The military dugouts, soldiers and officers congratulate colleagues, women military personnel, write messages and Text Messages to their wives, and make video messages to relatives. Preparations for the holiday often take place at the level of a military operation, where to find flowers and how to deliver them to where exactly on this day they are more important than any ammunition. This is important to the military, people who know very well how fragile life can be. Highly value any an opportunity to express their love and admiration to women, they try to congratulate their fighting friends in a special way. The best traditions of this day collective congratulations the day before, childrens matinees for mothers and a day off were established in soviet times. Time has passed, but the holiday traditions remain. And today, nothing but surprise causes the desire in ukraine to betray march 8th. Deep ideological and propaganda meaning. For example, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada believe that this holiday was established by the conservative moscow regime in order to popularize their own views on the role and place of women. This means that it must be abolished as a legacy of the colonial past in the cultural life and way of life of ukraine. End of quote. Politicians found something to replace march 8, came up with the day of the ukrainian woman, they want to celebrate it on the birthday of etse ukrainka, on the weekend they are ready to move it to march 9, the birthday of taras shevchenko, but ukrainians are not very ready, out of 2 million participants in a survey on this topic, 2 3 still vote for womens day on march 8th, which should be on days off. By and large, will it matter . March 8 is another day off, it is important that this day remains a day of sincere admiration for women, no matter where they find themselves. According to the main man of the russian army, defense minister sergei srigu. More than a thousand military women are taking part in special military operations today, every third of them has been awarded state awards. These are mostly doctors. Many of them went to the north military district zone as volunteers. There are also women volunteers who help and they support the fighters, the wives of military men who decided to be closer to their husbands and followed them to new regions, women who are simply waiting for their men, and this is how they protect them. About them in the story of anna efimova. Withered grass crumples under rough boots, a backpack with overweight equipment, a khakicolored uniform that , it would seem, does not correspond to the content at all, she is only 23, in the field she is preparing to launch her reconnaissance drone, i grew up with this, i understood that i need to know some basic things in engineering, everyone should understand the principle of operation of drones, everything is absolutely. Understand, the instructor of the russian hawks detachment of the Russian Armed forces, who trains our fighters to fly birds, or simply put, drones, admits that she signed a contract at the first opportunity , her fiance serves on the front line in the 114th brigade, he was one of those who recently took avdeevka, the fighting in this direction is now especially intense, but the guys have their own way of getting in touch. Before the storm began to ovdeevka, we saw each other often, now and. I have a service with him, he is always there, so theres no way to see each other, so i have to wave everything into the camera through the drone. However, when it comes to support, of course, not only from the air. It is difficult not to find a region where it is not provided. All over the country, women weave camouflage nets, sew boklavs, collect dry rations, and carefully fold warm clothes for the soldiers. This is a set of thermal underwear, the thermal underwear goes away at a time, because there is no place to wash it now , that is, it is, roughly speaking, disposable, what didnt fit into those boxes, we left the next time, there are a lot of drones there, and the cars really need to be more. The boxes contain only the most necessary things about what is currently missing at the front, the soldiers themselves report, the list invariably includes medical consumables, chevrons, Hygiene Products and gas cylinders, with their help they heat up food in cold dugouts, all this is bought and carefully packaged by their wives, basically these are some kind of dry rations , well, something thats easy to open, eat, heat everything up, theres the stew, theres the quick soups. Youre not tired, youre sitting there too, when youre already collecting humanitarian aid like this and thinking, that there would be something extravagant to surprise them at least a little, to please them. Elena and elizaveta met via telegram; both husbands went to the front in september 2022, when mobilization was announced. First, the fighters underwent training together at a Training Ground in kazan, then they were transferred to a tent camp and then to the front line. First with mine. Companies got acquainted, then we began to be friends as a battalion, now we are already friends as a regiment, so we can reach the division, but some go so far as to literally they abandon everything they have acquired and follow their men straight to the northern military district zone , without much hesitation, anastasia did the same, her husband serves in the airborne forces, in the donbass, he also ended up being mobilized, now she is next to him, completely arranging her life anew, from scratch , everyone loves to eat homemade, this is indisputable, by the way, all these pies, carefully prepared teas and other gifts are clearly not out of boredom or a thirst for adventure; anastasia has several patents on her shoulders for the development of antiburn healing products. She is currently writing her phd dissertation dissertation, which is devoted to oxidative processes in the body and ways to combat