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take a philosophy turn it turn it into something society could use in think it was well intentioned begin. this man was to destroy his time and he's still idealist now i think it's completely over the top to keep him in there and you know cherry in the ground and using. he turned everything upside down. there's nothing else to say. it was in london the father of the so you're. right. and they were friends for the younger generations you could say that the image of the. into a retro. figure not helped by pop star t. shirts and cheesy. it seems now. equally celebrated and mourned and the good and bad he did in his life both acknowledged dawn of the days
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of thousands of people queuing up to see his. recording locations it's still the main association. with him. the real many other places. in front of his life. most of the. lennon have to make the administrative center of the country. because of german threats moved. as it was called. what's become. his life and will become his final resting place originally i wouldn't. say. for public viewing. his body might move elsewhere. even. all historical backgrounds it is clear that lenin was an exceptional
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human being even if you don't like the policies or ideology he stood for lenin moved into the most or kremlin in nine hundred eighteen legend has it that he took both his wife. and his. french born revolutionary innocent ottomans with him. i'm an ash where we head towards the national hunt the last two decades of the access to many many locations previously closed or even a moon in the us a soft museums houses hotels bunkers it seems the russian capital is now open to all well almost if you want an example of a consequence how from the last century this is perfect built in one thousand or three by the famed bush an architect from the advent of the national home towns been historic landmark for more than a century before the revolution the hotel hosted foreign diplomats. loyalty
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business tycoons and indeed the famous after nine hundred seventy international has proclaimed the first house of the soviet became a residence of the bullshit government accommodating top communist leaders our main point of interest is really one of seven the bright splash in syria since the location while antique furniture high ceilings and a sense of history is the one hundred and seventy here in my opinion only has one of the best years of the capital but it's also packed full of history accommodating the ball straight party this week inside the hotel was famously home to lennon and his wife for two weeks and last night in a city in the hotel has been renovated since but still want. this grounds. to it that. you too can gaze across to the kremlin and much of this cause task. today this ring costs thousands. as i might i'm not quite sure lennon would
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be too impressed with the price. same rights for everyone. this. is still interest for many and those interested do not necessarily need to book a room you can apply for a special tour as the department of. exclusions are organized twice a year. other moscow locations connect with. office and how much is now historical exhibits in. atmosphere in which she lived for several years. and it was open to the public in one nine hundred fifty five the most visited museums in the country but as it was located in the kremlin the same building where the actual russian government president was in the ninety's it was decided to move the cabinet to the state. in.
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be moved including clock which still shows the time when he left the room. represent the period for nine hundred eighteen thousand nine hundred twenty three but the personal belongings from the collection which we used by lenin in his everyday life but older than that some of them were used by several generations of the family and date back to eight hundred forty two. lookalikes. act. and even the second one hundred roubles. can have a cheesy reminder time. specially popular among foreigners but i have to say they are more stingy when it comes to money but they understand lenin sells just like everything else and. monuments to.
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one of the symbols of the. twenty's. and. there are dozens of sculptures of the phosphate leader erected in the city squares in front of mistreated buildings and you can still see many of them today. was once the stage speeches the metropole hotel built in the beginning of the twentieth century also became a base for the bolshevik government many leaders lived and worked in the metropol and it was often visited by lenin when he addressed his associates in the one thousand twenties it started functioning as a hotel again for decades its rooms were only available for russian and international celebrities and politicians. anyone can stay at the historic hotel but remember. the price. of. the hotel
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has been preserved in its original look despite all the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century here today is the same as it was in nine hundred eighteen when the bolshevik government had its meetings here but its deputies smoked a lot so when restoration work was carried out in the ninety eight is all to spawn doubt that the painted walls ten glossy were all but a small damaged which they had to clean to restore there with the decorations. his life works and theories are still studied by hundreds of institutions around the school is the ideology of communism. political in research look at the impact on the us. actually around the country for almost six years and his his legacy is still. in all parts of russia.
