, russia celebrates teachers day. In the year of the teacher mentor, this is a special holiday, with honoring the best, a sea of flowers and a lot of warm words. However, the teacher has always been loved and especially revered in our country. He doesnt just give knowledge, he also educates. And it instills respect for the most important values , as in todays novorossiya, a teacher, a figure no less significant than a military man or a doctor, their whole army, more than 35,000 teachers came to classes in many schools in donbass and in other new russian territories, due to the danger of shelling, lessons are being held remotely, in the dnnr, as a facetoface lesson. Only 2 3 of schools returned, in the lugansk peoples republic, almost 90 . In the zaporozhye region, all schools accept children, but due to the threat of terrorist attacks they are under armed guard. One can only admire the perseverance and endurance of teachers who teach in such conditions. Many of them have already done it by simply staying at their jobs. Difficult and responsible choice. For teachers in zaporozhye and kherson regions, ukrainian authorities continue to threaten criminal prosecution for treason. They offer money for refusing to teach according to russian programs. Some cannot withstand the pressure, but for the majority, the betrayal of their students is worse than the threats of ukrainian nationalists. They are actively being implemented in new territories. Russian educational standards, because in ukraine, teaching the russian language, literature and real ukrainian and World History was practically not carried out here, we have to start almost convocations, there is not enough yet teachers of the humanities, russian, english, history, but there is no desire to recoup in the ukrainian language, in the kherson and zaporozhye regions, it is used as a second language, a special manual has been developed for classes textbooks from year to year, more and more are needed here. This year , 5,500 more students enrolled in the first grades of novorossiya than last year. About those who, following the great czech teacher, janusz korczyk , make the only choice in the most difficult situation, i am with the children, in the story, good morning, children, hello, hello, this is how the working day of natalya rybentseva begins , a teacher, an english teacher with twenty years of experience, having experienced independent ukraine and the unrecognized lpr, now works in a fullfledged russian school. How are you today . Who is your favorite teacher . Many of her former students graduated from prestigious universities and became successful people, each in their own field. Todays schoolchildren are no less ambitious in their ambitions; they also have their own big plans for the future. With over 10 years of training, i i prefer to say not my favorite, but the more necessary subjects that i will need in the future, these are russian history of social studies, mathematics and english, because i want to connect my future life with jurisprudence. Gymnasium number 30 is named after nadezhda fissenko, the heroic secretary of the underground Regional Committee of komsomo, who was shot by the germans on the night of december 2, 1942. And the building is located on the street. Named after the hero of modern russia, denis ivanov, who defended lugansk since 2014 and died in the northern military district zone. We dont invest in our children only knowledge, but we teach them to be people, people with a capital letter, so that the life that lies ahead of them will not be so difficult for them. The transition to the russian Education System in donbass took place in different ways, most of the schools in. And the dpr did this gradually under fire for eight long years, however, for example, in mariupol, which became part of russia and only after the start of a fullscale military operation, this process took place in a shorter period of time. Open it in the textbook and look for the formula for demand coefficient. Mariupol School Number five. Today the classrooms here are filled to capacity. Children study in two shifts. According to the project , the building is designed for 900 students. In reality, more than 1,300 schoolchildren sit at their desks. We now have 47 classes and every year the need for Teaching Staff is growing, we are overcrowded, we do not have enough teachers of physical education, english, mathematics, social studies, that is, uh, yes, these positions are filled, teachers read for one and a half hours, but this is due to the fact that the occupancy rate of Teaching Staff is around 80 . Despite the fact that in russia has prepared a large reserve of personnel. Now more than 98 of those who teach children in new regions are local teachers. A total of about 30,000 teachers have completed retraining and advanced training courses; teachers salaries in new regions have also changed a lot; they are higher than the russian average; in addition, there are also president ial bonuses, and the classrooms are equipped with new textbooks and manuals on the shelves. In addition, schoolchildren now have the legal right to choose which language to study in, while in ukraine teaching in russian has been banned at the state level since 2020. However , the directors of some schools decided to exercise this right individually; for example, in the zaporozhye region, an ambiguous situation has developed, despite the opinion of parents, children from russianspeaking families are forced to study in ukrainian. There are few such cases, but they do exist, and each one is dealt with separately. And this was done in an izuite way, if you dont want to choose ukrainian as your native language. Then your child still speaks ukrainian as a native, if he chooses russian as his native language, he receives it in the seventheighth lesson, well, accordingly, the parents approached this purely utilitarianly, why should the child sit another whole hour longer, especially since he wont be able to escape from ukrainian anyway, if these cases, will be systemic, naturally, i, as the head of the commission on education and culture, and the zaporozhye public chamber, can ask these questions in detail to those unborn officials who participated in this. This year the authorities of the neighboring kherson region decided to open at least one school in the settlements of the frontline zone, children have not studied here since the time of covid and many did not leave despite the danger of shelling, however, falling shells are only a visible part of the war, there is another. Len, they hand over theirs, photograph, signature, all materials are forwarded to the sbu, when you walk through the city, your neighbors turn to you and say, the collaboration has been sold since it was in the donbass, in the kherson and zaporozhye regions, it took out manuals from former Ukrainian School libraries stories that were more reminiscent chronicle of oun upa. When, with the advent of russia, the textbooks changed and things began to be called by their proper names in the radiangerman war of the great patriotic war, and not everyone understood stepan bandera, not a hero, but an accomplice of the nazis, teachers who were ready to teach in a new way, there were times when they put up streamers in the courtyards , they threatened, and why was there pressure , that well, wars are won not by generals, but by parish priests, teachers, because teachers are the ones who bring truthful information to children, ideology, when the teachers came to russia, we met with them, they were so surprised at first, they said, but on the territory of ukraine they told us that you dont have normal schools, learning english is prohibited in russia , that you sign contracts with teachers for a maximum of a year , renovated school. Corridors highspeed internet, which should be provided to all schools in new regions this year, computer classes, all this is just part of the big work to restore the secondary Education System, the main thing in which is everything equally, there is always a teacher who is ready to continue his work, even if there are only a few people in the first class, as in the frontline wave, this is just the reality of our life, we have five of them, yes, but they are fire, they will show themselves, donetsk and lugansk, topol, and genichesk, mariupol, novaya kokhovka, yasenovataya and hundreds of other settlements on the map of new regions of russia. They all live within the same borders, but given the specifics of the war, each is in different circumstances. When local teachers are asked the predictable question is there burnout, are they surprised . Burnout does not happen at all, because every new day brings new emotions, we are living people, we get tired, we have our own problems, but the work and rest regime, thats why we eat within the walls of the school, in this sense, each of these teachers has something to offer learn, not just for children. Anna efimova, we will talk with our regular expert, political scientist, historian Alexander Vasiliev about how they work and what problems teachers in novorossiya have today. Sasha, good afternoon, good afternoon. Sasha, we see a lot of messages about how schools are being restored and built in novorusiya, and new textbooks are being delivered there. But who comes into the classrooms, who are these people who teach in novorossiya today and with what mood do they come to their workplaces. It seems to me that the teacher should be at the center of the process and of course, comparing what we are seeing now, what has happened this year, this is of course a cardinal, cardinal step forward, because initially you need to understand that, well, in different places in kherson, zaporozhye areas seem to have their own specifics, but in these regions, up to 50 of teachers were simply immediately lost, so to speak, for school , people either left these territories, or refused to go to work, including continuing to actively function in the ukrainian Education System online, remotely, and this, of course, was a very serious factor , in addition, the people who went there returned, so to speak, to their teaching posts, i would say so, they were subjected to constant threats and there are chat rooms with black lists where their personal data is posted, even the fact that these people who were sleeping unfortunately continue to receive direct threats of physical harm, including, and in ukraine these people are considered collaborators, that is, they are simply those who remained in their jobs, those who continue to teach children, this is a very serious problem, yes, it must be said that the regions are working to attract, among other things , specialists from russia, and this is very important, because we know, we have experience and also quite a difficult experience from the soviet era, when the western ukraine, and there banderas followers launched. Simply terror against teachers , who were sent there precisely in order to adapt the Education System as a whole , to develop it, nevertheless, people go and they also try, which in general is absolutely true, but financially to attract, but still there are pedagogical universities there that continue to train personnel, and not only Teaching Personnel for schools, they are going to open new pedagogical ones, and besides, there are facts that they come and return to the system education, people who. Abandoned it for various reasons, some for financial reasons, some for ideological reasons, some for some other reason, these personnel also turn out to be in demand. In the donbass, since the fourteenth year, they have been teaching in russian in the republics, in the donetsk, lugansk, zaporozhye, and kherson regions, the russian language has been systematically squeezed out of the Education System, and what about languages now, there are some conflicts, and there is the concept of a state language , russian, yes, which has educational standards. There is also, since russia this is a federation, and within the federation there is also a national republic, there is a concept of native languages , some, say officials, yes, there are stereotypes that since this territory was ukrainian, then apparently ukrainian is the native language there, it is urgent to show statistics that here we have so many ukrainian classes recruited and so on and so on, yes, that is, this is the logic of the bureaucratic machine, but in fact, again, this is a problem, yes, that the native language is not the one that is written down somewhere that, yes . And the one that a person mastered first, in which he thinks, and of course, for the absolute majority of children in this region , is russian, but nevertheless, as far as i know, parents really, completely freely choose a second language in which to teach their children , and there are ukrainian classes, textbooks, i will say, there is also a problem in this area, which i, for example, encountered in 1414 in the crimea, in 1515 in donetsk, well, this is not even a problem, but the fact that there is a pedagogical we shouldnt to assume that all teachers of ukrainian language and literature are automatically means that there are some disloyal people there, banderaites and so on, no, among them there are also those who are not indoctrinated there, but in this sense remained on these territories, and their question, for example, is there, since these are philologists, yes, they can reorient themselves towards similar russian philology, but this is not a problem, but this also takes some time, and we do not need these people, well, automatically, as it were throw away, and expose everything to the teacher ukrainian language, we dont need you like that. It should not be, russian education standards are being introduced in novorossiya schools, what does this mean, how difficult or easy is this process, now this area is constantly in the process of reform. These new endless reforms, so to speak, have already taught the standards that were introduced every time, yes, these systems are so that people , the Teaching Staff adapts to it naturally, and that there are, so to speak , fundamental subjects, the exact sciences, with them the easiest thing, of course, but the main question which worries me the most, yes, this is the humanities block, of course today, especially in the Current Conditions , and of course we are talking about, attention to the teacher , attention to the teacher who teaches humanities subjects history and literature, it should be not just increased, but enormous, this is incredibly one of the most important government tasks. And here it would help us a lot, there is such a thing as a regional component, yes, but here it is in each, for today, from what i can judge, in each of our new regions, yes, he is his own, yes, i know that in lugansk there is Something Like a textbook on the history of the lugansk region that they give to schoolchildren, and this is correct, it is necessary, of course it is good, but we dont have, unfortunately, a general narrative of novorosiya, adapted for school, and it is very important , this is our task of our program, yes, when we talk about a typical novorosiya, this is precisely to show that this is the angle from which it explains to us, well, in general, what is happening today events, and puts everything in its place, in general, so of course, but i would like, yes, that we, including in this. Humanitarian block, would have an emphasis on novorossiya, and for new regions, which would allow this, well, transition period, with one such to say a model, from one picture of the world, which existed at school, yes, to a new picture of the world, and it would be very seriously a great help if this were formulated, introduced fully into education, both in history and so in sphere of russian literature, it needs to be emphasized that he didnt just come there some. A teacher came from somewhere and the children were there somewhere, i dont know , near mariupol at a school, but he told them that there is such a russian writer of the czechs . No, you need to understand, yes, that this is the person who gave birth to this region, was reflected in his work and gave it to russian literature, enriching it as a whole, when such a connection is developed precisely at the level of the school curriculum, this, by the way, is useful for the whole russia as a whole, but teachers should also emphasize such things even then if only i would repeat. It would be much easier to understand the events taking place. Sasha, thank you very much for the interesting and detailed story. We have talked more than once in this studio about how the history of novorusia, the development of this region, becomes a field of controversy for all kinds of speculation. Who first settled here, who founded the largest cities, who turned the wild steppe into a living space, today is no longer just a subject of research for historians, the answers to these questions have become central to the historical memory and selfidentification of People Living in novorossiya. Therefore, archival research, collection and analysis of documents on the history of new russia are acquiring special weight and significance today. Only with the help of reliable facts can one cope with the flow of historical speculation. As everyone knows, it is quite obvious, and so on, myths and fiction, even the most beautiful ones, are powerless against the contents of the archive. The list of names of those who devoted themselves to a serious study of the history of novorossiya is opened by apolon skolkovsky. A lawyer by training, in 1828 he joined the staff of the novorossiysk chancellery. And the bessarabian general government. In in the bureaucratic routine, skalkovsky saw the most important Historical Mission collecting and organizing archival materials from departments and regions of novorossiya. The originals of many were later lost and remained known only thanks to the works of apollo alexandrovich. Through his efforts , a historian was established in odessa in the midthirties of the 21st century. For his books , a chronological review of the history of the novorossiysk region, and an experience in the statistical description of novorussia, apollo skalkovsky received in scientific circles the nickname herodotus of novorossiysk, the father of the history of the region. About it man and his research in the story of olga mokhova. For your contribution. In his study of the history of novorussia, apollo skolkovsky received not only the bright nickname herodotus, but also a number of awards, among which were the order of st. Anna, first class, and no less prestigious in russian academic circles. I consider it my duty to bring you my most humble gratitude for the essay you sent being from