claim that for example the miracles were literally true or that the church had the right to dictate to men and women what they believed and what they thought and how they should behave and so he fell out with the church in a very very big way and they eventually after he wrote the novel called resurrection which has a lampoon of the whole illicitly of the orthodox church in the extreme indicated him which was quite a big deal in his days it was a big deal for his wife who was who was an orthodox it wasn't for him he'd never wanted to be buried in church ground anyway he was buried in the place the states where his brother thought he'd buried this green stick when they were playing at. a game in childhood on the green stick was written the secret of how we should live the secrets of well human happiness so it's very appropriate he should be buried there and well thank you very much thank you.

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market. really happening to the global economy. stronger for a no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser reports. direct from our studios in central moscow this is r t you were glad to have you with us a russian. of three ships which have been stuck in ice off the country's far eastern coast a total of four hundred people have been trapped in the frozen waters for a week. and it is christmas day across russia.

marking. thirteen days later than most christians thousands attended the country's main cathedral in moscow. and although new york sanitation officials have given themselves a plus for taking on the heavy snow residents are furious that something else is getting in their way and the city is a big. siberia where modern industry circled by vast forests james brown is your guide to. the camera region is one of russia's great mineral deposits based in southwestern siberia it's stuffed with coal and iron ore which supplies heavy industry around

the country but it's there's plenty of whites to go with the black the region also borders some stunning mountain ranges and is a mecca for snow and ski love this but with temperatures dropping sometimes to minus thirty five celsius or minus thirty one fahrenheit in the winter make sure you wrap up with. one good thing about traveling in these kind of extreme temperatures as you can expect some real sudbury in hospitality and one camera of a nature reserve definitely lays out the welcome you wanted to see a real scene of siberian winter i guess this would be about as picture perfect as you get. before we go in here. i get to say hello welcome to the nature reserve tomsk a piece an accent and according to allah custom we're treating you with boxcutters

welcome. to show. rice. pickles some signs of whole milk a little bit. of what is. it well come to my residence don't scare peace in your. eyes. this is fall the frost who did models in russian might give it away but he's russia's equivalent of santa claus there are no right. to hear but we do have a one. who did a school so i think you have to work all year round because there's a lot of kids really like they're waiting to see. you.

apparently if you're going to be a guest of the frost you need to pack you don't think she has a shooting you know she really. i keep telling myself. that you. will. get my presence here pretty. soon feel like i've been a good boy this year. i actually did have a serious reason for visiting this reserve and it was down on the stones below. the russian empire gained a foothold in this region a little more than four hundred years ago but people have been living in this area for thousands of years and they've left their mark the local school these drawings hand-writing of the river to. see that.

we can. use. to. go. hunting see this alongside the animals you can make out ships and bronze age symbols of the song which was worship body ancient indigenous tribes their unique painting of cameras past. and they bring fountains of visitors here every year don't believe also think. six thousand years if you would history. these rocks then you just take a look at the landscape. and you can think this is new. really

hasn't changed much. but this kind of peace and tranquility is the exception rather than the rule and once you step into the city itself you can find what really makes this place take. it's not difficult to see that this is a pretty heavily industrial zone but there's one industry that stands head and shoulders above the rest they call this region russia's cold basin and without but that the new city here at all. the mining industry really took off for the beginning of the last century and developed during the soviet union now adays the region supplies around sixty percent of the country's coal and on surprisingly they're rather proud of it. the real mining museum has pluck some old equipment from all of kemmer of his pits but with me here it might not exist at all yes.

or mine. very strong. this museum or. only that he has it right i dreamed about this museum of nine hundred ninety i have lost a bicycle. and go for a camera left to amsterdam the whole and. yes and so on them off my three seven thousand skeletal slalom on the street or. i want to make a museum red hill nowadays the museum is one of the town's most popular tourist attractions. they've even built their own replicas soft. welcome to our museum. there's a new exhibit here the lights in right mind. and. as i said commission was built approximately three or four years ago it's really

a popular place for canada with children but yes that we could see yes we're going to sell it so that our rights have to get into the spirit because i didn't hear us . ok. there is a bit of a necessity if you are as tall as about david. definitely better to be sure and here i think this is a commitment. so the exhibition focuses on the hundreds i mean has a selection of old mining safety gear i'm soules so this is i guess there is only twentieth century yes you can see a special box for all you see. and special instruments and if you were low in the. rye. it's a very old and certain pretty authentic i guess from back in the day. it's even possible to watch footage from the pit back in one thousand nine hundred

