in southeastern russia around three thousand kilometers from moscow. it's a city would destroy being students an academic population and it's got a reputation for giving visitors a friendly welcome. i was ready to experience it for myself. to a. new city and your hotel has a message for you to make yourself at home but there are literally dozens of little monuments like this. founded over four hundred years ago. but this is also

a very modern town with a real passion for. a leg is one of most popular. and he's had commissioned all across the city including the facts and content to. a monument to happiness as he looks like this will. live well and now he's happy this is a favorite toy of kids we created. most of the very lighthearted and one of his favorite pieces is based on that favorite. the story of the baby in the capital which is a true. yes. but. here. picture.

one of russia's most famous playwrights. made famous by the city's most famous. yes. this is a famous. he. did it. has been. faces for the best parts 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. a gallery like this because everything is so different you get these really wild flights of fantasy here and then these incredibly detailed realistic looking portraits really loving portraits almost of the great theater masters and not only the russian ones as well

pleased to see that there's even mr shakespeare here is well i think you've been rather proud. before you became an artist who was an actor and you can feel the drama in his sculpture looking around his workshop is a weird and wonderful experience and even offered to give me something to remember him by. it's definitely the first on the move of the been a model. this is for you. is one of those that you like. take it. truly quite funny i know actually being 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 to use riverside statue for a bit of a knees up. to play. project is called

fridays on that occasion very cheerful people get to get any of them only meant to the russian writer which stands here on the sinbad. there's been a lot of debates about what it should be here a tall. merry making people come shit each friday to sing down this or declaiming point train. and there are plenty of unusual styles on display and it's all he has created a whole set of songs inspired by the culture of the cool like a two thousand year old indigenous restaurateur. come rain or shine check on fridays always bring out the crowds and after the music

stops everyone gives the launch a proper send us. this trickle fridays aren't exciting enough for you you can also hire a boat for river cruise across the top. although you might want to avoid the one with fifty teenagers on it's. these are fresh is a thompson polytechnic university they've just been. the first day of college. has. been a pretty long day. thank you very much. i met up with the good guys from students union to take a university tradition with. a solution be checking 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 two years of pumps 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 you look at the bologna process we can see that every european country except. have signed up to it we will be discussing the future of russian next week thanks for your attention. this is going to be a first and probably i don't really think your support comes and becomes a lecture at the university of. study russian

university and then in two thousand and four i came here as a long distance i like to so much that's after i graduated i wasn't invited to come back and i've been here ever since. and so that's five years now. since. the 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 and a very vibrant. inventing it's 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 so 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 for twenty six history and there's one place here which deals with the city's time. terror of the. imprisoned and killed in. the stones this park is now morial to them and i'm going to visit the first museum in russia 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 sixty years after the last prisoner walked out of here it's still clawing and claustrophobic. more than fifteen thousand people pass through these walls between one hundred twenty three and one hundred forty nine ten thousand of them never went home. museum is filled with photographs papers and authentic

memorabilia including les's where people gave up their own friends and neighbors say oh. well if you do that these are the folders for denunciations you can see written letters and typed letters all read you one of them a letter to the chief of tomsk special n.k.v.d. department secrets an urgent. 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 move through a series of different rooms showing exactly what went on during the political repressions but by far the most affecting of the souls themselves does go to a muslim terrifying it would have been to prison you could 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 frightened and confused people then you'd have to watch that door close knowing you might never

see anyone you love again. being cooped up here is a chilling experience and i was definitely ready to head back up to the lines. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us acknowledging update on our g vote for bush. always adds by one vote for kerry for kerry so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right buttons. he can flip a boat that he. with

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 there 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 they used in the source is sweets and literally thousands of people come and gather them up every

summer and sell them and that means that the tree is having trouble reproducing naturally but here in this garden center 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 forest for seeds for 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 rush. equivalent. you know. what this b.b.q. today used to be while branches that later recut only the good ones were left here here. right. this tree has been an ark lated for fifteen time outs.

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 a little prickles going to end up 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 since really prickly and they want to come out more and more people are coming here to buy their own saplings but says that securing the stone pine trees future is going to be a long and expensive process. the little mild cedar being four to five metres tall

produces its first cone and twenty five thirty years there are some nut bearing strain myself but if the bug 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. with filters and nothing new but this local company believe 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 the fed. loads

very loud. about. looking. and once they've been elected it's time to start putting everything together. scrubs but. i'm not going to try to. make one hundred percent. but the big question is of cool does it actually was. well anyway to find out. you know they say the people are putting. 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 unpleasant side effects clearly refresh from one of tomsk most innovative companies one of its oldest. boots and shoes 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 we're going. to make kids for this two hundred kilos of

chemically treated rubber coming down to this assembly line every ten minutes i mean it 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 putting together the ensuing left school says here. doesn't it but there are about forty ladies. who can be properly made in this case they make thirty five every five minutes or so to keep. on one soul the finishing touches have been on the ready to be shipped off to the shops. wondering around factories i was definitely. ready for some fresh air. to swirl

manuel into. it this is f c told siberia is in the premiership football team until pride and joy. 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. 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 play football they always want me to go and go. i guess it must be my cat like reflexes how. it's. ok. 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 see manager yuri it's easy to

see that this is a city that really loves football. here in winter as well as in summertime when the up to 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 safe area in town including yours. and each of our games gets twelve to thirteen thousand spectators. and the next us noon i was going to be one of them so this is what a saturday school made for perfect weather and healthy foods and premiership football. but the seats on the other 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 scotland and giving them a really hard time about how you say it but it was really has been

a game of two hundred somewhat dominating the first period and now must both seem to come out really hard still nil nil labatt and that holding out just lets hope the best of the odd of 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 against the mexican waves the final. new nail the boards are all but it does leave home 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 pushing me but. if you want leaving the stadium please be attentive and cautious even if it'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. is another way that my son. who was thinking more of washing dishes but spine amazing coincidence it turned out they was short in the chef to day. own the finishing touch. of 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 sterling prepared for cookie first. but never tried still it before but it's from the sturgeon family and the rivers around thompson full of them. once the missi thought was out of the way it was tons of perk up the fish with a few extra ingredients. so these are. siberian herbs and spices just give the fish a rub with these. and once everything was prepared it was time to get cooking see. such. beautiful smoke siberian stir that. it was almost time for me to leave toms and it was still so much i wanted to see but you can't play. a 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 at any moment but one side unpeeled my knuckles from the seat in front i really didn't want it to end and there is some pretty amazing piece to.

pass. our god that's so. absolutely story with. our. 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. wealthy british science. sometimes.

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countries to help russia battle the crisis meanwhile president meant that it pacified five high ranking russian military officials follicle preventive action. and in other news the two us imposes more new sanctions on iran as severing ties with borders suspected of terrorist legs has a group of intelligence experts write to president obama saying that israel may strike against tehran within weeks islamic republic has also denied reports of an assassination attempt on president mahmoud my definition. thanks to wall street insider marks cause it reveals how the war has been thrown into a deflationary spiral that's in the kinds of reports right now in our city.

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