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red, such a slogan can be seen on the license plates of local cars. everything here is surrounded by greenery, rivers, lakes, lonely houses at the foot of the mountains, postal landscapes, for which this place is so loved by tourists. but there is another west virginia. they write in newspapers and speak government meetings. this west virginia has been in an economic crisis for 10 years, and one in five residents is officially considered poor. this is a special state.

to a depth of almost 5 km. i could have gone to college instead, but in those days miners were paid good money, i could earn more than after four years of school. instead of four years of college, tony basconi has 40 years of underground experience; when he started his career in the late seventies , mining companies paid about $ 13 an hour, and this was almost three times higher than the average national figure. the 1980s were the heyday of the industry. west virginia alone produced more than 200. coal is still very important to the state, although it has been in decline in recent years. west virginia production has been declining since the early 1990s, but the last 10 years have been completely. went down

in history as the coal wars. the fight against pollution has led to a drop in demand for coal. hundreds of coal-fired power plants across the country have closed recently. they have switched to gas, solar or wind energy. demand is not what it used to be, but we still export coal to countries where it remains the main source of energy. however, we cannot rely on exports. sales to other countries account for only 10% of the total amount of coal produced in... today, tony tells museum visitors not about economics and figures, but about the daily life of a miner. in his hands is a special lunchbox that was used for 60 years. in the upper compartment there was dessert, then the main course, and water at the bottom. look, my can is right here, and i am working down there in the mine, imagine my colleague, little johnny decides to go down for a drink, but his water is already gone and he's going to drink mine, the miners had to. figure out a way to avoid such

situations, so they started leaving their false teeth in the water. miners have a special sense of humor, despite, or perhaps because of, the hard, dangerous work. every day, the fire chief checks the methane level. there is equipment for this now, but in the past, miners always took a canary with them, they are sensitive to gas and if the bird began to behave restlessly, fell, it meant that there was not enough oxygen in the mine. it was from the miners' lexicon that the expression "canary in the coal mine" came, a sign of impending trouble. it came to west virginia along with the closure of coal enterprises and unemployment. having spent years underground, miners earned mainly professional injuries, muscle pain, joint pain, this is the everyday life of veterans of the coal industry, as well as painkillers. among them, there is a group of especially strong, apioid analgesics. in west virginia, these drugs have sparked an epidemic. addiction.

there are many houses here that only at first glance appear abandoned. people continue to live in many of them, even though the windows are boarded up. this is one of the main symbols of modern west virginia and what the apioid crisis has done to it. miners suffering from constant pain became the main target of pharmaceutical companies doctors who, in pursuit of profit, wrote hundreds of prescriptions for powerful drugs. it wasn't hard to get hooked. over the course of seven years, the region was supplied with more than a billion painkillers containing opioids, nearly 70 per resident per year. today , west virginia has the highest drug overdose death rate in the united states. the opioid crisis became a national talking point several years ago, when the situation grew into an epidemic in a number of states. both doctors who prescribed the drugs and pharmaceutical

giants found themselves in the dock. at the beginning of the crisis to combat the epidemic in west virginia, allocated more than $70 million. return to normal life for the state and its residents. jobs and develop industries that help restore the ecology and economy of west virginia. i have long wondered: what to do with small towns that boomed at the beginning of the 20th century, what to do with places where there are no more work opportunities, how to bring them back to life?

while some hope for the reopening of mines, others look with hope to the development of shale in west virginia gas extraction, teri is turning her ideas into reality, her plan is to develop industries. crafts that west virginia was famous for even before the industrial boom. this is how the idea of ​​​​reviving apiaries came about. james boldly dips his hand into the hive, as if he had been doing beekeeping all his life, although he has only been at this apiary for 3 years. before that, he worked as a miner, crane operator and builder. at the apiary, he started by making hives, but over time he learned all the intricacies. james recently received a master's certificate and teaches beekeeping to beginners. you start out as a greenhorn and learn every day, it takes time to understand what and how, it's incredible what bees can do, how do they do it? i love my job, it's the best job i've ever had. beekeeping for west virginians

can be either a full-time job or a side hustle. with twenty hives , the income is about $15 a year, and you can even place them in your backyard, there's enough land in the state. you buy honey from us, that money goes specific people in the areas that we are trying to restore, and they also go to the forest restoration program, because west virginia is famous for its forests, and we want to keep it that way, we want to restore our land that has been depleted by industry, we also want to restore our state, because this is the real backbone of the united states. we had to restore the forests after almost all of them were destroyed in the twenties of the last century, today. west virginia is one of the most beautiful states for sure the greenest. shakhtyorsky krai is no exception. the novaya river flows here, which, despite its name, is one of the five oldest on earth.

