of which founding date is the most accurate the city's most historical significant events occurred around two hundred years later. money had a little political influence throughout the region until it rose in significance off to the crown was transferred from soused to the town here that involve the name change the entire principality from rostov su still to vladimir soused of. 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 entrance it's huge the oak goes with it as you can see. today the city is full of life tourist buses zoom past the sights nice not 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 what

a story the back streets and the hillside areas behind the main assumption cathedral. impressive views here the locals relax meet friends and family sing songs and paint. a million 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 the train. 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 model for cathedrals all over russia it was the principal place where the princes of russia were crowned and as a sign of political and religious power it could be seen from kilometers away. as you examine the history of love to me you find that at every corner you don't count 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 deal 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 at the ritual belfry struck by lightning so it was replaced with what you see today the break which is over two hundred years old i go to school with the staircase isn't arriving slightly out of breath at the top when met by a selection of impressive bells and just look at these incredible views. and that's brings us to our guest straight into or is just months right is on his first visit to russia to skate the madness and mayhem of most here's a sample the delights of the golden ring twenty times he wants the sickly ones be

disciplined just. 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 through. the drools the beautiful golden gates as well as this place here i mean it's completely out of this world it's sort of a traditional russian architecture with this really sort of. a fantastic feel like i've never seen before and even a well i think it's absolutely beautiful and surprising. so in this new russian village australian friends say it's soft to explore what there is to say.

a lot of. thirty dollars a night between three people that is. comparable to a backpack is in new york. for you book always make sure you know what type of getting. a western renovation conditioning is needed during the hot and sticky. in some ways. the big difference is just experiments as you can see here and there. and having inside the main mystery here that it's out let's see what say something so traditional russian cooking do you need.

you need. a please guest i'd say. if the sun is too hot during your visit then there are several suggestions we have for you about the same. history architects and odd museum founded in one hundred fifty six is one of the first such museums in russia the united will the 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 lot of weapons from the twelfth of the nineteenth centuries information about some of the region's most important military people can be found in the museum. of the display inside the gates is a dire omma recreating the events of the year twelve thirty eight when. russia and seized. another suggestion of where to

stay cool is inside these some shifty jewel 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 admiring businesses to the religious sites. and if you think you've seen all the sights and blood in me and then to top worry as a town ghost who soundly is also close by with his peaceful lake in 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 your. people for decades mistakenly transit to cusco stanley as crystal goose in english however new research suggests it comes from the word 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 glass was mostly used just by the wealthy so the factory aimed at producing it for the masses to use in their everyday lives. directly already feel the heat from this planet made a life balance in people working here without the thick of the forest for the real hard labor that these various items of drinking glasses vases processing sculptures . they're all. it's amazing. inside such industrial brush setting

they can produce ice and sleet jackets and beautiful. process hasn't changed much over the past two hundred years items are so how made by skilled local workers. this delightful building in the town was constructed as a church at the end of the nineteenth century during the soviet times it was close like thousands of others around the country this church here became government offices and a cinema it wasn't until ninety 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. there was a tradition of giving crystal artworks is gifts to their guests town and also important and famous people in russia for example these crystal table lamps decorated with emblems of all the soviet republics represented two million see sometime later a similar one was given to the cosmonaut yuri gagarin presented only zero people of

course totally presented him with a beautiful was made in the shape of a soaring bird now this moss is on display at the space museum in stores and they have it's called be here. piecing together medieval and modern day russia a spectrum of historic and cultural wonders and 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 russia's golden ring cities and 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 culture from yet another amazing. until then for me i'll address that here by now.

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home villages burn in central russia in the record breaking heat waves killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless an army has been sent to help firefighters control the raging inferno. chinese emergency workers struggle to retrieve barrels holding dangerous chemicals and they were swept into a river and are now heading for russia. and estonian veterans who fought on the side of the nazis during the second world war and meeting in the country's capital began to sparked outrage inside and outside of stony and more of your forty's decision to allow s.s. sympathizers to gather. the allies here back at the top of the hour with more updates on here sports news with kate. hello welcome to the sports news here from r.t. in moscow and these are the headlines flying high alexander should stop claims

russia's third gold of the european athletics championships with the best high jump of the season. while flying high vessel leads a long as red bull left their rivals trailing during friday's practice sessions of 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 west saturn one one military one g. alexander sets up for 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 each half 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 the. old regime again which could have been very difficult force within the for the fantastic four. for the quarter the team quite brilliantly for the go. it's a big. trouble well it was played today or used to play it for the prequel deal with pretty much is. really pleased with the way of all the liberal business who plays the course but we can go back to our crew with. a margin of victory with truly very close to. really be more common to all the good how we lost or draw good or. and there was also a first for best of game in charge of the new manager ventas as the igi down there these men claim to comfortable to know when the shamrock rovers in dublin brazilian striker omary was move a sphere right just three minutes and after the one two with compaction 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 he 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 sure stuff claims the top honors in the men's high jump the world's best by the season two meters thirty three centimeters the silver went to his. house world view the

indoor champion robert and martin to the bronze. and yet to me successfully defended his title 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 helensburgh or pseudo came in behind the frenchman force over metal russian saturday back when 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 valorous one. 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 norwegians all make of heaven and crash out which means

solberg is now the man to catch haven't built up a four point nine second lead through the first three special stages and lost control of his health going through launches 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 saw though it's about the notion . now staying home just work at 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 the kind but ferrari finally hit their stride in the afternoon run the two time champion fernando alonso able to squeeze between two red drivers in the standings his teammate philippe mass that was not far behind him for the russian atomic patrols posted 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 amateur 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 he spots on seventeen from 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. 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 went in 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 which. is an opportunity to bring people together those the developing ideas i think the purpose of the first youth games used to do this at a much younger age for various athletes around the world so that we can cock it into them is strongly values at the olympic games want to promote at a younger age and we hope they will 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 are busy with conferences around tables other businesses are attending events such as that involving the russian russia last summer and one cause for a possible. 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 all those be recognized by the olympic movement since nine hundred eighty one sambo still lacks a place on the olympic program out of eighty one the world associations it seems it's the russian sample 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 old right 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's in addition to annual world and european championships taking place across the globe of course world and european venues are important but for us of the athletes any competition is vital we do our best regardless of whether it's a national or international event don't we thing is that i wish georgian if these 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 it'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 to ukraine in a day small final taking third place on the podium. one of the world made you do

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but people have been killed and thousands. of devastating continued. fishing for toxic dramas chinese emergency workers struggle to retrieve barrels holding dangerous chemicals which were swept into a river and are now heading to russia. plus you know russia close weeks more of the year to stick charm of the town in force which has been turned into a giant canvas by a retired engineer. and. this is r.t. coming to live from moscow eleven am here on marina joshing and welcome 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 artie's sarah ferguson of rhonda's region one of the worst hit areas we've come here to the city which in the last few days has really seen parts of it devastated by these fires that have been breaking out. just fifteen minutes outside the city center about four hundred seventy kilometers from mosco and we're in a village called muscle which as you can probably seen beside me has had most of it completely destroyed by the fires the smoke is really hanging very thick in the air and i can smell this all throughout the city at the moment with the heat and the smoke it really is quite. intension the people all they see here left wondering what they're going to be now we've had throughout central russia around a thousand times has been destroyed by these spies leaving around three thousand people homeless now haron for and it's those two refugee centers that have been set

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