the university where anton and anatoly study in accordance with the same traditions of centuries past. goal through studying is to achieve enlightenment thereby a scaping the will of existence and to reach nirvana. even though the republican is part of russia it is. different from those typical of the western parts of russia when it comes to religion the difference is striking. are almost aliens here whether or no more than ten people like them. twenty four year old came here from the caucasus. can be found there christianity. was not a religious person initially he studied music for years playing the drums and once he graduated from a faculty of an atoll he came here just to look at the miracle of. i wondered what the meaning of. this question had come so i traced the chain which. the family. used. to me i thought that. i wanted something. they have. this is a lesson in the language it's the most difficult of the studied languages it's all but extinct. to read ancient but is texts. on the floor because they're not supposed to be at the same height as the teacher. subordination is as

twenty four year old anatoly came here from the caucasus ism can be found them only christianity and islam anatoli was not a religious person initially he studied music for eight years playing the drums and once he graduated from a faculty of an atoll he came here just to look at the miracle of sun. i wondered what the meaning of was. the time to find the answer to this question had come so i traced the change which a person is born then he grows up at sardi's gets a job sells the family car and a house just grows old and. new stuff and. it's all seemed somewhat pointless to me i thought that's not quite what i want and i wanted something more. students start their day at six thirty in the morning with prayers followed by breakfast once fair they have classes just like an ordinary university then comes lunch free time supper and afterwards they resume studies. this is a lesson in the old mongolian language it's the most difficult of the studied languages but it's all but extinct however one needs to learn old mongolian to read ancient but is text students sit on the floor because the

anatoly and so on are in their fourth year at the buddhist university of of against good at sun they are halfway through their course. after years of intense study both will receive a degree in philosophy and the title. it's. the phrase russian buddhism may sound strange but it has been one of the traditional religions of the country since the eighteenth century. here dad sounds of being considered a funds of wisdom in days gone by. studied buddhist philosophy medicine and astrology. the university where anton and a totally study. of the same traditions of centuries passed. through studying is to achieve enlightenment. existence and to reach nirvana. even though the republican is part of russia it is a world of its own local traditions different from those typical of the western parts of russia when it comes to religion the difference is striking and. are almost aliens here whether or no more than ten people like them. twenty four year old anatoly came here from the caucasus ism can be found there only christianity and islam anatoli was not a religious person initially he studied mus

but painter anatoly settle here at that time he made his home in an old factory office in two thousand and six and italy experienced the horror of a typhoon. it was in october two thousand and six the waves went up as far as those hills the herd you know everything was washed away five tons slabs were floating around. that gate was gone. a car left here but my neighbor. was overturned the wind build a large stone into a barn with but. all of my paintings felt kind of. strange as it may seem high hopes of. an atoll he prefers a reclusive lifestyle. he only visits the nearby village of use a few times a year the artist considers the corals an ideal place for his creative work nothing here distracts him in fact anatoly spends little time in the workshop rather he likes to work on the seashore he paints at any time of year come rain or snow this will figure out the emperor's bath tub is some thirty metres away they say japan's emperor used to be brought here in ninety. three. bought up a bit hollowed out of the room when the tide comes in and it's filled with water when it goes out it gets

anatoly prefers a reclusive lifestyle. he only visits the nearby village of used a few times a year the artist considers the corals an ideal place for his creative work nothing here distracts him in fact and it only spends little time in the workshop rather he likes to work on the seashore he paints at any time of year come rain or snow this will figure out the emperor's bath tub is some thirty metres away they say japan's emperor used to be brought here in ninety. three. bought up a bit hollowed out in a room where the tide comes in it's filled with water when it goes out it gets warm . back in the eighteenth century russian explorers built a chapel on the corals later the japanese tore it down. it was only in the one nine hundred ninety s. that the orthodox church was restored here the children among the current congregation were born on the currents. the baby boom is the first significant increase in the population of the corals. in twenty years the reason is simple the fate of the could was up in the air after the sovi

ago and italy saw the miracle with his own eyes he became interested in buddhism and stayed here anatoly worked in the house for six months job was hot but his desire to study buddhism was stronger. imagine having the gift of clairvoyance. that means you can remember all your past lives. supernatural powers so it was six months later and italy into the university together with sixty other students but after four years only twenty of them were left student life here is not unlike an extreme survival course especially for those who used to live in the city they have to build their own homes there's no central heating only a wood burning furnace plumbing is nonexistent the interior is closer to that of a field barracks. those immersed in their studies do not notice such trivial things there is known as overcoming the designs of regular life. i have not overcome anything yet. for example it's very unhealthy to eat before going to bed but i still want to eat something in the evening. i also wrestle with a craving to sleep it is my favorite attachment. for example were given to better than sex

fair alloa factory and now it's the only electric source for two nearby villages and chief engineer anatoly is the man in charge. it's like a knowledgeable shop until he's worked here for the best part of twenty years and now manages the power station on his own but the equipment spend far longer than him. but not by the same system. and if he needs to crank up the juice he just turns the real. power according to how much electricity they need to generate this control. but. most of them although i did lost the will to. get. some of the pavement this reliable in place there's no reason it couldn't last. mind boggling to think of b. amount of water the flow down that it runs at almost four tons per second it's been doing it for over a century and still no signs of slowing. it was almost time for me to leave the region but before i went i thought i deserved a trip to one of the area's lakes on resorts and now it was time for me to get. in the middle of the water but to get but i needed to make a quick change. we're almost in the right place here but supposedly the most interesting thing about

fair alloa factory and now it's the only electric source for two nearby villages and chief engineer anatoly is the man in charge. looks like a knowledgeable shop until he's worked here for the best part of twenty years and now manages the power station on his. but the equipment spend far longer than him. but going ninety nine the same system the way. and if he needs to crank up the juice he just turns the wheel. circling damage electricity they need to generate this control be about a walk to the place. and i will see them all that i did the boss that will most likely get. some of the committment this reliable in place there's no reason it couldn't last a member. mind boggling to think of the amount of water that's flowed down that it runs at almost four tons per second it's been doing it for over a century and still no signs of slowing. it was almost time for me to leave the to have been some region but before i went i thought i deserved a trip to one of the area's lakeside resorts and now it was time for me to get on the water. we were heading out to a rocky island in the middle of the wa

example turkey turkey anatolia ethnically cleansed it's christians there were about sixty of all of anatoly was christian turkey in some ways is able to devolve towards democracy today because of that ethnic cleansing that's the danger the jewish state israel jews from out throughout the middle east were ethnically cleansed and they beat up the palestinians in order to grab a hunk of territory so they've been successful but it's been a great price now syria in some ways is still a no is arc it's got to have everything it's this multi-ethnic multi confessional society that hasn't figured out how to get along so the dangers of real revenge possible ethnic cleansing are there and you can't divide it like yugoslavia into separate states an alawite state a druze state a kurdish state an arab state it's too small it's too mixed up so this is where the challenge for the international community comes is how to save lives and not to allow that kind of revenge killing to take if i go back to assemble i mean a lot there go ahead brian but i was going i was going to say the longer this civil war goes o

and he turned to him and he said, anatoli, even you have no idea how far i'm willing to go. and it was about democracy. so in my book, i formulate it like this. in the context of russian history, gorbachev had a tremendous will to reform unlike any leader, i think, ever who had come to power in russian history, a will to reform the system. yeltsin -- and we might admire this because in many ways he was admirable. and i think he believed he was a democrat. yeltsin had a tremendous will to power. everybody noticed this when he appeared on the scene. but here's the thing. they appeared on the historical scene at exactly the same moment. and in that sense, the conflict was inevitable. so had they appeared at different moments in russian history, the outcome may have been different. in that sense, leadership really, really matters. i don't consider that a love poem to gorbachev but perhaps the most astute analysis of leadership politics the literature today. i did say, however, perhaps. >> let's stay with the word "love." and i'm going to get back to my question about the wives,