Hello, kiril vyshnsky is here, and this is the typical novorossiya program. Our name says it all, we are talking about the territory that has returned to its historical roots, about novorossiya with the help. We will try to reveal the originality of its present day, find typical features and recognizable signs of the past, thats what well talk about today the choice of history and fate, a year after joining. Referendums on the lands of novorossiy in 2022. Reasons and consequences conversation with a program expert. Girl on a tractor soviet elite of new russia. A year ago, these days, from september 23 to 27, 2022 , referendums on joining russia were held in the kherson region, in the zaporozhye region in the two peoples republics of donetsk and lugansk. If in the dpr and lpr , voting participants were asked to speak for or against joining russia, then in the kherson and zaporozhye regions, residents cast their votes for secession from ukraine and joining russia. In all four regions, over 87 of voters they said yes to joining. The referendum lasted 5 days. So they were guaranteed. Security measures for its participants in the face of the threat of terrorist attacks from the armed forces of ukraine. On september 30 last year, in the st. George hall of the grand kremlin palace, a solemn ceremony of signing agreements on the accession of four new entities to russia took place. According to vladimir putin, this became possible thanks to the determination of millions of people. Who , by their culture, faith, traditions, language , consider themselves part of russia, because here on the territories of four new subjects in the historical new russia , its great military leaders, rumyantsev, suvorov, ushakov, fought with honor for russia. Here, the rulers of russia founded new cities, kherson, nikolaev, sevastopol, odessa, ekaterinoslav and many others. These territories were part of the russian empire, the soviet union. Together with the russians , they were mastered by people of different nationalities and traditions, who considered russian culture a part of themselves. The descendants of many of them were not ready to give up their historical memory under the pressure of radical ukrainian nationalism. More than 6 million inhabitants of the historical lands of novorossiya began to live until january 1, 2026. During this time , a lot remains to be done to bring life in these territories closer to russian social standards, to change the current legislation, to hold elections to local governments and much more. About what has changed in the life of new russian regions in a year, what problems they have encountered there and what else will change in the future in the story of anna efimova. Carousels, slides, running, the usual walk of eightyearold vanya in the courtyard of his house on the outskirts of donetsk, here in the proletarian region it is relatively safe, arrivals are extremely rare. Vannis mother, zhanna, graduated from the Donbass National academy of construction and architecture, worked as a Heating Network controller, but is now still a housewife, for a long time she actually raised her son alone, says that when the dpr finally became part of russia, a lot changed, not only in the life of the city, where they began to build and restore schools, kindergartens, clinics, but also specifically in her life. My husband returned home from russia because he used to work in russia , the salary was higher there, now people are needed because of the restoration, zhanna was one of the many residents of donbass who voted in the referendum for joining russia. This decision was supported by more than 99 in the donetsk peoples republic. Population, approximately the same results were in the neighboring lugansk peoples republic, as well as the kherson and zaporozhye regions. Judging by the data from the election commissions, this will is difficult to doubt. People voted even more active than sociologists initially predicted, and if we talk about the situation at the polling stations, despite the threats of shelling from the Ukrainian Armed forces, it was more reminiscent of a holiday than a routine vote. Finally we are returning home, we are with russia, we are going home. About what is today. Donbass , a full part of russia, can be judged not only by the presence of russian passports, the issuance of license plates, the presence of pensions, social payments and various benefits, as well as the digitalization of public services, but also participation in priority government programs, such as the allrussian program for the development of perinatal centers, during which modern Maternity Hospitals are being built throughout the country. The capital of the dpr is no exception; it is approaching here. By the completion of the construction of a Maternity Hospital of federal significance, the sixstory building will house maternity and operating rooms, intensive care units, pathology and pregnancy departments, and care units for premature babies, equipped with the most modern equipment. In september in october we will already reach the final stage preparation of documents for licensing of a medical institution. The most important thing is that this center is already staffed. Another important aspect is the development of logistics, which means the construction of roads; it is through the new regions that the socalled land corridor to crimea runs, the most important from the point of view of the development of transport infrastructure; if many routes in the dpr and lpr were destroyed by the previous eightyear war, then in the kherson and zaporozhye regions for the most part due to the mismanagement that reigned here for the last 30 years under the socalled independent ukraine. Ukraine tse europe. Now there are main roads, for example. From berdyansk to melitopol looks different, these are fullfledged transport corridors, convenient not only for ordinary motorists, but what is especially important for the transportation of goods, and transport accessibility is a primary factor in the development of trade and business, but there is still work to be done here, with workers in some places its not as good as we would like, but business is tense, scared, so business looks around, business looks, weighs all the pros and