and today our guest is national security expert alexander tishchenko. ernoon, alexander vladimirovich, we began to see you often on television, you give comments after the vns, well, our colleagues present. you are an expert on national security, how did you become an expert in this field, tell our viewers a little about what preceded this? well for in order to become an expert, you need to be a specialist for a long time, so it turned out that for about 2/3 of my life i was dealing with precisely these issues, issues of national security, it was service in the army, to put it frankly, the most the extreme point of the soviet ... union, the kuril islands on the border with japan, then there was a good school and, as it were, he forged the shoulder straps of a colonel in the system of the ministry of internal affairs, here is the state security council and has already tempered his shoulder straps as a colonel, this is in the border committee, that's if, how me in colonel jokes to the family twice. much earlier, in fact, as the soviet union collapsed, this