all around. 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. this is a monument to happiness as he looks like this wolf who ate well lived well and now he's happy this is a favorite toy of kids we created and. most of the very light hearted and one of his favorite pieces is based on that favorite. the story of the baby in the cabbage patch this is true. yes.

but see here. picture. this two thrived in tomsk and down by the river a statue of one of russia's most famous playwrights. made famous by the city's most famous. yes. this is a famous monument. he. did it soon. has been covering our faces for the best parts of forty years and shows no sign of slowing down he says. europe and here they call him the thompson.

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 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. 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 if no actually be 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. to play. project is called chakra fridays on that occasion very cheerful people get together any of them only meant to the russian writer which stands here on base and. there's been a lot of debates about what it should be here at all. merry making people come shit each friday to sing down this or declaiming point train. 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 cool ip a two thousand year old indigenous restaurateur.

responded. come rain or shine check on fridays always bring out the crowds and after the music stops everyone gives the likes of a percentage of. this trickle fridays aren't exciting enough for you you can also hire a boat for river cruise across the tome although you might want to avoid the one with fifty teenagers on it's. these are freshers attempts polytechnic university they've just been. the first day of college. i'm still. mostly. ok. been a pretty long time a. little. thank you very much. i met up with

a group of guys from tomsk students' union to take a university tradition to go with. a solution be checking to make you the union reps from fellow students and collect them in a time capsule. of hopes and dreams. for five years right. and. they wonder how many of these guys are back in twenty four. to see what's happened. six hours on the first two years of comps management faculty already. pressures in a whole different way so pick up 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 this 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 think your support comes and becomes a lecture at the university of. sound so i study 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 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 under a very vibrant atmosphere which is. of course it's a different culture of course the climate is pretty harsh the year round. but the

people here are very friendly. people always rushing around all the time very nice people so this is the real rush or if you're the. phrase often in my trips around russia and this really is a city full of characters i wanted to find more top six history there's one place here which deals with the city's time. stalin's great terror of the nineteenth literally thousands of people were imprisoned and killed in thompson 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 dedicated itself to covering the political repressions. this building was a jail for the k.g.b. as predecessors the n.k.v.d. and even known 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 in 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 mean that these are the folders for denunciations as 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 urgent at a thompson 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. one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me authority.

who pays for the new jobs. how dependent is this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. georgian media fiction and reality on t.v. . 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 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 they used in the source is 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 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 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 inoculated for fifteen time outs 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 work here 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 lots of little pickles so i'm 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 massive really prickly and i 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 with four to five meters

tall produces its first cone and twenty five thirty years there are some nut bearing strain but if you 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 backers serious money. filters in 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. 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. to the field so i'm not trying to. make 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 pudding 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 unpleasant side effects clearly refresh from one of the 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 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 putting kids in the ensuing to below them left school says here. who it doesn't but there are about forty ladies here at the pool one two can be properly made. they make thirty five every five minutes so to keep. on one soul the finishing touches are going on they're ready to be shipped off to the shops. morning wondering around factories i was definitely. ready for some fresh wounds

a small mind wants and. this is f.c. told siberia's in the premiership team until just 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 the. train but see for yourselves right i said be interesting reminds me 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 catlike 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 speaking to the manager yuri it's easy to see

that this is a city that. 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 siberian towns 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 had a pretty spectacular rise in russian football climbing from division two to the premier league in under ten years 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 to call someone dominating the first period and now must seem to come out really hard still nil nil labatt and that holding out just lets hope the best of the law of this shot. of the leg of the leg goal leg of the bags and we pleaded for the players just couldn't find the targets and after a frustrating ninety minutes against the mexican waves the final was simply. new until the board's role but it does leave tome ten points above the relegation zone so i guess these guys i think i'm two are going all the chance to do a little international bonding over on dre i'll shove in and roman abramovich pushing me but here decent car is what 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. the coffee. an amazing choice but at these prices i think it's called. the forward. unless there's another way. my son. was thinking more of washing dishes but spine amazing coincidence it turned out they was short in the chef to day. on the finishing touch. 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 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 some. siberian herb's and spices just give the fish a rub with these. and once everything was prepared it was time to get cooking it's. just. beautiful smoked siberian stir. 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. but never been in a hang glider before. you feel as if you might drop out of any moment of one side and peeled my knuckles from the seat in front i really didn't want it to end and there are some pretty amazing piece to.

pass. our god that's so. absolutely the story with. our. force of. 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. developer bush for. always ads 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 the vote that he

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they faced it this is not a provocation but a war of. fate for which it should step is what is sure to support the treaty speaks of they have no idea about the hardships to face. one it is this is it of them to the east and for any army the life of abusing them is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. victories nineteen forty five dollars r.t. dot com. crew. turns to push because police in the crowd abuse capital clash with anti-government

demonstrators accused by the country's leader of trying to organize a coup. desperate battles against two raging wildfires continue across russia the most intense heat wave on record with the death toll now over fifty. five british citizens extradited to greece to face trial of the stabbing of a man in crete accuse the government of abandoning them saying the european arrest warrant system allows them to be sent for trial abroad without any evidence. this is r.t. is what i am here in moscow ten pm in london five in the afternoon in new york city thanks for watching us this were ever in the world you're watching it's kevin owen here with the top stories and first police in the start of use live rounds of tear

gas to break up antigovernment protesters just outside the capital bishkek riot police have been on standby opened fire after of being attacked with stones twenty seven people have been arrested accused of being responsible for the violence correspondent catherine azhar of is in bishkek with the latest. following a very tense few hours just outside at a checkpoint by the city of cond where there were just a few dozen meters separating riot police and a few thousand of protesters who demanded their requests be heard and met basically they were calling the wire the interim president of kurdistan to hear their demands to hear their complaints and take them into account basically after those negotiations didn't seem to go anywhere as the leader of the opposition in the long discussions with the head of police after those discussions failed the crowd started advancing all.