festival, people's artist of the soviet union and hero of labor of russia, yuri bashmet, spoke about this in more detail. yuri abramovichk you. that you agreed to meet with us, found the time, i can imagine how many worries you have now, because here in sochi the international arts festival has already begun under your leadership. the festival has been taking place since 2008, that is, for 17 years in a row, without cancellations. how did it happen, how did you manage to maintain such dynamics, it turns out that neither the pandemic nor the degradation of relations with the collective west against the background of the escalation of the conflict in ukraine interfered, what is the secret of holding festivals not in spite of, well, in history in general. big projects, big things and masterpieces were born in difficult times, because during the time of bach, bidhovin, and tchaikovsky, pyotr ilivich, there were big wars, tchaikovsky, the swan lake was already ready, everything, he has already put an end to it, at this time there is another russian-turkish war. there was also him out of patriotic feelings, as i understand it