in the south of siberia, somewhere between krasnoyarsk krai and mongolia, as if dividing the southern border of russia into two parts, is tuva, one of the most little-known mysterious regions of russia. there have never been any railways here.

planes fly here as they please, and it is much easier to get to tuva by car from mongolia than from neighboring russian regions. there are many here who do not speak russian at all, the republic officially professes shamanism and, according to statistics, tuva has the highest level of poverty, but at the same time one of the highest birth rates. in the tuvan capital kyzyl. glitz and poverty live side by side, fountains, flower beds and prayer drums are adjacent to neighborhoods that even native tuvans are afraid to enter, one of them, nicknamed shanghai, has been promised to be resettled for many years, but it seems that the inhabitants of these slums have already lost hope of ever getting out of here and living a normal human life.

getting to kyzyl from moscow is not an easy task: there are no trains to tuva, the railway here began built relatively recently, planes fly only a few times a week, and the flight schedule often changes, but if you are lucky with the tickets, then after 5 hours of flight you can see the peaks of the sayan mountains, the yenisei river bed and the empty airfield of kyzyl. ladies and gentlemen, our plane landed at the kyzylo airport for yours. from the piercing steppe winds, kyzyl hid in the tuvan basin, along with the confluence of the big and small yenisei, here, wherever you look, you can see the tops of gentle mountains, in the sky instead of crows and pigeons, predatory birds soar kites. the center of kyzyl makes a pleasant impression, postcard views with a stele of the center of asia with fountains, bright... flower beds and buddhist

prayer buildings, are called upon to convince guests of the capital of the well-being and prosperity of the republic. since the mid-forties of the last century, when tuva entered the soviet union as part of the rsfsr, the population of kyzyl has been steadily growing. then the city looked more like a large village with 10 thousand residents. now about 120 thousand people live here. but stable demographic growth, alas , is in no way connected with the well-being of the population, whose wealth, according to official statistics, is one of the lowest in the country. at some distance from the elegant center, one can easily see a completely different kyzyl, poor, dirty and frightening. the area known here as shanghai. it is squeezed in on all sides by multi-apartment

panel houses, and here, in this urban valley , the roofs of wooden barracks blacken. in cold winters, when houses are heated with coal, this valley is filled with black smog, but in the summer shanghai from the country looks more like a private sector. but the first impression is deceptive, and the local way of life has nothing in common with a wealthy private home. people live. in quarters, this is when the house is divided into four parts, each with a room with a stove, i am here with my children, here is syomka's crib, granddaughter's crib, these two are sleeping with mommy, mommy is at work now, well, that's how we sleep, 10 people live in natalia and myshlyaeva's quarter, mostly children, being here not very pleasant, because bugs and cockroaches run along the walls, and it’s also a little scary

that they would at least give us building materials, we were told to do it ourselves, an earthquake in kazyl for help, happened at the end of december of the eleventh year,

fortunately its force was not so significant as to cause serious destruction, less than 5 points, however, the tremors scared people a lot, i then...

with a girl with a beautiful name aylana we had a small embarrassment, we somehow did not think that somewhere on the territory the language barrier in russia will be a problem for us, but it did become one and ailana and i understood each other

with great difficulty, in winter, the street is to carry everything , here for... which shanghai itself knows well, and many of its inhabitants, she is on a bender, she was terribly on a bender, she also lost her daughter, her daughter went off somewhere to dance or somewhere, she did not grab her right away and the girl, in short , was killed and thrown out. butorina helps those who have problems with alcohol in kazyl, and there are many of them in the city, she works herself without any grants or... financing, she picks up someone right on the street, some are brought to her by doctors, as was the case

with ailana. the narcologists themselves brought her, and when she was discharged , there was nowhere to put her , her sister sold the house while she was drinking, ailana has the documents, and her sister sold the house, she has nowhere to go, so the narcologists asked her to support her, her own bitter experience helps lidiya fight someone else's alcohol addiction, without it, she says, it would be difficult to understand. but with the death of her husband, everything changed, lidiya went on a long binge, from which she had a hard time getting out. and now she teaches the same as her, alcoholics, to cope with their addiction

