art. still knows no boundaries, despite the prohibitions of the sanctions. vladimir putin announced this the day before in st. petersburg at a large-scale international forum, which this year was called the forum of united cultures. among the participants are more than 70 countries and 56 official delegations. the main topic was history and modernity in artistic culture. the conversation with the president touched on a variety of issues, including those related to the conflict in ukraine and the attitude towards it among famous russian cultural figures. head of state.

until 2014, it never occurred to me that there could be such a conflict between russia and ukraine, if they had told me before i was 14 that this was possible, i would have said, are you crazy? you need to watch, of course, not because people say, but because they do, if this is an activity related to causing damage to one’s own country, one’s own. and such activities also take place, we see it, the fees are transferred somewhere there , frankly speaking, to the enemy and so on, then this is one story, if it is just an opinion, point of view, assessment of the situation - this is another , so there is one more circumstance that we all must certainly take into account, this is the mood in society, 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. powerful explosions occurred in ukraine tonight. local authorities and publications report several cases at once, including in kiev. in addition, residents of khmelnitsky heard the explosion region, this is the west of ukraine. and the night before the cases became known. detonation in the city of zaporozhye, controlled by the kiev regime. air raid sirens were turned on several times during the night; in total, this mode was announced in 4 regions. in the kherson direction, russian cities are hitting artillery batteries of the ukrainian armed forces, working under divisions of the dnepr group, using rocket systems to destroy strongholds, equipment and camouflaged defensive structures of the enemy. hail crews, shoot 122mm high-explosive fragmentation shells. the exact

hit is recorded using drones. after completing the task, they quickly leave. 21 at the kamaz base. already reliable, tested, they pull well, they work well in the sand, they behave well in the sand. our sand dunes are jagged, but she pulls forward, thank god. air raid sirens sounded this night in northern israel in tel aviv. in the army. israel reports a night air defense interception of a lebanese surface-to-air missile. an idf official said the troops are ready to act not only in northern gaza, but throughout the enclave. according to him, the israeli military recorded the presence of hamas in all hospitals in the sector. in gaza itself , heavy shelling was recorded in the south this night; at least 26 deaths are known. al jazeera tv reported a strike on a center for the elderly. as a result, the director of the establishment died. the enclave's ministry of health says

there is a shortage of food and water in the ashif hospital is enough for a maximum of 400 people, while now there are at least 7,000 there. the situation in the middle east commented journalist seymour hirsch. according to his sources in the us government, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu refused the hostage deal. the american demand called for the release of more than seventy prisoners, but hamas representatives wanted a cessation of hostilities in exchange. for 5 days, which turned out to be unacceptable for netanyahu. moscow police are looking for robbers who attacked couriers at one of the banks in the center of the capital; unknown persons opened fire with a traumatic pistol, took away a bag, which was worth 300 million rubles, then fled in a mercedes. it all happened the night before, according to preliminary data, one of the couriers was injured, as it turned out later, part of the sum - 7 million - fell out of a bag that burst. it has already been established that there was a crime. but based on

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in transbaikalia, the security forces, obsessed with gold , liquidated a criminal community, whose participants illegally took precious metal abroad. hello, eduard petrov is in the studio. and we see that this black sand glows with such a golden-yellow color. police, pasha. his

group specialized specifically in moving gold through smuggling. don't give a damn, don't give a damn, get some sleep, more than 30 people are involved in this crime, i'm holding hands, take everything, hands up , we've earned a lot, now we've probably earned 10 years, in money, in money, pennies, well, ten extras, yes , up to 10 kg of gold were transported, more than 50 kg of gold, but now here, wow, it’s heavy, these bars were seized at the border, and here the purity is above 80%, everything is fine here, there is no smuggling, you are not a smuggler, of course not, what are you talking about? please, a gift? smuggled gold was discovered, a bundle of yellow metal was found in the technological hole, which turned out to be gold. 16 members of the criminal community were detained and taken into custody.

metal needs to be mined if this is your calling. every year in transbaikalia officially produces about 40 tons of gold. such developments, as a rule, are carried out industrially, but it is unknown how much precious metal passes through the hands of black miners; as a rule , illegal miners operating in the taiga sell the bullion to buyers, who are looking for an opportunity to transport them abroad for exorbitant amounts of money, border guards, customs officers, and police officers. transbaikalia exposed an international organized criminal community, whose members managed to withdraw more than a ton of gold bars from russia in a year. how were smuggling of precious metal was organized, how much did the treasure hunters earn, who oversaw the illegal gold business. we took up this matter and conducted our investigation.

dust from a rough country road drips into the video camera lens. this is a chase, one of the stages of a large-scale special operation by the border department of the fsb of russia in the trans-bakal region.

