Russia: Sapun Mountain battle re-enactment wows in Sevastopol
Video ID: 20140504-017
W/S Soldiers firing artillery
W/S Plane flying over the re-enactment field
W/S Re-enactment battlefield with two explosions
W/S Soldiers running across the battlefield firing their weapons
M/S Soldier tries to bandage a fallen companion
W/S Battlefield during the final stage of the assault
M/S Soldiers hiding in hole fire artillery
M/S Soldiers storm the battlefield
M/S Soldier carries flag
W/S Aircraft releases giant flags
M/S Giant Russian flag on the sky
W/S Giant flags on the sky
M/S Audience of the re-enactment with flags on the background
M/S Audience of the re-enactment
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Russia: Sapun Mountain battle re-enactment wows in Sevastopol
The storm of Sapun Mountain, an epic battle against the last stronghold of the German forces during the Second World War, was reconstructed in Sevastopol on Sunday.
A re-enactment of the staging assault, which ended with the defeat of the Germans in the eve of the V-Day in 1944, wowed the crowd. At the end of the show, Russian paratroopers deployed a giant Russian flag in the sky.
Located seven kilometres (4 miles) from Sevastopol, the Sapun Mount has featured many key military battles due to its geographical position, with fights against Nazi forces taking place in 1941-42, along with May of 1944, when the area was liberated by the Red Army.
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Russia Celebrates Third Anniversary of Reunification With Crimea
Russia and Crimea. Three years after reunification. In response to the bloody coup d'etat in Kiev, March 16, 2014, a referendum was held in Crimea, during which 97% of the peninsula's residents voted for Crimea's accession into Russia as a constituent member.
On March 18th, in the Kremlin, Putin announced: Dear members of the Federation Council! Dear deputies of the State Duma! Dear representatives of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, they are here among us! Citizens of Russia, residents of Crimea and Sevastopol!
Today, based on the results of the referendum held in Crimea, based on the will of the people, I am submitting to the Federation Council, and I ask to consider the Constitutional Law on the accession of two new constituent members to the Russian Federation: the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. And also to ratify the Accession Treaty of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation, prepared for signing. I do not doubt your support! Immediately, the signing of the Accession Treaty of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation took place. Watch these, already historical today, shots.
The agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Crimea on the accession of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation, and the formation of two new constituent territories within the Russian Federation. In Russian society, the event caused an unprecedented surge of patriotism and pride in the country. The Crimean Consensus pulled together people of different political views, education, and income level. Despite the difficulties that Russia faced later, the sanctions and general hysteria in the West, the overwhelming majority of Russians still believe that everything was done right. A grand rally-concert was held on March 18 in Moscow.
During the day, it was attended by 150,000 people. On-stage performance groups and politicians performed there. Three years ago in March, when a coup, which removed the legally elected government, took place in Ukraine, Crimeans expressed their views. And, of course, the Russian President's will, the will of the people of Russia, the will of those present here, allowed this historical event to take place. Crimea was, is, and will be Russian. There is no other way. And today, we thank the Crimeans, who three years ago showed courage and will, had their say, that they are Russians, and that they want to live in Russia. If someone will try to dispute this, we will tell them all: the Russia flag will wave over Crimea forever and ever. And no one will ever dare touch it. In the evening, there were fireworks.
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Ukraine: Gangs 'Smuggle Weapons Into Crimea'
The journey takes you through endless farmland, ploughed fields of the famous black earth and soviet monuments to the fallen of the Second World War.
As we approached the border we were stopped at a checkpoint by unidentified armed men in combat fatigues.
At first they tried to grab our camera, but Sky News' Moscow bureau cameraman, Vadim Nechaev, managed to talk them around.
They searched our car and wanted to take our body armour - we could see several of the guards already sporting 'press' flak jackets, new press helmets in hand.
Our team is usually based in Russia and our foreign ministry accreditation seemed to help - eventually they were persuaded to allow us in and they decided they wanted to show us their side of the story instead.
Katie Stallard was stopped at the border
They describe themselves as 'peaceful citizens' - local volunteers providing security against what they claim is a coup being perpetrated by 'fascists and thugs'.
