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2022-08-31 17:04:01+00:00
Serbia: Signs of War
‘We must travel from our country and back again while hiding our state’s coat of arms. But what else to do? Until we come back with our army and police, we will hide it, and when we get it all back, we won’t.’
Serbia believes that Kosovo is violating their rights. Pristina attempted to stop cars with Serbian license plates from entering the city, and to force Serbs living in Kosovo to exchange their passports for local ones. The escalating conflict has already been dubbed the ‘war of documents’.
At the end of July, the sides were one step away from a war of arms. The situation was put on hold until September 1. Belgrade and Pristina managed to reach an agreement, but not on all points.
How did the conflict start and what awaits Serbia and Kosovo? Find answers in the premiere of Serbia: Signs of War.
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2022-08-31 14:42:01+00:00
On the Golden Breadline
‘I find gold every day. Every morning I ask Allah for help, so he gives me gold. He always helps me,’ says Altynbek Raimbekov, a gold panner from Kyrgyzstan.
The working conditions are extreme. The men pan gold in the rivers, where the water is incredibly cold; and panning can take six hours a day. But the craft is almost the only source of income for Altynbek’s family. In most cases being born in this part of Kyrgyzstan means you’re destined to be a gold panner. It also means you’re destined for a hard life.
Altynbek used to have a younger brother, a very talented gold panner, but years ago he took his own life. Suicide is considered a sin and brings shame on a family. That’s one of the reasons Altynbek doesn’t like to speak about the case. Another is that he guesses that the brother couldn’t find another way to escape from the poverty and brutal conditions.
On Independence Day in Kyrgyzstan watch our documentary On the Golden Breadline. It’s about the Raimbekov family and their only source of income – gold mining. Watch the film to know more about this hard craft.
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2022-08-31 09:22:01+00:00
Gorbachev: The End of the USSR
‘What the world would have looked like if the Union had been preserved, history knows no subjunctive mood. But I think the world would have been better. It would have been more stable, safer, fairer.’
Mikhail Gorbachev pronounced these words 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ‘father’ of perestroika, the only president of the Soviet Union, died last night at 91.
Gorbachev has been called the man who changed the course of history in the 20th century. He ended the Cold War and withdrew Soviet troops from Afghanistan. He also implemented a policy of glasnost, began privatization, legalized private commercial activity, and changed the electoral system. But many people also remember Mikhail Gorbachev for his anti-alcohol campaign, empty shelves in stores, and queues.
How did Mikhail Gorbachev’s reign end? Our excerpt from USSR Collapse: A Crash Course is about it. Watch it now.
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2022-08-31 07:21:35+00:00
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last head of the USSR, has passed away. He died at the age of 91 after a long and serious illness. See how he was removed from power and what preceded it in the documentary film USSR Collapse: A Crash Course.
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2022-08-30 14:06:05+00:00
‘Don’t cross the red line!’ American experts Peter Kuzniсk and Scott Ritter say that the Americans have violated all agreements with Russia and provoked the conflict in Ukraine.
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2022-08-30 10:04:01+00:00
Lost Kids. India’s Missing Children Epidemic
‘It’s like a fire burning in me. I can’t eat or drink. If you see him, please, let me know. No matter where, I’ll look for him.’ Probu, from India, looked for his missing son Kishan for several days. He left home early in the morning and rode his bike around, asking people if they saw his boy.
The problem of missing children in India is truly shocking. Thousands vanish every year and many are never to be seen again. They are caught by human traffickers, who then turn the children into sex slaves. Though the Indian police investigate the cases, Probu couldn’t but take up his own search. He devoted every spare moment to hitting the streets in a desperate bid to track down his missing son.
On the International Day of the Disappeared, we post an excerpt from Lost Kids (2019) about the Indian father. Watch it to find out if Probu has managed to find his child.
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2022-08-29 16:02:57+00:00
Why are the schools of the Donbass Grey Zone not working?
'It's a shame. We had a lot of interesting stuff here... Before it got so badly damaged'. Young Donbass resident Denis is showing the remains of his school after it was destroyed by Ukrainian nationalists.
The school is located in the frontline area of Donbass, which used to be called the Grey Zone. More than 4,000 civilians have been killed since the start of the civil war in Eastern Ukraine.
Watch our video about what's happened to the schools of Donbass due to Ukrainian aggression.
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2022-08-29 13:57:46+00:00
‘I thought there would be at least something left!’ A girl named Marina was crying when she returned home with her parents to Mariupol near the Azovstal plant. Only ruins remained where their district once stood.
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2022-08-29 13:33:01+00:00
Kidney Valley
‘They were told that everyone has two kidneys, and you can live with one. Some were ever assured that it would grow back like a fruit.’
Krishnapyari Nakarmi, the campaign against organ trafficking tells how the poor and illiterate population is trapped in Nepal and forced to sell their organs. Even teenagers go under the knife. There is a province of Kavre in the country, which is called the ‘kidney village’ - it is difficult to find a family here in which at least one person has not sold his organ on the black market. The threat to ‘kill’ their health does not stop them.
Many people agreed to illegal transplantation after the earthquake in 2015. Then thousands of people were homeless and without livelihood.
96 years ago, slavery was abolished in Nepal. But many people continue to live in slave conditions, and become victims of the black market of donor organs. The film Kidney Valley reveals the stories of the victims of this illegal business.
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2022-08-29 10:01:01+00:00
Girl Power: Hindi Style
‘That day we announced that no one would ever beat their wife again. That was the beginning, with four women. Now we’ve got 1,100,000!’
Sampat Pal tells how the Pink Gang (pronounced the 'Gulabi Gang' in Hindi) appeared in India more than 20 years ago. Their strategy is simple: members of the group get together and beat any man who is found to be constantly abusing his wife.
Sampat works to protect women rights and, above all, those who suffer from domestic abuse. She holds self-defense lessons for the victims, teaches them how to fight with a baton and how to safely turn down a man's unwanted attention, which may result in an attack or even rape.
Sampat has great authority in India - almost all women in the country know her. The authorities listen to her, and she has managed to do a lot to protect women's rights. Watch how this woman and her Pink Gang could help change the lives of many women in our film Girl Power: Hindi Style.
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2022-08-28 14:55:19+00:00
‘This is a Russian-speaking region, so the actions of the Ukrainian authorities in the Donbass were very painful for us.’ Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Timokhin of LPR People’s Militia showed what Donbass has become because the authorities in Kiev refused to listen to the citizens in the east of the country.
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2022-08-28 14:01:38+00:00
‘It’s shocking for a person who has never seen such kids. With a terror in his eyes, he asks, “How can you work here? I want to get out of here as soon as possible.”
