ok, we understand you, ours came to new york and discovered that there would be a panel with russians, it turned out that the organizers simply misunderstood them . they thought that ours would not sit at the same table with the russians. and when they had other ideas will perform then ok, they found out that it was not ok, the organizers apologized and , moreover, this situation should not have drawn anyone's attention at all, but not because these russians were kicked out of the festival and they were naturally upset , and masha hesen, who was supposed to host, should have moderated

this platform they actually gave a very angry comment to a well-known publication and there are others like that in our house today , they gave all the platforms and people and the comment is quite skillful they said that this is the next freedom of speech that it contradicts any democratic values , that's just how to expel people because they are russians, this is generally some kind of racism and chauvinism , this is prosophobia, friends, and so on. they said even in that article in the atlantic, and there the author even pointed out that ukrainian writers are too cruel to their colleagues. by the way, then viktoria merina petrified this definition, cruel ukrainian writers, she, hmm, took a picture in a t-shirt with this inscription in english, cruel ukrainian writers or a writer. yes, they are, and i will remind you. literally a month and a half later, victoria was gone, she died from a rocket attack from kramatorsk

at the hands of the russians, this is such a cruel ukrainian writer . of course, this is all very terrible, but such terrible moments are very difficult for us to convey to a foreign public, to an intellectual one, too, who should understand everything, that's the matter with everyone in general, i explain why i say they are like that to your gaysyn, because she is not binary , you see. sometimes it slips through me , they are not binary, they moved to such people , they belong to speak, not she or he, they moved from russia in 2013, they were there opposition journalists, as always . and because of the danger, they moved to the united states and made a good enough career there.

writers and actually speaking, they have a sufficiently large authority that is why this story then gained a huge voice and our researchers, journalists, colleagues and writers began to study their texts again , masha found that there are quite a lot of good ruthenian countries there, the kremlin advisers did not always understand how to distinguish it all well, for example, they wrote about the fact that in the west of ukraine the russian language is being oppressed , russian-speaking people are being oppressed and that and she referred to some testimony of some people who said that here they experienced such humiliation they were criticized for their russian language. well, i don’t know. it’s probably not worth explaining this to you. it’s probably me who told these stories. i should tell foreigners, but my dad was half russian and he spoke russian. i was born in the rivne region and in my entire life i didn’t i remember that he complained about some kind of oppression, that he spoke russian, but of course he was at work. he was

the director of the school, a sports coach. he spoke exclusively in ukrainian because he thought that this was an absolutely correct story and did not say that this is how he is, poor, unhappy, they force you to speak ukrainian, so you know, on occasion, they will constantly tell this story to people who behave like this abroad, but i gave birth to it, but i spread it. masha hessen, in particular, is a good russian woman, yes. well, this is not the first time we see it. unfortunately for andrii kurkov, this is such a backstory, if you have forgotten here you are andriy kurkov, despite the fact that masha hessen has such a bad reputation among ukrainian authors that ukrainian authors mostly treat them very, very, very well, well, coldly, i will show whose wary mr. andriy is for some reason agreed to participate together with her on the same platform, it is not clear why he did not explain this by the way well, for sure he has his own certain motivation, there are a lot of explanations

by the way, why all these stories? well, why do we still need to communicate with russians, especially abroad we'll talk about that too. i'll remind you. but i'll say that this story with krukkov became known in general, and in particular. well, not in particular. probably, first of all, thanks to artem chekh, he is a military serviceman, he is already in the former. and i understand that he is already in both he and the writer were fired, and in the end he wrote a post on facebook, which became quite so resonant and popular, he was not a hater in any case, because in general, artem check-n. by the way, his wife iryna tsylyk, they are even marked by aggression, on the contrary, they always demonstrate their opinions enough enough tolerant with respect well , artyom wrote this to the description well, let's say he expressed his point of view, which is different from kurkov's point of view, and he criticized this position without

offending mr. andrii, by the way, let's give an excerpt let's listen to his post then, our position was like this, it was unshakable and andriy kurkov could not help but know about this scandal , of course he knew and hardly forgot. he will tell many correct and banal things about ukraine, probably even this will bring some benefit, but all this will stink a little of the russian context and with a swamp mud post, what's so terrible, i say so because there is no shit there. i didn't notice it because almost all writers agree with the cheek because i will repeat myself in our literary environment, this is also this consensus what i speak with the russians, from whom mr. andrii left, but mr. andrii came in the comments, and i understand that despite the fact that artem's intonation is so tolerant, he was so offended or

