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The Learning Experience is a recognized leader in the daycare and early education industry—with over 315 centers open and another 250 under development. This is your opportunity to be part of an amazing brand dedicated to making a positive difference in children’s lives as they learn, play and grow with us. Strategically chosen cities and locations The TLE real estate model is completely unique in comparison to the industry. Our team researches high-growth areas around the country, sources the location, partners with developers to build, equip and set up the center, and then hands you the keys. There are hundreds of TLE centers under development still in need of the right franchisee to help create another TLE success story. The high rate of franchisee success The numbers don’t lie, franchisees are set up for success. That’s why we have 4-star franchisee satisfaction rating* year over year, and why 45% of our franchisees end up owning two or more centers. TLE has also been ranked on Entrepreneur’s Top 500 Franchises, Forbes’ Best Franchises in America, and Inc 5000’s America’s Fastest-Growing Companies. The security and stability of franchising The early childhood education and daycare industry has grown exponentially over the past decade. This is due to research confirming the strong and long-lasting benefits of early childhood education, a shifting workforce in which both parents work, and the booming population growth. That’s why over the next five years, the childcare industry is forecast to increase revenue at a compound annual growth rate of 5.0% — and why being a TLE® franchise owner is a smart move, especially with a company that’s demonstrated lasting growth and success. Full support for TLE franchisees at every step The services our support team gives our valued franchisees includes: – Guiding you through how to develop and execute an effective marketing plan and sales process while providing ongoing marketing support, training and resources – Working with you on staffing and building a dynamic team of qualified people – Providing you with our proprietary curriculum to implement within your centers while educating you around all aspects on how to implement it successfully – Educating you about the value of our product, including over 90 proprietary brand characters – Conducting trainings that will support your personal development and growth in leadership, business acumen and preparedness to run a successful business – Conducting training and support around financial planning and managing a P&L – Assisting you through the process of getting your center licensed – Ongoing access to a highly trained operations team that will help you stay on course to operate your center successfully – Access to the latest technology to effectively run your child care operations including state-of-the-art technology within your center and the business intelligence tools to track business growth and communicate with your families We have immediate franchise locations available! Please reach out to learn more.
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Daycare facility for sale or partnership opportunity. The seller is motivated and willing to creative deal making for the right buyer, especially if the buyer is willing to move quickly. This is a unique opportunity to acquire a turnkey daycare facility operation. The current owner resides in Florida and has been semi-absentee running the business until this point. This business would benefit from an operator or more owner involvement for a period of time.
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Anne Arundel County, MD
A well established private preschool/child care center offering programs for children ages infant through twelve years, including before & after school.
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Montgomery County, MD
Great opportunity to purchase a fully absentee-owner business. It’s in its infancy still, but is poised to grow exponentially! Highly professional seller has invested time and money in the build-out, hiring, training and other processes needed to establish a business of this type with: – Experienced management in place – Excellent, fully trained staff – Flexible off-site owner role of 1 hr/day (payroll, marketing, etc) – $600k and extensive time spent on a custom build-out Skip the long runway and purchase this turn-key business.
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Day care facility with two locations available for sale. The current owner started the business and is seeking to relocate. The branding and day care model is elite with a strong niche model. All equipment and inventory are included in the price. Both locations are ideal and located in a well trafficked area with a plethora of client pool available for sourcing.
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Anne Arundel County, MD
Naptown nanny is an elite boutique nanny agency local to Annapolis, Maryland.
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Marlboro, MD
Former Child’s Daycare Center space in a large Church in Upper Marlboro is available for Lease. The space consists of approximately 5,870 sf with its own entrance at the parking lot level. The space will need substantial investment on the part of the Tenant, but includes electrical service and plumbing infrastructure that will be required for a Daycare.
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Baltimore Fishbowl | Daycare center ‘Kiddie Calvert’ to expand to the Village of Cross Keys –
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The handing off of car seats and the pitter-patter of little feet will soon become common sights and sounds at the Village of Cross Keys with the news that childcare center Kiddie Calvert will relocate there.
Kiddie Calvert—an early childhood education center for infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children currently housed at the Calvert School campus in Tuscany-Canterbury—plans to expand into the North Baltimore mixed-use community of The Village of Cross Keys in September 2021. Area working families in desperate need of more daycare options and community members eager to see new life injected into the aging Cross Keys are likely to welcome the development. The childcare center will go into the space below the previous Donna’s restaurant location, near the store Talbots.
The brainchild of visionary developer James Rouse, Cross Keys opened to much fanfare in the 1960s but has struggled in recent years with increasing vacancies in its commercial spaces. The recent $27 million purchase of the commercial assets of Cross Keys by Caves Valley Partners, which promises extensive upgrades, has been met with optimism by current Cross Keys residents like Marjorie Goodman. In January 2020 she heard Arsh Mirmiran, a partner at Caves Valley, discuss the revitalization plans at a Roland Park Civic League meeting.
“Now I’m not going anywhere… I have renewed hope,” Goodman was quoted in an article in baltimorefishbowl.com.
Current residents of Cross Keys aren’t alone in their excitement about the community’s pending overhaul. Melissa Hood, director of Kiddie Calvert, says she’s looking forward to expanding the daycare for children ages 10 weeks to five years of age in a central location with new amenities, an outdoor play space, and a dedicated parking area for parents. “We really want to get the reputation of Calvert out to the entire Baltimore community. We weren’t able to do that before,” Hood said.
