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AristoCats of the Hermitage 🐈
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Did you know that one of the world’s largest and most prestigious museums, the Hermitage, has a ‘cat house’? About 65 cats live in the Winter Palace basement, the former Russian Tsars’ official residence and the Hermitage Museum.
The furry museum workers are on mice-catching duty. They’ve been keeping over three million artworks, including Rembrandt, Michelangelo and Van Gogh, safe from mice.
The museum first opened its doors to the public on this day in 1852. Have you ever been to the Hermitage? If not, watch our documentary, Secret Hermitage Helpers.
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Did you know that one of the world’s largest and most prestigious museums, the Hermitage, has a ‘cat house’? About 65 cats live in the Winter Palace basement, the former Russian Tsars’ official residence and the Hermitage Museum.
The furry museum workers are on mice-catching duty. They’ve been keeping over three million artworks, including Rembrandt, Michelangelo and Van Gogh, safe from mice.
The museum first opened its doors to the public on this day in 1852. Have you ever been to the Hermitage? If not, watch our documentary, Secret Hermitage Helpers.
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Ethiopians celebrate baptism of Jesus
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Once a year, Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia celebrate Timkat or Epiphany. It’s a major holiday marking the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan. It’s the biggest and most colourful religious celebration in the country, involving street parades and baptism re-enactment. This is video RT Documentary shot in Addis Ababa.
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Once a year, Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia celebrate Timkat or Epiphany. It’s a major holiday marking the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan. It’s the biggest and most colourful religious celebration in the country, involving street parades and baptism re-enactment. This is video RT Documentary shot in Addis Ababa.
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#video #Congo
The price Congolese workers have to pay for the rest of the world to enjoy smartphones — cobalt is essential for their production — is high. Miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the bulk of the world’s cobalt is found, are forced to extract and process the ore by hand, which causes serious health problems and environmental pollution.
Yet, none of the workers is ready to give up his job. Young Congolese men agree to this backbreaking work hoping to earn enough money for university. This way, they will have a slight chance of leaving this life and helping their families. Women who raise their children alone agree to work on cobalt processing though it might ruin their health. What’s more, the idea of closing the cobalt deposit site gives them shivers because they see no other way of earning a living.
We have already announced the upcoming premiere of our new documentary Cobalt Hell, and it’s finally arrived — tune for the premiere right now!
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The price Congolese workers have to pay for the rest of the world to enjoy smartphones — cobalt is essential for their production — is high. Miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the bulk of the world’s cobalt is found, are forced to extract and process the ore by hand, which causes serious health problems and environmental pollution.
Yet, none of the workers is ready to give up his job. Young Congolese men agree to this backbreaking work hoping to earn enough money for university. This way, they will have a slight chance of leaving this life and helping their families. Women who raise their children alone agree to work on cobalt processing though it might ruin their health. What’s more, the idea of closing the cobalt deposit site gives them shivers because they see no other way of earning a living.
We have already announced the upcoming premiere of our new documentary Cobalt Hell, and it’s finally arrived — tune for the premiere right now!
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Make farming great again 🚜
#video #China
Farming is cool! Rita Zhu shows an idyllic life in the Chinese countryside, growing edible flowers, crops and vegetables. She’s an installation artist who chose a farm as her canvas. Art, agriculture and food combined make Rita’s farm an attraction for Shanghai residents who want to reconnect with nature. There’s even a term in Chinese - xiangchou, which means ‘longing for the countryside’.
Visit Rita’s farm in the new episode of, This is China. Do you sometimes wish to live closer to nature? 🌿
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#video #China
Farming is cool! Rita Zhu shows an idyllic life in the Chinese countryside, growing edible flowers, crops and vegetables. She’s an installation artist who chose a farm as her canvas. Art, agriculture and food combined make Rita’s farm an attraction for Shanghai residents who want to reconnect with nature. There’s even a term in Chinese - xiangchou, which means ‘longing for the countryside’.
Visit Rita’s farm in the new episode of, This is China. Do you sometimes wish to live closer to nature? 🌿
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#video #India
Ravi from India was head over heels in love with Uma. They married, but her relatives weren’t happy. Ravi and Uma are from different castes. The couple received threats, and Uma’s uncles came to their house one day. They beat the star-crossed lovers and took her away.
This week marked the most romantic holiday. While in most countries, people marry for love, most Indians still have arranged marriages. Find out more about love in India in our documentary, Love Commandos.
Arranged marriage vs love marriage - which one do you think is better? ♥️
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Ravi from India was head over heels in love with Uma. They married, but her relatives weren’t happy. Ravi and Uma are from different castes. The couple received threats, and Uma’s uncles came to their house one day. They beat the star-crossed lovers and took her away.
This week marked the most romantic holiday. While in most countries, people marry for love, most Indians still have arranged marriages. Find out more about love in India in our documentary, Love Commandos.