took the criticism as they should, let's listen, prepare the frontal area i can't get used to it. hessen sent tens of thousands of dollars to help ukraine. russia has even less to do with shishkin than a citizen of switzerland. if you hold a referendum on whether i'm a traitor or not, and the people will vote that i'm a traitor , then i'm silent and more in the international in the public space, i will not speak on the subject of russian aggression, well, in the end, this story has been going on until now. usually we have such scandals, they last for several days, then they are forgotten , then they are remembered, but i want to note that with regard to mr. kurkov in general, i want to remind you that he is really one of of the most famous ukrainian writers in the world, and apparently - this is because he got busy early enough with such

issues of marketing and promotion, he has a shorthand, twisted agents who make his books popular and recognizable, and that's natural very good, because i have already seen that some criticize, they say that of course any writer will become so popular here, but not because it is still such a big job and marketing and promotion is very important for writers who easily weigh this story , the one who is not so popular how is andriy kurkov, and now a lot of our people abroad say that they often meet and most often meet books by kurkov in various bookstores, and even then i saw a comment that seems to be czech, in this post she said that she went to the bookstore and saw andrii kurkov's book in the section of russian literature. she asked what was going on. they explained to her that it was because it was a translation from russian, and that's how good they were. they decided that it was a translation from russian and it should

be in the section of russian literature. well, in the bookstore, a person wrote that the consultant did not agree with this position, but as it already is, for example, people living in britain , not one person told me that actually, you can also see more than one kurkov about bookstores and when you go in, you can find a walker and often no one else, well in the end, kurkov himself is treated quite differently in ukraine, this is the third thing, it must be admitted that some people really like his works, they really are so massive that they always interest many people. they are usually fascinated by his stories there, but many people consider him such a person that he has any pro-russian views. perhaps because he writes in russian, for many, this is

a big argument in general. kurkov called himself , at least before, he called himself a-a ukrainian nationalist-nationalist writing in russian. but this is what he had definition, and many people don't like it nowadays, he always defended well, there he usually defended those whom we call good russians defended the russian language that 's how all things were, but hmm, in the end, we still have to say about him this comment that was under the post of artem the czech he said that he wrote that masha hessen is like a good person because she donates a lot or spends a lot of money on ukraine, and it depresses me a little . so when i hear such arguments, because it is such a measurement of money, they are no less people they can buy themselves off with money a-a and they continue to grind some of their imperial views, they will be forgiven because they allocate some money, well, this argument

is used quite often in defense of good russians , liberals, as there are also in quotes, or people, if you noticed, ukrainians who also fall into various they are also such scumbags, very often when they start to make excuses they say that you know how much we earned with our concerts for the army, you know how much we paid for the defense forces. by the way, there is also speculation on the word hate , i constantly pay attention to it. i think that it is important because there is criticism, and there is hate very often the concept of hate, that is, it is translated from english as hatred, after all, hatred is different from constructive criticism, agree and that's why when you are criticized even more so, call it hate right away, this is such a position , from my point of view, a little infantile, sometimes you need to think about why your actions or your words cause such a violent reaction

in society, it is not always some herd instinct is not always simple things, just to relieve people of some nervous tension. no, very often these are absolutely constructive stories , here we go again to the topic of whether or not ukrainians should perform at various venues together with russians. i will briefly remind you of the issues of this whole story, because there are people who say that you can't refuse because we're losing the platform, so because, for example, it's just that if a writer or a writer doesn't want to speak, refuses to speak, they just will not speak out and express their point of view and will not say anything in defense of ukraine, this is absolutely correct. but at the same time, and very often, the russians use ukrainians until now, it is theirs. this tactic began with the beginning of a full-scale invasion, they don't just take, er, arrange some discussions they invite ukrainians or try to get into

discussions with ukrainians, moreover, they very often invite ukrainians to their projects , as did, for example, kyryll tselebrennikov in his performance invited himself to sing dash a ukrainian, which he most likely does not need at all, because but then you can say, look, we work with ukrainians , they treat us well, so we are good, you treat us well too, give us a visa, give us a pass, give us a green card and do not apply to we have no sanctions, but it must also be said that there are a lot of such controversial moments when, for example , our filmmakers go to various film festivals and there are also russians there, but there are no objections from society. ani's colleagues' society, for example, our moviegoers went to the pearl festival and cannes, and here in venice, the venice film festival , there were also russians there, especially in cannes, it 's a fairly pro-russian film festival

site, and there they already openly sold films for russian distribution and cooperated not only with russians who left fled from the regime of this meandering no, they cooperated with people who remained there and continue to work. and therefore there are enough manipulations around this issue, and still, i believe that each specific case needs to be considered separately because somewhere it is appropriate to speak with the russians somewhere it is inappropriate and in the end i am sure that it would be great if this issue, this clarification and which companies from the rules of the strategy would be taken up by the ministry of foreign affairs, it is of course very cool , they probably do not have time this is very important because there is such a concept. by the way , the ukrainian institute, which is part of the ministry of foreign affairs, deals with this issue , and it seems to me that it would be very good if they eventually developed some rules and decided

what to do with these unfortunate artists in general, because so far, this is all happening on such a basis in social networks, so it is not always effective . well, i will also remind you, friends, of the main discussions that took place on this issue precisely in the literature, because i will remind you again that in the literature it is already considered that it is not possible to speak with russians and probably the most vivid case of cheating happened with yuriy andruhovich a year ago, and he was thinking of speaking with some writer shishkin , he is russian, but by citizenship he has already had norwegian citizenship for a long time. here he is from he was going to speak and talk about the will of ukraine and all these political things in general. so he spoke and of course he received a huge portion of dissatisfied comments, but mr. yuriy

also reacted so offended and, well, in the end , this case with on the other hand, it served as an example for other writers to look at what can happen, and also to regret the incident happened with oksana zabuzhko, for example , who always well, it seems that we should not get involved in such a scandal, but the fact is that it turned out a collection called posle tretyhego zvonka is a collection of translations by ukrainian writers and is published by the institute for advanced studies in the humanities of the university of edinburgh . actually, ms. oksana got the most attention. although there were maria matios among the other authors , yevgenia kononenko was mariana kiyanovska, but

oksana got the most from her, by the way. she explained her position in the comments of detector media, she said that this is such a good strategic step because in general, in the world , the departments of slavic studies are still dominated by russia, and the imperial agenda there dominates , and very often only russian literature is studied . are being studied, and that is why this collection should serve as an incentive for the students there to study russian and ukrainian literature, at least in a russian translation, but they do not know ukrainian therefore, gentlemen, read this in russian, let's listen to ms. oksana, what she said, then they will now teach their russian students on ukrainian literature translated into russian. this is where colonization is called . this is such a cunning way

. so to speak, a cultural and political course well, we have finished with the issue of literature , but i think we will continue it further because these cases will be repeated now let's move on to other topics briefly so the movie dovbush i think you have already watched this film by olesya sanin, you had time to enjoy it and the producers announced that it became the highest-grossing feature film of 2023, i emphasize that it is not the highest-grossing in the history of ukrainian cinema. not the highest-grossing in 2023, namely , he is a game artist collected uah 43 million in four weeks so far, he will collect even more, i'm sure because the rental continues, if they have watched this film, definitely do it, it is one of the most expensive films that we have produced

by our directors, by our authors, it is worth 120 million uah, and i will say that in general it is probably the highest-grossing film of the year 2023 , and it is not the highest-grossing film, but in principle , it is ukrainian mavka, which, if i am not mistaken, has already collected almost 200 million, which is the amount that well to be honest, even the most optimistic forecasters could not predict the best forecast - this is some kind of super sum and i already think that it will definitely not be beaten by someone soon, because it is simply a very, very large amount of money, in general, many did not think that in principle in ukrainian rent you can collect so much even with an american blockbuster. imagine the results are so cool. well, it also became known about the highest-grossing documentary film. we became it. the film 20 days in mariupol became the film. documentaries and agrarian films, cartoons should be taken into account, you can also see 500,000 for a documentary, this is

very, very cool, and 20 days in mariupol is a contender, will already be a contender from ukraine for an oscar, i emphasize that it is not nominated many still say no nominations, we will find out sometime in the winter in february. and now he is just applying, but the decision of our skeliv committee, which selected films, is extremely correct from my point of view , because this film has simply, well, a huge chance to really get into the nomination, or even more we will keep our fingers crossed to receive an award. and why do i say that i have a great chance because the film is already very well known in the world. it has received many awards and, most importantly, a lot of audience recognition . there is extremely positive input here from people and viewers all over the world. in the world, you can check it there on the most popular aggregators, so those who are engaged in this collect reviews , and there are rotentom and tomos or imdby. and there are sites and there you can read a lot of good things about this tape

