, we are discussing how we can develop the russia of the future in the next 40 years. See you in the future. Hello, Kirill Vyshinsky is with you, and this is the typical new russia program. Our name says it all, we are talking about the territory that has returned to its historical roots, in novorossiya, with the help of an attentive. History, we will try to reveal the originality of its present day, to find typical features, recognizable signs of the past, thats what well talk about today. The decade of the referendum in crimea, the decision that changed everything, how the crimean spring influenced the choice of donbass, a conversation with an expert about. The muses are not silent, cultural support for novorossiya. 10 years ago, in the days of march 2014, a referendum on the status of the peninsula took place in crimea. Crimeans supported the decision of the Supreme Council of the republic on the regions independence from ukraine and joining the Russian Federation. To the question are you for the reunification of crimea with russia as a subject of the Russian Federation . Federations, the answer is yes, was expressed by more than 96 percent of voters. In total , 83 of crimeans took part in the referendum. Its results became the final point in the process, which was called the crimean spring. It all started with a sharp rejection of the february coup in kiev by the residents of the black sea peninsula. When, as a result of protests on the maidan and the use of force by illegal armed groups of the right sector, the legally elected president yanukovych was overthrown. Moreover, nationalists and radicals attacked those returning from kiev to crimea of citizens who spoke out in defense of the constitution. From the very first days, the new kiev government demonstrated complete disregard for the rights of the russianspeaking population of ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada repealed the law according to which the russian language had a special status in crimea. In the spring of 14 the situation developed dynamically. Every day there were events that showed a referendum on the independence of crimea in reunification with russia remains the only way to avoid armed violence in relations between the republic and its inhabitants. Simferopoli maidan supporters. Prepared for the physical seizure of power on the peninsula. To protect crimeans , selfdefense forces were created with the participation of cossacks, militia and local police. In the last days of february , a new government was formed in crimea, and already in early march its leadership, together with the Crimean Parliament , turned to the president of russia with a request for assistance in ensuring peace. The appearance of polite people on the peninsula thwarted plans for forceful intervention in the maidan authorities; in kiev they were preparing an Airborne Assault operation, they wanted to land special forces on the peninsula, strengthen the Ukrainian Armed forces units there, seize airfields, it was planned to cut the simferopolsevastopol and simferopolyalta highways, and capture the isthmus between crimea and the kerch peninsula. On the evening of march 1, planes. They were already preparing for loading, but after measures taken by russia, the landing was canceled. A referendum on the peninsula on joining russia took place on march 16, 2014. Its results changed not only the fate of crimea, but also gave hope to millions of russianspeaking residents of the ukrainian southeast. How the crimean spring changed the course of history in novorossiya in the plot. Political turn, without crimea, ukraine is a body without legs, as hetman skorapatsky said after the revolution of the seventeenth year, but for russia crimea has always been something more than just a support, albeit strategically significant, this peninsula has always remained a sacred territory of meanings, lost as a result of the collapse of the soviet union. What happened in the ninetyfirst year actually meant a postponed war, a postponed civil war, thats it. For donbass from the fourteenth this war has already started a year ago, at first more or less locally, and then, as they say, throughout the entire space. In the early nineties , a series of referendums swept across this entire area. In 1994, the donetsk and lugansk regions voted for the federalization of the russian language and eurasian integration, and crimea , even before the collapse of the union, quite unequivocally spoke out for. Disintegrating, crimea was among those regions that sought reunification with the Russian Federation. You hand over a bridge to russia, well, in principle, we would all, of course, come from there, we probably went out there, we would really like to go there, but what kind of reality do you see today . Hundreds of kilometers of new roads, hospitals, schools, museums and cultural clusters. Today crimea has become a real showcase of the capabilities of a large country. After joining russia , largescale work began in several directions at once crimea overcame the water blockade and secured complete energy independence, but it all started from the basics, that is, with the integration of the legislative and legal framework. The transition period lasted only 200 days. Crimean experience unique, unprecedented, such successful integration of the region cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Unity of peoples power. Year, militants from the banned rightwing sector attacked crimean antimaidan supporters who were returning home from kiev on buses. Unarmed activists, among them elderly women, were severely beaten. They talked unofficially about the dead. A few days later, on february 26, 2014, thousands of activists gathered at the walls of the Supreme Council of crimea. In fact, this day was the last in the existence of ukrainian authorities in crimea. And that rally is called the point of no return. It was not possible to hold an extraordinary Plenary Meeting of the Crimean Parliament, on the agenda of which was the issue of resignation of the ukrainian government. Outside , streams of people jammed together in one heap. Russia, ukraine, the legal sector, the organization of the crimean tatar mejlis, banned in