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for the twentieth century that's for sure. moving ten kilometers south of moscow here we are our final location the estate. this vast green space belonged to various nobleman from the eighteenth century ending up in the possession of the. widow of the famous moscow industrialist and theatrical patron. to the serbian government moved to. the looks yuri's property was nationalized and became. the winter garden here is breathtaking it's really something to be seen and on that note the answer running grounds are open to the public today but only for organized tours the house is filled with lennon's possessions here you can see everything from gifts given to man in his wheelchair various clothes and his four thousand book collection. in may nineteenth twenty three he followed medical advice and left the kremlin. it was here as
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a frown man only in his early fifty's vladimir image would spend his final years in september eighteenth. after. i mean crystal. as his health deteriorated over the coming here finally living in retirement he died. on the twenty first of january ninety four. after lennon's death the complex was renamed linsky officially became a museum in one nine hundred thirty eight and was a place of pilgrimage to serve its citizens right up to the fall of the iron curtain from viewing his death mosque here to visiting his red square we're talking about historians tourists communists the epic achievements of lenin still have a cult following and all the places connected with his life and legacy. as. journey
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starts on t.v. dot com. top stories this hour on our t.v. u.s. house of representatives has voted down a measure giving barack obama the authority to continue american military action in libya but it's seen as a merely symbolic falling out between congress and the president as the house later rejected the bill to come funding for the campaign. declassified documents reveal the u.k. was happy to hand over terror suspects to the u.s. with little regard to what will be waiting for them in secret prisons once under washington's jurisdiction hundreds ended up being tortured and abused without trial . mourning the year over the fate of the common currency is in serious doubts as europe agrees on another bailout the debt laden agrees but urges the country to get behind savage spending cuts however some experts argue it's too late as the euro already has both feet in the great. class the former prime minister of ukraine goes
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on trial for abuse of power of the country millions of dollars. faces up to ten years behind bars if convicted in kenya. that friends of mine would join me for more on those stories in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime let's check out the sport news with natasha. this is live sports news on our team and here are the headlines this hour the world cup worries russian media reports for regions are sad to lose the right to have the matches at the twenty eighteen two in the men's. mixed feelings might have shot up of all makes it through into a third stage of global done but last year's runner up a bit as i'd always out in straight soundstage for tom appear on camera. and rush is only driving the truck racing championship fails to make the podium at a later stage in francois he said to catch up with rivals at his home leg next
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month. football fans the locals alike and for russian regions could be for a massive disappointment ahead of the twenty two in the world cup according to media reports say the country fourteen of the planned host areas may be cut to ten the moscow region. and soran sk those in the spotlight russian daily state ministry of tourism documents which do not place those who originally planned locations in this spending budget plan the prime minister was in it of course and said last month that the list of stadiums wouldn't change but stressed the final say rests with before this latest document though submitted a fortnight ago the said regions from its planning with one area you're a slob listed as having no financial backing from sponsors the local government we had of russia's organizing committee aleksey several can however says everything is how it was. this is the. very. over the
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four weeks there it. is so gerri. willis is. here that is. for all of the four men while the russian football union reacted to the bonanno throwing incident that involved are about to call us on wednesday brazil legend walked off the field with his team leading three me with grady a soviet of off the whole founds launched the fruit onto the pitch and some r. and r. if you had sort of gay force and go had said he thought this summer a club should be punished too harshly by it but not of course to really an estimated ten thousand dollars fine imposed on friday. to wimbledon tennis now where play was suspended again because of rain midway through day five and then postponed till saturday due to darkness but there was quite a number of important results from the early action including some mixed fortunes for the russians might be a shot up of what claiming her second victory of the tournament she upset seventeen
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year old british hopeful laura robson the two thousand and four wimbledon champion and the fifth seed b.c.m. making it through a relatively easy seven six six three in a match that had been forced down from thursday. to expect her to come out and play really well i don't think she had anything to lose in this merchant. brings out the best and someone to go in there play free. school feel like. elsewhere not to say that this time around but she has booked her place in the fourth round already a bad day meanwhile falls with. both went down in the last third to two disappointment for second seeded especially as she was well the runner up last year and has yet to win a grand slam title more results venus williams had no problems against. son just pressuring her six love six two french open semifinalist mario needed all the three
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sas to send another spaniard lou does that mean get back into the good outside and also advanced following it for victory over daniela. and world number one was not just for games on help way to the third stage as the danes simply outclassed visioneer as an old france to please the most devoted supporters well my whole family is here my mom my brother and it's nice to have the firmly here they're always here. if you know my dad is smiling my coach i'm nervous he tells tells me about the times thanks to merchants and their resume use important part of my career and my mom and my brother don't really know too much about thomas so you know i don't really listen to my. revolver again service. well speaking of the russian contingent in the man's story you couldn't be made to the sort of exhibit the singles have and i'm able to successfully completed the second round match as world number one rafael nadal started against israel. on friday and
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that biceps involved while the play was stopped due to rain and that third round match will resume on souths is a while and he mari's taking on creation. record with ruth and has just taken the first set by six games to fall to love in the second set meanwhile apparently the biggest upset so far so grass course specialist and three time wimbledon finalist andy roddick a list of lists and a lot of american failed to take a single sat going down and out seven six seven six and six four. you could well i mean. this year is a lot easier to deal with than let's say last year where i feel like i gave it away . i got to be he came in and he served. as well. you know the stuff that's enabled me to beat him. seven times making sure it's.