, they bombed yes yes well, i will also tell you about another film which i should watch it. it is freely available . it is called children who never ever. i warn you that the film will be difficult for many viewers because it talks about the murder of our ukrainian children by the russian military. the author, the authors of this film, the author. the film is directed by journalist danylo mokryk and director vitaliy gavura, who, let’s just say, has already managed to become famous in the film community with his short films

. set themselves the goal of proving that these murders were not accidental, as happens in war, they accidentally got into some kind of firefight there, not a second proves that these are systematic murders and that they they were done on purpose, on purpose, danylo mokrikh already explained it after watching the conversation with the audience. well, what does it mean if the military knows that by their actions they can cause the death of a child and still do these actions, it can already be considered a deliberate action, and the authors also remind that more than 500 children have already died at the hands of the russian military and this film should not turn them into statistics, but give me these three children, they are already shown in this film as individuals

whose lives were interrupted and whose dreams did not come true and with them, the other children didn’t have time to experience it, of course, it’s terrible, but on the other hand, it’s good that this film is in an english-language version, so on the e kyiv independent website, they are the producers of this film , you can find the english-language version and distribute it to your friends the border, and if you don’t speak english well or don’t speak english well, there is this movie on the website of ukrainian truth, let me remind you, it’s called children who are never again , also available for rent ukrainian spirit kg kyiv, a hundred people, two boys are running and they have completely cordoned off the perimeter of the alley and shoot like this

also, the ukrainian movie euro donbas was released. people who are interested in our cinema have been waiting for it for a long time. it was directed by kornii hrytsyuk. i think he is one of the most talented documentary filmmakers . it is also popular, as are fans of co-actor cinema and a mass audience. i am gordonbas talks about the ukrainian donbas and destroys the soviet myth the myth that it was the soviet union that brought industrialization there korniy talks about the times when there was no ussr when in the donbas more precisely in the luhansk region donetsk region, so it’s more warm to say so. probably, many businessmen from different countries brought their investments there. there were also americans, belgians , germans, french, americans, british, and they built a lot of different factories and plants there, and that’s why it’s not the soviet union’s merit at all. says, i urge you to go to this film, i think you will not only enjoy it, because the film is interesting, but you will also

get a lot of new information, i am sure i have been alive since 1954, and the french and belgians built it all in the 19th century, they brought it and money and transfer the first hospitals and the party in mariupol, the americans built the first cinemas when they did not yet exist , for example, belgians opened in kyiv , germans founded about 100 settlements, which the soviet authorities turned into model villages with large enterprises, also earlier korniy hrytsyuk shot the film kyiv train kyiv - war he was talking about a story he used to go to his home in his daughter's house, he got on this train, you just started filming people, their thoughts. they were so different, and it was so interesting to watch it all, and to realize that there are people who are absolutely ukrainian. there are people who are simply under the influence of propaganda, you can't do anything with them

. or you can drink because it's optimistic to think that no , after all, you can convey some truth to these people over the years. they, ah, they change their point of view, let's let's listen to an excerpt, let's see, they showed only russian television, i feel like they will return the opposite, so that yanukovych will once again become the president, feed all of ukraine. well, also friends serhiy zhadan and the dogs released a new clip called hurricane presentation it took place in a new pathos or stylish, famous for noise, i don't know how to call it short, cool, famous bookstores, beautiful, which is called radit and scandalous , the word scandalous must be used in relation to this book , the premiere was held there, there was an incredible number of people this is serhii zhadana hlib shot a music video directed by antonio luka or someone i think you also know this is his first music video i also hope that you his

films luxemburg and luxemburg and my thoughts are these you have also seen if you haven't seen they are also legally available, well, this well-known musical tells about the rogan residential quarter in kharkiv, his hometown, or rather, the place where serhiy zhadan studied. and here is the film, which tells about each video, musically tells about a boy from whom a very bad boy stole a bicycle, but the boy was not lost, collected his of course, the denouement of the clip is quite harsh, many may think so , but you know it's true. you don't need to touch, you don't need to steal other people's bikes, hooligans, where is he, we all it loses not because we are ready, it goes because at the request of our quarters, i have everything for that. friends, i have everything with the news

of culture . we will follow, in particular, the literary life of ukraine, it is extremely interesting. and read ukrainian writers, we really have a lot of interesting literature , scandals, i'm sure that interest is fueled , in particular, for sure, well, i'm saying goodbye to you , i wish you a calm evening, calm and good night , be sure to stay with espresso and see you if a woman likes herself she can do anything probiz femina - this is your useful microflora, if she is the norm you can immediately see the skin, hair and everything else is just fire, what is here probiz femina , run, grab the microbiome, join

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