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a role in. well it's time now to have a look at the week's top stories from r.t.e. police in russia's volatile north caucuses are working to identify the terrorists who forced their way into the chechen parliament on tuesday which left three people dead it's thought the attack was ordered by a new militant leader called the same the car you. france erupts in protest against raising the retirement age despite the cloud already getting the go ahead from parliament and next door the u.k. is also born there over as they face up to the deepest cuts in almost one hundred years. iraq is seeking retribution from the u.s. to pay for allowing its citizens to be tortured and killed it follows the online

whistleblower wreaking lease publishing hundreds of thousands of classified military documents detailing widespread abuse. at moscow's welcome to its new mayor so days of beyond was picked by the president for the short list drawn up by the ruling united russia party and take saw one of the country's toughest political drops and next to guide you through the american states which still has strong echoes of its russian past. once it was a part of russian territory there are still reminders to this day children wearing russian national costumes people having russian names and many orthodox churches are standing here but more than one hundred forty years ago it became the u.s. territory though some americans still don't know about it. just over the last i have no idea about a lot stuff like nothing i don't know anything about that alaska it's cold.

it was cold a box of ice a polar bear garden and one russia but in the language of the indigenous peoples the word alaska means the great land. sven haakanson is steering his boat out of the bay of kodiak island his ancestors have lived here since time immemorial. over the thousands of years they to solve this seascape each time they put out to sea to hunt. but they use canoes with a couple of paddles instead of comfortable motor boats with powerful engines in the past yes it was very very difficult to hunt as an individual you need to group in order to. actually capture for example you look at the sea lines over here in order

for you to hunt one of those in the several people. on a summer day and seven hundred forty one scores of you need it's of the land set out on a hunting expedition in canaries they spotted odd looking ships on the horizon. those big sail boats belonged to an expedition led by a russian explorers bearing and. that was how kodiak island made its appearance on russian maps the first colonists were. forty years later seventeen eighty four the city of kodiak was the capital. for fifty. streets to serve as a reminder of. the names of russian travelers and merchants. there is. a call who all founded to. tell you

where we. russian permanent settlement in alaska and then there's. son in law. named after nikolai. who are was representing the government of russia and also the american company. the russian american company was founded in seventy. primarily with the hunting and. which. was used as a warehouse from here to russia and to china this sea otter pill has the thickest for any animal the most furs per square inch this is the animal itself the sea otter this animal was what caused the fur gold rush to alaska.

for. two thousand and nine he organized an expedition to retrace the steps of his fellow countryman. was the first ever european to reach alaska. unexplored. contact with you have people. looking. well welcome to normally just as their ancestors welcome these agustin two hundred fifty years ago their homes may have changed a lot but their attitude to russians remains the same. shit over clearly will welcome the east into places that it once served as bases as a ghost can expect dition. russians many of the local people said they had russian . when the russians came to the lives of the indigenous people

changed. many of them began to work for the russian american company jobs involved hunting for sea otters fishing and taking part in the building of new settlements russian priests and monks visited alaska and baptized of the locals into the orthodox faith russian men married local girls. russian men married local women and the children were called creole. creoles who were well educated. in the russian capital to ship as well as in the colonial administration. committed. to. surrender how concerned the lives a life entirely different from his ancestors to him putting out to sea is more like fun than work. and is proud of his traditional bathhouse he sees it as

a symbol of successive generations and imbedded russian traditions. when the russians came. the thing that is similar are the rocks and he was steaming to washington inside vanya and that's something that we've been doing for centuries and it's a tradition where they now have a wooden house which is a russian vanya which just adapted to it i mean i grew up taking minus four baths. svend cs telling the history of. people as a mission. which is one of the principal tourist attractions of. local people come here to when the russians actually took over. claimed alaska. one of the friends together with his family is listening to his story although his name is of russian origin he doesn't know a single word of the language spoken on the other side of the bering strait nor

does he know much about where his last name comes from. what my mom told me in the morning and her russian for sure they were taken people after drawn through there underneath your honor and they couldn't say our last name so of a russian. spy you don't seem you enough doesn't need to speak russian all services in the orthodox church in kodiak city are held in english. father in a county was born in new england a place that is far away from here he has no russian roots nevertheless he decided to serve as an orthodox priest in alaska but it was a long story. it's a story of growing up in

a christian church a protestant church but always running and seeking out for a face for experience of the faith and trying to do that in order to see it as a yellin and eventually answering the call into the priesthoods. the church were from there in the county sears stands where the first church in the new world used to be alaska is still predominantly orthodox us state. russians and the priest said then came didn't force us to not speak our language they didn't force us to not follow our traditional ways of living we did you know stop practicing our older religious practices but pretty much everything else did the same thing language but then and during the american period.

american archaeologist david mcmahon is exploring the remains of russian legacy. these are. they would have been used by. employees of the russian american company. for this is one of the most important finds of his career some of the objects were found at the site of the first russian others on the ocean floor so. this is. ship's frames this together with. david raised a many remains of the russian ship kodiak from the depths of the ocean. to the russian american company near the shores of in eight hundred sixty. eight was very lucrative because the gold miners in california needed for their drinks so even if . it was still make a good profit the ship was leaving. everyone got off the ship but because of the

board the ship stayed afloat for several days before he sank. the. twenty five meters deep to explore the remains of the ship the kodiak was one of a dozen ships keeping the lines of communication with. similar ships regularly sailed the length of the north pacific many as a symbol the russian american company was in dire straits. at the beginning of the eight hundred sixty s. the company reached the edge of bankruptcy that caused a debate on whether alaska could be sold the vast territory was inhabited by eight hundred. number was. needed to defend it. those factors led to a serious discussion about a potential sale they were held in an atmosphere of secrecy laws only hound full

officials knew about them by focal it's illegal. america was not particularly keen on buying the faraway territory a russian envoy to washington eduardo steckel was told to do his best to convince the u.s. government that it would gain norma's benefits by acquiring alaska. steckel had the support of the u.s. state secretary william seward who was in favor of a u.s. territorial expansion. finally in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven after lengthy negotiations alaska was sold to the united states for the price of seven point two million dollars. on october the eighteenth eight hundred sixty seven the russian flag was lowered in the former alaskan capitol of sitka. in its stead america's colors were raised. today happy alaska day is one of the major holidays of the forty ninth state.

during the bright showed the residents of citgo to reenact the procedure of handing over the flag from russians to americans. in eight hundred sixty seven at the ceremony for placing the russian colony under u.s. control was much more modest. the american government was weary of accusations that they had wasted a lot of money headlines splashed across the newspapers scoffed at the purchase describing it as nothing more than a box of vice. rumor even had is that of the seven point two million dollars paid some two hundred thousand was given to senators in the form of kickbacks. but opinion. deliberate steps which they could have filled with hope of upswelling some sentences.

received. in the pacific.

like. most. people. here. few english. doesn't speak russian my grandfather passed away a couple of decades ago. most

of. right after the peninsula was sold to the americans the village ninilchik was built on the sea shore all of the employees of the russian american company who refused to move to russia had been banished here by the u.s. government one of the older buildings is right down below us doesn't have a window in it is built in the old log dovetail design with the dovetail corners there are several other buildings that are throughout here including sheds that were used for fishing the older ones that were built as as old as the late eighteenth hundreds all the residents of new chick are related to each other one way or another they are the houses irene she died in one thousand nine hundred five one of the most successful people born in india. at lehman who is a distant relative of gary. four years ago he was the lieutenant governor of alaska . his only passing through today and has decided to stay with his uncle and aunt

their ancestors were russians and they still use russian words in their everyday lexicon. was married were. a few hours later he will visit his father at a nursing home in the town of sold. i tell him i tell my father that everything. oh no you do that if it. doesn't see that russian heritage simply as a distant episode in the history of his native state he remembers well that when he was a child far more people spoke russian than english. with my brother's russian heritage and we. joked about it when we within about ten miles. were doing what we call speaking then we start talking like my father telling some

of the stories it is still a very. part of my heritage. more in overdrive that sold around lunchtime he visits his father at the local nursing home he says a few phrases in russian. mikko i. was there come to. nick lehman can't remember names and faces clearly last year he had a stroke. yes he. does but even. though it's my son nick lehman's condition sometimes makes him imagine he's not a nursing home but in the old settlement of. where everyone has a boat where christmas is celebrated in early january rather than in december and where people in nearly every home speak russian. to another there's. a group of. nick lehman

is one of the few people here who still remember the russian era of the land its former legacy is gradually being forgotten much in the same way as old people's memories fade away i'd like to teach my children about their heritage and we've shared it. especially with our oldest child our son and i think the best way we can do it is to talk about it sure some of the stories maybe even some of the language i want them to understand are very rich cultural heritage is it makes me think of the. phrase and here is one of the most popular teachers and don't know high school. he used to teach english to russian children in the russian town of. course today he teaches russian in alaska none of the children in his class has a slavic name all of them are americans who have decided to learn the language that

was once dominant in this part of the world. your wont during prion while all. the. fair this is the law you run this thing that. i'm not. here. grigori sees himself as a representative of the new wave of russian settlers of alaska who makes himself at home the russian legacy is everywhere. because today there are at least about seven hundred. names. conspicuously russia for example. then the presence of the churches here so you know the words. let's put it like this here in

. the presence of the past. after. trying to stick to a lifestyle of siberia. people came here in one thousand six to eight years this is the first house they have built. why they feel you're not young enough how do you choose in an age when for some reason trying to guess why there's no escape for you dressed to kill. is famous. and. particularly fond of her because she is the only always ready to talk to journalists. live in the settlement and they always prefer. the founders of. the soviet union to

america to escape persecution. in alaska. trying to distance themselves from civilization much like they would. if initially it was a private. that the signs had been removed and now people can visit us where they can talk to and meet. today it is even something of a tourist attraction. is the most lucrative business and. this is mission. for three decades it never occurred to the old believers that someday americans might be among. they tried to escape visiting other towns but now the american house stay near the russian evacuee no matthew has five children he moved.

seven years ago after buying one third of the local land his american dream is slowly becoming a reality land was. pretty good price the russians. russians the people that are here the orthodox. have a nice set of values. relations with. but as the years ago by she becomes ever more apprehensive of the prospect of. losing its status as a russian enclave and turning into just another. children in the still russian national dress but english is now their mother tongue. for growing up in a russian village. i think or the. church. i.

played which. the new wave of settlers. changed in comparison with the eighteenth century the majority preferred. city rather than. the city's three hundred thousand strong population five thousand. situated. this. is true. he was born. children of the russians who came here and nine hundred eighty nine nine hundred

ninety s. are about twenty years old now just this russian generation has grown up in alaska they speak very good english and understand spoken russian it is indeed a new generation of music. there's a place where everybody's going. to be. different places. but the new russia have taken the him like. russians don't see themselves as. they see themselves. once again.

have to go through a strenuous course of training before the expedition they intend to use the same gear that the early russian explorers. discover. that we want to know the actual truth and that's why we didn't have a choice of transport. the community of indigenous people. to make more difficult. to see. as motorboats. thinks giving up the perks of civilization is a foolish thing to do. yet despite embracing the modern era inwardly he still remains committed to the simple principles preached by his ancestors. we were here

for thousands of years. but you know we didn't have this system of paper saying that we can claim this land because in our philosophy in our worldview. you can own land the land owns you you know how can you say you own that when you're only here for a little bit and then you got it's a whole different philosophy of owning it versus living with it.