sixteen and the conditions the men had to endure on the ground. almost two hundred years old and the coal industry is still the region's largest exports but not all the fuel here ends up on the phone. igor smirnoff has a much more creative use for it he claims he's the only coal sculptor in the world it's amazing to think you can create something as following and detailed as this out of such a fragile and thorsten difficult area to work with but without a little incentive from a friend none of these might be here at all one of the goals makes bets in that he'd never be able to make a sculpture of cole. he didn't put too much money on. his work ranges from fantasy pieces to portraits of the saints and he's quite happy to give lessons to. do less work on a design. this is such a tricky material to work with the coal is coated with

a special glue to stop it shattering but with every stroke of the chisel i was afraid i was going to chop the bear's head off pretty sure the eagle is going to have to do a little reconstructive surgery. look at it he's looking at you good. i think it's. a little bit of tidying up. he's not blind but he might need glasses i think. ok me. he has shown off his work around siberia but his biggest fans closer to home. it is my daughter arranged for me to examine my works at a fair in canberra bonnet and a whole bunch of coal miners thanked me they shook hands with me and i realised that people appreciated my work as somebody who needed it and that what i was doing was interesting. and in this region a mine as approval counts for a lot coal is camera of his life blood and the vast majority of it is found in one

specific place. oh as you can see i'm about to take on a pretty job first time in a coal mine and not just any one this is the biggest one in the whole of the country eight million tons of coal comes out of the ground here every single year. but before i could make my way to the show i still had some equipment pick up. pick up two pretty essential bits of kit. and of course light. and once everything was properly attached we were ready to head to the lift and literally take the plunge. this is a pitch. right

here. about two hundred fifty meters. and. this is the response. there's more than half a billion tons of coal down here that's enough to last another seventy years but we had a long way to get to the lake to see. the miners work six hour shifts in tights cramped conditions but they're using some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world and it's so simple to understand anyone can operate it. it's. massive traffic so it takes the coal out of the safety of the conveyor belt. like a black hole. because a slice is eighty centimeters of coal at

a time and once one side has been thoroughly excavated the whole operation. moves forward. because surely though it's all exciting. for us that we could say a few examples to crack. it only takes two hours to dig out a train load of coal a once it's been cut from the old to convey it takes it straight to the factory. and occasionally it's a quick way out for a time. to six. weeks now minus one. i've only been down the pit for a short time but there's no avoiding the water and the clawing dust and it was a relief to get back out into the sunshine. tough so give up just see the tough job people speak about the day at the coalface want to see how did they know that all of. it was time for me to hit the showers but the co was just beginning its journey

and its next destination was a business that's essential to the camera of a region as the mining industry itself. i'll turn. in the backyard i've not landed we will not allow i'm not trying to prop up and spread all over the country. virtually all terrorists today are muslim do we have the right to make such provocative statements and the muslim schools have the right to exist. in new york city on our.

sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched a street fight. if. colonel of the chilean armed forces participated and keeping down a military revolt. sergeant in the us army. trying to become an american by getting pardon the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey. just a couple of hundred kilometers from kemmerer of a is no because knits and it's a journey from coal county to steel city. is one of the fifteen low just steel mills in the world and has russia's lowest production costs . everything is watched over from an air conditioned control room but down on the

factory floor things really start to hate up there's no problem with the siberian winter if you work in a place like this now this should give you an idea of what this region is really all about the ground here is full of iron ore and coal and if you put those two together a hell of a lot of heat you get to go on and from that you can get steel. this is a real river of oil and it runs down into a series of huge cold returns ready for the mix stage of the premises. and this is where the steel is. the most and mixes with the spirit of the could but see here i don't know lights up like guy fawkes night. but i could give you these really. safe feudal system. folks jim is that is an ultra while the steel is

ready to be cooled down cost and sliced up. things by homes here. yeah braz each one of these red hot steel slabs weighs around twenty tons i want to move in mind but i doubt here it's a clue they could be packed up and sent off to the heavy industry clients around the cut in around the. this is definitely reason whether people call and play on but you won't catch them at the football stadium on a saturday afternoon because the coal basins favorite sport is a whole different. this is the home of the who's boss banditti it's a cross between football and i still keep and it's hugely popular. so the top team in the country and many believe it's all down to head trainer andre. this is. our. business so nice to meet you.