The original Kiddie Calvert launched at the independent school in 2007 as a service to faculty and staff whose children were too young to attend the K-8 private co-ed school. When Hood came on board as director in 2009, there were only about 10 families enrolled. In 2016, the program moved into renovated space at the original campus and enrollment eventually rose to its current number of about 85 families.
Hood says the new, second location—Kiddie Calvert Cross Keys—will be able to accommodate about the same number of children as the original center.
The timing was right, explains Hood. “We saw the need for childcare. Our waitlist continued to expand,” she said.
Local parents can relate. Towson mom Julie Tewey said she started looking for daycare almost immediately after learning she was pregnant. She and her husband toured six daycares within 30 minutes of their home and were waitlisted on all of them. Ultimately, they landed a spot in one daycare—only because her husband was employed at the workplace where it was located. “Finding daycare was one of the biggest headaches and stressors that I never expected as an expecting mother,” Tewey observed.
Others agree. Another local parent said her daycare provider knew she was pregnant with her second child even before her parents did. She felt it was that critical to get on the waiting list for infants as soon as possible—despite having one child already enrolled at the center.
The number of full-day center-based day care programs and family-based child care providers in Baltimore City has dropped in recent years, and the downward trajectory is expected to continue over the next several years, according to data from the Maryland Family Network.
COVID hasn’t helped. “At the peak of COVID we surveyed child care providers in Maryland. Fifty one percent said they may close for good if substantial investments are not made in the industry,” said Doug Lent, communications director at the Maryland Family Network.
“Imagine what would happen to Maryland’s workforce if half of child care closed,” Lent noted. “Many parents, likely women, would leave the workforce.”
The opening of Kiddie Calvert Cross Keys will offer at least a slight reprieve to the supply deficit in Baltimore’s daycare industry. That the program has already established a presence in Baltimore may also work in its favor. “Our intent is to mirror our Tuscany-Canterbury location,” Hood said.
“The overall philosophy and mission will be the same.”
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Md. child care providers still in ‘survival mode,’ parents wait for child care aid
Elizabeth Shwe, Maryland Matters
November 12, 2021, 9:37 AM
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With 751 fewer child care providers in Maryland 18 months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced many to close or scale back, providers say they are operating in “survival mode” still, struggling to find qualified workers and to offer competitive wages and health benefits.
“We are the workforce who take care of the workforce,” Carolina Reyes, owner of a bilingual child care center in Prince George’s County, told state lawmakers Wednesday in a virtual meeting on the impact of the pandemic on child care services.
Prince George’s County had the biggest loss of child care centers with 141 fewer providers than in January 2020, according to the Maryland State Department of Education. Anne Arundel and Baltimore each have 85 fewer child care providers.
“This is one of the richest states in the country, we need to really invest in … child care — it’s part of the economy, it’s part of commerce, we need to connect the dots,” echoed Chris Peusch, executive director of the Maryland State Child Care Association.
One of the biggest challenges in Maryland is finding qualified people to hire, because the state has specific staff requirements, including having a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential and experience working with children. Around 75% of providers are experiencing workforce shortages, Peusch said.
And when they do find qualified workers, child care providers have to compete with the public school system and retail employers like Target, Starbucks and Kohls, which offer a lot more money per hour than child care providers can, Peusch said.
“They’re going to go to public schools because we cannot compete with the benefits package they provide. We cannot compete with the hourly wage that they provide,” said Holly Frazer, who owns a child care center in Washington County.
Frazer also decried MSDE adding more qualification requirements for child care staff.
“Instead of laxing up or helping or keeping things the same, they’re piling on [requirements], Frazer said. “We are not going to be able to find staff to work for the wages that child care makes,” she said.
The average child care center teacher earns $26,000 a year while a child care center director makes an average of $41,000, according to Peusch. And most providers cannot afford to offer health benefits to their employees.
Frazer also criticized local health departments for having different standards for child care centers and the public school system. Frazer said that if a child tested positive for COVID-19 in her child care center, the local health department will say that child would have to be quarantined for 14 days, but will tell public schools that they only need to quarantine a student if that student has COVID-19 symptoms.
“So what are parents doing? They’re leaving, they’re going to the neighbor down the street … or they’re getting their kids in public school programs, even if that’s not where they want them to be,” she said.
Out of the 7,000 child care centers that have opened since the pandemic, there have been only 24 cases of COVID-19, according to Peusch.
Although 97% of licensed child care providers are open, around half are operating with half as many children as they had, which makes it even more difficult to pay for fixed costs and other expenses.
Kim Ritchey, who owns a child care center in Washington County, said that she served up to 86 children each day, with more on the wait list, before the pandemic.
But now she serves 50 children a day and only has two children on her wait list.
“I don’t know where all the kids are,” she said. All child care providers in Washington County are operating at 50% or below in capacity, she said.
MSDE is using $502 million from the federal American Rescue Plan Act to help stabilize the child care industry and support parents to meet the cost of child care, according to Justin Dayhoff, MSDE’s assistant state superintendent for financial planning, operations and strategy.
So far, MSDE has distributed $155 million to over 5,100 child care providers, he said.
President Biden’s $1.75-trillion “Build Back Better” bill — a blueprint to overhaul the country’s health care, climate, education and tax laws — would provide monthly payments to families with children, as well as subsidies up to 7 percent of income to most families for child care.
But relying on emergency federal funds is not sustainable, child care advocates said. Child care providers need continuous state funding to survive, Peusch said.
Child care advocates also criticized payment delays and unresponsiveness from the state’s Child Care Scholarship Program, which provides low-income families with financial assistance. The cost of child care is usually the second or third largest household expense for families, according to the Maryland Family Network.
There’s a “deep and profound misunderstanding” among some families about how to apply to the program, especially among the immigrant community, Reyes said. “I invite you to call that 1-800 number today, and you can see how difficult it is for us to be able to talk with a human being,” she told lawmakers.
In one family a parent lost a job because they could not get a child care scholarship approved by the time the parent had to start work, said Tracey Clay, a child care provider in Montgomery County. These delays also affect child care providers, since they too have to wait an extended period of time to obtain the scholarship money, Reyes said.
Reyes suggested that MSDE create a video that outlines step-by-step how to apply for a child care scholarship and provide a toll-free number that ensures families and care providers can reach a person who can help.
Del. Jared Solomon (D-Montgomery) suggested simplifying the child care scholarship application by removing some questions.
Steven Hicks, MSDE’s assistant state superintendent for early childhood, said MSDE has established online portals to make it easier for families to apply for child care assistance and to make it easier for providers to apply for aid.
“It’s really exciting to hear about the portal … but what I hear a lot from not only the providers but from the families that I talked with is that the process for getting the scholarship is still really difficult,” Solomon said.
To bolster the child care workforce, Del. Ariana B. Kelly (D-Montgomery) suggested automatically offering child care scholarships to child care workers for their own children. Sen. Malcolm Augustine (D-Prince George’s) highlighted that that the next generation of child care industry leaders will likely be from the immigrant community, especially Spanish speakers, which is something to keep in mind for outreach, he said
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Joanne C. Benson (D-Prince George’s) said the state needs to do more for child care providers.
“We have all of this money coming into the great state of Maryland, and I’m just trying to figure out why isn’t it that we aren’t utilizing it where it belongs — and that’s to ensure that every child in the great state of Maryland has a healthy start,” Benson said.
This article was written by WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters and republished with permission. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today.
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There is something to see. If you haven’t been yet, be sure to visit! Atmospheric place. Really worth your money.
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Odessa, Ukraine27 publications
feel the breath of history
Walking in such historical places I like not only because I like it not only because this place is in a completely different world and on another continent. I love these dives because I find the magic of the eras in them. Would love to visit there again.
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Published August 20, 2018
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Evgeniya-Forever
Johannesburg, South Africa 176 publications
wonderful area of Baltimore
Baltimore made a wonderful impression. thanks in large part to this area! wonderful atmosphere.
beautiful, clean, the spirit of the port of old England. cafes, bars restaurants – lovely! I recommend taking a leisurely walk, looking at different places. Baltimore is charming Review for: Fell’s Point
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St. Petersburg, Russia26 publications
Diving into the underwater world
An opportunity to observe the behavior of various amazing creatures in their usual habitat. Sharks, rays, seahorses, etc.
in all their diversity. Review for: Baltimore National Aquarium
Published April 15, 2016
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Baltimore, Maryland2 publications
Very interesting!
There is something to see. If you haven’t been yet, be sure to visit! Atmospheric place. Really worth your money.
Review for: The Walters Art Museum
Published December 16, 2019
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Uhhh …. this is something))) I would go and go)) you get stuck and think what the creator was thinking about, what kind of muse covered him at the moment of creation))) the shop within the walls of the museum fit in very handy, I have never seen so much insanity and interestingness in one place)))
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Very interesting place
Really interesting place and something to see. This was the first attraction I visited in Baltimore.
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Published December 19, 2019
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Place of beauty.
I arrived in Baltimore after the American camp. Very cool adventure!
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Published July 29, 2018
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Interesting, but for children
Interesting. especially for children. Nice museum with great exhibits. Everything is good, including the gift shop.
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Moscow, Russia84 publications
Small but interesting zoo
When you visit this zoo, you should not expect that you will meet a very large number of various animals, and the zoo will amaze you with its size. It is not some kind of special attraction and is designed more for the residents of Baltimore itself, who love animals and are not averse to taking a walk in their environment.
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Ravens training camp.
I had a chance to visit a special show organized for fans of the Ravens team. It was one of my strongest impressions of the trip, namely the final laser show with fireworks. It’s not entirely correct to rate the stadium as a building without having been to the game, so I recommend going to the Ravens home game. Evaluate how Americans can put on a show.
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There are several routes. colour-coded stops have maps and schedules depending on the day of the week. If you buy a ticket for the whole day, then it turns out to be cheaper + they give you a guide book with coupons for discounts in different parts of the city.Review for: Baltimore Water Taxi
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Original Museum
An interesting exhibition about the development of the industry in the United States. Interactive, educational, interesting. Not far from the city center, but it is better to use transport.
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As a result of a truck explosion on the Crimean bridge, three people died. Traffic on one of the lanes was restored at 16:00 Moscow time, the railway service was resumed after 20:00. Putin signed a decree on strengthening measures to protect the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, the energy bridge and the gas pipeline from the Krasnodar Territory to the peninsula.
In Chisinau, protesters tried to enter the territory of the Russian Embassy. General Sergei Surovikin has been appointed commander of the Russian troops in the NVO zone. Gazeta.Ru chronicles the events.
