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Hidden Potential: Russia Builds Two More Submarines
The multirole Yasen-class nuclear sub Arkhangelsk and the diesel-electric Lada-class Velikiye Luki have been laid down as part of Submariners' Day celebrations.
Two new submarines will be laid down to celebrate Russian Submariners' Day on March 19, the Arkhangelsk, a 120-meter Yasen-class nuclear submarine and Velikiye Luki, a 72-meter Lada-class diesel-electric submarine as part of the rearmament program which will complete in 2020.
A Strategic Goal
Currently there is only one Yasen-class multirole submarine in the Russian Navy, the Severodvinsk, seven of which are expected to be made. Notably, the submarines are made using solely Russian defense industries, as components made in the former USSR have been phased out.
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Multirole nuclear submarines have been growing in importance internationally, and in the US Navy, they have been slowly pushing out strategic subs, as since 2004, 11 Virginia-class submarines have been built and seven more are in the works. Meanwhile, the last strategic nuclear sub made in the US, the Ohio-class USS Louisiana, was laid down in 1992.
Strategic nuclear submarines and multirole submarines form the foundation of the Russian Navy's Submarine Forces. By 2020, the state rearmament program projects that the navy will receive eight Borei-class strategic nuclear submarines, three of which have already entered service, and two more of which will be laid down by 2016.
Quieter Than Water
Meanwhile, Lada-class diesel submarines are meant to replace the Varshavianka-class, two of which are currently in service in the Black Sea Fleet, a third undergoing trials, and three more are under construction but expected to be in service by in 2016, after which the contract won't be renewed. The Lada was meant to replace the Varshavianka in the late 1990s, but issues with the engine and acoustic isolation caused the first ship, the Saint Petersburg, to only be finished in 2010.
The new Velikiye Luki submarine will be built according to a new, modernized project, and will have improved stealth parameters and extended autonomous operation, according to Navy Commander Viktor Chirkov. This most likely means a new engine which does not depend on the submarine's oxygen supply, which gives submarines improved stealth and allows them to stay underwater longer.
The Varshavianka, called the Improved Kilo in NATO terminology, has been called the Black Hole by the organization because of their quiet operation. The project dates back to the 1970s, and is considered one of the best diesel submarine projects, as despite its stealth, it has six 533-mm torpedo bays which automatically reload every 15 seconds.
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Crimean Wines Winning Worldwide Recognition, Thousands of Hectares Planted After Reunification!
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Russian sparkling wine gained international recognition. The 23rd International professional, one of a kind, wine competition awarded the Grand Prix to the Russian brand Paradisio by the Novy Svet winery. The competent jury, consisting of recognized experts, including foreign ones, liked the Crimean collectible sparkling wine. President of the International Organization of Vine and Wine Régina Vanderlinde awarded the winners for the first time.
Russian tourists and investment in South Karelia fuels economic boom
Lake Saimaa, Finland - 8 February 2013
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Helsinki, Finland - 1 February 2013
6. Mid of Finland's Minister for International Trade, Alex Stubb, walking into office
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Stubb, Finnish Minister for International Trade:
My message is 'be open'. The Russian consumer is like any consumer. Russians are, at the end of the day, especially in these neck of the woods, very European. If you look at Russians coming from Moscow or St Petersburg, they are by definition, in my mind, nowadays European. Negotiating with Russians is always a challenge, but business negotiations are always tough. Russia is opening up. Russia has just joined the WTO (World Trade Organisation). It's not going to go without any problems. But nevertheless, we're seeing a Russia that is working more closely with the West. So be open, be liberal and let the Russian consumer in. And reciprocate.
Lappeenranta, Finland - 7 February 2013
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I think Finland, it was because it was so close to Russia. And with Finland it is the possibility to make products in EU (European Union) GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) conditions. And it is the possibility for Russian owners to produce EU GMP products and then in the future they can, I think, sell these products in EU markets too.