the two banks are connected by a bridge of the same name, which has its own record. it is the third highest in the united states. before the construction of the bridge, crossing the river took almost an hour, all because first you had to go down. very steep mountain slopes, but as soon as the bridge was put into operation, it not only became an important transport artery connecting the two banks, but also one of the most famous modern symbols of west virginia. once a year in the fall, the bridge is closed to traffic and a high-jumping festival is held here. tourism is another sector that west virginia hopes to develop. people come here to canoe, kayak and go hiking. 75% of the state is covered by forests, hunting, fishing, wineries, alpine skiing, it is difficult to think of an active holiday that is not in west virginia, in the southern part of the state there is one of the most famous historic spa hotels, greenbrier, where vacationers 26 american presidents.

usa greenbrier is associated with the term old money - old money, this is what the richest american families who earned their fortune in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are called. these are such world-famous names as rockefeller, ford or carnegie. people from such families have been vacationing at greenbrier for generations. officially, the hotel has always been open to the general public.

don't forget, this happened right after world war ii, and the cold war was in full swing, so in a certain

in a sense, it was a matter of patriotism. the luxury of greenbrier, however, did not affect the interiors of the bunker. this is what the bedrooms for american legislators looked like: along the walls there are two-tiered bunks, a small box for personal belongings, under the western wing of the hotel there is a conference room, a communications room and a dining room, in the bunker. stored a supply of water and food for six months. the floor in this room looks quite modern, but this is the original coloring. it was made so saturated in order to solve the problem of lack of space. at the same time more than 400 congressmen could not dine or have lunch here. the idea was that no one would sit for long over a meal in such an interior. even the members of congress did not know where the bunker was located. this information was provided only to the leadership. the senate house of representatives. historians are still arguing about how the leak occurred, but in 1992

, the bunker was declassified by journalists from the washington post. after the inspection , the facility had to be closed. today, there is a museum here, and part of the premises are rented by a computer company. i think the people who leaked the washington post information thought that this facility was obsolete. it made sense 30 years ago, but since then the weapons have improved, they've become more powerful, more accurate, so... maybe they would have closed it anyway, because it was part of the cold war strategy, and in the late '90s the general consensus was that bunkers like this weren't needed, but after 9/11 , things changed, and i think there are bunkers like this somewhere today. it's a six-hour train ride from washington to greenbrier. the railroad was a key factor in the development of backcountry resorts. however, most of the transportation in west virginia in the late 19th century was made up of. passenger trains, and freight trains. in the town of kaas, you can travel along the route to the lumberjack station.

here, the world's largest collection of steam locomotives in operation has been preserved. this train is not only vintage, it is also heading into the past, west virginia point on ... two rivers converge here, once upon a time people decided to settle here, built houses and production,

literally out of nothing, they created a city. situated at the intersection of two rivers, the shenandoah and the potomac, it was a major point on the navigation channel from the us capital to apalachicola. today, the once successful industrial center has turned into an equally successful tourist city, despite the fact that its entire territory, including shops and cafes, is a national park, in harbor sphere. there is no feeling that you are in a museum, the city seems as alive as at the peak of its industrial development. harper sphere regularly appears on lists of the most beautiful towns in the united states, rated it in his...

the president's words, however, were not prophetic for harpersphere or west virginia. in the years when the city was an industrial center, its working-class neighborhoods had nothing in common with the neatly cobbled streets of today's tourist center. harpersphere was the first of many towns sacrificed to heavy industry. today , environmental pollution is one of the main problems of modern west virginia. welcome to minden, drive carefully, around children playing, this sign at the entrance to the city is clearly outdated, the residents of minden try to let their children play outside as little as possible and refuse to use tap water. minden is a 20 -minute drive from beckley, the capital of the mining region. this is one of the most polluted towns in west virginia.

you see these stains on the surface, this is pcb. polychlorinated.

from a polluted place they left without looking back, if there was somewhere to go. the main reason i could not leave was the children, my husband and i have here had a job, if you have four kids, three of whom are in college at the same time, you can't just up and move away, you can't even sell your house because no one will buy it. in the late 1980s, the u.s. environmental protection agency reported a successful operation to clean up mindon from pollutants. even though the town's residents continued to get sick. dr. hasan amjad of beckley, first noticed that most of the patients in minden were suffering from cancer . he began to keep statistics have established a link between diseases and pcbs. his daughter aina is now continuing his work. since these are typical types of cancer, lung or stomach, we were often told that this

could be a consequence of working in a mine or smoking. it is not easy to prove the connection scientifically. in addition, many residents left minden and now. if someone dies of cancer elsewhere, it is very difficult to trace the connection to the city. for the residents of minden, dr. aina amjad is like a guardian angel. largely due to her efforts, in 2019 , the environmental protection agency the u.s. has put minden on its list of top priority sites for chemical pollution control. this means that if further tests confirm dangerous levels of cbrn, minden residents will be required to relocate at government expense. for this, susie and darl are determined to fight pollution, disease, and bureaucracy to the bitter end. traveling in west virginia is most hampered by communication problems. because of the mountainous terrain, not only the internet, but even cell phone calls become a problem once you cross the border. state. however, in the town of greenbank, the lack of a cell signal is

