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facing the russian. prospect. plunges well below zero the snow seems to come up to your waist and you really should follow your friends and voice and coax. a trip to the republic of. just over six hundred kilometers east of moscow it's home to around one hundred thousand people must be some of the fittest in the country. may be small when it comes to school it's definitely a major player. say that if i'm going on holiday i'm more likely to head to the beach. but you can't

really travel around russia without at least having a go at some winter sports and. i do get to see some stuff. every day dozens of people head out to the tracks here for some shooting and cross-country skiing from experts to absolute beginners. i finally got the right equipment but i have been a very long time since i had straps on some skis. and there was always the promise of some place to look for. no one told me that i was going to have to trek through the forest to reach it. till maybe the hardest thing. scandinavian.

well. i read this for a month. and finally i made it over the top right down to the top it's. just about oil. ok. we've cooked through the. ceasing range. and it was time for a noise relaxing loiter. at the post besides. lie down the. no no on your stomach but one leg here why. so he's going out and. apparently while flown also requires a natural flexibility to spread your legs like

a human. bus i was determined of those tiny little talk we're not going to get the better of me. idea of a little bit of norwegian blood in me. now this ball of biathlon could definitely get used to. but i think i have to work on my posture. ok this is what. they're here. it's definitely a useful skill to have with the snow district on the ground but i decided i'd be better off walking to my first destination. now the horse has always had a special place and more davey and culture traditionally more as a beast of burden or a means of transport than anything else but. local farm has been doing something. and that's all down to animal entrepreneurs aleksei

i used to work as a vet but at one point some of my colleagues and i decided to start a farm producing commis which is for mensa members milk we've been operating for just over two years we have eighty horses here. has been a popular drink on the central asian steps for thousands of years but aleksei is introducing it to a brand new market he already has a team is here and he's aiming for three hundred. gold maize story well behaved. the. king said no. to a cow. well i've seen a milk. go it's. fairly horses are

a little bit too capricious for rats because they have. the technique. in the minds of the farmer only produces around a hundred liters of milk a day because there's less straw. for the horses unless the monster but in summer they yield fifty percent. assuming the animals a corporation. suggested with all her. lovely and specific job because if the milk isn't flowing it's a little one gets to suck a little bits i'm not normally make with milk as an instinctive response once the milk has been corrected itself to be processed i was tempted to try some but like sakes playing that it's actually a powerful laxative i became rather less keen. fortunately the fermentation process. which you don't pull right through you. take

a look at that. big slab of lovely warm milk. in. a men's place and see. the fresh milk is mixed with some little ready been processed and off to sixty minutes it's ready for packaging. so there we. have the finishing touch hopefully. done before a very fresh chorus ready for a sanitarium or supermarket me. unfortunately it was a case of warm down my ceiling to go. nice. feeling this milk some day not all off noon so i think it's time to try one out.

healthy. well i mean that's it. but if you are looking for a real drink the more dove your capital surrounds has plenty of the people should. play if you smoke but sat down at my side i miss spice as well as me. somewhere for me thanks for. reading. the fuss it was going to get on the thanks i wanted to warm up proclaim goodness. i'm a little does carry. some stuff. i'm feeling much more confident i made my way or the city jail should for most of us

listen. to leave me with the d.j. say could you show me a few tricks. everything's loaded ultra rich the disc in this club so there were no actual records to mix but they were about fifty three the same looking going. and it's quite hard to hear instructions from in this land. and the singles in exactly seamless i needed a guaranteed flotilla of clips. to my list so she's currently good enough to take up a comfortable position. thank you. tom. i thought the time was like last time a lot and. i guess it.

was raised a. lot. it turns out the joy was an aspiring doctor who'd come all the way from st john's to study in ceramics. on the next day we met up for a walk around the city. of twelve brothers and sisters there. as i'm an only child . i guess. but i never give up on anything they go always help us all with what he did a lot to me not only to me for my brother. do a lot i have my dad out you know and that's why you're here. and i just see this. been based in surrounds for almost four years but he admits that it's taken time to adapt to russian culture but with another two years before his cool floyd jones focus is firmly on his studies yeah see since i want to be

a doctor the time i came to get the paternity. give us everything we got we got after finishing and i think help. can do something that really really will make a difference for individuals. and to do something better for living sometimes i get to meet really amazing people much troubles and john was clearly inspired by his time and surrounds it's still a city that not many foreigners have seen but in a few years time well that's going to change. that we've already seen the mordovia some pretty amazing sports facilities and the stadium is no exception but in twenty eighteen the world cup is coming to russia and a capacity of seventy thousand. just like a cut. building to surround six new stadium is already

underway and it's likely to cost around one hundred eighty million dollars. but with so much at stake the surrounded sky thought it was important to get a feel for the plane conditions. so. the senate says barack is no it's a. sad song really. for boys who write. if they put this really could put them up but it's not one of the strangest world class sports facilities here. look at the. cultures that so much about him and there's a huge musician on the mark with the logic or do you get humanitarian interventions as libya grinds into stalemate well outside powers find themselves pulled deeper into this.

