Where is Jan Tobacco now? I wonder what you think a real man means? Yan Tabanchik and Igor Zavadsky
- Yan Petrovich, we Israelis have somewhat lost sight of you. So tell me first, how do you live? How are you?
When I ask the same question to one of my comrades, who is older than me, he says: "Well, what can I tell you? Worse than it was, but better than it will be." Everything happens in life, but everything seems to be fine. You can’t grumble at fate, so, God forbid, that everything goes on like this.
- They say that since childhood you wore the Star of David around your neck. It's true?
No, I didn’t wear it, because I simply didn’t have it - wearing a six-pointed star around the neck in the Soviet Union became fashionable about 20 years ago. But now I wear the Star of David, and as a child I wore it in my heart. I have never been a Zionist, but never in my life have I allowed myself to deny that I am a Jew. He did not boast of it, but he never refused either. I am a civilized person, traveled all over the world, worked with people of different nationalities, I was friends with everyone, I am friends and will be friends. Why should I leave my Jewishness? And why should I stick it out? After all, it is as ugly as hiding it.
Was it scary to be a Jew in the Soviet Union?
Being a Jew is always scary.
- Even a famous person?
You understand that no matter what events happen, no matter how history turns, for some reason we always remain to blame for everything. When perestroika began, the famous Memory Society appeared. And even then, in those years, I said that "they are again looking for the guilty, and they are pulling the same, shaggy ones - the traditions of the stand are very strong even during perestroika." And I think that it will never, probably, go away, never. And we must be ready for this. We have the right to life, we have the right to fight for our existence, like any nation. We have a right to our own geniuses and celebrities, and to our own scoundrels and scum. We have the right to have our pride, our state, our flag. For thousands of years, scoundrels of various stripes tried to destroy us, but nothing came of them. Therefore, let everyone who dreams of us not being in the world put this thought out of their heads. The more people like them want to do it, the more they will pay for it. We are exactly the same people as everyone else - not smarter and not worse. We are ordinary. The same as everyone else.
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- You once said a wonderful phrase - "to be a musician, it's the same as being a Jew - you also suffer all your life."
Yes unfortunately.
- What do you suffer more now?
I had to suffer twice in my life, both as a Jew and as a musician. But, you know, I think that I am both a happy person and a musician. I worked in different countries ah with the world's best musicians, saw many celebrities, presidents, prime ministers, members of royal families, I was friends with them and friends. I think that I am also a happy Jew. Due to the fact that I live in a country like Ukraine, I bear the highest title and the highest awards of this country. It's a sin for me to complain about fate. I do not want, in general, to be ashamed. Yes, I sometimes had a hard time - like anyone else. So I don't think I suffered much. Well, maybe you wanted to achieve something not so hard work ...
- Your music has become a real decoration of the film "Babi Yar" ...
I wrote the music for this film quite by accident, and acted both as an author and as a performer. And I want to say frankly - every note was wept out there, and not only by me. When the great actress Elina Bystritskaya heard this music, she simply felt bad. Because it was done from the heart. In fact, at first it was planned that the music for "Babi Yar" would be written by another composer, but when the director heard my button accordion, he decided that it would be the leitmotif of the entire film. I had to repay the debt to those people who died at Babi Yar. And, thank God, I managed to do it at least partially.
- And what is happening in Babi Yar now? After all, there was a very unpleasant story with the raiders ...
There, in Babi Yar, there was a building that was bought by the Jewish community headed by Vadim Rabinovich. And then someone staged a raider attack and bought this building with false documents, and it began ... It is very fashionable in our country now - in this way huge factories, some buildings are leaving the hands of the owners, and now it has also reached Babi Yar turn. This is just blasphemy. When I found out about this, I wrote a parliamentary inquiry to the Prosecutor General. Now law enforcement agencies are doing it.
- Could you comment on what is happening now in Ukraine?
It is very difficult in Ukraine now. Historically, Western Ukraine has leaned more towards the west. I myself am from those places, and my parents often recalled how they lived under the same Romanians. These constant talks about the fact that they had this and that, and then the Soviet power came - and that's it. Soviet power in those places was never particularly loved. Eastern Ukraine has always been pro-Russian, which is why it still leans more toward Russia. There are more Russian and Russian-speaking population. And so it turns out that there are two different psychologies in the country, two different directions. Although I think that neither eastern nor western Ukrainians want the division of the country, although such conversations go on all the time. At one time, even such an outstanding politician and, in my opinion, a man of genius, Vyacheslav Chornovil, said that Ukraine should be a federation. I, like all civilized people, believe that Ukraine should be united. But politicians do everything to split the country - they impose alien ideas, alien heroes. Well, what do you think, can Bandera be a hero for me, for example? For me, a man whose family was in a concentration camp, whose elder brother died there? Can a policeman be a hero for me? Naturally, no. Here you live in Israel - can you name at least one street named after Sverdlov, Trotsky, Kaganovich? No, you can't, because there are no such streets. But they were Jews by nationality and very famous people. But streets are not named after scoundrels and murderers, and I support this. Every nation has worthy people whom humanity should respect and exalt, and there are those who are better not to remember.
- Recently Ukrainian radio called you the second most imposing politician in Ukraine….
Actually, playing these games at the age of 60 is no longer very interesting. But it is an honor, and I am grateful to those who gave me this title. I did not count on such a recognition, and I did not build any illusions about this and do not build it. Well, they chose and chose.
- And how do you feel as a politician? Not tired?
So far, I cannot puff out my cheeks and say that I have succeeded in the political arena. Before becoming a politician, I was engaged in public work for more than 10 years, and this helped me a lot. Now I practically continue to do the same - I help the poor, the elderly. It is the duty of every person who can act and do something, especially today. And politics gave me this opportunity - to act. If earlier I could call some minister, and he decided whether he should even pick up the phone, today I come to this minister without a report and demand from him what I need. But to say that I have already taken place, like Shimon Peres, for example, I cannot. But I think that at my level I am doing everything to leave the parliament with the same clear conscience with which I came there. And it is very difficult to do this in our parliament. But I think yours too.
- As far as I know, you were one of the few who called Vakhtang Kikabidze and supported him when this whole story between Russia and Georgia happened ...
I considered it my duty to call him as my friend and say: "Vakhtang! Take your whole family and come. We have a free apartment - you can live here as long as you want. I will help you." We are connected by many years of friendship, and it is the duty of every normal person to treat his friends this way. We must remember those who saved us and be grateful to them. Better to be a righteous Jew than a scoundrel Jew. And when Iosif Kobzon told Kikabidze that he was wrong, I told him: "You see, Joseph, Vakhtang belongs to a small people, just like us, so it's not necessary." Then Kobzon said that he had not thought about it. But I believe that Vakhtang did not have to give up the Order of Friendship. From anyone else - just not from him, because it is a symbol of peace.
- You are remembered and loved very much in the expanses of the former USSR. Don't you miss that time?
On the one hand, I miss you. Then there was an extraordinary geography of the tour - Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Far East ... Ukraine is not a small country, especially on a European scale, but it cannot be compared with what it was before. And when our artists say "Tour of Ukraine", it becomes funny to me. So what is this tour? Previously, we were not there for six months, for a year at home - we toured. Today, 24 regions pass in 10 days and they call it a tour. Reminds me of a joke about two administrators from the arts who drove artists around the country. And these administrators are listening to the news on the radio - they announce that German planes have bombed the city of Berdichev. The administrators say: "The city is also for me. A site for 500 seats."
- Are you going to perform in Israel?
Unfortunately, in the near future I simply will not be able to come to you, because I hardly go on stage. I was remembered by the audience as a temperamental artist and musician, the author of programs that I put on myself. Today I can't do it anymore. So why should I go on stage? When I go on stage for free, when people do not pay money for a ticket, then I do it calmly. Then I come, as a guest, to a friendly meeting with the audience. I can talk to people about creativity, say kind words to them. And when people buy tickets, they want the artist to work. And it's simply impossible to work poorly here. I'm sorry when my colleagues don't understand this and go on stage anyway. But this is not from a good life. But, thank God, I am able to live without performances, I have enough to live on.
- And how do you feel about this country, Israel? What feelings does it evoke in you?
It is a beautiful and hospitable country with fast, brave people, built on sand, on blood, on stones... When I come here and see that something new has been built, I understand what has been done for this. This is a country that spends 45% of the budget on the war, which is constantly in a state of shock, because the enemies are killing its children ... We have false information about Israel on television - always only from one side, because television is a corrupt thing. And I always wonder - is it really so lacking money for those who show these shameless things. I'm not asking you to support either one or the other - I'm asking you to show the truth. After all, who wants to know the truth, he certainly knows. I know, and therefore I often come here, rest my soul. And I'm proud to be my people.
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Yan Tabachnik was born in Chernivtsi (Ukraine) on July 31, 1945. I picked up the accordion for the first time at the age of 10. The entire future fate of Y. Tabachnik turned out to be connected with this instrument. From the age of 13 he began to work in semi-professional teams, and from the age of 16 he went to the professional stage. He worked in the Astrakhan Regional Philharmonic, the Philharmonic of the Georgian SSR, was a soloist-instrumentalist of the Adzharian branch of the Georgian Philharmonic, artistic director of the folklore ensembles "Surmi", "New Day".
In 1990 he graduated from the Melitopol State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in music and singing (qualification - teacher of music and singing). In 1995-2000 he worked at the Odessa Municipal Theater of Music of Yan Tabachnik.
In 2006, he became a People's Deputy of Ukraine on the list of the Party of Regions. In the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation, he served as the first deputy head of the Committee on Spirituality and Culture. In the Parliament of the VI convocation - in the Committee on Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.
Yan Tabachnik - People's Artist of Ukraine, holder of the titles "Ukrainian Variety Star", "Golden Accordion of Europe" and many others, Doctor of Arts and Philosophy, Professor of the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts, Honorary Professor of the Tel Aviv Conservatory and Academy. Karel Lipinsky.
An ordinary Zaporozhye girl became not only the wife of the famous virtuoso accordionist, politician and showman Yan Tabachnik, but also won the hearts of millions of listeners herself.
Tatyana Nedelskaya and Yan Tabachnik got married back in 2000. The couple have three sons, reports
They were together back in 1993, when her future husband kicked her out of the team. She was 21 at the time and he was 48.
"Is this the age for a man? Especially for SUCH - talented, smart, forever young at heart. It was impossible not to fall in love with him," says the singer.
The man made her happy not only as a woman, but also helped in her creative realization.
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But after political changes and the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine (recall that Yan Tabachnik was a deputy from the Party of Regions), the singer disappeared from the screens and the general public gradually began to forget her. But, according to Tatyana, she continued to give concerts and record new songs. And already in the middle of 2016, she reminded herself of herself, deciding to return to the big stage.
As Nedelskaya admitted, she was inspired to new creative achievements by the famous American producer, writer and screenwriter Mark Meyers. It was he who suggested presenting her video in the category "Best music video"in the competition.
