first off, thank you for your work on all of this, for highlighting the influence of this guy, ivan ilyin, on putin. what would ilyin make of putin's presidency and his invasion of ukraine? >> well, on the presidency, he would very much approve. ilyin's idea of politics was that a one-party state was too much. there really should be zero parties. there should just be a leader. incidentally, putin had the article which said that sent to everyone in his party so they would know just how important they were. he thought that a state should exist for the leader. there should be for institutional barriers. we see that in russia today with no consultation. the president of russia can send an army out to invade another country. he thought that elections should be purely ritual exercises of support for the leader, which is just what they are in russia today. and if we think about the war, ilyin, as you've already said, had the idea which putin repeats that russia is a kind of all-embracing civilization whose borders are defined only by the will of the leader. ilyin refused to use the word ukraine.

in our program, we quoted the philosophers ivan alexandrovich ilyin passengers of the philosophical shiprant after the revolution of the civil war in russia, his thoughts are the result of painful reflections on the ways of russia after truly catastrophic events from the book of national russia our task about the flow of words. we need vigilance to human falseness and susceptibility to someone else's insincerity. hearing for lies, intuition for evil , joint impressionability, without this we will be deceived, like stupid birds caught like rabbits and passed on like flies on glass. this is news of the week next in the program. the scandal around the american biological laboratories in ukraine is growing as it is connected with the criminal business of hunter biden. playing the role of president, zelensky continues his search for western parliaments, which ask and where to go? anatoly chubais of information programs on the mechanisms of the work of power behind the scenes that with medicines for which there is a rush demand, as well as putin spoke with europe in english french german, and