our state does not have its own army. and as i always say, our foreign policy is a vision of negotiations and active support for the settlement of all international conflicts by peaceful political means. and we also have very ambitious goals related to combating climate change. we hope that our proposal will be of interest to the international community . iceland is indeed the only place on earth where you can literally move from the american continent to the european one, in less than an hour, two tectonic plates converge here, two continents. and this fact certainly confirms that iceland is a bridge between america and europe, which is reflected in the history of the country more than 1,000 years ago, namely islamic settlers who crossed the atlantic to greenland, and then to the americans. the continent and

discovered america 500 years before colombo, it must be said that the nature of iceland has practically not changed for many centuries. it was in this way that the island, covered with steam from geysers, was seen in 847 by the norwegian discoverer of iceland ingolf, when he moved out with his warriors, he named the bay, where he built his house and the smaller yarik, but the island itself was the icy side. the first settlers fled here from the arbitrariness of the king , their way was independence in 940. they founded the first democratic parliament in europe, the alteng, a real folk thing, and in the year 1000, at this very althing, the icelanders were baptized, an alteng was

going to. in the summer, under the open sky, once a year, in this secret and to this day holy revenge for the icelanders, here, where the fracture of the earth's crust is clearly visible. since those ancient times, iceland has been characterized by independence of thought in many respects, the side follows its own special path. and today, for example, he is in no hurry to become a member of the european union. uh, do you perform regularly ? uh, against the accession of iceland to the european union is your principled position. uh, not all politicians in iceland agree with her. what is your position based on? my party has opposed joining the european union since its foundation. i think the same can be said opposition from other ruling parties in 2009. we have

submitted an application for the adoption of a member of the european union on this decision. there have been many years of controversy since iceland signed the european economic area agreement, my position is therefore a controversial issue. this is very important for the people of iceland to decide whether we should join the european union or not. it seems to me that iceland has not joined the european union. this is a plus for us to have very close cooperation in europe, but personally, i think, looking at what is happening inside the european union. decision-making within the eu is not very democratic, and this is very important for iceland compared to how we make decisions based

on direct democracy with the participation of the people. listen to the opinion of the citizens of the country, take into account his usual business for icelandic politicians to resolve serious issues. yes, and not very much they convene a popular referendum and the president, head of state and parliament are elected by universal direct and secret suffrage. all citizens over the age of 18 have had the right to vote since the 13th century. iceland was dependent first on the norwegian, and then the danish crown. and only in 1918 did it receive sovereignty within the danish kingdom, and in 1944 , at a popular referendum, 97% of icelanders voted for the termination of the danish islamic union for the independence of the country. so in the open

air at the place where for centuries gathered on june 17, 44 all of iceland gathered. celebrate the proclamation of the republic of education for all defiant spirit of enterprise the spirit of unity. here are the three main components of the ensuring the success of the prosperity of iceland, the icelanders. and by the way, much more successfully could be assumed in the creation of a very prosperous economically developed country, which in recent decades has become the vanguard of information technology in the use of computers, mobile phones, and the internet. green energy, finally, and in many cases it can be said that modern iceland is an experimental model of the future, by which one can judge how modern technologies will change society as a whole. do we need to do focus on heavy industry in the future or to

focus? this is my opinion on a more diversified economy to develop research and development. they are heavy industry for this very reason. i decided to take a step forward and move from the category of citizens who only have long conversations about politics in their kitchens and go to the polls to the category of politicians. the main thing that the icelanders have learned to do is to use natural resources without destroying nature, because from time immemorial. they they realized that they were part of it to start heating houses with water from hot springs, there are 800 of them here, this thirty-kilometer pipeline delivers boiling water of geysers to the lady of the river and, interestingly, no more than two or three degrees of heat is lost along the way, the water from the tap smells of hydrogen sulfide and

you need to be careful when you open it, you can get scalded, then use the energy of waterfalls and rivers formed by thawing glaciers to generate cheap electricity familiar hydroelectric power stations cheap electricity attracts to iceland, the largest companies engaged in energy-intensive production, for example, remelting, aluminum is also completely. geothermal power plants, where steam energy is used deep into the thick layer of lava, drive concrete pipes and pour water into them. she turns into steam. geothermal steam is also used to dry seaweed, which is very popular with the icelanders, and the evaporation of salt from sea water, volcanoes and altermal waters. determined the energy development of the country, making the economy

independent of our usual oil and gas. and of course, traditional fish farming. well, there are no slates here at all, it is enough to say that 70% of iceland's exports come from fish for more than half of the foreign trade turnover. also associated with salt. well, slates, there is one. well, perhaps, the proverb fish has the smell of money. maybe it's true, if you look at let's say, and islamic coins, then on the same blood. there are four networks. she's gumball's 5 chrono coin for the development of our economy, then you realize that the icelandic economic system is perhaps not always in harmony with the rest of europe, simply because we are

a fishing country. we are rich. and the resource business has always been important to us, as well as the ownership and disposal of these resources by our citizens. and i think these are very important circumstances. the unique nature of iceland requires special care and the slates show it in everything on the island, about 80 species of birds nest in the lakes, there are trout, and in the salmon rivers in coastal waters, there are two species of seals and some types of whales. there are places for bare spawning, 66 species of virgin nature - this is both a national treasure and a solid source of income - it's just so natural. paradise on earth 20 years of fantastic nature, uh, geysers, and waterfalls,