the Russian Federation. The crowd was barely contained by police cordons, but there were no casualties two people died. We have been warning the whole world since december. We talked about the fact that an armed seizure of power is taking place in ukraine. We warned that if the power is overpowered, the education that will be formed on the spot. Despite the developments in the entire region, the term novorosiya, forgotten by many, has increasingly begun to be used in its designation. Crimea certainly became a precedent for many other, now former regions of southeastern ukraine. Despite the fact that crimea had previously gained, as they say, independence, but only because it was laid down in the constitution of the republic of crimea, they still had autonomy, they could do it, we had to come to independence that was not ours. Having paid a terrible bloody price for it, yes , when we push the armed formation of ukraine beyond the reach of their artillery, then it will really be possible to level it out, we will calmly restore our region, and it will definitely, as it has always been, be one of the most developed regions Russian Federation, and these words sound like a forecast, an accurate forecast of the coming spring. We will talk with our regular expert, historian and political scientist alexander vasiliev. Sasha, good afternoon, good afternoon. Ukrainian propaganda immediately in the fourteenth year announced that the referendum in crimea took place at gunpoint and. Lets say, gave the powers of crimea, throughout all these years, in general, well, the mood of the majority of voters of the peninsula was completely understandable, in the referendum it was somewhat answer options, people could choose different positions, so to speak, and as if the alternative to direct entry into russia was just a return to that crimean constitution of the year ninetytwo, which gave very broad autonomy, which was destroyed by kiev, and of course, what happened in 1914, yes it absolutely. Flows smoothly from all previous processes, and if kiev had not known about such sentiments in crimea, then these countermeasures would not have been needed , these permanent appointees were not needed, it was the sbu, yes, which there, so to speak, had enough knitting, opened criminal cases against activists in crimea all these years, as soon as kiev lost its monopoly on force, and on. The peninsula, then it became possible simply Free Expression of the will of the krivchans, then we still know very well what kiev was playing on, it played the interethnic card, interethnic hatred, trying to mobilize extremists among the Crimean Tatars and religious extremists, including from organizations that are banned there not only in russia, but in many countries of the world, and of course there was a very big risk of development and , so to speak, some kind of bosnian scenario, and of course this is natural except for kiev. No one needed what referendums meant, and if more broadly events on the peninsula of those days for donbass, for novorossiya in general, what was the reaction there . Coup in kiev, february 23 , 1914, the first day of the russian spring, mass protests began not only in crimea, in crimea then , of course, sevastopol, because power there immediately passed into the hands of the people, so to speak , other cities are heroes and kerch, and my dear odessa, yes, on that day they held mass protests precisely against the coup, and in fact, the russian word spring was born then, i want give an example, lets say donetsk, yes, we too, if we remember where it all started. That in sevastopol a people s governor was proclaimed, well, or rather a peoples mayor, yes, but we know that in sevastopol it was then a city of republican significance, and he was equated with a governor, and in the same way in donetsk it also began with the fact that it was declared it means a peoples governor, a peoples governor was declared in lugansk, but these people were thrown into prison, then the ukrainian sbu, this radicalized the protest even more, because they saw that there was no such thing to say, on the part of ukraine there are attempts at negotiations, attempts. Somehow solve this by some kind of consensus, no, that is , kiev decided to continue to act only by force, and of course, this example of crimea, especially for donbass, yes, at some point decided to go to the end, it played a huge role role, if the example of crimea, the crimean spring , was so inspiring, why didnt anything work out in odessa, kharkov, dnepropetrovsk, this is probably the most difficult question, a question that i think even future historians will struggle with. Well, firstly, there are such purely , you know, yes, that crimea is that same peninsula, simple, strategic, i would say some geopolitical, in the narrow sense, moments that are very easily isolated, and especially if you there is dominance in the black sea, and of course, the base of the black sea fleet, in general, is a factor of the fleet, after all, all these nineties, zeros, it played a huge role, thats why, that was the point, yes, that on the one hand it base, if its black. Throw the fleet there, and if its even worse moreover, to bring some kind of nato fleet there , yes, then this completely changes the balance, so to speak, of forces, it turned out to be very easy to isolate this region purely in power, purely in military terms, of course, other regions simply could not do that with such small forces, which are the first days, so to speak , of the uprising, the second moment, of course , is what we talked about, yes, this is the presence of the fleet and the Russian Armed forces, yes, which, in principle, are in crimea, no other territory of ukraine, where directly were stationed. Should the muses be silent when the guns speak, thank you very much for the interesting story, they probably can, but not in russia today. Artists from all over the country are coming with concerts to support those who are fighting in the northern military district zone, and those who have been going through wartime difficulties for many years now. Agitation brigades in the immediate rear near the contact line and performances of famous theater groups in the cities