so this is the good this got you what a nineteen game win streak i think so. so listening to it from a surprise to go isn't much of a it's before. you know go sideways. but even if you're not surprised there's always a game going on around here somewhere. really well this should be interesting bundy a spool they play outside in siberia in the winter. wish me luck. this looks like it might mean i sort of started possibly. james his mistake and the team playing for the whites ok i'm with the whites the big con much . limits the to start with i was a little hit and miss but after running around for

a while mike deadly accuracy soon became apparent. one nil to the wall right there in the region. of our featured. bus if you want to play this game you'll definitely have to work on your cardio will just have a go between to stick. his really reminds you of school you know who's put me in. it was clear i was a natural for well you have to try and impress the manager. who. so what do you think of that coach that was fine great girl where are you tree good. physical exercise it was definitely saw him for an unhealthy snack. and it turns out that this region produces some of the country's favorites. this is the home of

the k.g.b. biscuit factory and if you're munching on a chocolate or just a cake in russia the chances they were made here things change and now let's try to do that by ourselves let's do it direct to lynn assured me round the factory fool them gave me a quick lesson in biscuit making. facility and competently help make a bit of the feeling. we need. to start off with yes . that is the let's put it here at this second and greedy and here is lecithin we should add a little bit here. a little this which i guess is. cheaply stuff. to keep.

this is sweet production on a massive scale they make nine million of these little wife is here every single day. this reminds me of my very first job when you swear back into the factory and. finally roll these new graduates into the fountain. of the so. it may be home to the region's most modern factories but not because now it's also retains a strong link with its past and walking through some of the city suburbs can be like taking a trip back in time. the street is a real snapshot of history things really haven't changed here in the last hundred fifty years and over here might just be the most famous building. in the whole city. in

a scene fifty seven after a long courtship the famous russian writer federal ski married his great love and first wife maria asya in this city they lived here in this house for just twenty two days and now it's a museum and a monument to the people. and this the writer and his wife took a romantic stroll they might well have come to look over the city from its old military fort. when this fortress was built around two hundred years ago the old city of mit school still a popular rating point for bandits and also an important trading route so these guns were designed to keep the caravans moving and the raiders out. before skis house have a steady stream of visitors but most of the tourists here have a different destination in mind. so the cosmos region is a place of heavy industry but once you get past all the coal in the eye and you

don't have to come too far and you've got yourself a little mini version of the alps. a foreign withdrawing from them because minsk and you're into perfect ski conditions and some of the region's most beautiful. apparently the most spectacular views are at the top of the green mountain just just up here and it's really only one way to get. to see until. now all true and snowboarding once before in russia but suppose going to get the most out of this trip i thought i'd better have a slightly more reliable means of getting around. me that it is cool just up here and fortunately i've got a friend who's going to be able to show me around a little bit better and he's got a rather special little snowmobile it's kind of like. this

because i'm the head of the tourist office. getting to see all sights. crossed and the mountains they are all very beautiful places. but it was ok. if you want to get around up here this is by far the quickest and easiest way to do is. now being on the back of a snowmobile is all well and good. but really i couldn't wait to take the controls myself. what a way to travel. in the boat. you take a look at where we get a city pretty obvious well the coolest place the cowboy. the very top of the mountain is most by a huge steel cross and it's the best view of the morgue. now this is what i call living the high life we're about fifteen hundred meters up here over there you can see the outside region and over here. we've got the crash we are

screeching as well it's such a clear and perfect day you can see a route a thousand kilometers in all directions and easy. i didn't have long left in the camera region but there was still time to meet a bit of a local celebrity before i went home. well larry has been the local sheriff a nearly thirty years and until the forty's snowmobile back in two thousand and five he used to patrol this whole territory on skis. he's from the short sea troy indigenous people who've lived in the mountains and forest here for more than a thousand years. was is here we are james this is the most beautiful landscape in these parts is called. there's a river down there only about two hundred meters from here is called the main us which is distinguished by its clean water people used to live beyond these fields

there were foreigners in the time very many cattle was not far from stock trading local people went hunting and fishing there were very little blacksmith's men in the tribes were nomads shifting from one place to another. and valarie took me to see one of the most stunning pieces of the region's natural architecture. realty has been visiting this cave since he was a boy every winter the water forms on the style of toilets and stuff like mines that can last well into the someone. but that's not the only surprise that could be in store for an unsuspecting. family has more to this cave than just these beautiful starlets heights that have formed over here a short sea have a legend about this place they talk about a shadowy figure called the mosque or of the mountain the first eight feet told harry sounds remarkably like big for to me. but. he's supposed to

live in this cave if you see here. very good luck sir. i mean really. the monster of the mountain was keeping himself to himself and it was time for me to make my way out of this strange and diverse region with a halt of cold.