I hate. It. When kids 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 can. 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. That god. Gave on our trip through this vast country we need 6 people from 6 different generations by living 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. 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. We have died for all of them. These are good for america my skin. Yes perfect. And has the 1st was a babys sort of. Something to play with and nice new to a former. She says hyatt of the old ones. With years and this hedgehog will bring her luck that go years ago. 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. N. G. O. Takes care of children from disadvantaged families. Nor up im 55 years for girls and boys. Why dont you look what ive brought you a hedgehog. Took him you know. Why that. Dont be afraid nobody will hate you i dont know im here with. You more you did you miss me my golden girl i missed your chair with john a look ahead shark. The other time peace. Be with you know what your mama i work as a mom all day long i do everything that mothers tears in my ear. 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. Thank you these are the littlest ones. Small and so now because. Many of them were simply abandoned by their own mothers because their mothers said after the earthquake they didnt want to keep the child out of sometimes because theyre trying to be positive. But 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 about you know and the parents are basically and responsive in your view when you have the qualms that you know. 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 youre more education for living costs the scheme is supposed to strengthen families but hundreds of children learn the word mama here in the hospital thats what they called. The National 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 morning 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 sets around 85. 00. When i eat something. So that in the morning theres washing dressing and brushing their teeth do. The business thats also the morning routine over 1000 kilometers to the north east in the skins kaya in siberia. The children here are owner and they start the day at 7 am with exercises. 16 year old that only cut teflon out is one of russias nearly 17000000. 00 schoolchildren. Done one 5th of an hour before breakfast shower make your bed and brush your teeth. They had only come lives in this boarding school with 200 other girls and boys from the region her parents are ranger herders and members of the indigenous hunty 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 because surrogate family. Have grown used to the teachers and i like it at School Better than at my home to. Grow skins kaia is located in the boreal forest or tiger of western siberia just 2000 people live here half of them are hunty muncy or nets together with around 30 other groups they are officially recognized as the indigenous small number of peoples of the north some of these ethnic groups have fewer than 200 members and are nearing extinction 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 meals 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. School starts at 8 am and goes until 2 in the afternoon then we have nap time until 4 a 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 isnt. Horton 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. Of. Our. Splash the beginning of the school year they ask us if we want to join a military club or from there you learn to march shoot and take apart a weapon well if you want you can say youll join a young girl at it as to what and when you can. Most of those who do are boys but there are some girls too like me 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 instead. Of 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. The tax. Cut. Plan. Last. As a lot of us is yet to step out of it. And his name is chief he and michelle i love 23 years old one major 90 tall weight 82 kilograms. In the age of 8 at my hands hurt and i got hit on the head for a chip and a few dollars but it is he said getting but i was lucky my opponent fell over and was lucky for me now i can feel the adrenaline in my blood and i feel good as the entrance to the vision of. 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 is followed by im with. I moved from soccer to no holds barred fighting are about but its all starting and theres a number of videos but oh well they used to be really crazy about football before the wall of the but serving in the army changed me to go to it again i wasnt so excited about soccer anymore so i started looking for Something Else. And after work i couldnt just sit around at home i needed to find an outlet for all my energy. Dolling theory so i got into the ring and i won my 1st fight with the bill with sort of the 2nd year old but then the 3rd. Kid real recognizes that the show find some 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 home. Im working with on those other 3 so that those i experience an explosion of emotion that we dont just dont like soccer hooligans when they battle them and so on then theres a 3rd party bows and you know what are we dont hate each other or respect our partner but im just like you do when he kicks you in the head here but it was. Not this type of bruising you dont have to release the tension the tension of daily life. Otherwise you start drinking like some people rich and others turn to drugs 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 in the but when youre in the 3rd kind of i guess but i thought the fight with their fists your bring your book. I guess i did it is good. Though somebody thought i was good its so important for the little ones to eat well this is. She would wear Something Else when they dont want to eat you then you dont use them at the beginning theyre stressed out and have no appetite. But soon they settle in and start leasing grass and then they begin 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 at united. And just to bring you full food is coming. Here is you cant possibly get. So just sit down. There have. d a nice man is there. A boy because 24 hour shift at the hospital is over. And. 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 n. G. O. Was founded 15 years ago to help the disadvantaged in russia abandon 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 or hiv positive. 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 yelena doesnt let it get to her. I think you must know its quite a. Biased because begin your. Live work in several shifts. Sometimes 24 hours at a time sometimes only during the day for 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 on 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. Which we know that from our own children from when we take them to kindergarten and that it wants to stay there. Its heartbreaking to see how they dont want to let me go. But they 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 know the stars they were then the nurse comes and i leave just between the bad news 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. Garden i was a day. Good. Did you take your own bill through the course yes or no. But your grandpa to the table. This is our specialty buckwheat with milk which. I dont seem to be 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 not a day ago was brought in previously. Did she cry cry. Every hour to talk with. Her mother as pregnant and 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. With the things. She stood at the door calling murmur mama. But then she did stop playing upright with the guy she was curious like all children. Look with my hair go yeah thats nice. You clearly buy a big stories like that are part of my work so your message was that you and i if i had to carry it around inside me all the time though it would be unbearable to this thoughts about the guy the guy but when i tell my family about what happens to the children. They give me support. Because i live with a view were bright enough of a crisis it relieves me to have my loved ones listen sorry. So i can give my rooms to my own children i knew to. Jim yes them. I. Thank them yes theyre. Nice children also only see their parents rarely. Thats. From june to august its Summer Vacation for veteran and her schoolmates. There formed by helicopter to the nomad settlements there are no roads or Railway Lines through the taiga here. Only the true my gun river can be traversed by boat its named after the main 1000 good. Little only car 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 a 100 kilometers. I started 1st grade back when the school opened and we were the 1st pupils that was 10 years ago. 