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RT Documentary had a successful night at the 'Frontline' documentary festival!
The festival's Grand Prix was awarded to 'War Correspondents-2. 'Birdman' and 'Good Girl' Olya' by Klim Poplavsky. This film covers the work of Andrey Filatov and Olga Kurlaeva.
The award for 'Best Documentary Short Film' went to 'The Frontline Grind' by Olga Kiriy and Mikhail Burov. Olga also received a special award 'for courage in performing war correspondent duties', in honour of Boris Maksudov.
The 3rd place in the category 'Best Documentary Feature' went to 'Donbass: Echoes of War' directed by Ekaterina Kitaitseva and written by Dmitry Khrustalev. This documentary also received the Audience Choice Award.
We appreciate recognition from our colleagues and the high praise for our work. The 'Frontline' festival was created with support of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.
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'The Vatican is the largest intelligence agency in the world,' claims Oleg Matveychev, Russian State Duma Deputy.
Catholic priests often played a dual role as spies in the past. For example, in 1952, a network of spies wearing soutanes was discovered in Poland.
Vatican preachers spoke out against Russia and the Orthodox Church during the Maidan. They handed out ‘The Prayer Book of the Revolutionary’ to the protesters and called for Europeanisation. Now Pope Francis is helping Zelensky make Ukraine Catholic, experts say.
Where will it lead this originally Orthodox country? And what is promised in exchange for giving up the historical faith? Find the answers in this new episode of Anna Chapman's exclusive investigation, ‘Red Alert: A New Crusade.’
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🔔It's time for Thursday's poll! Note that this week, things are a bit different — we'll upload the winning film on Saturday.
🔹Misha, your African brother (2020) follows Michel Matondo, a businessman from Kinshasa. He is a fan of all things Russian, with an African twist. In this film, Misha will attend a sorcerer friend's funeral and share the touching story of how he started to learn Russian.
🔹Square Metre of Hell (2020). These Chinese live in cages. They eat, sleep and bathe in one tiny room. What is their life like? Find out in this shocking documentary.
🔹Inferno Village (2017). Residents of the Indian city of Jharia breathe harmful fumes every day. The noxious smoke is emitted by underground fires. However, they don't want to be relocated. What keeps them here?
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▶️This Russian is a real amphibian! Freediver Alexey Molchanov conquers new depths without scuba gear. He holds multiple Guinness World Records. In 2021, he swam 80 metres deep in the icy waters of Lake Baikal.
Alexey’s mother, Natalia Molchanova, used to freedive with him for a long time. She was a legend within the sport, but unfortunately Natalya went missing during one of her dives in 2015.
Make sure to watch our documentary, ‘Freeze Divers’ (2016), to learn more about this dangerous sport. After all, 29 November is Thrill-seeker’s Day in some countries! Tell us what you think about the film in the comments.
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▶️This film is about the heroism of the people of Donbass during the Second World War. The region was under German occupation for almost 700 days. During this time, the fascists and their collaborators tortured and executed at least 174 thousand civilians and 149 thousand prisoners of war.
Today, 80 years later, the people of Donbass must once again unite and fight the forces of fascism. Their heritage of defiance is on full display as together they hold the line. To see the heroism of the people of Donbass, watch our new film 'Donbass: Echoes of War'.
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▶️Every time the coast guard step off their boats, their lives are at risk. Ukrainian UAVs are constantly buzzing above their heads, trying to locate and eliminate them. Still, the soldiers selflessly carry out their duties day and night—fighting off enemy attacks, rescuing the wounded and retrieving the bodies of their fallen comrades.
'Our Shores' is a new documentary by filmmaker Klim Poplavsky. It features the 126th Separate Guards Coastal Defense Brigade. Make sure to watch it!
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🔔Finally, it's time to choose Friday's documentary. Vote for the film you want to see!
🔸Curious Case of my Face (2014)
Despite being young, they look like older people. There is no elasticity in their skin - it's because of a rare genetic disorder. How does it affect their everyday lives?