I'm from Sevastopol I'm a peaceful citizen, I'm a pensioner, one guard told us.
I'm just making sure that everything is in order here at the entrance to Crimea, that no-one is smuggling anything that could turn our Crimea into another Maidan (Kiev's Independence Square).
They took us to see a stockpile of weapons they claim they have seized from cars on the way into Crimea.
They showed us shotguns, hunting rifles, axes, and ammunition, along with a photo they say shows a sniper in army fatigues.
Evidence, they insist of armed gangs from Kiev.
Some of the weapons seized by the militia
A masked man told us: I am asking you please look at this. I think these barbarians and Nazis, these nationalists, were trying and are still trying to turn our Slavic world into hell.
As we were filming we saw a man and woman being forced out of their car at gunpoint - the guards claimed they had found rifles.
The woman was crying, the man was handcuffed.
It is not clear what they planned to do with them.
Some of the guards were Cossacks from Kuban in southern Russia.
They told us they had come to help their countrymen fight against fascists and thugs.
This is the land of our ancestors, their leader told us, who spilled their blood in the Second World War.
Now the fascists are on the rise again and we are here to show that it's not going to work.
They were flying the Russian flag from the checkpoint and we saw an empty Russian army truck leave their camp, but they insisted they were not acting on orders from Moscow.
They said the Kremlin should send troops to help them fight, to defend Russian citizens' rights.
Letters From The Crimea (Lancaster)
From 1853 to 1856, Britain was at war with Russia over disputed territories in The Balkans. The Crimean War also involved the Ottoman Empire, France, Turkey and Sardinia.
Among the British forces were young men from Lancashire, who wrote letters home to their loved ones. These saw print in the pages of the Lancaster Gazette. The letters and the reports from war correspondents, made the public aware of the appalling conditions for the troops and fuelled demand for change.
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DATE: 9 MAY 1995
DURATION: 1.54
Former Soviet states remember those killed in WW-2
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) remembered on Tuesday (9/5) the hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed in World War II. The cities of Grozny, Tblisi, Kiev, St Petersburg and Sevastopol held commemorative ceromonies to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Victory Day. In Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya, parading Russian troops were reviewed by the Commander of the Army, General Mikhail Yegorov. In Tbilisi, Georgia veterans and leaders gathered for a wreath-laying ceremony in downtown Victory Park. More than 300,000 Georgians fought in the Soviet Army, and many of them died defending the Soviet Union. The Ukraine suffered the second highest death toll - after Russia itself - of any country in World War II. In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, President Leonid Kuchma laid a wreath at the Victory Monument and attended a military parade. Commemorations were also held at Sevastopol, the port that became a symbol of the Russian Navy's fierce defence against Nazi assault in Crimea in 1941 and the victorious recapture of the city in 1943. Russian and Ukrainian Admirals, who have been disagreeing over the ownership of the Black Sea fleet, put aside their differences on Tuesday as naval ships conducted a sail-past along the shores of Sevastopol and marines marched in the streets. There were similar scenes in St Petersburg, where a memorial service and marine parade were held to mark the occasion.
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(GROZNY AIRPORT, CHECHNYA) PAN airport to troops lined up for the parade. Russian APC along road.
(VICTORY PARK, TBLISI, GEORGIA) Helicopter overhead, Georgian flag in foreground. VS of troops marching. Onlookers. Top-shot people in park. Horse-mounted soldiers. Official delegates laying wreaths at victory monument.
(KIEV, UKRAINE) Ukrainian defence minister Valery Shmarov at parade. Veterans watching parade. Paratroopers marching. Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and other Ukrainian delegates bowing to memorial.
(ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA) Guards. Marines parade on the Nevsky Prospect. Veterans in naval uniform meeting ladies. Veterans in uniform in long line.
(SEVASTOPOL, UKRAINE) Russian Black Sea fleet commander Admiral Evgeny Baltin in open top car saluting. More admirals. Crowd around monument to Admiral Ushakov. Marines marching. Vessels in harbour. Marines standing to attention on vessel. Vessels in water.
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Victory Day Parade 2014 | Red Square, Moscow, Russia | 2014 Парад Победы
Moscow Victory Parade 2014
Cutting edge weapons, Special Forces on Red Square
May 09, 2014 MOSCOW.
Russia has celebrated the 69th anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) with a traditional May 9 military parade on Moscow's Red Square, which featured 11,000 troops, 149 military vehicles and 69 warplanes.
The clock on the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower rang its chimes at 10:00 AM Moscow time to signal the start of the Victory Day parade.
The right to bring out the official flag of the Russian Federation and the Victory banner this year went to the servicemen of the Preobrazhensky regiment, which has been carrying the honor guard service in Red Square for over 55 years.
The original Victory Banner is the red flag, which was mounted by Soviet troops atop the Reichstag building in Berlin on May 9, 1945 as a symbol of victory over the Nazis.
After Russia's defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, inspected the servicemen gathered for the parade, he reported to the commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces, the country's president, Vladimir Putin.
It's our country which chased the Nazis to their den, and achieved their full and final defeat, won at the cost of millions of victims and terrible ordeals. We will always guard this sacred, unfading truth, and we will not allow the heroes to be betrayed or forgotten -- everyone who saved peace on the planet, not sparing oneself [from death], Putin said.
The parade was traditionally opened by a drummer squad of the Moscow Military Musical College, who set the marching rhythm for the 11,000 participating officers and soldiers.
The infantry representing all branches of the Russian army as well as military academies have made their way across the 256 meters of Red Square at the pace of 110 to 120 steps per minute.
The inclusion of the Special Forces units has become one of the innovations of the current parade as they marched in protective uniforms providing supreme protection from all the basic types of bullets, with Val silent machine guns and VSS Vintorez sniper rifles in their hands.
GAZ -2330 'Tiger' combat cars have opened the mechanized column of 149 units, which was the largest to participate in the Victory parade since the fall of Soviet Union in 1991.
The traditional participants of the May 9 celebrations -- BTR-80 and BTR-82A armored vehicles, T-90A tanks, Buk- M2, S-400 and Pantsir S1 antiaircraft missile systems, tactical Iskander-M ballistic missile systems and Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile systems -- have made yet another appearance on the Red Square.
But there were also military vehicles that Russia has never showcased at the parade before, including armored KamAZ-63968 'Typhoon' combat cars, Tor-M2U antiaircraft missile systems, Khrizantema-S antitank missile systems as well as 2S19M2 Msta-S modernized self-propelled artillery guns.
None of the historic vehicles from the WWII era participated in the current parade as the organizers decided to save them for the celebrations of 70th anniversary of Victory next year.
The final part of the parade was the flyover, which involved 69 planes and helicopters to match the number of years passed since the victory over Nazi Germany.
Su-24M and Su-34 bombers; Su-25 strike aircrafts; Su- 27 and MiG-29 fighter jets; MiG-31BM interceptors; An-22, An-124-100 and Il- 76MD military transport aircrafts; Il-78M fuel tankers; A-50 AWACS aircrafts, Tu-22M3 long-range bombers; Tu-95MS and Tu-160 strategic bombers, Yak-130 combat training aircrafts took to the skies in the Russian capital.
The parade was concluded with six Su-25 strike aircrafts, which flew at an altitude of 300 meters, at a speed of 550 km/h, releasing red, white and blue smoke in the colors of the Russian flag.
Victory Day is one of the most important holidays for Russia, as it marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War on May 9, 1945.
The first parade to commemorate WWII victory was staged on Red Square on June 24, 1945, by order of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
The Soviet Union paid the highest price of any nation for this victory and lost over 26 million lives in the conflict, known as the Great Patriotic War in the former USSR.
Military parades were held annually on Red Square on May 9, beginning on the 20th anniversary of the victory in 1965.
The tradition was dropped for some years after the collapse of the USSR, in the beginning of the turbulent 90s to be revived in 1995.
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Schutzstaffel | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:57 1 Origins
00:03:05 1.1 Forerunner of the SS
00:05:12 1.2 Early commanders
00:07:04 1.3 Himmler appointed
00:10:17 1.4 Ideology
00:15:08 2 Pre-war Germany
00:20:43 2.1 Hitler's personal bodyguards
00:24:49 2.2 Concentration camps founded
00:27:04 3 SS in World War II
00:28:27 3.1 Invasion of Poland
00:32:02 3.2 Battle of France
00:35:20 3.3 Campaign in the Balkans
00:37:19 4 War in the east
00:40:00 4.1 The Holocaust
00:42:43 4.2 Anti-partisan operations
00:45:03 4.3 Death camps
00:48:28 5 Business empire
00:54:11 6 Military reversals
00:55:10 6.1 Normandy landings
00:59:06 6.2 Battle for Germany
01:04:52 7 SS units and branches
01:05:02 7.1 Reich Main Security Office
01:06:55 7.2 iSS-Sonderkommandos/i
01:10:09 7.3 iEinsatzgruppen/i
01:12:38 7.4 SS Court Main Office
01:13:53 7.5 SS Cavalry
01:16:16 7.6 SS Medical Corps
01:18:41 7.7 Other SS units
01:18:49 7.7.1 iAhnenerbe/i
01:19:38 7.7.2 iSS-Frauenkorps/i
01:20:48 7.7.3 iSS-Mannschaften/i
01:21:15 8 Foreign legions and volunteers
01:24:36 9 Ranks and uniforms
01:26:20 10 SS membership estimates 1925–45
01:27:00 11 SS offices
01:28:13 12 Austrian SS
01:30:51 13 Post-war activity and aftermath
01:32:52 13.1 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
01:35:14 13.2 Escapes
01:39:15 14 See also
01:39:37 15 Informational notes
01:39:46 16 Citations
01:39:56 17 Bibliography
01:40:05 18 Further reading
01:40:14 19 External links
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The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes; German pronunciation: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] (listen); literally Protection Squadron) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. It began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz (Hall Security) made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich. In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final name. Under his direction (1929–45) it grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany. From 1929 until the regime's collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, surveillance, and terror within Germany and German-occupied Europe.
The two main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy of Nazi Germany and general policing, whereas the Waffen-SS consisted of combat units within Nazi Germany's military. A third component of the SS, the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), ran the concentration camps and extermination camps. Additional subdivisions of the SS included the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) organizations. They were tasked with the detection of actual or potential enemies of the Nazi state, the neutralization of any opposition, policing the German people for their commitment to Nazi ideology, and providing domestic and foreign intelligence.
The SS was the organization most responsible for the genocidal killing of an estimated 5.5 to 6 million Jews and millions of other victims in the Holocaust. Members of all of its branches committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II (1939–45). The SS was also involved in commercial enterprises and exploited concentration camp inmates as slave labor. After Nazi Germany's defeat, the SS and the NSDAP were judged by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg to be criminal organizations. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the highest-ranking surviving SS main department chief, was found guilty of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials and hanged in 1946.
«Это сам Потемкин!». Фильм к выставке
В 2019 году исполняется 280 лет со дня рождения светлейшего князя Г.А. Потемкина-Таврического. Он был одним из наиболее значительных персонажей истории XVIII столетия и самым влиятельным вельможей екатерининского царствования, фаворитом и тайным супругом императрицы, ее другом и соратником.
Показать многогранность образа Потемкина позволяют экспонаты масштабной выставки «”Это сам Потемкин!”. К 280-летию светлейшего князя Г. А. Потемкина-Таврического» (Эрмитаж, залы Зимнего дворца, 8 декабря 2019 – 29 марта 2020 года)
К выставке выпущен видеофильм о светлейшем князе Г.А. Потемкине-Таврическом.
Автор фильма – Манас Сираканян.
Рассказывает Наталья Бахарева, старший научный сотрудник Отдела истории русской культуры Государственного Эрмитажа.
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Russia: Moscow's Jewish community pay tribute to Red Army
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W/S Jewish congregation walking towards the Kremlin wall
C/U Ceremonial officials holding up a wreath
W/S Jewish congregation walking towards the war memorial
W/S Rabbi approaching the wreath
M/S Rabbi
W/S Congregation approaching the wreath
W/S People laying flowers at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
W/S Jewish congregation
M/S Young boy wearing a kippa
M/S Rabbi reading a prayer in Hebrew
W/S Jewish congregation
W/S Jewish congregation walking
M/S Tomb of Unknown Soldier
C/U Tomb of Unknown Soldier
W/S Tomb of Unknown Soldier
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Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Thursday. After a minute silence, the Rabbi read a prayer for those who died fighting against the Nazis.
Also present were veterans, children and students of a Jewish school who similarly laid flowers at the monument to Soviet war dead on Aleksandr Gardens in the heart of the Russian capital.
Over 20 million Soviet citizens died in the Second World War, including as many as a million Jews.
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Полнометражная документальная лента была задумана, чтобы сохранить для истории каждый значимый эпизод событий, происходивших в Крыму весной 2014 года. Съемки продолжались 8 месяцев и охватили Севастополь и Форос, Симферополь и Керчь, Ялту и Бахчисарай; Феодосию, Джанкой, Алушту и еще десяток населенных пунктов Крыма. По горячим следам был записан большой разговор с Владимиром Путиным, а потом еще больше полусотни интервью с участниками и свидетелями Крымской весны. С чего все началось? Как Россия получила официальное обращение от легитимного президента Украины с просьбой спасти ему жизнь?
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Three days that shook the world in August 1991
Summery: A short historical documentary made by Russia Today.Early morning In August 1991, when the first and the last president of USSR MIkhail Gorbachev was absent in Moscow, army plotters tried to make a reactionary coup against Gorbachev's perestroika. Moscow citizens fought for the sake of their rights and freedom, and after 3 days the planed coup was failed. Boris Yeltsin declared that the reactionary coup has failed and thanked the defenders of the White House. Interviewees who remember the days tell what happened then. This documentary shows also views of Gorbachev's luxury summer residence near the village of Foros in Ukraine, which is now the property of Ukraine but being rarely used by top-officials now.
Location: Moscow, Russia; Foros, Ukraine
Date Shot: August 15, 2011
Duration: 24:55
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Battle of Stalingrad | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of Stalingrad
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it was the largest (nearly 2.2 million personnel) and bloodiest (1.8–2 million killed, wounded or captured) battle in the history of warfare. After their defeat at Stalingrad, the German High Command had to withdraw vast military forces from the Western Front to replace their losses.The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The fighting degenerated into house-to-house fighting; both sides poured reinforcements into the city. By mid-November 1942, the Germans had pushed the Soviet defenders back at great cost into narrow zones along the west bank of the Volga River.
On 19 November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the weaker Romanian and Hungarian armies protecting the German 6th Army's flanks. The Axis forces on the flanks were overrun and the 6th Army was cut off and surrounded in the Stalingrad area. Adolf Hitler ordered that the army stay in Stalingrad and make no attempt to break out; instead, attempts were made to supply the army by air and to break the encirclement from the outside. Heavy fighting continued for another two months. By the beginning of February 1943, the Axis forces in Stalingrad had exhausted their ammunition and food. The remaining units of the 6th Army surrendered. The battle lasted five months, one week and three days.
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Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву.
Вольный город Одесса.
Платоша Зубов — последняя любовь.
Russia: Zakharova slams Latvian authorities for hindering press freedom
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova slammed Latvia for the arrest of a journalist in Riga at a march to honour the Latvian Legion of Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS, during a press briefing in Moscow, Thursday.
SOT, Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson (Russian): In Latvia there is a special regime which controls the work of journalists. It is not politics, it is a special regime. I want to ask where everyone is. Where are neighbouring countries? Where are international organisations? Where are so-called superpowers? Why does nobody see that? And why is such an attitude to mass media allowed and even abetted? It seems like Graham Philips has been chosen from the group of journalists and all these actions have been committed on purpose. I want to stress once again that we are not much impressed with what is happening in Latvia at the moment. These facts are linked with each other. And we hope that this accident will be included in the future statements of the OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media.