cons, in this regard, the decision of the Federal Center is very important, the direct creation in the territory of the zaporozhye region of a free Economic Zone with economic preferences, benefits, with the opportunity to start a business with much less money than can be done in in other territories of greater russia. Please ladies, check your order, recently the marketplaces familiar to the mainland have become available to residents of new regions, their demand is bright demonstrated on september 1, when online orders literally poured in one after another, because getting children ready for school is objectively more convenient and safer. I had to go to the Russian Federation to get there, well, there are some inconveniences at customs , while you go, you need to do this at this time or you have to take time off from work. Even the very fact of what people are buying indicates a gradual return to peaceful life. Electronics, childrens clothing, household chemicals and pet products that are used special demand, there are more items, and prices are lower than in nearby supermarkets. At the moment, there are several order points in lugansk, several respectively in donetsk, in krasnodon, the network is developing accordingly, we have become the first and only marketplace at the moment that operates in new regions, this is a certain new culture of consumption when you dont need to spend your own time to look for some goods in the Retail Market for the sale of some goods. And while at the International Level attitude towards the will of the residents of donbass. Remains skeptical to put it mildly, the main thing should still be taken into account everything that happens within the borders of the new regions, taking into account all the obvious challenges and difficulties, has been russias internal affair for a year now. Of course, they dont want to put up with this, they are not happy with it, nothing will change for us, we will do what we did, now approximately 430,000 citizens live in lugansk, at the time of the fourteenth year, because of personal experience in schools in lugansk, with difficulty one class of children was recruited, but now three classes are missing, primarily as an element of achieving the main goal, one of the main goals, of a special military operation, protecting the population of these regions. This decision indicated that russia would achieve its goals, and the entire territory of the Russian Federation would live in peace, including these four new regions. The results of last years referendum were only confirmed by the recent voting in the legislative elections of the assembly of four new regions, where people cast their votes not so much for a specific deputy or party, as much as for russia itself. Anna efimova, valery savelelev, anastasia popova, typical new russia. We will talk about what conclusions can be drawn a year after the referendums on the lands of novorossiya with our permanent expert, historian, political scientist, alexander vasiliev. Sasha, good afternoon, good afternoon, sasha, despite the rather indicative results of the referendums, the turnout was over 85 , approximately at the same level and even more, support for the idea of joining russia, however, the referendums did not receive international recognition, why so, what did it influence . Well, the first one, so to speak, the answer seems to lie on the surface, yes, since the west, in principle, takes an emphatically antirussian position, foreign policy, we can remember, the crimean referendum, which preceded these, yes, where, in general, there were no military actions , but nevertheless, in exactly the same way, the mass of the western press, hugely, the entire world media, broadcast from there, and nevertheless, on the one hand , the myth that in the crimea they voted at gunpoint, but there was no recognition, but. There is also, lets say, a more fundamental reason for the general attitude of the modern west to such a procedure as a referendum, i want to remind you of the referendum in holland in the netherlands, which took place in 2016 , if im not mistaken, yes, there are opportunities there, absolutely right, about association, about association, and this referendum, it was received extremely negatively, i repeat, the referendum is absolutely legitimate in a european country, which in general. It is considered an ideal there everything that is possible, yes, that is, the very idea of such a climb out, it fundamentally does not correspond to the modern western idea of correct democracy, paradoxical as it is, we remember, again, that in ukraine, these years it is absolutely legitimate, thats why years of independence, several referendums were held, and also a referendum in transcarpathia , and also on a special status back in the ninety first year, no one doubted its legitimacy, but no results, in donetsk and lugansk. Then still regions in ninetyfour, if im not mistaken, a referendum was also held with an absolute majority of votes, and by the way, you can compare , but for donetsk and lugansk there are these figures , and those who doubt then, in the same way, for the russian state language, for integration with russia, that is, in within those frameworks, as if it were possible in the political field, everyone voted, they considered everything legitimate , the result was zero, then we remember another referendum, yes, it was like 99 of the kuchma era, and there was a twolane parliament, this was 2000, and that was also one of the possible ways to turn ukraine away from the catastrophe that it has inevitably been heading for all these years and which this drama is unfolding before our eyes and also no result, that is, we see that if we do not accept the will of the people, then in the end, well, military operations, they become simply fruitless, as if in big politics, either this or that, yes, and those who think that this opinion can be ignored, yes, this is the fourteenth year i can say about myself, yes, then the Russian Spring in odessa, our only real demand was precisely the holding of a referendum, selfdetermination after the coup in kiev, well, it was already clear that kiev was not capable of such things , of course, but this was the only way out, this was the only alternative to