Podcasts about yakutia

  This podcast accompanies my post Germans are from Finland, Finns are from Yakutia. The two preprints at the heart of this post are, Postglacial genomes from foragers across Northern Eurasia reveal prehistoric mobility associated with the spread of the Uralic and Yeniseian languages and Steppe Ancestry in Western Eurasia and the Spread of the Germanic Languages.

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Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week's episode we emerge from our winter hibernation like ravenous groundhogs and build within the shadow of our emerging a circle of sacred stones containing the holy campfire whence we share, drunk with popcorn and smores, the nightmarish tales we uncovered in the unconscious depths of our slumber. In the first half of the evening we discuss the ghoulish zombies of Afghanistan, the ghosts of the Maiyalmula and true tales of alien abduction. In the extended episode we tell the tales of the dangerous entities that prowl the Yakutia region of Russia, a taxi driver's encounter with a mad moose and finally a faithful telling of Aleister Crowley's short story “The Stratagem.” Thank you and enjoy the show! In this week's episode we tell the tale of:-Ghouls of Afghanistan-The Real Life Mythras-The Mimic In The Woods-Aboriginal Ghosts, The Maiyalmula-The Red LightIn the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we invite Aleister Crowley to the party and discuss:  -The Flatman-The Russian Men in Black, Ivan Ivanovich-Moosicide-Aleister Crowley's “The Stratagem” Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitOrder Stickers: https://www.stickermule.com/thewholerabbitOther Merchandise: https://thewholerabbit.myspreadshop.com/Music By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSources:The Stratagemhttps://www.luminist.org/archives/crowley_stratagem.htmSupport the show

Astronomy Daily - The Podcast: S03E223Welcome to Astronomy Daily, your trusted source for the latest in space exploration and cosmic discoveries. I'm your host, Anna, and today we have an exciting lineup of stories that will take you from ambitious European space ventures to awe-inspiring celestial events and groundbreaking research.Highlights:- Europe's Satellite Ambitions: Discover how Europe's aerospace giants Airbus, Thales, and Leonardo are joining forces under Project Bromo to challenge Starlink and reshape the satellite communications industry.- Asteroid Spectacle Over Russia: Witness the remarkable asteroid event that lit up the Yakutia skies, showcasing our advanced asteroid detection capabilities and planetary defense systems.- Artificial Solar Eclipses: Explore the European Space Agency's innovative Probe 3 mission, which will create artificial solar eclipses in space to study the sun's corona and test precision spacecraft control.- Origins of Earth's Oceans: Delve into new research suggesting comets like 67P may have delivered water to Earth, challenging previous theories about our planet's watery beginnings.- AI in Space Exploration: Learn how AI is set to revolutionize long-duration missions to Mars, providing astronauts with critical decision-making support and enhancing survival in deep space.- Hubble's Long-Term Galaxy Study: Marvel at the Hubble Space Telescope's decades-long observation of the distant galaxy UGC 10043, revealing its evolution and cosmic interactions.For more cosmic updates, visit our website at astronomydaily.io. Sign up for our free Daily newsletter to stay informed on all things space. Join our community on social media by searching for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTube, Tumblr, and TikTok. Share your thoughts and connect with fellow space enthusiasts.Thank you for tuning in. This is Anna signing off. Until next time, keep looking up and stay curious about the wonders of our universe.Become a supporter of this podcast, just visit https://spacenutspodcast.com/about✍️ Episode ReferencesAirbus[Airbus](https://www.airbus.com)Thales Group[Thales Group](https://www.thalesgroup.com)Leonardo[Leonardo](https://www.leonardocompany.com)European Space Agency[ESA](https://www.esa.int)Starlink[Starlink](https://www.starlink.com)Hubble Space Telescope[Hubble Space Telescope](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html)Comet 67P[Comet 67P](https://sci.esa.int/web/rosetta/-/comet-67p)MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative[MIT Media Lab](https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/space-exploration/)International Space Station[ISS](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html)Yakutia region[Yakutia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakha_Republic)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-podcast--5648921/support.

Evan Gershkovich is the Wall Street Journal's Moscow reporter. He's been imprisoned in Russia since March last year, and has just gone on trial there - the first American journalist to be jailed in Russia since the Cold War. He's accused of espionage, something he, his employer and his government all strenuously deny. To his friends, like Jeremy Berke, he is "the most extroverted person that I've ever met in my whole life". He loves football and is a dedicated Arsenal fan - so much so that he'd get his flatmates in Brooklyn up at 7am on Sunday mornings - despite them having been out on the town together till the early hours - to watch Arsenal matches with him on TV. The son of Soviet-born, Jewish parents who'd fled to the USA in the late 70s, he grew up speaking Russian at home. Once in Moscow as a reporter, his fellow correspondents - many of whom quickly became friends too - were impressed by his drive, his knowledge of Russia's language and culture, his ease at making contacts, and his willingness to go the extra mile - often literally, to places like the remote Russian republics of Udmurtia and Yakutia. He's now been detained for fifteen months and counting. Gershkovich's friends and family say his release can't come too soon; they're waiting to welcome him home with hugs, and the desire "to never let him leave again". Presenter: Mark Coles Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Julie Ball Editor: Penny Murphy Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele

France's high-stakes legislative elections propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong but not decisive lead in the first-round vote Sunday. We talk Terri E. Givens is a professor at McGill University in the Department of Political Science. Representatives of Afghanistan's Taliban government began meetings on Sunday. Hurricane Beryl strengthened into what experts called an "extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as it approaches the southeast Caribbean. And In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years.

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://efm-industry-insights.podigee.io/60-arctic-indigenous-filmmakers-on-climate-change-first-hand-perspectives 7eb108c5f6a3f70277b8b738215e9757 Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast is presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale. Hosted by Curator and Impact Producer Nadia Denton, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry. Featuring the insights from film creatives and professionals from Sápmi, Canada and Yakutia, this episode will shine a light on the ground-breaking work of the Witness Program, a film training and mentorship programme for emerging Indigenous filmmakers from the Circumpolar Arctic that is the fruit of a collaboration between Telefilm Canada and the Arctic Indigenous Film Fund (AIFF). Designed as a professional development opportunity that allows Arctic Indigenous filmmakers to share their authentic perspectives on how climate change is affecting their communities through their own storytelling and in their own filmic and spoken languages, the programme supported a first cohort of 6 filmmakers who produced 5 films and were mentored by 3 Indigenous long-feature film producers and filmmakers, under the guidance of Liisa Holmberg, CEO of the AIFF. These conversations unpack the way in which these first-hand narratives convey the sense of urgency of climate change which Arctic Indigenous communities have been witnessing for decades and the ways in which their filmmaking practices can embody acts of resistance, resilience and language revitalisation. Key to understanding these films is the notion of a worldview. The speakers, Liisa Holmberg, filmmakers Sadetło Scott and Svetlana Romanova and mentor Danis Goulet, all share their experiences of how their communities' worldview, connection and deep relationship to the land are expressed in these and other films, which they made in a context of challenges to the land and Indigenous storytelling through the compounded effects of climate change and colonization. Film commissioner Liisa Holmberg (she/her) is working in International Sámi Film Institute (ISFI) in Norway. Liisa Holmberg is a Sámi film maker originally from Finnish side of the Saamiland. She has worked in the film business as a producer, production manager and film consultant from the year 1994. Big part of her work as a film commissioner is working internationally with Indigenous film makers in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Sápmi and Russia to establish an Arctic Indigenous Film Fund (AIFF). Holmberg is a member of European Film Academy from the year 2018. Sadetło Scott (she/her) is a Tłı̨chǫ Dene filmmaker, who grew up and lives in Sǫǫ̀mbak'è, Denendeh (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada). Sadetło has a B.A. in Indigenous Governance and a Certificate in Heritage and Culture from Yukon University, and Certificates in Motion Picture Production and Cinematography from Capilano University. Sadetło's work, such as “Edaxàdets'eetè” aims to educate on the importance of Indigenous language and the Indigenous experience. Svetlana Romanova (Sakha/Even) is an artist and filmmaker born in Yakutsk, the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located south of the Arctic Circle. Her practice centers on the importance of Indigenous visual language, particularly in the Arctic regions and gravitates towards critical self historization. Writer/director Danis Goulet's films have screened at festivals around the world including Berlinale, Sundance, MoMA and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Her award-winning feature NIGHT RAIDERS premiered in the Panorama section at Berlinale and also screened at TIFF in 2021. For television, Danis has recently directed for the acclaimed FX series RESERVATION DOGS. She is Cree/Metis, originally from northern Saskatchewan. The host Nadia Denton is a film industry specialist with over a decade of experience as a Curator, Impact Producer and Author. Her focus has been on cinema of the African diaspora, she specialises in Nigerian Cinema and is author of two books The Black British Filmmakers Guide to Success and The Nigerian Filmmaker's Guide to Success: Beyond Nollywood. Nadia is also an official V&A African Heritage Tour Guide. As a Partner of Choice, Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation dedicated to the success of Canada's audiovisual industry, fostering access and excellence by delivering programs that support cultural resonance and audience engagement. With a lens of equity, inclusivity and sustainability, Telefilm bolsters dynamic companies and a range of creative talent at home and around the world. Telefilm also makes recommendations regarding the certification of audiovisual coproduction treaties to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, and administers the programs of the Canada Media Fund. Launched in 2012, the Talent Fund raises private donations which principally support emerging talent. AIFF is a film fund dedicated to films and filmmakers with Arctic Indigenous origins. We believe it's vital to spread knowledge about Indigenous cultures, climate change, the environment, and land rights by the means of art. That's why we are committed to building capacity for Arctic filmmaking. We advance filmmakers' possibilities to produce and distribute their films by funding productions and offering training programs. Our aim is to promote high-quality film projects that enhance the cultures, languages and societies of arctic Indigenous peoples. Part of our mission is also to support cooperation among Indigenous filmmakers. We bring together the most talented filmmakers, help them to achieve the best possible production terms and encourage co-production and exchange of expertise. The Witness Program is a professional development opportunity that allows Arctic Indigenous filmmakers to share how climate change is affecting their communities, to tell their own stories, and to meet and work with an international network of Indigenous filmmakers. This initiative aims to empower Indigenous filmmakers across the Arctic through training and workshops. The Berlinale's European Film Market is the first international film market of the year, where the film industry starts its business. 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- Trong các ngày từ 22-24/3, tại thủ đô Yakutsk của nước cộng hoà Sakha-Iakutia-Liên bang Nga diễn ra hội nghị khoa học thực tiễn quốc tế về biến đổi khí hậu và tan băng vĩnh cửu. Đây đang là thách thức đối với thế giới. Hội nghị thu hút hoảng 500 đại biểu từ Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mông Cổ, Trung Quốc, Ấn Độ, Mỹ và Nhật Bản, tham gia trực tiếp và trực tuyến. Chủ đề : Hội nghị quốc tế, biến đổi khí hậu --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vov1tintuc/support

