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[00:00:09] in
[00:00:32] of
[00:00:40] in
[00:00:59] of
[00:01:14] Jesus
[00:01:18] of
[00:01:27] of
[00:01:36] of "the orthodox faith and Russia's cultural identity go
[00:01:40] hand-in- hand, and one
[00:01:41] of the bastians
[00:01:42] of the religion is the Sovietsky monastery here in Russia's
[00:01:46] far
[00:01:47] a north. For centuries, people have been coming to these islands to connect more deeply
[00:01:50] with their spiritual side and with nature, and that's exactly what we're
[00:01:54] going to do this
[00:01:55] week."
[00:01:59] "
[00:02:05] of
[00:02:32] of of
[00:02:42] of in
[00:02:52] The Solideski Monastery is often described as a
[00:02:55] stronghold of Russian orthodoxy and it does look like a
[00:02:59] fortress. I don't think... ever seen such defensive walls made
[00:03:02] from massive irregular-shaped bolders like this? is that how it
[00:03:06] was originally conceived
[00:03:08] of as of both a place of worship and defensive
[00:03:11] outpost? here's what you
[00:03:14] need to understand, the key thing is that this place was dedicated to
[00:03:18] God from the very beginning. two people who
[00:03:22] were really devout believers came over the
[00:03:25] of sea, of they were looking for the most suitable place where they could serve
[00:03:29] of god.
[00:03:30] nothing else on their minds, there's this main orthodox maxim
[00:03:33] or
[00:03:34] of rule, the most acetic thing you can do, which is to renounce
[00:03:38] worldly pleasures, live in poverty, and devote yourself entirely to
[00:03:42] penance and praying for the whole world. they arrived at this
[00:03:45] place,
[00:03:46] of guided by their faith alone, and consecrated
[00:03:49] it. they put up
[00:03:51] a cross first and then a church, so they dedicated this place to
[00:03:54] God, and then miracles
[00:03:56] of began. any divine miracle on this earth.
[00:04:06] of
[00:04:26] of of
[00:04:30] "Well, it's no
[00:04:32] in secret that the Salivitski islands have a somewhat
[00:04:35] dark past. People were exiled here for their faith, there was
[00:04:39] sieges, destruction, but how they managed
[00:04:42] of to maintain their religious significance through these
[00:04:46] trying times. Suffering is
[00:04:49] an inevitable part
[00:04:50] of of life for an orthodox
[00:04:52] of christian, as the scripture says, tribulation
[00:04:56] worketh patience, patience,
[00:04:58] of experience, and
[00:04:59] of experience.
[00:05:24] important thing is to try to be like God,
[00:05:27] The most cleanse yourself
[00:05:28] from passions
[00:05:32] and suffering helps, but I mean suffering that God
[00:05:36] sends our way, the stronger your spirit is, the more you can
[00:05:39] bear, and God will send you. suffering to
[00:05:43] bear, this place has a complex history, the initial
[00:05:47] period of great asceticism was followed by a period of much
[00:05:51] suffering, which resulted a great gathering so to speak, of
[00:05:54] this holy capital and grace that everyone can feel around
[00:05:58] here, that's where it comes from, from
[00:06:01] people devoting themselves to God throughout this place is long
[00:06:05] history, and even the marters who were
[00:06:09] exiled to this camp ended up devoting themselves to God, true. 'they
[00:06:12] came here against their will, but if it was God's will to send them
[00:06:16] here, where these walls steeped in prayer, helped them bear
[00:06:20] their suffering, they didn't turn it down, and
[00:06:24] endured the suffering as Christians, imitating
[00:06:26] Christ, this is, I believe, the source of divine
[00:06:30] grace that everyone can feel here, and what brought you here
[00:06:34] personally, I'm very different, of course
[00:06:38] from those who came here in the past, but like them'.
[00:06:42] "I think I wanted to devote myself more
[00:06:44] fully, using this opportunity that God gave
[00:06:48] me. At some point, I felt that
[00:06:52] serving God was the worthiest thing to do in life, and what was the
[00:06:56] best option for me, average man to serve God, a
[00:06:59] monastery. Just like in the old days, this format still attracts
[00:07:03] people who want this path in life. Grant, times have
[00:07:06] changed, and our measure of spiritual power is no match to our
[00:07:10] predecessors, but the essence still remains." This
[00:07:13] place is really beneficial for those wanting to devote themselves to
[00:07:17] God. Is
[00:07:18] there any chance we can look inside the monastery? Let's go and take a
[00:07:22] look.
