When kid is start training at 10 oclock in the morning in st petersburg. Its 3 in the afternoon where the above lives some 4500 kilometers further east on lake by car. Both live in russia the largest country in the world. But russias true greatness it is said lies not in its area but in its people there are more than 146000000. 00 russians each with a story to tell stories full of hope and joy of sadness and anger. I think. Because. Living on our trip through this vast country we need 6 people from 6 different generations right now in the middle east each has much to tell about childhood and youth about working and growing old about life in big cities and in tiny villages about having children and about dying in russia. Our journey begins close to the Ural Mountains then we go to central siberia and on to northwestern russia. Chelyabinsk is an Industrial City halfway between moscow and novosibirsk. Yelena is heading to a storage room to collect some things for the children in her care. The uk national we have to buy this for all of them. These are good for mariska my skin. Yes perfect. And has the 1st was a babys sort of. Something to play with and a nice new to a former. Shes tired of the old ones. Through the years and this hedgehog will bring her luck years ago when we hear what are the. Children for whom these things are intended have not always had good luck. These rooms in the Public Hospital in chelyabinsk are reserved for special patients. d they reserved for children many are ill some have chronic conditions their parents cannot or may not care for them. Instead of their mothers they have a boycott who works for an ngo called women of eurasia. The ngo takes care of children from disadvantaged families. Nor up im 55 is for girls and boys. As i look would have brought you a hedgehog. To tell me. Why that. And that. Dont be afraid nobody will hate you im here for. You move you did you miss me my golden girl i missed you to. Look ahead shark. The other piece. I want to mama i work as a mom all day long i do everything that mothers do. You keep. Most of the children only spend a few weeks here. She needs peace and quiet shes tired. Shes swallowing too much air but some stay for several months until they are sent on to childrens homes or adopted. The littlest ones. Seem small and some unknown because. Many of them were simply abandoned by their own mothers because their mothers said after that they didnt want to keep the child to be thought of sometimes because their hiv positive when you just those children are 1st brought to us in the hospital to be examined what im some of the children have had to be removed from junkies apartments where the parents are in drugs when you get the child is running around on its own you need it up you know and the parents are basically and responsive in your view when youre the qualcomm since the young. 1000000 600000 babies were born in russia in 20. 2300. 00 of them were abandoned right after their. Around 44000 children are officially registered as orphans in more than 1300 childrens homes across the country the birth rate in russia has been lower than the death rate for years so the state has created incentives for women to have children a family receives half a 1000000 roubles around 6500. 00 euros per child as a one time payment here more education for living costs the scheme is supposed to strengthen families but hundreds of children learned the word mama here in the hospital thats what they called. The national this child had to be taken away from her parents at 4 and a half months her mother messed up once in her life thats why her daughter is here because also. In the moment but i hope shell get her act together again and then the girl can return to the family until then she has to stay with us. The 2nd round. When something. So that in the morning theres washing dressing and brushing their teeth. Thats also the morning routine over 1000 kilometers to the north east in the skins kaia in siberia. The children here are older and they start the day at 7 am with exercises. The. 16 year old that only cut teflon out is one of russias nearly 17000000. 00 schoolchildren. Half. Done one 5th of an hour before breakfast shower make your bed and brush your teeth. Their only come lives in this boarding school with 200 other girls and boys from the region her parents are reindeer herders and members of the indigenous hunting ethnic group for generations they have followed their herds of reindeer in the north of russia. But for the past 10 years this boarding school has been the only class surrogate family. Ive grown used to the teachers and i like it at School Better than at my home course. Those kids is located in the boreal forest or tighar of western siberia just 2000 people live here half of them are hunting muncy or nets together with around 30 other groups they are officially recognized as the indigenous small number of peoples of the north and some of these ethnic groups have fewer than 200 members and are nearing xed. They are spread across an area that covers nearly 2 thirds of russia. Like their own account many of the students only see their parents twice a year for a few weeks in the winter and for 3 months in the Summer Vacation the rest of the year the state takes care of them providing education and a dormitory free of charge in particular in northern russia where many nomadic people live there are dozens of boarding schools like this one. This was done for School Starts at 8 am and goes until 2 in the afternoon then we have nap time until 4 at 4 we get a snack and then we do our homework later we have sports basketball or volleyball or we go for a walk outdoors. Patriotic education is an important part of schooling in russia its supposed to instill a love of the motherland which needs to be defended. The students are obliged to take a course called life safety skills. Some of them volunteer for an additional qualification. Was. A splash work naturally and without the beginning of the school year they ask us if we want to join a military club there you learn to march shoot and take apart a weapon well if you want to you can say youll join younger that it did with. Most of those who do are boys but there are some girls too like me who while. I like weapons. In wrong i like learning to use them no matter what mood im in yet it is what out. Even if it ruins my nails its pretty exciting every kind of weapon not just machine guns until. They are. Going. Im not scared of them i like them. Are representative of the next oldest generation prefers using his fists as weapons we need him in the northwest of russia in copy not near st petersburg. I cut. Above the. Last. Laugh. As a lot of others are serious just get out there. And his name is katie and michelle i love 23 years old one meter 90 tall weight 82 kilograms. Ok egypt laid out that my hands hurt and i got hit on the had 3 children a few dollars but it is nice but i still said to him but i was lucky my opponent fell over i was lucky for me now i can feel the adrenaline in my blood and i feel good. This kind of no holds barred fighting has only a few rules you basically keep on hitting until your opponent can no longer defend himself kitty im a child has been doing this sport for 2 years his nickname in the ring is the bouncer. Here reputation counts fighters want to be known as the toughest the quickest and the best other nicknames include wild latino and fearsome farmer mighty migrant there are believed to be tens of thousands of young men who fight line. This or similarly in russia a sizable fraction of the nearly 9000000 men between 20 and 29 years old. For kids boxing is about more than just the show this phone. I moved from soccer to no holds barred fighting or about but its all thought and theres a number. Used to be really crazy about football before the wall of what serving in the army changed me to go to the ghetto i wasnt so excited about soccer anymore so i started looking for something else. Then after work i couldnt just sit around at home i needed to find an outlet for all my energy. Stalin theory so i got into the ring and i won my 1st fight with the bill was shorter than the 2nd year old then the 3rd. Kid he recognizes that the show fights are brutal but he says fighting helps him to be a nicer guy in everyday life he claims it can help prevent men from being violent in other contexts at home with their family for example Domestic Violence is a huge problem in russia but can boxing really help protect families and society as a whole. Im working with someone is that if there is so that those experience an explosion of emotion that we dont just dont like soccer hooligans when they battle for months on end theres a 30000 you know what are we dont hate each other or respect our partner but im just like you when he kicks you in the head here very. Often not just at the prison but you have to release the tension the tension of daily life. Otherwise you start drinking like some people others turn to drugs not of course you know another type might just fade away and die because of the monotony of life in russia. So to relax some take a parachute jump in some take a drink and a bit is when youre in the 3rd kind of i guess but i thought the fight with their fists youre up on your. I guess i did that is quite. Somebody said i was good its so important for the little ones to eat well theres a. Pleasure to see what the worst thing is when they dont want to eat you then you dont use them at the beginning they stressed out and have no appetite. But soon they settle in and start eating better then the beginning growing and the health improves. You know what is yet the some of the children have been spoiled with sweets at home when they come here they have to eat her agency. At 1st they refuse but they have no choice and then they start easing everything goes on and. Just opening useful food is coming. Here is you cant possibly get. So they sit down. To have. d a nice man is there. A boy because 24 hour shift at the hospital is over. Its time for the 40 year old to go home to her own family. Who work as a professional mother is paid for by women of eurasia the ngo was founded 15 years ago to help the disadvantaged in russia abandoned children people with aids disabled people women in prison youths from underprivileged families. The organization has plenty to do. According to official statistics around 1000000 people in russia are hiv positive. Cat. Illinois Organization Also accepts funding from abroad which means that she and other employees are listed as foreign agents by russian justice officials its a stigma but doesnt let it get to her. I think you must know its quite. Nice the cash begin. To move back in several shifts. Sometimes 24 hours at a time sometimes only during the day 2 days on shift then a 2 day break. When children from an orphanage come in for an operation we spend the entire time with them in a surgical ward to take care of having to be here sometimes they need just 3 days to recover. But sometimes they stay for 2 months then we visit them every day the worst thing is when they start crying and calling out mama mama. Would just watch them we know that from our own children from when we take them to kindergarten and that it went to stay there. Its heartbreaking to see how they dont want to let me go. Just for years. But get ready but i have a trick i distract the kids i say im coming the next day i give them something to play with or something sweetie. You have the stairs to you then the nurse comes and i leave but youre going to go in the back and you that helps him deal with the separation of car. Is actually a cook by profession but 7 years ago she left her own job and has been taking care of disadvantaged children ever since she earns 22000. 