in a vengeful washington inquiry even as world markets continue to shift following the unprecedented u.s. debt downgrade. quite well i do stay with us here in our special report on russia's far east is coming your way next it's where echoes of the soviet era mixed with traditions that are centuries old you're watching r.t. . situated just a few from the chinese. exactly a. bunch of. russia's far east. the region's ministers of. a million people and

a place that really sparkles in the summer. locals come out to enjoy the city's. picturesque. and. there are plenty of places to work. and for the nature. of the town. now apparently this is one of two places in the whole of russia. in the wild now in eastern tradition the opening of the lotus flower petals of spokes to signify the expansion of the soul so i'm hoping that my trip to her is going to be as well and i was going to start my journey down on the riverbank just over one hundred fifty years ago. it links russia with china and. it's a great way to see the city and. constantine is a lifelong sailor and resident and he offered to take me out on his yacht pulled my

wife of course. trains young sailors and we had a couple of other shipmates along for the riots so it's not just. so . it wasn't long before we were doing it. and as the. fixed up the rigging i took the road. actually this is pretty perfect weather beautiful. great day just be messing around and. this is the eleventh longest river in the world but we were heading out to fall just enough to enjoy the water and get some great views. i can't think of one that said. it was trying to head back to dry land and for me to really start discovering bars. if you want to find out

about history there's one place that you have to visit this is the museum of regional law and it's the biggest and the most visited museum in the whole of the country's far east. nations. step into this building every year and they get to enjoy a huge collection of exhibits from local river residents to back in time. one of the things that sets this place apart from most russian museums is that you can interact with the exhibits a day with guests who come from even further east to see what life used to be like here in the far east of russia these schoolchildren a visiting from japan and the museum store immediately have to take a. century village chores. to use it's time to really get into the swing of things. this is a way to learn about the prospect of the dusty museum displays just the right.

the kids to carry on and headed down to meet me the museum's director who offered to give me a personal tour and he has his own theory on why the region's ecosystem is so diverse. legend has it when god was creating the world he planted the tiger and. when he arrived here he only had a handful of seeds to toss around but he did have a bit of everything so we have a wide variety of plants in these parts from plane trees to grapes and the same can be said about our fauna. this collection of local wildlife is a very popular exhibits and includes one of the most famous and rare animals in russia approaches one of the main reasons why the target here is so terribly endangered but there is a place not too far from which is doing its bit trying make sure the species.

is about an hour's drive from the city and it's a refuge for injured. from the local region. it roland. has been taking in lost souls for the best part of twenty years and who took me to meet some of the park's most recent arrivals. these are himalayan bears hopefully we'll be able to release them next spring but we need to feed them first . everyone has looked after more than two hundred beds over the years and despite a lack of funds most of us and survived being separated from. the babies are just a few months old. trophies for china as well so it's a very close. fortunate behind. but

you can see for just about five months old really pretty. well. but this is most famous resident is considerably bigger. than one of the rarest cats left on the planet and i'm more tiger nearly twenty years old. and still. coming to say. quite. i'm so tempted to try and. he's got my teeth. i was born here was a baby in the early nineties and he's been here ever since he's the sanctuaries only permanent residence and despite being positively ancient for a tiger there's still plenty of life in him. the animal tiger is the biggest cats on the planet and can weigh more than three hundred kilos but their numbers are

under serious threat and it's estimated there are only around four hundred fifty left in russia's wilderness. and one is doing his best to improve the chances he's raised and released almost a dozen young cubs but before he does they need special training. this well unfortunately the lure of the. jungle being what it is these little guys are actually used when they have wild tigers here to train them how to hunt because this would be where the has in the forests around here would be the tigers natural prey and there are a few launch of talk it's wandering around here to here also some rather unwilling students of tiger school these two little there as well. very useful when you know how to hunt. fortunately for bugs.

is in residence at the moment. continues to hold the running away from the a few curious. but there are lots of making sure the. team. back in the city has been invited to see a different sort of conservation projects involving four wheels for legs. seeing cars like this is enough to bring back a few bad memories of frustrated instructors the old mine a fault because this is where people come to take their driving tests but the ministry of transport here isn't just concerned with getting new drivers started they're also responsible for getting some of the city's vintage automobiles. back out of. the direct. his passionate about

he's got one of the largest collections of models in eastern russia. very true here i've got cars of all makes including those that were made in the one nine hundred thirty s. here you see four makes and military vehicles and one of those military models was waiting for us in the carriage down. apparently this old truck delivered letters during the second world war and the mechanics have been trying to get it back on the road. i think this one is almost most repair. c. runs go to magic touch. one of the most. for real russian classic but in. the keys down here.

post truck rides are good. but trucks are just the tip of the iceberg. restoring. some of the success stories. from vintage folders to ukrainian beatles most of these. special festivals but i was going to get a chance take a listen to the specials first. for any one of these things. because this is. you must have had to hit the gym to keep it under control but only one of these big powerful this was just a dream for most of us citizens back in the one nine hundred sixty s.

. but it seems that all communist culp's weren't quite so. this may be the best police ever invented for to. be careful for many people. the good books of this time you must be cheap it was a lot easier to drive. even push and it would have made all the bad guys. you have the smallest. criminals i'm not sure if it would be a good thing. because either they. decided to. it's in my mini most beach would have to suffice but that

wasn't going to be my last job on the bench in a box. the lose lose lose lose. the. odd.

