#video #Indonesia

The Citarum River is the primary Indonesian waterway. It’s being used as the source of drinking water and for rice field irrigation. But local textile factories dumping hazardous waste made it one of the world’s most polluted rivers. As a result, the Citarum suffers from piles of plastic garbage, and locals do their best to clean it up.

Watch our video to learn how people live near one of the world’s most polluted rivers.

The whole story of Citarum pollution is in the RT Documentary film Deadly Waters.

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#video #Donbass

‘I’m from the Republic of Serbia, the city of Šabac. I came here in January 2015, when I knew a civil war against nationalists was starting here’. Serb Bojan Dzhaferovich, with the callsign Jaeger, had been fighting for Donbass for seven years.

The Ukrainian situation reminds him of the collapse of his native Yugoslavia: ‘civilians started an uprising. They did not want to be with them [nationalists], as we did in 1999’.

At an abandoned Ukrainian position, Bojan saw NATO weapons. The Serbian volunteer recalls how NATO troops invaded his country and turned it into ruins.

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#premiere #Donbass

'Everything was destroyed only by our Ukrainians, only them… They destroyed everything.' Residents of Mariupol tell how the Ukrainian military kicked them out of their homes. They say they had to hide in basements while Ukrainian tanks fired on high-rise buildings. More than 400,000 people went underground as they could not leave the city. The Ukrainian military did not let them out.

This is a clip of our new film Donbass: I’m Alive! Watch the premiere here.

An RT Documentary team has just returned from Mariupol and documented what locals told them. Hear the stories of people who managed to survive Ukrainian shelling and those who brought them humanitarian aid, risking their lives.

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#documentaries

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#video #Bolivia

Bolivia has unusual battles – women dressed in heavy, multi-layered skirts fight each other. They’re known as Cholitas, and they pride themselves on looking their best in the ring. Outside the ring, they’re regular women: wives, mothers, business owners and even schoolgirls.

But fighting is another social empowerment of indigenous women. Watch our the video to learn why women take part in such fights.

Watch more Bolivian Cholita fighting in the full film The Good, the Bad and the Loco.

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#video #Ukraine

‘[The sexton's] wife jumped out with a white rag. She screamed that he was bleeding. They [the Ukrainian military] fired at her with machine guns’.

A woman hiding with her family in the Intercession Church in Mariupol recalls how the Ukrainian military did not allow a church sexton to call for medical help and herded people back into the basement. When they arrived, Ukrainian troops were there.

The woman showed the RT Documentary film crew how they live now: ‘We are afraid to leave the temple because the walls are about a metre thick. It's safe here’. These shots will be included in the new RT Documentary film about foreign volunteers who went to defend Donbass.

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#video #Donbass

‘The first night, the children were waiting for the bombing. They were under constant stress that soon they would have to run somewhere to hide,’ Father Alexandr talks about the evacuated children from Donbass. Eventually, they were accepted in a church in a village in the Rostov region. The refugees were given shelter, and they are safe.

This is footage from our film ‘Ukraine: Heading East’. Watch the full documentary here.

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#video #India

A love wedding in India can be deadly. Parents forbid taking a member of another caste as a wife. Here it is considered a disgrace. And if you disobey, they can kill you. In our post - the story of a girl whose lover lost his life for forbidden love. She herself was injured. The attackers were not even stopped by the fact that at that moment the girl was eight months pregnant.

In 1955, the Indian Parliament had already passed a law prohibiting discrimination based on caste. However, the locals still adhere to the ‘law of honor’. Those who violated it are forced to hide from the closest people. Watch the film Love Commandos.

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#video #Donbass

‘I regret nothing’ (Non, je ne regrette rien). This line is from an Edith Piaf song which has become the manifesto of French volunteer François Mauld d’Aymée. He came to Donbass from Champagne in 2015. At home, he studied at the military academy. He says the LPR and DPR people are defending their land, so he took their side and joined the international Pyatnashka brigade.

The Frenchman served in Pyatnashka for six months and then stayed in Donetsk, teaching French and singing with the Donetsk Philharmonic. After that, he recorded a video for the song ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ in October 2021.

In February 2022, François returned to action. Mobilization began in the Donbass, and many of his colleagues from the Philharmonic were called up. Now he is in positions near the Azovstal plant.

François Mauld d’Aymée is one of the characters in our future film about volunteers from different countries who came to protect the people of Donbass.

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#premiere #Ukraine

‘First and foremost, they appealed to schoolchildren, who are still open-minded and susceptible to all kinds of things. For them, they drew parallels between SS death squads and Soviet liberators and defenders’.
Military historian Nikita Buranov talks about what children are taught in Ukraine. They are given shell casings that killed their compatriots in the Donbass as souvenirs.

In Ukraine, children are taught history differently. Schoolchildren are introduced to the biography of the national hero Bandera. He is one of the founders of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army). During the Great Patriotic War, about 100,000 civilians and 15,000 Soviet soldiers were its victims.

In our post - a video from Ukrainian children’s camps. Teenagers there learn the ‘real’ truth. This is a clip from the film Fast Forward to Fascism.

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We recommend you to follow Vasily Prozorov channel

He is a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine. He has created his own Investigation Center, where he exposes the crimes and lies of the Ukrainian authorities who seized power after the Maidan events.

On his channel you will find many exclusive materials made in Donbas. Footage of militant bases, interrogations of prisoners of war, secret documents, as well as international investigations - all this is already in the UKRLEAKS channel.

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#video #Albania

We are sharing the moving story of one of Albania’s heroines. Lali was a beautiful girl who changed genders to become her family’s male protector, according to ancient Albanian tradition. She took a vow to be a burrnesha or sworn virgin. Check out our video to meet this extraordinary person.

Find out more about the ancient tradition in the film The Virgins.

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#video #Donbass

‘Take shelter! Go on, quickly, go, go, go….’ Alexey Smirnov from the Angel humanitarian battalion asks Mariupol residents to run to a shelter quickly. Seconds earlier, a shell explodes near the residential block where humanitarian aid is handed out.

All members of the humanitarian battalion know how to behave in a combat zone. Before departure, Alexey gives instructions. He reminds Azov* members may be among civilians coming to get food. This is why the humanitarian battalion is armed.

See the fragment of our documentary Donbass: I’m Alive to learn more.

*recognised in Russia as extremist and banned

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#video #Vietnam

The Vietnam War ended 47 years ago, and the consequences are still being felt by the people of the country. Children are born with genetic diseases. And all because of the poison Agent Orange, which the Americans sprayed on the forests where the partisans were.

The Agent Orange Victims Association president, retired General Nguyen Van Rin, says: ‘The Americans knew from the very beginning of the consequences, although they constantly lied that the ‘agent’ is not dangerous to people, but only destroys the jungle’.

Watch the stories of those who suffered from U.S. chemical weapons in our video and film Vietnam: My Orange Pain.

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The Russia Beyond project published footage of Kimzha, one of the north’s most beautiful and ancient places. Learn the story of the place that retained its primordial state for hundreds of years.
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