Have you heard about such a language as Church Slavonic?

Agafia Lykova was taught to read books in this language by her parents, hermit Old Believers. In the 1930s, the Lykovs fled from Soviet pressure to the taiga. In 1978, geologists accidentally discovered the family in Siberia. According to their recollections, the hermits dressed in homespun clothes, used primitive tools, did not recognise any blessings of civilisation, and prayed all the time.

When RT Documentary met the recluse in 2014, she desperately needed an assistant. So, on the Day of Slavic Literature, we upload a video where Agafia writes to other Old Believers and asks for help.

After filming, a lot has changed: a new hut with a solar panel appeared in the yard and new helpers joined the family. One of the last is Father Georgy from Orenburg. He helped Agafia manage the house this winter.

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‘Azov shot. They [Azov fighters] simply shot him because he said: ‘There are people here, children here, don’t go. That’s it; there is no person’.

Natalya, who lives in the village of Kamensk, explains how the ‘Azov people’ killed a man in front of his family, who just asked them not to come close to the house where there were people. Natalya is now in the Mariupol Cardiology Center, which turned into a general hospital during the fighting. The centre received minor damage, taking over the entire patient load. Now almost everything is treated there, including injuries from exploding mines.

Natalya got there by accident. A Russian doctor noticed her on the road as she was ill due to serious heart problems. ‘The doctor said to me in the operating room: A little more, and you would have been gone; you just had time. I don’t even know how to thank you’.

Learn about doctors who work on the front line in a future film premiering soon.

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‘You take and build something, get a result, and enjoy the process,’ says Aleksey Tsapok, a DIY YouTuber and engineer. Aleksey makes fun things like potato guns, squid launchers, and caramel-fuelled rockets. Aleksey says he’s been inventing since he was little.

Find out more about what ordinary Aleksey has created with his hands in the clip. Then, watch the entire film DIY Da Vincis to meet other blogger-inventors.

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Mass murder occurred at Texas elementary school for children aged 7 to 10. As a result, 19 kids and two adults died. The tragedy happened in the city of Uvalde, at Robb Elementary School. According to investigators, the shooter Salvador Ramos was 18 years old. He had an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, as well as a pistol.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Ramos first killed his grandmother, drove to school and parked his truck nearby. A Border Patrol officer killed the shooter. Watch the details of this tragedy in the video. Do you think gun rights should be tightened?

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‘I told them it isn’t for me, but they didn’t believe me. They kept beating me. They fed me very poorly.’

This Indian girl was held as a sex slave for a year. She left home to get some money for her brothers to get an education, but it ended badly for her. In India, these kinds of stories are common. Children are often kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Today is International Missing Children’s Day, that’s why we want to show you this poor Indian girl’s story. Watch the clip to know what horror she has gone through.

Find more stories like this in the documentary Lost Kids.

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‘Azov’ fighters shot a 21 years old guy because he had correspondence with his grandmother in Russia’. Memories of Mariupol survivors are in our new film, watch this clip.

The tape has footage of atrocities allegedly committed by ‘Azov’, and testimonies of those who were not allowed out of the city along the green corridors by Ukrainian soldiers. The film also contains the chronology of events and how the nationalist movement in Ukraine was formed. The premiere is soon. Follow the posts.

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‘[The Ukrainian military] fired at our forward positions. [They used] artillery: ‘hail’, ‘cliffs’, fired by tanks'.

This is what Vladimir Zhoga, call sign ‘Vokha’, a battalion commander of the DPR militia, said in 2015 about the battles for the Donetsk airport.

They started on May 26, eight years ago. The day Vladimir Zhoga turned 21. He died this year, on March 5, in Volnovakha, covering civilians with himself. The Star of the Hero of Russia medal was given to his father for the son.

The interview with Vladimir is in our film Donbass War: Airport. Part 2.

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‘He’s not resisting arrest; he’s on the ground. You’ve him in handcuffs. Why is there a need to hit him in the back with a rifle?’ – asks a desperate mother whose child died due to police brutality. Quincy and his girlfriend argued, he left the house, leaving her angry. She called the police and told them he had a rifle. That fatal lie cost Quincy his life. Five police officers didn’t even intend to find out the truth but tackled and beat the young man to death.

Cases like this are common in the USA. Hundreds of people die every year at the hands of law enforcement officers. Watch the clip to see some cases. Do you think it’s possible to change the situation? See the documentary Once Upon A Crime to learn what people do to stop police brutality.

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‘[The Ukrainian military] would drive up to our house and start shooting somewhere, just like that. There was no Russia or DPR there. But for some reason, they had to shoot at these houses’. A resident of Mariupol shows what is left of houses after shelling by the Ukrainian army.

During the fighting, the city was destroyed. People were hiding from the explosions in basements. But not everyone was able to escape. ‘She was burned alive. She didn’t walk well. 80-something years old.’

The documentary from Mariupol is about to premiere. It’s a chronology of how the nationalist movement in Ukraine was formed.

