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there again this is all she coming to live from moscow the headlines. russia's economy must modernize as president dmitry medvedev pledges drastic measures to create a better investment climate in the country speaking at the international economic forum in st peters about colson warns that corruption and excessive state influence in business and trade threaten the country's devout. also u.s. congressman want to be counting on funding to believe big campaign saying obama weighs acting illegally and not seeking the approval to extend american military involvement last ninety days the white house how about. noisey needs permission

from capitol hill. plus a new wave of protests in syria as the move towards a third round of sanctions against the country germany unfolds meanwhile say they will put pressure on russia and china to support a new resolution on syria with critics fearing it's part of the build up put enough that leave this stuff to about. a next to a dive into the black sea and how special report focusing on the sprawling shores of russia's most populous stretch of coast states and. if you're taking your first trip to russia you'll probably be more inclined to pack a fur coat rather than a bucket and spade but if you head down south to the chrism of the region you'll find long sandy beaches and hundreds of kilometers of beautiful coastline literally millions of people flock here every year proof that while russia may be famous for

its snow and skiing there's plenty of sun sand and see here as well. this is the longest developed embankments in europe fourteen kilometers of it and in the middle is this lady white. resent the hopes and dreams and beauty of the beach. and it's a stunning place the results of frame by the background of the caucasian mountains and on a sunny day the seascapes can rival anything you might find in the greek islands and if you want to see the area in its full glory you just have to jump into a cable car. straight up. pretty

good view on the way up here but i think i want to go just a little bit higher and also it's an excuse to visit the fair. up here you can find the black seas equivalent of the london although admittedly this is a little retro. going to the most technologically advanced roi this one safety equipment. there's a big. five minutes to get to the top. if you. managed to cling on for a treat. this is the highest brought on the install a black sea coast meters above the sea level. discovers incredible. maybe a little bit when the interviewer probably. tried. to restore to arrive here in april and the season can continue into october.

attractions are me area are good to appeal to the whole family and i wanted to check out one of its newest success stories. people come from all over russia to visit the black sea coast but if you're looking for a different sort of multiculturalism it's probably a pretty good place to start. new flamboyant names here this is simply called old poke. it's not very old it's old but take a walk around and you'll soon get a picture. who needs a foreign holiday when you can come here you got the pyramids of egypt the temples of ancient greece. and even a roman pavilion all in less time than it takes you to eat last great. architect alexander alexei of open the pope back in two thousand and four with an ambitious plan in mind. we were out

to get together many cultures within the narrow space or east west caucasus russia. these architectural structures are filled with substance and as you look around you begin to realize that the culture of humankind is a synthesis of many cultures races the whole period from ancient designs all the way to modern architecture. alexander has areas dedicated to more than ten different cultures and we. paid all respects to zeus and we found ourselves in ancient egypt. it may be a little smaller than the pyramids of giza but it's based on but it's certainly boasting some fine acoustics. listening he can't have been too impressed with all singing as it probably began to

rain. it was a perfect moment lou to head indoors and visit the punk's medieval town and there's a bird's eye view of the grounds. here we are james this is our territory with our aim is to build a space where architecture and nature into the harmony where we all want to be. but if your fortune has something to do with the docs are probably a pretty good place to start and if you go there early enough they'll be plenty of fishermen setting off for their morning catch. one of the best things to me about. so that's why we're. going to take the place we can collect sit down there. sam. will work from the stir. so his crew will muscle in us

they've been breeding the tasty mollusks for three years but they're already proving very popular. i can tell you that as far as he is concerned this is a budding market. traditionally people here. know there's a great demand for seafood not only locally but also in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere there were no shellfish an oyster is in the menu bar the restaurants only local people like to cook shellfish for a very long time. so. there is an oyster and once they've arrived at the beds his job begins. so they were in the right place. but once everything secure the catch has to be loaded into the rowboat and that's where the hard work begins. if you know. this

probably isn't for you each will pretty much guarantees you a seawall to show on to think is and plenty of. little crowds in there as well as good. as about. themselves can be surprisingly hard to find. so this kind of reading program apparent doesn't yield too many oysters they're quite rare so you see we've got tons and tons of mussels but only. hidden among them. on a bit of a needle in a haystack. this still huge to muscles locally. and there's definitely no shortage of them. so this is going to be one of the big easy of the light be to see we've got about a hundred twenty. muscles appearing bathing crabs and and of course.

when you get to eat seafood when it's this fresh unfortunately on an oyster boat there's no shortage of experience because. sooner or. later over the most romantic thing to try one of nature's great effort. you don't get much fresher than this. not to mention extremely tasty. so i had my long journey over. but i'm not sure that even the most generous marine biologist would count muscles among the small to screech is where there is intelligent animals pointing. well when you're behind a black sea tough to find. hello to.

say hello to zurich. three beautiful. they've been living in before me here of the dolphinarium for more than ten years and technique down to a fine. but this is probably the best quickest way to make friends i think. this one. is the best to get quickly. doesn't mean having to share their breakfast. with the ladies clamoring for. a row the fights i've won the. rivalry since some.

story. around two hundred fifty kilos and tips the scales are over three hundred but fortunately there's plenty of food for everyone. so the girls eat sixteen. can you imagine how many of these that is still. hungry and that means that he's quite happy to run seems. to attract his attention and then you throw it.

people. have faith. this is the. james. take. and. possibly imagine.

going to be. experiences. and a beast way. but you can if you. unfortunately like many. in the world. but as they say sometimes one man's trucks can be another man's treasure or in this case woman's treasure.

what are the other ways probably in sacks production and some bottles. you can see waists from shoes production just like you was. still in and used sacks seven years ago a name in the key for practice is a doctor to become an artist and the marmont list. recycling is still rare in russia and is a common sight nima has opened. to try and draw attention to the damage the waste is doing to the local area. it's always a pain to see the tone in into a garbage can i try to collect some of the rubbish but of course my efforts were in vain the trash was not getting smaller many people just don't understand me i don't know how to explain it to them my idea is to make people remember my work and

everything that i have taken care of before the litter i want them to remember my beloved black sea and the fish it will be great if they begin doing such things even better than me i mean or offer to give me a quick lesson in how to make plastic stick that isn't there let's make a fish ok come on we're making a little addition for name is biggest installation a sculpture that's intended to represent the whole of the black sea the first let's get rid of unnecessary stuff here is the fairmont gun take a look it's not clear if it's a fish yet but now we're going to shape it look here is the tail. and now we're going to color it and it will become absolutely fabulous. yes beautiful. perfect and no you should shake it a little bit to let the paint spread.

exactly sure what breed of fish we were creating but it was pretty colorful and once the finishing touches had been added it was ready to take its place in the gallery forward. and here is. the now you have your own facing the back seat that's right into the sea find a nice place behind hope she'll have a happy life. it's amazing to think that you can transform this rubbish into something really rather beautiful and hopefully the people who see it maybe they'll think a little bit more before they chuck away that next plastic bottle. but taking a look at that sculpture of the black sea reminded me of another thing i haven't quite have the time for yes. i've been so busy here in the car to go about my favorite thing to the seaside. and it is up here.

quite stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is mesmerizing. but this beauty brings deaths at a speed of more than two hundred kilometers per hour. stepping down of a launch and on. so far a much richer have a chance to meet a few of the black seas marine animals but i've heard that up there in the hills there were plenty more who prefer the draw and the least most of the time. this

isn't just an ordinary zoo it's a rescue and the retirement center for injured alex performing animals like bash is enjoying her early morning bob. full report looks after more than sixty different species and i met up with head keeper. until he started working here three years ago because i was a hunter but it seems like the animals don't really crunches. let's go. this is the himalayan band both mellow don't you want to say how long you want to have fun and once he's only ten months old growing like a weed he's a fairly now but when he gets big. he's going to be about a hundred. and i think he's. great i'm having fun and biting everything in his meat. every careful. but.

