sven sees telling the history of. people as a mission he cheery it's a museum which is one of the principal tourist attractions of kodiak island when futurists visited during low season local people come here to when the russians actually took over our claimed alaska for russia speedy don't simulate one of sense friends together with his family is listening to his story although his name is of russian origin he doesn't know a single word of the language spoken on the other side of the bering strait nor does he know much about where his last name comes from earth and my mom told me. her or her taken after her grandpa you're on your honor and they couldn't say our last may and we were russian. screw don't simulate often doesn't need to speak russian services in the orthodox church in kodiak city are held in english. her. father in a county was born in new england it's a place that is far away from here he has no russian roots nevertheless he decided to serve as an orthodox priest in alaska but it was a long story. it's

sven haakanson is steering his boat out of the narrow bay of kodiak island his ancestors have lived here since time immemorial. over the thousands of years they to solve this seascape each time they put out to sea to hunt. but they use their canoes with a couple of paddles instead of comfortable motor boats with powerful engines in the past yes it was very very difficult to hunt as an individual you need a group in order to. nor to actually capture for example you look at the sea lines over here in order for you to hunt one of those in the several people. on a summer day and seven hundred forty one scores of elliot's the natives of the land set out on a hunting expedition in canaries they spotted odd looking ships on the horizon. those big sailboats milonga to an expedition led by russian explorers daring and sure. that was how kodiak island made its appearance on russian maps the first colonists were. guided by those maps when he landed on the island more than forty years later seventy four the city of kodiak was the capital of russian america for fifteen years. could streets serve as a

. >> yesterday, i was talking to bill, who is not run, he worked for sven robinson in the vancouver area for a long time, but he said something interesting, he said in the last five year, he's learn master's degree about parliamentary procedure and how parliament works because he worked within a minority context, the last seven year a minority context. he said, you know, once you get into these minority parliaments, you really understand themy nureba, the procedure, the details of how democracy unfolds. we're seeing it in front of us right now. >> sounds like a fascinating >> i love it. >> tell me, really that countdown clock that's been going on the screen for three hours, it was all to bring us to this point to look at that screen with the writing on it? >>s the thing about democracy, you've been to shuttle liftoffs, the best rockets take time to leave the ground. this is a lesson of going to the moon. and of course everyone is trying to go to the moon right now. you know, the truth is, we can't predict when this will start but more importantly, we can't predict when -- how it's going

he worked for sven robinson and was the mp for a long time.said that in the last five years he has learned more about parliament and how it works because he has worked in the last seven years in the minority context. and he said, once you get into these minority parliament, you understand the minutia of the procedure, the details of how democracy unfolds and we are seeing it in front of us right now. >> it sounds like a fascinating dinner conversation, evan. [laughter] >> i love it. >> tell me, the countdown clock that has been going on the screen for the last three hours, it was all to bring us to this point to where we could look at the screen with the writing on it? >> this is the thing about democracy. you have been to shuttle liftoffs. the best record -- rockets take time to leave the ground. we are going to the moon right now. the truth is, we cannot predict when this darn thing is going to start, but more importantly, we cannot predict how it is going to end. and as you say, it is easy to get lost in the weeds here. >> [laughter] >> but