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going to make an employee difference honest for him he did well today. basketball now and kyrie erin has been chosen as the cream of the crop in the twenty eleven n.b.a. draft the point guard finding a new home with the cleveland cavaliers who pick the nineteen year old number one overall the australian born american comes from versity and will face the pressure of becoming the main attraction in cleveland to replace the recently departed lee bron james the minnesota timberwolves didn't surprise anyone when they took arizona fall forward derrick williams second overall three of the first six players taken away from europe though including you. and us concert and a total of four overseas stars who didn't attend the u.s. college unlike camptown were also taken off for the first time. just. try to contribute to the club militarisation as much as i'm really looking forward to getting the cleveland it's a big sports town i can't wait to embrace all the fans that. are really can't wait
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you know actually have the chance to see my jersey on the crowd with all those clueless fans or someone really looking forward to. own two formula one away from a standard practice for the european ground plane by lansana the ferrari driver delight of the home crowd is best left to them his rivals with an update address suspension and mode of five from weighing by just over two towns of a second mclaren this lewis hamilton who came second championship lead us to boston the tell me in a while was horrible and russia's nor dr atomic controlled clock the sounds result on the day. stay with multiples russia have been demanding that the car really for years now but surprisingly cannot boast the same success same truck racing championship europe's top of and in the category however an example of wolf russia's sole representative in the series is the man they make to change that soon steve dancer ports. the european truck racing championship may not be quite as big
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as formula one but these two high octane sports do have more than one thing in common motors revving spectacular crashes and a solitary russian driver lapping the tracks in his yellow man truck alexander visit the name these thirty nine and used this to smaller cars since switching to bigger engines he's triumphed in one of the four championship races sweeping the top honors at their previous stop in spain earlier this month so a lonely eleventh place in this latest asian or garro france was a huge disappointment at this track is nothing new to us and races here are always very close with very narrow time margins and at first who did ok but it just didn't turn out to be a good day for us we started well but later in the race if something happened which stopped us from keeping pace just one seventh place finish in four races in their results were roughed up preparing for the next race at the nerver grange in germany
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germany uk in hand dominated the french leg of the championship is standing the overall lead ahead of his home stage at the legendary newberg ring in a few weeks time well right after the german trip the truck racing circus will pitch up in russia going for the second time to the western region of some lengths so of all of has about enough time to improve on his ninth overall position and pile it least some pressure on the front runners in the remaining four races the summer months leg nicknamed truck battle russia kicks off on the thirty first of july stevens r.t. . and you can always find some of those stories at our channel which is our team sport news coming up shortly as the. bell will bring you the news headlines. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news make us. wealthy british style is not
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hotel mccown. the u.s. house of representatives has voted down a measure giving president barack obama the authority to continue american military action in libya. while yet they adopted a resolution that criticize this president obama on his policies i'll be back with more in just a few moments. classified documents reveal the u.k. was happy to hand over terror suspects from iraq to the u.s. with little regard to what will be waiting for them in secret prisons. mourning the euro the fate of the common currency is in serious doubt as europe agrees another plane to greece which is the country to get behind savage spending cuts. the former prime minister of ukraine goes on trial for abuse of power that cost
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their country millions of dollars. around fifteen hundred supporters of gathered in front of the court building to protest what they describe as a farcical hearing join us for the latest details from the ukrainian capital kiev. international news and comment live from our studios twenty four hours a day here in central moscow this is the majority vote in the lower house of the u.s. congress has turned down a motion to cut funding for the american military action in libya but this came directly after the very same lawmakers refused to grant president obama approval to carry on the campaign live now to auntie's going to churn she's in washington studios a mixed message then coming from the house of representatives what effect if any will this have on america's involvement in libya well not really
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surprising the house of representatives voted on two things one a resolution that denies obama the authority to continue the u.s. military action in libya a resolution that basically has no actual of fact as you previously said because it just reflects sort of the opinion of the lawmakers but more importantly they voted against defunding the u.s. participation in combat missions there a bill that was also on the table so the resolution adopted by the house of representatives is seen more like a message of rebuke sent to president obama rather than an actual war stopper because when it came to voting on cutting off funds for that war the majority voted no so some analysts see elements of the show in the behavior of the u.s. congress saying that many lawmakers they missed the chance to snub the president yet knowing that this knobs won't change much at the end of the day yes capitol hill observers say we're.
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