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‘Food by thy medicine, medicine by thy food’. This is the slogan that tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital, every day. The protest demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. With a population of 22 million, the island state is facing a severe economic and political crisis. As a result, people are suffering food shortages, rising unemployment and shortages of medicine. Experts say the sanctions imposed by Sri Lanka against Russia have dealt the final blow to the country’s economy. The impact of the pandemic has also adversely affected the country’s financial situation. As a result, experts suggest the country is experiencing its deepest economic crisis in its 74 years since independence. An RT Documentary team took this footage. They are in Sri Lanka making a film about how the country is overcoming the economic crisis. It will premiere soon. #video#Colombo Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

This legendary Soviet submarine captain was lost when his sub tried to cross a German minefield in the Baltic Sea in World War 2. Evgeny Osipov rested there unheralded for decades. Then an expedition started to search the Baltic for the remains of Soviet WW2 submariners. Check out our video for incredible underwater footage of Osipov’s last resting place and the answer to the decades-old mystery of his crew’s final hours. Watch how volunteers continue to look for the bodies of thousands of soldiers who went missing in action in the film Finding the Fallen. #video#history Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

9 May in 1992 Armenian forces captured Shusha, making a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. In 2020 Azerbaijani took the territory back; then the two countries have signed a peace deal. Here’re the stories of two women, Armenian Emilia and Azerbaijani Camilla. They found themselves on opposite sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Like other residents, Emelia and Kamila want a peaceful life. Watch the clip to know how the conflict affected them. For more details watch our infobites Nagorno-Karabakh: Why Armenians and Azerbaijanis are clashing over it? #video#history Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Seventy-seven years after World War II the remains of millions of Soviet soldiers are still being unrecovered. Volunteer battlefield archaeologists - adults and school students - continue searching for the missing. The father of the woman featured in our clip went to war when she was two years old. She hasn’t heard from him since. His remains were found more than 70 years after his death. She was happy and proud to rebury him with honour. The heartbreaking story is in our clip. WatchFinding the Fallenabout retrieving those lost in World War II. #video#Russia Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Christina Kosach survived Auschwitz. She ended up at the extermination with her family and saw her sister and mother-in-law lead to their death. ‘Everybody lined up in front of the crematorium. They counted along the line: burn 5, leave the 6th alive…burn 5, leave the 6th alive,’ her granddaughter told RT Documentary in the film Immortal Letters. Auschwitz was the largest extermination camp run by the Nazis in World War II. According to some estimates, up to four million people died there. In the extermination camp, people were sent to their death in gas chambers; hundreds of thousands were worked to death with little food and clothing in the concentration camp. In the film Immortal Letters, Christina’s story and others are told in personal archives, letters, and photographs from the time. #video#film Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘A shell flew in. There was a Ukranian tank over there. It drove in between the fir trees and fired directly at Volnovakha’s centre. It was the Nazis’. This is the story of Svetlana Mursalova, a resident of Volnovakha. People had to hide from Ukrainian bombing in basement, there was neither light nor water. ‘Well, in short, it’s scary. But we’ll manage somehow’- residents say. Volunteers help those who are left without water, light and heat. One of them is blogger Andrey Lysenko. He buys everything he needs with money from subscribers. Watch the film Donbass Under Fire. #video#Ukraine Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Avant-garde buildings were popular in the last century from Moscow to Khabarovsk. Watch the most incredible Soviet engineering designs in a Russia Beyond post. https://t.me/russiabeyond/879

Yukiko was a child when she witnessed experiments on humans. She lived near the place where in the 1930s and 40s, the secret Japanese Unit 731 created biological weapons. There is speculation Emperor Hirohito of Japan knew about the unit and passively condoned its work. Listen to Yukiko’s memories and learn more about the notorious criminals in the clip and our film Death Factories. #video#Japan Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

India’s holy ‘Mother Ganges’ is one of the most-polluted rivers in the world. However, locals wash in and drink from the same water that Indians throw garbage, dead bodies, and chemical waste. The Ganges pollution puts people at risk of disease. What happened to the Ganges River? Find out it our clip. The full story is in our documentary ‘Cry of a River’. #video#India Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Ever since Maidan happened, they’ve had free reign, and they’ve been murdering, raping, robbing people across Ukraine, across Donbas.’ George Eliason, an American journalist, speaking about the Azov* battalion’s activities in Ukraine. George has been living in Ukraine for over ten years. In 2012, with his wife, he moved to the Donbass. Since 2014, Eliason has been watching the war in the Donbass.’ In an exclusive interview with RT Documentary, George Eliason shares his view on the 8-year conflict, its sides, and the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. You can see another American view of the conflict in our documentary filmed with Miguel Francis Santiago in 2014, when the Donbass escalation was beginning, Donetsk: An American Glance. *recognised in Russia as extremist and banned #video#Donbass Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

'It is not a war between Russia and Ukraine. It’s a NATO and US war against Russia. And Ukraine is only a place where a war is being waged. Here is my interpretation. This war means a geopolitical reorganisation of the world’. Italian historian and journalist Angelo D’Orsi commented on Russia’s special operation in Ukraine and said in the Italian media discussing the conflict comes down to insulting the Russian president. The historian is outraged that Italy is banning Russian artists and trying to ban Russian writers. All this is happening with the tacit consent of his colleagues: ‘It is unacceptable that my category of intellectuals does not take to the squares, does not build barricades against all this’. #video#Russia#Ukraine Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

George Watts has been called the ‘golden voice’ of RT. He joined the channel when it started in the early 2000s, having worked on radio and TV for almost half a century. He voiced many documentaries and did simultaneous translations of important figures. George admitted he considered himself a rich man since he has two countries: Russia, where his father and mother were born, and Canada, where he was born. Today, on Radio Day, watch a video about the life of George Watts. #video#Russia#Canada Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary