North Caucasus Number 38

The issue of the newsreel is devoted to the problems of teenagers' employment in their free time from school, the problems of teenage alcoholism and drug addiction. Doctor-narcologist V. Semke, head of the inspection on minors' affairs E. Medveditskaya, director of the children's and youth equestrian sports school F. Kibizov (Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) express their opinion. V. Semke sits on a bench in the courtyard of the hospital, talks about the death of a teenager from alcohol poisoning, about the changes in the teenager's body after using alcohol and drugs. E. Medveditskaya talks about how teenagers react to family troubles, about the influence of the street, about the need to organize classes in sports clubs and circles. Teenagers smoke in the forest. A boy is stirring up a bonfire of leaves on the side of the road. The guys in the street are kicking a stone. A woman talks about her son, who quit playing sports. F. Kibizov talks about the difficulties in the work of the equestrian school, about the lack of necessary conditions for keeping horses, about the need to distract adolescents from drug addiction and substance abuse. The boy leads the horse by the bridle. A group of young horsemen are standing by a tree. The boy takes the horse out, kisses it, strokes it. Cr.pl. - horse's muzzle. The guys ride horses out of the paddock. The coach and his students on the pasture. The boys are riding horses along the road, followed by a dog. The girl drinks the horse from a bucket in the stable. NDP on the territory of an abandoned pioneer camp, given to the children's and youth equestrian sports school. Broken windows of buildings, cracked walls. A police car is driving down the street. Moonshine sellers with bottles in their hands are on the street. A drunken brawl in the courtyard of one of the houses, a policeman approaches. Drunk men sit on a park bench, smoke. Boys are playing on the sidewalk. Drunk men in a sobering-up center. Knives in the hands of drunk men.

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1987