Senior nurse Ekaterina is in charge of medical care in the children’s home in Krasnodon, LPR. Here, they take care of children with the most severe diagnoses, who are terminally ill and will never leave the place.
The personnel remember how they had to live through tough times when Ukraine completely stopped its support of the center. In 2014, it didn’t receive medical supplies, and there was no humanitarian aid. But through it all the staff does its best so that children don’t suffer.
There’re no doctors, only qualified nurses. But there’re cases when they don’t have the necessary experience. This was revealed after the Russian ‘Road of Life’ foundation visited the facility. Our video is about the child’s home in Krasnodon, watch it to see everything for yourself.
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2022-08-28 09:53:06+00:00
Golden Gamble
‘It's illegal but the government turns a blind eye. If the police catch someone, we just pay them off.’
Henry N. Bandales is engaged in illegal gold mining in the Philippines. It's the only way for him to make a living. Therefore, every day he risks his life by diving to the bottom of mines filled with dirty water. The workers don’t follow any safety precautions and don’t have special equipment. In such conditions, they spend several hours under water. Many suffer from serious chronic diseases. Some even die in the mines.
Watch our film Golden Gamble about the work of these people, which we’re posting on Miner's Day in Russia and other former USSR countries.
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2022-08-27 16:12:47+00:00
‘The casualties were especially severe during GRAD rocket attacks.’ Doctors of Donbass tell which wounds are the most severe. According to them, they receive the largest number of injured civilians following the shelling of humanitarian aid delivery points and of water sources by the Ukrainian military.
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2022-08-27 14:03:28+00:00
Beware of Tanks!
Have you been following the tank biathlon? The final was held today. In first place was the team from Russia, in second place - from Belarus, and in third place - from China. Congratulations!
In tank biathlon everything is in accordance with traditional competition: You need to hit the targets and get to the finish line faster than your opponents. The sporting equipment, that is, the tanks, are provided by organizers. Only teams from China and Belarus bring their own vehicles.
‘This is not an automatic rifle or a rifle that a professional can learn in the span of an hour. This is a serious machine that you can’t learn to handle in just an hour or two,’ says Alexander Lentsov, president of the International Tank Biathlon Federation. That’s why crews come to the competition a few days before the start so they have a chance to practice.
Each tank is painted with identifying colors, which makes it more convenient for spectators to follow the teams. How do the crews prepare for the competition? Find out in the film Beware of Tanks! (2020).
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2022-08-27 11:58:23+00:00
‘We don’t judge, we heal. This killing, the hatred, it’s unacceptable. We are fighting to stop it.’
Alinat is a scrub nurse in one of the Donbass hospitals. Here, they treat injured soldiers from both sides and civilians who came under shelling.
Alinat’s brother went to the frontline to defend Donbass citizens. The woman revealed it was very hard for her to live without knowing how he is doing. So, she decided to work in the hospital close to the frontline to treat people. Alinat and other doctors admit working here is sometimes scary, and shells may come from anywhere, but they know their skills are needed, so they have to stay strong for the people.
Watch our video about the heroic work of Donbass doctors.
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2022-08-27 09:56:01+00:00
Substitutes
‘She is alive for me. That’s how I see her. Besides, she changes her facial expressions for me.’
This is how Japanese Moru describes his beloved - a silicone sex doll. He has been living with her for years. They are always together: meet friends, go shopping, take a bath and snap romantic photos.
Moru is not the only one who chooses to have a doll as a sexual partner and life partner. According to Japanese media, 2,000 silicone women are sold in the country every year. The demand for them partly exacerbates the demographic crisis in the country: the birth rate is falling, the number of marriages is decreasing.
Why do Japanese men avoid real relationships and choose ‘silicone love’? Our film Substitutes reveals their stories.
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2022-08-26 16:12:43+00:00
'Their mentality is: 'This is our land, and we won't leave it'. They see their pets and loved ones killed, their homes and gardens destroyed, and they still live here anyway'.
Volunteer Alexey Smirnov tells why Donbass people don't want to leave their homeland.
For the last 8 years a huge area separating the two sides of the conflict became a 'grey zone'. Its population is suffering from shellings and had been used as a human shield by Ukrainian nationalists more than once.
Alexey and his team are working on evacuating people from dangerous zones of the conflict, but most of them return home again. Some of them don't have another place to go, some just can't live without their homeland. Watch our video about how Donbass people live in the grey zone.
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2022-08-26 13:49:48+00:00
‘What’s been accumulating for 500 years, can’t change in 5 years or even 50.’ Russian historian Denis Maltsev believes that Russophobia in the West has such deep roots that it is unlikely that the situation will change anytime soon.
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2022-08-26 12:32:06+00:00
Argentinian DNA: Music of the Downtrodden
Do you know what cumbia is? It is a popular style of folk music in Latin America. At the sound of cumbia, the Argentinean Daniel Gonsalez immediately remembers his younger brother Kiki. He used to listen to it.
In 2009, Kiki was killed by the police. They said it was the result of self-defense, and the 17-year-old Argentine provoked them. But Daniel did not believe it. He has been seeking a review of the case for years. The trial took place only eight years later. What judgment did the court hand down?
On National Day of Solidarity in Argentina, which was established on the birthday of St. Mother Teresa, we post an episode of Music of the Downtrodden from the series Argentinian DNA (2018).
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2022-08-26 10:47:31+00:00
Poets on the Frontline
Over the rise, across the water, blast and boom!
Such hills and rivers, an abundant land.
In Lugansk, acacia trees are in bloom,
Ksyusha pushes baby in the pram.
Poignant poems and songs in our premiere of Poets on the Frontline. This is a film about people whose creative work empowers and inspires great feats. RT Documentary crew went to the front with them.
Anna Dolgareva reads her poems in front of the Donbass fighters. War correspondent and poet Semyon Pegov covers events in the region, and is also the author of many songs by Yulia Chicherina, who travels to the front lines with her concerts: ‘My soul sings - I sing. The war is continuing on all fronts, and here too.’
Akim Apachev and Daria Frei support the Donbass fighters in their songs, and after the release of Plyve Kacha began receiving threats from Ukrainians.
The Zveroboi band from Moscow comes to the front line with concerts. Siberian poet Ruslan Bashirov is for the special operation in Ukraine. Filmmaker Olesya Shigina is making films about those fighting, including her son in Donbass.
Yulia Chicherina, Semyon Pegov, Anna Dolgareva, Akim Apachev and Daria Frei, Zveroboi band, Ruslan Bashirov, Olesya Shigina - the subjects of our new film Poets on the Frontline. Watch it right now.
