three thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. easier headline. twenty nine injured more than one hundred twenty detained after rallies in honor of football and erupt into violence in moscow and st petersburg authorities say russian alter nationalists hijacked the peaceful march of. poverty and police brutality critics say the u.s. is tainted human rights record cox's with its own promises or recently published un report highlights the shortcomings of us domestic policy. kosovo said to go to the

polls on sunday for the software to play republic's first parliamentary elections and as the serbian minority struggles. many serbs say they'll stay away from the elections they claim are unfair and pointless. next our interview segment spotlight this time host speaks to the widow every now and russian writer alexander so she needs and discover how to tell you a soldier needs in a manages the legacy of one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. oh yeah no welcome to the. i'll do you know then today my guest is not.

in the truth essentially alexander solzhenitsyn was one of the most famous russian writers and communist regime he passed away in two thousand and eight at the age of eighty nine leaving behind their rich heritage novels and historical works after being ousted from the u.s.s.r. by the communist regime the true freedom loving patriot lived and worked abroad until finally returning to russia in one nine hundred ninety four his wife has always been his best friend and his sister now off to the right is that she manages the foundation how is she promoting her husband's ideas today here's the president's out of the foundation not that it's a. novel but it's on the social need some of the gulag archipelago tells of the repressive machine in sauvage russia communist leaders try to prevent the book from being published are old but in nineteen seventy three the gulag archipelago was

printed in paris the full year. to fund to help victims of the soviet regime and their families in the u.s.s.r. . eighteen years ago the soldiers from foundation moved to russia today they continue helping former political prisoner and developing ideas. spello massage units and i thank you so much for being with us today it's an honor . to the works of alexander solzhenitsyn i remember that when he was alive you plan to publish a complete thirty volume collected works but two thousand and ten which is this year actually. and this year is coming to an end was the progress that. well as usual we are late and we will not manage to publish the entire thirty volumes by the end of the year however we've just published another three volumes so you can

find fourteen volumes in bookstores already another two will be ready in a short while with those two the total amount will be sixteen which is after all more than a half there are they are the volumes which require a lot of work on them and written comments so i'm hopeful that in three years it will finish in three years so there will still be the same part of. the content of the collected works was prepared together by me and. it's done exactly as he wanted but there are only complete novels there. it's the most complete edition of the complete works is something a bit different a complete works edition usually contains different versions of novels and unfinished works and there are quite a lot of them but this edition will contain only the items finished while alive you know the words one signed by the wolf and sent to the publishers right and the rest are just draft letters in the collected edition no there won't. publish them

because he wrote their interests and letters of course you're right he's written hundreds of thousands of various letters they're all interesting like his correspondence with. which is of high literally interest. and then there are individual letters he wrote responding to those people who wrote to him from around the world. some of them a brief correspondence of two or three letters are of immense interest to you. but you know as a rule letters a published sometime later not straight away but after both addressees die. was mentioned that alexander solzhenitsyn lived in quite a while. the russian public phone days. the moment but this question should be addressed directly to me because i was its

president since the first day and i've been working there ever since for he established a foundation during his first days in exile even before his family joined him he donated to the foundation all the money he earned from their gulag archipelago publications in all the world's languages saying that he will never take a dollar or ruble for his book the foundation used to help the people because back then they still were many prisoners as you may remember but now that we don't have the gulag in the sense in which it is today under lenient and later under the system is no longer there but there are still many people who have been through. a labor camps so we help those people now. they're very old many of them could not create a family because they had spent their best years in the labor camps that they are lonely and. they barely need our help they are the most vulnerable category of

people. this is an interesting subject. because how many of those people are. those people i'm sure you know. of course we know them personally dozens hundreds of thousands of them there are thousands of them of course but you see our foundation is private it's a foundation of one person we can't help all of them i do not know the total number we constantly help approximately twenty five hundred people we call pensioners after the name of the book is that we choose those who are in prison for a long time who are in a difficult situation or have no family there are a lot of such people who make no difference between those who live in russia and abroad. mediately will help all those who were imprisoned by the soviet government has also helped all ex prisoners who are now in ukraine because extern and the

