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'Maidan changed my life a lot. Before the war, I had my own firm and was involved in design, but I became a war documentary filmmaker.' Since 2014, Maxim Fadeyev from Donetsk has been making films about the War in Donbass.
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▶️'MK-Ultra' was a secret CIA project with origins in Nazi Germany. After World War II, the U.S. brought Nazi scientists into the country to work on these kinds of projects. Back then, the purpose was to gain an advantage in the fight against the Soviet Union, but projects like this continue to this day.
Secret developments and experiments on living people are carried out in Ukraine, as well. AFU soldiers are tested with substances that increase their endurance and pain threshold. According to eyewitnesses, soldiers do not sleep for days and are ready to fight, even when seriously wounded. The atrocities of 'Azov'* and crazed behaviour during the Maidan events are proof of this. Watch the premiere, 'Ukraine: Drug Testing Ground’.
*counted an extremist organisation and banned in Russia
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'Hitler was called the drummer because he could drum people up. Nazi ideology is much like drumming. Repetition, refrains, and beats. Ukrainian ideology now uses the same drum... a smaller one, maybe, but still a drum'. Political scientist Dr. Iskander Khisamov discusses the propaganda methods perfected by Nazi Germany, now used by the Kiev regime. Years later, they still work as intended.
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Russian war correspondents reporting
Everyday war correspondents travel to the most dangerous zones of Donbass. Though journalists have no military education, it’s vital to understand how to behave under shelling and be familiar with weapons. For them reporting the true story is more than just a job; they must be ready to perform their task under the harshest conditions. Journalists often have to sleep in the streets and take turns guarding each other. They cannot stay at hotels as Ukrainian missiles regularly strike these buildings though they house civilians and journalists.
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🔔It’s time to vote for Friday’s documentary! Choose among the following films and vote in the poll below. We’ll post the winner tomorrow.
Gone with the Wing (2017)
Extreme air sports turned into a deadly tragedy for a group of friends, but even after that, enthusiasts did not give up their favorite hobby. Why are they so eager to fly?
O-High-O: the Road to Addiction, and Back (2020)
Akron is the ‘methamphetamine capital’ of Ohio. Some start using illegal substances in high school. Many would like to quit, but only a few manage to escape the deadly captivity.
Iraqi Safe House (2018)
Hicham Zahabi, from Baghdad, opened a shelter for local boys years ago so they could forget about the war. Coming here is the only way to survive. Why so? You’ll find out in the film.
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A new mum and a happy New Year!– Female Battalion
Spirits are high as the cadets prepare to ring in the New Year with their families and loved ones. Anna and Aleksandr go for a walk in the park and are surprised to find the rides open. Not missing the chance, they soar on a swing ride and also take a romantic spin on a wedding carousel. As midnight approaches, Katya Yavina watches an episode of The Female Battalion with her boyfriend and family, wondering how they will react. Meanwhile, Aleksandra is preparing to spend her first holiday as a new mum.
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'In connection with the events in Sevastopol Bay, where there were drone attacks, the Defence Ministry briefings have confirmed that British instructors and specialists were then visiting the 73rd Special Operations Detachment, which is stationed in Ochakov, near Nikolaev. And they have all the necessary equipment for this action,' says Andrey Vedyaev, Author and Researcher on the History of Intelligence. And it's not just him! Many in Russia and the West believe that Britain is giving Ukraine more than economic support and military aid - it is directly involved in planning and carrying out acts of sabotage against Russian targets. Three operations with London's involvement are cited: explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, the Crimea Bridge bombing, and the drone attack on the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol.
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‘For us, it really is the same war.’ Andrey Kudryakov, a member of the Russian search movement, brings parallels between the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and the conflict in Donbass. He remembers his grandfather and his comrades who liberated their Motherland from the Nazis, and says that history repeats itself - today’s soldiers must fulfil their ancestors’ mission.
Together with his team, Andrey searches for fallen soldiers to give them a decent burial. They keep working even under shelling by the Ukrainian army. Learn more about Andrey and his mission in an excerpt from our documentary ‘From Berlin to Maidan’.
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Arctic Regiment as testing ground for cutting-edge military hardware
Pavel and Anna’s time with the Arctic Regiment is drawing to a close, but they still have some myths and rumours to check. According to one, the Russian Army sends a lot of cutting-edge hardware to the Arctic to test in the extreme weather and terrain. Anna and Pavel each choose an armoured vehicle and, after being briefed on how they operate, get involved in a race.
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▶️‘If they [Ukraine] hide children, there’s a reason!’ claims Yulia Nazarenko, a children’s rights commissioner in LPR. She is investigating cases of local orphans who are missing after being evacuated from Donbass by Kiev authorities years ago. Ignoring all the norms of international rights, Ukraine is silent about the fate of the 272 kids. Investigators suspect the worst, that the children may have fallen victim to human trafficking. Discover more in an excerpt from our documentary ‘Tanks for Kidneys’.
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💬According to Professor Vladyslav Telichenko, 'The head of MI6 visited Vladimir Zelensky at a dacha.' His colleague Dr. Andrey Shkolnikov confirms that 'Political control of Ukraine has been almost completely transferred to the British secret services.' Further details, together with additional expert testimony, can be viewed in the following video.