from the novorossiysk region, and having spent my youth there, i read with a familiar feeling and remember everything related to southern russia and ukraine. Apollo skolkovsky, of ukrainianpolish ancestry from the chernihiv region, was born in zhitomir in a city that became russian at the end of the 16th century after the second partition of poland. His father, clergyman alexander skolkovsky, at one time found himself in these parts with the blessing of the metropolitan of kiev with the task of counteracting catholic propaganda. Here we really had a very serious struggle going on between the orthodox elite, representing families like skolkowski and apollo, and polish magnates who also wanted to control this territory, well, this is how they used to do it during the time of the polishlithuanian commonwealth. At first , apollo studied at the university in vilna, but after his studies he continued his studies in moscow. As an expert in the polish language, he helped Alexander Pushkin in translating the poem by adam mickiewicz, with whom skolkovsky was personally acquainted. In relation to pushkinsky, the plan of the adaptation of konrad walenrod, skolkovsky provided him with literary assistance as a translator, although at the interlinear level. Mickiewicz dedicated it to skolkovsky. A poem that the skolkovsky coast cherished like a shrine, it was an album poem, a poem of dedication. In odessa, in the office of novorossiysk governorgeneral mikhail varantsov, he has access to study the archives of the novorossiysk region. Skolkovsky served as head of the odessa Statistical Committee for more than 50 years. During this time, he became one of the founders of the odessa society of history and antiquity, the first to create an organized Historical Archive of the city and wrote a book on the history of odessa. At all the pearl by the sea owes him a lot. Initially, the russian empire had an idea to create a university in the south in the city of nikolaev. It was skolkovskys note, with his reasoning that odessa is a much more important city in the south, and that it was there that Novorossiysk University should be organized, as such an Educational Center of the novorossiysk region, that played its role. Under skolkovsky , two population censuses took place in odessa in the thirties and fifties of the century. In a very short time, he was able to obtain extensive information about social status of townspeople, their way of life, nationality, degree of literacy. For this purpose, special questionnaires were drawn up and special representatives were elected, counters who worked, it must be said, for free. A few days before the day of the census, and the census was considered to be carried out in one day , enumerators went through households and heads of households with questionnaires and they filled out these questionnaires within a few days; on the day of the census, enumerators again visited households and collected completed questionnaires. For his first historical work, over the course of 4 months, skolkovsky traveled to several novorossiysk cities, where he studied local archives. He saw the origins of the development of the region in the emergence of serbian colonies in the north of new russia in the early fifties of the 16th century, and he defined its borders in the same way as modern historians northern near the black sea. And crimea. Take a look at the map three large navigable rivers, from the west the buk, from the north the dnieper, from the east the don and northern donets. Since ancient times, trading boats have been lowered into the black and azov seas. But the merchants thought with horror of living so close to zaporozhye sich, tatar villages and turkish fortresses. It was formed in the fight against the crimean khanate and the ottoman state. The novorossiysk region, the territory of which developed as the russian borders advanced, along the skolkovsky path of novorussia is not just a history of military conquests, but also a history of the development of previously occupied lands. Skolkovsky drew attention to the fact that this is a special region that was part of russia in a special way, accordingly, slowly, gradually, step by step, but strictly, with in the middle of the 16th century, not being a professional historian, skolkovsky did not rely on the classics, but independently went through all stages of the research. It was he who discovered the archive of the last zaporozhye sich, and he was the first to describe the history of the goidomas uprisings of the 16th century. The latter became the cause of disagreement between him and the poet taras shevchenko. Shevchenko was extremely indignant that skolkovsky, using polish sources, gave a negative assessment of the people to whom he, shevchenko, were individuals. Apollo kakolkovsky lived a long life, almost all of it xix century 90 years old, he was wellknown in russian literary circles and he himself wrote in the spirit of walter scott, handwriting his autobiographical story. Is still waiting for his publisher, who knows what other valuable information his genius will give us. Olga mokhova, anastasia popova, vale savelelev, typical novorossiya. This is all we wanted to talk about today, kirill vyshshinsky was with you. See you soon. Ive been working towards this all my life, we expect to do it in 10 days, it will be a record, were on the verge of possibilities, were all with him, because that hes the only one, at the maximum height, dont go higher, youll just fall like a stone, at the speed of the wind, its a super cyclone , a killer cyclone, its like hes chasing you, what do you want, master of the wind, lets watch to explore the world, Educational Program and documentaries, watch, watch, in the application or on the website. Meaningful and effective this is how Vladimir Putin assessed todays negotiations with the president of uzbekistan, shavkat mirziyoyev. Energy cooperation has become key. The parties signed a supply Agreement Oil and petroleum products, confirmed plans to interact in the field of Peaceful Nuclear energy. And tomorrow the leaders will take part in the ceremony to launch russian gas supplies. It will go to uzbekistan via kazakhstan. In what other areas have moscow and tashkent agreed to expand partnerships