a white toyota corrolla rushes past grazing cows. it seems that she is about to crash somewhere, but she is old. the foreign car is almost being pursued, behind its wheel, according to operatives, he is a member of a local group that has been stealing gold for years. a couple of moments later, it’s all over, the driver is detained. theft and smuggling of precious metal is still a big problem for our country, but the obsession with gold is not getting less. we went to the trans-baikal region to see how... the fight against illegal miners and buyers is now being waged, and what

the modern gold rush is like. our film crew is in the north of the karymsky district, here in the deep taiga we are filming industrial mining of precious metal, from a bird's eye view you can see workings, excavations for many kilometers, the landscape is cosmic, here people literally walk on gold. this is the lunar landscape around us and there is only one team working

, what are you going to do now, let’s take a sample, it turns out, yes, let’s try, that is, there may be gold here, yes, yes, well, we must be lucky, i hope the mining master collects earth in an ordinary metal basin and begins to methodically wash it, several times... sparkling grains of gold, we have almost reached the end and the gold is not yet visible, well, no, but i see in your eyes that you have already found something? no, no, pebbles, pebbles, we look and we see that this black sand is glowing , golden yellow, no, here , here is the gold, where is the gold, yellow, yellow, this is gold, yeah, well, there’s probably a tenth of it here

grams, yes, yes, yes, yes, here is a piece , yes, of this gold, in this old -fashioned way you can wash kilograms of gold, and then hand over to the state, well, it’s unlikely kilograms, of course, but you can wash it, wash it it’s possible, you can definitely wash it for bread, okay, so why don’t you throw it away now, no , it’ll all work with us, at least put it into use, put it into circulation, okay, this time... according to experts, it’s possible in a month extract at least 5 kg of precious metal, there is heavy equipment, excavators, dump trucks, bulldozers, this is an outlandish machine , this is a vibrating roar, an industrial device, it turns out that this is what it is, how it works, it is powered by a diesel power plant, 150 kw, there is an engine on top , he rocks it on

springs, we bring the rock here with an excavator, it’s all washed off with water, everything goes through, fine sand falls into the deck on the carpets, and accordingly, the stones fall here separately , you take out the stones and wash the sand, and this is all washed, we serve the dirty, we take out the clean everything together it turns out, well, something like this, it’s clear, you’ve seen quite large nuggets of gold here, here, no, there’s no such time... they can easily beat you up, and only then a criminal case and a trial, but otherwise quite tolerable

conditions for life on a taiga farm very decent official salary, from 200,000 rubles, but still the thirst for easy money sometimes wins. let's move from the remaining settlement to the capital of transbaikalia, chshita. here, a criminal investigation into the smuggling of gold bars is in full swing. this criminal case was initiated based on operational materials provided to the border service by police officers. according to the elements of crimes provided for by part one and part two of article 210 of the criminal code

of the russian federation, namely a criminal community. according to the third part of article 220. the criminal code of the russian federation, namely smuggling, illegal movement from the territory of the russian federation abroad of precious metals, namely gold, was also initiated under article part five, article 191 of the criminal code of the russian federation, illegal custody, movement of precious metal. 30 people were under investigation, all of them citizens of different states, among those arrested. directly gold miners, couriers who transported precious metal, buyers are also subject to criminal prosecution the so-called financiers were caught, these are the people who paid for illegal goods, the entire leadership of the criminal syndicate is still at large, they are hiding abroad. in 2022, at the beginning

of the year, our management received operational information. ops, there were more than 20 people under his command. his group specialized directly in smuggling gold across the borders of the russian federation. in his activities, he relied on railway workers involved in criminal activities. directly passed it on to them gold, well, they already delivered it abroad.

zamail ragimkhanov and sergei akhmetov. established covert surveillance, when it became clear that they were really related to the illegal gold business, they decided to detain them, but this turned out to be not so easy, for example , they started a real chase after sergei akhmetov after on august 11, 2022, he picked up gold bars from a courier in the vicinity of the border village of zabaikalsky, we showed these shots at the beginning of our program, feeling surveillance, sergei akhmetov pressed the gas and tried to evade pursuit, border control operatives chased his

car for several kilometers, stopped akhmetov near the city of borze, 8 kg of gold bars intended for sending abroad were found in the car. rumors about this operation spread quite quickly throughout the region. mail ragimkhanov lay low. for several days he hid and communicated by phone only with his foreign curators. here is one fragment of the negotiations. not seriously lawyers talked. and he says, the nature says, why he says he said. he had a maximum, which was for igor, there would have been nothing at all, they would have taken him away, he says, this one is like him, and the maximum word to say, you see , the lawyers began to tell, to speak, in the end, mailla ragimkhanov was found in zabaikalsk, here he is bought an inconspicuous