baltic states so you help those abroad to yes abroad in the c.i.s. well let's see what people abroad know about islands and the solutions and we have we have a poll that we conducted in the streets of washington to get a cut to the name i like sound of something it said yes. i do know what he wants because he was the president for a while he was a leader who helped open up russia to the west a peace activist. a writer and a. thought leader yes chris i know. it was the advocate the people that we need today people that suffer for our cause and we lost leaders like that we don't have there's also in prison in gulag and so on and suffered enormously being a jew and the rest in what i would ask but he's a man that made history in the previous century and that we have any one this one

no not yet does he mean something mean something means everything i'm an advocate myself so for me it's who i look up to i do not in fact i'm bipolar just you know. see how differently people think who likes understand units and was. not as can russians who faulkner was. i guess we could have received many similar answers do you know russians know solzhenitsyn and his legacy how important is it to them. think it's an option hopelessly actually i'm not the right person to answer this question because i no longer consider myself a young person but i know to works by solzhenitsyn one day in the life of on denise rich and mature in this place they are now part of the school curriculum. children read them in the ninth tenth or eleventh grade it's up to the teacher to decide when the from this year and a bridge version of the gulag archipelago was introduced into the school program to

. alexander solzhenitsyn asked me to prepare it a short version has existed for a long time in the us and other countries but the material for bridge meant and the way how it was done are different from what edward erickson did in the u.s. so from now on this book will be studied in comprehensive schools. while in specialist schools it's been studied for a long time already. have a look at a place for sure it's your bridge to the gulag archipelago five. to four times then a little more so this book is a five fold abridged version well four and a half. four hundred pages. it greatly depends on the page size. and there are certain rules used by the publishers of books for children. with margins and so ones that look at the. bridge in the book that

it's too long that it's for children holds no. chapters in the book as the law is the child the laws matures the law becomes a man which they tell a historic documental and political story of course in but is. the incumbent in the end the kid to be set around. those chapters you can follow the story of how it was established but de dia was the same children and many adults don't need to know that now so such chapters could be significantly a bridged though not emitted entirely but there are many interesting chapter. about escapes for example they are very interesting and intriguing. but all the same i had to bridge those two because they take far too many pieces i left in

several stories but in brief in case anyone is interested they can find a full version in any bookstore in the book sells well it is published by several publishers and they bring you the agreement every year. when the book was added to the school program but i'm a potent commented on that business there is a quotation. without knowing what's in this book we can tell a complete idea about our country and we can barely think about the future and the quote. so what do you think this book can really help you understand the country better for you so strong the thing is that at present teachers don't have any leverage to make students read books which they need that if they don't want to they won't read anything they are no longer required to write essays they have the standard college admission test instead now you don't so if a student doesn't read the book it won't help him says president of the sultan it's

in foundation not soldiering it's not spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us. i. thank.

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welcome back to spotlight time album and all than just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is president of the solzhenitsyn foundation not. know what most of this is solzhenitsyn group which started talking about the gulag archipelago. did you take into consideration that it's been a long. written. documents and facts which alexander solzhenitsyn could not have been revealed for the fact that this fact to work you know that there is

history and there is literature of the same thing. and of course. of course numerous the openness of the ready called changes which have taken place in russia over the past twenty years and many of which who work quite unsuccessful so we can say that reformers themselves produce their most aggressive. so many of them think that the xander soldier has absolutely wrong figures in his book and that he exaggerated them ten fold this is an outright lie nonsense alexander solzhenitsyn really did not have any official sources they have or inaccessible and continued to be so for many decades after but when axes was opened the state archives of the russian federation together was the who for institution of stanford university issued seven volumes of documents given by the m.g.b. and the interior ministry that disfigures did not contradict was destination's made

by. sympathetic but he didn't that so off course i took it into consideration and i wrote about it. you've asked me if the book can help children who were born so many years after it happened. i will repeat that it won't help those who won't read it. but to those who read it simply the book will definitely be a great help. if you were a school literature. version of facebook for school would be more of history or literature for you if you stored it then yes it's undoubtedly literature there's no two ways about it and that's the only. why it's powerful if you will with a couple of the conclusions soldier comes to the end of the differ from what historians think now. for example nothing of the kind they differ from opinions of

those critics who lie ps ideas client side with the ones of objective historians you won't be able to give me a strong example i will gladly argue with anyone and provide quotations and proof to missions that can differ but not figures now there are people who think that the fact that we had labor camps was for the better because without them we would not build trucks and atomic bombs but my argument is that dead tomic gone was created by people who were withdrawn from the gulag at the very last moment and saved from death but if they had not been to the gulag they would have made it even better. a little work of alexander solzhenitsyn. been published. he says solzhenitsyn's reaction to perestroika of the fact that. today. unfortunately and i mean it it's very relevant unfortunately you know none of what

