The legendary Georgian Vakhtang Kikabidze on the eve of his 80th birthday shared his thoughts about loyalty homeland, friends and family. He never forgave Putin for the invasion of Georgia, and now even in Ukraine, about the victory of which he wrote the song, is said in the plot of TSN. 19:30.

The singer and actor says that he has not learned how to rest in his entire life - he sleeps for five hours. But he rejoices that he sings - and not alone. "The most important thing is to wake up and understand that you are alive. I do not sleep much at all, and I always wake up so joyously, it turns out that I still need my house, my friends, myself, "he says.. He compares his life with the famous chito-grith - a small bird. Like, it's also about a small but proud bird. Pilot Valico, whom friends call Mimino, he played exactly 40 years ago, but in their souls they still remain.

Last 10 years Kikabidze does not go to Russia, and after Putin's invasion of Georgia he refused the Russian Order of Friendship. "I think the meaning of life is to live without dirty tails. There are no such medicines that all forgive a person. When the tanks are at your house, he shoots at you, presses, and at that time you get the order and you go to eat there. It's unethical, ugly, and you lose your dignity. Of course, I did not forgive. But my grandchildren respect me, "the Georgian explained..

Buba's grandchildren have three, and one always tours with him, but the youngest great-granddaughter Sasha, six years old, the other day only realized who her grandfather. "The scam is terrible. Says: you know that we are very famous? I say: I do not understand. I know that I am, and you are what? She: I'm your granddaughter, "laughs Kikabidze. His love, like the scene and dignity - also for life. With a ballerina Irina, he is married for 55 years, and I am sure that he is still alive thanks to her. "Love is a toothache in the heart.". We have been with her for 55 years, every day I'm calling. I know that she is interested in one thing - how do I feel when I travel. She is like a guardian angel. If it were not for her, I would not have been. I've already died three times, three! But God did not let go - she kept, "he says..

Friends with whom Buba likes to fish, decreases yearly, he writes letters to them, and when he remembers that in the summer he hits 80 - sighs. However, he calls himself a great optimist, and in his jubilee year he dreams of making his own cinema, printing an autobiographical book about friends from all over the world and seeing free Georgia and Ukraine. "If I were a Ukrainian and I would not be 80, but at least 55, I would be there, too," he nods toward the ATU zone in Donbass. The future victory of Ukraine Kikabidze at each of his concerts for four consecutive years devotes one of the songs. Tomorrow in Kiev in the palace "Ukraine" he will again sing. "I have a song: I'll find heaven, and I'll take everyone to where they do not beat old people, beasts. In this bright country, no one has ever heard of the war. Let free Ukraine live! ", the singer wished Ukrainians.

TSN correspondent Valentin Mudryk.