i have a new research suggests the city is even older dating back to the tenth century regardless of which founding date is the most accurate the city's most historical significant events occurred around two hundred years later. money had little political on the tree influence throughout the region until it rose in significance off to the crown was transferred from cecil to the town here does that involve the name change the entire principality from rostov sue still to vladimir is used to. the golden gate was erected in eleven sixty four and is the outstanding symbol of the city its witness everything from celebrations to tragedies and. over the city's main entrance its field so goes with it as you can see is no more. today the city is full of modern life tourist buses zoom past the sights the snap happy tourists take photographs of new buildings that stand next to ancient and historical structures that are centuries old is happy harmony makes

a fascinating city what it is today. it's worth exploring the backstreets in the hillside areas behind the main assumption cathedral not only will you see impressive use here but the locals relax meet friends and family sing songs and paint general feels like the most amazing city attorney it's so nice to come and relax here with friends in the fresh air surrounded by impressive architecture. is roughly one hundred and eighty kilometers from moscow the best way to get here is by car if you don't have your own transport like teach to train police from. station three times a day. the magnificent golden white some shit is the main highlight it was built in eleven fifty seven and became the main model for cathedrals all over russia it was the principal place where the princes of ancient russia were crowned and as a sign of political and religious power it can be seen from kilometers away. as you examine the. history of logic mia you find that at every corner you'll encounter

interesting facts figures legends and stories there are also dozens of monuments spread throughout the city this one here is a bloody mess with the slum a bitch also known as bloody mia the red sun. the best feel of the entire area is from the top of the belfry sadly it's close to the public but fortunately the church officials have invited me to take a look. but it struck by lightning so it was replaced with what you see today the brickwork is over two hundred years old i did this with the staircase isn't arriving slightly out of breath at the top when met by selection of impressive bells and just look at these incredible views. and that's brings us to our guest straight in taurus just a month wright is on his first visit to russia to skate the madness and mayhem of

most here's a sample the delights of the golden range between time he wants the sickly ones be disappointed. by being put through a time in moscow which is just completely different to a different anything i expected i mean it's unbelievable i was expecting snow and rain and minus temperatures and then i come to. think the drools the beautiful golden gates as well as this place here it's completely out of this world it's sort of a traditional russian architecture with this really sort of. a fantastic. and even a. beautiful and surprising. so in this new russian village australian friend said soft to explore what there is to say.

a lot of. people that is. comparable to a backpack is in new york. for you book always make sure you know what type of getting their. renovation condition is needed during the hot and sticky rush and some of. the big difference is just experiments as you can see here. heading inside the main muster here at the hotel let's you and say something so traditional russian cooking do you need.

anything. please guess i'd say. if the sun is too hot during your visit then there are several suggestions we have for you how about the same. history architect and odd museum founded in one nine hundred fifty six is one of the first such museums in russia the united more than fifty architectural monuments in the region including several unesco heritage sites the war and history display of the museum is located inside the golden gates if you just armor and weapons from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries also information about some of the region's most important military people can be found in a museum. of the display inside the gates is a dire omma recreating the events of the twelfth thirty eight when ta ta. russia

and seized by the mia. another suggestion of where to stay cool is inside the something cathedral as it's one of the most important churches in the country the interiors are impressive and grand it's decorated with frescoes mosaics and icons the highlight being several valuable religious masterpieces one of the most worshiped holy relics of the russian church is on display here the vladimir icon of the mother is going to. the fifteenth century frescoes by famous russian i come painter and they rubinoff also attract many of marring businesses to the religious sites. and if you think you've seen all the sights and blood in me and then to top wear it as a town go so soundly is also close by with its peaceful lake and quaint village it's a time travelling journey to the past there's also a holiday center in the town offering you the experience of being closer to the

region's nature to enjoy outer activities like hiking in the woods cycling and canoeing at the camp just don't forget to have your mosquito repellents and sun cream with you. people for decades mistakenly translate to cusco stanley as crystal goose in english however new research suggests it comes from the wood for the tree in old slavic language founded in seven hundred fifty six it only has a population of around sixty thousand but it's known throughout russia for its famous glass factory. and thomas formed around the plant in the eighteenth century at that time classes mostly used just by the wealthy so the factory aimed at producing it for the masses to use in the everyday lives was here really already feeling here probably by this place the life palace and people working here but now they say hello horace third way are the laborers that these various items from breaking glass as well as this process. it.

is amazing that inside such industrial setting they can produce i.c.c. jackets and beautiful. process hasn't changed much over the past two hundred years items so how made by skilled local workers. this delightful building in the town was constructed as a charge at the end of the nineteenth century during the soviet times it's closed like thousands of others around the country church here became government offices and the cinema it wasn't until nine hundred eighty three that it became a museum. there are thousands of glass items here ranging from the eighteenth century onwards representing the history and development of the factories craftsmanship that there was a tradition of giving crystal artworks as gifts to their guests to town and also important and famous people in russia for example these crystal decorated with emblems of the soviet republics represented. some time later

a similar land was given to. cosmonaut yuri gagarin president people of chile presented him with a beautiful was made in the shape of a soaring bird now this was his on display at the space museum in star city and. fusing together mediæval a modern day russia brings a spectrum of stark and cultural wonders i'm witnessing true russian country life in the past and present i think also helps many westerners untangle the knots they have regarding life here so enjoy the summer sun bright and enjoy the magical architecture and local traditions a visit to one of. the towns is an experience you will never forget. while unfortunately my time is up that's all we have from this week's program areas. i'll see you again at the same time next week for more. than other amazing. for me. the rest of the team. and our.

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whole villages burned in central russia in the record breaking heat wave killing dozens in little thousands homeless the army has been sent to help firefighters control the raging inferno. chinese emergency workers struggled to retrieve barrels holding dangerous chemicals they were swept into a river and are now heading for russia. and stony and veterans who fought on the side of the nazis during the second world war are meeting in the country's capital and to sparked outrage inside and outside a stone yet over the authorities decision to allow sympathizers to gather. the headlines here back at the top of the hour with more on dates in the meantime we'll bring you the very latest from the world of sports.

hello welcome to the sports news here from r.t. in moscow these are the headlines flying high alexander sure stuff claims russia's third gold of the european athletics championships with the best high jump of the season. while flying high vessel leads along as red bull left their rivals trailing during friday's practice sessions the hungaroring grand prix. and the new tiger woods teenage prodigy bobby wyatt wins his fourth straight junior championship far and an amazing fourteen under par round a fifty seven. but we start with football and the russian premier league where sutton won one military to one g. alexander sets out fine you break the deadlock in the sixty seventh minute and home side and hung on for victory. elsewhere on thursday night five time european champions liverpool have won forty in the europa league after diving and go scored in the traffic to get a much changed reds team to no winner macedonian side in the first leg of their

qualifier and live of course manager roy hodgson was pleased with the result of his first competitive game in charge. they were very satisfied i think it was a. again which could have been very difficult force within the for the crew of the fantastic four. for the support of the team quite brilliantly for the go. it's a big crowd and so well where's playing today or used to play for the prequel do with pretty much is. really pleased with the way we all want to build their business and who plays the course but we can go back to our crew with. a margin of victory we treated very close to be a little bit more comfortable there than how we lost or draw give them. and there was also a first for best of game in charge of the new manager ventas as the net is men trying to comfortable to know when the shamrock rovers in dublin brazilian striker

ameri was movies here right just three minutes in after the one two with king patrick diego the ball pastoralists keeper and then he netted his second with a header in the seventy fifth minute to final score of tuna. i must say i'm already had a good performance he worked well i have always thought only was an important player for juventus he may have years when his scoring if you were goals but his strength his movement is very useful to the way we play and today he played excellently he scored two goals hit the post but aside from this he helped the defense he work like everyone else and i think the team today played well for the timing in which it was brought to do these preliminaries for europa league athletics now in russia have won their third gold medal on day three of the european championships in barcelona and the team now tops the overall table with ten medals alexander show stuff claims the top honors in the men's high jump the world's best season to meet his thirty three centimeters the silver went to his.

house world view the indoor champion robert martin to the bronze. and yet to me successfully defended his tie for in the men's fifty kilometer walk the thirty two year old went the distance in a time of three hours forty minutes and thirty seven seconds to his two thousand and six title challenge but i got some dough came in behind the frenchman force over metal mesh and set it back on it rounded off the podium securing bronze. so with just two days worth of competition remaining team russia leads the table from nearest rivals france by three medals to countries amassing three golds each side in barcelona great britain and northern ireland have five medals germany and belarus run. off the top five with three medals each but the germans have one more gold. motorsports now a pet to solberg leads the rally of finland after taking advantage of his main

rivals misfortunes as the norwegian song make of heaven and crash out which means salzburg is now the man to catch haven't built up a four point nine second lead through the first three special stages lost control of his fellow nine kilometers into stage four sahlberg meanwhile is looking to win this event for the first time soon moved into first place with a one point three secondly haven't. fallen as also no one in finland he sold works nearest rival at the moment for the by danny sordo it's about you know she. and staying out of school but moving over to formula one where sebastian vettel mark webber dominated the morning session battling each other for the fastest time with the nearest rivals about a second behind but ferrari finally hit their stride in the afternoon run with two time champion fernando alonso able to squeeze between two red bull drivers in the standings his teammate philippe mass that was not far behind in fourth rushing a target for twelve hours to a very solid run and finished fifth just ahead of lewis hamilton to be spinning out

to moon session. on the goal from the alabama boys state junior championship where seventeen year old bobby wyatt carded a fourteen under par fifty seven thought to be a new world record while lost in the first round of last week's us junior how to championship but this time the alabama native shot and nine on the cot twenty six on the front nine and then reached a remarkable forty nanda when his parts on seventeen found the bottom of the cup what also went on to win the event with a final round one under par seventy on friday to secure his fourth straight for state junior championship however the teenager says there's always room for improvement. and believe it or not as they always say you leave a couple no matter what the score is you have to couple out there at fifty seven yes. i can always get better i guess there's always room for improvement so again we're in the zone as they say i guess you said i was seeing. everything

i was there was good but when and for a lot of. twenty six on the front yes. it's like a video game not quite and saying these youngsters there's just over a fortnight to go before singapore hosts the first ever use and impacts from the forty's to the twenty sixth of august more than five thousand young athletes from all over the globe will be competing in twenty six disciplines in the shadow defense following the one that will run in one hundred twenty twelve this will also be the first sporting events to include both cultural and educational programs. it . is an opportunity to bring people together those the developing ideals i think the purpose of the first youth games do this at a much younger age for various athletes around the world so that we can cock it into them these strong women prepared to use it to lead to games one to promote at

a younger age and we hope to be able to carry these values forward as they grow up and spread it. and finally the international sport forum continues in moscow and while the russian foreign dignitaries obviously with conferences around tables other businesses are attending events such as that involving the russian martial arts somebody has a will. to many russians sambo is a national treasure the word sambo means self defense without a weapon and many involved in this noble sport have dreams of one day competing in the olympic games those be recognized by the only big movement since nine hundred eighty one sambo's still lacks a place on the olympic program out of eighty one the world associations it seems it's the russian sambil federation which has the biggest desire to join the olympic family dinner putin mentioned true simply that it's about time sambo became an olympic event and we all agreed because it's worldwide popular to use huge russia

will start actively pursuing doing pick membership soon because old olympic requirements can already be met today well no matter what happens on the international circuit the russians can rest assured that their peril has a long life ahead events like this presidents cup happen regularly across the country and involved for in the athletes as well that in addition to annual world and european championships taking place across the globe. of course world and european venues are important but for us in the athletes any competition is vital we do our best regardless of whether it's a national or international event the only thing is that i wish georgian athletes were here to make the belts more competitive in the absence of georgia russia met with their other top competition in the final bell a ruse that's a little off nine bats took place with the holes proving no match for eventually winning the russian president's cup for the fourth year in a row while kazakhstan's if you did ukraine in a day small final taking third place on the podium. one of the world made you do

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dot com. but people have been killed and thousands more that if that as a devastating to ten years of. fishing for toxic drums chinese emergency workers struggle to retrieve barrels holding dangerous chemicals which were swept into a river and are now heading for russia. plus now russia close of series we explore the artistic charm of the town of bor of which has been turned into a giant cameras retired engineer. it is not am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshua welcome to the program now twenty five people have been killed by the fierce forest fires raging across central russia as the weeks long heat wave

refuses to loosen its grip about three thousand people have watched their homes burn and a similar number have been evacuated as firefighters struggle to prevent the flames spreading sara first reports from the varanus region one of the worst hit areas. just outside for an issue in the village of must love and as you can see behind me the homes of just being devastated the fires have told through the village leaving thousands and thousands of people homeless now many of them a staying in some temporary refugee centers in the city that have been put up for the really wondering what they're going to do you know we've heard president medvedev saying that he's going to send some government ministers to the worst affected region such as for a nation to assess the needs and find out what they can do to help these people he's been left in the situation now we know of course it's not just british this being affected you know.