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Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that imposing sanctions against Russia is “becoming increasingly difficult” . “There are not many elements left that we can impose sanctions on. That’s the problem,” the politician emphasized in an interview with the British newspaper Telegraph. In addition, it is increasingly difficult for the European Union to maintain unity on the issue of restrictions.
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… Passengers, which will arrive today by ferry from Crimea to the port of Kavkaz, will also be delivered free of charge by buses of ANO “ETD” to the hotels of Anapa” , – said the Ministry of Transport.
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The representative office of the DPR in the JCCC stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine released a squad with a caliber of 155 millimeters in the central Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.
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❗️There is no rush demand for oil products in Crimea – FAS
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A strong bang was heard in the center of Donetsk , the smell of gunpowder is heard in the air — RIA Novosti
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❗️The railway communication on the Crimean bridge was completely restored — Khusnullin
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In a number of regions of Crimea, the yellow level of terrorist danger has been extended until October 23.
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The loading of cars on the ferry across the Kerch bridge has begun.
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The test train passed along the Crimean Bridge.
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Head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Alexander Kurenkov arrived at the Crimean Bridge.
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A yellow level of terrorist threat has been introduced in the Temryuksky District of the Krasnodar Territory.
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⚡️ The city of Grayvoron and several villages of the Grayvoron urban district came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine , said the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov. An idle kindergarten was destroyed. On the Topoli farm, two residential buildings were damaged, windows were broken in one, and the load-bearing wall and roof were destroyed in the other.
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▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at Energodar and Zaporizhia NPP twice in a day from Grad multiple launch rocket systems;
▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine made another attempt to force the Zherebets River in the Krasnolymansk direction, as a result, 30 Ukrainian servicemen were killed;
▪️ Ukrainian troops attempted an offensive in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, all of them were repulsed;
▪️ As a result of being hit by Ukrainian shells, a power line providing power supply to Energodar was disabled;
▪️ Russian troops repulsed an attempted counterattack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south-Donetsk direction, killing more than 90 Ukrainian servicemen;
▪️ More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed in a day by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the DPR;
▪️ Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft in the Zaporozhye region;
▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces in the Zaporozhye direction struck at the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries, destroying more than 160 militants;
▪️ The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers during an attempt to attack them in the Kupyansk direction;
▪️ Russian air defense destroyed 12 UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, shot down 21 HIMARS MLRS shells and a Tochka-U missile.
15:14
❗️The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: by the decision of the Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergey Surovikin has been appointed commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the area of the NMD.
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15:00
The Kerch ferry crossing will start carrying passengers in the second half of Sunday, it will not work today, reported the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory.
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14:41
A printing house is on fire in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk due to Ukrainian shelling — RIA Novosti
14:02
❗️According to preliminary data, three people died as a result of an explosion on the Crimean bridge – Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
The victims were the passengers of a passenger car driving next to the exploded truck, the bodies of a man and a woman were raised from the water, the department said.
13:59
The identity of the driver of the truck that exploded on the Crimean bridge has been established, he is a resident of Kuban, the RF Investigative Committee reported.
13:38
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: provision of the Russian group of troops involved in the hostilities in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and Zaporozhye directions, is carried out continuously in full along the land corridor and partially by sea transport.
13:37
In 2019, , the Russian Guard was responsible for guarding the Crimean bridge. A special naval detachment, a regiment of guards and operational units entered the National Guard brigade, which guarded the crossing from Crimea to Taman.
“In addition to the National Guard, the Crimean Bridge is also guarded by Su-27 fighters and the Il-38 aircraft, designed to fight against ships and submarines. Aircraft regularly patrol the area around the crossing over the Kerch Strait. Both sides of the strait are protected by a variety of ground military equipment, including the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems and the Pantsir-S1 missile and gun system. On the peninsula there are missile systems “Bal” and “Bastion”, capable of hitting ships of any class, up to nuclear aircraft carriers.
The Crimean bridge is also guarded by ships of the Black Sea Fleet and the border service of the FSB of Russia. The crossing from Taman to Crimea is also monitored from the Earth’s orbit from the Kosmos-K satellite. , – Gazeta.Ru wrote then
Marine brigade: how to protect the Crimean bridge
13:32
Undermining the Crimean bridge by Ukraine was carried out, among other things, to create problems with the transfer of the Russian army to strengthen the borders in the Kherson region, Yury Afonin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, told TASS.
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13:30
Trains now heading to the Crimean Peninsula have been redirected to Anapa, the Grand Service Express reported — TASS
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13:25
The state of emergency on the Crimean bridge will not affect the provision of Kherson region with food and essential goods, said the head of the regional government Sergey Eliseev.
Strategic reserves of fuel, medicines and food have been created in the region, RIA Novosti reports.
13:02
The authorities of the front-line Snigirevka in the Kherson region consider the combat situation in the village and its environs “difficult, but controlled”, the head of the district administration Yury Barbashov said on Saturday – TASS
12:56
The National Guard of Ukraine detained accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, TASS reports. Discovered cache with 450 mines, firearms and communications equipment.
12:41
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu congratulated “Ukrainian special forces” in connection with the explosion on the Crimean bridge – RIA Novosti
12:20
❗️Weather conditions do not allow launching a ferry service from Crimea on October 8, the authorities reported — TASS
12:11
Ukrayinska Pravda reported that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was involved in the explosion on the Crimean bridge.
The publication was informed about this by a source in the law enforcement agencies of the country.
“According to the source, the blowing up of the Crimean bridge is a special operation of the SBU. At the same time, the special service itself has not yet officially commented on its participation in these events, ”the message says.
