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Aleksandr is a hereditary Kuban Cossack who volunteered for a special military operation. He got in ‘BARS-16’, a Kuban Cossack unit. These fighters are called ‘kittens’ at the frontline ‘for prowling in on soft paws,’ explains one of the commanders.
Listen to Aleksandr’s story in an excerpt from the documentary ‘Volunteers for Victory’ (2023).
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‘The Germans, together with the French, thought about creating some sort of counterbalance for America as the economic centre of the so-called West. They thought about using cheap raw materials - from Russia, specifically - and building a high-speed railway so that container shipments from China... and then America would no longer be of any use,’ says political analyst from Poland Mariusz Świder. ‘If Western Europe gets isolated from China, the main competitor of the US, then Western Europe again will have to go hat in hand to the United States. And buy gas, trade, produce, and collaborate with the US.’
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💬‘In fact, the word 'loot' also is a Hindi word, which has made it into the English dictionary. So, quite tellingly, even the Hindi word 'loot' has been looted into the English lexicon,’ says the young resident of India. Another citizen of this country, who studied in London, notes that they were ‘wealthier than Britain when the British came here. The story begins in 1768 to 1938. These years... were the years when the Indian artefacts were stolen from Indian temples, houses, palaces, art centres. They were taken to the British Museum. The entire British Museum is filled with stolen items.’
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'You really don't need a whole lot, you know, to survive. You just need your basics'. Lakewood Outreach Minister Steven Brigham is organising camps and tent cities for homeless people in the US.
As the cost of living and inflation rises in the country, the quality of life for a wide spectrum of Americans declines. The lack of affordable housing, combined with inadequate policies to address the issue, has left vulnerable individuals in dreadful conditions.
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Vostok fighter working
Tur has been in DPR People's Militia since the age of 19. He didn’t even think about military service, but now he can’t imagine another way: 'If a native of Donetsk says: 'This is not my war'. So whose else?!'
In 2014, Tur was near the Donetsk airport when Kiev regime suddenly attacked from the air. For a person who only heard explosions in the movies, it was a shock. The same summer, Tur joined the Militia. For the 9th year he has been in the assault unit of the Vostok volunteer battalion. Watch Tur working in the video.
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This ancient Chinese city is quite similar to Venice: wooden houses are situated on stilts along the riverbank, and boats of ancient times float along the canals. This is Fenghuang, known as the City of the Phoenix. Many people come to this unique place, which is known as China’s love capital.
Despite its popularity, it's impossible to get to the city by plane or train. But tourists are ready to overcome these hurdles to visit this historic city. What is Fenghuang famous for and how do its inhabitants preserve their ancestors' traditions? Find out the answers in our documentary, ‘City of The Phoenix'.
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For the Soviet people, Nazi, Wehrmacht were the enemy. 'They were monsters who massacred millions of Soviet civilians. This war, the Great Patriotic War, became for the Soviet side a war for family, a war for life itself,' says Michael Jabara Carley, professor at the Canadian University of Montreal. He says that the Soviet people had to fight for their very lives. Watch the video for more.
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‘My Baby, My Way’ (2015)
Shocking as it may sound, some parents have signed up their newborns to 'baby yoga,' which involves spinning and swinging the newborns by the legs and arms. Adherents of this system claim that it forms emotional stability in children and contributes to their rapid development. Opponents, however, say these ‘exercises’ can only harm children. So what is it: a method for making babies stronger or child abuse?
‘City of The Phoenix’ (2021)
Planes and trains do not fly to the Chinese city of Fenghuang, which is far away from any transport arteries. But like a magnet, it attracts tourists from all over the world. What is it that makes them flock here?
‘No Fun in the Sun’ (2018)
This film is about people who can’t be in the sun. Sunlight can seriously injure or even kill them. These poor souls are forced to live like vampires and can only come out at night. What happened to them?
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Germany as American colony
'The document was signed between the trilateral commission and the German government of that time. It sat out what Germany could do and was prohibited from doing. Among its provisions was the so-called 'Chancellor Act', which stipulates that every chancellor elected by the Bundestag must sign this document with a special representative of this commission or US State Department'. Why do German chancellors have to follow orders of American representatives? Watch the video to get the answer.
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'Many patriotically-minded Europeans now refer to the political structure that has emerged in the EU as a 'democratorship.' In fact, the term has been banned in Germany,’ Aleksandr Kamkin, the Senior Researcher of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, told the journalist Anna Chapman in an interview. ‘If you publish or say 'democratorship' anywhere in Germany, you will immediately be labelled an extremist and could be prosecuted for incitement to hatred,’ he added.
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▶️‘When my parents found out their baby was albino, they were completely shocked,’ says Hasan Hamisi from Tanzania. He works as an assistant of a primary school teacher in a special albino camp, where abandoned children with albinism live. Hamisi himself used to be a resident of the camp. His parents sent him here because they thought it would be safer for him.
