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  • President Vladimir Putin has revived Russia's dreams of exploiting its Arctic territory - boosted by a warming climate that has opened up the Northern Sea Route. The FT travels to remote reaches of Siberia to see if Russia can make it work. Watch another FT Feature: • Inside Brexit: How Bri... .
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  • @FinancialTimes
    @FinancialTimes  Před 4 lety +8

    Watch our latest video about domestic violence in Russia: czcams.com/video/co4gS5-3ObQ/video.html. And subscribe to our channel if you'd like to be notified of great films from the Financial Times.

    • @gragor11
      @gragor11 Před 4 lety +5

      So is this the Russia smear channel cause I don't have to look much farther than up or down my road to see domestic violence in Canada?

    • @kosarmohsin9849
      @kosarmohsin9849 Před 2 lety

      Russia is so big that some people would still think the Soviet Union didn't abolish and is still the government of russia

  • @MrSubmariner13
    @MrSubmariner13 Před 4 lety +47

    Whenever I see the people in Russia surviving like they do, I think of the old saying. We have done so much with so little for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

  • @Kamadev888
    @Kamadev888 Před 6 lety +1747

    If it's Russia, it's an 'obsession'.
    If it's America, it's 'the spirit of discovery'.

    • @IsaacRizard
      @IsaacRizard Před 6 lety +91

      Kamadev888 Spot on dude, I was just about to write something along your line, I guess great minds do think alike. Obviously, it must surely rightly be Russian investment, because she can. Why just the US and her allies must always see the glass as half empty instead of half full?

    • @kozjevime1
      @kozjevime1 Před 5 lety +67

      THAT LITTLE YOU SHOULD KNOW! WEST IS FULL OF UNLIMITED HATE AGAINST RUSSIAN PEOPLE AS WEST IS WATCHING RUSSIAN LANDS AS THE MOST PROMISSING CHUNK OF PROPERTY. BOLSHEVIKS WERE AND STILL ARE FINANCED BY WEST TO FINAL DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIA AND OF - BY ROMAN CATHOLIC CULT- MENTALLY RETARDED POLAND.

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar Před 5 lety +43

      "Double standards", Kamadev888 !

    • @mikemiller4979
      @mikemiller4979 Před 5 lety +17

      Kamadev888 I'll call it a "Spirit of Discovery" for both.
      It'll be interesting to see in 50 years what they made there.

    • @MorpheusOne
      @MorpheusOne Před 5 lety +12

      @Jsroslav: You are _`pimpin'` _`cOnSpIrAcY tHeOrIeS`,_ you idiot!
      The West does not hate Russia. What the West hates is a lack of free trade; fascism inhibits free trade. Not that the West does not have its problems, as free trade, such as when you look at it through the lens of corporatism and crony capitalism, becomes a system that very much deserves the malignment that it has received; in fact, for that very reason & through that very lens, it has not received it enough.
      'Vlad Tepes'...Putin is not your great savior. He is a fascist despot, a blood-thirsty & blood-sucking vampire that is & has been bleeding Russia dry, for decades; since before the fall of the Soviets.
      Assassinate him and all those that threaten the peace & well being of every Russian citizen and take control of your country for the better and you won't be pinned under anyone's boot any longer and you will control your own destiny.
      Best of luck, upльстец!

  • @andersjohansson3582
    @andersjohansson3582 Před 4 lety +28

    I Love Russia❤️from Sweden.

  • @herpsenderpsen
    @herpsenderpsen Před 7 lety +139

    i'm from Northern Norway and i love the arctic, it will always be my home!

  • @Audiogeek-kf2ez
    @Audiogeek-kf2ez Před 4 lety +12

    At 60years old .I am getting a much better history education on you tube than any school I was in.

  • @torrace12
    @torrace12 Před 5 lety +47

    Siberia is mysterious and fascinating

  • @IceMan-il7dx
    @IceMan-il7dx Před 5 lety +138

    Australia claims 42% of the Antarctic. So why isn't that an 'obsession.'???

    • @EyeCarly85
      @EyeCarly85 Před 4 lety +2

      Ice Man The Antarctic treaty that all major nations signed, keeps any nation from successfully claiming any of Antarctica. No one will be able to own it no matter how obsessed they are.

    • @klauspendolo1393
      @klauspendolo1393 Před 4 lety +5

      ...because they don’t send Spies to kill people like Putin does, they don’t challenge other countries territory boundaries as Russia does right now to NATO countries, they dont attack other countries like Russia did with Ukraine, they dont pursue to be an intimidating world nuclear power, they dont kill their own journalists who are critics of the system. Maybe that’s why ?

    • @jmehn203
      @jmehn203 Před 4 lety +2

      @@klauspendolo1393 , Exactly...

    • @public.public
      @public.public Před 4 lety +2

      "Australia claims 42% of the Antarctic. So why isn't that an 'obsession.'???" because Australia isn't obsessive about developing slums of the future there.

    • @DNikos7
      @DNikos7 Před 4 lety +15

      @@klauspendolo1393 US and UK invaded Iraq, France bombed Lybia, NATO allies bombed Jugoslavia.....do you live in a cave?
      And....can you 100% confirm that NEVER, NONE western goverment ,EVER had ordered a spy execution?A spy is a traitor, last time I checked.

