just. three thirty pm in moscow this is r.t. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to the weekly some of the headlines of the past week now occupy wall street has markets two month anniversary with president had protests all over america hundreds arrested. beaten but the movement looks set on its course to continue. violence in egypt once again as the cradle of the arab spring seize tear gas and rubber bullets thousands of protesters all across the country saying that military rule is just storing the results of the february

revolution. bureaucracy ascendant a wave of unelected favorites take power in europe as the blocs much vaunted democracy is seen as being placed on the back burner in the face of a detonating debt crisis. plus the syrian president refuses to crack under international pressure or the threat of further sanctions and diplomatic attacks so fears that we're about to see yet another libyan style intervention. those are some of the top headlines of the past week right now though here on r.c. the latest in explore russia we often visit the city of simyra on the banks of the beautiful. if you're traveling in the russian winter it's always good to head to somewhere well developed and the small region definitely fits the bill the capital is the seventh largest city in the country and can lay claim to being one of the most important business and cultural centers in european russia it's also one of the

most picturesque boasting the largest central square in europe and along beautiful embankment alongside the volga river it's a ninety minute flight from moscow or if you prefer the scenic route you can take a leisure li fifteen hour train ride. but that was a long journey and there's nothing like coming into minus twenty so wake you up but i mean some are one of the biggest cities in the whole russia. and i was also in one of its largest and most unusual buildings the glass fronted train station was completed in two thousand and eight and it's one of the highest places in town so this isn't a bad view point to take my first look at the city from the supposed to be around one of the of million people down there and hopefully plenty of interesting places to explore as well. and my first stop was

a real hidden gem. it's not exactly a very picturesque place here but underneath all this rather tassie concretes are about to uncover one of some more as they did some quests. during the second world war many soviet governmental institutions as well as most of the foreign embassies moved some are on this huge bunker was created in one thousand nine hundred eighty two has a back up to stalin and his cabinet. is a really amazing feat of engineering this this entire bunker goes down those forty meters and they built a space on. seems even more incredible to me is that the people of some or apparently didn't even know that this place was. was only in one scene like city when the soviet union was dissolved. and they finally found this huge structure have been under their feet for almost fifty. groomers or

that it was built by conflicts with them executed but nothing was ever confirms. so just kind of the first level here hopefully we'll get some. sort of hello nice to me. and one man who knows all about the place is my guide anatoly even after all this time the power systems are still working. here you find life support systems and equipment was installed when the bunker was still under construction it has not been replaced since then but it's still operational it works automatically it's russian made equipment the bunker was built to house up to six hundred people and they had some pretty effective defenses. this is over. it. is.

through. the bunker now doubles as a museum with various classrooms holding its old equipment geiger counters gas masks and first aid kits are all on display but the most interesting area is right down in the depths. it's an eerie experience entering this huge conference room and imagining the plans that might have been made here the central table is laid out for the generals and politicians just in order further off to the right and stalin himself would have sat under the huge map of the head of the room for the majority of the soviet union's existence some are a was renamed wish if i'm not clearly indicates that strategic position safely away from the german front lines it was never confirmed that uncle joe ever set foot here but the designers had obviously been told to meticulously prepare just in case

nothing like a little megalomania to start the day but i was very happy to make my way back to the surface and take in some fresh air there's one real benefits of venturing out on days as cold as these it's going to be this sort of view. the mighty volga river in all its frozen glory now the river here is covered in ice for at least three months of the year and it was always a real pain to get across until some local businessmen opened up the rather unusual ferry service. but larry has been running the operation here since two thousand and seven literally thousands of people comes across the river every month and they all jump into these questions hovercrafts and it's made the journey a lot less precarious. before we started using the hovercraft people would try to cross the river by truck or car but sometimes the thin ice caused disastrous accidents so it is the only safe method. but now it only takes ten minutes and

costs around one euro to make the journey safely and the budget self is surprisingly easy to control. let's. see the lists. it. looks like make. seven time lag across the ice they want to see me with any passengers but i was very happy to be going so. we can avoid using any excuse to be good. but when you don't have customers so much off to please easy to get carried away. the problem with this. if i was driving this all the time i just pretend to like. drive people to the other side. is great.

because by now there was several chilly passengers waiting for a ride so it was time for me to make my exit. now that. is what i call a ferry crossing. on foot so i was ready to check out some of those other attractions i'm one of them is quite literally out of this world. if you're talking about the soviets all the russian space program when you're talking about samoa on the soyuz rocket seventy percent of the world space flight school use these rockets and then made right here in the city. one of the proudest parts of summer is history and include the launch vehicle to stall the carried the first man into

space and now some of the city's cosmic achievements are on display to the public. this is full of a lot of. space memorabilia. i'm next to an old landing module and i met up with museum director for a guided tour of the premises. summer is the right place for such a museum. as are a city has been the local point of base country space engineering for decades here you can see they are manned satellite that has been in outer space. program about it is a replica of warts the world renowned cosmonaut yuri gagarin used during his space missions. there are around six hundred different exhibits the date back to the beginning of space exploration including some of the most advanced technology of the cold war. makes me feel very small when you realize that you were next to

something without sleep in out there among the stars and these spy satellites were part of the soviet and russian space programs for the best part of forty years and these lenses so powerful that. if i open this up i do that even if only a hundred kilometers above the head to be able to read what was on the museum is definitely one of the city's cultural highlights but if you're also winter sports fun you won't be disappointed either ok so if your smee fun things to do in the russian winter i can tell you maybe you sledging a bit of skiing i probably wouldn't say go. bust here in samoa they don't let a small thing like conditions get in the way of the rounds. and designers of this ski resorts have built their own i see not a whole course. with me so the players. this is your best way to elude you thinking that yeah. james

i'm glad then let me. ok well this is a first for me ok in the snow actually for me so. what's the idea about today what's going on while it's a golf tournament no you play golf almost the same rules as the sa money have some local rules. all of us rules are in accordance using conditions of weather conditions and ok so now you're trying to play it nine holes. but always been in the good walk spoiled camp when it came to golf but blogger was obviously a dab hand and she said she could give me a few pointers. what do we need to do so the first thing is to set up your ball on the tee ok yeah then those bits i know to make up position.

so yourself to make a suit and then to make you. smile you are the have. not exactly an all special start and neither was the goal for the non-contact sport . oh. walking wounded. i want to. get out of the way of the person playing us all to some something t. i was ready to tee off. and as the ladies went on with i decided i'd play a solo round and as long as i wasn't attempting to blow its longest drive a bull head in the right direction. still miss.

see you ball your way here. he gave his only school now for. mind you my technique wasn't my first concern. with the temperature down around minus twenty celsius so minus four fahrenheit i reckon i may have made one of the quickest ice cold frowns in history . right. comes in the i still can ship. can you make. james brown who is now going to enjoy some very well deserved because. in the clubhouse it may have been freezing but some are was turning out to be a lot of fun and i was ready to take

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if you wander around the streets of smart there's one car that you'll see more than any other and that's no surprise because it's dominated the region's manufacturing industry for decades. if you think of the old russian car that you can't help but think of that they've been going up and down the country's roads for almost half a century and this story stuff right. this is the factory. seventy thousand employees work within it six hundred hexis and they produce two and a half thousand new calls every day. ok so when i think about this that's a classic this off. it's pretty much what crops up in my head but here is more of them making something

a little more than. i was ready to see how it was done. the right place who was ill really is a few mostly it. does appear that i would be allowed to do it populous ok so this is where everything begins again so this is where the story of the car beginning we are in the olden days in the club if i was to get him part of the history of us began in the late sixty's and since that so we produced more than twenty six millions of cards difference pamela's that's silly we produce fourteen families of ours there from whole cloth in the long haul on the basis of we are soon more than possible that one of the free will. to clean or is one of the longest biggest sellers and machines work day and night keeping production line going to load the

guys behind relieved by all of us to give them to the german company to come up with it is the welding of the resume the night of the car boarding actually only two persons are needed here and there is a separation is. the automation here. and once the frameworks assembled it's on to the next cost in operation. now we're going to one day job and it worth a gamble with the body ok and then the border with forces going for the sweetest qualities that a good. man in the neighboring hangar things were moving on quickly. from the wind screams to the engines and the wheels a poacher attached separately and it's remarkably fast operation. and what you. it feels seven thousand euro price tag something like this. the

