the economic outlook that's according to federal statistics service which has bowled five thousand people across the country around twenty five percent expect a comic conditions to get worse in the next twelve months that's compared to just seventeen percent in the second quarter more than one third of the citizens say their financial standing has declined russians increased spending on food last year at the expense of consumer goods russian businesses space soon have to ensure the salaries of this stuff in case of bankruptcy that's under the terms of a new draft bill to be introduced by the economic ministry unpaid wages in russia amounted to more than one hundred million dollars as of the first of september it was almost entirely due to lack of cash flow. british oil group b.p. is to explore and develop a major caspian sea gas filled it signed a thirty year deal on the shop a seam and filled with a stage energy firm the deal involving up to five hundred billion cubic meters of

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for technology update on our jeep. with twenty four hours a day this is all from the russian company top stories now in the south as the war in afghanistan reaches you the ten online videos posted by nato soldiers are on the mind the coalition's reputation does not make it streams websites using direct links to clips uploaded by allied troops to drum up new support for the. unrest flares once again days before call them entry elections or two to be held security is being intensified across the country ahead of sunday's poll. the head of u.s. overseas broadcasting in america slams international news channels including he says the u.s.

needs to shelter in the global media. don't take from the back because the news develops in. the mean time we meet people escaping the big city for the simple life we take a look at life in home many with the environment that's a special report next. out in the countryside every day hard work is far more valuable than creature comforts here the people have no use for the latest high tech handheld devices consumer crazes. they build what they call ecological settlements to live in harmony with the natural environment so while they simply escaping big city life for a short break or are they fully rejecting modern civilisation ecological settlements a refuge for misfits and outcome asks for a place for the independent and strong minded of these people moving to be the economic crisis or to escape from themselves.

early on some is an important time for a few that's when he begins collecting honey from his forty bee hives as he pulls out each heavy honeycomb he suggests that bees may be in nature's original eco settlers. i mean bees are very rational creatures that's what is amazing about them and that's why i adore them besides they're very useful creatures they don't harm nature in any way whatsoever nature blossoms with the arrival of the. eighty years ago fielder who's a former engineer and several of his friends were given a one hundred hectare plot of land one hundred forty kilometers southwest of moscow

they divided it into one hundred equal parts they offered the land to anyone willing to adhere to special conditions takers were expected to live in the settlement permanently. we follow these rules there is a ban on pesticides and manmade fanciers blaze of trees every one of us must plant trees we are dead set against smoking and alcohol both are banned in public places . the name of the settlement means noah's ark the may be no biblical flood but dozens of people have flocked here from big cities only a few plots of land are still vacant. hello. maxime from moscow is one of the most recent newcomers he wants to take advantage

of the warm weather to finish building a house he spent a good deal of time and effort preparing for his move to come check his boss had allowed him to report to work in moscow only twice a month he also convinced his wife and children that it was much easier to work outside the us. i grew up in a village. that is in my apartment there wasn't enough space for me. to my windows trees all around and lots of open space for myself so i don't have people cramping. things before the country. seems wife is a doctor by trade after she came here it took her a while to get used to the daily manual work the rainy the shops centers in the settlement electricity only came here a couple of years ago residents are frequently found baking their own bread.

when life gets tough i take comfort from the fire was working in moscow i spent three hours going to work and back. here i spend as much time working. out in the open. this bakery at an eco village in scotland begins work at half past seven it's in an old fishing village near findhorn scotland's north sea coast and is one of the world's oldest and most famous eco settlements the people here. it's autumn and time for the harvest. it's very important to grow our own food so that we don't have to buy it from overseas so that we have you know that the food traveled so much but that it's really fresh food and food. elliott sank

spies' happy to see the bumper crop strictly speaking growing tomatoes is not his every day job he's in charge of the generation next project if in home organizing programs for young eco southwards. maintains that life without physical work is impossible in the village. my body and my mind in a different. people. can be really engage in a different word for. some of the vegetables i gathered this morning will end up in the community center kitchen where the food. in this kitchen. for use in.

schools and. the community center the kooks finish preparing the food. everybody is expected to join in the. the history of what is now well known community goes back forty seven years. came with their friends. to live in a trailer near the village. when their efforts to grow vegetables succeeded others followed. campaigners for the eco friendly lifestyle began arriving at home from around the world during the one nine hundred seventy s.

the community grew from twenty to one hundred fifty members. working with nature. meditation. working with nature. gibson was one of the first settlers. he's lived. his house is one of the eco villages. it's made from whiskey barrels we were looking for wood particularly. which is very hot and whiskey barrel great. right now the water to speak. and that's the way to get.

inside the whiskey barrel everything is just as simple and ecologically pure as it is outside as a village veteran craig is in charge of several ecological projects. very simply quite simply. it was not difficult really wonderful because we were. doing everything for the. people we're not trying to create something. demonstrate a different style of living and we see. so we are almost a little town. one of the biggest cities in europe. in the capital the brand new financial center housing

both russian and foreign firms. and with. i think it's ok on the one show a draw conclusions regarding chile i mean school should we tie that in with kazakhstan. this workspace is on the top floor of one of moscow's skyscrapers but the head of the firm with this prestigious office space doesn't care much about the view from his desk he's done instead of golf the man considered to be russia's first millionaire in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he also set up the first russian commodity exchange. but things took an unexpected turn seven years ago when his business went bust sterling of himself also went bankrupt when he was forced to some of his apartment he took an extreme measure and resolved to leave moscow for a place without central heating running water or electricity. i said to my

wife i lost my job and money and we could no longer own our apartment and we had to go somewhere else immediately so that there would be. my daily routine is like this i get up at six in the morning to tend the cattle then i have the right first and go to moscow my eldest son stays behind to look after the household i visit the big bad city to formulate anti-crisis measures and mechanism. of the start of the financial meltdown was asked to head a private and secret service center but even after moving into his huge office in moscow he never even toyed with the idea of returning to the capital permanently.

thank god we have no apartment in moscow this coffin of an apartment no matter how spacious it might be is a far cry from my house here is my home and this is what i call life. but now only gets to spend weekends in his out of this world settlement. thanks seems daughter a computer expert living in gov jack is fresh from a horse ride the neighbor breeds horses. look at the we she says and she's beautiful. see the bills that pulls. right there most of the one hundred settlers have opted for country life because of their children. they believe raising them outside town is easier to refuse to temptations in the countryside. in the evening.

in the night. there. is a newcomer to come she teaches the inhabitants. and tells them about the country's culture. most local residents have to be a teaching. school children. came here for the first time people asked me to tell them about indian dances and demonstrate some of them since it is a good deal of interest on the pontiff local residents and even asked me to teach them and i agreed with. the. indian song. this one's been filled with many activities from work. to learning new skills.

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. people. take. the lead. is a rare occurrence in this part of scotland but this summer. in the eco village. who pay for their vegetables. phoenix's the.

visitors and guests but also. but instead of paying in pounds she uses the local currency. the exchange rate stays the same. it was seven years ago to support local businesses. in order to keep. money. in. the. system. with a special device called the living machine. from here under ground.

the next step is that. this is a first place. into the tank and that kills the bacteria that was previously. used. bacteria microorganisms purify it in several phases hey you can see the bubbles in the water and the condition is that. all through this process in which. we come to the car if you look into the water. and this is the final tank cleaning from this point. which runs it up the wrong way. the end result is crystal clear.

in the pond you can see with maybe there. generally speaking a very simple principle. green technology is used to. maintain that people must not take from nature the. chemical fertilizers and not used whenever possible so. we just wanted to have as many renewable features as possible so that you could see them you know. turbines complement solar panels or the wood stove or whatever else . electricity generated in this way is more expensive but willing to pay because they know computers. this is

a community wind project we also wanted to involve the community and after they were wrecked we had groups of young community artists and school children decorate all three turbans and this was a school project about the ecological footprint. it's daybreak in the russian village of jacques. revisits the. indian says the day before but today she is the teacher and she's taking a geography global of that's was the right. how would you describe the race to reach. straight. two years ago and has. always been a good supply the children. themselves. children cheerful generous and elsewhere. who want to learn things.

i get the desired response from them that you're back if you will. this. recently. last winter living in a small. room. we came here last july the grass was very high here. the first thing that we did. and when we have to here until december. and into that barn we carried it with this film and did the same inside to make the barn warm. but the and then my husband found bricks and outlaws. and he used them to make a stone. alexi and his wife nina lived in this tiny bomb

until. alexey who was a successful photographer then began building his family a new home in the spring. gave birth to their second child now the house is almost complete alexian lien say they found happiness. we don't do what we don't want to do of course forcing people to do what they dislike is no a good it's. your expectations much what you see in the new place down to the situation naturally and you do what you want to do. people feel much more comfortable here to have an apartment and money a job or a business where everything was ok with that and yet they decided to come here they're successful here too as for escapism it doesn't work out well as a rule. yes it's me. i

know i haven't. sent him to the urals asked for the money goes to switzerland. government telephone barely stops ringing even on saturday mornings as an entrepreneur whose business was ruined years ago sternly god sees the financial crisis as the best time for spreading the economic lessons that land. this crisis offers a big opportunity for one thing urban people are losing jobs nobody needs this is a powerful stimulus for them to move to other places and if this city sewage system goes down then it compel people to move in no time the government dislikes the term eco settler he calls himself a peasant and hates progress more than even the most radical greens and feels that scientific progress does nothing but harm and maintains that people should go back to their roots living as he does just like in days gone by the food should come

from your own vegetable garden. just like them and eat them. laurie we don't use any cameco to grow them. come on try it. even has an eco solution to making a nice without a freezer. this is all free only a short time ago i had always dreamt of making a realized box and that's the right time for a big chunks of meat to be stored where. the freezer is on one side of the fridge bottles jars and canned food are kept on the other one a freeze comes around i crammed into this place. the eyes down their last for a whole year. according to government people should eat at home with their families and say prayers to he believes the best way to beat the crisis is

to reject innovation and revert to time tested practices. well any novelty is the work of the devil everything that is old has been tested for thousands of years people used to leave quite well they just gave birth to children and multiplied through they quarreled and went to war but came to terms in the end but now great discoveries by dan scientists. suicide for all of us. back home in scotland what was once a closed community has become an education center that's over fifty years old many international organizations hold seminars here. as issues and guests visit to london to learn from the experience. of visitors coming to the findhorn eco village this time it's a focus everyone's invited to see the show. another object of pride in finland is the large concert hall which is filled to capacity this is.

not asked to perform at the theatre settlement one hundred forty kilometers from moscow strangers are now treated with suspicion on one occasion house was burned down and there's been a result of those visitors need permission to come to. the value that privacy. found off as a simple explanation a community of settlers is a convenient arrangement but everyone's responsible for their own livelihood. reserves that you must leave something behind in this world planting hundreds or thousands of trees bringing more happiness into this world that would be a good outcome from my life that's the case i'll be happy to do it with.

other has numerous followers all over russia. settlements have sprung up in siberia and in the far east the recession has prompted people to leave the town behind and move closer to nature. that now people understand. bank balances can be easily lost but if you've found a place under the sun way you can. you can stay afloat. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around

the world. join us for technology update on r g. seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave in the past. weekend to make changes the society was in need. but was it possible to change the country's regime so quickly and we don't. want to close on the fundamental changes in the state when people's minds on origins.