violence, that s what the point is, but what is a referendum really, thats why of course, under its rejection these results, there is a very deep, very negative foundation, well, that is, it is already clear that regardless of whether the referendum would have taken place during. However the wests reaction was less would be the same, but for the people who voted, in these New Territories that became subjects of the Russian Federation, in addition to the direct result of annexation, there was also some kind of symbolic meaning in this action, well, i would even say, not even symbolic, the thing is that you need to understand that in the first months of your life, and i also had the opportunity to visit kherson several times and communicate there with ordinary citizens , with our military there, and so on and so forth, there is this feeling of uncertainty, it very seriously hampered, well, the normalization of life, they said such a thing, they say that you are welcome, dear authorities , new ones, lets somehow decide what our status is, because we are or either we are in russia and we stay, work, invest money is the future, or if we have such an indefinite weighted status, we just tell us, we pack up our things, everything and just leave somewhere, anywhere, for the people who live there, for them it has become, well, the most reliable reliable evidence that what is happening, and this is serious, lets say, yes, a year has passed since the referendums, what has changed in peoples lives during this year and what still needs to change, of course, it must be said that depending on the intensity of the fighting there in in one or another region of novorosiya, of course, there are very different situations, very different problems, on the one hand there is mariupol, with its destruction or cities like lisichansk, on the other hand, cities like the same melitopol, yes, where in general by and large, there were no military operations, everything seems to be very different, but everywhere in the republic of donbass, they, in principle, were integrated to a significant extent into the russian legislative, legal field, yes, even if it was a village. Here are the russian norms, many laws wrote off on the one hand what was done this year and the most important thing is the transition of all spheres to russian realities, social spheres, this is generally a complex process with education related to healthcare, thats for sure, yes, for sure , personnel issue, it is seriously still relevant, yes, and its not for nothing that ukraine understands this very well, we remember the numerous terrorist attacks that were carried out in kherson and other cities, against those people on the ground who came to openly work with russia to help build this very new life, yes, i think that so to speak, well, for next year the main task, yes, is serious saturation, firstly , the cultivation of local personnel, and young people in the first place, and of course, widespread attraction and again i want to do, of course, the emphasis is on young personnel. With throughout russia, this is the fastest and, well, the simplest way to integrate these territories, of course, this is the social sphere , the economy, the work of enterprises, and there are some prices for consumer goods, all this, all this needs to be regulated there as before much of it is done manually, and of course, these tasks are very challenging and require very serious managers. Sasha, thank you very much for the interesting and detailed story. One of the main features of new russia on this land, in different periods of history and its development and transformation, situations arose when active and purposeful people achieved something that was previously difficult to dream of. This was the case in the 18th and 19th centuries, when poor settler colonists or yesterdays serfs became large landowners. Successful merchants who received hereditary nobility for their achievements. This happened in the 20th century, when the october revolution gave yesterdays illiterate peasants and workers the opportunity to become business managers, scientists and engineers, and successful production workers. No matter what they say today about the soviet period, at that time it was radical social and economic. Opinions, the state opened up absolutely incredible opportunities for its citizens and created unique social elevators. Could the mechanic and then the driver of the slavic locomotive of the Donetsk Region pyotr krivonos imagine that thanks to his speed record on freight trains, he would become known throughout the soviet union, and then he would manage the largest railway of the ossr . Did the crimean greek ivan papanin, a turner, see himself . Workshops of the sevastopol military port , a famous polar explorer, the head of the route, and the director of the Space Research service, the department of sea expeditions, the ussr academy of sciences, and there were tens of thousands of such stories in the soviet years. Another example of a bright destiny and incredible change is the story of proskovye nikitishna angelina. In the ussr she was known as Pasha Angelina, a girl from the thirties of the past. Not only was she able to ride a tractor that had never been seen before in the village, but she also created a womens tractor brigade, an amazing life story proskovyeangelina, in the story by olga mokhova. Consider the tasks assigned to us by the harvests harvesting company, we, brigade number 4. 5, call ourselves, declare ourselves shock workers, and make our promise to harvest our harvest quickly and accurately, perhaps the labor enthusiasm of the twenties of the last century, now glorified by film director digovertov those living will not understand, but at that time many people, especially young people, lived in a single, hardworking impulse with the whole country. Soviet village, by the end of the civil war its population accounted for more than 80 and experienced enormous changes. In the twentyeighth year, mass collectivization began, that is, if before that it was semivoluntary, in fact, that is, the socalled committees of the poor, committees of the poor were united into communes, which then became collective farms; they existed in parallel with strong Business Executives who live