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it might not be long before russia's top footballers will be playing and surrounds but some of the country's best cyclists are already here now looking at this weather you're probably thinking who is likely the best conditions in the world exploiting well the local government. so they decided to do something roll the protocol. and it's a gold for the planet it's only cupboards full size bit of extra. the center only opened in early two thousand and ten but it's already home to russia's finest reuters. weighed a good deal of progress both in the europe and russia a european champion is training here

a college within the olympic champion is here as well is preparing all sportsmen for the two thousand and twelve games. also become incredibly popular with the local children more than two hundred fifty young riders train here regularly and the man in charge of them all is coach during. the fall they can become champions they need to learn a few basic skills. i had a good beer mixing as a kid but that was now a very long time here. they say you never forget riding a bike but if i was going to take on this track i have one or two technical issues sorted out. all the tighter. careful on the turn. don't trouble too high.

here the second help at least. amazingly. ok i think i'm probably about. there. more of a culture buff than a fitness fanatic there's still plenty to see and more jovial. i began my journey with the visits one of its oldest and most important religious substance. this is the same john the evangelist smaller stream which houses churches dating back to the beginning of the eighteenth century but it also doubles as

a spiritual and physical rehabilitation center. of the ruffian his early in his mid twenty. yes but he's already lived there for several years. his day begins with early morning prayers but his most important tosk is to supervise the late brothers come to live and work in the ministry. you two gentlemen go to the hotel's backyard your help is needed there grab the garbage police as for you go and bring some water skis from. many of the helpers here are planning to take monastic found us but others like sergei are looking for a different kind of redemption. i joined this monastery because i was an alcoholic and a drug addict people get subsidies for medical assistance people suffering from all kinds of addictions stay here for long periods of time. they come here just to live

and work in this holy place they get treatment for free monasteries atmosphere and the way of life here help them recover. but it's no easy rowing in return for their room and board to help us work ten hour day it's kind in the winter weather means a lot of snow shoveling so this is what daily life is like in the other help as here faces tend to change on a fairly regular basis the one thing stays the same none of them are here for material gain hoping for more spiritual rewards. personal demons as well. prep plays a vital part everyone is expected to attend every morning and evening services a meal times are each accompanied with bible readings. beginning at

least. four. they're going to be in here. with much mosques finally completes i headed back to surround for some more sightseeing and to try and find the city's most visited grave site. and this is the man i can see all of this favorite sons and certainly its most famous artist because. of the russian row down there his work is still on display in the local museum. there is here was born and raised in mordovia before studying in moscow and moving to italy in france to refine his technique. in the one nine hundred twenty s. the soviet government sent him abroad as an ambassador of the soviet aunts and he spent almost twenty five years living and working in argentina. and it was here

that he created his signature hardwood sculptures is to tell her a moses is one of his most famous works some see it as a tribute to michael angelo sculpture of the horned moses where others think it takes its inspiration from the more pagan mythological tales perhaps averts his youth and more of you they couldn't decide about it then and they still talk about it now. as he returned to russia in one nine hundred fifty and continued to work up until his death but there's still some debate over what actually killed him. now i've heard of going for before but never actually telling by it but the lesson has it that in one nine hundred fifty nine trips. put his head on lennon's nose here and breathed his last. claiming one victim from the on the gray. and whether you believe it or not and certainly hasn't hurt the artist's legacy.

for more than thirty years local children have learned to make handicrafts here carry on a tradition the day. back centuries. nowadays there are around twenty five children taking classes here and he says one of the most popular toys apparently one of the easiest to make. is preparation. of course believe it or not. he said that look very abstract. fortunately alexander is a patient teacher and several of his students go on to become master craftsman.

what children do here develops their taste for work because the toys reflect true electives ease some of the school's graduates a well known design is as a matter of fact this school serves as the basis of a development of a trade in objects of art many of our graduates pursue it as a main source of income. my coming was never going to end up in the shops parts with a little tweaking from alexander i was pretty happy with my quiet effort. yeah. a super super quick with. some very. splash. it was starting to get

late and we were still points a long way from surround but fortunately alexander was able to point me in the direction of a rather special hotel. so the moon seems to be pretty amazing all to spot i've heard that they're famous for their hospitality is well and this supposed to be a place around here where i can get a taste of that hopefully for the know it. all i wasn't expecting it to be quite so busy. most of the i'm good with guest tomorrow the one i'm going to take you through a secret motel in the retail is that these sanctions reach ill will protect you from evil spirits who you think you might chelsea and taffy ok let's go i already thought. of that from the reading. of the. wasn't. the most you can see and stephanie

not your usual hotel well connection was. the was that. was. was wasn't it i think it was. was. was was that that was it that she was in that was was the was

was was one precinct. yes we have a real martin may god grant your health that is. i can only say that one day be pretty unique come for the moment and get on marine tribal membership site on that let's not all as they say in mourning. i think good a good night's sleep. i'm shuffling my way around moldavia this is definitely a place to come if you've got energy to. us you'll also find a rich vein of local culture and a group of welcoming inspiring people to help while away those winter blues.

sure is that so much of an oldish musician. marc lamont your illogic of humanitarian intervention as libya grinds into still may well outside powers find themselves pulled deeper into. a charmer than here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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