there should always be connections, moscow, the kremlin, putin, we will see again, we will show more than others, thank you very much, come back on sunday to rtr. hello, we are broadcasting in the studio. a big conversation about culture, vladimir putin took part in a discussion at the international cultural forum in st. petersburg. what was the focus? finland has closed four checkpoints on the border with russia. restrictions apply to passenger and cargo traffic. the kremlin called it a mistake. our troops are devastating.

in all directions. enemy losses in a week were over 5,000 killed. robbery in the center of moscow. several hundred million rubles were taken from couriers at the bank entrances. an inexplicable phenomenon in the north of bashkiria, a huge crater appeared in the middle of the forest. that everyone is waiting for an expert problem. one of the reasons for tension in the world is the claims of certain forces to exclusivity, including in the sphere of culture. vladimir putin announced this in st. petersburg, where he took part in the work of the ninth international cultural forum. according to the president, the future lies in the civilizational diversity of the world and moscow is ready to work closely with everyone who is ready to create such a world. what other statements were made at the meeting? reported the zarif. if

the captains of big business gather at the international economic forum, then the generals of great art gather at the international cultural forum. it’s rare to see such a concentration of our famous actors, directors, dancers, and filmmakers. the pride of the country. a big conversation about culture, which means it touches on all topics, no taboos. at the beginning of the special military operation in ukraine, well, a number of actors, cultural figures, made some emotional statements, then they all stayed, i’m now talking about those people who work in russia stayed in russia and - want to work in russia and associate their fate only with their homeland with russian culture, but nevertheless from time to time, despite the fact that these people, some of them and even many of them visited the donbass, lugansk, new territories, nevertheless

them... anyway, so to speak, well, they are subjected to some astracism , how fair is this at all, since we have a cultural forum, look, now, the drop began to cry, which parted with the sea, why do we pray to god for forgiveness, light and is the shadow working properly? they divide the world into parts, hardly a drop knows what happiness is, amarhayam, and now from another area, let’s drink to the fact that no matter how high we fly, we will never be separated from the collective. so, you know, someone

said something, that's the head - it's not only a tool for speaking, but also for thinking before you say something, this is the first, but there is a second, many people, adults, literate, knowledgeable, talented, of course, they do their job. and of course, to many of them, just like me, it never occurred to me until 2014 that there could be such a conflict between russia and ukraine, if they had told me before the fourteenth year that this was possible, i would have said that you are crazy did you get off? here, but i admit that people didn’t follow, didn’t understand,

what is happening, and of course, and of course, among other things, every person has the right to have his own position, his own point of view, but of course you need to look not because people say, but because what they do, if this activity is related to that in order to cause damage to one’s own country, one’s own people, and such activities also take place, we see it, fees are transferred there, somewhere out there, frankly , to the enemy and so on, then this is one story, if this is just an opinion, a point of view , the assessment of the situation is different, therefore there is one more thing that we all must certainly take into account, this is the mood in society, and the opinion of the people of the country that we consider our homeland, or do not consider, and this is an objective factor from which no one

can escape, one of the key topics of the forum is - knowledge of history through culture, putin notes in this regard that sometimes they are created in this way. for those who are engaged in falsification of history, true art is what is called a bone in the throat, it prevents these people from distorting the past to please the present, their ideological or gender the design prevents people from being pitted against each other, which is why liars fabricate fakes in the cinema, in the press, in literature. our culture in general is the last... time they are trying to abolish, i say, they are trying, because by definition we understand that this is impossible , russia’s abolition policy is, at its core, anti-cultural, neo-colonial, racist, at its core, but the truth is, that with this

notorious cancellation, as with the anti-russian, so-called sanctions, the authors of these ideas, as they say, did not work out from the very beginning. russian contribution to the world culture is enormous, and we are not just talking about the works of great figures of the past. right now, for example, in syria, our specialists are conducting a project to restore the famous triumphal arch of palmyra, destroyed by terrorists. are we ready, because this requires a lot of support from states here and there, to extend this experience to other, perhaps, territories of the middle east, which are also in demand somewhere. i want to thank you. a world-famous scientist, all your colleagues for the fact that you at one time, at the request of uh the russian governments took up palmyra and went there and studied it on the spot, it seems to me that our scientists, our museum workers acted

