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The most popular game in Kyrgyzstan
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Kok Boru is an ancient nomadic sport played in Kyrgyzstan. It’s similar to hockey or polo… except teams play with a decapitated goat instead of a puck or a ball. Teams of ten men on horseback compete for control of its body and score by placing it in the opponents’ goal - a large concrete kazan, or pot.
Kok Boru is more popular than football and is quite a sight that draws large crowds. This traditional sport is undergoing a revival and can be seen in Central Asian countries. In Afghanistan, it’s called Buzkashi.
Some say it gets too violent and brutal. You decide for yourself. For more about the nomadic tradition, watch the full documentary.
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#video #Kyrgyzstan
Kok Boru is an ancient nomadic sport played in Kyrgyzstan. It’s similar to hockey or polo… except teams play with a decapitated goat instead of a puck or a ball. Teams of ten men on horseback compete for control of its body and score by placing it in the opponents’ goal - a large concrete kazan, or pot.
Kok Boru is more popular than football and is quite a sight that draws large crowds. This traditional sport is undergoing a revival and can be seen in Central Asian countries. In Afghanistan, it’s called Buzkashi.
Some say it gets too violent and brutal. You decide for yourself. For more about the nomadic tradition, watch the full documentary.
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Hollywood movies depict hackers as reclusive geniuses who hack into databases at breakneck speed sitting in their basements.
However, a hackers' life is too romanticised, say security experts from the new episode of I am Hacked. Not all hackers are evil cybercriminals looking for vulnerabilities and profit. You can be a good guy who prevents attacks from happening. They are known as ethical or white hat hackers.
For more about ethical hacking and information security, tune in for our new video.
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Hollywood movies depict hackers as reclusive geniuses who hack into databases at breakneck speed sitting in their basements.
However, a hackers' life is too romanticised, say security experts from the new episode of I am Hacked. Not all hackers are evil cybercriminals looking for vulnerabilities and profit. You can be a good guy who prevents attacks from happening. They are known as ethical or white hat hackers.
For more about ethical hacking and information security, tune in for our new video.
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Victims of fast fashion
#video #Cambodia
Meet the women who stitch your clothes. They work round the clock and earn as much as a pair of jeans costs. Like Nike, Gap, or Calvin Klein, many international brands manufacture clothes in countries with cheap labour. In the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, there are over 1,000 garment factories where nearly a million workers make T-shirts and jeans.
Most employees are women. If they get pregnant, they’re fired. Women go to great lengths to hide their pregnancy so they can keep putting food on the table. Few are aware that laws guarantee them paid maternity leave. Learn more about an unequal struggle between impoverished workers and unscrupulous employers.
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Meet the women who stitch your clothes. They work round the clock and earn as much as a pair of jeans costs. Like Nike, Gap, or Calvin Klein, many international brands manufacture clothes in countries with cheap labour. In the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, there are over 1,000 garment factories where nearly a million workers make T-shirts and jeans.
Most employees are women. If they get pregnant, they’re fired. Women go to great lengths to hide their pregnancy so they can keep putting food on the table. Few are aware that laws guarantee them paid maternity leave. Learn more about an unequal struggle between impoverished workers and unscrupulous employers.
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#photo #Benin
Fuel can be illegal, too! They’re filling a car with fuel smuggled from neighbouring Nigeria, where it’s much cheaper. The 20-litre glass bottle is a trademark of Benin’s fuel sellers. Many prefer to fill up at roadside stalls rather than licensed filling stations.
RT Documentary’s Natalya Kadyrova is in Benin shooting a new film. If you’d like to know more about Benin, stay tuned for the premiere. We’ll keep you updated!
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Fuel can be illegal, too! They’re filling a car with fuel smuggled from neighbouring Nigeria, where it’s much cheaper. The 20-litre glass bottle is a trademark of Benin’s fuel sellers. Many prefer to fill up at roadside stalls rather than licensed filling stations.
RT Documentary’s Natalya Kadyrova is in Benin shooting a new film. If you’d like to know more about Benin, stay tuned for the premiere. We’ll keep you updated!
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Traditional whaling in Russia’s harshest region
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If you look in the fridge of a Chukchi family, you’ll see mostly whale meat and maybe some fowl.
The indigenous Chukchi people from the Chukotka Peninsula (west of Alaska) believe they come from whales. The life of the Chukchi revolves around hunting marine mammals - grey whales, seals and walruses. The men gather to go in the sea to ‘take’ food. The Chukchi don’t say ‘kill’.
Sea hunters spend days on the water, often risking their lives. But their job is in high demand. When hunters return with a catch, they share it with the community. They’re not allowed to sell it. Only 136 grey whales a year is a quota set for the Chukchi by the International Whaling Commission.
‘Chukchi’ translates as ‘real people’. Find out why in our beautiful documentary about Chukchi traditions.
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#video #Russia
If you look in the fridge of a Chukchi family, you’ll see mostly whale meat and maybe some fowl.
The indigenous Chukchi people from the Chukotka Peninsula (west of Alaska) believe they come from whales. The life of the Chukchi revolves around hunting marine mammals - grey whales, seals and walruses. The men gather to go in the sea to ‘take’ food. The Chukchi don’t say ‘kill’.
Sea hunters spend days on the water, often risking their lives. But their job is in high demand. When hunters return with a catch, they share it with the community. They’re not allowed to sell it. Only 136 grey whales a year is a quota set for the Chukchi by the International Whaling Commission.
‘Chukchi’ translates as ‘real people’. Find out why in our beautiful documentary about Chukchi traditions.
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The Falin family have fostered 30 kids. They take children from dysfunctional families, children’s homes or simply off the streets.
Tatyana and Artyom Falins fostered their first child in 2003. A girl walked up to Tatyana on the street and asked to take her. Then there were more — it was hard, and many kids ended up on the street.
Tatyana and Artyom find a place in their home even for those kids who couldn’t adjust to other families because their psychological trauma was too much to handle. All the kids who the Falins have fostered see them as their parents and even want to come back to them from other countries.
What does it feel like raising such a diverse family? Tune in for the premiere of Our Big Russian Family and find out.
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The Falin family have fostered 30 kids. They take children from dysfunctional families, children’s homes or simply off the streets.
Tatyana and Artyom Falins fostered their first child in 2003. A girl walked up to Tatyana on the street and asked to take her. Then there were more — it was hard, and many kids ended up on the street.
Tatyana and Artyom find a place in their home even for those kids who couldn’t adjust to other families because their psychological trauma was too much to handle. All the kids who the Falins have fostered see them as their parents and even want to come back to them from other countries.
What does it feel like raising such a diverse family? Tune in for the premiere of Our Big Russian Family and find out.
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#photo #Brazil
Mateus Pakente is a fisherman from Santana do Tapara in the Amazon. Drug traffickers offered Mateus $100,000 for his house close to a small port. A convenient location for cargo transit. But Mateus turned down the offer. Criminals regularly come to visit, threatening Mateus. He’s adamant and doesn’t want to move. He and his family will stay.
RT Documentary’s Alexandr Panov and Vitaly Buzuev are working on a documentary featuring Mateus’s story. Stay tuned for the premiere!
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Mateus Pakente is a fisherman from Santana do Tapara in the Amazon. Drug traffickers offered Mateus $100,000 for his house close to a small port. A convenient location for cargo transit. But Mateus turned down the offer. Criminals regularly come to visit, threatening Mateus. He’s adamant and doesn’t want to move. He and his family will stay.
RT Documentary’s Alexandr Panov and Vitaly Buzuev are working on a documentary featuring Mateus’s story. Stay tuned for the premiere!
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#video #Germany
Anneliese Michel was a German girl who believed demons possessed her. The girl underwent 67 rites of exorcism, during which she ate dead insects and animals, barked like a dog and licked her urine off the floor. Anneliese died on June 1, 1976, of malnutrition and dehydration.
Her parents and the priests who performed the exorcism rituals were severely criticised and eventually had to stand trial. Medical specialists said Anneliese’s mental disorder resulted partially from the exceptionally severe religious upbringing: she had been persuaded to suffer for the sins and obediently fulfilled this mission.
According to testimonies, she could have survived if she had been force-fed at least a week before her death. However, there were things in this case that had no rational explanation, and what happened will forever remain a mystery.
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Anneliese Michel was a German girl who believed demons possessed her. The girl underwent 67 rites of exorcism, during which she ate dead insects and animals, barked like a dog and licked her urine off the floor. Anneliese died on June 1, 1976, of malnutrition and dehydration.
Her parents and the priests who performed the exorcism rituals were severely criticised and eventually had to stand trial. Medical specialists said Anneliese’s mental disorder resulted partially from the exceptionally severe religious upbringing: she had been persuaded to suffer for the sins and obediently fulfilled this mission.
According to testimonies, she could have survived if she had been force-fed at least a week before her death. However, there were things in this case that had no rational explanation, and what happened will forever remain a mystery.
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A hero rat saving lives
#video #Cambodia
Isaac is a rat that looks like a hamster, whose nose is his secret weapon. But, he is no regular rodent. Isaac is a landmine detecting hero. His remarkable sense of smell can detect the tiniest traces of TNT. He can sense the explosive up to 20 centimetres underground!
