rael dream doubled down on profits by building up instead of out in the german small place east for the self knowledge here on r.g.p. . kerry johnston time for a look at the headlines now nato looms over syria as alliance members turkey claims the downing of its military jet by the masses was an attack on the entire block syria says it in self-defense by shooting down the plane which violated its airspace on friday. president putin towards the middle east pushing for dialogue between israelis and palestinians have been already focused on the syrian conflict and nuclear iran during his visit. on the eurozone crisis claims its fifth victim cyprus asked for multi billion euro bailout to rescue its people

banking sector and finance its debts it follows in the footsteps of spain which saw twenty eight of its banks downgraded to madrid asked for financial aid. special report on the russian orthodox church for. we're old believe us we're not supposed to be public people we'd rather not be filmed or shown on television we're supposed to live a quiet life and keep distant from worldly masses that's what we need if we're to keep our traditions we be glad not to be disturbed too much. with it and we're. in the world with.

a. in. this is a small community of orthodox traditionalists returned to russia just over a year ago their ancestors emigrated to let in america in the one nine hundred forty s. coming back to their homeland has been their cherished dream ever since. a . lot. of. good morning class sent down. but this year we've been

joined by children from believe yeah you're ready for a hopeless trace a long journey that these students undertook to get to their new homeland when they came to pray more yet. moscow. but my thanks to my children going to that school because some of the schoolchildren there. smoke. in fact they're raised more by the school than by their own parents you know if we were to send our children to that school. we wouldn't last long. run is the community's head the forty seven year old man has nine children. he was born in latin america like many of the communities members he spent most of his life there

. leads in the community because he is the oldest of his siblings who came to russia with him there was a falling out with his younger brother over how their children should be educated. we're not against education. learning makes people why. is darkness we always teach our children how to read and write. this is the school attended by the children of the old believers classes are still taught the way they were at the time of the schism. church back in the seventeenth century children gather in the home of the teacher to learn to read religious books written in the old language the teacher is one of the younes brothers. and that the children start with the a.b.c.'s. first they learn texts by heart and only then do they learn the letters. we learn how to pray we pray in the

morning when we wake up and in the evening when we go to bed oh the rules are here . the pupils are not divided into groups their progress depends on the set of religious books they read. nothing but. if the teacher is absent teach their children to read and write instead. the old believers take a simple view of education since they are christians and to live in the countryside they need to learn religious rites and farming skills they have no use for the present day system of schooling and instead of follow their ancestors who strongly rejected of the seventeenth century reform of orthodox canon for the past three hundred years they have taken pains to protect their traditions by staying as

distant from the outside world as possible to resist the impact of civilization throughout their history they have wandered the globe in search of the most secluded retreats. family lives in a prefabricated apartment house which stands in the midst of a field near car for he has seven children. was the only community member to send his children to a state school and yes. before they left for dead there was a rush hour over that school. said to us if you don't send your kids to school you're welcome to go with us. we haven't reached an agreement. they left and didn't tell us. growing up with up with you well there are so many people with education who live in russia and a lot of them well they don't even have jobs we have always trying to live and work

in rural areas. and we were just as comfortable as those learned people who are going to certainly we never went hungry. come back to a nice. thing that should be around here somewhere. the rocky soil makes a farming difficult income for t.n.t. no longer grows crops his cow helps his family make ends meet she is free to graze together with the cattle belonging to local people the trouble though is that she tends to street towards evening. after coming. now that the community has left for t.n.t. is toying with the idea of going to russia's western part he believes the soil there is suited for farming but due to the resettlement program he is forced to

stay in the far east for another year. i invited my brother to join us we even set aside a farmstead for him anyway it's up to him to decide. they can flats are all that is left of the community of card for. my we prayed in this flat. so it's almost been empty seats but there are a few things still that's why there's a look on the door. this was my brother's tryouts. his family left before easter. i can tell you exactly how many people lived here eleven maybe your.

son is still here in this block he is going to collect some of the belongings left behind i live here alone. i am planning to leave on friday evening because i don't like this place. is a better place it's away from the hustle and bustle few secular people live their. year for them says he will not be missing his uncle to the n.t. too much. he wanted to come here when he was in brazil so i bought tickets for his family but he now has me around twenty thousand dollars that's almost six hundred thousand rubles but when he did come here he began to look for excuses not to give the money back.

to the n t n a family appeared to be stuck in this five story building. coming in welcome. this is a flat. this is a bedroom. yes it is for the girls. one of them is older than the other. you know and now. they're not and this is our bedroom. we sleep there and two little girls sleep here. the two boys are in another flat.

we've packed up to go to the kaluga region but we still can't bring ourselves to leave this place. the phone. and says our kitchen and my wife she's cooking. our community scolded us for sending them to school for a whole year. if we kept on living with them and we have gone on suffering long. as you heard by what only on has done. to tourists away from our cosy nest and abandoned. i can't bear it. if it were to enter has seven or eight children but they'll do fine and they'll find work and a place to live with but all believers don't lead

a normal life outside their community if a family breaks away and secular ways after a time i mean they'll no longer live in a way that befits all believers. only two options are open to truly empty either he comes to terms with the community and pays his debt or waits for permission to go to rushes west. if this is my son. who young that meets his son he a friend who has arrived by ferry boat the river separates the village of death from the rest of the worlds. your friend has brought all kinds of things in his truck but the boat is too small the settlers will have to shuttle

between the banks fifteen times in order to get the cargo back to their village. they would like the authorities to organize a better ferry service but the problem is that there are only two villages on the far bank right it's the price that people have to pay if they want to live far away from civilization. well the future science technology innovation all the news developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. to fiddle with if it were all the way to the killian's and the merits of. it came all the way from europe why and bolivia. now there are more than fifty such people in. their lives. and build houses. alexander bloating was a one time head of the administration of one of the nearby villages now that he is retired he takes fishermen on guided tours of local forests and reverse he maintains good relations with the new russians living in neighboring villages. if i visit them often right now i'm bringing a doctor to them. a

doctor has arrived in there sue all believers take an ambivalent view of medicine if medics come to them then it's fine but if they go to a doctor themselves it's problematic. most diseases are treated with traditional methods like medicinal herbs that he was a source of so we use a medical hearse drink tea with them dry helps to winter as well as roots wasn't because there are a lot of good herb's in there so. the old believers do however allow some exceptions medication is allowed for severe pain while women go to hospital to give birth however there has been instances of expectant mothers escaping from hospital just before they were due to deliver but in general all believers have few health concerns. threatening examine their skin is clean how are your legs. other horses who say god let's listen to your heart.

there is nothing to worry about new it's not scary. our children are not us health is theirs they are healthy from life in such an environmentally purer place. the old believers settled in the village of after their arrival in russia but it felt too close to modern civilization. managed to find an uninhabited village in the country's far east rolling hills and a river separate the village of soon from the rest of the world. is the community's a spiritual leader he is seventy two years old or can talk about his family for hours on end. i have three daughters and one son in russia one daughter lives in australia another daughter and two sons are in europe way yet another daughter is

in argentina i think i have fifty three grandchildren and twenty five great grandchildren i don't know the exact figure. a reform of liturgical practices in the seventeenth century triggered a schism within the russian orthodox church the old believers are so called because they never accepted the new rules were shippers were subjected to continuous persecution by church officials and authorities for three centuries throughout those years old believers had to either hide or flee the country today there is no war hostility but they still want to live in accordance with their own rules. are going to believe us don't accept fists from lay people because they've been gussets. they clean the whole fish themselves their plates and dishes.

differ from those used by lay people to. clean even their naive need to be clean of . their communities and worst fear is the prospect of mingling with modern day civilization the old believers are not supposed to live eat or pray together with the lay people for example they can't buy meat sausages milk or bread from the shops whatever food is needed they make them selfs. the word it's used is the main ingredient of bread made in accordance with russian traditions. you add water and salt and mix the stuff with flour. that takes half an hour my goodness the bullshits at the then you leave the mixture to sour for about five hours. after that you bake it in a russian stove. which. when we always do it this

way. garfield is teaching the girls the art of making bread she came to dinner sue from ottawa in two thousand and eight although she is thirty eight years old she already has six grandchildren which will give. her that i don't know exactly the secret of the russian stove but i do know that the bread baked in it tastes good we had a russian stove spec in europe why are you having a russian stove in the household was considered a must. feel younger daughters living together with her but her sons are still in order why they keep a close eye on the life of all the believers in russia to decide whether they want to come here. just cos you know. it's very beautiful here. we decided to stay and are not planning on moving anywhere.

when we came here an old woman by the name of all yama lived in this house she was an old believer. after she died one and a half years ago when moved into her house. and were happy to live here ok now it's time to place the day when the stove the village of received a new lease of life with the arrival of all the believers in the morning they go to church to pray. after that it's time to get down to work children are given an early introduction to adult life. to begin with when the boys are allowed to handle the simplest of jobs. married women here are obliged to cover their head. split from her husband while she wears a scarf and on the last there has been no formal divorce so that the people i mean

it's not ready yet it has to be baked for another fifteen minutes or so. when was. still going was just sort of my husband is about forty three years old now so little one is what was normal for us until once he went to brazil where he shaved off his beard a little. he said he had lost it because of stress. truly he was going crazy with the approach of old age but he had feeling towards the community he found everything about it and real grind. on his like to be empty from got a for. getting. old believer couples have difficulty getting divorced as a rule their wedlock is not officially registered all believers don't think that official papers apply to them they can be divorced but only in the country where they got

married. it takes forty minutes for to bake and a russian stove that's the way we did it in brazil and europe. this tradition is held up by recipe handed down from generation to generation i just i can't even remember how i learned the scale but that's how bread was made all over russia in the old days. the girls are doing in broidery not all of the patterns are traditional given that they spend most of their young lives in latin america some of the patterns that reflect on why in the motifs however most of them are based on russian folklore. but because these black tropical birds call to cancel even brazil. watching them fly is a sheer delight i mean they're very beautiful beaks to the trouble those dead they play dirty tricks by stealing people's fruit. but some traces of their

previous life in latin america can be found in the households of the old believers this colombian machete is made a very good steal you can see a dove pictured on it others bear pictures of monkeys such for cities are no good at all. machete is the weapon of south american tribes they have no gums a native picks up a machete. is that here and off he goes. on you know what i call the machete especially came in handy when they were being deprived of their land they used in a very effective way and spaghetti and rolling as they locked them off their machetes intakes of chickens head off and one girl. clothing sends a readily identifiable social signal to community members. they instantly know

who's who the person is from their midst or an outsider. the length of their dresses trousers and shirt sleeves is strictly regimented they should cover most of the body facial hair is another sensitive point no old believer is supposed to be beardless old believers consider that any deviation from canon is indicative of spiritual weakness they maintain that anyone's appearance should conform to god's instructions. or fresh milk so warm try it. in actual fact however this rule doesn't cover those who are not members of the community alexander has allowed a family of young old believers to live in one of his two small houses in exchange for organic food. with you one sundays the old believe a stay at home. anything even go fishing in the river because they don't want to

kill fish or any other living creatures. congratulations to everyone i wish you all good health and the spirit of god. in spite of various restrictions festive occasions and noisy merry making among the community is not affected hall is not frowned upon on such occasions but only if it's homemade and. i'm. sure you're already drinking but it's not very strong it's only been brewing for two weeks. there over her. drink with us it's a holiday. as the villagers move from house to house the celebrations go until dusk but you know that why. oh you know he's my son in law. and she's my daughter. three children

two sons and one daughter all three were born in russia she is a russian woman she's not a woman she's a girl should be a woman one day. happy reunions as well as splits occur in the communities of old believers. some twenty years ago my mother fell in love with an argentinean needless to say no one in the community like that my mother and my father then decided to leave that was a terrible sin they spent the whole in here outside the community my mother taught russian to my father and eventually converted him to our faith. that shows it was all from her since my father's name was mario said bottle now he's called moses. the old believers know that they don't keep up with the times but that's the only

way for them to preserve their way of life yet despite their conservative views they are in fact committed to freedom of choice. anyone is allowed to leave the community to join secular society and anyone can rejoin the community these people have voluntarily undertaken to live by their own rules. believe or don't express disapproval of worldly life but they sincerely feel sorry for all those who don't follow their lifestyle. settlers who came from bolivia in latin america we used to live there but decided to come back to russia traditional homeland. kindly asking the russian federation to help us to put down roots here by building homes and if at all possible we like to pass on

a message to the president of the russian federation himself.