its thermal springs and some unique ones. uh, quite trial mining. and so, as far as i know, uh, tourism is one of the most important industries today. uh, the development of the icelandic economy. wow, first of all, about our nature. i am very pleased to hear your words about icelandic nature, of course i really like to be in nature. every time i return home from other countries, i am amazed by the untouched, virgin nature. this is indeed a very great value. i think that the largest untouched territories in all of europe are in iceland, the mountainous regions of iceland, and we must value and protect them for future generations of slates. valley of geysers heita dolur in the south of iceland there

is a dormant geyser that gave the name to all the geysers of the planet gudelfons waterfall, one of the most beautiful waterfalls in iceland consists of two steps with a height of 21 m and 11 m, the volume of water passing through the waterfall in summer reaches 130 cubic meters per second. amazing ostrovtsy, it appeared as a result of an eruption of an underwater volcano. in 1963. the height of the island above sea level is 50 m. the area is 2.5 m². this happened on earth millions of years ago at the stage of the formation of continents, so the island from the first days of its appearance, the object of close study by scientists, here you can observe the processes of occurrence and distribution. life on earth, if

talking about tourism to iceland, it has grown several times since 2002. tourism is developing faster than our society. if you understand what i mean, and we do not have time to cope with the flow of tourists, as you just said, most tourists come to us because of nature, and they would like to have at their disposal. it is this policy that we hope to pursue now our government with the participation of citizens working in the tourism sector islamic language is another miracle of the country the ancient language is the key to understanding the icelanders. this the same language that was spoken in iceland more than 1,000 years ago the language in which the

sagas were written you can give a saga written millennia ago to a seven or eight year old child, and he will easily read it sagas about the icelanders. this is a genealogy and stories from the life of the country and adult children can easily read the written nine centuries. back, every icelander knows his ancestry up to the seventh generation. in general, a language that has not changed much since centuries. you speak the same language, as far as i understand, that your ancestors spoke. few languages ​​have survived this way. i think that we should, of course, take care of our language. we live in an era of rapid technological change. i see this in my children. they already live in a different environment, video and games, computers and stuff. so i think. now the issue of preserving the icelandic language is more relevant

than ever. yes, i can read the kindergarten, which have not been adapted. i read them in the language in which they were written in the twelfth thirteenth fourteenth in the xv centuries. i am very i love the ancient sagas not only because i can read them in the language they were written in, but also because they sound like modern literature, when you read them you understand that they describe the same people. like today's literary works, it is a very important part of our literary heritage. and we are simply obliged to acquaint the whole world with this literature. this is very important. now in the digital age of reading, it is important to use icelandic in this new digital world. now we need, for example, to produce more video games in icelandic because i'm concerned that rapid technological change poses a real threat to the islamic language, which is the foundation of our culture. the stereotype

to prefer that creative people are born, usually in southern countries under favorable sunlight cold in northern iceland has given the world a wonderful theater of great writers painters musicians from the very beginning icelanders were very creative people. they were touching poets , storytellers brilliantly treated in a word and by the way, to say, in my opinion, poets were not so respected anywhere as long as iceland. polar night gathered. together they read about the saga now, the children listened to the stories of their kind of family. we could see for ourselves that even today in almost every fishing village. you will find the olympic welding theater of everything, so finally, well, for every icelandic family, for sure in a chess

master, what do you think is the most important thing about today's cultural heritage of iceland, what do you think is important to pass on to future generations, of course culture. this is not only literature, it is cinema and music and so on. i have to say this because we have a great musical life in iceland you are surprised that so few people live in iceland and we have such a rich musical life one of the reasons for this is because so many people came to us from europe in the first half of the 20th century before and after the second world war. and these immigrants made up the school of icelandic music teachers they created a great system music education in iceland which is

still preparing. strong musicians our entire conversation suggests that, of course, iceland is a unique country. and that's what the topic we raised about, we see the uniqueness of your country, your people, but there is one more feature in iceland that makes iceland completely unique. eh, it is in iceland that the invisible people of gnomes and elves live. and as far as the legend in these invisible elves, uh, is still relevant, well, so you, uh, had the opportunity with them chat. eh, believe in these elves, your children. and anyway, uh, they don't bother you, so to speak. have you seen them, alas? not yet. so not yet. i hope it will be, maybe, maybe, once

personally, i have not seen, but i never have any meetings with something supernatural, i have never seen anything, but in fact they influence modern society. there are elves and there are the invisible people, the invisible people live in the rocks. and when we build new roads in iceland invisible people. we are building a road around this mountain. and if we do not do this, if we destroy the mountain for the sake of the road, then sometimes there are a very large number of accidents in these sections, that is, usually during the construction of roads. we try not to disturb the dwellings of the invisible people. so for us in iceland it is very important question everyone knows these traditions my children also heard

the legend about the elves and the invisible people, this is part of our common memory. if i may, so to speak, and every icelander can, tell you a legend about elves and the invisible people. the most ordinary slate knows by heart a huge number of poems , it is enough to say that in a country where there are only 365 thousand people, the highest percentage of per capita literacy of published books is simply poets and a writer, finally. the biggest percentage. on april 23rd, the icelanders celebrated the 120th anniversary of the birth of the most famous islamic writer of the twentieth century, the poet, playwright and translator laurie from the

1955 nobel prize in literature for her flamboyant epic power, which revived the great narrative art of iceland in 1940, 4 tsaga came out, the light of the world, which the writer himself considered his best work and here is the last line of the final part of this saga and beauty will rule without separation. it's about iceland it's 7:00 in the morning in donetsk where we loaded the cars. the houses were the areas of ukrainian

nationalists. let's go to the city immediately such a spectacle.

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