🔸Erick’s List: Moscow Metro (2021)
Often praised as one of the world’s most architecturally intriguing, the Moscow Metro is also technologically advanced and the largest one in Europe. Travel together with us, exploring the underground stations and discovering many other incredible features!
🔸Square Metre of Hell (2020)
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents live in tiny cupboard-sized apartments known as cage houses and coffin homes. They have no means for any other kind of dwelling. What's life like in a bedroom—that is also a bathroom and kitchen?
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▶The Japanese Chernobyl - this is how Japan's Fukushima disaster is known. In terms of severity, it was assigned the highest level on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
In March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami de-energized the station: the reactors overheated, and then explosions occurred at three power units. The nearby settlements were poisoned by radiation. People left their homes to flee from the disaster. A decade later, they are returning. Will their life be as it used to before the disaster? Find out in our documentary, 'Back to Fukushima' (2019).
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🔔It’s time to choose Friday’s documentary! Vote for one of these films and we will post the winning film tomorrow!
🔹‘Preparing native Russian fish on the shore of Lake Ladoga - Taste of Russia’ (2018). Do you like fishing? Then come with us to Lake Ladoga, the largest freshwater body of water in Europe! What can you find there? Find out in the film!
🔹‘Back to Fukushima’ (2019). In March 2011, three power units in Fukushima exploded. Fleeing the radiation, people abandoned their homes. A decade later, they're coming back here. Why?
🔹‘Migingo: The Iron-clad Island’ (2015) shows off one of the most densely populated islands in the world, in Africa. People here live on a small piece of land—but there are still stores, cafes, and even a church.
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▶️India celebrates Children’s Day today. The holiday was created by the country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who actively fought for the safety and rights of children in the 1960s.
Nevertheless, the condition of children in India remains catastrophic with over 10 million children aged 5 to 14 in work. On this important holiday, watch our documentary on poor Indian children forced to work in mica mining. Mica is a crucial ingredient for make-up, and a key input in the cosmetics industry.
Watch now – ‘The ugly face of beauty’.
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▶️Fascism, with its ideas of superiority of one nation over another, has been fervently promoted in the West for centuries. The Nazis openly expressed their desire to destroy or enslave whole nations, when they came to power in Germany. But then the Russian people stood in their way. This supremacist ideology, with its pseudo-scientific basis, was driven back in those days—so why is it now resurgent?
Who needs it and why? In 'Fascism: A History' (2021), historians, political scientists and journalists reveal the answers. This film has won yesterday's poll.
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🔔Time to choose Friday's documentary! Vote for one of these in our poll to enjoy the film tomorrow!
🔘'Butterfly People' (2014) follows people whose skin is as delicate and vulnerable as a butterfly's wings. The slightest touch can damage it. And even a slight scratch or bruise can become a serious injury. What's it like to live with this disease?
🔘'Fascism: A History' (2021). The idea of one race being superior to another has been around for a long time. The Nazis dreamed of exterminating entire peoples they deemed unworthy. Choose this film to learn more about the origins of Nazism, those who supported it and those who fought it.
🔘'Abort Me Not' (2022). Abortion became legal in the United States 49 years ago. Since then, there has been fierce debate between supporters and opponents. Vote for this documentary to listen to their arguments.
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🌐Did you know that some people are afraid of Wi-Fi? These Americans say they get headaches, nausea and other health issues if they are close to the electric waves. They can't fight it and have to go and live in the woods. We have a whole documentary devoted to such electrosensitive people. See their stories in 'Wi-Fi Refugees' (2017).
The International Federation of Environmental Defenders claims that the effects of electromagnetic fields on humans have not yet been adequately studied. To remind the world of this, the organisation introduced World Day without Wi-Fi on 8 November.
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▶️Every step for Evgeney Yashchenko could spell potential death. He is a deminer. He demines Mariupol and its surroundings after the occupation by the Ukrainian army.
He takes his wedding ring on all combat missions. He believes that the jewellry protects him at the front. Once his unit detected and destroyed about 50 anti-tank mines in a day. 'We always managed to complete the task and come back without losses,' Yevgeny says.
