🌬 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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😦This story has struck horror into the heart of the British community.

David Carrick, 48, a London Metropolitan Police officer, pleaded guilty to 49 offenses, including counts of rape, sexual assault, and false imprisonment. He was carrying out his crimes for over 17 years while servicing as a police officer.

‘This is one of the most shocking cases the Crown Prosecution Service has dealt with, involving a serving police officer,’ confessed Chief Crown Prosecutor.

Discover the details of the horrific story in our clip.

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🇨🇩‘There’s witchcraft and sorcery in our community’. People in the Democratic Republic of Congo believe in curses and evil spells. If a woman is suspected of being a witch, she will be burned alive or stoned to death.

‘Witches’ are pointed out by female psychics and false prophetesses called Mujakazi, who the locals believe are skilled at identifying them.

However, not everyone in DR Congo takes them seriously. Educated Africans believe the scammers are simply taking advantage of the gullibility of citizens. But what do they do it for?

Stay tuned and watch our new film Witch-Hunt in Congo tomorrow to find out.

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🤖Esteban, from Bolivia, is a young inventor. The teenager builds robots out of ordinary rubbish. His creations are unassuming, but they can do much more than store-bought toys. The most famous of these is the robot Wall-E. It took Esteban almost a year to make it. Watch our video and the film, Roboboy, and see what the machine out of rubbish can do.

Today is a holiday for young creators like Esteban – Children’s Inventors Day. They invent different gadgets, create games, modify robots and machinery. What do you know about the children’s inventions that have changed the world? Test yourself in our quiz below.👇

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🧾'I had an average bill that was basically 4,700€ monthly and it went up to 30 000€ monthly.’ A French cheese maker complains about unaffordable electricity prices. He said that such a tariff would kill the business.

However, such fears do not seem to worry European officials. Despite the discontent of its citizens, the West continues its harsh anti-Russian policy. In December, the 9th package of sanctions was adopted. ‘We have put in place the strongest sanctions ever, which leave the Russian economy facing a decade of regression,’ Ursula von der Leyen declared at the World Economic Forum. But in the end, it is not Russia that suffers from it, but the Europeans themselves.

Not everyone agreed with the anti-Russian sanctions. Recently, the President of Croatia, Zoran Milanoviс, said that he sees no point in such moves: 'This is nonsense, and we will achieve nothing', the politician noted.

Even at the time of the first anti-Russian restrictions, experts warned that the measures could turn against the countries that introduced them. Is the current situation the result of such decisions? Our film Sanctions: Boomerang Effect is just about it.

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On January 18, 1943, Soviet troops broke through the siege of Leningrad. By that time people were dying of hunger and eating the earth there. The city was shelled by the Germans every hour; they dropped more than 100 thousand bombs. 1.5 million of people died during the siege, many of them from exhaustion and starvation.

The siege began in the fall of 1941. Until the winter of 1943, it was almost impossible to get into the city or leave it, because all the routes were cut off by the fascists. There was still more than a year left before the blockade was completely lifted. But for the first time in a long period, people had food!

In our film Leningrad Siege Reflections (2013) you can listen to the stories of the blockade victims, who were children at that time. One of them is Lidia Sudina. Watch her story on the video.

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💭‘When I was a teen I was told that the discomfort I was feeling was because I was meant to be a boy and that if I transitioned I would feel great.’

Luka Hein, born female, had a double mastectomy at 16 and later deeply regretted her transition. She believes that she just needed more attention, maybe to discuss her problems with a psychologist. Instead, she received the doctor’s advice to change sex.

Hein is just one of dozens suffering from the decision they made due to LGBT propaganda. ‘This is being promoted. It’s in the school system, it’s all over the internet, Hollywood is behind it,’ noted Michelle Cretella, M.D. at the American College of Pediatrics.

But the fact that there are more and more people who want to return their biological sex is being silenced. The negative consequences of transitioning is not widely discussed in the media. In the meantime, LGBT is popularized in society, and continues to invent new ways of breaking the laws of nature.

Discover more on Luka Hein in our video. And listen to others who regret the choice they once made in I Want my Sex Back.

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🥶Would you take a dip in the icy water at -53C (127.4°F)? In Yakutia there were dozens of brave to dive into the font on the night of the Orthodox holiday, known as Epiphany — the baptism of Jesus Christ. People took the plunge in the icy waters not only in Yakutia, but all over Russia. This is a folk custom: ‘[In this] unification, there’s the greatness of Russia, because nowhere else do they have such traditions,’ said one of those who took part in the bathing. Some believe that a dip in the blessed water will cleanse the soul, while others follow the custom 'to be healthy’. Believers say it unites Orthodox Christians and lifts the spirit.

The custom of Epiphany bathing exists in Ukraine, too. But this year they banned it in some regions, and called it ‘outrageous’. Now in Ukraine there is a persecution of Orthodox Christians, which is subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate. Schismatics are ravaging and burning churches and beating clergy and parishioners.

Why does Ukraine want to destroy the Russian Orthodox Church? Find out in Ukraine: The Road to Schism.

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