russia has announced plans to generate fifty billion dollars for the sale of a number of state assets over the next five years according to russia's finance minister speaking at the royces russia investment summit and he couldn't say that the government hoped to raise approximately ten million dollars a year through its product as asian plan russia previously said it would seek some twenty nine billion from the sales over three years the rise plan is to come into effect from two thousand and eleven. that's all for this hour you can find most stars on our website about call. me and about the you know it's. the.

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next stay with us on our team. the folded delta place with a multitude of islands but not a speck of giant land where you just jump into the boat and off you go to wherever you want for centuries this delta was where russians farming for black caviar giant fish can be found yeah boy of the two told man were holding up a catfish part of its tail was half a metre long number of birds here in spring and autumn runs into the millions the first places a purpose roberta's they're lucky to have these are logs you can easily lose your way in this tangle of beautiful plants to see how water sparkles on these leaves coming across turtles bathing in the sun they will be a few meters from where you live is not something out of the ordering of the delta wild is just a few steps away from civilization. and

strand is a city in russia south it has a kremlin made of white stone and another symbol of the city is the swoons that live in the pond in the center of this one stayed there all the year round but most of all the people of astra proud of the volga river russia's most famous river drains into the caspian sea in the astrakhan region. from above it looks as though the deep river runs into an obstacle one hundred thirty kilometers from the caspian sea. into hundreds of small narrow channels this area is known as the volga delta it's almost a triangle shaped most of its territory covered with water. to go from bastrop and southward you soon see feels totally immersed in water. main treasure of the whole the delta fish come here to spoon.

fish attract migrating birds. million beds of three hundred species come here the spring and autumn it's the centuries people from all over luscious south that come here to fish and hunt and fortunately though many species perished as a result. more the at that time women like to dress up they had ants with feathers hair and thought this was very much invoke the heron only has five feather is on its head so it thousands of parents were killed in the name of fashion while pelicans were opposed by the million to make ornaments. in the early twentieth century the volga delta was a desolate place a special expedition that came here from moscow in the one nine hundred twelve found no trace of it the swans or pelicans. urgent measures were needed to save the

deltas natural environment. nine hundred seventeen socialist revolution the government decided to create a nature reserve here. at the ball and there was a civil war at the time of the country's coffers were empty and the future was unclear that's what the situation was like when they started to create a nature reserve in the balkans out. it's hard to reach the reset for a master it's a hundred kilometers through flooded fields and the ferry to the other bank of. a fifteen kilometer stretch of dirt road once you've reached the end of it you don't need the car anymore you have to take a boat because there's not much ground from all the way to the caspian sea. if you. reach the boundary of the nature reserve everywhere there are signs prohibiting entry and the person found trespassing can be punished by. in all

fairness such strict measures produced posted results soon after the nature reserve was founded. here with mills that we begin with the first one ness were found here and the first terran colonies were discovered in the reserve as well as a lawyer but that's cool retains the hairy detrich of subsequent generations the queer gets. aunty fishel islands of the early spots of drawing down to preserve the house ranges and dogs with their families. scientists doing research they hit too. early in the morning on the phone just to be tripped on the ref and ranger are out to beg off set out on an expedition to make a record of the birds in the reserve all right let's go today to the tikrit channel to see what's going on there and over there will be how high the water is we'll

look at the tide marks yes we'll check them into. the toybox in the river charles x. is not true measuring this for the stuff. as ranges make the rounds of the reserve they're supposed to see whether the tide box had been washed away is difficult to see though from the boats if they are secure enough. they make the rounds once a month during high season each time they follow the same route. on the fallen just puts down a description of each bird he sees in the notebook. the data is then processed and entered into a fifty year old book chronicling the state of the natural environment. everything is put on record even the first groping over frogs for example the first turtle emerging from the water just some date and the first crossed snake sneaking out of its hideout the first darling the first the phone. swallow the

