not only the conversation of the journalist and publicist vitaly portnikov with the historian serhii plakhi, see further on our broadcast greetings, friends, i congratulate you all on the holiday and the interlocutors of our broadcast today, ukrainian and american historian, professor of the department of ukrainian history at harvard university, serhiy platyi , i congratulate you, mr. serhiy, and i also congratulate you on independence day. thank you very much . i congratulate you on the holiday. you personally with the presentation of the taras shevchenko award , this is a very important marker for this award of your award. thank you. a sign of bad taste, but i will tell you that there were not many history books that i read with such interest as the last school textbook on the history of russia, written by the former minister of culture of the russian federation, medinsky , and the rector of the moscow institute of international relations, because you know when i read books by historians of your books i think that the gate of europe is such a beautiful philip from such an analysis of ukra