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Nedelskaya reminded of herself not only with creativity
Often, the Ukrainian media nevertheless mentioned the forgotten singer in a rather scandalous context.
For example, Tatyana's 45th birthday celebrations, a photo from which she posted on social networks, received wide publicity.
Nedelskaya showed how she received her girlfriends in her estate, drank with them by the pool, and then for some reason decided to take a swim in clothes. The singer also shared pictures of the family feast and her photos in different outfits.
It is worth noting that Tatyana Nedelskaya often pleases her fans with her own photos on Instagram. These are always sincere and open photos or vacation, or family shots, then the workflow. The singer is not shy about posting photos without makeup and with cosmetic procedures, because she considers herself beautiful at any age and form. And here subscribers cannot but agree with her.
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Jan Tabachnik:
"For me, family and children are more important than all show business put together"
Yan Tabachnik is a big man, popular, loved by the public and friends. He exudes confidence and serenity. And it seems that nothing can get through it. And what can touch a person who has lived a long and difficult life, who has reached all the heights in music, the owner of the "Golden Accordion of Europe", a holder of the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker? Love!? Yan Tabachnik and Tatyana Nedelskaya are a couple famous for their romance, which began eight years ago and grew into a real, strong family.
Tatyana Nedelskaya: "I save it for myself"
Tatyana, they say, young, beautiful girls love to meet famous and wealthy men...
It's all nonsense. True, many still believe that I hunted. Well, let them count. I don't live to prove anything to anyone. I think that the proof of our love can be the words of Jan Petrovich, who once said: "You know, we live with you in such a way that even stones envy us." Yang is generally not very talkative about love, he proves everything with deeds. He is a very gentle man. And let my enemies think that I hunted, and envy my prey. In fact, the crown of our love was the sons Pavlik and Petya. And soon another baby will be born. And all this talk and speculation is complete nonsense.
- But you have such a huge difference in age. Although in our time, marriage to a man who is much older than a woman is considered fashionable.
I don't feel this difference. She knew who she married. He was and is an interesting person who interested me as a person and just as a real man. And believe me, no fashion has nothing to do with it. At all times, a young woman was glad to have the opportunity to marry an already established man (and before the revolution, in general, an older chosen one was chosen for her daughter). It just wasn't customary to talk about it before. There are other pluses in such pairs. My husband will never see me grow old. Because in the eyes of an eighty-year-old man, a fifty-year-old woman is almost a girl. And for a hundred-year-old, a seventy-year-old is almost a first grader.
- I wonder what, in your opinion, means a real man?
You know, a man is not only the one who wears pants. My husband is friends like a man, he treats life like a man, he always acts like a man. And I love real men. Understand that if a woman lives in abundance, this does not mean that she is lucky. In addition, everyone knows that when we got married, he lived in a one-room apartment, and there were times when we borrowed a hundred dollars for the whole team. Therefore, I cannot say that I married a rich man. I fell in love with a real man.
- Tabachnik looked after beautifully?
Jan not only looked after me beautifully, he lives with me beautifully, spoils me all the time. He has an amazing ability to give gifts. He was generous with all the women who were dear to him, and this does him credit. For example, he can bring me a beautiful suit, and pick up tights for it. I was dismayed to imagine Jan, a serious, busy, always in a hurry man, picking up women's tights in a store. Both funny and touching.
- Are you a jealous wife?
Yes. And Yang too. But he never gave me a reason to be jealous, just like I did to him.
- How did your parents react to such an unequal marriage?
What about my parents? Mom said: "As long as you feel good." Jan is the breadwinner in our family. My parents moved to us in Kiev and help to nurse the children.
- Does your husband have a favorite dish?
He is on a diet most of the time. When he manages to eat the usual Ukrainian borsch in my performance or fried potatoes, he is immensely happy. So it is not difficult to imagine if there is anything more beloved in his understanding.
Do not know. When they do something wrong, the husband says: "This is Tanechka." And I answered: "No, Yashechka."
- Do you teach music to Senior Petya?
We don't teach him anything. He is a very talented child. Wants to run - runs, wants to draw - draws. I specifically do not drive him to any circles. A child must have a childhood. The time will come, and he will learn everything himself.
- Are you strict parents?
Basically me. Our dad is kind.
- Yan Petrovich is a very busy person, often traveling. Do the kids miss him?
Of course, they are bored, but all evenings and weekends are given to them. Thank God we don't have any heavy touring.
- And how did the Kiev singers, with whom your husband is friends, accept you?
Fine. There are very nice people with whom we are friends, for example, with Nadia Shestak. I am very close to her and I trust her very much. I like Ani Lorak, Katya Buzhinskaya, Zhenya Vlasova. I think they are great.
-Do you often quarrel with Jan Petrovich?
No. Of course, we have outbursts, but I can’t call it quarrels. Despite all the conflicts, I will never let us part. Even if it happens that he leaves, slamming the door, I will definitely call him and ask: "Did we quarrel with you?" He says no. Then I reply that I think so too. I really value Jan, and before starting a scandal, I will think a hundred times. I keep it for myself. God forbid, something happens to him. After all, everyone is well aware that he is older than me, and you can’t do anything against nature, but I don’t want to put up with this. I want to prolong his years, his happiness. And I believe that we will live long and die in one day.
- What is the main thing for you in life - family or career, which you are now intensively engaged in?
For me, both are important. I would not want my husband to put me in front of such a choice. It is easy for me to talk about this, because it is thanks to Jan that I am spared from earning a living with my songs. I sing for my pleasure. My husband loves me enough to let me do it.
- Are you pampering him?
Yes, sure. But due to the fact that he is our breadwinner, I cannot pamper him with gifts, so I pamper him with my love. My behavior can be compared with the behavior of a puppy selflessly devoted to its owner. And if he did not respect me, such feelings would not arise. For example, I can hear by breathing whether he is sleeping or not. If he wakes up at night and gets up, I run after him. If I wake up in the middle of the night, he follows me. I'm not shy about talking about love first, I'm not shy about being the first to put up, I'm not shy about cleaning his shoes or tying his shoelaces. I want Jan to feel well-groomed, loved, needed. And she is ready to do everything for this.
- And he?
He too. I do not need to go and work at the expense of my family on weekends. And that's already a lot.
- How did you understand that Tatyana is your destiny?
Do not know! After all, it all started simply and even prosaically. She came to my team to work as a singer. And before her, many singers worked for me, but I never had an affair with any of them. Tanya was different. At that moment, when our relationship began, neither I nor she had anyone. So we didn't bother anyone. Thank God it's a family. We have been together for more than eight years, and I hope we will be together for the rest of our lives.
- Did the age difference bother you?
I will answer, as in the old joke. A seventy-year old man married an eighteen-year-old girl. They ask him: "What will you do with your wife in ten years? She will be twenty-eight, and you will be eighty!" - "Like what," the forever young husband answers, "I'm marrying an eighteen-year-old again!" Understand that life is unpredictable. Of course, you can’t put a scarf on someone else’s mouth, and I understand that our marriage is being discussed, but gossip didn’t reach me, probably because they know I won’t tolerate this. I don't have a harmless personality. And all the women who were next to me always felt like real women, starting from my attitude towards them, ending with their security. I do not think that Tanya got married by calculation. I don't run and spin my wife like a showman. When they ask me about her work, I always answer: "Sorry, I'm not her producer." Tatyana knows that I will not beg for her, and understands that I am, first of all, a man and a man of honor. I always told her: "If you are destined to be a singer, you will be, if not destined, then so be it." I don’t forbid her to sing, nevertheless she gives birth to my third child. Of course, I asked her the question, what is more important for her stage or family? She said, "The most important thing for me is you and my children." And, thank God, you know. Because for me, my wife and children are more important than the whole show business put together. And when I was offered a contract in Las Vegas four years ago, I had to say no. I could not leave Tanya and a small child in Ukraine, and it was also unrealistic to take them with me. She would go crazy in a hotel with a baby and I would go with them. And so we live in this country among relatives and friends. If I had been offered the same thing twenty years ago, I would have left without hesitation.
- How did Tatyana's parents and your sister take your marriage?
I'll tell you an anecdote again. A Jew comes to a rabbi and asks: "Is it possible?" He says, "No, you can't." - "Is it possible?" - "No way". - "And this?" - "Never". Then the Jew breaks down: "But you do it?" And he told him: "Well, I don't ask anyone!" So here we are, no one asked. Yes, and Tanya and I signed when Petya was five years old and Pavlik was due to be born. And not because feelings were tested and something else. There was simply no time to register the relationship officially. We lived together, we had common property, and the child too. So it will soon be two years since Tatyana and I are officially husband and wife.
- Usually people try to create the same family that their parents had, of course, provided that the marriage was successful. Is your family similar to your parents' family?
I was born into a very poor family. And I can say that where there is poverty, there is decency, cordiality and hospitality, compassion and sympathy. There were two of us - me and my sister, and we never shared anything with her. When my parents died, in memory of our house and that life, he took a straw bread box and a wooden mug. They are still with me to this day. I also took my father's old Pobeda watch. And nothing more. My sister was always ready to support and help me. Although, what could she, a simple teacher? However, she was ready to share the latter. And it's wild for me when I see that anger and hatred reign in the family. Of course, I try to make my family look like my parents' family. I don't have any secrets from Tanya. From the first day we got together, I never hid anything from her. He immediately said: "Here is the money, you need it - take it." We never share finances: it's yours, it's mine. In general, we have an ideal relationship, perhaps because I am from the generation of the last idealists.
- You have two children, a third is coming soon ...
My children are everything to me in this life. Peter is already in second grade. What is he? Good and not spoiled. I generally try not to spoil them. Still glad that he is not a sneak. Comes from school, I ask: "How are you?" He told me: "It's okay." I see - a scratch, I say: "Did you fight?" - "Not". - "But honestly?" - "Then a little." - "With whom?" - "With Oleg." This is Nadia Shestak's son, they sit at the same desk and go to school together. Nadia is our godfather. In general, I just want him to grow up as a man.
- Whose character does he have?
I think mine. He is embarrassed to ask for something, to say something (just like I did in childhood). Although he feels relaxed with me and with Tanya. And when we are away, he grabs my hand and tries to hide. I don't like sassy people and sassy kids. Pavlik is now one and a half years old. He is more combative than Petya, and he can hit. The nature of the third is still unknown.
- Have you thought of a name yet?
Yes. We want to call Alyosha. In general, I really want my children to be happy and live in a normal country, so that they do not have to run away from here. I haven't left and I've been through everything. As soon as I left on tour, they immediately said that I would not return (there was even such an unofficial sweepstakes). However, despite everything, he always returned. Although no one was waiting for me here. Tanya was not there yet, there were no children, there was nothing like that. One of my comrades said: “Well, why should you go back there, what do you have there? An apartment - two thousand. Zhiguli - another thousand. Furniture - let another thousand. Total: four. And I give you twenty-five, and you won’t go anywhere you're going." But, as you can see, I returned, and, honestly, I do not regret it. Now I have a family and I have someone to live for.