absolutely at the call of their hearts fearlessly, well, this deserves warm applause from the audience, thank you very much. as for the other burning zones, if we talk about palestine, then in the gaza strip, well, of course, what other work is there, i won’t give any political characteristics now, everyone has their own opinion, that’s it, but there, well, terrible things conditions are now occurring, i am sure... for there is no reason to work there, in moments like now , putin notes, it is people of culture, and not politicians, who often come up with great ideas, projects, works; when the city of leningrad was under siege, the seventh symphony was born

shestakovich, who raised people, which was broadcast to the front line of besieged leningrad, or when the athletes played here in the besieged... to the front line, you understand, it was such a lift among people, people had faith in victory, or tvordovsky they wrote wonderful poems, the left bank, the right bank, the sharp snow, the edge of the ice and so on, it’s difficult , you get goosebumps reading, you still get goosebumps, or lermontovo, borodino, tell me uncle, it’s not for nothing that moscow was burned by fire and so further, everyone remembers, everyone knows, at such... moments in history , outstanding works of art are born, i really hope that we will see this in our days. in contrast, a question from the famous serbian director imir kusturuce. if you even get an oscar, you

need to make quotas, transgender people, homosexuals and i came to russia and will make love. and i will do dostoevsky, and this will be how i think and what i feel about your culture, we will all wait for the results, because everything that kusturica touches becomes a diamond. yes, indeed, we see that at all kinds of competitions in western countries, in order to win something, you need to either tell, write, or show from the life of sexual minorities, transgender people, and some other transformers, a lot of different names, here, but, but, an unexpected thing i’ll say, they are also these... and these people have the right to win

, show, tell, because this is also part of society, this is also what people live by, it’s bad if they only win all sorts of competitions, that’s not for what. putin emphasizes many times that he is not very clever in talking about culture in front of such an audience, but questions from the audience continue to come, how would you like to see projects or development paths, i won’t talk about the theater now, it’s a fairly small structure, i’ll say about the russian culture here in conditions multipolar world. i can only speak as an ordinary citizen, i’m not ...’ not a culturologist, i would like the culturalists

of russia, as a significant part naturally intertwined with world culture, to continue to develop on their own basis, at the same time choose all the best that exists in world culture, to multiply in this way and move forward, these are not just words but art for russia , only one fact eloquently testifies: over the past 10 years, the country has increased funding for culture by 20 times. salemazariev, konstantin morozov, andrey greshnev, magomed otsaev, news: northwestern bureau. presidential press secretary dmitry peskov called finland's closure of checkpoints on the border with russia a mistake, noting that the authorities of the neighboring country have taken the path of destroying bilateral relations. why is finland creating a new one? barriers in europe, report by dmitry pishchukhin. the last day before the border is closed,

the line of cars increases every hour. having learned about the tough decision of the finnish country, people suddenly change their plans; they need to get there before midnight. the finnish government announced its decision to close the most popular border checkpoints with russia 36 hours in advance. only four checkpoints remain open; getting through them, for example, from st. petersburg to helsinki, is a detour in 2000. on the night from friday to saturday, the checkpoints valima, nuiyama, niirala and imatra will be closed, that is, the entire eastern border with finland will be under lock. there are no exceptions, even for citizens of finland itself, everyone who does not have time today will be forced to go to neighboring karelia or the murmansk region, to where the border crossing is still open. it can’t be like that, it’s just unfair, it can’t be like that. and we have always connected so much with the finnish side. that now it will be unclear, and how many families they are now closing, the authorities’ decision has already affected

the family of tamara rauhala, who has been living with her husband in finland for 15 years, now it will be difficult for her to take care of her relatives in russia, is it really impossible to give a week, for example, for this , after all, people are now in russia, each on their own business, like this, for example, even those in moscow, for today getting there is of course a problem. the official reason is related to the influx of refugees from the middle east and africa who are trying to get into the european union. for some reason, the finnish authorities saw a russian trace in everything that was happening, but in fact ordinary citizens on both sides of the border are suffering. finnish territory says that these are russian violations, that they are allowing people seeking political asylum through. but if people ask for political asylum, what does that have to do with it? due to a decision by the finnish authorities, bus companies that operated