old house in which he stored illegally purchased gold; an authoritative businessman was arrested and sent to jail. a search was carried out in ragimkhanov’s house, no gold was found, the businessman managed to transfer it to his foreign partners, this is the place where he hid the jewelry, they found it, the hiding place was in this burnt-out stove. it was clear to the border control officers that without the active help of foreigners, neither ragimkhanov nor akhmetov simply could work. the first and most important obstacle is the language barrier. during interrogations, did the operatives find out who helped the domestic businessmen? these are citizens of the neighboring

state, van leyan, who have recently settled in chita. first they came to van lei, whom the neighbors called pasha. dear, introduce yourself, introduce yourself, name, pasha, citizen, what are you? citizen of what? vanley, vanya, everything is fine, it’s forbidden , there’s something in the house, nothing, no, well, let’s figure it out now, do you understand

spoken russian? yes, a little , you understand a little, you can’t read, no, no, sit down, come on, i’ll sit down, you have something in your house, a weapon, no. drugs , there is nothing, we have opened a criminal case for illegal trafficking in drak metal, gold, we need to look at your house, everything connected, we are taking everything, okay, okay, this yours now, but yours, no, it’s just a truk, but yours lies there, my tagumen is tagumen. in the safe of van lei, also known as pasha , there were two bags of gold bars in a soap box, the man was taken to

the trans-baikal linear department of the russian ministry of internal affairs for transport and interrogated, it became clear that the chinese served as a coordinate, connecting illegal buyers in trans-baikal with their high curators. the man was detained at the moment when he took the goods and headed towards zabaikalsk by car. in this accordingly, four rectangular-shaped objects were found in the box, now i suggest, accordingly , now an employee will arrive and bring scales, well, accordingly, we’ll weigh it all. while the border guards were unpacking the traces of gold, wang juan looked at what was happening indifferently, a total

of 13 bars were counted, the foreigners were sent for interrogation, the investigators were interested , where coordinators take money to pay suppliers, it turned out that several financiers worked in the organized gold crime community, their task would be to collect money from criminal partners trading in the transbaikal market, a kind of quitrent, one of these black accountants turned out to be liu xiufang, the woman was detained in a chit, they found an ordinary polytelene handbag filled with bundles of bills of various denominations on her, it is not possible to explain the origin of the money to liu xiufang she was able to, and she was also arrested.

soon, employees of the border department of the fsb of russia found out the names of the gold buyers, and a real hunt was organized for them. among them was igor chernyak. his toyota was stopped on the road near the city. chernyak refused, then they decided to inspect the car, put it on the seat, well , put it on the carpet, and under the driver’s seat, several homemade gold bars, what are they? walk away from the car, what is it? forbidden or what? let's do it now? where did you find it? please? well, what is forbidden there

? can i sit down for this? to hand over the suppliers, chernyak refused to be cut off, so he himself came under investigation. the next courier, roman lopatin , turned out to be extremely inventive and did not even blink an eye when the border guards asked to open the trunk. who gets the jack? i’m not saying a week ago. you personally bought it, yes, this is your jack, yes, this particular green one, the security forces had operational information that this jack, this one, is not a simple one, but a gold one, and almost in the literal sense of the word, it’s heavy, but don’t you come here, oh, empty the whole bag , here's the package.

a fifty-ton cargo jack was found in the passenger car, well, unusual for such a vehicle, which aroused suspicion, well, yes, this also aroused suspicion, it was decided to open it, well, gold bars were found inside a metal rod filled with oil. 16 ingots of metal, yellow in color, were hidden in darat, they were given away, this metal, after applying the reagent, shows that no reaction occurred, this indicates that this metal contains gold, that is, it is about 800 gold, 850 standard, no higher, fsb officers no longer

doubted... that they had traced the criminal community and continued to work. the operatives managed to establish the name of the owner of one of the mines in teve, on in which precious metal was openly stolen and then brought to transbaikalsk. it was alexander shlensky. the mine officially handed over part of the gold, but the mining license expired in 2022. this year 2022, gold was actually mined illegally, and you know how much gold he gave, again approximately, well, each batch, each of his batches sent to vasiliev, was about 10-12 kg and such batches, well, we know, about five, shlensky was detained at the traffic police post, when he, together with a counterfeiter, drove up to

following were several more arrests, this was bolot rabdanov, another financier of the group, he was taken early in the morning, completely sleepy, hands, bolot vasilyevich, where is boloto, someone else in the house, house.

rabdanov for half a flight rabdanov, hands, hands behind his back, rabdanov, here he is, last name, first name , date of birth, and you say, well, that’s great, why were they detained, you know, detained, well, now we’ll tell you, rabdan was presented with a resolution to conduct search, a criminal case was opened for illegal trafficking of the enemy. yes, now within the framework of this criminal case, your the interrogation will be held, several tens of millions of rubles were found in the house of bolot rabdanov, the man was charged and sent under arrest, finally, another victory for the border guards, at the moment before