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World War Zero. Episode 3. Docudrama. English Subtitles. StarMediaEN
The War of 1853-1856 is most often known as The Crimean War. But the battle for the Crimea was only one episode of a much bigger war. The confrontation between the Russian Empire on the one hand and the Allied Forces of the British Empire, France, Turkey and the Kingdom of Sardinia on the other affected a huge territory stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. In fact, it was a war for world domination - in effect a world war.
What were the overt and covert reasons that caused the confrontation between the great powers in the middle of the XIX century? How it all started and what role the Russian Empire ultimately played on the world political stage is all told in this challenging and insightful new four-part documentary series, WORLD WAR 0.
Type: historical reenactment
Genre: docudrama
Year of production: 2016
Number of episodes: 4
Directed by: Denis Bespalyi
Written by: Andrey Nazarov, Andrey Burovskiy, Vasiliy Shevtsov
Production designer: Mikhail Gavrilov
Director of photography: Ivan Barkhvart
Music by: Maksim Voitov
Producers: Valeriy Babich, Vlad Ryashin
Cast: Oleg Anoshkin, Dmitriy Yachevskiy, Anatoliy Bober, Dmitriy Eremenko, Yuriy Pimkin, Viktor Bashinskiy, Yulia Kharkovskaya, Vyacheslav Kramarev, Valeriy Lukyanov
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Forgotten Leaders. Episode 4. Semyon Budyonny. 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?
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
Forgotten Leaders. Episode 4. Vyacheslav Molotov. Documentary. English Subtitles. StarMediaEN
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Russian politician Zhirinovsky funny interview (English subs)
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This video is an interview of Zhirinovsky at newspaper and radio station ''Komsomolskaya pravda''.
This is one of the funniest Zhirinovsky's interview. Mainly because of the fragment of this interview where he spoke about various topical subjects. He actually speaks his mind here, and even uses some inappropriate language. I think, he don't actually care, but it's funny.
2 main subjects of this interview are situation in Syria, and elections for Moscow mayor. He gives his evaluation about them, of course. He also speaks about immigrants problem, and some other subjects.
So have fun, and have a few laughs.
This interview was made on: 31/08/2013.
Abbreviations:
FO - Foreign Office
FSS - Federal Security Service
SECC - State of Emergency Central Committee
CPSU - Communist Party of Soviet Union
UIS -- Union of Independent States
Remarks:
1. In Russia we have an expression, ''these was only flowers, berries will come later''. That means it's like you didn't see anything yet, this was not a big deal, the main events, the real thing will come later.
2. He mentions some unknown politicians, so I addjusted their names so you can easily find it in Google and see their faces or read about them (not that anyone would want to, but just in case).
3. In Russian word ''apple'' is ''yа́bloko''. The party's name is suppose to be YaBL, and if you switch some letters places, it would be ''blyа́'', which doesn't exactly mean ''fuck'', but it's the closest.
4. Alе́shka is diminutive for Alexei. Usually kids are called like this.
5. If you are curious this is the song (1996):
Олег Газманов / Oleg Gazmanov - Москва / Moskau
This is its Youtube name.
6. Poetry:
Eng: Alexander Sergeievich Pushkin - Moscow... what surge that sound can start In every Russian's inmost heart!
Rus: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин - Москва! Как много в этом звуке...
(1823 - 1831)
7. Desemberers are called the people who organized, initiated and participated in revolution in, at that time, Russian Empire on Desember 1905.
8. In Russian, the words ''strange'' and ''shitty'' are very similar. They sound like this: strange - strа́nniy, shitty - srа́niy.
9. Also, the word ''old'' souds kinda similar to ''shitty'' as well - stа́riy.
10. ''Dad'' or ''daddy'' is how people calling Lukashenko in Russian speaking countries. I guess because he is strict like a father can be sometimes.
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Ukraine: President Stopped From Leaving Country
Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych has been refused permission to fly out of the country after he apparently left the capital following violent unrest.
A charter plane thought to have the politician onboard was denied permission to take off from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, on Saturday night, according to the State Border Service.
A spokesman for Mr Yanukovych said on Sunday that even he did not known where the under fire president is.
It comes after CCTV emerged apparently showing items being removed from the presidential compound on Friday and a figure getting on to a helicopter before flying away.
The compound was found to be empty and unguarded on Saturday, with protesters allowed to roam the grounds and look inside buildings.
Residents in Donetsk said security had been reinforced along the main road to Mr Yanukovych's private home in the town, suggesting he might be there.
A leading governor and a mayor from the eastern city of Kharkiv - both supporters of the president - have also fled to Russia.
On Sunday, the parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchyno gave deputies a deadline of Tuesday to agree to the formation of a national unity government.
MPs also voted to temporarily hand the duties of the president to Mr Turchyno and to hand over Mr Yanukovych's private estate on the outskirts of Kiev to the state.
And Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara - an ally of the president - was also dismissed after a vote.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned Russia it was not in its interest to intervene in Ukraine. He said there was a moment of opportunity in the country.
He said: There is a moment of opportunity now for the Ukraine after those terrible scenes and the horrific bloodshed of a few days ago.
There is an opportunity but there are still many dangers.
We have to keep up the communication with Russia as we are doing... so that the people of Ukraine can choose their own way forward.
Newly-freed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told a crowd of 50,000 protesters in Kiev on Saturday night they must continue to demonstrate until you have concluded everything that you planned to do.
Ukraine's parliament has voted to oust President Yanukovych and stage early elections for May 25.
In a televised address on a local network, Mr Yanukovych refused to resign and said decisions made by the parliament were illegitimate. He also labelled the unrest a coup.
He said: Everything that is happening today is, to a greater degree, vandalism and banditry and a coup.
I will do everything to protect my country from breakup, to stop bloodshed.
It also ordered the release of Ms Tymoshenko, who was jailed for seven years in 2011 for abuse of power.
But not all anti-government protesters support her. She has been criticised in the past for political opportunism and claims of corruption.
Unrest began in Ukraine in November last year after Mr Yanukovych rejected an EU deal to form closer ties with Russia.
The clashes between protesters and riot police have killed 82 people - the worst violence since the country gained independence in 1991.
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton welcomed the release of Tymoshenko as an important step forward in view of addressing concerns regarding selective justice in the country.
Mr Yanukovych first ran for president in 2004, but finished second to Viktor Yuschenko in a controversial election which sparked the Orange Revolution.
He led the opposition against Ms Tymoshenko until he won the presidential ballot in 2010, while she was still Prime Minister. She was then arrested and jailed the following year.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston S. Churchill
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that.
The river involved was the Nile. For millennia, its annual flood has made habitable a slender strip, though hundreds of miles of deserts, between its tributaries and its delta. Through this desolate region, man and beast struggled to supply the bare essentials of life. Though this same region, the expedition had to find and defeat an enemy several times larger than itself.
The young Churchill was hot to gain war experience to aid his career, and so he wangled a transfer to the 21st Lancers and participated in the last successful cavalry charge the world ever saw, in the climactic battle of Omdurman. He also had a position as war correspondent for the Morning Post, and on his return to England he used his notes to compose this book.
Chapter 01. The Rebellion of the Mahdi - 00:00
Chapter 02. The Fate of the Envoy - 1:24:09
Chapter 03. The Dervish Empire - 2:45:41
Chapter 04. The Years of Preparation - 3:33:13
Chapter 05. The Beginning of the War - 4:15:26
Chapter 06. Firket - 5:00:59
Chapter 07. The Recovery of the Dongola Province - 5:21:57
Chapter 08. The Desert Railway - 6:15:20
Chapter 09. Abu Hamed - 7:04:52
Chapter 10. Berber - 7:46:23
Chapter 11. Reconaissance - 8:22:42
Chapter 12. The Battle of the Atbara - 8:52:56
Chapter 13. The Grand Advance - 9:21:50
Chapter 14. The Operations of the First of September - 9:50:47
Chapter 15. The Battle of Omdurman - 10:17:57
Chapter 16. The Fall of the City - 11:34:01
Chapter 17. The Fashoda Incident - 11:55:29
Chapter 18. On the Blue Nile - 12:28:57
Chapter 19. The End of the Khalifa - 13:12:58
Appendix - 13:54:27