[000:00:00;00] and to all the heroic builds there was the god of war katya, he says, katya, why did you come, you promised to wait for this, and not this, the beautiful katya answers him, and although i went to seni, i hear, egor, i’m going to live with you forever, i will love you truly, i will love you very much. don't send me away. yes, these are russian characters. it seems like he's just a person. and severe trouble will come, in big or small ways. and great strength, human

beauty rises in him. that's the whole story, not about military exploits, which we have plenty of, but about human destinies and the characters from which these feats arise. we cannot be broken, we are going to victory, and you used to fly, i didn’t

do a lot of things before, then i did. the dream is to fly with me, you promise now and you won’t take it, i won’t take it, i’ve been waiting all my life when we can just talk to you, you don’t want to hear anyone but yourself, you can’t put it off, we’re preparing a flight, it’s hard to keep up with a person, dad, i want to see you, who is trying to catch the wind, every day i write him a letter, and then when he... i give him mine, and he gives me his i’m going into a thunderstorm, why are you pestering me, what do you want, let him go down , where is he going, i worry every time he leaves, but he comes back, he promised me, master of the wind, come on, fedor, hold on, we’re used

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the website. we all hear it often. concept of russian character, this example now, when there is a war, when there is heroism, everyday life, when a warrior sacrifices his life, saving his comrades and does not spare himself, trying to fulfill the task assigned to him, wickedness. what appears on the battlefield is inherent in it from the very beginning. i want to tell her about this russian character, together with the wonderful writer, alexei tolstoy, he wrote a lot of stories. one of them is a story about the russian soldier dremov, a tank driver in the great

patriotic war, i am currently collecting. i nourish my hair, i do this every day. we filmed this girl varia in the spring of 2022 in the city of svatovo, where she fled with her family under fire from the ukrainian armed forces from her native border. we drove, as the feeling was, as god helped, suggested when he left. now varia lives in lugansk, her new school friends are also internally displaced persons. i'm 9 years old. no, but she kept me for a few months, and where are you from kamil, izsechanskaya, how long have you been studying here, second year

too, well, yes, second year, but only she, only me since september 1st, and she’s already september, she arrived in izbichanskaya to poltava, from poltava to gordiansk, from gordiansk, history, although varya speaks and thinks in russian, studying in her native language was not immediately easy for her - says the girl’s mother alexandra, until the second grade varya studied in ukrainian, well, it all started in 1414, that is, when they began to forcibly remove the russian language, and this includes documentation, of course, and some, even just appeals to some authorities, that is, they demanded that the appeal be in ukrainian, it was uncomfortable, quite, although... well, i know the ukrainian language, but my native russian, i i was born and spoke russian since childhood, my whole family communicates in russian, so of course it was very uncomfortable and incomprehensible, that is, why have we

been brotherly people all our lives, we have many relatives in russia and we have to suddenly break ourselves and rebuild ourselves, speak in ukrainian language, although i have nothing against the ukrainian language, well, i’ve more or less settled in like that , it’s not very difficult for me anymore, it’s normal, uh-huh, uh-huh, well , which language do you prefer to study in russian or ukrainian? in russian, in russian, yes, but do you study ukrainian at school? no, what foreign language are you studying? english and that’s it, russian, english, yeah, yeah, do you have some kind of poem that you know by heart and can recite, radiant bird cherry? so there’s honey dew all around, i don’t remember there anymore, i like this poem. vario is the same age as the russian spring and was born in april 2014,

this was the very peak, when all the events took place, i can say with confidence that the majority of residents of the city of rubezhnoye, they they went to the referendum, of their own free will, of their own accord, well, that is , people were very much outraged by what was happening, by that injustice, in general, how could a state abandon the army against its people, well, it didn’t fit in my head. alexandra is raising varya alone. in 2021 , the girl’s father died, hostilities soon began , and at the same time, alexandra’s mother ended up in the hospital. the apartment we lived in was hit directly by a shell, and the apartment was destroyed. my parents' house burned down, we left the apartment we moved to our parents and a few days later a shell also arrived there, the house burned down , in principle, there was a family business in bezhny, we made furniture, everything seemed to be destroyed,

when we left bezhrazny, we had no other way except to towards ukraine, we left through lisechansk, towards bakhmut, we went to slavyansk, we were there for two or three days. we went to the side of the russian federation, well, that is, through makeevka, through the lugansk region, makeevka village, there were already russian troops there and. and to shvatov. remember this time it’s hard for the family, from a temporary accommodation center in the north of the lpr, they moved to lugansk, a city that was foreign to them at first. alexandra’s mother had already died here, life had to start over, cope with the loss, look for housing and work. i work as a salesperson in a store, i like the work, in principle, it’s good, i have a good relationship with the owner of the store. now everything has more or less settled down, gotten better, that is, life is measured. of course it’s hard for her, because

there are lessons, training every day, we have training for 3 hours every day, 6 days a week, we teach lessons late, it’s hard for her, well, at least life is smooth, measured, calm, quiet. varya is professionally involved in artistic gymnastics, she started 4 years ago, so when she moved to lugansk, she and her mother immediately began looking for a coach for her to make up for everything that had been lost for almost 8 months. nine-year-old varya is studying at the lugansk higher school of physical culture and has already achieved serious success. we went in june of this year to nanalchik, i was very worried and there were 2 days, one day just everyone performed, and the third day there eight people had to reach the finals. so i made it to the final of eight people from all over

russia, you can say that these were small olympic games, you could even say there were a lot of people there, only eight made it out. the educational institution where varya trains is preparing to become federal property and become an olympic reserve school; this decision of the russian government will give athletes from the lpr the opportunity to get the best training base. now we have arrived at the ministry of education of the lugansk people's republic. in order to talk with kusov, ivan sergeevich, the minister, about the situation in the region and what problems the educational sector, lpr is facing today. a young minister, only 36 years old, he headed the department in the summer of 2022, a graduate of lomanosova moscow state university, former director of its branch in sevastopol, winner of the federal competition for managers of russian leaders, ivan kusov was not afraid to go to donbass and set an ambitious goal, to bring the lugansk education system into the

top twenty in the country. there is potential, the lugansk region, as an industrial region of the soviet union, was initially famous for its strong industrial universities, so now the infrastructure is generally good, it must be preserved, the teams should be supported to the maximum, well, restored in general, the most important thing is that if industry is restored, it will be established jobs, then that good, well-built soviet education system, it will actually work in full, now colossal support is coming to the education system through the federal ministries, through ... chiefs, well, this is already, well, assistance probably amounts to tens of billions, these are repairs, supplies of equipment , these are textbooks, books, if last year 100 educational facilities were repaired in the republic, this year there are already 137, schools were restored and kindergartens all over the world, one or another region of russia was responsible for each district , well, here we had old computers, these are new computers, they have this one that is absolutely small - like its system unit, which

you see, yes, already modern, in lugansk comprehensive school number 22, they just recently finished renovating, this is our second a-grade class, hello, where are the rest of you, and no one else is there, and the teacher left, yeah, okay, well, you can take a look, konechka, they renovated last year a completely new building where we are located, this year the old building was merged, but the work was initially very large and was done last year, which means they completely changed it last year, the roof, the soft roof was changed,

then all the windows are plastic, this is where- then about 150-170 windows, how do you like to study? yes, very much, according to the director, after the collapse of the soviet union, difficult times began for the school, it was funded on a residual basis, in 2014, when lugansk was under constant fire, a shell flew into the building. why do you think you said that you financed it under ukraine? well, you see, we simply did not harm the underlying processes. uh, and schools were funded only in western ukraine, uh, eastern ukraine, in fact, it was, well, i don’t know, an orphan,

that’s all, funds were taken away, we earned more funds, especially the donetsk region, lugansk region, a lot of factories, industrial districts, but these funds were taken away, redistributed, and from here, we didn’t have enough of these funds... it’s just this, as they say, policy that turned into military action , it was founded back in the nineties, this is a russian language classroom , let’s plunge into russian philology , please, alvina studies morphology for children, morphology studies the word as a part of speech, the word as a part of speech, absolutely. i was probably born in lugansk, i work it is in this school since 2014, very symbolically, this year it will be 9 years that i have been working, and i am a teacher by profession, i graduated from the taganrok state pedagogical institute, it so happened that my whole life is connected specifically with the russian language, i speak russian, i studied in russia and

i now live here also in russia, i teach russian language and literature, which i am very happy about, i’ve just been here for a long time too. worked on television for a while, on our lugansk television, precisely because we were transferred to ukrainian language, i lost my favorite job because i worked live on air , and it was necessary to switch directly to the ukrainian language, and since i didn’t know it, plus i was also studying in russia, of course it was a big, big difficulty for me. oksana maksyuta had to return to work as a teacher of russian language and literature, but this specialty soon turned out to be unclaimed in ukraine, until lugansk decided to go... its own way, well, i’ve been working since 1986, so i’m in the same school, from eighty i came here in six years, well, i’m already counting, 37 years, in one place, never left , constantly working at this school, the fact is that before we had everything that was killed, everything was here, no repairs were done at all, here you see, we have a fence around the sports ground, strangers come in here, only those children who are on the school grounds are there, well, there is a surface, running

tracks, you can run 100 m, here you can run a long distance, so we don’t work here, well, we work with this year we have a major renovation of the gym was done, the floors were completely renovated, new radiators were made, heating, the windows were changed , there were the usual plastic windows now, lighting , you see we have good lighting, basketball backboards were added, the school updated sports equipment, corridors, classrooms, equipment, renovations in the assembly hall are finishing, i really liked how our school was transformed, the appearance of the school, the playground, the lawn, then the horizontal bars, it became more comfortable to study in the classrooms, most of all i liked how the classroom was transformed

