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#photo#Russia This is Anya Korchagina from Novosibirsk. She’s 12, and she has Progeria, a rare genetic disorder. At the age of 3, she started ageing rapidly. There is no cure, so most patients don’t live past 13. But, despite her disease, Anya lives a full life. She’s recently taken TikTok by storm. In three months, 360,000 users started following her. Anya’s videos garner millions of views. She calls herself ‘Dobby’ because she resembles a Harry Potter character. Anya is currently undergoing an experimental treatment, which might slow down the ageing processes. The subjects of our documentary, The Curious Case of My Face, know what it’s like to become old early. Check out their story and wish Anya luck with her treatment. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#India The River Ganges has enormous religious significance to Hindus. They believe it’s goddess Ganga brought to Earth by Lord Shiva. People come to ritually bathe in the Ganges waters as it’s supposed to cure illnesses. Ashes of the cremated are also dispersed across its waters. Some half a billion people rely on the ‘mother river’. However, the same people who revere the river throw garbage, sewage and industrial waste into the Ganges. Watch the full documentary, Cry of a River, to get the complete picture of the water crisis in India. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Donbass: The Grey Zone shows how people live amid the war in the frontline villages in the Donbass. Despite the Minsk Agreement, Ukrainian troops have been getting closer to villages in the ‘buffer zone’ as part of the ‘creeping offensive’. Locals share their accounts of war and explain why they don’t leave their homes despite the horrors in our new documentary. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Russia The Simple Things workshops in St. Petersburg, Russia, are special places for special people. Adults with learning disabilities learn a craft, like pottery, woodwork or drawing. The people learn to communicate and become independent by creating things in an inclusive atmosphere. Meet Misha, one of the potters at Simple Things. Make sure to watch this heartwarming documentary. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Brazilian drug queen #video#Brazil The only thing Alemao favela girls are interested in is money, says a former drug dealer from one of Rio’s biggest slums. So local women are lured into the world of drugs and prostitution. They deal and use drugs. Drug trafficking is the most frequent cause of imprisonment among women. Raquel de Oliveira is one of the women who had to establish herself in the criminal underworld from an early age. At the age of nine, her grandmother sold her to a gambling den owner. Later, she married the drug lord of La Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio. When he was killed in a police raid, Raquel became a drug trafficker herself. She described her turbulent story in a book and shared the highlights in our documentary, Model Prisoners. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Living on rubbish #video#Kyrgyzstan There's a dumpsite on the outskirts of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, that isn't just full of rubbish, it's rich in human stories too. Abdykadyr is 60 and it's need that forces him to toil away on the giant landfill, along with his sons and daughters-in-law. They rent a home near the dumpsite, where they collect iron, aluminium, in fact, anything they can sell. Abdykadyr isn’t at all embarrassed by his work. He’s one of many who've ended up on the dumpsite. The new documentary tells their stories. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

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#photo Thirty-six years ago, the Mir Space Station was launched into orbit. It was the largest human-made object in space and the first crewed modular station, paving the way for the International Space Station. Mir lasted for 15 years, three times its expected lifetime. It hosted scores of international astronauts and thousands of scientific experiments. It crashed into the Pacific in 2001, but its legacy lives on. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Japan Japan is listed as the loneliest country in an OECD survey. There are nearly six million elderly one-person households, according to 2015 census data. Murata-san is elderly and who lost connection with his family. Volunteers regularly check on him. The country’s ageing and single population have given rise to kodokushi, or lonely deaths. As a result, more and more people die alone and unnoticed in their apartments, spurring a kodokushi cleaning business. For more check, the documentary, Dying Alone. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#India Ravi from India was head over heels in love with Uma. They married, but her relatives weren’t happy. Ravi and Uma are from different castes. The couple received threats, and Uma’s uncles came to their house one day. They beat the star-crossed lovers and took her away. This week marked the most romantic holiday. While in most countries, people marry for love, most Indians still have arranged marriages. Find out more about love in India in our documentary, Love Commandos. Arranged marriage vs love marriage - which one do you think is better? ♥️ Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

The coldest place on Earth #video#Russia What does it feel like to live in the coldest place on Earth? RT’s Konstantin Rozhkov decided to test it for himself and journeyed to Oymyakon, where temperatures can drop to minus 50 degrees Celsius or minus 58 Fahrenheit. When it’s that cold, things don't work like we are used to. But people who have lived here all their lives have no problem with it. They go ice-swimming when it's minus 50 degrees Celsius, and they come up with intelligent ways to keep their gadgets and cars up and running in these extreme temperatures, and their kids have fun on playgrounds. Also, there is no need to refrigerate food since they live in a giant freezer. This is why people eat raw meat and fish because all infections die out at such temperatures. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#photo#Ethiopia The civil war in Ethiopia has lasted for over a year. The government forces of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed are fighting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front or TPLF in the north region of Tigray. The fighting has left thousands dead and forced more than two million people from their homes. In 2019, Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for making peace with Eritrea. These photographs were sent to us from fighting 90km from the town of Lalibela. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary