hello, this is kirill vyshinsky, and this is the program "typical novorossiya". our name says it all, we are talking about the territory that has returned to its historical roots, about novorossiya. with the help of a close look at history, we will try to reveal the uniqueness of its present day, to find typical features and recognizable signs of the past. and this is what we will talk about

today. necessary as air. 10 years of the russian humanitarian mission in donbass. what the humanitarian combats of the russian emergencies ministry gave to the region. a conversation with an expert of the program. the great an artist with a big heart. iosif kabzon. why he was so loved in donbass. more than 10 years ago, in august 2014, the first humanitarian convoy left russia for donbass. at that time , the region was on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. aggression from ukrainian troops, economic and social blockades are the result of the post-maidan ukrainian regime. at that time, active fighting was going on throughout donbass, many enterprises were no longer working.

were empty due to the lack of food supplies, which were obstructed by the ukrainian authorities. in the summer of 2014, ukraine completely cut off the residents of donbass from social security. pension payments and other social benefits were stopped in the region. it would seem that there was no help to be expected from anywhere, but russia raised the alarm. in august 2014 , the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation sergey lavrov sent an official request to the osce, the council of europe, the international committee of the red cross and the un to organize an international humanitarian mission to the conflict zone. the head of the russian foreign ministry noted that russia had repeatedly tried to send aid through the ministry of emergency situations convoy with humanitarian aid, but was regularly refused passage by the ukrainian authorities. on august 6, 2014,

the un security council, at russia's initiative, held an emergency meeting on the humanitarian situation in ukraine. at that time, the permanent representative of the russian federation to the un, vitaly churkin, voiced a proposal to send russian humanitarian convoys to donetsk and lugansk, under the auspices of and accompanied by representatives of the irc. ukraine and a number of western countries, as expected, did not support this proposal. in particular, us permanent representative to the un samantha power then stated that the us would consider.

to the territory of the lpr. white kamaz trucks came out to meet civilians with posters and russian flags. then the aid was delivered to various cities of the dpr and lpr. a total of 280 vehicles, which contained about 2.0 tons of humanitarian aid, food, medicine, drinking water, sleeping bags, as well as sets of power plants of various capacities. and already on august 23, the column of the russian emergencies ministry headed back to the russian federation. since then, the volume of supplies has constantly increased, about the history of peace convoys , about how they helped and are helping the residents of donbass. story by anna efimova. august 2014, the first russian humanitarian convoy leaves for donbass, travels until the last moment, has no exact idea whether it will be able to cross the border.

kiev initially agreed on the note with consent for the passage of the russian humanitarian convoy, but after the start of the bureaucratic game, at this time ukrainian bombs were raining down on the cities of donbass. it is absolutely clear that... the situation with the convoy was unhealthy, we tried strictly follow the norms and principles of international humanitarian law, initially received the consent of the ukrainian side, everyone had the opportunity to verify, including representatives of the media , that there was nothing in these trucks except humanitarian supplies, that the aid to people was vital, can be judged by the surviving videos from the besieged... august of the same 2014 , the kiev authorities do not provide corridors for the exit of the civilian population, people are left without basic means of subsistence forced to huddle in damp, dilapidated basements , fall asleep under the endless cannonade of ukrainian artillery, mostly old people, women,

children. they are shooting here, our soldiers, killing others, you can’t go outside, you can’t walk in the beautiful park, they are right here. meanwhile, in kiev, it seems, they even relish this situation, on ukrainian tv channels, the lack of any assistance and deprivation of people’s livelihoods, benefits, pensions, in particular, they explain it simply: they say the cabinet of ministers simply cannot provide them. the humanitarian catastrophe on donbas is being prophesied by prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk, and people are already going out to hunger riots with weapons. it soon became clear that kiev's permission to help the residents of their own country was a waste of time, columns with huge banners, humanitarian aid from the russian federation went one after another into the hell of the civil war, which in the independent country they stubbornly continued to call an anti-terrorist operation. early in the morning, as scheduled, the motorcades left

the don rescue center in rostov the regions were heading towards the border, the checkpoints donetsk and matviyev kurgan. they always greet us normally, everyone needs help. now, at least, people have already started to go out, clean up, build, restore everything, life goes on. all activities at checkpoints are carried out in strict accordance with international law and in the presence of representatives of the customs border services of ukraine, as well as observers of the osce mission. the turning point was 2022, the beginning of a special military operation and the evacuation of people from the conflict zone that preceded this became the peak of the workload for the russian emergencies ministry. full-scale military actions, of course, could not but affect the residents, who were forced to endure hardships. these were difficult times, everything changed, but most importantly, the uncertainty disappeared. in 2022, we really took on the role of a kind of operator for the delivery of these

humanitarian supplies, the circle of people, the circle of federal executive authorities that could.

