Learn Russian: From St Petersburg to Baikal by Car. The Biggest Lenin's Head
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This is the 6th video about my trip from Petersburg to Lake Baikal this July. This time I want to tell you about the city where you can see the world biggest Lenin's head .
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Preview of Bush's visit to Russia after Germany
Moscow - File, 1993
1. Wide shot of central Moscow
2. Kremlin towers
3. Wide of the then presidents George Bush (Senior) and Boris Yeltsin walking around Kremlin
4. Czar Cannon
Moscow - File, 1995
5. Former US President Bill Clinton walking
6. Russian soldiers
7. Yeltsin greeting Clinton in Kremlin
Ljubljana, Slovenia - File, 2001
8. Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands with US President George W Bush
9. Mid of Putin and Bush
Moscow - May 21, 2002
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Vyacheslav Nikonov, President of Politika Foundation
Summits were important in the times of bipolar confrontation. Since there is no bipolar confrontation any more, the summits do lose their significance. Actually, there is no fuss about President Bush meeting Prime Minister Blair or President Chirac. I do not think there should be any drama in Putin meeting George Bush.
Vologda, Northern Russia - File, 1997
11. Various of Topol M missiles
12. Wide of missile blast-off
Moscow - File, May 16, 2002
13. Wide of Lenin statue
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Zyuganov, Communist Party Leader
Putin will be forced to destroy nuclear warheads while the other side will only dictate the terms. They (Americans) will store theirs close-by and install them when necessary on delivery vehicles. The agreement is a mere scrap of paper, dictated by the American side, and which Putin is ready to sign without thorough examination.
Moscow - File, May 15, 2002
15. Wide of round table discussion on summit at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
16. Mid of delegates debating
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Kuchins, Senior Researcher, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
There are some inside the administration and outside the administration who describe the decision to reach an agreement as a concession.
Moscow - File, May 9, 2002
18. Wide of Red Square
19. Mid of Putin attending Victory Day military parade
20. Low shot of soldiers marching at Victory Day parade
STORYLINE:
Preparations are underway for U-S President George W Bush's visit to Russia on Wednesday.
On Friday, Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin will sign a treaty to slash each country's nuclear arsenal from about six-thousand warheads to between 1-thousand-700 and 2-thousand-200 over the next decade.
While celebrating the arms pact, Bush will urge Putin to scale back Russia's military and nuclear technology dealings with Iran.
The United States has long expressed concern with Russian conventional arms sales to Iran, as well as the help it's given Iran in building nuclear power plants.
The U-S-led war on terror and the future of Iraq are also expected to come up in the talks between Bush and Putin.
Bush goes to Europe at a time of transatlantic trade tensions, aggravated by U-S tariffs on steel.
The United States has another trade dispute with Russia over the country's restrictions on imports of U-S poultry.
The subject of the U-S national missile defence is likely to be discussed, but there's no sign that the Bush administration has changed its plans to follow through on its announced withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty so such a system can be built.
Vyacheslav Nikonov, president of the private political think-tank Politika Foundation, says Bush-Putin relations aren't defined by Cold War politics and that this summit will be no different from Bush's meetings with British and French leaders.
The communists, however, are capitalising on anti-American feelings left over from the collapse of the Soviet Union and perceptions that the U-S is trying to establish a position as the single remaining military super-power.
Bush's European trip also includes Germany, France and Italy.
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Russians and vodka - From Moscow to Murmansk
That the Russians like to drink is a known fact. Vodka is the national drink and wherever you come, whether you want it or not, for a vodka or two, there is always a good reason to have a drink. Apart from being a source of fraternization, vodka is also the source of a lot of sorrow.
Original title: The spirit in the bottle
In the first series: From Moscow to Magadan, Jelle Brandt Corstius traveled from West to East, focusing on the endless Russian countryside and the villages. In this second series: From Moscow to Murmansk, he travels from North to South along the largest river of Russia: the Volga River. A trip along the relatively unknown cities like Murmansk, Volgograd, Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, but also to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Through topics like women in Russia, new censorship, the environmental problem from Russian perspective and the ideological vacuum, a relatively unknown side of Russia is once again exposed.
