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🔹Black Lives: Liberty Maze. Inside America’s homeless epidemic (2018). This documentary talks about the thousands of US citizens living below the poverty line. Their conditions are dire, with no access to sanitation or medical assistance, lack of temporary housing, and police harassment. The homeless people share their stories in our documentary.
🔹The Spirit of Baikal (2013) looks at the world's biggest, oldest and deepest lake, and those entranced by it. Shamans, Buddhist monks and Orthodox 'Old Believers' reside in the settlements on its shoreline. It also attracts international scientists, who explore the region's ecology and hope to explore the origins of the universe.
🔹Modern Chinese Artists Breathing New Life into Traditional Art. This is China (2022). The art of China, while paying tribute to tradition, continues to evolve in our time and astonishes us with its excellence of execution. Travel through the country and see how old meets new in Chinese art.
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‘The Russians are dying. It’s the best money we've ever spent.’
American senator Lindsay Graham has spoken out in favour of continuing the Donbass conflict. US military and investment corporations are making huge profits from the war.
Meanwhile, the national debt is increasing to keep up with the expenses, according to the White House. The economic situation is deteriorating for both the US and its citizens. Half the population is forced to survive on minimum wage, experts say.
The US’ economic troubles affect other countries. Russia is no exception. Why is the global economy so dependent on the US dollar? Is it going to collapse? Who benefits from ramping up the world debt? Watch this episode of Anna Chapman’s docuseries, ‘Red Alert. End of the Dollar’, to find out.
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🎉Today, Russia celebrates Foundation of the Russian Navy Day. This branch of the armed forces is already 327 years old. We congratulate our officers and sailors, and wish them a successful service!
The Baltic Fleet is one of Russia's oldest. Enjoy our series about the training and duties of naval servicemen:
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🔸Brides by Force (2012) reveals Kyrgyzstan's ancient tradition - bride-snatching. Single young men kidnap their bride of choice and pressure them to agree to marriage. The custom is illegal in the country, but is still very common. What is life like for these women, and how about those who manage to run away?
🔸Russia and China: Through the Ages (2017) talks about the legendary Great Silk Road. Recently, the Chinese government decided to reach back into history and to breathe new life into the ancient trading corridor. They aim to develop and enhance both economic and cultural partnerships with the other countries along the route. Have they been successful?
🔸Rivers of Discord: Iraq's Water Crisis (2019). In Iraq, people are getting sick because of water pollution. Are the Iraqi authorities trying to solve the environmental crisis that has been accumulating for years?
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💬‘It's hard to imagine the agony they went through when they were burnt alive...’ says Anna Soroka, advisor to LPR head, about the patients of a nursing home in the village of Staraya Krasnyanka in Donbass. 56 people died here.
Ukrainian soldiers established MG firing positions inside the building and fired from floors and stairways. They didn’t evacuate people and when Ukrainian combat vehicles loaded with shells exploded, dozens of elderly and disabled patients were trapped inside the house. Just a few people survived.
Listen to their memories of that horrible time in an excerpt from ‘Voices From the Grave’.
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🪂Skydivers are real adrenaline junkies. Once you experience soaring over the Strait of Gibraltar, Antarctica, the world's tallest waterfall, volcanoes... You can't just give it up, say these six friends, who have been pushing the limits together for over 25 years.
Unfortunately, their hobby is extremely dangerous - several tragedies have made them change their attitude to risk.
What do the skydivers feel when they soar at high altitude? Learn more about their story in our documentary, ‘Gone with the Wing’.
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Palestinians struggle every day to get back control of their territories. They may be hemmed in by Israel in their daily lives, but they still find all sorts of ways to resist. Palestinian Authority leaders in Ramallah speak of their ultimate dream of taking back Jerusalem, while in Gaza, medics tend the wounded at the weekly 'March of Return' protest.
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▶️Chinese Li Duoli and Zhao Qilian grew up in the USSR and did not know their parents for the first 15 years of their lives. Their mum and dad were replaced by the tutors of an international orphanage.
After several decades Zhao and Li decided to visit the places where they spent their childhood. See their genuine emotions and learn how their ‘second homeland’ has changed in our documentary, ‘Red Еourism. Back to the USSR’ (2018). This film is the winner of yesterday's poll.
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🔔Have no plans for Friday evening? Great - let's watch one of our documentaries! Choose one of the following, and vote for it so that you can enjoy the film on Friday.
🔹Red Tourism: Back to the USSR (2018). The subjects of this documentary are children of Chinese revolutionaries. They spent the first 15 years of their lives in a special boarding school in the USSR, then left for China. Now, decades later, they have returned to Russia. How have the places where they spent youth changed?
🔹Fisher of Men (2019). Huge numbers of migrants' bodies are found at sea by fishermen in the Mediterranean, or washed ashore. Chamsaddin Marzouk has created an entire cemetery in southern Tunisia, where he voluntarily gives the strangers a decent burial. Why does the man do it?
🔹No Way Back: The Animal Kingdom (2020) follows a joint effort by environmental scientists to protect and study Western Grey Whales. These spectacular sea mammals were thought to be extinct by the 1950s until a few animals were spotted off the coast of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East. Now they number in the hundreds. How did scientists manage to make this progress?
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▶️Our premiere follows an American in Donbass. Tofurious Maximus Crane, a journalist, witnessed Ukrainian strikes on residential houses with his own eyes.
The Ukrainian army shelled the peaceful Donetsk with foreign ordinance. ‘Children, women, men. All of them died from the aggression of the West,’ says Tofurious, barely controlling his emotions.
Learn more about this concerned foreign journalist in 'Notes from an American in Donbass', by our military documentary filmmakers Olga Kiriy and Mikhail Burov.
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▶️Moldovan residents are fleeing abroad en masse. Around 100,000 people have left in the last year alone. There are no decent jobs in the country, while food and electricity prices have become unaffordable.
Many blame the pro-Western authorities, who have set a course for European integration. ‘Moldova has been uprooted, we’re 50, even 70 years behind,’ says Ilan Shor, Moldova ȘOR Party Leader. See our new film ‘Betting on Moldova’ by our authors - Vitaliy Buzuev and Oleg Nekishev, to learn the real price of European 'values'.
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🥳RT Documentary film is once again among the best!
Elena Norkunaite and Artyom Somov's 'Akhal-Teke Horses: Heavenly creatures’ won the Special Prize of 'Dawn of Arkadag' International Film Festival.
Akhal-Teke horses are considered the most beautiful horses in the world. They were bred by Turkmens about five thousand years ago. To this day, locals cannot imagine their lives without these animals. Many people in Turkmenistan have connected their lives with Akhal-Teke horses—they are engaged in horse breeding and racing. Horses of this breed were given to Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin and Queen Elizabeth.
You will soon be able to watch this documentary! Follow the announcements so you don't miss the premiere.
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🐼The Giant Panda has long been famous as a symbol of conservation and wildlife protection. China is now the only country where pandas still live in the wild.
The government has worked hard to prevent its national pride, this adorable bamboo eating bear, from becoming extinct. It has put extensive resources into restoring the pandas’ forest habitat and reintroducing rescued animals to the wild.
How were humans able to save the Panda population? Watch our documentary 'It's a Pandaful Life!' (2017) to learn more.
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🐆Viktor hunts poachers of Amur leopards – the rarest cats on the planet. He is a state inspector in the ‘Leopard Land National Park’.
Besides trying to protect the wild cat not only from poachers' shots, the rangers perform lots of other tasks to ensure the wild cats' survival. What exactly? You’ll find out in an episode of ‘The Keepers of Leopard Land’ (2016) series.
Watch this film and mark Conservation Workers’ Day in Russia.
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🏯Watch 'The Secrets of Tibetan Architecture' (2021) today. This film won yesterday's poll.
The documentary looks at the cultural monuments of Tibet. The harsh high-altitude climate led to the emergence of its own style of architecture, with monolithic structures.
One of the highlights of ancient Tibetan architecture is the Potala Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Are you inspired to visit Tibet?
