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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. #Russia#China Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Scientists are studying the sensational huge craters in Yamal. These are giant funnels that can easily fit a 10-storey building. The pits are tens of metres deep. So, where do they come from? See in our post. In the filmBlack Holes of Yamal, a group of scientists talk about their theories of the mysterious phenomenon. #Russia#Yamal Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

June 1 is Children's Day. Today is also the Global Day of Parents, established by the UN ten years ago to mark parents’ commitment. On this day, we have a video about Kristina Yevtushenko from the Chelyabinsk region. At 19, after the death of her parents, she refused to send her five brothers and sister to an orphanage. Instead, she left her studies in the city, returned to the countryside and became the head of the family. The younger brother was then only four years old. The young girl had a house and livestock to look after. Kristina milks, mows, repairs, and cleans from early morning until night in the film. How does she live now? See our post. The entire Big Sister is in our film Telegram channel. #Russia#family#humanstories Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Today is the Day of the Baltic Fleet, the oldest naval formation in Russia. For some time, it included the submarine Magnitogorsk. It was so silent NATO dubbed the type ‘the black hole’. The submarine Magnitogorsk can dive to a depth of 350 meters and is capable of being at sea for up to 45 days. See our video about it in the first episode of The Baltic Fleet series. #series#Russia#NATO Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘If I never go to international competitions... I won’t be very upset. It is much more important for me that people in the Donbass can finally live a normal life,’ says world powerlifting champion Maryana Naumova. Maryana supports the residents of Donbass. She has been there over 20 times. In 2015, the athlete gave the ex-Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger letters from children from the DPR and LPR. ‘I saw that the assistant somehow took this letter and dragged it somewhere. How it went on, I don’t know, ‘recalls Maryana. The girl says Schwarzenegger apparently never read a single message. Maryana reminded him of these letters a couple of months ago when she recorded a video message in response to his speech on the situation in Ukraine. She said the actor was mistaken: ‘Nazism has no nationality’, ‘Russophobia is no better than anti-Semitism’. See her story in our post and film Killing Russian Culture. #Ukraine#Donbass#Russia Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘The crowd surrounded the car. There were more than a dozen of them. The driver was dragged out of the car. They tore the door off and smashed the windows’. Trucking company owner Sergey Gots tells how his drivers are treated in the EU. It is now dangerous on European roads if the truck has a Russian number or symbols. Glasses are broken, wheels are punctured, and awnings and bodywork are slashed. Nevertheless, Russian truckers are trying to stick together to have time to come to each other's rescue. Watch yourself in our video. Many Russians in the West now face russophobia. Russian students are underestimated in European universities, and private and state-owned companies are firing Russians from their jobs. Those speaking Russian can be insulted or even hit. In schools, children are subjected to public censure. See for yourself in the RT Documentary film Russians Cancelled. #Europe#Russia#rt Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘One particular instance where I was a part of a crew that killed a child. It’s like a knife. Every time I talked about it, it’s like, it’s like I feel dagger in my chest’. Brandon Bryant, a veteran of the Afghan and Iraqi wars, was killing people with a drone operating from Nevada. During the conflicts, drones became a widely used weapon and a reason for many innocent civilian deaths. Watch the memories of an American drone operator in our video. Learn more about how the US and NATO use military UAVs in our film Game of the Drones. #video#Russia Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

The Leningrad siege was a feat of ordinary Soviet people. They had to survive in hunger. Lidia Sudina was one of the millions whose life was changed by the war with Nazi Germany. She kept a diary of the bombing, starvation, and the other horrors of the siege. Watch her story in our video. You can discover more stories of the suffering in the documentary Leningrad Siege Reflections. #video#Russia 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

'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

The International Tchaikovsky Competition is dubbed the Olympic Games of music, held every four years in Moscow. It’s open to pianists, violinists and cellists from 16 to 30. If a musician is chosen to compete, they can’t let their chance slip by. Victory in the Tchaikovsky Competition paves the way for the winner’s flourishing international career. We recommend you check out Battle of the Keys to celebrate the 182nd anniversary of the birth of the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. He composed many of the world’s best known and loved musical scores, including the Nutcracker Suite and Swan Lake. Although we know that some in the West are ready to cancel even Tchaikovsky …. 🤦 More about Russian art and culture coming under attack for simply being Russian in the documentary, Killing Russian Culture. #video#Russia Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary