theme 26.05.1995 (1995)

Epigraph of the program: A fragment of the song "Where does the Motherland begin" is played (Views of Moscow and New York, airplanes).

Theme of the program: Emigrants.

Guests in the studio: Unknown Ernst - sculptor (USA) and Vasily Aksyonov - writer (USA, Russia).

Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksyonov answer the question, how did you end up in America?

Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksyonov answer the question, what did you feel when you first came to America.

Vasily Aksyonov answers the question, what were your feelings when you were deprived of your Soviet citizenship and there was no way back.

Unknown Ernst answers the question, more than fifteen years have passed, do you now feel like an American.

Unknown Ernst answers the question, what does the Stars and Stripes mean to you.

Vasily Aksyonov answers the question, why do Russians not feel protected now.

Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksenov answer the question, do you often allow yourself to go to restaurants.

Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksenov answer the question, what is your favorite food in a restaurant.

Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksenov answer the question, do you have any nostalgic feelings.

Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksenov answer the question, do you follow the events happening in Russia while in America.

Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksenov answer the question, are there any media organized by emigrants.

A story about radio and television programs in America that are broadcast in Russian.

Video: View of Brighton Beach in New York, people on the street, intros to TV programs of Russian-language television companies.

Pavel Paley talks about emigrant media in the USA. Video: Studio of a television company broadcasting in Russian in the USA. Marina Burtseva, a journalist, talks about herself and her work in the USA. Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksenov answer the question whether emigrants are more interested in events that happen in Russia or the USA. Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksenov answer the question whether you watch football or hockey in the USA. Unknown Ernst and Vasily Aksenov answer the question whether you still have our habits, fishing, playing cards.

Vasily Aksenov talks about Russian friendly communication, as opposed to American.

Unknown Ernst talks about the Russian tradition of communicating at the table.

Unknown Ernst says that in America it is not customary to share painful things.

Vasily Aksenov says that Americans can be frank only in a bar when they have a drink.

Unknown Ernst answers the question whether you are homesick.

Unknown Ernst talks about emigrants.

Vasily Aksenov quotes the words of N.V. Gogol.

Unknown Ernst and Aksenov Vasily answer the question, women in America differ from women in Russia and give examples of mixed marriages between citizens of the USA and Russia.

Aksenov Vasily talks about women in the USA and their characters.

Sukhoi Vladimir, a journalist who lived in the USA for several years, talks about the biggest difficulties for emigrants.

Sukhoi Vladimir, a journalist, talks about the emigrant area of Brighton Beach in New York.

Aksenov Vasily talks about his impressions of the Brighton Beach area.

Story about Brighton Beach.

Video: Signpost "

Brighton Beach", people on the streets, overpass, shops with Russian names, subway cars on the overpass, child in a toy car, pedestrians, flashing traffic light, general plan of the street and overpass, view of the ocean and the beach, child on the street, street vendor at the counter, woman with a stroller, bus on the street, elderly people on the street, seagulls on the shore, people walking along the embankment, cars on the street and signs, view of the roadway from a skyscraper.

Aksenov Vasily answers a viewer's question, Your American friends who have never been to Russia, what do they ask you about.

Unknown Ernst answers a question, Recently, thanks to Govorukhin, we began to talk about the Russia that we have lost.

What kind of Russia have you lost, what has changed.

Unknown Ernst says what outrages him in modern Russia.

Aksenov Vasily answers the question, in your book "The Island of Crimea" you predicted our situation.

For you, was it really a forecast or just a literary work?

Aksenov Vasily talks about the events of August 1991. Unknown Ernst speaks, talks about his lines written in 1967. Unknown Ernst and Aksenov Vasily answer the question, is your real popularity there or here in Russia.

Aksenov Vasily tells a story from life, how he sold his book in the USA. Unknown Ernst talks about the destruction of behavioral archetypes of the Russian person in the USA. Aksenov Vasily talks about funny cases that happened to Soviet spies in the USA. The host asks the guests, what would you wish for our country to prosper, do you have any recipe for how we can arrange Russia.

Aksenov Vasily sees the path of Russia in unity with humanity, the Western world with Christian civilization with the ideas of democracy.

Unknown Ernst wishes that Russia would have real Russian capitalism.

The host says goodbye to the audience.