Isaac was born in Tanzania, where a Belgian NGO, APOPO, trains giant pouched rats to sniff out explosives. The little creatures learn to associate TNT with food - if they detect an explosive, they get a delicious treat.
After nine months of training and passing an exam with flying colours, Isaac was sent to Cambodia, one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. The civil war left up to five million pieces of unexploded ordnance.
We think land mine-detecting rats deserve a Disney story, but in the meantime, check out our documentary and see for yourself how adorable and clever the pouched rats are!
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#video #Cambodia
Isaac is a rat that looks like a hamster, whose nose is his secret weapon. But, he is no regular rodent. Isaac is a landmine detecting hero. His remarkable sense of smell can detect the tiniest traces of TNT. He can sense the explosive up to 20 centimetres underground!
Isaac was born in Tanzania, where a Belgian NGO, APOPO, trains giant pouched rats to sniff out explosives. The little creatures learn to associate TNT with food - if they detect an explosive, they get a delicious treat.
After nine months of training and passing an exam with flying colours, Isaac was sent to Cambodia, one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. The civil war left up to five million pieces of unexploded ordnance.
We think land mine-detecting rats deserve a Disney story, but in the meantime, check out our documentary and see for yourself how adorable and clever the pouched rats are!
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The US figure skater Timothy LeDuc has become the first openly non-binary athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics in Beijing. LeDuc hopes people will see that ‘queer people can be open and successful in sports.’ ‘We’ve always been here. We’ve always been a part of sports. We just haven’t always been able to be open,’ LeDuc said.
The Summer Games in Tokyo saw the first openly transgender Olympians. As LGBTQ+ competitors are making history, you can watch our documentary about trans athletes and the debate surrounding the issue.
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The US figure skater Timothy LeDuc has become the first openly non-binary athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics in Beijing. LeDuc hopes people will see that ‘queer people can be open and successful in sports.’ ‘We’ve always been here. We’ve always been a part of sports. We just haven’t always been able to be open,’ LeDuc said.
The Summer Games in Tokyo saw the first openly transgender Olympians. As LGBTQ+ competitors are making history, you can watch our documentary about trans athletes and the debate surrounding the issue.
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Dostoevsky Games
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Even after two centuries, Fyodor Dostoevsky still has fans worldwide because he “makes you face your true self”. Dostoevsky’s ability to change, to transform the reader, makes him genuinely universal. No matter what language the reader speaks, they get the message.
In Europe, Asia, and America, artists inspired by Dostoevsky turned his work into plays, pieces of art and performances. North Carolina is among the leading centres in the US for studying Dostoevsky and has a very strong Russian language and cultural, academic tradition. For this reason, North Carolina is the home of the Dostoevsky Games, a contest for students from the state’s leading universities.
Tune in for the premiere of Universal Dostoevsky right now on RT Documentary and find out more about how his fans are still honouring his legacy across the globe.
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Even after two centuries, Fyodor Dostoevsky still has fans worldwide because he “makes you face your true self”. Dostoevsky’s ability to change, to transform the reader, makes him genuinely universal. No matter what language the reader speaks, they get the message.
In Europe, Asia, and America, artists inspired by Dostoevsky turned his work into plays, pieces of art and performances. North Carolina is among the leading centres in the US for studying Dostoevsky and has a very strong Russian language and cultural, academic tradition. For this reason, North Carolina is the home of the Dostoevsky Games, a contest for students from the state’s leading universities.
Tune in for the premiere of Universal Dostoevsky right now on RT Documentary and find out more about how his fans are still honouring his legacy across the globe.
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#photo #Benin
These girls in Benin have ended up in a voodoo convent sent there by their parents… and the spirits. They are forbidden to speak their language and learn a voodoo language instead. They’ve outgrown the few clothes they possess. They’ll get new clothes if they are released from the convent. But it’s unlikely. Parents have to pay a hefty sum to get their children back. However, it’s cheaper to let a child stay in a voodoo convent in many cases.
Director Natalya Kadyrova is working on her new documentary from Benin. It’s coming up soon! So subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the documentary!
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These girls in Benin have ended up in a voodoo convent sent there by their parents… and the spirits. They are forbidden to speak their language and learn a voodoo language instead. They’ve outgrown the few clothes they possess. They’ll get new clothes if they are released from the convent. But it’s unlikely. Parents have to pay a hefty sum to get their children back. However, it’s cheaper to let a child stay in a voodoo convent in many cases.
Director Natalya Kadyrova is working on her new documentary from Benin. It’s coming up soon! So subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the documentary!
Follow: https://news.1rj.ru/str/rtdocumentary
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