Nikolay Tsiskaridze: I would Like our children to know not only the “Snow white and the seven dwarfs” and “the Tale of the dead Princess and the seven knights”… the Photo: Alexander Halperin/RIA Novosti
Nikolai Maksimovich, you followed the discussion of amendments to the Constitution?
Nikolai Tsiskaridze: In the world today is simply impossible to miss such things, because for those who do not watch TV or read Newspapers, there is a Telegram and YouTube. I think that much is very reasonable. This is especially true of parenting issues, support of orphans. Items related to medicine, it is also very important.
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by the Way, in 2011 when I danced, I was invited as an expert during the discussion of the transition to the Bologna system. And then I said that if officials were obliged to teach their children on territory of the Russian state and be sure to send in the army, in many areas of our life would be normal. It was a hypothetical statement, but today we see that the Constitution enshrines a ban on dual citizenship.
What do you think about amendment Piotrovsky – Matsuev – Kalyagin establishing the state support and protection of culture, which is “a unique heritage of the multinational people”?
Nikolai Tsiskaridze: There is a famous saying of Napoleon: “a People unwilling to feed its own army will soon be forced to feed someone else.” I think this fully applies to the cultural sphere.
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it All depends on the system of education, which greatly subsided. I have repeatedly raised this issue on various boards at the Federal level, including the Council for the implementation of the state policy in the sphere of protection of family and children, which was created by presidential decree and chaired by the ShaftEntin Matvienko. Modern children categorically do not know Russian tales, Russian literature in General. They are perfectly versed in “the Lord of the rings”, amazing you know “Harry Potter”. But if we ask children on the street, then no child will say that “beauty and the Beast” is “the Scarlet flower”, and for me it is a very unpleasant symptom. I do not deny that the “Beauty and the Beast” is a very cleverly made film. But I would like to Russian citizens not only knew “Snow white and the seven dwarfs” and “the Tale of the dead Princess and the seven knights”, and understand how they are connected. I talked about this when he was an actor, and now that I’m seven years as head of one of the oldest educational institutions in our country, can you give examples without end.
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how do you feel about the mention of God in the Constitution?
Nikolai Tsiskaridze: as a teacher, once in Moscow, I led the disciples to the Tretyakov gallery. There is an entire floor dedicated to the Russian icon, I showed them the exhibition, told about Andrei Rublev… And then we went out into the field to look at the Church of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God. And one girl refused to enter an Orthodox Church, because she is a Muslim. I was the first time he thought about the fact that we are surrounded by people of other faiths that there is a difference that should be considered. The Constitution is a legal document, which says that we have a multi-religious country, the Russian Federation is a secular state.
In my family were all Christians, although the mother is Georgian, my stepfather is Armenian, and the nurse was Ukrainian. I was baptized in the Church of St. Barbara, which belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church. And when I was a child and heard my mother’s relatives: “You did it in the Russian Church are baptized,” that at first didn’t understand what the difference is. But I learned Armenian and Georgian language to communicate with their relatives and thereby Vikashow them the respect.
do You feel that culture in the broad sense need further legal regulation?
Nikolai Tsiskaridze: Absolutely. First and foremost, this relates again to education.
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while Still a ballet dancer, I wrote a letter to the President personally, then the same – already on a post of the rector. We have a unique educational institution, which has more than 250 years, which proved its profitability and confirmed its place in the sun. This heritage of our culture, and I wish the government cared about them. Including through the provision of clear sum for maintenance, for payment of the teaching staff. Not only the walls necessary to contain, but to make decent have decent pay and would be held for your work to not leave and not leave to private enterprise. This is the culture.
A second very important point that is directly related to the first, is legal regulation. The education act requires us each year to prepare a large number of documents, including a justification for the number and content of education. But it does not impose requirements for teachers: what they need to have qualifications, how many years they have to serve, at what age should leave his post. I once, as no one in the history of Russian culture, has shown that it is necessary to leave with dignity, and the day-to-day. Believe me, I can dance better than most. But – don’t. Similarly, I know people who today do not have to teach. And those who don’t need to lead. Can’t the managers do not have music and ballet education, to lead musican ideal theatre. Just like I can’t ballet people who do not have legal or management education, to be leaders even ballet team. Otherwise, they only bring harm. And this a lot of confirmations.
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Maybe, save a return to the arts Council and gospriemka performances?
Nikolai Tsiskaridze: will Save the respect for your own culture. I often say that I advocate censorship. But I’m not for censorship, I am for sanity, logic and respect. At least to the events in its history.
this year we celebrate 75 years of the Victory in the great Patriotic war. Many believe that this connection is not necessary, for example, to talk about the tragedy of the siege of Leningrad. And I think that we must remember about those people who left. To honor their memory is blasphemous.
In all social networks have an account with your name. You take them personally?
Nikolai Tsiskaridze: They are other people. But I’m always very happy, because it is done with great love, and ready to help them. I don’t want to go to the virtual communication. Now I have WhatsApp and Telegram, I look interesting to me personally on YouTube. But most of that online, I just don’t want to know.
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How do you feel about the ideas limitedgovernance of the Internet (project of the Federation Council on fines for social networks and Internet companies for illegal content)?
Nikolai Tsiskaridze: I believe that any restriction generates interest. I remember this from my childhood. And now as a teacher I can say that the ban is advertising. It comes from the family. As if we are not prohibited, what is allowed at home will grow. So here we have to ensure that, in General, we show that broadcast as a society. If the TV in the morning until the evening broadcast scandal – we provoke. We impose this way of behavior. And ban the Internet despite the fact that we have TV’s allowed God knows what, I think it is absolutely meaningless.
