past the cutbacks that brought people onto the streets in the first place and violence erupted after some demonstrators tried to prevent militant activists from attacking police lines leading to the death of one man after he was hit by a rock greece needs to make more cuts to qualify for another huge bailout and stave off bankruptcy. and in northern kosovo nato peacekeepers have fired tear gas and ethnic serbs fighting to keep control of a crossing along the border with serbia pristina tried to seize control of the checkpoints during the summer sparking the current standoff during which locals erected makeshift barricades close to the church refused to recognize kosovo's independence and consider the area a part of their homeland. next sailing through the centuries find out what it took to become a professional sailor in the past in our special report. petra's vaults is a city on the bank of lake in russia's northwest. saw

peter the great founded it in the early eighteenth century as a supply base for the russian navy today just one of the leading centers the wooden boat making. tons of books. babson turning to porn somewhat of a. cheesy island just a short distance from the trees of old school nothing has changed in the past two hundred years. the island looks like an open ended easy and. once a year it becomes a meeting point of vessels to belong to a bygone era. puzzle mark two called set up a private shipyard more than twenty years ago. since then the shop has been crammed

with wooden boats even under construction already for sailing. for pavel each launch is an exciting and festive occasion. the shipyards owner is unlikely to ever get bored with sending vessels on then maiden voyage. joy it's their success the wooden boats have been built throughout human history story and i don't see any reason why we should ever stop making them. after all what is the only building material that actually has a life of its art school. today pavel is launching a boat which was built on the request of a group of scientists it will help researches muster universities biological station situated by the white. call of son of to cough is back in his hometown of. following the trip to st petersburg educated

as an engineer he spent a good deal of time there in the libraries he was looking for suitable blueprints for a new project. technical expertise and the experience of a historian but equally important these kind of ship building. the great founded seventeen o three literally a month after he established st petersburg. created for the purpose of manufacturing cannons and cannon balls for the fledgling russian navy. however peter didn't build wooden boats here on his shipyards where elsewhere. there are several private shipyards and. they operate just like the ones owned by the mach two calls. and says times a local plant built wooden minesweepers for the navy it was shut down in the one nine hundred ninety s. but some of the stuff when fuz yes ticking off to set up businesses of their own

moreover they pass their interest wooden boats on to their children. are we going to make the steering or. the boats quite small so let's take a look at design forty five. it is. what a. nice overlook. i think for us we should take this design forty eight where it's a bit smaller the construction is the same as forty five. month it has come to petra zawacki from the volga region he has ordered the construction of replicas of russian boats dating back to ancient times the monk keeps a watchful eye on the progress of the work. ring will be here. internal was over that you are you going to cover it up there's no this stays open

. it should be covered up. you know you'll get access through this opening. will this be closed. that will be open you'll have a hard time getting anything through there to hold this position to los. cabos shipyard stand side by side with the wall known by victor dimitri of the st nicholas is about to set out from the payer of the arctic odyssey club victor dmitri if he's off his son alexei. gone clean over their side the need is to strong . safety first. the st nicholas was built in petra's of all skin one thousand nine hundred one such boats were used by paul most people who lived on the russian coast of the white sea in the fifteenth through to eighteenth centuries similar boats to pummel merchants to every part of northern

europe. over the past two decades maritime festivals made to st nicholas a familiar sight all the way from bergen and norway to bristol in britain. we sailed past france and norway which travelled across the northern seed to new castle. in england we've been in swedish and danish waters we've covered practically the whole of northern europe. the ship will cover some forty north to cool miles before it reaches keiji island by lake the new guy. nearly all local ship builders meet there once a year the kishi regatta is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of oldest. plymouth and skip the historical buddha is like a time machine when you get on board dressed up accordingly or even just wearing your regular well you find yourself in the atmosphere of

a life that is no more. linked to dmitri have built his first sailing vessel more than thirty years ago since then private enterprises have sprung up been to before the filth of the first boat was called the poem or little army even though it was in one hundred eighty seven when we went to spins bergan aboard that vessel at that will get a foothold in with naturally we experienced first hand the pleasures of going to history boarded into each boat and of the. film companies often turn to petrus of boats ship billed as. one of the scenes from the blockbuster pirates of the caribbean beach is a sailing vessel built puzzle much you called ship. pavel has warm memories of another occasion when he got a request from british filmmakers. of all for almost. well into the telephone call and the caller said he represented

a film company in the studio much of he also has to build some models for a film but he didn't say exactly which film it was going to be. shortly before the phone call powerful had read the whole i'm blowing a novel by the british author sessile scott forrest it was cliff. the list of ships that he was being asked to do his bit for an adaptation of the book. got to go with it but he said right away though that it was about see battles cheering the napoleonic wars so were there no more to. serve even that small bit of information narrowed it down forests and forrester was the first name that sprang to mind for them but it's the customers were impressed by the ability of petra's of all ship builders to identify the historical background by word of mouth alone the boats for the hornblower see cool but to a built in petrus of votes one two emmy awards. season

ticket holder. first. building rowing boats as well as models was quite a challenge to force people up whether we had to have a lot of archive material to be able to make english and french vessels. but then we were also told that british audiences can be quite sophisticated. but they have no difficulty telling an industry it from a french one. into puzzles shipyard less than a year to build eleven replica vessels and four full scale rowing boats dating back to the late eighteenth century. collingswood done by restores the keiji museum. yourself a year to complete the job and we build models with sales cannons and carvings.

since. some of the ships launched in petra's of all skin the past years are already part of modern history a museum in the siberian town of circuit is playing with the idea of enriching its collection with a replica of a boat it was made in victor dimitri of shipyard in petra's avoids almost twenty years ago at the request of a russian film company. the vessel is an exact copy of the sixteenth century cost but. so you have replaced this part here yes excellent now the blanks here please. replica was featured in a film about the legendary. the man who conquered siberia. naturally will sew it up into four sections then will separate it in the meat section and then put it all back together in the museum. sometimes victorian pawel

compete for clients on other occasions they combine forces on joint projects. one of the employees is showing the monk how the project is progressing. oh good day i was a go and not mine everything's fine. have you finished in the decade. but let's install the gas tank here. maybe let's put it there. all the other equipment has been linked up. like the engine control. right now dimitri company is working on boats ordered by theo. the monks idea was to use three replicas of ancient russian boats to retrace the waterway that links russia to the balkans in the eleventh century. life

has lost that precious kernel that used to be at its very core the joys of creation learning and discovery is what we hope to be able to revive those values by organizing what we call the journey from russia to the land of the serbs. since then the has built some fifty vessels the shipyard launches new boats on a reg. basis in petrus of victory is known by the nickname. some of the monks specially old of boats are ready to test on the water accompanying the monk on his trip all historical enthusiastic their aim is to reach the shores of kishi island to take part in a special performance. wealthy

british style sign. on the. market why not just can't. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. at the beginning of the season the arctic odyssey shipyard that was launched to

pummel but. they had been ordered by the government of russia's northeast region of two katka which is less than one hundred kilometers from alaska. ah but you must know what wires the rope was in place or. are going to shift it so it won't get in the way. if. the wind is picking up quickly. in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes eating to asia and africa meanwhile their russian counterparts explored the northernmost parts of the asian american continent the authorities of chukotka now want to send an expedition retracing its very roots as a reminder of the discoveries made by russian seafarers. different from your own just nerves forage around and full of seven such boats he set out from the arctic

ocean and ended up in an a deer where the boats were taken apart while the expedition's members return to their base in yet on foot. seven replicas of the pommel boats a team to set out on an expedition retracing their route only two of them have been built so far. they have been tried out in both the white sea and in two of europe's largest lakes. and lot of alexei vala boy the job of took part in both trials. at the fleet is a completely unique experience it's nothing like what you're used to back in town you don't need to take ten calls or write five hundred emails a year you need to know how to set a sale in the nick of time. float your vessel if it runs aground well with all that completely changes your mindset and even help you to find your purpose in life or favor. the st nicholas has safely reached keiji

island with tourists on board. tomorrow one of the main events of the year because she regatta will take place. here on the hang the latter up to the right side. seven old men from to cut are going to take part in the first key she regatta. they're building a traditional church she cut back on a nearby island. these days to use only small kayaks for hunting at sea but in the old days large kayaks like this one were used for to hunt for whales and walrus like there were for this one here is to be gaia. maxime to new and six companions spent more than two days on that journey from to