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i had a chance to drive a couple of real russian classic cars and a bonus to me i was ready to return to my as a pedestrian just yes it was time to walk the rest of it. now driving along all the rules is all well and good but sometimes you just feel a need for speed and there's a place in a bar is where you really can come and burn some rubber. your aim is to drive carefully. your primary concerns you. have always been involved with racing for twenty five years and now runs the stream. which takes part in competitions all over the russian far east he's already trained several local champions including his son misha who offered to show me the ropes assuming i could fit in the car. more birds too big for the distance. james sent up a little bit but. it turns out there's an end to

a go karts push towards. people who some young students but this is a school that takes dedication and money mostly because of the telly and she sees in japanese engines because simple. they can appreciate. races regularly more than two hundred kilometers and it's a serious adrenaline rush. are you ok. i'll tell you. but it is a little bit difficult when you're eating. dust. it was time to take things a little easier and i went off to find with a rather more sedate. looks like these guys over here have gone into some double glazing in one of the old buildings but. i know someone is going to be able

to make good use of an old when it's alive. but the muses reclaimed pieces to repair and refurbish musical instruments and we were going to give an old good song a new lease of life. and my siberian stone pine window sill was going to become a brand new sounding board. to fit together perfectly so that we can make the front of the guitar. almost the planks have been playing down the old sounding board has to be removed. sorting through your kit so. it's. a bit cutesy and you destroying a guitar but looking of diem's other instruments the results would be well worth it and also would cut out the old boards so i went to work on one of his handmade centerpieces. unfortunately putting everything together can take up to the team wanted to show me exactly what one of his creations had to offer.

never thought that an old dog and a couple of friends. i don't even to see one conservation sense in me but it's not just land mammals that are getting a helping hand here. around fifteen years ago there were hundreds of tons of sturgeon and kalugin in the animal river but the fish is now critically endangered cameo is a valuable delicacy and poaching and overfishing have seen their numbers decline to such an extent that only two adults specimens were documented to have been cool in this area in two thousand and nine. it's a situation that have led to misty fish mom is trying to change the gene in his work as a breeding young animal sturgeon and colluder in captivity and then returning them to the wilds so this is where they keep the food for the fish loose like

particularly lovely stuff. combination of insects alone. and some tiny crustaceans are very delicious. but. the fish in these tanks are only a few months old but a full grown kaluga can live as long as a human way up to a time. as easy fishing boy about two thousand of these babies been in here and you can see the pretty lively. now there anyway about thirty to forty grams but that's the perfect science to give in the real schultz it's available in the river i think i can probably safely say that this may be the only thought in my life i'm ever going to see a fish vacuum cleaner and this is what is transporting our kaluga at all stages into the fact that we can then release it into the river later. because like

a quick definitely a months we'd reached our quota it was time to drive them to the water so i'm riding in style here as we're just about to head off to the river and hopefully give the space new lease of life releasing hundreds of liters of water at once can be a bit tricky though and we had to do a little riverside rescue work. so this is they so slow to think of this very soon we'll be taking them out on to the boat. and hope they will find the right spot in the river so they can begin. the phones only been operating since two thousand and eight but they plan to breed up to three million fish a year which should give the kaluga and the a good shots of swimming in these waters in the decades to come. it's amazing to think that just a few years this little guy could be a few metres wide and a few hundred kilos in weight and hopefully we've given him the best chance of making it because of this size hopefully he'll survive or amazing good luck.

it really did feel that we were helping to regenerate a river that's been supporting the people of this region since time immemorial. before i left a bar of school i was going to meet some people whose ancestors had lived this way for millennia. but. has been home to the indigenous nano which in their language means people for thousands of years and by the sounds of it. i think they're preparing for some kind of festival. there are around twelve thousand living in russia and they're the largest of the indigenous tribes it's a widespread community but every year people come back for a summer music. but it does take quite a bit of. hopefully we will really need this but just in case it

doesn't rain. they should be able to keep everything nice and dry. off without a hitch everyone pitches in to help from the more mature to the very you. don't know what's your name you know james i'm not. so it's not. over friendly here which is nice. this kind of event gets everyone excited and they don't hold back on the entertainment. today we're going to feed the spirit of fine. this spirit is the master of. his name but. after that. we'll have a torch perception where we're going to feed the spirit of water.

today there will also be a dragon of the dragons has to have been borrowed from the chinese but it's not true they're an ancient culture too. this. is going to be one of the big pieces of. cereal can bring it up so it doesn't fall down and we can really see how the nominee celebrate the culture. as soon as we've finished people started to arrive. to watch a game of chalk which looks like a particularly dangerous splendor volleyball in the crops. and then it was time for adults to dress. and. this is what the festival is really all about so it's for the next generation oh no need to get

together and practice those traditions that their ancestors have been carrying on for centuries it's a village celebration and i knew everyone in the community to get together and really celebrate their culture. the burbs may be a long way from us but it's worth the effort to get here this outpost of russia's forest has a rich history and a community that cares about their city and the future of its environment. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. it's been going on for months twenty twenty five years and censorship and eco terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when the nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the

feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who are accused of property sabotage and label ben as terrorists someone he'll destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not fair it's real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. sound. guys. signed. up. for a mission free cretaceous free lunch for children is free from richmond

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