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Lifestyle. He Traded a Paperclip for a House

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In 2006, Canadian Kyle McDonald conducted a series of trades and exchanged a simple red paperclip for a real house. Likewise, Ruslan Chistyakov, a Russian blogger, decided to start a new life and do the same. But was he just as successful?

Добавить в избранное Social Issues. Girl Power: Hindi Style 25:01 Women in India still have little or no rights and are frequently abused and raped by their husbands. So Sampat Pal, an activist and a local hero, created the Gulabi Gang, which welcomes women in difficult situations and offers them protection and assistance in solving their family problems.

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Добавить в избранное Lifestyle. Freegans of New York 27:08 1 These New Yorkers have money to buy food, but they think it’s a good thing to dumpster dive for food that goes unsold and uneaten. They are called freegans and they save food from waste. An astounding 100 million tons of food is trashed in the US every year. So why let a perfectly edible bagel go to waste? New York’s freegans rummage in garbage bins and show how much good food is thrown away just because it doesn’t look perfect, or it’s approaching its expiry date. Check out how to eat in New York for free, and help curb the US food waste problem.

Добавить в избранное Lifestyle. Cinderfella 27:18 Yury led a simple life as a street cleaner in the Russian city of Ufa until one day, his photographer friend posted photos of him on Instagram. Then Yury’s life changed completely, as he became the city’s most famous model.

Добавить в избранное Nature & Travel. Never Furget 26:00 In the Never Furget documentary, scientists, travellers and nature enthusiasts explore the fate of the harp seal population of the White Sea in the Arctic. Years of hunting, global warming, and food shortages has put the harp seal population on the brink of extinction. So what future awaits the cute seal pups, and if they have one? Find out in our film.

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Добавить в избранное FROM A TO Z 1 From A to Z is Russian animated educational pre-school series, aimed at children aged 0 to 5 years. In each episode the girl named Asya answers her friend Cat’s questions on a range of different subjects including how to tell right from left, what’s the difference between big and small, striped and spotted and many others. The “From A to Z” is an animated project that is designed specifically to answer the constant flow of “how and why” questions from children, that are at times so difficult for an adult to handle!

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Добавить в избранное CITY POLICE SERIES 13:451

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Добавить в избранное Art & Culture. Art in The Red Zone 13:52 2 Russian oral surgeon has become famous after posting sketches from the COVID ‘red zone’. He secretly drew doctors and patients on the COVID frontline. Watch the interview with Ruslan Mellin to see the life he drew through the lenses of protective glasses.

Добавить в избранное Social Issues. Down in the Dumps 24:42 Landfills around Moscow remain a cause for concern despite a government promise to shut down all of them by next year. Environmental activists are pointing out issues that need to be tackled right away, including the material leaching from municipal toxic waste landfills seeping into the groundwater, resulting in contaminated drinking water.

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Добавить в избранное Nature & Travel. Aurora Hunters 14:00 1 Best observed in high latitudes, the Northern Lights have been fascinating people for centuries. A group of enthusiasts from St. Petersburg, known as the Aurora Hunters, has mastered the art of chasing and predicting them. Natalya, the group’s leader and mastermind, has created a website packed with statistics and forecasts invaluable for everyone who fancies spending a chilly night in the middle of nowhere staring at the sky.