- You said that Nadezhda Shestak is your godfather, and who else is your godfather?
Oh, I'm more than thirty times the godfather. My friends consider me a benevolent and reliable person, therefore they seek to take me as godfather. I baptized Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, Poles, and Muslims. With almost all children, I maintain relationships and always help as much as possible. So I never got off with a formal congratulation on my birthday.
- Do you prefer to spend your free time with your family?
I have catastrophically little free time, but it all belongs to my wife and children. You see, everything has to be on time. And children should be born on time, and not at as many years as I am now. Therefore, I hasten to do for them as much good as possible. Indeed, in order to give birth to descendants, a lot of mind is not needed, another thing is to raise them and bring them to life. That, I'm afraid, is not enough time. I want the children to live better than I, who lived in a one-room apartment at 18 meters until the age of 50. She was a showy bachelor, and that suited me. Friends all said: "Yang, people don't live like that!" And when I had a family, everything changed. I had to do everything to make them live in normal conditions.
- Do you have traditions in your family?
Certainly. The main thing is our birthdays, which we love to celebrate. We always welcome guests. Especially for them, I keep a bar with a lot of expensive and exotic drinks. I don't use it myself. Now we are moving into a new apartment. And I asked Tatyana to buy a long table and 12 chairs. So that all guests can sit down normally and it was not necessary to substitute chairs and stools.
- Who visits you?
Only friends. Despite the fact that I am a public person, I will not tolerate any conjuncture in my house. People of different professions come to me, and no matter what, the main thing is that I love them and they are interesting to me. They all have one quality that I value immensely - decency. After all, a decent person is moral, and a moral person is honest.
- In life, you are a sharp person and do not give offenders a descent ...
In general, by nature I am kind and very accommodating, but you can only find a common language with me in a good way. My mom called me a bad lunatic. And she added: "If it were not for your kind disposition and quick-witted character, you would stand on the high road and kill people." According to the horoscope, I am Leo, a predator, and if something is not for me, I immediately rush to the victim. True, I quickly depart, and this saves many. In the family, I behave the same way, and then I repent for a long time.
No matter what Ukrainian nationalists say about the special historical path of Ukraine and the cardinal differences in the mentality of Ukrainians and Russians, life itself says otherwise. The close centuries-old neighborhood of the two peoples, their common history sometimes lead to the simultaneous appearance in both countries of absolutely identical characters, indistinguishable from each other, like twins.
Take at least the music. For many decades in the USSR, and then in Russia, not one official holiday concert is complete without Joseph Kobzon. With his patriotic-state repertoire, he represents the face of power and even became part of it. IN independent Russia Kobzon was actively involved in politics, many convocations of the State Duma representing the ruling party. However, the most titled singer in terms of the number of titles and state awards was born in the same, albeit eastern, but still Ukraine. In addition to the stage, Kobzon has successfully taken root in big business, has huge connections among politicians and with the “shadow” bigwigs hidden from the eyes of law-abiding citizens of the world.
In Ukraine, now lives and lives its full counterpart. The name of the "Ukrainian Kobzon" is Yan Tabachnik. The Ukrainian patriarch of pop music still had a harder time creative way than his Russian counterpart. Kobzon chose at all times the most popular genre of pop vocal among the people. Yan Tabachnik does not sing, but skillfully plays the accordion, for years carrying a rather weighty musical instrument. It's not even about his weight. Nevertheless, let the virtuoso instrumental musical compositions not be remembered and taken to the soul as much as the singer's voice and the words of the song. However, people fell in love with the work of Jan Tabachnik. True talent cannot be overlooked. The outcome of many years creative work there were 5 giant discs, 11 CDs released with works performed by Tabachnik. The master of the accordion himself successfully composed pop songs, sharing them with the same Iosif Kobzon, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Valentina Tolkunova.
Yan Tabachnik is a little younger than Kobzon. He was born in 1945 in Chernivtsi in the territory of the former Romania. From childhood, he sat down at the accordion and could not imagine life without it. Music then became his profession. He started in Kiev as an accompanist in a circus. Then began a long touring life. Yan Tabachnik began to explore the vast expanses of the Soviet Union, working in various philharmonic societies. At first it was Astrakhan, then neighboring Kalmykia.
Further, his path ran beyond the Caucasian ridge. He worked in Georgia for a long time, preferring southern Adjara. He returned to Ukraine closer to the declaration of independence as a well-known and wealthy artist, settling first in Odessa, and then in Kiev. He is well known to the large Ukrainian diaspora in the United States and Canada, where he often visited with concerts. Huge popularity in his homeland was enjoyed by his author's program "I have the honor to invite", where Yan Tabachnik met with the most famous people in Ukraine.
Conventionally, the life of Jan Tabachnik can be divided into 2 halves. In the first, he earned himself fame in the world of music and money for a living, a “coven” with tours of the vast USSR, preferring to work in the southern philharmonics. This is, in fact, a repetition of the path on the stage of the honored artist of Chechen-Ingushetia Iosif Kobzon. In his mature years, Yan Tabachnik began to actively collect titles, degrees and awards, gaining an impressive number of them. He was even more interested in connections with influential people in Ukraine. He is personally acquainted with all the presidents, prime ministers, oligarchs and more or less significant politicians. The authorities generously endowed him with attention.
The musician actively participated in the work of the All-Ukrainian Fund of Hope and Kindness, which was patronized by the wife of the second president of the country, Lyudmila Kuchma. The virtuoso did not miss a single charity event of the foundation, speaking in orphanages, boarding schools, nursing homes, as well as penal colonies And . Yan Tabachnik also established good relations with the leaders of a specific contingent, receiving the nickname Musician from them. Several times the Musician acted as an intermediary in resolving conflicts between authorities and law enforcement agencies. He himself was not seen in any. I was just friends with people with a difficult biography. He did not have to make excuses, like Kobzon, who was deprived of the right to visit the United States for suspicions in connection with.
Yan Tabanchik and Yanukovych
Presidents and prime ministers have changed in Ukraine, but Yan Tabachnik found a common language with each of them. The artist now speaks most of all kind words about Leonid Kuchma, who literally did not miss a single of his concerts. Kuchma contributed to the decision to allocate 6.2 hectares of capital land on the banks of the Dnieper to the famous musician. A truly royal gift. The market value of the land was estimated at $200 million. Viktor Yanukovych became another indisputable favorite for Yan Tabachnik. It was under the flag of his party that Tabachnik entered the Verkhovna Rada, where he remained for 3 convocations in a row.
For Yanukovych, the musician did a lot. He actively campaigned for him in the election rounds. Sometimes they campaigned with Kobzon together, performing at concerts. Most of all, the professional musician liked his voice in the president. Yanukovych sang masterfully. Yan Tabachnik pulled him out on television in his program, and the whole of Ukraine was convinced that Yanukovych had singing talent.
Having lived all his life non-partisan, Yan Tabachnik found it necessary in his old age to receive a membership card of the Party of Regions for the only time in his life. Deputy Yan Tabachnik regularly appeared in the Verkhovna Rada, but was not as noticeable in it as on stage. For a long time in parliament, he never came up with a legislative initiative and did not even get to the podium, but he voted regularly. The "regionals" used the artist's hand as a voting mechanism.
Yan Tabanchik and Igor Zavadsky
Yan Tabachnik recalls those times with great nostalgia. He was at the pinnacle of fame and success. Today everything is different. matured in those years the main problem his present. Yan Tabachnik became a defendant in a high-profile criminal case. At the heart of criminality, oddly enough, was not commerce with its big money, but purely creative reasons. In the world of music, the master has a young competitor. They became Igor Zavadsky. Born in Russian Komi, he first conquered Ukraine with his mastery of the accordion, and then collected many awards at international festivals. The fame of the virtuoso Tabachnik began to fade under the onslaught of the young talent. The elderly man experienced creative competition in a peculiar way. In the spirit of composers Mozart and Salieri.
In March 2012, a police squad raided the Kiev apartment of Igor Zavadsky. The musician was arrested and taken to the Shevchenko district police department. For seven days a lawyer was not allowed to see him, and then they were not allowed to get acquainted with the case materials. In the department, Zavadsky was beaten so that he had to call an ambulance. The young musician himself later told reporters that he was simply tortured, trying to get a sincere confession from him. Zavadsky was accused of child molestation. The young victims, according to investigators, were the musician's students. The case went to court, and it began to crumble in parts. It was found that some of the witnesses simply slandered the musician for money or valuable gifts. The threads led in the direction of Jan Tabachnik. He acted as the customer of the criminal prosecution.
To questions about involvement in the case of Zavadsky, the former people's deputy answered very sharply, like a real redneck, abundantly using criminal jargon and gestures similar to the "fingering" of the inhabitants of prisons. Denying any part in the fabrication of charges, Yan Tabachnik at the same time confirmed that with his huge connections in the criminal world of Ukraine, he could simply physically destroy a competitor.
With Zavadsky and earlier there were unpleasant events. In 1999, while he was on tour, his apartment burned down. In 2006, the artist was beaten by unknown people right in the center of Kiev on the Maidan. In 2003, a slanderous campaign was launched against him in the press. On the last day of the following year, he was honored with a phone call from Jan Tabachnik himself. Instead of New Year's greetings, the angry famous artist promised his colleague to tear off his head if he once again heard from someone in public a comparison not in his favor.
Apparently, Yan Tabachnik really understood that Zavadsky possessed something that he did not have, does not have, and will never appear again. Characteristically, it was established at the trial that the day after Zavadsky’s arrest, Yan Tabachnik made an emergency visit to another of his friends, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka, who is now known as a corrupt official and schemer. It turns out the accordion and music in terms of both selfish and expansive persons can be a dangerous occupation. Returning to the Russian-Ukrainian theme, Yan Tabachnik created a precedent for resolving creative differences. God forbid that in Russia his method is not adopted.
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Dear Mr Tabachnik!
On behalf of the International Confederation of Accordionists (CIA), the Executive Committee of the CIA, the member states of the world, I am very pleased to confirm and congratulate your organization - the International Creative Center of Jan Tabachnik, which was unanimously included in the membership of the International Confederation of Accordionists (CIA) and was accepted General Assembly of the 131st deputies to the Association on March 01, 2014, held in East Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
The International Confederation of Accordionists is honored to welcome you as a voting member from Ukraine and we look forward to many years of successful cooperation in the future.
Sincerely,
CIA General Secretary Kimmo Mattila
Jan Tabachnik:"I happy man because he realized all his ideas. I wanted to become a musician - I became, I wanted to travel around the world - I traveled around. I have a beautiful wife who is 26 years younger, we have three sons with her, I built a house and planted trees, but I did not plant my friends ... "
Since there is a planet called Earth and life on it, this life has been constantly supported and does not allow to be interrupted by such a process as fertilization: thanks to it, plants, insects, animals, people are born ... It seems to me that ideas are fertilized too - talent, intellect, desire, effort and work. All that without which any idea, no matter how bright and humane it may be, cannot come to life and bear fruit.
