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brighton. from. don't come. this is are to you long for moscow minds torture and civilian deaths in iraq new revelations wrong washington knows the week you weeks website releases more secret u.s. military files site's founder claims the leak of some four hundred thousand documents has not jeopardized america's national security. france is hit with more rallies after senators prosecution personal pension bill which raises the retirement age from sixty to sixty two across the channel in the u.k. unions massive protest at the government's washers social benefits and costs half a million jobs. plus an unexpected find in russia's resort city of sochi

as archaeologist uncover an ancient temple construction for the twenty fourteen winter games some of the sporting events could now be revoke aided to make room for a museum as part of the olympic park. next to travel to russia's once closed military city of cure of which is a time capsule of long gone soviet times. less than a thousand kilometers northeast of moscow the city of care of its regional capital a million people and if you like places that in 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 is a real institution it's one of the oldest buildings in the whole city and for more than two centuries it's been the center of the region's printing industry. books newspapers calendars magazines if you need paper they'll princes and they get through. every week. there's been a press here since seventy nine hundred two and a living 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 combined with. something that i guess would be about nineteen right with something that is spread out of the twenty first century. and in the next room is a machine that might easily have used it days it serves

a role the difference is when taken to mean the right entry to the we didn't. strain to think of machines like this result as printing is itself in the hundreds of years ago the press was like this one might have produced the first take. a good book bible this one is producing packaging for delicious nazi treats but why does the stooges will still use. see if i can. make this one work without destroying much of it. 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 up and once it starts it really knows how to shift. to the right thing by. reading the tree

by press. one thousand and. five and. the rest. of the newspaper had a section advertising some life music in the local park. and it seemed like a perfect place to meet my going to the city this park is named. so it was built and. unless i'm the first. one to see shoes. a man is a second schoolteacher a born and bred curious point and she knows this town inside out. from this place you can see the monastery you can see the bell tower in the church and there's also a sense in which people. 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'm just saying is that life here is starting to improve i think became even better we have a new things here we have new plans like the plans and we have. a new house. it's just. 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 can find a good job. is going to be to her 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 duty. thank you for 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 is has to be the other way because those bells with feet but then i need to find them this one is broken so to speak we seem to end up with no link. 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 is recovered yesterday here and this is. everybody this is a russian less law school troy do this in russian. james journalist is must be they're encouraged to try and immerse themselves as much as possible although of course every new city has its challenges. you find that that's helping your russian more the fact that you have your forced to communicate in russian and that you know sisters and one speaks no english and speak some english so they need things communicated it's really helpful to have a sister can communicate and translate but for everyday things like learning the words to use to make. me walk you know we go to cafes and i'm going to do homework but in my city it's not the city it's a village and there's two thousand people and there's nothing there is nothing phil here is cafes here's

a cinema square so that's better i think living innocent people have to live so close to sunny other people it's easier to find groups there who are interested in so in that respect i think in most places for young people. i don't think it's necessary in a free society for a. first and foremost they have to study and is determined when they do go home they'll have had the full russian experience as an it is it which academic progress or the main objective of the course is learning the language but it's not only the language that's reward but also the cost from traditions of the country this to whether or not they go home speaking like natives the guys are certainly going to be loaded down with souvenirs and you can get much more authentically care of than the. toys. litter and her daughter occurring on the local tradition that started in the neighboring village of 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. was that there were many rich merchants in quito where you what they decorated homes with such toy is that in the people in didn't cover didn't have enough money to buy toys for their children. 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 borrowed from you and i was put to work on some bird life so i have a good. thing is that what we do to manage here and then we'll do it. and it'll surgery here. look at this we take

a piece of clay eat. and do like this. that's a duck that might actually swim. by countless this stuff about celebrities like us that's going to have put it here i mean it's mistry it's real temperature for four days yeah he did yeah right so i felt this is a long process it's the you have to leave in drawing room temperature for more days the end well then i turn enough and p.t. and then they go in the oven and they bake but of course that's really just the start half of the piece has been fired you've gone by delicate brush work to take care of so i get the bat with the bottle like. well the bear with about. it tell us better. and to such pains in ways i don't mind must piece will be joining any sales catalogue but lydia has had some serious v.i.p.'s walk through

her doors looks like good walking and 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. curios 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 kalinga factory has been making the most of it. it was founded in one nine hundred ninety one and has gained a reputation for international collections and its bespoke clothing. for this we were everything star says. this is the sign with a pencil and a piece of paper she truly was. also chekist coats hats from the factory employees around a hundred people who take care of the various stages of production and once the

government starts to take shape it's time for the embroidery. would make the sign on level yes so they are 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 only in very deep pockets so i guess this would be the really exclusive stuff this second is made from ship skin. so a short cut it ships skin and the lining and lighting and here is a long will and ship skin. in broidery made on a lever. about how much would this set you back. eight hundred dollars ok now this one is really unusual to have a seem. like this but where's this for i'm going to start us to hunt and make

claims llama and this is why i read quite unusual and they're quite expensive. but with otis coming in from. cross 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 publicity production is always going to be controversial but in russia it's just a fact of life when the temperatures plunge outcome the supers but if you want a new one all 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. oh you might not believe it but where we're standing there used to be

a village now it was abandoned forty years ago but it was actually centuries and edward and his friends think they're still life if you think we're finding here. but it turns out the metal detecting here can be a rover has to disprove fashion. is really for bad only crap they're really bad. fortunately our furry friends kept their 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 because such a find is not a surprise in england there are a lot of such metals how it appeared here in kirov there is a mystery that. it wasn't long before we came on something on

selves. 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 the. i have no. clue what that is. well this is excellent i've got like parts of this. button from an accordion it rang like a calling. me make something in about a year. 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 was my label it was not what we might not have

ended up millionaires but it had been a real adventure coming out with it and he left me with a few keepsakes to take home and strange then about just a couple of searching found things from three different areas of the village. for the last two years of imperial russia and. finally a little soviet. army jacket button. some pretty good treasure hunting for one thing. and it was time for me to go and see what i could dig up about life in the region.

it's the secret incursion into the country. into the invasion by means of. tradition the language. this is the first the complete beat. culture. the thing is that the had the germans are still unaware of what's going on in their land just last year. like this i don't know anything about them alaska. on our team. plenty of people of how to abandon the trappings of the twenty first century but could you imagine living your life as if it was ten zero nine rather than two thousand and nine well in care of there's

a man who's done just that. person looks like it could be straight out of a grimm fairy tale 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 cure olds most popular historical societies and he considers himself a modern day viking. we for chair it's our little smithy and a 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 things . every viking needs to prepare for

a day's pillaging with some weapons practice and remember down to a fine art. on the other hand may require a few more lessons in the middle. ok the man's not a man to tolerate this he invites belong to his training group when they recreate historical battles and it's not for the faint. nation ok. ok ok. ok.

james the destroyer is here to crush your menfolk and drink much of your. confusion turns out that fighting with what feels like the equivalent of a small color on your body is really quite how these guys used to do this all day. yeah i am 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 off to watch 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 we're 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 primarily skill and agility definitely better that i stifle . the ice and 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 ronaldo style dive yet. 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. but. this is an expert to tell you who runs a couple of best restaurants and the man 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 please to me thank you very much. 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. we. rest or the russian 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. after home after. players and for rich people and after

a few finishing touches i was ready to try it for myself. that's what i was waiting. for. but it's something look that good. really thick grass in it that will bring. you know. but from the best restaurants in iraq but there were a couple of other things i wanted to see to go. home normally i don't hate slits with strange men on motorcycles honest 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 wait a moment i'll be back ok. this is. a priest. we'll explain exactly what all that means. let's go. with them was revealed as i met father alexander cure of his very own bike a priest he's the founder of the city's motorcycle club although admittedly not exactly hell's angels hello lou. i was only took me outside to introduce me to some fellow club members including my old friend. as well as writing the group also meet 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 of his equivalent to the italian vesper seen better days and little bit of russian history. this certainly isn't your typical pollock of the cure old scripts to reuters have become part of the landscape you know if you've gone on the road. it looks like. they're off to spread the word one last time this year but as for me 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 johnston face point when 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 but it's. not all. over here really that. he was a long while living in cairo. ok i have to say that i wasn't expecting to come and visit but it's all thank you how do you guys going to play got a fifty fiftieth's country in a row 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 fans saw this music and elvis presley and bill haley so that's how it happened this is about as. 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 rocked the house. today to think. it 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