Dear Unknown,
I don't think anything useful could be gained from this "panel discussion". It's from a talk show "Let them speak", one of the yellowest shows ever on the Russian TV. The panel, whose learned opinion you wish to know, included:
An actor
A mathematician (Polishchuk, Rostislav F., two papers are present in the MR),
An actress
A doctor
A member of parliament (deputat Gosdumy)
A writer
and a former Perelman's secondary school teacher.
Personally, I gave up watching after the telephone call from the teacher (whom I disliked almost instantly) to Perelman, initiated from the TV studio.
To give you a feeling let me translate this piece:
Perelman. Hallo.
Teacher. Grishen'ka, hello. Do you recognize me? Hallo?
P. Yeah...
T. It is Valentina Vasil'evna. Listen, Grisha, journalists surrounded me from all sides, all of them asking: why did you reject the million? Answer me, please.
P. Valentina Vasil'evna, I've already told them, not an interview to anybody.
T. No, eh? And to me?
P. And to you.
T. OK, that's clear. Subject to the general rule, am I? What do you do these days?
P. Let's not speaktalk about that. I feel they're recording our conversation, I don't want...
T. Don't want, yeah? D'you think, the world around you is hostile, since you don't want so... That people are like hedgehogs to you... as hedgehogs? Or you are aslike a hedgehog to them?
P. Valentina Vasil'evna, could you please call me some time later?
T. I do.
P. All the best.
T. All the best.
(Panel's member reaction to "I don't want..." from Perelman.)
