"We are launching a new project "The Man of the Word "by the performance of the famous Russian theater and film actor, director, screenwriter, writer, TV host Veniamin Smekhov. We intend to invite the masters of the word, the professionals of their cause, people who have the gift to broadcast the culture to a wide audience to Abkhazia. This project we want to involve people, especially young people to the artistic word, to something real, high, eternal", - said the artistic director of the Philharmonic Esma Jenia, opening the meeting.

Veniamin Smekhov devoted his speech in Sukhum to the memory of poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who had gone away the other day.