long ought to know it will begin. more like it is on the mainland in the middle of the night. it's just black sky and stars. the locals say there are three not four seasons here day night and snowmobile season. the indigenous people on the island because of the harsh environment but a very small few have chosen to live here. yes. just. be careful.

in mid november the arctic night descends on the archipelago. to great at the norwegian town of longyearbyen is a special ceremony. for many years ago was declared terra nullus old then belong to nobody it wasn't until nine hundred twenty that the islands became norwegian territory but even today they enjoy a unique status. any country that signs the spitzbergen treaty can freely in commercial activity here no visa or is needed to visit the island and there are no customs or border posts anyone on the planet can come and settle. this just one condition they must be self-sufficient. this. place is so special because. little people came here and they really didn't know we

had or really are because i think ok and already are closer to north korea. and other people go out and have a front you know and scooters and everything about. time to time have been saying surpassed. this era it could be very bad. if you're. about to sell some five hundred people live on the island but knowing the number of beds is more of a challenge there are at least three fields and certainly more than their own people. you know. i don't like the life oh i'm just here to be. well it's a very right i'm sure. everyone. here

have you ever come to over. hiring a rifle here is as easy as hiring a scooter but if a bear gets shot the investigation into whether it was really killed in self defense is a sorrow as it would be from the. bill and it is indeed an unusual place shops provide special lockers where customers can store their guns while shopping and while deer amble freely in the streets. there is a distinct russian spirit in this small norwegian telling only two countries currently maintain a presence on the island russia and norway. this is the reason why i go back and i hear that are. going to proactively because they have the russian. yeah the lenin statue these people took an interest in the russian language for

a reason they often visit the town of balanced budget for decades the neighboring towns have shared visits for sporting events. we may be different in many aspects but i'm sure everyone's happy to have a neighbor pool you see there are no other neighbors around here. and we've had a lot of enjoyable meetings in baron's berg. you're leaving for work yes you have a regular working day of course not it's a holiday today a holiday or no holidays and the mind two years ago came to spitzbergen alone to see how it would work out. many people can't bear being separated from their

relatives. is not everyone manages to move their families here. you could not everyone can cope with the atmosphere in this arctic night. he left his wife and three children at home. we didn't feel anything for the first six months. then mum started missing dad. and so did we. well he wasn't there we could only talk on skype he had to call me every day as soon as he was home from work. knowing that he was safely back from the mine was the most important thing for me. two months ago the duble family at last moved to barrett's burg. and i'd like to spend at least ten years here and i want to settle properly and save enough money to buy flats for my kids. i do your homework yet a bit. i

haven't seen you for ages so does it feel better having a family with you or do you need to ask you must feel more like a real man yes. in the past barons but was always a male domain not a place for women with children. men still account for the majority of the population. there are no old or socially disadvantaged people here. every inhabitant of the island has to be young and healthy enough to be able to work because. my grandfather worked here and nine hundred fifty six he spent two years on this island and dad always dreamed of going where his own father had worked that issue as he came in two thousand and eight with my mom and

in two thousand and nine my wife and i came here to you know i think that i'm the head of the tourist agency and the hotel administrator that's part of my job description of. some of them was just although it's my wife's job to deal with the mail that rests on my shoulders too. difficult so why not during tourist season i also work as a guide. you know and when we have excursions i work in the souvenir shop in the morning i teach english at the local school which is why i'm not in the office. there's only one employer in. cold is a russian company everything in the village shops and canteen old belong to the. people can only get tibetans but once every two months. both cooks they decide to change after

a wedding anniversary stephanie has brought her two children to be with her husband . that's come alone. her husband that's a first. about a year ago another woman came on her own she left pretty soon though. she was an accountant. usually it's the other way around. well after their husbands men try to find jobs for their wives on the island mist

of the season new arrivals gather beside the personal department. stephanie brings her children with her. there's no one else to babysit because everyone is at work. arctic also owns a productive mine the parents. everyone has to attend a briefing when they first get here. there is going to work at a sauna. she'll start as soon as her children are going to kindergarten but first they have to get used to their new home. movies and pretty good study whimpering and i decided to leave so we wouldn't disturb anyone. it's always dark outside so i'm constantly sleepy and my eyes hurt but i'll get used to it. but other people cope somehow so will i will wait for the light i

hope will settle here well like the place. i think. now the main thing is for the kids to adapt to the climate and be healthy. the first contract is usually for six months a second for two years on average people have spent four to five years in balance back but there seems to be changing workers or nell spending longer periods of time here renting furnished apartments and so the arctic cold trust is renovating many of the houses and was there a t.v. set here so there it's so nice just great. to see everyone like this place it's nice and tidy. new residents meet up at the home supply store everyone has a long shopping list. because the best small pan but.

i think our first two paychecks will be spent entirely on the household number one two and the third one as well there's no cash on balance budget in two thousand and eleven there was an attempt to introduce a local currency called the bone but norwegians were unhappy about the idea of bank notes. and soil with the russian federation printed on them. it's rumored that to avoid conflict the government's decided not to use any money at all and no more bank cards to work here either the shops only accept a special internal card which is given to all up to coles employees everyone sets their own credit limit and the balance is a ventilated ducted from salaries. it's easy squire laying money away because there is nothing to spend it on no rest trends or discos i am sure that if we do you

manage to leave here for some time it will be closer to each other this just goes to show that my uncle told me about people living there has been so why is four other men and women. it must be an island of temptation here. if you leave the. economic ups and downs in the find out all day long the deal shanghai and the rest of life during the case you will be if briefly on me. much of your advice is centered around the negative aspects of american culture

example mindful eating social inning avoiding of snacks how much of an influence do you think this american culture has on the rest of the wall incredible. succeeded two things with. the will dismiss. the food they did all the countries worldwide. government system is to help poor people poor women but they're going to live to choose their life and nobody's trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out of them misusing. tongue the whole thing into long shot can do that shit and we're all poor stool sharks.

of the country for the gene olympics was this really slowing down the line it is just so special as the russian resort prepares to logan the world power the game should be in the city's present and future love more sochi will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous tough yet. beyond the olympics but come on once a. day on our team. go to kindergarten my daughter asks me does number it's still done quilly going to school it will always be dark now i tell her the sun is going to sleep she says i want to go home i don't want to live by the sea she thought it would be warm and

sunny. through n l four hundred and thirty people in bennett's book including a hundred and thirty women and fifty five children no one is ever born on the island it's against the rules that pregnant women must return to the mainland. spitzbergen children never catch colds the virus come survive here. it's only the newly arrived to bring infections to the island. that's why children are always quarantined for their first ten days when they can't go to school or can to go out and. sometimes though children just can't adjust to the climate. their parents either have to send them away or leave the island for good. it's too cold to go outside so the kids wrap up to play in an unheated hole where they can exercise without being exposed to the elements even though the temperature is almost the

same as outside the kids are protected from the biting optic wind. ok. ok well. thank. you again heavy i know i'm not. the only. his brother is in the first year but all the students sit together in one classroom irrespective of age. the teacher gives each student individual

assignments and then checks them separately. after classes the children stay in school there's nowhere else to go and the teachers always try hard to find new ways to entertain them. you know. it was useless i realised why running small difficulty here is what the ad pressure on the island is higher than on the mainland and it's not difficult to brief. you the worst of them all but you sometimes i ask myself if a normal life would make it easier for him in the future when. i still don't really know. i'm not sure if we've made the right choice.

although the spitsbergen coal reserves are being depleted to continue mining is a matter of principle a presence on the occupy logo is a political imperative for both russia and norway. the mind works around the clock so the adults work in shifts they often leave as early as six in the morning leaving to wake the younger kids. but also when the alarm clock goes off. i wake marine or in the silly they want to stay in bed. with us still duck where we go and they ask. brush marina's teeth i mean obviously disease own. style you can i put the kettle on and dress them. over for when i grow up i'll move to the mainland and go to university. all.

i want to be an interpreter. to make good money. but it's always good to know a foreign language. the most important event in autumn is the and he will sports competition. people from the norwegian to. visit the russian to attend. it's a tradition that dates back many years some say it began as early as the nine hundred thirty s. when both norway and the then soviet union was still new to the occupy l.a. go. the norwegians told their neighbors their traditional game called. we never even seen a stick before when we started playing we didn't know the rules and we were

constantly asking questions now we've got the hang of it how one wants. about this team. but i think we're on equal ground we're good at volleyball and always win a basketball we're about even in football and as for chess we've got a new player who will bring us victory. all the competitions are held simple to flee. winning is a matter of both countries especially when it comes to football and bundy. only twice in the competition's history as the better to be from the norwegians at

the national game. the second time was last year but fortune wasn't to smile on them this time. the football had the fans on the edge of their seats with the team's neck and neck. as. the russians proved victorious. i lost two games. and i played with and walnuts as well. there's my boy. did you know the done he did clever boy. surprisingly the basketball game is the most dramatic. the norwegians are less than happy with the referee and one spectator is quite indignant. i wonder how much.

do we need a ref at all no referee you can do without a ras while you are afraid let him do it while you do it but him referee give him a whistle. go over there. there'll be two of you go on. to referees take to the court. the people of spitzbergen do know how to compromise. there are more than forty different ethnicities living together on the island. northern life dumond's tolerance and cooperation if it's to be survived. thank you . right.

the sporting event is one of the very few opportunities people have to socialize and meet up especially during the long arctic night. you work here. and you just visit. working often. just so mike ok in table time in our football well ok. good it was good but you got one. making ambitious plans to develop its own tourist industry. the abandoned mining town. will be home to the new russian tourists and. and there are no people there so it's kind of like a ghost town there was one guy named toby. he tried to go for

a hike so. it took him by two weeks and he had had to get. picked up by a fisherman because you have no more food left so i think you should only do it if you have a yeah. but it can only be reached in daylight and the devil is already of. the for when the poland ends and the snowmobile season begins the archipelagos russians will be teeming with people her. tourists used to stay like watching us locals picking up the kids from school the guide probably tells them where the natives used every room that is we have to say hi and smile when we go to work or come home shopping or just walk and

they're gone yet it's ok we stay right back. but that won't happen until the poland and the northern sun has risen again. people only venture away from the settlement for emergencies perhaps to repair vital and hard to reach equipment no one leaves the village without a very good reason. that usually people only leave the village to admired the beauty of spitzbergen oil and like watching the sea at night for nothing. there's absolutely nothing to see. during the long pole a night the residents tend to live ordinary workaday lives in new arrivals are given time to get their bearings but today is oldest first day at work.

i was anxious. to do everything on time. but i managed to find the husband and he starts work tomorrow he's here nell to support his wife we're going to spend at least two years here but we'll have to see how it goes to here is a long time maybe six months will do it. before starting to work independently and i will shadow a colleague for a few days. i have a boyfriend. but i'm not sure she'll come here. stephanie children couldn't start at kindergarten because one of them has a cold only time will tell if he can cope with the climate i was. playing marina behave. let you know i don't like it and tomorrow you go to

kindergarten no yes. and let's proceed see if you. just. that the weather is awful look how strong the wind is and it's so dark. and it will stay. until the next day begins. on their way to antarctica the crew of the i can to make sure the roof face many

challenges. here you have to look out for yourself crashing on to rocks trapped in pack ice in extreme conditions anything can happen and article always comes up with surprises you have to keep your eyes open because if there's always something going wrong the ship carries huge reserves of water food fuel as well as helicopters and people able to survive extreme conditions they're ready for anything even an apocalypse she's really an incredible ship calling all antarctica stations this is academic a field that of radio check please respond. he survived war atrocities. to make a final decision. has changed his life and the world

around him. by giving up. hope. and love to so many children. nikolai the miracle worker on the team. if you. know opportunity. to construct your a. bit. don't want to meet gangstas you don't want to be. they don't want to blow with the time the kid came be we can see. you just means a zero zero zero zero zero zero problems in the hood. but it felt like. i said. i don't want to die i just really do

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