then if you think blues a way to meet his friends next door. being baby. with a spate of recent. around three hundred animals and they've set up a nursery for their baby big cats why can't we all get along my place. my jeans and my shoes are becoming a delicious treat and just a few months ago they welcomed one of the world's rarest animals this little is adam a baby. and the son of two confiscated tigers so he really is a little nervous. and you can already see. it's not going to be too long. if. he's going to turn into the world's biggest cat and a bit of a killer and i'm hoping he's going to be gentle with me. here have been

rescued from poachers or from circuses but some come from rather more unusual backgrounds. this is grigori he lived with their grandmother in know what i see he was living in a simple flat for a long time is more than ten years old grandmother has brought him here some three years ago she was a very old woman she brought to bear here in a car without any cage just using a leash she cooked a big delicious cake for him that grandmother is just too old to look after him. i'm just going to bed living in a granny flat now and. you've been a big spare room with me. but never seemed to have such a bond of trust with so many different creatures it was like being around a real life doc to do little and hopes that the fountains of visitors who come to the park take a new appreciation of the animals away with them. i mean my visit to the safari

park cuts and bruises i figured it was time to visit one of the black seas more sedate tourist attractions then maybe get myself something to eat. one thing you learn quite quickly about the russians is that they love their bread whether it's brown growing it pretty much comes with everything but we just call it strange that in the two years i've been traveling around this country i've never seen. it's a ripple of a mill that was growing flour in this area more than a century ago and with the help of a few modern improvements it's back in business. the history of this company is fairly typical of russia founded in eight hundred ninety five it was nationalized in one thousand eight team. in the one nine hundred thirty s. it was renamed sickle and hammer and wasn't service until the early one nine hundred sixty s. . a few years ago the original mill was stripped transported and rebuilt here and

the old gears were given a new lease of life. there are new parts to this windmill but it really is a timeless bit of engineering. by the wind power and that energy. is then converted down here by these wheels. and this one is part of the original nineteenth century mechanism still running today. which moves these two parts up into the grinding stone. and we get flour the same way it's been produced. and making it is a really simple process so. they get. and now follow me. here's a receiving bunker. this week here that's it now the process is already underway plenty of kneading and baking listen time for

a snack. ok so i've heard of a ploughman's lunch but i'm guessing this is a miller's lunch just milk. and some fresh bread and they were there are. good. this mill may be an example of the region's recent history but they're all relics along the shoreline that date back to antiquity. this is the ancient city of gold to pier it was home to thousands of people until it was destroyed in the third century a.d. and it's one of the best preserved examples. of the nation city on the recent coast the greeks who settled here and named their city after samarian king and its ruins cover around forty. it's still possible to wander through the so is of great houses and you can even discover the citizens favorite tipple i bet that this would have

been one of the most popular places back in the days of give because it's the remains of an ancient winery people would have crushed the grapes here the juice then would have come down these forests and into these enormous votes. show you. down here. unfortunately. well we've got now of course is the rain was back in the day this would have held the equivalent of bali bombers and. you may have been long since deserted but the descendants of its greek settlers are still in the area and they still have a passion for the grape. this is russia's wine country around sixty percent of the crop comes from around this area and about to meet the people who make some of the best. these. grapes i believe yes and this is a very important one of you.

and his family are almost ready to start making the latest batch of their famous brand name has a price tonight so much depending on the use of stretch i will set you back around fifty dollars but this grapes went destined for the. my father. oh yes the beginning. is bringing in the harvest he likes to have a few friends and the old greek tradition. where it's. there was a pretty big power of grapes to crush so it seemed to take. the music is supposed to get everyone stomping away in

a nice uniform rhythm but lumia greek slipping around on fifty kilos of grapes takes some doing. and i was about to get my reward from them being a foot. so i think. we definitely deserve a drink thank you very much. she was said to continue into the evening but i wanted to take a stroll across a number of months before i called my plane back to moscow. hold. when it's this windy even plenty of wine won't keep you warm. and his son max can run a t.v. tours along with the units here. and off to tackling the dunes it certainly beats walking back to the hotel. it may have been getting chilly but as

a born and bred seaside town boy i was sad to be leaving the black sea coast it may not boast the infrastructure of some of the famous mediterranean resorts but with months of sunshine relatively low prices and no troublesome visa refuse is easy to see why millions of russians come here for the summer holidays it's a place to relax bring the family and enjoy the warmest really water that russia has to offer.

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