00 rubles a month the equivalent of 270 year olds about half the average monthly wage in russia with that she supports her family her 2 children and her father on her own. As husband left. These days the family of 4 lives in a 2 room apartment on the outskirts of chelyabinsk. Was a day. Good. Which is you take your own weve built it across them yes. Just what you call grandpa to the table. This is our specialty buckwheat with milk mileage. I dassent tea with us. Its the start of the family evening with her father alexander and her son vladimir her daughter a catalina isnt home yet. Paul martin a ago has brought everything previously out of what she cry cry. Every hour to walk. Her mother as pregnant and i have to go to the hospital there was no one else at home 2nd child yes the golden one to eat she was really upset at the. Things. She stood at the door calling mama mama. But then she did Start Playing cards with the guy she was curious like all children. Look with me or go thats nice. You clearly buy it the bridge story is like mass are part of my work. If i had to carry it around inside me all the time it would be unbearable for this thoughts about the guy the guy but when i tell my family about what happens to the children. They gave me support of value. Because our lives of you were bright enough of a price and you know it relieves me to have my loved ones listen sorry. So i can give my wounds to my own children i knew. Jim yes them. Thank him. Thank. God. Hes children also only see their parents rarely. From june to august its Summer Vacation for vet only contest and her schoolmates. Their son by helicopter to the nomad settlements there are no roads or Railway Lines through the tiger here. Only the trauma gun river can be traversed by boat its named after the main hunting good. Little is already starting to feel a bit sad. On the one hand shes looking forward to seeing her family. But she knows shell miss her school which is said to be one of the best in a radius of 100 kilometers. Up the start of call i started 1st grade back when the school opened and we were the 1st pupils and that was 10 years ago. Into this debt according to a large scale survey of young people carried out in 2018 by a Russian Institute with links to the kremlin most russian children would not. Miss their schools what do we call our traditional dwelling. Oh that was a chunk thats right a true and in the middle of the church is a fireplace. That 7 out of 10 students surveyed said they didnt like school because they had too few subjects that were useful for their lives another study says that students in russia are more interested in environmentalists topics than in russian politics thats certainly true of their only contempt lena and well find out more about her love of nature later. This. Week. But 1st back to college been out. To amateur fighter kid in china off who faces very different problems in everyday life. This is what his working day looks like. A book with card. Killer works in a small mobile phone store in a large shopping mall. And i was under the knife. This year with the focal point of this choice of. My other but im in sales and one of us has to win either me or the customer its like in the ring. Maybe theres water inside. Was more snow maybe or a short circuit will have to change the button how soon will we know. After its been changed. A lock on my shoulder bustle but im bottle but im just a fuck about 1st i worked as a Security Guard for a month but i was there wasnt so great because it was at the other a detail of being noisy but then i started hear it back up 1st only once in awhile then full time but its been good so far. Killed works 12 hour shifts 5 days a week. Nothing nothing nothing i have to make a conscious effort to stay calm but whats also important in the ring because negative emotions wont do you any good if i tell you one thing you know you shouldnt let your feelings take over and what you need to keep your cool. Are not on board. Here at work i sometimes feel like im going to blow a fuse when too many customers want something i want or when theyre difficult but i can let all those emotions out the ring i want. And emotions are now the topic at the general middle school in the sky on. The one. So am i glad that was not the most important thing in the dance is to show our National Character you know that the motives to what. You have to look at the audience you know want to look right never down at the floor you dont guard and remember the graceful movements be graceful. And dont forget to look to the side to see who was going when. You got there. And smile do you feel girls have beautiful smile so here we go lets unite yet over. Sure you have to show modesty in the dots. Not everyone was smiling like you know. I like our teachers sometimes there are strict with us but then its our own fault. The teachers in the school only scold us if we deserve it theyre pretty fair. Their names is also of importance here as well as safety kid he is training for his next fight. Think its just going to have just i have to bandage my fingers otherwise ill have problems with my hands i can break a finger or just locate one anything could happen its better to protect myself ahead of time but in this digital kitty all comes to this gym twice or 3 times a week but he doesnt have a coach. Should he may say you. Just dont want to spend the money. For him scream your 40 minute period i know that i do some movements and correctly. But if they dont for example when you punch you have to use your whole body like my legs are so untrained and wooden that i cant manage to do it. Theres no. Theres actually i should find a real trainer somewhere else its going to be chips. I notice. If you go any street fighting its usually not the perfect technique to win but your mental willpower in just a few days to deal will take part in the championship final and maybe in his next when. I get by do you go and race right. And right. Thats nice. Little. Moment children need a mother and thats why we hug them. They need human warmth they have to feel that we are taking care of them would mean so much and that helps them get well faster with the physical contact tells them that they are not alone i does not come over to us. The stewardess but im assuming women that by. That i. Shall we joke her that wears the green pencil get it rolled away but you know its give and take Little Things like them have been my past they have been a son to us we share their happiness about their 1st steps fs teeth their 1st words they discovered the world of out of the theater. And its a world where they are