Yakutia, also known as the Sakha Republic, the land where the Taiga meets the Tundra, is one of the coldest inhabited areas in the world and home to one of the most unique and thrilling languages and cultures in the Russian Federation. At Easy Languages, we are happy to count Easy Sakha as one of those languages. In this episode, you'll listen to Tatiana O. & Olga Y. share all the essential facts about their fascinating language, the Sakha language, and give us their tips for learning languages in the second section. And if you want to learn some basics in Sakha, become a member & join us for a fun after-show! Show Notes What is Sakha/Yakut? Sakha Tyla (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sakha-language) (Britannica) Yakut Alphabet/Script (https://omniglot.com/writing/yakut.htm) (Omniglot) About Yakut language / Sakha tyla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQeNXKT5o0g) (Life in Yakutia Channel) How similar are Tatar and Sakha/Yakut languages? With Eli from Russia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k97MH6bNmwg) (Life in Yakutia Channel) Similarities Between Turkish and Yakut (Siberian Turkic language) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFmNoN1nF78) (Bahador Alast Channel) History of Sakha: The Story of an Indigenous Siberian People (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8FEBsL1ucQ) (Left Handed Asians Channel) YAKUT PEOPLE, CULTURE, & LANGUAGE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sybAkpmNUE) (IloveLanguages! Channel) 10 Facts You Didn't Know about Yakutsk (https://theculturetrip.com/russia/articles/10-facts-you-didnt-know-about-yakutsk/) (theculturetrip) Map of the Sakha Republic in the Russian Federation (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-eastern-Russia-open-access-showing-the-location-of-the-Yakutia-Republic-and_fig1_322841841) Resources for learning Sakha: What People Wear in the Coldest Place on Earth (Yakutsk, Russia) | Easy Sakha 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW26FPa1Rdw) (Easy Languages Channel) Language Links Database (https://universeofmemory.com/yakut-language-resources/) Sakha Lessons (https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2019/07/sakha-lessons.html) Wordle in Sakha: https://sakhatyla.ru (https://sakhatyla.ru/) https://sakhatyla.ru/blogs/news/wordle (https://sakhatyla.ru/blogs/news/wordle) https://wordle.afanasev.net (https://wordle.afanasev.net/) https://wordle.tylytaay.ru (https://wordle.tylytaay.ru/) Application to learn Sakha (https://keep.lib.asu.edu/items/135182)

Forsch - самобытный проект из Якутии. Артист успел засветиться на лейбле Ромы Брусники LOFI, фитануть с 88b, Silbad, Suicidewave и Niur. Микс для @molokolooza зиждется на формуле из меланхолии и воспоминаний, которой и следует Forsch в своем творчестве: все начинается с глотка чистого воздуха, где нет места тоске, перетекая то в тревогу, то в грусть. Так звучит одна маленькая биография. -- Forsch is an original project from Yakutia. The artist managed to light up on label LOFI, record tracks with 88b, Silbad, Suicidewave and Niur. The mix for rubric @molokolooza is based on a formula of melancholy and memories, which Forsch follows in his work: everything starts with a breath of clean air, where there is no place for melancholy, flowing either into anxiety or sadness. This is just one little biography. -- Tracklist: 1. Mu tate - Outer 2. Telefon Tel Aviv - Something Akin to Lust 3. Huerco S. - Ragtime U.S.A. (Warning) 4. C11nd - 4b293 5. Silbad - i got u wroong 6. 1989 - Amygdala 7. 2muchachos - birds (hovering over the pine tops) 8. Forsch - Untitled 9. Space Available - Your Horizon 10. Jacaszek - Elegia -- sc: @forsch-186350058

n episode #17 of Roots of Humanity, Drew talks to Maria Solko about what it is like to survive in the coldest place on earth. With an informative social media presence showing life in Yakutia, Maria walks us through the differences between Yakutia and Siberia, and how the ethnic and cultural roots of the Far East differ from Moscow's Russia. How do people grow food when permafrost makes the ground infertile? What does horse meat taste like? And why is eating it at the heart of Yakutia tradition? Tune in to hear about Drew's recent trip to Russia in the dead of winter, his experience taking an ice bath, and what it means to be a mom in the most remote, unheard of place in our world.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hailing all the way from Yakutia, also known as Sakha Republic, Siberian YouTuber Maria Solko tells us about life in the coldest inhabited place on Earth! With average temperatures reaching -40 degrees and even getting down to -50 or below, life in Siberia is harsh but beautiful. We talk local traditions, the Sakha religion, foods, and even Siberian Tinder. She might be freezing but this episode is HOT! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, is the coldest place on Earth outside of Antarctica. A 3-million-km2 expanse of unforgiving taiga and tundra, where winter temperatures can plunge to lethal lows of -67°C, over the ages it has nonetheless been home to scattered groups of hardy peoples. The largest such group, the Sakha, arrived in the 13th century after a long migration out of Central Asia, and quickly established themselves as the predominant power in the region. This period of kyrgys uyete (the age of battles and massacre), during which time the Sakha found themselves in regular conflict with enemies both external and internal, served as the main impetus for the intensive development of the their traditional wrestling, Khapsagai – a style centred around speed, agility, and balance. Khapsagai became an indispensable part of the martial training of every young Sakha man, and wrestling matches were an inevitable feature of any religious festival or celebratory clan gathering. In this episode, we look at the deeply embedded presence of Khapsagai in Sakha culture both past and present, its usage by their heroes both real and mythological, and how the style has ably displayed the very same virtues of dextrousness and adaptability it demands of its practitioners, weaving its way through Imperial Russian conquest and Soviet modernisation to be practised in the modern day as far away as the Sahara desert.

Jenny Shelton from the RSPB discusses this historical drama from Yakutia with host Ally Pitts. The film centres around an elderly couple whose grueling but predictable life in rural Siberia in the 1930s is a disrupted by the arrival of mysterious bird of prey. Episode Sponsor: You can watch The Lord Eagle, along with many other films from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia on the streaming service Klassiki Online. Read uk.bookshop.org affiliate store; 10% of the sale will go towards the running of the show, and another 10% will go towards supporting independent bookshops around the country. There's also our www.rusandsov.com affiliate store where you can get t-shirts, wall posters, coffee mugs, and more with a Russian and or Soviet theme. If you use the promo code RUSSOPHILESUNITE at check out, you'll get 10% off, and they ship locally in the US, the EU, and Australia. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow and rate us on Podchaser: www.podchaser.com/russophilesunitemoviepodcast Music: The show's intro music is Cold by Sasha Ilyukevich and the Highly Skilled Migrants. You can find more of their music at: https://thehighlyskilledmigrants.bandcamp.com/ or on Spotify. Contact Us: Twitter: @RussophilesU Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/russophilesunite Instagram: www.instagram.com/russophiles_unite/ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Ally_ Find Ally's other podcast appearances at: https://www.podchaser.com/creators/alistair-pitts-107ZzmUqmI

Here we are challenged to reopen the playground inside yourself, to rediscover the spontaneous, natural flow of sound and voice that you've been carrying within all this time, even before you produced your first sounds. Let's engage the power of sound and open ourselves to our authentic voice.Alexandru Anton graduated with a degree in Psychology and then pursued training in shamanic techniques and systemic constellations. He is also a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, and is a Cuyamungue Institute Community Host. He says, “It was in 2010 that I had my first live encounter with throat-singing and ever since I've been fascinated by this singing style and how it affects our psyche. I have traveled to Tuva, Yakutia, Altai and Mongolia and for the past 10 years I have been leading workshops and supporting people to open up their voice and sing, and some to throat-sing.” Alexandru is based in Romania.

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/283 Presented By: Stonefly Nets, Fly Fishing Film Tours, Trxstle, Togens Fly Shop Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors Will Blair, the guy who's been leading Kamchatka wilderness trips for 25 years, breaks down the step by step on how to do a trip to Kamchatka. We find out why this place is so much different than Alaska, with lots of untouched waters you can explore today. Will shares the story of how he and his partner Victor started the lodge during a challenging time and now have one of the most unique trips in the world. We also hear about where Will was during the 9/11 attack plus the funny story of a bear who loves taking Pepsi from their lodge. We cover it all today in the longest fly fishing podcast episode in the history of the Wet Fly Swing Podcast! This is definitely a record-breaking episode so don't miss this one! Kamchatka Show Notes with Will Blair 03:20 - Rick Kustich was recently on the podcast at WFS 277 04:00 - Will worked in Bristol Bay, Alaska for a decade - at Katmai Lodge 04:42 - You can find 30" rainbows in Naknek, Kvichak, and Kenai 07:08 - Bruce King was the head of the Kenai River rainbow trout program 07:21 - Roger Bloom runs the California wild trout program for 30 years 08:08 - Ozernaya has huge hatches of stoneflies, caddisflies, mayflies 13:17 - There's a secret spring creek in Southwest Michigan 24:03 - Will and another guy from Colorado started Kamchatka Expeditions 24:25 - Will met Victor Rebrikov who became his partner then and now 29:24 - Will and Victor started The Best of Kamchatka 34:04 - Will talks about the river down below the canyon on the Oz called The Big Bluff 37:12 - Hook size restriction is implemented to avoid killing the fish 39:21 - Kamchatka rainbow 40:00 - Leopard rainbow trout 44:25 - Steelhead in Kamchatka are considered "Redbook species" which are endangered species and you can't just fish for them 49:00 - Kamchatka Buttercup 49:56 - Kamchatka is not the place for Salmon fishing 56:48 - Will describes how their team get to Kamchatka from Petropavlovsk 1:00:36 - In 2014, Will started a flyout program called Rainbows from Above 1:03:11 - Fly Fishing in the Anthropocene 1:06:26 - Tiger tracks found in Yakutia  1:06:41 - The Tiger by John Vaillant 1:09:10 - There are about 20,000 brown bears in Kamchatka 1:11:19 - Will tells the story of the bear who loves Pepsi Cola 1:13:06 - Video of Kamchatka Lycas chasing the bear off (at 3:13) 1:16:43 - Victor signed a 49-year federal lease with the Russian Government for the entire Two Yurt River Valley 01:20:51 - Dolly Lama Fly 1:22:24 - The camp 1:28:24 - There are 29 active volcanos in Kamchatka which produces geothermal water 1:42:53 - 9 foot, 7-hand, single hand, with floating line is the perfect rod for Will 1:47:33 - Will tells the story of where he was during the 9/11 attack 1:52:48 - Will tells the story of his right-hand man Yegor 1:58:30 - Will recommends ExploreKamchatka.com 1:59:47 - Kamchatka trip costs 10-15k 2:02:08 - The Best of Kamchatka is an Orvis endorsed outfitter and works with Yellow Dog Fly Fishing Adventures Kamchatka Conclusion with Will Blair We learned about the step by step on how to do a trip to Kamchatka and we learned why this place is so much different than Alaska. Will told the story of how he and his partner, Victor started The Best of Kamchatka. We discovered what it's like to fish in Kamchatka as Will describes. This is definitely going on our bucket list! Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/283

