People watch abroad. Thanks to this tape, they can better understand our view of russians, because, you know, many people are still in these thoughts that this only putins war, and by the way, the producer of the film navalny is also in herself wrote on twitter that, oh, this is such a cool movie, 20 days in mariupol, and we, i believe that this is a political film, and that the world will see through it how putin is attacking ukraine with his troops, although. This its not a political film, its a war film, its not a film that shows that its putins regime that attacked everyone, it shows that its a russian that attacked us, and by the way, Mstislav Chernov , the director of this, the director of this film, hes at the oscars ceremony emphasized in his speech that this is not putin, he did not say that this is putins war, but clearly said several times that it is the russians, the Russian Troops and russia, and the russian liberals are somehow avoiding this so far, so what is the betrayal. First of all, after i woke up after this ceremony, i started reading the reviews, then i saw that they were generally positive, of course you couldnt help but be happy, but still there were those who were dissatisfied, even wrote comedic things, like this, well, it s better than nothing, well, okay, oscar, its better than nothing, but there were such complaints, they said, well, what will it do, or better, let them give weapons, but what about us . Now from this oscar, i dont even know how to comment on such reviews , well, even more so i will emphasize them, there were few enough, its like, you know, some kind of catastrophic devaluation, when even the highest, most prestigious film award can be devalued and they say, why is it needed at all , well, it is needed, again, as i will say for cultural, in particular diplomacy, because if we remember the navalny film, which won in the same category last year, then it. Became for the russians, for these russians liberals, for davalny himself, for his, well, closest circle, its extraordinary, now you see just the moment when this film is awarded, and here it is in red, and even then the wife, not navalnys pretender, she also said in her speech, and this was so very bright, and the film received a huge promotion, then 20 days in mariupol was also promoted quite well, but navalny really was such a. Super hit, he also received a lot of awards, and i must say that he was made at least from my point of view partially manipulative, because navalny is shown there only as a positive character, his eyes are very smoothed all together , his russian marching eyes are nazi, or seminazi, and there were also moments when he and his wife went to germany there together with some kizonka or lambs , how they fed them there, so good and beautiful. Family, but the film is made as such a political thriller, it is fascinating, and it is clear that the director got it, by the way , it seems that he also got a lot of attention, and thanks to this film, a lot of points to navalny himself, to his positive image and a little bit of this, well , a little bit, well, quite distorted, and well , such a fight also happened, well, a fight is to say the least. Because when on public culture, when they discovered another version of the international, abbreviated version, they found in it that 20 days in mariupol were cut from this ceremony, i will remind you, friends, what is the international abbreviated version, usually the oscar ceremony, well, it is correct to say the awarding ceremony of the american prize the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences, and this is a statement of the public, well, a shortened version, first the audience watches. This long version live for several hours, and then disney , the organizers of this ceremony, they distribute the shortened version on all tv channels around the world so that you can there was a ceremony to. Repeat, but since people wont watch four or five hours again, they give a shortened version and cut there, or rather insert, leave there the most vivid moments in their opinion, and when already on the public saw that in this international abbreviated version there is no 20 days in mariupol, which are in most categories, from there they usually cut the best script, the best music, and so on, and the public was indignant, rolled the statement as valid. What you saw, and they said that we repeated the full version that was broadcast live, because our ukrainian viewers do not need a ceremony without a moment with the awarding of the 20 days in mariupol tape. Disney explained that in its respective statement explained that here this is such an abbreviated version, well, excuse me, we spend two or three weeks figuring out which categories we will leave. In the abbreviated version, which we will not leave, but we decided in advance, well, among ourselves, that no matter who won there, we will cut the category of the best documentary fulllength film. Then there was a statement from the National Council for television and radio broadcasting, which was sufficiently diplomatic. They said that we respectfully mentioned that disney had withdrawn from the russian market, along with six other companies, major film studios, they immediately left after the start of a fullscale invasion of the russian market, unlike many European Companies that continue to make money there and sell their tapes there, but they all said that we are very grateful to you for this support, but they say, well, so what it was possible to cut such an important, such an important moment, when the journalists who covered all these russian atrocities, you do not show them, and what we call. Things that i dont always like when we call it, here with this, with this scandal, with these demands to disney, well, we are all like that, i think that everyone, those who wrote official statements, those who went to social networks to traditionally throw some curses there, still succeeded, and here is the studio disney said okay, were bringing back your 20 days in mariupol in this shortened version, watch it and its amazing, i think it s cool, we should always do it like this, but i ll say two words, why with my. Point of view at least thats how it turned out, because people are already starting to write