cut cut to keep they travelled by f. train and steamboat the team had brought with them one hundred fifty kilograms of war skin which they were going to use to make a boat but they were in for a disappointment at the end of that journey from there with the first quarter is a good one fortunately each wanted in transit because we didn't stored properly. nevertheless the churchy craftsman managed to find an alternative. they replaced the natural skin of a common chook she wore us with plastic. kayak was ready to use a day before the race. so we turn it around no we'll turn it around when we get to the water. she she is an island on lake an egg. here is a unique museum of would knock

a texture on the island. the collection includes dozens of structures some of them are more than two hundred years old. one of the buildings dates back almost five hundred years. more recent structures are found on the coast such as appear to visitors. but for the most part the island looks just like it did one hundred fifty years ago. outsiders can only come here either as tourists or as participants in the keiji regatta which is held once a year. the participants in the balkan expedition being organized by month thick to insist on historical friend to city their sporting armor and learning how to wield mediæval weapons.

wooden boats and sailing vessels standing side by side with three hundred year old wooden churches strengthen the illusion of a journey to the times when timber was the principal building material here. that's another of our traditional. russian i could texture reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without turning a brilliant peasant so to make do without because they cost a lot of money here and is that artists be got such roofs for instance there are piles of churches. in both houses and the like everybody else who would. this is the source of the legend claiming that the keys e churches were built without a single nail in the in reality only the walls and roofs were made without using nails they were indispensable church. nowadays children play with building blocks

know only too well how the walls were built this technique makes restoration much easier damaged parts of the transfiguration church of being gradually replaced since two thousand. now the church is almost suspended in the air because of the restoration work on its foundation. this to begin with we needed a good foundation the lower part was taken away to be restored we put up a new stance and disassembled part of the church this is the lifting system of complete with lifting jacks. it works just like this. since there were the most but this means that the building assumption doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation.

one of the first bell ring is in post communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports for the welcome time. these hundreds the bell is a bell three of the keys each for almost two decades there are only a few places in the world where the sound of bells can spread far and wide without echoing off of the surface and it is impossible to confuse the chime of bells with any of. this everything here. is just as it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth century there's no noise of the kind you find in the city. today the bell sound as they did a hundred or two hundred years ago because they're not drowned out by noise. and the water also helps the chinese travel over long distances. trying different depending on whether the secular holiday is being celebrated igor who

says that villages sometimes even danced to the sound bells. as well. as ation on the theme of festive choice but i mean normally this stall is not intended for people marching in a religious procession or rather it's adopted to the stroke of an old. pick up that. it is only natural that chime from the belfry signals the start of the keys. thirty participants. three. additional wooden boats and modern sports boats each category has a subgroup with a number of all xmen ranging from one to six. after a brief deliberation the panel of judges decides to class the took cheek kayak as

a traditional timber but. one. stroke free stroke for. the races are expected to cover one nautical mile with each boat going at its own pace as a rule half an hour is enough for even the slowest boats. even over that short distance accidents still happen the rudder of the cheek brakes. the rudders come loose. rule harder stroke one. stroke. stroke free. but neither the tiresome journey the ruined wall riskin all the failure of the rudder can stop the choke races they take first place in that category with a record sixty minutes and forty seven seconds. stroke four stroke

five stroke six stroke seven. the son of the ship builder from petra zawacki has taken part in the kishi regatta for the first time his vessel in the modern sports by category came second many generations of people to call his ancestors lived on the shores of the lake. and another keys even has come to an end. guests and participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. keiji rules astringent everybody with the exception of museum staff is required to leave the island before eight pm. to send nicholas to say goodbye to everybody by firing a shot from its cannon. the

boat's crew gets ready for another voyage. i've seen people are put to the test and it soon becomes abundantly clear what sort of person they are. lake a new guy is notorious for its character selling that is sometimes more treacherous than an open water indeed locals often regard it as a seat but how strong is the way in a westerly wind at ten meters per second. the crew of the st nicholas set sail for the lake. passing the book asked. are you frightened no not yet then fossett. told the rider.

before they reach home they will have to cover some fourteen all to cool miles through rough waves. well. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered.

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