in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastated. and united two nations in a great. question more on. this is r.t. from moscow the top stories poland and russia hold remember in sevenpence in order of the late president lech kaczynski and ninety five others killed in a plane crash in western russia the tragedy which happened exactly a year ago claimed the lives of many high ranking closure officials. nato faces questions of the effectiveness of it see u.n. back no fly zone in libya after reports that two rebel helicopters were shot down by gadhafi forces meanwhile this week rebel support for the alliances

interventionists suffered following deadly friendly fire incidents. also a finnish priest is charged with inciting racial hatred after interview he gave to our teeth in it he spoke out against russia's most wanted terrorist who's behind the deadly metro airport bombings in moscow slammed his internet propaganda mouthpiece. up next door nazi james brown and he travels to the republic of moldova and discovers that it's home to some of russia's most accomplished artists as were about a find. the russian. prospect. plunges well below zero the snow seems to come up to your waist and you should follow your friends a voice coach. a trip to the republic of moldova. 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 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 if i have to pull off. a bit. every day dozens of people head out to the tracks here 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 strapped on some skis. and there was always the promise of some plates and. no one told me that i was going to have to trek through the forest to reach it. still may be the hardest thing. scandinavian. this was a month. and finally i made it over the top generals were told it's. just about for good.

ok fur was good through the. season rain. and it was time for a noise relaxing lloyd to. put the post besides. lie down the. no no on your stomach but one leg here why. so you go like without. apparently flown also requires unnatural flexibility to spread your legs like a. bus i was determined that those tiny little targets were not going to get the better of me. yes. 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 among posture. this is where i would

do the right thing they bury her. like a ballerina. on skis it's definitely a useful skill to have with the snow just stick on the ground politicized would all be better off walking to my first destination. though the horses always had a special place in more davey and culture traditionally more as a beast of burden or a means of transport rather than anything else but now the local farm has been doing something a little bit more unusual and that's all down to animal launch premier aleksei i used to work as a vet but at one point some of my colleagues and i decided to start a farm producing coma's 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 i would say

is introducing it would brand new markets he already has a team is here and he's aiming for three hundred. one ways story well behaved. we had to be. looking said them. to account in that respect. i think. there are seen a milk. goats. parrot me horses are a little bit too capricious for that call that they have to go to hell so this was the technique. in the winter the farmer only produces around a hundred liters of milk a day because there's less grass for the horses and less to monitor but in summer they yield fifty percent of. the animals a corporation. i suggested with all her. lovely and specific job

to do because if the mayor's milk isn't flowing it's a little one gets to suck a little bit i'm not normally all make with milk as an instinctive response once the milk has been collected it's off to be processed i was tempted to try some but also makes a explain that it's actually a powerful laxative i became rather less keen. fortunately the fermentation process. which you don't flora to you. take a look at that. big slab of lovely warm. and then paste and see. the fresh milk is mixed with some that's already been processed and after sixty minutes it's ready for packaging. the civil rights. of the finishing touch hopefully.

one before a very fresh chorus ready for a sanitarium or supermarket me. unfortunately it was a case of warm down mice you know and to go. price. feeling this milk champagne up all off noon so i think it's time to try one out. healthy. holik. but if you are looking for a real drink the more dove you counsel ceramics because plenty of the people should . take the small stuff

like i'm the spice as well as me. somewhere or me things. already. must impose going to get on the decks i want it's will most probably push. a little does carry . some stuff. i'm feeling much more confident i made my way over to t.j. will shift from us this list. good evening with the d.j. say you could you show me a few tricks. everything's loaded on street u.s.b. just skim this club so there were no actual records to mix but they were about fifty three the same looking only. at this point there are instructions for the six this land. management. mixing wasn't exactly

seamless i needed a guaranteed fulfill a clear. cut out of my list so should good. enough to take up a complete position. thank you a. lot. but it's not a required class hierarchy but. i guess you know. it turns out the joy was an aspiring doctor who'd come all the way from sejong study in surround. the next day we met up for a walk around the city. as i'm an only child so.