  • @Mr__B.
    @Mr__B. Před 6 lety +385

    As I remember in Soviet time, the work in North region were paid twice and triple more than in other regions and a lot of benefits. This is the reason of success, and not GULAG. People wanted to live and work there because the live was cheaper and salary was higher.

    • @karolus145
      @karolus145 Před 5 lety +5

      It’s sucks there now. Look at norilsk

    • @FreedomsDmocracy1st
      @FreedomsDmocracy1st Před 5 lety +1

      ...didn't know that, now wanna go there too.

    • @user-lp3qs7so5d
      @user-lp3qs7so5d Před 5 lety +8

      Да ты прав, зарплата была выше, множество всяких надбавок, коэффициентов. Люди ехали заработать хорошую пенсию и оставались там жить навсегда. Развал СССР привел к упадку северных территорий, дерадации и оттоку населения. Но те кто уехал оттуда вспоминают те края до конца дней. Туда хочется вернуться

    • @frankdukes3253
      @frankdukes3253 Před 5 lety +17

      The U.S. still uses forced labor for prisoners. They get paid like 1$ a day or I think it may be less and they have to work or you get into trouble and most likely put in isolation.It's considered a privelidge to work for free for prisoners. Maybe that's one of the reasons America has more people in prison than any other nation in the world despite not having the biggest population. We've been a nation of hypocrites for a VERY long time.

    • @dushamoya1661
      @dushamoya1661 Před 5 lety +4

      @@user-lp3qs7so5d They want to go back not solely because of the beauty of the land, but into their past when life was the Life and work was the Work. Nowadays the northerners from Russia are running to Krasnodar region, like there is no tomorrow...

  • @shawnmartin8485
    @shawnmartin8485 Před 5 lety +5

    Those people are tuff,Hardy and deserving of Respect,hard workers and have Integrity and seem to have something most of the world has lost,Best Wishes from Miami,Fl

  • @TheMostEpicThing
    @TheMostEpicThing Před 7 lety +273

    i grew up in Siberia, he's right about freedom, it's dark and cold, but there's something that makes me want to leave UK, and relive that experience again.

  • @mirkodjordjevic2621
    @mirkodjordjevic2621 Před 4 lety +135

    What about western obsession with Russia's downfall?
    Just an idea for a future FT documentary...
    It looks like Russia is heading in the opposite direction...
    Ouch!

    • @kozjevime1
      @kozjevime1 Před 4 lety +2

      USA took Antarctic and Sovietia took arctic. So Neo-Bolshevism of USA and original bolshevism from Sovietia when they got frozen to absolute ZERO, tourist could visit them in the museums of horror and death but third monster must be added in that museum and it is cult of roman catholic cannibalism.

    • @benno291980
      @benno291980 Před 4 lety +2

      @@kozjevime1 who took the Antarctic? There are treaties (which the Soviet Union signed, subsequently adopted by Russian Federation) which explicitly state that no country can claim sovereignty over any territory in the Antarctic.

    • @boomerhgt
      @boomerhgt Před 4 lety +1

      Jsroslav Hus Mumbo jumbo you make no sense

    • @simojovic6358
      @simojovic6358 Před 4 lety

      @@yourmomma8065 your English is pathetic to say the least.

    • @yourmomma8065
      @yourmomma8065 Před 4 lety

      @@simojovic6358 ok, i'll edit it. I was drunk obviously.

  • @picassomicasso1
    @picassomicasso1 Před 6 lety +44

    Why is it an obsession? It's part of their heritage. The world is tired of all that anti-Russian propaganda.

    • @kozjevime1
      @kozjevime1 Před 5 lety +2

      THAT LITTLE YOU SHOULD KNOW! WEST IS FULL OF UNLIMITED HATE AGAINST RUSSIAN PEOPLE AS WEST IS WATCHING RUSSIAN LANDS AS THE MOST PROMISSING CHUNK OF PROPERTY. BOLSHEVIKS WERE AND STILL ARE FINANCED BY WEST TO FINAL DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIA AND OF - BY ROMAN CATHOLIC CULT- MENTALLY RETARDED POLAND.

    • @camshaftshaft2711
      @camshaftshaft2711 Před 4 lety +1

      Love Russia from Canada !! Ashamed to be a weak Canadian with weak government like Trudeau! If I could speak Russian I would love to live with my wife in her home land and leave Canada as our freedoms are being stripped away and given to Islam !

  • @princet1492
    @princet1492 Před 5 lety +5

    My dad found my opa Adams shoveling his drive way in the Canadian winter he’s was 96 at the time my dad said Opa who shoveled your drive way it’s -30 he said ah when I was a boy in Russia it was so cold the horses noses bled. Rip Opa Adams

  • @daystatesniper01
    @daystatesniper01 Před 5 lety +8

    I have been fortunate enough to have visited Russia quite a few times ,all i can say is the people are very friendly ,offer you a room and food for nothing ,chat in broken english ,where else in a country that is supposed to be "evil" could you find this on our planet

    • @leaonardland9001
      @leaonardland9001 Před 3 lety +1

      "where else in a country that is supposed to be "evil" could you find this on our planet"
      Iran!

  • @Brandon-so9fp
    @Brandon-so9fp Před 4 lety +5

    My Russian friend took me up north and got be honest, I didn't see this horrible poverty. Sure there where some old golag towns that where run down, but nobody had lived in them in years. If you ever get the chance it's absolutely worth it. You really need a guide though.

