For its unique historical flavor, this city is called the belarusian suzdal; it is famous not only for its archaeological memories. But traditions, and in the summer a lot of tourists gather here, since it is in this city that the knight festival takes place. Dear friends, i think you already guessed where we are, today we are building a route to one of the oldest cities in belarus, mstislavl. Today in our program you will learn where modern mstislaval gets its history from, what kind of lights it is. Does not hide the holy assumption monastery. Why was the museum of the peoples icon opened in mstislavl and what exhibits are stored in it. We will also take a look at a master class with the peoples master of belarus. And we will taste the most authentic Italian Pizza in mstislav style. You can get directly from minsk to mestislavl only by car; you will cover a distance of 300 km in about 4 hours. If you if you travel by public transport, be prepared for transfers. First you need to get
Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6. 5 million tonnes. All of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax runs 17 pell
Directly from minsk to mestislavel can only be reached by car; you will cover a distance of 300 km in about. Hours; if you are traveling by public transport, be prepared for transfers. First you need to get to mogilev or krichev by minibus, regular bus or train, and from there a bus will take you to mstislavol, but we choose a car. Mestislavel literally from the first minute amazes with its richness of history. Places and attractions, and this is not surprising, because the city was founded by the smolensk prince rostislav mstislavovich, already in 1135. The first human settlement within the city is the ancient settlement of devichya gora, located on the right bank of the vihra river; in the southwest of devichya gora there is the original center of ancient mstislavl, castle hill. Today it is an openair museum, which literally attracts tourists, at the foot of the mountain we are greeted by historical monuments, among them this is the grave of an unknown knight who died in the battle o
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Days. His mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. The news of the funeral comes just before mr navalny s widow yulia is due to address the European Parliament in a speech about Political Prisoners which we will bring to you live later this hour. Lets speak to our europe correspondent nick beake. He is in strasbourg. These details just emerging about Alexei Navalny s funeral in the past half hour or so. What more do we know . Samantha, these details came from the team would use to work for Alexei Navalny and may have confirmed that the funeral will take place on friday, friday afternoon. There will be a service initially starting to be a moscow time and then a burial at a crematorium, a cemetery nearby. As you may recall the mother of Alexei Navalny had been told, it was reported, to agree to a secret burial and that if she didnt agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some time and whe