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▶️Work on Arctic ice floes is especially dangerous. In 1937, a Soviet drifting station opened in the Arctic. Four scientists lived in tents for almost a year and studied the climate of the North Pole. Upon their return, the polar explorers received the titles of Heroes of the USSR.
From that time on, a regular drifting station research program was maintained. However, in 2013, the ice floe on which the men landed began to rapidly deteriorate. They were evacuated by a nuclear-powered icebreaker, but decided not to take any more risks.
Six years later, the research was resumed. But the ice floe held only the research equipment - the scientists lived on a ship that drifted nearby. Find more on the expedition in ‘Going With the Floe’ (2019). This film was chosen in yesterday’s poll.
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▶️Anna Chapman's exclusive investigation uncovers the reality of hybrid warfare. Since the beginning of the Special Military Operation, Russia has been attacked at the information and diplomacy level. 'Unprecedented sanctions were imposed, along with over ten thousand restrictive measures. That's more than ever before in history.' At the same time, foreign countries have provided tens of billions of dollars in military assistance to Kiev, while mercenaries from all over the world have joined the Ukrainian army.
What is hybrid warfare? How does it differ from conventional war? And who is behind it? Find out in Anna Chapman's new documentary, 'Red Alert: Hybrid warfare'.
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🔔On Friday evening, we will upload a documentary of your choice. Vote for one of the three options below!
▫️'The Curious Case of my Face' (2014) is about people who age prematurely - at least externally. They are young, but look like grannies and grandpas. What is this condition, and how does it affect their lives?
▫️'Going with the Floe' (2019) looks at a unique Russian Arctic station. It is located on a drifting ice floe. How do the polar explorers live there? Vote and find out.
▫️Virtual reality: Will it render the real world obsolete? - an episode from 'The Future is Now' (2020). In the past, VR technology was only used for games and entertainment. Now you can get married, attend concerts of pop stars and even work with its help.
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The Military in the Arctic. Across a frozen sea aboard Russian ATVs
Russian all-terrain vehicles continue their journey across the Arctic to Kotelny Island. However, the crew has to deal with a major incident after the heaviest machine in the fleet, the Vityaz DT-30 PM, lost its trailer which was submerged in icy waters after the ice cracked.
The expedition members spare no effort to haul it from the ice hole. If they don’t, they risk losing a lot of vital fuel. Exposing these vehicles to the most extreme scenarios is exactly the purpose of the Arctic expedition. And the hardest part is yet to begin!
The journey now lies across Laptev and Sannikov Straits. The crew has to check the thickness of the ice constantly.
Tune in to Combat Approved and see how these mighty vehicles reach their destination, and then decide on a daring route back home: directly across the frozen Laptev Sea.
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Rocket launch at Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Back in the hangar, Anna and Pavel observe their rocket being assembled. They learn some space industry jargon as well as the meaning behind the Russian Space Forces’ insignia. For the “bloom of the iron flower”, they visit the launch control centre. Anna becomes the first woman to hold one of the keys that launches a rocket.
It turns out that a successful rocket launch in Plesetsk requires a combination of science, religion and superstition. Not long after Anna finds out that a female name is written on all rockets as a lucky charm, a Russian Orthodox priest arrives. He recruits Pavel as a sexton and proceeds to bless the rocket, the mission, and everyone involved.
Fun fact: the spaceport was built in the city of Mirny because its skies are almost always overcast, making it very difficult to spy on the location by satellite. Today, however, Pavel and Anna get lucky: the skies clear for the launch of their rocket, and they are able to admire it in its full glory.
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'Here, you get a sense of how precious life is. Of what it's like... You give thanks for every day you live. They fired an Uragan [rocket] at my car. I've still got the rocket casing'. Volunteer Soslan Andiev is from the republic of North Ossetia. He has travelled to Donbass to help Russian servicemen. Watch the video to see more of his exploits.
