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😔 Dear subscribers! The film ‘Korea: Imposed Divide’ won yesterday’s poll. Unfortunately, due to technical issues, we’re unable to post it. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience and assure you that we will make it available soon. The film that secured second place in the poll is ‘Tibet: Dreams Come True.’ Watch it 👇
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Kirill’s girlfriend reveals her biggest secret
Alyona tells Kirill about her daughter from a previous relationship. He tries to digest this new information. His job brings him its first difficulties. Vladimir completes his first successful task. The two men start to get along with each other and overcome their working problems.
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🔔What documentary would you like to watch this Friday evening? Please choose, vote and we will post the winner!
▫️'Tibet: Dreams Come True' (2021)
Would you like to see how Tibet lives in the 21st century? Like their ancestors, the locals believe in spirits, raise yaks, and plough the land.
▫️'Korea: Imposed Divide' (2018)
What is the source of tension on the Korean Peninsula? This documentary takes a look at the history of the Korean conflict on the ground and dispels myths commonly reported in the mainstream media.
▫️‘Alienated Love’ (2022)
Some call Lyosha an alien, because of his unusual appearance. The boy has a rare genetic disorder: ablepharon-macrostomy syndrome. There are only about 20 people like Lyosha in the world.
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🌍There are 476 million indigenous peoples, comprising less than 5% of the global population. These tribes are deeply connected to their land and, despite the challenges, embrace their ancestral ways of life. This International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, watch our films selection about them.
Protect Oak Flat (2022)
The Apache tribe battle to save their sacred home. This holy place became a tasty morsel for companies mining copper. Is there a chance to save their native land?
Children of the Tundra (2013)
The indigenous Nenets people of Russia live like their nomadic ancestors did centuries ago. They herd reindeer across the vast tundra, and must leave their children in boarding schools. Could these nomadic kids get used to city life?
Jungle M.D. (2017)
In the Amazon rainforest, indigenous tribes have no access to modern healthcare. Brazilian neurosurgeon Erik Jennings travels for hours to provide much-needed medical assistance to these native people.
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▶️In the early 20th century, Germans killed tens of thousands of peaceful inhabitants in Namibia. This happened long before World War II.
The indigenous nations, the Herero and Nama, were driven into concentration camps where they suffered from hunger, forced labour in private corporations, and became subjects of medical experiments. 'It’s the first concentration camp in history,’ says the local activist Laidlaw Peringanda.
Some surviving prisoners were sent to reservations after their homes were taken by colonizers. ‘People who were dispossessed continue to live in the native reserves in which the Germans put them,’ claims Sima Luipert, Secretary for International Relations, Nama Traditional Leaders Association.
Germany acknowledged its crimes against the Herero and Nama only in 2021 and promised to pay €1.1 billion as compensation. Why do local residents disagree with these reparations? Find out in the new documentary, ‘Namibia: Pain to Pay For’.
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Becoming marines with the Caspian Fleet
Pavel and Anna continue to explore the most unusual and remote regiments of the Russian Army. After completing a two-week posting in the Arctic, they head to the Republic of Dagestan on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Fleet is famous for its history, dating back to the days of Peter the Great, the Emperor who founded the Russian Navy. In this episode, the two journalists join the crew of the corvette Grad Sviyazhsk.
Anna is lucky enough to get her own cabin, but there’s no time to lounge about: the ship will sail in two days’ time, and they must both be ready. Marines must be able to tackle any emergency in the open sea, so the two are put through a series of demanding and nerve-wracking exercises. They undergo a literal trial by fire, then have to save their vessel from sinking.
In an act of mercy, their captain allows them to have the next day off. To relax before setting sail, the new recruits go sightseeing in the city of Derbent. It's the southernmost city in Russia and one of its oldest, boasting 5000 years of history. While Pavel learns about the bloody past of its famous fortress, Anna goes swimming at a local beach. This time apart may do them good as for the next three days they will have to live and work together 24/7.
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Paintball & punishment
Some of the cadets decide to play paintball at the weekend, relishing the chance to see if they can actually hit someone. Arranging this is not easy, as the girls usually prefer to spend their free time with their boyfriends, and the boys haven’t got permission to go. A group finally assembles and the cadets have a blast blasting each other in the forest. Unfortunately, the fun comes to a screeching halt for Aleksandr, when his company commander calls wondering where he is.
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'I was the first to show soldiers how drones work,' says Russian war correspondent Andrey Filatov. He trained several soldiers, and those, in turn, taught other guys how to control the UAV, including a 19-year-old guy who became one of the best in this business. Learn in this video how drones save the lives of wounded Russian soldiers and help identify enemy positions.
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⏺'Growing up with War: Children of Syria' - this documentary received the most votes in our poll.
These kids had their childhood stolen by a war that has claimed millions of lives. Some were crippled and will be physically disabled forever; many lost one or both parents; and all will be haunted by the horrors they lived through.
The war destroyed the lives of many thousands of children, depriving them of the joys of their early years. Still, they hope for peace. Hear the stories of the Syrian children of war in our documentary.
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Our documentary 'Tundra Wonder Mums' has been named winner of Malaysia’s Walk The Doc 2023 International Documentary Festival. The event celebrated the best work on environment, conservation and travel.
'Tundra Wonder Mums', written and directed by Ekaterina Kozhakina, has become a winner in the Best Feature Documentary category. The film tells the stories of housewives who make their nomad homes comfortable in the austere tundra environment. If you haven't watched it yet, you can see it here!
Also, among the highlights was a workshop by our film director Artyom Vorobey on documentary production. Natalya Kadyrova's 'Hot Race, Cold Dogs' was also shown at the festival.
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‘Occupy Tower’ follows the residents of an abandoned skyscraper in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The building became a kind of ‘state within a state’: with its own treasury, temple and even a president. It had no elevators or running water. How and why do people live there?
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▶️Is France losing Africa? Mali and Burkina Faso said they would consider intervention in Niger as a declaration of war. The two countries have also threatened to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States.
They express solidarity with the 'brotherly people of Niger' who have decided to 'take their destiny into their own hands with full responsibility'.
This support from Mali could play a key role in the battle for Niger. After all, it was one of the first countries in West Africa to decolonise. How did it happen and what did it lead to? You'll learn in our new film, 'Mali: Au Revoir, France'. It's premiering tomorrow; don't miss it!
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Drugs used by Ukrainian militants
'Those pills we saw, the pink and blue ones in handfuls they're very potent tranquillisers'. War correspondent Olga Kurlaeva talks about drugs that were found with Ukrainian militants. Watch the video to learn more.
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Ossetian volunteer working
'We're heading to the frontline... to the most forward positions. It's quite close to the enemy, less than 1km in some places. So. we're going that way'. Soslan Andiev is delivering supplies to the fronline to support Russian servicemen. Watch the video for more.
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‘At the start, only people close to me, like my family, supported this effort. My mother-in-law was the first to support me with a donation. It took us literally 2 days to raise the money.' Madina works to bring supplies to Russian servicemen on the frontline. Watch the video about her and other Dagestani volunteers.
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▶️'Part of Bosnia and Herzegovina actually became a kind of military base for radical Islam.' Bosnian terrorism expert Jevad Galiyashevich is convinced that several European countries and the U.S. are behind the Islamization and radicalization in his country.
Dean of the Security Science Department of Banja Luka University, Dr. Predrag Ćeranić, agrees with him: 'It's a policy consistent with certain Western countries’ desires to create in Bosnia and Herzegovina what Russian planes destroyed in Syria: an Islamic state.'*
Currently, there are tens of thousands of followers of radical movements in the country, forming the so-called 'White (European) Al-Qaeda'.** These militants are already honing their skills on the frontlines in Iraq, Syria, and Libya.
Why is the West interested in the Islamization of Bosnia and Herzegovina? Learn the answer in our new film, 'Bosnia and Herzegovina: European Jihad'.
*Counted as a terrorist organisation and banned in Russia
**Counted as a terrorist organisation and banned in Russia
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The battle of Ilovaisk was a turning point in the summer of 2014. It's been nine years since this fierce fight between the Donbass militia and the Ukrainian military. A key railway junction was of great strategic importance for both DPR and LPR.
The Ukrainian army was defeated in Ilovaysk, hence Kiev was forced to negotiate with the republics. This process concluded with the Minsk Agreements in September 2014.
How did the militia drove the UAF into the Ilovaisk cauldron? Find out in this clip from our documentary, 'Donbass War: Summer 2014'.
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‘War isn’t for women. With every trip to the warzone... I aged about 5 years,’ says Olga Kurlaeva, a reporter in the Special Military Operation Zone.
Kurlaeva is considered the face of the SMO in the West – she was first to announce the start of the operation. She often found herself in the midst of emergency situations, like the explosion at the Kahovskaya Dam.
Watch an excerpt from our documentary ‘War Correspondents 2: 'Birdman' and 'Good Girl' Olya’, and learn more on working in a conflict zone.
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'Well what can I say? Look at me... They behaved like they were possessed by demons. They didn't care or understand what you were saying.' Aleksandr was a victim of war crimes committed by Ukrainian militants. Watch the video to see what has happened to him.
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'Ukraine conducted no bioresearch of its own. It simply acted as a contractor in the American programme. It provided its land and its citizens, essentially as guinea pigs to work with toxins, pathogens, microorganisms... It handed all the results of all these operations over to the US military.' President of the foundation for scientific and historical research, Aleksey Anpilogov, discusses the work of US biolabs in Ukraine. Check out the video in the post to learn what they were working on.