them. At the same time, here in lugansk he gets a job as a nurse. Now im passing a commission as an operating nurse, anesthesiology and neumatology, that is, this is my parallel education, that is, i am now completing two degrees, a medical degree and a candidates degree, that is, well, this is how it turned out, here i have, thousands of military wives as one front in the lens of professional photographers, on the shoulders of the husbands military jacket, as a reminder, despite the circumstances, a loved one is always nearby, this is. Just a beautiful feast event, thanks to this photo project, many wives met each other. We believe that we should be a worthy wife, a worthy spouse. Therefore , our activities are diverse, this is psychological and legal, assistance in restoring uniforms, this is filming in films and videos, and we send cargo to donbass, we ourselves go to donbass. The union of officers wives was unofficially created in 2017 during the serial war. Military company, today it unites 15 thousand families throughout russia, including the lpr and dpr. The main task for next year is to obtain federal status for the project in order to reach a new level in resolving issues for military families. Because, you see, this is the energy that we carry. If we cried, closed ourselves off, were sad, wrote tearful Text Messages to them every day, it would nt make it any easier for them, it would get even worse, thats why were in this program. Catherine shows her growing girls those they need to look up to, the faithful peter and fevronia murymskys, who became saints, precisely for the feat of love, fidelity, devotion and selfsacrifice. He jokes that children experience separation from their father with the help of their mother, yet raising them alone away from their husband is not at all easy, you need to show incredible. Inner strength every day , faith helps, it is prayer that does not allow one to lose heart, i realized that without i cant stand god, just like the fighters, i think, as there is such a saying, in the trenches, there are no unbelievers, yes, the same principle works here, war is allowed, among other things, so that wives prayed for husbands, the husband would be faithful to his wife, isnt that the point . In life, its not for nothing that they say, victory is forged in the rear, with such faith and support, with such an internal core , russia simply cannot have any other way. We will talk with our regular expert, political scientist, historian rastislav ishchenko about what recent years in difficult conditions have meant for the women of novorossiya and how today they inspire strength in those who defend the fatherland. Rastislav, good afternoon, good afternoon. Almost 10 years of war in donbass, evacuation, constant shelling. We must give them their due, they withstood all this, if we compare it with what is happening now in ukraine, where we constantly see broken families, when women went to europe, they simply changed families, started everything from scratch, in a new society, in new conditions , well, i understand that in this same donbass, not all families survived, in general there is no such society where all families would be preserved completely, but nevertheless we just see in this case, a huge number of examples when families are strengthened under such a thing kind of pressure, in general, this testifies, first of all, to how awareness of your rightness, your historical rightness, it gives inner strength, inner core in order to hold on, and again, first of all, when you understand that you need you have to hold on, yes, then first of all you grab onto your loved ones, because they are the ones who are next to you. In the glorious Christian Society in orthodoxy , it was almost impossible to get a divorce; remarriage was not approved, even if the spouse died; centuries such an archetype of a supermanogamous family. In recent years, in recent decades , we have very much diverged in this regard from the west, there was precisely pressure on tradition , deliberate suppression of tradition and deliberate atomization of society, its disintegration, if you. You destroy a family, then the next stage you begin destroy society, begins to atomize, an atomized society cannot maintain a strong state, we can compare Chinese Society there is very far from ours in terms of its own religious views, according to their traditions and so on, but family values, yes, they have thousands of years of name in the first place, we see how from century to century, with the most terrible upheavals, the Chinese State literally. I, my family, need them, my descendants, there would be no family, there would be nothing to fight for, nothing to defend, ruins of cities, and this is the place of residence of your family, these are the places where your ancestors will be buried, the places where your. Descendants will live, these are the people defended, in our minds the rear is military logistics, supply and so on, but is it possible to understand your words in such a way that we essentially have a topsecret hyperweapon, ours is spiritual, connected primarily with a family with a woman, yes, that means a Strong Family and treating the family as the first basis as a primary value. The idea of uniting the industrial regions of the two largest mining basins, the donetsk coal and krivorochsky iron ore basins, into a single territorialadministrative entity is considered the main reason for the creation of the donetskkrivoy rog republic in years of the october revolution. The republic was proclaimed in february 1918 by the russian bourgeoisie, it was conceived several decades before the revolution of 917. In november 1874, the First Congress of the association of coal miners of the south took place in taganrog. They wanted to regulate relations between those who mine donbass coal and those who transport it. Within 3 years , the council of congresses of mining industrialists of the south of russia was created