line st. petersburg-helsinki, flights are being canceled en masse, the russian embassy in finland is currently working on a response , the finns themselves are calling for the ban to be eased, within 24 hours a petition to the authorities has collected thousands of signatures, a mass protest is planned in the center of helsinki near the parliament building. dmitry, galina orlova, news. in the southwestern part of the black sea, seven uncrewed boats were found destroyed the day before, as well as a boat with a landing force of the armed forces of ukraine, which was heading in the direction of the crimea. the ministry of defense reports this. over the course of a week , ukrainian formations lost in various in special operation areas, over 5,000 militants were killed and wounded. during the period from november 11 to 17, the armed forces of the russian federation carried out 24 group strikes with precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles. as a result, forward control points and

locations of command personnel, the operational-tactical group liman, the operational-strategic group of forces: khortytsia, as well as points of temporary deployment of militants from the azov formation and the right sector were hit. in addition, artillery fires were successfully hit arsenals, warehouses for weapons, military equipment and fuels and lubricants, airfield infrastructure, as well as a training center for snipers and engineering personnel of the armed forces of ukraine. and in the kherson direction , attempts to land on the dnieper islands, which the militants made this week, ended badly for them. more than 460 people were killed from the forward positions of our troops on the left bank of the dnieper, where military doctors, military correspondent vesti, leonid muravyov, performed feats side by side with the soldiers. from the outside or from above, as the enemy quadcopter does, it’s an ordinary forest, pine trees around needles and moss, but right below me at a depth of 5

m there is a real underground city, on the front line almost at the very bank of the dnieper a full-fledged military man has worked. hospital, we are the first journalists who ended up here, here is a fighter with a call sign, a tourist, the driver of an evacuation team, he comes here every day, brings the wounded, but today he himself needs medical care, he was taken to the hospital in the front line, and a drone attacked, then there is even an ambulance is attacking, i don’t know who he’s attacking, he’s attacking everyone, whoever, who cares, the drone hit right in the hood, naturally my door opened, there’s no windshield, there’s a lot of blood, that’s all, but he says that i didn’t do anything i see, i’m talking to him, directing the traffic, catching the side of the road so that the car seems to be tied up a little, we stopped, in the next room doctors are providing emergency care to more severe patients, well, there is a load, of course, since july there has been a tape, but what to do, i need help from the hospital staff here, too, the call signs are like the military, while

the party nurse is putting on a plaster cast, a wounded soldier calls out to us, we recognized him without a balaclava. at the beginning of october, an attack aircraft with the call sign behemoth accompanied our film crew to one of the islands in the dnieper delta, where fierce fighting was taking place. for his heroism, he was nominated for a medal for bravery. he now has fractures in both legs, behaves confidently and even jokes. in 41 years, the first fracture, this is never, a lot of milk, sour cream, the bones will be strong. the hippo's car hit a cumulative mine, he was driving and took the whole blow on himself, the doctors say he got off lightly , the wounds were treated, a plaster was applied, the hippopotamus on a gurney was taken further into the depths of the military hospital. the hospital's area is more than 500 km; it is not one large dugout, but a whole extensive network of premises, such passages that stretch hundreds of meters around. if you do not take into account that the hospital

is located deep underground, instead of a ceiling there are rolls of logs, then it is no different from ordinary hospitals, electricity... water, sewerage, everything is autonomous, you can live here without going to the surface, that’s what the medical staff does, there are all the basic examination methods, and we can also provide surgical care, with intensive care, yes, that is, here patients also undergo simple inpatient treatment, domir, now you’ll sleep, everything will be fine, these are the words she always admonishes the soldiers before surgery, despite her age, an anesthesiologist with the call sign adele, one of the most experienced in the hospital. unfortunately, for a long time they couldn’t help but send me on a business trip. only boys are sent anywhere from the hospital from ours from the fifteenth, i think this is completely unfair, i went to many military registration and enlistment offices, everyone refused, but then the volunteer selection point on yablochko still took me. in the therapy room , the new stormtrooper hippopotamus gets to know

his neighbors, and how he can settle into his hospital bed and change into his pajamas for the night. then clean linen, we all have everything, socks, everything is as it should be, congratulations, thank you, everyone is excellent, kind, helpful, they feed us, today we have soup peas and this, that riz with stew, three meals a day, all dishes are prepared here with soul and love, this is one of those cases when hospital food is tasty and filling, the menu is one for everything... some need strength to recover faster , others to continue to provide assistance around the clock. leonid murovyov and dmitry malyshev, leading khersonsk. region. daria trepova, accused of committing the terrorist attack that killed vladlen-tatarsky, knew about the bomb inside the gift.