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Family of volunteers helps Donbass residents. Elena Kramarovskaya is a mom of 9 kids. Together with her two teen sons, Maks and Nikita, she distributes food for Donbass residents as a volunteer, for free, with the ‘Food for Life’ charity organisation.
Her boys help eagerly, for as Elena says, this is how they were brought up. ‘When we teach children to respect each other, and especially the elderly, things will be different.’ See the family at work in an excerpt from our documentary, ‘Young Hope of Donbass’.
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'Surely it was planned to do collaboration research on tropical infectious diseases with the Indonesian Ministry of Health, but the collaboration never happened. Almost all of the research programme was done by themselves.' Siti Fadilah Supari is the former Health Minister of Indonesia. She talks about how Americans were doing research in their biolabs.
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▶️Frogs preserved in alcohol, dried lizards, snakes and even lama embryos. This is what is on offer at The Witches' Market - one of the most amazing sights of Bolivia.
Most of these goods are taken by locals to make offerings to the spirits. They believe it will bring good luck, wealth, and protect their family and friends.
You can also buy herbal mixtures and ready-made elixirs here. The sellers claim they will cure any illness. Find even more in ‘Bolivian DNA: Titicaca’ (2018) - an episode of our series devoted to the stunning nature and diverse traditions of this South American country.
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▶️Our new film, ‘The Road to Slavyansk’, concerns a city that symbolises the start of the civil war in Ukraine.
‘Slavyansk for us has military and ideological importance,’ they claim in Donbass.
With heavy fighting, thousands of soldiers are heading back to where it all began. All roads from Donetsk and Lugansk, Lysychansk and Mariupol, Avdeevka and Artyomovsk today lead to Slavyansk.
Watch this military chronicle of the early battles for the city, and hear the stories of civilian eyewitnesses and participants in the fighting. Find out why the battle for Slavyansk will become the key campaign in the war in Donbass.
Like and share this documentary, and help spread the word on these major upcoming events.
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🔔What film would you like to watch? Vote in our poll below and we’ll post the documentary that gets the most votes.
▫️Cicadas v USA (2021). Cicada larvae live underground for 13 to 17 years. At the end of this cycle they develop wings for just three weeks and take to the skies over America in their millions. Have a look at the aftermath of an 'invasion' of cicadas.
▫️Cyberscammers (2022). Phone scams have become a source of easy money and cost their victims billions of dollars. Making a living this way is dangerous and illegal but doesn't stop scammers. Is it possible to protect yourself and your loved ones from them?
▫️Growing up with War: Children of Syria (2017). In almost six years of war, millions of civilians have been killed or wounded. Many have lost their homes and loved ones. This documentary investigates the tragedy of Syrian kids who've never known peace.
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▶️The Battle for Africa is on! After Niger military officers removed the pro-French president from power, Burkina Faso and Mali promised to support their neighbour in case of foreign intervention.
The race for the African continent and its natural resources began in the late 19th century. By WWI, the spheres of influence had been finally divided with France controlling almost all the Western part, including Mali. Locals claim they will never forget the horrors of being a French colony. ‘They killed us; they raped us. They used us as their tools,’ says DR Amadou Maiga, economic sciences PhD.
Though in 1960 Mali gained independence, France retained its influence. Having seized all the main deposits of resources, the French kept exploiting the country’s economy.
Years later, Malians know that France will always want to maintain control of their country - but they promise to fight for their independence. Discover more about the roots of the French colonialism in Africa, and its bloody consequences, in ‘Mali: Au Revoir, France’.
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Skating on the ice of Lake Baikal at the age of 81? Lyubov Morekhodova proves that anything is possible. In her retirement she has become an internet sensation after a video of her skating on the frozen lake made a big splash. The elderly woman dons her skates whenever she needs to get to the neighbours or look after a cow. This way of travelling is the fastest and most comfortable for her.
Discover more on this Russian skating granny in 'Baikal Babushka. Songs of Life' (2017). Watch it on this anniversary of the 1656 Russian expedition to Lake Baikal - the largest freshwater lake on the planet.
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'More than once, I saw syringes in their pockets with butorphanol. The behaviour of those users can be compared to that of an ape. A gibbon in a cage: an uncontrollable animal.' Sergey Suprin was a victim of Ukrainian nationalist battalions that terrorised LPR civilians.
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'It was addictive, like a big party where everyone was high on drugs. They were seizing ministerial and administrative buildings, and the first thing they brought in was water. You drank that water and felt happy and buoyant.' War correspondent Olga Kurlaeva discusses the 2014 Maidan events in Ukraine. According to her, the 'revolution' was more like a rave.
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Why did Ukraine start selling organs?
'We've also investigated, and know that, within Donbass, almost 2,000 orphaned children were taken from children's homes. Exactly where they are in Ukraine now, Ukraine has told no one'. Colonel Vitaly Kiselyov is investigating people missing in Donbass and Ukraine. Lots of cases are connected with human organ trafficking. Why did Ukraine start selling organs? Watch the video to learn.
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