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
Final editor: Gert-Jan Hox
Directed by: Hans Pool
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The Island of Valaam. / Остров Валаам.
Valaam is the island in Republic of Karelia of Russia, located in the Northern part of the largest freshwater lakes in Europe - Ladoga, it is the largest island in the Valaam archipelago. On the island there is the village of Valaam, and the monument of Russian architecture - the Valaam monastery, founded before the baptism of Russia, in the year 960, the monk Sergius and Herman, the Greek Holy monks. Transfiguration monastery became the spiritual center of Ladoga lands. It is believed that in ancient times on the island, was located the main temple of Veles (or Volos) and Perun, who were the main deities for the Gentiles living close. The monastic tradition says that the Holy Apostle Andrew, enlightener of the Scythians and the Slavic peoples, moving along the route from the Varangians to the Greeks, blessed of cross the mountain on the island. In the 15th century the monastery was called the Great Lavra or the Northern Athos. Here was the center of world Orthodoxy and writing of books. By the early 16th century in the monastery lived 600 monks. Now in the monastery about two hundred inhabitants. Life revived in All saints, the Baptist, St. Nicholas, Svyatoostrovsky, Sergievsky sketes.
Period 1839-1917 is the heyday of the monastery. In 1989 on December 13, the day of memory of St. Andrew, when the island came six monks, the monastery began the process of revival. And 16 years later, in 2005, was first heard 1000-pound bell Andrew, mounted on the bell tower in the monastery in the framework of the restoration of an ancient belfry. The feast of the Nativity of the blessed virgin Mary September 21, 2008 Patriarch Alexy II consecrated the St. Vladimir skete on Valaam island and conducted the first divine Liturgy in the temple. Resurrection skete, located above Big Nikon Bay, on the mountain, was built in the early twentieth century in the place where according to tradition St. The Apostle Andrew erected a stone cross. Valaam island attracts every year thousands of tourists. The reason - the Valaam Islands have a unique nature, pine forests on the cliffs, warm and quiet inland lakes, the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam monastery. During its formation, the monks brought the land, seeds and seedlings of plants from different parts of our country. For such a Northern location is not usual to see some trees and grass. The age of some of them is over three hundred years. The work of the Valaam monks are so fundamental that some areas are truly hand-made. Balaam - the natural reserve, a unique monument of Park art. There are more than 480 species of plants. The island was visited repeatedly by emperors Alexander I, Alexander II, and other members of the imperial family and also Tchaikovsky and Mendeleyev.
The present life of the monastery, another indication that faith invariably raises and restores the monastery from the ruins. So it was throughout the history of Valaam barbarous raids of the Swedes in ancient times, the bombing and the uncertain fate of the monastery during World War 2, it complete, it would seem that the devastation in the era of atheism – monastic life always has returned to these shores.
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Ivan Konev
Ivan Stepanovich Konev (Russian: Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев; 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1897 – 21 May 1973), was a Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, retook much of Eastern Europe from occupation by the Axis Powers, and helped in the capture of Germany's capital, Berlin.
In 1956, as the Commander of Warsaw Pact forces, Konev led the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution by Soviet armoured divisions.
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Property of the Republic (1972) movie
Detective story takes place during the Civil War in Russia. Spring 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of the former court fencing teacher Shilovsky and homeless boy Keshka, steals from abandoned mansion collection of paintings and sculptures. Hoping across the border, criminals roam the circus troupe, and they are being tailed by an employee of Criminal Investigation - Makar Ovchinnikov.