russian language, geography and history, now we are in the children's canteen, at school number 22, the furniture has not yet been changed here, but repairs have already been made, children are provided with meals, as i understand it, twice a day, yes, those who stay for an extended period, meals are free for students, after joining russia, teachers in the lpr had to adapt to the new program, primarily to the og and eg, as the minister of education ivan kusov says, all teachers underwent advanced training courses in rostov directly or remotely, our overall staffing level is up to 90%, 90% is reached. well, 10% is about 1,500 people - these are vacancies, well, mostly they are filled part-time, of course, that is, someone takes one and a half times the rate, yes, but in general within the city this is closed, of course, in some areas of complexity, well, in particular, there is a shortage of physical education teachers, labor teachers, because

they are called up, yes, they are mostly men, yes, they fight at the front, yes, so in some areas there is a shortage, a shortage of subject teachers, but not only... in principle, in many regions of the russian federation there is a shortage of subject teachers, these are mathematics, physics, history, we have a little bit of elementary school there in some areas, but there is something critical, there is no critical shortage of teachers, then there is, in principle, this is quite a working situation , we are now accepting additional programs for the development of targeted training in pedagogical universities, we hope that next year we will be included in the zemstvo teacher program, when it is possible for the rural area... to receive lifting, uh, well in principle, in every region there is probably someone who has moved from other regions of russia to work for us; recently even a mathematics teacher from... i came here on purpose and said i want to work in the lugansk people’s republic. unfortunately, a large number of schools and colleges were destroyed, as ivan kusov says, during

the retreat of ukrainian troops. i also traveled to almost all the districts, which were on purpose, that is, such hits, well, not in the process of hostilities, but while retreating, well, just they deliberately destroyed the social infrastructure, that is, well, local residents also say that a tank drove up there, fired several shots, and then it was clear that there was a fire there or something else. but now all this is being actively restored, for example, in severo-donetsk they opened a restored school for 300 children; in just a few months, contractors raised the building from the ruins. we have now arrived in severo-donetsk, a local school, here children undergo distance learning, but it is not the classic distance learning that they are used to that’s it, because in the city there is not only no internet, there is not even regular cellular communication. here, but uh, children are brought in by school buses every day, that’s how it is now standing next to me, and the children receive

assignments on pieces of paper, uh, get advice from the teacher, return home, complete assignments, the next day they also come, and so now now the training process has been established in severo-donetsk, lisechansk, and bezhnaya in other regions that are close to the line of combat contact of lugansk and the people’s republic. communication in the city disabled intentionally for security reasons. for exactly the same reason , it is not yet possible to gather in large groups. teachers and students understand this too. but such a remote, rather individual approach has its advantages. yes. and definitely. here. and we continue to use the same sides. this is how consultations take place on the assignments that are given to students at home. look. advisory classes upon request, they receive consultations, explanations from

teachers, on complex, let’s say, material for them, yes, for some it can be problematic topics, here is a suburb, transported by buses, transport is carried out, while severodonetsk was under the control of kiev, teaching was conducted in ukrainian, although the majority of residents of the lugansk city, as in the donbass in general, speak russian, and you all were trained before in ukrainian language, yes, it was hard to readjust, well, until the fourth grade, when i was still studying here, there was a russian program, then in the fifth grade there was a sharp jump, everything was in ukrainian, nothing was clear, it was like that, during the hostilities there were several direct hits, in the roof, the dining room of the gym, everything inside was broken by the blast wave. but by may 2023 the building had been restored. tatyana vasilievna, you have been a math teacher at

this school for 12 years, and what has changed, how has your work changed after all the events and after the school itself has changed? the school itself has simply changed for the better. i was amazed when i first arrived after the renovation, everything was thought out absolutely in terms of the safety of children, the windows had bars. that is, it is safe, in our it was in the forest cage, that is, it was fraught with the fact that the child would simply fall, the second point, they changed the steps on the staircase porch, they didn’t just change the steps, they also installed railings, that is, you can safely enter in the winter, the school has about 280 students with first to eleventh grade, this is about 100 more than it was in september 2022, people are actively returning to severo-donetsk, but i would like to say that at the moment, in the 23-24 year, i much like

coming to this school already renovated with new teachers with a new one with a new teaching program , that is, last year, when i also studied here after the war, our lessons were 25 minutes each, there was no time at all for not teaching anything, not for explaining from the teacher, that is, at the moment, for 30 minutes we are already starting to not keep up with the program, yeah, well , many of the teachers who were before, they returned, my previous class teacher also returned, the lessons have become, well, more understandable, because there is more time, well, these children now, students, teachers, of course, want to return to full-time in-person education as soon as possible, this cherished desire cannot be talked about without emotion, and so the final question is, what would we like, here... dreams that we

it was calmer in the city, sorry to have hands. some consultations are priced up so that children are not afraid when the doors are drafty, peace will most likely come soon, uh-huh, i think that this is about to happen, and so, they say severo-donetsk, today we talked with the head of the city, because what he it’s already quite safe, there are no mines or arrivals, practically no, yes, god grant that your line of contact is as far as possible from your city, and ordinary, peaceful, calm life

reigns again in severo-donetsk. according to the pike's command, at the pike's command, according to my desire, according to my desire, i want to, well , see the city, then go ahead, i want winter to become summer, i want to marry the tsar's daughter, come on, that's just me, i'm just warming up, tsar's daughter , this is my fish, at the

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