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Women’s Day plans & V-Day preparations
The girls make plans for International Women’s Day while cross-country ski training. Sick of wearing a military uniform for years, Anna comes up with an idea to organise a professional photoshoot of the girls in nice dresses with their hair and makeup done up. Meanwhile, the boys are drilling in preparation for Moscow’s Victory Day Parade on Red Square. In the evening, Katya Shchedrina and Anna work on the battalion’s satirical newspaper, but leave room for the upcoming weekend’s paintball session.
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'Poland itself was an initiator, a leading initiator of the embargo on importing gas and oil. And Poland was one of the rirst countries to refuse to import cheap, raw materials, even coal, despite the fact that Europe has been importing this coal for months. And suddenly, there was no coal in Poland, and the price tripled'. Former adviser to Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariusz Swider talks about how anti-Russian sanctions have affected Poland.
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🏎Drifting is one of the most extreme and spectacular forms of car racing. Pilots race around a track at high speeds (sometimes exceeding 300 km/h), intentionally sliding their cars into controlled drifts around corners.
The racers often use old cars as their drifting machines. They invest significant amounts of money in the vehicles, and spare no expense for the pursuit of their passion.
How do their families feel about this dangerous sport? Find out in the film, ‘Come Drift With Me’ (2019).
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▶️These two war correspondents have a price on their heads. Andrey Filatov and Olga Kurlaeva bravely reveal the realities of life and death at the front. The fighters trust them and take them into the thick of battle.
Filatov has repeatedly rescued the wounded while under fire. Andrey carefully composes every frame and word not to give away the military positions. He can take pride in his work, for not a single soldier has been injured because of him.
The fighters are also confident in Olga Kurlaeva. They know that she will not let them down in a critical moment. If it is necessary to leave urgently, they will not hear, ‘Ok, but I will just finish filming now.' Kurlaeva was the first journalist who was on the spot after the explosion at the Kakhovskaya dam.
The new documentary by Klim Poplavsky, ‘War Correspondents-2’, follows these two fighters of the information front. The first part is available here.
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▶️‘I killed over 250 people, by my own hand.’ John Jairo Velásquez, a.k.a. ‘Popeye’, was Pablo Escobar's hitman. He spent 23 years behind bars surviving numerous assassination attempts.
Following his release, ‘Popeye’ gained notoriety: from starting a blog to appearing in a movie, he even became a subject of fascination for residents of Medellin, who took selfies with him. ‘I managed to change. Even when I was part of Escobar’s cartel, I didn't hurt simple people,’ ‘Popeye’ explained.
In 2020, ‘Popeye’ succumbed to cancer. Discover his story in the film, ‘Escobar's Hitman’ (2017).
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'27 million people... The casualties were immense. Demographers say more than 20,000 people per day... per day, perished during the Great Patriotic war'. Great Patriotic War History Center director Sergey Kudryakov discusses the casualties of WWII. According to him, Hitler was planning a war, while talking about peace.
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🎞 Our documentary deals with one of the most mysterious countries in the world—North Korea. A brutal political regime, lacking basic human rights and democratic freedoms, with a low standard of living - this is what the rest of the world learns about the situation in the 'Democratic People's Republic'. But is this true? Find out what is really happening there in our film, ‘The Other Korea’ (2019).
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'For the fact that I marched with a picture of my father in the 'Immortal Regiment', I took a beating in Poland,' says Maciej Wiszniewski, political scientist, journalist, and the editor-in-chief of the portal 'Strike.' He notes that in a country that also fought for liberation from Hitler's Nazis, hatred of the liberator country is now flourishing. And it is not weakening even though sanctions against Russia are hitting Poles hard. 'Of course, life has become harder. I fill up the car less often and drive less often,' says Wiszniewski.
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Joining firefighters at Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Opened in 1957, Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome has been in operation for 60 years. Unlike Baikanur in Kazakhstan, the Plesetsk site is on Russian territory. Its use has increased since the end of the Soviet Union despite still only launching unmanned rockets.