  • @nworesistance9834
    @nworesistance9834 Před 6 lety +477

    That is part of Russian territory. So wtf is the problem. Whats wrong with having a "obsession" with your own land.

    • @whyalwaysme2522
      @whyalwaysme2522 Před 6 lety +12

      Chicken.

    • @cityraildude
      @cityraildude Před 6 lety +7

      Exactly

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar Před 5 lety +2

      Ha hahaah. That is hilarious (Whats wrong with having an "obsession" with your own land.), kentucky fried! I like it. Only the chicken is missing.

    • @dagmastr12
      @dagmastr12 Před 5 lety +10

      Clearly you never met an American leftist.

    • @mer3abec
      @mer3abec Před 5 lety +19

      Its because Russia own this. Not western banksters.

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury5319 Před 5 lety +21

    Tiksi needs a rail line - in a place like that the rail would be straight for long long distances witch means they would be able to travel at high speeds. What Russia should do is create a man made canal to the Kolyma River from the Sea of Okhotsk. this would make the route from Asia to Europe even shorter as you wouldn't have to travel thru the Bearing Straight. Shipping traffic would pick up drastically as it cuts another 1,000 miles of a ships journey.

    • @richardlumleysmith2843
      @richardlumleysmith2843 Před 2 lety

      Think about future - China and Russia have thousands of projects in East /Artic where US dollar not wanted!

  • @transportermcleish5895
    @transportermcleish5895 Před 4 lety +15

    What would the reaction if Russia was to conduct military drills in the Caribbean with Cuba

    • @matthewdylla6090
      @matthewdylla6090 Před 4 lety +1

      As long as it's forecasted (as the drills done by the US by most other borders) it'd probably be met with held breath and planned counter military drills. Trust me as a former military personnel, it's always just a pissing contest that's limited by beuracrates and fear of the "big red button".

    • @KandiKlover
      @KandiKlover Před 2 lety

      @@matthewdylla6090 The USA would cry about it, like when they tried to circle jerk outside russian waters.

    • @matthewdylla6090
      @matthewdylla6090 Před 2 lety

      @@KandiKlover like I said a pissing contest.

  • @394pjo
    @394pjo Před 6 lety +248

    Russia has forty working Ice-Breakers, the United States has one. What else do you need to know?

    • @dr.gmansaturng5228
      @dr.gmansaturng5228 Před 6 lety +28

      Unless you go North Off Alaska coast where do you need ice breakers ? There is no Ice bergs on the South side Alaska . Most of Russians coast needs all the ice breakers it can find ! Then they say Ice breaker here as to be nuclear and cost a billion dollars ? Com on ! Billion ? corruption

    • @ohwell2790
      @ohwell2790 Před 6 lety +5

      Buy your own note pads! They are your off spring not mine!

    • @raytracer5726
      @raytracer5726 Před 6 lety +23

      But United States has 19 Aircraft carriers. Just shows where the priorities are.

    • @Maloy7800
      @Maloy7800 Před 6 lety +8

      And half of them are in the docs for repairs. :-))

    • @popetodr
      @popetodr Před 6 lety +9

      USA has 19 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers , Russia has one (on coal) 😆 > czcams.com/video/-QUh8gh61fE/video.html 🤣 , czcams.com/video/eLk41LDkvZQ/video.html 😂 !

  • @julwiezdeghorz5089
    @julwiezdeghorz5089 Před 4 lety +11

    Its a video of discouragement, not about optimism.

  • @patoni860
    @patoni860 Před 4 lety +4

    There is a beautiful video on Gary Indiana... And it is the same situation... So like my Soviet brothers and sisters you not alone industrialism has declined where I come from to the point I moved away and now live in the south... Look it up right here on CZcams look at in Gary Indiana

  • @aqsdfg25
    @aqsdfg25 Před 5 lety +21

    Not a single image of Yamal LNG plant and the state of the art fleet of icebreaking LNG carriers but a lot of sequences with ruins and wrecked ships...
    Of course no mention that USA in wintertime imports gas from Russia (not directly but after transshipment in northern europe on regular ships) because pipelines
    are too small to bring gas from gulf of mexico to other parts of the country during winter peak demand.
    USA don't have any LNG carrier under american flag, and the Jones Act prohibits the use of foreign ships between two american ports...
    So they can't use foreign ships to haul LNG from Louisiana to Baltimore for example and are obliged to import gas from abroad.
    FT should talk a little about obsolete infrastructures in USA and their unique and ridiculous icebreaker or their miserable merchant navy...

    • @cmdr1911
      @cmdr1911 Před 5 lety

      Canada exports 97 percent of all natural gas imported to the US. Gas is not liquefied and shipped to the other cities in the US. Pipelines are how you move gas in the US. There are more pipelines in the US than any other nation. LNG is for export and is a net exporter

  • @MrBizon91
    @MrBizon91 Před 6 lety +495

    yeah right... "obsession". if something includes russian it should be negative huh?

    • @Espectrador
      @Espectrador Před 6 lety +29

      Bison Zubr If it were western oil companies it wouldnt be.

    • @levvy3006
      @levvy3006 Před 6 lety +35

      Yeah, the Anti-Russian bias in media is sad. Sadder that people fall for it.

    • @Maloy7800
      @Maloy7800 Před 6 lety +8

      As the President of Russia he OWNS the Arctic. Update your calendar, Mr.Jefferson.