It's our 250th episode, and to commemorate the occasion we'll answer the deepest and most exciting questions, as chosen by YOU! How we deal with rejection, how to start your own podcast, and the worst disagreements we've ever had - we answer these questions and many more in this loooooooong episode! Our upcoming National Gallery event at the Light To Night Festival: ARTSPLAINING FT. MINISTRY OF FUNNY & ASSISTANT CURATOR JENNIFER K.Y. LAM - register here Find us here! Our YLB Subreddit for detailed show notes and mindblowing discussions YLB's TikTok featuring us dancing uwu Our YLB YouTube channel to watch videos of all our guest interviews Our YLB IG account where we post exclusive BTS of the podcast FOLKLORY - Record a personalized podcast as an audio gift for your loved ones! We've launched the new edition of FOLKLORY.com, and can't wait to help you create a one-of-a-kind present that will be shared and cherished forever! #folklory The thread of questions for our AMA YLB AMA questions thread One Shiok Thing What We Wear at -71°C (-95°F)? Yakutia, Siberia Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer

Today we are joined by the former Canadian Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan (2006-2009) – Honourable Margaret Skok. Margaret started her career with the RCMP Canada, as well as served with Global Affairs Canada at the Embassy of Canada in Moscow (1991 – 1994).She is sharing her experiences of unlocking Eurasian markets to Canadian businesses, the role of women in Central Asia, mobilizing change in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and Canada's place in the international nuclear strategy.Related LinksCERBA Kazakhstan Canada Business CouncilCamecoRonald A. ChisholmCenterra GoldCanadian Trade Mission to Russia, Uzbekistan and ArmeniaCanadian Trade Mission to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and TajikistanTimeline00:00 Intro00:40 Introducing Margaret Skok1:36 Merry Christmas and Happy New Years: Julian and Gregorian Calendars2:05 Background: From WWII Poland on Queen Elizabeth through Pier 1 in Halifax to Saskatchewan 3:05 Career launch in federal public service4:07 Joining AG Canada5:20 Moscow 1991 - 19947:11 Farms in Russia and in the West12:31 Coup in Aug 199113:57 “Le Chateau Montebello” in Yakutia15:10 Elections and difficult transformations in Ukraine and Belarus17:24 Becoming an Ambassador of Canada to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan19:20 Mobilizing change20:17 The New Way – reforms in Kazakhstan21:15 Gold and education in Kyrgyzstan 24:00 Tajikistan: women in AG26:00 His Highness the Aga Khan26:40 Role of women in business – Central Asia28:31 Kazakhstan Canada Business Council31:50 Canada and international nuclear strategy34:11 What made Margaret a leader?36:30 What does the future hold for Margaret?37:30 Special thank you notes38:28 ConclusionIcebreakers is produced by CERBA, an independent non-profit organization that promotes bilateral trade and investment between Canada and Eurasia. www.cerbanet.org

New Series Alert! Been wondering what we've been cooking up during those long periods of silence? The Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat and On The Land in collaboration with the Permanent Participant Youth Network and the Permanent Participants, brings you a new podcast series. Our Arctic Presence features the story of how the Arctic Council Permanent Participant organizations came to be and coordinate across international Arctic borders. If you are from the Arctic and wonder how Indigenous issues are advocated for, this is the podcast for you. Join us as we hear Indigenous Youth speak to their Permanent Participants' history and interview leaders.The Arctic. It has always held its allure. Often known as the “Last Frontier,” the tundra and taiga that defines the topmost part of the northern hemisphere has been the subject of many an explorer's daydream. This place, this frozen expanse technically known as a “desert” due to the low levels of precipitation that fall each year, is also known as home.For millennia, the Arctic has been home to the Indigenous Peoples of the North. From Sápmi to Inuit Nunat, Gwichyaa Zhee' to Denendeh, Tanax to Yakutia, stories ring from these lands. Though the Peoples have always been meeting and engaged in trade and ceremony with one another, Arctic cooperation was strengthened 25 years ago when the Indigenous Peoples joined the Arctic States of Iceland, Finland, Sweden, the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Denmark, The United States of America, Norway, and Canada in forming the Arctic Council.This is our Story.Episode 1 dropping today Saturday, December 18th, speaks to the story of how the Permanent Participant organizations were developed and became involved with the Arctic Council. Credits Published and produced by: The Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat and On The Land Media – a multimedia organism created to center Indigenous voices and our relationships to the land and water. In Collaboration with: Arctic Athabaskan Council, Aleut International Association, Gwich'in Council International, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Saami Council, the Permanent Participant Youth Network. Sponsored by: The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Cover art by : Halux Markings by Dustin Newman, Aleut International Association Youth Representative. Follow @haluxmarkings for more. Theme Music: Maani Nunamteni by Uqill'aq Byron Nicholai @byronnicholaiJuniper by Nagamo Productions This project was undertaken as an approved project of the Permanent Participant Youth Network. The podcast and written content was prepared by the project team and do not necessarily reflect the policy or positions of any Arctic State, Permanent Participant, or Observer of the Arctic Council.

IceBreakers welcomes Valerii Maximov, Senior Trade Commissioner of the Russian Federation in Canada, former Minister of Economy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Advisor to the President of the Republic. Valerii will share the stories about the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - the world's largest administrative and territorial subdivision, a homeland for such known start-ups as InDriver and MyTona. We will also learn more about Yakut language and culture, success stories of cooperation with Canada and how the Canadian North is similar to that of Russia.Related LinksSilver Bear Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)Russian Trade Mission to CanadaTimeline00:00 intro00:42 Introducing Valerii Maximov1:48 5 X France Territory4:33 Career path7:53 $100,000 question about Canada - Yakutia cooperation9:46 The Sakha People10:39 Why Canada?11:52 The Nothern Forum13:30 Canadians in Yakutia14:36 Canada – Norway16:29 Spring-like weather of -35 in Yellowknife18:48 First Nations routes21:52 Bisons don't mind the virus24:21 More multinational projects in the Arctic needed26:03 The Polar Express project 202527:51 Yakutian creativity, mining and unmanned electric vehicles31:22 What does the future hold for Canada and Russia?32:52 What made Valerii Maximov a leader?33:35 What does the future hold for Valerii?34:25 ConclusionIcebreakers is produced by CERBA, an independent non-profit organization that promotes bilateral trade and investment between Canada and Eurasia. www.cerbanet.org

This podcast provides some deeper insights into our new publication by Solovyeva et al. (2021) dealing with Arctic Geese in the Eastern Russian Arctic. It provides a showcase for the 'New Digital Arctic' as the myriad changes in the Arctic land-, sea- and coastal-scape are unfolding so fast with devastating outcomes (Krupnik and Crowell 2020). This research shows a more nuanced range and distribution pattern for these two species - Tundra Bean Geese & Greater White-fronted Geese - during moult and brood-rearing than previously known for flyway delineations, nesting and summer range maps etc. This was possible by using Machine Learning and many Open Access GIS data ("Big Data"). Based on the first-time online release of 24 years of field data in very remote areas like rivers of Yakutia, Chaun research station, Chukotka and Northern Kamchatka it presents the best-available public and digital information on the topic, added by GBIF.org data as well as compiled and geo-referenced (Russian) literature data for a good model assessment. This podcast emphasizes the experience and suggestions for data sharing in polar regions and elsehere, as stated by D. Carlson for the International Polar Year (IPY; Carlson 2011) making open access approaches a best-professional practice, if not already mandatory by many funders, e.g.Huettmann et al. (2011), Huettmann and Ickert-Bod (2017) for examples. An application is provided how it can affect better management and protection, e.g. for Climate Change forecast and conservation (Spiridonov et al. 2012). This research raises the question why so many data repositories are either empty, locked behind passwords, or underused, and it shows that Open Access and Open Source in 'The Cloud' can provide a generic progress tfor everybody. Here we provide a workflow and baseline across international researchers to achieve such outcomes with ISO-complian metadata to actually understand the data sets, model inference and outcome. References and background readings Carlson, D. A (2011) Lesson in sharing. Nature 469: 293. https://doi.org/10.1038/469293a Huettmann, F. (ed) (2012) Protection of the Three Poles, Springer Tokyo, Japan, p. 337 Huettmann F, Yu Artukhin, O. Gilg, and G. Humphries (2011) Predictions of 27 Arctic pelagic seabird distributions using public environmental variables, assessed with colony data: a first digital IPY and GBIF open access synthesis platform. Marine Biodiversity 41: 141-179 DOI 10.1007/s12526-011-0083-2 Huettmann F and S. Ickert-Bond (2017). On Open Access, data mining and plant conservation in the Circumpolar North with an online data example of the Herbarium, University of Alaska Museum of the North Arctic Science. http://www. nrcresearchpress.com/toc/as/0/ja Krupnik I. and A. L. Crowell (2020) Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North. Smithsonian Institutional Press. Washington D.C. Solovyeva D. I. Bysykatova-Harmey. S L. Vartanyan, A. Kondratyev F. Huettmann (2021) Modeling Eastern Russian High Arctic Geese (Anser fabalis, A. albifrons) during moult and brood rearing in the ‘New Digital Arctic. Scientific Reports.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01595-7 Spiridonov V., M. Gavrilo, Y. Krasnov, A. Makarov, N. Nikolaeva, L. Sergienko, A. Popov and E. Krasnova (2012). Chapter 8 Toward the New Role of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas in the Arctic: The Russian Case. in F. Huettrmann (ed) Protection of the Three Poles. Springer New York. pp. 171 – 201. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/falk-huettmann/support

Russia's Far East has traditionally been considered LDPR country: in the 2016 State Duma election, the party came in second only to United Russia in every region of the Far Eastern Federal District except Yakutia, where it shared second place with KPRF. Five years ago, LDPR won between 20-30 percent of the vote in the Far East, compared to its average 13 percent throughout the country, and won a similar share of the vote in local legislative elections. In 2021, however, the right-wing Liberal Democrats lost their status as the Far East's main opposition force, winning only half as many votes as in the previous election, and in some places only a third. This year, it was the Communists who embodied the protest vote. While KPRF received 7-18 percent of the vote throughout the Far East in the 2016 State Duma elections, they received 12-35 percent this time around (more than 20 percent in most regions). United Russia still won in districts throughout the region, albeit on shaky ground, but the Communists are confident voters supported them not only as an act of protest but also for ideological reasons -- and they're determined to take their success further. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/10/14/the-red-east

The old airport in the Siberian settlement of Churapcha has been unusable for years, its runway transformed into a swampy field of puffed-up mounds and reliefs. Like cities and towns across northern and north-eastern Russia, Churapcha is suffering the consequence of climate change thawing the permafrost on which everything is built. This is a Russian language content. - Взлетно-посадочная полоса заброшенного аэропорта в якутском поселке Чурапча выглядит инопланетно. Из-за таяния вечной мерзлоты поверхность земли в Чурапче и других населенных пунктах Сибири покрылась круглыми холмиками, и зрелище это завораживает. Постройки рушатся из-за изменения рельефа.

