valery gergiev, nikita mikhalkov, artyom zhogo, zakhar prilepin, these are just some of the group of voters supporting vladimir putin's self-nomination in the upcoming elections. in total, it included more than 700 people, all of them gathered at an event in the zaryadye concert hall on saturday. our correspondent elizaveta khramtsova also visited it. in the very heart of moscow in zaryadye you can meet those whose names are directly associated with russia: sports legends, stage and screen stars and people.

professions not public, but no less important doctors, teachers. vladimir putin is going to the 2024 elections as a self-nominated candidate to declare support for his candidacy. by law , at least 500 people must. within days of the start of the election campaign , 750 people registered for events in support of the president. meetings of voters are held as required by law, but it is important for the participants of the event to emphasize that they are ready to declare their position openly.

that my task is to support my own. russia has built a system that is aimed at the benefit of every citizen, the development of every sphere, were emphasized at the meeting. in general, this unification, what now sounds in the words that we hear, and what we see in the all-russian popular front, working all these years, we see that vladimir vladimirovich today unites the country, as a society, as a multinational state . and that’s why so many completely different people were waiting. united russia and another parliamentary party , a just russia patriot for the truth, decided to support the president and not betray his candidate. i am sure that with such a large, united team, the team of our president, we can handle any task.

we can cope with any tasks, and today the most important task is our victory, victory at the front, victory in the rear, victory of our candidate in the elections. will conditionally become our common victory, the victory of great russia. on december 23, we will have a congress of your party, where we will confirm this decision and confirm it unanimously. moreover, we announced a collection of orders for our candidate, because today vladimir putin - a true national leader, today vladimir putin understands that he leads the country, a civilization, and he is responsible for many national people and more. the next stage is submitting documents on holding a meeting of voters to the central election commission. if the cec makes a positive decision , authorized groups will be registered, and then the collection of signatures in support of vladimir putin will begin. the president is nominated as a self-nominated candidate, which means he will need to collect at least 300,000

voter signatures. this work will take place in all regions of the country. elizata khramtsova, ekaterina zakharova, diana makurina, nadezhda nefedova, mikhail verenkov, dmitry timofeev. news. russian long-range bombers tu-22 m3 completed a planned flight over the neutral waters of the baltic sea, the ministry of defense reported. long-range aircraft flew in a group with su-30 fighters. the flight lasted about 5 hours. at certain stages of the route, the bombers were accompanied by foreign military aircraft. the ministry of defense noted that the flight took place in strict accordance with international rules use of airspace. border between russia and finland. there were huge queues to enter russia, but now people are not being allowed through, many cannot get home, what is happening at the border,

dmitry akimov found out. an empty road closed barrier on december 16 on the russian-finnish border, almost no one, it remained open. less than two days. thousands of russian citizens did not have time to get home; the day before, people lined up in a huge line on the finnish side. the authorities of the country of suomi promised to close the border at 8:00 pm, but have already done so in the morning. since 10:00 in the morning, the finnish side has not allowed a single car to enter either finland or russia. they simply blocked everything, put up a fence and didn’t let anyone through. at about three o'clock in the afternoon they began to approach us. anna has a sick child in russia , but the finnish border guards stood up as a wall at the border and did not let anyone through, people waited for more than 13 hours and were forced to return to

finland, on a journey that previously took 40 minutes, now russian citizens are forced to spend more than a day from helsinki to time for which you still need...

petersburg, the finnish government has already sent these people on a free bus to state that the border will remain closed at least until january 14. dmitry akimov and sergey fodeev, russian-finnish border. russian soldier rafi jabbar, call sign abdullah, has not been in his homeland, afghanistan, for 13 years, came to visit. his brothers and nephews met him in kabul and accompanied

him far to jellalabat towards the pakistani border, the ancestral place called sand. look how happy he is. rafi is greeted with honors, like a real one. well, tell me about meeting, well, actually very... these meetings are difficult, well, especially here the female, let’s say, part of our relatives, just an aunt, let’s say, there is an aunt who was when my mother, the almighty called my mother, let’s say, here is one aunt who fed me her milk, when i left afghanistan, she was a blooming girl, then she returned as an old woman, these are the moments. it was very difficult, let’s say, when an old aunt sees you,

especially after being wounded, they saw me there, let’s say 13 years ago, completely different, in the current situation, they’re just crying, they’re in tears, they’re kissing, they’re hugging stuff like that, well, in general , it’s these moments that are hard, abdullah is a legendary fighter, all of russia knows him. jabbar's great adventures began long before he came to volunteer to fight for donbass in 1914. rafi came to the ussr at the age of five, well, how did he get there, he and many of his peers were brought on a special flight from afghanistan. the father of the governor of balkh province was killed by the majahideen. mom went crazy with grief and died. abdullah was brought up in closed internet in volgograd. this is a meeting