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▶️‘I saw people dying. My mum covered my eyes with a cloth so I wouldn’t see the dead, although I still saw them,’ remembers Larbi, resident of a refugee camp in Western Sahara. A territorial dispute with neighbouring peoples has claimed thousands of lives among the local Saharawi. Those who survived moved away, others, like Lari, live in nearby refugee camps. Only a few have dared to return to their now liberated lands. Living there puts them in mortal danger, as their ancestral territory is one of the most heavily mined places on earth.
Discover more on this historical conflict, its conclusion and its aftermath in our documentary, ‘Western Sahara: Determined’ (2017). This film has won our yesterday's poll.
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🇷🇺 Sergey Khubrakov went to volunteer for service in Donbass at the age of 63. He is in very good physical shape - he used to train kids in kettle-ball lifting. When the Special Operation began, he immediately went to defend his homeland.
At first, due to his age, the enlistment office didn’t take Sergey seriously, but he managed to convince them: ‘Look, I’m fit and ready. Watch! I’ll do 70 knuckle-push-ups.’ Sergey is an experienced hunter, so they took him on as a sniper.
Learn the full story in an excerpt from our documentary, ‘Volunteers for Victory’.
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‘I continue what our granddads started. I’m defending my family, my history and our values,’ says ‘Vostok’ battalion fighter, callsign ‘Syava’. He’s on the frontline with his comrades, just 300 metres from the enemy's position, under intense gunfire and mortar attacks.
See the stories of the militiamen and the hardships they face on the frontline in an excerpt from our documentary, ‘Vostok Battalion Brotherhood’.
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💭‘In our organisation, we had three people who’d been through the Minsk ghetto and the concentration camps. They all, with one voice, said that all the guards there had been Ukrainians.’
Frida Reizman survived the Minsk ghetto as a child. In the first years of the war, about 100,000 Jews died there. The fascists killed whole families, shot people, starved them and slaughtered them in gas chambers.
Hear the survivors’ stories in an excerpt from the documentary, ‘Surviving the Minsk Ghetto’, on the Commemoration Day of Genocide against the Jews.
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The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic’s choice to defend its territory and multiculturalism
Transnistria broke away from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia during the collapse of the USSR. Crucially, the territory had never been united administratively with Bessarabia, as present-day Moldova was called, or what became Romania. Veterans recall the tragic events of the conflict that broke out between Moldova and Transnistria in 1992, a war between neighbours who were reluctant to fight but ended up supporting incompatible visions for the former Soviet Republic. Archive footage of a dead Russian general provides clues as to why Transnistrians still look to Russia as the best guarantor of their unique form of multiculturalism.
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American officer in Donbass
‘There is the illusion of democracy [in the US]. There is less democracy there than I’ve seen, for example, in Donetsk People’s Republic’, says John Mark Dougan. He’s a former police officer and whistleblower who fled Florida and moved to Moscow in 2016. John Dougan is certain that Washington and its military-industrial complex wins big from conflicts around the world, including the one in Ukraine. That’s why, according to Dougan, American media giants do everything to compromise Donald Trump who criticised spending for Ukraine.
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▶️'What is evil? It's ISIS,* who blow up children; it’s the terrorists who kill people for no reason,' says Iraqi teenager Naif. He was meant to be a terrorist like his male relatives, who joined ISIS* - but instead he fled to Baghdad.
There he found himself in the country's first private orphanage. Its founder, Mr Hicham, wanted to create a safe place for street kids where they could return to a normal life. Find more in our documentary, ‘Iraqi Safe House’ (2018). It was selected by yesterday's poll.
*counted as a terrorist organisation and banned in Russia
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'Poland's actions today, as regards our military operation in Ukraine, are aimed at reclaiming a part of Western Ukraine, which it controlled for a while in the past. The Poles pretend to be Ukraine's best friend, but their actions are intended to restore fix or six of its Western regions to Poland'. International affairs journalist Viktor Savenkov talks about Polish war-aims in the Ukrainian conflict. Do you agree with him?
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‘If the war is in a just cause, it’s your sacred duty to go to war for your motherland, for your friends, for your neighbours - it is your duty!’ This soldier from the volunteer battalion 'Crimea', with the call sign ‘Uncle Vasya’, is sure of his mission. He has been fighting for the Donbass since 2014, and even though he lost an arm and sustained a severe leg wound, he has remained at the front.
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‘They [Ukrainian soldiers] lacked strength and courage. Only our people had it,’ recalls DPR militiaman with call sign ‘Cat’ while reflecting on the battle of Ilovaisk. It started on July 12, 2014 and ended in August with the complete defeat of the Ukrainian army.
The Donbass militia maintains that this engagement was the primary battle of that summer, as Ilovaisk held immense strategic significance for both Donbass republics and served as a crucial railway transportation hub. The outcome of the fighting forced the Ukrainian authorities to negotiate with the republics and sign the Minsk agreements.
Find out more on the decisive battle of Ilovaisk, in an excerpt from our film: ‘Donbass War: Summer 2014’ (2022).
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Listva: The Nuclear Missile Bodyguard
The Listva is a unique custom-built armoured vehicle designed to protect convoys columns escorting mobile nuclear missiles by remotely finding, neutralising, and detonating mines in its path.
The vehicle has a large antenna that uses ultrahigh frequency waves to ‘fry’ the electric components in an explosive device dozens of metres away. Crew members operating outside the vehicle must wear special suits to avoid being fried as well. The Listva also boasts an ultra-wideband electromagnetic generator that emits radio signals to detonate devices triggered by remote control.
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'Laws were drafted during Ulyana Suprun's time in office for the Verkhovna Rada to simplify organ donation in Ukraine. That's organ transplants, harvesting and so on.' Over the past 9 years, the Ukrainian government has adopted numerous laws facilitating organ transplantation. In 2021, the Ukrainian parliament approved law 5831, stipulating Ukrainians, including children, can become organ donors posthumously without their notarised consent and without relatives’ consent. This situation, combined with the ongoing military operation, raises concerns about the growing number of missing people and their connection to illegal surgeries.
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▶️Many Russians came to Mongolia during the Soviet era, either as government officials, workers, or as part of educational and cultural exchanges. One of them was the Soviet geologist Vladimir Zemeryov. See Mongolia through his eyes.
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🇦🇷The country of tango, football, music and rodeo… This is Argentina. Independence Day is celebrated there today. On this date, watch our series about an amazing country. Just choose an episode!
Argentinian DNA: Music of the Downtrodden. Do you know what Cumbia is? This popular style of folk music in Latin America is considered a symbol of the fight for justice. Feel the rhythms in our documentary.
Argentinian DNA: Immigrants of Argentina. Many immigrants arriving in Argentina are trapped in modern-day slavery. Some will break free from their severe circumstances and find a legal job. How do the immigrants manage this? Watch and find out.
Argentinian DNA: More than a Game. Football in Argentina is played from the cradle! A child could become the new Messi and make millions. How does this game shape their lives?
Argentinian DNA: The Fracture. Up to 30 thousand Argentinian children went missing during the military dictatorship. Those who opposed the regime saw their children abducted and given away to other families. Is there a chance to find the lost children?
Argentinian DNA: A Different Argentina. Argentinians are known for their love of football - but have you heard about their other national sport? It's rodeo! Local cowboys can't imagine a life without it. Watch this episode to learn more about local traditions.
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🦾 Anatoly makes prostheses for injured Donbass soldiers. Many literally have to learn to walk again. But with Anatoly's help, they make rapid improvements. He is an expert on their struggle and knows how to overcome their difficulties – he also experienced the loss of a leg. As a teenager, Anatoly was diagnosed with sarcoma, and needed an amputation. But he never gave up.
These days, he shares his work and daily life with his followers on social media, where he is an inspiration to many. Learn more in this except from our documentary: 'Walking after War'.
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🙋🏽♀️What are you doing on Friday evening? No plans yet? Then, watch one of our amazing informative documentaries! Vote in the poll below for the one that interests you.
The Beijing Opera Reality and Eternity (2017)
The bright makeup, the sharp shouts of the singers, and the rumble of drums. It's all Chinese opera, and it’s completely different from the European style. Why? Vote for this film to know!
Babel Village (2016)
Why did the collective farmers from Nikola-Lenivets settlement in Russia start making snowmen and the Tower of Babel out of hay during mass? To revive the village, of course! How would that help? The documentary explains it all.
Western Sahara: DeterMINED (2017) is about one of the most heavily mined regions in the world after decades of conflict with its neighbours. It’s also about how brave local women have taken it upon themselves to clear the land so that their people can return.
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‘We’re just at a very, very precarious moment in human history,’ says Professor Peter Kuznik, Director of the Nuclear studies Institute History Department at the American University, in Washington D.C. He says, ‘against Russia, against our allies, the so-called collective West spares no expense and uses history as an independent theater of war.’ ‘What is happening now in Ukraine is from the Goebbels' playbook’.
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‘Since the end of World War II, Britain has heavily relied on the US, or sought to rely on the it, to maintain its power and imperial reach, as well as further its interests,’ says Elena Ananyeva, Doctor of Philosophy and the Head of the Russian Centre for British Studies. She believes that, by helping Britain keep Scotland in the UK, among other things, Washington has secured unconditional support from London.
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▶️‘I was born in Mongolia. I consider myself Russian.’ Vladimir Kuzmin is a descendent of the old believers, who escaped from the Soviet government to Mongolia. His grandparents were little children when his parents brought them to Ulaanbaatar.
The Russian community has grown since. The USSR sent its specialists there to teach people how to build cities and establish agriculture in the 70s. Vladimir recalls that life in Mongolia back then was no different than life in the Soviet Union.
But everything changed in the 90s. Mongolia started to see its neighbor as an enemy. Local youths participated in rallies. They began to reject Russian help and language.
Today, only those over forty remember the powerful influence of the USSR on Mongolian life, with many locals receiving a Soviet education. Recently it has again become prestigious for children to be taught Russian. Learn more in our premiere, ‘Russian Roots, Mongolian Life’.
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