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'Almost every country has its own cyber-army. Their main goal is espionage.'
Svetlana Ostrovskaya, a digital forensics coach, speaks about information warfare in the 21st century.
Cyberspace has long become a new frontier in warfare. Cyber forces are being developed to carry out attacks, defensive operations and intelligence gathering. Who acts against whom, and why? Find out in our documentary, 'Cyberwarfare and State-Sponsored Hacking' an episode of our 'I am Hacked' series. We raise this issue on Hacker's Day, which is marked in Russia today.
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💲The dollar will soon die - or so some financial experts claim. What will replace it and who will change the current financial system? Besides, what is the Federal Reserve and how is America making money from the war in Ukraine?
Find all the answers in tomorrow's premiere. It's Anna Chapman's exclusive investigation, 'Red Alert. End of the Dollar.' Don't miss it!
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💡For technical reasons, we can't post the documentary that won yesterday's poll. So here's the film that took second place - 'Rivers of Discord: Iraq's Water Crisis' (2019).
People are getting sick because of the lack of clean water in Basra, Iraq. In the summer of 2018, more than 150,000 people got drinking water poisoning there. And the city's canals, once called the Venice of the East, look more like a floating garbage dump after years of war.
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🎞 'The U.S. empire is a disaster. It has proven that with what’s happening in Ukraine,’ says Daniel Kovalik, an expert on U.S. foreign policy. He claims it has become the norm in America to prosecute their citizens for anti-government opinions. Thus, he was fired from the University of Pittsburgh without explanation. Just after this, Daniel began to openly express his position on Donbass.
Former UN inspector Scott Ritter is also on the black list. In 2003, he said that the U.S. does not want to disarm Iraq, to continue the war and make money from it. Now intelligence agencies terrorize Ritter for supporting Russia.
Why is the U.S. so interested in the war in Ukraine? Learn the answer in a new episode of Anna Chapman's documentary series ‘Red Alert. U.S. Defence Industry Bloody Business’.
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▶️‘It’s humiliating that the people of Japan cannot enforce their basic rights inside the military bases: the right to life, to property, and the right to security.’
The U.S. has been present in Okinawa for decades. The island is riddled with American military bases and barbed-wire fences.
The Japanese government goes so far as to pay to maintain the U.S. military presence, spending 2 trillion yen (more than $13.3 billion) a year. ‘The Japanese government is willing to give their own country’s money away and come up with an excuse like… the "sympathy budget",' politician Mitsuhiro Kimura reveals.
The Japanese authorities seem to have forgotten that their 'ally' once used nuclear weapons against their citizens. But locals remember. How do they fight for their home? Find out in our new documentary, ‘Okinawa's U.S. Shadow’.
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🇹🇲For Turkmens, horses are one of the main sources of national pride. 5000 years ago, this tribal people bred the Akhal-Teke. It is considered to be the most beautiful breed in the world. Locals believe the blood of wild horses runs in their veins, and call them ‘heavenly creatures’.
In Turkmenistan, everyone is linked with the Akhal-Teke. 'We Turkmens can’t live without horses,’ explained Aybike Babalyeva. These are not just words for her: her family is famous in the country for their contributions to horse breeding.
Our new film by Elena Nurkunaite and Artyom Somov, ‘Akhal-Teke Horses: Heavenly Creatures’, looks at the history of the oldest horse breed in the world and the people who consider horses their family. The documentary was awarded a special prize at the ‘Rassvet Arkadaga’ International Film Festival.
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'In war, there are no 'foreign religions,' claims Aliulla Baibekov, a chairman of Mariupol Muslim Community. He and his comrades are restoring a mosque that was severely hit by the Ukrainian shells.
Aliulla doesn't divide or judge people on their religion. He respects Christians a lot and remembers how they hid in the mosque and prayed together during the heavy shelling. See how the important religious centers in Mariupol are restored in an excerpt from our documentary, 'Together We Stand'.
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▶️‘It’s humiliating that the people of Japan cannot enforce their basic rights inside the military bases: the right to life, to property, and the right to security.’
