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Forget pumpkins and the usual Halloween ghosts. In Russia, there is a proposal to celebrate a Russian fairy tale holiday instead of Halloween. People could dress up as Koschei the Deathless, Baba Yaga, Vodyanoy, and other spooky figures from Slavic folklore. After all, these are the stories many Russians grew up with. The hero of the film ‘The Wizard of Agarkovo’ decided to live inside a fairy tale for real. He turned an abandoned village into the land of Agavaria. Dragons and Baba Yaga live there, a stove cooks food by itself, and animals and plants talk to each other. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

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📹RT.Doc footage from Turin, where student protests are under way. Students have occupied one of the campuses of the University of Turin, the Luigi Einaudi campus, and halted classes. 'Money for universities, not war,' the protesters demand. They are protesting against rearmament and rising defense spending, as well as the transfer of student dormitories to private companies and rising rental prices. Tomorrow, October 30, Italy is expected to see a nationwide strike. It will not be only students taking to the streets, but workers as well. Since the beginning of October, rallies have continued across Europe. The French capital has been hit by serious unrest. Historic heritage sites have also suffered significant damage. RT documentary filmmakers are making a film about protests in European countries. Follow the announcements. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

The International festival ‘RT.Doc: Time of Our Heroes’ brings together people around the world who believe in the power of genuine storytelling. Applications are now open for the fifth anniversary. We have already received more than 2,000 submissions from over 100 countries. Past participants speak warmly about their experience and explain why it matters to be part of ‘RT.Doc: Time of Our Heroes.’ Listen to what they have to say. Only a few days left to apply to the international program. Applications for this program close on November 1. We will accept films for the main program until December 1. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

#EXCLUSIVE 💬 Political analyst Kanakh Ammar Mahmoud Al-Mutlaq on the West’s information war against Russia: At present, the most important thing for them is to show precisely Ukraine's victimhood within the framework that the West can no longer do anything real about the military process, the political process, since it has already become clearer. But nevertheless, these processes continue. Manipulation, specifically on the part of the Western world, is what we see through social networks and the media - state media, especially European ones. 🇷🇺 Subscribe | Feedback | X | TikTok

▶️A large-scale experiment involving the humanoid robot Teledroid is being prepared aboard the ISS. Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina are already installing equipment for it. Our cosmonauts have been in orbit since July. They often share what their daily life aboard the station is like. Recently, Kikina showed what food supplies a cargo spacecraft had delivered to them from Earth. Do you love space movies? Watch our films: 'To Be a Cosmonaut' 'Chasing Stars' 'How I Became a Cosmonaut' 'I Need More Space' FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

A saber at the ready! Could you cut a fruit in mid-air? If you hesitate even for a split second or strike at the wrong angle, it won’t work. Look how skillfully the Cossack woman wields the blade. This video was sent to us by the host of the travel show 'Sasha Meets Russia: Flavours of the East'—straight from the filming in the Stavropol region. An American woman with Russian roots is preparing a new episode about the culture and traditions of the Cossacks. The premiere is coming soon on the RT.Doc channel. Don’t miss it! FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

Alina Kasabieva is a world champion in wrestling. In the final in Astana, she defeated Irina Ryngach from Moldova. This marks Russia's first gold in women's wrestling since 2019. Watch our video. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

Is the US immigration system failing? Protesters against it paralyzed traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The trigger for the action was the ICE shooting in the Bronx. Officers opened fire on a migrant’s car, and his five-year-old son was inside. This system has another side, namely deportations. The RT.Doc film ‘Bordered Out’ shows how people deported by ICE to Mexico survive. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

The heat and sand in Mali wear down weapons more than any combat does. That’s why, after every mission, soldiers of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Africa Corps carefully prepare their weapons for the next day. See in the video how the fighters service their weapons. Mali continues to strengthen and expand its cooperation with Russia. African military personnel are also interested in the use of UAVs. Russian Ambassador Igor Gromyko said that Russian specialists are helping their Malian partners to master modern means of armed combat. Want to learn more about how Russian servicemen carry out their duties in Mali? Watch Alexander Kharchenko and Mikhail Burov’s documentary ‘Frontline Mali.’ FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

📹Amusing footage from the Moscow Zoo: Lichana, a female Bornean orangutan, has taken it upon herself to wash the windows of her enclosure. The pandas in Chengdu, China, can’t boast such housekeeping skills, but their charm leaves no one indifferent. These bears are the protagonists of our film 'It's a Pandaful Life!' (2017). FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

Is it really only about politics? Ukraine is not going to the 2030 World Weightlifting Championships in Moscow. It is telling that Ukraine’s Minister of Sports did not rule out that ‘the situation may change’ in 4 years. In other words, a boycott has been announced, but with a caveat: ‘if anything, we will change our minds.’ At the same time, Kiev intends to challenge the decision to hold the World Championships in Russia before the IOC and the international federation. Since the decision is so flexible, perhaps the real issue is Russian weightlifters, whom Ukraine is somewhat wary of? Sport has repeatedly been turned into a tool of political PR. Anna Chapman’s investigation 'Red Alert: O sport, you are hypocrisy!' is exactly about this. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