with the help of work, i have almost everyone, except seryoga, i don’t do massage, the rest are all, allanka did it, and natalya, and lyokha, who else, rubtsovsky hasn’t done massage yet, and you teach them yourselves, yes, i teach myself, yeah, well, i mean, they learn themselves, yes, and i just make everything work, under lidiya’s hands, fatigue goes away , the back pain subsides, which appeared after a long journey. in the yard, lidiya’s ward sergey

starts his nine, having fought off the green snake, he makes far -reaching plans, somewhere in the village he has two houses left from his past life, now he wants to make a medical complex out of them, to treat addiction there and do massages, it is possible, as they say, here ignatyevna, as they say, it is possible to make a reaction center there too. you also said the desire to gather people like alcoholics, well, to start a farm, until the end of the nineties he lived happily, had his own farm, a family, children, but alcohol did not allow him to live in peace, at some point something suddenly clicked in him, and sergei suddenly wanted freedom, he found it, homeless, begging, drinking more and more. it is unknown how all this would have ended, if not for a chance meeting with butorina,

as they say, all rosy, well, she came up with a friend with this, just came up, asked you if you want to, says to quit drinking, but somehow without ... this shanghai, well, what's cheaper? anti-alcohol laws in tove are some of

the strictest in russia, alcohol in kazyl you can buy only during the day, from 11 to 15 only in specialized stores, but almost every kyzylet knows, if you need to, you can find alcohol in shanghai at any time of the day. they sell from private houses, knock on the window, the owner of the house will come out, give 200 rubles, pour 200 g of alcohol, dilute with water and drink. elizaveta korsakova helps to help, together with ... comes to the rescue of those who got into a difficult situation because of alcohol. regarding strict prohibitions, elizaveta has her own opinion, unexpected at first glance. she is sure that they were introduced not for the sake of sobriety propaganda, but for the profit of officials. that is why there is no threat to underground alcohol traders.

alcohol traders feel at ease from their windows, from private houses. they are brought. from the sayan mountains from the republic of khakassia, alcohol from these factories is brought in tons and 4 tons, they are brought in trucks together with food products. khakassia is the only region of russia with which tuva is connected by road, despite the fact that the republic also borders on krasnoyarsk krai, buryatia and gorny altai. in terms of transport accessibility, tuva is even more of an enclave than, for example, kaliningrad. at least there are ferries and a railway connection there, here there is none of that. it is not for nothing that tuva is one of the least known russian regions, but for the shadow business it is a real paradise, after all, money loves silence, there are no problems with it in tuva. and here there is such a cycle, alcohol is brought here, sold,

hashish is bought here and exported to russia, this machine, it was spinning at... at full speed there, well, 15 years, it turns out, at least, but it is still spins partly. boris myshlyavtsev, now a political strategist, formerly an assistant to the chairman of the government of tuva, so he knows about the secrets of the republican economy firsthand. when he worked in the government, we, together with one of the assistants to the head of the republic , calculated the turnover of drugs that come from tula. and it worked.

and he, for the sake of science, lived for a whole year in a high-mountain tuvan village in order to get to know better the set of numerous customs and rules that fill the life of a tuvan, often the most unexpected. it would seem, why, when sitting on the ground, can't you lean on your hands? they say that this comes from the laws of genghis khan, well, that you can't

insult the earth, when you sit like this, you insult the earth, you can't stand on the threshold, if you stand on the threshold, you press on the head. the spirit that lives in the threshold, it is also offensive, a lot, you can't give anything with your left hand, if you give a candy, you can't give one, you must give only two. it is precisely this overregulation in customs that is sometimes the cause of increased aggression from tuvans, which is difficult for visitors to understand. boris compares the local culture with japanese, where there are also many conventions, which, however, are leveled by external openness. the japanese know how to drink in the company of strangers, but tuvans have not had such experience until recently. a person must always keep himself in hand, not lose face, he is always in some kind of tension, when he drinks, he relaxes and can be himself, but it is one thing when he is in a yurt with his family, there by himself, another thing, he meets the same one who also wants

to be himself, and they do not understand each other, a high level of crime. in the republic, many of our interlocutors associate it with alcohol, drunken fights and even murders in a state of alcoholic intoxication happen here much more often than in the rest of russia, and even in world practice you will not immediately find a suitable comparison, this level is exorbitant, but these are typologically different murders than in karakos in the same or johannesburg, there it is robbery mainly, and here it is drunken quarrels, let's say, closely connected... many centuries the land of nomadic cattle breeders at the beginning of the last century tuva first came under the protectorate of the russian empire, then until the mid