The neighbouring town of Mirny is a high security area requiring a permit to gain entry. Anna and Pavel are fortunate enough to be granted permission. They are even allowed to visit the rocket assembly hangar – but not before they learn the health and safety rules! While Pavel studiously reads a memo, Anna takes a more hands-on approach and joins the spaceport fire brigade. She takes part in a drill, learning to change into a firefighter’s uniform in just 20 seconds and extinguish fires using a hose and a water cannon.
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‘When we win, I’ll rest a bit and take care of myself,’ says Maryam Ibragimova, from the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. She sews sweatshirts for the fighters in Donbass. The woman used to have her own plans for life, but says that now her goal is to help Russia's defenders.
Maryam started this project alone - but a few months later, there are more than 300 people in her volunteer group. Together with a sweatshirt, the volunteers put a prayer, some chocolates and a drawing of Maryam’s little daughter into the parcel. Listen to this selfless woman in an excerpt from our documentary, 'Donbass Volunteers: United Strength'.
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'The word 'volunteer' isn't Russian; our version is 'people of good will'. They come from all over Russia, and abroad too.' Sergey Skripkin is a volunteer with the codemane 'Dad'. He's working on supplies for Russian servicemen in the frontline zone of the Belgorod region.
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‘This [sewing] machine was my grandma's. We stored it at our dacha. It's quite old, but we oiled it and fixed it up. When the call came: 'Everything for the front, everything for victory', we got it working’. Siberian tailors are working to supply Russian servicemen at the frontline. Watch the video for more.
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▶Premiere of 'Cossacks in Combat'.
Our new documentary follows the Cossack fighters of the 'Crimea' battalion. ‘The Motherland is the land of our ancestors. It’s my chief duty to protect it,’ says a serviceman with the call sign ‘Lecha’.
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▶️Who can become a cosmonaut today? And what does the job involve? Although there are strict medical and fitness requirements, along with constant studying and training, the cosmonauts' test-taking isn't the hardest part of their career. Most difficult of all is persuading their families to endure long separations and come to terms with the great risks their flights involve.
Fyodor Yurchikhin is the main subject of our documentary, 'I Need More Space'. He first flew into the vacuum of space at the age of 43. Why did his family only learn about his upcoming expeditions from journalists? Watch the film to find out.
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‘We help any way we can,’ says Alexander Zaitsev, a former pilot from Rostov-on-Don. The hero of Russia found his vocation in volunteerism after retirement. ‘Age isn’t an issue’, he confirms. He and his colleague started making stoves for the front line to keep soldiers warmer.
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▶️‘Ukrainian citizens are actually being used as guinea pigs by Western pharmaceutical giants,’ claims former Odessa regional council deputy Aleksey Albu.
Bulgarian journalist Asya Zuan is certain that the United States is developing biological weapons in its laboratories: ‘Humanity is on the verge of a bio-bacteriological war launched by the US.’
The research is being conducted in defiance of the Biological Weapons Convention. ‘The US has been trying to circumvent it. That's why they have created biological laboratories in other countries,’ says Igor Nikulin, a former member of the UN Biological Weapon Commission.
How long has the US been conducting this illegal research, and where are its laboratories located? Find out in our premiere, ‘Biological Warfare Department’.
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‘The task of the humanitarian aid point is to be in constant contact with the soldiers, to receive from them lists of everything they need and bring it to the trenches as quickly as possible,’ says volunteer Georgy Mamsurov from the Russian region of Ossetia. He and his colleagues, despite constant shelling by the Ukrainian side, ensure supplies of equipment and food to the military at the Zaporozhye front. Georgy calls himself a ‘frontline courier’ and marvelled at how much the people of Russia help their soldiers.