Evgeney Yashchenko is the hero of the new episode of the series 'Here and Now'. See other episodes here:
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
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▶️Many people believe Baikal is a special place. Some value it for its natural uniqueness: never has a lake existed for as long as this one—it’s tens of millions of years old! And it’s also the largest in the world: at over 630 square kilometers, Baikal covers an area larger than some countries, like the Netherlands or Belgium.
Others honor it as sacred land. Different confessions are present here: Buddhism, Christianity, Old Believers and even shamanism. Discover more amazing things about the Russian lake in our documentary, ‘The Spirit of Baikal’. This film won yesterday’s poll.
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▶️Have you ever lived in an 11 square meters apartment? And how about a 7 meters with a kitchen, bathroom and bedroom at one place? About 200,000 Hong Kong residents experience such conditions. Their flats are so tiny that they are even called 'coffin houses'.
There is not enough land to build on in Hong Kong, and the square metres that are built are very expensive. So, people cram themselves into houses little bigger than wire cages. How do they manage? Discover in 'Square Metre of Hell' (2020). This documentary is the winner of our Thursday's poll.
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▶️‘The CIA promised the Vatican that they would first transfer all Russian Orthodox in Ukraine from the canonical church and then merge it with the Uniate Church and put it under the Vatican's authority,’ claims political scientist Sergey Markov, PhD. He and other experts discuss the Vatican’s role in the 2014 Maidan and the religious life of Ukrainians in our new film.
How is the Vatican weaponising its influence to take over Ukraine? Find out in a new exclusive investigation by Anna Chapman: ‘Red Alert. A New Crusade’.
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👋Dear subscribers,
Our account on Instagram has been blocked!
We had over 40 thousand followers with whom we shared international stories. We revealed the truth about Donbass and other military conflicts, and discussed breaking news from around the world.
But we won't let anybody stop us from bringing you exclusive content and true news on other networks. For now, you can still find us on Facebook, X, VK and rt_documentary?_t=8hlUs2b0HU8&_r=1">TikTok. Follow us there, stay informed, and help us get the word out!
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▶Painters and sculptors from different countries dream of studying here. People from Armenia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam and China come to the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, Russia.
The university was founded back in the 18th century. It provides unique knowledge and is the alma mater of many great painters. Among them are Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, and Vasily Surikov.
Watch our documentary 'Art of Gold' (2015) to learn more about the academy and to see how it trains future artists.
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▶️‘Gun firing all the time. It’s become a routine, our children hear this every day.’ Donetsk resident Alyona Kilivnik is afraid to let her 11-year-old son Slava outside. During one of the Ukrainian shellings, the child was wounded in the stomach and leg.
People in Donbass live in constant fear for themselves and their loved ones. Many of them lost their relatives, were left without housing, and hid away in cellars because of the constant bombardment of the Ukrainian army.
See our premiere ‘I Want Peace & Quiet’, by our documentary filmmakers Ruslan Gusarov and Artyom Somov about how the conflict has traumatised the Donbass residents.
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🚇Moscow Metro is famous around the world. It is truly a marvel of modern Russian history. Technologically advanced and convenient, millions of people prefer to use it every day. It has over 400 kilometers of track, and is about to grow further!
Enjoy our documentary on the Moscow subway system, see the process of new stations being built, and meet its workers. This film has won our yesterday's poll.
Have you ever been to the metro of Russia capital — and if not, would you like to see it in future?
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▶️Today the whole world is united in celebrating World Children's Day, aimed at improving children's welfare. Despite this, an estimated 333 million children live in extreme poverty worldwide. Why, in the 21st century, do so many minors still live in misery?
Tens of thousands of children in Ghana live each day in mortal danger. Even the youngest children work on this enormous dumping ground near Accra, where electronic goods are sent once they have been discarded by developed nations. The poverty and despair of African children are covered in our documentary, ‘ToxiCity’.