-forties it was an independent republic, in forty-four the last of the autonomies became part of the soviet union, with the subsequent collectivization of farms, the construction of cities of large enterprises, which lasted until the nineties, and then closed. at the moment there is no production of kazyli.

it is not necessary, especially since their promises often diverge from real actions, the same shanghai was planned to be resettled a long time ago, according to official plans, in 2018 there were supposed to be apartment buildings, swimming pools, shopping and sports centers here. here, the provision of housing is one of the lowest in russia, in square meters per person, federal money is allocated, but it is simply not spent. some is stolen, some is spent ineffectively, and indeed, having traveled around kizyl, we we hardly saw any active construction sites, they are all basically frozen,

you can find only a few apartments in new buildings for sale, a rather unusual picture for the capital of an entire republic, whose population is constantly growing, there is construction practice, there are companies, but they are not that big, but they could build, well , how... my opinion is that they don't give it so that the money doesn't pass by, yes, by their people, and it turns out their people simply can't build, they don't have the skills or experience for this. boris lives in tuva for 20 years already, but often visits the cities of neighboring regions, as small as kyzyl, for example, in khakassian abakan or mongolian ulangom, and sees how even against their background the tuvan capital hopelessly loses, coming there. every year you see that the city is changing, right before your eyes, here there is absolutely nothing like that, if a person from the past was transferred to kazyl, for example, from the soviet era, he would be struck here

by the fact that somehow nothing has changed, but where is the future? find the answer to this question, being vtuvenom, of course, failed, here they have been looking for him for many years, apparently, so far unsuccessfully, that is probably why many russians find it so difficult to find him on the map... the region is large, so the whole full of unprecedented beauty and curious mysteries, still remains for many of us, the most real, unknown russia.

thunders in silence you will tell the clouds everything you know about me, i from a pack of cigarettes and a drawing on the window, i will say hello to you, mother of the one crying in her sleep, when putin started a full-scale war against ukraine, i realized, what more...

only hit the keels, and what doesn't he understand about that uncle who throws missiles here, people die here, i say, i don't know, vasilii, i was very scared when i was little, how it flew in and fell. here are all these people, earning their living with their mouths and swallowing, here they all are, why are they still not there, not on the front lines? propagandist solovyov regularly expresses indignation in his programs about the detached attitude of russians to the war and the unwillingness of ordinary citizens to go to the front in a single impulse. this time solovyov's anger is addressed russian relaxants who moved

to live in israel. i'm interested. ivan urgand joined the ranks of the israeli air defense. maxim galkin is with his fighting new homeland. well, okay, makarevich is having a hard time because of his age. and the rest, i hope, are all there already. solovyov himself, an ethnic jew, promised 20 years ago to stand up for israel in case of war. if a war starts in israel, i'll go there right away. and if , god forbid, something happens here, then i'll fight on the side of russia. later, the host... made excuses, firstly, too old to join the israeli army, and secondly, russia needs me too much, i am a jew, i am not an israeli, my country is russia, i am fighting for it, to the question of why he is not going to war with ukraine, he answered nervously, they did not call me, i will go to the front when they call me, when they need me, a fifty-five-year-old, i will go to the front, at the same time, former guests of his shows from ukraine

who did not go to fight, and... that is, everyone settled in all sorts of ways, no one went to the front and despite all his chatter for now, no, well, of course, solovyov is fighting on the information front, praises the russian army, what beautiful people, periodically shows materials about his trips to the frontline zone, looks quite realistic, but where it was filmed is unknown, that you will go down to take 5-10 minutes. that's how i went down at any time even in the middle of the night, i wanted to live on raw potatoes, went down, took potatoes lived, they took all the basements, sold them, chewed, who is there, all silently, all this, my last one, i said, get it, we will fight, of course, and we will fight, i said nothing and did nothing,

i just... couldn't, then he started shooting at me, her husband killed her and his sentence was mitigated, the court decided that she was cursing at her husband, so he killed her, we will not submit to our fate, killers of women, killers of women. the state of the baltic fish is a concern for ichthyologists and biologists from klaipīte state university. according to scientists, the latest research shows that more and more heavy metals, such as thallium, cadmium, lead and mercury, are being found in the tissues of underwater inhabitants. all of this

can carry.