❗️Cousin of BLM founder tased to death by police.

Bodycam footage shows Los Angeles Police Department officers trying to detain Keenan Anderson after he was involved in a traffic accident. Witnesses called the police and directed them to the black man, who, according to them, was responsible for the accident.

Keenan tried to flee, ignoring numerous requests to stop. Eventually, officers used a taser on the man for 30 seconds, and an ambulance arrived five minutes later and took him to the hospital. According to police, Anderson, whose blood tested positive for cannabis and cocaine, died 4.5 hours later after going into cardiac arrest. Keenan, 31, was the cousin of Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter co-founder. Watch the video. Do you think the police needed to use a taser in this case?

Watch a documentary about Hawk Newsome, one of the BLM organization leaders, who dedicated his life to bettering the conditions for the black community. Newsome, together with associates, visits schools and teaches teens to fight for their rights. Find out more in Black Lives: Agents of Change.

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🫂 Have you seen this touching video? It was filmed before New Year but has gone viral on the web only now. Viktor travelled a thousand kilometres for his mobilised son Artem who is serving in the special military operation zone. The footage shows them meeting.

The father was travelling to his son, in Zaporozhye, with a humanitarian battalion. He travelled a thousand kilometres in seven days to see his child for the first time in three months. The meeting was quick. They managed to hug each other, exchange news and record a video greeting to his mother. Take a look at it.

Volunteers help many Donbass residents who are looking for relatives. We tell about one such story in the film Donbass Under Fire (2022).

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‘For us, it’s more than just a field trip, more than just a job. Our country’s at war. And when you’re at war, you can’t just watch.’

He's not a soldier, but he's been almost all the time on the frontline since the special military operation started. Evgeny Poddubny is a well-known war correspondent. Watch an excerpt of the film War Correspondents about the work of Poddubny's team, which usually remains behind the scenes.

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🌬 People in the Siberian Republic of Buryatia believe that spirits permeate our world. With the help of a shaman – who act as a type of mediator - they can protect, ward off troubles, cure disease and advise.

The shamans’ rite is special. Wearing traditional colorful robes, the person enters a trance, summons the spirits and indwells them. During the trance, the shaman makes offerings to the spirit, asks questions and receives blessings.

Locals address shamans even if they have serious health problems. ‘When a person falls ill, he goes to the doctor. If the doctor can’t help, he turns to a shaman,’ explains one of the female shamans.

On People’s Healer’s Day in Russia, take a look at a rite in our video. To discover more about the Buryats’ culture, watch So, You Want to Be a Shaman (2019).

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🏊‍♂️Once-successful female swimmer changed sex and now loses.

Just five years ago, Iszac Henig was one of the top 100 female swimmers in the country. These days, after transitioning to male, Henig finished in 79th place out of 83 swimmers. The four people to finish behind him, according to OutKick, were a swimmer born without a left arm and three others who specialize in the breaststroke.

Iszac is now swimming on the guy’s team. He finishes in last place, but says: ‘It’s pretty great to feel comfortable in the locker room every day.’ Obviously, for this he was ready to sacrifice his success in sport.

It has become an increasingly regular event for American athletes to change their gender. For example, earlier we reported on Aspen Hoffman, who, after transition, takes part in the girl’s division. However, the percentage of those who wish they hadn’t changed their sex is quite high. Listen to those who regretted their decision in I Want my Sex Back (2018).

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‘I'm from around here, born in Makeevka, so... when I say Donbass is my home, it's not just a figure of speech. I mean, it's happening to my home!'

Georgy Medvedev is a war correspondent. He makes news reports literally from the trenches. Medvedev is one of the heroes of our documentary War Correspondents.

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🌬 Lali has lived in a voodoo convent for several years. For the rest of her life, the scars on the body, made by the cult’s servants, will remind her about it. The cultists took away her traditional clothing, gave her a new name and forced to learn magical rituals.

This is a common story in the African nation of Benin. Voodoo is the official religion there. Locals give their daughters to convents to coax the spirits. The child has to live there for months or even years. Can they take the children back? Watch our clip to find out. Discover even more in Voodoo Brides (2022).

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💭'Many reporters come, film a report, and leave as fast as they can. I have a different approach. I live with the soldiers, and I need to understand and experience the same feelings they have.'

Pavel Kukushkin is the press attache of the famous international brigade 'Pyatnashka'. Like everyone in the battalion, he is a volunteer. He lived in Moscow, and in the spring of 2022 he left the restaurant business and went to the Donbass.

We post an excerpt from our film War Correspondents. In it, Pavel tells how the fighters accepted him, why he does not take up arms and blames himself for the serious injury of a colleague.

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👀In US children’s hospital, they suggest transplanting uterus from live donors to trans women.

‘Most transgender women would choose to have female physiological experiences,’ claimed a transgender advocate at the ‘Fertility in the LGBTQIA+ Community’ presentation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So, she indeed wants to discuss transplanting uteruses to trans women. She also made a remark that trans men can consider giving their reproductive organs to trans females.

The speech has gone viral, but in networks it was accepted negatively. ‘Wild’, ‘insane’, ‘ridiculous’ – were just some of the comments users posted on Twitter. Some reminded that the operation for transgender patients is ethically questionable since the transplant isn’t a life-saving procedure. Listen to the full speech in our video and share your opinion.

Duane Stewart, an evangelist and a subject of our documentary, condemns the idea of transgenderism in general and considers it a sin. ‘The body’s been created by the Creator to do… to function a certain way! You have breasts as a woman. They’re meant to breast-feed!’ Listen to this man's critical views in Pride and Piety.

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Hundreds of Congolese kids are thrown out of their homes after being accused of witchcraft. The accusation may come from a family member, a neighbour or even a priest, who locals believe unreservedly.

To survive, children are forced to beg and steal. Only Moïse Mbaya, nicknamed ‘Che Guevara’ by the locals, comes to help them. The man is the head of a centre for homeless children. He rescues youngsters from the streets, gives them shelter and food.

Moïse take only those kids who haven’t gotten used to street life. ‘It’s easier to earn money on the street. If you learn how easy it is, you won’t go home,’ he explains.

On Heroes’ Day in DR Congo, watch our video and film and find out more about the local Che Guevara, who took in dozens of abandoned children.

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This is how church services are held in Ukraine now, with dancing at the altar and costume actors instead of praying.

In the country, the canonical church is being replaced by a schismatic one. Why did Kiev declare war on Orthodoxy? About this, see an excerpt of the series Operation Ukraine.

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