of classmates, years later, within their own walls. i talked with rafi then, he told me about afghanistan, he dreamed of becoming a russian military man, but he had no idea what awaited him. this is the large mountain pass magipar, jumping fish, translated from afghani. road. from kabul to jalalabat, uniquely beautiful and wild places. abdullah stopped, looked around, watched the boys. he was exactly the same over 30 years ago. his childhood was at the height of the war. majahideen, democrats, soviet troops. a very interesting situation, we ended up with relatives who fought against the presence of soviet troops in afghanistan, and so i lived with them and... my uncle, who brought me up with me, who sent me to the soviet union, and who commanded the division, came there,

he’s such a yarolinist, let’s just say, this is a very interesting moment, by the way, here we are sitting at destarkhan, and we usually, well, destarkhan is like that, well, we usually eat on the floor, we don’t have household items, there are chairs, tables , there are spoons, forks, everything with your hands, here on the floor, on this side is one of my uncles, on this side is another uncle, and i’m, let’s say, in the middle, that is, it turns out they are to the right and left of me. then such a moment comes, they are themselves , they don’t talk yet, they just look at each other, and the uncle, who is a majahideen, says: look, your uncle killed the majahideen, the uncle says: i killed the enemies of the motherland, this is this dialogue, i i don’t know how to try them on, rushing about, well, word by word, they were able to talk, even over these 30 years, they were able to talk among themselves, that is, this is one of the conventions of the civil war, where it is those close to them who hate each other fiercely

, especially close ones cannot forgive each other, did not make peace, made peace, made peace, moreover, on this trip i took two with me at once strollers , because well, how did i have such a template, let’s say, here in the room i’m in one stroller, in the street there ’s already such a shabby, old , dirty stroller, i just got to evening prayer and my uncle finished the evening prayer . he has young men, that is, he constantly he especially prays, he constantly

prays, prays for people, when i saw him i immediately gave him my other stroller, in general, he really liked it, a few years ago , when changing his combat position, rafik jabbar was blown up by a mine, the residents of donetsk lined up , donating your blood for abdul, brother, there are no restrictions , everything will be fine, this is the protest, this is the protest that will be... you may even have something better, this is a german prosthesis, electronics, you can chop wood, you can do yoga, that is, in principle, the restrictions are in the head si, everything is fine, we know, the loss of both legs did not stop abdul, this is a person whose essence is compassion, kindness, a sense of duty and an incredible love for movement, for real life. hello, comrade, he’s going to the front line, now the doula is leaving to agitate the ukrainian soldiers to surrender. in general, these

appeals to ukrainian soldiers, they should be quite sincere, i will tell you why. because they are in a situation where they are ready to believe, they would like to believe, but if they do not do it sincerely, it will be difficult, this the village of spartak, a dangerous place, ukrainian soldiers, i am rafi abdul-jabbar, my call sign is abdul, i urge you to lay down your arms, i have the right to tell you... about this, i am in the position where i was wounded, we do not want of your deaths , so that your children become orphans, so that your wives become homeless, so that your mothers have their eyes blacked out, the goletsky people's republic, and we, its inhabitants and warriors, do not want this with your families, i urge

you to lay down your arms, the moment has come when rafi jabbar at one of the events... smog contact vladimir putin. abdullah did not offer or ask for anything; he was in a hurry to say as many warm words as possible about donbass. enemy propaganda says that soldiers like us are occupiers. the local population will never donate completely, after two days of filling a person ’s blood, from which the blood flows out, they fill it again and give theirs , no population will ever do this to the occupier. i am... a muslim, i am a pashtun, an afghan, rafi abduljabbar, i am a russian soldier, it is a great honor for me to be a russian soldier, i have the honor, thank you very much for your devotion to the values ​​for which we live and for which we fight.

afghanistan is always the same for us, but abdul saw many new nuances at home. it’s interesting to me that now, as you found kabul there in general, there are fewer people, but again there’s a rush in kabul, what’s interesting is that in afghanistan, a month ago , traffic lights started working, a traffic cop, an afghan traffic cop, they call it traffic, this afghan traffic cop , he waits for the red light to turn on, then the red light turns on, he runs out onto the road and tries to politely stop everyone with a smile and say: look, you see, the red light is on, which means it’s a hundred? that is , he moves away, waits, skipping this side, that is , little by little, little by little, they accustom people even to traffic lights, but poverty, poverty, great poverty, hunger, people work all day to bring at least something home, and this there’s no work, what did you eat, i don’t know, i

