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Sasha meets Russia: Flavors of the East. Altay: Where Mountains Meet the Sky
Altay is Russia’s wild East, a land of rivers and mountain valleys, ancient traditions and unique cuisine. Sasha, an American with Russian roots, begins her journey along the Chuysky Trakt, a legendary Siberian highway which stretches nearly...
Aug 6, 2026 08:07
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Sasha meets Russia: Flavors of the East. Altay: Where Mountains Meet the Sky
Altay is Russia’s wild East, a land of rivers and mountain valleys, ancient traditions and unique cuisine. Sasha, an American with Russian roots, begins her journey along the Chuysky Trakt, a legendary Siberian highway which stretches nearly...
Aug 6, 2026 08:07
Frontline Mali
Frontline Mali is a documentary about how the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Africa Corps is helping to preserve constitutional order in the landlocked country. The West African state of Mali has been living through a bloody conflict since...
Aug 4, 2026 08:09
Bordered Out
This film tells the story of migrants deported from the United States to Mexico. It is a hard-hitting report about people caught between two countries who are still trying to hold on. American Tofurious Crane heads to the Mexican border to find out...
Jul 31, 2026 09:37
No statute of limitations: The death battalion
During the years of occupation, more than 11,000 settlements were destroyed in Belarus. Khatyn is a symbol of all the villages that were burned and never rebuilt. In March 1943, it was destroyed by the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion. Eighty years...
Jul 28, 2026 15:41
Giving Life a Chance
This film looks at how Russian doctors help bring new life into the world. It explores modern approaches to treating infertility, including IVF and in-utero surgery, along with care of premature babies and neonatal treatment for newborns in the most...
Jul 23, 2026 10:17
Curious Tofurious: Dagestan
For this latest episode, American Tofurious Crane’s next stop is Dagestan, a region of Russia in the heart of the Caucasus Mountains. His first stop is Derbent, Russia’s oldest and southernmost city on the coast of the Caspian Sea....
Jul 16, 2026 09:35
‘ArBat’: Unending Fellowship
ArBat: Unending Fellowship is a collection of first-person stories. In this documentary, the film’s protagonists – ArBat battalion assault troops with the call signs ‘Fizruk’, ‘Seva’, ‘Getashen’,...
Jul 10, 2026 15:28
The Unknown Cold War. Film 4. Secret battles
This episode explores how the Baltic region became one of the Cold War’s first testing grounds. During the Second World War, some Baltic nationalists collaborated with occupying German forces. After the war, an anti-Soviet armed underground...
Jul 6, 2026 15:30
Sasha Meets Russia: Flavors of the East. Krasnaya Polyana: The Russian Alps
In this new episode, Sasha, an American with Russian roots, travels to Krasnaya Polyana. She gets a taste of the Russian Alps and finds out why people keep returning to this place time and again. Sasha explores the ski slopes that once hosted...
Jul 2, 2026 09:01