[00:07:33] To people outside the church, monastic life can seem like a
[00:07:37] withdrawal from the world, but what does it mean to you in
[00:07:40] reality?
[00:09:14] 'What have the Salivitski islands taught you about yourself and
[00:09:17] life in general? What it taught me about myself,
[00:09:21] life on the Salavietski islands has taught me that many of my perceptions of
[00:09:25] myself were wrong.
[00:09:27] I somehow thought I had great spiritual power. I read all the great
[00:09:31] monastic books before joining a monastery. I
[00:09:35] imagined that I was almost a match for the spiritual fathers the days gone
[00:09:39] by. I thought
[00:09:41] I would enter a monastery'. demonstrates similar powers of selflessness, prayer,
[00:09:45] frugality and so on. I had a reality
[00:09:48] check. When we join, we're full of illusions, but these are good
[00:09:51] illusions, because God guides
[00:09:54] us. You observe the
[00:09:57] commandments and monastic rights. You experience ups and
[00:10:00] downs. You learn more about who you really are, and you realize you
[00:10:04] have much more inner frailty than you thought, but then you have God who
[00:10:08] helps you along the way, even slotful monks like me.
[00:10:12] if they at least try feel that the monastic union is very
[00:10:16] strong, that union is very
[00:10:18] meaningful. speaking of what i've
[00:10:22] learned about life in my time on the...
[00:10:24] It's this, the best thing you can do in life is to devote
[00:10:28] yourself to God. You don't have to enter a
[00:10:31] monastery. I personally am grateful that I'm a monastery,
[00:10:35] yet others have their own paths to follow, be that family life or public
[00:10:39] service, still the most important thing, and really the only
[00:10:42] thing we as God's creatures should do on earth is to
[00:10:46] serve God, which can take different forms. This is the source of
[00:10:50] happiness and meaning in life, even though it's inseparable from
[00:10:54] struggle.
[00:11:07] The Solomonski islands are home to mysterious, ancient stone
[00:11:11] labyrinths that some link to the afterlife and the mythical lost land of
[00:11:15] hyperborea. So let's go and find out
[00:11:17] more.
[00:11:27] Yecatarina, who constructed these mazes and when I read
[00:11:31] number of hypothesis as to what they were used for back in the day, and
[00:11:35] they include ancient calendars, traps for
[00:11:39] fish, and a place where rituals were
[00:11:43] conducted. Do you know what archaeologists today think is the most likely
[00:11:47] of those? From this vantage
[00:11:51] point we have a good view these stone mounds, using samy mythology.
[00:12:33] symbolic traps were used to catch symbolic prey to ensure
[00:12:37] good luck and appease the spirits. this hypothesis can be partially
[00:12:40] supported by the fact that these mazes are found in locations which until
[00:12:44] recently were used for hunting sea animals and
[00:12:47] fishing. a dramatically different approach was proposed in the
[00:12:50] mid-1900s. scientists discovered that some the mounts had dark.
[00:12:55] sand with bits of charcoal underneath them, supposedly leftovers
[00:12:59] from paris. others contained burned bones of sea animals, birds,
[00:13:03] fish, hunting and fishing tools, which could come in handy afterlife as
[00:13:07] well. based on those findings, they suggested that this
[00:13:10] place was used for a variety of rituals. in light of this hypothesis,
[00:13:14] the archipelago and their
[00:13:18] multitude of ritual structures can be seen as a major ancient
[00:13:21] religious center here on the white sea.
[00:13:34] And now perhaps for the most enchanting site the Salavietski
[00:13:38] islands have to offer: Beluga Wales. Every
[00:13:41] summer these remarkable and highly intelligent creatures gather here and put
[00:13:45] a spectacular
[00:13:46] show.