Catastrophic wildfires are still sweeping Russia's Siberian region of Yakutia. The authorities declared an "interregional state of emergency" on Saturday, August 13. According to the Federal Agency for Forestry (Rosleskhoz), since the start of 2021, fires have destroyed more than seven million hectares (about 17.3 million acres) of forest - an area the size of Ireland or Georgia. NASA said that at the beginning of August, smoke from Yakutia's wildfires reached the North Pole. Earlier this month, photographer Denis Sinyakov spent several days in Yakutia's Ust-Aldansky District alongside the people who are charged with fighting the forest fires - the smokejumpers from the Aerial Forest Protection Service (Avialesokhrana). Meduza shares Denis Sinyakov's photographs and recollections here. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/08/16/every-summer-the-forest-burns

Andrey Purtov is a marketing, strategy, and education expert with over 25 years of experience. Graduated from the design faculty of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. He started his career in marketing and sales at the age of 19 in the late 90s in the electronics and home appliances markets. Then he became the head of the sales department at the Videoservice concern and was involved in the sales of Columbia Tristar, Buena Vista, and Disney products throughout Russia. In 2000 he founded the branding agency ArtGraphics.ru. In 2004-2010 - editor-in-chief of Identity magazine ("The debut of the year in Russia in the field of advertising and marketing", 2004). Since 2007 - producer of the international conference HiBrand ("The best conference of the year in Russia", 2007). Producer of the "Marketing Tour" project. Jury member of advertising and marketing festivals in Moscow, Kiev, Minsk, Yerevan, Novosibirsk. Expert of the federal projects "Foresight Fleet 2013. Education" and "Foresight Fleet 2015. National Technological Initiative". Chairman of the International Jury of the OPEN Territory Marketing Festival (2015). Supervised territorial projects for Kazan, Baikal, Yeniseisk, Kamchatka, Vladivostok, Krasnodar, Murmansk region, Yakutia, Penza and Altai. In 2012, he created and became a curator of the Marketing and Brand Management program at the British Higher School of Art and Design. Trained over 2000 specialists in marketing, strategy, and communications. Winner of the British Award in the School Ambassador nomination (2016). In 2016-2017 - Marketing Director of the BHSAD. In 2019-2020 - Dean of the Department of Marketing, Moscow Advanced Communication School. Winner of the 2020 U Awards in the Special Achievements category for outstanding service to the British Higher School of Art and Design. Developed, supervised, and conducted corporate trainings in marketing, strategy, and communications for Daimler (Mercedes-Benz Russia), Pepsico, Severstal-Management, OCS, MegaFon, Perfetti Van Melle, MASMY Belarus, Italdizain, and many other Russian and international companies. Articles and interviews were published in Forbes, National Business, Delovoy Kvartal, Identity, Projector, Company Management, Capitalist, Strategic Management, etc. Master's degree in Marketing, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University. Lomonosov (the best course according to students, 2019). In 2020, he was awarded the Order of Merit in Marketing by the Guild of Marketers for his significant contribution to the development of marketing education, the development and implementation of practice-oriented teaching methods, and the training of highly qualified specialists in the field of marketing and branding for the Russian economy. In 2020-2021, he developed and supervised the "Global Business" program for the "Development Corporation of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)", within the framework of which about 40 specialists were trained and strategies of 6 most important non-resource companies in Yakutia were developed. In July 2021, he headed the expert group of the All-Russian competition "Discover Your Russia" and became the curator of the Accelerator of the competition projects. FIND ANDREY ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | Telegram © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Andrey Purtov is a marketing, strategy, and education expert with over 25 years of experience. Graduated from the design faculty of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. He started his career in marketing and sales at the age of 19 in the late 90s in the electronics and home appliances markets. Then he became the head of the sales department at the Videoservice concern and was involved in the sales of Columbia Tristar, Buena Vista, and Disney products throughout Russia.In 2000 he founded the branding agency ArtGraphics.ru. In 2004-2010 - editor-in-chief of Identity magazine ("The debut of the year in Russia in the field of advertising and marketing", 2004). Since 2007 - producer of the international conference HiBrand ("The best conference of the year in Russia", 2007). Producer of the "Marketing Tour" project. Jury member of advertising and marketing festivals in Moscow, Kiev, Minsk, Yerevan, Novosibirsk. Expert of the federal projects "Foresight Fleet 2013. Education" and "Foresight Fleet 2015. National Technological Initiative". Chairman of the International Jury of the OPEN Territory Marketing Festival (2015). Supervised territorial projects for Kazan, Baikal, Yeniseisk, Kamchatka, Vladivostok, Krasnodar, Murmansk region, Yakutia, Penza and Altai.In 2012, he created and became a curator of the Marketing and Brand Management program at the British Higher School of Art and Design. Trained over 2000 specialists in marketing, strategy, and communications. Winner of the British Award in the School Ambassador nomination (2016). In 2016-2017 - Marketing Director of the BHSAD. In 2019-2020 - Dean of the Department of Marketing, Moscow Advanced Communication School. Winner of the 2020 U Awards in the Special Achievements category for outstanding service to the British Higher School of Art and Design.Developed, supervised, and conducted corporate trainings in marketing, strategy, and communications for Daimler (Mercedes-Benz Russia), Pepsico, Severstal-Management, OCS, MegaFon, Perfetti Van Melle, MASMY Belarus, Italdizain, and many other Russian and international companies. Articles and interviews were published in Forbes, National Business, Delovoy Kvartal, Identity, Projector, Company Management, Capitalist, Strategic Management, etc. Master's degree in Marketing, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University. Lomonosov (the best course according to students, 2019).In 2020, he was awarded the Order of Merit in Marketing by the Guild of Marketers for his significant contribution to the development of marketing education, the development and implementation of practice-oriented teaching methods, and the training of highly qualified specialists in the field of marketing and branding for the Russian economy. In 2020-2021, he developed and supervised the "Global Business" program for the "Development Corporation of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)", within the framework of which about 40 specialists were trained and strategies of 6 most important non-resource companies in Yakutia were developed. In July 2021, he headed the expert group of the All-Russian competition "Discover Your Russia" and became the curator of the Accelerator of the competition projects.FIND ANDREY ON SOCIAL MEDIALinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | Telegram================================PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://www.uhnwidata.com/podcastApple podcast: https://apple.co/3kqOA7QSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2UOtE1AGoogle podcast: https://bit.ly/3jmA7ulSUPPORT & CONNECT:Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrichTwitter: https://www.instagram.com/denofrich/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denofrich/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich

Photo:  Yakut elder, early 20th century. The Yakuts, or the Sakha (Yakut: саха, sakha; plural: сахалар, sakhalar), are a Turkic ethnic group who mainly live in the Republic of Sakha in the Russian Federation, with some extending to the Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions, and the Taymyr and Evenk Districts of the Krasnoyarsk region. The Yakut language belongs to the Siberian branch of the Turkic languages. The Russian word yakut was taken from Evenk yokō. The Yakuts call themselves Sakha, or Urangai Sakha in some old chronicles. [Note proximity to the island Sakhalin. —ed.]             The ancestors of Yakuts were Kurykans who migrated from Yenisey river to Lake Baikal and were subject to a certain Mongolian admixture prior to migration in the 7th century. The Yakuts originally lived around Olkhon and the region of Lake Baikal. Beginning in the 13th century they migrated to the basins of the Middle Lena, the Aldan and Vilyuy rivers under the pressure of the rising Mongols. The northern Yakuts were largely hunters, fishermen and reindeer herders, while the southern Yakuts raised cattle and horses CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The firefighters of Yakutia. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/29/we-need-more-people-exhausted-firefighters-battle-siberia-blazes-a74643

Photo: Siberian territory: in Yakutia . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Is the Kremlin turning to accept climate change as a driver for wildfires and extremes? @Felix_Light CBSNews https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/21/worst-ever-air-pollution-event-hits-wildfire-plagued-siberia-a74571 Permissions: Sakha (Yakutia). Tukulans (sand dunes) Date | 26 September 2013, 08:35 Source | Саха (Якутия). Поля тукуланов (песчаные дюны). Author | Pavel Kazachkov from Moscow, Russia This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Elephants are the poster child for the illegal wildlife trade. It is estimated that on average, 55 African elephants per day are killed for their ivory tusks. Humans have coveted ivory for thousands of years, and demand eventually pushed elephants to the brink. International trade in their tusks is now banned, but a new product on the global market could be fuelling the flames for elephants: mammoth tusks. In this episode of Wild Crimes, we'll find out how the trade in the tusks of extinct mammoths is influencing demand for elephant ivory. Are mammoths providing their living relatives with a lifeline, or are their tusks doing more harm than good? Discover more with Museum Research Leader Prof Adrian Lister, Valery Plotnikov from the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia, trade investigator Lucy Vigne and ivory trade research specialist Linda Chou. Learn more about mammoths, elephants and the illegal wildlife crime and support the Natural History Museum's work at nhm.ac.uk/wildcrimes.

Rhino remains found in Siberian permafrost Russian scientists are poring over the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros that likely roamed the Siberian hinterland more than 12,000 years ago. The remains were found in the diamond-producing region of Yakutia. Similar finds in Russia's vast Siberian region have happened with increasing regularity as climate change, which is warming the Arctic at a faster pace than the rest of the world, has thawed the ground in some areas long locked in permafrost. The rhino was found at a river in August complete with all its limbs, some of its organs, its tusk — a rarity for such finds — and even its wool, according to scientist Valery Plotnikov. (Reuters) Oldest titanosaur unearthed in Argentina Scientists have unearthed in Argentina's Patagonian wilderness fossils of what may be the oldest-known member of the dinosaur group known as titanosaurs, which includes the largest land animals in Earth's history. Researchers said on March 1 the fossils represent a dinosaur species named Ninjatitan zapatai that lived 140 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. They identified N. zapatai as a titanosaur, a group of long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on four pillar-like legs. The dinosaur's incomplete skeletal remains were discovered south of the city of Neuquen. The findings were published in the scientific journal Ameghiniana. (Reuters) These articles were provided by The Japan Times Alpha.