not a problem, but an advantage. first stop in greenbank for a phone call. the connection was lost more than an hour ago, so we will arrange all meetings the old-fashioned way. the absence of radio interference allowed scientists to build the world's largest rotating telescope in the mountains of west virginia. for communication with space , mobile communication is the main enemy. therefore, a national radio silence zone is in effect around the dish over an area of ​​almost 130,000 km. because of the lack of electromagnetic radiation , people who consider themselves hypersensitive to mobile phones and the internet move to the green bang. johnny bauserman's car is stuffed with all sorts of sensors and devices. no radio interference can escape his radar. jonah monitors compliance with the rules of the radio silence zone during daily patrols. sometimes a new company or store appears, they simply install

a radio transmitter or internet router. sometimes they don't even know that there is a silent zone here, so you have to be careful. our telescope is so sensitive that it could even pick up a cell phone signal on the surface of mars. mike holstein has been running the research lab in greenbank for 28 years. the main thing is not to press the red buttons. the telescope resembles a giant satellite dish for 6,500 hours each year, carefully watching the sky and picking up signals from space. once a week, the telescope has a day off for adjustment or repair, and this is the only opportunity to climb its surface. we have just come to the conclusion that these are the first kaluki to step on the surface of the telescope. and erases the line between reality and fantasy, so that we believe that there are other worlds out there somewhere. the very top platform is

the heart of the telescope, where all the information it receives from space is collected, but to be completely honest, what is truly breathtaking here is not even the greatest discoveries that can be made with the help of the data collected by the telescope, but the realization that you are worth on a thin metal grid, and underneath you what... americans come to

see the telescope, it tells not only about the laboratory, but about the state. residents of west virginia are very different, with different destinies and professions. it is customary for us to work hard for ourselves and for the state. and we also have incredible nature, look around. there are thick fogs around, wildflowers along the highways and forests with hundreds of streams. nature heals the residents of west virginia from all trials. even in one of the most popular songs of the musician john denver in the style of country, it is sung about these mountains and love for the state.

coming round again, my ever dreaming mister could have been,

well the road is always long, and the journey never ends, i will always think of you my friend. alexey works in a social bakery, which was organized by the local tos, this is a territorial public self-government. such an organization of residents can participate in grants, can earn money and receive money to solve issues that are not provided for in the budget. somehow think, try or somewhere we will look for sponsors or something else. for example, in the village of bely klyuch, an old store building was given over to a bakery and residents applied for another grant to receive money for the improvement of the surrounding area. the area will be landscaped, there will be flower beds, lamp posts, sidewalks, a gazebo. the russian ministry of foreign affairs said that it was

time to fight fakes. the official website of the international fact-checking association was launched. formally, the ministry has nothing to do with this initiative, but the state news agency tas is among its founders. in addition, maria zakharova, the official representative of the foreign ministry , is a big expert on fakes herself. not only did she launch the foreign ministry project to expose allegedly fake news against russia in 2017, but she personally regularly gets caught telling half-truths and outright lies, like the time she said that ukrainians dream of seeing putin as their president, or said that human organs are being taken out of ukraine by the trainload for transplants, a never-ending stream of fakes. the foreign ministry assures that the west regularly throws mud at russia, while in 3 weeks of work on the fakcheckers website there are only a dozen and a half publications,

most of them are not about russia, but about the united states. the hands-of protests are financed by organizations associated with george soros, whose goals are far from improving the situation in the country. the sites are advertised as a platform for experienced journalists and fact-checkers, but so far they publish only three authors with a very dubious reputation. sony vanden ende, for example, has been playing the role of an independent foreign journalist for many years in various press tours organized by moscow. what's wrong with that? alexander guerreiro is a lawyer from portugal, once collaborated with local intelligence agencies and the government, now in his homeland he is called the voice of moscow. the third author, timofey vi, proudly calls himself an international expert in anti-crisis communications and the fight against disinformation,

but in fact he is only a blogger. host of the propaganda resource solovyov. to make a new fuss out of this. there are no real investigations or sensations on the new site yet. it is not very clear, why was it created at all. maybe for reporting to the authorities, maybe to legitimize the authors. look at the serious people on our side. or maybe even to feed profitable narratives to search engines and artificial intelligence. a recent investigation by newsgard, a company that tracks disinformation on the internet, clearly showed that the russian authorities are actively polluting propaganda, global neural networks, penetrating the chat bots of artificial intelligence, here here here is what awaits us, life, ice, blood,

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