[00:13:50] Valeria. It's amazing to think that we're so close to the balougers now that we
[00:13:54] can actually hear them. breathing and communicating between
[00:13:57] themselves, so they use this bay not only as a breeding ground,
[00:14:01] but also a nursery, why here? what's so special about
[00:14:04] it? the circularski
[00:14:08] current is cold and goes around the Solomonski islands
[00:14:11] counterclockwise at depths between 5 and 50
[00:14:14] meters. its temperature is about 3 to 4 degrees throughout the
[00:14:18] year. the literal is the shore zone between the high tide
[00:14:22] and low tide points. it's 5 km. long and 400
[00:14:26] meters wide here, while the water rises for 6
[00:14:29] hours, its temperature can get up to 14 to 16
[00:14:33] degrees a sunny day. during low tide, the water
[00:14:37] withdraws from the literal
[00:14:38] and the surface current brings warm water towards Cape
[00:14:41] Beluji, so you get a spot of warm water with a temperature
[00:14:45] of about 10 to 12 degrees here, whereas it would be just
[00:14:49] f to six degrees on the surface the open sea. it's twice as
[00:14:53] warm here as in the open sea. explains why Beluga whales who
[00:14:57] live in the straight between Carelia and the Soloveski islands try to
[00:15:01] come here during each low tide in the summer, roughly between June
[00:15:04] 10th and August 20th. Okay so let me feel the water for
[00:15:08] myself, yeah it's still
[00:15:12] still pretty nippy for me. It's the Arctic Ocean, the
[00:15:16] white sea is part the Arctic Ocean, it's it's southern most
[00:15:20] bayers, they called the Canaries the sea
[00:15:24] because the high... whistles, clicks and and chirps that
[00:15:27] they make, i know that scientists are working a way to decode
[00:15:31] whale speak using AI, do you think they'll ever manage to do
[00:15:35] that and we'll actually
[00:15:36] be able to understand them?
[00:16:07] types of sounds, including clicks, chirps, screaching
[00:16:11] noises, whistles and many others. these
[00:16:15] sounds are arranged into patterns, series of repeated
[00:16:18] sounds that denote certain social behaviors,
[00:16:22] along the lines of hi, bye, let's play, there's a fish,
[00:16:26] go away, etc. when males arrive at Cape Belusi during the
[00:16:30] mating season, between July 20th and August 10th, they tracked
[00:16:33] females by displaying their size as they jump out the water, as
[00:16:37] high as they can and fall back sideways, making a large
[00:16:41] splash and lot of noise. female belugas like their boys
[00:16:45] big and fat, they must be good hunters so that
[00:16:48] they may have a greater chance of fothering good offspring,
[00:16:52] and they also scream, showcasing the power their vocal
[00:16:56] apparatus. the louder a male's voice, the louder his offspring
[00:17:00] will be able to scream, and consequently, the longer their
[00:17:04] range of vision underwater. that's why these... scream during the
[00:17:08] mating season, beluga girls also prefer foreign
[00:17:11] boys, there are only about 200 thousand them on planet earth, so
[00:17:15] they try to choose males who were born in the most remote
[00:17:19] communities, thus white sea bilugas will choose
[00:17:22] males from the sea of ahotsk over the local boys to
[00:17:26] lower the chances of inbreeding, how can they tell
[00:17:30] foreigners from home boys, well bolugas have 40 sound
[00:17:33] patterns to use the scientific term, but you can call it a
[00:17:37] primitive language of about 40 words, and each community
[00:17:41] has its own dialect the Beluga language. Therefore
[00:17:45] males sing their entire vocabulary during mating display, hence the
[00:17:48] nickname sea cannery. Apparently sailors who observed
[00:17:52] them during those mating games gave them that name, and hence also the Russian
[00:17:56] saying to yell like baluga. The Russian word Beluga
[00:18:00] actually refers to the Beluga sturgian, but people in mainland
[00:18:04] Russia who never seen Wales heard the word. Beluga, the
[00:18:08] local pomor term for the Beluga whale, and confused it with
[00:18:12] Beluga. Beluga whales can indeed get very loud during the
[00:18:16] mating season, they yell, they shout, they jump, there
[00:18:20] are many them, there can be up to 20 males in a pod, and there
[00:18:23] are 40 bugas living here, they all get together, rub sides against each
[00:18:27] other and get to know each other, it's typical behavior for them, so we already
[00:18:31] know about their language, since 1992, there's
[00:18:35] been a station to observe whales
[00:18:37] and the... natural habitat operating on cape Beluji,
[00:18:40] scientists that come here from the seamalls department the
[00:18:44] oceanology institute the Russian Academy of Sciences, put up
[00:18:47] tower made of scaffolding at the tip of Cape Beluji, climb
[00:18:51] up there during low tide, and use cameras with high quality
[00:18:55] lenses to photograph the whale's backs. when they swim under the
[00:18:59] ice, belugas scratch their backs, resulting in individual scar
[00:19:03] patterns like human fingerprints, so scientists take pictures the...
[00:19:08] backs, create
[00:19:08] a database and most importantly observe the behaviors the
[00:19:11] identified animals. At the same time, hydrophones are brought into
[00:19:15] capture sounds and audible frequencies are modified to fit
[00:19:19] into our hearing range. All sounds are
[00:19:22] systematized and mapped against observable
[00:19:25] behaviors. This is
[00:19:29] how it was determined that
[00:19:31] Belugugas.
[00:19:37] search continues because different whale communities have different
[00:19:41] dialects, so their sound patterns for the same behaviors may be
[00:19:44] different. so yes, scientists are very close
[00:19:48] to being able to communicate with whales. really? so they're very
[00:19:52] intelligent creatures then, and guess that's why they're one of very
[00:19:56] few species that can recognize themselves in the
[00:19:59] mirror. what, what? hello
[00:20:03] to you too. this is a sign that are
[00:20:07] self. aware that they can recognize themselves a mirror is just
[00:20:10] one manifestation of that. Belugas have names, there are
[00:20:14] sound patterns associated with each particular beluga. In a group,
[00:20:18] beluga addressing another beluga begins its message by saying its
[00:20:22] counterparts name. Basically we're talking about rudimentary
[00:20:26] consciousness. They're one the smartest species on planet
[00:20:29] earth. First, humans, then higher primates,
[00:20:33] and Belugas and orkas are in third place.
[00:20:50] males reach six eight years of age, they leave the maternal
[00:20:53] community, get together in pods and migrate across their
[00:20:57] entire habitat, but they never forget where they came from and
[00:21:01] who their relatives are, they know each other, they have
[00:21:05] well-developed facial muscles, beluga calf
[00:21:08] nurses during the first two years of his life, the mother
[00:21:12] squeezes out her milk, which is very fatty, about
[00:21:15] 40% fat content, into water which is cold and
[00:21:19] salt. so the calf doesn't suck the milk out the mother's
[00:21:23] teeth, but instead sips on this undalating ball
[00:21:27] of fat. that's why having mobile facial muscles is essential for
[00:21:31] belugas survival during the first two years of life. they have facial
[00:21:34] expressions, they're the only ocean dwellers that can smile, which they
[00:21:38] do deliberately. valery, i think one's swimming quite close to us
[00:21:42] now. now
[00:21:46] you can see it much more clearly, it's obviously don't have a door.
[00:21:50] fin like dolphins or orkers, why is that? what's the
[00:21:53] advantage? there's a long strip of ice forming along the
[00:21:57] coast and winter, 12 to 25 km on each side.
[00:22:00] balugas swim under that ice to hunt for fish. a dorsal
[00:22:04] fin could become a problem under these circumstances. why?
[00:22:08] because belugas go up to the surface near small cracks to get a breath
[00:22:12] of air so they can stay under the eyes for longer. the absence of
[00:22:16] a dorsal fin helps them get to the surface in very tight blacks.
[00:22:20] and ice holes, and they don't really need it because they're very
[00:22:23] slow. their typical speed is 5 to8
[00:22:26] km/h, so they can accelerate to 20 when
[00:22:30] hunting, but they don't need a dorsal fin to maneuver a horizontal
[00:22:34] plane, instead of a fin, they have a thick strip of
[00:22:38] skin, which helps them break off thin ice inside ice
[00:22:41] holes when surfacing. by doing so, bagus
[00:22:45] consciously keep the ice holes they need for breathing ice
[00:22:49] free. critically important in winter, a dorsal fin
[00:22:52] wouldn't just be useless, it would be a burden, right?