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 not as a choose thats right a true and in the middle of it sure is a fine place. 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 an environmental topics than in russian politics thats certainly true of their only cat tefl enough and well find out more about her love of nature later. This. Week. But 1st back to college been up. To amateur fighter kid in china off who faces a very different problems in everyday life. This is what his working day looks like. A book with card. Kill works in a small mobile phone store in a large shopping mall. Under the knife. One of the children believe this choice of so. My over 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 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 i was at the other end a talent of being noisy but then i started here 1st only once in a while i was not in full time but its been good so far. Killed works 12 hour shifts 5 days a week. Does not mean you know the baseball course i have to make a conscious effort to stay calm thats also important in the ring because negative emotions wont do you any good in a fight i think 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 when theyre difficult but i can let all those emotions out the ring i want the man i was going to go. And emotions are now the topic at the general middle school in. Someone. So am i glad that this is not the most important thing in the dance is to show our National Character you know that the modest. You have to look at the audience you know where to look never down at the floor you current and remember the graceful movements be graceful. And dont forget to look to the side to see who is going where. You got there. And smile do you feel girls have beautiful smile so here we go let you know you get over it. 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 is training for his next fight. Its just going to force us to have to bandage my fingers otherwise all 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 it is finished kitty all comes to this gym twice or 3 times a week but he doesnt have a coach. Doesnt make a good bit. Just that i dont want to spend the money. For him scary new video i mean i know that i do some movements incorrectly. But if i go for example any part you have to use your whole body for my legs are so untrained and wouldnt that i cant manage to do it. Theres more to. Bring them just in actually i should find a real trainer somewhere else is going on right. Now. If you dont like street fighting its usually not the perfect technique that with your mental willpower in just a few days to deal with take part in the championship final and maybe in his next when. I get by and raise your right. And right. Thats nice. Little. Moment. Children need a mother and its why we had them. They need human warmth they have to feel that we are taking care of them so much and that helps them get well faster with the physical contact tells them that theyre not alone i doesnt im coming over to us. Thats quickest but im a sinner woman so i know that by. The i. Shall we joke on us wheres the green pencil we did it rode away you know its give and take Little Things make them happy and they pass the happiness on to us we share their happiness about their 1st steps fs teeth your 1st words they discover the world 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 this constant cuddling why do you. Its like a never ending childhood an idea of great. Beauty was there was a bunch of my own children have outgrown that they say 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. 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 practice 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 trills lena she likes the tundra but shed rather see the reindeer in the local museum. She has mixed feelings about her Upcoming Trip home. And on what 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. I stand there will be strange without them. Im going to call. But the time to say goodbye comes anyway. It is to use all your heart your to the right of death this your rights. I love 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. From copying out wants to be up there with the best of them. Getting ill is striving for one thing victory. No matter what it costs. Here to be sure you nervous this is the biggest competition of my life. You know to show that every fight is a challenge but this one special shows that feels that im. Here to look at. Those seemingly last year was 2 shows not just on the last year was when i was preparing my main focus was on endurance thats my weak point. The other is my punch. But also talk to some states so i train both of those things on my own starting we are so simple at the rear of the shows i do it when you have your buzzer and you will bring your daughters appreciative of potholders the vision is to stop or decrease your stores give us a vision it will be a brisk you know where to show you should grow your best course are you up or down if not go without a system of good fortune if the control you know youre going to use if theyre not probably not going to go our well theyre going to go to jail because the pressure to be on the moon is not going to set national so only as family behavior is predicted by the other party i did part of most of the bali years a body is not the only shows of years that exactly what i forgot i was talking people talk about you think it. Was. More to go. Through all this work oh sure its no fun doing so well for just a few of you so. You. Are. Going to come 1st in the. Meanwhile somewhere down there in the taiga the Worlds Largest forest the only because family is waiting. She takes one last photo with her friends. All the pupils from the boarding school in ruskin sky and will be flown out to the magic settlements where their parents live with their reindeer. Fish hooks look of course sad when they leave so were also happy 4th street with their parents who left the missing rule here look at the value so excited because now all be flying out at the same time sitting. Glen. Just a few minutes to go before the fight 10 pairs of fighters are about to enter the ring kid he has met his opponent for the 1st time today what is he thinking right now the. Name in the ring is im a last minute or not friends but we mustnt hit each other. Were just letting our energy its emotional release theres nothing more to be used so i thought i was about to monty and. Said im going to cut them to the top. Part of the same just cut cut open. To suck on the sites like. Oh what the. I piped up i guess. Who. The f. Thank. d god i i i was going to get out of here. Is a good city of haifa killing all gets 5000 rubles cash 60 euros for open your mouth. For my cheek bones hurt that bite down harder where exactly. Did i 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. Playing the poet you hand was gone from good job wrote 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. Its the look im good in i wish every child had a mom and dad i think i dont have a job but the children would be happy with the thought of them getting rid of them the way my dream is for there to be no more abandoned children that would be a wonderful story. That. 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 i just missed so i was born in the forest my parents didnt go to the hospital. Well but i always miss it. For me just 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 on the set of said show process. Which was my dream to be a Police Officer or maybe later to join the military while im a little done with the way in. 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. The from almost every man should be able to protect himself his family his friends and this country not to where that takes courage also that its better when you have to hit before you get hit. 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