The Vostok battalion's founding commander Alexander Khodakovsky, DPR, talks about how they droved the Ukrainian nationalists and military out of the Azovstal plant.

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There is a joke in China: if a humanities student learns to pronounce Dostoevsky’s surname by the end of their studies, their efforts weren’t in vain. For the Chinese, it is too complicated and lengthy. However, there are a lot of those who love and appreciate the writer’s novels. They help to see the world differently. See our new video to learn why it is so difficult for the Chinese to understand the actions of the characters of the Russian classics and how they do it.

It’s an episode from the film Universal Dostoevsky. We’re showing it today to mark the Day of the Russian language. You can see the whole documentary here.

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‘Here they [Ukrainian military] had a temporary firing position on the approaches to the exit. This might have been where the machine gunner was positioned to meet everyone who would come in here.’

Russian sappers told RT Documentary how the Azov fighters and the Ukrainian military took refuge in the Azovstal steel plant. See where the command post, armoury and firing positions were located.

‘It’s a mess here. They turned everything upside down. The Ukrainian flag was left. They did not take it away. Here’s the flag. We don’t act like them, don’t burn or trample on their national heritage. That’s the difference between us.’, says one of the sappers.

This exclusive video will be included in our new documentary, premiering soon.

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In the Indian state of Punjab, thousands of farmers decide to commit suicide. This is because they cannot repay their loans to corporations that sell genetically modified seeds. And if they refuse to plant GMO plants, people are not given loans.

The debate about how dangerous genetically modified food is has been going on for years. On World Food Safety Day, watch the documentary The Peril on your Plate.

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‘Our units are not in good shape. Lots of guys want to escape – they even wound themselves to escape. The commanders say that if you retreat, you’re done.’

A Ukrainian POW described the situation in their regiment. He was captured by a Chechen unit of Russian troops commanded by Daniil Martynov. He interacts a lot with the POWs and says Ukrainian soldiers are forced to fight: ‘He was told that if he didn’t fight, they would murder his family. If he runs, they will kill him. So he must dig the trenches and keep shooting until it’s all over.’

According to the Chechen commander, every POW is valuable: ‘He [a Ukrainian POW] may not even understand some things, but we can still gather a lot of important information. We listen to his testimony and put the whole puzzle together.’

Here’s an excerpt from our premiere of Battle for Freedom: On the frontline. Watch the whole film here.

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‘He used marijuana starting at the age of 14, and battled for the next five years his addiction, and eventually became psychotic, abusing very high-potency wax, and he jumped off a six-storey building’, said Laura about her son Johnny, who was suffering from marijuana addiction.

Johnny became a victim of cannabis legalisation in Colorado State. Watch our video to learn the story of his addiction.

Find more information about the effects of legal marijuana on physical and mental health in the documentary film Marijuana Victims: Colorado.

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’They [Ukrainian military] deliberately destroyed the hospital. There were 80 people inside’. A resident of Donbass told how the Ukrainian army bombed the building.

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The UK will appeal against the possible conviction of two Britons in the DPR. Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin are accused of taking part in combat operations for Ukraine as mercenaries and receiving training for terrorist activities in the DPR. The POWs face the death sentence. The DPR Supreme Court is considering the case.

Our camera crew spoke to Pinner and Aslin after the British soldiers surrendered in Mariupol with other Marines. Aiden admitted he believed in Western propaganda and therefore decided to fight on the side of Ukraine rather than Donbass.

An interview with the POWs is in our video. This footage is included in the documentary Foreign Fighters of Donbass. You can watch the film in full here.

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‘I witnessed the execution of a Russian prisoner of war.’ Azov fighter Pavel Ilnitsky admitted that his colleague codenamed ‘Fritz’ executed a Russian soldier.

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Would you like to sail around the world? Russian Anatoly Kulik and four friends travelled on an inflatable sailing catamaran. There were night watches, huge waves, sharks and even an attack by pirates.