    • @mattmopar440
      @mattmopar440 Před 6 lety +1

      he doesnt own anything 12 miles off the coast of Russia

    • @NotADuncon
      @NotADuncon Před 6 lety +7

      Obsession is not a negative word. It's neutral and it only tells us about intensity.

  • @dannysema6786
    @dannysema6786 Před 4 lety +52

    First time hearing u cn't plant ur national flag in ur backyard. Russia is the future.

    • @KOS762
      @KOS762 Před 4 lety +2

      If the Future is poverty and suffering, then yes Russia is the future, but it sounds Bleak. I rather be a free man, and create my own riches.... or fail... but its my freedom and my choice, not someone else's idea.

  • @luciferfallenangel666
    @luciferfallenangel666 Před 5 lety +44

    When you see a couple from a remote destination in a Russia and the girl is wearing a Black Sabbath T-shirt 🤘

    • @dominiquestephenson195
      @dominiquestephenson195 Před 4 lety +6

      Ozzy played there last year!

    • @patricktaylor9033
      @patricktaylor9033 Před 4 lety +1

      Heavy metal is born from and thrives because of hard people in harsh environments wheather its arctic cold or heavy industry or poverty. Suprising that Russian heavy metal isnt more prominent.

  • @bobby-k-mastering
    @bobby-k-mastering Před 5 lety +2

    Great documentary, many thanks from Australia...

  • @dhss333
    @dhss333 Před 4 lety +12

    Sure it isn't YOUR Arctic Obsession?

  • @krishnapratap4561
    @krishnapratap4561 Před 5 lety +3

    very informative documentary on far north ...
    Exploration of Arctic is indeed a tough task....finance, resources, people and strong will power required

  • @fariborzvasell1728
    @fariborzvasell1728 Před 5 lety +4

    I really wish to live in such a place, a place which outside is cold even frozen but the heart of people is as warm as their home, among the people which still appreciate a sack of potato and flour. (Nazdrave)...! 12/06/2019

  • @russg1801
    @russg1801 Před 6 lety +2

    BTW, when she says it was Minus 40 Celcius, that coincidentally means it's ALSO Forty Below, Farenheit. That's the number where both temperature scales coincide. So, either way, it's friggin' COLD!

  • @sonofeloah
    @sonofeloah Před 5 lety +2

    And here it is near the end of 2018 and look at what has happened up there. It is booming and many nations look to use that sea route. Gas and oil rule still, but now with new train and automotive transit being built to that area, it is going to become even more profitable than it is now and right now it is at its all-time highest. And those new nuclear icebreakers means that even if the world in the north goes frozen again, the routes will still be open. And since energy is cheapest there, I would love to live there and build greenhouses, hectares of them and grow fresh vegetables and fruits for the locals. And in reality, THAT is where the real money is!

  • @ronhat-nx6yq
    @ronhat-nx6yq Před 6 lety +116

    I fully agree with British Blue. Here in good ole America, the people are brainwashed into believing all this bull by the government and news media. Our military is all over this planet and wasting trillions of dollars while we here at home have trouble finding a decent job or even any job at all. And there is no retirement anymore. Unfortunately, most people are too unintelligent to notice all the weasel words.

    • @ohwell2790
      @ohwell2790 Před 6 lety +8

      You tell them ron hat. You have the word, now go out of your mommys house and get a job.

    • @ronhat-nx6yq
      @ronhat-nx6yq Před 6 lety +20

      Grisham, you have no idea who and what I am and yet you condemn. I am 71 years old and I have worked all my life. And you can bet I am probably better off than you. The real problem with this country and all others is those humans with your mental capabilities. You do not address the topic, you merely attack the messenger. Certainly the sign of an unintelligent person. You do yourself more harm that you realize. Unfortunately, you harm us all. My life is over, yours probably is not.

    • @cesaraugusto59
      @cesaraugusto59 Před 5 lety

      Well, and why do not you go to Siberia. Maybe it will be better for you there. Why do not you go?

    • @florida5135
      @florida5135 Před 5 lety +5

      Um, actually the job market is huge in America at the moment, and retirement - just like anything else - is now self-driven and self-funded. Ron, you sound just like the people of Tiksi, here - or, really, a typical Russian - where you expect institutions to coddle you, give you work, and provide for your retirement. I'm really not quite sure you're actually American with that outlook - either you are Russian, or you are somebody who expected a union job.

    • @FreedomsDmocracy1st
      @FreedomsDmocracy1st Před 5 lety +2

      ...my apology; US playing stupid here, my apologies again. Sometimes anybody could make small stupid mistakes, aside, the author thinks Russians are stupid, it is the author who's stupid here.

  • @ilyaelric9539
    @ilyaelric9539 Před 5 lety +3

    That sweet feeling when you understand the speech without subtitles

    • @alex042687
      @alex042687 Před 5 lety +1

      Seriously. That guy spoke very English good one. .

  • @HighSpeedNoDrag
    @HighSpeedNoDrag Před 5 lety +1

    Excellent Documentary and Thanks!

  • @itschinesebecauseitsfromch9301

    Is that a jar of caviar on the dash at 0:18? Only in Russia, love it.

  • @mna9211
    @mna9211 Před 5 lety +7

    Obsession??
    Siberia and arctic region is love.
    Btw two of Russian beauty is also love.