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'Now, he's acting like he didn't know who we were talking about, and he was simply tricked and pranked'. Prankster Alexey Stolyarov is talking about his conversation with Stephen King about Stepan Bandera. Watch Russian pranksters bluffing Western writers in the video.
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💒A former monk spent 60 years building his cathedral near Madrid. Justo Gallego Martinez used everything at hand - even garbage! For instance, he created a 40-meter-high dome using plastic food containers.
Don Justo worked alone, with no knowledge of architecture. He didn’t want to hire builders, believing no one could do it better than him. But as he got older, he reached out for assistance. A man, Angel, agreed to help him for free.
In 2021, Justo Gallego Martinez passed away at the age of 96. He bequeathed the completion of the cathedral to Angel. Discover the lifetime work of this remarkable Spaniard in ‘‘Madman of the Cathedral’ (2016). This documentary won yesterday’s poll.
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🔔With the weekend approaching, choose an exciting documentary to watch on Friday evening. Vote for one of the three presented below - we will announce the winner and upload the chosen film tomorrow afternoon.
✔️Madman of the Cathedral (2016)
Don Justo has spent 60 years building his own church. He’s done it all on his own, despite having no knowledge of architecture. The man passed away in 2021, aged 96. His whole life's work can be seen in our documentary.
✔️Dance, Sex, Dance (2017) is about an Indian 'red light district'. Young girls have to go to work here because of poverty. Officially, they only dance for the male clientele, but often the work includes something more...
✔️Dump (2022)
The subjects of our documentary are forced to work from morning till night in the harsh conditions of a landfill. They pay no attention to pain and can’t afford to take care of their health. What's it really like to work in the garbage collection business? And how much can they make?
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▶️‘I earned it here, why shouldn’t I spend it on our lads? This is our Homeland; these are our boys!’
Sergey Skripkin cooks meals and distributes them to the soldiers heading to defend Donbass - and he does it for free. He started by contributing his own income, but as he became famous for his deeds, people from all over Russia started to help him – by sending money or coming and helping in person.
The man lost his young son due to cancer in 2022. He says if it wasn’t for this disease, his son would have also taken part in the Special Operation.
This man's touching tale is included in an excerpt from our new documentary ‘Donbass Volunteers: United Strength’.
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💬'Treason is a 'perfect' charge. But what does journalism have to do with it?' asked Kirill Vyshinsky, at his own trial at 2018. The man worked in Kiev for many years, until the Ukrainian authorities accused him of treason and subversion against the country.
Vyshinsky's grandfather was a surgeon during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Kirill remembers his stories about the Banderists' methods and atrocities and insists: 'Not much has changed since then' (referring to the conflict in Donbass). Listen to his story in an excerpt from our documentary 'From Berlin to Maidan'.
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▶️‘However it may sound, the war has brought us together.’ Subjects of our documentary consider fighters in the Special Military Operation zone to be their family.
‘There are no strange soldiers for us,’ says Soslan from the North Ossetia region. He carries humanitarian aid and fresh pies to the frontline, to 'bring joy to the men'.
‘I knit and with every stitch, I say, ‘Please stay alive…’ This elderly woman from Siberia, 'enchants' things and puts candy in each sock for a soldier to sweeten their service.
A volunteer with the callsign ’Dad’ travelled 400 kilometres to the Belgorod region to feed the fighters at the frontline with a barbecue. Every day he and his team roast and distribute 200 kg of meat.
Thousands of people have united behind the lines to feed, warm, and support those at the front. ‘Together, we are strong,’ they say.
Hear their stories in our premiere, ‘Donbass Volunteers: United Strength’.
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▶️These young thrill-seekers risk their lives for an adrenaline rush and social media likes. Climbing without safety gear, they scale towering skyscrapers. 'It's not just incredibly dangerous, it's lethal,' confesses Sergey Devlyashov, a popular extreme climber. One of his followers tragically died during a climb.
Why are they putting their lives on the line? Find out in our film, ‘Rad or Dead’ (2018).
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