The oceans and man are inextricably linked. These reservoirs cover more than 70% of the Earth. In 2008, the UN General Assembly proposed that June 8 be World Oceans Day. Watch the Sailing Seven Seas documentary today.

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‘They [the Ukrainian military] use standard ammunition: engineer ammunition and small arms artillery and aviation. But that is not true. You can see the IED [improvised explosive device]. You see, they make IEDs very skillfully to use them against our armed forces’.

The Russian military exclusively showed RT Documentary an ammunition depot at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, where Azov fighters and the Ukrainian army took refuge. Among the weapons, they found a lot of improvised explosive devices.

These are the shots of the Russian servicemen that destroyed one of the explosive devices using a pressure charge. This excerpt is a part of our future documentary. The premiere is coming soon.

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On 9 June, International Archives Day is celebrated around the world. Often these documents are classified for decades. Only the next generation can learn about the reasons and details of the event in a reliable way.

Our post is about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, which American President Harry Truman advocated. The declassified archives make it clear the bombing of Japan was to be a rehearsal for a possible nuclear war between the US and the USSR. Watch the entire film Atomic Message for details.

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‘Luckily, the cat was lying on her chest. An artillery shell landed where the bus is. Glass shards flew through the room, killing the cat, but she lived.’

Liliya Chernova described how her young daughter Sasha survived Ukrainian army shelling. Their house in the Lugansk region is close to the frontline. But it is hard to call it home now. ‘The fence is in shambles, and the roof is full of holes and leaking,’ says Lilia.

According to her, Ukrainian soldiers have been bombing them for eight years, and Sasha is no longer reacting to it: ‘It’s been like this eight years, what do you think? We’ve been under constant fire.’

The story of mother and daughter is included in the film Battle for Freedom: On the Frontline.

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❗️The DPR Supreme Court has sentenced British mercenaries Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin to death. The court found them guilty of several charges, including being mercenaries and actions aimed at seizing power in the republic.

‘Jorge was my only son, he meant everything to me. He and his pregnant wife were taken from their home in handcuffs with bags over their heads.’

Delia de Califano from Argentina has never seen her son or daughter-in-law after the event she describes. From 1976 to 1983 Argentina was ruled by the junta. Those who disagreed with the military dictatorship were kidnapped and tortured. Children of opposition members were given away to childless military families.

For more than 30 years Delia hasn’t lost hope to find her grandson. Those women, whose kids were kidnapped back then created a group and became known as mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Mostly being 80+, they are still looking for their children.

Their stories are in the documentary Argentina’s Stolen Children.

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'We don’t lay claim to any other state’s territories or interests. Our task is to ensure security and peace on our lands and nations.'

Stanislav Zas, the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, explains why it was necessary to create a new military-political bloc 30 years ago. The CSTO was founded after the fall of the USSR. The organisation includes six countries: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

At any moment, they are ready to protect each other in case of outside aggression. And they are fighting terrorism, extremism, and drug trafficking together. Watch our video to find out how special forces counteract modern-day threats.

In our new documentary CSTO Allies: 30 Years Protecting Collective Security, you can learn more about the organisation.

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‘I incredibly regret that I went to serve in the Azov regiment, on the one hand. But, on the other hand, if not me, then someone else would be in my place. I don’t hate a guy I don’t know enough to let him go through all this hell’.

This is an interview with the captured Azov fighter Pavel Ilnitsky, who talks about his service in the battalion. Ukrainian radicals, neo-Nazis and foreign mercenaries joined Azov. In Mariupol, they shot at civilians, used them as human shields, and hit houses with tanks. In the battalion, Ilnitsky heard some fighters call for the return of the Donbass by force and its inhabitants ‘kicked out to Russia’.

At the end of June, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider a lawsuit to recognise Azov as a terrorist organisation. In Russia, Azov fighters face 10 to 20 years in prison if passed.

Ilnitsky’s revelations will be included in the new RT Documentary film, don’t miss it.

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