“THE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO FERTILIZE THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA — NATIONAL”
If Mother Teresa had not really strived to help the poor, to create homes for the dying and shelters for orphaned children, she would not have treated this as her life's work, which is worth fighting for with all her might, even if there are no means (when she started donate to charity, she only had $60), it wouldn't work.
Just as it did not work out for the Soviet leaders to build communism and a state in which equality, brotherhood and friendship of peoples would reign. Why? Because in their brains, afflicted with syphilis in some, as in the case of Lenin, in others with paranoia, as in Stalin, who seemed to have enemies everywhere, in fact, there was no such goal. They fertilized, as best they could, another idea - through bloodshed and the destruction of their own people, to achieve unlimited power.
The slogans of these sick people (when I say this, I do not mean their physical condition, but the way of thinking, this sheer syphilis, psychosis and insanity) had nothing to do with their real actions, and therefore the communist idea, infected, polluted by their rot, died in agony.
The current communists have rethought the mistakes of their predecessors and are completely different from them, however, the word “communism” has absorbed so much negativity over 70 years that it still frightens both the West and the East and is associated all over the world primarily with the red dictatorship and restriction of human rights and freedoms.
All countries that became part of the USSR came out weakened and exhausted, forced to undergo long and painful treatment. Some cannot get rid of the symptoms of the disease so far, some have exacerbations, and there is less and less faith that someday there will be a complete and final recovery.
Why? Because people who are not able to fertilize the most important idea - the national one - strive to take the helm and lead the country every now and then. The idea of my own state, independent of anyone, strong, legal, with a decent standard of living for everyone: teachers, doctors, miners, steel workers ... This idea is not a year or two old, and everyone around is shouting that, they say , allow us to power - and we will do everything in the best possible way. But as soon as the people believe and give such screamers a pass to parliament, it turns out that most of them talk very well and colorfully about how it should be, but, alas, they themselves, alas, cannot breathe life into any idea.
“HAVING WAITED YUSHCHENKO UNTIL BALZACOV’S AGE, UKRAINE SPIT AND SAID TO ITSELF: “ENOUGH, OR I WILL DIE WITHOUT BORN ANYONE AND NOTHING!”
An eloquent example is the arrival (and for some, perhaps even the advent) of Yushchenko in 2004. How beautifully he spoke! How he called to fight, how he tore loaves of bread on the Maidan, depicting almost Christ, how he took the oath in the Verkhovna Rada, not yet being declared President! Of course, Ukraine, this beauty with a magnificent braid, blue eyes and a kind heart, believed that she had finally waited for her knight, and expected that their union would be fruitful. And he, not paying much attention to her, began to play with bees and shards ...
If we, following the outstanding poets of the past and present, have compared our country with a representative of the beautiful half of humanity, then what, tell me, does a woman usually do when a man is not interested in her? That's right - sends far away. Having sat and waited for Yushchenko until his Balzac age, Ukraine spat and said to itself: “Stop waiting, otherwise I’ll die without giving birth to anyone or anything!”
Alas, those who should have drawn conclusions from this and worried did not understand anything. On the contrary, such an unpleasant phenomenon as mass impotence is gaining momentum in the Ukrainian politicum. This is when those who can’t do anything get together in flocks, or factions, begin to invent and shout out slogans, some seem to be defended, others seem to be overthrown, teach, promise, preach, tell how to build a new society without building in your life even a dog kennel...
And judging by the fact that after each election more and more rhetoricians get deputy mandates, this is a contagious disease. Moreover, people's representatives suffer from it, and the people themselves suffer from complications, since it is not customary for us to answer for our words and unfulfilled promises. They promised, received a credit of trust, sat through their cadences to the end and disappeared, giving way to others of the same kind.
I know that these statements of mine will not have time to get into print, when a flurry of so-called criticism will fall upon me: they say that he allows himself, he certainly curries favor with the current government, and so on. But, firstly, these are only those who are used to judging me and believe that I care about their opinion, and secondly, I have already got used to such an attitude.
Not so long ago, for example, the Internet literally exploded after I spoke at a meeting of the European Jewish Parliament. The talk turned to Ukraine's course towards integration into Europe, and an English journalist asked me: “Tell me, if you are faced with the task of climbing a rock, how will you do it? Will you choose a short but difficult path, after which you will come to the finish line wounded and exhausted, or will you go around, along a safe path, but will go for a long time?
I liked the question, because it is philosophical, it makes you think, you can’t answer it right away, in a minute. I said: “You know the history of the Jews, who for two thousand years walked along the bloody and scorched path to their state? What do you think, is it a lot or a little, did they overcome a short way or a long one? And what can you say about Moses, who for 40 years led slaves through the desert, so that, having endured troubles and hardships, they would unite and become a people? Do you think he walked for a long time? Our country is led by President Yanukovych, and I think that the result that we will achieve with him is more important, if we achieve it, we will see.”
What started here! Comments on the Internet were more beautiful than one another: “What does this Jew understand? How could he compare us, Ukrainians, with the Jews, whom someone led through the desert there? “How dare he compare Yanukovych with Moses? I also found a prophet! To understand what I wanted to say, unfortunately, no one tried, but in vain. After all, I did not try to humiliate or elevate anyone, but I gave this example in order to remind you how you really need to fight for your national idea.
The Jews, for that piece of land on which they built Israel, are still standing not for life, but for death, defending their state with all their might from 120 million, to put it mildly, ill-wishers, and behind them there are no detachments that will open fire, if you turn back, and mothers, wives, sisters and children, capable of at any moment, if, God forbid, have to, stand next to me. They do not need to be persuaded or forced - they are well aware that their state is like a dream that they brought to life with blood and sweat, above all. Do we understand?
“THE ONE WHO STRIVES SOMETHING WILL NOT SIT ON THE INTERNET AND WASTE TIME TO SPEECH ANY FUCK THERE”
It's a pity, but those who are not able to realize a single idea, not only national, but their own, are found everywhere: in politics, on stage, on the same Internet ... You know, I would call this invention of mankind not the world wide web, but a world paradise for parasites and perverts, where they get during their lifetime. Go online - and sit for yourself, without a name, without a surname, without gender and face, write whatever you want about whom you please, even about power, even about your neighbor, pour out on everyone what you have inside, but, as a rule , such people, if I may say so, have nothing good there, because a person who wants to achieve something, sit on the Internet and spend time scribbling nonsense there will not.
A successful businessman is engaged in business, a good teacher teaches children, he can’t tear himself away from notebooks, a talented doctor doesn’t see white light, because patients line up for him, a sought-after musician thinks when he will finally get enough sleep, because they are waiting for him in that city , and in another, and in the fifth, and in the tenth, a conscientious policeman catches criminals. And if you are nobody by profession and vocation, then you are welcome - live on the net and knock on the keyboard as much as you like, earning labor corns.
Or go to demonstrations, tear your shirt off, stage protests - that paid public striptease. There is such a philosophical term - “kholuy stoicism”, and so, our general desire to do nothing, but to protest against everything is one of its varieties. When pensioners come to rallies, who are forced to somehow survive on what the state pays them, and are no longer able to earn money, I can still understand: people are protesting against injustice, because they have worked all their lives and have the same right to a decent old age , like their peers in the US, Germany and Austria, they should not be rummaging through garbage containers and standing in the passage with a plastic cup in their outstretched hand!
But when young loafers wave signs to send someone “get out”, or sit in tents for days, because they pay 150 hryvnias there and you don’t have to do anything, just play a convinced fighter for an idea, it infuriates me. I remember myself in my youth. I was 18, and with an open form of tuberculosis, with three cavities in my right lung, hemoptysis and bleeding, I left to work on the stage in order to buy an accordion and become a musician - a professional, a master of my craft.
The Far North, the Far East - where I just didn’t wear! The accordion, which I took for payment from my friend Valera Chunchukov, cost 807 rubles, I received 80 rubles a month, I gave everything for the instrument, and I lived on the ruble for 40 daily allowances - a consumptive patient who needed treatment, enhanced nutrition and peace!
My father, who returned from the front as a cripple, always cried when it came to how I literally fought for my dream. I'm even afraid to ask what those who think that a rally is a good way to make money dream of. God grant that they never have to choose between life and the idea of all life...
Sometimes, when I read unfair accusations thrown at me by someone, I am drawn to answer. Tell me who I am, how I became what I have become, how I have implemented and continue to implement my projects: “I have the honor to invite”, Krainev competition, AccoHoliday. How I earned the money my family lives on and my rewards. But after this comes another thought: will they want to listen? A person wrote something nasty on the Internet - and that's it, he's happy, he doesn't need anything else.
All my life I have worked: there is no break in my work book more than 15 days. He received the title of honored already after he toured Austria, Finland, Poland ... People's - after performances in America and Australia. Then I didn’t even think about whether they would give me a title or not, because even without it I earned so much that I felt pretty good.
Hand on heart, I can say that I never aspired to decorate myself with awards, but only to be a person whose name is able to decorate the award itself. There are many such people among those who have chosen a creative profession: before becoming a People's Artist of the USSR, Iosif Kobzon became Iosif Kobzon, Sofia Rotaru - Sofia Rotaru, Alla Pugacheva - Alla Pugacheva ...
If we continue this list, there will not be enough space in Gordon Boulevard. The people I mentioned are completely different, not alike, but they have one thing in common - that they managed to make their idea alive and viable. And it is a pity that no less, but, on the contrary, much more than those who think: oh, they gave the people - everything, the goal has been achieved, and regards the title as a rubber doll that you can have until the end of your days. It may be so, but only neither one nor the other side will receive pleasure from this, and a new life will not arise. Well, there has never been such a case in the history of the Earth that a living thing was born from the inanimate ... In general, if it were my will, I would abolish all these titles and names: let the artists be paid extra only for their skill.
I am often asked if I am a happy person. Of course, yes, because all the ideas that I had, I implemented. I wanted to become a musician, I did. I wanted to travel around the world - traveled. I have a beautiful wife who is 26 years younger, and I understand that I may have violated the commandment of nature. But I did not violate the commandment of the continuation of life, since we have three sons with her. I built a house and planted trees, but I didn't plant my friends. Didn't steal, didn't belong, didn't betray.
Every year I try to make sure that young guys, just like I once, who are fanatically devoted to the accordion and music, get a chance to realize themselves, and by this I pay tribute and appreciation to the instrument that made me who I am. And whoever dares to throw a stone at me, let him first ask himself the question: “Can I do the same?” It doesn't have to be better, at least try the same ...
You know, people who are trying to do something, do not sit idly by, I have always respected. Yes, it’s difficult now, I don’t argue, to put ideas into practice: the country has just begun to move away from the bullying that it has endured for so long. But on the other hand, no one drives anyone to the plant, sends them to build BAM or the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station: come on, dare, invent, act! Freedom is complete, here she is, as they say, lay down and asks, but they don’t take it. What for?
