this is our team with our weekly news review and the latest developments in. one year since their fatal flight poland remembers its late president turned ninety five others killed in a plane crash near smolensk with thousands of gathering at your source main square and the site of a tragedy in russia a religious ceremony has been held people laid flowers from that kaczynski his wife

and many others died of. double standards nato is accused of allowing rebels in libya to violate the unity is no fly zone but the two opposition truck was shot down by government forces. found in other stories this week a priest in finland faces racial hatred charges for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorists and the website sperlings extremism. it's now another chance to discover russia this time the r.t. team of travels to the republic of one of the media home to some of the country's most accomplished artists. prospect. seems to come up to your waist and you should follow. coat. a trip to the republic of moldova.

just over six hundred kilometers east of moscow it's home to around nine hundred thousand people must be some of the biggest in the country. and maybe when it comes to speak it's definitely a major player. say that on going on holiday are more likely to head to the beach. but you can really travel around without at least having a go at some winter sports and. i do get to see some stuff.

a bit of. every day dozens of people head out to the tracks here some shooting in cross-country skiing experts absolute beginners. i finally got the right equipment but it has been a very long time since i struck on some skis. and there was always the promise of some place. no one told me that i was going to trek through the forest to reach it. still may be the hardest thing. scandinavian. well. i read this one much more. but finally i made it over the

top down to the toll gets. just about. good my. ok. we've got some of the. season range. and it was time for a noise relaxing lloyd. at the post besides. lie down the. no no on your stomach but one leg here why. so he's going. apparently biathlon also requires on the troll flexibility to spread your legs like a. bus i was determined of those tiny little toll gates were not going to get the best of me. but i would be idea of a little bit of norwegian blood in me. now this part of biathlon i could definitely

get used to. but i think i have to work on my posture. again this is where i would do the right thing a very here. it's definitely a useful skills i have with the snow district on the ground but i decided i'd be better off walking so my first destination. where the horse is always had a special place in. traditionally more as a beast of burden or means of transport rather than anything else but. local farm has been doing something. useful 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 men to mares 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 its would brand new market he already has a team is here and he's aiming for three hundred. days three well behaved. we have. said to him. through a cow in that respect. i think. they are seeing a milk. go it's. hardly horses are a little bit too capricious for that we call as they have. the technique. in the winter the farmer only produces around a hundred liters of milk

a day because there's less straw. he says unless the monsters but in summer they yield fifty percent of the world assuming the animals a corporation of course. consider listening to all her. lovely and specific job the because if the milk isn't flowing this little one gets to suck a little bits are not normally will make the milk come as an instinctive response once the milk has been collected it's off to be processed i was tempted to try something but makes a explain that it's actually a powerful laxative i became rather less keen. fortunately the fermentation process that's not. we sure don't pull right through you. clearly give us. a big suburb of lovely warm. human creation machine. the fresh milk is mixed with some that's already been processed and off

to sixty minutes it's ready for packaging. the syrup right so there we. have the finishing touch hopefully. the. one before a very fresh coolness ready for a sanitarium or supermarket need. unfortunately it was a case of one down my soon to go. joyce. thing this milk champagne up all off the noon so i think it's time to try one out. healthy. holik.

but if you are looking for a real drink the moldovan capital surrounds has plenty of the peach options. such as the small. life and the spice as well as me. somewhere or me thanks for. the read. the first symbol is going to get on the banks i want to swim oakley because. i'm a little does carry. some stuff. i'm feeling much more confident i made my way or the d.j. will shift much of this list. believe me mr d.j. could you show me a few tricks that. everything's loaded on three u.s.b. disc in this club so there were no actual records to mix but there were about fifty very significant going. and it's quite hard to hear instructions from them this

land. on the singles in exactly seamless i needed a guaranteed flotilla of quick. cuts to my list so she could. little to take a fall comfortably position. thank you for a. long. hard but because it was like last time on my part. i guess it. was razor. it turns out the joy was an aspiring doctor who'd come all the way from st don't study and surrounds.

and the next day we met up for a walk around the city. as i'm an only child. i guess i'll. never give up on anything big i always help us all with and 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 yeah that's way and i guess 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 he's qualified jones focuses firmly on his studies yeah see since i want to be a doctor the time i came here because in russia they give us everything we got we got after finishing help see them do something really really.

make a difference in the individual get a chance to prove himself and to do something better for a 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 all that's going to change. now you already seen the mordovia has some pretty amazing small cities and the stadium is no exception but in twenty eighteen the world cup is coming to russia and a capacity of seven thousand. because they get a. building to surround six new stadium is already underway in its way be to call surround one hundred eighty million dollars. but with so much at stake the serenity sky thought it was important to get a feel for the plane conditions. oh. we may see one

hundred cities where it is never the other way. so i really mean russell brand they are a. poor boy's all right. if this really could put surrounds on the map but it's not like they're strangers to world class sports facilities here. shortly. disarming saddam hussein. passengers are to give the iraqi citizens. this if it brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. phys again for him to see a couple. chairs too much occupied afghanistan. now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. in the manner.