- lately they gave me yakhni, at least at home, usually, well, pilaf... well , pilaf, which is prepared at home, i ate a lot of boiled meat, i ate it every hour, well this boiled hooves of bulls, well, as if our russians are about to fall in horror there, i think someone there will drop a monocole, well, these are tendons, let’s say, that are boiled, they turn out like glue, this is a very healthy food for men especially, i ... in afghanistan i realized what kind people live in russia, i saw our stray dogs, but given our situation, our people are hungry, that is , people have no time for dogs, we buy bread for a lot of stray dogs , and we're short, i'm a relative, please give the dog food there, so he gives the dog bread, and people

look in horror at how you can give bread to a dog, and i see people’s consciousness changing. yes, was it really possible? and every time we went there, passed by, we already know, everyone already, the whole district knows that these people, that red car, it feeds the dogs, in short, they all, look, look, here, here, now, now, now, they will come out, i can directly hear this conversation, i see, we even changed this intersection, people have started to be more polite, everyone is treating each other, hello, i greet you, how are you, everything is fine at home, great, today you... about dogs, i say, yes, look, and that dog has already been fed, they say, that is, it turns out that people have already started feeding dogs, if you were taking a tourist group, what five things would you show them? first of all, i would lead them through the crossroads of afghanistan, take them out, take them out, i would not show them the best that is in afghanistan, i would show them

real life, i would show them the stench , sewage, flies, hungry people, poor stray dogs, who are all covered in ulcers, this is what i would show them, they would...

that is, they removed everything, those people who were constantly on drugs, with the americans, there were a lot of them, i heard there, well, the guys were talking among themselves that this really doesn’t exist, in afghanistan there are completely, literally no drugs at all, now , that is, in this respect they are great, the presence of the americans still left its small imprint, and the taliban have now received the country, they have now only been in power for 2 years, they are changing everything with great difficulty, but again... with great difficulty for them they are succeeding, in the near future they will have more it’s more difficult because there are no injections into the country , the country is closed, not recognized by anyone,

there is no money in the country, there is no trade in the country, uh , there is no bread in the country, the country is hungry, closed, artificially, consciously such a reservation, here are these guys, to i have to say, again, i want to say that i am not interested in praising these people. but to give it their due, i can say that these guys have a great future, whether the americans stayed there or not, i didn’t stay as americans, but their influence remained, why do they maintain at least some contacts with the taliban, they are at least somehow trying to communicate with them, that is , again, those subsidies of 40 million a week are given to them by the americans. the propaganda of the last 20 years leaves its mark, why? because there were nato members there, but the nato members had to give them a conditional enemy, that is, we are not the enemies, who are the enemies? oh, the damned

russians who were here, that is , this whole thing, even independence day was celebrated on the day of the withdrawal of the russians, that is, the conditional day of independence was the day of the withdrawal of soviet troops from afghanistan, in fact, that is, well it’s like this farce, it’s like that, it’s quite interesting, people understand everything perfectly. he went to prison, someone told talib that this strange man came on instructions from the russian special services, when i was arrested, well, i saw straight aggression, not aggression, that is, no one even touched me with a finger, but in conversations in i saw aggression from these, and they were also presented with, shown that video where i said that i was a russian soldier, and this is not a lot of them... i was interrogated for the cause by a security officer, such an extraordinary person, he had the body of a twenty-seven-year-old, say , twenty-six-year-old, and the eyes

of a sixty-year-old, that is, he was constantly wearing a mask, that is, well, how is he a state security officer, so he interrogated me in that, say, in the detention center where he served time. closed for years, and what’s more, he interrogated me in the room where he was interrogated, only interrogated me, we talked with him, talked while he was interrogated, all the walls were splattered with his blood, and what’s interesting is that they have a very large democracy inside , that is, if i the investigator interrogates, any supervisor has the right to come in and listen, in short, i was always surprised, what kind of indiscipline. we have the same one, it’s like the inspector came in, sits down, sits down, looks in short, he’s interested, well, that ’s all, he listens to what he asks, what i answer, and

on the way, in short, he inserts another remark there , he deceives, shows, right there, you know , his opinion, he says, it’s therefore like that for him, well, it’s clear that he, but he stood there like that, it got to the point that five of them gathered, they were all huddled, like that well, in short, i’m already there, i say, wait, i say, stand in line, i say , in line, take turns asking questions, come on, you, you said there, but here’s your answer, right, right, you, no, there, that ’s how they are there, we had such polemics, discussions, gradually the secret service officers. in afghanistan they began to understand that all the reports that abdullah the spy was false, everyone was already looking for a decent way out of this situation. the taliban themselves said, well , someone will vouch for you, say, from russia, without problems, you go to russia, there are no questions there, and yes, they vouched for me, my homeland did not abandon me, uh, let’s just say, they called for me, i know, the ministry of defense, thank

you, brothers. that my homeland is like this to me. today abdollah is again at home in donbass, he does not sit still, he is involved in social problems, helping the wounded, this is now his main business. thank you very much for your dedication to the values ​​for which we live and for

which. we are fighting, i am pashtum, afghan, i am a russian soldier, have honor, they are looking at this is the glow of our donetsk, every night it beckons them, we don’t let them in and won’t let them in, let’s all live in peace, i’m trying to motivate them to live on, well, they had legs, but they don’t, we need to move on, the doula is leaving to campaign, ukrainian soldiers, ukrainian soldiers, i urge you to lay down your arms, we don’t want unnecessary losses,

one is young.