It seems that 20 percent of those living in Ukraine are geniuses, and 80 percent do not want anything at all, although everyone probably dreams of living a little better. And everyone, I’m sure, admires in their hearts after reading a note about the chairman of the village council, who, so that the village does not disappear from the map of Ukraine, began to distribute houses to everyone who is ready to move there, about a woman who lost her sight, who defended her dissertation and is doing everything to to the disabled in her hometown feel like full members of society.
Such examples can be found in every newspaper, because ordinary people who managed to realize their ideas even in spite of all life's difficulties do not live somewhere on another planet, but among us and hardly consider themselves heroes. They just don't know how else to live...
Yan Tabachnik was awarded the Order of Tsar Solomon the Wise
People's Deputy of Ukraine and People's Artist of Ukraine Yan Tabachnik was awarded the Order of Tsar Solomon the Wise. This decision was made by the participants of the General Session of the European Jewish Parliament, which took place on June 25 in Kiev.
Highest award The European Jewish Parliament - The Order of King Solomon the Wise is awarded for an outstanding personal contribution to the strengthening of peace and the establishment of goodness on Earth. This order was awarded to President of the European Union Jerzy Buzek, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of Spain José-Maria Aznarch, President of Montenegro Filipp Bujanovic.
The European Jewish Parliament was established in 2011 in Paris and is headquartered in Brussels. Among the 120 deputies of parliament are people of various views and professions - conservatives, liberals, secularists, rabbis, publicists, politicians and artists.
President of the Higher League of Masters of the World Accordion Jan Tabachnik:
“A talented accordionist from Belarus, who took first place from us, was presented with an apartment by President Lukashenko”
From April 24 to April 27, young musicians from around the world will perform in Kiev - on the stage of the SBU Center for Culture and Arts on Irininskaya, 6, AccoHoliday is again taking place.
- The lucky number seven was replaced by no less lucky eight, reminiscent of the sign "infinity", - smiles the founder of the competition, outstanding accordionist Yan Tabachnik. - And this means that AccoHoliday has become one more year older. But the rules do not change: anyone can listen to both youth and masters. Let's start with the masters: on the opening day, the famous accordionist and composer Vladimir Zubitsky will perform for the guests of the festival, for whom this year is an anniversary - he celebrates his 60th birthday, his Russian colleague Yuri Shishkin and the laureate international competitions Italian Mirco Patarini. The Minister of Culture of Ukraine Leonid Novokhatko and the head of the Kyiv City State Administration Oleksandr Popov will come to greet the guests and participants. And the next day, the competition will begin directly: the participants will compete for prizes in the nominations " Classical music"and" Bandstand.
Are you expecting a lot of people?
- 30 people - just enough for such a competition. This is not an amateur art show, where you can get 85 or 100, but a competition of professionals, where the best of the best go. Look at the geography: there are not only Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, where there are consistently very strong guys, but also Lithuania, and Kazakhstan, and Montenegro, and Italy, and Australia, and even China! During these eight years, the whole world has learned about AccoHoliday, many consider it the best competition in Europe, for example, the chief publisher of the German newspaper Intermusik, Ulrich Schmülling, who called Ukraine a treasure trove of accordion music. But the main thing is that for prize-winners and winners this is an important step on the way to recognition, not only in the musical, professional, world, but also at the state level. The talented guy from Belarus, who took first place from us, was presented with an apartment by President Lukashenko!
— What do you need to do to become a member of AccoHoliday? We are often asked this question by young musicians.
- Firstly, to truly love your job, and secondly, to pass a fairly tough selection in your own country. And the second condition, as you understand, is impossible without the first. We have no restrictions on the number of participants: there will be 60, not 30 of the best - we will accept it with pleasure, especially since it has already happened. But everyone should understand what a responsibility it is to speak to such masters as my faithful associates, AccoHoliday vice-presidents Vladimir Besfamilnov and Anatoly Semeshko, Viktor Vlasov and Richard Galliano. These are people you can't just go out and play with just how! Therefore, to get to us, you need to work long and hard on yourself.
- A year ago, as part of the competition-festival, you gave an amazing concert with Mark Reznitsky's jazz band, after which you made a film based on it. Will you be performing this time as well?
- No - just enjoy the music, listening to the youth and their outstanding colleagues.
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Jan Tabachnik:"First catch up - then we'll talk ..."
The program of the legendary accordionist "I have the honor to invite" is 20 years old
By tradition, “I have the honor” went on the air before the New Year, on December 30, and became the highest-rated project shown by the First National in the pre-holiday time. Bright, high-quality, thought out to the smallest detail, soundly made, as they say, expensive show (looking at it, it’s hard to believe that he is preparing a program creative Group, which includes four people), was watched by eight and a half million inhabitants of our country!
- The rating is very pleasing, because in 2012 we did not shoot a new release, - Yan Tabachnik admitted when "Gordon Boulevard" congratulated him on the anniversary of the television brainchild, - but decided to remind the audience about what was good in the program over the past five years, and showed the previous releases.
But this does not mean that the project will stop after 20 years of existence! My International Creative Center is working with might and main on the anniversary program, where, as always, we will invite the real heroes of our time: outstanding entertainers and film actors, iconic writers, high-class musicians, prominent politicians, titled athletes and just decent people. It is possible that there will also be heads of friendly states: both presidents and prime ministers, guests from Russia, the USA, Australia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Romania, Moldova, the former Yugoslavia have already visited the filming of the program ...
However, the most important thing, I think, is not even what "I have the honor" collects famous people under one roof, but the fact that this is not only an entertainment, but also a charity project. We have been cooperating for a long time with the Foundation of Hope and Kindness, which is headed by Valentina Dovzhenko, and founded a club whose members have bought 30 houses for large families over 20 years.
So, if they tell you that Yan Tabachnik is tired of making a program or something like that, don’t believe it: firstly, you never get tired of good deeds, they give you the strength to go through life, and secondly, for any musician, if he is truly in love with his profession and is faithful to it, going on stage, communicating with colleagues is a holiday. So can I, having devoted almost 60 years to playing the accordion, deprive myself of this holiday?
Lately Yan Petrovich rarely picks up an instrument and in the past 2012 he gave only one big concert - in May, during the AccoHoliday competition for young accordionists, which has been held in Kiev for seven years - again through the efforts of a small but close-knit team of the Yan International Creative Center Tabachnik. And January 13, on the old New Year, this performance by the renowned accordionist, shown by the First National, again broke rating records. Live concert famous musician with Mark Reznitsky's big band "Music in Black and White" (I think those who have ever seen the accordion and its keys, the meaning of the name is not necessary) became an exclusive gift for viewers who are tired of bought Russian TV shows that are similar to each other like twin brothers.
And Yan Petrovich once again proved his highest level of performance. A few years ago, after a performance at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, where he was awarded the title of Grand Maestro, the Narodnik magazine published a review: “If anyone thought that the time of this legendary accordionist had passed, they were deeply mistaken, as the audience gave him a standing ovation." The same thing happened in Kiev, in the House of Culture of the SBU, where those wishing to listen to Tabachnik did not fit in the hall, and after he finished his speech, they rose and applauded for 20 minutes.
- True, there are well-wishers who say that Tabachnik plays to the phonogram, - smiles Jan Petrovich, - or that a special device is built into my accordion, from where the music sounds. Children's harmonicas slip in to play ... I don’t even answer. For some reason, I remember how in Chernivtsi, in my youth, I was engaged in boxing. A wonderful guy Shurik Bely trained with me, he, in my opinion, is no longer there. He was a talented boxer, showed promise and at the same time kind, humorous, he never used force in vain, even if he was hurt. Well, there was always enough hooliganism: seeing that one was walking down the street, they could come up, push with their shoulder, ask for a cigarette - this is a classic. But he didn’t touch anyone, honestly said: “If you want in the face, catch up!”, After which he quickly left. And, as a rule, no one was chasing him. Here I am to everyone who is dissatisfied with me, I want to say the same thing as Shurik: "First catch up - then we'll talk ...".
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The law on languages is a political game for the opposition, and for the "Regions", and for the same Lytvyn
For more than a year now, the media have been writing that there is fierce competition in the Party of Regions between two groups of influence - concentrated around Donetsk industrialists and those oriented towards the head of the presidential administration. As a person who is well acquainted with both Rinat Akhmetov and Sergei Levochkin, do you feel the echoes of this struggle?
Once, due to my naivety and gullibility, I tried to probe this question both with Levochkin and Akhmetov personally. They then unanimously told me: “We understand when ordinary people who have nothing else to do talk about this, but you are a smart man, judge for yourself - how can we be together and wet each other? It's just laughter."
From what? What about the competition for the premiership?
Yes, stop it. What are you talking about, which prime minister's chair? They will always find how to solve all issues without it. You see, such disassemblies can be in other parties - they are always running somewhere, dividing something. And in our party there can be no such showdowns, because we have developed unity of command. We have a very strong party discipline. Although the democratic beginning is also present - you can always express your opinion on any issue or disagree with some decision.
And you personally, for example, when you expressed your opinion within the Party of Regions faction and did not agree with some decision?
For example, when we voted for Shufrich's resignation from the post of minister. I said at the faction: "Nestor is my friend, I will not vote for this." I was told: "But this is the decision of the faction." I said that I can have my own opinion, and I didn't vote.
Just like in terms of language, someone did not vote, so what? Some kind of repressions have begun, someone is touching them?
It's just that our party has a very developed human dignity, an understanding of male honor. If you say something about someone, then say it in the eyes. We don't have any underground cases.
Didn't the resignation of Shufrich, which you mentioned, take place in semi-underground circumstances?
Then "EC" united with us, and it was a purely political decision. Sometimes, when making political decisions, you have to go against your will. Either do it, or leave and don't go into politics at all. Combining law and morality is very difficult. I have not been able to develop this rigidity in myself ...
Speaking about the democratic culture in your party, I cannot but mention the adoption of the law on languages. After all, those regional deputies from western Ukraine who later withdrew their votes did not physically vote for this law, they simply were not in the hall. They say that while this law was being considered, they were called to Bankovaya and simply voted with their cards. Not very democratic either...
Not everything is so clear. You keep in mind that their countrymen could tell them: "If you vote, I will burn the house." Maybe it's the way they do it in the region. But the man lives there. Maybe they left on purpose. (laughs)
Many of your faction colleagues admit that after the elections we will have a change of prime minister. Who do you think could replace Azarov?
I am not inclined to support the communist slogans that there are no irreplaceable people, but I admit that Azarov is a very experienced person and it will be very, very difficult to find a replacement for him. Although next to him today are very, very talented people. The same Klyuev and Levochkin, Khoroshkovsky...
But today Khoroshkovsky is moved away from decision-making, he is a deputy prime minister without authority ...
Never mind, let the elections end and we'll see... The same Seryozha Tigipko is a very literate person. In a word, this is a whole generation of very talented politicians...
Doesn't it bother you that the relationship between these difficult guys is also very difficult? That Kolesnikov called Lyovochkin a man who drives a Mercedes for half a million dollars, and cannot even declare a Zhiguli ...
With all due respect to Kolesnikov, tell me who Kolesnikov has not named yet? (laughs) Boris has such a peculiar character. He is a very good person, but he likes to clash with someone all the time ...
