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'Kids picked on and laughed at me'. Lalit from India remembers how schoolmates bullied him. His body is covered with excessive hair due to a faulty gene. It was hard to be different when he was a child, but as he grew up, Lalit accepted his identity. Now he is a very famous person in India and has many friends. See what he says about how he overcame all the difficulties on the video. There are more than 25,000 genes in human DNA. If one behaves differently, it can cause various changes. Watch our documentary We Are Different to learn the stories of Lalit and two other people whose appearance is different due to an altered gene and how it affected their lives. #video#India Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Living here is hell.’ In 2021, people in the Lugansk region told reporters they had been living under constant shelling from the Ukrainian military. ‘It was scary because, at any moment, you could lose your life, which has hardly begun’, says schoolgirl Valeria. This is a clip from the film Donbass: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. It’s about the ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in Ukraine, the brutality of neo-Nazi battalions, and what they did to civilians. Today is LPR Constitution Day. Its development and discussion began in a tent camp near the SSU building in Luhansk. The document’s creation was almost a spontaneous idea because there was no time for it: there were Ukrainian troops on the outskirts of the republic. The constitution became the first legislative act of the newly born republic. #video#LPR#Donbass Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Azov came and said: ‘Come to the factory, to the bomb shelter!’. And then they say: 'We're going to die, and all of you will die here with us!'. Michael, a worker at the Azovstal plant, talks about how the Azov fighters lured people to the facility to use them as human shields. Today, when the Ukrainian media call the surrender of nationalists ‘evacuation’, I want to show them this video. And to convey the words of an Azovstal worker, where his colleagues who were held hostage died: ‘They're not human! They must be exterminated! They don't deserve a trial’. This is an interview from our new film. The premiere is coming soon. #video#Ukraine#Mariupol Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Mom always worries about it so it doesn’t hurt’. Oksana is comforted that her son died without pain. He died defending the inhabitants of the LPR from Ukrainian shelling. Oksana lived in Moscow, and when she came to collect her son's body, she decided to stay in the Donbass and become a volunteer: ‘I realized that pain, sorrow and grief are everywhere here. I realized that I need to do something for people’. Her story will be featured in a new RT Documentary film. In the meantime, watch our video about her. #video#LPR Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Then [in 2014] Lugansk plunged completely into full-scale war.’ Rodion Miroshnik (LPR Representative at Donbass Peace Talks) recalls events eight years ago. First, Lugansk refused to recognise the coup d'état in the country; in response, the Ukrainians took up a blockade. For two months, the city lived practically without electricity and communications. Even the water was cut off. The referendum on the region’s independence took place in the context of an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. More than 96% of voters were in favour of sovereignty. Today, the LNR celebrates Republic Day with the status of a republic recognised by Russia for the first time. A flag was hoisted solemnly over the city. Russian singers Denis Maidanov, Rodion Gazmanov and Alexander Sklyar, performed in the centre of Lugansk. For an account of the events of 2014 and how Kiev tried to subdue the region by force, see an excerpt from the documentary Donbass War: Summer 2014. #video#Donbass 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

‘This is like Hitler’s Kristallnacht when he killed about 90 people, and they want to kill much more.’ In an exclusive interview with RT Documentary, Emir Kusturica compared European politics to Hitler's actions. The director is sure it is impossible to cancel Russian culture. Moreover, he calls on his colleagues to open a new chapter of Russian history: ‘We must bring Dostoevsky to the planet, not only to Europe.’ Kusturica is the creator of the Kustendorf Film Festival. More than 500 films from all over the world have been selected for the festival this year. The Russian movie Clear Sky has been awarded the gold. Emir Kusturica is one of the subjects in our new documentary about Russia's friends in Europe, and there are many of them. Will you be waiting for thepremiere? #video#Serbia 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

This 2015 footage shows Ksenia, codenamed Oksi, a senior paramedic in Donetsk. She saved the lives of civilians during the daily shelling. Ukrainian troops attacked the region despite the Minsk Protocol. The forces called Donbass people ‘terrorists’. According to Ukrainian law, the doctors face jail of up to 15 years for treating these ‘separatists’ and ‘terrorists’. But despite the threat, Oksi and her team helped the people. Watch Oksi’s story in the clip! Check out the full documentary Trauma for more details about Donetsk paramedics’ daily life. #video#Donbass Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘I’ve never witnessed the kind of enthusiasm I saw for the referendum. People came out against this atrocity to show they didn’t want to live in a Ukraine like this’. These are the words of Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR Andrey Timokhin (Codename ‘Prince’). He recalls how the referendum took place on May 11, 2014 on the recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics as sovereign states. Andrey says that people opposed the atrocities committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Watch the film Donbass. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrowabout how the referendum was held in the DPR and LPR eight years ago. #video#Donbass Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Protests continue in Sri Lanka, despite the imposition of a state of emergency. People are demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Anti-Russian sanctions have exacerbated the economic crisis, and prices in the country have skyrocketed. The cost of basic foodstuffs has more than doubled. Locals queue up for paraffin. They need fuel to cook food. The ‘hottest’ point of the protests is near the secretariat of the head of state. A tent camp was set up there. People have travelled from all over the country. Among the protesters is Mahindi Siri, a 40-year-old Special Forces soldier. He lost a leg after being blown up by a landmine while fighting in the north. The war ended 13 years ago. He never imagined he would have to count every rupee to survive. This footage was shot by an RT Documentary team in Sri Lanka, making a new film about how the country is coping with the economic crisis. It’s premiering soon. #video#SriLanka Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

'We’ll die if the pit closes. It’ll be death. How will I pay for food? Where will I go?' Henrietta from Congo cleans poisonous cobalt. Its compounds are toxic, cause diseases but Henriette has nowhere else to work and needs to feed her 4 children. This cobalt quarry is a workplace for many people. Why are there so many desperate to work with harmful mineral? Watch the clip to know. Find out even more more about cobalt quarry workers in our documentary ‘Cobalt Hell’. #video#Congo Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary