‘I am a black gay immigrant woman ... to hold this position’. So the new White House Press Secretary decided to talk about just that at her first briefing.

Karine Jean-Pierre is 44 years old, and she raises a daughter with her lesbian partner. She has an ideal profile for the US Democratic Party: Jean-Pierre is an African American with Haitian roots, a representative of the LGBT community who studied at the prestigious Columbia University.

Karine Jean-Pierre replaced Jen Psaki as US President’s spokeswoman. Previously Karine stood behind the podium only when Psaki was ill or on vacation.

Now, this is who we’ll learn about the administration’s policy direction and possible further sanctions against Russia. But do sanctions have a strong bite? Watch the film Sanctions: Opportunity in Disguise.

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‘I walked into his room and saw… a little bag of powder lying on the floor; I took it to a lab. They said, ‘Yes, it’s meth’. No addict would ever admit, ‘Dad, it’s awful, but I’m doing drugs”.

Victor found out his son was using drugs when Valentin was in the 8th grade. He died of an overdose, never cured of his addiction. More and more young people are becoming victims of drugs because of the contactless online drug shopping system on the Dark Net. You can buy drugs and pick it up on the street in two clicks.

Watch our video about how the drug business works on the Dark Net and how it is being fought.You can learn more about the Deep Web in our Dark Net Dope Deals premiere.

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‘Azov came and said: ‘Come to the factory, to the bomb shelter!’. And then they say: 'We're going to die, and all of you will die here with us!'.

Michael, a worker at the Azovstal plant, talks about how the Azov fighters lured people to the facility to use them as human shields. Today, when the Ukrainian media call the surrender of nationalists ‘evacuation’, I want to show them this video. And to convey the words of an Azovstal worker, where his colleagues who were held hostage died: ‘They're not human! They must be exterminated! They don't deserve a trial’.

This is an interview from our new film. The premiere is coming soon.

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‘Living here is hell.’ In 2021, people in the Lugansk region told reporters they had been living under constant shelling from the Ukrainian military. ‘It was scary because, at any moment, you could lose your life, which has hardly begun’, says schoolgirl Valeria.

This is a clip from the film Donbass: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. It’s about the ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in Ukraine, the brutality of neo-Nazi battalions, and what they did to civilians.

Today is LPR Constitution Day. Its development and discussion began in a tent camp near the SSU building in Luhansk. The document’s creation was almost a spontaneous idea because there was no time for it: there were Ukrainian troops on the outskirts of the republic. The constitution became the first legislative act of the newly born republic.

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Today is the Day of the Baltic Fleet, the oldest naval formation in Russia. For some time, it included the submarine Magnitogorsk. It was so silent NATO dubbed the type ‘the black hole’. The submarine Magnitogorsk can dive to a depth of 350 meters and is capable of being at sea for up to 45 days.

See our video about it in the first episode of The Baltic Fleet series.

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'Kids picked on and laughed at me'. Lalit from India remembers how schoolmates bullied him. His body is covered with excessive hair due to a faulty gene. It was hard to be different when he was a child, but as he grew up, Lalit accepted his identity. Now he is a very famous person in India and has many friends. See what he says about how he overcame all the difficulties on the video.

There are more than 25,000 genes in human DNA. If one behaves differently, it can cause various changes. Watch our documentary We Are Different to learn the stories of Lalit and two other people whose appearance is different due to an altered gene and how it affected their lives.

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Have you already heard how former US President George W. Bush misspoke in a speech about the situation in Ukraine, condemning the 'invasion of Iraq'? His gaffe led people to remember the U.S. campaign in 2003 after the Bush administration accused Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction. Later it turned out that there was no evidence for this. Watch the video.

The consequences of the U.S. invasion were terrible. The Iraq conflict turned into a war with ISIS*. We have a film about Mosul, one of the largest Iraqi cities. Watch how it was recovering after wars in our film Mosul Between War & Peace.