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▶️‘Our grandchildren don't want to be in the tundra,’ complains Myag Hudi, the oldest woman in one of the large nomadic settlements on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Many nomads worry that their heirs will forget their traditions. Today's children are not willing to dismantle and reassemble yurts every two days, follow reindeer across the frozen steppe and see nothing of the world beyond the tundra.
Just decades ago schoolchildren aspired to return to their native roots. ‘In the first year, I ran off to the tundra—they couldn't find me!’ Annushka Hudi recalls her time studying at the Soviet settlement boarding school. Now her grandchildren, in contrast, want to move closer to the city.
Why is the younger generation cutting ties with the nomadic way of life? Watch our new film, ‘Torn from the Tundra’.
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▶️Zabbaleen is a giant dump and a city of professional scavengers in Egypt. The awful smell distinguishes this place from others. The average life expectancy here does not exceed 55 years, yet people work and live here - right on the trash.
Every day locals collect used glass, plastic, and paper in Cairo and bring it home for sorting. The job isn't prestigious or well-paid - but at least it feeds them. Learn more about life on the enormous land-fill in our documentary, 'Zabbaleen: Trash Town', to mark this Recycling Day.
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🦋‘Butterfly people’ tells stories of those, who have extremely delicate and easily damaged skin. Even a simple scratch or bruise becomes a serious injury. Their life is hard, still, they have families, dreams and hopes.
What's it like to live with this diagnosis? Watch our documentary to know more about people who live with such disease.
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❓Why is Kiev renouncing Orthodoxy? And who is behind the emergence of new religious organisations in the country?
Hundreds of sects appear in Ukraine with the support of officials. For example, the former head of Kiev, Leonid Chernovetsky, considered himself an activist of the so-called ‘Embassy of God’ church, which was founded in Ukraine in 1994 by Nigerian Sunday Adelja. ‘Kiev’s mayor supported Sunday Adelaja; he was one of his favourites,’ says lawyer and theologian Aleksandr Korelov.
When did Ukraine turn its back on Orthodoxy? Find out in our new film, ‘Cults: The CIA's Secret Weapon’.
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The ‘RT.DOC: Time of Heroes’ documentary films festival will be held abroad for the first time!
📍On November 11, viewers in Ankara, Türkiye, will see films about Donbass. Come to the Russian House at 6 p.m.!
There are four films in the program. The festival will open with ‘Dr Donbass: Behind the frontline’ by our military documentary author Olga Kiriy. We will also show war correspondent Mikhail Burov’s ‘Young Hope of Donbass’ and Ekaterina Kitaitseva’s ‘Walking After War’. The guests will then see ‘Oblast’ by correspondents of the Turkish Ulusal channel during their trip to Donbass.
The festival will be held as part of a joint project of RT and Rossotrudnichestvo.
📌‘RT.DOC: Time of Heroes’ has been shown in six Russian cities with full houses! We will report on screenings in other countries later. Follow the posts to learn more.
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👄Anna Label, aka Mrs. Emile Beauchamp, was the most powerful brothel keeper in the Mid-Twenties in Montreal. Montreal was then the sex capital of North America. Watch the video and find out the history of prostitutes and their patrons in those times.
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▶️Officer Denis Chernyakov has written his name in history. He and his fellow officer together destroyed a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and captured a ‘Varta’ APC. In that vehicle, for a few days, under constant enemy shelling, the comrades were evacuating the wounded and carrying out the tasks the commander was giving to them.
For his exploits, Guards Lieutenant Colonel Denis Chernyakov was presented the Order of Courage three times. His story is in the third episode of our documentary series, ‘Here and Now’.
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▶️Officer Denis Chernyakov has written his name in history. He and his fellow officer together destroyed a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and captured a ‘Varta’ APC. In that vehicle, for a few days, under constant enemy shelling, the comrades were evacuating the wounded and carrying out the tasks the commander was giving to them.
For his exploits, Guards Lieutenant Colonel Denis Chernyakov was presented the Order of Courage three times. His story is in the third episode of our documentary series, ‘Here and Now’.
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