i guess i'll. never give up on anything they go always help us all with what and he did a lot to me not only to me for my brother. do a lot to have my dad out and that's why you're here. and i guess he's. been based in ceramics 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 john's focus is firmly on his studies yeah see since i want to be a doctor the time i came here because they give us everything we got we got nothing to. help. them do something really really well they can make a difference in the individual. 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 well that's going to change. how he would have seen the mordovia had 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. to stay going to cut. building for surrounds this new stadium is already underway and it's going to cost around one hundred eighty million dollars. but with so much at stake the surrounds i thought it was important to get a feel for the playing conditions. oh so we may see the world through the senate race where it is never too early to see other pitches play . so i really mean russian friendly i think. your

voice. if they pull it off this really could put surrounds comma mark but it's not going to strangers to world class sports facilities here. brooke. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. and became the first ever again outer space. hero of the soviet union one of the best known persons in the whole world. all his thoughts were focused on flights. could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his life. what happened in those few seconds. and what

secrets these sealed barrels still hold. keurig are any. place on r.g.p. . going to space is going to our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military comes from space. bombs on target little time balin took the trouble about the natural easier able to deliver through a space ship or plane and seen. better to cook up a new frame around the film hook our current book. and we must. be. several hundred million dollars of investment in the peaceful uses of outer space.

missed incredible investment from the united states and from the european union in canada other countries like this this is completely in jeopardy if we start putting referencing outer space. 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 well here this weather you're probably thinking of the best conditions in the world be exploiting well the local government agreed with you so they decided to do something rather radical.

and it's the old first place only cupboards full size fear that struck. the center in the open in early two thousand and ten but it's already home to russia's foreign destroyed this. new wave a good deal of progress both a europe and russia a european champion this training here ed koch had walked with in the olympic champion is here as well there are now sportsman for the two thousand and twelve games. and the sports 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. before they can become champions they need to learn a few basic skills through balancing. how to go there 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 sorted out. all the tighter. careful on the turn. don't jump too high. look. here the second hump at least. it is in a bit more. amazingly bloody ok i think i'm probably about. there.

more of a cultural buff than a fitness fanatic there's still plenty to see and more jovial. i began my journey with a visit to one of its oldest and most important religious sentence. 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's. sees that he's already lived here for several years. his day begins with early morning prayers but his most important tosk is to supervise the late brothers who 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. and many of the helpless here are planning to take monastic fowler's but others like so they are 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 and monasteries atmosphere and the way of life here help them recover. but it's no easy rowing and return for their room and board help us work ten hour days and in the winter weather means a lot of snow shoveling so this is what they like in the other help as here faces tend to change on a regular basis the one thing stays the same none of them are here for material gain hoping for

a more spiritual reward. for humans as well. prep plays a vital part everyone is expected to attend only morning and evening services a meal times are each accompanied with bible readings. based. it was all going to begin here. with my tasks going to be complete i headed back to surround for some more sightseeing and try and find the city's most visited grave site. and this is. the. view as

favorite sons and certainly its most famous artist they're called step on earth see the russian row down there is work still on display in the local museum. there is it was born and raised and more jovial before study 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 art and he spent almost twenty five years living and working in argentina. and he was here that he created his signature hardwood sculptures to tell the true moses is one of his most famous works some see it as a tribute to michelangelo sculpture of the horned moses where others think it takes its inspiration from the more pagan mythological tales perhaps his youth and more of him i couldn't decide about it then and i 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 of what actually kills him. now i've heard of

going for you before but never actually done it but the lesson has it that in one nine hundred fifty nine trips fell. on lennon's notice here and breathed his last. claiming one victim from the on the gray. and whether you believe it or not and certainly hasn't the artist's legacy. for more than thirty years local children have learned to make handcrafts here carry on a tradition the day. back centuries. nowadays there are around twenty five children to huge losses here and horses one of the most popular toys apparently one of the easiest to make.

this. procedure. is preparation. believe it or not. you see that look very abstract. fortunately alexander is a patient teacher and several of his students are going to become most across. 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 a point but. yeah . the super quick with. some very. it was starting to get late and we were still quite a long way from surrounds but fortunately alexander was able to point me in the direction of a rather special to tell. so the more than seems to be pretty amazing all to spot i've heard that they're famous for their hospitality as well and this supposed to be a place around here where i can get a taste of that and hopefully a bed for the know it. all i wasn't expecting it to be quite so busy. that i would with dear guest tomorrow the one i'm going to take you through

a seder is not all in the reach all the things seen ssion three children will protect you from evil spirits who you think you much healthier and taffy yeah ok let's go i already. juggle sometimes everybody. wasn't. the most you can see and certainly not your usual hotel welcome it. was. the was it. was. was wasn't it i think it. was

was my that was it. and that was. was the was was. i was watchin precinct. yes we have a real martin may god grant to your health and that is ok. i can definitely say that i want to be a pretty unique come for the night. in tribal membership so on that let's not. say morning.

i think good a good night's sleep. and shuffling my way around moldavia this is definitely a place to come if you've got energy to. you'll also find a rich vein of local culture and a group of welcoming inspiring people to help while away those winter blues.

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