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Lappeenranta, Finland - 8 February 2013
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Kimmo Jarva, Mayor of Lappeenranta:
It's very important work for us, we think that when we look around we've got 8 (m) million people living about 200 kilometre circle from Lappeenranta. Helsinki is as near as St Petersburg, which is much bigger of course.
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Lake Saimaa, Finland - 8 February 2013
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For thousands of Russians each day, the Finnish province of South Karelia is their first stop in Finland.
Their holiday habits - as well as substantial two-way investment - are helping to fuel an economic boom in the region and buck the trend of many eurozone countries.
Lake Saimaa, near the city of Lappeenranta, is part of the attraction. A luxury resort has sprung up on the lakeshore and now construction is underway on thousands more bedrooms, a shopping mall, and soon a nearby IKEA superstore.
The influx of visitors, high spending tax-free tourists on day trips and the growing amount of cross-border investment between the two countries means the unemployment rate in South Karelia stood at 5-point-8 per cent at the end of 2012, according to Finnish government statistics.
That's down 2.7 percent from the previous year and about half the eurozone average.
Finland's Minister for International Trade, Alex Stubb, says that other EU countries should be open when dealing with Russia.
Negotiating with Russians is always a challenge, but business negotiations are always tough, says Stubb, who also holds the cabinet portfolio of Minister for EU Affairs.
President Niinisto will also attend a trade fair in the Russian capital to promote Finnish products.
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Рейсы Арктического плавучего университета (АПУ 2011-2017)
Арктический плавучий университет —
это инновационный проект, объединяющий науку и образование арктических территорий с целью сохранения арктической среды и обеспечения устойчивого развития региона для будущих поколений.
Организаторы проекта: Северный (Арктический) федеральный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова; ФГБУ Северное управление по гидрометеорологии и мониторингу окружающей среды.
Проект реализуется посредством организации и проведения морских комплексных научно-образовательных экспедиций в Арктическом регионе.
Инновационность проекта заключается в интеграции образовательного и научно-исследовательского процессов, обеспечивающих успешное выполнение целей проекта.
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Шиес. Как люди защищают свою землю
Шиес: большой народный протест против московского мусора. История, интервью, палаточный лагерь активистов.
Маленькая станция Шиес в Архангельской области, ещё несколько лет назад про неё никто не слышал. А сегодня Шиес стал центром внимания для всей России. Власти хотят свозить сюда московский мусор, но они встретили беспрецедентное народное сопротивление. В этом фильме я постараюсь разобраться, что сейчас происходит на Шиесе.
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Forgotten Leaders. Episode 1. Felix Dzerzhinsky. Documentary. English Subtitles. StarMediaEN
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The project provisionally titled “Forgotten Leaders” is a series of seven films, each featuring an individual from the leaders of the Soviet state in power during the time period from 1920 to 1953. Each episode is a filmed portrait depicting the story of life, political and public activities of its hero. The heroes of “The Forgotten Leaders” are
individuals ambiguous from the perspective of the Russian and world’s history and odious and often sharply negative in the eyes of public consciousness. Unfortunately, when labeling, we often forget that “each individual
is a tangle of contradictions” and that “history is written by the victors”. Seven men. Seven lives. One era. What was behind their decisions and at what was the price they paid for their deeds?
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The project “Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East” depicts the most important events and battles of World War II. The task of the project is to illustrate the history of the war by means of computer graphics, motion-picture images and wartime actuality shots.
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Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd, on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad, and on 1 October 1991 back to its original name. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east.
Saint Petersburg is one of the most modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. Many foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg has a significant historical and cultural heritage.
The 18th and 19th-century architectural ensemble of the city and its environs is preserved in virtually unchanged form. For various reasons (including large-scale destruction during World War II and construction of modern buildings during the postwar period in the largest historical centers of Europe), Saint Petersburg has become a unique reserve of European architectural styles of the past three centuries. Saint Petersburg's loss of capital city status helped the city to retain many of its pre-revolutionary buildings, as modern architectural 'prestige projects' tended to be built in Moscow; this largely prevented the rise of mid-to-late-20th-century architecture and helped maintain the architectural appearance of the historic city center.
