young russians attend summer camps with a difference as well sitting around campfires and sleeping in tents they learn to fire goans and simulate clearing a building of terrorists the so-called patriotic summer camps are growing in popularity. for a summer holiday playing war these kalashnikov machine guns may not be loaded with real bullets but it was a bit but camp the boys are learning how to handle them. the kids here are aged between ten and sixteen. but it's like the world over i know that. little it's nikita's first time in the military summer counter the fifteen year old is from nearby moscow like many of the boys he wants to try out life as a soldier here to decide if it's for him. you don't feel like a normal russian citizen hears if you like