Frozen Dreams: Russia's Arctic obsession | FT Features

President Vladimir Putin has revived Russia's dreams of exploiting its Arctic territory - boosted by a warming climate that has opened up the Northern Sea Route. The FT travels to remote reaches of Siberia to see if Russia can make it work. Watch another FT Feature: • Inside Brexit: How Bri... .
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  • @FinancialTimes
    @FinancialTimes4 жыл бұрын

    Watch our latest video about domestic violence in Russia: kzread.info/dash/bejne/laNoybVuXZa1krQ.html. And subscribe to our channel if you'd like to be notified of great films from the Financial Times.

  • @gragor11

    @gragor11

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kosarmohsin9849

    @kosarmohsin9849

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrSubmariner13
    @MrSubmariner134 жыл бұрын

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

  • @666atyler666

    @666atyler666

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome quote

  • @Kamadev888
    @Kamadev8886 жыл бұрын

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

  • @IsaacRizard

    @IsaacRizard

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kozjevime1

    @kozjevime1

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrPoornakumar

    @MrPoornakumar

    6 жыл бұрын

    "Double standards", Kamadev888 !

  • @mikemiller4979

    @mikemiller4979

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MorpheusOne

    @MorpheusOne

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @andersjohansson3582
    @andersjohansson35824 жыл бұрын

    I Love Russia❤️from Sweden.

  • @TheSteinbitt

    @TheSteinbitt

    Жыл бұрын

    Not anymore.

  • @torrace12
    @torrace125 жыл бұрын

    Siberia is mysterious and fascinating

  • @Audiogeek-kf2ez
    @Audiogeek-kf2ez4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @herpsenderpsen
    @herpsenderpsen7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @vokinhsalak

    @vokinhsalak

    5 жыл бұрын

    herpsenderpsen love the Arctic man

  • @celican2000

    @celican2000

    5 жыл бұрын

    takk skal du ha

  • @surfside75

    @surfside75

    5 жыл бұрын

    Alright snoop😂😂😂

  • @phyllisdevries5734

    @phyllisdevries5734

    5 жыл бұрын

    herpsenderpsen Alaskan born and raised. My only regret is American citizenship

  • @luiscampos1164

    @luiscampos1164

    5 жыл бұрын

    I would like to visit Svarbart

  • @shawnmartin8485
    @shawnmartin84855 жыл бұрын

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

  • @IceMan-il7dx
    @IceMan-il7dx5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @EyeCarly85

    @EyeCarly85

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @klauspendolo1393

    @klauspendolo1393

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jmehn203

    @jmehn203

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@klauspendolo1393 , Exactly...

  • @public.public

    @public.public

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @DNikos7

    @DNikos7

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Mr__B.
    @Mr__B.6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @karolus145

    @karolus145

    5 жыл бұрын

    It’s sucks there now. Look at norilsk

  • @FreedomsDmocracy1st

    @FreedomsDmocracy1st

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @user-lp3qs7so5d

    @user-lp3qs7so5d

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @frankdukes3253

    @frankdukes3253

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dushamoya1661

    @dushamoya1661

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nworesistance9834
    @nworesistance98346 жыл бұрын

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

  • @whyalwaysme2522

    @whyalwaysme2522

    6 жыл бұрын

    Chicken.

  • @cityraildude

    @cityraildude

    6 жыл бұрын

    Exactly

  • @MrPoornakumar

    @MrPoornakumar

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dagmastr12

    @dagmastr12

    5 жыл бұрын

    Clearly you never met an American leftist.

  • @mer3abec

    @mer3abec

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its because Russia own this. Not western banksters.

  • @TheMostEpicThing
    @TheMostEpicThing7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @carlajones1585

    @carlajones1585

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheMostEpicThing

  • @f.mujtaba8339

    @f.mujtaba8339

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheMostEpicThing

  • @rosagipsysorinagipsy4452

    @rosagipsysorinagipsy4452

    7 жыл бұрын

    carla elliott

  • @breezeyandkyreeniania6728

    @breezeyandkyreeniania6728

    7 жыл бұрын

    nnk

  • @hocineboteljda8600

    @hocineboteljda8600

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Henare Niania bonjour

  • @princet1492
    @princet14925 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Brandon-so9fp
    @Brandon-so9fp4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury53195 жыл бұрын

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

  • @richardlumleysmith2843

    @richardlumleysmith2843

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @julwiezdeghorz5089
    @julwiezdeghorz50894 жыл бұрын

    Its a video of discouragement, not about optimism.

  • @mirkodjordjevic2621
    @mirkodjordjevic26214 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kozjevime1

    @kozjevime1

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @benno291980

    @benno291980

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @boomerhgt

    @boomerhgt

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jsroslav Hus Mumbo jumbo you make no sense

  • @simojovic6358

    @simojovic6358

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @yourmomma8065

    @yourmomma8065

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @daystatesniper01
    @daystatesniper015 жыл бұрын

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

  • @leaonardland9001

    @leaonardland9001

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @transportermcleish5895
    @transportermcleish58954 жыл бұрын

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

  • @matthewdylla6090

    @matthewdylla6090

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @KandiKlover

    @KandiKlover

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @matthewdylla6090

    @matthewdylla6090

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KandiKlover like I said a pissing contest.

  • @patoni860
    @patoni8604 жыл бұрын

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

  • @394pjo
    @394pjo6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dr.gmansaturng5228

    @dr.gmansaturng5228

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ohwell2790

    @ohwell2790

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @raytracer5726

    @raytracer5726

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Maloy7800

    @Maloy7800

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @popetodr

    @popetodr

    6 жыл бұрын

    USA has 19 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers , Russia has one (on coal) 😆 > kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4WJypqgmJmXlqg.html 🤣 , kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4CflpOFdM7cirQ.html 😂 !

  • @dhss333
    @dhss3334 жыл бұрын

    Sure it isn't YOUR Arctic Obsession?

  • @bobby-k-mastering
    @bobby-k-mastering5 жыл бұрын

    Great documentary, many thanks from Australia...

  • @russg1801
    @russg18016 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrBizon91
    @MrBizon916 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Espectrador

    @Espectrador

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @levvy3006

    @levvy3006

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Maloy7800

    @Maloy7800

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mattmopar440

    @mattmopar440

    6 жыл бұрын

    he doesnt own anything 12 miles off the coast of Russia

  • @NotADuncon

    @NotADuncon

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fariborzvasell1728
    @fariborzvasell17285 жыл бұрын

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

  • @aqsdfg25
    @aqsdfg255 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cmdr1911

    @cmdr1911

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dannysema6786
    @dannysema67865 жыл бұрын

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

  • @KOS762

    @KOS762

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @luciferfallenangel666
    @luciferfallenangel6665 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dominiquestephenson195

    @dominiquestephenson195

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ozzy played there last year!

  • @patricktaylor9033

    @patricktaylor9033

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @picassomicasso1
    @picassomicasso16 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kozjevime1

    @kozjevime1

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @camshaftshaft2711

    @camshaftshaft2711

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sonofeloah
    @sonofeloah5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @itschinesebecauseitsfromch9301
    @itschinesebecauseitsfromch93014 жыл бұрын

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

  • @krishnapratap4561
    @krishnapratap45615 жыл бұрын

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

  • @andrewplantagenet5811
    @andrewplantagenet58116 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HighSpeedNoDrag
    @HighSpeedNoDrag5 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Documentary and Thanks!

  • @BioHazardCL4
    @BioHazardCL47 жыл бұрын

    That was really good :D

  • @ilyaelric9539
    @ilyaelric95395 жыл бұрын

    That sweet feeling when you understand the speech without subtitles

  • @alex042687

    @alex042687

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seriously. That guy spoke very English good one. .

  • @ronhat-nx6yq
    @ronhat-nx6yq6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ohwell2790

    @ohwell2790

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ronhat-nx6yq

    @ronhat-nx6yq

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cesaraugusto59

    @cesaraugusto59

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @florida5135

    @florida5135

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @FreedomsDmocracy1st

    @FreedomsDmocracy1st

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnnyaingel5753
    @johnnyaingel57536 жыл бұрын

    AMAZING video documentary

  • @garystewart3110
    @garystewart31105 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ondrejroberto2896
    @ondrejroberto28966 жыл бұрын

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

  • @andraslibal
    @andraslibal5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gusgone4527
    @gusgone45276 жыл бұрын

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

  • @florianaugsbergers6756
    @florianaugsbergers67564 жыл бұрын

    great job. :)

  • @gregjames9875
    @gregjames98755 жыл бұрын

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

  • @haroldlamble5163

    @haroldlamble5163

    4 жыл бұрын

    I hope. Not.

  • @StrangerHappened
    @StrangerHappened7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @florida5135

    @florida5135

    5 жыл бұрын

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway

  • @RHGM71

    @RHGM71

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ggsay1687

    @ggsay1687

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mna9211
    @mna92115 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kyev936
    @kyev9366 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnfranklin1955
    @johnfranklin19554 жыл бұрын

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

  • @philmead3579
    @philmead35797 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kozjevime1

    @kozjevime1

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @EVZYL

    @EVZYL

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maksimluzin1121

    @maksimluzin1121

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mafteim5556
    @mafteim55563 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dhmalcolm
    @dhmalcolm4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent reporting

  • @hendrikjanssen9075
    @hendrikjanssen90757 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Thank you!

  • @rizingstar5502

    @rizingstar5502

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hendrik Jansen oo

  • @kommao7490

    @kommao7490

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hendrik Janssen

  • @ReaLityBlue
    @ReaLityBlue5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @toffeecrisp2146

    @toffeecrisp2146

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JizzMasterTheZeroth
    @JizzMasterTheZeroth4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @doogboy
    @doogboy5 жыл бұрын

    I like this!

  • @chrisspencer6502
    @chrisspencer65025 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Sleppy92
    @Sleppy925 жыл бұрын

    Вот оно счастье, мешок картошки

  • @rodfirefighter8341
    @rodfirefighter83414 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Josh-vj5ip
    @Josh-vj5ip6 жыл бұрын

    What amazing places!

  • @sumhavefun
    @sumhavefun6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrPoornakumar

    @MrPoornakumar

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • 5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @FDSeoul
    @FDSeoul6 жыл бұрын

    best words which describes the people of Russian is "Indomitable Spirit"

  • @elizabethfarrell9650
    @elizabethfarrell96505 жыл бұрын

    Cool video. :D

  • @michaelboylan5308
    @michaelboylan53085 жыл бұрын

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

  • @michaelboylan5308

    @michaelboylan5308

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oops, since 2016

  • @PeterLoffay
    @PeterLoffay5 жыл бұрын

    not obsession,it is a dream. Love it

  • @spaghettigod43
    @spaghettigod436 жыл бұрын

    The guys girlfriend is incredibly cute.

  • @ohwell2790

    @ohwell2790

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @rostislavsvoboda7013

    @rostislavsvoboda7013

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Thomes-Maisling

    @Thomes-Maisling

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @robertsandstorm4785

    @robertsandstorm4785

    4 жыл бұрын

    theres always that one guy

  • @gragor11

    @gragor11

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Mutlap
    @Mutlap5 жыл бұрын

    rising temps 1/2 degree?

  • @hollyhholly
    @hollyhholly6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mchlbk

    @mchlbk

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yep. It's depressing.

  • @paulsdancing5429
    @paulsdancing54294 жыл бұрын

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

  • @howaterbrd9563
    @howaterbrd95637 жыл бұрын

    2 words, Flint, Michigan.

