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welcome to well, the part here has journey. one of the most recurrent mythological themes in human history invariably brings the protagonist back to where the old began cooling time and time again, that what had been searched for was already inside. this archetype of pattern now manifests itself in the steep rise in russia's domestic travel, as russians faced with visit restrictions in the west let to explore the reaches of their own country as every journey indeed lead home. well, to discuss that, i am now joined by bugs on bullets, a popular trouble blogger and russia, self appointed ambassador for the arctic and the far right. and add the study done

. it's great to have you with us today. yeah, i'm gladly did alice parts crossed had the eastern economic forum here. this is in previous years longer in the for was attended by man international. get an example, ms. francine my niece. yeah, not so many me. that was given the number of rations in the are traveling abroad is also brent lang. on part of the other hand, domestic travel seems to be at the rise. now in russia, machine 3 and many a touring the country, even though can you think it's because they have no choice, or is there really a lot of interesting things to see in russia shutter, none of principal shampoo my gall, bruce thought i believe it's what they call a silver lining will across to solomon, but i think it was difficult for people to view russia. that is a place to explore syria, mainly because international destinations clearly had services are much better quality to offer but east and they were easier to get to us was just bay and you're all set below the chair. russia was really behind line in terms of

a tourist infrastructure and quality of service applicants. now that people have started traveling around russia or so i'm really happy to see that for many. and now discovering that there's so much more to it than they thought it was good lake by carl girl is not the only destination here or in the east it up or this for you so much more beyond that, watson, that in fact, crossly, our stress lou which is located near by cow is right in the middle of russia halfway between its western most when you mind eastern mosul, point source cham. so i feel great a, see my subscribers exploring the article, go and the russian far east with their unique echo systems. them, there's a lot to see there to me and what's important, excuse me, it's also a lot cheaper to visit on compared to well established tourist destinations. surely what i'll see also we're developing transportation networks here. so some of the leading russian air carrier runs regular flights from moscow to most destinations and russian far east car city air fair to day school compared to say 5 or 10 years

ago. he's so much more affordable. he is to some way to the us national sale. i said she has a huge family, got little bullet on bed, nestle of nas others near boise, maria, not much waiting deal. you're saying it's about comfort, come forth, santa tiff service san and affordability. is there anything else or is this the recipe for a good trip? wasn't it yet? the bulk generally. well, this is the recipe and yes, killed mcguire. we're talking about tourism. so it naturally tourism means travel, 1st and foremost. so the element of transportation is certainly important, but as that comfort also matters floor natal, whichever exotic destination you may choose to explore or you whether it's skate dazzling of her with a view of alaska, we're just only 4 kilometers, separate russia from america, scope or c k, shallow skin with a polar bears the wall wrangell islands, will skin us. you always want to return to safety and comfort law after

experiencing extreme conditions for parents than you wanted right there. and then so let me give you an example. here we were shooting a documentary recently in chicago camp. i live when i was directing it or we spent a month there in total, mitchell and in that climate tickets we were pa, cold and went all the time. every day. i have no idea how or equipment kept working . it seems like a miracle to me shares and coming back to dry, warm place sir, after a day's work was fantastic. and well, you could take off your wet clothes and take a hot shower, change into something, try and be ready to go out again. but you are a professional traveller, we need as much as you enjoy it. it's also what you do for a living la bushes, and i sure do them. we is that if i understand it correctly, you're trying to visit some of the less popular locations me in my through i don't think that's right. or we try to direct our travelers to new destinations on what language i can give you. a great example of this year, we reached the north. most points are on the continent in the rush,

and far easily corpuscles come with ox. the cheap, it's in the katya when we saw the places incredibly beautiful, like a huge rock on the credit accounts into the arctic ocean. almost like an ice breaker at the sand is the northernmost point in the russian far east of miss steely, we published our reports on both russian and chinese social media. mix it and got millions of views. miliano bras are some chinese tour agencies approached us keep asking to organize a trip for them, so they could seize and assassin her as a potential destination for chinese tourists is what i'm gonna do. so this year we're going there with 7 agency delegation from china. we as well as a t v crew representing china's top tv channel to film it for you, or we have a tour planned out for them. most of us are that will include the box, the keep her name as well as the timer peninsula, to showcase everything including siberia in russian far east and the arctic heels of. so this way we are creating a product both for russian and national tourists. lloyd lane theresa,