Saint Petersburg is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list as an area with 36 historical architectural complexes and around 4000 outstanding individual monuments of architecture, history and culture. New tourist programs and sightseeing tours have been developed for those wishing to see Saint Petersburg's cultural heritage.
The city has 221 museums, 2000 libraries, more than 80 theaters, 100 concert organizations, 45 galleries and exhibition halls, 62 cinemas and around 80 other cultural establishments. Every year the city hosts around 100 festivals and various competitions of art and culture, including more than 50 international ones.
Despite the economic instability of the 1990s, not a single major theatre or museum was closed in Saint Petersburg; on the contrary many new ones opened, for example a private museum of puppets (opened in 1999) is the third museum of its kind in Russia, where collections of more than 2000 dolls are presented including 'The multinational Saint Petersburg' and 'Pushkin's Petersburg'. The museum world of Saint Petersburg is incredibly diverse. The city is not only home to the world-famous Hermitage Museum and the Russian Museum with its rich collection of Russian art, but also the palaces of Saint Petersburg and its suburbs, so-called small town museums and others like the museum of famous Russian writer Dostoyevsky; Museum of Musical Instruments, the museum of decorative arts and the museum of professional orientation.
The musical life of Saint Petersburg is rich and diverse, with the city now playing host to a number of annual carnivals.
Ballet performances occupy a special place in the cultural life of Saint Petersburg. The Petersburg School of Ballet is named as one of the best in the world. Traditions of the Russian classical school have been passed down from generation to generation among outstanding educators. The art of famous and prominent Saint Petersburg dancers like Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, Mikhail Baryshnikov was, and is, admired throughout the world. Contemporary Petersburg ballet is made up not only of traditional Russian classical school, but also ballets by those like Boris Eifman, who expanded the scope of strict classical Russian ballet to almost unimaginable limits. Remaining faithful to the classical basis (he was a choreographer at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet), he combined classical ballet with the avant-garde style, and then, in turn, with acrobatics, rhythmic gymnastics, dramatic expressiveness, cinema, color, light, and finally with spoken word.
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Chas Freeman ─ Diplomacy as Strategy
The first of three lectures examining diplomatic doctrine as a guide to action in foreign policy, Diplomacy as Strategy will draw on historical and contemporary examples of American and foreign statecraft to explore geopolitical and geoeconomic influence through diplomatic maneuver aimed at redirecting the strategic perceptions, behavior, alignment, and foreign policy calculus of other states.
Д.Медведев.Развитие сельского хозяйства.02.10.09.Part 2
Speech at Meeting on Agriculture Sector Development.Part 2
October 2, 2009
Maloarkhangelsk, Orel Region
Вступительное слово на совещании по вопросам развития сельского хозяйства.
2 октября 2009 года
Орловская область, Малоархангельск
Russia has regained its status as one of the worlds major grain producers and is now one of the biggest grain exporters alongside the United States, Canada, and the European Union. We hosted the Grain Forum this year. The event was a success and we declared our ambitions big ambitions. Just to remind you of our goals, we plan to increase our grain export capacity to around 50 million tons over the coming eight or ten years, making our country a world leader in this sector. Despite our difficult climate, we have all the right conditions to achieve this goal. We only need to speed up the process. This year, Russia should be able to export an estimated 20 million tons, perhaps slightly less or slightly more, time will tell. But this is all tied into the logistics issue as well. I said before that our storage facilities need modernisation and that we have insufficient transport capacity. In the Central Federal District alone existing capacity is sufficient for long-term storage of no more than 40 percent of the harvest collected.
I spoke with the Governor of Kursk Region Alexander Mikhailov yesterday, while I was in Kursk. Last year saw a good harvest, and the grain was sold in April. The money for it has already been paid, but the grain is still in the silos. What do we do in this situation? Where will we store this years harvest? This years harvest is also quite big.