  • @andraslibal
    @andraslibal Před 5 lety +3

    More than 1000 km from the nearest city. I can's even imagine that. Wow.

  • @gusgone4527
    @gusgone4527 Před 6 lety +1

    I wish them luck and every success. All that hard work deserves reward. Also the new resources will benefit the entire globe.

  • @andrewplantagenet5811
    @andrewplantagenet5811 Před 6 lety +10

    A very good video. Gave me something to consider. I wish the Russian people well.

  • @garystewart3110
    @garystewart3110 Před 5 lety +4

    It gets just as cold in the United States. Actually warmer in the arctic some days.

  • @StrangerHappened
    @StrangerHappened Před 7 lety +14

    *CORRECTION:* "Those tens of thousands" GULAG prisoners dies of epidemics and age, not because it was hard to work in the north. People had limited working hours and were paid money. Yes, there are many forgotten places in the north, but contrary to what is claimed in the video, Novy Urengoy is not an exception. There are places like Surgut and many more that are modern and thriving.

    • @florida5135
      @florida5135 Před 5 lety

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway

    • @RHGM71
      @RHGM71 Před 5 lety +4

      I'd love to be able to send you back in time to that nice gulag camp, with no return ticket of course. You'd enjoy it, no doubt.

    • @ggsay1687
      @ggsay1687 Před 5 lety

      Surgut is thriving only because it is oil rich region, learn about economy of Russia more thoroughly.

  • @BioHazardCL4
    @BioHazardCL4 Před 7 lety +1

    That was really good :D

  • @philmead3579
    @philmead3579 Před 7 lety +82

    Hats off to the FT for an informative documentary. Intriguing imagery and high production values too. Worth far more than one 'Like' for sure.

    • @kozjevime1
      @kozjevime1 Před 5 lety

      THAT LITTLE YOU SHOULD KNOW! WEST IS FULL OF UNLIMITED HATE AGAINST RUSSIAN PEOPLE AS WEST IS WATCHING RUSSIAN LANDS AS THE MOST PROMISSING CHUNK OF PROPERTY. BOLSHEVIKS WERE AND STILL ARE FINANCED BY WEST TO FINAL DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIA AND OF - BY ROMAN CATHOLIC CULT- MENTALLY RETARDED POLAND.

    • @EVZYL
      @EVZYL Před 5 lety +1

      You mean hats off to a sanctimonious Brit lecturing Russia on where to plant its flags? I suggest you watch Eddie Izzard's skit on how the British built their empire 'by the cunning us of flags.' You might just learn something.

    • @maksimluzin1121
      @maksimluzin1121 Před 5 lety +2

      Well, this film is full of propaganda tricks. And you is one of the victims of that propaganda.

  • @gregjames9875
    @gregjames9875 Před 5 lety +4

    Tiksi, a glimpse into the future of NY, California and Illinois.

  • @ReaLityBlue
    @ReaLityBlue Před 5 lety +84

    I wonder how many "obsessions" have become great things. How biased and short sighted analysis.

    • @toffeecrisp2146
      @toffeecrisp2146 Před 4 lety +1

      That's just what your taking away from it, this video hardly suggests that Russia is doing a bad thing, on the contrary, it has some good material that demonstrates Russian frontier spirit, determination and vision.
      Why is it so many people seem to think this is a character assassination piece?

  • @johnnyaingel5753
    @johnnyaingel5753 Před 6 lety

    AMAZING video documentary

  • @mafteim5556
    @mafteim5556 Před 3 lety +1

    Respect and peace from Romania to the people of Russia.
    Wish them to succede in their plans of development and prosperity under wise leadership.

  • @sumhavefun
    @sumhavefun Před 6 lety +6

    Russia is still pissed off of the Alaskan deal...............................

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar Před 5 lety

      Let that be (as you claim), user user ! Russia isn't the less of loser, for that.

  • @chrisspencer6502
    @chrisspencer6502 Před 5 lety +3

    Next video Norway's Arctic obsession. Or Discovery channel's Arctic obsession with gold rush Alaskan bush people, Alaskan frontier, ice-road truckers or deadliest catch.

  • @dhmalcolm
    @dhmalcolm Před 4 lety

    Excellent reporting

  • @hendrikjanssen9075
    @hendrikjanssen9075 Před 7 lety +7

    Very interesting. Thank you!

  • @paulsdancing5429
    @paulsdancing5429 Před 4 lety +3

    It is perhaps the third or fourth time that I am watching this program. It is the word OBSESSION that does not give rest to my mind. We know that LNG tankers navigate from Yamal via Arctic waters to Shanghai. We know that Power of Siberia gas pipeline, which starts in the Russian arctic in nearing the Chinese border. We also know that Potok #1 is transporting natural gas from the Arctic to Germany. And soon Potok #2 will come on stream. These projects are a fact. And further these projects are on a scale that was never done by men before.
    My dictionary of the American language tells me that obsession means 'the act of an evil spirit'. What do a natural gas processing plant and a nuclear powered icebreaker have to do with evil spirits? And further Financial Times have never heard of gold rush ghost towns?
    Were not the Nazis the ones that kept on repeating the lies? FT should be ashamed. (A Canadian international construction engineer).