it is appropriate today and accordance this which is the case if he could even. face lab studies class if you can shoot him enough so that it shocks especially for just the stuff but you don't actually break any bones could deter gazin techniques that we use it to see if one tom borrowed from the senior leadership of our government. would be nothing to. believe transference. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. became the first ever man in outer space. hero of the

soviet union one of the best known persons in the home with. all his thoughts were focused on flight. could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his life . what happened in those few seconds. and what he could see silda barrels still hold. your regard any. place. it might not be long before russia's top footballers will be playing in surrounds but some of the country's best cyclists are already here now looking at this weather you're probably thinking who lives up to the best conditions in the world be exporting well the local government agreed with you so they decided to do something rather radical.

but the planets only covered full size spirit struck. the center in the open in early two thousand and ten but it's already home to russia's foreign destroy this. new wave a good deal of progress both in the europe and russia a european champion is training here i call it walked with a little champion is here as well there are now sports men 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 yuri. before they can become champions they need to learn a few basic skills through. how to go be

a mixing as a kid but that was now a very long time ago. 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 to sort out. the tiger. careful of the turn. don't jump into high. gear or the second hump at least. it is a bit more. amazingly . ok i think i'm probably about.

more of a culture buff than a fitness fanatic there's still plenty to see in mordovia. i began my journey with a visit to one of its oldest and most important religious sentence. this is the same john the evangelist ministry which houses churches dating back to the beginning of the eighteenth century but it also doubles as a spiritual and physical rehabilitation center. brother roofie in his early in his mid twenty. he is but he's already lived here for several years. his day begins with early morning prayers but his most important task is to supervise the lay brothers who comes to live and work in the monastery. you two gentlemen go to the hotel's backyard where help is needed there grab the garbage police as for

you go and bring some water skis. and many of the helpers here are planning to take monastic vows but others might say ok i'm looking for a different kind of redemption. i joined this monastery because i was an alcoholic and a drug addict laypeople 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 days and in the winter weather means a lot of snow shoveling so this is what daily life is like in the other as here the faces tend to change on a fairly regular basis the one thing stays the same none of them are here for

material gain though hoping for a more spiritual reward. as a few personal demons as well. plays a vital part everyone is expected to attend the morning and evening service is a meal times are each accompanied with bible readings. based. let's leave it at the end here. with my tasks finally complete i headed back to surround some more sightseeing and to try and find the city's most visited grave site. and this is the see one of his

favorite sons and certainly its most famous artist because. of the russian row down his work is still on display in the local museum. there is here was born and raised and more dove young before studied in moscow and moving to italy and france to refine his technique. in the one nine hundred twenty is the soviet government sent him abroad as an ambassador for 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. sculpture of moses is one of his most famous works some see it as a tribute to michelangelo sculpture of the horn of moses where others think it takes its inspiration from the more pagan mythological tales perhaps of his youth and more of you 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 kills him. now i've heard of going for before but never actually telling poets but the lesson has it that in one hundred fifty nine trips. he's had some lemons notice here and breathed his last. claiming one victim from beyond the grey. 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 that the. back centuries. nowadays there are around twenty five children taking classes here and he says one of the most popular toys o'carroll me all of the easiest to make.

proceed here. is preparation. course. he said that look very abstract. fortunately alexander is a patient teacher and several of his students are going to come across some of. 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 us many of our graduates pursue it as a main source of income. my coming

was never going to end up in the shops but with a little tweaking from alexander i was pretty happy with my echoing. lives. yeah. that's a. very. it was starting to get late and we were still quite a long way from surround but fortunately alexander was able to point me in the direction of the rather special hotel. so the moon seems to be pretty amazing all to spot i've heard that they're famous for their hospitality as well and they're supposed to be a place around here for i get a taste of that hopefully a bed for the night here. oh i wasn't expecting it to be quite so busy. most of it i would with guest who i'm going to take you through

a secret motel and the reach children is that they sitting sion three children will protest to you from evil spirits to hear me q my cello thing and taffy yeah ok let's go i already. got some of those haven't we ready. the. end of the them. was. the news you can see and certainly not your usual hotel welcome it. was was. was. was

was a and it was. was. was . was. was get was it that she wasn't that was the was. wasn't pretty. yes we have a real martin may god grant to your health and that is good about them. they say they want to be pretty unique come for the night and get on marine tribal membership site on that note good nights well as they say mormon been.

my thing good and a good night's sleep. and shuffling my way around this is definitely a place to come if you've got energy to. bounce you'll also find a rich vein of local culture and a group of welcoming inspiring people to help while away as when suppliers.

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