our guide to afghanistan, oleg ivanovich gontsov, fought for 7 years as part of the legendary fifty-kopeck unit of the 350th parachute regiment. the fighters of this formation, among others, completed the most difficult task during the war. they ensured the safe, loss-free exit of the last columns of soviet troops from afghanistan.

9 dollars for such a luxurious thing, 9 dollars is 900 rubles, but you understand, yes, what kind of steel is here, it weighs one and a half kilograms, 900 rubles. i'll take, i'll take this wonderful knife and i'll take your wonderful sharpener, with provided that you tell me what your name is?

there is no weapon, but it can be repaired, completely legally. arun is the only private master in the whole city. various people come, even from other provinces, i have been doing this for a long time, 15 years, but most of what they bring, people have permission, paper with a photo of the owner, without it i have no right to take the barrel to work, i take different things, the most the best reliable ones for repairs are russian and american.

with undisguised pleasure we leave the dirty market, nothing happened, but strange sensations of danger constantly haunted us while we were there, and the huge half-deserted square seemed to us all like a saving island, well, look how far i’ll walk now, well, probably 10 meters now, huh? 15, 20, and so on for another 500 m forward, all these are exchange offices, you can buy absolutely any currency, yens, rubles, dollars, francs, swiss francs,

whatever, this has always been the case for decades, in this sense, nothing does not change, the ruble exchange rate, by the way, is very good, it is more profitable to change here. rose to the rank of colonel, now retired, works as a money changer, currency dealer. a z russia, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. kalasenkov, peak, derectors,

rpg, rockets yes, yes, sub, pony. a seller of pigeons from a dirty market let us down; he didn’t show up at the appointed time, maybe he changed his mind or was afraid to lead us to a mountain village, where most likely a not-so -cordial meeting would have awaited us, and there were probably never any pigeons there. in kabul we met another person. the owner of this dovecote lived for a long time in...

the sound inside is just some kind of magic, indeed, it relieves any stress, afghans are very gambling, you think that a flock of birds worth the cost of an expensive car is flying now solely for the pleasure of the owner, of course not, the birds flew out on a mission, free hunting, there is, yeah, that’s where the excitement lies, you can catch stranger, he joins the pack, then lure him to catch him, he will live for another week in a cage, he will be part of the pack, the stranger’s owner will come, he will pay for him, there is something in this, good, yes, great! kabul

from a bird's eye view, and even in such a beautiful weather - this is a huge, very beautiful city. all the contrasts begin down there, and there are even more of them outside the afghan capital. we spent 18 hours on the road, the pakistani border. today , islamabad blocks it from time to time. transit is vital and wonderful in pakistan.

ablution, the owner of this establishment, proudly showed us his income for the week, considering that afghans are a little more expensive than the ruble, then the amount on the table is considerable, that’s what a lively place means. we've actually already eaten, but i can’t help but say a few kind words to the owner of this establishment. a wonderful person who keeps everything more or less afghan-style, clean, and has the freshest products. they buy meat right across the street, it’s boiling in the cauldrons over there, i really don’t understand why they don’t skim off the foam, but

probably in order to make it even more satisfying, we were sitting there at this table, it’s already almost cleared, the restaurant has been lowered, because lunch time is over, people get back to work, work, work! we ended up in this tent city by chance, we were passing by. the weather is very nasty, light, sharp rain, cold, dank, but on the other hand, it completely corresponds to the living conditions of these people. here live the baloch nomads, a small tribe of ten million people living in pakistan, iran, aman and afghanistan. about 300 patchwork tents, about 60 families, live here for a season, while it

’s comfortable, they consider this weather good, not cold and not hot, when it’s +50 here, they will remove their camp and move hundreds of kilometers from here, closer to pakistani border, the camp is protected from the wind by a low rocky hill; those who fought here... in the last century probably remember how many dangers these seemingly harmless hills are fraught with. under these tunnels, by the way, the mujahideen were coming down, attacking our columns, attacking our guys, in fact, they were also shooting from grenade launchers from the mountains, and there was somewhere to go, look, here’s a rock, you can’t see what’s behind it, here’s a huge village . where you can hide and no one will find you, but the baloch

did not fight with us, in 1979 last century they received generous help from moscow from that moment on they provided support to our troops. in the southern provinces of afghanistan, the shuravi, literally soviet, relied on these tribes. there are known facts when nomads did not allow the mujahideen into their lands, they fought with them, a proud, wayward people, but poor.

there are also their relatives in pakistan, they cross their families and borders freely and live there in the same terrible conditions, this is life, this is a test, i don’t remember when we lived differently. yes, we don’t need to live differently, i wish there was more food. the holiday of eid al-adha is the breaking of the fast after the strictly fasting month of ramadan. the baloch people were also preparing for this event. is preparing for the upcoming holiday, and were even born just a couple of months ago, all these people living in hellish, difficult conditions will celebrate the holiday, afghans never lose heart, as long as you are alive, there is a chance, there is

something... that the baluchis will never sell for no money, these dogs are bred in moscow kennels and they say that they are purebred, but here he is, a real alabai, the camp guard is growing up, and it’s tough, of course, but such a dog should know, such a dog should know who’s boss in the house. hides, hides, feels protection in me, but all i had to do was stroke it, you’re my good one, there is a special relationship with animals, nomads eat meat several times a year, on special occasions, it’s too expensive, goat rams are raised only for sale, they keep pos

only for the sake of milk, where they get food, we already know, where do they get water? listen, well, this is really the stone age, here there is water from the sky, here they save it, this is how tents are stented, where it sagged, they collect rainwater, and then into barrels and store it for a week, two, three, until the next rain comes, maybe this will surprise you, to be honest, it surprises me too, during the time the camp is standing here , several children were born. in this tent there is little, little and less, the youngest is 3 months old, but there is no medicine , there is no doctor, in general, as the elder of this camp told us, all hope is in allah, well, life is not easy, there is not always food

, we generally need everything , but on the other hand, we have life and this makes us happy, my only wife is hiding under the covers. if i had money, i wouldn’t be the only one, but as long as i can only feed her, the fire is always maintained, because if it goes out, consider that everyone here inside the tent is frozen, there’s a kettle on top, the stove itself is made from the lid, from the hatch of a soviet armored personnel carrier, well, they are such clever afghans, they use everything that is at hand, here is one of the men. now he is leading us to this tent, where there is what you might think is a mosque, well, it’s more like a painting tent, look, all the prices have been washed away, rugs lie neatly, prayer five times a day, i can’t even imagine what these people

can ask god for, probably for... allah will give us rain, so that the grass will grow, allah will give us clean water and a good life, i’m here i asked this man now, what is a good life for him, and you know what he answered me, he said that we live a good life, we just don’t have enough awnings for several tents, we have leaked in some places, it’s impossible to understand, this need to survive.

stand, and these 150 km of the kabul-jallabat highway we still need to overcome a third of the mountain serpentine route of the mahipart pass, it begins at an altitude of 1.790 and literally does not fall into the valley until the 575 mark; nearby, overtaking cars, the kabul river rushes with the roar of a waterfall. we are driving along the most dangerous mountain road in afghanistan and one of the most dangerous on the planet, but today only nature can kill here, and 40 years ago it was also killed by man.

performed such tasks. he did not receive the title of hero of the soviet union, but three orders of the red star are well-deserved awards, saying about many things. for those who passed through mahipar in the eighties, gontsov is the name. okay, guys, calm down. gantsov’s energy is such that these afghans, who don’t understand russian, stand and just listen to how the language of a strong man sounds. for the last time russian speech.

for 35 years there was not a single russian person here, and there was really a burning interest in the russians, somehow, like this, after all, we did a lot of good in afghanistan, a documentary chronicle that takes us back to the eighties of the last century, a column russian equipment is driving towards jellalabad, the footage taken from the lead vehicle cannot be repeated.

is under a blockade, they are very mistaken, the american press reminds us of the blockade as soon as islamabad introduces new restrictions, but no one consciously says that these measures are temporary, that this is simply an element of pressure from pakistan, an attempt to get more favorable trade conditions, no one this border it won’t close, it’s a business. hidden here to my right is a gallery through which people pass to and from pakistan. now there are some problems on the part of islamabad, they are difficult to issue visas, and visas are very expensive, so only those who really

have money can get through. the situation is gradually changing: 2 years ago it was completely impossible to close the border, now everything is easier and easier and easier. well, as you can see, the pakistani border is not locked, there are now people behind these bars who are traveling in that direction, many on wheelchairs. they're going in wheelchairs for treatment, if i take five steps, i'll end up in pakistan, these guys, can i show me in the same direction again, they can stop me, this is their security service, everything is absolutely calm at the border, the parties manage to agree so that the transit of both people and equipment with goods does not stop for a single day.

figure skater vladislav tarasenko, starting in the fall of twenty-two, has been performing combat missions here in the zaporozhye direction. we are all the same here. we do the same work, the same tasks, deadlifts, my record is 285, i couldn’t sit down because i was in normal shape, well, salamati, one alone, it happened that they recognized you, what was the reaction, oh well, i say, well, yes, the first time i arrived, i was there for 5-6 days, i didn’t want to leave, it will soon be 2 years.

here in avdeevka people were driven to death, there was terror, it’s flying, everything is flying here, guys, the war is real, here people live completely differently, they didn’t hurt you here until our people came, don’t ask, i’ll see a wolf in the basement i’ll hide when... outside the window you’re sitting like this and thinking whether the next one is following you or not, during the last explosion there were 18 people left here under the slabs, who they’re still lying there, god help me, oh, thank you, that’s just it, we’ve come here forever.

in the dagestan kaspiysk, three people were detained who were planning to carry out a terrorist attack in an orthodox church. the fsb reported this. in addition, they intended to cause sabotage against law enforcement agencies. the detainees have already given confessions . with details maria valeeva. one by one, the three saboteurs are taken out of the room in handcuffs. fsb officers together with the ministry of internal affairs managed to prevent the series. siraktov in dagestan, detained residents during the interrogation, kaspiysk was told in detail about the preparation for the crime, on lenin street they were going to blow up the temple of the kazan icon of the mother of god, we decided to make a bomb with muhammad, we didn’t have any such options, as if we didn’t know what

to do. and this one and well, they came to the conclusion that this one of the options is a church, blow up the church on lenin, at the end of lenin opposite the molod gym, there is elsan, there is a church in those parts. during a search of the suspects' house , improvised explosive devices were found. weapons and instructions for conducting combat operations both in the forest and in the city.