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Don Cuisine
Once during the 300-year Romanov dynasty Tsar Nicholas II decided to take stock of his possessions. This decision brought him to the Cossack village of Elizavetinskaya, the largest fishing village on the Don River at the time. There residents invited the tsar to try a fish soup, called “ukha.” A week after the tsar had left, the man who had prepared the soup, Vasily Kedrov, received a parcel with a gold medal inside thanking him for his military service. At first he was surprised to have received such an award, but remembering the tsar’s visit and how much he had enjoyed his meal, he realized that the real reason for the gold medal was not his military service, but in fact his delicious soup. Nowadays there are still a great number of fish recipes in Rostov-on-Don. RTG TV host Stanislav Salnikov travelled there where he learned how to cook sturgeon in sparkling wine and, to his surpri...
MAKING VOLOGDA BUTTER. A HISTORY OF SUCCESS
Butter has long been a familiar product on everyone's table. As for Vologda, it has become a real business card. It is here, in the Russian North, that a product with a special flavour has been created for many years. Vologda butter is almost a century and a half old. And its history is a difficult path for many years of improvements. The happy idea of using pasteurisation to obtain a nutty flavour, which once captured one single person, created a miracle. Every second person wanted to try such butter, every third person wanted to produce it and sell it profitably. The recipe seemed simple. But it turned out that other ingredients were also needed - the northern climate and the Vologda plains, special herbs fed to thoroughbred cows, and a technology that had been clearly constructed by man.
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MAKING VOLOGDA BUTTER. A HISTORY OF SUCCESS
Medical technologies — blood donation service
Blood – it’s part of our body’s internal defence system, reacting to any invasion from outside. It regulates our body temperature and delivers substances we need to all of our organs. The average adult body has between five and six litres of blood flowing through it, and if, due to an accident, this volume were to decrease by just a third, the person would be in real danger of dying. Fortunately, there is a whole medical system dedicated to helping people survive such dire situations and most anyone can help. All you have to do is visit a donation centre in order to give blood. Every year donors help provide others with another chance at life, saving thousands all over the world with their donation.
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