of novorossiya. Now its as if we are living in the capital, this is how the residents of donbass talk about their theatrical life. Within the federal programs big tour, famous. Moscow and st. Petersburg troupes introduce them to their best productions. Back in may last year, the action of the ministry of culture of the Russian Federation, the general stage, started. It is designed to support cultural institutions in new regions. Federal and regional theaters of greater russia donated more than one and a half thousand props, costumes and scenery for performances to their colleagues. Only at the first stage , 14 groups, large and small academic theaters joined the action. Ramt, the vakhtangov theater, alexandrinsky theater and other groups shared everything necessary for work, including equipment, with their colleagues in donetsk, lugansk, mariupol, berdyansk. Another initiative is the Charity Marathon art in service. Everything that will be collected from sales exhibitions and music and poetry concerts will be used to provide targeted assistance to svo participants and residents of novorossiya. About what else is happening within the framework. As well as parting with entire productions, but when they get to friends, its not a pity, there are times, as boris konstantinov, the chief director of the exemplary theatre, succinctly put it, when it is imperative. You need to be together, and therefore the Little Prince has now settled in gorlovka, they will stage their spanish suite in the kherson region, we have donated a lot to theaters in new territories, and props, and scenery, puppets and equipment , and on the basis of these props, i already know that theaters stage their own performances, completely different from the ones we had, that is, they use their imagination, invite directors to the theater obraztsov more than once invited children from donbass and performed chamber productions in the sanatoriums of the holiday homes that accepted refugee families. Here, in their own way, they decided to help the kids return to childhood, and prepared a program of five outdoor interactive performances and master classes. I work at the puppet theater, i am an actress, today i brought you a little of my profession, since it was important for us too the dpr is such a cycle of goodness, but how else, if not through art, to heal wounded souls today . We speak the same language and art of course we have something in common. I cant say that any differences are noticeable, what is noticeable is that there is pain in them, this one is fresh, because the fighting is very close to them, they have just ended, and of course people have not yet recovered from this, and this its noticeable because it s clear in the eyes that they are now continuing to experience this. Priority for productions. Lugansk musical and drama theater named after mikhail golubovich now produces comedies, melodramas, vaudeville, thematic concerts, as soon as it became possible to resolve the issues security, the theater began to host spectators from different parts of the lpr. The viewer comes to us because they love us, they remember us even from our cooperation until the fourteenth year, this is alchevsk, and stakhanov and pervomaisk, longsuffering, which is still sometimes subject to shelling. Conflict in donbass, replenishment of funds was not easy, in small volumes, often not always with new publications. Last year , the library received a Record Number of books, published in great demand. Over the past year, for example, a subsidy of in the amount of 50 million rubles was allocated to us to replenish library funds. We have completed the procurement work, the literature has been distributed and is now available. It is located in the cities and regions of our republic, publishers from st. Petersburg have been regularly sending books to lugansk and donetsk since 2014, then with complex logistics approvals, now 10 years later they joke here, the volume of books sent is calculated by kamaz trucks, and there are many more recipients more, in fact, we made a series called peterpocket, the slogan of this series is rustle pages instead of kananada, in fact , the philosophy of the project is that part of the circulation is sent to our territory, to new ones. In hospitals, in childrens and adult hospitals, at concert venues and improvised stages, in dugouts and even at checkpoints, cultural support for the residents of donbass is, as they say, on all fronts. In 2019 , famous russian actors, popular singers and singersongwriters united into the Starship Troopers team, coming here not only to give concerts, but also to bring humanitarian aid. Together with concerts. The cultural brigades of the moscow concert, the most mobile Cultural Organization in the country , went to the special military Operation Zone almost 70 times last year alone and held more than 500 performances there in different places. Per day on such business trips the artists give two or three concerts. As the oldest Cultural Organization, the moscow concert has existed there since 9094, even during the second world war, it set an example for everyone; in the very first days, artists simply rushed to the front. With books that are dear to yourself, to release your favorite performance into a new life, to sing songs that people sing along with, this is how the big land, as you can often hear here, helps the residents of donbass, because the times have come when you need to be together. We are all residents of one big country, if we understand that we are residents of the country, then we must be together, we must feel our country, the people feel it. Olga mokhova, anastasia popova, valery savelev, typical novorossiya. Thats all we wanted to talk about today, Kiril Vyshinsky was with you, see you soon hello, this is the senate program, my colleague vera krasova and i, vladimir nesterov. We will talk about new laws and legislative initiatives and how they become part of our lives. Strengthening the development of the regions potential. And defending the interests of the residents of our country. About key events right now. The future of our country, every family, every person. 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