Come with me on a journey into the unique world of Yakutian cinema. I'll be exploring the film industry of this vast region in eastern Siberia - known more for its -50c winters and woolly mammoth graveyards than its prize-winning cinematic productions (though hopefully not for long). Helping me make sense of the wider cultural and historical context is Irina Engelis, founder and CEO of the Yakutsk International Film Festival. The film My Murderer is available to watch with English subtitles on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088JWWFZB/) Every other film covered in the episode can be found with Russian subtitles here (https://sakhamovie.ru/) Olonkho performed by Vitaly Nikiforov Music: Limelight (Michael Howard)

► ESCUCHA NUESTRA RADIO ► http://planetaspaniard.com ¿Conoces la República de Sajá-Yakutia? La experta en Turismo, Ángela García, te trae un nuevo capítulo de un espacio hecho por y para las almas más viajeras de la radio en Internet: Rumbo Spaniard. En este primer programa de la segunda temporada del programa, la investigadora andaluza pone rumbo a un lugar frío como pocos, casi tanto como desconocido: la República de Sajá-Yakutia. Conoce a fondo este lugar, una de las veintidós repúblicas que conforman, junto a otra serie de entes, los 85 sujetos federales de Rusia. 'Rumbo Spaniard' es un espacio radiofónico de programas monográficos sobre destinos turísticos de todo el mundo, dando información curiosa, útil y diferente sobre estos. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/planetaspaniard/support

Evgenia Arbugaeva was born and spent her early childhood in the secluded town of Tiksi, located on the shore the Laptev Sea in the Republic of Yakutia in Russia’s Arctic North. Though she is now based in London and recently lived for a number of years in New York City, she has spent much of the past decade returning to and exploring the region surrounding her birthplace, discovering and capturing the remote worlds she finds there and the isolated characters who inhabit them. Her work is often located within the tradition of magical realism, and her approach combines documentary and narrative styles to create a distinctive visual iconography rooted in real experience but resonant with fable, myth and romanticism. Evgenia's early series Tiksi (2010) and Weather Man (2013), which featured Slava, a lone Russian meteorololgist willingly marooned on a remote weather station, reflect her romantic fascination and childhood nostalgia for the Arctic. Between 2018-19, supported by a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellowship, Evgenia travelled to three more outposts in the extreme north of Russia, creating three further chapters: Kanin Nos, a lighthouse on the isolated Kanin peninsula populated only by a young couple and their dog;  Dikson, a now derelict ghost town where Evgenia captured the spectacular Northern Lights, and finally the far eastern region of Chukotka home to the Chukchi community, who still maintain the traditions of their ancestors, living off the land and sea with Walrus and whale meat as the main components of their diet. Collectively these stories are entitled Hyperborea and are featured in her first major solo exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London, now sadly closed under the latest UK lockdown. By way of geographical contrast, Evgenia also travelled to Tanzania in 2016 to document a former malaria research center, producing a story entitled Amani, the name of the place in question.As well as being a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellow, Evgenia is a recipient of the ICP Infinity Award, Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant. Her work has been exhibited internationally and appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Time, Le Monde and The New Yorker magazines among others. On episode 145, Evgenia discusses, among other things:Memories of early life in TiksiFirst interests in photography at schoolLiving with reindeer herders for a yearMoving to New YorkHer 3 month journey on supply ship to exploreSlava, the subject of Weather ManThe importance of forming relationships with her subjectsKanin NosDikson and the aurora borealisAmani Website | Instagram | Facebook“The act of taking pictures is very invasive, you know, it’s a very harsh thing to do to someone and I am very much aware of that. So I want to soften it as much as I can for people, to the point where it won’t be a about photography or if it’s about photography its about making them understand what I do and them wanting to help me!”

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Dr. Susan Crate returns to the show to share her 1990 journey to Tuva, the geographic center of Asia. At this time, Tuva had only recently opened up to foreign travelers and the oblast (region) experienced heavy upheaval across the domains of the former Soviet Union. This moment also proved to be a turning point for the revitalization of lost or hidden cultural traditions, and many Tuvans openly displayed their heritage, wearing their garments and exhibiting their practices. Dr. Crate spent time in the capital city of Kyzyl and traveled across Tuva to remote villages, recording traditional songs, prayers, and oral poetry. She shares with us original recordings of khoomei (Tuvan throat singing), labor songs (folk songs that organize work through a certain rhythm), ovaa prayers, a bear dance ritual, and much more. Четтирдим! ABOUT THE GUEST https://esp.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/f_Crate2.jpg Dr. Susan Crate is a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. She is trained as anapplied anthropologist, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on environmental and cognitive anthropology and human ecology among Viliui Sakha of Yakutia, Northeastern Siberia. Her research on the effects of unprecedented climatechange has recently expanded to Canada, Mongolia, Peru, Wales, Kiribati, and the ever-so exotic, Chesapeake Bay. She is the author of Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (2006), the coeditor of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions (2009, 2016), and a lead author on Chapter 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”.Dr. Crate is currently working on a longitudinal ethnography titled Once Upon the Permafrost: Culture and Climate Change in the 21stCentury, which chronicles her thirty years of work in the Sakha Republic. The book is due out fall 2021 with University of Arizona Press. NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 6th, 2020. Apologies for the high-pitched ringing at points, which was entirely due to the presence of crickets. CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Audio Processing, Editing, and Sound Design: Charlie Harper and Michelle Daniel Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Scott Holmes, and John Bartmann) All Tuvan recordings provided by Dr. Susan Crate. Order of songs: 1 Незаметно век проходит; духовные стихи (The century passes imperceptibly, spirital poem) 2 Бай-ла Тайгам (Bai-la Taigam, folk song) 3 Благопожелание (Prayers; ovaa, istochnik, baraba) 4 Трудовая песня для ягненка, козлёнка и телёнка (Functinoal song; lamb, goat, calf) 5 Горловое пение, отец с маленьким сынком 6 Импровизационная игра на варгоне (Improvisational playing on the mouth harp) 7 Шаманскoе камлание, Зелёное озеро (Shaman ritual healing song, Green Lake) 8 Танец медведя (Bear dance) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Susan Crate.

Rising temperatures are melting the permafrost that covers 65% of Russia and a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere, with disastrous effects for the people who live on it.

s2e19. In conversation with Evgeniia Borisova, MSc student in geology at St. Petersburg State University & junior researcher at Laboratory of Petro- and Ore Genesis, Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology RAS. Евгения Борисова, магистрантка Института наук о Земле СПбГУ, мнс лаборатории Петро- и рудогенеза ИГГД РАН, в гостях у Вулканов. 00:41 про жизнь в Якутске 03:40 путешествия по Якутии, Дальнему Востоку и Забайкалью 07:53 белые ночи: Петербург vs Якутск 12:55 про Институт наук о Земле СПбГУ 16:30 заниматься наукой в Институте Геологии и Геохронологии Докембрия РАН будучи студенткой Страничка на сайте ИГГД: http://www.ipgg.ru/ru/staff/borisova-yeb Соц медиа: https://vk.com/jeckieborisova

Dr. Susie Crate returns to The Slavic Connexion! This time, Dr. Crate spoke with SlavX host Katya about her experiences collecting ethnomusicological material from 1989–1990 in the Kharkiv oblast in Eastern Ukraine, then still part of the Soviet Union. This work was part of a larger project to collect and preserve songs unique to particular villages in the Kharkiv oblast. The types of songs recorded include kozats'ki pisni (Cossack songs), wedding, balada (ballad), chastivka (joking), funeral, and religious. Dr. Crate shares six songs with us – a chastivka from Raketnaya, a wedding song from Kyseli, a Melanka song from Dmitrovka, an Ivan Kupala song from Izium, and two ballads from Raketnaya and Pisarevka. Special thanks to Dr. Vera Mikolaevna Osadcha, professor and head of the former Department of Ukrainian Folk Singing and Musical Folklore at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, and colleague and dear friend of Dr. Crate. Z Velykodnem! https://dl.boxcloud.com/api/2.0/internal_files/662490565839/versions/702604836639/representations/jpg_paged_2048x2048/content/1.jpg?access_token=1!rQTGP4sWADpc1C3D8PpKgOaOrs5iTRxADoR7qSgR8xLoQGZBGnSgzT-b_pOLDuoY-IjhtCro58IjDZLE4W0ivYgL7wJSrteZ0xqIZC9oH8YqCos-pHgUPbKeRHL4KgnrjSgLNyUfal1QawlSIL620d5EvLqxA6iy5bjFvvMkhUUqw7frLiztDGNma6GHOmepD3AP94Xe1BpGjeUjUnS6MM5cQ-lTlsNlHOJ-0e5ct6hc2MABlvKVe54owK94sBZXaTb-5I8kGBafhSBWdAxOHe74KGeJDVu5tvocZNqEogR3B0wmVkrbqQl2jKuhLTNYibpB_uLb4eqYzS26ZXubl0zN6UqtCqpQQymSSroY_f_YuLvigMAi90gMic9-WQWVUZ20JdnyiTlhpauFN2CBnjiogRFAU7MQ-UufIRpTbVEZ4x6Mg7yoSsGcr5CzWG5wd-LSmm4xJ63BwGoiYoUKwyR7DElRm79v5tiw3Ng-fZGEysv_UXhJ5QomycVgIKafkyvpwGNwyNCzVF0jT8_FJxcCCKJMpFxfIruahSY1AsfNjAYtqu69gGgbSADle54tOA..&box_client_name=box-content-preview&box_client_version=2.41.1 https://dl.boxcloud.com/api/2.0/internal_files/662491483007/versions/702605775407/representations/jpg_paged_2048x2048/content/1.jpg?access_token=1!6UUVqTyLM8gPBQE4Ffkzw_2UsPFmP_Rlzpfu1frlRzOAk59nmZ7m_oxVlctDGY-d8tzWJQGJeBBsfZEBERlG0N1HlgBCAzXGG-9oyRphTGCqaXRMoV_Tx7QqtbxJgnDNQfwu1ZS2f2_isN2vDcKsTF7K7PQdrlYL0MAXJQJ3vrNF_4KSi2Onh4tOYu1KN2elAln-sNWFZjI2zWpdlRUzmJyMcAxShzcihpIAPnttJm746xHtOmq_Owu8nn22HRw3Yii04aFerE6dIbuNpVcu6uay7BUWQaIBbB6cpijmpSvNnFzqc8ATqsRzB15sdU09mOCYIKYL7cVIQsYXnnOFesXoxJrBRdozd-zQz00nFNQIcCKAdLw0Ja71j-oHyPvLHQfdqgV6YWUvZXwJCUlckO_m_s-p3eZXDIxM7eUXsjcp4bB6HRvJle5R4HmmghedRXGk7D0ypI3ZpPliBYqKSbl3OHu_DhDjDDTJsxrriIju2BQ8KZqNlL_oesS1ZmVE9qJBoiIlDEW6MtgrFi0JiJDNfhhRyIwI7uJU3J54oYod9YDt5t2Y1AZLrqvcJVs9ww..&box_client_name=box-content-preview&box_client_version=2.41.1 Photo credit: Dr. Susan Crate. ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Susan Crate is a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. She is trained as an applied anthropologist, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on environmental and cognitive anthropology and human ecology among Viliui Sakha of Yakutia, Northeastern Siberia. Her research on the effects of unprecedented climate change has recently expanded to Canada, Mongolia, Peru, Wales, Kiribati, and the ever-so exotic, Chesapeake Bay. She is the author of Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (2006), the coeditor of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions (2009, 2016), and a lead author on Chapter 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”. NOTE: This episode was recorded on April 18th, 2020. Recordings of folk music provided by Dr. Susan Crate. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Assistant Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Production Intern: Jada Sofia Executive Editor: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional Background music by John Bartmann, Michelle Daniel, and Axeltree) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Susan Crate.

I’m your host David and welcome to Ages of Conquest: a Kings and Generals Podcast.  This is the Mongol conquests. Before we get into all that material you’re expecting for any good series on the Mongols- the conquests, the smoking ruins and the towers of skulls, we must discuss Chinggis Khan’s long and troubled rise to power. But before we can do that, it will help the humble listener immensely if we take the time to introduce what was going on, and who was who, in 12th century Mongolia. In the previous episode we introduced some aspects of Mongolian culture in this period as groundwork: now we will introduce the various tribes who played a role in the rise of the Mongol Empire.        Our episode on introducing thirteenth century China provides some important context on the general overview of Mongolian-Chinese relations, and details on the power vacuum following the fall of China’s Tang Dynasty in 907 that I won’t repeat at length here. In short though, parts of northern China and Mongolia came under the rule of the Liao Dynasty, ruled by the nomadic Khitans, a people related to the Mongols, beginning in the 900s. Their rule included garrisons and forts stationed throughout Mongolia,  and mainly kept things in order for about two centuries, dealing with sporadic uprisings and resistance. One of the final military victories of the Liao Dynasty was the suppression of an uprising by the Tatar tribes at the beginning of the 1100s.    Just over two decades later though, the Liao Dynasty disintegrated under the onslaught of the Jurchen, a Tungusic semi-nomadic people from Manchuria and ancestors of the Manchu. Their newly declared Jin Dynasty seized control of Manchuria, took control of all of China north of the Huai River from the Song Dynasty, and vassalized the Tangut Xi Xia in northwestern China: but, they did not make an attempt to control Mongolia as the Liao had done. With the Khitan garrisons moving west with the general Yelu Dashi to found the Qara-Khitai empire, Mongolia was basically left in a power vacuum, and the local tribes now rose into their own.        When we describe the Mongol tribes in the 12th century, we are discussing a large, rather disparate group of clans and tribes, some of whom were speakers of Mongolic languages, some were speakers of Turkic languages, and some were in a sort of milieu, described by historians as Turko-Mongols, tribes perhaps ethnically Turkish but speakers of Mongolian, and vice-versa. By convention, we use ‘Mongol tribes,’ to refer to the various nomadic groups north of China but south of the Siberian forests. However, in this period ‘Mongol’ referred to just a rather distinct and smaller grouping in the northeast, in the region of the Onon and Kerulen Rivers, the tribe to which the young Chinggis Khan belonged.    If we were to place a clock face over the whole of Mongolia, they would be situated at about 2 o’clock. The other tribes of the region, who we will be meeting shortly as we go around this clock, such as the Merkit, Kereyit, Tatars and Naiman, did not consider themselves Mongol, and indeed, evidence suggests they would have been rather insulted by it. A recent argument by historian Stephen Pow suggest that ‘Tatar,’ may have been the general endonym used by the steppe tribes. The Liao and Jin Dynasties generally referred to them all as ‘zubu.’ Either way, Mongol was, in the 1100s, a very limited term, and in the following discussion, will refer to the specific tribe and its subclans.       The history of the Mongol tribe before the 12th century is not an easy one to trace, and the mentions prior to this period are often controversial. The most commonly agreed upon, (though not a universal agreement, mind you) is that the Mongols’ ancestors were the Meng-wu, mentioned in histories of the Tang Dynasty as a minor branch of the larger Shih-wei ethnic grouping, a grouping which were vassals of the Gokturk Khaganates until their final collapse in the 740s. At this time, they lived in the area south of the Amur river, which is today the border between Russia and Chinese Manchuria, and would have been semi-nomadic, relying on hunting, fishing, agriculture and raising pigs as much as pastoralism. For a refresher on nomadic pastoralism, check out this seasons 2nd episode, on Mongolian nomadism. During the 900s, the Meng-wu moved west to the Arghun River, on the edge of modern Mongolia,  becoming subjects of their linguistic cousins, the Khitan Liao Dynasty. They gradually continued west and south, and were likely in the region of the Onon-Kerulen Rivers by the 11th century, by then relying on full pastoralism, as pigs and agriculture are unsuited for the steppe.        In the Mongols’ own legendary accounts, preserved in the 13th century Secret History of the Mongols, their people originate from the union of the blue-grey wolf and the fallow deer, Borte Chino and Gua Moral. The entire ancestry from the wolf and deer down to Chinggis Khan is recorded in the Secret History, and we won’t bog you down with it here. A particularly interesting conception occurs at one point, where a ray of light, also translated as yellow man, enters the tent of one of Chinggis’ ancestors, Alan Qo’a and impregnates her, a sort of divine conception. At this section in the Secret History, the most famous Mongolian parable first appears. Alan Qo’a, to prevent her sons from fighting each other, gives them each an arrow, and asks them to break it, which they do easily. Then, tying five arrows together in a bundle, asks them to break it, which they are unable to do. The message was clear: divided and alone, they are easily broken, but united they are unbreakable. It is a famous passage for the Mongols, and for good reason, as its lesson was applicable again and again.        The first of Chinggis Khan’s ancestors commonly agreed to exist was Khaidu, who in the Secret History of the Mongols is a great-great-great-grandson of Alan Qo’a, a figure who brought his branch of the Mongols, the Kiyat Borjigon, to some prominence over the other Mongol branches.  Khaidu’s great-grandson Khabul, with the fall of the Liao in 1125 creating a power vacuum in Mongolia, was able to organize what seems to have been a sort of military confederation, called by modern authors the Khamag Mongol Khanate, and at the time was known as something like Monggyol ulus, or Mongol state.    Little is known about this early Mongol state, or what sort of suzerainty its Khans exercised. What we do have takes the form of anecdotes. For Khabul, the Jin Dynasty took note of his rise to power, and invited him to the imperial court, intending to make him a vassal. At a feast at the imperial court, Khabul became incredibly drunk, went over and pulled on the Jin Emperor’s beard! The Jin Emperor allowed Khabul to leave with his life, but changed his mind and sent officials to kill him- Khabul ambushed them instead. The Jin Dynastic sources do not, unfortunately, provide direct corroboration for the above events, making it unclear if they were the stuff of legend, though they do remark on the Mongols being a nuisance along the frontier in this period.        Khabul was succeeded as Khamag Khan not by any of his sons, but by his cousin Ambaghai, a Mongol of the Taychiud line. Ambaghai, shortly into his reign, was captured by the Tatar tribes of eastern Mongolia, who on our clock of Mongolia, would be located between 2 and 3 o’clock. Turkic tribes, speaking most likely Mongol, the Tatars in this period were  in three main divisions, an unruly control of much of eastern Mongolia. Even though Ambaghai had been en route to organize a marriage alliance with them, the Jin Dynasty had gotten to the Tatars first, the Tatars acting as the Jin Dynasty’s ‘men on the ground,’ disrupting local politics to keep the tribes from unifying. The Tatars handed Ambaghai over to the Jin, who nailed him to a wooden donkey. His dying breaths were allegedly urging the Mongols to avenge him-      “Until the nails of your five fingers     Are ground down,     Until your ten fingers are worn away,     Strive to avenge me!” So began the decades long rivalry between the Mongols and the Tatars, with the Jin Dynasty as the puppet master behind them.        Khabul’s son Qutula (Ku-tu-la) succeeded Ambaghai, and though he was famous among the Mongols for immense physical strength and an appetite to match, over a series of thirteen battles he was unable to defeat the Tatars, and was killed in about 1160, heralding the collapse of the  Khamag Mongol confederation. It must be stressed that the Khamag Mongol was much more of a military alliance than a state in the form of the later Mongol Empire. Though it held influence in the steppe, it did not hold domination over the whole of Mongolia, but simply among those branches of the Mongol tribe- Borjigon (Bor-ji-gon), Taychiud (Tay-chi-ood) and the like, in northeastern Mongolia. To quote Volume 6 of the Cambridge History of China, “none of the available evidence even hints at the emergence at this time of any kind of administrative machinery or lines of authority independent of and in competition with the traditional kinship structure. The experience and memory of this brief unity may have contributed to the consolidation of the Mongolian nation, but it bequeathed nothing in the way of institutional foundations on which the later empire of the Great Mongols could build. The preliminary work would have to be done anew.”    Over the course of these battles, one of Khabul Khan’s grandchildren, Yesugei, captured a Tatar chief, Temujin-Uge. Upon his return to his own encampment, Yesugei found that one of his wives, Hoelun, had given birth to a boy clutching a blood clot in his fist the size of a knucklebone. The Tatar chief was sacrificed, and the boy was given his name- Temujin, the future Chinggis Khan. But you’ll have to wait until the next episode for more on his story.       With this brief history of the Khamag Mongol, we should quickly note  the other clans of the Mongol tribe in this period. The two main to know are the Kiyat Borjigon and the Taychiud. The Kiyat Borjigon are the clan to which Khabul, Qutula, Yesugei and Chinggis Khan belonged. Of the Taychiud lineage, Ambaghai was the most notable leader. The switching of the Khamag leadership between these two lineages sowed the seeds for future divisions- Ambaghai’s family held a grudge when the title of Khan when back to the Borjigon, and this was one of the factors which lead to the famous abandoning of Yesugei’s family, which we will explore next episode. Other clans of the Mongols included the Jadaran, to which Temujin’s blood brother Jamukha belonged, the Jurkin, and the Uriyangqat (Uri-yang-kat), to which the famous Subutai belonged. Subutai’s Uriyangqat are not to be confused with the very similar sounding Uriyangkhai, a northern tribe famous for reindeer herding.        Continuing clockwise on our clock, if the Mongols were 2 o’clock, the Tatars between 2 and 3 o’clock, then at 3 o’clock we would have the Onggirad, a less warlike grouping which in this period was famous for the beauty of its women. Chinggis Khan’s mother Hoelun, his wife Borte, and numerous wives for the rest of his descendants, came from this tribe or its subgroupings. At 5 o’clock we have the Onggut, close to the border of China proper. The Onggut were what the Jin Dynasty called their juyin, the tribes who made up their border guards. The Onggut were among those whose duty was to man the border defences the Jin erected, particularly in the final years of the 12th century- this included forts and an extensive earthen wall and ditch along the frontier. The Onggut were given a chance to join a coalition against Chinggis Khan, but chose to warn him instead, and their ruler was granted a daughter of the Khan in marriage, and soon submitted to him proper. Contrary to the description that Chinggis Khan simply ‘went around the Great Wall of China,’ we might find it more accurate to describe it as being opened to him by those appointed to man it!       At 6 o’clock is the noted Gobi desert, a sparsely populated expanse of gravel and low scrub brush. It was a formidable, but not unpassable, barrier, especially if an army chose to travel during the milder times of year. Connecting to the Alashan desert and the great western loop of the Yellow River, known as the Ordos loop, it served as the divider between the steppe and the Tangut Xi Xia Kingdom.    From 6 o’clock, if one was to move towards the centre of our clock face, they would encounter one of the most powerful tribes of 12th century Mongolia, the Kereyit. Centered on the Black Forest of the Tuul River, the Kereyit may have originated as a branch of the Tatars, asserting their independence in the final years of the Liao Dynasty, emerging as a distinct political body in about 1100. Though the Kereyit were likely of Turkic origin, the sources indicate close contact with the Mongols and little trouble conversing between them, suggesting they were bilingual or spoke Mongolian. Much closer to the main trade routes and China proper, the Kereyit were considerably wealthier than their northern cousins, their population was higher, and, perhaps surprisingly, they were Christians, or at least their ruling class were.    Specifically, they were Nestorian, or Church of the East, a sect which had gradually made its way east after being deemed heretical at the Third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431. Several names associated with the Kereit, such as Marqus and Qurjaqus (Kur-jak-us), were Mongolized forms of Marcus and Cyricaus (syr-i-cus). Indeed, Marqus-Buyruq Khan was the Khanate’s founder in about 1100, and Qurjaqus-Buyruq (kur-jak-us booy-ruk) Khan was his descendant and the father of the Khanate’s final ruler, the famous Toghrul-Ong Khan. When Qurjaqus died around the mid 12th-century, his.. potent manhood, shall we say, left him the issue of numerous children, 40 by one account. Toghrul was able to seize control only after killing a number of his brothers, with the military assistance of the Mongol Yesugei, the father of Temujin. Yesugei and Toghrul swore oaths to be blood-brothers, anda, a relationship which would bring Temujin to seek Toghrul’s assistance in due time.    At 7 o’clock, to the west of the Tangut and far side of the Gobi, we meet the Uighurs. A mainly sedentary Turkic people, we mentioned them in our episode on North China as an empire based in Mongolia until their defeat in 840 by the Kirghiz. After that, a large number of Uighurs migrated south, into the Gansu corridor and the oases of the Tarim Basin, Turfan Depression and into the Dzunghar Basin, in what is now Xinjiang in China, the far northwest of the country where it meets with Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia.    The Gansu Uighurs were conquered by the Tangut Kingdom, but the remainder, in their realm sometimes called ‘Uighuristan,’ retained their independence. Qara-Qocho, or in Chinese, Gaochang, in the Turfan Depression, was their major city. During the days of their empire, they had practiced Manicheism, but in their new homeland largely converted to the Buddhism of the locals in the following centuries, or Christianity in lesser numbers. With the establishment of the Qara-Khitai Empire to their west in the 1130s and 40s, by Khitans fleeing the fall of the Liao Dynasty, the Uighurs became their vassals, though they kept a great deal of autonomy and were an important link in the regional trade routes. Uighurs were able to often find employment as merchants or skilled advisers to the Khanates to their north, a role which would only increase when their script became adopted for the Mongolian language with Chinggis Khan’s expanding empire.   Continuing north from the Uighurs, we head to roughly 9 o’clock, where we end up in western Mongolia on the slopes of the Altai Mountains, in the territory of the Naiman. Meaning ‘eight’ in Mongolian, for the number of tribes or lineages making up this turkic Khanate, the Naiman in the 12th century were the most powerful union within Mongolia, nomadic yet relatively centralized, with a distinct ruling dynasty and literacy, making use of the Uighur script and a strong military. A number of the Naiman elite were Nestorian Christians, like the Kereyit, but shamanistic practices are observed multiple times in the sources. Their main competition was with the Kereyit, but were also involved with Central Asia- for several decades they were vassals of the Qara-Khitai. The Naiman maintained their unity until the mid 1190s, with the death of their Khan Inancha-Bilge, when the Khanate was split between his sons, Tayang and Buyruq, weakening it in the face of Mongol aggression. Despite their power, we know very little about the Naiman. Their name, Naiman, is what the Mongols called them. We don’t even know what they called themselves.   With the Naiman at 9 o’clock, we have a selection of smaller tribes on the borders of, or within, the great Siberian forest which take us to 12 o’clock. At 10 o’clock, around Khovsgol Lake, were the Oirat, in this period a relatively minor tribe, but the seed of a later union, the Four Oirat, which would dominate Mongolia in the fifteenth century, from which the Dzunghars and the Kalmyks would spring.  At 11 to 12 o’clock, on the lower Selenge River to the south of Lake Baikal, a massive body of water in Russia which is the deepest lake in the world, we find the Merkit. Speaking likely a Mongolic language, they were a fragmented collection of tribes, of little danger to the Naiman or Kereyit, but could pose a threat when the Mongols were disunified.    On the edge of the steppe, the Merkit practiced a mix of pastoralism, hunting, fishing and even it seems, agriculture. The Merkit would have a long antagonism with the Mongols, dating at least to the late 1150s when Chinggis Khan’s father Yesugei stole Hoelun, Chinggis’ mother, from her Merkit husband. This left a long suffering grudge which led to the capture of Chinggis’ own wife Borte by the Merkit, a captivity which resulted in the birth of Jochi, a child whose uncertain paternity would have major consequences for the Mongol Empire. One chief of the Merkit, Toqto’a Beki, would be a particular thorn in Chinggis Khan’s side, and after his death, his sons fled to the Qipchaq (chip-chak) in the far western steppe, bringing the Mongols eventually into Russia.   Aside from the Merkit, there are the smaller tribes of the Siberian forests the Mongols collectively dubbed the hoi-yin irgen, meaning ‘forest peoples.’ This included the aforementioned Oirat, the Kirghiz in the Yenisei valley, controlling one of the most northerly grain producing regions, and the Qori Tumed to the east of Lake Baikal, among others. All of these mentioned come under the authority of the Mongol Empire, but how far north Mongol control went is unclear. Lake Baikal is often seen as a rough estimate for the northern extent of Mongol rule, but there is suggestion their trade networks extended far among the peoples of what is now Yakutia, the Russian far east.        This has been a very brief introduction to the various peoples inhabiting the Mongolian steppe, or were in close proximity to it. This is not exhaustive: we didn’t mention every single clan and sub clan and lineage among the Mongols, nor did we go into Manchuria, or discuss in much detail the lands and tribes of the Qara-Khitai. Ideally, this should give you, dear listener, a fine basis for understanding the tribes and politics at play for our next discussion: the birth of Temujin, and his rise to become Chinggis Khan, the conqueror of the World. That’s coming soon, so be sure to hit subscribe to the Kings and Generals podcast and to continue helping us bring you more outstanding content, please visit our patreon at www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. Thank you for listening, I am your host David and we will catch you on the next one!