sixteen hundred pieces of metal but i'm four hours on the production line my brand new law the killing are you ready for the roads. to clean them maybe a very popular color around here bounce in the winter time it can get you everywhere sometimes you just have to try out a more traditional means of transport you know recently strapped on a pair of skis to run about the first time in twenty five years that was quite quiet easy reintroduction but here in samoa i decided i'm going to ramp things up a little bit. so you know if i'm guessing it but even some are like to do things a little bit extreme yes you are extreme right now what exactly are we going to be doing today we're going to ski your. this is and. that's almost while the rope and this ok there will be. sixty kilometers

per hour. maybe one hundred right that sounds terrifying. but you let go. and they are his friends are fans of yours which he is skiing behind animals in this case a high powered snowmobile. romo makes you look fairly effortless doesn't it. yeah right get out of uni of eighty three and pushed. my medical insurance up to date but it's one way or another i was going to have to give it a go so i was probably catching up but i was starting to wish i'd just gone and taken home a craft a gamble. actually you know it. goes i'm ready. for it is all of it. so please please.

because i got a good simple back. and listen to me there were a couple of false starts but eventually i managed to stay upright. ok i know this isn't like he wasn't out but. i still feel. i'm still much. what you managed to control your balance this is an amazing experience and soon i was ready to join the going for a group effort. and we're ready to rock. this night off in the heat that it will have to be polite.

but if you are trying this for the first time and special to get a confidence. well that's a fairly. reintroduction of the scale. but i think. everything still intact. should excuse me a minute i just got a little rest. but unfortunately my recovery was to be short lived. or still making for my session out there on the ice but apparently my new friend has another thing that he wants me to try something about. tunnel runs. it sounded rather ominous bumps once again because it promised i was going to enjoy

myself. for anything. so what are you going to play. but that's ok. ok so simple super words screw it gives you instant flying power. useful i've said before. and. a little here is the feel it's ok turns out the tunnel rat is an acrobatic expert in vertical wind tunnels and i was about to get my first lesson. courtesy with. your mother like. you like. these beautiful imagery. in happy people. smiled down at.

dime. finally the secret here is something changes to your body surface area do it right and you should rise and fall safely around if you train enough eventually you can do stuff like this the wind speed is apparently more than two hundred kilometers an hour and it's powered by five hundred horsepower engine enough to even get someone like me off the ground . who are more often. right ok here we go into the final. trouble or. maybe not this year. and then it was going to take to the end i was a little worried the market crashed to the floor to any point but remind how to get good money. there's.

very. little. was a little bit more money through. all of. them outright made it through a ton of them run it was time to go so to. them despite bouncing off the walls a few times i made it down in one piece. that. was an amazing experience ok there are about thirty techniques is good there apparently but i think i'm going to call that one a bellyful i didn't it seem uncertain works after all. it

had been a lot of fun but some are a was beginning to tie me out so i thought i'd then my trip with a little self indulgence the muslim needs festival has definitely got to be one of my favorite times in russia because basically it's a weeklong extended version of pancake day but it also is supposed to signify the end of winter and i've heard of the two but some are a few additional make it inhabitants i don't quite know for. now just a claims to have people with us. first residents of this area off by battled with bashkirian nomads back in the eighteenth century. and it seems they still like to expend some serious energy to get themselves in the mood for a feast. and they're still very worked up there must be what it is. possible to have their own was upset because they were hungry but a bit of a bookie seems to salt the problems. really are not here.

i have no idea what is going on i know you. know people. and when the guest of honor arrives this old lady represents muscle units and she's here for a special reason. and then things started to get weird i. think this is the usual. hell of a massively successful. how. much has some sort of significance. wetherby people has run on a sign up for this. apparently mustn't series here to piece all the bad spirits out of you before the year starts

anew. and then you can have a go on with the i guess. the stickles that i thank you for it but very obvious by that. i mean once everyone has been cleansed this is yet more daunting to celebrate but finally i managed to sneak off the subject sorry winsor is rank with my i am not kids my only. so i was eight. i should have been the rope but. i definitely earned my pancakes but sadly it was time for me to be leaving some aura. i found a thriving cultural business and scientific center and people that are always ready to show you a great time. well

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