  • @johnfranklin1955
    @johnfranklin1955 Před 4 lety +6

    “Obsession”?
    Profit margin. If it’s profitable to bring NG and other things to market there will be people doing it.

  • @florianaugsbergers6756

    great job. :)

  • @rodfirefighter8341
    @rodfirefighter8341 Před 4 lety +2

    I always thought Greenland would have been a nice Air Force assignment!!

  • @ondrejroberto2896
    @ondrejroberto2896 Před 6 lety +30

    From admiration to Russia to love to Russia. Let be blessed everything you do.

  • @spaghettigod43
    @spaghettigod43 Před 6 lety +79

    The guys girlfriend is incredibly cute.

    • @ohwell2790
      @ohwell2790 Před 6 lety +2

      Spaghetti God poor disperate Russian womam 18 and beautfull living in squaller. Poor girl, if that is the best she can do in Russia. She might think about coming to the USA!

    • @rostislavsvoboda7013
      @rostislavsvoboda7013 Před 5 lety

      ... uhm. I guess her BF was severely punished for speaking about starvation at 12:03 and criticizing the russian foreign policy at 13:33.

    • @Thomes-Maisling
      @Thomes-Maisling Před 4 lety +1

      ​@ray rayandray She is wearing a Black Sabbath T shirt and he looks he's modeled his style on the look of Tony Iommi. They're clearly not hippies.

    • @robertsandstorm4785
      @robertsandstorm4785 Před 4 lety

      theres always that one guy

    • @gragor11
      @gragor11 Před 4 lety

      @@robertsandstorm4785 Absolutely. And when crafting a slam piece from a script they dig deep to find 'that one guy'. After all isn't that what balanced propaganda - err documentaries are all about? Equal time for each side just so long as it furthers the narrative.

  • @JizzMasterTheZeroth
    @JizzMasterTheZeroth Před 4 lety +1

    They didn't tell me you would get a sack of potatoes and flour for serving there :O I'm going!

  • @yordanlilov
    @yordanlilov Před 4 lety +2

    Are the fuel prices the only reason for which northern route journeys shrunk? Do the prices dropped that much?
    Not a minute later you mentioned Sanctions. Aren't they the main reason? The real one!

    • @gragor11
      @gragor11 Před 4 lety

      Yes Yordan it is the sanctions by Anglo/American competitors including Canada that have put so many millions of people in such dire straits. Cuba, Russia, Syria, Venezuela on and on. Opps I forgot Iran and North Korea.
      One thing about these sanctions is that these countries become self sufficient pretty quickly. Not like Canada that struggles every time the elephant rolls over or even sneezes, let alone deliberately messes with us, their most loyal sycophant.

  • @Sleppy92
    @Sleppy92 Před 5 lety +3

    Вот оно счастье, мешок картошки

  •  Před 5 lety +3

    Such a land any country never experience a life like that.

  • @kyev936
    @kyev936 Před 6 lety +2

    To explore, discover, and learn for the attainment of progress and evolution (when profitable).

  • @angel_machariel
    @angel_machariel Před 4 lety +2

    I haven't learned anything. Looks more like a veiled hit piece to associate Putin with the word "obsession".

  • @CZOV
    @CZOV Před 6 lety +35

    Not bad for British film, considering they usually blast Russia to serve political nonsense, at least FT tried to show both sides of the coin, aldo comparing a soviet cities built on ideology with modern development created by market conditions is not the same and they know it. There is much more to the Russian north than this short film shows.

    • @MrKafrovich
      @MrKafrovich Před 6 lety +3

      Chris Zarkov this is the most right comment here...

    • @ohwell2790
      @ohwell2790 Před 6 lety

      Chris Zarkov, Please an example of what is much more of the Russian north. It is F--king cold, what else is there to know.

    • @kozjevime1
      @kozjevime1 Před 5 lety

      FINALLY!!!!! ONE OF "COUSINS" OF ENGLAND, SKOTISH AND IRISH SPECIALLY BUT DO NOT FORGET HOLAND AKA NEDERLANDERS TOO WERE ALSO HOLOCAUSTED BY QUEEN MOTHER AND QUEER FATHER. GO THRU HISTORIC DOSUMENTS AND FIND WHAT HAPPENED WITH SMALL GROOP OF HOLAND SETTLERS IN SOUTH AFRICAN UNION! ONLY RUSSIANS IN GULAGS HAD SAME DESTINY UNDER THEIR KHAZARIAN MASTERS. ABOUT IRISH!!!??? LOOK AT PERCENTAGE OF SURVIVORS.YOU SHOULD KNOW UP TO NOW THAT LIVES OF MERINO SHEEP WERE MORE VALUABLE THAN LIVES OF IRISH POPULATION LET US NOT FOOL OURSELVES. NUMBERS DO NOT LIE!

    • @jaycockerille3227
      @jaycockerille3227 Před 5 lety +1

      Interesting that you call FT a British film, when in fact it is owned by the Japanese Nikkei Inc. since 2015.. Only reason I know this because I got a funny feeling this story has an attitude bias I sensed from watching it. So I checked who owns FT, and sure enough, the Japanese.. We are well aware that Japan has an ax to grind with Russia, and Japan definitely has no interest to speak good of Russia.. I do love the fact I had worked 26 years in a government facility dealing with human behavioral disorder. That skill has help me read into people about what they say and how they say it, can direct your research into who they are and to study them..