that its something there and russian money, and its some kind of satans trick, that its already there, some incredible money, the russians paid to cut this moment, i think not, everything is explained much simpler, as you understand, on television, ratings are important in anything, and the organizers were obviously guided by what they considered the most interesting moments. Of this ceremony and apparently they thought that they had decided that, well, this category, it would not be so interesting to their viewers, and i can say that for certain reasons i have doubts that they decided so far in advance which category to cut and which not, because this year i was commenting on this ceremony and i saw that a lot of some moments are done at the last moment, that is, they are many important things they. In advance somehow they dont really plan that, and thats why it seems to me that they just thought it necessary last year to leave the moment with the awarding of the navalny film in a shortened version, because they thought that it was just a bright moment and this tape is more interesting to the audience than 20 days in mariupol, because well, they say, interest in ukraine has decreased a little bit, all this is not happening so vividly, maybe if it was 2022, then ok, but now. Already somehow, and therefore i think that, taking into account all this, we should understand, for sure our cultural diplomats, people who deal with art and our cultural policy, policy abroad, in particular, should understand that we still have to work on this in some complex way and, well , somehow, solve this problem, this problem is solved, of course, by, well, what we are developing just some. Strategists, not, not something someone makes a single one. Well, here is one more betrayal for you that happened in france, we are already moving on to another topic, which is also in principle quite related to what i described above in france, the russians organized a kind of festival of russian films named after navalny, this is already the tenth time are organizing such a festival, we see its poster, but here are the colors of the russian flag, and here i ask you to Pay Attention to. The names of the tapes that they showed, and wanted to show, and showed at this festival, and their tapes are as follows , these are shadows of forgotten ancestors, a very russian tape. I emphasize, this is a festival of russian tapes dedicated to navalny this year. Also, well, actually, now we can look at the site of this event itself, and we see that there is a description of tiny, there is a description of peradzhanov, well , the film itself is there, you know, first of all, there is a russian transliteration, that is, Sergey Paradzhanov is there and so on. Yuriy lenko, who was the cameraman on this film, he. It is not mentioned that he is ukrainian, nor does the description suggest that the readers are told that the action takes place in in ukraine, its just in the carpathians, but where are the carpathians, its not clear in which country, and also the director is there too, you know, hes soviet, georgian, soviet, but of course we were reminded of our embassy in particular about that , that the parajan himself. Considering the way he spoke about russia and the soviet union, that he only brought him evil, he must have been not too delighted with the fact that his film shadows of forgotten ancestors is being shown at the navalny russian film festival, also there showed the film by otar ioseliani, it is actually a georgianfrench director, right now we are seeing excerpts from tina, i will remind you, but there is a georgianfrench film director, otar and osilyani, too, his film is shown at this festival of russian films, well, we also see that a retrospective of Larisa Shepitko was announced there, she is a director, screenwriter, she was born in bakhmut, and later studied in lviv, and this is larisa shpidko, she is such an example of exactly how. How the empire absorbs talents from its own, well, the occupied territories, because shepitko moved to russia, in fact she started filming russian films, well , like serhiy bondarchuk, for example, he is ukrainian, and he also filmed about shevchenko and played shevchenko, but it seems that in general he also filmed russian films and he received an oscar the tv series war and peace, and russians can also position it in the world as russian, that is, it is such a classic cultural one. Tion and it must be said that our embassy also made a statement, as well as the Ukrainian Institute, the French Branch in particular, i will say that the Ukrainian Institute its him, its an institution that belongs to the structure of the ministry of Foreign Affairs and specifically deals with cultural diplomacy, lets listen to what ivan ryabchiy wrote to us in the comments, he is currently the head of the Ukrainian Institute in france. At least what the organizers write about peredzhanov, an armenian born in georgia , who studied in moscow in order to later revive ukrainian cinema, i dont know who could have thought of such a definition, because paradzhanov himself said that the only thing she did for him, russia put him in prison. All of them the names and surnames of the creators of the film are transliterated from the russian language. Actually, we say this in the letter that we sent to the organizers. Similar festivals are a deliberate, absolutely shameful appropriation of ukrainian culture in favor of russian culture. And i will say that i will remind you, friends, i think you well remember that now in the world ukrainians who are engaged in visual art, they continue to fight for such artists, there as aevazovsky, as reppin, as kuinji, after all, were recognized as ukrainian in the world, or rather they even insist on. Also cultural diplomats are on the point that everything is fair, and there, if paradzhanov, then he really needs to be positioned, there as an armenian who was born in georgia, and he made one of his most outstanding films in ukraine, as well aivazovsky, yes, he is a ukrainian, a ukrainian artist of armenian origin, for example, this is the correct way to do it, but not so that it is like russians, that everything means russian, and also in azov russian. And kuindzhi is russian, shepitko is russian and everything