We have infrastructure bottlenecks throughout the whole chain, from the silos to the port facilities. Total grain handling capacity at our ports currently comes to around 20 million tons, but if we want to reach export level we need to increase capacity to 50 million tons. We should aim at bringing capacity up to 30 million-40 million tons over the next few years. In other words, we need to double grain handling capacity in the ports over the coming years. This is not an easy undertaking. The main export route at the moment is via the Black Sea, with half of our grain exports going through the deep water port of Novorossiysk. But we want to diversify our grain exports, and this includes developing exports to the Asia-Pacific region countries.
The problem here is that our three ports in the Far East, Nakhodka, Vladivostok and Vanino, have combined capacity of just 2 million tons. This is nothing, and so decisions are needed. We need to build new grain handling facilities and new silos, and we also need specialised transport vehicles and need to develop the approach roads. I hope that the recently created United Grain Company will help in this work. One of its tasks is to develop the grain markets infrastructure, including by raising private investment. Of course, state funding alone cannot resolve all of these problems.
Another problem is that of developing the foodstuff and processing industries. We have not seen much progress in this sector yet. We began working more actively on this issue when the national project got underway, but we still do not have full agricultural processing. Unfortunately, it is the farmers themselves who end up bearing a large share of the costs in the processing and sales sectors, and this is slowing down farm development and agricultural production development in general. We need to encourage competition in order to change this situation. The crisis period makes this particularly important, and this is the task now before the regions and the responsible agencies. We need to develop a modern foodstuff and processing industry, and only then will be able to really tackle the employment problem. We all know that a third of the countrys population works in the countryside. This is the result of our countrys historical development. This creates a number of problems, but it also gives us a number of advantages. It creates a particular hard-working way of life, a difficult life, especially given the insufficient mechanisation and backwardness in many areas of agriculture. This is something we all need to work on together then, all the more so as the experts calculate that one agricultural worker creates jobs for ten people in processing and sales. This creates a multiplication effect then that benefits other people.
It is hard to compete against foreign traders with access to cheap credit resources. Lending to the agriculture sector is therefore still one of our priorities. I expect that you will share your views on the current situation today and on the opportunities we have, including through the state support programmes that will remain in place in a number of areas.
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Уникальный опыт Иркутска по сохранению исторической деревянной застройки в городе.
Иркутску очень повезло: в городе осталось много деревянной застройки, целые кварталы, с которыми можно работать! Как у них это получилось? Можно ли применить подобный опыт на Вологду, Рязань и другие города? Давайте узнаем и главное — посмотрим на то сокровище города, которое удалось спасти.
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Проект посвящен 65-й годовщине Великой Победы Фильм рассказывает о главных событиях и сражениях Великой Отечественной войны. Уникальность проекта в широком использовании компьютерной графики в сочетании с кинохроникой военных лет. Благодаря новейшим технологиям зритель, даже неискушенный в вопросах истории, привычный к современному киноязыку, получает возможность, с одной стороны, разобраться в подробностях событий, с другой, - в полной мере ощутить масштабность и драматизм великой войны.
Серия 14. Партизаны:
Рассматривается организация партизанских отрядов, создание Центрального штаба партизанского движения при Ставке Верховного главнокомандования в мае 1942 года. На правобережную Украину штаб направил группы отрядов под командованием Ковпака и Сабурова. В основном партизанские формирования действовали в тылах немецких групп армий «Север» и «Центр»: в Брянской, Витебской, Смоленской, Новгородской и Ленинградских областях; крупная группировка сражалась в Крыму. Для противодействия партизанам немецкое командование в мае-июне 1943-го года сняло с фронта армейские части. Весной 1944-го немцы начали операцию по уничтожению Полоцко-Лепельской партизанской зоны; через месяц после ее разгрома началась операция «Багратион». Советские части полностью освободили Белоруссию от оккупантов и многие партизаны влились в ряды Красной армии.
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has b ...