what do they seem like i said, i thought share that as a popular belief. he beach in russia, especially as young as that dog and hearing, say, milan, 90, milan, boys a lot cooler and more comfortable until one more accessible. o 11 for then to in moments clear to the point that many ration travelers was the means you should have traveled the world me a little while their own country remains an uncharted territory for them. but with you just mentioned the trash already has places that can offer so much the wallet experience i however, i wonder if russia has something, no other place has what she am, i now would money tougher. no. usually go into a 12 shift so on. well, you know, i say the most unforgettable experience is in meeting people to play. you can find good and bad people everywhere unless hearing about in the north or in the article . they are as authentic as it gets. yeah, we were making a film about an old whale hunter. his ancestors are hunted whales for 7 or 8

generations. we on tom was we were following him everywhere. and what day and day out. and one day when we came to his home of his grandson of around 20 years, opened the door. we said do we came to film his grandfather to which he replied that his grandfather was having a meal. the goddess hunger rate was sad. when can we start margaret? as soon as he has done shock that she said to us down and shut the door, i don't get it knocked for cuz she wasn't trying to offend us. it was just that simple for him. was like what once he is grandma was finished from us. we could do our thing then it was shock. that's how they go about everything in life of simple and sincere good. let's have very rare, qualitative find ish. it almost as much when it comes to natural attractions. we have everything we could wish for, just like one great place i recommend to everyone these days. and i believe it's going to be super popular soon, or stay, or both was domestic and international. tourists are going, he wants to live border restrictions are lifted over. is the southern and northern

curl. islands receivable, equity with this place is mind bending while dash is like quote the finding yourself on the saddle of a jurassic park movie or something like that. you will cross the trills almost like iceland or you low foot in norway or store or some other places, and you realize you can get it all these unique experiences cross the quite all at once. and in one place, sagal here in russia to or las margaritas, i believe i'm not mistaken. it was dusty ascii, who said that russia includes everything in the entire. absolutely, it does. and the chests that i see is parts of russia the far east and the arctic mazama explored by traveling enthusiasts and estates didn't contribute much to that quest valard. it was mostly private initiatives that have always admired how deeply these people cared for the wild life in those parts misused for the local population. correct me if i'm wrong, but as far as i know i, she's can i or the,

and pine, or the soviet union or the russian federation. i ever tried to enforce russian culture and language and indigenous people gotcha brings realization to them. so to say, you know, what have you seen in your travels were way not a gesture, bullet excuse on the keyboard and you, well they to go. there have been some near bullets, call them necessary improvements introduced there on the board like education for example. you much thought someplace as religious missions were established, but it's true that russia has never tried to approved all any local traditions when you lie styles or culture. quine, which today you can visit a small distant settlement, sir, let me give you an example. just give us throw up even because when we visited the numbers, severe sc islands was racially alar cardenas, so we met a crafts woman there. so user who makes deer skin footwear on p the terrible side that craft has been passed down to her through 4 generations of her ancestors than you might sir. e, colonel, great, grandmother. fortunately,

they made the same kind of boots with exactly the same design or polio. russian explorer, lewis, barons from tall and he's all are expedition and you got stopped at the novice abuse islands as these searched for the legendary sandy cough land in the early 20th century. and now i can say that i own a pair of deer skin boots, sort of identical to those that are made for baron font all the sports channels out of hand. well, they're still available. i did see cuz this is a tradition that has been preserved for generations. the key tasks a day that she's to help indigenous people maintain these traditions. got out of shocked by yet. we were making a film about a whale hunter. and those are one in a very long line of whale hunters and any of course and you know, people like me and you, but which we don't have that kind of self identity that he has always thought doing what his ancestors had been doing. been strict since the evans century. yeah. okay

. well please. sure. and she is a wearing modern gear and thriving and modern rhodes altima, but she is a whale hunter. don't like, it wasn't bad, but done support in the traditional lifestyles and the local languages really spoken by small groups of people is pretty expensive for any state. angela can't argue with that. it's much easier to create reservations for them. it was not necessary reservations. you could just have these people, assimilation exists. what i meant when i said reservations to personally yesterday what it is graded and russia. we have stayed support programs for such indigenous peoples and sheer of the forum. i saw a lot of ethnic minorities involved color. there was a house of indigenous people are at the far east street exhibition. know also russia will be presiding over the arctic councils for the next 2 years. and that sir, it will a significant studios. we actually ran a number of expeditions since the portal to programs like these can wasn't

a deal. and now is it all done for promotion? so we could have an exhibition of local traditions central. why do you think? because that for a big nation with imperial ambitions was manny see here, what's the point of investing in ethnic minorities? let me explain this live up to their political. what would i came to the arctic 10 years ago? what i thought that all people living there are the same. sure. did i call it bottom young at 1st all. that's what i saw or do, but later i realized that was not the case. and you said you had some, even reindeer breeders are all different. the events arrived the reindeer to steer the hurdle scaling all the novel of a police chook, she followed the free roaming, heard back about, and if cyril's needs, if i can give lots of examples, they're all different. if not, all of them are some ethnic groups could have under a 1000 people just like the you cargurus blood, but each has its own remarkable history and culture units. and they are all parts of our each country novel. and when you see these indigenous peoples called because

you realize how great on russia really ease of us with its reach and versatile culture and identity, say this is incredible. o. been down to, we have to take a short break right now, but we will be back in just a few moments sapient. ah, mm. mm hm. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk

ah hey, welcome back to one of the part of smith russian traveler. i'm going down the bullet shop, but i'm mac before the break. we were talking about diversity in russia as yet i see just today the world is engaged in inactive discussion about the world order and different perspectives on life, financial politics. i know the war and ukraine is part of their discussion with a cluster definitely was welling yet her diversity wasn't required them bytes. but, and this really shows in your videos, which they had sick and that was put in your films yet, but did not seem like so are from so to say the evolve dwelt big brothers. a person from a different place is yell who is both true to himself and tries not to change others

source to when your opinion, how can we make the world except it's diversity? no, again, you are jania. i got there at the moment ago, but i shot my seattle and well, it's all relative looters. one man's trash is another man's treasure, blood recon different people can have different opinions, self, one of the same things about so if we need to respect all views and at the same time, so my loud people's right for concrete law, self expression will chest the always i believe that russia is also very good at it . actually hold up those room for improvement. sure. but he general, we don't force anybody to give up. their density outsourced plenty in terms of ethnicity, traditions or religion, or when it illegal people enjoy these freedoms and russia. on less that on the and i think that's great. okay, so when there is kaluan said in an interview, that's if you had a chance to choose, he'll join senior expeditions. it's be has of the arctic state's work gap. i'm

crashed at. what did they learn to emulate? unknown she had for a long the lab she weeks. not so much about learning. look, a communion mold would be good for them to see how people leaves inside the arctic circle because it changes you when you see people who don't have any social crutches to lean on, isn't it when you can your thought that if a person owns a snowmobile here quitting, it's not for having fun or with your friends, surgery the weekends suddenly coordinate papoulias. i at the at the hospital they use it to get food with water and other supplies to draw. it's their lifeline. it the reason? yes, liam will quit the what if people have no need for a social tool or a gadget? nice. they don't usable fortune in sales people there. don't get distracted by all the social barzon noise doesn't show all that information suggested to us like numb with all the ads coastal urging us to buy the newest smartphone mode or something for on those la let in here. sure. so people often pursued these kind of things,

goodness of them, but not there. you can sit in the family, no themes. and the satellite was, this comes down. she exits an existential question that we all can relate to. what is life and what is the meaning of it? what is freedom less true? now? sure, softly how your travels influenced your wealthier to think actor you feel change to say? well, i certainly do of what is lifestyle and what is life on for lifestyle is something you grow up. well, we do, i remember watching a cartoon about whom curl the little polar bear with me as a kid. and that's how i started to like polar bears and the arctic, certainly later. and there were this fascinating documentary is from the shockey stows expeditions. all start one. she was the man who discovered an entire new world. albert, i'm, it is, and he wasn't just observing it. she was sharing his findings with all of us here, letting us see what he saw with his own eyes. cla, jamica thought about, that's what i grew up with her. and it became part of my personality and the same as happening to the people in kentucky, including my subscribers and viewers who traveled to the arctic. miss schubert,

