"In the person Ashraf Gani they did not see the patriot": the translator and the journalist Shkirando Alexander Ivanovich — about events in Afghanistan

In the late seventies Shkirando Alexander Ivanovich served in Afghanistan as a part of group of the Soviet military advisers. Before storm of the palace of Amine it was there on reception which the Afghan leader gave, and got poisoning together with other guests. Subsequently Shkirando Alexander Ivanovich worked at television. His faultless knowledge of two main Afghan languages — give also Pashto — more than once it was demanded during negotiations. In exclusive interview of TV channel "RT" Shkirando Alexander Ivanovich remembered those events, and also gave the assessment of the situation, developed today in Afghanistan...