in kharkov. The main lobby of entrepreneurs of that time steel and coal magnates sought administrative reforms of the empire, advocating the unification of different regions along sectoral lines. After the february revolution, the debate became even more heated. Then the ukrainian central rada declared claims to the kharkov, yekoteroslav, tauride, kherson provinces and part of the don army region. And then. How in those years the council of congresses of miners of the south of russia fought for the unity of donbass and krivbass, and what other important decisions it made in the story of olga mokhova. Among the founders of the council of congresses of miners of the south of russia, mercury King Alexander auerbach, mining and gold miner nikolai avdakov, leader of the empires heavy industry, as they called it. Contemporaries of nikolai von ditmar. All of them, like many other participants in this organization, were graduates of the st. Petersburg mining institute, without exaggeration, pioneers of the Industrial Development of donbass at the turn of the 19th20th centuries. Then completely new methods of management and production were introduced. Our engineers, some of the names that are now depicted on the map of the donetsk republic, they created this business, they created it. A completely new type of industry and enterprises provided simply incredible growth for the economy of that region and population growth. By 1917, the council represented the interests of more than 450 owners of mines and Metallurgical Companies in the kharkov yekaterinoslav province, as well as the region of the don army. The miners of the south worked exclusively in the interests of the developing region and the power of influence on the adoption of fateful decisions for it. It was with this parliament, it was the miners of the south that initiated the ban on deforestation and the abandonment of wood fuel on the railways. Advocated for heating government institutions with coal, and after many years of struggle they achieved the introduction of customs duties on foreign fuel. Instead of buying cheap coal abroad, we decided to develop our own deposits, then they went to the railway workers, joined the expert council, and reduced tariffs within the country. On the initiative of the council of congresses of miners of the south, by the beginning of the first world war, this was the most influential organization in the russian empire, mining monopolies were created coal and steel production. The prodamet syndicate united almost all the countrys Metallurgical Companies. Another joint Stock Company , produgol, was responsible for the export of. Donbass coal. Such state syndicates, in general, became the prototype of future state institutions in soviet russia subsequently, as they were created in the image of effective western corporations. The Mutual Credit Society provided assistance to entrepreneurs and the benefit society to miners. The idea of their creation also belongs to the council of congresses miners of the south. They also established an Exchange Committee and organized a statistical bureau. In principle, they introduced statistics for the Mining Industry as such, because before that no one considered it necessary to take into account either the production, sales, exports, or imports of our coal, our heavy metals. Due to a shortage of technical personnel in the industry, a Higher Mining School was opened in yekaterinoslav in 1899; at the st. Petersburg mining institute, the education of the best students was paid from nikolas personal fund. This is what they are doing now Mining Industry, popularization of the mining engineer profession, this is the same story as it was 150 years ago, when i read stories i see that everything is repeating itself. By the end of the 19th century, Coal Production in the donbass quadrupled, and the share of industrial revenues to the budget amounted to more than 80 . However, the Administrative Department that existed at that time in the province, which sometimes separated enterprises of the same company, significantly hampered the development of the industry. And they actively used it. Immediately after the february revolution of the seventeenth year miners advocated the formation of a special committee to manage the industry of the south of russia. At the same time , the First Congress of councils of workers deputies of the donetsk and krivoroch regions took place in kharkov. It was there that a single economic and administrative entity was proclaimed, in which the coal mines of donbass and krivoy rog Metallurgical Enterprises and kharkov banks united. But immediately these lands became the subject of russian bargaining. The basis of Economic Development and military power of the state, take from the entire people and transfer provincial autonomy based on a clearly expressed national one. The appeal of the leadership of the Mining Industry to the provisional government was not heard then; after the eighteenth year, they themselves , speaking against the bolsheviks, joined the ranks of their enemies, four provinces, kharkov, ekaterinoslav, tauride, kherson, as well as parts of the don army region, transferred under the jurisdiction of the central rada, later became part of soviet ukraine. The works and reports of the council of congresses reflect the history of that difficult time. Created. Russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia , russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, russia, 24. Its easy to get confused by the facts , when you see only part of the overall picture, the pursuit of views changes entire locations, its easy to make a zipfake, change your voice. Hello, on the air of the senate program, my colleague vera krasova and i, vladimir nesterov, we will talk about new legislative laws. Revision of International Agreements that do not meet our interests and provide an advantage unfriendly countries, whether russia needs them, must be carried out