Arranged marriage vs love marriage - which one do you think is better? ♥️
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Living on rubbish
#video #Kyrgyzstan
There's a dumpsite on the outskirts of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, that isn't just full of rubbish, it's rich in human stories too. Abdykadyr is 60 and it's need that forces him to toil away on the giant landfill, along with his sons and daughters-in-law. They rent a home near the dumpsite, where they collect iron, aluminium, in fact, anything they can sell. Abdykadyr isn’t at all embarrassed by his work.
He’s one of many who've ended up on the dumpsite. The new documentary tells their stories.
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#video #Kyrgyzstan
There's a dumpsite on the outskirts of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, that isn't just full of rubbish, it's rich in human stories too. Abdykadyr is 60 and it's need that forces him to toil away on the giant landfill, along with his sons and daughters-in-law. They rent a home near the dumpsite, where they collect iron, aluminium, in fact, anything they can sell. Abdykadyr isn’t at all embarrassed by his work.
He’s one of many who've ended up on the dumpsite. The new documentary tells their stories.
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#video #India
The River Ganges has enormous religious significance to Hindus. They believe it’s goddess Ganga brought to Earth by Lord Shiva. People come to ritually bathe in the Ganges waters as it’s supposed to cure illnesses. Ashes of the cremated are also dispersed across its waters.
Some half a billion people rely on the ‘mother river’. However, the same people who revere the river throw garbage, sewage and industrial waste into the Ganges. Watch the full documentary, Cry of a River, to get the complete picture of the water crisis in India.
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The River Ganges has enormous religious significance to Hindus. They believe it’s goddess Ganga brought to Earth by Lord Shiva. People come to ritually bathe in the Ganges waters as it’s supposed to cure illnesses. Ashes of the cremated are also dispersed across its waters.
Some half a billion people rely on the ‘mother river’. However, the same people who revere the river throw garbage, sewage and industrial waste into the Ganges. Watch the full documentary, Cry of a River, to get the complete picture of the water crisis in India.
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#video #Arctic
On the 80th parallel north, there’s not much life. It’s a vast icy desert with the occasional polar bear in the distance. Nevertheless, Russian researchers have been travelling nearly to the top of the world since 1937 to collect data from the Arctic region.
They used to land on an old thick ice floe to live and work on it for almost a year. Then, they slowly drifted across the Arctic ocean. But warmer temperatures mean the ice cover is melting rapidly. So expeditions had to be evacuated after the ice gave way under their drifting stations.
They’ve come up with the ‘ship and ice’ polar station when researchers work on the ice but can retreat to the safety of a vessel. We joined an expedition aboard the Akademik Tryoshnikov.
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On the 80th parallel north, there’s not much life. It’s a vast icy desert with the occasional polar bear in the distance. Nevertheless, Russian researchers have been travelling nearly to the top of the world since 1937 to collect data from the Arctic region.
They used to land on an old thick ice floe to live and work on it for almost a year. Then, they slowly drifted across the Arctic ocean. But warmer temperatures mean the ice cover is melting rapidly. So expeditions had to be evacuated after the ice gave way under their drifting stations.
They’ve come up with the ‘ship and ice’ polar station when researchers work on the ice but can retreat to the safety of a vessel. We joined an expedition aboard the Akademik Tryoshnikov.
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#video
In 2015, our film crew joined medical evacuation teams in the Donbass conflict zone. The teams respond to calls in the most dangerous areas caring for Donetsk civilians wounded by shelling and Ukrainian soldiers. Paramedics help regardless of what side they are on 24/7.
For more details, check out the full documentary, Trauma.
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In 2015, our film crew joined medical evacuation teams in the Donbass conflict zone. The teams respond to calls in the most dangerous areas caring for Donetsk civilians wounded by shelling and Ukrainian soldiers. Paramedics help regardless of what side they are on 24/7.
For more details, check out the full documentary, Trauma.
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#video #USA
The doomsday bunker market is thriving in the US. Disaster preparedness is a popular pastime and longstanding tradition. Millions of Americans regularly spend money on stockpiling essential food and water, as well as making additions to their homes. However, some of them take it to the next level.
Torres Milton owns a bunker in the Vivos xPoint community in South Dakota that dubs itself the ‘largest survival community on Earth’. Milton always has Plan A and Plan B, ready for any occasion. His motto is YOYO - ‘ You’re on your own’.
Numerous businesses cater to the needs of survivalists like Torres and offer all kinds of survival shelters. For more, check out the full documentary Armageddon Ready.
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The doomsday bunker market is thriving in the US. Disaster preparedness is a popular pastime and longstanding tradition. Millions of Americans regularly spend money on stockpiling essential food and water, as well as making additions to their homes. However, some of them take it to the next level.
Torres Milton owns a bunker in the Vivos xPoint community in South Dakota that dubs itself the ‘largest survival community on Earth’. Milton always has Plan A and Plan B, ready for any occasion. His motto is YOYO - ‘ You’re on your own’.
Numerous businesses cater to the needs of survivalists like Torres and offer all kinds of survival shelters. For more, check out the full documentary Armageddon Ready.
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