wolf. this is a monument to happiness he looks like this wolf who ate well lived well and now he's happy this is a favorite toy of kids we created. most of the legs were very light hearted and one of his favorite pieces. favorite. the story of the baby in the cabbage patch this is true. yes. but see here. picture. one of russia's most famous playwrights. made famous by the city's most famous.

it it. has been called. places for the best poets of forty years and shows no sign of slowing down. europe and here they call him the. it's always difficult to express what you feel moving through. everything is so different. these incredibly realistic looking portraits. portraits of the great. the russian ones as well pleased to see that. mr shakespeare well i think you. before you became an artist leon too was an actor and you can feel the drama in his

sculpture. around his workshop is a weird and wonderful experience and he even offered to give me something to remember him by. stephanie the first time i've ever been a model. this is for you. is one of those that you like. take it. truly quite funny i've never actually been skits for stephanie go to is right. and oh it's not the only thing that galvanizes people around here school so has a thriving music scenes and every week during the summer locals meets up nearly on tues riverside start shooting for a bit of a nice up. play is the big project is called chaska fridays on that occasion very cheerful people get together any of them only meant to the russian writer which stands here on the. people there's been

a lot of debates about what it should be here a tall building merry making people come each friday to sing down this or declaiming point. and there are plenty of unusual styles on display it's all he has created a whole set of songs inspired by the culture of the couloir people a two thousand year old indigenous russian. responded. come rain or shine check on fridays always bring out the crowds and after the music stops everyone gives the launch a couple send us. this trickle friday zones exciting enough for you you can also hire a boat for a river cruise across the tome well you might want to avoid the one with fifty

teenagers on it's. these are freshers a top school a technique university they just finished their first day of college. on stuff like this. ok. been a pretty long day. thank you very much. i met up with the good guys from tom's students union to take a university tradition. of the solution to. the union reps from fellow students and collect them in a time capsule. of hopes and dreams. for five years.

and. they wonder how many of these go back. to see what's happened. in the first years of thompson management faculty already. pressures in a whole different way so. much time you look at the future business. but as all students know the fun and games can't last forever and the next day i went to take a look at the more serious side of university life with a fellow brit who's made his home. peter has been teaching here since two thousand

and four legs and he's a senior lecturer at the faculty of foreign languages today's topic was all about how teaching and examination methods are about to change across europe. if we look at the process we can see that every european country except. have signed up to it we will be discussing the future. next week thanks for your attention. this is going to be a first and probably i don't think your support comes and becomes a lecture to you the first. sounds i studied russian university and then in two thousand and four i came here as a language assistance i like to so much that's after i graduated i was an adviser to come back and i've been here ever since. and so that's five years now.

since. a great city and it's constantly changing and you can see the. scene the wonderful architecture that we have here. being such an old. city it's also a very young city we have twenty percent the population of. six universities under a very vibrant atmosphere which is. of course it's a different culture of course the climate is pretty harsh around. but the people here are very friendly. people always rushing around. very nice people this is the real rush for the. phrase often in my trips around russia and this really is a city full of characters i wanted to find more tom's history there's one place here which deals with the city's time.

great terror of the nineteenth literally thousands of people were imprisoned and killed in many of them lie buried amid the stones this park is now a memorial to them and i'm going to visit the first museum in russia the dedicated itself to covering the political repressions. this building was a jail for the k.g.b. predecessors the n.k.v.d. and even known sixty years after the last prison the walked out of here it's still clawing and claustrophobic. more than fifteen thousand people post through these walls between one hundred twenty three and one hundred forty nine ten thousand of them never went home. the museum is filled with photographs papers and authentic memorabilia including letters where people gave up their own friends and neighbors as. well which could prove that these are the folders for denunciations you can see written letters and typed letters i'll read you one of them

a letter to the chief of tomsk special n.k.v.d. department secret an urgency to tomsk pencil factory there is someone named simeon coble born in one thousand and nine of belorussian origin was ok middle legally from poland in one nine hundred thirty two. visitors moved through a series of different rooms showing exactly what went on during the political repressions but by far the most affecting of the cells themselves it's difficult to imagine terrifying it would have been to prison to have been taken out of your home in the middle of the night probably with little or no idea of why you were being arrested and then throw them here with up to twenty of confused people then you'd have to watch that door close. you might never see anyone you know loved again. being cooped up here is a chilling experience and i was definitely ready to head back up to the lines.

