[16:00-17:35] Rediscovering Yury Shchekochikhin: The Journey of a Political Figure

When you met for the second time like that, did you already know well, who he was? Did you know, well, his very broad... Not really. Not really. I just understood that he was the person who wrote 'Lev Prygnul' (Lion Jumped), who ran a wonderful poetic page in 'Aly Parus' (Scarlet Sails). That was 'Moskovsky Komsomolets', so there was this 'Aly Parus'. I hadn't been there for 11 years, I read 'Aly Parus'. I would come, they subscribed to that newspaper back then, we subscribed to others, but my cousin subscribed. When I came to their house, I always, you know, looked for 'Aly Parus', because it featured the work of young people. And there was always a piece of text written by Yura accompanying this work, and it was also very well written in a supportive, open, and easy way. I knew, and there was his photograph there. So I knew who he was. You knew who he was, but you still, let's say, renewed your acquaintance then. We sort of... again, it's like I just came to Armenia after 40 years. It was like, well, I remember Armenia. And this was like, well, some person, we had argued then, then, well, he introduced himself, I knew who, but he had changed so much, and I didn't recognize him. He became completely different. I didn't recognize him.