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11:40
Gas stations near the Krymsky bridge from the side of Taman are operating as usual, there is no transport collapse – Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev.
11:37
Explosion on the Crimean bridge: what is known
The cause of the emergency on the Crimean bridge was the explosion of a truck, the National…
08 October 14:20
11:30
Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, after the explosion on the Crimean bridge in his Twitter said that “this is the beginning.” It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“Crimea, bridge, beginning,” wrote Podolyak.
He added that “everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine.”
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11:00
RIA Novosti with reference to the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC): at 6:07 a.m. Moscow time, a truck exploded on the automobile part of the bridge from the side of the Taman Peninsula, which caused the fire of 7 fuel tanks of a train going to Crimea.
10:54
❗️Crimea is fully provided with fuel, the reserves will last for at least 15 days, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation reported.
The agency added that is working to ensure the continued delivery of fuel to the peninsula.
10:16
The fire on the train with diesel fuel on the Crimean bridge has been extinguished, at the moment there is no open burning – RIA Novosti with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations
9:50
A criminal case was initiated on the fact of blowing up a truck on the Crimean bridge – Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
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9:47
Accommodation of vacationers in Crimean health resorts in connection with the explosion on the Crimean bridge will be extended, all costs will be compensated at the expense of the republic – TASS with reference to Aksenov
9:38
❗️ A land transport corridor has been established from Crimea to other regions of the Russian Federation through new territories – Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the DPR and LPR, the Crimean authorities reported.
9:25
❗️Two spans of the automobile part of the Crimean bridge collapsed due to the incident — Aksenov
9:23
Ferry across the Kerch Strait will start operating from today – Head of the Republic of Crimea Aksenov
9:20
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to create a government commission in connection with the emergency on the Crimean bridge. – TASS
9:06
Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye Region spoke about the restoration of industrial enterprises in the region — RIA Novosti
9:02
Damage on the Crimean bridge will be promptly repaired, “fortunately they are not of a severe nature” – Head of the Crimean Parliament Konstantinov
9:01
Head of the Crimean Parliament Konstantinov said that “Ukrainian vandals” damaged the roadway on the Crimean bridge — RIA Novosti
8:29
Video after the shelling of railway tanks in Ilovaisk – RIA Novosti
8:19
Fire on the Crimean bridge, video of eyewitnesses:
8:17
❗️ Traffic on the Crimean bridge is completely closed, the launch of a ferry across the strait is being prepared, the Crimean authorities said.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have not carried out a single shelling of settlements in the Luhansk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, Andriy Marochko, an officer of the People’s Militia of the LPR, said.
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Six rockets were fired at Ilovaysk , the railway infrastructure and several private houses were damaged – TASS
8:05
Ukrainian troops shelled Ilovaisk from HIMARS, the DPR reported.
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❗️A fuel tank is on fire on one of the sections of the Crimean bridge, the shipping arches are not damaged, RIA Novosti reports.
The Taman Road Administration reported that traffic on the bridge had been suspended.
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Sevil Aliyeva recalls on the eve of her birthday: “Dad said: I won’t give up so easily!” – 100 years
Today, October 12, is the birthday of the daughter of the founder of the Third Azerbaijan Republic, Heydar Aliyev, Sevil Aliyeva. A close friend of our editorial staff, Sevil-khanum, will meet this day, as usual, modestly, with his family. However, we did not miss the opportunity to be the first to congratulate dear and respected Sevil-khanum, asking her on the eve of the approaching 100th anniversary of the Founding Father to become a guest of our rubric, established long before the decree of the President of Azerbaijan, which declared the coming year 2023 the year of Heydar Aliyev.
May haqqin. az opened a rubric dedicated to the founder of the Third Republic – 100 years – Man-epoch.
And once a week, our editorial office publishes an interview with a well-known researcher of the life of Heydar Aliyev – publicist Elmira Akhundova with prominent Soviet, Azerbaijani party and state figures. Most of these impressive and extraordinary conversations were recorded by E. Akhundova during various periods of the existence of the Aliyev government.
Sevil Aliyeva, in turn, recalled her detailed conversation with E. Akhundova some time after the death of Heydar Aliyev. Part of this conversation was published in 2005 on the pages of the Russian newspaper Izvestia and caused a wide resonance throughout the post-Soviet space. On the eve of her birthday, Sevil Aliyeva agreed to publish the full version of the conversation. We present to your attention the memories of S. Aliyeva about her great Father and the Founding Father of the new Azerbaijan Republic.
– How did you remember your father in your earliest childhood: the first purely childhood impressions and feelings.
Did he take you to kindergarten, did he go for a walk with you, did he read fairy tales at night? Or did he not have time for this because of the huge workload?
– Father always had time for his family. Although he really was all the time overly busy at work. I never went to kindergarten, because I was very attached to Mom. Once she tried to get me into a children’s group, then there were such small groups – the nannies took the children for a walk, looked after them during the day, studied. One day Mom left me on the boulevard in one of these groups and hid behind a palm tree to see what would happen. I had such a tantrum that she immediately took me away and never again tried to repeat this experiment.
It has always been difficult for me to stay at home without my parents and housekeepers. Especially when they went on vacation. Since childhood, I have been very sensitive to the people around me. Later, I began to understand why I was so bad with nannies. Almost all of them quit after a while, because I exposed them for being dishonest.
They could lie to their parents about how my brother and I behaved, how we ate, and so on.