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more than half a million people tomsk is a lively and bustling city but if you're looking for a little peace and quiet the countryside is just a short drive away. if you wanted a symbol of siberia this would probably be it's the siberian stone pine tree they used to be millions of these in the forests but now its numbers are declining ironically because of its own pine cones the seeds in here are used in the sources sweets and literally thousands of people come and gather them up every summer and sell them and it means that the tree is having trouble reproducing naturally but here in this garden center they're trying to make sure that the species continues to survive. so he has been running this nursery for almost a decade the idea is to sell people their own trees so that future generations will

have no need to raid the forests for seeds before the stone pines numbers can start to recover he's brought different varieties here from across the country and beyond and even created some of his own. so this. was a kind of a a rush. equivalent. you know. what this used to be wild branches that later recovered only the good ones were left here here. right. this tree has been an ark lated for fifteen times but here. the samplings grow incredibly slowly just a few centimeters each year but they can keep on going for centuries most of the trees here are still very young but it's a full time job making sure they reach their full potential fairly intensive work keeping these tiny little saplings healthy up to about thirty people were kids during the high season and of course there are

a lot of we have got to come out these ladies have a better idea because on the bottom of the alerts a little prickles on them and that with some small hands hopefully should help the trees take the pain. see the size of this was as big as the tree itself and massive really prickly and they want to come out. more and more people are coming here to buy their own saplings but gates says that securing the stone pine trees future is going to be a long and expensive process. being with four to five meters tall produces its first cone and twenty five thirty years there are some nut bearing strain but if finding investors is difficult. this is because the project would only payoff decades from now. so that's not been a problem for another new business and which might be about to make its back is in

serious money. filters and nothing new but this local company believes they've come up with a product that's the first in the world to remove one hundred percent of harmful microorganisms and with more than a billion people still drinking contaminated water every day around the world there's a huge market out there. in this sort of how do you keep your head so. why is a bed. with. loads very loud. of. a vacuum. and once they've been elected it's time to start putting everything together. one of the. scrubs but. i'll add it to the bill so i'm not trying to. make the

one hundred percent. but the big question is of course does it actually was. well anyway to find out. you know they say the proof of the putting is so i think it's time to put this magic to the test so. full of wonderful things like. ammonia. great color as well. through the. lens of truth.

thankfully there were no one pleasant side effects. from one of the most innovative companies one of its oldest. one in the same thing but it turns out that in russia at least they're very different and they've been making them in seventy years. this is such a dirty job they're going. to make kids but there's two hundred kilos of chemically treated robot coming down to this assembly line every ten minutes i mean just gets everywhere. it's tough and intensive work the factory turns out three million pairs of shoes a year and twelve hundred steaming boots at a time come out of the vulcanizing oven ready for the linings. to the moment

i'm getting killed in the ensuing left school says here. it looks good doesn't it but there are about forty ladies here but you can be properly made and there's no slack. they make thirty five every five minutes or so to keep. on one soul the finishing touches are going on it's there ready to be shipped off to the shops. wondering around factories i was definitely. ready for some fresh. to swirl manuel into. groups this is f c told siberia's in the premiership football team i'm told spied enjoy. be packed with household names but they hold their own against russia's best and they don't even mind random journalists turning up to train with them. train but see for yourselves right i said be interesting i must be a little bit of school in

a way for some reason whenever i played football they always wanted me to go and go . i guess it must be my cat like reflexes. and see how ok. well i had to let the coach score a few goals just to keep him happy but obviously really i had everything under control. when i said i never play for england. mr capello i'll be waiting for your cool but speaking to the manager yuri it's easy to see that this is a city that really. here in winter as well as the summertime when the two hundred fifty teams take part in the winter tournaments ball is played by people as young as seven at the all the way up to sixty year olds tomsk tournaments attract fans from thirty three secondary in town including. each of our games

against twelve to thirteen thousand spectators. and the next also noon i was going to be one of them so this is what saturdays were made for perfect weather unhealthy foods and premiership football. but the seats on had a pretty spectacular rise in russian football climbing from division two to the premier league and yes and this weekend they were taking on the capitalist must by law i'm giving them a really hard times i'd like to say it but it was really has been a game and see how. some would dominating the first period and now most seem to come out really hard still nil nil labatt and that holding out just lets hope the best of the odd live i love this shot. of the leg leg goal leg of the bags and we pleaded

with the players just couldn't find the targets and after a frustrating ninety minutes on a good c. mexican waves the final whistle blew. a new nail the board's role but it does leave tome ten points above the relegation zone so i guess these guys are going to have the legal the chance to do a little international bonding over on dre i'll shove in and roman abramovich. that you want leaving the stadium please be attentive and cautious there's nothing like watching other people exercise to work up an appetite and there was one place in tomsk i had to visit before i left even chekhov said. this place was good. so this is. it's the oldest restaurant and supposedly the very best so. honestly little fuss is about.

to come. an amazing choice but these prices i think this coffee. can afford. and this is another way that my son. was thinking of washing dishes but spine amazing coincidence it turned out they was short in the chef to pop day. on the finishing touch. own so it was probably kids had the knives came out and i was ready to have a go at making a real siberian favorite. siberian sterlite is very popular here today we're going to make smoke stirling prepared for cookie first. but never tried stole it before but it's from the sturgeon family and the rivers around tom school full of them. once the missi part was out of the way it was tons of perk up

the fish with a few extra ingredients. so these are some. siberian herbs and spices just give the fish a rub with these. and once everything was prepared it was time to get cooking stuff. beautiful smoke siberian stir. it was almost fun for me to leave toms and it was still so much i wanted to see but you can't play. the week sightseeing into just a morning can you. well maybe you can. never

been in a hang glider before. you feel as if you might drop out in any moment but one side unpeeled my knuckles from the seats in front i really didn't want it to end and there is some pretty amazing peace to. pass. our god that's so. absolutely story with. us. i just finished one flights but it was time for me to head to the airport for another. tums because all the benefits of the big city but it's still small enough

that you only have to be here a few days and you start to feel at home it's a warm eclectic place and i was going to miss. blind in russia. which brightened if you knew about sound from phones to impressions. from stone totty dot com. fifty. five.

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sanctions as terror linked groups are blacklisted. and india could be putting its future at risk as millions of children skipped school to put food on their family's table. while still markets wobble as investors fish shares up overheated more business in twenty minutes. or welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is our team with me and some now way it's two pm here in the russian capital and two thirty pm in tehran but first this hour russia's emergencies teams are be. raising themselves for the worst to come as far as peat fires continue to hold their grip in many parts of the country what makes firefighters still wary is that the relentless heat wave is keeping the landscape tinder dry and the scorching temperatures are set to

top forty celsius in the next few days artie's ivor bennett is in the south of the moscow region. around one hundred kilometers south of moscow in the moscow region and just a few meters over there in the woods behind me there are fires raging you can hear the flames here as i'm standing here you can hear them crackling you can hear the fires burning and just a few moments ago when two men to see for ourselves what was happening because there is an emergency vehicle in there trying to contain the flames they were only around knee height but they did suddenly flare up over two meters that's the trouble that's the problem that the emergency crews are facing and we even had. the place where we were broadcasting from because the fire engine crews they told us it was very dangerous where we were because they were off the road and the flies can flare up for any moment and they could soon have had to move and that's the problem that the emergency crews face as well as soon as they extinguish one part of the fire and another part is obvious that drawing the conditions here are really very tended.