you see something there, discover new mean was and a, just your bath in this world with a new coordinates tomorrow. they also are to understand the worlds or, or at least her, our vast country, high jobs. you really need to see it, or think of all the regions as or pieces of a puzzle that the cook that you visit with 5 regions. you on the horse and you get 5 meters to bit balls. you put them together and see a part of that picture, marcia got you are to look for example, these pieces form and i knew that, but you don't see the full picture yet. you're telling you give you some knowledge from the media she has, but that's other people's opinions, not sharon, when we wrote out so you can develop your own view only based on your own experiences. that's how it works. i'm in the, in the beginning, as i mentioned, the hero spark was going in initiation into manhood. makeema, which is the staff of men of folk tales and myths in many cultures. and in maine, it's about the path of the human sales, both individual and collective that they,

that starts off with, i assess thought to searching for something important to set a world to my. she then finds it inside one's self tell. now when it says you either find it inside you or somewhere really close our porch, borger says sacred johnny bell to one's self. it's my seat. it john, have spirit chill grows. but i think your washer, but you have you ever had some revelations or what you felt like a miracle? anger journeys that he couldn't explain from a materialistic viewpoint. as, as i know, i've had some insights into the simple truth year that there's nothing more important than family, for example, no delivery to devote most your time to your loved ones. in the end, every journey is away helms, to put them on her way home. you're right sir. ashton was not happy with one sir. i actually rode all the way to the north pole. wait on my fat bike up, cyril before that sir. i've been seeing people and in nordic countries riding their bikes on the snow that i saw. and i wondered for the one who i took offend bike to

my upcoming expedition to the north bowl. could they so i rode my bike there and as i was riding alone through the arctic ocean, she has missed something changed in me. why me? we all leave with endless background noise her even if you are home. you shear clock sticking appliances, humming song and so on. in the other, in the arctic flushed, i heard endless silence skinny beginning of the only sound i heard you were 1st my heart beat, which sounded like a drum beating and seconds here. but my inner voice square pure, which started asking questions like formula. what are we doing here? we are so i had to explain to myself that saddam's everything was all right, so at least this what took off not and you're equally. i goshen little you and jeff and by the silence, of course, absolutely eliminated mid issue. and now i see that the arctic is not only design boss to clean space or just upper i, they show you what the gold you are. yup. no. it's also an incredible sound chambers of sidney place where you can, which a sheer yourself here the,

the rushing far is in the change. pulling my of la dinner out. seeing if a rush and traveler i knew from the early 20th century martha america was also a prolific writer, but he never had a formal education. from that, his knowledge was impressive. many russian travellers of the mars you come were a self educated as incomplete thing. the age of self education is over or is it on the beginning? you're almost thought, well, i don't think it's so we're and i don't think it'll ever be over. no, you see there are 2 kinds of people who deal with those who think about doing something else losing and those who actually do things in some dealer to do things . he simply act on their ambition. judge dislike. when i 1st said that i wanted to make a film, she'll plex when everyone started saying it's a very complex affair that you needed team budget and all that. yeah, the sled, 7 days after i said it was, i was already filming. and she caught her with a crew that was in the world, i just went for, it was deal to. so i have the idea in the evening,

which i woke up the next morning or an apple and i did it 9 o'clock please. what can russian people do to be more like that in their prices that it seems like it's part of our character that term dog year old boy, apple living of does take us a long time to get started here. not until the end were always tempted to rely on others the much there. when you have that someone else is going to do your work as la masters, then your fun factor of the liability you mentioned could do a great service to our people. doughty is a grown lee, or we could come to realize what they're capable of, not pay them, but i'm sure you can agree that we have immense potential are not except ourselves for who we are. while originally nicotine him are, those will yield almost position wife. think it depends on how you were raised as a when you, when you abrazzo. i nika, told him a pretty quickly education is also important line and i'm not talking about academic education, learning math and so on. formally the lithograph color. sure. when you learn culture, when you learn values, as you develop,

the desire to keep going forward to the idea to develop further him. what so? so it's essentially about having a pension for developing mitchell and eagerness to learn lunch leticia. can you have that without traveling around your country hosted? i think so just it's just the traveling is one of the simplest ways to learn new things or so if you want to learn something, you don't always have to run an expedition with a huge team and rides on the to the north pole and a fed bike break, unless you can start by getting your car or even hoping on your bike and exploring the neighborhood that you'll discover lots of things go on. i'm sure that most people haven't even been to some of the areas next to their homes in after that you can go further and eventually come here to the russian far east. for example, 6 people usually constrain themselves to a number of routes when i think you're talking about coming back from the virtual world to real life and separate the can. we can only know the world if you data

step into uncharted territory. don't buy any more bills long. sure. no, i thought you must always start by doing that soccer. good. it's to been, then you just look and see where it takes you are. there are many rows to take a distal on me as a thought boss. linear one last question now has on all time magazine forecast mass integration, if did she, within the next 50 years, has been seen yet. but quite a foresee hired the serious climate change in you can say good of bands that severely and the arctic hold of the 2 places where people can hide from the spreading heat and humidity ah cap on that question. what do you think about this whole cast of media? is the arctic prepared to house millions of displaced people? it is to gossip when it comes to global warming. the yes, the problem does exist to way gleiss or glaciers are melting with my own eyes. when i saw a place i had seen 10 years before and it looks completely different, concur that the ice level has changed visibly. and silverware cutting one place where you can see that it is the arctic part of your katya. we knew,

days menial. so all the islands there such as the new paul new siberian island. so but he consists of a cheaper well deserved. yeah. dirt mixed with icy of throw on the a cbs. i don't know how it came to be, but it's essentially a mixture of dirt. the course and eyes postal. so what's happening with these islands? is that this dirt or just the lag and heaps melting away in the sun as sol. so when we approach the shore ourselves, throw out the breeze. our gps tracker sat there too. we had reached the same point we deal if where we had got off for the last time and all that there was no land there. right? yes, we had another 150 meters to go to visit the islands in last 150 meters of land in just 5 years. yeah, now it's simply melted into the ocean. the update. this means that the water level rose accordingly or caught the greenhouse effect, grew stronger, and all kinds of other consequences are taking place in or could keep. and that's

just one place. or we can imagine what's happening to the planet on the global scale. shoppable changes are underway in the arctic. sure is a big place, sir, which has a greater digit potential for our country alone. it gets good that we have now started developing the arctic and the far east, or the key to you can't have such vast territories without suiting them to good use . he took the course, but we have what i think is a good symbiotic relationship with the indigenous populations of somebody where many companies here are come to develop resources that come but give back to the locals by building infrastructure it allow 5 or 10 years ago. our people would live or in a lonely place, lost in the snow, with one lamp posts lighting the road to port by sand. now they have more than houses with internet access. cafes and 80 m machines thumb was as governor, la roman abramivitch will come carried out a really impressive renovation campaign in chicago camp. what carol might take,

whelan, which is the easternmost settlement in eurasia villa, a place with a view of alaska. if you go that off or you will see rows of need scandinavian style houses in different colors, but i will see the end of one old, lopsided house between them that looks really run down to scan during our visit clean. we asked her if there was someone who could to give us advice on the route we had planned or that will it? um and the locals directed us, sir, to the local hunter who actually lived in that house when you are already pre. we asked him what the, why wasn't your house rebuilt? like all the others little and he said, you know, when the government decided to bill display slash half of the people wanted to keep their old homes itin. yeah. so the government, we found ways to lou them out of town. i mean it's sending them to helpful is old. so and what do you start? and while the people were out of town, state, rebuild their houses. but the hunter refused to go anywhere. why, what? i'm a hunter. after all, he said that the door is little,

so she's house remained as it was, and now she says he likes my house is a monument to how unreasonable and ignorant i was. feel it when she saw the comfort so that the new houses offered. she realized that he should have allowed his home to be rebuilt to august when the new houses are really comfortable. while back down we have to live here, but i really appreciate your time today and wish you all the best sold the locked into your future trial of this year. thank you for watching hope to hear again on walter part. ah ah,

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