I also had a very small social circle at school. I feel good only with sincere people , who treat me kindly. Therefore, my home was ideal for me. There was a special atmosphere in the house, where everyone was friends and understood each other. I mean the parents, the younger brother, whom I always took great care of and guarded him by the classroom, because he was two years younger than everyone else. I was afraid that other children might offend him. It all speaks of the atmosphere in which we grew up. When children see honesty, love and care in a family, they cannot be different.
Sometimes Dad and I went for a walk when Mom was late at work. We went to the sea and he taught me to swim. I even remember how Papa used to tie my bow.
– Did your father follow your studies, grades, attend school meetings? To whom did you confide your first girlish secrets – to your father or mother, from whom did you ask for advice, help? In general, were you frank with your father? How and to what extent did Geidar Alievich participate in your upbringing? Was he strict, stern with you, or, on the contrary, soft and emotional?
– In the second grade I got the first two in arithmetic.
And I remember that I didn’t go to bed until Papa came to inform him immediately and show him a notebook with a mark. I knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep until I told him. As soon as he entered, I met him at the door with a notebook in his hands. But he appreciated my honesty and did not say anything to me, did not make any remarks. And then I calmed down.
My father valued honesty very much. He did not accept even the slightest lie. I understand this, because I myself am intolerant of lies, even the smallest ones. I was honest with both parents. Of course, I was closer and more frank with Mom, we were like one person. She knew absolutely everything that was in my soul. Relations with the Pope were also trusting, like those of close friends. I could tell him about my girlfriends, about my studies and about people in general. He gave me advice and we always joked. Jokes, humor in our house were an integral part of our lives.
– Did the problem of “fathers and children” exist in your family? Were there any disagreements with your parents about your tastes and passions in music, movies, hobbies, manner of dressing, in choosing a future specialty? Geidar Alievich was a domineering person at work.
And in the family, this authority somehow manifested itself?
– You know, we had no disagreements at all, because Mom and Dad – it was such an unusual combination. He once told me that if he hadn’t met Mama, he probably would never have gotten married at all. She complemented him so much and tried so hard to adapt to his mood – she herself had a very soft, diplomatic character – that there was simply no reason for conflicts. And then, he did not make any remarks without reason. And we, children, tried to behave in such a way as not to spoil the mood of our parents.
My parents have always treated my hobbies with respect and understanding. I loved listening to Western music, then there was not much choice in Baku, and I asked someone to bring records from abroad. I was very fond of short skirts and platform shoes, it was fashionable at that time.
Dad was a modern man. He always understood me, especially since he himself loved fashionable, good clothes.
If he went somewhere, he brought me and Mama beautiful outfits. He didn’t like it if I didn’t take care of myself and didn’t look very good. He even reprimanded me. I remember I had a very comfortable, but somewhat old-fashioned, long skirt. And Dad once said to me: “So that I don’t see this skirt on you anymore.”
As for choosing a specialty, Mom and Dad advised me to enter a medical school. I have been preparing to become a doctor since childhood. Dad really wanted me to be an eye doctor like Mom. He believed that this profession for a woman is the most beautiful. And I was preparing to enter the medical school, I even studied chemistry and biology. But then this idea had to be abandoned. I often went to work with Mom, and when I walked along the corridor and saw people with bandages on their eyes, I involuntarily closed my eyes. So, almost with my eyes closed, I went to her office. When the time came to decide, I realized that I could not be a doctor. I couldn’t stand the sight of blood.
Once they took blood from my finger, and I lost consciousness.
As a result, I applied to the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the Azerbaijan State University, which was then considered the most prestigious. Although I did not have much interest in oriental languages. Girls from my class went there and they advised me. I studied well at the university, studied Arabic. Although I did not study well at school, especially in exact subjects.
– We know about the great mutual feeling of Heydar Aliyevich and Zarifa khanum, about their reverent relationship. Therefore, I ask about what is unknown: as in every family, yours, probably, also had disagreements. How did they decide? Did the father talk to his mother about his work, did he consult with her on some issues? Did she tell him about her scientific developments? Could Zarifa Aliyev ask for someone, and did Heydar Aliyev accept these requests? And you? You must have been annoyed with requests to get someone a job, solve some issue, etc.
Could you turn to your father with a similar request?
– There were no fundamental disagreements. Well, maybe there were some minor domestic disagreements, so empty that there is nothing to remember. Sometimes Mom expressed her opinion about some people he trusted. He was generally a trusting person. Father consulted with Mother on various issues. From childhood, I firmly understood one thing to myself: nowhere can you talk about what you heard in the house. After all, I heard and knew about much of what he said to Mom, but all this remained in me. Mom always gave dad the right advice. It happened that she did not like someone, and she told him about it. Sometimes he disagreed with her. Some time passed, and he himself was disappointed in these people.
About requests from strangers. We tried not to. But at the same time, there were moments when it was necessary to help. If someone needed help, help was provided. There were times when Mom asked Dad for a nanny or a nurse at work who were in dire need of housing.
That is, if the request was really worthwhile, she always tried to help.
– For the first time in the former USSR, Heydar Aliyev brought his wife, as they say, “into the big world.” She was with him everywhere, at all official events, at premieres, concerts, etc. She was known by the creative intelligentsia, the public. This was not practiced in the USSR. How did she feel in the status of the wife of the first person of the republic?