else, by the way, and we can already say about annilorak, thank god that she can definitely be called a russian singer, because, as far as i know, there are rumors that she is going to take russian citizenship, but i think that in this case you and i will somehow not be too offended by the fact that they will no longer be called a ukrainian singer, a ukrainian citizen, by the way, to be honest, if you look at. The list of all these artists who moved to russia, ukrainian artists who moved to russia, started doing something there, to be honest, even here, on the contrary, there is a little bit of evil. That they still have ukrainian passports, they really do can position themselves abroad as citizens of ukraine. Well, about such people in particular, who, well, a little bit with a dubious, dubious and dubious background and dubious actions now, i will mention the singer maruva, she is maruv, do you remember her, she is the one who once won the qualifying rounds for eurovision, had to go to the eurovision song contest, but there they started asking her whose crimea it was. And so on, and it is clear that she should not be allowed abroad to participate in this festival, in this competition, because who knows what she might do there interview, thats why she didnt go there, and then she somehow tries to sit on two chairs, and now such famous investigators, as his name is mollfaru, on their website, they made such an interesting investigation about maruv under the title music will bring maruv. Peace in quotation marks to russia, and missiles to ukraine, how does the singer continue to earn in the Russian Federation . It is about, in particular, that maruff, as molfar proves, they, she continues to earn on the russian market and continues to pay taxes there, because the investigation says that she did not break her contract with, for example, warner music russia, its a record company, well, we can. Now look at the graphic here is this very article of this malfara, so that you can see it, and also here they claim that she continues to present her tracks so far on the jandex music platform, and accordingly, she earns money on this platform. Lets listen to an excerpt from this material, where the investigators specify exactly how much maruv can earn from his inability to get out of. These big russian platforms. Lets try to calculate how much maruv could earn from listening to yandex music. It is known that the minimum amount for one listening from one subscriber, taking into account the average cost of listening, is 3. 7 kopecks. If we consider that one subscriber listened to her composition at least once, then in 2022 maruf could earn 337 thousand rubles, because she had more than. 9 million subscribers, then, as already in 2023, this amount could increase to 466 thousand rubles, and the number of subscribers to jandex music increased to more than 12 million. Well, this is wonderful this is the story, in general, maruv, she stayed in ukraine, she gave birth to her child already after the fullscale invasion, but now , it seems, she is together with her husband, who is also ukrainian, her director, and they find. In dubai, well, somehow , they try , you know, here and there, but we already see on the examples of many musicians, performers, or artists that it is not possible to do so, you need to choose some, some one position, we see this on the example of svetlana labada, who has, by the way, supporters in ukraine remained, but there are not so many of them, you see, there is no way she can return, but she really wants to, she cannot return, because she also wants to. Keep her russian fans, because they objectively have more of them than her, and well, obviously she is interested specifically in her russian fans, fans, but she must now be ingratiated with ukraine, because then, well, it is easier to perform abroad, and the ukrainian market is also valued enough, but you see that she is here, as she is not spins, they do not accept, also vera brezhniva is unclear, as if she wants to return, but somehow i dont like her very much either. They are cutting her there, she came to perform at one event , at one concert, but already in the Television Broadcast she was cut away from sin, and maruv, you see, and it seems that she wants to make money in russia, but of course she does not want to stay in russia, and if and in ukraine here, and thats why, if you remember even anna lorak, who was with her position, thats how it happened, what happened, but she returned some time ago, a year or six months ago, she. She returned to russia already finally, she lived outside this country, she started to act as a coach there at some of their singing shows for underprivileged children, and in the end she also had to prove to everyone there for a long enough time that she was not a traitor either, because she was also called a traitor in russia, they say she could not clearly express that it was what war, what happened , what happened, you can say that you are there for russia and all that. Well, you see, anya lorak has finally chosen her side, in general, if we talk about all these stars, it seems to me that the best, most honest action is someone like taisia povaliy, she never hid. That she is more inclined to russia, she immediately came to russia a long time ago with her husband, and here she is working for this regime, everything is completely clear with her, you see, here a person has chosen a certain position and will endure it, well done, only here i am i cant remember whether she still has a ukrainian passport or she has already taken a russian one, well, lets move on to victory, we have victory in that, so far without betrayal, and i hope. Thats how it will be, thats the matter in the fact that andrii korkovs book was again included in international, in the long list of the International Booker prize, well, his book is called, ukrainian, it is called samson and nadiya, but it is evaluated at the booker, it is the International English translations in english, it is called the silverbone, here you see its cover, you can buy this book. In online format, if you want, in the internet translation by boris draluk, this is actually what is described on the website of the award, i quote imbued with kurkovas signature humor and magi