Property of the Republic (1972) movie
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime
Production company: Gorky Film Studio
Directed by Vladimir Bychkov
Produced by Mark Ruzhansky, Yefim Lebedinsky
Written by Isai Kuznetsov, Avenir Zac
Music by Yevgeny Krylatov
Cinematography: Alexander Filatov, Yuri Malinovsky, Benzion Monastyrskiy
Cast:
Oleg Tabakov as Makar Ovchinnikov
Andrei Mironov as Shilovsky aka Marquis
Vitya Galkin as homeless Keshka
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as Carl Genrikhovich Vitol
Spartak Mishulin as Ilya Tarakanov
Mikhail Ekaterininskiy as Director of the Museum
Olga Zhiznyeva as Duchess Tikhvinskaya
Yuri Tolubeyev as criminologist Prokofy Filippovich Dobrovo
Igor Kvasha as Ataman Lagutin
Vladimir Grammatikov as magician
Rogvold Sukhoverko as Commissioner Kochet
Georgy Millyar as old railroad
Arkady Tolbuzin as director
Alexander Gilev - Chastuhka
Dnipropetrovsk Conservatory
Concert Brass Band
Conductor - Igor Gruzin
Soloists - Panchenko Sergiy,
Nevodnichiy Yuriy,
Chernikov Mykhailo,
Savva Romanovskiy
Российская Империя: Александр II, часть 1. [11/16] [Eng Sub]
Российская Империя. Александр II. Часть первая.
* Воспитание будущего императора.
* Окончание Кавказской войны.
* Отмена крепостного права и другие реформы.
* Подробности продажи Аляски.
* История создания журнала «Современник».
* Присоединение Средней Азии.
* Русский ситец как высшее достижение отечественной лёгкой промышленности.
* Василий Верещагин — художник протеста.
Joseph Stalin | Wikipedia audio article
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Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity. He ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953. Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party system that governed by plurality, he became the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union by the 1930s. Ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies became known as Stalinism.
Born to a poor family in Gori, Russian Empire (now Georgia), Stalin began his revolutionary career by joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party as a youth. He edited the party's newspaper, Pravda, and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings, and protection rackets. Repeatedly arrested, he underwent several internal exiles. After the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia during the 1917 October Revolution, Stalin joined the party's governing Politburo, where he was instrumental in overseeing the Soviet Union's establishment in 1922. As Lenin fell ill and then died in 1924, Stalin assumed leadership over the country. During Stalin's rule, Socialism in One Country became a central tenet of the party's dogma, and Lenin's New Economic Policy was replaced with a centralized command economy. Under the Five-Year Plan system, the country underwent collectivisation and rapid industrialization but experienced significant disruptions in food production that contributed to the famine of 1932–33. To eradicate those regarded as enemies of the working class, Stalin instituted the Great Purge, in which over a million were imprisoned and at least 700,000 executed between 1934 and 1939.
Stalin's government promoted Marxism–Leninism abroad through the Communist International and supported anti-fascist movements throughout Europe during the 1930s, particularly in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, it signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, resulting in their joint invasion of Poland. Germany ended the pact by invading the Soviet Union in 1941. Despite initial setbacks, the Soviet Red Army repelled the German incursion and captured Berlin in 1945, ending World War II in Europe. The Soviets annexed the Baltic states and helped establish Soviet-aligned governments throughout Central and Eastern Europe, China and North Korea. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged from the war as the two world superpowers. Tensions arose between the Soviet-backed Eastern Bloc and U.S.-backed Western Bloc which became known as the Cold War. Stalin led his country through its post-war reconstruction, during which it developed a nuclear weapon in 1949. In these years, the country experienced another major famine and an anti-semitic campaign peaking in the Doctors' plot. Stalin died in 1953 and was eventually succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who denounced his predecessor and initiated a de-Stalinisation process throughout Soviet society.
Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Stalin was the subject of a pervasive personality cult within the international Marxist–Leninist movement, for whom Stalin was a champion of socialism and the working class. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Stalin has retained popularity in Russia and Georgia as a victorious wartime leader who established the Soviet Union as a major world power. Conversely, his totalitarian government has been widely condemned for overseeing mass repressions, ethnic cleansing, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines which caused the deaths of millions.