he feared was avoided nine of his warnings were heated so what we have now is twenty five million compatriots from russia in kazakhstan. and other places and they're still barely treated in russia and here wrote about it but he wrote about the system of education we will lose several generations he wrote and we did land ownership elections he wrote on so many topics but things do not improve only get worse and make no headway that the article was not read by the government but people did read it at least twenty seven million copies of it were stalled in the come some was coprime of the newspaper. i thought it was published by the way here and i guess he. was later it's not so important that time it was like a bomb you could see people read meat everywhere the newspapers editors called us

environment and told us that within a week they got two hundred thousand letters and they planned to publish several letters in every issue. of discussion they published six letters and then another six and that was all because going to stop it and there was no discussion i was later trying to get those facts with letters but there was a fire in the office and they were all lost. yes i remember we can speak endlessly about his books. but i want to ask. the red. shirts we're stepping into the decade when the anniversary of the russian revolution will be marked in this country. to make the value of this book for a school program. to abridge in this book for children like a piece of literature but history. they read will would be too much for schools even if it's a breached the school program cannot stretch to house everything if we give so much

to a soldier needs to have to take away something else he could ask again you're for who else it's impossible children should know russian classical literature i hope they read tolstoy but they may just look through war and peace and keep possible that. when i went to school it was that girls read about peace. but you know oh yes it must be the same everywhere the cold so i can see that the red wheel is read very little in russia but recently things have changed and it becomes popular and more people start reading it those of course who think about russia's fate and why we tend to have the same problems again and again. the red wheel is indispensable for those cold war devout russians future. more of a fight for moral philosopher. he was a philosopher who fought and he was

a fighter who used history philosophy and literature as his weapon so he was more of a philosopher if you ask me who was told to me it was i will say that he was a writer god gave him the turnt of writing first and foremost of course he was very interested in politics but he would not have written so many political essays and made so many public speeches had he lived in more peaceful times he used to say how many of us died in the gulag very few people survived and now i need to speak up in the name of all those writers this way hugh made so many public speeches but his dream was to write fiction and to devote all his time to literature you should so it was you who was the fighter in the family you know he was the fighter but me too but you're full of energy you're still a fighter each of us is a fighter in a sense. for or against whichever way you like it. i fight for

russia and the reason i'm fighting is because i want russia to preserve the unique and great things it has had. it hurts to see how much of that we're losing now. what can one of the recent interviews given the. quote. worried immensely for the country and its future. what was his biggest worry before his death. no. actually he was an optimist and throughout life under any grave circumstances public or personal he saw a light beyond of the tunnel and he believed in victory if i can say so he believed that the hard times would pass. but in the last two years already and a half he started losing his optimism he worried about this stratification of society it never led to anything good in any country. when there is such

a big gap between the rich and the poor the country is heading for evolution. but our country will not be able to survive another revolution and bloodshed. so fortunately we have avoided it in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and the early one nine hundred ninety s. but who knows what can happen oh internal state of mind and the state of education and health care is in a dire plight and the leaders admit that and it will be hard to get out of this. and we may face many many problems on our way out. that's what ward. mark in its one hundredth anniversary and sixty years. like human rights commissioner raised the problem of. his words.

until we do this feel free to other nations. we must help project our past but we have to say what kind of a past it is and realize that we have changed. do you agree that the problem of renouncing stalin's culture still exists. or should we close the topic and forget about it. by no means can we close this problem or forget about it. i fully agree with this alexander solzhenitsyn was talking about it from the very beginning of gorbachev spit history the biggest story he said that if we want to make progress instead of going round in circles we have to open a little knowledge to crimes that the previous regime committed but against the people of this country without it be as well just force the disease inside and we will drop from within and it will undermine the health of the entire nation there is nothing to argue about i one hundred percent agree it's possible an expensive

one but first the biggest many have thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was president of the sultan this new foundation and widow of writer and nobel prize winner a satirist of units and. sells units and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight but if someone more and to think i should interview tomorrow to drop me a line at al going off at a tea party is and let's keep the spotlight and try to move it back with more first time comment on what's going on and asked had russia until then stay in party and take care. of.

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