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hello started from moscow it's midnight thirty moscow times will top stories tonight the french senate approves an increase in the retirement age but the country's paralyzed by the strikes of outraged workers they say they don't want to pay for finances mistakes. federal traffickers in iraq become the new health hazards the fuel they steal spills into rivers poisoning the populations water supply. and a common goal but no common vision while recognizing afghanistan as the world's greatest drug threat russia and the u.s. can't agree on how to deal with. it we have next our special report which we open the doors to russia's once closed military city have killed off a long gone salvi it's time capsule of the past.

less than a thousand kilometers northeast of moscow is the city of care of its regional capital million people and if you like places that combine the historic. this is the town for you. isn't exactly. it was a closed military city until the fall of the soviet union and parts of the town still feel like they belong in a bygone era but the city is developing its transport hub investment is starting to improve facilities here and amongst the buildings you can still find a few done in the rough. place i'm about to visit is a real institution it's one of the oldest buildings in the whole city and for two centuries it's been the center of the region's printing industry. books newspapers calendars magazines if you need paper princes and they get through more

than forty tons every week. there's been a press here since seventeen mighty to have some of the latest technology available there are still a few relics of a bygone age so i love this the fact that you get the. bits of history with. something that i guess would be about. right with something that is straight out of the twenty first century. and in the next room there's a machine that might easily have used it now days it's a rather different. take. this entry doesn't. strain to think of machines like this result as printing is itself and the hundreds of years ago the press was like this one might have produced the first shakespeare a good bible this one is producing packaging for delicious nothing treats. but why

does the stooges will still use. see if i can. take this one work without destroying my. other. fortunately as watchful supervision i managed to escape with all my fingers intact and i headed into the modern heart of the factory . it takes six min the good twenty minutes to get this machine warmed up and once it starts it really knows how to shift. where it takes five hundred fifty three i press. one thousand and. put it simply. the right thing. to make sure the newspaper had a section advertising city life music in the local park and it seemed like a perfect place to meet my going to the city despite his name. so it was

the old and. i'm going down the first. like a. one thousand see shoes. and a man is a secondary school teacher a born and bred curious point and she knows this town inside out. from this place you can see the center fence monastery you can see the bell tower in the church and there's also a sense in where people get water. there are areas of the city that are less picturesque carol has a real problem with its roads which is supposed to be some of the worst in russia and the overwhelming color on the streets is a steely gray change has been slow but i assume is that life here is starting to improve i think became even better we have a new things here we have new plants like the plants and we have. a new.

they have news story it's. everything is different. and as a teacher she's very proud of their education system we have a lot of universities here and those in her study here they can find a good job. as a moon boy to me to school to see the facilities for myself and also to attend one of the most solemn ceremonies of the year if you're a seven year old but it's another when i was little before of going to growed up school was a pretty scary but here in russia they have a ceremony that's supposed to make everyone feel welcome. and you get to wear some pretty cool. this is well the first years officially begin their formal education. gives the various classes a chance to show their proud mums and dads the few who to.

this moment the little ones being welcomed into the school they run the foreign exchange program here and several students from across the glued have come to experience a russian way of life and improve their language skills. the countess the milky way it was but it has to be the other way they can do spells with feet but then i need to find another then this one is broken so to speak we seem to end up with no look . each student comes for an academic year after the ceremony i dropped in on a group of americans and germans having a russian lessons. there as we have yesterday here and this is. everybody this is a russian lesson muscle troy do this in russian. james. must be they're encouraged to try and immerse themselves as much as possible although of course every new city has its challenges. following the bus hoping you're rushing

more the fact that you had your forced to communicate in russian and that you know sisters and one speaks no english and one speak some english so they need things communicated it's really helpful to have a sister who can communicate and translate but for everyday things like learning the words used to make. me walk and we go to cafes and i'm going to do homework but in my city it's not a city it's a village and there's two thousand people and there's nothing there is nothing so here is cafes here's the cinema are you for squares so that's better i think limits the right to live so close to sunny other people it's easier to find groups or clothes that are interested in so and they're expected in most places for your people but i don't think it's necessary at every city for may and the

first and foremost thing here to study a man is determined when they do go home to live how the full russian experience as an it is it and economic program so the main objective of the course is learning the language but it's not only the language that's ruined but also because from traditions of the country this to me whether or not they go home speaking like me to just go is a certainly going to be loaded down with souvenirs and you can get much more authentically cure all of them the. choice. lydia and her daughter a carrying on a little tradition that started in the neighboring village of dim cover i'm goes back more than four hundred years from brightly colored milkmaids to a huge variety of animals each piece is handmade and i was about to learn some of their secrets and then we're going to put the reason why toys were made locally to mordor here was that there were many rich merchants in quito where you would hear they decorated their homes with such toys that the people in didn't cover didn't

have enough money to buy toys for their children e even just three so they supplied their children with toys made locally at the same time last year people decorated their homes with toy horses cows and the like . young teams produce upon you and i was put to work on some bird life so i've got to try a duck i think is that what we do to the head here and then do it. soon and it will surgery here. look at this one hundred pounds we take a piece of clay eat it with you and do like this. that's a duck that might actually swim. and be able to eat. but countless less thought about it. but it is here and it's a must try it's room temperature for four days if he did you wrote i thought this

is a long process it's the you have to live in drawing room temperature for more days it was the end will burn out in enough and p.t. and then they go in the oven and they bag but of course that's really just the start of the piece has been fired you've gone by delicate brush work to take care of so i get the bear with a bottle like. well the bear with a better talent. and just as painting white i don't mind masterpiece will be joining any sales catalog but lydia has had some serious v.i.p.'s walk through her doors or look sort of walking in some pretty famous footsteps because the ladies made this run with prison but that was. but i think i hope that only that i get to make amazing duck and. cure alls dim could toys may have been around for centuries but the fur trade here has been going on far longer. the area is rich in mink fox and even introduced raccoon and the

local culling to factory has been making the most of it. it was founded in one thousand nine hundred one and has gained a reputation for international collections and its bespoke clothing. for this we were everything starts this. this is the sign with a pencil and paper he draws models of jackets coats hats. the factory employs around a hundred people who take care of the various stages of production and once the garment starts to take shape it's time for the embroidery. to make the sign on lever yes so they can broad picture on it so clever. compared to the western world there's little stigma attached to wearing fur in russia and the shuba coat is still a part of most women's wardrobe although if you want to pick up one of these

designs you'll need very deep pockets so i guess this would be a very creamy exclusive stuff this second is made from soup skin. so a short cut it's chip skin and the lining and yes and here is a long will and ship skin. in broidery made out of a lever. but how much would this set you back. eight hundred. k. now this one is really unusual but it does seem. like this where is this for afghanistan. and this is why i read quite unusual quite expensive. but with coming in from across the country it seems that there are people willing to pay the high prices and a new campaign for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi is likely to give even more up the city production is always going to be controversial but in russia

it's just a fact of life when the temperatures plunge outcome of the. but if you want to. well that's going to cost you. but if you don't happen to have several thousand dollars just lying around there are always other ways to make money like digging for it. carries a metal detector unspayed with him everywhere he goes and it seems cure alls has a few prime spots for buried treasure. don't believe it but where we're standing there used to be a village that was abandoned forty years ago but it was actually centuries. and his friends think they're still alive if you think we're finding here. but it turns out the metal detecting here can be a rover hazardous profession. at the really bad only crap there are any bets.

that get there. fortunately our furry friends kept the distance and we were able to start hunting everyone's been searching spots like bees for more than a decade and he's had quite a few impressive discoveries. found a medal it was made in sixty two by the russian craftsman find is not a surprise in england there are a lot of such metals how it appeared here and killed off a mystery. it wasn't long before we came on something also. because to cope. with dreams of hidden riches running through my head i decided to have a go myself although it didn't quite work out like that. it's like a baby buzzing in your ear. though that. i have not got the

slightest clue what that is. well this is excellent i've got like parts of the fence. but i'm from an accordion it rang like a calling on my bill to make something in about a year. more thread on wood. but then the metal detector started going crazy and i was sure we were on to something big. it's a basin. well big it wos my label it was not we might not have ended up million it is but it had been a real adventure coming out with that one out and he left me with a few keepsakes to take home to stranger than about just a couple of i was searching for found things from three different eras of the village but three in century belt buckle discoid for the love of his imperial russian the two thirteen finally

a little soviet. army jacket but. it was some pretty good treasure hunting for one thing. and it was time for me to go and see what else i could dig up about life in the care of reaching. culture is that so much different and there's a huge percentage share price on the market as the western powers do their best to isolate the islamic republic iran itself has demonstrated it remains a cheap player in the greater middle east. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about them it's about me to. me man brown got. it see. me.

and he. says this is life till i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like the lights. do people of have to abandon the trappings of the twenty first century could you imagine living your life as if it was ten zero nine rather than two thousand and nine well in care of as a man who's done just that. this place looks like it could be straight out of a grimm fairy. even looks like it might be home to some enormous which

fortunately for me the which wasn't home but just around the corner little did i know i was about to bump into a medieval blacksmith. the man is the head of one of the most popular historical societies and he considers himself a modern day viking. we for cheer it's our little smithy and the house this meadow belongs to our club we arrange holidays we can rest and even sleep here sometimes we spend the weekends people in our club make different decoration years and weapons we just have fun for example actually throwing this thing. every viking needs to prepare for a day's pillaging with some weapons practice and remember that down to a fine art when you're. on the other

hand it's just may require a few more lessons to us in the middle. ok the man's not a man to tolerate this he invites belong to his training group where they recreate historical. mission ok. ok ok. i am. james the destroyer is here to crush your menfolk and drink much of your. fortunately it turns out that fighting with what feels the equivalent of a small color on your body is really quite hard these guys used to do this all day

. yes but. the head of the team yeah i am yes. i am james incredibly tired. as i change back into my civvies i decided it was time to let some of the people round my head it off was one of carroll's most popular and unusual sports this is bundy a combination of football and ice hockey that was apparently invented by the british in the nineteenth century who sadly like many of our sports were not very good at it but the russians and supposedly have the top ten teams in the world. is one of them. the game is played on a field the size of a football pitch uses a round plastic pool and. there's minimal physical contact as this is

a school that requires corner early skill and agility only better that i start. with the ice you can really see why. a game that takes the best of ice hockey out of football to capture people's imagination and i haven't even seen anyone try rinaldo. and the people here love their team open them matches can attract up to ten thousand spectators even in the dead of winter but those who prefer to watch the sport from the comfort of their armchair will be seeing this much. this. and expect to tell you who runs a couple of. them and i was very keen to meet. for russia almost twenty years ago and he's been educating pilots here ever since the chance to help make some of my favorite silence was too good to pass up. thank you very much not just started up a pizzeria in moscow in the early nineties but after his daughter was born he

decided to move out of the big city and as his wife's from kiro it seemed like the obvious choice five u.s. war. story and how one of the russians reacted to her having a real italian restaurant here was a surprise for the disability. restaurant they have. every dish. here. for the. first time. you know. after school after home after. players and for rich people and after a few finishing touches i was ready to try it for myself. you know. that's what i was waiting. but it's something look

that good smell like. real thick grass in it that will bring. you know. her from the best restaurants in europe but there were a couple of things i wanted to see. normally i don't hate lists with strange men on motorcycles. but the city had one of russia's most unusual clubs point it needed someone in the know. i had been expecting to be dropped off at some level. so i was a little surprised when i opened the door to a chip which was my new friend hinting i should play for my so maybe the local could shed some light something else. i'm sorry i think i was told that this was actually a bike his club. bit of a mistake. yes hello i'll explain everything to you. back

ok. this is. a priest. we'll explain exactly what all that means. let's go. with it was revealed as i met father alexander. very own by caprice he's the founder of the city's motorcycle club although admittedly not exactly hell's angels hello lou. took me outside and introduced me to some fellow club members including my old friend. as well as writing the group also me to restore old bikes well i think this one's going to take some serious work so this was a real russian classic about forty five years ago the. because equivalent to the italian vesper seen better days the little bit of russian history here this

certainly isn't your typical politics club but your old scripts to reuters have become part of the landscape united by love of going on the road. so it looks like . we're off to spread the bike a words one last time this year but as for me i they are going to enjoy the rest of care of. me. it was almost time for me to leave the city but i always like to check out a bit of the local music scene on my travels although in the basement of the john's face it wasn't quite what i can expect. these are the shakes it's a little slice of nineteen fifties america in northeastern russia i'm one of the most popular. all. over here really that.

he was a long while living in cairo. ok i have stated that i wasn't expecting to come. but it's also thank you how did you guys get into playing kind of fifty's fifty's country and all the rock n roll well you know we've been playing this music. for almost seventeen seventeen years. we got to know about it from our parents who are also big fans great fans this music and elvis presley so that's how it happened this is about his wealth and it's obscene. well you're right. the fact is that we are the only group the only band around and i think that the popularity of this music and of our band depends on this fact once or twice a month we go out sat our region and rock the house after that but thankfully

their home town crowd was getting the benefits and the role was in the mood for a concert. to scratch under the surface to get the best care of the first close you might be reminded of a great provincial soviet town but it's the people that really give this city its color and they're some of the most vibrant and diverse that i've had the pleasure of meeting.