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Amazing on everyone, look right now. Hello, this is the Meeting Place at ntv, the place where everything becomes clear. I am andrey norkin, my colleague ivan trushkin, we are working live, we have to start with breaking news. Today it became known that an attempt was made on the life of oleg tsarev, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of ukraine, a very consistent and active critic of the kiev regime, he has been living in in our country, in russia, there is no official information yet, Dmitry Peskov was asked the same question this morning, he said. There is no detailed information yet, so he refrained from commenting, but there are a lot of messages on crimean social networks, including from sources that our Editorial Team trusts, which means that, according to th ....
Part of the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. The idea behind doing that is collect primarily oral histories of veterans, sitting down with them, having the talk about their experiences particularly during the time they served in the military and particularly during the time of war. We taken these histories be a audio or video but also original materials like photographs letters, things families find themselves with that they do not know what to do with. They also tell a very compelling story. As i said, we do this with the american Folk Art Center at the library of congress and try to make it accessible to as many people around the country as possible. All this has been done primarily through public participation, volunteers organizations institutions individuals people sitting down with the veteran in their life capturing the story. Patrick pre ....
Members of congress who served in the military. Now, a brief conversation about the project with director Robert Patrick and reference specialist megan harris. What is the idea behind the veterans history project . Patrick the project is to collect, preserve, and make accessible the wartime memories of veterans. Congress saw the wisdom back in 2003 as part of the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. The way we are doing that is collect primarily oral histories of veterans, sitting down with them, having the talk about their experiences, particularly during the time they served in the military and particularly during the time of war. We take in these histories be a audio or video but also original materials like photographs letters, diaries, things families find themselves with that they do not know what to do with. They also tell a very compelling st ....
Of federal appropriations from the National Park service. We recently spent be several hundred thousand dollars repairing their or sewer system, we do ongoing safety and food inspections, trash removal and road maintenance. So we had to evaluate in the case of claude moore, in the case of dozens of these, of whether or not we would be in violation of the antideficiency act by allowing these to continue to operate. So if you may, let me just say we took the closure date on october 1, and then we began to evaluate each of these operations individually to insure that we were not violating. And those that we felt we could honestly and clearly and legally reopen, we have done that. By the way, i have limited amount of time left, but i want to say at least speaking for this member i just heard my colleague from colorado make some rather strong statements about you and your service. I completely disavow those comments. I think you have be ....