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We know they are buried in secret. We know that in the summer of 2014 one of the most popular organizations in russia was the mother of russian soldiers. Because some of those mothers we are talking about russian soldiers dying and dead boss they were made an illegal organization, they were allowed. We know that family members to talk about their sons or brothers or whatever it is dying as onduty soldiers in ukraine they are threatened, we know the reporters who written about this have faced unpleasant circumstances. So its real. Its real. We also know that first of all the fighting in done boss has not gone away scores of fire incidents every day. There are ukrainian casualties most weeks and certainly every month several or more ukrainian deaths including very recently. We dont have very good information on deaths on our side for obvious reasons. But it is true that there been no major of essence. We know that that offensive a whirl as the offense in the airport of fall of 2014 were
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Hello. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of Congress Makes it seem easy to do this every year but the truth is a National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it is been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see with it are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. But we cant take for granted that this event will continue to exist so i would ask you to consider making a contribution right now using your cell phone. You can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your local phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program, and as soon as you finish making that contribution, please silence your cell phone. And now onto the main event. Like to introduce culture of the National Book festival, david rubenstein. [applause] we are very ho