Shocking as it may sound, locals hunt for people with albinism for their body parts; superstitions and local magicians say albino’s body parts bring good luck. Thus, criminals are ready to kill, and even kids can become victims.
Learn the young man’s story in our excerpt. Discover even more about the life of those who suffer from this rare condition in ‘Albino Africa’ (2014), on Albinism Awareness Day.
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'I was just watching everything that Donald Trump did for this country. And everybody hates him. It is just wrong,' says James, just another forgotten homeless person in the US. As the cost of living and inflation rises in the country, a tsunami of evictions has swept across America. What does this mean for ordinary people? The answer is in the video.
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A DPR People's Militia soldier, with call sign ‘Falcon’, lost his leg and fingers on the front line. He is now learning to manage his prosthetics and plans to get back to the front. He can't sit and watch the Ukrainian army destroying his hometown: ‘There’s practically no place left in Donetsk that hasn’t been shelled by the Ukrainian troops'. See ‘Falcon’s’ story in an excerpt from our documentary ‘Walking After War’.
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▶️‘I wasn't afraid, all I thought was about killing,’ says a teen from the Central African Republic, where a civil war has been raging for many years. The boys there have seen their mothers and sisters being raped. Some lost their loved ones and looked forward to revenge.
Watch the stories of teenagers who took up arms in, ‘Children of the Front’ (2016).
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▶️Relations between Russia and Poland have reached basement levels, if not below that, according to the Kremlin. In 2020, Poland became a primary initiator behind the rejection of cheap Russian oil and gas. Then, when the economy had a downturn, Warsaw blamed Russia.
At the same time, the Polish authorities are escalating Russophobia in the country. They are demolishing Soviet monuments, hastily modernising their army, and flooding Ukraine with weapons. There is even talk that the country has plans to seize territory in western Ukraine.
Learn more about this issue today in the premiere of the new part of the investigative film by Anna Chapman, ‘Red Alert: Warsaw Syndrome’.
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🎦Sameer Alfarra came to Damascus from Aleppo, fleeing the civil war in Syria and leaving his house and businesses behind. His whole family moved hoping to see peaceful life, but it turned out a different way.
In 2017, five years after the war had began, the conflict was in full swing. Thousands fled, still many decided to stay in the war-torn country, despite the hard conditions and deadly risks. Sameer tells their stories in our documentary.
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🎞Today, there’s a boom of ‘Bandera-mania’ all across Europe, Canada and the United States. A museum named after Stepan Bandera welcomes visitors in the center of London. In a Canadian cemetery in Oakville the monument to the Ukrainian fascists, members of the 14th Waffen Galicia SS Division, who pledged allegiance to Hitler, is established.
The Western elite professes its love for Bandera. All this despite the fact that thousands were killed during World War II on his orders. Bandera is one of the most repulsive figures from Ukrainian history, the bearer of an ideology that he partially copied from the Fuhrer.
So why does the West put him on a pedestal today, while in Ukraine they make him a national hero? The answers are in the new film ‘Operation Ukraine. Bandera's Dark Shadow’.
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Two factory workers enter the competition for the post in the tank assembly shop
Vladimir works at Uralvagonzavod and is getting ready to become a father. He expresses his wish to move to the tank workshop. Kirill has just applied for a job at the factory. He wanted to get to the tank department, but discovers to his regret that he had been sent to another one. Tank Vasya is the only one to get to the shop. The repair crew finds a letter inside it, recounting its combat experience and the regiment’s request to fix rather than disassemble it. Watch the video.
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Russia's top high flyers showcase their aviation skills
With their heads constantly in the clouds, the sky really is the limit for these guys, it’s their job to defend Russia’s airspace, these Air Force pilots are among the best trained in the world and their combat aircraft are internationally recognised as exceptional.
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'High-ranking politicians received their education in the United States. For example, the heads of the military departments in the Baltic countries or Poland all studied in the States,' notes the economist Pavel Seleznyov.
'When a person studies, certain values are instilled in them. That is, they're switched to a new coordinate system, becoming loyal to the country where they study,’ Seleznyov added.
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▶️'If everyone stays home, they’ll [nationalists] come to us. Why?’ asks a fighter with the call sign ‘Scyth’, who serves as an artilleryman in the ‘Crimea’ battalion. Ordinary guys are fighting alongside him: former bartenders, firefighters, and workers. Some already have combat experience as they have been defending Donbass since 2014. Others are beginners.
They’re undergoing combat training near the frontline positions. Their commander is a former Donestk miner. How do soldiers live at the front? To learn more, watch our premiere of, ‘The Frontline Grind’.
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Military cameraman on his work
'There've been periods when we've spent 11 or 12 months on assignment. The more assignments you take, and the longer they last, the harder it is to adapt when you come back home. Everything seems OK at first, but then you feel emotionally burnt out'. Military cameraman and video engineer Aleksandr Pushin talks about how it's hard to return home after filmings in combat zone. Watch the video.
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▶️‘We know what war is, it’s scary. You can’t get used to it’. The commander of the volunteer battalion ‘Crimea’ with the call sign ‘Sarge’ is a former Donetsk miner. Now he has the units of storm troopers and a reconnaissance intelligence outfit under his command.
‘Sarge’ is one of the subjects of our new film. What tasks do the fighters perform, how do they hide from enemy gunners and what do they say to their relatives in rare moments of phone communication? Find the answers in tomorrow's premiere, ‘The Frontline Grind’. Don't miss it!
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▶️‘RT Doc: Time of Heroes’ festival is gaining momentum. This year, we are collecting documentaries about Donbass from different authors to show them around Russia. You are also welcome to send us your film! Please contact us at: info@rtfestival.com
Besides the films directed by Russian filmmakers, the work of foreign journalists will participate in our festival as well. For example, Anne-Laure Bonnel has sent us her ‘Donbass 2022’. The journalist’s life has changed a lot after the documentary premiered online. She was hugely condemned and fired from the University of Paris where she had worked for 15 years. Bonnel emphasized that her previous documentary that she made in Donbass in 2016 was screened even in the Sorbonne. However, six years later they consider the topic unacceptable.
Bonnel’s story isn’t an isolated case. Our documentary ‘Donbass: That’s Why I’m Here’ features several journalists and filmmakers who’ve been turned away by their homelands simply because they showed an alternative viewpoint that isn’t in line with the official stance. Watch the film if you haven’t done so yet.
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Orphanage for Donbass children
'I always wanted lots of children, and to help all the children. They first introduced foster care in Moscow in 1993. Then it came to Ukraine. So, they began to set up family fostering in Ukraine too. We started taking in 1 or 2 at a time. My husband and the kids didn't mind, so we took in three... then two, then two more... So, gradually, it all came together'. Child guardian Lidia Kovalyova is taking care of Donbass children in the orphanage in Donbass region. Watch the video to learn more.
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Radicalisation of Bosnia
'Paramilitary forces 'The Patriotic League' and 'The Green Berets' acquired a new status as a new military force for the Muslims, which was supposed to achieve the political and ideological goals of 'The Young Muslims', then operating as part of the SDA'. During the Bosnian war, thousands of Serbs faced execution and imprisonment. Nearly every Serb family has a friend or relative who survived the massacres at the hands of Bosnian Muslims. Almost three decades after the war, victims of mujahedeen atrocities try to shed light on the background to the conflict.
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‘I feel that Moscow is my home’, says Marina Shibayama from Japan. She found a second homeland in Russia, like the other subjects of our documentary series, ‘No limits’.
Why did they choose Russia as their new home? Find the answer in our series👇
Episode 1. Benjamin Forster left Switzerland for the Russian outback. Today, he has his own beekeeping enterprise in Pereslavsky District, Central Russia, where he also gets carried away with the Cossack culture.
Episode 2. Massimo Eccli from Italy fell in love with the Russian language in his childhood. Now he works as a literature professor in Moscow.
Episode 3. Many people from the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky, located in central Russia, are familiar with the pastry shop of Frenchman Frederic Andrieux. His pastries are always a hit with his customers. Andrieux worked in many famous restaurants around the world, until Russia became his home.
Episode 4. Marina Shibayama from Japan has lived in Moscow for half of her life. She came here to study dancing and is a rising ballet star.
Episode 5. Amin Nasani from Syria moved to Russia due to the civil war in his motherland. He found a wife, got a dog, and does what he loves in his new home.
Episode 6. Carlos D’Onofrio, an Argentinian opera singer, followed his future wife and pianist Ekaterina to Saint Petersburg. As a result, he now calls the grand city located along the shore of the Neva River his home. Carlos has no plans of leaving Russia anytime soon.
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💬'The constant and systematic harassment and deprivation of the rights of the Hungarian population in Ukraine is unacceptable,' the Hungarian Foreign Ministry said in January.
Budapest demanded that Kiev stop the 'atrocities' against and oppression of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia. In this video, Hungarian Film Director Zoltan Moys describes how it happened that part of the Hungarian population ended up on the territory of Ukraine and how Ukrainians treat the national minority.
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Joseph Stalin is probably one of the most controversial leaders the world has ever known. He led the USSR to victory during the Second World War, and is considered by historians as a tyrant, despite the fact that many thousands grieved at his funeral in 1953.
The circumstances surrounding his death still remain unknown. Though it is said he suffered a massive stroke, many believe the Soviet leader would have lived many years - had he not been murdered. But how is such a thing possible if Stalin himself took care of his safety and trusted nobody? Watch our riveting documentary for expert opinions on the matter.
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▶️Has Western Ukraine been promised to Poland? What is the real motivation behind Warsaw's military aid to Kiev? And why does the Polish government benefit from panic in its own country?
Learn the answers to these questions in a new segment of Anna Chapman's investigative series, ‘Red Alert: Warsaw Syndrome’. Premiere is tomorrow, don't miss it!
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