    • @bloodhun23
      @bloodhun23 Před 5 lety

      Russia will lose control of the eastern half of their country. Japan or more likely China will take it over.

  • @schaefferjohn9512
    @schaefferjohn9512 Před 5 lety +40

    The Lady ,,,,Speaker,,,
    Seems to have,,,,a Negative Russian,,,,
    OBSESSION,,,,,,,,
    THE HIN INTERNATIONAL ART GROUP

  • @waynep343
    @waynep343 Před 4 lety

    By running ice breakers thru the ice sheet it breaks it up. Getting rid of the ice sheet makes offshore oil and gas drilling possible. Moving ice sheets rip oil rigs loose.

  • @Josh-vj5ip
    @Josh-vj5ip Před 6 lety +1

    What amazing places!

  • @howaterbrd9563
    @howaterbrd9563 Před 7 lety +13

    2 words, Flint, Michigan.

    • @jodihouts6032
      @jodihouts6032 Před 6 lety

      HO waterbrd Thank you! So you recognize USA is only destroying and not building, even in their own country?

    • @andreimoutchkine5163
      @andreimoutchkine5163 Před 5 lety +1

      It is not as bad actually. Everything is so corroded, because it is covered in snow to the roofs in winter. They filmed it in summer when it is thawed. It is most spectacular in Petropalovsk-Kamchatsky in the far east, where they have to wall up a whole side of those standard Soviet prefab 5-stories by metal sheets. Rust spectacular.

    • @florida5135
      @florida5135 Před 5 lety +2

      Flint is a failed town due to a failed sub-culture. That sub-culture doesn't build, and isn't productive - it only uses what the main culture built, and only exists due to the main culture's organization and kindness.

    • @andreimoutchkine5163
      @andreimoutchkine5163 Před 5 lety

      Nothing to do with losing the car industry? These Russian towns are far from failed, because the extraction industry jobs are some of the best paid ones. The ecology is of course crap when it thaws

  • @PeterLoffay
    @PeterLoffay Před 5 lety +7

    not obsession,it is a dream. Love it

  • @doogboy
    @doogboy Před 5 lety +1

    I like this!

  • @hollyhholly
    @hollyhholly Před 6 lety +2

    Apparently this video was made in 2016. It's amazing how big a change has resulted from a mere two years of climate change. 2018 may be the first year we see an arctic completely free of ice.

    • @mchlbk
      @mchlbk Před 5 lety +2

      Yep. It's depressing.

  • @zeeybamanch1903
    @zeeybamanch1903 Před 4 lety +7

    Still got the Yankees pissed

  • @alexkostenyuk
    @alexkostenyuk Před 5 lety +3

    Russia has so much land that some will be never explored

  • @michaelboylan5308
    @michaelboylan5308 Před 5 lety

    Good voice over narration, No intrusive FT journalist, Infinitely better than FT reports since 1916

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury5319 Před 5 lety +1

    rail line along the artic coast would be expensive but it would make it these places accessible year around

  • @Armuotas
    @Armuotas Před 4 lety +3

    So Tiksi is Russia's Detroit - used to be good when the industry was booming, not so much anymore.
    Who's going to make the "Russia Great Aga...." oh wait, it's already happening, never-mind.

  • @reddraken2255
    @reddraken2255 Před 5 lety +7

    Russia has successfully made a lot of investments in the Arctic since this video was posted back in 2016. The Arctic is of enormous importance to Russia both geopolitically and economically speaking. I wish all the best to Russia.

  • @elizabethfarrell9650
    @elizabethfarrell9650 Před 5 lety

    Cool video. :D

  • @tadasblindavicius8889
    @tadasblindavicius8889 Před 4 lety +2

    Russia's first priority should be to modernize itself rather than to engage in a futile effort to regain its status as a global power. Given the country's size and diversity, a decentralized political system and free-market economics would be most likely to unleash the creative potential of the Russian people and Russia's vast natural resources. A loosely confederated Russia-composed of a European Russia, a Siberian Republic, and the Far Eastern Republic-would also find it easier to cultivate closer economic relations with its neighbors. Each of the confederated entities would be able to tap its local creative potential, stifled for centuries by Moscow's heavy bureaucratic hand.

  • @johnrock241
    @johnrock241 Před 5 lety +3

    anyone notice the syd barrett picture ?

    • @msmith3407
      @msmith3407 Před 5 lety

      Yeah I saw that. I bet that dude would be pretty cool to hang out with!

    • @johnrock241
      @johnrock241 Před 5 lety

      @@msmith3407 no doubt looks like a total hippie

  • @Blaster53
    @Blaster53 Před 6 lety +35

    This program is clear example how it's possible to make it a bias, neutral or positive. In this video the producers decided to make a very bias presentation of Russia as it is in line with our Western governments narrative.
    It starts by selection of a speaker whose voice has to be revolting, harsh and unfriendly. It is clear demonstration of how bad we are when it comes to creating negative ptopaganda. Speaker is actually barking not speaking and that in itself creates very negative image about the subject.
    Russians are nice people, very friendly and very naive because they still believe that West will again become friendly towards them and because in Russia they have no such hostile anti-western propaganda the public sentiments towards West are still positive and good. On another hand we are experiencing incredible anti-Russian Cold war propaganda created and fueled by our politicians and media.
    Lots of people in Russia personally dislike Putin because of his criminal origin and ties with Oligarchs but because perpetual western pressure and clear hostile anti-Russian propaganda, warmongering combined with sanctions are causing birth of patriotism and acceptance of Putin as a pillar of independence against western aggression.
    We have the most stupid politicians on the planet and this video is just a byproduct of the most idiotic arrogance and brainless submission to the USA rotten politics. We should hope that Russia will keep its strength as only Russian power is guaranty for peace on the planet. Imagine these idiots of USA politicians without any fearing superpower stopping them from enslaving the world. We know something about that as 73 years after the WW2 we are still under the USA occupation.

  • @ohwell2790
    @ohwell2790 Před 6 lety +2

    It is 2018 and they still ration food, what a great country!

  • @user-bo9go5wf7i
    @user-bo9go5wf7i Před 5 lety +1

    interesting video,I came here from Google maps. Living there must be tough

  • @suhvi2786
    @suhvi2786 Před 7 lety +2

    beautiful documentary

  • @optimistic5778
    @optimistic5778 Před 5 lety +7

    THIS IS SUCH BIAS "REPORTING".

  • @sarahkerrigan6026
    @sarahkerrigan6026 Před 5 lety +1

    you would need the top geothermal experts to evaluate if consistent survival is even possible up there.

  • @rethinkscience8454
    @rethinkscience8454 Před 4 lety +1

    New tech city construction is needed is that the environment - or subterranean city would be a major tourist attraction - interesting location

  • @ggsay1687
    @ggsay1687 Před 6 lety +9

    Я сейчас понял что такое счастье и благополучие, это служить в армии и получать два мешка картошки на три месяца.

    • @maxmax2880
      @maxmax2880 Před 5 lety +1

      Хватило им ума же об этом сказать.

    • @xoopss
      @xoopss Před 4 lety +1

      Каждому свое ! Кому меньше других материально в жизни повезло и кто видел бедность тому это везение но вам этого не понять пока вы все не потеряете!

  • @oyonggofomocci2078
    @oyonggofomocci2078 Před 6 lety +24

    Funny, well then America has had an obsession with the West, expanding its borders that way constantly. However, geography has worked with the US, while it instead works against Russia.

    • @nightlightabcd
      @nightlightabcd Před 5 lety

      The US is not expanding it's borders! Russia is encouraging it's neighbors to join NATO for defense against Russia!

  • @mustafabaris9681
    @mustafabaris9681 Před 4 lety

    The couple in the town of Tiksi , you can tell even their souls are frozen ... 😣😣

  • @LeonAllanDavis
    @LeonAllanDavis Před 5 lety +1

    I'm confused...
    What's with this "frozen" business?
    For the past 20 years I've been told that the North Pole is "ice free", or very close to it.
    That it almost never snows above the Arctic Circle.
    Maybe it's only "frozen" on the Russian side...

    • @michaelsteffen4887
      @michaelsteffen4887 Před 5 lety

      lol-Yep,climate change is a hoax!

    • @LeonAllanDavis
      @LeonAllanDavis Před 5 lety

      @@michaelsteffen4887 I disagree..."climate change" is not a hoax"...it's very real...
      The Earth's climate is constantly changing...
      The "hoax" is that it's somehow my fault that the Earth's climate changes...
      It's not my fault...
      It's just the natural cycle of things...
      The Earth wobbles on its axis...its orbit around the Sun varies...the energy output of the Sun increases and decreases...gamma rays create cloud cover...the Earths magnetic pole shifts back and forth..... there's a lot going on over which we have no control...
      I'm not going to stop eating pinto beans to "save the planet" and I'll never stop smoking cigars...

  • @istoria2111
    @istoria2111 Před 4 lety +4

    The selection of the views alone is propaganda. I am even not talking about the vocabulary.

  • @NarimanSafarov
    @NarimanSafarov Před 5 lety +7

    when its US its a light of freedom when Russia its a darkness of evil empire, come on are you serious looks more like a horror for those in a 1st grade

  • @Mutlap
    @Mutlap Před 5 lety +1

    rising temps 1/2 degree?

  • @saltekoff43
    @saltekoff43 Před 4 lety +2

    This is a tough job glad I don't have to do it

  • @funny-video-YouTube-channel

    There are also *modern military bases !*
    They were not shown in the video.

    • @mchlbk
      @mchlbk Před 5 lety +3

      True. Russia's military spending is way too big for the country's limited economy. It's a major problem for the future economic growth and stability of Russia.

    • @maksimluzin1121
      @maksimluzin1121 Před 5 lety +1

      mchlbk,
      Don't say boolsh*t, please! Russian military budget is just about 4% of the Russian state budget. Moreover, Russian investments in to military is a driver of the Russian production and technology reincarnation.

  • @andrejsokolov9431
    @andrejsokolov9431 Před 7 lety +19

    3.05 Andrei Zubov is your expert? You see nothing strange in the fact that all the Russians think he's crazy? :) Please refer to his textbook on the history of Russia. It is possible that you too learn something new about this "historian."

  • @reallyhappenings5597
    @reallyhappenings5597 Před 5 lety +1

    They'll get their wish of a northern sea route, eventually, but it may never be reliable enough to reward the effort.

  • @squamish4244
    @squamish4244 Před 5 lety

    I thought this would be about the melting permafrost, which is source of grave concern (as it is here in Canada), but it's only about development, so why is that bad?