medicines, diesel generators and gasoline, from the first days here they try to provide targeted assistance, based on the needs of the people, by generator, when we come here, we will bring generators, medicines, which will be, as in any frontline settlement, in the work of volunteers the main speed is humanitarian.

despite all the threats, because they simply cannot act differently, sometimes risking their own lives on par with the fighters on the front line, as happened with two volunteers from the youth wing of the people's front of the donetsk people's republic, in a car which the ukrainian one got.u, exactly when they were driving for the residents of the glushkovsky district to evacuate. their names were nikolai kovalev and david sokolov, both were barely 20, the russian president awarded them the order of courage, posthumously. anna ifimova, leriev,

understand that the time when they first appeared there in 2014, it was the hardest

time for the republic, the main thing is the symbolic moment, the cult one, you know, and the ukrainian , so to speak, as if propaganda, yes, it really pushed hard on the fact that, as if, russia abandoned you, these vehicles were flying russian flags, with symbols, which means the ministry of emergency situations was there, it was so obvious

that it was impossible not to notice them and it

penetrated into the ukrainian space, then they couldn’t find anything better to do than report that these trucks were actually transporting non -humanitarian thunderstorms, yes, because people had no idea, i’ll repeat, this is a ukrainian audience, they had no idea about this humanitarian catastrophe created by the ukrainian army, which means that they were transporting weapons, shells for those same militants, yes, for those terrorists, as... it was not limited to this, what is the phenomenon

of humanitarian support in general? well, when we , so to speak, talked about these famous white convoys, yes, it is clear that a huge state mechanism was activated, yes, which, so to speak, provided this, from the beginning of the twenty-second year and its own, it acquired, well, simply grandiose proportions, it is clear that, let's say, the army, so to speak, does not have its own state structures. it gives to people, so to speak, on a large scale land and in russia to understand novorossiya, to feel it, yes, to feel your involvement, and this is very, very valuable, this so to speak movement, yes, precisely humanitarian, civil volunteer, it of course became one of the really, as you correctly noted, and phenomena of everything that

is connected with the modern history of novorossiya. thank you very much, sasha. one of the first media people who spoke about the need for systematic humanitarian aid to donbass was people's artist of the ussr iosif kobzon. he was concerned about the people living in in the territories blocked by ukraine there were not only food and medicines, but also textbooks in their children's schools. cultural institutions, destroyed by shelling, were operating, and the employees working in them had a salary, knowing the entire creative path of a truly great artist and a person with a big heart, one can be sure that kabzon simply could not have acted differently. he himself, originally from these places, was born in donbass in 1937 in

the city of chasov yar near artemovsk, donetsk region. lived in lviv, where his father worked, and after the great patriotic war the family returned to their native land. kabzon celebrated victory day in 1945 in slavyansk, and went to first grade in kramatorsk. after finishing school, he entered the dnepropetrovsk mining college. there the future pop singer became seriously interested in sports and even became the ukrainian champion in boxing among young men. in 1995, iosif kabzun was awarded the title of honorary citizen of dnepropetrovsk. this example was followed by about a dozen more ukrainian cities. for a long time , morning trains arrived at the central railway station of dnepropetrovsk to the song of mavsesyan and robert rozhdestvensky, dnepropetrovsk, my home . anyone who has heard this song at least once at the station, in the echoing morning silence

of a large industrial city, will never forget it. no matter how hard the current deputies of the dnepropetrovsk city council try. who deprived kobzon of the title of honorary citizen of the city, took away from the song the status of the city anthem, which was assigned to this song only 10 years ago, and there is no such city on the map anymore, dnepropetrovsk, only dnepr remains, as the townspeople have always called it in short, so i called him that too when i lived and grew up in it, sometimes i just want to break down and say, who are you to decide what songs... kabzon is definitely among these people for many decades to come, in 2015 ukraine suddenly decided that kobzon was a threat to the national security of the country and added him to the corresponding black list

of cultural figures dangerous to ukraine. in 2018, president poroshenko, by his decree, stripped joseph kobzon of all his ukrainian state awards and titles. and joseph kabzon wrote and performed the anthem of the then self-proclaimed donetsk republics. he went to his homeland, despite the bans, sanctions and serious illness, he went certainly with help, in donbass he was not only loved, but respected. for those places, this is a rare quality, which. says a lot. after 2014, iosif davidovich became the honorary consul of the dpr in russia. how did his fellow countrymen remember the people's artist, for which they never tire of thanking him? in the story by olga mokhova. october

2014, the opera and ballet theater in donetsk under incessant shelling, but at the same time with... a two-meter bronze monument was erected in his honor monument, though it took about a year and a half to persuade the artist to agree to it. in 2003, the townspeople actually installed

a sculptural composition, to which iosif davidovich said that this is not a monument, this is a sculptural composition, and i dream of couples in love making a date here. it can be said that his ascent to the pop olympus began in donetsk, when he was just a boy, iosif. kabzon first appeared on the stage of the local opera ballet theater, participated in an amateur art competition and as a winner with a song migratory birds fly, he was sent to a concert in moscow, when later fate connected him with the stage, the first time he came to the stage of our theater, he knelt down, kissed her, said, this is my fate, it began only here, i remember this. well, when in 2014 the donbassoper team was left without any means of subsistence, kobzon paid them salaries from his personal funds for several months, everyone the same

from the cleaner to the director, and then helped with the restoration of the scenery and with the production performances. i believed in donbass as a child, when i wandered through the ruins of the liberated donbass in 1944, now it is experiencing difficulties, but i am sure that the people of donbass, the residents of donbass will defend their freedom and independence, our beloved city will flourish again. despite the fact that ukraine deprived him of his titles of merit, kobzon did not stop performing ukrainian songs at concerts, which he loved very much, his mother taught him them as a child. in donetsk, they remember that the audience always cried when the artist performed the song ukraine mother russia, and in general never refused if asked to perform in ukraine,

where he taught himself. the guys only had to pass entrance exams, and kobzon took on the cost of tuition himself. at the institute named after him, this tradition is continued today. as before, guys from the newly annexed territories, liberated ones, from donbass, from lugansk can study at our institute, uh, with a 90% discount. uh, the board of trustees takes on the cost of themselves. and we have 56 such people at the institute. he not only infected people with his example, but inspired them. outstanding surgeon emil festal dedicated three poems to him. during one of the artists' visits to the donetsk burn center, they went

around the wards together. kabzon was then moved by the fate of the young general of the three tankmen, he was already calling from moscow, inquiring about their health. they had black faces, black, not because they were dirty, but because they were burned. you know, we managed to save all three of them. they survived, and when kabzon saw them, he took all this to heart, so close, and i saw his eyes. in the spring 2024 , a memorial plaque to iosif kabzon was unveiled in the building of the lugansk circus. in 1914, it was badly damaged by shelling, the rare display glass windows were completely broken, and there was a hole in the dome from a shell hit. he came here, looked. at all this, i tell him, iosif davydovich, there’s a hole in the dome, let’s go, i ’ll show you, he says: no need, i can see everything anyway, i’ll help, probably, if it weren’t for iosif

davydovich, the circus probably wouldn’t have been restored, not only financial assistance, medical equipment and personal civil position, kobzon did not let the cultural life of the warring donbass fade away, in the dpr he launched the festival i love you life, in the lpr he revived the competition... over 70% of the participants of the children's music academy project linked their fate with professional music studies now they are either students of the donetsk state music academy or are already professional artists of the donetsk state academic philharmonic from 2014 until his departure in 2018. bzon came more than ten times to donbass, always without special demands, very modestly, and drank exclusively live, believing that this is the only way to tell a story and be the audience on one emotional

note. in donetsk. they say that we have no other fellow countryman like kobzon, a great artist, a real person, a great friend of donbass. olga mokhova, anastasia popova, valery savilev, typical novorussiya. that's all we wanted to talk about today. kirill vyshinsky was with you. see you soon. if everything is like the wild west, then there is only one law: shoot first, competitions and... and

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