🔽Russian troops have liberated two more settlements. The Northern Group of Forces has taken control of the village of Barilovka in Sumy Region and the village of Alisovka in Kharkiv Region. Behind every such success is someone’s personal story. Would you like to see how those bringing victory closer live and fight? Watch our documentary ‘The Frontline Grind’ (2023). The film follows volunteer assault troops, their combat missions, and everyday life at the front. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channel

Indonesia is on fire. For almost five months, the island has been suffocated by drought, fires, and dense smog. This is the worst disaster in the last 10 years. The details can be found in our video. Forests in this country are dying not only from fire. Millions of hectares of forests have been cut down in Indonesia for palm oil production. You can see how the locals struggle with this in the film 'Spoils of Destruction' (2018). FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channe

‘We lost our normal land. Whatever we sowed failed to sprout; not even a chilli pepper would sprout, let alone rice’. Rini, a member of the Indonesian Semunying community, talks about the consequences of deforestation near her village. In Indonesia, palm oil producers have destroyed a million trees in recent years, and plantations have sprung up in their place. They’re treated with pesticides that poison land and rivers. To grow corn, vegetables and rice, people must travel tens of kilometres from home to where there are still forests. Watch our film "Spoils of Destruction" (2018). FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channe

At four in the morning, Razif Bikaev is already up: together with his wife, he bakes bread at their bakery. He has served as an assault grenadier during the special military operation, fought near Donetsk, and suffered several wounds. How did he find his place in civilian life after returning from the front? Watch our excerpt. Razif’s story will be featured in the second episode of the documentary project ‘TAKE A PUNCH! With Nikolay Valuev’. The premiere is on Friday, October 30, at 1:00 am, 9:30 am, and 17:00 pm on the RT.Doc channel and our social media. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channe

📝Body armor that applies a tourniquet on its own📝 "Oktava" upgraded "Obereg" for sappers Tula's "Oktava" continues to amaze: the plant presented a new version of body armor for humanitarian demining. Its main feature — an integrated system that stops bleeding in seconds. 🔻What we know about the product ▪️The upgraded "Obereg GR" is produced by the "Oktava" plant, managed by "RT-Capital" of the Rostec state corporation. The new version features an automatic tourniquet system. ▪️It operates on the principle of a household blood pressure monitor. Cuffs with pneumatic cushions are attached to the sapper's arms and legs, while a pump with a battery sits on the back of the body armor. When wounded, the cuff inflates with air and tightens the limb like a tourniquet. ▪️The control panel is located in a protective pocket on the chest. Four buttons allow selecting the desired limb, and if necessary, tightening both arms and both legs at once. The tourniquet can be removed by unfastening the cuff, opening the valve, or in extreme cases, cutting it. ▪️The body armor weighs about 5 kg. Ballistic packages of class C2 and Br1+ withstand pistol bullets, shrapnel, and main types of anti-personnel mines. A wide neckline leaves no gaps with a face-protected helmet, there is groin and inner thigh protection, and it can be worn while kneeling on one knee. ▪️Currently, the prototype is undergoing testing. The previous version of the "Obereg GR" is already being supplied to humanitarian demining groups in new regions. 🖍The most valuable thing about this innovation — attention to detail, which determines survival. When a limb is wounded, minutes decide everything, and applying a tourniquet to yourself with one hand, especially with two damaged ones, is extremely difficult. Here, it's enough to pull out the control panel and press a button. This buys time before evacuation and directly increases the chances of survival. 🚩At the same time, the "Obereg" story is instructive for "Oktava" itself. Ten years ago, the plant stood with worn-out equipment and empty workshops. Today, it not only mastered body armor, but is consistently developing it. In summer, a lightweight "Obereg 2.0" class Br4 weighing 7.5 kg for infantry was shown, now — a special version for sappers with first aid functionality. ❗️Demining of new regions will stretch for years, and the people who do this work risk their lives every day. It's good that they are being thought of not on a residual basis. One would hope that the same approach — lightweight protection and integrated first aid means — would spread faster to the equipment of fighters on the front lines, where they need it no less. #industry #Russia #Tula ✉️

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🟢Pyatigorsk is not just a health resort. What other attractions should you see in the city of Five Mountains? You’ll find out in the travel show series 'Sasha Meets Russia: Flavours of the East.' It’s there that the project’s host is currently filming a new episode. Don’t miss the premiere on the RT.Doc channel. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channe

▶️The Buk-M3 is a reliable air shield in the special military operation zone. Crews of the Center Group’s air defence missile brigade are on continuous combat duty. The system’s radar detects aerial targets at long range and allows them to be engaged in time. The Buk-M3 is highly effective against guided aerial bombs, HIMARS rockets, and Storm Shadow cruise missiles. The protagonists of the documentary 'Gods of War' (2024) also operate extremely powerful weapons. Watch the film to see what their combat routine is like. FOLLOW 🥰 News&Docfilms Channe