With the support of the Fund for Protection of Lake Baikal correspondent of the European cultural channel ARTE Vladimir Vazak and Moscow correspondent for Le Monde Marie Jego met with the Republic of Buryatia.
Journalists prepare documentary project “On the banks of Lake Baikal”, where they will tell the European audience about the life of the cities located near Lake Baikal. The main characters in the film will become scientists, writers, and just the locals who love to talk about their native places. Reporters have already visited Irkutsk, Listvyanka, Baikal and Olkhon Island. In Buryatia, their main goal – is to make the shooting in Ivolginsky datsan, Ulan-Ude and Gremyachinsk.
The journalists’ questions were answered by Director of the FPLB Bair Tsyrenov. On the question of Le Monde what for him Baikal is, he replied: “Baikal – is a symbol of purity, is what Russia can be proud of, and if you look into the future, it is my personal opinion, that Baikal – is a place where people can be filled with energy. For me Baikal – is a symbol of purity and energy”.

Journalists have received the film “To the Depths of Lake Baikal” in French as a gift from the Fund, as well as several publications, devoted to Lake Baikal and Buryatia.
According to the correspondents, they came to Russia not for the first time, they shot a variety of subjects, in Moscow and in other regions, but they are in Buryatia firstly. As a part of the crew - the filmmaker Vladimir Vazak, correspondent Marie Jego, sound engineer Sebastian Gisse, producer and translator Catherine Svarovskaya.

Note
“Arte Reportage” – is a one-hour TV show, which airs on channel ARTE on Saturday night in France and Germany. Weekly journalists are reporting from around the world. The newspaper Le Monde - is one of the oldest French publications, which is available in more than one hundred and twenty countries around the world (circulation is 400 thousand copies).