no longer so alone even if it is limited by the 4 walls of a hospital room. This is what i need with this constant cuddling why do you. Its like a never ending childhood i do have great. You know my duty worsley was about seeing my own children have outgrown their so mom stop hugging us. I tired of that kind of attention but im not i have so much motherly love inside me and i found an outlet for it this is a win win situation for all of us the children are happy and so am i you could also come from where you. Are as. The children of the reindeer herders delight in scenes like this its part of the traditional life of their parents in the tundra. The tundra biome lies north of the boreal forest the tiger woods there are hardly any trees in the tundra but lots of grass food for the reindeer and lots of room for grazing. At the boarding school the boys practiced for a nomadic life with lassos instead of basketballs this course is compulsory. And complimentary to the life safety skills course and the weapons trail. In a few days some of the children from the school in the sky out will be herding reindeer instead of learning math. Its not a prospect that thrills. She likes the tundra but shed rather see the reindeer in the local museum. She has mixed feelings about her Upcoming Trip home. In his voice on that i dont id rather be here than at home. Here i have the girls and boys around me but ive grown up with. School ill miss them when im at home. Less than that it will be strange without them. All going to call. But the time to say goodbye comes anyway. It is for the use all your Heart Failure see the writer dash for cigarettes. Also has to pack for the most important fight hes been in to date. This evening is the start of the final round of the championship with participants from all over russia. Could be not wants to be up there with the best of them. Kill is striving for one thing victory. No matter what it costs. Here tonight sure you nervous this is the biggest competition of my life. I mean you know to serve the every fight is a challenge but this one special shows that females that are. Here to look at. Those seemingly last year was to say i was not just in the last year was when i was preparing my main focus was on endurance thats my weak point. The other is my punch. That also kept us in the states so i trained both of those things on my own also starting now we are still super the we are the well shows i took when you view was a new view of google being we were not as appreciative of potholders the vision is to start with if you ciscos give us a vision it will be a prosecutor for you to show you should grow your brass quarter your pounding if not all of the other issues in the book before to look until you know what youre going to use its a metaphor were not going to go our forum where theyre going to go to just because of pressure to build a listener but decide their friends all family is family biggest critic but other than ideal partner most of this component only has a body is not going to buy them issues of you that youre going back over to the government certainly will talk to you think it. Was. More to go. Through all this work oh sure its an ongoing someone accused of something you dont do so. I believe you very. Clearly are going to come to this in the. Meanwhile somewhere down there in the taiga the Worlds Largest forest they dont because family is waiting. She takes one last photo with her friends. All the pupils from the boarding school and most kids will be flown out to the non magic settlements with their parents live with their reindeer. Look of course sad when they leave but were also happy 4th street you dont see with their parents who left been missing. The so excited because the old be flying out same time sitting. Glen. Just a few minutes to go before the fight 10 pairs of fighters are about to enter the race kid he has met his opponent for the 1st time today what is he thinking right now. In the ring with i am a last minute or not friends but we mustnt hit each other. For just living our energy its emotional release theres nothing more of you so i thought i was it up the mountain and. I said im going to cut down period of time to take a look at the top. Part of something to such. A disciple not a science its like. God. Oh what the. Absolutely. I was. I who. I am i ever thank god i d wasnt going to get out of here. Is if the city of haifa killed gets 5000 rubles cash 60 euros for open your mouth. Hurt my cheek bones hurt bite down harder where exactly. Right here ok. This was kiddy in the highlands 6 victory in a row without a doubt about it not even i can feel the adrenaline its pure release the ultimate feeling im happy to. Play the poet gun from good to rote to be loved what happiness what happiness ecards to love. But happiness is subjective its in the eye of the behold. Elaina feels happy mothering other peoples children a place which they look as good if i wish every child had a mom and dad taking i dont have a job but the children would be happy with the thought of getting rid of them the way my dream is for there to be no more abandoned children that would be wonderful. I did only come from the taiga cant imagine living without the other girls in her school but she also cant imagine life without the boreal forest. Yet it gets missed so i was born in the forest my parents didnt go to the hospital. Well but i always miss it. I miss some box i love to see my dogs bark for joy and my family is happy to see me all that i need to live ive said ill stay show process. Which that was my dream to be a Police Officer or maybe later to join the military vitamin a little down in the belly am. So as to defend her happiness as her course life safety skills teaches her. They dont make a kid hell feel similarly in this respect he was one of the 270000. 00 young men in russia called up for military Service Every year. For marbles and every man should be able to protect himself his family his friends and his country not the way that takes courage also that its better when you have to hit before you get hit. 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