Forgotten Leaders. Episode 2. Kliment Voroshilov. Documentary. English Subtitles. StarMediaEN
All Episodes of Forgotten Leaders
The project provisionally titled “Forgotten Leaders” is a series of seven films, each featuring an individual from the leaders of the Soviet state in power during the time period from 1920 to 1953. Each episode is a filmed portrait depicting the story of life, political and public activities of its hero. The heroes of “The Forgotten Leaders” are
individuals ambiguous from the perspective of the Russian and world’s history and odious and often sharply negative in the eyes of public consciousness. Unfortunately, when labeling, we often forget that “each individual
is a tangle of contradictions” and that “history is written by the victors”. Seven men. Seven lives. One era. What was behind their decisions and at what was the price they paid for their deeds?
Type: historical reenactment
Genre: docudrama
Year of production: 2016
Number of episodes: 8
Directed by: Pavel Sergatskov
Written by: Aleksandr Kolpakydy, Egor Vasilyev, Aleksandr Lukyanov, Vasiliy Shevtsov, Inna Nechaykyna
Production designer: Aleksandr Khilyarevskiy
Director of photography: Aleksandr Kiper
Music by: Boris Kukoba
Producers: Valeriy Babich , Vlad Ryashin
Cast: Farid Takhiev, Roman Vusotskiy, Sergey Tishin, Aleksandr Suvorov, Anton Morozov, Aleksey Ustinov, Adam Bulkhuchev
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Under Secretary Hormats Delivers Remarks at the U.S. - Russia Innovation Working Group
Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Robert D. Hormats delivers remarks at the U.S. - Russia Innovation Working Group Executive Session in Washington, DC on April 25, 2013. Under Secretary Hormats' as-prepared remarks can be found at
Typhoon-class submarine [HD]-2014
The Project 941 or Akula, Russian Акула (Shark) class submarine (NATO reporting name: Typhoon) is a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine deployed by the Soviet Navy in the 1980s. With a submerged displacement of 48,000 tons,the Typhoons are the largest class of submarine ever built, large enough to accommodate decent living facilities for the crew when submerged for months on end.he source of the NATO reporting name remains unclear, although it is often claimed to be related to the use of the word typhoon (тайфун) by Leonid Brezhnev in a 1974 speech while describing a new type of nuclear ballistic missile submarine.
The Russian Navy canceled its Typhoon modernization program in March 2012, stating that modernizing one Typhoon would be as expensive as building two new Borei-class submarines.[9] With the announcement that Russia has eliminated the last SS-N-20 Sturgeon SLBMs in September 2012, the remaining Typhoons have reached the end of service.
Полигон Урдома: Заражение / Urdoma's Polygon: The Infection
Первый видеосюжет о стройке на станции Шиес (Архангельская область). Местные жители уверены, что данный проект, связанный с московскими инвесторами, заключается в строительстве мусорного полигона. Региональные власти скрывают информацию от граждан, поэтому общественные активисты взяли инициативу в свои руки и ищут Правду самостоятельно. Обнаруженные сведения подтверждают их худшие опасения, но на данный момент, вопросов больше, чем ответов. Продолжение следует.
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The first video about the construction site at the station Shies (Arkhangelsk region of Russian Federation). Local residents are sure that this project, connected with Moscow investors, is to build a garbage landfill. Regional authorities hide information from citizens, so public activists took the initiative and are looking for the Truth on their own. The findings confirm their worst fears, but at the moment, there are more questions than answers. To be continued.
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I'm Adopted - The Interview w/ Meg Andrews (2018)
I sit down with my friend Meg Andrews to talk about my journey and story with the search for my birth parents in Russia, my work with helping others adopted connect around the world with 'I'm Adopted' and the reason why I wrote my book 'I'm Adopted'.
This interview goes through several moments in my life that I talked about in my book. Thank you Meg for sitting down with me and talking about what's important to me with helping others around the world connect.
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• (Free PDF) English and Russian
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Russian Subtitles provided by Nastya Andrianova - Click on the Subtitles to Select Russian. Also available with English subtitles.
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