  • @jodihouts6032

    @jodihouts6032

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @andreimoutchkine5163

    @andreimoutchkine5163

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @florida5135

    @florida5135

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @andreimoutchkine5163

    @andreimoutchkine5163

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @waynep343
    @waynep3434 жыл бұрын

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

  • @yordanlilov
    @yordanlilov4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gragor11

    @gragor11

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @schaefferjohn9512
    @schaefferjohn95125 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zeeybamanch1903
    @zeeybamanch19034 жыл бұрын

    Still got the Yankees pissed

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury53195 жыл бұрын

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

  • @haroldlamble5163

    @haroldlamble5163

    4 жыл бұрын

    On permafrost how would that work.

  • @tadasblindavicius8889
    @tadasblindavicius88894 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CZOV
    @CZOV6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrKafrovich

    @MrKafrovich

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ohwell2790

    @ohwell2790

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kozjevime1

    @kozjevime1

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jaycockerille3227

    @jaycockerille3227

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bloodhun23

    @bloodhun23

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @reddraken2255
    @reddraken22555 жыл бұрын

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

  • @creightonhoman9066
    @creightonhoman90666 жыл бұрын

    Whats the song???

  • @rethinkscience8454
    @rethinkscience84544 жыл бұрын

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

  • @suhvi2786
    @suhvi27867 жыл бұрын

    beautiful documentary

  • @alexkostenyuk
    @alexkostenyuk5 жыл бұрын

    Russia has so much land that some will be never explored

  • @unmondedefou9198

    @unmondedefou9198

    4 жыл бұрын

    Télélakay TV

  • @user-bo9go5wf7i
    @user-bo9go5wf7i5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fergalfarrelly8545
    @fergalfarrelly85455 жыл бұрын

    The winter in northern Alberta Canada is better in a lot of ways than the summer. The winter comes alive here. Most of the roads are ice roads. The ground is hard frozen and would be muskeg and lakes and rivers in summer. Logging is only done in winter. Fur trapping only in winter. Oil field work is easier in winter as you don't need rig matting wich is hella expensive. The north is great and i love it. I don't like the swarms of mosquitos in summer but you can dress for that too. Just as we prepare for winter. Face nets and deet.

  • @johnrock241
    @johnrock2415 жыл бұрын

    anyone notice the syd barrett picture ?

  • @msmith3407

    @msmith3407

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnrock241

    @johnrock241

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@msmith3407 no doubt looks like a total hippie

  • @Armuotas
    @Armuotas4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @caesarsneezer6992

    @caesarsneezer6992

    3 жыл бұрын

    Detroit is not your father's Detroit. I live there.

  • @saltekoff43
    @saltekoff434 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bluemountaindrivepae
    @bluemountaindrivepae5 жыл бұрын

    They are employed and still have food shortages. Oil prices not stable and they need a lot of fuel to stay warm in the winter.

  • @Blaster53
    @Blaster536 жыл бұрын

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

  • @optimistic5778
    @optimistic57785 жыл бұрын

    THIS IS SUCH BIAS "REPORTING".

  • @annov7500
    @annov75005 жыл бұрын

    The emergent consensus among scholars who utilize official archival data is that of the 18 million who were sent to the Gulag from 1930 to 1953, roughly 1.5 to 1.7 million perished there or as a result of their detention....FT need to learn this...

  • @ohwell2790
    @ohwell27906 жыл бұрын

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

  • @istoria2111
    @istoria21114 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ggsay1687
    @ggsay16876 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maxmax2880

    @maxmax2880

    5 жыл бұрын

    Хватило им ума же об этом сказать.

  • @xoopss

    @xoopss

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @reallyhappenings5597
    @reallyhappenings55975 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mustafabaris9681
    @mustafabaris96814 жыл бұрын

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

  • @oyonggofomocci2078
    @oyonggofomocci20786 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nightlightabcd

    @nightlightabcd

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sarahkerrigan6026
    @sarahkerrigan60265 жыл бұрын

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

  • @p-ocust1924
    @p-ocust19247 жыл бұрын

    Very depressing to get few sunlight, also we got more cancer/leucemic because of increase electricity for heating