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“When they attacked some village, they called all the people to one place. ‘Everyone must follow us and our religion. If not, we must shoot you,’” says Khuseini from Nigeria about Boko Haram terrorists.

This criminal group is responsible for killing thousands of people. Khuseini and his family fled their hometown when Boko Haram arrived. Now he lives in the Dar es Salaam refugee camp and teaches Arabic to kids at the local school. Khuseini says the kids are deeply traumatised by the terrorists’ brutality. They remember how Boko Haram attacked their town, killing their friends. There are machine guns, blood, and killings even in kids’ drawings.

Today is Children’s Day in Nigeria. Watch the clip to see how kids – Boko Haram’s victims - live in the refugee camp and try to get back to everyday life. Then, find out more in our documentary Hot Spot Chad.

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'[Ukrainian military are] fascists, one word. There is no Ukraine there... We didn’t come to them, they came to us'. In 2014, a DPR militiaman with the call sign 'Yakut' defended the Donetsk airport from the Ukrainian military.

On May 27, 2014, the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the Prokofiev Airport at Donetsk was under their control. Artillery fire on the city was sighted from the new terminal and control tower. The militias tried to stop the shelling, storming the airport several times. The fighting lasted more than 240 days and became one of the critical events of the civil war in Ukraine.

This is a clip of our documentary film Donbass War: Airport. Part 2.

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“We don’t have good dreams. Only nightmares,”
say residents of the city of Jharia in eastern India, the largest coal deposit in the country. An underground fire rages under a thin layer of soil. The flame burns houses. People are afraid to sleep.

Acrid smoke spreads over the terrain, and dust hangs in the air. Due to poor ecology, most residents suffer from chronic diseases. As a result, many died of cancer, tuberculosis and asthma. But the locals are more afraid of starvation than death. Therefore, they continue to work for a local coal mining company.

The government is relocating people to other areas. But it is harder to live there without a job and money than in their home villages. Watch the video about the city on coal. Then, learn more in the documentary Inferno Village.

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All the details of the conflict in Ukraine are on the Dig Deep Documentary YouTube channel! Watch videos and documentary films from reporters on the ground to get the full picture. Subscribe and share with your friends.

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‘People came, and they [Ukrainians] shot them with machine guns. They dispersed people, so they could not get even technical water,’

Alexey, a resident of Mariupol, described how Ukrainian snipers shot civilians when they went to fetch water from a well. Thus they restricted access to water. The residents had to drain it from water radiators. According to Alexey, these actions by the Ukrainian military took place even before the Russian army arrived.

Alexey is one of the characters in our film VolunTears, where Mariupol residents recount the horrors of those days when the Ukrainian army controlled the city.

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‘It’s a real NATO group. Soldiers from America, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, and Latvia. These instructors lived here! They trained Ukrainian soldiers to conform to NATO standards.’

Daniil Martynov is fighting in the Russian special operation as one of the commanders of Chechen divisions. He has vast experience, taking part in many significant combat operations. Daniil claims there are large quantities of drugs and NATO equipment at every captured Ukrainian checkpoint.

According to the commander, Kiev’s nationalist propaganda puts a lot of pressure on Ukrainian soldiers to enter the battlefield: ‘We captured soldiers and interrogated them... They all say: ‘You know, it was drummed into us that you are the enemy. That you want to destroy us, wipe us out completely’.

Daniil Martynov is a subject in the film 'We’re Fighting the World’s Evil' about the Russian special operation in Ukraine.

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Watch how newborn pandas are raised and become strong adults. The Giant panda is one of the wildlife protection symbols.

China is the only country where pandas still live in the wild. The panda breeding centre in Chengdu employs highly qualified specialists. As a result, the pandas live in safety and have the right conditions for successful procreation, and the cubs are given all the care to ensure they survive. The process of raising a panda is shown in our video.

To learn more about how China saves giant pandas in the documentary It's a Pandaful Life!

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‘As soon as you notice the change, when you’re lighter after using cream, you feel more beautiful’, these are the words of a black Senegalese woman Khuja, who bleaches her skin.

Many Senegalese women use skin whitening cream. They think they look prettier that way. But this procedure is hazardous, and it can lead to several terrible diseases. However, this does not stop women.

Doctors are calling for a ban on the import of brightening creams into the country. But the cosmetic business brings in billions of dollars, and no one wants to give up such profits.

See more about these women in the video and our film Beauty and the Bleach.

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‘Azov fighters deserve the death penalty. But the death penalty is not from a bullet but by hanging. Because they are not fighters, they are not warriors’.

Yashat lived with his family on the territory of Azovstal plant. For more than a month, they hid from the shelling of the Azov fighters in the basement. It was not safe to leave the shelter even at night. ‘They shoot at our legs, they just shoot with bullets, so we can’t even go to the toilet... We lived in dog conditions’, says Irina, Yashat's wife.

Memories of civilians of the actions of the Azov will be included in the new RT Documentary film premiering soon.

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