*considered as terrorist banned in the Russian Federation

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‘They provide medical care, make dressings, feed. Not everything is as they tell us on TV’. The captured Ukrainian Navy sniper Andrey Kavyuk was frightened by tales about the atrocities of the DPR militias. They said, ‘in captivity, they cut their ears and noses’. How the surrendered enemy is treated in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Kavyuk himself saw when he laid down his arms together with his colleagues.

Kavyuk was a sniper at the Ilyich plant, where 1,300 marines of the 36th brigade of the Ukrainian Army surrendered in April. During the retreat, he came under fire, and the car turned over. Together with other Ukrainian soldiers, Kavyuk fled. The Marines reached the river but could not cross. They were found there.

This story will be included in a new RT Documentary film about doctors who work in a war zone. They save the lives of civilians and militias and operate on captured Ukrainian soldiers. The premiere is coming soon.

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‘They were beating me; there was torture and everything. Well, precisely in these basements,’ Ivan Kostenkov from the village of Muratovo recounted how the Aidar* battalion tortured him.

The nationalists tried to force him to spy on his friends who supported the LPR leadership, but he refused to do it even under torture. He was held captive for more than a month. Look at this brave man.

*Ukrainian radical nationalist formation

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'There are never kisses at weddings. We will start talking to each other in a month or so'. These are the words of the Kalderash Gypsy Andrei, who was married at 12. When he turned ten, his parents started looking for a young bride.

Child marriage is common in Roma villages. Whether the kids want it or not, no one asks. Watch Andrei's story in our video.

What goes on inside this unusual culture? Check out the film Romany Romance.

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‘It’s quiet here! In Mariupol, there’s heavy shelling’. Seven-year-old Dima talks about what he went through. The boy's parents died, hiding him from Ukrainian shelling. Finally, Russian soldiers found him and brought him to the Children's Social Centre in Khartsyzsk.

‘The kid’s very scared. He blinks a lot and squeezes his eyes’, - the centre’s teachers haven’t told Dima about his parents. He thinks he lost them. Ten days after filming, Dima was taken by his uncle.

There are 17 children in the Children's Social Centre. Most of them were taken out of the war zone by volunteers. Those who risk their lives to save others are featured in our video premiere of VolunTears.

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Le Figaro readers have found a similarity between Zelensky and Hitler.

On May 20, 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukrainian president. However, it seems deep down he is still an actor dreaming of an Oscar. By the way, he realised a big dream by recording a recent video message to the participants of the Grammy award.

While some were calling the Zelensky the most influential politician, the French newspaper Le Figaro published an article in which the author laughs at him and compares him to a clown.

Le Figaro reader supported the author and noted Zelensky’s oratory was similar to Hitler's: 'Hitler could have been Zelensky’s colleague! He was also a good actor, and a superb rhetorician. Both of these actors involved their peoples in conflicts with disastrous consequences.' Another commented: '... the same comedy, which one failed artist chose for himself in the 1930s and 1940s!'

PS: The photo shows Zelensky as part of an ad campaign for Ukraine’s TV channel.

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Afghanistan is considered to have the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. There is virtually no economy, while the local currency is rapidly losing its value.

This is why many parents in Afghanistan are forced to consider selling their daughters to survive. The average price ranges from $1,500 to $2,000, but this is a lot for people deep in debt earning an occasional dollar a day. They say that they will starve and freeze to death if they don't do it.

Boys are not up for sale because they can be valuable in the parental home, but girls are given away and married off very often still underaged. Watch the film Don't sell me, mama.

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‘It’s the first time the chess world’s been split. It’s never happened before. Even during the Cold War, chess continued’.

These are the words of grandmaster Sergey Karjakin. When the special operation began in Ukraine, Sergey supported Russia. Because of this, the International Chess Federation suspended him for six months from all competitions under its auspices. The grandmaster filed an appeal, but it was rejected. ‘Foreign chess players are silent in the media. And they sent me personal messages with words of support’, the grandmaster told an RT Documentary film crew.

In April, Sergey played matches with children from Donbass. He said the meeting was significant for him since he had lived in the Donetsk region for three years.

At the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, Russian athletes were removed from international competitions, and cooperation with artists in the West has stopped. Watch the film Killing Russian Culture.

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