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2022-08-25 13:57:22+00:00
‘Azov sowed fear and panic. People were scared. But all that hype that they’re ready to die for their idea, turned out to be nothing.’ Deputy head of the People’s militia Command of DPR Eduard Basurin talks about who the residents of Azov are, about the siege of Azovstal and what the new government plans to do at the site of the plant.
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2022-08-25 10:42:27+00:00
Lugansk Forgotten Children
Little Darina's Story
‘Amputation really scares me!’ says Anna Ivanova, little Darina’s mother. The family lives close to Lugansk.
Darina was born with a congenital lower limb abnormality. She can’t stand on her feet and walk. Anna does her best to make her daughter happy and really wants her daughter to be able to use her legs.
Anna had almost nobody to speak to about her daughter’s condition: ‘There is a shortage of doctors. We have only two pediatricians, three nurses, and one ophthalmologist.’ For quite a long time she hoped that the disorder could be corrected through surgery.
She found out more about the girl’s condition, after visiting a doctor from the Russian ‘Road of Life’ foundation. She was advised to have Darina’s limbs amputated so the girl could use prostheses. However, the operation Darina needs can cost several million rubles – an unaffordable sum for a single mother. But the doctors from the Moscow charity gave Anna hope.
An excerpt from out documentary Lugansk Forgotten Children is devoted to little Darina and her devoted mother. Watch the video to know the details of the story.
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2022-08-24 16:07:04+00:00
‘The Ukrainian war is a proxy-war. This is a war between Russia and the United States.’ The American writer John Chris Kiriakou believes that Washington is at war with Moscow, but at the same time the United States is not in a position to lose people.
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2022-08-24 14:36:34+00:00
NATO Weapons in Ukraine
‘Having cut off Russia from the Black and Baltic Seas, they want to lock it on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. <…> By accepting Sweden and Finland, they want to turn the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake.’
Barış Adibelli, a specialist in international political relations, explains how the permanent expansion of the alliance can evolve. 73 years ago, the North Atlantic Treaty came into force. From the very beginning, the structure was focused on countering the USSR. Over the course of seven decades, its goals have changed little. "Russia poses a direct threat to our security," says NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg.
Today, NATO countries supply weapons to Ukraine. At the same time, powerful ammunition could be imported into the country secretly, according to Politico, an American publication. For example, HARM anti-radar missiles. The US destroyed Libyan, Iraqi and Yugoslav radars with similar models.
What is NATO doing at the Russian borders? Watch an excerpt from the RT Documentary film Inside Russia’s military operation to find out.
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2022-08-23 15:54:13+00:00
‘In the school, where the Tornado platoon was based, they had a torture chamber. Women, men, and children were raped there. They cut their fingers off.’ Several experts, including former SBU officer Vasiliy Prozorov, tell how people were tortured and what happened to them after they suffered horrific by the secret services of Ukraine.
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2022-08-23 14:57:01+00:00
China's Digital Detox
'He never even saw the sun. He consciously locked himself away. One day I realised something bad could happen to him.’
This is how Mr. Zhang from China describes what happened to his son, who sat at the computer for days on end. He wasn't interested in real life. The father decided to send the teenager to a specialized camp for children with ‘Internet addiction’. Such stories are not uncommon in China. There are hundreds of such institutions in the country. Here, instead of games the adolescents undergo military training and meetings with psychologists. Teenagers are often forcibly sent for treatment, which lasts six months.
But how effective is this method in the fight against Internet addiction? Find out more by watching the film China's Digital Detox, which we’re posting on the anniversary of the founding of the World Wide Web.
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2022-08-23 14:02:11+00:00
🎲 Quiz 'Slavery still exists today, what do you know about it?'
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2022-08-23 09:57:01+00:00
Brick Slaves
‘They treat us like dogs, they even treat dogs better.’
Nurlan Amin describes the attitude of the managment to the workers at a brick factory in Bangladesh. There are a large number of such factories in the country - their products are in great demand, but the people are forced to work in difficult conditions and for a pittance. Workers are not paid overtime, and they are beaten for any complaints. Such work negatively affects the health - laborers are exposed to harmful red dust that causes bronchitis and other lung diseases.
On International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, watch the film Brick Slaves, which reveals the stories of workers who suffer humiliation at brick factories in Bangladesh.
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2022-08-22 13:57:21+00:00
‘When nationalism rose up and all this bad stuff, it was hard to stay out of it. I told to my mother I wanted to join the militia. She said it was a man’s choice.’ The brother of a nurse from Donbass we already know, Alinat, told us how first he, and then almost his entire family ended up at the front.
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2022-08-22 10:06:00+00:00
Lugansk’s Forgotten Children
‘As I call them, they are 'inconvenient children.' They are inconvenient for everyone…’
In the film about Lugansk boarding schools, Moscow pediatrician Natalia Gordeeva examines terminally ill children.
Together with the charity fund ‘The Road of Life’, the doctor came to the social institutions of the LPR, where patients with severe forms of retardation and motor disorders live. Many of them are getting palliative care - they will soon pass away, medicine cannot help them.
In 2014, Ukraine gave up the boarding school. When Kiev started the military conflict in Donbass, it halted funding for all social facilities. Medicine disappeared, the staff no longer received their salaries, there was even a shortage of food. Has anything changed in eight years? Watch the premiere Lugansk’s Forgotten Children to find out.
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2022-08-21 16:01:37+00:00
‘I'm afraid to speak Russian on transport.’ Musician Elmira Shafigullina, who has lived in the Netherlands for many years, told how in the spring they experienced a wave of Russophobia among the local population. Elmira was denied performances, and her children were subjected to pressure and ridicule at school.
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2022-08-21 14:01:01+00:00
The Ugly Face of Beauty
- This is what is made from mica: mascara, cosmetics – it’s all mica.
- I didn’t know that. But I saw such things at the city market.
From journalists, Indian children first learn what is made from the mica they collect. The girls never dye. They work for other people’s makeup. They get up before sunrise to collect the mica. It is an important component in cosmetics: this natural mineral makes the skin glow.
India produces 60% of the world’s mica. Very young children at the age of five are already put to work, crushing the rock into pieces. The fragments are sharp as a razor, they cut the skin, and mica dust makes children sick with cancer. They get paid $1 to $3 a day for this work, but without that money there is no food.
It’s hard to find a cosmetic brand that doesn’t use mica. However, corporations deny that they buy the mineral illegally. August 21 is considered an unofficial day without cosmetics and makeup. On this day, watch our film The Ugly Face of Beauty (2016) about how mica is produced.
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2022-08-21 12:02:37+00:00
‘[Ukrainian soldier] said, ‘All these damned Russians must be killed,’ recalls Irina, a Donbass resident. Irina and her husband Yashat lived close to the Azovstal plant, where the nationalists hid for about 2 months. The woman says they suffered a lot, and it’s a miracle they stayed alive.
The family used to have a cozy flat. Now there are large holes in the walls where windows once were and broken furniture. The place turned into ruins due to the daily shelling from the plant.
Irina’s husband, Yashat, claims the Ukrainian military, who hid at Azovstal, acted immorally: ‘There used to be shops down there. They broke into them. There was a big mall full of jewelry, gold and silver, electronics. They took what they wanted.’
Watch the video and listen to the family’s experience of living in close proximity to the nationalists.
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2022-08-21 10:01:01+00:00
My Son, Ex-Terrorist
Anastasia became a terrorist out of love. The girl's husband joined a terrorist group in the north Caucasus and she was hiding in the woods with him and the other fighters.
‘I couldn't get away from him: 'I couldn't imagine living without him. So, as I was living I thought of nothing else. I didn’t think about my relatives. Nothing at all. I just wanted to be with him,’ said Anastasia. Later, her husband died during a shootout with the police. Then the woman discovered that she was pregnant. To find out how her fate turned out - see in our video and the film My son, ex-terrorist.
And there are many similar stories when young people become terrorists, follow friends or relatives; others become radical, inspired by jihadist videos on social media. Our film My son, ex-terrorist reveles stories of former terrorists and their families.
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2022-08-20 14:02:38+00:00
'When the Ukrainian military entered Volnovakha, they said if they left, they’d torch the city, because ‘savages live here’. But they’re the real savages!’
Residents of Volnovakha in DPR in the spring of 2022 describe the numerous outrages committed by the Ukrainian military for eight years.
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2022-08-20 12:02:31+00:00
‘Everyone is afraid…Even the bravest ones, it doesn’t matter. Everyone has fear.’
25-year-old Ivan works as a surgeon in Donbass, close to the frontline. The doctor treats injured soldiers from both sides and civilians who came under artillery fire - without judging. Ivan has seen severely wounded and fallen, and has learned a lot from working in the war zone: ‘Life is a very fragile thing. It’s about time, the timing of the arrival: the sooner the better, of course.’
An inspiring story of a young Donbass doctor is in our video.
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2022-08-20 10:01:01+00:00
Inferno Village
‘When the gas starts to leak out, then, of course, it's scary. The gas is lethal. When it gets into the body, the head starts to hurt terribly.’
Residents of the Indian city of Jharia breathe harmful fumes every day. Toxic smoke is released into the air due to underground fires, which have been ablaze for almost a century. The reason is the continuously burning coal layers. Sometimes huge sinkholes open up in the ground, which absorb everything.
The government is trying to relocate the locals to other areas, but they don't want to move because coal mining is the only income for many of them. Learn more about this ill-fated place by watching the film Inferno Village (2017).
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2022-08-19 15:27:01+00:00
‘Some inner call wouldn’t let me just ignore the tragedy that has befallen Donbass residents. We wanted to come and do something.’
Businessman Yury Vaganov transports humanitarian aid from Moscow to the DPR. He does this at his own expense. The volunteer helps families reunite and evacuates people from the war zone. Yury takes humanitarian aid to the most dangerous places. He often comes under fire from the Ukrainian forces, but that doesn't stop him.
On World Humanitarian Day watch an excerpt from the film VolunTears about those who help others, risking their lives.
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2022-08-19 14:37:01+00:00
‘They’re not homeland defenders, these Mariupol cyborgs, nothing like it. No, they’re totally exhausted people,’ says Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Khodakovsky, speaking about the surrender of the Ukrainian military from the Azovstal plant. Aleksandr’s ‘Vostok’ battalion, together with Russian forces, flushed the Neo-Nazis from the steel plant on May 20.
After the Ukrainian soldiers withdrew, the allied troops entered the plant and found 11 square kilometres filled with explosives, booby traps, mines, and unexploded shells. During their time in hiding, the Ukrainian fighters had food, beds, lots of gadgets, even the internet. After they surrendered, many smashed PCs and laptops were also found. They destroyed the equipment to make the data unrecoverable. Watch the video to see everything for yourself.
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2022-08-18 18:01:12+00:00
‘Ukraine tried to impose that condition so that no charges could be brought against them, because they assumed the soldiers could be accused of crimes,’ says Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People’s Militia command in DPR. When surrendering from the Azovstal plant, the Ukrainian military made a lot of demands. Eduard is referring to one that specified the captured soldiers were not to be filmed.
But they were filmed, and the footage revealed that, among those surrendering, there were war criminals facing years in prison: Andrey Ignatyuk from the ‘Azov’ Regiment, well-known for murder, robbery, and looting; and Anton Korolyev, wanted for mercenary activities and incitement to hatred. The first thing, that gave them away was the great number of tattoos on them that proved they supported neo-fascist or neo-Nazi ideology.
Though the Ukrainian soldiers at the plant were very well stocked with food and water, they had problems with medicine. Many were wounded and extremely tired. Some even had gangrene. This was one of the main reasons that compelled them to surrender.
Watch this video to find out more about the nationalists and Ukrainian soldiers that surrendered at the Azovstal plant.
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2022-08-18 16:12:01+00:00
Arctic United
Barneo is the northernmost scientific camp. It is located on a drifting ice floe near the North Pole. This place can only be reached by plane. The camp is open only one month a year. People come here when the polar day begins, when the sun is not very warm. It is dangerous to stay longer — the ice floes melt.
The Barneo camp has been operating since 2000. It was created by the Russian Geographical Society, which is already 177 years old. On August 18, the day of the foundation of the organization, geographers celebrate a professional holiday. Watch the film Arctic United (2015) to learn more about how weekdays pass in this unique camp near the North Pole.
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2022-08-18 15:12:02+00:00
USSR Collapse: A Crash Course
‘There was a chain of people who were ready for anything. They'd rather have been crushed by the tanks than flee.’
On August 18, 1991, the conspirators of the State Emergency Committee decided to remove Mikhail Gorbachev from the leadership of the country. He was blocked at his residence in the Crimean village of Foros, while means of communications were disabled.
Vice President of the USSR Gennady Yanaev signed a decree granting himself presidential powers. The next morning the news was announced on radio and television, and tanks suddenly appeared on the streets of Moscow. Boris Yeltsin and thousands of his supporters ascended on the White house.
How did events develop further? And what preceded them? Watch the film USSR Collapse: A Crash Course to find out. RT Documentary filmed a documentary for the 30th anniversary of the August coup.
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2022-08-18 14:45:42+00:00
‘The American strategy in the run-up to the crisis was to make Ukraine a military and political counterweight to Russia.’
Russian political analyst Andrei Sushentsov believes that the United States systematically prepared Ukraine and the West as a whole for confrontation with Russia.
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2022-08-17 16:04:07+00:00
‘Azovstal was their [Ukrainian nationalists] main fortress, it’s the hardest site to capture,’ explains a Vostok Battalion soldier, codenamed ‘Woods’. He participated in the mission to push nationalists out of Azovstal and Mariupol.
The total territory of the steel plant is enormous - 11 square kilometers. It was built in Soviet times as a shelter from nuclear warheads and there’re dozens of tunnels running around like arteries. Taking the point wasn’t an easy task at all. But after almost 2 months of fierce fighting, almost 2,500 Ukrainian fighters surrendered.
Watch the video to see how the Ukrainian soldiers lived, hiding in the plant and what they left after they made a decision to surrender.
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2022-08-17 14:03:15+00:00
‘Every day I force myself to want to live.’ While calls for a more tolerant attitude towards pedophiles are increasingly being heard in the West, it is worth recalling an experiment in Germany in the 1970s when orphan boys were given to pedophiles for education.
Here are the stories of two such men who lived with one foster father who regularly raped children. The boys, who are now adults, could not talk to each other because the guardian forbade any form of communication between his wards. At the same time, in Germany, a man was considered a very respected person who brings great benefits to society.
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2022-08-17 12:19:01+00:00
Deadly Waters
Farmers in the Indonesian province of West Java have ulcers all over their bodies. They take water for irrigation from the local Citarum River, one of the dirtiest on the planet. Along its shores there are hundreds of pharmaceutical factories, food enterprises, textile factories. As seen from the drains, the water in the river constantly changes color: from milky white to inky black.
Water samples show an abundance of heavy metals, toxins, and E. coli. However, local farmers have no other option but to continue using the river's poisonous water, despite the fact that it cripples them and gradually kills the fields.
The Indonesian government is trying to solve the problem by prohibiting toxic discharges into the water and punishing violators. But people bypass the prohibitions, draining waste at night and building hidden underground pipes.
Meanwhile, the locals use Citarum has turned into a cesspool: piles of refuse can be seen floating in it. See what a huge river-dump looks like in our film Deadly Waters.
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2022-08-17 11:01:38+00:00
Bolivian DNA: Chasing the President
What do you know about former Bolivian President Evo Morales? Locals began to call him ‘brother-president’ after a convincing election victory in 2005.
‘In the election campaign prior to my first term, my fellow Bolivians didn’t say, ‘Evo will be president,’ they said ‘we’ll be presidents,’ said Morales.
Morales became the first indigenous head of state. He had a poor upbringing where family members slept on the stone floor at home. He began his political career as a leader of the coca producers' union. Morales himself uses coca leaves and believes that they help him to be healthy. And it looks like it true. Morales begins exercising at four o'clock in the morning and likes to play football.
An episode of our series Bolivian DNA, which we publish on Flag Day in Bolivia, is dedicated to the former Bolivian president.
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2022-08-16 14:00:39+00:00
‘We were doing a photo shoot and ‘Grad’ shells landed right next to us,’ says Alexandr, explaining how his wedding ceremony in July of 2014 in Lugansk was suddenly interrupted. At that time, Ukraine had already been carrying out an attack on the city.
Aleksandr and Yuliya have been married for 9 years already. Looking back on their wedding day, they say, they knew the danger involved, but still wanted to go ahead with it: ‘Life is uncertain, so better to be husband and wife.’
How does the couple live through the military conflict in Donbass today? Watch the video to know.
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2022-08-16 12:24:51+00:00
☝️This kind of hatred towards Russians is not uncommon. A wave of Russophobia, fanned by mainstream media and Western politicians, has had an effect on people in the West. Russians or people who speak Russian are being fired from their jobs, denied the right to rent flats or forcibly evicted without prior notice just because of their nationality. Not only adults but also children born in Europe are targeted.
How do Russians in Europe cope with such hostility? Watch our film Russophobia to find out.
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2022-08-16 12:24:36+00:00
‘Cut down Russian children. Come on!’ This horrific appeal for the massacre of Russian children scrawled on the asphalt appeared in front of a school in Berlin. At the same time, videos on the internet show Ukrainian mothers proclaiming that they do not feel sorry for Russian children and their 'whole nation must die.'
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2022-08-16 11:13:01+00:00
The Assange Story: How his Saga Began
Ten years age, Ecuador granted political asylum to Julian Assange. How did the story of the famous whistleblower begin?
In 2010, WikiLeaks, the international non-profit founded by Julian Assange, published documents showing evidence of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. After the material was released, the US started investigating Assange personally to prosecute him under the Espionage Act.
In 2012, Ecuador granted asylum to Julian, but after nearly seven years of receiving protection inside the Ecuadorian Embassy, he was incarcerated at London’s Belmarsh Prison.
In 2021, a British High Court ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face espionage charges. The WikiLeaks co-founder appealed the decision.
The Australian native is wanted in the US on 18 charges and faces up to 175 years in jail if found guilty. Assange’s supporters, family and loved ones repeatedly warned that his health had deteriorated significantly over the years he had spent in confinement.
Watch an excerpt from our documentary The Assange Story with Assange’s relatives’ interview for more details.
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2022-08-15 14:09:06+00:00
‘That's what the Azov people have done, damn them to hell! Look what they've done!’ An elderly resident of Mariupol showed the damage inflicted on her house in the course of shelling by the Ukrainian military.
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2022-08-15 11:29:01+00:00
The Congo Dandies
‘I’m wearing a Kenzo, made in Italy, and a pair of Weston shoes. Whatever I like, I buy!’ Bakachuka can spend a fortune on some brand suit. It’s hard to believe, but living in Congo’s slums, earning pennies, he doesn’t wear fakes. How is that possible to buy Giorgio Armani or Yves Saint Laurent suits if you live in a country with one of the poorest populations on Earth?
Bakachuka is a Sapeur, a member of La Sape, a subculture whose adherents prioritize fashion above all else. Congolese Sapeurs say it’s not just showing off, but a way of living and behaving.
On Congo's Independence Day, watch our documentary to find out more about the Congo dandies’ lifestyle.
Can you understand them?
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2022-08-14 14:15:16+00:00
‘If God gives you the chance to help, then you have to help.’ Ekaterina Martyanova, who in the past owned her own business, now works as a volunteer in the Donbass, where she faces the daily danger of coming under fire of the Ukrainian military.
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2022-08-14 11:57:01+00:00
Knockout Girls
‘I decided to learn how to box to be able to protect myself and my parents,’ said little Pakistani girl Areesha. She's among the fortunate kids whose family is not against her interest in boxing.
Most Pakistani citizens believe that boxing is not for women, whose place is in the kitchen: 'In our culture a woman is born to live and die within four walls'.
But the hard life of criminal neighborhoods of Karachi has forced women to get into boxing and learn how to defend themselves. Watch the documentary film Knockout Girls about what they face doing box.
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2022-08-14 10:03:05+00:00
Lugansk: Road to Independence 2022-2014
Surviving Under Ukraine's Shelling
‘I’ll never forgive them, never! Even my late granddad said: ‘It’s not an army, it’s a gang.’ Pyotr Ivaschenko, Stanichno-Lugansky district resident, refers these words to the Ukrainian military, who shelled his family and neighbours every day for weeks.
People living in Lugansk district suffered heavy bombing. For some time there were no deliveries to Lugansk. This was a time of food and water shortages. Locals didn’t have to live but survive when Ukraine started to attack them in 2014.
Listen to what Lugansk residents’ say about the first days of the Ukraine-Donbass military conflict.
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2022-08-13 14:07:20+00:00
‘We don’t judge, we heal. There are proper authorities who’ll judge.’ Alinat, a nurse from the Donbass military hospital, says she treats all the wounded from both sides of the conflict, regardless of their nationality and ideology. She believes that by helping everyone without exception, even the Nazis, she is doing her part to fight against the hatred sown by the Ukrainian military.
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2022-08-13 12:03:01+00:00
Lugansk: Road to Independence 2022-2014
Ukraine's First Strikes on Civilians
‘Give me my husband back, and I’ll forgive all. Or I’ll never forget or forgive anyone!’ Svetlana Gizay lost her husband, a LPR militia activist, in Ukraine’s very first strike on Lugansk.
The attack was sudden; eyewitnesses say they didn’t expect anything like that. In the attack, two Ukrainian planes shelled the center of Lugansk with 19 missiles. 8 people died, and dozens were wounded. The residents say the airstrike played a key role for many, who went on to join the militia. They hadn’t had military training before but were eager to defend their land.
The excerpt from our film Lugansk: Road to Independence 2022-2014 is about Ukraine’s initial attacks on LPR – central Lugansk and the village of Staraya Kondrashovka. Listen to eyewitness accounts of those tragic events.
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2022-08-13 09:54:01+00:00
Dying Alone
'If the deceased was heavy, you see fat all over the place. And you think to yourself: how awful! It's even hard to look at', says Japanese Yokoo, speaking about his job as a death cleaner. He works on behalf of Kodokushi, which means 'lonely death' in Japanese. This national phenomenon has become widespread in recent years.
Today, at the beginning of the Obon holiday in Japan, which is in remembrance of the dead, we post the film Dying Alone, which examines the Kodokushi and the job of the lonely death cleaner.
Watch it and consider the question if such a profession is essential.
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2022-08-12 14:05:41+00:00
‘The ‘Azov’ fighters didn’t think we’d drive them from residential areas and make them hide in Azovstal.’ Aleksander Khodakovsky, the founder of the Vostok battalion, whose fighters were among the first to enter Mariupol, described the background of the battles for Azovstal.
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2022-08-12 11:11:58+00:00
Inside Russia's Military Operation
‘We are trying to preserve the civilian infrastructure and the lives of civilians who’ve been forced to live under the Neo-Nazi Kiev regime.’
Military expert Yury Knutov explains the tactics of the Russian military in their special operation. He believes that Moscow does not use the American methods of fighting, for example, as demonstrated in Iraq: ‘The Americans conducted some 4,000 flights, almost wiping Iraq off the face of Earth. <…> Оnly after that did the land forces attack.’
How do military experts assess the course of the military special operation in Ukraine? Watch the premiere Inside Russia's Military operation to find out.
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2022-08-12 09:54:01+00:00
Enslaved by the Cult
'In my experience, once I became interested in men, my desire for women completely ceased, even for those closest to me.’
In the house of the Indonesian Saadi there is always an obedient boy-servant 'gemblak', who is obliged to unconditionally fulfill any whims of his owner. For 40 years, he has been served by at least a hundred boys. And how is this possible? Saadi calls himself a shaman Warok. His faith does not allow him to communicate with women - they deprive him of magical power. In return, the Waroks surround themselves with 12-17-year-old servant boys. A two-year contract is concluded with the parents of the children - for the 'rent' of the child they receive an ox or rice field.
Don’t miss the film Enslaved by the Cult, which tells the stories of those who served and those who hire boys.
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2022-08-11 16:23:41+00:00
Exclusive Interview With Russian Ambassador to Serbia
‘Kosovo has remained a hotbed of such smouldering conflict that can always be stirred up a little.’ Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko expects relations between Serbia and the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo to escalate in September. He said this in an exclusive interview with our film crew.
We recall that at the end of July there was another round of conflict between Belgrade and Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko believes that the issue is being fuelled by the West.
Why is it done? How will the situation involving the ban on entry into Kosovo with Serbian documents and number plates be resolved? Watch the full interview with Russian ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko.
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2022-08-11 13:58:15+00:00
‘The demonization against Russia coming from Western propaganda is very terrible thing, a very frightful thing!’ Journalist from Finland talks about the huge information war against the people of Donbass.
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2022-08-11 11:58:01+00:00
Afghanistan after the US
‘The Americans came and bombed mosques, schools, and wedding parties.’
A resident of Afghanistan, Haji Khan Vas, like many other of the country’s residents, hoped that with the arrival of US and NATO troops there would be changes for the better. But the opposite happened. Thousands of civilians have been killed in the 20 years that the allies have been fighting Al-Qaeda* and the Taliban*. Immediately after the departure of the Western military, the Taliban seized power instantly, forcing people to live according to strict Sharia law. Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee for their lives.
In addition to the United States and NATO, the International Security Assistance Force also took part in the military operation in Afghanistan. On this day, 19 years ago, they began operating in this country under the leadership of NATO.
See our film Afghanistan after the US to learn more about what those two decades were like for Afghans, and how their lives changed after the departure of Western forces.
*considered terrorist and banned in Russia
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2022-08-10 13:53:26+00:00
‘Grandpa’s a veteran. I grew up on the story how a medic took him off the battlefield.’ Marusya, a paramedic from Donbass, says it’s not so easy for a woman to get to the front, so she had to send a request four times to be called up for the military service.
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2022-08-10 12:02:05+00:00
Summer 2014:
Ukraine Suffers Defeat in the Battle of Ilovaisk
'They [Ukrainian military] lacked the strength and courage. Only our people had it. We were defending our homes, and they came as strangers.' A DPR militiaman codenamed "Cat" described how the Donbass army managed to maintain control over Ilovaysk.
On 10 August 2014, a fierce battle for Ilovaysk, a key strategic point for both republics and a major railway transport hub, began. According to the militia, it was the main battle of the summer of 2014. The Ukrainian army was defeated near Ilovaysk. This forced the authorities to negotiate with the republics and the Minsk agreements were signed in September.
An excerpt from our documentary Donbass War: Summer 2014 is about how the militias drove the Ukrainian army into the Ilovaysk cauldron and gained hope for peace in the Minsk agreements.
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2022-08-09 15:01:16+00:00
Atomic Message
The Survivors of Nagasaki Tell Their Stories
‘I found a body in the stream, and immediately knew it was my sister. She was all charred, and her face was gone,’ says Sanae Ikeda, one of the few people who survived the bombing of Nagasaki. On that terrible day he lost all of his brothers and sisters.
On August 9, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city. It took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Those caught in the center were instantly turned into dust, while countless others died from the burns and high doses of radiation they received.
Another eyewitness to the tragedy is a Japanese man named Sumiteru Taniguchi. He was delivering mail when the bomb fell on Nagasaki. Heat from the blast melted the 16-year-old’s skin on his back and left arm. Samiteru said he felt the pain of his burns for his entire life. He died of cancer at the age of 88. The stories of these atomic blast survivors are featured in our excerpt from the documentary Atomic Message.
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2022-08-09 10:45:35+00:00
ToxiCity
'Small children also work here. Some don't have parents. Some of them lost their fathers, others their mothers'.
Waste site co-ordinator Abdul talks about child labor at the dump Agbobloshie, a graveyard for electronics near the Ghanaian capital Accra.
Ghana is one of several African countries where goods are sent once they have been discarded by Western nations. Lots of unwanted goods, like digital appliances, arrive at the dump where they are dismantled for scrap.
Watch the film ToxiCity to learn why many Ghanaians still see the e-waste industry as a vital source of employment and why the West is sending its waste there.
#humanstories #disasters
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2022-08-08 15:52:14+00:00
‘What if that was happening to you, If there was a build-up of xenophobia around Belgium, and your neighbours were jumping and shouting: ‘Belgian on a branch!’ [Hang the Belgian!]’? What would you do? What would you feel? Just think about it…’ Russian Artist Sergey Puskepalis argues that Russophobia is based on irrational feelings.
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2022-08-08 10:02:06+00:00
Lugansk: Road to Independence
Went Through Pain and Loss
‘I’d just come for the body, but I realized that… there’s pain, sorrow, and grief everywhere here.’ Oksana Pestereva’s son died defending the inhabitants of the LPR. She traveled from Moscow to Donbass to retrieve his body and decided to stay there as volunteer: ‘When I got here and saw it all… I knew I had to do something for the people.’
Oksana’s story is in the excerpt from our documentary Lugansk: Road to Independence 2022-2014. Watch the entire film here.
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2022-08-07 14:00:29+00:00
‘Some inner voice just wouldn't let me ignore the tragedy that has befallen the Donbass residents.’ Entrepreneur Yuri Vaganov has from the beginning of Russia's military operation in Ukraine delivered food to the people of Donbass. At the same time, he also tries to improve the fate of the orphans.
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2022-08-07 12:00:57+00:00
Operation Liberation. Came to Defeat Nazim
‘They left us no other way out. The main goal of the operation is to defeat Nazism,’ says military analyst, Vladislav Shurygin. He says that the war against Nazism, which includes nationalist battalions such as Azov* and Aidar, would have been long over if not for extensive supplies from the West.
The nationalist battalions participate in the conflict as part of the Ukrainian regular army. Donbass residents say the fighters have brought them much suffering. They treated citizens cruelly, used them as human shields, and refused to let them leave the shelled cities.
An excerpt from our documentary Operation Liberation is about how the allied forces of Russia, DPR and LPR fight the Ukrainian nationalists in the special operation.
*ranked as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia
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2022-08-07 09:59:01+00:00
Black Holes of Yamal
Did you know that there is an unusual phenomenon on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia? Huge craters are appearing on the ground. These holes are so large that a 10-story building can easily fit inside of them.
These craters are a mystery even for the Nenets, the indigenous people of the Russian north. Some consider them to be God's punishment, while others believe in the alien version. But there is also a scientific version to explain them. Our film Black holes of Yamal looks at how these craters appear.
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2022-08-06 13:59:59+00:00
‘My family has owned this farm for more than a hundred years, but now we are facing a serious challenge due to high prices for fuel, fertilizers and cars,’ says Iowa farmer Jeremy Gustafson.
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2022-08-06 11:59:01+00:00
Undermined
'I work and help my mum, because I’ll always help her until the end of her days…'
10-years-old Nadia from Bolivia is deprived of a carefree childhood. For two years, the girl has been going to the market to trade after school. She has no other choice, otherwise the family will starve. In this Latin American country many children start working from a young age. They trade on the streets, serve clients in bars, and even extract silver in mines, risking their lives. In 2014, Bolivia even legalized child labor. 10 years is the minimum age at which children can start working. At the same time, Bolivia’s children’s unions are pushing for the legal working age to be decreased even further.
Find these heartbreaking stories about children who’re forced to work to survive - in our film Undermined, which we’re posting on the Independence Day of Bolivia.
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2022-08-05 15:03:42+00:00
Nuclear X-Files
‘Soviet nuclear scientists have worked hard on creating atomic weapons because we were well aware that the state was under threat,’ said Igor Kurchatov, known in the scientific world as the father of the Soviet nuclear bomb.
In the early 1940s, Soviet Intelligence reported on plans hatched by the US to carry out nuclear strikes on Soviet cities. In response, the Soviet authorities gathered the leading physicists, mathematicians, and engineers to create a nuclear weapon that could counter this threat. These people averted a global tragedy.
On August, 5, 1963 the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Test in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water was signed by the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the USA. The Treaty had tremendous significance as it limited the development of nuclear weapons. The official signing of the treaty happened 4 years after the USSR initiated negotiations on the issue.
So, on this day, we post the film Nuclear X-Files, in which Soviet scientists and intelligence officers tell how they averted a nuclear war.
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2022-08-05 14:15:27+00:00
‘What is ‘The Library’? It’s two cold storage areas where Ukrainian military interrogated people. This is where torture occurred. They broke people!’
Vasiliy Prozorov, a former officer of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), told how the Ukrainian military mocked people.
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2022-08-05 10:01:27+00:00
Operation Liberation. Donbass Military Conflict Chronicle
‘[Ukrainian military] are fascists, there are no other words, it’s not Ukraine. We didn’t come to them, they came to us,’ said a DPR militiaman, codenamed ‘Yakut’ in 2014. He was one of those who defended the Donetsk airport from the Ukrainian forces.
The fighting for the Airport lasted 240 days. Like Maidan, the Odessa clashes, Battle for Debaltsevo and Slavyansk, it became one of the critical events of the Ukraine-Donbass conflict.
Watch an excerpt from our documentary Operation Liberation to remember some of the major flashpoints in the conflict.
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2022-08-04 14:10:45+00:00
‘People need water, food and candles, as they are living without light.’ In the spring of 2022, the poet Anna Dolgareva went to Donbass to serve as a volunteer to help people who were hiding in basements from the shelling of the Ukrainian army. Today Anna celebrates her birthday. The PS team extends its congratulations and wishes her a long, happy and peaceful life!
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2022-08-04 12:00:44+00:00
Foreign Fighters of Donbass.
Life in a monastery shelled every day
‘My blood pressure was 200/120 and pills didn’t help me. I had severe heart pains. I didn’t think I’d live,’ says an elderly woman, hiding in a monastery from Ukrainian shells, in comments to our film crew. Many houses in the village of Nikolskoe were severely damaged.
The only place left for many people as a shelter was the Nikolo-Vasilievsky Monastery. When our film crew visited the place, the Ukrainian troops had already been shelling it for three months. How did people survive there?
Find out in our excerpt from Foreign Fighters of Donbass.
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2022-08-04 11:03:43+00:00
🔗There is a real information war all over the world. The main weapon is fakes. And it is not so easy to distinguish reality from propagandists' fiction.
The "War on Fakes" channel is the main channel for exposing false news and misinformation.
Subscribe to "War on Fakes" and trust nothing but the facts!
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2022-08-04 10:33:29+00:00
Beirut: Picking Up the Pieces
‘I thought it was a nuclear blast. Limbs and blood were everywhere,’ Fouad El Herzek remembers the horrific explosion that rocked Beirut 2 years ago. Fouad, together with some 300,000 other people, became homeless after his house was completely destroyed. A massive explosion destroyed the port, killing hundreds and injuring thousands.
Tonnes of ammonium nitrate had been stored in the port for years with no safety measures in place. Many who lost loved ones are still waiting for the government to name the culprits. The tragedy has prompted fury among residents, who call for immediate action. They want to know who was aware of the danger but did nothing to prevent the explosion.
On the day of the catastrophe watch our documentary Beirut: Picking Up the Pieces to listen to explosion victims’ stories.
#humanstories #history
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2022-08-03 14:01:32+00:00
‘Get the info, grab the bags, drive, grab the patients, bring them here and go back.’ This is how paramedic Eva describes her work, which is to remove injured Donbass fighters from the battlefield. It's amazing how this woman manages to keep up her spirits and sense of humor.
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2022-08-03 12:35:45+00:00
Red Waters
‘The way we are killing the whales is as good as it can be’. These are the words of a Faroese whale hunter. They're sure that they really 'care about the animals'.
Slaughtering whales and dolphins is a Faroe Islands tradition. This year 99 dolphins were slaughtered as part of that tradition. In fact, so many of these sea creatures are butchered that the sea regularly turns red. Do you think this practice should be stopped?
Learn more about this Faroe tradition in the documentary film Red Waters.
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2022-08-02 14:04:58+00:00
'No Russian ruler has done as much evil as Western leaders have done themselves.' Three political scientists from the US, UK and Nicaragua talk about the roots of Russophobia, showing how it is meaninglessness.
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2022-08-02 11:59:01+00:00
Marijuana Victims: Colorado
‘I guess it was the only way he knew how to end his pain’, says Laura Stack about her son Johnny who took his own life at the age of 19.
Laura blames recreational marijuana use that flooded the state of Colorado after legislation passed in 2012 made cannabis legal. Johnny had used marijuana since the age of 14. Today, cannabis is legal for recreational use in 19 states and for medical use in 37 states. According to Statista, the number of cannabis users in the US has to become 4,7 million in 2022. And the stuff they use is much more dangerous than years before.
Watch the film Marijuana Victims: Colorado about how marijuana can affect human health and society.
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2022-08-02 10:06:50+00:00
Foreign Fighters of Donbass. Militiamen from Italy and Mexico
‘I’m fighting because this is my home now. I can’t sit by and watch, waiting for it all to end.’
A Donbass volunteer, codenamed ‘Spartacus’ came from Italy and joined the ‘Vostok’ battalion in 2014. He now has a wife and two kids here. During the conflict, ‘Spartacus’ has been wounded three times, but still keeps defending the citizens of Donbass.
Ignacio, 55, is from Mexico and has almost the very same story. He also came to Donbass to serve as a volunteer.
What made an Italian and a Mexican want to leave their homelands to perform this sort of work? Find out in our excerpt from Foreign Fighters of Donbass.
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2022-08-01 16:05:57+00:00
‘I’m not ashamed at all. Even if I have something to repent, it has nothing to do with my military service.’ How do Ukrainian prisoners of war live after being captured at the Azvostal plant in Mariupol?
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2022-08-01 15:02:57+00:00
Voodoo Brides
Do you know that voodoo is an official religion in some countries?
For example, in Benin. There, children are sent to voodoo convents instead of school. They are given new names; it is forbidden to use their original ones. Speaking their native language is also prohibited.
It is not easy to return to normal life. The liberation ceremony costs 100, 000 Congolese Francs (almost $50). For most families, this is unaffordable. Local human rights activists attempt to negotiate price reductions to free the children. They also fight to reduce the time that children spend in convents. But is it possible to defeat the ancient cult?
To find out, watch our film Voodoo Brides, which we're posting on Independence Day in Benin.
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2022-08-01 11:15:26+00:00
US Farm Crisis
‘Your [Russian] gas companies are going to get blamed for the problem, but they're not the problem [since] they would like to maximise output. So Biden really can't blame Putin for causing the problem because he himself caused the problem,’ says American agronomist Robert Streit.
For 40 years, he has been consulting US farmers, who now find themselves in a difficult situation. Many of them may lose their businesses at any moment. Due to rising prices for fuels and fertilizers, the cost of growing crops barely pays off, and oftentimes the cash flow is negative. However, the difficulties of farmers are the difficulties of millions of Americans.
Agricultural enterprises are forced to raise prices for their products, while the cost of some food products have risen by almost a third. Watch our premiere US Farm Crisis to learn more about the difficulties faced by American agriculture.
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