sun when baby birds start to leave their nests is also noted. the white tailed eagle is one of the biggest birds of prey in the astral. of. these birds have a wingspan of up to two in the hof me to. the white tailed he who is the fourth biggest bird in europe birds of the species in the volga tells him mostly feed on fish they either catch the fish themselves or grab them from other birds such as comrades. sometimes they call she'd cormorants by pretending to attack them when you normally they don't go out or cormorants but as soon as they sense danger they drill each down to fish and get out of the way as fast as they can eagles get the prize crowns are their rivals and

they too trying to pick up the fish in other words whitetail eagles and crowns live off the corner and. white tailed eagles are not as common in any other area of russia as they are in the volga delta. so say one of the darkest habitats for these birds in the world. about two hundred eagle pairs nests in the reserve alone. european come to astra and for the expressed desire of watching them in the wilds. of myriad nobody minute once a visiting german camera man was so thrilled by the dozen white tailed eagles flying overhead that he told the drama to home the car there and then started filming them when i told him that fine white tailed eagles were nothing out of the ordinary he said that only a few such eagle's nest and in his country all of them in germany had been recorded

and. they were under constant observation. in recent years people with cameras have been exploring the underwater part of the delta. this field office of fish biologists and. is an underwater camera in the morning they go to one of the remove channels. and clear ideal conditions for. nearly sixty fish species in habits of all the data including. their famous for their black caviar. is a total ban on fishing in the result of its employees are only allowed to use fishing rods even local people their interests are fishing.

but i can't show how big it was even if i spread my arms to the limit imagine this tall man holding a catfish while part of its tail about half a metre long is on the ground. during high water the fish moved to the flood plain to spawn it's here that baby fish scramble out of. the receding water takes them back to the river. both fry and fish come here after spawning the warm water stimulates underwater vegetation this is a comfortable place for the young it's like a kindergartner. for the time being they're almost new fish in this aquatic nursery so the cameraman switches his attention to the plants. occurring is fairly strong here it seems this tangle with education services or filter purifying the water flowing through it. as a result it becomes clear. when i go down there i clearly see that the

remote bottom and the seaweed are all covered with mud. even in the summer that clear water makes it possible to see that the seaweed is so thick it looks like a forest. but also find there. some of the most beautiful flowers in the delta. what's more here you can see above gradually from the water the interesting thing about water lilies is that they conceal themselves under water during the night and at dawn onto the water surface to bloom again. a little to says the most famous plant of the delta. a few decades ago the sacred symbol of the buddhists took up nearly a quarter of a hit to. today. by twenty nine thousand.

what. this is a lotus lee. and it's a boil the water will slide down like mercury. these reddish leaves differ significantly from the others look at how these leaders it's parco. notices considered a symbol of purity and in lighting meant. disbelief to help people understand the origin of their desires and reefs tiredness sharpens the senses and even provides protection from evil forces. persian in a last minute lotuses makes you think you are in the persian shop near. the

southern most common plants and of all the delta they grow all the over the place have. any of the deltas islands are in fact nothing more than a fifth of reeds growing in shallow water. some of them can even grow up to six metres in height. motorboats can't go too far off without damaging its screw propeller. fortunately the wooden you know you can easily lose your way in a rethink it it's not like a forest here you can tell where north especially if the skies over cost and the stars are nonphysical and rethink its constraint for many many kilometers from the queue. the noise of an engine is heard from a far it's there's peace and quiet it signals that there's a trespasser in the area the ranger immediately calls based with the gods. a few minutes later the rat finds approaches and that's one of the real dominance

dimitry there is a net. oh yes i see it. the net is full of fish most likely it was last checked a long time ago. the bulk of the fish. break may have killed them all. they then set the surviving fish free which was one of the kind of fish is it anyway shall we let them go dimitri yes sure. the boat continues on its way to more and that's a found there by the ranger called space again l.o.l. oh there he did it there are three minutes here again so shall i remove them right i'm going to do it right away. where rats empties one of the nets and leaves it in

place dogs will come here in the evening to ambush the poacher. in the evening while decent parents descend on the area. here has little fear of humans they know from experience that they will not be disturbed while they're in the reserves which is why there are so many. in these head. on the thought of this ok to visit them in the movie. the. wealthy british style.

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the mourning for confederates the voted. on. colleges sketch out that dorm to get ready to go to a faraway lands to inspect its cormorant colony. colma is the most common in the delta. number of koreans here runs into hundreds of thousands. to cover schools of kilometers such a fish the staple food. but here their prey can be found everywhere the delta just moments to bring to such that they call in his head. this claim is considered to be a fairly young one it appears only thirty years ago. today numbers about fifty

thousand mists. thinner and nests look like round findings thirty to forty centimeters in diameter these shallow funnels are made from twenty packed reeds. one trees might be home to schools of nests. on scorching hot days and old birds on the edge of their nests laughing their wings luser cool it down a bit also make sure that their hatchlings are kept out of the sun through a through and through the baby birds learn how to fly an interim. at that time flocks of cormorants or spectacle on a par with a hitchcock movie. cameron sent perkins often go to fish to get a pelican stay all this common in the reserves.

we often feed together if i want to assure you begin circling over it. calm they also want their share. you would be hard pushed to find chemicals in the delta force these very cautious beds nests as far away from people as possible. to. i think. it's the caspian sea. as it looks like the nature coast of. us it's still part of the volga river here it stretches two hundred kilometers wide. flood waters right now are about one point four meters deep at other times the depth is between a meter and one point two meters this is the middle of the delta there are a lot of fish here because of the river of the thoroughly warmed by the sun there

is a wealth of vegetation and a good deal of food for fish and birds down there. back in the nineteen fifties there were one thousand five hundred pelicans. since then that number has dropped to five hundred. it's very difficult to spot a colony of pelicans in the field creed's. they spend an hour. before the boat runs into a pelican colony. baby birds hatched a short time ago. at the. colony was here forty years ago but then they disappear that it has been grown in the past four years in the beginning there were only five nast's then forty and now we have one hundred.

pelicans look like very. they have. short sea clegg's and their tail is visible. many religions with the sacred animals muslims. that a pelican brought stones for the construction of mecca and its bill. pending europe the pecker is a symbol of parents who love legend has it taken so rich their chests open with that beaks to feed hungry babies with blood. bulletins play with each other only for the duration of one season build nests in the reeds tickets. at first so i stay look like a pile of garbage twigs. there are two or three baby birds to invest in born knowing that they can't. fuzz starts to grow seven days later after ten weeks

they can fly. there are only a handful of them are here and we try not to disturb them if we can help it we do keep records of them but we don't do any detailed research. even the gods make a point of not approaching islands with pelicans and nesting in fact the gods live in floating cabins and they visit the ivan delta they stay there for only three days at a time. have you seen many pelicans nicholai there are about

a hundred nast's here and in grown ups there are some but others are still very young. compared to pelicans there are thousands of swan nests in the delta. in the last century the swan population is rapidly shrinking due to the hunting. when a small. cannot fly so poaches would take that opportunity to cram them into nets and beat them with sticks. now that catching swans is prohibited the population has started to increase. in the fifty years only five pairs of swan nested in the ball delta but now their numbers have gone up hundreds of times over us. this one the scene is a symbol of devotion as it was thought that once pet they stay together for knife.

as soon as they settle down a large plot to start building nests as a roof other birds anywhere nearby welcome. people because they're worthy of the appearing nesting season the female sits on the nest while the male swims around to guard against intruders. swans are very strong the birds they don't like the presence of other birds especially glee's sometimes swans even when she's out from a shared habitat. normally there are five to seven eggs in the swans nest. or something frightens them that they leave their nests. crews often use this tactic to steal the eggs.

or get a couple of always accompany motorboats when they reach the end of their section they hand over the boat to another couple of crowns the man in the boat is to preoccupy its noses when the boat approaches the nest the noise of the engines scares the bird away. to get into the nest. just seal the eggs as a result the sets this room. is called the venice of russia for its calm and beautiful nature. people come here every year to find a quiet place under the sun and in peace. in the dusk descends on the river maybe duck enough to see a spectacular sea books of swans flying into the sunset. on

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