And the fact that a very literate man Sergei Tigipko in 2004, roughly speaking, ran away from Yanukovych's headquarters, which also set himself up for many in the party leadership.
Well, as he ran away, so he ran (laughs) So, after all, I saw that there is where to return.
Does that mean he was forgiven? Or are they waiting for some trick again?
Yanukovych is a very wise man. And he is very generous. How much did he have to forgive people over the years? After all, generosity, forgiveness is the greatest human feeling, this is the feeling of a strong person.
Why won't he forgive Tymoshenko?
First, she didn't ask for forgiveness...
Should I?
Certainly. I think she should ask for repentance not from him, but from the whole people. Say: “Sorry, I didn’t understand that I would cause you so much trouble.”
After all, today we all work for gas - just like in the Soviet Union we all worked for the defense industry. And due to the fact that we all plowed into intercontinental missiles, the Union, a huge power, collapsed. And today this gas is the same missiles. And we all plow to pay for gas, to get out of these onerous conditions. high-ranking Russian politicians after she signed this agreement, our politicians were told in plain text that they put Ukraine in a “pose”!
Therefore, I am not saying that someone should sit, it is determined by the court. I am not a bloodthirsty person. But there is such a thing as remorse!
How did you react to Volodymyr Lytvyn's resignation?
I have known Vladimir Mikhailovich for many years, we have very good relations with him. He is very knowledgeable, very clever man. And I told him: “Vladimir Mikhailovich, the fact that not a single deputy voted for a vote of no confidence in you, it was worth living your whole life for this! After all, what respect you have received from parliament, from all people! There is not a single politician in our country who could boast of something like this.” (laughs)
Jokes aside, but Lytvyn claims that he will not sign the law on languages, which started it all.
(pause) To be completely honest, this law is a political game for the opposition, and for the "Regions", and for the same Lytvyn. Because today, in the whole country, whoever wants to speak Ukrainian, who wants to speak Russian, everyone speaks like that, everywhere and everywhere. Yes, my children speak Ukrainian with my mother and with her mother, my mother-in-law, and in Russian with me, and everyone understands each other perfectly! And so it is all over the country.
So why was it necessary to introduce this law, which only divides the country, but in fact does not give anything, because everyone talks as they want without it?
And I will ask you: how many useless laws have our opponents introduced?
But those laws didn’t tear the country apart like that…
But understand, this is the provision of our electoral program. We promised this to our voters! In addition, half of the country speaks Russian!
Well, what's wrong with that, if the regional language somewhere is Russian or some other? I grew up in Bukovina, in our Romanian and Moldavian villages, they didn’t know either Ukrainian or Russian, and they still don’t! I think so: let everyone talk as they want, the main thing is that they speak human language among themselves.
Who do you think will be the Speaker of Parliament in the autumn session? Lytvyn says that the law on languages will not be signed in principle, and it can be understood - in his district in the Zhytomyr region this may not be understood. It is also very important for your party before the elections. How to get out of this stalemate?
I will answer you again with the words of Talleyrand: I will tell you about it tomorrow.
One of the results of two and a half years of Yanukovych's rule is that the Western press writes about the isolation of Yanukovych, that foreign leaders are less and less willing to meet with him. Do you see parallels between this situation and the isolation that Leonid Kuchma once fell into? What would you advise Viktor Yanukovych to do in these circumstances?
Let's start with the fact that journalists write about it, not politicians. The point is that Tymoshenko's party spent huge amounts of money on such PR for Yanukovych abroad, it's not a secret. My friends in the EU told me that there is a whole group of agents of influence working in Brussels who are specifically engaged in denigrating his image.
But what journalists write, how they pass off the imaginary as the real, is one thing. And I will believe it, that someone does not want to meet with Yanukovych, only when the President of the States or Poland or any other country makes an official statement about it. And so - it's just another custom-made writings.
So they don’t tell anyone directly about this, as far as I know ...
Lukashenko says. They just don't let him in anywhere, he doesn't come anywhere. And our President, thank God, travels all over the world, he meets with everyone, and no one tells him anything.
But everything you say, I also understand. And I will tell you more: if we were in opposition today, then I do not rule out that we would do the same thing only in a different direction.
Indeed, Yanukovych did not hear such direct harsh statements from the Presidents of foreign states, however, the European Commission and its representatives regularly voice very harsh attacks towards the Ukrainian leadership…
You know, let the European Union deal with its problems and its countries. They have enough problems of their own. No, everyone wants to get into us and tell us how to live.
But it's because we want to join the EU, so they point us to the standards that we must adhere to.
Don't you understand that they are doing everything possible to ensure that we never enter there? They don't need Ukraine! They are satisfied with the position that they have now!
And the fact that some EU countries recognized the Ukrainian politicians who fled there as political refugees does not mean that something is still wrong in our country?
All those who fled abroad are not poor people...
Some took so much money there that if I had that kind of money, I would not have received asylum in Austria, but the post of US Vice President.
Are you implying that they simply bought these shelters?
I can't sign for everyone. I know that when our deputy Nikolai Zlochevsky came to the State Reserve, where Pozhivanov worked before him, he said that he had never seen anything like this in his life, it was terrible. Empty shelves, all looted. And for the rest - for Avakov, for Tymoshenko's husband - I cannot sign. Since they ran away, then it was for what. A poor and honest person will not run away.
If we talk like that, then we can remember that in 2005 Yanukovych left Ukraine for Russia.
He stayed there for a short time, and immediately returned back ...
And Akhmetov spent some time in France ...
Yes, they went. But they didn't ask for asylum. And everyone came back.
And Bilokon and Bodelan even took Russian citizenship.
Well, they were afraid. I can't sign for them.
Now, in your opinion, you should not be afraid?
Of course not. Law enforcement is not that stupid. They will never take on anything like that, because they understand that another power will come, and they will all have to pay to one and all if they make illegal decisions.
Will another government come?
Of course, someday it will come. There can't be one power all the time.
There are different opinions about this. Here, they say that Yanukovych has two sons, and one of them may well become the next President. Do you believe in such a scenario?
Well, how can I tell you who will be the next President? I can guarantee you that I will not be the next President. (laughs)
But is your faction discussing the increase in the influence of the Yanukovych family on the political and economic processes in our country?
I have known these two guys for a long time. They are very humble guys. These are not at all the people who will go on a spree in some restaurants, run into someone somewhere, put pressure on someone. These are not those people. They are very educated guys. Very! I know it.
So after all, one does not interfere with the other: you can be very well-mannered, but at the same time very rich and very influential.
So that's good! But, in any case, what they write about them everywhere, what they say about them, is not true. To run into someone, to take something away - these are absolutely not those people!
Kuzmin has such a profession - to plant ...
In one of your interviews two and a half years ago, you said that about five or six criminal cases could be opened against Viktor Yushchenko.
Quite right.
Why aren't they open yet?
I do not know. Even on my program, the same Svyatoslav Piskun and Rinat Kuzmin said that they knew about the existence of materials on the basis of which criminal cases should be opened against him - at least in connection with his alleged poisoning or the illegal dissolution of parliament.
Why isn't anyone doing this? Are there rumors that Yushchenko helped Yanukovych before the second round of the presidential elections in exchange for indulgences for himself and members of his political team?
In any case, you need to understand that the next President will be able to raise these cases absolutely calmly, because they have no statute of limitations...
And under Yanukovych, then this is unrealistic?
The fact is that in this regard there can be a lot of questions and a lot of answers. I, too, as a person and as a deputy, can ask the same questions as you. But who will answer them? This is a very big question.
Well, here is your friend Rinat Kuzmin could answer.
What about Kuzmin? Kuzmin has such a profession - to plant. (laughs)
But here's the thing - the case of Yushchenko's poisoning concerns only himself, because of this no one went either hungry or full. The case of the dissolution of parliament - here, too, we are talking about the fact that he and his supporters settled scores with the opposition, that is, with us.
But he still did not do what Tymoshenko did! After all, because of this gas contract, we are now bound hand and foot, we are spitting blood in order to raise people's salaries by a penny. What Yushchenko did can be attributed to negligence, to the desire to promote, but he did not directly surrender the state interests! Although history will show this over time.
But, if you think like this, then Lutsenko is also sitting for nothing. The amount of abuse in his case is 40 thousand hryvnia. For me, this may be a large amount, but on a national scale ...
And you tell me why no one asked such questions when Lutsenko imprisoned Yevgeny Kushnarev, Boris Kolesnikov? When was it announced on TV that a criminal case had been opened against me?
That is, in the case of Lutsenko, it turns out, just revenge for the events of those years?
I don't know what works. I know only one thing: others will come, and the same thing will begin, because we don’t know how to do it differently.
I think this: when laws stop working in a country, everything stops working. That is why we are trying to reform the judicial system, trying to fight corruption…
And now the laws don't work either?
Now they are at least starting to work somehow. And with the same ones they didn’t work at all.
Okay. And why didn't any of them end up in prison then?
(indignantly) Like this? And the Volga? And the same Galitsky? And the judges who were imprisoned with us! How many judges, how many prosecutors! And how many officials, a lot! Everyone is sitting! I can take a list and list everyone who is in prison, who was in power! We plant them mercilessly! Ours are also sitting, and no one can do anything!
By the way, since we mentioned Rinat Kuzmin. At your anniversary evening, in a room called "Ukraine has talents", he played "Murka", and this video became an Internet hit for some time. It was not unexpected for you when a person whose job, as you yourself said, is to plant, plays a song that is associated with you yourself understand what world?
So, listen to me carefully. "Murka" is a tango written by an outstanding composer, author of the mass tango Oscar Strok. And, like any other tango, it sounded without words. If Kuzmin sang "Murka", and by the way, more than a hundred different texts have been written to this music, then one could talk about something. If he went out in a vest with tattoos and blasphemed, we could ask: “Why does he imitate thieves?” And then it could just be a humorous scene!
And the fact that Kuzmin played a musical collage, in which, along with the classics, both rock and roll and Murka sounded, this has nothing to do with the thieves' world. It was a musical smile, and nothing more.
But if someone wanted to see something in it, then he saw it. And this is not surprising. But all that happened as a result of this is a huge PR of our program. Thank you very much! Continue in the same spirit.
And why is the name so ambiguous – “Ukraine has talents”?
And the second time the program was called "Ukraine has talents." What does it matter? It's just such a humorous, parodic block! Explain to me what's wrong here?
Opposition figures, in particular, Igor Hryniv, say that Tymoshenko is behind bars solely because Yanukovych is afraid that she will come out and, with her at the head, the opposition will gain more in the elections than the Party of Regions ...
I, in general, do not write off Yulia Tymoshenko. She is the leader of her political force, she has come a long way in politics, although not always righteous and pure. But to say that today she can beat Yanukovych is to put 10% against 90%. She just has nothing to hide. Because what does she have to offer? Again empty talk? Lies again?
It is difficult to talk about this while she is in prison.
Certainly. One can hope that they will release her, carry her on a shield ... But she will not win against him. She would never win against him again!
And who can win the presidential election against Yanukovych?
I cannot tell you this. The next five years will show this. Today I do not see a single politician who could adequately compete with Yanukovych. Do you see?
Here is your countryman Arseniy Yatsenyuk, according to rumors, he already sees himself in this role ...
Arseny has changed a lot for last years. I knew him as very moderate, very balanced, talented young man. Today, as I see it, he already has completely different ambitions. Probably, after all, the environment and the feeling of power change a person. But all this hand-waving, this aggressiveness is already tired of the people of Ukraine.
They say that Vitali Klitschko also has presidential ambitions for 2015. In your waiting room, I saw a photograph of you and him in common, that is, I suspect that you know him ...
Of course, I have known both Vitaly and Volodya for a long time. I can tell you a lot about Vitaly as a boxer, but I don't know him as a politician.
So he's been in politics for more than a year.
The City Council is, of course, also a lot, but I can tell you about it when I see him in politics as in a ring.
In the mayoral elections in Kiev, who will you root for, Popov or Klitschko?
Unfortunately, I didn’t see Popov in the ring, just like Vitaly the mayor (laughs).
Of course, for Popov. Popov is an experienced person. I have confidence in him - he is not corrupt, he is not involved in any scandals over bribes, land allotments. No one has done more than him in Kiev over the past 20 years! All these roads, junctions - it's all his nerves, his strength. How can I refuse a real person who has already done something? You can't go from the living to the dead.
Understand me, I have a great attitude towards Vitaly as an athlete. He is a great athlete, the pride of our country. But, for example, if you are asked to characterize Tabachnik as a musician, you will say that your grandparents loved him, that he is the most famous musician in the world, in a word, you can talk for a long time. But what do you know about him as a politician? You will say that there is such a deputy, then you will hesitate, and my political biography this will end (laughs).
So is Vitaliy. He is a decent person, a good family man, he does not steal, he is an intellectual, he can communicate at any level. There is no need to blush for him that he is illiterate or stupid. He has excellent psychological preparation - he does not have an inferiority complex, he will never jump out of his pants, like some of us in parliament. But he needs to prove himself, to prove that he is a professional not only in boxing.
How would you like to see events in Ukraine in the near future?
Of course, as a member of the Party of Regions, I wish victory to my political force. But at the same time, I want to wish everyone tolerance, mutual respect, fairness and honor in the upcoming elections. So that there is less dirt, but more logic and reasonable arguments that would urge the people to vote not for buckwheat, but really at the behest of conscience and soul. I want to wish my Motherland, Ukraine, well-being, happiness and peace.
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“Let the court prove his guilt”
Detention of Ukrainian accordionist Igor Zavadsky on suspicion of child molestation caused a wide public outcry
On March 24, 2012, Ukrainian accordionist Igor Zavadsky was detained on suspicion of pedophilia, who was then arrested for two months. The case caused a wide public outcry, opinions were divided. Some fans of his work, in particular students and their parents, are convinced that Zavadsky is innocent, some, including professional musicians, believe that the accusations made by the investigation are quite natural. Today we give the floor to leaders not only Ukrainian culture who applied to Gordon Boulevard with an open letter.
Dear editors!Watching what is happening today in our media, we, the people who know the true truth about the "great and world-famous" Igor Zavadsky, cannot stay away from what is happening. We are perplexed by the fact that a person named Zavadsky is credited with various titles that do not correspond to reality. Believe me, we (professors, associate professors, teachers) know who won what at what competition. Zavadsky is a liar and an impostor. In fact, this is a very mediocre musician who realized that more can be achieved with PR than with labor. Call 20 European conservatories or the organizing committee of the competitions to which Zavadsky refers, and ask the accordionists and accordionists who Zavadsky is, and no one will answer you, except for Ukraine, where he has now become especially popular, only not thanks to music, but to the scandal of a pervert . In November 2003, musician Vladimir Besfamilnov, in an interview with the Gordon Boulevard newspaper, spoke about “a new wave of guys who, while making a career, are not shy about their means” (“Gordon Boulevard”, No. 47 (421): “Igor Zavadsky managed to deceive Semyon himself Yufu, the founder of the Mercury Trust, which deceived the whole of Ukraine”), but for some reason then everyone was silent. Some of us, being students and living with him in the same dormitory, have repeatedly witnessed conflicts that, as it turned out, after letters from management music schools and scolded him for molesting children. Everyone knew that he was gay, starting with his teachers and ending with all of us. And let them not pretend today that nothing happened. The accusations of those well-wishers who say that they took revenge on him and framed him look absurd. What, someone took the button accordion from him? Or maybe we brought boys to him? Or maybe it was we who decided to film the abomination that the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are talking about? Complete nonsense!! Let the court prove his guilt. As for music, we will somehow figure it out ourselves - musicians who have truly world-famous names, as evidenced by their titles, awards - not "phony", but well-deserved and earned with blood and sweat at the most prestigious international forums in the world, where Zavadsky never and didn't smell. Today, unfortunately, there are no music critics, but in Ukraine there are brilliant talented accordionists, bayanists who will respond to this article in the Gordon Boulevard newspaper and write the truth about Zavadsky's “lauded” concerts. Besfamilnov V. V. - People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor, Semeshko A. A. - Honored Art Worker, Professor, Grinchenko S. S. - People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor, Zubitsky V. D. - Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, laureate of international competitions, Yastrebov Yu. G. - Candidate of Art History, Professor of St. Petersburg University for the Humanities, Vlasov V.P. - Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, Professor of the Odessa State Musical Academy, Kovtun V. A. - People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of Russia, Andriychuk P. A. - Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, Professor, Zhukov K. A. - laureate of international competitions, Zatulovsky L. B. - Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, Sultanov D. R. - laureate of the State Prize of Kazakhstan, laureate of international competitions, Svyatskyavichus R. - Professor of the Vilnius Conservatory, Gabnis E. - Professor of the Vilnius Conservatory, Titarenko V.P. - People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor, Lukic-Marx T. - laureate of international competitions (Australia), Sokolov S. N. - senior lecturer at the Institute of Arts at NPU them. Drahomanov, Khrustevich A. V. - laureate of international competitions, Golodniuk A. O. - laureate of international competitions, Mirek N.A. - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Director of the Alfred Mirek Museum of Russian Harmonica of the museum association "Museums of Moscow", Sevryukov N. I. - Honored Artist of Belarus, Professor of the Minsk Conservatory, Vakhrameeva L. F. - journalist. |
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Yan Tabachnik included in the "world hundred"
In the "capital of Europe" Brussels presented the book "100 outstanding Jews of the world."
The edition was published again, with changes and additions. Among those who represent Ukraine in this book is our countryman, outstanding musician, MP (Party of Regions) Yan Petrovich Tabachnik.
As Max Fimby, who publishes this book, said, Europe now knows little about Ukraine, and what it knows is mostly negative information. Europe learns all the good things about Ukraine through people like Yan Tabachnik, who is not only an outstanding composer and performer, but also a people's deputy who is directly involved in shaping the fate of the government stands, striving to make the world a better place.
For my long creative activity Jan Petrovich was awarded a large number of orders and medals, which are of the highest value. But the greatest reward in life is the love and recognition of one's people. And it is Yan Tabachnik, as an iconic figure in society, who can become one of the pillars of the cultural bridge between Ukraine and Europe.
It is worth noting that earlier in Kiev, a meeting was held between the deputies of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP) and a group of people's deputies of Ukraine, among whom was Yan Tabachnik. He noted with satisfaction that many approaches to solving the most important modern challenges among Ukrainian and European parliamentarians coincide, and expressed gratitude to the European parliamentarians for inviting the people's deputies of Ukraine to visit Brussels, where the next meeting of the EJP will soon take place.
European Jewish Parliament News
The meeting of the deputies of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP) with a group of people's deputies of Ukraine was held on Tuesday in Kiev as part of a trip of parliamentarians to a number of European and Asian countries.
The EJP delegation was led by the co-chairs of the European Jewish Parliament: from the countries Western Europe- Chairman of the Belgian Jewish community Joel Rubinfeld; from the countries of Eastern and Central Europe - President of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress Vadim Rabinovich.
At a meeting in Kiev, parliamentarians from Europe and Ukraine discussed a number of important issues at the international and domestic level, the life of the Jewish community in our country and contacts with the communities of Europe.
The participant of the meeting, People's Deputy of Ukraine Yan Tabachnik noted with satisfaction that many approaches to solving the most important modern challenges among Ukrainian and European parliamentarians coincide. He also expressed his gratitude to the European parliamentarians for inviting the people's deputies of Ukraine to visit Brussels, where the next meeting of the EJP will soon take place.
“I have heard a lot about Ukraine, read a lot, but what I saw with my own eyes in many respects complements, and sometimes changes my idea,” EJP co-chairman Joel Rubinfeld emphasized in an interview with our correspondent after the meeting. “I am sure that such contacts of parliamentarians are very useful, they open eyes to new aspects of problems, they bring us together and suggest recipes for common solutions to many very difficult issues.I hope this trip is useful for both sides, it strengthens the position of parliamentarism.
We will continue the path towards each other, we will be able to assess the rapprochement between Ukraine and Europe in a new way."
According to Joel Rubinfeld, a delegation of EJP parliamentarians from Kiev will fly to Riga not only for inter-parliamentary contacts, but also to participate in a number of events of anti-fascist forces in connection with the activation of the revanchist movement in the Baltic countries.
Prior to Kiev, the EJP delegation met in Jerusalem with the leadership of the State of Israel, and also visited Aman, where they met with King Abdullah II of Jordan and the parliamentarians of this country.
As reported by MIGnews.com in April 2011 in Paris, the participants of the largest European Jewish forum voted for the creation of the European Jewish Union (EJU) and the European Jewish Parliament.
In February, the founding meeting of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP) was held in the building of the European Parliament in Brussels, bringing together 120 deputies from 52 countries.
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Jan Tabachnik:
"Good people are always on good terms with those who do good"
The recent visit to Ukraine on the occasion of the 1023rd anniversary of the Baptism of Russia by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate Kirill and the Catholicos of All Georgia Ilia II was called by domestic and foreign media not so much missionary as political.
The press again discussed the conflict between the Orthodox communities of the Moscow and Kiev Patriarchates. Against the backdrop of religious and political squabbles, the meetings of the heads of the Russian and Georgian churches with Ukrainian public figures, including Yan Tabachnik, remained practically unnoticed. The musician spoke with Patriarch Kirill and Catholicos Ilia II, presenting them with the international "Order of Honor" "for impeccable service for the benefit of mankind."
I don't want to talk nonsense - Yan Petrovich shared with Gordon Boulevard, - but God is one and He must be in the soul of everyone in order to bring humanity and religious tolerance into the world. Never recognized religious hatred or interfaith intolerance. Yes, and I can’t admit it, because I went on tour throughout the Soviet Union, I am friends with Muslims, Catholics, Jews, and so on. My friends call me a citizen of the world.
I am on excellent terms with Chief Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine Jacob Dov Bleich, His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine. So what if I'm a friendly person?! I don't want to be a goon who hates everyone.
Kind people always on good terms with those who do good. That is why the public council, consisting of Joseph Kobzon, Vitaly Korotich, Vladimir Gorbulin and many other iconic people of our time, decided to present the international "Order of Honor" to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II.
- So, the main principle for selecting future holders of the order is “do good”?
The award is presented to outstanding figures of our era, who are characterized by high moral principles, daily concern for humanity, and the irreproachable performance of their civic duty. For these people, the concepts of "honor" and "justice" are a life credo.
The "Order of Honor" was established more than 10 years ago. It was awarded to Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yanukovych, Yuri Luzhkov, ex-Mayor of New York Rudolf Giuliani, ex-President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, ex-President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, Vakhtang Kikabidze, pianist Vladimir Krainev and many others. In general, those who really did and are doing good on earth.
- How did the Russian and Georgian patriarchs react to the awarding of the order?
Due to a busy schedule, Patriarch Kirill was late for the plane, but he managed to thank me for the award and promised to read everything about the history of our order. I was at all the speeches of His Holiness in Kiev, I got the impression that he is a strict, stern person, a real intellectual. And suddenly, at the presentation of the "Order of Honor", Patriarch Kirill smiled so directly in a youthful way - my heart warmed up.
The next day I met with Patriarch Ilia II. Moreover, as is usually the case, there were "well-wishers" who the day before tried to dissuade the clergyman from accepting the award. But when the primate of the Georgian Orthodox Church found out to whom and for what the “Order of Honor” was awarded, he came to the ceremony with pleasure.
- And what religious tradition do you accustom your three sons to?
My family is mixed: my wife Tatyana Nedelskaya is a Christian, I am a Jew. The mother-in-law takes our children to the Orthodox Church, explains prayers to them. I do not interfere in this process, otherwise everything that I have stated above would be reduced to zero. The sons themselves must choose their faith.
I will tell you interesting story. In Poland, during the Second World War, the Nazis led several hundred Jews to be shot. One woman miraculously managed to push her son out of the crowd of the doomed. The boy was taken in by a Polish family who decided to baptize him into their faith. But the priest (Polish Catholic clergyman. - Approx. ed.) answered: “Let the child grow up and choose his own religion. You can't do it by force." So, this priest was the future Pope John Paul II. By the way, it was he who became the first pontiff who began to establish relations with other faiths.
An autographed portrait of John Paul II hangs in my office, as well as congratulations on his 65th birthday from the current head of the Catholic Church, Benedict XVI.
- And what did the Pope write to you?
And right now I’ll get up and read to you: “Holy Father Benedict XVI gives a special apostolic blessing to Yakov Tabachnik on the occasion of the 65th rich of the people, as a pledge of God’s guardianship and grace.” In general, goodness is always rewarded. For example, I have two church awards: the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir of the first degree and the Order of Glory and Honor, established by Patriarch Alexy II.
- Is it true that you financed the tour of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Franko in Poland?
I talked with the head of the Main Department of Humanitarian and Social and Political Affairs of the Administration of the President of Ukraine Anna German. The bell rang, Anna Nikolaevna talked, hung up and clutched her head: “Lord, what should I do?!”. It turned out that the Ivano-Frankivsk Theater with a performance based on the novel by Maria Matios "Licorice Darusya" was invited to the festival in the Polish city of Koszalin.
The event was held under the patronage of the President of Ukraine and the President of Poland, and our valiant Ministry of Culture did not allocate any money. "About what amount in question? - I ask. “60 thousand hryvnias,” Anna Nikolaevna answers. “Let the representatives of the theatre,” I say, “come to my office tomorrow, I will give the money.”
Later, Maria Matios called me: “I’m so sorry for you, I didn’t want to say a good word to your address.” We had a very friendly conversation. I will definitely invite Maria Vasilyevna to the next recording of my program “I have the honor to invite”.
Natalia DVALI
"Gordon Boulevard"
Chernivtsi "Bukrek Publishing House" published the book "Jan Tabachnik. Unanswered Prayers" (a literary entry was made by Ternopil journalist Mikhail Masliy), the annotation of which reads: "This book is about a talented musician and an unusual person, whose irrepressible energy and love for music won the hearts many people around the world. The author talks about his difficult life, about the people who have surrounded him all these years."
The book contains 396 pages of which, for 210, the greatest musician of our time and a prominent public figure, with his inherent warmth, kindness and wit, talks about his parents, sister, native Chernivtsi, His Majesty the accordion, about "labukh" musicians and his work in different teams of many philharmonic societies of the country, about his brainchild - the program "I have the honor to invite", about his friends - Iosif Kobzon, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Nazariy Yaremchuk, Sofia Rotaru. Separate chapters are devoted to the artist's favorite viewer, records at the Melodiya company, repertoire, foreign tours, the fate of the musician, an unprecedented tour of the "zones" of Ukraine and a customized "orange" conflict for land. The reader will learn first hand the whole truth about Jan Petrovich's relationship with the Presidents of Ukraine - Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yanukovych, about his work in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. And of course, about the family - his beloved wife Tatyana Nedelskaya and his three sons - Petka, Pashka and Mishanka.
The book contains a lot of interesting information: discography, CDs, pages of TV shows "I have the honor to invite" and much more.
Statements of contemporaries about Yan Tabachnik (there are more than 70 of them) - the presidents of many countries, famous singers, musicians, great writers, film artists, prominent public figures, generals, friends and teachers - are placed separately.
More than 100 pages feature prominently in the "Moments, Moments... Photos from a Family Album" section.
The most interesting edition ends with the section "They were in my life ... Pray for them ..."
In addition to all this - modern design, high-quality printing and good coated paper made the book aristocratic. As befits Jan Tabachnik - an aristocrat in the best sense of the word. To the aristocrat of music, accordion, soul, love, human goodness and earthly creation.
Star musicians Chick Corria and Harry Burton in Kiev
Yan Tabachnik, People's Artist of Ukraine:
- Knowing the excellent attitude of such a great country as the United States towards our country Ukraine, I, on behalf of the Supreme Council of the Order of Honor, have the honor to award Ambassador John Tefft with the Order of Honor, which in Latin is called Honorum Abo.SHANOVNI SPIVVITCHIZNIKI!
The share of Ukraine is the share of all who live under the high blue Ukrainian sky, working on their native land. With a good practice, it is possible for us to create glorious sides of history for us, without checking the proper assessment of that comprehension by state institutions.
Today, it is important to fulfill the idea of a sovereign state and spiritually renovate, to accept a further affirmation of patriotism, to do good work for the development of a democratic, legal, economically developed, social, and well-known middle of the state of power.
Being a Patriot is a great honor and great remembrance in front of the great sums, the homeland and the coming generations. It’s the same way to lie down on our skin, like a life of our power, like living our children, onucs and great-grandchildren.
On my highway, the international project "Ukraine and Ukraine - the flower of the nation, the pride of the country" is awarded with high recognition and bitter pain for the right to see the life and activity of the largest stake of the community.
Write, scho my Ukrainians! Let the life of the skin from us be signified by bright right, directed to the development and recognition of the Batkivshchyna, to kindness and the development of spirituality to the people. High mind, will and love to the native land will lead us to the heights of high spirits.
Let everything be conceived for selfishness and in our country, that people will be successfully implemented. Let's not pretend to dzherelo our faith, hope and love to the native land, give us energy, snugs and spirits from the powerful forces and perekonannyah.
I bless everyone with good health, an unshakable spirit, human goodness and self-advocacy.
With respect,
Your Jan Tabachnik
International project "Ukraine and Ukrainian-flowers of the nation, pride of the country"Honor cannot be seenїї you can spend(A. Chekhov) HEAD OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE FOR NUTRITION CONTROL, COORDINATION, INFORMATIONAL-ANALYTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC-RELIABLE PROVISION OF THE FIGHT AGAINST ORGANIZED SCALP AND CORRUPTION, PEOPLE'S ARTIST OF UKRAINE Tabachnik Yan PetrovichVolodar was awarded the titles "Golden Accordion of Europe", "Grand Maestro", "Star of the Ukrainian Festival" and an honorary sign on the Alley of Stars of Ukraine. Laureate of the All-Russian Prize "Ovation", the International Prize "Art - Olimp", the All-Russian Prize named after M. Lomonosov, the Prize of Sid Tal. Doctor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy. Recipient of the Order of Merit. Cavalier of the Order of St. Stanislav II-IV grades, Cavalier of the Order of Mykoli the Wonderworker, Cavalier of the Order of the Sign of Suspіlne Vyznannya, Cavalier of the Order of Mikhail Lomonosov (Russia), Cavalier of the Order of Peter the Great (Russia), Cavalier of the Order of International Glory to Patriarch II of Russia , holder of the Order of St. Volodymyr, 1st class, holder of the Order of St. George the Victorious. Professor of the Kiev National University of Culture and Science. Honorary Professor of the Tel Aviv Conservatory (Israel). Honorary Professor of the Academy named after Karel Lipinsky (Poland). The world thrives on the goodness of the people, and more precisely on people, like day after day to work with big-hearted great and small ones, while not claiming special respect for the blame. The very same person is the "Golden Accordion of Europe" - Yan Petrovich Tabachnik. Years of hard rehearsals and hard work gave results. Yan Petrovich, having traveled all over the world on tour, having reached such heights and success, while not suffering from stargazing illness. With his talent, he charmed not only ordinary people, but also princes, queens, presidents. Having created wine for himself, without all the powerful sounds, less than a gift given by God to his talent. Vin is honest and just. Yan Tabachnik is known not only as a famous accordionist, wine is a symbol of orderliness, dignity, hard work and success. his epoch. A person is overwhelmed with a person, if she works good, and only then can she become happy. The share brought down on Yan Petrovich a lot of human happiness - a miraculous team, beautiful blues, fame, recognition, material benefits. In the light of the heart, the line is light and warm. A penny of wine is generously shared with those who need stench, as if, love and respect - with their homeland and friends, glory - with the Fatherland, for which they have grown so richly. |
People's Deputy of Ukraine was awarded a presidential award for his contribution to the development of Ukrainian-Georgian relations and fruitful social activities
President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili awarded People's Deputy of Ukraine Yan Tabachnik with the Order of Radiance. The Ukrainian politician and musician was awarded a presidential award for his contribution to strengthening bilateral relations, popularization of Georgian culture, and fruitful social and humanitarian activities. Presenting the award, Mr. Saakashvili expressed special gratitude to the parliamentarian for supporting Georgia during the August 2008 events. According to the Georgian leader, Yan Tabachnik was one of those who raised his voice in defense of Georgia. “You are not only the head of a famous theatre, musician and professor, but also a great public figure, and just as you started your career in Georgia, I started my career in Ukraine,” Mikheil Saakashvili emphasized.
The Presidential Order "Radiance" was established in Georgia in the summer of 2009. This award is given for outstanding services to public figures, representatives of culture, education, science, art and sports.