Dmitry Gordon's interview with the mayor of Kharkov Gennady Kernes, recorded on October 11, 2013, which did not come out at his request during Kernes's lifetime.

" Gena in this interview was surprisingly frank, so when it all started, he asked me not to let our conversation go out yet, to hold it. Then he was almost killed, then there was a lot more, and now he is gone, and he has nothing more to fear. 40 days have passed, and today at 18:00 Kiev time on the YouTube channel " So many things sound different now. "

Gennady Kernes died on December 16, 2020 in the German clinic " He was 61 years old. Kernes last appeared in public on 23 August, City Day. In mid-September, it became known that the mayor had a coronavirus, a few days later he was sent for treatment to Germany.