The U.S. has been present in Okinawa for decades. The island is riddled with American military bases and barbed-wire fences.
The Japanese government goes so far as to pay to maintain the U.S. military presence, spending 2 trillion yen (more than $13.3 billion) a year. ‘The Japanese government is willing to give their own country’s money away and come up with an excuse like… the "sympathy budget",' politician Mitsuhiro Kimura reveals.
The Japanese authorities seem to have forgotten that their 'ally' once used nuclear weapons against their citizens. But locals remember. How do they fight for their home? Find out in our new documentary, ‘Okinawa's U.S. Shadow’.
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‘Many people were tortured to death here,’ remembers Mikhail Shubin, a former inmate of Ukrainian nationalists’ secret ‘Library’ jail, in Mariupol Airport. The militants charged him with treason and espionage—they interrogated and tortured the man along with other Donbass civilians. The captives were subjected to horrific methods with no useful purpose. Listen to Mikhail's memories of that terrible time in an excerpt from our documentary, 'Voices from the Grave'.
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▶️October 17 is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. According to The World Bank, almost 700 million people live in extreme poverty - on less than $2.15 a day.
Out of despair, many find extreme solutions. For example, in Nepal, men and women sell their kidneys. Their illiteracy plays a great role - many are assured they will only take advantage - get money and live perfectly with one kidney. In fact – the operation only worsens their situation.
Our documentary, ‘Kidney Valley’, reveals the stories of the victims of this illegal business. Watch it to mark the date.
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'There was an 11-year-old girl. Her mother was brutally raped and murdered before her eyes.' Elizaveta Abramova has encountered lots of terrible cases. She has been helping victims of Ukrainian nationalists cruelty for years.
Experts claim the Ukrainian soldiers' inhumane behaviour is fueled by drugs, which are easy to get in the army. POWs say the psychotropic substances are handed out by medics. Listen to Elizaveta and discover more in an excerpt from our documentary, 'Ukraine: Drug Testing Ground'.
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▶️Moldovan residents are fleeing abroad en masse. Around 100,000 people have left in the last year alone. There are no decent jobs in the country, while food and electricity prices have become unaffordable.
Many blame the pro-Western authorities, who have set a course for European integration. ‘Moldova has been uprooted, we’re 50, even 70 years behind,’ says Ilan Shor, Moldova ȘOR Party Leader. See our new film ‘Betting on Moldova’ by our authors - Vitaliy Buzuev and Oleg Nekishev, to learn the real price of European 'values'.
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💬'I just want it all be over. Liberate them, then leave.'
Sergey has been fighting for Donbass since 2016. Besides being a soldier, he is a father of three and a loving husband—his wife, Ira, waits for him at home. She can hardly hold back the tears when she talks about Sergey—she misses him a lot. Be inspired by their enduring love in this excerpt from our documentary, 'Hero Wives'.
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▶️Italian reporter Vittorio-Nicola Rangeloni captured the events of the 2014 Ukrainian coup d'état. With his own eyes, he witnessed the Maidan and how people were deluded by false promises from the US and the European Union. Rangeloni is sure foreign agents only fuelled the protests that then grew into a real war.
A year after Maidan, the Italian came to Donbass for the first time and was struck to discover that his country's media portrays events in a false manner. He than joined the fierce information war.
Listen to Vittorio in an excerpt from our documentary, 'Donbass: That’s Why I’m Here’.
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🇦🇷Take a look at a completely different Argentina – rural and remote. Here, away from the cities, time seems to stop. Women handmake bags from plant leaves. Men burn logs and sell the charcoal and all are as passionate about rodeo as about football.
On Day of Respect For Cultural Diversity in the tango capital of the world, watch an episode of Argentinian DNA (2019) about this country’s amazing traditions.
Interested in learning more? Watch previous parts of the series by following the links:
🎦Argentinian DNA: Music of the Downtrodden
🎦Argentinian DNA: Immigrants of Argentina
🎦Argentinian DNA: The Fracture
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