At the 2019 ASEEES Conference, PhD student Raya Shapiro shares with SlavX host Samantha about their research on the Jewish émigré playwright and author S. Ansky. And then, anthropoligist Jenanne Ferguson from the University of Nevada talks about the language of Sakha (Yakut) and the intrinsic spirit of all languages. ABOUT THE GUESTS: Raya Shapiro is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Illinois Chicago. They are interested in how late 19th/early 20th century Eastern European Jewish writers used different languages - for politics, for publication, for practicality - and how their multilingualism creatively shaped the languages they chose to write in (Polish, Russian, Yiddish, German). They have managed to write at least one paper about S. An-sky for every seminar this year. Jenanne K. Ferguson of the University of Nevada currently researches the maintenance and transmission of the Sakha (Yakut) language in northeastern Siberia, Russia, through the lens of mobility by and through language. Her dissertation works dealt with ways of speaking Sakha among Sakha-Russian bilinguals living in urban and rural regions and the language ideologies shaping their language choices and practices. Ongoing and future work deals with the revitalization and transformation of Sakha oral literary genres and the local creation of new online spaces (e.g. social networking, SMS, Wikipedia) for Sakha language transmission and usage, as well as a project comparing the politics and aesthetics of indige (https://www.aseees.org/)nous storytelling in Canada and Russia. She also has worked on questions and themes with Canadian indigenous languages. A native Canadian, she earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen in 2013. EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode recorded during the 2019 ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, California. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Milena D.K. Supervising Producer/Recording Engineer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic, www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86, www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell at UT for inspiring our supervising producer with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not affiliated with ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values or views.