– You know, she was an unusually modest person by nature. Even during some official events in the Lenin Palace, Mom either came to an almost empty hall and sat down before everyone else, or, if the hall was already full, we went upstairs and went down to our seats from the upper rows. Not like, say, the wives of ministers, who sometimes were late on purpose and went upstairs so that everyone looked at them. Mom didn’t like to draw attention to herself. She always asked security: warn the TV people not to film us. And the fact that father went to all events with Mom is because he was very attached to her.
He couldn’t live without her. She was like air to him.
When he traveled to Moscow for work – to plenums, meetings, sessions – he took Mama with him, and Mama took us. Mom could not stay without children. And the four of us went everywhere. We were with him in 1976, when he was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo. We were so happy for him, so proud of him!
– Was Zarifa Aliyeva interested in her father’s work? He was proud that he had such an educated wife – a famous doctor, scientist?
– Very. He was proud and inspired her to move on. She was very attached to the children, to the family, and this was more important for her. Family was in the first place for her. Dad knew what a great scientific potential Mom had, how talented she was, and therefore developed in her the desire to go further. I remember: at night, when we all went to bed, she sat and wrote her works – articles, books. When we went to Moscow, she constantly had contacts with fellow ophthalmologists.
But she did not have ambition, the desire to become famous, to stand out. What she has achieved is the result of her natural talent and great diligence. And the Pope, knowing her potential, could not accept the fact that it was gone. You asked about disagreements, disputes. It was on this basis that they sometimes argued: he told her not to lose pace, to continue her scientific research. He set her up and inspired her all the time.
– How did you celebrate Heydar Alievich’s birthday, what did you give him?
– He often forgot about them. He worked so hard that he forgot his birthday. We wrote greeting cards to him as a child. And so to specifically invite someone to a birthday party – this was not the case.
Dad didn’t like celebrating birthdays at all. And it was out of the question that his subordinates, colleagues presented some gifts to him or Mom. Once our friend brought a simple vase for someone’s birthday, so Dad said to Mom: “Give it back to her immediately.
” And the vase was the simplest, made of ordinary glass.
– Heydar Aliyev, when he already became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, still had days off, he went on vacation. How did he spend his free time, what did he do?
– In winter, on Sundays, we went out of town, to Zagulba. We lived there during the summer. Our only social circle was our neighbors in the dacha – the chairman of the Supreme Council Khalilov, the chairman of the Council of Ministers Ibragimov, the second secretary Kozlov and the commander of the army Olifer. And, of course, our sincere family friends Vitaly Sergeevich and Nadezhda Alekseevna Krasilnikovs. We talked very often, Mom was friends with Nadezhda Alekseevna, and I was friends with their daughter Anechka. Dad and Mom were very fond of jokes, fun, they liked to arrange Sunday dinners. Mom played the piano, Dad sang. And everyone had a lot of fun and good. In the summer we sometimes ate lunch on the beach.
Dad loved to swim. My brother and I grew up by the sea. I spent my childhood in the KGB Rest House in the village of Bilgya. When Papa became the first secretary, and we moved to Zagulba to his country residence, at first I missed my friends. Bilgah had a large territory, and I had many peers there.
We went with the whole family to Yalta when Papa took a vacation. There were good state dachas. We had breakfast and went to the beach. Then they came back and had lunch. Dad worked with papers, called Baku on HF. Watched movies in the evenings. Parents sometimes went to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev’s dacha. My Mom was friendly with his wife Victoria Petrovna.
– Did Geidar Alievich have the opportunity to read anything, being the head of the republic? Which writers did you especially like – what did you prefer from the classics, from modern writers? What films did you like? What was his favorite actor? We know that he was very musical and loved to sing to the accompaniment of Zarifa Aliyeva.
And what did he perform, what specific songs?
– Dad knew literature very well, especially classical literature. He told us that he read all this at school. He knew the world classics well, he quoted Shakespeare, for example, from Hamlet. Loved Hussein Javid.
He liked comedy films, especially Soviet ones. I could watch “Office Romance”, “Mimino”, comedies with the participation of Igor Ilyinsky – “Carnival Night”, “Old Acquaintance” several times. He generally liked to laugh.
He liked to sing very much, often to the accompaniment of Mama he sang the song of Tofik Kuliyev “Senede galmaz”. Sometimes he forgot the words, she quietly prompted him. And from Russian songs, he loved the song from the movie “Night Patrol”. I still remember the words from this song: “Even a bird is not fit to live without its homeland.” I think Mark Bernes sang it. Two songs about Azerbaijan performed by Rashid Behbudov and Muslim Magomayev were very dear to him.
– Who else did your parents like from Soviet pop singers?
– Muslim Magomayev and Sofia Rotaru.
Dad and Mom met Sophia Rotaru personally during the Days of Ukrainian Culture in Azerbaijan, they really appreciated her for her intelligence of performance and big, beautiful voice. They especially liked the song “Swan Fidelity” by Evgeny Martynov and Andrey Dementyev, performed by Sofia Rotaru. And with Muslim Magomayev and his wife Tamara Sinyavskaya, our entire family was also connected by a long-standing personal friendship.
Papa also liked the song “Millions of scarlet roses” performed by Alla Pugacheva. When Alla Pugacheva was in Baku in 2001, she sang this song at Daddy’s request. During the performance, she approached the Pope and they sang the chorus together. This song makes me feel special because Mom and Dad loved to dance to it. This was their favorite song.
In the 70s, the melody “El Bimbo” was popular. I remember when we were on vacation in Yugoslavia in 1976, we often heard it there in restaurants and clubs. And he really liked her too. And in the early 70s, being on one of the first official foreign trips to Syria and Lebanon, the Pope brought me a record with the melody of Francia Ley that he loved for the movie “Love Story”.
But the most precious song for him was mine – “Come back, my love”, which I dedicated to Mom. Every time the Pope listened to her, tears appeared in his eyes. Even when it was still just a melody without words, he said that she was associated with Mom and his state after her departure. When I played this melody in the presence of Muslim Magomayev, he told me that I need to write words to the music, and he will certainly perform this song. The author of the words was the famous poet Nikolai Dobronravov, who was personally acquainted with Mom and treated her very warmly. I remember that individual lines were presented in several versions, and Papa and I chose from them those that most accurately conveyed our feelings. This song is doubly dear to me now, because for me it is a memory of Mom and Dad.
– What were Heydar Aliyev’s favorite dishes?
– He didn’t like greasy food. He really liked the Nakhchivan cuisine. The woman who cooked dinners for us used to work for my Mom’s parents.
She knew me from the day I was born. Aunt Nina cooked well, in the style of my grandmother Layla. She had an Irevan-Nakhchivan style.
But Papa also liked to try new dishes. I remember that in 1976 we all went together to Yugoslavia. It was a wonderful vacation! Every day on the beach we ate spaghetti. Dad perceived any cuisine – both Eastern and European. He told Mom that somewhere he even tried frogs. Mom was horrified because she was very picky about food. If I went somewhere, I ate only what I was sure of. Mostly chicken meat. And Dad loved to try new things. We ate oysters with him.
– How did you perceive the change in the fate of your father – moving to Moscow, a new high position? How did Zarifa Aliyeva feel in Moscow? Was she happy about the change in her husband’s political biography?
– Both Mom and I were happy about this. Firstly, because by that time we, Ilham and I, were living and studying in Moscow. Ilham studied at MGIMO, and I was a postgraduate student at the Institute of Oriental Studies.
Mom divided her time between the two cities. She couldn’t leave Papa either, and she missed her children. Therefore, she was pleased with the new appointment of the Pope. Although, of course, Mom loved Baku very much and always came here. But the Pope did not want to leave Azerbaijan. When Andropov suggested that he move to Moscow, he hesitated. Dad said that Yuri Vladimirovich was even offended: “Don’t you want to help me?” Andropov needed trusted people. We didn’t have any anxiety. Andropov took it with good intentions.
By the way, Papa, my little daughter Zarifa and I were the first inhabitants of the dacha in Gorki-10. Mom arrived later, because for some time she had been collecting things in Baku. At that time, I already had my own apartment in Moscow, but how could I leave dad alone? And then, the Pope wanted us all to live together – one big family.
When Mom arrived in Moscow, the first person she invited to the dacha in Gorki-10 was the wife of the late Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Victoria Petrovna.
She came to us with her great-granddaughter Galya. Mom always treated Victoria Petrovna very warmly, tried to support her with her attention. Although at that time criticism of Brezhnev had already begun, and inviting his wife to the government dacha was in itself an act.
– When a heart attack occurred, Heydar Aliyev showed amazing strength of mind, he continued to work right in the hospital, arranging meetings. He never doubted for a moment that he would return to the “system”?
– He never had a period of hesitation. Although what happened on May 11, 1987 was a shock to us. Because the Pope was a very healthy person. He never even had a cold. He could throw my six-year-old daughter almost up to the ceiling. He was very athletic: he ran, swam. Therefore, the heart attack was an absolute surprise. For a whole week we did not know what the outcome would be. Then we were told that after such a heart attack, a very small percentage of people survive.
We were in the hospital all the time.
I begged the doctors to tell me the truth, asked them: “Will he return to a full life after this?” We were not allowed to see him for the first few days. In general, there is still a lot of incomprehensible in this story. And I still have the feeling to this day that all this was provoked. Because there is logic in it. At that time, Gorbachev wanted to remove him from the Politburo, dismiss him. And the Father could be alienated only in this way. Otherwise, why would Gorbachev “hook”? The Pope never gave a reason to resign. I remember he told us that he wouldn’t give up so easily. Once Kamran Bagirov came to his dacha, he told him: “If they force me to resign, I will not retire. I just won’t give up. I will expose him, present such arguments that it will be an explosion.” Can you imagine what Aliyev could do with his authority all over the world? Naturally, our house was bugged, this is one hundred percent. It’s a different story if I tell you what kind of people we lived there, what servants we had.
They were all members of the KGB. They recorded everything, all our conversations, movements, and then they reported where necessary. I think that the fact that we were not Russians, but newcomers, also played a role. Therefore, there was more attention to us …
We’ve always been bugged. Therefore, everything that the Father said to Kamran Bagirov and what he told us became known to Gorbachev. Dad knew about it. One day he asked me: “Please buy me simple flannelette shirts.” I couldn’t understand why he had them. And then he explained: “If he wants to send me to retire, I will go to work as a worker in a factory. Ordinary workers. This will be a very unusual case. Therefore, I will need flannelette shirts.
When he said this to Bagirov, I remember that fear appeared in me: why is he telling him this?
– Maybe he told him that on purpose? Maybe he wanted to know about his determination to go to the end there, at the very “top”? And did they draw the appropriate conclusions? Maybe Bagirov told where to go about this conversation?
– Anything is possible.