[00:22:56] okay, let's talk about their color, valerio, or rather their
[00:23:00] lack of it. i can understand that being white would be an advantage when
[00:23:04] you're swimming in the arctic sea amongst the icebergs, but
[00:23:08] here being white makes them highly visible, does it not make them
[00:23:12] also vulnerable to predators? the question is, why would they need
[00:23:16] white skin? the only explanation that can be found.
[00:23:36] under the permanent polar ice cap where they can be hunted by polar
[00:23:39] bears. Belugas have the distinction of being prey
[00:23:43] both for the killer whale, the top ocean predator
[00:23:47] and the polar bear, their largest. land predator on
[00:23:51] earth, so how do they survive? well, they hide under ice from
[00:23:54] orkas and try to remain inconspicuous for polar
[00:23:58] bears when they surface. it's during this time when belugas get to the
[00:24:02] surface from under polarize that their white color works as
[00:24:06] camouflage, otherwise it makes them very conspicuous.
[00:24:09] apparently attacks by polar bears are mechanism of
[00:24:13] natural selection. the survival rates the whitest males
[00:24:17] who blend in with the ice is higher, they're darker. Cousins get
[00:24:20] discarded, so this trade is reinforced in their species. Oh, Valerie,
[00:24:24] thanks so much for telling me all about these amazing animals. Thank
[00:24:28] you.
[00:25:24] 10 parties competing for the support of more than 100
[00:25:28] million voters in the race for
[00:25:31] 450 seats, who will
[00:25:34] fail and who will
[00:25:37] prevail?
[00:26:11] Курильский десант - это операция, она восстановила
[00:26:14] суверенитет России над курильскими островами, которые мы
[00:26:18] потеряли во второй половине XIX века. На
[00:26:22] островах Парамушира Шумшу здесь 2000 человек было взята в плен
[00:26:25] японцев. Первый остров Кулиской
[00:26:29] горяды с севера - это шумшу.
[00:28:32] In 1918, the countries the west won the final
[00:28:36] victory over the Ottoman Empire. The Sultan's government
[00:28:40] capitalated to the Intante and signed the humiliating
[00:28:44] armistics of Mudros. Great
[00:28:47] Britain, France and Italy wanted not only to destroy the
[00:28:51] Ottoman Empire, but also to divide the primordially
[00:28:55] Turkish lands among themselves. In 1919,
[00:28:59] their armies began to land on Turkish territory. but the
[00:29:03] west decided to choose Greece as the main striking force,
[00:29:07] seeking to make others realize its aggressive
[00:29:10] plans. foreign intervention provoked mass
[00:29:13] indignation among the Turkish people. the national
[00:29:17] liberation struggle was led by the experienced general
[00:29:21] Mustafa Kamal Ataturk. In order to bear down the
[00:29:25] enemy, he banked on the mobilization the nation and the
[00:29:29] alliance with Russia, which acted as a united front. with
[00:29:32] Turkish Patriots. At the end of August
[00:29:35] 1922, Ataturk's army won decisive
[00:29:39] victory over the invaders in the battle of
[00:29:42] Doomelinar and within a month liberated all
[00:29:45] Asia minor from them. The impressive success the Turkish
[00:29:49] Army forced the west to make concessions. In
[00:29:53] 1923, the Lasan peace treaty was
[00:29:56] signed. Turkey, one the first countries in
[00:30:00] Asia, managed to defeat the... Empires and
[00:30:04] defend its independence, becoming an example for
[00:30:07] millions the oppressed on the
[00:30:09] planet.
[00:30:28] Hello and welcome to worlds apart. For years.
[00:30:32] multitasking or having it all has been praised as both
[00:30:36] necessity and a privilege of modern life. originating
[00:30:40] in the west, it quickly spread around the globe, especially to the
[00:30:43] fast growing economies the east. it creates prosperity,
[00:30:47] but also takes away from the things that can never be fully
[00:30:51] enumerated, like family bonds or traditional culture. and the
[00:30:55] question is, can they to be bridged? well, to discuss that i'm now
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