According to Peter Wilson in Cleveland, Russian miners unearthed a gemological oddity—a type of rare diamond called a Matryoshka diamond. It is thought to be the world's first diamond within a diamond and the first of its kind. Named for the famed Russian nesting doll toys, the Matryoshka diamond is a tiny, tabular-shaped diamond encased within a larger diamond. Incredibly, there is enough space within the larger diamond, that the smaller specimen rattles inside, the report said. The outer gem is roughly .62 carats, but the inner gem is much smaller, weighing only about .02 carats. It was pulled from the depths of the Nyurba mine in Yakutia, Russia. The diamond was discovered only later as it was being assessed in Yakutsk—often referred to as Russia’s diamond capital—by specialists at the Yakutsk Diamond Trade Enterprise. It was then given to the Research and Development Geological Enterprise of ALROSA, who used raman and infrared spectroscopic imagery and x-ray microtomography to get a closer look at the gem. The most interesting thing for us was to find out how the air space between the inner and outer diamonds was formed,” Oleg Kovalchuk, Deputy Director for innovations at ALROSA's Research and Development Geological Enterprise said in a statement. According to the Peter Wilson in Cleveland, scientists believe the diamond to be around 800 million years old and suspect that either the smaller diamond formed first and was surrounded by the larger diamond or a layer of crystal within the larger diamond dissolved to reveal a cavity. Diamonds form deep below Earth’s surface in the upper mantle at depths of around to 100 miles. Some rare types of diamond, like the Hope diamond, are formed even farther below the surface, as deep as 1,800 miles. The combination of high pressure and temperature creates the perfect conditions for the crystals to grow. All of Earth’s diamonds are formed under these high pressure and temperature conditions and are thought to be brought up to the surface during an explosive type of deep-rooted volcanic eruption.

How does one wind up in Northeastern Siberia? Dr. Susan Crate recounts her almost 30 years conducting research in Russia, a journey that began with an interest in Russian folklore and a Bridges for Peace trip and resulted in a thirst to learn the Russian language and travel to Siberia. New Slavix host Lera sat down with Dr. Crate to talk about her research interests concerning cultural practices, kinship systems, climate change in Northeastern Siberia. ABOUT THE GUEST: Dr. Susan Crate is a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. The bulk of her research centers on environmental and cognitive anthropology and human ecology among Viliui Sakha of Yakutia, Northeastern Siberia, but her research on the effects of unprecedented climate change has expanded to Canada, Mongolia, Peru, Wales, Kiribati, and the ever-so exotic Chesapeake Bay. She is the author of Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (2006), the coeditor of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions (2009) and its second volume, Anthropology and Climate Change: From Actions to Transformations (2016), and a lead author on Chapter 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”. She also stars in The Anthropologist (2015). From the documentary review by the New York Times: "The film follows Susan Crate, an anthropologist at George Mason University, and her daughter, Katie Yegorov-Crate, as they globe-hop to places where climate change is having a dramatic effect. In Siberia, they see hayfields that are underwater because of the thawing of the permafrost layer. In Kiribati in the South Pacific, they talk to residents grappling with the possibility that their islands will disappear into the sea. (“Right here was the most-populated village on the island,” a man tells Ms. Crate as they stand in water up to the breastbone.)" View the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/movies/the-anthropologist-review.html NOTE: Episode recorded September 27, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Supervising Producer: Katya Yegorov-Crate (Connect: facebook.com/furthestconstellationofmysoul) Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (Connect: www.facebook.com/ltoropin) Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Susan Crate.

Se ha encontrado un diamante en Yakutia en cuyo interior hay otro diamante, esto no es noticia pero si lo es el como está.

Se ha encontrado un diamante en Yakutia en cuyo interior hay otro diamante, esto no es noticia pero si lo es el como está.

In the mystic lands of Yakutia, Siberia, you find stories so old that people may call them ancient! These stories tell a tale about red metal-like giant cauldrons, that are said to have come out of the ground. To the natives, they are called the Olgius, or iron houses. They are said to keep their internal temperatures cozy and warm on the inside, a be entirely indestructible. These big red houses, are said to once belong to the cyclops that roamed the earth in ancient times. I for one believe, that they where the dog house that belonged to Clifford the Big Red Dog. Like, subscribe and all that jazz. Executive Producer: Aife Debrick A wonderful new person joined the ranks of Patrons. Thanks, Hailee! Patrons: Matt Knighten, Hailee Want to help our podcast grow and get some cool merch? Maybe even be an executive producer? Consider checking out our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/ttispodcast All social media: @ttispodcast Join our Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/343207869826541/ email: thetruthissomewherepodcast@gmail.com Music by: http://www.purple-planet.com Links and references: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/the-mysterious-russian-valley-of-death/   http://www.realufos.net/2011/10/close-look-at-valley-of-death-yakutian.html   http://earthsbanner.com/tunguska/ValleyOfDeath1.pdf   http://earthsbanner.com/tunguska/ValleyOfDeath2.pdf   http://earthsbanner.com/tunguska/ValleyOfDeath3.pdf   http://earthsbanner.com/tunguska/ValleyOfDeath4.pdf  

In the next episode I will introduce you a modern russian folk. It's not about white traditional orthodox culture, it's about more than 200 ethnic groups with different religions and traditions, from Yakutia to post-soviet Georgia, from hip-hop and techno to psychodelic rock. It will be cool

Jako, is not only a filmmaker and photographer but he has been guiding professionally since 2006. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, he completed his B.Com in Marketing from the University of Johannesburg. During his formative years he spent many weekends cultivating his skills, which led to his decision to pursue fishing as a professional career.  His move to London, UK, saw him start his fishing career at the prestigious Farlows of Pall Mall, where he continued fishing many of the UK fisheries. Furthermore he worked at Sportfish – participating in various fishing shows including The CLA Game Fair. In just a few years, Capt Jack Productions (Jako Lucas), have already accumulated quite a number of Awards and Industry milestones.  Here’s to name but a few: Drake Mag Film Award, Best Fishing – “Gangsters of the Flats 2” http://www.drakemag.com/5-minute-fiy-fishing-videos/2012-films/895-gangsters-of-the-flats.html Drake Mag Film Award, Best New Film – “Aqua Hulk” http://www.drakemag.com/5-minute-fiy-fishing-videos/2013-films/1106-best-new-film-2.html SFA SA fly fishing film competition 2012, Best Saltwater Film– “Gangsters of the Flats” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_hv_Y410A Fly Fishing Film Tour 2014 – “320” http://www.flyfilmtour.com/320-cpt-jack-films-trailer/ Fly Fishing Film Tour 2016 – “Chanos Chanos” http://www.flyfilmtour.com/chanos-chanos-milkfish-2/ Drake Mag Film Award, Best Saltwater – “Chanos Chanos” http://www.drakemag.com/video-awards/2016-films/1634-best-saltwater.html Drake Mag Film Award, Best Story – “Chanos Chanos” http://www.drakemag.com/video-awards/2016-films/1631-best-story.html Drake Mag Film Award, Movie of the year – “Chanos Chanos” http://www.drakemag.com/video-awards/2016-films/1629-movie-of-the-year.html Fly Fishing Film Tour 2017 – Yakutia https://flyfilmtour.com/trailers/yakutia/ Drake Mag Film Award, Best Freshwater – Yakutia http://www.drakemag.com/video-awards/2017-films/1817-best-freshwater.html Fly Fishing Film Tour 2018 – The African Tiger https://flyfilmtour.com/trailers/african-tiger/

Jacki Hill-Murphy has always been passionate about having adventures and traveling. Along the way she added her passion for learning more about the female explorers of the past, who have largely been ignored or forgotten by history.  During this podcast we get to learn more about the decisions Jacki has made on the way and how she’s followed her passions for traveling off the beaten track. We start with her first major expedition in 1988 when she traveled through Africa in a Land Rover! Show notes The early years and were she got her love for travel and adventure Discussing fond memories from Camp America! Her adventure across the Sahara, the reasons behind it, how she made it happen and what she learnt about herself on the journey The benefits of travel and why its always about the people and not the places Isabella Godin's who was the first known woman to travel the 500 mile length of the Amazon river in a dug out canoe in 1769 and how Jacki is recreating her version of the journey Learning about Mary Kingsley's and her adventures in Cameroon. In 1885 she stopped the ship she was sailing on to go and climb up Mount Cameroon!  Heading off to Yakutia in Siberia to learn more about Kate Marsden and the journey she took while looking for a cure for leprosy. The scandal that surrounded Kate Marsden which overshadowed her achievements in crossing Siberia - “Mad, Bad or an Angel - The Story of Kate Marsden” Being able to retrace the steps of Isabella Bird, and being able to compare the differences and see the changes that have taken place since the two journeys took place. Having an audience with the  King of Ladakh Using the Valverde Map to look for the Inca Gold, which if found would be worth billions today…. It's never been found, but Jacki believes it’s out there... Her future challenges! What she's learnt most from the women she’s researched over the years The global village and how modern technology has shrunk the world   Books Adventuresses, Rediscovering Daring Voyages into the Unknown  Jacki is currently writing a biography about the Victorian nurse Kate Marsden Social Media Jacki is on twitter @jackihillmurphy - I’m also on twitter @_TOUGH_GIRL To learn more about Jacki - Please visit her website  - http://jackihill-murphy.co.uk/    Become a Patron! Support the Tough Girl Podcast - CLICK HERE!    

ste libro es un striptease sentimental envuelto en papel de periódico y conservado a 20 grados bajo cero. Se puede leer como una novela de formación, de amor, de muerte, de reflexión, de estrés, de periodismo, de literatura, de los escalofríos del scoop, en medio de un hilarante choque cultural que enreda al autor y al lector en las aspas del gigante ruso. Este libro refleja el resultado de 11 años de periodismo y de búsqueda incesante de historias en Rusia, que llevaron al autor a remotos y pintorescos rincones de la antigua Unión Soviética: Baikonur, el lago Baikal, Yekaterimburgo, Yakutia, Chernóbil, pero sobre todo Yásnaia Poliana, la finca donde nació, creó, vivió y fue enterrado Lev Tolstói, verdadero guía de este viaje. Este libro también es una guía para perderse. Para perderse por Moscú, por sus calles, barrios e iglesias, pero ante todo es una guía para perderse entre sus gentes, entre personajes reales que pasan por literarios (desde el embalsamador de Lenin, al sexólogo que conserva el pene de Rasputín, pasando por taxistas uzbekos forofos del Real Madrid, veteranos de guerra, modelos, oligarcas, inventores locos, cosmonautas, pintores, Putin, escritores, ex agentes del KGB, Kaspárov, niños de la guerra, ex combatientes de la División Azul o los últimos bolcheviques); y entre personaje literarios que pasan por reales (el príncipe Bolkónski, Natasha Rostova, el doctor Zhivago). En este paseo por Moscú conviven dos Rusias, la real y la irreal, preexistente y ficticia, que llegó a Occiente encuadernada en forma de novela. Una mirada distinta sobre Rusia, en las antípodas de la visión altanera y ensañada del periodista occidental enviado a Moscú. Una mirada sin Kaláshnikov.

CEO David Lifschultz of Genoil Inc., returns to Stock Day to give an update about international opportunities developing from their GHU hydroconversion technology. OTCQB: GNOLF # hydroconversion fixed bed technology # # Engineering and Consulting # heavy oil production # crude oil # GHU technology # Grupo Roales # hydrocarbon development and recovery # mexico # oil reserves # Penny Stocks # royalty revenues # Russia # strategic relationships # Yakutia