international cultural cooperation, mikhail iefimovich shvetkoy, and the rector of the russian state social university russian academy of arts, andrei leonidovich khazin. we are talking about how peace prizes can help maintain peace and prevent war, which is probably why this prize is important, and not by chance. it is named after tolstoy, because vladimirovich tolstoy told me that the yasnaya polyana prize nomination is very risky, yes, there are no international nominations, usually, yes, in different languages, but here it is, why? because if someone, for example, is a nobel laureate, mario vargas llosa sees letter signed by tolstoy, he understands what it is about, that is, the tolstoyan tradition in literature. this is just one of those languages that is understood by absolutely everyone, everyone knows what it is about, not only literature, you know, i always remember, this is such a rather complicated translation from german, so i will quote inaccurately, but thomas mann told his daughter that the first world war would not have happened if tolstoy had lived, yes-yes-yes, he did not have to d