[06:10:00 - 10:00:80] Yura's Journalism: A Tool for Transformation

Please tell me a little, uh, about his works, what he did. Uh, that, uh, what did he write about? You know, this, this, this, by the way, uh, turned out to be a very, uh, an ambiguous thing for me, because I always thought that Yura, and how Yura is presented. Yura is a journalist with an excellent journalistic school, who started serious journalism, in fact, at 16. And so, as strange as it may seem, the Soviet Union actually provided an opportunity, uh, what is now called a social elevator. That a person read a newspaper, wrote a letter to the newspaper, and came. They arranged a meeting for him. And an amazing journalist arranged a meeting for him, unfortunately, they are simply no longer alive, they passed away due to age, who worked with youth. And at 16, there are these wonderful photographs, when Yura is wearing an earflap hat, one earflap to one side, the other to the other. Such a, well, a small guy, he comes to the newspaper, and his first newspaper was Moskovsky Komsomolets. They immediately gave him the task to write a note. And all his life, Yura worked with young people, because for him, this understanding that we live for the future. We love the past very much, we, uh, treat memory very carefully, but we live for the future. And each time in the future, he saw in every child with whom he spoke very seriously. I saw him seriously talking to an eight-year-old boy, uh, who is his friend's son, explaining what needs to be done to become a good journalist, to become a good journalist, the very first thing is to become a good person. And the most important thing, just a minute, the most important thing about Yura is that journalism was an instrument for him. An instrument for transforming the world. And so for me, this is such an image, uh, of a Renaissance man in general, when any activity, it is, in essence, an act for, and this act for the common good. And the common good is when the world will be better, and the future will be better.